THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
MOTOR CYCLE RELIABILITY TRIAL
SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928.
THE 1928 PONTIAC.
An Interesting Description.
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HERE IS A NEW B.S.A. MOTOR CYCLE THAT ANYONE CAN LEARN TO. RIDE IN A FEW MINUTES, AND RIDE WITH CONFIDENCE, BECAUSE IT IS NO THE LIGHT, COMFORTABLE, AND EASY TO HANDLE. TWO STROKE ENGINE 18 EASY TO START, AND VERY THIS MACHINE IS FULLY ECONOMICAL TO RUN.
CAPABLE OF DOING LONG DISTANCE JOURNEYS AT A GOOD AVERAGE SPEED, AND 18 BACKED BY THE B.S.A. REPUTATION FOR CONSISTENT RELIABILITY,
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BOLE AGENTS.
TO AMATEUR DRIVERS.
An Expert Gives Advice.
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Avoid reversing where the road curves, and never do ao if you are by yourself.
If you mistake your way in a town and know that the shortest way to recover your route is to reverse, exercise auflicient restraint and refrain from doing so unless there is ample space in In the following article Mr. H. the road. Do not consider the Massac Buist, who was recently pavement part of the roadway motoring correspondent for available to you, Ne car should Heading London paper, gives excel- he put on, the pavement. ilent advice to owner-drivers on
Study Your Caf. turning and extracting a car from On country roads uneven sur-
a confined space.
Even the experienced motorist faces will distort the frame of a bent on holiday exploration will back-and-forth turned car and start body creaking, which may find himself on the wrong road
never be cured. Even a heavy many times in circumstances from which extracting a car and re-car comes to no good by being tracting its course is a problem. manoeuvred in this fashion..
Before you follow any read in How Inevitable, therefore, it is that the novice, inexperienced unfamiliar country, it is better to alike in car management and in make sure that it is the one you touring, should and himself in re-want instead of thrusting your car down it and finding out after- latively constant need of being ward that it is not available to extracted from predicaments to which his curiosity and lack of traffic, or that ita course lies in road knowledge, or instinct, have the opposite direction to the one
you want.
led him?
It is well for the novice to spend The first thing to think of in those circumstances is: How can some of his leisure pondering how Inchieve my purpose without to avoid making an exhibition of placing the car in a position which himself by unskilled manoeuvring will be a cause of danger to other in confined spaces. people, and without manoeuvring it in such a way as to spoil the vehicle?
He should not rest content merely with the knowledge that he is capable of driving a car without Suppose you have to reverse in embarrassment along main roads even in ordinary traffic. a narrow road. Walk ahend until and you find a gate, or put in a reverse Often it is physically hard work gear and move even two or three to extricate a car from a false position. Such a labour strains hundred yards slowly until you come, backwards, to one you have the steering mechanism, so that noticed on the way. Eltheroes of capital expenditure is method will secure you as much involved. extra space as possible.
Watch the Roads."
Nor does it do a car any good to have the front wheels turned by hand by way of assisting the steering gear, though that is better than wrenching at it when the machine is stuck.
Full Wheel Lock, It is extraordinary how many. taxi-cab experienced motorists,
If you are necompanied on such occasions, other members of the party should be stationed to warn traffic as well as do Inform you as to what clearances you have from moment to moment in the ncts of reversing and turning. men among them fail to under- You will be well advised to look stand the principle of using the closely to the surface of the road, fall wheel lock when manoeuvring too. If it is deep in ruts, you in car in a confined space. cannot rely on passing within an Apparently this is due to two inch or two of posts on either side, causes. The driver does not act because caked mud may collapse rapidly enough with the steering and the wheels fall suddenly into a to turn the road wheels right over rut, or if it is wet, the wheels will the moment the ear begins to slip, with the result that the post-move. Secondly, toward the end tion of the car will be shifted more of its travel in the given direction than the narrow margin allows, he does not true up the wheels and then the vehicle, and, pos- quickly during the last foot or 80. Hence the next operation, sibly, some other object will be scraped.
whether running forward or Often overgrown hedges conceal reversing, cannot be begun with large stones, brickwork, odil plecer the wheels in the most favourable of iron, or barts of castaway farm position to enable him to get to machinery, which will destroy the full opposite lock with the panel or a wing.
minimum of car travel.
