THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930.
Marquette
BUILT
BY
BUICK
FEATURES COMBINED ONLY
IN
MARQUETTE
IN THE $1000 CLASS
Wheelbase 114 inches. Closed Bodles by Fisher.
Non-glare Fisher VV windshield.
New type mohair upholstery.
Adjustable front sext. Remarkable power plant 67.5.brake
horsepower,
High-comprasion rylinder head,
Rubberengine
mauntings.
Completely sealed engine.
Forced lubrication.
Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers. Four-wheel Internal-
expanding brakes. Adjustablo steering whicel,
A host of other extra- ordinary features that combine to make the Marquette America's most complete ear in the $1000 fold.
EXTRA VALUE
Body by
Fährt
THAT ONLY MARQUETTE PROVIDES
Here is the most complete car ever offered in the thousand-dollar class. - Lift the hood and inspect the Marquette's power plant. Go over every featurs of construction in the chassis. Fine workmanship everywhere. Superlativa engineering. Expert design.
And the Body by Fisher. The very latest expression of the finest body craftsmen in the world. The upholstery is a brand new type. The finest mohair with a rubberized backing that makes it waterproof and dustproof -there's a special type windshield that eliminates glare and gives new pleasure and security to night driving. It's a marvel in appearance, inside and out.
..
The Marquette proves it is a true Buick product with a type of performance never before equaled in a car at the price.. Getaway like a flashi Sky- rocket pick-up -10 to 60 miles on hour in high gear in 31 seconds! Brakes with stopping ability to match such speed-positive, easy-oper- ating and as smooth as satin.
Drive it today just to prove to yourself that there never has been anything like it anywhere near its price.
BUICK
MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN Conadion Factorios
Division of General Motors
McLoughlin-quick, Oskowa, Ont.
Corporation
Builders of Quick and Marquelta Motor Car
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone 30228.
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THE DOCTOR
Wo o'clock in the morning is
To time for delays. When I
step on the starter the engine must respond...instantly!
"I drive a NASH '400' because I am a doctor...not a mechanic. My job is to attend human ills... Î can't be bothered with engine trouble.
SPEAKS!
idea that would appeal to the pre- cision instinct of any scientific mind. Two spark plugs naturally work better than one... like two hands, two eyes, two ears.
"That's the reason for my supreme confidence in the NASH '400.' Almost every night I have an emergency call... and my Nash has never failed me.
"I trust this motor car as I do my professional implements."
"The Nash Twin-Ignition prin-. It is an ciple first attracted me.
Notable Twin-Ignition Eight features include: New Straight Eight, Twin- Ignition, Falve-in-head engine-0-bearing crankshaft-Centralized choreis lubrication-Built-in autometic radiator shutters-hydraulic shock absorbira- Duplate non-shatterable plate glass throughout-etc.
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Sole Agents for Hongkong and South Chiss, Telephons C. 1474,
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1930 NASH400
NOTES FROM THE "SCRAP BOOK.”
Advantages of Aluminium Cylinder Heads.
DESIGNERS AND
STREAMLINING.
(By Prof. A. M. Low.)
I wonder if many other people bother about the cam; it worries have noticed the manner in which about the netual moment when it light tradesmen's vans of a certain is freed. make are often driven with too front wheels badly splayed? Each tyre endeavours to grip the road in turn, the rubber screams over wood sets and so quickly does the machine oscillate that it provides another argument for those who atate that all axles should be divided both for the sake of springing and for wear.
Bad tracking of wheels extra- ordinarily common in the best regulated of cars. Steering load- ing has been greatly increased by cushion tyres and front-wheel brakes, while the demand for easy steering helps to complete the vicious circle, for the driver is not so well aware of the loads which some miserable tyres are expected to bear..
One tyre in twelve shows the effects of bad alignment or under inflation. The loading upon an axle tends slightly to splay the wheels, which should usually be set more toed-in when the car is stationary than they should he expected to show when runnings
MOTORISTS.
pleted locked and at the end of DON'TS FOR NEW a long decline heat had passed) through the metal tyre to the wooden portion to such good pur- pose that the wood was practically
in flames. Every time the wheel And a Good Many Old. was about to revolve the brake
was more liable to stop it at the same point, owing to the denting?
Ones, Too!
Never assume that the other which took place at the time. person is going to do the right This condition exits with many thing.
cars and would be of everyday Don't imagine that everyone is 'occurrence on farm carts in hilly
neighbourhoods were it not for the going to give way to you. wheel which prevents the easy and that they will do the worst pos dirt between iron tyre and wooden the road it is better to imagine In dealing with other people on
rapid passage of heat energy.
sible, so that when they do it you are prepared,
A LION STORY.
Don't assume that everyone can see and hear you just because you can see and hear them..
Don't use your horn unneces- sarily, but do not go to the other extreme and not use it at all.
