THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926.
B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES
gained the following awards in the recent English
INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS TRIAL
SPECIAL
EXHIBITION, MEDAL
The B. S. A. team on 3.49 h. p. models completed the course without losing a single mark and were the only team to complete the Trial with absolutely cloan shoots.
ALSO MANUFACTURERS TEAM PRIZE.
CLASS "B
Riders of B.S.A. Motor Bicycles also gained the following awards:"
10 GOLD MEDALS
#
1 SILVER MEDAL
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HINT MOTORIST
THE
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
GOOD CONNECTIONS AT THE BATTERY.
FUTURE AERO- PLANES.
Diesel Engines.
LOWER FIRE HAZÁRD.
This would be one of the Hig- gost stops made in the progress pf aviation, they say, because it operation, economy, safety and would bring with, it simplicity of more room allowance for other than fuol space.
Lack of them may mean tho jerky operation and for some total failure of the electrical knocking. If the plugs do not London, Oct. 24th-British aír- system. failure of the startor to become oily enough to short-craft engineers are looking to- operato, irregular lights or circuit thom, there must boward the use of crudo-oil engines damage to the generator. Im-something wrong in the ignition of the Diesel high compression, perfect connection may be caused system to account for missed non-ignition typo in aeroplanes of simply by the battery clamps sparks, and you better have it the future. being loose on their terminals or inspected thoroughly to locate by products of corrosion of the the "trouble. The fact that your parts, caused by the action of trouble began right after the escaped acid, spoiling the contact change of rings indicates on the between the clamps and the face of it that they do not fit well terminal posle. Whenever there enough to contral the oll or to is a collection of white or greenish insura good compression.
With tho hoavy oil, angino material at the conne_tions
LOOBE PISTON OR WRIST-PIN'?
comes the need for less fuel on (usually the "live" one) futuro
long flights, and the longer the trouble may be looked for. As a Question:There is a thump-flight, the greater economy in temporary measure detach the ing noise in the engine of my weight and space:
1923 car, when it is speeded cable-clamps, wipe off the evid-up. Main bearings have been The great disadvantage at pre- ences of corrosion, apply am-adjusted, flywheel tightened on sent is the weight of such an en- monia water to the
affected shaft timing-goars and camshaft fine. The prosent aircraft geso- fixed up and teppets adjusted Tholine engine weighs about two metal to neutralize remaining mechanics say that this noise is pounds for each horsepower it acid, scrape the lead torminal from a loose wrist-pin. It die delivers. The best reduction in posts bright with a knife, clean appears when the spark is weight of the Diesel type of en- the inside surfaces of the clamps, tell me about it?
slightly rotarded. What can you gine' has been made by the recent Attendu" motor, which weighs cout the parts lightly but com-
four pounds to each horsepower. Answer: Vory likely the mo pletely with vaseline, replace the chanics may be right, but we
The lower fual weight needed clamps on the posts as far as should as soon think it is caused by this engine couldn't make up. they will go and tighten thom by a lapping piston, especially for the heavier weight. But en- securely. The presence of core you notice it most when gineers see the possibility of re- rosion, however, indicates that speeding up. Usually a wrist-pinducing the engine weight to acidi escapos from the battery knock is louder during idling three pounds or horsepower, around the terminal post and than at any other time. You when the Diogel would become a this is because the post is not ought to be able to tell which worthy competitor of the gaso- soaled in tightly or properly cylinder has the knock by short-line motor. For the extra pound gasketed. When battery connec-ing their plugs. When you have per horsúpower on the engine tione porsistently corrode, the done this, put about a fluid ounce would be more than made up by only permanemt comedy is to of very heavy oil on the piston the lowor fuel weight and take it to the service station and head of this cylinder. If the volume, especially for long dis- havo its terminal posts rescalad knock stops temporarily, it is tancos.
probably from a loose piston, but if not it is most likely from the wrist-pin. The wrist-pin knock is usually a double one, when the Question:-Since having now engine is idling with the cylinder piston-rings installed in my short-circuited out. Fear the engine has niways knock- ed when pulling, has. been using too much oil and is jumpy" on high and low speeds I find, by testing the spark, that it misses at each plug once in a while The pistons do not show equal amounts of carbon deposits. What do you think is wrong?
Or
ro-gaskoted.
required.
аб
may be
SPARKS ARE, UNCERTAIN.
SPARK LEVER POSITION. Question:Isn't it possible for an engine to be running on fully advanced spark, although the spark lever is only three-quarters advanced as indicated by ita position on its quadrant?
Answer: If you find oil on the spark-plugs, this, in connection
Answer: Yos. Positions of the with your high oil consumption, park-lever indicate only relative Indiantos that you did not get a conditions of advanco and rotard. good ring-fitting job. Testing The setting of the ignition-cam compression, with the handcrank. will settle this point. Uncertainty on its, shaft is what absolutely of the spark would account for determines spark position.
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1.
BOAD SIGNAL
AUTOMATIC LIGHTING.
[in opposite directions. There is Just this littlo handicap to what should otherwise be a very usoful addition to our system of traffic An apparatus which somewhat control, and that is that its two resembles the acetylene push-bike faces, sot as they are in opposito lamp has been brought out from directions, are not nearly so Home to add its utility to the effective at a "pin" bond." In work of traffic control of this this latter caso, what is needed Colony. It is a common thing at is an apparatus which functions Home, but out here it is a atran like a lighthouse-its light,per- gor, for its purpose is to flash aceptible from any angle of ap red light continuously at road proach. It is not yet known who- bends where there is need of ther a definite use has been found warning motorista to proceed rands on the Island, and mean- for the apparatus on any of the cautiously by reason of the awk time we are interested in the in- ward nature of the bend or the formation that the light is sup- narrow width of the roadway. plied from a gas chamber which, There are two facus in 'the ap- can be refilled with the cost of a paratus from which the light is few dollars to last for wooks on flashed, and those are presented end,
foundations!
Woight of the Diesel could possibly be reduced, however, by the development of the two. FIT DUNLOP stroke-cycle engine, in which
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