THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. -MOTORING SUREL
You've Put That Engine In Fine Condition-Thanks !" ·
WE'RE proud to give efficient service
to the car owner because of his cor. lal appreciation of good work expedi- Giously done.
The modern machinery and equipment are have at our new concrete Main Garage zad Service Station (Wong Nei Chung Road. Happy Valley) enables us to take care of a car whether it needs complete overhauling, or rebuilding, or merely some slight adjust- Lavent to brakes or carburetor.
Our methods of doing business and the very reasonable charge we make for high class work has won us high reputation among motorists.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Expert and Constant European Supervision. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
Why
BE YOUR OWN GAS SALESMAN.
All
Rome has been trying out a serve-yourself gasoline system. Especially on Sundays, when gas stations generally are closed, this type of filling station is much in uso. motorists liave to do is drop a coin and get the gasoline measured out automatically.
READY FOR SOUTH.
More than 60,000 motorists are expected to travel the roads lead- ing to the sunny south this win- ter. This is the estimate of travel to the southeastern states alone, made by the American Automobile Association.
TAXES MUCH LOWER.
Collections of auto taxes in the United States from July 1, 1924,
ENT
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
CONTRASTING DEVELOPMENT.
SMALL CARS AND "BIG LIGHT."
The automobile industry pre- sents an anomaly in, its develop- mont.
Alongside the increased pro- daction of small cars, and the de- velopment of the small car feature in the United States and Europë, is a rare among manufacturers of more costly cars for production of better "eights."
With his inauguration of a straight line eight to lend his list of products, prominent manu- | facturer proclaims the day when the small car will be in the as- cendency, when all of our touring will be done behind tiny engines in tiny bodies,
Now almost half a dozen automobile manufacturors pro-
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straight-line. They argue greater flexibility, more power, greater dependability.
High-Class Sixes.
But side by side with these eights are sixes that compare favorably with them. The Rolls-
A MOTORING MISCON-Royce, for instance, is a six.
CEPTION.
SKIDS AND SIDE-SLIPS,
The progress of events, how- ever, seems to be working against the development of the eight. Al- though only 10 per cent of the highways to-day are improved, the motorists of the country are look-
By Capi. E. de Normanville in the ing forward to the day when
Daily Chronicle.
It is rather unfortunate that in the evolution of motoring matters we have ceased to differentiate between a skid and a side slip.
to March 1, 1925, amounted to In the olden days a kid was a nearly $76,500,000.
skid, and a side slip was a side slip. We now refer to all such erratic movements as skids.
DUNLOP
CORD TYRES
should be on your car.
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They are the outcome of the longest experience in tyre building,
They are made from raw materials, the production of which is contr lled from its source.
They are made on the proved best principles, applied in the best way.
They give longer mileage and better service than any tyres in the world.
AND-the DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY maintains its own Branch organisation on the spot, to give effect to the Company's universal policy of Service and Efficiency on all Tyre matters.
Donlop Rubber Co. (China), Ltd.
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practically all roads will be easy to travel, when very little reserve Power will be necessary to carry them, up steep, hills or through rough roads.
Then the small engine will be just as efficient as the larger, and it will be much more economical.
For Economy,
In reality, of course, the two are quite distinct, The point is Again, gasoline production in point. brought to mind by a reader, who reaching the breaking asks: "To what extent is a car prices are expected to go higher with four wheel brakes immune as production decreases and the from skidding?" Skidding really demand increases. And the effect means the progress of a car along will be n new demand for engines a minimum the road át a speed in excess of that will require the road wheel rotation-or with amount of fuel for the most that the road wheela focked.
can be gotten out of it.
Probably, however, the query is
This is why Europe leans more intended for erratic side imove toward the small car. High fuel ment of the car. As there is
prices and high taxes. This, it is often misconception as to the
expected, will hasten the coming effect of wheel brakes in of the small engine and small car relation to both movements, we
in America. will deal with both.
The Effect of Brakes.
In the first place, it should be obrious that when the brakes are not in use they can have no effect on skidding tendencies--whether the number of brakes be two, four, or six. The answer to the query, To skid ornot to skid?" will de- pend solely on the way the car is driven.
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The anti-skidding utility of good four wheel braking systems only comex in when the brakes being used. But there are two definite ways in which this utility can be brought to bear.
There is the case when, if or- dinary two wheel braking were! employed, a skid would probably result-but will not with four wheel brakes. And there is the case where, a skid having started, four wheel brakeş will arrest it, whereas two wheel braking might notor might even accentuate it. Skid Correcting Propensity.
But four wheel braking is not in itself a complete skid correction. It will tond to minimise or even arrest a skid, but for the full cor- rection of the ekid it is always desirable to assist by altering the steering control in the usual man-
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In theory, the differential set- ting of the front wheels (when turned from the straight ahead direction) and the differential ac- tion of the two front wheel brakes does actually create a ekid cor-1 recting propensity.
My correspondent has been sur- prised because he had a bad akid on a greasy corner with his new
MOTOR TRIPS ABROAD FIFTH OF
SERIES
THE EIFFEL TOWER
Eifti Tozer is the highest structure in the world.
four wheel braked car. There is E
no need for surprise, and it cannot be too strongly emphasised that four wheel brakes-in themselves -do not entitle the driver to take ilberties on corners. No braking system can, have any effect. on akidding when it is not actually in use.
USE THE EMERGENCY.
Keep the emergency brake iri gobd shagia by using it more often. If connected with the propellor shaft, as many are to-day, it will cause chattering unless uped more often..
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TWO MORE TRUCK ROADS.
There is no clause in any of the
Two raore ralironda have adapte Louisville or Kentucky codes pro-ed the motor truck for freight hibiting a blind man from driving service. They are the Rock an auto. But the police traffic Island, for trucking between head, who brought up this point, Chicago and Auburn Park, Ill, has decided to arrest auch drivers and the Michigan Contral, for on the charge of "breach of the freight service between Toledo,
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