THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY
19 SINGER 26
Specially Geared for Hongkong
The 1926 Singer represents the
highost standard of British Motor Car
Enginooring standard which
guarantees that every purchaser
acquires a car made to last.
FOUR SEATER "DE LUXE" $2,200
British Throughout
TWO SEATER "DE LUXE"
$2,200
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Equipped with overhead valves, four wheel brakes, automatic windscreen wiper, pneumatic upholstery, Dunlop reinforced balloon tyres, complete all-weather equipment, large radiator, etc."
For Full Specifications and Particulars apply to:--
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
HONGKONG BANK BUILDING.
1926 INDIAN MOTORCYCLES
INDIAN SCOUT...
$600.00-
INDIAN PRINCE $480.00
Particulars upon application.
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (China), LTD.
Bank of China Building, and I A, Chater Road..
SOCON
SOCONY
MOTOR OILS
AND
GASOLINE
HINTS MOTORIST
FOR
THE
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
DECEPTIVE CAR NOISES.
It is impossible to compute how judgments on such a point should? much time and money is wasted be obtained, before the expense in futile attempts to stop motor incident to the recommended dis- nolsce, through following false assembling and replacements are clues as to their sources.
"Barking Up The Wrong Tree.
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authorized. Reducing The Guesswork Element. Car units are continually being Motive power holses are often dismounted, disassembled and difficult to locate, while a car is Inspected, in the hope of finding in road service, as many testo aro the causes of rattles, knocks, then inapplicable which can be ap: grinds and squeaks, with the result plied to it when it is stationary. | (disappointing in one sense) that Jacking up and running a car every thing is found O K and that under brake logd, making use of the noise really originates some-the listening rod cylinder cut-out where else: Or, sometimes, switches and other testing devices, some of the disassembled parts sometimes makes it possible to are found slightly worn and thus exactly place noise which are of being suspected of noisiness are ill defined origin while the car is replaced at considerable expense, bumping over the road." with no improvement in quietness (Mr. Clough gives some of the simply because the parts in ques- questions he receives from time to. tion had nothing whatever to do time, together with the answers.' with the noise.
These appear weekly and provide Jan instructive reference.)
Avold Jumping At Conclusions.
Clutches and transmissions Are
Testing Spark-Plugs, often pulled down to locate noises Question: I have quite a num- actually originating in rear-ends ber of spark-plugs, which I have (and vice versa), and engine porta taken out of my engine at differ- are readjusted or replaced, when ent times, thinking that they might other parts are the actual sources be defective, but I now believe that of noise. It is safe to say that they may be. O. K., and that hasty, i confirmed diagnoses, the trouble was due to something based upon operative sounds are entirely different. Is there any among the costliest evils which way of finding out whether these the motorist has to contend with plugs are sound or not?
The money thrown away in labour Answer: You can take them to expense upon the advice of care-an electrical service station or a less or incompetent listeners, who garage, where they have a plug- (claim infallible accuracy of audi-tester and have them tried out, tory diagnosis, is immense. but the simplest way is to try The Whole Car A Sounding Box. them, one by one, in a cylinder of your engine. Those sa tried and Motor car noises are deceptive as found not to cause the engine to to their points of origin and dif-miss can be O. K.'d and any that ficult accurately to locate because make the engine run irregularly many of the parts capable of mak-
can be "junked." ing them are tightly enclosed in sonorous housings and also because, practically the entire car mechan.
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Rear Wheel Works Loose Question! I have repeatedly
ism constitutes a single metallic tightened the left rear wheel of unit, along which sounds produced my ear on the axle end, but it at any particular point are trans- works loose again almost immedi- mitted to all other parts thereof ately. How can this be pre- on the principle of the toy tele-vented? iphone.
Looking Before Leaping.
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Answer: Probably the wheel has "worked" on the axle-shaft so much that the keyway, which is The operator's 'judgment as to half in the hub and half in the the location of noises is rather shaft, haa become battered and sof unreliable, for he cannot alter his much enlarged that the key is not position, but that of someone else, longer a tight fit in it. If this is who can climb about the car re- the case, you should have the key-] move floor boards or use a listen-way trued up and a larger key jing rod is usually much better. utcurately fitted to it. When this It is unwise to have any cur unit is done and the hub forced onto torn down, upor the advice of a the shaft end, by the use of con- single mechanic that it is the siderable force, applied to the nut source of a particular noise. by means of a large wrench, you Several independent concordant should have no further trouble.
FLYING BECOME SAFER,
Records show that flying is be- coming much safer in the United States. The number of crashes per flying hours of heavier-than-air ma- chines decreased from one crash per 200 flying hours in 1921 to one | crash per 500 flying hours in 1924, There was a decrease from one fatality per 955 flying hours in 1921 to one fatality per 3365 flying hours in 1924. The decrease is credited to improvements In machines and experience of flyers.
HE MAN WHO CALLED MUD A BEAUTIFIERY? HAS NEVER BEEN DOWN A COUNTRY
ROAD.
B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES
1926.
Their Economy Benefits Users
Car owners know that Goodyear Cord Tyres afford them long, trouble-free and economical service.
In addition they prefer Goodyear Cords for the saving they effect in power and petrol; for the protection they give to cars and passengers, and for the safe, sure traction provided by their All-Weather Tread.
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GOOD YEAR
MOTOR-CYCLE BALLOONS
Made With SUPERWIST
MADE IN CANADA
DISTRIBUTORS .
ALEX. ROSS & Co. (CHINA), Ltd.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.
AUBURN
THE 8-88 ROADSTER
The "pleasure" car of the Auburn line. A run to the Club-Shopping tour 'or pleasure trip. Large comfortable seat in rear deck, entered through door, eliminat- ing necessity of performing acrobatic stunts to get into and out of this seat. This door gives convenient access to rear compartment for golf clubs, packages or luggage when seat is not in use.
THE 4-44 ROADSTER
A. J. S. MOTORCYCLES
Famous For Reliability and Economy
Same body design as the model 8-88 Roadster with samo conveniences Upholstery of brown Spanish leather. Snap and pep to satisfy the most exacting domande on a real "pleasure""car.. Looks that make it the centre of many eyes whorever it is parked. Not a pocket edition but a real car the same as the other 6-Sixty-Six models. 120" wheelbase.
865 0.0. £78.10.0
Electriclly Equipped
Particulars upon Application.
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD, Bank of China Building and 1a, Obater Road,
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UNIVERSAL AUTO SUPPLY CO.
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