MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 10th DECEMBER, 1927.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
CURRENT
COMMENT
The
Vacuum
sny
TO REPLACE VACUUM TANK SYSTEM.
Fuel Pumps Soon Expected.
tank system
of
feeding fuck to the engine will be fuel engineers, replaced, with the more direct pamp in a very few years,
One moderate prived automobile with this produced is being
Excessive Horn Blowing.
must admit that we have heard of, ears being interfered with in A number of Bнtor drivers were
various parts of the Colony, but recently prosecuted for sounding
we have not heard of a case where their barns underessarily, thereby anything has been stolen from a causing a nuisance to the public,otor our at City Hall Square This offence is syry abjectionable ufiny, the time the patrol" is am to people employed in offices and my Far more cars park there complaints have been received:
than formerly, no doubt owing to from them. The Hongkong A. A.
the presence of the patrol. There expected called the attention of the Police is room for more cars, and owner to this matter which has no doubt drivers who fear leaving their resulted in the present action vehicles for any length of time being taken. We must say a num-would do well to try this place. her of motor drivers: cause far Rear Lights.
type fuck feed, after having Aried out for the last two years. And at least two other cara áre soen to follow its ex-
ample.
Thus the vacuum tank,
con-
sidered a marvelous improvement over the gravity feed system, } gives way to a newer system now) said to be proportionately superior. Loo much noise, and although it is
A. M. Babitch, research engi-' expected that a driver must on is somewhat strange that mo-
for cycles should not by required neer of the AC Spark Plug Co. occasions sound his horn to give by law to exhibit a rear light, al-which is manufacturing the new notice of approach or position of though,
with four
wheeled type of fuel feed system, reminds
that the vacuum tank his vehicle, the present method vehicles, illumination of the rear used is out of the question. We number is compulsory. It is quite merely a compromise between tho may say that if the majority of true that motor cycles show the inferior gravity tank and the su- these vehicles drove a little lower registration number on either side perior but costly direct fuel pump, there would probably be less hoon of the front number plate, and that which has been in use on the high- sounding required.
It seems as the headlamp is supposed to i-priced car for many years.
Faults in Vacuum System.
though many drivera think laven-asinate it. In the majority of
08
was:
LEVER OPERATED BY CAM
This is done by means of a suc- It retards progress in engine and manifold development, since lotion diaphragm which works up a linkage ar- Vacuum manifolds or super-and down through
impossible rangement with the cam and sucks enough gas from the tank as is needed in the carburetor.
tinually sounding their horns they cases, the beam from the lamy is He enumerates its disadvan-charged engines are
are at liberty to drive through much higher than the plate, with practically anything irrespective the result that it is extremely dirtages.
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'with vacuum tank feed."
More. Direct Feed.
of the nuisance caused by noise. Firult to determine the number of "It is extremely hard to prime
"The work done by the pump," As the magistrate rightly pointed cycle after dark. Motor eyeles when the suction of the engine, as
So the pump is devised to work Babitch explain, is limited and from a cam in unison with the en is strictly in proportion with the out, continuous horn Sounding will do carry a rear nümber, and we it is turned over with the starter, do more harm than good, ad pedes presume tht a cyclist carrying is low," Babitch begins. trinus will eventually taku no pillion passenger by day, whose
"If its valves are out of order,gine and pump gas through a requirements of the engine. That more fuel than the engine' notice
re-tiny proportion to "the amount regards warning dress obscured the number plate or the oat punctured, there is strainer into the carburetor in is, at no time can the pump deliver becoming so accustomed in the would probably be summoned. We danger of sucking raw gas into quired. Thus when the engine can consume."
The pump itself is of a simple speeds up, the pump speeds up noise made. We hope the publici !
"It is most efficient when least with it, and when the carburetor design and of sturdy construction, ty given and the action taken by consider it highly advisable that the engine.
mator rycles should be recognis the Palice will result in someble by night, and cannot under-gas is used and often doesn't sup bowl happens to be filled the ae which assures its operation even
beyond the life of the car itself. improvement.
stand why they should enjoy a ply enough gas when most needed.tion of the pump is damped. privilege which motor cars do not.
Pelty Thefts.
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AIR COOLED.
BURST TYRE PERIL.
New French Six.
CONVERT TO SYSTEM.
Many motor
Device That "Prevents Accidents.
accidents have
TIMELY HELP.
Stranded on the Manacles.
