HINTS
FOR THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
MOTORIST
ALBERT
CLOUGH
DON'T LET THE CLUTCH SLIP.
£97,000 IN FINES. TYRES USED AGAIN,
135,000 Motoring Offences in Six Months.
IN ENGLAND & WALES,
Make Shoes in Spain.
The discarded tyres of motorists are rapidly becoming one of the
principal sources of shoes for the
peasants of Europe.
Over 20 per cent. of the motor- In Spain alone last year approxi- ing offences committed in England|mately £266,000 worth of old tyres and Wales from July to Decomber were imported from Amorica and last were dealt with by police made into footwear. The pneuma- cautions. This shows the develop-tie casings are used in the making ment of the policy of warnings. of alpargata soles. Old solid A White Paper issued recently tyres are converted into rubber states that the total offences num- heels, and inner tubes are manu- bered 136,241, and of these 30,191 factured into soles for canvas foot- were dealt with by cautions.
Offences dealt with by prosecu- tion were 105,060, of which 1,096
wear..
가 J
were or arrest, and 1713 charges 180 HANDSHAKES, were withdrawn or dismissed.
A total of 120,629 persons were concerned, and the principal offences were:-
Manslaughter.. Causing bodily harmi by
furious driving Drunk in charge
36
18
026
13,976
11,022 .36,078
Ford Meets Y.A.L. Boy.
SAW CARS AND 'PLANES.
At the very first indication that, these things are found O. K. the the clutch does not hold in engage trouble is most likely that the ment positively, measures should flapper-valve-the valve that lets be taken to make it do so, for if gasoline from the unner into the It is allowed to slip for any great lower section of the tank-does not length of time, not only will it sent tightly. If it does not, there soon fall to hold at all, but fls will be no vacuum to draft gaso- Disconnect the carburetor facings may become so badly worn line. as to require renewal, while if pipe from the Atting at the bottom prompt attention were given no of the vacuum-tant, stop up the sorious damage would have re-end of the vent pipe, and hold the aulled. Slipping usually first finger over the bottom tank open- car is ing, while the engine is being run manifests itself when n
Reckless or dangerous shifted from second speed, into by the starter. If suction can be the dapper-valve leaks.
driving high gear on an 'upgrade and is felt,
During their tour of Canada and Indicated by the engine running Sometimes dirt on its sent can be
Exceeding the speed
tho USA, the 180 boys of the limit.. much faster than it normally doer washed out by tapping the side of
Young Australia League met Mr. Lighting. at the speed at which the ear is the tank or by flushing gasoline
Henry Ford, who shook hands with moving. When this condition through, but if not, the tank must Convictions totalled 88,613, 42 each member of the party, arid arises the car had better be kept be taken apart and the valve care persons were sent to prison with then spent an hour giving auto- in second gear, ou all hills, until fully cleaned. A leaky vent-valve out the option of a fine, 1,078 graphs, the clutch can be attended to. In will also prevent, filling. To clean licenses were suspended and 1,180 order to avoid unnecessary wear, remove the fitting ever it endorsed. Fines totalled £97,603. Shipping is raused by improper squirt gasoline in through the There were 30,691 offences in has Mr. Ford appeared ao interest- condition of lining surfaces and by valve, meanwlille rotating it on its the London, area, four times the ed in a party of this kind, which lack of sufficient pressure between seat. On very old tanks, the parti- total of any other area. The only is borne out by the fact that whon the driving and driven clutch-tion between upper and lower com-district with a clean sheet was one member who had been delayed members to press them together partments Kometimes rusts that of the Scilly Isles. hard enough to give them enough through, which will prevent filling. frictional effect. Dry clutches, This calls for a new tank. the facings of which have neri-
dentally accumulated grense or oll
or which have become glazed over
with dirt or metal dust and there-
fore fall to hold, can sometimes
"Leak in Battery Wiring.
Question:-The battery of my
car runs down too low to
be restored to proper action by operate the starter, if the car is cleaning with kerosene,
է:
It was stated that never before
arrived two days later, he was la- vited by Mr. Ford to his office, where they chatted for quite a FACTS & FIGURES. long time, and the boy was pre- sented by Mr. Ford with a souvenir. Ford spoon as a memento of the ocenston.
Automotive products rank first
in expert of manufactured articles, with a value of $500,174,431.
150,000 HONKS.
Hooter's Life Found.
Motor vehicle taxes in 1928 amounted to 3808,000,000.
Seventy steam railroads are using motor trucks for short hauls NOISY LABORATORY. and terminal service.
Total registration vehicles is 24,493,324.
Motors in U.S. A.
The boys, after 'viewing the NEW YORK, May 00-The gigantic Ford organisation making Lack of not driven for a week and I am National Automobile Chamber of cars, had lunch at the plant, after engaging pressure, resulting from told that there may be a leak of Commerce has compiled the follow-which they were taken to the Ford the thinning of facings through current from the wiring that ing table of statistics covering airport, where they saw planos wear, is corrected by an adjust causes this loss of charge. How automotive activities during 1928: under construction and in the air, ment of the engaging mechaalam can I find out if this is the enac?
