HINTS
FOR THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MOTORIST
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927.
will find full directions for doing THE CULT OF SPEED. COSTS ANALYSED. this in your instruction book, but
it this has been lost, your service
Safety.
station can give you this informa: More Power Means tion. The turning force trans- mitted by the clutch to move the car up a certain grade is much greater on high gear than on second speed and this added pull
SMALL CAR.
Truck Performance."
|BEAN OWNER'S STATE-
MENTS.
is enough to cause silpping, with LESSONS OF A BIG AND second speed engaged, the trans-
Some remarkable results are mission gears multiply the turn-
shown by an agalysis of the wurk- ing force of the engine, which is
The average speed manine isng performances of more than a delivered to the rear wheels and
The in- less "twist" has to be conveyed by much in evidence at the moment core of Bean trucks. the clutch to produce the same Wherever motorists are gathered formation was gathered by Messrs. tractive force at the driving together comparing speedometer Dalgety and Co. of Sydney who exaggerations, someone is certain wrote to owners asking for netual to arrive with the news that he facts of running methods and has done so many hundred miles Casts :-
wheels.
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LOOKING OVER THE SPRINGS.
Have you looked over your car's To remove a springi jack up the
Cone Clutch Suggestions.. springs lately? If not, it will be enr frame, close to the spring "int
in so many hours............. With a stiff brush, question, until the wheel will turn
Of one group of 21 replies re- 'well to do so.
Question: I have one of the
It has long been a standard ceived it was found that the trucks clean off both sides of the front on the floor, Remove the wheel older cars, which was hillt
much favoured by the were at work on all classes of and rear ones, so that the wiges of to give working room. Soak the when they used the cone clutch error,
This authorities, but it was safer to the leaves will show clearly and clip bolts and nuts in rust re- with a leather band on it.
jobs, from town delivery to out- a "blind" cross-road inspect each leaf on both to see mover. Take the lock-nuts off the clutch bothers me rome, occasion-drive over. that it is unbroken. At the same spring-eye bolts and screw out orally by slipping but more often by at thirty miles an hour than along back wool hauling, and that the time, inspect the rebound elips drive out the boils as may be taking hold with a jerk. Can you a perfectly open main road nt 60, average distance run was 11,905 28cwt. With this loading the (usually two on each end of each required. Screw off the clip-bolt give me any pointers as to how to and it is hardly surprising to find miles, with average loading of
that the motoring public are spring) to see that they are in lock-nuts and nuts and drive up keep it working right?
gradually becoming educated to average petrol mileage worked out at 17 to the gallon, which is a place and tight enough to hold the the clips, without burring their
Answer: If the present leather this point of view. leaves together, for if they are not, threads. The spring can then bel
good average figure for trucks in As a matter of fact generally hard work. the spring will fail to net as lifted out. In replacing, use the lining has worn very thin or has unit on the recoil and breakage oljack, and a drift-pin in reinserting been overheated by too much slip-
Most astonishing result of all Also see the eye-bolts and be sure that the ping, you probably will not be the driver who goes fast when he leaves will be likely.
In one that the centre-bolt" is tight and clip-bolts are drawn up lightly and able to get first-class results until gets the opportunity to do so with
This clutch has safety and does not worry about was the tyre mileage. that the axle-clip are intact and the eye-bolts are correctly tighten-you replace it,
thes average over a long distance, half of the cases the tyros were still running at the date when their bolis drawn up as tightly as ed; and their lock-nuts cotter-adjustable springs under they enn be with a good socket pinned. Complete replacement leather, to make it engage gently is far safer than the man who pegs wrench. If you find a rebound springs are now so readily obtain and these may need to be made away regardless of road condi-the information was made avail- good for many thousands of miles clip loose, have it riveted tightly able at moderate prices, that stiffer in order to avoid harsh tions and refuses to slow up for able, and showed signs of being.
Slipping a sometimes anything.
extra use. Notwithstanding this, in place. If the leaves are badly spring repairing does not pay as it action.
Several times recently I have the average milenge worked out at rusted rub them over thoroughly formerly did, but the above sug-caused by engine oil having sonk
for with graphite grense.
