THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1927.
OLDSMOBILE SIX
PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOT
111-Inch Wheelbase—19.84 H.P. (R.A.C. Rating)— 185 cuble Inches piston displacement—1928 models.
Dickey-seat Roadster
..4-scater
G.$1,200
Touring Car
.G-seater
1:200
Sedan (2-door)
.6-scater
1,250
Sedan (4-door),
5-seater
1,360
All prices subject to change without notice.
Keen appreciation has greeted Oldsmobile's smart new beauty, Naturally such modish lines and striking colours would win the lion's share of admiration from those who know it only by sight. But every day Oldamabile perform- ance seizes the attention of those who never knew it before- because you can't know it till you drive the car.
This thrilling, smoother performance is the crowning feature of Oldsmobile-the overflowing measure of value now yours at prices lower than ever before.
TWELVE CYLINDER FIAT WINS MILAN GRAND PRIX.
This year's Milan Grand Prix, run on the Monza track, was won by a 1,600 cc, 12 cylin-
der Fiat,driven by Pietro Bogdino: The Fiat is seen on the extreme loft of the picture..
SUPER-CHARGED
CARS.
British Manufacturers Experimenting.
By Captain E. de Normanville.] For a considerable time we have had but few examples of super harged cars on the market-n
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD. German make being the first. The
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,
HAPPY VALLEY.
Motorists everywhere
are trying and buying the new "World" Morris
THE new Morris "World" models were introduc
ed just twelve months ago During that short time they have fully proved how well they filled a long felt need. For this is a car typically British in workmanship, in performance, and in economy. And in its design are embodied those features essential for universal motoring. The "World" radiator combines handsome lines with ample cooling power; the re-designed chassis spells. strength with comfort; the Dunlop "buttressed". tyres add to that comfort and ensure big mileage,
In the World" Morris you buy a car that will do 30 miles per gallon of petrol; 1,000 miles per gallon · of oil; that will give you ten years honest service, and this your still better bodies, still more modèle, still greater value. It it any wonder that motorista everywhere are trying and buying the "World" Morris?
MORRIS
The Wheel of the World
PRICES FROM £180.0.0
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chief defects of super-charging can be greatly reduced..
On a sports car a little extra engine noise at high speed is ex- cusable. And this mechanism other I have previously tried, was certainly quieter than any
The effect was almost like switching on another engine-like the change would be if you ran straight eight and then switched on only four cylinders of a the other four on.
Taxation Question.
BORN. 1864.
First Benzine Car.
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monument
Siegfried Marcus, the inventor of the auto- mobile is to be erected in the centre: of Vienna..
The car which Marcus built in 1864 can still be Leen in the Technical Museum in that city.
It was the first benzine automo- pros and cons of such a fitting: In fact, the increased power was bile, and the police probibited him for an ordinary car have been de-se noticeable that I could not help from driving the vehicle, in the bated thoroughly.
wondering what the taxation au-streets. thorities would have to say if the idea came into general use.
Marcus and a friend under- took secret tests at dead of night, If it were not for our present but they were never,very successful.
Some manufacturers of British sports models are at present busy with experimental work on super- charged engines, and yesterday stupid basis of taxation, there had a run on a light sports car would be little use for a super- 30 equipped.
charger on an ordinary car. We should merely have a larger en- gine, and rup It "light" until full power was geaded.
Not only were the charms of the type of car increased, but the mechanism showed that one of the
HINTS
FOR THE
NOTORIST
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
HUMOURING THE OVERHAULED: ENGINE,
or
CAR THIEVING.
Increasing at Home.
CANADA'S TRADE,
Motor Market Improves. It is apparent every day, says Improvements of roads, growth The Motor, that the audacity of the of the automobile financing plan car thief in steadily increasing, and and perfection of the closed-type the more cars there are coming into model car are given as the chief 180 the grouter is the scope for reasons for the rapidly increasing theft; in fact, he is now finding it motor sales in Canada. "dead casy," to use an Ameri caniam. Many of the everyday been endorsed by the leading men The partial payment plan has cases of car theft reported in the of the industry who claim that a Press make one marvel at the mentality of some of the owner who lose their cars They seem rather to place a pathetic trust in the sterling honesty of all mankind, or else they reason that surely no one would make off wih so pon- derous an article as a car.
careful cheek shows that only 1 per cent. of the Canadian buyers are unable to complete their pay- ments.
The closed, car is especially suitable to the Canadian climate and provides ali-year transportà-- their open touring cara in storage tion la motorists who formerly put during winter months.
