THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19.
1927
SAVING LIVES. One-Way Footpaths.
As a means of lessening the mortality rate of pedestrians in Rome, one-way footpaths have been adopted in many streets.
the rear.
1928
CYCLES
HAVE ARRIVED!
It will pay you to buy now. FRANCIS BARNETT
Model 4
Model 5
Model 9
A.J.S.
Model Hi
Model 113
"Model' 115
Model HG
Model HB
£36.10.0. 39, 0.0. 45, 0.0.
£116.18.0. 65. 0.0. 61.10.0.
HUNTING SHADOWS.
The Fetish of Fuel Consumption.
L'ALT
WATCH YOUR LAMPS.
Good Headlights Essential
[By Israel Klein.]
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lenges; burnt-out bults or poor contacts may be the cause of a serious accident.
The first essential in securing good hendighting is to see that the lenses, reflectors and bulbs are in good shape.
The lenses should be taken out and cleaned thoroughly,
Some-
Bulbs should be checked at the same time, so that they furnish their full candlepower. times insufficient brilliance of lamps may be due to an over or an undercharged battery or to Testing the bat- poor contacts. tery and the lines to the hend- lights is the way to check on this. "There is a fad in some parts of the country for the blue, or "day: light" type of headlight blubs! They are bought in the belief that they give more light and at the same time do not hurt the eyes of approaching drivers.
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Footpaths there are very narrow, and pedestrians, usually stepped
Ever since the earliest days of according to the district in which
The car's headlights may have blithely off on to the roadway to get around a crowded section. All motoring purchasers have, very lit is mirchased. A useful average too often, they stopped under the properly, clamoured for cars with figure will be 1s. 3d, a gallon. little or nothing to do with how wheels of car approaching from low petrol consumptions, and, Useful also because"this sum re-she's running. but they are Import- quite rightly, there is everything presents one-sixteenth of a pound ant factors in assuring comfort With the one-way system they to be said in favour of accomplish and, therefore, will simplify our and safety for the passengers.
as calculations.
So it is essential that the hend- We shall realise that before we lights he kept properly focused always face the stream of motoring one's annual mileage on trafic, and even though they must small an outlay a possible, for cross the street to walk back to spirit. Mercover, when a car is have spent or wnated at 25 m.p.gard in good condition.
Tarnished reflectors, dirty where they started they live much running economically as regards as compared with the 30 m.p.g., a its fuel bill it is usually running pound sterling, we shall have to longer on the average.
The engine may be run our bus 2,400 miles, a distance emelently. relied upon to keep cool and to which takes most of us a matter run for long periods without the of four months to cover.
Referring again to that very elusive figure the necessity for the irksome business
average of decarbonisation.
But while, petral consumption, motorist, who, we decided, did be- admittedly, is an important factor tween 7,000 and 8,000 miles per to the motorist-especially to the annum, we find that in twelve motorist of a moderate income-months' running he has only saved
The reflectors should be polish- it is not by any means a dominant a matter of £3, a sum equivalent to factor, and is certainly not desers-only a quarter of the tax be payed with a thin solution of lamp- ing of the prominence of the on a 12 h.p. car, and certainly not black and alcohol, but extreme to be compared to the, saving an care should be taken that no wrong kind that it frequently average smoker could affect bygeratch be left on its surface.
down knocking
his weekly receives.
Polishing should be by means of a In some ways the picture we so cigarette total by 25 per cent.
light, circular motion, and only in often encounter of a comparative- More remarkable still is the ly comfortably-off owner spending state of affairs we find extant one, direction: hours of his time in experimenting when a prospective purchaser of a in order to gain, perhaps, a couple "small" car is presented, at prices For mites a gallon is pathetic. that are very little different, with Certain it is that if his time is two different cars, one a very small worth anything at all he will have car which will just seat two in expended far more in his labour comfort and another that has a than he has saved in his petrol chassis designed to carry a full load of four adults. Their respce- bill.
The writer believes that many tive performances, in the matter motorists have a rather exaggerat- of pétrol consumption are 35-40 ed idea of the importance of 'm.p... m.p.g. and 30-35 m.p.g.... judging by the readiness with
Figure It Out. which the subject crops up as a
Being an economical soul, Mr. P. topic of conversation when owners are gathered together. Urchaser is vastly intrigued by may be interesting, therefore, to the figures 40 m.p.g. and by the quite a few figures showing stress that is laid on them by the precisely how a saving of 6 m.p.g. salesman of the Tiny Car-that is, in until he works it out. Let us fol- the affects the running costs
figures. With circumstances. This, low his average actually, is a figure which few ex optimism peculiar to new. buyers, and a pleasing faith in his own perimenters would attain improvement on existing consump-fability to drive any car so that it registers its maximum perform We will consider how it reflects ance, he debates on the financial on the exchequer of the man who difference between 35 and 40 knocks up an annual total of, say,m.p.g. He computes, correctly. 7,000 or 8.000 miles. This is an that to do 700 miles at 40 mpg. average which we may attribute requires 17% gallons of fuel: at to the majority of Morris owners 35 m.p.g. takes 20 gallons. That New 280 miles is i who indulge in a short spin, say, is to say, he saves one gallon every
280 miles. twice a week and the usual run to the coast at the week-end, weather very fair distance for even a long permitting. These figures are for week-end run, and is it. Mr. P. Urchaser may well ask himself, a good season, that is to say, good worth while saving is. 3d. to sit as regards the weather; a succes-in comparative discomfort, to be asshorn of power, and to be the butt sion of wet week-ends such have blighted our alleged summer of mild derision (be it ever BO on the part of will, of course, bring the mileage geed humoured)
wise his friends? The down considerably.
