THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1930.
IMAGINARY ILLS. BRITISH SUCCESS.
Oil Pumps That Don't Italian Six Day's Trial.
Pump.
MOTOR CYCLE EVENT.
SECOND INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN AIR CONTEST
FIRST: Morzik Malce
SECOND: Poss
AND'.
THIRD: Notz
ALL THREE GERMAN PILOTS FLEW ON
SHELL
Aviation Spirit
Captain A. S. Butler, the English Airman, using the same Spirit, flew the circular tour at the fastest average speed, but was disqualified for a technical infringement.
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FIAT 514
FOUR-CYLINDER
AND
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AVIATION VERSUS MOTORING.
Economic and Esthetic Comparison of
Two Classes.
CHEAPER TO FLY THAN TO RIDE,
This
FINDING THE FAULT.
Further proofs of British supremacy, in the motor-cycling world are manifest from the results of the Italian Six Day's
Owing to the heavy expenses of
[By Israel Klein.] Many service station mechanica Trial. have been treating automobiles for a disease that, in a large number of such an event, entries were not cases, didn't exist. They have been numerous, but afty riders turned treating it because there is a po- out for the start. It may be men pular nation as to its prevalence tioned that in all only nine British. like appendicitis.
machines competed, leaving the
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SHOCK TACTICS.
of
For years, the men in the air-ja distance of 30,000 miles that is craft industry have been dealing a saving of $666, over the cost mostly among themselves, selling of operation of the automobile. each other ideas, planes, and The time of operation in the case equipment. The industry is in a of the airplane shows a saving of position. right now to supply 900 hours. On the presumption The disease is oil pumping. Of rest of the field to Continental planes which may be used for of each of these hours being worth course, some motors de pump ell makes. The first day saw the- every purpose but still has to over- $5 to the man who saves them, after they have been run 10 or retirement of ten riders owing to come the mistaken prejudice the here is an added saving in money more thousands of miles and ra- very unfavourable weather condi- general public has toward flying, of $4.500. This amount, plus $600 ther recklessly. But as many motions, bad roads or mechanical writes a contributor to the New saved from the operation cost, tors, suspected of pumping oil, are fallures. With an average of 300 York Times. The boy who will totals $5,100, which would be quite innocent of the charge.
miles per day over indescribably be a grown man by to-morrow will additional income to the user of
Their fault fics somewhere else. bad roads and in mountainous adapt himself much more easily the airplane... In case this. 900
country the severity of this event. to the thought of flying because hours is not turned into money, it
When valves do not seat prop-International Six Days' could can well be imagined. Even the he has been born during the flying would give the airplane user an erly and leak, the spark plugs hardly rival it.
He will think no more of additional thirty-seven days for get coated quickly, the engine be flying than of riding in an auto-vacation and recreation.
As is usual, a number of teams gins to miss and knock and the were entered but as the trial pro mobile or any other means of would amount to a year out of driver fears his engine has congressed the chances of most soon transportation.
every ten to be devoted to what tracted the oil pumping discase disappeared through loss Do not be surprised if very soon ever personal concerns interest A good mechanic will only grind marks,
The winning team was. you see a tag on a plane with asthe airplane user.
down the valves, clean or replace composed of Messrs. Bellavita,. statement by the manufacturer Thus far we have been talking the plugs and return the car un-Premoli and Garattini, who rode reading: This airplane
is about the use of a plane in flying touched as to pistons and rings. Ariels and came through without guaranteed to fly for 300,000 miles 30,000 miles throughout the year.
On the other hand, the engine losing a if you take the same care of it as This distance will be covered by might be running on
single mark, thereby you do of your automobile." The those who, for business reasons, grade of oil to keep it going prop European and American manufac
the wrong gaining a victory for British over manufacturer might even claim have to travel extensively, or by erly, an oil line connexion might turers. the plane to be guaranteed against those who can afford to travel for be loose, engine head or spark plug defective material
for 500,000 pleasure. Now let us see how the gasket might be defective, or the miles.
airplane will fit into the picture water pump might be leaking. Any Driving an automobile is
a when used by the majority who of these might produce symptoms greater strain than piloting an ride in their motor cars on week that may lead the driver or a dull airplane. With the plane once up ends. Simple mathematics will in the air, dying over a given tell us that we have from Satur-mechanic to diagnose the trouble as
oil pumping.
After being involved in a head- course, you have very little to do day afternoon until Sunday even-
on collision with another car, s and if you do not worry about ing, or thirty hours, at our dis
When the motor does pump oil, motorist was amazed to find that crashes and accidents, you can posal for week-ending, We all completely relax, so that after you like to plan where we shall go and the solution lies. not alone in the the two Osram lamp bulbs in his
installation arrive at your destination you will what we shall do each week-end. rings. That's a job half done. The harmed and gave as bright a light of oversize piston head lamps were absolutely un- be less fatigued and fresher than If, for our recreation, we use an
new rings often postpone the ulti-as ever, despite the fact that the if you had covered the same dis- automobile, we cannot plan to go mate cure.
head-lamps themselves were com tance by any other means of trans- any further than 100 miles away portation.
from our home, which would take and installation of oversize pistons, iron lamp support broken.
