THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928.
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Answer: It is.
SILENCING OF MOTOR CYCLES.
An Important Test.
The Panel of Engineers has now been appointed by the Au tomobile Association to conduct the necessary Testa in connexion) with the Motor Cycle Silencing Scheme, recently inaugurated by the Association a conjunction! with The British Cycle and Motor Cyclo Manufacturers and Traders' Union Ltd,
The following eminent En- gincera constitute the Panel:-
Hubert C. Clark, A.M.I. Mech.. 1. (Chairman).
Leslie Houcefield,. M.I. Mech. E., M.L.A.E.
A.R.C.Sc..
Basil H. Joy, M.I. Mech. E. F. H. Lee, A.M.I.A.E...
W. A. Tookoy, M.I. Mech. E. M.I.A.E.
E. Bradford Ward, M.IA.R.
GENERAL MOTORS (G.M.C.) BUSPES
General Motors Special Passonger, Busts are built to the specific requirements of some of the largest users of Buses in the world. Some of the principal specifications are as follows:
Particulars: Bulck. Motor Six cylinders
Piston displacement Rated Horsepower At 2,000 R.P.M.
At 2,800 R.P.M.
Wheel diameter
Front and Rear Tyres
Total braking area Wheelbase
T-20-CB Standard Six 31⁄2" x 44" 207 cu..in. 23.44 R.A.C.
50 .B.H.P. 63 B.H.P. 20-inch
:30 x b
454 sq...in.
4
150 Inches
20
Height of frame (rear)
Payload capacity
Gross weight
ches 3,000 pounds
6,600 pounds
T-20-CB 160-inch wheelbase
T-40-CB Master Six
274 cu. in.
61 B.H.P.
29:40 RIA.C.
77 B.H.P. 20-Inch
84 x 7,50
600 sq. in.
162, inches
27 inches
6,600 pounds
11,095 pounds
"
G$1,690
· T-40-CB 162-inch wheelbase ...... G$2,840 The above prices are for delivery in Hongkong or Kowloon. All prices and specifications subject to change without notice.
Now that four-wheel brakes are only by vacuum-power, but, may at last practically universal on be set by the operator's own mua- current models of passenger ears, cular power through the conven- engineers BTO searching for tional linkage, in case extreme further improvements in braking stopping power is required or in methods. With the constant in case of failure of vacuum, due to crease of traffic density and speed, the stalling of the engine. the strain involved in operating
Shock Absorbers as Spring brakes by muscular power is bo-
Protectors. coming more burdensome, Question: Within the past especially on long trips over con year I have broken two front gosted roads and particularly 80 springs on my car, although in the case of operators, who are I think I would be called a care-
Mr. Clark has been responsible Incking in physical strength and ful driver. There are no enabbers for the design of a number of endurance. Even with operating or shock absorbers of any kind on leading makes of motor vehicles devices affording the mechanical advantage and with this car. Is it your opinion that during the last 20 years, and was brakes of the self-energizing type these devices lessen the danger of associated with the Technical De of the Machanical partment spring breakage? -which in some mensure are
Most springs Transport Section of the Ministry applied by energy stored in the moving car-the fatigue induced break by being hent more than of Munitions, during the War.
Mr. Joy holds a prominent posi-i
The speed of General Motors Passenger Buses assures by a day's braking may constitute they can stand, as their fond an important factor in the total of recolls upward, after having bent tion 48, Secretary of the Institu-
the maximum number of trips. Their riding case guarantees Engineers
Their economy personal wear and tear. To sub-them severely in moving down-tian of Automobile
the comfort and satisfaction of customers. ward, and it is the function of all with which he has been associated stitute. for muscular energy
and reliability produce real profits for the operator. General Motors Passenger Buses are available in the following chasols mechanical energy, generated by shock absorbing devices to prevent since its inception.
Mr. Leo has been identified for the gine, so that the effort of these extreme motions of the load|
types: Any kind of ordinary service brake application on the springa. shall be only that required to open shock absorber, capable of limita number of years with several of a valve, to permit stered mechani-ing the violence of the deflection the principal motor manufactur Advisor to important Insurance eal power to perform the actual of these front springs; will tending firms in the Midlands, and la
interests. I work of braking, is seemingly the to protect them. There are some effortless very simple and inexpensive de toward move
Mr. Tookey is prominent as a driving. As vaenum-and later vices, which set to press the leaves air-brake-were adopted upon of a spring together, this increas Consultant in matters relating to railroad cars, when hand operated ing their mutual friction and Internal Combustion Engines and brakes were found inadequate to damaging their deflections; which Fuels, being Advisor to import- so it you can readily Install and which ant interests such as, the South meet. increased speeds, appears that the vacuum brake we believe you would find effective. Metropolitan Car Company. He Gear Noise.
is also. Chairman of the B.E.S.A.. and perhaps the air brake, which
Question:-The transmission of Committee on Interual Combus- have both been used on buses fer some time, may prove the final my car makes a grinding tion Engines. équipment on
cars. noise, when in low and second
Mr. Ware's connexion with the Suction, always present in the speed, with the car running slowly, Motor Industry extends over many intake manifold of an engine, as but when it is running fast there years: his name will be familiar long as it is turning over with its is no grinding on second. It to many as having for a long throttle closed (as is always the quiet on high gear.
period been responsible for the case when speed is to be reduced), wrong? is the source of the vacuum fore Answer:-We doubt if there is J.A.P. Motor Cycle Engines.
