THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
1926. INDIAN SCOUT
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WHEN car owners get
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33 Wong Nei Chung Road
Happy Valley
WORLD RECORDS.
THREE BEATEN BY BENOIT.
Recently at the Linas Montihary- motor-drome, Benoit, on a Delage, bent three world's records. He covered five kilometres in 1 min. 21.28-100 sec, with an average apeed of 221.456 kilometres an hour. The previous record was 1 min. 26 92-100 sec. by J. G, P.
Thomes.
Benoit covered five miles in 2 min, 99-100 sec. with an average speed of 214,750 kilmatres per hour, beating Thomas's record of 2 min. 18 99-100 nec. Ten Kilo- metres were covered in 2 min. 47 50-100 sec. with an average speed of 214.900 kilometres per hour.
The race meeting concluded, with a friendly race between Benolt on his Deluge, and Temple Jon a motor-cycle. The distance was one up, with a standing start. Benoit led, and finished easily first, without extending his engine, the time being 59 sec...
FAMOUS HILL CLIMB.
PHENOMENAL SPEED BY
SUNBEAM CAR
CITROEN CARS.
FACTORY IN ENGLAND.
The Citroen company has pur- chased a factory and land at Slough for the sum of £500,000, and intends to manufacture hundred cara a day..
Two-seater cars will be turned out at £150 aplece, and saloon cara for £245..
Motor engineers have already arrived from Paris. It is antici- pated that the factory will employ
6,000 workmen.
SHIELD IGNITION FOR RADIO,
A SHIELDED ENGINE,
The Klausen Hill Climb in Swit- | zerfand, which was held on August) 23rd, is the leading hill climb for cars in Europe. The course is a mountainous rond, the hill itself being about 27 kilometres in length, with nearly 200 corners and bends. On this course, and against some of the best racing cars in Európe, Count Musetti, on a 2-litre Sunbeam fitted with (super-charger, beat all comers, ir- respective of engine size, and set un a new record, for the hill.
Automobile owners, as well as Coual Masetti's time for the climb those fortunate enough to have was 17 minutes 27 seconds, which airplanes, should shield their is 1 minute 30 seconds better than ignition systems if they intend the record time made last year.to equip their cars with radio. As some indication of the competi That's a tip from the engineer- tion which the 2-litre Sunbeaming division of the air service at had to face, it may be mentioned Cook Field,
The accompany-
that the second car to finish, ing picture shows the latest type French production, was equipped or shielding being placed on air- with an engine of 6-litre capacity, maîl planes and other ships using but the Sunbeam beat this by the radio.. handsome margin of time.
INCREASE IN SOUTH.
Without the shielding the pilot Iwould have the Liberty motor
roaring into his headset and also! ave the radio causing some inter- ference with his ignition, it is Louisiana had the biggest permition system set up a magnetic pointed out. The wires in the centage of increase in automobile fold in their vicinity and this registration last year-30,3 per interferes with all radio wires
frutting this field.
cent.
IF A DRIVER USED
SPEED NEAR YOUR
CHILDREN!!!!
The shielding consists of alumi- rum sauce pans" inverted over! the distributor heads, and alumi- num conduits carrying the wires
the spark plugs. The wires leading from the conduits are covered with copper braid rhielding.
BREAKING A WORLD'S RECORD.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1926,
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1926
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1926
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Peter Do Paola, premior automobilo racer of 1925, is shown crossing the finish line In the 250-mile race at the now Rockingham Park Race Track, Salem, N. H. Do Paolü broke the old record with an average of 128 miles per hour,
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