An unusual sight was recently witnessed when the Coverack
A number of thefts, from mutorf "Carry, by Sidecar." ears have agit been reported]. In the world of commercial mostly from those that park in Chater Road and Connaught Road transport, the motor cycle com Central opposite the Star Ferry, bination is coming to its own for We would like to suggest to there are how designs available motorists, that although perhaps which will carry up to 5 ewts, at a few yards further away, they cost of less than 1. per mile. should park their vehicles at the The light motor eyele with 175
There are now two six-cylinder recently occurred through a pune Lifeboat was called out to rescue City Hall Square where an A. A.e. engine and weighing under Webs. will carry 1 ewt: about;
four miles for id-excluding vari-aircooled cars in production, for the tured or a burst type leaving the the crew of the s.s. Gwentland" | putrol is stationed all day. fire aware that all cars park at this spot, but we must say able hour charges however. we have never seen it full, and if The Manufacturers' Union has motorists would take advantage of devated considerable attention to this stand the A. A. would reveive securing publicity for the com- some encouragement, and would meretat sidecar-Carry "by Side- no doubt extend the patrol, Welear" is its slogun.
cannot
WHEN NOT TO FALL ASLEEP.
This is an object lesson in when not to take a nap. M. P. Allen of Kansas City did, while driving at 35 miles an hour near Topeka, and crashed into a guard rail. The rail went through the radiator and on through the back of the front seat. Fortunately it struck between Allen and his son, who was beside him,
had
which
had stranded On the Manacles, off the South Cornwall Coast near the Lizard. 1 Owing to a dead calm the Life- boat, one of the sailing type, would have had to row out, entailing per- haps a disastrous loss of time.
long the rim of the wheel and causing an American "Franklin,
has been joined by the uncontrollable swerve. pioneer, French Sara, which was shown for
At the Olympia Car Show special the first time at the Paris Salon
rims and tyres which preclude the this month..
use of overhead possibility of such accidents wore Owing to the valves, designers of the French cara special feature.
greater constructional pro- A popular light car was chosen Fortunately there was in Coverack blems than Franklin engineers, who for a test, and first a slow puncture a fisherman, owner of a 22 ft. merely cast all cylinders separately.test was given As the tyre went open motor boat fitted with an The draught blown in from a down, the car was braked violently Ailsa Craig Kid marine motor turbine on the front of the crank and driven in zigzags and figures engine. He rendered a vital ser- shaft plays on the chamber enclos-of eight, extremes which no mo- vice by towing the heavy 40 ft. ing the valves, allowing full space
and after successfully rescuing for an oil bath, yet cooling efficient torists could possibly undertake on Lifeboat to the scene of the wreck,
the road.
those on board the Gwentland, jy!
Air currents are forced to the
The tyre remained on the rim, towed them safely back to port in
a This is fine heads of the cylinders and disas when inflated.
the Lifeboat. charged at the base.
FROM ACETYLENE
Benzol Production.
Afterwards a burst tyre test instance of the value of a reliable was shown. The tyre was gud-motor engine in saving life at gen. derly out by a stool attached to the
mudwing.
DIFFERENT MODELS.
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A similar burst, this time at speed, was then tried, and later JAPANESE CLAIM.
the car was driven round a sharp Another synthetic car fuel in-ro corner, first on a properly inflated ported to have been discovered by tyre to indicate the limiting specd Japanese chemists, who claim to at which the cure could be done Special British Ford. produce benzol from acetylene gas. and then with a deflated tyre at By the process employed, 60 to 70 almost the same speed. The tests per cent. of the neatylene becomes were first done on the rear tyres, converted into benzol and of this and then repeated upon the front about 50 per cent. distils over at atyres. temperature below 150 deg. cent.
GO SLOW.
Reactionary Spain."
H.K.A.A. DINNER.
DESIGNED FOR HOME
AND CONTINENT.
to
Though the new Ford was have been exhibited at the Olym- pia Motor Show in England, the showing had to be postponed.
The official explanation of the postponement by the Ford Motor Co. states that the work of install- and Cork factories has advanced Everything indicates that next more rapidly than was anticpated, ing its roads safe for bullock wag-Friday's Dinner Dance organised and that these factories will soon
by the Hongkong Automobile be producing new models. A new Government regulation in Association, will be most success- Therefore, it was considered pre- bhat country provides that motor ful. The event is to be held in the ferable to display the new British than -imported cars overtaking others at a speed Roof Garden
of the Hongkong Fords rather greater than 25 miles hour will be Hotel, and a room adjoining has American models. Cars made in lable to a fine.
particulara from the Probably his Majesty the King been reserved as a rendezvous for Britain,. It is said, will differ in im-
members and their guests. Those portant of Spain will be one of the first who have not yet booked scata, American Fords, as they have been haled before the Bench, for he is should make a point of doing so specially designed for the British a motorist whose speediness verges as early as possible next week. on the reckless.
HARD ON THE KING. Next Friday's Function.ing new tools in their Manchester Spain is evidently, bent on mak
gon's.
and Continental market."
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