THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
THE MOTOR SHOW AT LONDON.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1925.
CROSSES TO WARN AUTOISTS.
1926 INDIAN PRINCE
The personal motor. An Engineering Triumph stream line, safe comfortable-flexiblo-lowost in first cost lowest in upkeep. Balloon tyres. Mazneto, adjustable saddio, removable cylinder, head, HAND CLUTCH ng used on the British spoles, and many other features of note.
At our godown No. 1A, Chator Road, open Saturday after, noon till 5 o'clock.
Ready for the Road-
SOLE AGENTS:
·
-$480,00.
Alex. Ross & Co., (China), Ltd.
ROBERT BOSCH MAGNETOS;
The Robert Bosh Magnotos aro made of the best Materials and with equipment ideally designed for quality production,
A Triumph for the British Industry.
Being the conclusion of a special report to "The Hongkong Telegraph",)
Having dealt in the first portion provide adequate illumination for sign of the bonnet has been modi of this report with most of the night running, without causing fied. The petrol filler cap is now more powerful types of motor car, glare liable to blind approaching fitted on the outside. The quar- it remains to refer to the modern drivers. A very cheap and -ap-ter-elliptic type of spring is re- developments of the light car that parently effective equipment intained for the suspension of the have done so much to put the the Cut Glare fitment marketed by, front axle, but two leaves are clip- British Motor Industry on to its Mesars. Shaw & Kilbarn, whose ped to the axle and a third short feet again. Before doing so, how-big scrivee depots in London ure leaf is added to take the braking to many visiting stresses as far as possible off the ever, some reference should be well-known made to the progress in respect of motorists from overseas. The de- springs. the electrical equipment, which is vice consiste of a strip of thin A number of changes have been casential on large and small cars metal wound in spiral form. The made in the 11/22 h.p. Wolseley direct raya pass through the spiral model.. The radiator has been on to the road without appreciable altered in shape and the lines of the interference, but those which bonnet and the scuttle modi. would incommode approaching fied, giving an excellent straight the drivers are deflected inwards by line effect. Seating accoramoda-
the spiral.
tion has been widened and the Power and Comfort.
battery placed under the front
described may be roughly divided
The car models remaining to be seat instead of on the running board. The 11/22 h.p. Wolseley is
alike.
Electrical Equipment.
Beld rotates while the armature
A cross for each person killed in an automobile accident. will be placed along Ohio state highways where accidents. occur. Fourteen such crosses mark a pártjcularly dangerous spot near McGonigal, in Butler county.
TOLEDO AS AIRPORT.
400 MILES AN HOUR.!
GERMAN ENGINEER'S
PROPHECY.
Hallem, Pa., U.S.A., Sept. 27,
A few years back many people thought that the days of magneto were numbered. This has proved to be by no means the ense. Neither has any one type of magneto succeeded in ousting the remainder. For example, one finds the British Thomson-Hous-into two groups; namely, quite now very popular as a light saloon, being. acien- fton Company exhibiting two dis-light cars and cars which, though the bodywork
still light, are quite substantial tifeally designed to reduce weight tinet ranges of machines, the one rane being of the Polar inductor from all points of view, including and admit a certain degree of
The framework i ty and the other having rotat-power and carrying capacity. Aflexibility.
Leading automobile manufic- ing armatures. One of the ad-ypical example in the last named covered with a light fabric of the vantages of the Polar inductor enterort "is the 44 h.p. four-cylin-leather-cloth type, the result. be-turers of Toléde, O....are trying der Armstrong Siddeley, Thising a carriage possessing all the to make Tolede an important air- system, in which the magnetic has been improved in respect of advantages of the heavy conch plane port of the country. It may remains stationary, is that the body design and also by the addi, built body, but so light as to be be a stopping station for the newly Planes will soon make 400 miles magneto can be run at reductions of semi-elliptic springs and practically as fast on the road as proposed $3,000,000 air line be- an hour, is the prophecy of Dr.
Brief reference was made in the speed, giving four sparks for each front wheel brukes. It is a roomy an ordinary open car. revolution. The type is made to and comfortable car for five per-
AUTOS IN CUBA. suit four. six and eight-cylinder ons and its sale price is extra-first portion of this report to the ordinarily moderate, especially Trojan, the latest form of which engines. To one variety of the when one takes into account its is a quite roomy four-seater on
marketed rotating armature, machines complete equipment and the at-pneumatic tyres,
There are 35,000 automobiles The use of Cuba. Practically all are movable sleeve is inserted between tention that has been given to home at £145. the armature and the magneto poles, with the result that uniform every detail of bodywork and all-pneumatics is by no means essen- American make.
tial owing to the protection afford- sparking density is obtained over
ed by the exceptionally efficient: It is seldom that the Swift Com-system of springing, and conse- a timing range of 45 degrees. A somewhat similar effect is ob-pany introduces
ained by using the B.T.II. auto-which adds to the natural interest matic ignition advancing mechan-taken in the new 12/35 h.p. Swift ism. This device operates on the which supplements the popular 10 Features of both rotating shaft and advances the horse model.
weather equipment.
a new model,
at
tween New York and Chicago.
a.
Otto A. Koller, German aeronau- tical expert who is building small flent of commercial planes here.
Dr. Koller is planning the cons- intruction of a plane which he in- tends to enter in the next Pulitzer races and which he says will be able to break the present record of 266 miles an hour by at least
of
hotel.
