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OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 121H JÚLY, 1930.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY COMPANY
■pecializes
in all kinds of
ACCESSORIES
and
SPARE PARTS
Electric horas. Body polish Brakelinlog. Hand jacks Lamp bulbs
Foot pumps Tire patches. Wrenches
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Rond Improvements.
Some excellent work is being. carried out along Ewo Street, near Causeway Bay, where the road is being straightened out, and the tram tracks relaid to the left of the thoroughfare. This street has to carry much traffic, and when the work is completed, a great im- provement will have been effect- ed. The only complaint is con- cerning traffic, control at the in- tersection by the French Hospital, { This important aspect does call for improvement.
New Territories Road.
While it is fully understood that it is necessary to scatter sand on the surface of roads which develop "tar-bleeding" as the result of the heat. in some instancës, very little discretion is shown in the scatter-
-REAL SERVICE! ing. On certain corners patches
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OF
ALL COLOURS KEPT IN STOCK AS WELL AS THE NEW FORD SHADES.
Arabian Sand, Dawn Grey, Niagara
Blue and Gun Metal Blue.
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of sand are encountered almost inches thick, and the danger of] skidding is greatly increased. On other sections of the road sand has been strewn in a manner which appears to be quite effective, with-i out rendering the surface at all] dangerous, and the opinion is naturally gained that the trouble lies with the people who do the
work.
Rickshas and Signals.
FREAK
RACER ΤΟ SEEK TITLE. Most Unique Car Ever Designed.
THE WONDERFUL
1930 "HARLEY"
The wheels actually four synchronized motors of unusual type, this unique racer planned
by E. J. Pennypacker of Los Angeles may be driven at Daytona Beach next spring in an effort to bring the world's speed title to the United States.
Los Angeles, June 6-When | mixture of two gases, which, when the wheel. There is no crank- next spring and the time for speed put together, expand 2,700 times shaft or main bearing, the whole trials at Daytona beach comes There is no explosion, only an action is based on the off-set around, the most extremely rapid expassion. principle. The upper roller bear- unique automo- "Each motor practically will be ing returns the piston to the bot-: bile yet devised wheel. One tube will feed all tom of its cylinder, ready for the four motors the gas mixture, entrance of the expansive guš will try to set a new world's re. thereby assuring eten power to again. cord with H. A. Patterson, motor cycle champion, at
Patterson
en-
each wheel: With motors of 175 In a rotary motor,Pennypacker horsepower each; I am confident points out, the whirling cylinders the car will do 800 miles an hour," set up a centrifugal force tending the wheel.
says Pennypacker,
to keep the pistóns away from the While the moter utilizes the bottom of the cylinders, Because This is an
rotary principle, in that it rotates, the cylinders in his motor, are nounced here by there are none of the rotary's stationary, Perinypicker says, à E. J. Pennypacker, drawbacks, Pennypacker says. mechanical
great deal of force is saved for the There are eight cylinders, each process of turning the wheel. gineer, designer containing a piston which is free. Motors Become Brakes. and inventor, who is constructing to move. up or down and has no To slow down, the driver will the racing car.
connecting rod. At the upper stóp the valves in dead centre There will be no clutch. trans-end of the cylinder is a roller position, creating a vacuum in the mission. differential, brakes, ot bearing which plays an Important motor which will brake It. After carburetors in this odd craft, yet part in the operation of the motor. overcoming his terrific speed, he The regulating of traffic out- it will attain a speed of 300 miles Piston Drive Wheels. side the Star Ferry Wharf on the an hour. Ponnypacker believes.
may apply a bit of reverse motor At the lower end of the cylinder to effect a complete stop... Hongkong side of the harbour} Mechanically, the car will is the gas chamber and two valves Only a pointed rocket and the serves a most useful purpose, al-utilize motors adapted from the to the cylinder-one exhaust, one tyres will offer head resistance lowing ferry travellers to cross familiar rotary motors of aviation intake.. They are sleevé valves, and the complete car will weigh the Fond safely while motor-but it will not use gasoline or This, central chamber moves in a less than 3,000 pounds.
The vehicles are stopped. It would be any combustible substance. constant circle, opening, and famous Sunbeam, holder of the closing the valves, while the record at better than 231 miles an cylinders remain fixed.
about hour, weighed
12,000 Because the cylinders are set pounds, off-centre, the expansion of the Patterson, who is to drive this. gas drives the piston up into the freak car, holds the motorcycle cylinder until it hits the roller speed record of 142 mile an hour.:
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s well if rickshas were compell- Four such motors will be used, ed to observe the signal, for it is one for each wheel, And to go a common sight to
the see these backward.
operator will vehicles causing commotion by reverse the direction of the motors breaking through the stream of instead of shifting gears. pedestrians, thus causing delay, Pennypacker, in explaining his and to a certain extent, defeating invention, says it has no new bearing. This off-centre motion He is 25 years old and was a the object of an otherwise.excel-mechanical principles
lent system.
