THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FIRST UNDER NEW HUDSON TUNNEL
This live mascot sat on the front fender of the first automobile to pass through the new Hudson Tunnel, thereby achieving the distinction of being the first passenger.
THE SOLUTION FOR CONGESTION.
will not be secured until water, gas, electric light; and other publle utility undertakers, having power to break up the surface of streets are placed under the same obliga- Hons as those to which road auth- orities in the London Traffic, Area are now subject, namely, that they should submit their pro gramme of major works, involving extonsfyé interference with the carriageway of important streets, i to the Minister in advance, in order that he may prescribe the dates on, and the periods during which, buch works may be executed
What can be done by whole. hearted co-operation in co-ordinat ing works in streets, the Committer continue, occurred in connexion with the repaving of Flecadilly, the undertakers concerned being the Postmaster-General, the Water Board, two electric supply com panies, and the Gas Light and Coke Company,
Parking Problem,
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
BY THE WAY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1928.
AN IMPORTANT REFINEMENT.
Machining Combustion
Chamber: Domes.
Machining combustion chamber domes in cylinder block heads, an [By Israel Klein.]
important relinoment in metóc cara
Chaine take agront
deal of which now is found only on oʻlimit punishment, during a winter's ed number of cars, because of the cost, nag ween greatly simplified by usage, but they return a propor-new machine, favented; and just tionate amount to the car.
On a 30 by 4.40 tyre, it has bebh completed by the Packat Motor
Car Company, pointed out, a cross link hits the Pavement 660 times in a mile. When the car has gone 100 miles, each cross link has come into con act with hard pavement or lee 66,000 times.
The Packard Company a number of years ago Invented the first machine for doing this work. They were universally used for this operation. The design was changed Add to this the strains of bark-slightly from time to time to keep ing, starting and pulling, and lit pace with changing form of the tle more may be expected of them. combustion chamber head. With In return for this hard usage, the form now used by Packard and the chains take their revenge out adopted by a large number of other With the rapid growth in their the tyres, force the engine to cars it had been necessary to use number of mator vehicles, the work harder and can rip holes into eight of the Packard machines, cach public demand for more parking the fenders.
taking care of its particular part of the irregularly shaped, section of space continues.
the dome. Packard gave a final finish to the work with hand operat Proper attacliment of chains ed cicctrically driven polishing afford balls. The new machine makes pos- and careful 'driving will the most possible benefit cut of sible the entire completion of the the chains and the least possible work in two operations. harm to tyres, engine or parts of the car..
That fe, "of course, if the driver, in careless about them.
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other
PACKARD SINGLE SIX MOTOR CARRIAGES.
29.40 H.P. R.A.C. Rating-block tost actually develops more.
than 80 H.P.-288,60 cubic inches piston' dispincement.
Model 526-Single Six-126-inch wheelbane.
Phacton
..b-senter...
G.$2,695
Rumble Scat Roadster
4-seater
2,695
Sedan
..seator
2,80G
Coupe
.4-scator
2,870
"Convertible Coupe
.....4.seater
2,945
Model: 633-Single Six-133-inch wheelbase, MON
Roadster
.4-seater
G.$2,815
Phaeton-
.6-senter
2815
Touring
7-Bextor
2,916
Coupe
4-senter
3,220
„G-seater
3,220
.7-seater
3,295
17-seater
0,395
Club Sodan Sedan
Sedan Limousine
PACKARD STRAIGHT EIGHT MOTOR
CARRIAGES.
- 39.20 H.P.-R.A.C] Rating—block test actually develops more than 105. H.P.-384.80 cubic inches piston displacement. -
Model 443-Straight Eight--143-fach wheelbase. 'Rumble Seat Roadster
Phaetona
Touring
Coupe
Club Sedan
Sedan...
Sedan Limousine
5-senter
4-sonter
7-seaterket
..4-seater
.B-senter
.7-senter.
.7-senter
G.$4,400
4,460
4,585
5.675
6,575
5,780
5,880
The above prices are for delivery in Hongkong or Kowloon.
All prices and specifications subject to change without notice.
Telephone Centrol 1246 or 1247.
The combustion chamber dome is). shaped something like half of a peur split lengthwise and with the smaller end considerably enlarged. THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD. It long has presented the most dim- cult bit of machining on an automo- bile engine. Not only do the cut- ling tools have to follow the pearf shaped design but they have to slope the top of the dome from the piston side toward the "big end of the pear" which goes over the valve and this end also to be deeply under
· 33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD"- - - HAPPY VALLEY.
