THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927.
Some Features
B.
S. A.
1927 MODEL MOTOR CYCLES
INTERNAL EXPANDING HUB BRAKES
on both wheels
IMPROVED LUBRICATION SYSTEM
which provides separate food for front chain A REAL SILENCER-GRACEFULLY TAPERED TANK
A PERFECT RIDING POSITION
SCREW ADJUSTMENT ON GEAR BOX for accurately setting front chain tension
Ask for, catalogues from.
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
HOW AN AUTOMOBILE IS MADE.
Faultless Machine Methods.
(By Israel Klein for the Hongkong Telegraph.]
ESSEX COACH
The low prices which have made Hudson and Essex fam ous have largely been achieved through the simple process of using inventory materials quicker and getting a greater out- put from plant machinery than is commonly done in industry. Mechanical conveyance of materials has been developed to an unusual degree. "So quickly are materials consumed in the unusually efficient manufacturing processes of the Hud- son Motor Car Company that the public actually goes riding in Hudson and Essex Cars before the commitments for most of the raw materials are due for payment.
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New Offices, May 1.---Prince's Building,
2 floor,Ice House St. Entrance.
Quality and quantity production in the modern auto plant include an experimental foundry, as in upper view, where new (alloys and methods are tested, and the massive handling of tons of red-hot metal, as shown below.
From the beginning, quantity into the mould. If these gases production takes hold of the auto- can't escape freely, blisters and holes form in the castings and mobile industry.
Practically every automobile reader the arts useless. plant to-day, no matter how costly Large overhead electric con- or how fine the product, has its veyors carry the sand to hoppers shain and roller conveyors, im-jover the spots where the moulds proved machinery that replaces are poured. The pattern is set on gangs of men and systematized a permanent base, a wooden box is methods that Bave time and placed around it and the sand is labour.
¡drooned in.
Quality, however, is not aaori- Holes are gouged out for pour- ficed. In fact it is assured ing the metal, the mould is tampo through faultless machine down or packed in by an electric methods and greater precision vibrater or pounding machine, it instruments: Every step in the is smoothed or at the top, turned process of manufacture is check-lover and the pattern is lifted off. ed up and tested, after which an That leaves a amooth, clean. entire assembly is tried out and mould, half of the crankcase or checked again.
other part to be cast. The other
To insure this quality, however, half is moulded in the same way. one step in the manufacturing pro-The two are put face to face,..tn cess has to be so precise as to forin an entire mould, and they are forego the advantages of quantity ready for casting.
production. That is in the design
of parts and the making of patterns.
Design covers every single part
Rows of Castings.
Once done, the moulds are lined
of the machine, down to the last up in a double row between which nut and bolt."
A large bucket For this purpose crane travels. the automobile shop has a large of hot metal taken from the cupolà room where a score or more ofis conducted down this line, stop- mechanical engineers constantly ping for a moment at each mould- work on plans and the improve- and pouring a quantity of the metal into it. One man does the ment of their design.
work. sitting in a hanging cage "Drop Forgings" First. that precedes the metal and con- trolling. the entire operation by With blue prints of approval electricity. pluna made, those requiring The metal is allowed to set and forging of parts, such as the cool. Then the moulds are taken crank-shafts, the camshafts, con-up and the sand shaken out. That necting rods and axles, go down sand, having undergone to the forge shop. Here these chemical change under the heat of parts are pounded out of bars of the casting, is sent through a red-hot steelthe kind that's cleansing and retreating process strong, tough and not brittle-by that makes it fit for further use. an electric drop hammer. Only
指
the rough shape is attained, for The castings are cleaned of the
that aticks to machines Inter mill these parts sand
them. down to the proper measurements. Extraneous metal is knocked or cut off, while other sections are
Other plans go to the pattern-built up by electric welding, o making department for the cast- that the entire part may roughly ing operations on crankcases, fit the dimensions of the original
engine blocks and other parts.
Wood patterns aren't used in modern foundry practice, for they wouldn't last long under the
pattern.
Electric Furnaces.
stress of quantity production and Small brass parts are cast in a constant use. So moulds are made separate foundry, in a smaller from them and aluminum patterns way. Here, in the more modern are cast. These may be used time plants, electric cupolas or fur- on end, or until a change is mado haces bent the metal. in the design.
'In the case of the ongine block,
In the foundry modern efficiency the better plants set this part out and systematic methods begin. under the weather for as long as But the very first step consists of a year to season it thoroughly. ied. a highly important test on which Thus this part which has to with- depends the success of the casting stand the strain of great heat and operations.
That is a check on intense cold in one winter day: the sands used in the moulds.
goes through a warping and shrinking, process under all condi- tion of weather.
Proper Packing Needed.
Each batch is tested to see By the end of the year, it la con- whether it has the proper amount sidered seasoned and its cylinders of binder to keep it firm and can be bored and ground down to. whether it will still permit the size without fear of their chang- escape of the gases that forming under ordinary conditions of
ALL-METAL PLANE, loss of efficiency by water soulage when the molten metal is poured weather.
as with those of wood construc- tion.
New Type Flying Boat. The boat can be used as a mill-machine is capable of a maximum been demonstrated on long die- tary machine with a crew of three, speed of 112 m.p.h. with a useful tance fights and in actual service The latest type Fokker machine but can very readily be converted load-carrying capacity of 2640 lbs. commercial and Air Force. which has been produced, la an into a commercial aeroplane with This British designed and built Thero la not another engine all-metal long distance sea rocon-a comfortable cabin situated in Napier engine is becoming in- which has been ao consistently malasance flying boat of the the middle of the hull.
creasingly popular in all parts of and the result la that more and tried: and developed as the Napier, Seaqulplane type.
the world because of its amazing more aircraft desigfors producing The great advantago of the Fitted with one of the famously high performance and extra-machines requiring a high per- duralumin hull is that there is no 450 h.p. Napler nero engines the ordinary rollability, which has formance specify this engine.
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Touring
5-senter
G$1,150
Coach
5-senter
G$1,150
Sedan
5-seater
G$1,250
HUDSON SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS.
Touring
7-seater
G$1,600
Coach
5-senter
G$1,740
Sedan
Rondster
..5-seater
G$1,840
2-aester
G$1,850
Brougham
De Luxe Sedan
De Luxe Sedan
5-seater
G$2,095
5-senter
G$2,215
7-seater
G$2,330
The above prices are for delivery at your door in Hongkong or Kowloon. All prices subject to change without notice.
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