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FOR SALE
FOR SALE-A two-Four Seater Calcot Car 11.0 h.p.; Balloon tyres, Excellent condition.-$1,300. Apply Box No. 7, care of "Hong- kong Telegraph."
NEW RALEIGHS and spare parts Henderson, Indian and harley Combinations, Triumph, Douglas. Cleveland and Indian Scout solos and practically new Gloria side
Cycle
car.
Motor
Exchange.
Car
and
Four
PACKARD SIX-Condition in every way as new. Five perfect Tyres, Five-passenger. Superb BUICK Touring No., 352. engine (45113-42). Cash $4,200, wood wheels and spare rim. Five no offers. On view at Dragon tyres. Price $750.00 cash. Garage, Happy Valley,
CADILLAC.---3-cylinder 5-pussen
World Leadership Justifies
Still Lower Prices!
"Graham Brothers annavince a substan. tial reduction in the prices of their cemplate line of tricks and motor coaches, affective January 7th."
NEW PRIDES 1-Ton Chassis-BB."... 14-Ton Charsia--OB
14-Ton Low Uhasis-MB
3 975 1245
1205 Ton, 168" Ohai-FB 1316 14-Ton, 158 Low Chusi LB 1365 -1415 Tan, 129 CharmiED YB Bus Cha
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fo.. Detroit. This is their third reduction in sight tonton. It brings the price of their product far below any truck of com- parablo'merit.
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Large production jualifies low pricor Graham Brothers are the largest exciu. sive truck manufacturora in the world,
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#The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd. 31 Weng Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley Telephona C, 1245 or 1247
GRAHAM BROTHERS Box TRUCKS Sold by Decos Baerumns
No. 1473, care of Hongkong Telegraph,"
ger Cadillac for $1,500 cash. Bax HUDSON-6-cylinder 7-passen- No. 1475, care of "Hongkong Tele-ger Hudson Touring in splendid "graph."
zondition.. Five
brand
4 x 7.30 Balloon Tyres on five BUICK-eylinder 7-passenger New Wire Wheels. Now top,
DEALERS EVERYWHERE
The 9/20 h.p.
Buick Touring No. 165 Good, run-upholstery, paint, carpets, Strom/ ROVER
ning order. Five good Tyres naberg Carburettor. Bosch Horn, and five Wire Wheels. $1,500,00. Ow Radiator. All bright parts newly view at Dragan Garage, Happy plated. $3,000.00. Box No. 1492, Valley.
care of "Hongkong Telegraph."
BUYERS' GUIDE
MOTOR CARS ·
AUSTIN-Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd., Bank of China Bldg.
C. 2487.
Car 1926
DEMONSTRATIONS OF
THE SPECIAL COLONIAL MODEL BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE HONGKONG
HINTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 5,⠀ 1926.
FOR MOTORIST
THE
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
CAR NOISES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE. ¿ All abnormal automobile noises gour joints and squeaks coming indicate somothing is wrong, but from the body, hood and from certain ones aro veritable danger chassis parts. do not so urgently signale and ignoring them, even demand instant attention. If temporarily, involves serious riek nothing le found dangerously loose of costly damage to car parts. On for unlubricated, they may be the other hand there are some dealt with at a somewhat. Inter! noisos which, although they re-time.
quire oarly investigation repre- "(Mr. Clough gives some of the sent dorangements, the correction questions he receives from time of which can safely be doforred to to time, together. with the
a convenient time.
answers. These appear weekly, ENGINE KNOOKS AND SQUEAKS and provide and instructive re-
ference./
EFFECT OF EXTRA HEAD
GASKET.
In the former class of hoisas, the cause of which must be aacertained at once, if one is to "play safe," is the engine knock, particularly if it develops sudden. ly and rapidly grows worse." It indicates such derangements as this question to settle an argu- lack of water of dil, failure of ment. Given two-identical cars, lubrication, a burned out boaring
Questions Please atswor
or serious looseness of working one with two gaskets under the parts. Failure to heed and to act cylinder-head of its engine and upon such a warning may mean a the other with but one goskot, "stuck" engino ruined cylinder-
crankshaft. A very loose can-
hores or connecting-rod, "adrift" which of the two" would have from its crank-pin, wrecking the more power and speed? crankcase and apringing the Answer: This question can- necting rod bearing, in a pressure-not be answered categorically, as oiled engine, may let through so its answer depends upon the de- much oil hat other hearings.run almost dry and suffer damage ign of the engine, under con- sideration. Installing an extra Squeaking and grating noise head gasket acts to increase the from an angine also indicate
space above the pistons and thus dangerous condition.
reduces the degree of compres
GEAR NOISES.
a
TESTING FOR HARDNESS OF METAL.
