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1929 AUSTIN SEVEN
MODELS IN STOCK.
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Can be seen at our
KOWLOON GARAGE SHOWROOM
раниченные на
ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.
Prince's Building.
2ad. floor,-Ice House St.-Entrance.
NEW KOWLOON SHOWROOM.
LUCAS MOTORALITIES
The best of Everything.
'King of the Road" Motor Horn.
No. 38A with 33" Flexible Tubing
No. 38T
No. 60T Motor-cyclo
Automatic Screen Wiper.
No. 27 Complete
46
$16.30
25,00
10.00
15.00!
'King of the Road” Safety Observation
Mirrors.
Typo 150 Round. Dia. of Mirror 558"
8.00
Typo 160 Rectangular. Dia of Mirror 61⁄44′′ × 31⁄44′′
B.00
Typo 11 Round. Motor-cycle
5.00
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Milam" (all Moulded) Batteries
"MILAM" MEANS MOULDED
IN
LUCAS ACID-PROOF MATERIAL,
Type ST W II A AMP. 126 14‡‡× 6 × 97% for Morris
& Morris Com. & Arm- strong 18 hp.
55.00
80 161 × 6 × 101 for Morris
Cowloy (earlier modols) 55.00
WBM5A
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STWIE
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LJWIE
19
51 Special for Austin "7" 20 47 × 3 × 51 Motor Cyclo
with fittings
27.00
16.00
HINTS
FOR THE
MOTORIST
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
METAL-TO-METAL BRAKES.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 1928.
TOUGH BABIES.
Fine Performances by British Light Cars.
AUSTIN & TRIUMPH.
An outstanding feature of the Sydney Bicycle and Motor Club's rollablilty run to Melbourne and. back was the performance of the tiny British cars.
persletency from the driver and a
Strenuous, trying, and requiring | high degree of reliability from the
Mr. W. G. Bucklo, in his The standard form of motor-j opening per unit of lift. Their Triumph Super Seven, and Mr. T. car brake consiste of a band or a greater silence is due to the fact D. Nelson, in his Austin, Bevon, set of metal shoes, to which is that the lift may be reduced and covered the good, indifferent and riveted a lining of special fabric the same area of opening obtained; very bad roads with an equanimity or composition, which is pressed However, your camshaft would de- which could scarcely be expected against the surface of the brake termine the lift and you would tained speed averages of 20 miles from such small cars. Thoy main- drum-the actual braking effect gain nothing in silence by adopt-an hour in comfort, a comfort being that due to the friction of Ing them. They are not self-con- which was reflected in the appear fabric on metal. Of late, partly treing, as are the bevelled valvos ances of drivers and passengers at on account of the rapidly in and their stems should be a good the journey's end. creasing severity of braking see fit in their guides. It is not clear vice brought about by higher car why they should require no grind- speeds and traffic congestion, muching, but we are not prepared to attention has been centred upon deny the claim. If you install the possibility of using metal-to-them we should be glad to hear car, the trial is the most arduous metal braking surfaces-a practice how you like them after sny 10,000 yet staged in Australia. which has always been standard miles of use. on all form of rail cars. Among. the advantages claimed for all- metal braking surfaces are very long life, that their action is Hille affected by temperature and that they dissipate heat very rapidly, that their holding power is hardly reduced by the presence of water
Portable Bed. and oil and that, if made of sult
Years of experience in trial able material, scoring and aqueak-worm-wheel (3) End-play in driving was evident in Mr. Arthur ing can be minimized. It has worm-wheel shaft. (1) Looson Biden's preparation. In his 12/50 generally been assumed that on locking clamp at top of steering- Sports Alvis he carried a folding account of the generally lower gear housing and turn largo hex- degree of adhesion of metal upon agon nut in, until it begins to turn metal, as compared with fabric on hard. Tighten the lacking clump metal, it was impracticable to (2) Turn the eccentric bushing, secure the necessary pressure of application from such forco as the operator could readily exort, but improvementa in the frictional quality of the metal available may invalid. render this objection
Present indications point to the probable introduction, on certain classes of motor car, of brakes, having expanding members carry- ing sigments or blocks of specially adapted metal, acting upon the internal surface of a drum of the conventional type,
Flat-sent Valves.
SHOULD
STALL PLAT- SEAT VALVES. IN PLACE OF THE ONES HAVE!
Both drivers of the small cara Readjusting & Steering Gear. made the same comment; "Good-
oh. Quile. comfortable. I'm Question. How is play taken willing to do it again any time." up in a-steering gear?
