THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD.
FOR
ALL CLASSES
OF
MOTOR INSURANCE
WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS
HEAD OFFICE :-,
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.
TELEPHONE: C.1121-22
for Economical Transportation
CHEVROLET
ORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928
TAXIS STRANDED IN FLOOD.
For 1928
choose "the best small
car in the world".
ROADSTER
f.o.b. Factory
G$540
DELIVERED
Hongkong
14.
G$770
COUPE fo.b. Factory G$630 DELIVERED Hongkong G$910
IMPERIAL
f.o.b. Factory
G$700 DELIVERED Hongkong G$985
LANDAU f.o.b. Factory G$750
DELIVERED
Hongkong
G$1050
· für Kranamies! Transportassen
/CHEVROLET/
TOURER f.o.b. Factory G$540 DELIVERED Hongkong G$770
COACH
f.o.b. Factory G$620
DELIVERED Hongkong G$900
SEDAN
f.o.b. Factory G$710 DELIVERED Hongkong G$1000
All cars have Bumpers, Spare tire & tube,
HÄLF TON TRUCK CHASSIS F.o.b. Factory U.S. G$430 Delivered Hongkong G$610 ONE TON TRUCK CHASSIS Tob. Factory. U.S. G$565 Delivered Hongkong G$720 All trucks have spare tire & tube
For Lenomical Transposable CHEVROLETY
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
GARAGE.
(TBE HONGKONG & SHANGUAT HOTEL, LTD.)
SERVICE & Phone 0.4759
CAR SALES &
ACCESSORIES)
PARTS
Phone U. 4602
This picture of the recent London food disaster, was taken four hundred yards from the river. Scores of taxicabs were stranded.
DOCTORING THE MOTOR,CYCLE.
Troubles That Baffle the Expert.
THE GEAR LEVER.
Central v. Side Position.
NEW USE FOR STRIPS OF METAL
Now Used to Make Stronger Cars.
It is now possible to build lighter, stronger, and cheaper motor-cars. from thin strips of metal welded together than from bar steel.
Many have come to look upon solid steel as the last word in strength and durability.
Yet the sheet metal ear is an
One of the minor points ahout car control arrangement concerns Not all minor motor-cycling the position of the gear shift troubles are electrical in their lever. Side dr central control is a origin, though the long-suffering question which affects the driver components which are responsible in more or less degree, according for the spark are blamed for nearly to his particular idiosyncrasies. everything-especially when the There are quite a number of the case is baffling.
older brigadethe men who start fed their motor usage on the old Panhard type of vehicle--who will always plump for the right-hand accomplished fact, and one has Ascot car, control of the gears. They have only to see the 10-hp. become accustomed to the posi- made under the Fejer patents, to ton, and they have acquired the appreciate how well it has been "sense" of the feel for the gear by done, and without in any way the right hand. But many things changing the outward appearance have changed since those early of the vehicle or deviating from the days, and to-day we have cen- conventional methods of operation. trafiked and aide control .pretty evenly divided in the choice of the designer and manufacturer,
The arrangements by which a properly atomised mist of petrol and air is fed to the engine are so simple and efficient that we are ant to take their working for granted. Yet, like everything else mechanical, they are to some small extent able to derangement through neglect or simple mis- chance.
Intermittent misfiring is difficult to diagnose. It may be merely an olly sparking-plug, or an electrical
has connexion which
worked loose, or an alling magneto. Sometimes the fact that it conses when the engine is "revved up" may confirm you in this Impres- sion, as at higher rates of apeed the spark is naturally stronger.
