THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
STUDEBAKER
PLEASURE CARS
HONG KONG DELIVERED. PRICES.
ERSKINE SIX,
H.A. Horse-Power Rating 18.16.
Brake Huron-lovers 43 at 5,000 Revolutioni.
Piston Displacement 160.37 Cubic Inch. Wheel-Base 100 inches.
Tourer Cabriolet Roadster
Mod11,
Club Bodna
Bedan Regular
Bednu koyal
Speed 89 M.P.II.
5-pas 2,425 lbs.
"
P. O. B.
Bath Wright
Tactory Frien
Extran
Tackend Bonsha Khipping Prize Delivery
O$ 835, 0$105
2-9. 2,370 lbs.
$210 G#1,150
205
1,240
4.pnя. 2,405 lbs,
$65
5-R. 2,442 lbs.
100
845 130
75 210 1,250 130 266 1,255 '045 130 205 1,340 Bp. 2,537 lbs.
1,045
203 1,410 109 5.30. 2,540 lux. Hong Kong price includes Wire Wheels, Leather Upholstery, Front and Rrar" Butapere, Extra Tire and Tube, Extra Del Horn, Shock. Alworbers,
DIRECTOR SIX.
RAC. Hope-Power Rating 27.34,
Brake Horse-Power 26 at 2,800. Ho volutions.
Pictor Diepiowement 241.6 Cubic Inch,” Wheel Bane 115 Inches. Speed 65 3.P.11.
Duplex Tourer ..... Tourer Royal.... Roadster Royal Club Sedan
Coupo
2-pass. 3,975 lbs.
Tourer Mynt...
7- 3,040 lbs.
5-paas. 3,975 1. ($1,195 (18110 'G1$275 081,580 975 1,630 1,265 -pus. 3,820 159.
1,245 145 275 1,063 4-pass. 2,930 11am.
145 1,185
340 1,470 Spa 3,1491.
1,195 145 340 1,680 1,325
110. 275
1.710
Bedan Borular
S-pass. 3,250 115,
1,255
4-pass, 3,130 lbs.
1.205
145 145 340
340 1,750
1,780
T-pass. 3,290 11.
· 1,315
145
340 1,800
5-pass. 3,140 11.
1,345
175
-pus, 3,20 lbs.
1,395
110
: 340
345
1,380
∙1,450
1,465 110 315
Cougio Royal Berling.... Victoria Hoyal
Sedan Royd
1,920 Berlino Royal
3-jess 3,370 1h Hong Kong price luciaulés Disc. Whecle, Leather Upholstery, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tide anti Tule, Extra Bulb Horn, Shock Absorbers.
COMMANDER SIX.
H.1.C. Horic-Pom Hating 36.04.
Brake Horse-Power 85 at 2,800 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 259.8 Cubio suck, Wherb-Hour 120 Inchin,
*Speed 72 MAJ,
Club Sadan Roadster Regal
"Victoria
·Bedan
Berline
S-pan. 3,488 (1
1.495
3-pare. 3,548
1,455
5-p. 3,600
1,575
Victoria Regal
5-pas 3,548 ..
1,625
Cabriolet Regal
5-pans. 2,425 139,
Sodan Regal
2,150
5-pusa, 3,520 bg. ($1,435 0$145 08380 0$1,960
105 1,595
300 2,000 4- 3,328 1,
145 380 2,020 145
2,020 380
145 380 2,100
345 380
145 1,625
380 2,150 1,665 $45 380 2,190 S-pe, 3,013 s.
-1,705 145 380 2,230 Berlino Regal ............ S.par. 3,665 1.
Hong Kong price includes Dise Wheels, Leather Upholstory, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tire and Tube, Extra Bulb Horn, Bhook
Absorbara.
PRESIDENT EIGHT.
H.A.C., Harar-Power Uuting 46.45.
Drake Hurrs-Power 100 at 3.mai #ivvulutions,
Piston Displacement 214 Cobie Juch. Wherl-Base 131 Inches,
Cabriolet Stats
Speed 80 M.P.H.
HINTS
FOR THE
MOTORIST
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
WHICH IS THE WEAK CYLINDER?
been
Do Engine Run Smoother at Night?
scientifically
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928.
NOISY MOTORISTS.
By Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
whistle when passing through a station is quite" unnecessary thesd days. And within the
metropolitan area where the rail-
way runs near houses no whistling should be allowed-or at any rate
lines
"THE BLOOD STREAM."
Pure.
