MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 14th. November, 1925.
(Being the Official Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Association),
Lalap Standards.
CURRENT
COMMENT
GASOLINE TAX.
POPULAR IN UNITED STATES.
Although the motorists of the United
nearly States paid $80,000,000 during 1924 in the form of gasoline tax, it is cati. mated that the amount will ap- proximate $100,000,000 in 1925.
THE PLAIN MAN AND HIS CAR.
V. THE POWER UNIT (Concluded).
(By P. W. F. Mills
There will have been complete all local agreement among motorists, we think, that the Police Magistrate did quite the right thing recently when he ending. "mucky" job of doing 4 cents a gallon, Arkansas wased through water jackets which
decided not to impose a fine on the motor car driver who he summoned for going round the wrong side of the lamp standard at the corner of Nathan Road and Gascoigne Road, Kowloon.
inconvenience of "oiling up" in the old way the buying of the
Thirty-five of the 48 states and nil in one container, the trans ference of it to another not of any the District of Columbia imposed great excollence, and the back-taxes last year ranging from 1 to the only state Having the 4-cent the actual oiling itself. "Socony has now tried to get over all these tax last year, but this year is drawbacks by retailing its lubricat- joined by North Carolina, which ing oils and greases in con-raised its tax from 3 to 4 cents. voniently-sized tins with each of
increase The
in the total
The Cooling System. Practically all car engines are water cooled. Water is circulat- form part of the cylinder casting explosions is carried away by this
and the heat generated by the water and radiated into the atmos-
Under certain circumstances water in the cooling system will bcil rapidly however efficient the cooling system employed. In this event the steam generated in the jackets will force its way into the radiator and the comparative-
Even Sergeant Smith of the capable of reaching the farther tax by motorists this year is and entry and exit pipes, designed tor filler cap. This consists of a
half.
ly fragile tubing may be damaged by the pressure. It is customary, phere. The radiator is a water therefore, to provide a steam vent container, fitted with filler cup immediately underneath the radia- in a form calculated to present the tube running from close under greatest possible surface to the the cap down to the bottom ex- atmosphere. If the cooling water terior of the radiator. were permitted to remain sta- tionary in the water inckets it
would soon reach boiling point
Silencing.
which is sold a long olling spout amount to be paid in gasoline most parts of a carovon those indicated by Kansas, Ohio and Police admitted that the post was under the body. The selling Michigan adopting a 2-cont levy.
the well-known
Socony North Carolina and Tennessee in an extremely awkward posi-of tion and that he, himself, had spring grease (a mixture of oil and raising their levies i cent u often gone on the wrong side of graphite in sucha container makes it. We go so far as to claim that the oiling of springs for the elimi-gallon, and Wyoming a cent and lump posts or standards in the nation of "squeaks" a comparative In the figures for the year sub-and escape in the form of steam. centre of any cross-roade arein unpleasure. The Hongkong Hote! awkward position and that it is guruge showroom contains a good mitted by the bureau of public it is accordingly made to circulate mufflers, exhaust boxes and ex- an erroneous and out-of-date exhibit of those new long-spouted roads of the United States Depart-in a circuit consisting of the pansion chambers. The last ferm ment of Agriculture, it is shown radiator tubes and water jackets, is possibly the best of all as a chamber of a capacity Reveral idea to think otherwise. There CANS.
that California, with its 2-cent and the heat generated in on silencer is nothing but a metal tramway
tax, leade all other states in the part of the circuit is dissipated times greater than that of the engine cylinders into which the There are two principal systems exhaust gases flow from the ex-
is no lump post or standard at the Hongkong Compulsory Insurance,
Hotel corner,
one
The only other state appro-
Silencers are acmetimes called
but there is Advocates of complusory in-amount collected from motorists, in another. at the King Edward súrance for motorists will surely with $11,993,222. Hotel corner and we will leave it find supporting argument in the
collects overing water. A system commonly the chamber at greatly reduced to our readers to judge of the unusual court ruling of a case ximating this huge sum is Penn- of ensuring circulation of the cool-haust system, later emerging from
at Cleveland, sylvania, which
the pressure, and temperature. is known as ease of negotiating the one and recóntly heard
In this sys- The characteristic "pop-pop- The American news- $9,000,000 from a 2-cent tax. used is what the difficulty of negotiating the U. S. A
tem the tendency of heated water pop" of a petrol engine whilst other. Let us take Nathan Road, paper which gives the report, The next in line is Indiana, with "thermo-syphonic."
un-less than $5,000,000, and North
to rise and cooler water to fall is running is caused by the hot gases Kowloon, where lamp posts are qualifies the verdict ne still down the centre of the road-usual." Our readers will probably Carolina with $4,500,000.
utilised to keep cold water replac-jat a pressure higher than that of way, and we find that any motor endorse that view. Briefly, the
ing hot water in the cylinder the atmosphere impinging on the ist who turns out of either Mody charge was one of manslaughter,
jackets, the hot water rising up a surrounding air, and the higher Road, Cameram Road, Kimberly the victim having met his death
pipe into the radiator and leaving the pressure. at which the gases Road, and Auston Road has a most in a traffic accident, the driver]
it by a lower pipe after cooling emerge from the silencer the down. The thermo-syphonic" louder will be the "exhaust note" ridiculously acute right-handed responsible for the 'death being turn to make round a standard if duly adjudged guilty. The court
system proved eminently satisfac- of the engine. be conforms to what is consider-gave the prisoner the option of ed to be correct driving practicc.serving five years in the peniten-" The idea of
that tiary or supporting for three. had family he the
Course is
3
No. It's
my
tory on car for a number
0:
Bafle plates or any other form years, and may be found at the present day, but the practice of of obstruction to the passage of through the silencer a standard or post makes a driver yours
including a pump in the water the gases keep to his left-hand side of the accidently robbed of a father.