The second improvement which sgo the mains standard
Dr. Koller believes will soon be for ordinary dustry. A few years quently the solid-tyred type re-triumph for the British Motor. In another 100 miles.
overseas markets of the industry utility purposes.
with room for from 12 to 24 pas- The 7 h.p. Austin has under-were practically dead and the realized is that commercial planes
market It home
was seriously gone no appreciable change. ignition in accordance with the are the four-wheel brakes, the de- remains unique among small light threatened by foriegn importa-sengers will be able to rise and speed by actually advancing the tachable cylinder head and the
curs in respect of its speed captions. Now the Invasion has been land with ease on roof of a large rotating of the shaft itself. The aluminium pistons. On the en- abilities and its light weight, completely checked and export result is to improve acceleration gine of the larger chassis cobalt-which enables it to be lifted over trade in British vehicles is in- from low to nornial'speeds and to chrome steel valves are employed obstacles that might otherwise creasing by leaps and bounds. It make exceptionally low speeds These are placed side by side and prove insuperable equally to it will not be long before the old possible while running
enclosed by a readily detachable and larger and far more powerful theory that British cura were only suitable for use on British ronda The engine has forced
vehicles.
Altogether, the recent Olympia will be extinguished for good and Every Show
has proved a. complete
1-Cylinder Magnetos:
Right or Left Hand...
$6)
2-Cylinder Magactos:
Right or Loft Hand........
$35
4-Cylinder Magnetos; 3)
Right or Left Hand............$80
C-Cylinder Magnetos:
Right or Loft Hand...
$95
gear.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LIMITED, Telephone Central 1236, or 1247. 33, Wong Nei Chung Rd., (Happy Valley,)
Pay close attention to the name of. ROBERT BOSCH and this
OHD
un top
cover.
box.
As regards other electricalubrication, and cooling by the
thermo-sypann system. equipment, valuable new devices engine is tested to develop over have recently been marketed. 35 h.p. before it leaves the factory, Thus the famous firm of accessory The drive is through a single manufacturers, Mesars. S. Smith & Sons, have an ingenious form of plate clutch and a four-speed gear apollight that can be operated A new model which should find from the interior of a saloon with- The out lowering the window. light can be turned into ang de sired direction by means of a
is in the hands of the well-known small wheel and lever. The same
distributors, Messre. Routes firm has a new direction indicator Limited, of New Bond Street, Lon- combined with a mirror and ocdon, who have several representa- cupying the position usually ne- corded to the latter. The driver controls switch which il-
a
luminates arrows pointing in the
direction in which "he is about to
turn or indicating his intention of stopping.
I respect of car lighting the great problem of the moment is to
16 KNOTS
P
AILSA CRAIG
FAST RUN ABOUT
BRITISH THROUGHOUT
Complete $2750.00
DODWELL & CO., LTD,
DELIVERED HONGKONG
Sole Agents.
great favour in the overseas mar- kets is the 13 h.p. four-cylinder Clyno, the world export of which
tives at present touring the world in their interests. The engines,
the dimensions of which are 69 by 100 m.m., has side by side valves, thermo-phon circulation and! forced lubrication to the main bearings with splash to the big end bearings. The drive ig through a cone clutch, three-speed gear box and spiral bevel gear. This model does not, of course, affect the continued production | of the 11 h.p. Clyne. The most, obvious improvements in the Clyno chassis are in respect of the semi- elliptic front springing, the large diameter fully enclosed fronti wheel brakes, and the front axle redesigned to take tortional stress.
There are
considerable changes in the 11.9 h.p. Morris- Cowley, which is marketed either with or without four-wheeli brakes. In the four-wheel brake model the hand brake operate: shoes on the rear drums only, while the foot brakes take effect on all four wheels. A standard Gitting to all Morris care is now the new day and night reading! thermo-meter.
Light Cars for 1926.
A new 9/20 h.p. model taken the place of the old 8/18 h.p. Hum- ber, the main Improvements) being greater power, longer wheelbase and wider truck. Petrol ig supplied by the Autovac system from seven gallon tank at the rexT of the car. The gear box. gives thrce apeeda with right-hand .cou trol. The clutch is of the cone [type. The "Autoram greaser" system of lubrication is employ. led throughout the chassis.
The improvements in the 10/26/ h.p. Singer are mainly matters of detail, with the exception that the Rubury front wheel brakes are now fitted. The radiator: is of an improved type and the de-.
1926
11.
SINGER
ANNOUNCEMENT
FOUR SEATER "DE LUXE" $2,200
OVERHEAD VALVES
HALF OF CITY'S TAXES.
Half of the tax revenue of the city of Highland Park, in Detroit, was paid by the Ford Motor Com
pany.
1926
TWO SEATER "DE LUXE" $2,200
BRITISH THROUGHOUT
FOUR WHEEL BRAKES
AUTOMATIC WINDSCREEN WIPER
PNEUMATIC UPHOLSTERY
DUNLOP RE-INFORCED BALLOON TYRES
·35/40 MILES PER GALLON
LARGE RADIATOR
SMART, EFFECIENT AND ECONOMICAL
COMPLETE ALL WEATHER EQUIPMENT
66
1
99
SINGER'
represents all that is bost in British Light Car Engineering.
FOR FULL SPECIFICATION AND DEMONSTRATION
OF THE FEW 1926 MODELS
APPLY TO
GELMAN &.
HONGKONG LTD.
BUILDING.
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