The Committee state that they have endeavoured to meet this de- mand, in part, by suggesting the appointment of additional parking places. "In Central London, TRAFFIC UNITY IN effect to their recommendations for where the demand for parking improving travelling facilities in space is greatest, the number of LONDON.
various areas, which "we are consultable places available for park vinced are the only means by which ing is strictly limited, and in fu- In the first place, the chaine real improvement can be effected ture the motoring public moat, of should be put on riglit. They muet be loose enough to allow them to Little Progress Made. of the admittedly inadequate tra necessity, rely more and more on velling facilities for these areas."
the provision of garage accom-work their way around the tyres. This regrettable fact, "and the modation off the public highway, If they are tight, they will stay in reasons advanced by the operators whether by local authorities or by one position, cutting into the
casings and causing tyre trouble. concerned against giving effect to private eprise."
A little play will cause even wear Some stores, the Commit-
on the tyres all around. them, reinforce our view that the co-ordination of passenger trans-tee add, have set an example in
The chains; however, must not The London and Home Counties port services with Common Fund providing accommodation for cus- Traffic Advisory Committee, in and Common Management, with tomers cars, which might well be be too loose or they'll rattie
goes, at any considerable speed and cut.
operated through 'the wizardry of their report for the year ended the elimination of unnecessary, followed by other large business against the fenders when the car Furthermore, con Dealing with "roundabout" truf. break easily.
It has been ordinary practice to cars, as were the former Packard machines. However, the usual con- September deplore the limited pro-wasteful, and uneconomic competi-firms, hotels, theatres, &c.
fie schemes, the roport states that stant tapping of a chain on the gress made in the direction of im-tion, le essential before any subs
foundry. With this method there fact that the cutting tools are proving travelling facilities in antial improvements in travelling the experiment in Parliament- same spot of the fender will even-leave the dome as it comes from the tours of the cams, together with the
square has fully justifid expecta- tually wear a neat hole there.
can be no assurance of an absolute mounted on the ends of long arms, tions, while at Hyde Park Corner
In the case of the new type of uniformity in the cubic contents of each having two universal joints, the experiment "has proved-en-
each motor cylinder. Differences make the machines do the seemingly Turning to the question of re-urely auccessful, the number of rubber links, on the contrary thin the volume of cylinders in impossible. A woman might clear- pairing the roads the Committee traffic intersections being reduced chains must be applied as tight a motor necessarily result in varying ly appreciate the difficulty of the possible. The tyres should be volumes of explosions, causing feat if she were to understand that remark: "From experience we are from 28 to one."
At Piccadilly circus the round-blown to their requisite pressures roughness in the motor action. it would be the equivalent of taking confirmed in our view that the little actual progress has been maximum relief to traffic conges-about system has reduced trafle and then the chains may be RP-Machined domes also greatly reduce six or eight pears of approximately even better Packard car, mechanle-
various areas.
"
Emphasis is placed on the needl For co-ordinating passenger trans-'
port services, and for co-operation in the work of rond.repairs.
facilities can be effected,"
Rond. Repair Co-operation.
The Committee record that very made in the direction of giving tlon resulting from street works intersections from 18 to five.
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plied tightly.
The reason for this, is that rub- ber chains are flat and smooth, and therefore do not need to have free play around the tyres. In Inet, if applied loosely, they are liable to break easily.
Applied tightly, rubber chains will help Izgthen the life of the tyres. These may be kept on all winter, no matter what the weather for they are to bother either in driving or in the way of comfort.
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With chains on, motorists might think they are free to speed along the worst sorts of highways with utmost safety. The safety may be there, but the wear and tear on the chains and tyres won't be.
Tyre chain manufacturers any that drivers should not go faster than 25 miles an hour, to get the best out of them. Weather condi- ționa alone should compel motor- ists to keep within this," Umit. ~
"The fact that chains are neces- sary or advisable," says one makorj "is a waining in itself that high speeds should not be attained and that caution is in order."
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Because of the modern hard paviments, it is advisable to keep chains on the tyres only when nccessary. Chains on dry pave. ments are harmful to the tyres, make uncomfortable riding, aro a strain on the engine and wear out faster.
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The exception to this is the casè of rubber chains.
-Banish Expense L-
carbon trouble.
The new. Packard machine is
that each at the finish would be the same in size and shape, without the variation of a thousandth of an
incl.
The Packard Company has found that the mechanical perfection reached through the invention por- mits the combustion chamber domes to be held to even closer limits of exactness, one with the other, than when they were completed by hand polishing. Packard engineers say the new machine makes possible an
the same shape and so peeling them ally, than ever.
In the realm of industry where effi- ciency is a by-word, heavy hauling vehi- eles tyred with Goodyear Heavy Duty Cushions are meeting and sur- passing the highest. standards.
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