MHMIMI
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927.
MOM
A British Master Motor
If you could visit any one of the seven huge Morris factories in England, you would know at once why no engine, in any car, at any price, gives more con- sistent low-cost running than the Morris master motor.
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From all over the world comes daily proof that the "heart" of the Morris car is a master product-tuned to mechanical perfection-built of best British material for a long life of faithful service. No wonder so many motorists are changing, over to the Morris. Have you tried out a new "World" model?
MORRIS
"the Wheel of the World" from £190.
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
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(The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.) Car Sales and) Phone Service } Phone Accessories C. 4759 and Parts JC 4602,
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Hongkong Hotel Garage.
HINTS MOTORIST
FOR
THE
ALBERT L.CLOUGH
ENCOURAGING THE LOOKING OF CARS.
Every car is provided by its ing system overheats persistent, manufacturer with some menna ly although all ordinary, defects of lacking it against unauthorized are absent ? The only other thing use, and if such a locking dovico we can think of that should ba is oporated, when the car is left checked up is the condition of Sometimes, unattended, it is in very large the head gasket. measure safeguarded against when an old one is replaced it theft, but the trouble is that a has become so much flattened large majority of motorists seldom and spread that its edges oxtond lock their cars. In so far as the over portions, of some of the water locking operation can be facilit-passages betwoon the head and ated
Auto- blocks. This considerably re- or accomplished matically, the greater the likelistricts the flow of wator and, in hood will be that a car will be the case of a thermoelphon-cooled) engine like yours, may cause n parked in a locked condition.
strong tendency toward overheat- IGNITION ALWAYS INTERRUPTED ing. You bettor romove the WHEN CAR IS LEFT. cylinder-hoad and see that the Whon a car is stopped, the holes in the gasket rogister por oporator should neutralize the fectly as to size and position with gears, not the hand-brake and corresponding water passages in switch off the ignition, but the the block, supplying a two former operations may not be gasket if this proves not to be the performed. On the contrary, the case. ignition is almost sure to be shut off, to save gasoline and to meet logal reguirements: It is seldom that a car is loft unattended, more
INSUFFICIENT OHARGING
CURRENT..
Dow
Question:-The generator of
than momentarily, with the an-my car is sonding only 10 to gine running.
11 amperes into the battery, dl- though the third brush is advanc
LOCKING THE CAR BY THROW-d as far as it will go. What can
ING OFF THE SWITCH.
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be done to make it deliyor 15 amperes, which I think should bó supplied, as the battery is gradually losing is chargo?
If then the act of opening the ignition awitch can be made to lock the car at the same time or coincidentally, the operator will
Answer: Clean the commutator be relieved of the necessity of performing the locking operation and smooth it, "if required, with As a soparate act and security sandpaper. Be sure that the against illicit use of the car will brushes, especially the third- brush, fit the commutator per bo automatically attained, and as the koy is what is operated to kill fectly and bear upon it with the proper spring tension. Vory often the engine and simultaneously to moving the third-brush position de the locking, it is only neces-makes it necessary to re-fit it to sary to remove it and take it why
to leave the dar secure. Such an the commutator to obtain a Make certain easy procedure should greatly in-perfect contact. crease the likelihood of cars fitted that the contacts of the generator with coincidental locks being left field circuit are secure. Inspect and tighten, if necessary, the proof against theft.,
charging circuit eonnections at VARIETIES OF COINCIDENTAL the generator, the ammoter-and oleowhere. Clean the contact LOCKS.
"surfaces of the battery terminal Such a lock may merely hold posts and the clamps which the ignition circuit open until it attach to them and replace these is closed by means of the key or connectione tightly. If this does by means of mechanical inter-not give you the 15 ampero connection between the switch charging rate, which your gen- and the transmission or stoering-erator should produce, you better gear, the locking of one of the have it examined at an electrical other of these unite may be sim-service station ultaneously effected. In other
forms, throwing off of the switch,
locks the breaker-arm of the dis- 14 MILLIONTH CAR. tributor or closes a valve in the intake manifold thus preventing engine operation.
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FAULT GASKET RESTRICTS
WATER CIRCULATION.
San Francisco Display.
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OM Question: Whose car's cook pany recently passed another
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When the Ford Motor Com- million mark in production, authorized San Francisco Ford dealers collectively arranged for a unique.window display in re- cognition of the achievement.
Through co-operation with the
Bank" Humboldt Savings portion of their window. was. of- fered to the dealers to display an exhibit. Coloured grass was placed in the foreground with a roadway built through it in the back- ground. A miniature authorized Ford dealer station was built into the display at the left with a gasoline service pump just out- side.
By means of a bolt system, Ford cars and trucks and Ford-1 son tractors wended their way out of the dealer building, down the roadway, 'reproducing a pro- cossion of Ford products often seen in reality on both city and country roads. This procession Kept moving without a stop.
In the background there was a picture of Henry Ford, who, had made the day shorter with the different means of transportation operating in the display.
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