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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, JUNE
For Big Lorries
and Heavy Loads
Where long hauls are made with few stops, Firestone Non-Skid, Hi-Type Tyre is the accepted best fitting,
Its performance shows proved records for long mile" age, lorry-cushioning and a
sure hold
The design allows the tyres to keep cool, and the tough, resilient compound is well suited to long distance travel. The broad tread formation insures safety and good] traċ-
tion.
Firestone
Non-Skid Hi-Type Tyres
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD
Tolophane Central 1246 or 1247,
133, WONG NEI-CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
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NON WASTING HEAT RESISTI
SHELL MOTOR OIL
T (BLENDED)
SHELL offers you motor, lubricating oil scientifically blended to do properly the three things which oil ought to do.
1. At cold air temperatures it is free
flowing to give quick starting,
2.
At crankcase temperature, rela
consumption.
3. At cylinder temperature it has good fluidity to reduce friction but retain sufficient body to
efficient lubrication.
ensure
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..
Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S. China) Ltd.,
AS
ASIATIC BUILDING.
OD
AS
RESERVED PARKING
NOT FOR SALE.
SHELL
MOTOR
OIL
SHELL
mayor who suggested selling motorisis a reserved parking space
SAIRIT
PERPETUAL PLATES.
on downtown streets at the rate Michigan is contemplating pas-
of $5 a year.
sage of a law providing for,per- petual license plates for automo- However, A Lincoln lawyer biles. To make up for the loss of Lincoln, Neb., April-A novel solution to the parking problem proved the plan illegal before revenue in annual registration, the
was offered here by the city
further action could be taken.
proposal suggests doubling the 2-cents gasoline tax.
HINTS
FOR THE
MOTORIST
ALBERT L.CLOUGH
TWO CARS PER FAMILY.
Although originally devised as ning to the front may be plugged. Answer-If the timing gears ameans of stimulating car sales, the above slogan is worthy of receive no oil, the most likely sup- serious consideration from the position is that this oil distribu- standpoint of convenience and tion pipe is obstructed, for all oil ultimate economy.
To the city that is raised from the reservoir, dweller particularly, the past few by the flywheel, is supposed to be years have demonstrated that the conducted through this pipe, "all purpose" car is farther than directly to the timing-gear com- ever from being a reality. On the partment and then to be splashed contrary, there has been a more about to supply the connecting rod 'definite differentiation taking troughs, etc. You should not run place between the qualities this engine again until you are demanded in a family vehicle, for sure that there is a free movement! This long distance travelling, and those of oil through this pipe. required in a handy car for run-knock may be the result of the ning errands and other short dis- gears running unlubricated or it' tance service, under urban condi- may be that the front main-bear- tions. The former car should be ing has suffered: When you get; of liberal size and driven by a the oil circulating again, you can powerful and smooth running tell if permanent damage has engine, to insure comfort on long resulted. journeys and, necessarily, will not be the cheapest kind of a car to operate. Moreover, it will lack
Knock Came With the Car. Question. I have a high-grade the utmost in manoeuvreability ear, run but 3,000 miles, which and economy of parking space.
can
11, 1927.
DISFIGURING SIGNS. so that we are not altogether with
but hope for the preservation of those rural charms that still re- main to us. Novertheless, if the
Preserving Countryside higher reaches, so to speak, of the
In a
Beauty.
automobile industry do not take some steps to curb the rampant. campaign against the riot of their inferiors, Parliament, spoliation of the British country-in response to educated public · side by disfiguring advertisements, opinion, will be under the neces The Autocar remarks that there sity of passing more stringent are signs of a healthy growth of laws than the mild and permissive public sentiment in this direction, Jones now on the Statute Book
On the other hand, a small car from the first had a knock in the be bought for very little engine, which I was assured by money, which will serve perfectly the dealer would "wear itself out" for all runabout purposes, will after a couple of thousand miles operate with a minimum of tyre driving. It has not done so and and gasoline expense, be far easier now the dealer says it is caused and quicker to manoeuvre and by a slapping piston, which He is park than a big car and stand the going to replace. Do you think, rough usage and collision hazards after this is done the engine will of town driving with less repair be as good as it should have been expense than a larger, costlier in the beginning? Should a car car. It is frequently found that that cost more than $3,000 develop it costs no, mere or even less to this trouble? keep two cars-one of each of term of these types-through a years than to keep a big car only and to as it for all trucking and errands as well as for its appropriate purpose--long dis- tance trips.
Oil Circulation Failure.
Qucation. There has been a knock in my Ford enging, ever since last summer, and I noticed, when I had the bottom plate of the crankcase, recently, that the timing gears and the front bear- ing had no afl. Do you think that these geurs running dry has any- thing to do with the knock? It seems to me that the oil-pipe.run-
THE FIRST 1,000 °
MILES.
How to Ensure Long Life for New Cars.
(By Capt. E. de Normanville in the Daily Chronicle.)
From inquiries that I have been making, it would appear that new motor-cars are taking the road at the present time at the rate of about nearly 650 a day.
Answer-Knocks seldom wear themselves out. On the contrary, 2 they usually increase in severity. and every intelligent man in the There is business knows this. very little excuse for the exist ence of such a defect, especially in an expensive car like this. If the knock is actually from a stap-i ping piston and the bore of this cylinder is perfect in all respects, the installation of a new piston and rings of correct size and pro- perly fitted. should render this cylinder as quiet as the others, but. if there is anything wrong with this bore, as to size or otherwise, the replacement may not prove an entire success. You better follow up this job pretty closely.
ful driving for the first 500 or 1,000 miles.
This comment is naturally more applicable to the popular car than to the powerful machine. In the
latter case normal speed require- ments are within its "comfortable
gait."
Lungevity Rule.
For the first 500 miles the aver age car should not exceed 30 m.p.h. on top gear and the same engine speed for thereabouts) on an in- direct drive. If for the second 500 miles you never "exceed 40," the restraint will be more amply repaid.
than
Friends sometimes express sur- prise at the sound 'condition and How many of those new cars tune of my ears after 10,000 miles. will be treated with the full mea- I ascribe their excellent mechani) of sympathetic handling cal condition to adhering religious- which their newness demands? ly to the practice of this "steady: It cannot be too generally known for the first 1.000" wearing pro- that the performance of most cars cess.
Bure
can be almost ruined in the first Some manufacturers fit bafflesi 500 miles, and that even the "best to the induction system to ensura tested" new car will give much such care, and take them out! better results in the end fer care- gratis. It is an excellent scheme.
GEE-WHAT A MUDDY ROAD
THIS IS -SPRING SURE
HAS COME
HOLD ON —
I'LL GET YOU OUTTA THIS ALL RIGHT
THE
Columbia Storage Battery
NO
Tow you can purchase a powerful, long lasting Columbia Battery at a price lower than ever before.
No other makeof battery offers you the same combina- tion of high quali- ty and low price as the Columbia. THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
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MOTOR CYCLE
HOUSE
Every discriminating motor cyclist knows that the name
ALEX. ROSS & CO., Ltd.
stands for all that is best in motor cycling!
WHY?
Because-
THEY have the beat lines in Hongkong.
THEY guarantee their cycles,
THEY give you three months free service.
THEY give the Purchaser the best deferred terms.
1/4 Down, balance to suit buyer, Whore gan you get more for your money?
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New Oices, May 1-Prince's Building.
2 floor, Ice House St. Entrance,