Antomotive freight carried by: which is operated by the spring or Answer:-Disconnect one of the rallways during 1928 amounted to An increase in Lension of the ballory cables from its terminal more than 3,500,000 carloads. spring or springs themselves. An and connect between the cable-end adjustment of pedal position is and the terminal from which it sometimes required at the same was taken, an ammeter capable of time. On account of the many detecting a small flow of current. different forms of clutch in use, If, with all owitches "off", and no reference to the Instruction book electricity being intentionally is necessary to obtain detailed used, the ammeter still shows a adjustment directions, if the flow of current, there is a leak If the motorist is to do the work himself. nomewhere in the system.
Vacuum-Tank Won't FDI. leak in a serious one, there will Question: The vacuum-tank on befa slight spark produced, when rondster fails to All the detached cable end is brought although there is no air sucked into momentury contact with its in the nation. into defects in the pipes and the battery terminal and no ammeter pipes are not clogged. When the will be needed to demonstrate the vacuum-tank is filled by hand, the leakage. It is perhaps more likely engines run all right, until the that the loss of charge is due to tank becomes empty. What can internal short-circuits between the be done to make it work right? plates in the battery-cells than to Answer:See that the vent-hole grounding of the wiring, and if in the cap of the main tank is not the battery, runs down rapidly, stopped up.
Be sure that tho even though is not connected to gasoline strainer on the top of the the ear wiring. auch internal vacuum-tank is free. If both trouble is doubtless present,
my
MILLION MORE MOTORS.
ROOM FOR MORE,
of motor
There are 92,000. motor buses
FOR KING'S USE.
Dennis Trucks, and Mowers.
After it has vochlined 150,000 bonks, a moler horn is worn out.
This period of life for a noisy but, necessary accessory has been determined in the Chrysler en- gineering laboratories in Detroit
(USA), where there are horns
blenting and howling and snarling and muttering night and day until
they give a last despairing grunt
and cease to function.
But the Chrysler laboratory iN At the last annual meeting of shareholders of Dennis Bros., Lid. not a bedlam, for all this noise.
It is not even Sir Raymond Dennis, K.B.E., an-street when some
as bad as a city unfortunate nounced that the firm had been driver stalls his motor, because all honoured by a Royal warrant, ap-the tests are carried out in a pointing them motor lawn mower and motor lorry manufacturers to sound-proof room. H.M. the King.
An insensate mechaniam counts The increasing prosperity of the the honks which the horn delivers meeting. For the sixth successful switch, and when the horn has company was disclosed at this under the urge of an automatic year an expansion of profits had ceased to funcilon the mechanism been shown, due to the record de- has the total counted. The aver-
age is 150,000.
Motor vehicle registration in the Registration of every type of United States indicates an motor vehicle in the United States crease over 1927 of 1,406,851 units. during 1928 numbered 24,493,124, The total for the first part of 1529 according to the bureau of publie is 24,534,166, of which 21,618,315 ronds. This is an increase of mand for these vehicle. are passenger care.
nearly 6 per cent, over 1927.
THE
MOTOR UNION
INSURANCE Co 17o
Incorporated in England
(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)
GRANTS SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO MEMBERS OF THE H. K. A. A.
LOCAL AGENTS, ·
THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd.
York Building.
Phone C. 587.
RIDE A MONET AND GOYON FITTED WITH M.A.G. ENGINE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS FAMOUS ENGINE
THE MOST DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS RICE IN FRANCE
The Hill Climb De La Turbie
175,c.c: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th All on M. & G. 250 0.0.1st on M. & G..
350 c.c. 1st on M. & G. M.A.G. engine.
500 c.c. 1st on M.A.G. engine
750 c.c. 1st on M.A.G. engine
SIDECARS.-
350 c.c. 1st on M. & G. M.A,G, engine
600 c.c. 1st on M.A.G. engine
ASK FOR EASY PAYMENT PLAN
THE FRENCH MOTOR CYCLE Co.
48, Nathan Road, KOWLOON.
CHEVROLET IN UNIQUE SETTING
A New York viia showing the Woolworth Tower with City Hall at ita bass and a Chevrolet sodan just ontoring the wost arch of the Mune Icipal Building, With the completion of two now,,ozice buildings now' in course of construction, the Woolworth will loso'lim rank, en, the 'world's ́fallasé commercial structure.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.
The Choice of the-
G. W. R. L. N. E. R.
and
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
for their new
RAIL-ROAD SERVICES
THORNYCROFT
SIX-CYLINDERED COACHES & OMNIBUSES
Preferred by experienced users!
Further particulars of our Lòrries, Vans, etc., for 14 to 7 tons, and Coaches or Omnibuses for 20. to 45 passengers forwarded on request to :-
JOHN I THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED.
UNION BUILDING
•
. HONGKONG FIFTH FLOOR.
Write us and our representative will call.
Telephone Central 4881.
DEAL DIRECT,
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