Valves can be closed by many methods, but springs successful at one rate of r.p.m. may be useless at others. It is, of course, most, Here is the latest lion story as difficult to pull a valve on to its related by an acquaintance who is seat and to allow for the moment now dwelling in a remote part of of contact at different tempera-Africa. He tells me that he has tures of engine and stem. One of been motoring along the local tracks the most successful designs em in an old Ford. On his first run he of your horn will at once clear Don't assume that the blowing ployed a light spring of the leaf went rather farther than he had the road and make every blind variety more or less rigidly intended and, upon rounding a bend, corner safe... A motor-horn is only There are possibilities for positive sprawling asleep in the fairway. attached to the valve itself. was horrified to see a lion ahead an accessory to safety, and its use does not absolve you from taking operation by hydraulic or electri-pondent, he pressed the horn but- valves, perhaps even for their Instinctively, Baya my corres- the ordinary precautions.
cal means.
Don't obey the signals of un ton. The lion, however, was not official people at cross-roads, It is bad enough to have recipro- going to be run over by any fool- though they may be of help te eating engines, but
motorist, so he dashed into the' you. Use your own observation valves are often worse.
bouncing bush. Contact in The Motor..
They
and intelligence Arst produce noise, allow wear, and by means of a synchronous cinema- tograph can be scen suspended in the air when they should he safely in bed looking after their flaming. charge. I mean this adjective quite properly.
Cooling Systems.
I believe that some people do
It is but another example of the not know the chief reason for the fact that when an Austin Seven falling off in efficiency of a cool- passes over the Forth Bridgeing system. appreciable deflection takes place. Nothing in the world is rigid, even a butterfly alighting on your chimney-pot causes the house to bend.
Excepting the thin! film of oil which often forms in a jacket, the great reason for the locking-up of heat at the outer surface of the cylinder itself is the coating of fur which forms. This fur is a somewhat complex Some Interealing Experiments.
chalky deposit, depending for its Aneighbour's hen-coop has nature upon the characteristics of just blown down and he seems the water used. Heat pusses vary particularly indignant because the easily through most metals but is wind did not find its way through subjected to tremendous resist- the interstices of the wire net-ance by a film of dirt of any sort, ting. As he truly says, the holes so that softened water is quite a are far bigger than all the rest of useful addition to the equipment it put together..
of an engine. It does not often boiling point in order to conserve. pay to use a liquid with a high energy, for disproportionate leases are liable to occur from distortion or from a reduction in lubrication efficiency.
But air currents at high speeds act strangely, not unlike the sticky sugar which one sees being drawn out into long lengthis by machines at exhibitions. The wind "clings" to the iron wire, exercising great: pressure thereon. I think this was first discovered by. someone who found that holes in a yacht's sail did not always chuse a bad result, and indeed on Occasion have been known to prevent too much eddying.
Mr. S. F. Edge has also tested this effect in connexion with motorcars, and one of the many valuable services he has given to automobilism comprises some experiments made during the driving of an open-work lattice grating round Brooklands.
I believe that designers will soon need to consider stream- lining, for the public will not want to pay for petrol when it is used to push surfaces through the air. Honeycomb radiators act in an almost identical manner to plain flat surfaces,
A point which emerges from these experiments is that a car can be better ventilated if the windows are slightly open top an bottom, suggesting that prepared louvres at the top of the window ure well worth while.
Aluminium Cylinder Heads.
A device which may soon become more popular in the aluminium head for ordinary engines, Aluminium conducta heat with remarkable facility and it should therefore enable a lack of distortion to be obtained and prevent the need for too frequent decarbonization.
Aluminium-the word is used casually would be virtually use- leas by itself for we never sce it on cars in pure form. The meta can be made brittle, ductile. golden-coloured or dark, by the addition of innumerable adulter- ants such as magnesium, mart- ganese, iron, copper, zine and tin. It can be protected against weather and made applicable to pistons by chemical and heat.treat- ment together. Quite a number' of engineers have built all- aluminium engines with cylinders steel-lined, only to find that it is next to impossible to get heat from the liners to the aluminium with which it is supposed to be in contact.
It might be said that nothing in this world ever touches, just as nothing is ever free from bend- ing. Even metals flow like wax
if given a sufficient length of time; for gold placed upon the surface of lead will aink through the latter metal in its own good time.
Positively Closed Valves,
A revival of interest in positive- ly closed valves is taking place in the world of motorcycling. It seems rather. ridiculous that draughtsmen should work hard at cam design, only to allow them to be follnived by spring-controlled tappets in the knowledge that at every different speed and after every week of use the real cam design is, altering. Gas hurrying“ in and out, of cylinders does not
was
on a farm wagon which
I saw an ordinary shoe' brake efficient in virtue of its toggle effect. The wheel had been com-
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