A Non-Stop Minor.
Trying Out the Motors.
sets in motion a steel shell, which friend of Lee Bible and Frank forms a rim around the outside of Lockhart, both of whom were "An experimental motor I have the eight cylinders and rests on killed trying for a record. Pát- built." he says, "has been the roller bearings. By reversing terson has driven the gigantic operated at 35,000 revolutions a the action of the centre gas Triplex, which tried for the At the Mangere Speedway, Auck-minute without harming it. For chamber housing, making exhaust record. land, New Zealand, a twenty-four- the purposes of the speed trials, valves intakes and vice versa, the In contrast to the prices on the Hour non-stop endurance test has the motors will not have to turn car is reversed.
other cars, which have run over lately been carried out by a lady over 'more than 2,800 r.p.m.'s. Outside the turning shell, the $100,000, Pennypacker says his driver of a Morris Minor.
"The motor operates by the tyre is mounted, thus completing car will cost less than $50,000
Driving an absolutely standard
touring model, the only adaptation
of which had been the addition of THE NEW ESSEX.
an auxiliary petrol tank and the removal of the hood, Misa Mabel Oliver put up the very creditable total of 1062 miles in the twenty- four hours, the car being refuelled from another vehicle whilst under way.
Increase in Engine Power.
BOTH HANDS ARE
NEEDED.
A man who was fined for driving a car with only one hand
on the wheel, and the other around a lady, pleaded that he had the An unusually smooth power at all speeds is offered in car in perfect control.
flow of!
An average speed of 44 miles the New Essex Challenger, many per hour was maintained, and the entirely new features that have test wna officially observed by the been evolved and perfected in the Auckland Automobile Asociation.course of extensive engineering re-f Aiding the Legal Mind,
search contributing to this.
The new motor is equipped with
A move in the right direction has a "free moose horu manifold" on Leen made in regard to-matters a carburetor riser. The manifold concerning modern, traffic con-proper is retained in the cylinder ditions in Berlin of fate. A school block and contains baffling in the has been started especially for the useages located in such a way as to instruction of judges, attorneys and provide unifam fuel mixture dis- other state officials, in the niceties ribution to a cylinders. A 1-1/4 of traffic signs and conditions, it be inch heat controlled Marvel car- ing recognised that a full knowledge buretor is attached to an entirely of such things is an essential to a new type of riget which is exchange person exercising judicial discretion heated at the dome, providing or control. The idea would seem to initial evaporation of the liquid be very well conceived, and it should particles in the fpel stream." Auto- be Interesting to note what effect matic heat control is provided to Fits operation has in the courts of accommodate varied atmospheric
summary jurisdiction in Germany, temperatures. These features pro-1
vide better distribution and higher volumetric efficiency.
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A car that's under traction
Needs much more than just a
fraction
mention, course is quite
Of attention, may
ere its secure;: Emulate the Armless Wonder, And you still, may make a
blunder
If you hearken after dark
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mixture, cools the exhaust value and thus prevents it warping. An Improved modern dual-flow discharge, large oscillating plunger.compression L-type of cylinder These combined features of new splash olling system is used. The The pump output is three times Head; patents on which have been manifolding, new riser, large car-
New York insurence men have According to the National oil in delivered to both ends of the that of the former plunger pump asked, is employed. The incoming buretor, new dual flow improved figured out that taxicab drivers Safety Council, Australia, with 12, motor after which the streams flow and delivers equal amounts of off to mixture is directed to dow across splash lubricating system and the who own their own cabs are more deaths for every 100,000 popul- toward the centre where they com- either end of the motor at all engine the hot exhaust valve, before en- new non-detonating high compres careful than drivers who work for tion due to automobile accidents, Bine and return to the sump. The speeds.
tering the cylinder proper heston Head have Santributed to at ranks second to the United States, oil pump is a new airplane type
liquid portions are thus evaporat with 19.5 deaths for every 100.000 with a silent, high efficiency, posi
"L" Head Cylinder. befable.
tive short stroke, valveless, dual- A new
non-detohitink
ed, the effect of which, together increase in engine power of nearly High with the relatively cool incoming 10 per cent.
compaffer
of caba
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