Loft: Tosting Stude
bakor,
piston pins by moons of the soloro- scopo. J
Below, left: Applying the Brinnell, tost to Studebaker orank- shafts,
Bolow, right: By means of the "ocular micro- meter" the impres sion made on the Brinnell test is ex
amined.
A Sparkling diamond and a A 10 millimeter ball is pressed koon-oyed girl-but in this in- against a piece to be tested, at s stance the combination spell not specified pressure. Then an in-
sion and if, in the engine in romance, but the durability. of spector examines the eize of the question, the compression was steel used in Studebaker care: impression made by the ball, Unusual grinding or heavy too high with one, gaakot to humming noises should be follow-secure the maximum power out-
The diamond is set into a small using the ocular micrometer,
used in many schools, except that
ed up at once, as they denote lack put, the extra gasket might be steel ball, which bounces up along which is a microscope like that of lubrication of incorrect adjust-expected to give improved speed monts in the transmission or and power. On the other hand: a scale watched carefully by the roar-axle, which will eventually if the addition of the extra gasket inspectrix. The steel ball drops
there appears on the field a scalo "
result in destroyed bearings and reduced compression below its from a pre-determined height | of graduations like those on è
rule.
heavy expense for replacement most advantageous point, there parts and disassembling and would be a decrease in power upon a piece of metal to be tested
Maximum and minimum limits assembling labour. Rattling or and speed. For example, if with for hardness. chattering sounds, apparently
are close. If the impression is single gasket, the engine The harder the steel the higher too wide, it means the metal is connected with the driving preignited its charges and thus BUICK-Hongkong & Kowloon Taxi Cab Co, Ltd., 33 Des Voeux KOWLOON TAXI CAB Co., Ld. system, are not safely to be caused negative work to be done the ball bounces. The giri, watch too soft, permitting the ball to
ignored.
on the pistons, using two gasketsing the scale, knows the limits sink doeper. Such metal would might correct this trouble and within which the bouncing ball twist under too low a torsional increase engine output.
AUBURN Universal Auto Supply Co., Asiatic Bldg. C.4915.
Road 0:1086.
CADILLAC Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759, DODGE BROS. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nai
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247...
ESSEX. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung Rd.
Happy Valley C.1247.
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FORD.-Andrew Harper, 6, Queen's Road. CM895.
G. W. K-Gilman & Co., Ltd., H. K. Bank Bldg. Tel."C.200,
Road, Happy Valley. C. C.1247.
HUDSON-The Dragon. Motor Car Co., Ltd. 33, Wong Nei Chung LINCOLN. Andrew Harper, 6 Queen's Road. C.4895. MORRIS Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. "C.4795. PACKARD. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd. 33 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. SINGER-Gilman & Co., Ltd., H.K. Bank. Bldg. Tel. C.290.. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garnge, Queen's Road. C.4759. STANDARD.---Alux. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd., Bank of China Bldg.
"C.2487.
MOTOR TRUCKS
DENNIS-Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd., Bank of Ching Bldg.
C.2487.
FORD-Andrew Harper, 6 Queen's Road. C.4759.
FORDSON TRACTOR.-Andrew Harper, 6 Queen's Road. C.4759. GRAHAM BROTHERS.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong
Nei Chung Rd.. Happy Valley. C.1247.
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MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. THORNYCROFT-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. MOTOR CYCLES
A. J. S.Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd., Bank of China Bldg. C.2487. B. S. A.The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. C.1067, DOUGLAS.Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd. Bank of China Bldg.
0.9187.
HARLEY-DAVIDSON.-The Gascon Motor Co., 2, Kwing Wah Road,
Kowloon. K.1242. V
INDIAN-Alex Ross & Co. (China), Ltd., Bank of China Bldg.
C.2487.
MATCHLESS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. PUCH-Leyseco China Co., Ltd., Bank of Canton Bldg. C: 1221. ROYAL ENFIELD-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247. TRIUMPH-Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd, Bank of China Bldg.
0.2487.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. COLUMBIA BATTERIES. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33,
Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247, DUNLOP TYRES.-Dunlop Rubber Co.; Hotel 'Annexe Bldg. C.4554. FIRESTONE TYRES.The Dragon Motor Car. Co., Ltd., 33, Wong
Nei Chung Road, Valley. C.1247.