The gestions for removing and reg into the lining thus making the been told by enthusiastic young 9,304 to the act. which. breakage of the main leaf ar aplacing springs, apply just as well leather hard and stiff. Sometimes men that they have averaged over pneumatic tyres inder all road this can be absorbed by means of 50 miles an hour on long journeys, and load conditions, is remarkably spring is usually realized at once to installing new ones.
fullers earth applied to the leather In one case I can actually vouch good. By the time all the tyres. because of the sug given the body
and then treating the band with for the time of leaving and of have run their full distance, the more of the shorter leaves may
neatsfoot oil. If the spring has arrival. Exactly two hours were average would be materially aug the engine of my car begins become weakened, slipping may required to cover 106 miles includ-mented, and would probably rur Nevertheless, a spiring to race and the ear slows down, take place. Jerky engagement ising coming into London about ten something around 12,000 miles tr with, even one broken if is which I suppose is because the to be expected unless the leather in the evening, but even this was the set. seriously weakened, so much so clutch slips, but when I shift into is pliable and the springs under it not a record, as my informant was had left the same place a few minutes later.
or through its effects upon power, transmission and braking, but on
break and the failure DASS noticed.
Clutch Slips en High Gear: in climbing a hard bill, on high gear
Question: Sometimes,
The last figures analysed were
that another leaf probably will second there is no racing of the are acting properly-(Copyright.) actually passed by someone who those for apare parts and repair
soon fall and under the effects of engine and the car goes up the Why should the some severe jolt, the main leaf bill all right. will be bent beyond its limit of clutch slip on high and not on endurance and inally soup. Re-second speed, and how can I pr pairing a broken leaf, immediately, vent slipping?
Answer: Possibly, by washing is and policy on the "stitch in time" principle, especially as 're-off the facings of your clutch placing one of the short leaves plates with gasoline, squirted in not a very expensive job. If one is willing to remove and replace a spring oneself. The cost of such A repair is comparatively little
MEXICO TO LEAD.
If Mexico continues its present rate of increase, it will have ears per capita than any other through the hole in the top of their in the world except the Coited
Slates, according to B.SS. Jones, a housing, you can stop this klipet tendency, but more likely you willistat sales manger of the Paci have to tighten the clutch. You coast Star factory
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GOOD YEAR
Thick-Skinned Drivers.
costs, the average expense by each owner being £1 138, 2d., or rather less than 8s. per 1,000 miles of running.
Fast average driving depends entirely on the thickness of the
Based on signed statements by skin of the driver. There is hard-a comprehensive group of owners, ly a car made to-day that will no: this information testifies to the do 50 miles an hour and to average efficiency of this British truck. this speed over a long distance in which is now manufactured entire fairly flat country it is only neces-ly by the world-famous sary for the driver to grit his makers.. Hadfield's, Ltd. teeth, keep his foot hurd down on the accelerator, ignore everyone else on the road, and trust to Pro- vidence.
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21 per cent more time than the amali car.
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1! Gains and Losses,
There is, however, one fact the niore general appreciation of which would add greatly to the The road consisted first of all safety of our roads. The fast caraf hid Landon traffic, then indif- is usually safer than the slow one erent suburban, then fast straight because a normal average can be country, then twisty country with maintained without any dangerous bills. This small car was nearly driving as lost time can be made ten minutes faster out of London, up on the open road without the lost all this advantage and nearly necessity of forcing things in Ave minutes more in the open fast towns and villages...
section, made it up again on the Some time ago. I conducted twisty bit, though losing, slightly experiments with two cars on aon the hills. The actual average route over which I have driven for maintained was just over 30 miles years. One of the cars had an hour.
maximum speed of about 80 miles Now these figures bear out my an hour, while the other could contention, that though the two reach 50 comfortably. The vehicles were driven at nearly the former had also better brakes and same average speed over the whole acceleration, but it occupied faristance, the larger car was being more space on the road. The riven far more safely I could whole journey was a little over afford to more slowly in. 10 miles, including going out of dangerous places with the large London, and as I had to do it fre-lifele, and this I believe is true quently first in one car and then of most drivers.
in another, I kept careful check on the times to various points with
a stop watch, and also got a
As a concrete instance, I found myself going through the onl
friend to "eleck" the time that country town of any size on the
was going less than 20 miles an hour by the speedometer,
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route at nearly thirty miles an hour in the small car, while in the big one I was only doing 20. It is hardly necessary to state. Again and again I have found that I tried to drive normally in exactly the same thing on the open both cases, and did not hurry road. One passes a car where myself excessively, } Ww so there is no traffle, no trees, and successful in this that On an no obstructions of any kind, only average of over a dozen journeys, to be passed again in villages or there was only a difference often blind cornera simply because 2 min. 6 sec. between the two cars the slower car cannot afford to per trip, that is to say, the small lose valuable seconds by easing car accomplished the journey at up.
of
almost the same average speed as This averaging then, is only the large one, though in one case matter driving sufficiently the maximum was in the neighbadly, as an average is more often bourhood of 70 miles an hour and maintained not by reaching high in the other 45. The readings for speeds, but by refusing to go'słow the large car showed that it was irrespective of the conditions. going under 30 miles an hour for Morning Post correspondent.
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