The emeioney of the silencing utilized to set the brakes, in anything system of four-wheel power Irregular gear noise la most devices will in every case be the braking, now beginning to be noticeable at very low speeds, the installed on passenger cars.gears then not being sufficiently Vacuum power is conveyed to a loaded to cause the stable tooth eylinder, mounted on the chassis, actión which results in the steady in which is a piston, the mevement hum, that is not considered objec- of which sets all brakes, through tionable. Irregularities of rota- equalizing devices, in response to tive speed of the engine are, most tlie movement of a valve, opened pronounced at very low speeds and No the progressively by regular cause the gears to "growl." brake-pedal, the degree of opening gear noise is to be expected on regulating the degree of auction high gear, for all gears are turn- force in action and thus the in-ling idly. It may be that there is tensity of braking. The con- some backlash in the gears of your nexion may be such that the front transmission, caused by wear, and wheel brakes are operated by perhaps there is same looseness We presume you vacuum only, the degree of appll-at bearings. cation being always held below have it well lubricated with a the locking point on the kind of gear compound that is of good: road surface being traversed, but hody but still capable of flowing the rear brakes may be applied not when cold.
passenger
PAWNING MOTORS.
A New Paris Service.
Hanging unil Aounds
but ness,
What is
seriously wrong.
and it is already overcrowded, nl- though the new rule has only been in force for a few days. Further
garages are to be constructed forth-
with; this is an administrative ex- pression,. common to all Govern- alment departments, meaning any your car on
dimeuit bugi- time within the next six months or 2
France
the 10 years. The Paris.Credit Muni- in powers that be have just render- cipal garages are to be followed by ed it a simple matter. Putting similar ones in all provincial towns. "au clou" (on the nail) in France This fact should be remembered by corresponds with our own expres-British motorists who may find alon, leaving it with uncle." The themselves stranded at some time, reason or another, while French, curiously
enough, say for one
is easy "leaving it with auntie?" Any touring in France. It way, it means taking some article enough to lose one's pocket book, to the Credit Municipal or Govern- and the consequences are often What a relief ment pawnshop, formerly styled most embarrassing. the Mont de Piete.
to know that "Auntie" will look after your car for a day or two while you are waiting for that de layed letter of credit."
One Can Keep the Petrol.
Up to the present only portable objects have been accepted by the State as pledges, but by decree published recently motorears will in future be available for this pur-
A friend of mine living in Paris pose. It is not necessary to take took his car down to the Credit the car inside and hand it over Municipal the other day out of the counter. "Auntie," impersonat curiosity to see what sort of valua ed by a Government valuation off- tion he would get. Actually, the cial, will come out into the street loan offered was very fair and rea- and give the thing a look over. sonable. It was not accepted, as During the examination he will my friend only wished to test the assume an expression of intenso system. A visit to the garage was disgust, as if the ear before him unfruitful. Only Government offi- were the most revolting object clula are allowed within the pre which it has ever been his unpien-cincts. An inquiry as to whether sant duty to observe in the course cars were greased, covered up, or of a long and trying, professional jacked off the ground to relieve the career. In short, he will behave tyres was answered in the nega- just for all the world like a second- tive. "Auntio" really cannot think hand car dealer. At length a sum of everything. Petrol is drawn off will be mentioned; this sum, immediately a car is taken over, funnily enough, will correspond, and if the owner has brought a more or less, to that which might jug or can with him he may keep be offered by the second-hand car the petrol This is useful unless artist; that is to say, that it will he happens to have already pawned represent one, quarter or perhaps his gold cigarette lighter. ono-third of the genuino scraps There is one aspect of the ques-i value of the car. There will, how-tion which does not seem to have ever, be one very important distine-struck the authorities, but which, tion between the sum suggested by to my mind, accounts for the im- "Auntie's" official representative mediate overcrowding of the first and that emanating from the mind garage which "Auntie" has opened of the second-hand person. The in Paris. There are many people first mentioned, will be offering a who lay their cars up for the winter, Ioan on the property," on behalf but garage accommodation in of his Government, at the very Paris is limited and, in consequence, reasonable Interest of 9 per cent, very expensive. “Auntie,” out of for alx months, whilst the dealor the kindness of her heart, offers would be stating a purchase price, you free garage with a cash loan The Government pawn garage in thrown in! She is a more pleasant Parle only accommodates 200 cars, person than "Dora."
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD.
HAPPY VALLEY.
subject of thorough tests andissued by the A.A. in respect of subsequent certification by thiscurrent models of motor cycles, panel of engineers appointed by submitted by the manufacturers the Automobila Association. Cer-to the Association for examina tificates of efficiency will then be tien.
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