circuit is becoming more common will have the effect of reducing road but the danger and incon-The prisoner chose the latter His weekly earnings
as the years pass. By reason of the pressure at which the gases venience of having a standard in course.
certain electrical considerations it meet the surrounding air, and con- the way goes more than to invali- for the next three years must be
is desirable for a magneto drive sequently the noise, but a certain date the worthiness of that argu- divided equally between his own!
to contain a "steady", and the amount of "back-pressure", which ment. The centre of the roadway family and the widow and four and the centre of a four-ways children of the departed parent.
Driver; "Whew! Listen! Somo- steadying influence resulting from naturally reacts adversely on the corner should be entirely unob-In addition, he has to pay a set-
of the centrifugal type "in tan- The design of a silencer, then, is structed. To drive along Coro-tlement of $7,500, and all out of a thing is knocking in the engine" driving a water circulating pump engine efficiency, is unavoidable.
Passenger:
dem with the magneto has led a matter of selecting the compro- nation Road and then to continue weekly wage of $35,00
Apart from the absurdity of knees!" into Nathan Road is to have the
unusual decision, it ap- Sydney Bulletin, Australia, a number of designers to adopt mise between excessive noise and this system. With an efficient excessive back-pressure which ap- force of that contention made this
pump in the circuit the flow of pears desirable for the type of car strikingly evident. The Hoonor pears manifestlyfunfair to penalise
cooling water is. naturally more under consideration. we got all our traffic roads and the offender's family, who, oven
TRAFFIC IMPROVES.
rapid, and it is possible that
Some years ago a well-known cornera lighted by suspended if she accident was the result of lamps the safer and bettor will it criminal carelessness, cannot be
Traffic fatalities during April though cooling will be improved English motor cycling journal con be far motorists as well as for all held in any way responsible, and
therefore should not have to suf-were reduced more than 2 per when the engine is employed on ducted some tests and collected road users generally.
fer. If, on the other hand, there cent, below those of the month heavy duty there may be a ten-some facts with a view to clearing had been compulsory insurance before, and the same rate belowdency for the engine to run too
ed with silencer design. It had Soeony is to be congratulated against such an eventuality, the that of April of 1924, reper in the cool when duty is light and in cold up some of the problems associat devices on the market which con-exhaust, le, an exhaust system on the latest marketing of its victim's family would have been National Automobile Chamber of weather. There are a number of long been accepted that an "open tral automatically the temperature discharging direct into the atmos- lubricating greases in cane fitted provided for, and the person Commerce of New York.
of the cooling water, the arrange phere, gave the least possible with long and convenient oiling responsible for the accident could
ment being usually some type of amount of back-pressure, and for spouts. Every motorist has ex-have been punished, as he deserv
"thermo-static" valve which per-racing, where nolse was consider- perienced the awkwardness and ed, by serving his time in juil.
mits or impedes the flow according ed to be no disadvantage, open" to the temperature. Such de exhaust were the rule. The queя- vices are expensive, and may be tion of noise was, however, made
something regarded as
the subject of a complaint for-
Hoover.
rémarkable, results In engines fit-residents to the Brooklanda track found successful in Southern California, under guidance of the ted with them and they undoubt authorities, and after some dis- cussion silencers were made com- motor Automobile Club of Southern Caliedly have a great future.
It is fornia.
Radiator thermometers, perhaps pulsory on all cars and better known by their trade name cycles using the track.
Socony's Latest.
TRAVEL DE LUXE IN MONGOLIAN DESERT.
The motor car services which now cross the Mongolian de- kert, ospecially between Kálgen and Urga, aro onjoying great popularity and are building up transportation trade, which shows great possibilities. This shows one of the cars loaded up for departure on its desert trip. This car is one of the now
SCHOOL BOY PATROLS.
Organization of school boy patrols to help reduce traffic fat- iftice among school children may be adopted nationally, on the aug-
of 3
gestion of Secretary of Commerce
This system has been luxury, but they have produced warded by a number of Weybridge
ETHYL GAS.
of "motometers" are especially significant that this decision had useful in enabling the driver to the effect of bringing about great Appointment of a special com- see at a glance what effect in improvements in silencer ́design, the and the old ideas on the draw- mittee to inquire into the feasibl-raising the temperature of lity of using ethyl gas for automo-engine a long climb or a spell of backs of ailencers had to be re- tive purposes was recommended low gear work has produced. vised at once. One of the few by the US. conference called by when care, as often happens, are facts which stood out clearly from the U.S. surgeon general to con- provided with radiator shutters the results of the tests referred sider the health hazards of this or radiator muffs a thermometer to above is that a very satisfactory fluid. The special committee will of any of the well known typen combination of silence and small be expected to report its findings prevents the adjustment of the back-pressure may be obtained by by January 1.
radiator covering being made the use of an exhaust system as free from sharp bends as possible upon guesswork only.
discharging into a large expansion All curq, whatever the circulat-chamber free of baffle plates, the ing system employed, are fitted final discharge into the atmos- with a fon situated immediately phere being made through a pipe behind the radiator to, draw, air flattened into "fish-tail" form. A past the tubes and nusist in cool-large number of modern cars om- ing such parts of the engine as ploy a silencing.system on these are not water jacketed, lines,
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