Excepting such items as the crankslinft, connecting rods, and all the shafts and gears which con- situlo the transmission system, shallow steel prossings worked
It is claimed that if we are to have the much-talked of £100 car. this is one of the surest ways to it Gear changing in the early days on account of the very low price of was something of a business. It the material employed, and also required force as well as skill and because a good deal of the work To-day the practised can be done by unskilled labour, "feel." driver can flick over the gear lever due to press work, which is the without trouble or strain and a simplest of all ways of shaping left-hand oporation is as easy as things. Ingenious Diognosis. Ja right-hand one. Probably what But the most ingenious diagnoels has made the central control so may prove to be wrong. The ma- popular is the fact that cars could Serity of mechanics, however ex-be built with it, and require no pert, will admit-if they are alteration to this important part, honest-that at one time ar ap- and yet have the option of left or cool are used in place of the other they have gene so far as to right hand steering the former numerous drop stampings, drop some countries. forgings, and deep pressings and remave and test the magneto when necessary in
consideration undoubled-castinga which go to make up a the fault ultimately proved to have This
operated in the
case motor chassis. nothing to do with the spark at all. ly
Though some men hava au un of many of the big manufac canny ability for going straight to turers, for in mass production the root of the trouble, however is essential to keep down to obscure and misleading, the dead, the minimum any alterations in Tho certain method of diagnosis does construction and choice. not exist. Long experience tempts great advantage of the central pie to say that if you are sure it gear shift-it is only one of the is. carburation suspect electrical many advantages-lies in the fact trouble, and vice versa.
that the change lever is right on Slow and sure methods of top of its job. It is not likely to analysis seem to pay best, and by suffer from: sticking or straining,
In place of the high-priced the time you have carried them to as is so often the case with the materials, rolled low carbon sheet a logical end you will have learned right-hand control when in the steel is used, which costs some- some-new-thing--which is one bands of users who do not take the reason why motor cycling is such trouble to keep it in proper order thing less than 36, 4d, Ter-Ib
Bulli in London.
Drop forgings cost anything from 4d. perb. upwards, aluminium pressings from about 1 61. per 1, and malleable iron castings from 6d. per 15., all of which represent á considerable proportion of the total material cost for a car.
The Ascot car in being built in
a perpetually fascinating hobby, as to lubrication, cleanliness, and London by a British company and apart from being a sport. You can adjustment. Being directly pivoted will sell complete for £125, includ- never know It all;" even if you in the gear box, and directly abové have ridden for a quarter of a the selector bars, which it has to ing four-wheel brakes. century your 1928, mount will select and control, it rendera gear spring some totally new surprise. changing much more rapid and
The Choked Jel,
certain. Mechanically, it is the direct method and direct methods
If there is a really lively spark at the plug pofnis it will probably are always the best in any piece
though not certainly) fire the of mechanism. mixture under compression, so it is best to look elsewhere.
Another feature in these days of car comfort and convenience is
It is no midget, but a comfort- fable and gracefully designed.four- seater, with a wheel base of 9 feet and track of 4 feet 2 inches,
The system is the Invention of
u Hungarian engineer, M. Eugene Fejer. The original car was put on the Brooklands tracks, where it fulfilled all the conditions in the
If the engine does not start at one which is important from the all look for a choked jet, dirt, or point of view of the driver and his matter of speed, petrol consump water (the last very clusive) ris- passengers, and that is the greater tion and gradient tests. ing and falling in jet, dirt in the Jaccessibility to the car which the
Extensive Texts. passage from the float chamber to central dever allows. Easy en- Since then British engineers
the jet (or quite possibly water), tranco to the driver's seat is af-
2.