Higher praise for their vehicles Answer. There are three adjust-cannot be given. ments to take up backlash, viz.: (1) For end-play in worm-shaft. (2) To lighten mesh of worm and
FHOW IS PLAY TAKEM UP IN THIE STEER- ING GEARE
which carries the worm-wheel shaft, until mesh is sufficiently close. Before doing this romove the bushing lock and replace it afterwards. This lock in retained
camp bed, and whenever schedulca and controls allowed, he halted by the roadside, unfurled his bed, and stretched out in comfort. Liko its smaller brethren, this compara- tively light British car came But through with scals Intact. Its owner also cleaned the dust off before entering the final control, so that it ended the trip almost as apick and span as when it started.
TOURING BOOM.
Report by the A.A.
partment of the Automobile As- The activity in the Touring De-
in place by a screw which enters sociation is a criterion of the through the housing just below rapid increase in motor holiday
the worm-wheel ahaft. (3)
Tighten the screw which bears touring. A staff of more than 150 upon the end of the worm-wheels working untiringly and unceas shaft and which projects through in ly to supply itineraries for the housing in line with the shaft, touring Britain, and to arrange There is a locknut on this which the Customs documents and ship- must be loosened before and ments for motorists taking their lightened after the operation.
cars abroad. An average of 2,000 miles of prepared itineraries were Issued to motorists by the A.A.
Timing. Gear Noise.
timing Question-Do worn Questión.-Would it be worth while to install flat-sent valves in geara make a noise when a car is my-engine in place of the regu-standing with the engine idling lar bevelled-seat valves that it or when the car is running? was equipped with? It is claimed Answer: They 'make much for this type of valve that they are more nearly silent, give a larger opening for the same amount of lift and do not require grinding.
Answer-We don't know much about the flat-sent valve, for none of the manufacturers are using them, no far as we know, although they were used in the curly days of the industry by a few concerns, It is true that they give a larger
AMERICA GAINS ABROAD
Foreign motorists bought 86.000 American-designed automobiles in one month of this year. This is a record for American salen outside the United States.
GHOSTLY POLICE.
during each minute of every day
in July.
A most satisfactory feature of International touring is the in-, creasing number of foreigners more noise when an enginn. Is from the Continent and America idling, as its speed then fluctuates who are bringing their automo- more noticeably than it does when tiles to Britain by means of the it in connected to the car which, Customs Pass Sheets Insued by of course, has a very great steady- the Touring Clubs allied to the ing influence. Warn timing gears A when held in uniform contact by steady engine action, mike re- latively little noise, but when the contact is unsteady, as in idle operation, they are decidedly more noisy.
STILL FAR BEHIND
There are 158,600 motor vehicles in Italy, or one to every 254 per sons. That's quite a way behind the United States ratio of one car to every five residents,
MORE INSURANCE
White helmets and white mac kintoshes have been adopted for Automobile insurance premiums traffic police in Salford (Eng.) in last year amounted to nearly $415,- order that motorists mav more 000-000. This is fast approaching easily distinguish the men in the total for fires in the United charge of traffic.
States, which is $711,000,000,
STUDENT BUILDS OWN CAR.
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There is nothing quite like the new Monet-Goyon anywhere in quality. NEW PRICES: FOR CASH OR GRADUAL PAYMENT.
All machines are delivered with the verification of the Chief Engineer of the French Government.
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The 1919 Latest Models Are Now on Display
in
The Macao Commercial Fair
and
THE FRENCH MOTOR CYCLE CO. 40, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
MADE IN ENGLAND
DUNLOP
leads the world in tyre design/
Come to our Showroom and let us demonstrate to you
THE NEW
Six Cylinder
"Girder" Wrenches
No. 91 Length 44 Jaws open 14′′ Gun Block finish... 2.75
"King of the Road" Electric Horns.
No. 5-12V Completo with Buttons
11
11
Electric Bulbs.
20.00
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D 1236-12V 36 & 6 watts Double-Filament for Clyno
6V or 12V D, C. or 8. C, 18–24 watts
GV or 12V D. O. or 8. O. 3- 6 watts
etc. 2.50
1.50
.90
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25 Queen's Road Central
Tel: Central 4750.
A novel two-seater built by a student at the Oregon (UB.A.) Agricultural Collega. It is mainly.composed of
parts from old, cars.'
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Tel, C.482 & C.8552.