AUSTRALIAN TRADE.
Sensational Develop-
ment.
LOCAL PATRIOTISM.
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The sensational development in the Australian, Motor trade has attracted attention throughout the
THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SPEED AND LIGHTS. HINTJ
A Night Problem.
The relationship which exists botwhon automobile head lighting) and driving spood is being studiod by electrical engincora in hopos of removing the greatest dangors of night motoring.
Assuming that, one second is taken for recognition and deci- sion, there remain 70 feet for braking and other action.
WHEN BREED 19 TRIPLED.
FINE MOTORIST
FOR
THE
ALBERT L.CLOUGH GASOLINE LEAKS.
Escape of gasoline from the unions will usually make them fuel systom is to be scrupulously soat tightly.
GASES BLOW DY INTO CRANKCASE.
"An automobile travelling at avoided, on account of the firo the rate of 20 miles an hour when dangor which it creates. Drip- British Motor World. At the end its headlights rovoa! an obstruc-pings from the carburetor may be of 1920, Mr. Chenoy came to Vic-tion 100 foot ahead allows the ignited by a backfire or by a spark
Question: Whon running on toria to take up the Chevrolet drivor 3.4 seconds in which to re-from the electrical system and it second speed or pulling hard on agoney. He had an uphill battle, cognize the obstacle," according does not require much gasoline high goar, the crankcase oil of as the car was not popular locally, to a study made by onginders and on the floor of a small, tightly my car gats very hot and oil but that was six years ago and reported in the General Electric closed garage to impregnate its smoko свсаров through the to-day, thanks to his organising Review,
atmosphore sufficiently to lead to breather pipe. My mechanic says ability and the very officiont sør-
an explosion rosulting from a this is caused by gases escaping vice which his company, S. A.
lighted match, a hot carbon par- from the cylinders. What is your Cheney Motors (Pty) Ltd., has
ticle omitted from the muffler tail- opinion as to this. The pistons developed, the Chevrolet loads all
pipe or an electric spark. For-nom snug in, the cylinders, so other cars and trucks in salos. On
tunately, raw gasolino has a far as I can tell when the cylin- November 1st 1926, a notico ap- "The same car and driver at strong odour and whenever it can dor head is off. Spark-plugṣ do peared in the Victoria papers to 60 miles an hour have an entire bo smelt when coming into a gar-not get very dirty, the offect that General Motors, ly different problem. The single ago, which has housed a car for Answer: Your mechanic is Ltd., intended in the future to second taken for recognition and some time, it is almost certain doubtless right in thinking that: assemble and distribute their own decision would bring the car that the fuel system of that car there is considerable blowing cars in the Australian market. within 12 feet or within one-is jonking. Practically all gaso-by" of grees past the pistons.
of a second of The result of this might have been seventh
the line leakage met with is from the Examining the pistons with the to knock the ground from under obstruction.
carburetor or at the connexions head removed would give fou no the foot of The Cheney Motors, It is obvious that safety at hetween it and the vacuum tank, indication as to how nearly gas Ltd., had they not taken dramatic this spoed domands a recognition but leaks at these pipe-unions tight they were. The best tast for counter-action. In the same issue distance of far more than 100 seldom develop unless they re-tightness of the pistons in their' appeared a long notion by Mr.feet. Assume it to be 200 feet contly have beon disconnected. bores is by handcranking the on- Cheney pointing out that due to land thore remains 112 feet for Overflowing of the carburetor is gine. If there is a strong and the work of his firm and the thon. braking.
duo to failure of its float-valve to woll retained resistance to crank-
sands of pounds that they had Where 70 feet is ample for close whon and as it should and ing as each cylinder is turned spent in establishing the business deceleration from 30 miles an may be due to dirt between the through its compression stroke, it the good will created for the U.S.A. hour, possibly 200 feet would be needle valve and its sent, lack of indicates that there is little blow- had been practically due to the required for a full stop from 60 buoyancy of the float, disarrangoing down of gases into the crank- efforts of Cheney Motors, Ltd., miles an hour.