a choked petrol pipe, or petrol (forded by the central position, and have been at work on new models, Alter. If the carburetter floods he can enter and leave his sent but though several have been built quite freely try the jet first. If it with the minimum of discomfort and submitted to a number of road does not, this gives you a clear to himself and his passengers, and tests between London and Glasgow, which the vehicles indication that there is something with the maximum of celerity during wrong between the tank and the sometimes an important considera-averaged 51 miles to the gallon of float chamber,'
lon. From the mechanical point motor spirit, it will be some con- Moving Obstructions. of view It has the decided advan-siderable time before the produe. Should the engine peter out after tage of eliminating any disar- tion model is put on the market. fooding there may be an air lock rangement or binding which night with a bore and stroke of 63 and The engine is a four cylinder (due to the lack of an air release be caused by a whipping chass,
In the fillercap or else to air and, in the caso of the body-build-100 mm., giving a capacity of
1.371. of theer and his design arrangements, it trapped, in the colla petrol pipo), chocked vent undoubtedly eliminates one of the hole in the ticklor button, troubles which assall him in the some moving obstruction in the lay-out of his body design, petrol pipe (blow through it
from both ends), flooding (pune-mixture causes poping back in the tured boat, bent needle, or dirt on carburetter, and is oured by fitting ture, very bad spirit, or an empty flooding are obvious,
ABANDON OLD CARS. AUTOS LEAD PHONES.necale saat), much too weak a mix a large jet. The symptoms of
More than 200 automobiles and. Such to the popularity and motor trucks are abandoned on necessity of the motor ear that it New York streets every year.leads the telephono in number, These are worn-out ears, the valu- there being 19,237,171 nutes In the able parts removed, and left for U. S. in use against 17,740,108 elty disposal.
telephones.
..
High maximum speed is not aimed at, being fixed at 40 m.p.h though it can be pushed up much higher when required, and se- celeration is assisted by the very considerable saving of weight,
about 400 lb. compared with a con- amounting in the present type to ventional design of the same size. and power.
or nearly empty tank All this pre- None of these small ailments is supposes that the valves are work so complicated as description on ing properly and the petrol really paper may make it seem. They are It is the process no less than the. fairly numerous, however, so do material that makes the Ascot car is turned on.
Misfiring due to water In the not blame yourself if you cannot so intriguing, for it shows that carburetter is nearly always ae find a trouble at once. We have all there is more than one sort of steel companied by loud banging noises een fooled in our time, and will to use, and more than one way of from. the alloncer. Too weak a the again.
using it to advantage.
"AUSTIN SEVEN"
ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.
Prince's Building. 2 floor,Ice House Bt. Entrance,
STOOKS CARRIED
MORRIS
THI
HIS IS
"the Wheel of the World"
The CAR of the Year
MORRIS-COWLEY INO H.P.
48* TRACK-105 WHEELBASE,
ROADSTER
DELIVERED PRICES
NETT NETT EXTRA CABIL CASH for 56"
London Hongkong Track
4 Seater £153
£180 £5
4 Seater 170 200
.5
2 Sontor
175
210
10'
4 Senter
185
225
10
168
200
165
: 200
TOURING (4-DOOR) COUPE (FIXED HOOD) SALOON (4-DOOR) TRAVELLER'S CAR STANDARD. VAN
MORRIS-OXFORD 11.9 1.P. 48" TRACK-100 TOURING SALOON
WHEELBASE.
4 Boater
205
235
4 Scator 215
255
MORRIS-OXFORD 13.9 H.P. -48′′-TRACK—1061WHEELBASE.
ROADSTER TOURING COUPE SALOON LANDAULETTE
210 4 Seater
240
4 Sentor 225
260
15
2 Seater
230
270
4 Seater
250
290
-5 Seator: 285
*330
MORRIS-OXFORD 15,9 H.P.
56" TRACK-114" WHEELBASE. (4-speed gear).
TOURING SALOON
5'Boater 315
355
5 Seater 345:
400.
MORRIS LIGHT SIX 17.7 H.P. 2468 c.6.-Approx. 21 litres. TOURING BALOON
5 Seater 320 360 5 Boater 350
BEFORE YOU FURCHASE ANY CAR INVESTIGATE THE
· DEALERS' SERVICE AND INSPECT STOCKS
OF PARTS CARRIED
405
COMPARE
MORRIS VALVESTM
"AND" ASK US FOR A
DEMONSTRATION.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
(THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.) CAR SALES SAND ACCESSORIES
Phone C. 4759
SERVICE AND PARTS
Phone C. 4602.