We will assume that a man answers "No!" in no uncertain height as the headlamps. whose car normally does 30 miles voice. At this point fuel con- best assurance of proper head- to the gallon perhaps owing to sumption, at present prices, be-lighting would be filling the car
and comes. 3
fetish-nothing less. in back with passengers. a flooding carburetter or alverse jet setting-has its con Even on the year's running of 8,000 where this can't be done, another sumption reduced to 25 miles per miles the full-size small car; such horizontal line should be drawn the first, and the lights focused gallon. This, it will be agreed, is as the Morris, only costs him 35s. about six to eight inches below a comparatively heavy loss-a fall more than the Tiny Car
ut this one. tor a rise, if you prefer it that! way in consumption equal to over 18 per cent.
Now, in travelling a distance of 150 miles with the higher con-
Merely turning the screw or sumption of 25 miles per gallon the car will require six gallons of
In the case of commercial travel-knock or other adjustment back of their each lamp is enough to direct the fuel, whereas at the lower figure
cars for business purposes, and beam into a sharp, wide light 'so 30 miles per gallon-only five will lers and others who use
66. 0.0.
73. 0.0.
TRIUMPH
WE WE BEL
N. De Luxe
ΤΤ.
SD.
INDIAN
Indian Prince
60.0.0. 83.0.0. 72.0.0.
G.$245
Indian Scout
Indian Chief
300 380
Indian Big Chief
390
Douglas EW.
DOUGLAS
£59.0.0.
tion figures.
as an
man
Admittedly, in the lower mp.g. ranges consumption is important. A car that does 20 m.p.g. is vastly more economical than one that only does 15 m.plg., but to sacrifice other qualities to improve on 30 m.p.g. is not worth while.
The Both ideas are mistaken. blue bulb has been found to give no more light than the clear bulb Tests have and yet use much more current from the battery, shown that clear bulbs are just as good in lighting the road as the blue lights, and in fact are even better in cases of fog or wet roads.
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Focusing of the lights is simple, manufacturers especially since have provided the easiest means to accomplish this.
Back of every headlamp is a screw, in most cases, or a knoh or other sort of adjustment appli- ance. All that is needed is to back the car about 25 feet from a wall so that it stands on level ground and direct the lights at this wall at night, of course.
A horizontal line should be drawn on the wall at the same The
But
The reason is that loading the car tips the lights upward and that the lowering of the lights in focusing compensates for this.
be consumed. We therefore get a who may put up a mileage of that the top of it just reaches the Why not call and let us tell you saving of a gallon of petrol in 30,000, or even more, per annum, lower horizontal line, if the car is about our" EASY TERMS.
simple they are, and how, siderate!
ALEX. ROSS & CO. -(CHINA), LTD.
How con-
150 miles.
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fuel consumption may be of vital empty, or the upper line if it is will
importance, but to the average occupied. The saving in hard cash
It is just a matter of moving the depend upon a number of factors motorist it would seem that it is
to be regarded as a very bulb forward or backward, until effecting the price one pays for: petrol. It is now possible to buy secondary consideration, and it is it reaches the exact focal point of fairly good fuel at 13. a gallon, obviously never worth sacrificing the headlamp. although most of us prefer, for hill-climbing abilities and speed to his uniformity to this little god who sets up the sake patronise one of the better-known altar in the garage of 80 many Thrands at 1s. 23. or 18. 32d.,' owners.
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Mobiloil
BUICK SERVICE.
Reason for Great Success.
Coincident with the introduction of the new Buick for 1928; now on display at the rooms of General Motors confers. upon the word "service," and the performance of service, the palm of honour for be ing responsible, to a large degree, for the constant growth of the legion of Bulck 'owners for twenty- four years.
The second Buick was sold be- cause the first Buick proved ser- viceable and represented in its day a good value for its cost. "In 1926 Buick was purchased by 280,009 motorists. When it is considered that Buick is not a cheap car, but a medium priced, car, the total of Buick's 1926 sales is astounding.
In early days repair stations were eçaree, and the word service meant simply the service the owner "might expect from the car itself. Today Buick Service and repair stations are to be found throughout the whole world.
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General Motors expresses in a one year warranty its confidence that every part of every Buick car will give the value and service that Buick intends the owner to receive, Under this warranty every part is warranted for a full year against defect of workmanship or material. If, however, service attention is needed, Buick service is established everywhere throughout this terri tory, with specialized Buick shop equipment and trained Buick ser vice men ready to keep the 1028. Buick and all Buicks in perfect operation condition at all times."
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Steven's Building, Des Voeux Road. and let us tell you about the
1928
FIAT
Models
WARNING: With every Fiat dar a full 'guarantee is issued by this Company.-
Every purchaser should obtain this guarantee, and see that it bears the engine numbers
of the machine purchased. The public is warned not to purchase a car without this guarantee.
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