THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
BY THE WAY
SATURDAY: OCTOBER 23, 1926,
B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES
gained the following awards in the recent English
TERNATIONAL 6 DAYS TRIAL SPECIAL EXHIBITION M'E DAL The B. 9. A. team on 3.49 h. p. models 'completed, the coureo without losing a single mark and were the only team to comploto the Trial with absolutely clean shoots.
TEAM PRIZE
ALSO MANUFACTURERS
CLASS
Riders of B.S.A. Motor Bicycles also gained the following awards:
10 GOLD MEDALS, 1 SILVER MEDAL
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Situated in Douglas Street
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The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S. C.) Ltd.
Excollont roads skirting the Repeated warnings to slow Atlantic seaboard make a motor drivors who trail along through trip along the ocean shores a traffic at the rate of 10 or 20 miles delightful vacation trip for motor-fan hour have been of little avail, ists.
so Superintendent Hurley of the Connectiout state police has ordered that all such offendors be arrosted.
The motorist who tours the highways bordering the Atlantic ocean will find not only good accommodations for comfort but algo provisions for recreation, and ploasure. An opportunity for bathing, swimming and fishing is always available.
Motor car traffic over, Mis souri's improved highways has increased, 100 per cent this year over the same period last year, according to a check by the state Interesting and historic attrac-highway.department. tions at many Atlantic const
cities and towns, including the A permit for building an Sesqui-Contennial at Philadelpautomoblie and pedestrian bridge hia, make an Atlantic coast tour across the Mississippi river at unusually attractive this season. New Orleans has been sought, from the Louisiana bighway Rigorous inspection of the 12 | commission. auto compe datablished near the Sesqui-Contenial International
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Exposition at Philadelphia is The Susquehanna Trail, which being conducted by health runs north and south through the services, insuring motorists of centre of Pennsylvania, is said to sanitary and inviting camps. be one of the most beautiful high- i
ways in the world and almost Florida is spending more than solid concrete for the entire, $33,000,000 for highway constric-distance from Harrisburg to tion this year.
Roads of that where it connects with New York: state now total about 5650 miles. highways.
LUBRICATION AND THE CARBURETOR.
(By Tech vical Department, VACUUM OIL CO.
BALLOONS HOLD MARKET.
An Akron tyre firm predicts that the manufacture of fabric tyres in the future may be practically abandoned. High Adjustment of the carburetor pressure tyres will be used only dotermines the, proportion in for heavier service such as heavy which gasoline and air" shall be truck work and balloon tyres fed to the engine. This propor will equip practically all pas- tion has an important effect on senger cars and a large number lubrication. Incorrect carburetor of trucke and busses, according | adjustment may cause oil pump: to company officials. ing, carbon formation or thinning
of the lubricating oil by dilution with fuel..
GAS PRICE PROBE.
"Oil pumping" is the ac cumulation of excess lubricating The Federal Trade Commission oil in the combustion chamber. has started an extensive in-
to consume it:
The oil accumulates because it vestigation of charges that big cannot burn-either from lack of oil companies, have raised the heat to vaporize it or lack of air price of gasoline without due With too rich cause at a cost of many millions carburetor adjustment there is, to motorists. not enough to consume any ex cess of lubricating oil
If the carburetor is adjusted to idle too slowly or if the engine is. run too long in this position, the tondancy toward oil pumping is greatly aggravated. In the idling position. the carburetor throttle is almosed closed and a high vacuum is developed in the in-. take manifold and combustion chambers. This vacuum tonds to draw the". oil up past the piston's. The over-oiling tendency is made worse by the fact that the idling mixture is necessarily a rich mixture and the oil is likely to accumulate because, there is not enough air to burn it.. Idle the! ongino for a short time, stap on the, accelerator and prove this by the cloud of smoke which comes from the burning of the oil ac-. cumulation when the engine ie! opended up.
In starting the engine, particul- arly in cold weather, it is necessary to choke the car- buretor. This is because the greater protion of the gasolino is | too heavy to vaporize in the cold! cylinders and Consequently cannot be fired. The mixturo: needed to start cold engines must be from five to seven times as rich qu,the normal mixture. Only one-fifth of the fuel is light enough to vaporize the fire it at the low temperatures. The rest) remains in liquid from and thins out the lubricating oil. It is perfectly clear that if the choke is used to excess the lubricating oil will be thinned down so much that it will lose part of its value. Avoid excessive choking or un- necossary use of the choke after the engine has started.
Keeping the engine, reasonably hot helps both carburetion and lubrication. A large part of the fuel which may have proviously accumulated in the oil will be driven off when the engine is thoroughly hot and the oil restor- od to its proper body.
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ESSEX TOURING $2,100.
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Other Distinctive Features
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Des Voeux Road, Central.