THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
TORING SUPPLEMENT.
ATURDAY, JUNE
Ready for Any Road!
Long tours are undertaken with a grealer feeling of security when the motor is fitted with Fireston Full-Size Gum-Dipped Balloons.
These staunch tyres. with their broad tread, take a firmer krip on the road, sanring better control and greater safety.
Firestone Balloons hold (p) faithfully, yielding many extru
miles of carefree performance. They are strengthened by Gum- Dipping, an exclusive, Firestone press, which insulates and im- pergnales every strahl of every eard with rubber Full-Size and of low air pressure: they are as case-riding as they are depend able.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.. Telephone Central 1216 or 1217.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
Firestone
The Mant
FULL-SIZE CUM-DIPPED BALLOONS
QUICK STARTING NON
WASTING HEAT
RESISTING
SHELL MOTOR OIL
(BLENDED)
HINTS
FOR THE
MOTORIST
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
USING LOWER GEARS FOR BRAKING EFFECT.
Wants Repainting Instructions.
In descending very steep or long adjustment of benrings, Too tight grades, motorista are very general-mesh tends toward tooth breakugo. advised to engage second speedToo sudden application pr the er in extreme cases, first-speed, as feluteh, with the engine turning fast In some by so doing, the retarding effect of is very hard on gears. the engine is very much greater forms of rear-axle, gear trouble' than when high gear is in uac, bn may develop, if the axle-housing has ecoast of the much higher rate at been bent out of true. if you will which it turns in proportion to car describe your car and give any {speed. There are also incrinsed further details, perhaps we can
frictional losses in the transmis-advise you more effectively. sion, which add to the braking ef- fect. This practice is an excellent one, as it obvintes much wear of
Answer to. R. E. H., who wishes brake Hnings and prevents over- to remove old paint from his car henting of the brakes, besides giv; and ask what is the best paint to ing perfect control. over car speed use and how to compound a good and inspiring a feeling of safely.top-dressing: Sorry, but we do However, there, is danger that not think we can qualify as paint novice driver may get into trouble experts. Any good paint remover in putting this safety measure into will take off the old finish and it practice. It should be realized can be burned off of certain parts that shifting from third to second with a blow-torch, In any well gear or first speed must be accom-stocked public library, will bej plished while the car is running on found works on carriage and cár nearly level ground before the grade is reached, for it cannot be done readily or perhaps at all, after the ear is on a steep downgrade and is rapidly gaining speed. Under such conditions, it may be found that when high gear is disengaged, second speed cannot be engaged, as Overheated Ignition Coil. the car has.by that time gathered
Question: Why is it that the too much speed, to permit second
on my Ford "boils: gears to be meshed and the grade ignition coil then has to be descended without over?" "I have installed a--distri- even the braking effect of the en-butor system of ignition, but am gine on third speed, so that instead using one of the old Ford coils, with of control cr the car being increased its vibrator screwed down so that
painting, giving instructions as to the best material and methods of application. Almost any medern book as Household and Shop Re- ceipts, will give a formula for top- dressing.
it is greatly lessened. On the ne- it cannot vibrate, instead of the counts is is advised that unless the regular coil furnished with this change to a lower gear is made in system. udvance of any necessity for ad ditional erigine braking effect, it be not attempted at all.
Answer: Probably the boiling over of the insulating compound around the coil is the result of the exceive dectrical. heating of its Hard Luck With Drive Gears.
windings, due to the larger current Question: What causes the rear-drawn by the distributor nake-and- We think you will And that- brenk. en gears of my ear to break so aften? I got new ones about two a much heavier current passes months ago and only used the ear through this coll; as you are using about a dezen times before they it at present, than was the case when the vibrator was in action, broke.
Answer: If you had given the continuously making and breaking |
Accidentally leaving ntake and model of your ear, we the circuit. could have answered you more in-the switch on with the engine stop- telligently. Were your new genraped, would probably overheat this, You might as well furnished by the manufacturer of coil very soon. your car? If not, you may have untall one of the coils recommend- obtained some of inferior materialed for use with this distributor sys or not properly adapted as replace-om, although you might possibly ments, The most common causeret along by connecting a resistance of final drive gear failures is incor-uie in eircuit with the primary of rect meshing, resulting from wrong the old coil.
STRANGE MOTOR MARATHON.
World's Greatest Race,
section the competing car will hand over these despatches to another car from the some group; and so on by relays until the whole five thousand miles have been
covered.".
There will be much excitefnent! The world's biggest motor car seventy miles from the start when race is. to Be. held in September the cars have to run down the on the world's biggest island when steep bank of the Burdekin river. cara from all the nations will ren cross its bed of loose, sand, three in competition for five thousand quarters of a mile broad, and miles around the Australian coast.climb up the other bank. Already French, Spanish, Belgian, the Dunlop Rubber Company, who
arci Italian, Swiss, German and other are organising the race. makes from the Continent of arranging to have a brushwood Europe will compete in one group truck put down across the river with a second. group of cars from bed and horse teams may also be the United States and a group of allowed to pull the motorists al
this point. British motora
No fewer than one hundred and A car from each of these three
military twenty-seven different makes of to curry groups is despatches over one of twenty cars may compete and the contest sections into which the long route promises to be the largest ever. will be divided. At the end of its seen.
Abundant
Power
-- and Long Life
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Graham Brothers Trucks everywhere show up best where conditions of road and load are worst. The world famous. Dodge Brothers engine assures abundant power Matching this dependable engine is a chassis built for many years and miles of hard, gruelling work......
Mass production enables Graham Brothers to put such a wealth of wear-resisting materials into a truck at so low a price--high grade alloy steel at every point of strain.
Careful buyers everywhere recognize this value.
Graham Brothers Trucks and Commercial CarsmestB1% of all hauling requirements 1-Ton Clinssis G8 1170, 13-Ton Chussis G81540 2-Ton Chasis 91706 Delivered.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephono Central 1248 or 1247.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
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WHY?
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THEY guarantee their cyclos,
THEY give you three months free service. THEY give the Purchaser the best deferred terms,
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S scientifically blended to do properly, the
three things which oil ought to do.
1. Ar cold air temperatures it is free
flowing to give quick starting. 2. At crankcase temperature, rela- tively thick to ensure economical consumption.
3. At cylinder temperature it has good fluidity to reduce friction but retain sufficient body to ensure efficient lubrication.
Shell Oils as sold to the public are exactly the same as were used to set up the world's speed records of 1926 for both cars and motor cycles.
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