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SMALLER ENGINES.
WITH GREATER EFFICIENCY,
(BY ISRAEL KLEIN).
Smaller ongines of higher com- pression and power will como soon, with the desire on the part] of ongiaeors to effect lower costs Ih the manufacture and use of automobiles.
With such enginess will come Argater mileages to each gallon of gasoline. With them also will come more universal uso of special anti-knock compounds that will help much in postponing the day whon our supply of oil will bo doplated.
And alongside the savings and greator ufficloney of the power unit on our future automobiles, thare will be great reductions in tyre and body costs and in their maintenance,
Even-to-day, a beginning is bo- ing made in this groat saving and efficiency programme. The use of what is called a "chemical ac-| celerator"in the rublor Industry, is prolonging the life of tyres and saving some $50,000,000 a year for the American motoring public, These chemicals have spoeded up manufacturing processes ED that some $80,000,000 additional capital investmont by the rubber manufacturers in saved.
Yet the tyros produced by this accelerated procase even to-day has increased tyto mileage & total of 25,000,000,000 miles a year for all the cars in the Eguntry:
MUCH GAS 18, SAVED.
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1926.
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MARKS LIZZJE'S BIRTHPLACE,
This tablet, unveiled at Detroit by Edsel Ford, rende: "Henry Ford began experimenting with the automobile in a small workshop located here in the early nineties. In 1894 he produced his first cars two-cylinder machine mounted on a light ohassie geared to rubber-tyrad bicycle wheels. In the year 1926 the Ford Motor Company produced its fourteen millionth motor."
S. SMALL CARS.
PREDICTED PRODUCTION,
New York --Three of the va manufacturary experiment ing with tho small car in the United States will have their products on the market by the spring of 1927,
MORE RECORDS.
THE TRIUMPH RECORD BREAKER.
There are many speedways in the world what the crack motor colists wie with one another in gotting out of their engines the absolute limit of speed, but there is nose so famous as, Brooklanda, the Weybridge track which has staged innumerable. exciting To this battleground contests.
world record- of speed the
"The greatest boon on which auto engineers depend, however, is the anti-knock compound of lead content-tetra-athyl lead. Erwin Greer, automotive en By use of this compound, it has gineer, predicts this and goes bean declared, we could decrease further in foreseeing the end of the consumption of gasoline by the heavy motor car still in usebreakers foregather, but foremost 40 per cent.
today.
among thom is Victor Horsman, Figuring an annual consump- "At the Now York and who, since he became associated tion in this country alone of 11, Chicago automobile" shows you time or another annexed no with the Triumph Co., has at one 060,000,000 gallons of this fuel, at will undoubtedly sce only 20 cents a gallon, we realize samples of the mosquito car," 3800,000,000 a year.
several
fewer than 116 British and world a saving on this item of more than Greer" says. "For the motor records on his famous Triumph industry has taken seriously to 2-valve machine. On a recent And the duration of our feel the idea of a small, short wheel- Saturday he gave an extra turn supply by the use of this com-
to the early visitors to the track pound, could be almost doubled.base, narrow-tread motor car."
before the opening of the Essex That isn't all,, however, that'
Several types of French and Club Meeting.
Mr. Ebbiswhile, the time- this form of anti-knock compound English, cars are known to be on could do for us. It's use could trial in America. Those, Greer keeper, went down to the fork stand the installation of engines believes, can be produced here at with Horsman, and all practising with higher compression ratios in much fewer cost than in Europe. cars and cycles were ordered of our automobiles. For the tiny At the same time they would be the track. Soon the long rider load purticles in the anti-knock more economical to operate; was buzzing rapidly round, and compound serve to ignite every easier to handle and would succeeded in netting another six bit of the gas in the engine cylin-relieve traffic.
international records in the 600 der losing none by lack of igni- |
c.c. side-car class. tion and considerably increasing "The next two years," Greer the force of the explosion,
adds, #will see the most MORE POWERFUL ENGINES revolutionary changes in the That call for the design of history of the automobile in- dustry. The oversize, overweight: smaller engines that could stand
motor car cannot survive even this higher compression or power in the limited quantities in And that is what engineers are which the higher priced automo. looking forward to. They seebiles are now produced." more powerful engines, on loss gasoline, with greater resultant miloages and longer life.
But
production of such engines must each downward stroke count as wait until there is assurance that power. Here is the possibility of the supply of anti-knock gasoline a smaller engine, with shortor stroke and faster speed, saving is nationwide.
much energy to operate the car.
-There is a tendency also toward the two-cycle engine. The mo dern four-cycle engine, engineors The two-cycle engine is in use point but, is going through twice in Europe, on several types of as much work to perform what small cars, and has been giving
good service at low cost.
In
could be done in two strokes.
In the engine of to-day the America, a large automotive piston takes four strokes, two up engine manufacturer plans to in- and two down, to exert one pusi troduce the Argyll two-cycle on the crankshaft, the only stroke engine shortly. This is a sleeve- that makes the car go. The two valve type of engine for which cycle engine, however, to which the designers claim higher off- engineers look forward, makes ciency and longer life.
C. 1121-2
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5 YEARS AGO mm GOING !!
SOCONY
MOTOR OILS
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GASOLINE
NOW
STILL GOING!!!
LIGHT
ELEGANT
ROOMY
FIAT
FIAT-MODEL
(35 Milos Per gallon).
FIRM
SILENT
SURE
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NEW SHIPMENT ARRIVED
Light pilont, and economical, the Model 508 with its morel-frame, combines elegance and comfort.
Its metallic, frame, electrically welded, is firm and pan- not be distorted, thus ensuring a perfectly silent gar.
Insulating
ating material is inserted between the body and the Chassis, doadoping every sound and eleminating creaking.
The metallic body members are very light and strong. rendering the whole car very light and sturdy."
Let us show you this fine car. Engine: oylinder 15/80 H.F. Speeds 4 forward, 1 reverae
General equipment Speedometer, olack brakes, Balloon tyres, sparewheel and tyre, (self-dimming), metal parts, nickelplated.
The very best you can get for your money.
Agents for Hongkong and Canton Societa Italiana Imp. Esp. Estremo Oriente, Ltd.,
Managers GOEKE & COMPANY, 3rd Floor, China Building.
Telephone C. 2221.
Telephone C. 2221.
IGNITION A TROUBLER. EYE TESTS FOR DRIVERS.
Only five states make auto- mobile drivers pass eye tests, &C. cording to survey, of the Ey sight Conservation Council of..
Ignition troubles proved to be responsible for a majority of calls from stalled motorists, according to findings of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Ameriod.
PACKARD
Unsurpassed
Performance
BRIDGING the turbulent Parisian traffic stands the ma- jestic Arc de Triomphe-cul mination of a sculptor's dream! Beneath it pass, in review, the chosen motor cars of both con- tinents.
A Packard, its beauty undimmed by this rare setting, pauses with the traffic-then leaps ahead, quietly but definitely asserting its mastery of the boulevard, The powerful agility of this newest Packard is the culmina- tion of an industry's ambition.
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
83. Wong Nei Chung Rd., Happy Valley. Tel. C. 1246 or 1247
Hongkong.
MOTOR FLEETS HELP.
PLAN NEW ROADS.
American owners of taxicab The Japanese government is and motor truck flects have planning an extensive road con- signified their willingness to co-struction campaign which will operate with safety organisations cost 160,000,000 you" and will to gut down on the death toll of result in 14,500 miles of
the automobile.
automobilo roads.
Straff
On your next trip to Paris, visit the Pachary sales- room, Champs
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