What the blood stream is to the
only that of a low and inoffensive Keeping the Engine Oil For many years we have been tone. Those who live hear big hearing continually of the dan termini or near the main gera arising from the apeed at lending out of London tell me which motor vehicles are driven, that sleep is difficult, If not im-human body, so is the oiling system while very little attention has possible, until the early hours of to the motor car. In both the Hu- been paid to the noise made by the morning on account of the man body and the motor engine, therefore, safeguards are provided, them and many other kinds of constant whistling.
for if the "blood stream" fails both traffic/
Then again, there is the tuning I die. Nature provides the watch-
verified.
your horn 7"
motorisla
Motor
while
It is the
This
Nowadays in big towns sleep is up of motor-cars in garages at dogs for the human blood stream; almost impossible in the main the backs of houses and hotels, but it has remained for modern thoroughfares, not only for those which often begins as early as engineering ability to provide the In the case of an engine speed will both be found to include unfortunate people who happen 3m, or even earlier, disturbing watchdogs for the "blood stream" which, while not actually missing the game cylinder, which can pro- to have bedrooms facing on main the surrounding neighbourhood of motor cars. Engineers to the explosions, has lost some of its perly be regarded as the weakest streets but often for those in and depriving the residents of Studebaker Corporation claim that In Studebaker and Erskine cars, power and no longer runs with the of the six. A similar, but cruder minor streets as well. Formorly several hours of good sleep. smooth "purr" and evenness of ac-test, can be made by shorting horsedrawn traffic used to const It is not realised yet how delo-after the first 1,000 milce, it la tion which it once did, it is pretty spark plugs with a pair of in-at night, but now motor-car terious to public health is cons necessary to change oil only once
traffic goes safe to assume that one or more sulated-handled screwdrivers.
on all through the tant jarring noise. Accidents every 2,600 miles, while chassis cause moro lubrication is necessary only when of its cylinders have become weak
twenty four hours, and much on the road, may In the action. Before making
heavy traffle travels by night only, deaths and injuries, but the dam- the oil is changed. To guard the repairs, It is necessary or at least
But it is not fair to blame age, sometimes temporary, some-eiling system they havo perfected.. desirable to know which cylinder
Question. Some motorista claim drivers of motor vehicles for a times permanent, done to nerves, the oil filter, thermostatic water brain, alght, hearing, and other control, and crankcase ventilator. not functioning that an engine runs much smoother good deal of noleo. Tho or cylinders nre properly and the following suggest night air and also on a damp Car Act of 1903, and the regula-sunses which is the inevitable Theas are the watchdogs,
Small specks of carbon, metal Lions refer to Identifying these day than during dry conditions. tions made under it, enjoin the effect of permanent molse has been scrapings and other foreign materi-
much under-cstimated. wenk oues: Almost always, What is there in this iden? motorist to sound his horn on ap-
Some of the railway com-al may get into the oil stream; but cylinder which is contributing less
Answer. This beller is very proaching a person, corner, or any panies already realise the value eventually they come to the oil filter. power than it should, is one which,
accident may of silence at night and take great This is so perfected now that the leaks gas and therefore shows a general and it seems that it must place where an lower pressure during the com- have some foundation, but so far occur, and almost the first ques-ons that on their long-distance oil is strained, foreign material pression stroke. If one can obtain as we know, its truth has never tion put to a driver in the case of trains those who are in the sleep-cast aside, and the oil sent back into Each time Ing-cars shall not be disturbed: service again-clean. ja compression gage, the engine Stationary engines, using heavy an accident is: "Did you sound
should be warmed up, the spark fuels, are sometimes run with
But do they take any trouble in the car is started the second watch- plug of No. 1 cylinder removed water injected with the charge in
If the answer is "No," then the daytime? At any rate, in dog comes on duty. and the gage serowed into its place. order to reduce knocking, the nine times out of ten the magis common with other railway pas-thermostatic water control. The engine is then run, with the hand throttle net so as to give theory being that the heat required trate convlets. Therefore horn-sengers I note that many couches retards water circulation until the necessary precau- travel in are very noisy as well motor reaches just the right oper- as shaky. In these days, when ating temperature. It is a primary about a 25 m.ph, speed and the to evaporate the injected waterblowing is a gage pressure noted. The same reduces the temperature and pecs-tion in many cases,
Again, the incredible absont- the railway companies are trying fact that the principal cause of ofl procedure is followed until read-cure at the peak of the explosion inge from all cylinders have been and thus does away with the extremindedness of many pedestrians, to recover lost traffe, I suggest dilution is a cold motor, and tho are in-that silent, steady vehicles would water control system, by reducing the warming-up period, prevents, as obtained. The cylinder or cylin-me stresses that cause rough among whom
far as possible, dilution of the ofl. ders which give readings markedly operation. At one tiny, as you cluded, leads them constantly to be a great attraction.
doubtless know, humidifying de- wall across streets at the peril of Finally, as a driver on the road By permitting a current of air to below the average of the pressures viees, designed to furnish moisture their lives, offen right through a myself, 1 noties that the average pass through the crankcase, indiented will generally be found
Lic motor រ៉ន Fun- in the charges, were considerably stream of trafe which, whether motorist blows his horn far too
which to be the one or ones which require used on motor car engines, with the it is going fast or slow, cannot loudly and too often, in some ning. Has
has leaked quite unnecessarily past the rings, or water con- attention as to valves, piston-ring idea that the alleged smoother suddenly be diverted or stopped cases also
both in town and country. or bbres. If no compression gage
densed in the crankcase, is avaporat- is at hand, a fairly accurate iden running obtained with night air for an individual walker.