GOOD YEAR TYRES.-Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd., Bank of
China Bldg, C.2487.
MICHELIN TYRES.-Europe-Asin` Trading Co., Fedder Building.
C.3438.
MICHELIN TYRES.-John Gibbs & Co., Bank of Canton Bldg. C.704. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES, Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. C.4759.
At a general assembly of Acnde A scheme for a further widen- micians and Associates, recently; ing of Shoreditch at a cost of Mr. Walter Tapper, architect, Mr. 85,000 is being prepared by the
LCC. S. J. Lamorna Birch, painter, and Mr. Charles S. Jagger, sculptor, sioned to erect the war memorial wore elected Associates of the to the Royal Artillery at Hyde Royal Academy, Jagger is the Park Corner, Mr. S. J. Lamorna young sculptor who leapt into Birch is a member of the Royal prominence when he was commis-Water Colour Society. He is 57.
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LESS URGENT AUDITORY INDICATIONS.
must stay. When it falls short strese, so it is discarded. "If the NOISY VALVE-LIFTERS. or bounces beyond those limits, impression, is too narrow, it Relatively light tapping noises, from the engine, which come on! Question-There is too much the metal is too soft and yielding moans the metal is too hard and gradually and are nearly constant noise in the valve-gear of my or too hard brittle, and is die-brittlo for use in an axle shaft. regardless of load, such as arise, 1924- engine, which seems from loose pistons or piston-pins to producod where the cams
It will break more readily. The or worn valve-gear parts; ratties strike the tappets. I have re-
The bouncing ball machine is Brinnell test, as this is known, caused by play in spring ends placed the original tappots with called a scleroscope. It is used datormines by the actual texture and slight backlash in steering new ones, but these have ba-
como as bad as the old ones, on automobile parts with mirror- of the metal itself the utility of What can be done to stop this like surfaces which must not be each piece examined.
pesky "noise?"
marred in testing, like piston While many, manufacturers Answer: When you replaced pins...
oxamine in this manner only part the tappets, did you also replace
Another unique instrument of the units going into a car, their guides? If not there may
Could You
Save It?
If your car oäught fire, could you save it?
Allow the
CANBEC
Fire Extinguisher to solve the problem for your
Galied bra TM CÁT H Brass Cylinder 15 Inches high ALWAYS READY FOR USE".
Woighs only 6 lbs. and is the ideal forin of protection. for motor cars- motor boats etc.
Demonstration any time.
STOCKS CARRIED by
be onough wear in the latter to used in a dozen perts of Stude-overy important steel part of a allow lost motion, which pro-baker plants.bears an equally im-Studebaker has to pass these tests duces noise; Those guides are
pressive numo-"ocular microme 100 por cont, Better to find replaceable in assemblies of four
each. If there is much wear of ter". It is used to test the hard- shortcomings here than for an "the valve-stems in their guides, ness of castings and forgings bo-owner to discover them on the this last motion may contribute fore they are machined to smooth-road" is the inspection depart- to the poise although the sound
These
mont's motto,
TOO DANGEROUS FOR HONGKONG
produced may seem to come from ness and precision. the cam-compartment. tappets or lifters are supposed to obtain ubrication from oil spray entering the valve compartment rom the crankcase. If they do not seam to do so, you batter in- vestigate the reason If it is not too much trouble, to remove the valve cover plates, it may be worth while to do this occasional- ly and squirt oil freely over the parte.
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MOTOR NOTES.
Araustrong Siddeley Cara
Alemita Gascotatori,
Anjes Precision Tools
Beyco Motometers
Buell Turbo Horns
Benziman Tip-Top Accessories
Cadillac Custera Built Cars Champion Spark Plugs
Cuno Cigar Lighters |
Duratox Upholstering, Materiale Dunlop Tyres and Tuhos Day fome Products-RADIOLITE-
Economy Steel Wire Brushes Edelmann Han.D" Toniz Electric Cannoptors & Motor Filling
The Hongkong Hotel Garage Sales and Accessories Queen's Road Central Tel, C. 4760
SHEWAN TOMES & CO. Tol. C. 781, * Import Dept.
Service and Paris. Stubbs Road
Tel. 0:4602
TB. Mockford, who won the Motorcycle Gymkhana at London, takes a high jump on his pot machine, Thousands flocked to view those stunts and races staged at the Crystal Palace.