The steering gear is of new design, featuring a larger worm
While the 1928 Pontiac la funda-Inot pass off Into the air but is adjusted to suit the temperaturo.
The new clutch is a single-plate mentally unchanged it exhibits a condensed by the water in the long list of new features, includ-right tank. While if water enters design similar to that used on the ing four-wheel mechanical brakes, the right tank at the boiling point, | Oakland. The transmission is the internal front, external rear, a it is cooled off before it reaches same as heretofore except for the radically new radiator core the left tank by passing through addition of the Blossom coinciden- principle, and new and very the "horizontal cooling tubes. In tal lock. The lock consists of a attractive body lines and colours. other words the top tank, exposed sliding plunger in the 'transmis- In full accord with the modern to the air is in communication sion which prevents gear shifting, trend it has a high, deep narrow only with the relatively cool operated by a hardened steal wire radiator shell and low body lines water in the left tank. Further-sliding in a steel tube enclosed in enso-hardened armour whieli sweep unbrokenly from more, if the owner allows the flexible front to rear and, in keeping with water level to fall below the top running to the ignition switch.
The rear axle is the same as these features, stylish deeply of the horizontal tubes, any steam crowned fenders with beaded for vapour which passes through used in 1927 except the brake edges, together with lamps of new the uncovered upper tubes will be mechaniam has been considerably Istrongthened; while the front axle contour, a redesigned radiator condensed.
Other new features of the cool-is a new design developed in con- ornament, and a more substantial
ing system include the addi nexion with the adoption of four- tyre carrier of simpler lines,
water thermostat wheel brakes. The most novel feature on the tion of a new car is the horizontal-tube and a new pump impeller design-| radiator core. While it is trueled to balance the thrust of the fan. that some of the earliest automo- The pump bushing is Durex, a biles had horizontal tube radia-porous material, through which with five threads in contact with contact arca being bora, this particular core is wholly oil seeps from a reservoir which the nuts, a full, smooth, long- new in principle. As shown by need be filled only two or three wearing
secured by burnishing. the illustration on this page, water times a year.
head. (General The G.M.R.
Interiors are nicely furnished, from the engine enters a vertical tank at the right side of the Motors Research) adopted by Oak-the features including a 17-inch, radiator and, spreading through land Inst summer is now used on thin-rimmed steering wheel, auto- this tank, it flows through the the Pontiac permitting an Increase matic windshield wiper, finned cooling tubes to a vertical in compression from 4.6 to 49 to 1 mirror, and a handsome, indirectly tank at the left side from whence resulting in some inercaso in lighted instrument panel on a One of the features of walnut-finish instrument board, it goes back to, the engine. What power.
to the customary instruments, is particularly novel about this this head design is lack of engine with n gasoline gauge in addition core is that the radiator top tank roughness.
The engine is unchanged in its sunvisor, accessable door controls, is only in communication with the
Some additional invisible door checks. loft tank. Water discharging into major features.
All closed models are fitted with the radiator mingles only with power is secured by increasing the water and is not exposed to air size of the intake manifold one-Fisher bodies, and all models are ne is the case in all conventional eighth inch, by improved vapouri-finished in three tones of Duco radiators; therefore evaporation is zation through the use of a new except the roadster which is done The local agents are Messrs."A. reduced and if, through adverse intake manifold in which the in-in two tones.
ap- take riser is exhaust gas heated.
be Lung and Co., of 19 Queen's Road. circumstances, the proaches the boiling-point, it does The amount of heat may
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