If a motor vehicle is drivened. Fumes resulting from this But while recognising that there could be reproduced, but It appears of the tightness of each cylinder that these arrangements, in most would be great difficulty and dan- with judgment there should be evaporation have no opportunity to can be obtained by hand-cranking
use of no need to blow the horn except enter the car itself, since they are. enses, did not produce results gor in prohibiting the it through its compression stroke, which warranted their main-horns on all occasions, there in emergencies for the purpose of diverted through a pipe and carried careless pedestrians. out underneath the chassis. These with the spark-plugs of all other tenance. At least, they were not might, for instance, be a regula-warning cylinders removed. The cylinder adopted as regular equipment, to tion made prohibiting the blow-Certainly one-half of the horniree watchdogs alone are prime or cylinders the pistons of which car knowledge. The whole ques-ing at least of mechanical horns blowing of to-day could disappear factors in increasing the life of the enn be cranked past compression, tion is rather "in the air." within certain areas. There and nobody would be any the engine. And they are on duty al- with a very slight momentary re-
of silence worse. And the use of the open ways. might also be zo1.29 sistance being felt, are doubtless
during certain hours in streets exhaust is indefensive and selfish.. leaky as compared with those cylin- ders the pistons of which require Question-What is the most ad- flanked entirely by residential The police should be more vigilant exhaust
FERRY OVER SEA: alsó near hospitals, In repressing the open strong sustained effort to forco vantageous temperature of the air, houses, them through the compression as it enters the carburetor of a churches on Sundays at any rate, nuisance, for which there is no
The 90 miles of water separat- stroke, A more direct test for motor car engine7 Can it be too and in parks, where thousands go excuse whatever.
overy day for rest and quiet as Traffe of all kinds is increasing Key West, Fla., and Havana, wenk cylinders is made by short- low or too high?
ing. Therefore, unless we re- Cuba, is, now linked by the world's circuiting spark-plugs while the Answer. No generally applic-well as for recreation.
On railways, too, reform is press sternly all proventable first auto soa forry. It connects engine is running, thus throwing able figure can be given. If there out of action those cylinders which is a hot-spot or other means for needed. The regulation, which is causes of noise life will become the new Cuban Central Highway have their Jgnition interrupted. japplying considerabio heat to the now ignored, or has been repealed, unbearable in our towns in a fow with the new road along the Keys
from Miamul to Key West.. The cylinder or cylinders which mixture in the manifold and if a that a locomotive driver, should years. ean he "ent out" with the least highly volatile fuel is used, a much effect on slowing down the engine lower air temperature is desirable jare "weak." The testing device than in case manifold heat supply known as a cylinder cut-out con-jis small or absent and rather in- aists of a group of switches so volative gasoline is used. The en- conheeted as to ground any plug attering air temperaturo should be will. In using this, the engine is high enough, so that, with the heat Kol running and (in the ease of added to the charge, before igni- A six) cylinders are cut out and tion, vaporization shall be practi the throttle correspondingly open-caily complete, but it should not be jed until only two, day Nos. 1 and 2 too high as this may result in the are firing and the engine is still charge being pre-expanded, before running at a fair speed, which is ignition, which of course, reduces carefully noted with the throttle-the ratio of expanalon within the setting unchanged, by opening and cylinder and thus cuts down the closing the appropriate switches, power developed. Probably it is the engine is successively run onirue that air entering at less than other pairs of cylinders such as 100 degrees F is in most cases dia. 2-3, 3-1, 4-6, 5-4 and 6-5, each advantageous, as not tending to- cylinder being thus included in two ward effective vaporization, but combinations. Usually those two specific circumstances alter the re- combinations which give the lowest 'quirements very greatly.
USE FORESTS AS CAMPS.
Air Intake Temperature.
DETROIT'S DRIVE.
Auto campers touring California A seven-mile highway, 120 feet last year used that state's 18 wide and costing the city between national forests an camping ten and sixteen million dollars, has grounds. Nearly 700,000 camperabeen voted upon and passed by the
council of Detroit. visited the parks.
Bodan State Bodan State an
5-pass. 3,980 1 5. 4,371 lbs. 7-pass. 4,236 1.
082,250
Barling State
5-pass. 4,220 11a,
$ 50 C$420 0$2,780
50 2,250
420 2,720 2,350
450 2,820 50 2,350 50 420 4,820
Tourer State
Berlina State
Limousino
- 3,956 1
2,485
7-pass. 4,286 1try.
7-pas, 4,306 11.
340 2,825 1,450 50 420 2,020 2.450 50
2,820 440
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INSURANCE CO LT
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[(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)
SPECIALISES IN MOTOR INSURANCE
LOCAL AGENTS,
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York Building.
Phone C. 578.
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