Consider the factors that tend to make car thieving easy. Mass pro- duction, tone of thousands of cars exact to one type, consequently a
The dominion government has strange driver on one never excites been activa in fostering the con- suspicion, and he probably knows struction of additional highways well how to handle all makes of and in surfacing existing gravel mass-produced cars. Consider how and dirt roads."
the electric starter plays into his In this work both the dominiori hands! He has probably watched and provincial highway depart- a particular car, and choosing the ments have spent several millions appropriate moment has jumped in, of dollars, and plans have been pressed the starter switch, and in drawn for additional work to be twenty seconds or even less is well carried out during the next few away with it.
years.
Une secy on suburban reads literiny dozens of cars lett uzat- rended, any one of which is a
"gitt, particularly at dusk, to an would-be car-snatcher. Now he enterprising thier. in the old days asks for nothing better than the engine had to be cranked, and 11 presoatday popular press-the- angat be a couple of minutes be-button-on-drive-away production. ore the car could be driven away, If now owners will seriously and as one often had to do a little consider how cars inherently lend tinkering with the carburetter, this themselves to easy theft it will be proved a very falr deterrent to the at least one step forward in the
anti-theft campaign,
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Two American automobile clubs last year, keeping record of trouble calls, show 53 per cent of the calls resulted from electrical trouble in the car One month, calls of this! kind went as high as 59.5 per cent.
It has become pretty generally its oil should be drained and re- understood that a brand new anewed after the first hundred engine, which has seen no miles of road service and twice previous road service, must be thereafter at two hundred mile humoured very carefully during intervals, Running on gasoline its first thousand miles of run- to which about three per cent. by hing, by being operated only at volume of engine oil has been. low speed, and with special atten- added is recommended, during the tion to lubrication, in order to "wearing in" period. avoid scoring its cylinders and burning out its bearings.
The
Starts Hard Even In Summer. reason for this is that all bearing
Question: The engine of our surfaces-not having yet been car has always been hard subjected to the smoothing effect to start, even in summer and in We invari. of mutual friction are in a requr heated garage. latively rough and crude state and ably have to use the choker, and moreover that they are initially first attempt, and the choker has If starting in unsuccessful on the fitted together somewhat over- tightly, so that after their "high to be used a second time, gasoline spots" are worn down, they shall drips out of the carburetor. still operate without undue loose-What is the cause of this trouble? ness. This combination of imper- Answer: Your difficulty in fectly smoothed and overclosely starting, even with the engine fitted bearing surfaces entails warm, indicates that the carbure- high frictional losses. abnormal tor adjustment la extremely lean, heating and the liability of the that there is some leakage of air breaking down of protective of into the intake system above the films and the mutual cutting and carburetor mixing chamber roughening up of the rubbing possibly that the fuel level faces of working parts. The fact abnormally low in the carburetor is, however, not so generally re-float chamber. This is assuming cognized that an engine which has that the ignition system is 0. K., just been overhauled presents with spark plug gaps not too wide Aimilar conditions and calls for and a good spark, You better have the same careful "nursing as the an inspection made to see that the engine just turned out from the walve and needle-valve adjust- factory. Nevertheless this the ments of the carburetor are cor- case, Cylinder-bores may have rect, that the fuel level is right been given new surfaces by some and that the carburetor dange reconditioning operation, new branches are all gas tight and no connexions of Intake manifold top-rings, with Imperfectly con forming faces or overtightly fitted, other chance for air-leakage pre- may have been installed, new rent bearing bushings with somewhat Develops a Squeak. Imperfect surfaces may have been Question: The last time I inserted or the old bushings retrove my car I noticed a high adjusted to a lighter fit to their pitched continuous squeaking, not shafts. In short, the same condl- loud, but rather piercing, which tions of bearing surfaces not yet kept up as long as the car WAS worn smooth and in too tight ad- moving, whether the engine was justment are almost certain to running or not. What do you prevall. An engine upon which think causes thia? some or all of the above repairs Answer: We don't know, but have been made, should not be it may be that the bearings of one accepted, if it handcranks unrea-for both of the front wheels are sonably hard. The repairman not being lubricated properly.. should be made to "run it in," Jack them up and ace if they until its silffness has nearly dis- squeak, when they are turned by appeared, thereby, assuming the hand. If so, their hearings need responsibility for the soundness of to be packed with grease at once, his job. When put in service, it as they will be spoiled, if allowed should not be run at nearly top to run dry. If you do not find speed for a thousand miles at the squeaking at the front wheels, least, signs of overheating should it may be in the rear axle. be watched for, it should occa- think it is a dry ball or roller elonally be handcranked to see I bearing somewhere, which is It Is limbering up properly and making this noise.
We
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