ment of the float-valvo parts and case to produce oil smoke, but if The US.A. corporation proposed |- LEGIFT MUST BE TENFOLD. in old carbirrators! to whar of the some or all the cylinders can be to take all this profitablo business The "obstruction must there-parts, preventing them from shut-cranked through compression from the hands of Chongy Motors, for he first brought into view ating off the gasoline supply at all with very slight or only momen- leaving them with but a small 319 feet, with no mangin of safety or until the fuel level in the float-tary resistance to cranking, it is portion and with no manufactur- for momentary inattention or chamber becomes so high that evidence that the piston-rings do ing activities, It was furtiter, wrong decisions.
gasoline continuously escapes not fit tightly enough to hold the pointed out that a wamber of mon "To produce equal visibility by from the spray nozzle. When the gases in the cylinders. Some- from the States were on their way means of an automobile headlight outside of a carburetor is found times air can be heard escaping to do in Australia what had bean would require 40 times the inter-wet with gasoline, it is a pretty with a hissing sound, when an previously done by Australians, sity at 312 feel that easily served | sure sign that it is leaking. Dirt engine with leaky pistons is band- Tho Choney organization hud, at 100 feet.
| bodged between the float-valve cranked.
however, purchased two Imsi-) Let us assume that the more and its seat can sometimes be) SECOND GEARS DEMESH. nesses in Victoria, those of the intense beam has been produced flushed out by flooding the car- Question My car will not Morris and Austin Cars respec as desired. Then the roul difficul-buretor freely, which is accom-stay in second gear. On the advice tively, and they intend to transfer ties appear, for this more intense plished by raising the valve off of a garage man I had new gears about two-thirds of their success-buem must be more studiously its seat by hand, cither by means put in, but the trouble still re- ful organization into development planned and more precisely form of the priming pin if any) or by mains. Oun you offer me any work for these two famous British ed to illuminate the field of removing the float-chamber cover suggestions for remedying this cars. As far as the Morris is condivision, and above all it must beland lifting out the valve, when it trouble ? corned the new arrangements more accurately controlled to pre-can be cleaned. Inhouyant floats Answer: Unless the meshing practically came into force onvent it from producing a glure for and worn or bont parts, respon- faces of the teeth are very badly October 1st and Morris sales and the approaching drivers." deliveries in Victoria for the month woro quito double the business of any previous month in the history of that Company. The Choney Company are import- ing in large quantities parts of Morris and Austin Cars for as- Sulphite alcohol mixed with sembly in Australia, to be fitted petrol and sold under the trade is used in with Australian bodies, all labour name" Lattbentyl, to be employed being Australian, Sweden as a motor fuel.
PETROL SUBSTITUTE
IN SWEDEN.
sible for leakage can usually be burred and rounded off, the goars replaced more cheaply and satis-themselves are not usually ros- factorily than they can be re-ponsible for de-meshing. Check paired. Every car should have a up the following: That the second. shut-off valva between the car-speed sliding gears mesh by the buretor and its fuel supply, to full width of their faces, when the
clase in case of carburetor leak lover is exactly in its second gear are, and if none is originally supposition. If they do not, the high pliod one should be installed. and second gour shifting fork Suap rubbed on the faces of leaky may have been bent. That the
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Following their traditional policy of constant improvement with no yearly models, Dodge Brothers Inc. during the past year have again vastly bettered their motor car. Never in a similar period have so many fundamental and popular improvements been made.
As a result, sales for 1926 were more than 30% above 1925.
Touring Car, G, $1,125; Special Touring Car, G. $1,176; Sedan, G. $1,325; Borcan Commercial Car, G. $1,320.
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|locking plunger enters the slot in the sliding bar positively and with the necessary force, when : the gearshift lover is in second speed position: The spring of this plunger may be weak. In- spect the countershaft for end- play, for if this is excessive, the gears may be jarred out of en- gagement and also inspect the main shaft to soo whether its for- ward end is so loose in the pilot) bearing that it can cause uncer- tain mesh of the second gears.
BRITISH CARS IN
AUSTRALIA,
A now company has been form- ed in Melbourne with a working capital of £500,000 to handle Bri- lish cars in Australia, It anticipates selling 5,000 Morris and Austin cars during the next 12 months.
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