That is reboring of the cylinders pletely smashed and the thick cast about four hours time. We can A Comparison With Car.
cover the 100 miles in three hours, as well as rings. Let us see how the rather ex-but from experience we know that pensive plane of to-day compares the automobile averages about 100 with the automobile. We will set miles every four hours. the price of the automobile at
Therefore, if we start from our $2,000, and the price of the plane house on Saturday afternoon at 2 with the same seating capacity at o'clock on a 100-mile trip we will $10,000. Airplane prices to-day use up eight hours for going back range from $2,000 up to the hun- and forth, 200 miles. Eight hours
Often, in connexion with this dreds of thousande. We notice for driving and eight hours for
operation, the main bearings have that the hours an automobile is sleep Saturday night make sixteen either end. of the oval-shaped replaced.......
The result is that oil is pumped to be taken up or the piston rods available for use throughout the hours. This, deducted year amount to 8,760 (365 days) thirty, gives us
from cylinder and the piston may be The entire operation is a big only fourteen heard to slap, slap against the task and and the hours available for hours for recreation.
requires skilled work- sides.. plane are only 2,000 (200 days),.
manship. For the next thousand If we go 100 miles by plane, we estimating that the plane cannot could be there and back again in
miles the engine has to be worked be flown more than 200 days about two hours, thus saving six cure, merely produces oversized may run
The grinding operation, as a in slowly, after which the motor year, at most ten hours a day; hours of travel and increasing our cylinders but again of true form.new.
even better than when These figures for the plane could time for enjoyment to twenty be-exceeded büt I am taking a con- hours.. But now let us suppose servative estimate. The assump-
wo are not interested so much in tion will be that the plane is not the length of time for recreation such a useful means of transporta as we are in going places and see- tion when we see that for everying things and using the same available hour the plane costs us 35. This is against 22 cents an bile, in this case, will take elght hour for the automobile. Thus
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after about 25,000 miles. The con- be installed, with new pistons and This operation may be expected For these, over-size pistons must stant push and pull of the piston rings. rod, hitting the piston against the sides of the cylinder walls, finally as new.
And the engine is nimost as good wear down these walls from their perfectly cylindrical shape to that of an oval
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN CAR.
A Gradual Process Tending to Increase Efficiency and Life.
How every new automobile de- and lower cost of cars. Quick velopment to-day depends upon drying durable lacquers paved the previous developments through a way for mass production at lower series of progressive steps or costs, while conveyor systems and stages was cited in a recent inter- sub-assemblies speeded up produc- view with Mr. Fred M. Zeder, tion on the final assembly line.
in charge of "The vacuum fuel system made Vice-President engineering of the Chrysler Cor- it possible to place the fuel tank at the rear of the car-an obvious poration.
"Thirty years ago, there was no safety factor-and the fuel pump such thing as a spark plug," said made this fuel system even more Mr. Zeder. "A hot tube was the positive and advantageous," accepted way of firing the mix-
Changed Conditions. ture.
far the figures are not very en-hours out of our time to go a dis couraging for the plane, but we tance of 200 miles. In this same will accept, as a maximum, 200 length of time, by airplane, we travelling days at six hours a day. can go 800 miles. Such a dietance The plane will have taken us at cannot, of course, be drivin, a car over a week-end. The man the end of the 200th day over a distance of 120,000 miles and the who lies can see more, learn more motor
car only 30,000 miles, and have more time for rest. The From this last example we
automobile can visit places within readily see that the plane will an area of 31,400 square miles, while the man in the airplane can take us a distance four times
within longer
520,400 than
unywhere the automobile 80 throughout the year and we are square miles in the same length
of time. safe to say that the modern air- plane can be flown, and used 200 And how much will all this days a year, allowing 165 days for cost? Two hundred miles for bad weather.
the automobile at 12 cents a mile If such results could be accom- is $24. Two hundred miles for plished. We will try to be sen-the plane at $10 an hour, two
If the motorist succeeded sible and say to ourselves that we hours flying time, is $20.
in heating the tube to the right] Modern traffic conditions and would not care to travel 120,000. The airplane, with proper
temperatura with a blow torch,] the rapid increase of hard sur- miles through the year but will development, will be the cheapest the engine would start. Often it faced highways have had a direct travel 30,000 miles, which is the and most convenient means of was a laborious task. Fortunate-bearing on the engineering of distance covered in 200 hours by transportation and will offer at the plane and in 1,200 hours if we the same time an opportunity for electric spark ignition replaced motor cars, according to Mr.
Zeder. its use...
Automotive engineers use the automobile. Here is an unlimited pleasure and for un-
"With electric ignition, camel have worked tirelessly to meet the enormous difference of 90 houza limited possibilities for trans- the storage battery. The genera changing conditions/ we would haves to waste if we portation.
tor made the battery practical, "Engine flexibility also has been travelled by automobile. Just ait- I am not attempting to claim and sounded the death knell of perfected to insure the perform ting in that car of yours for $900 that the automobile will lose its troublesome dry cells,
ance and power necessary to meet · additional hours would be trying usefulness with the greater use of "Improvements in the storage varying traffic conditions. on you as well as on your ear. the plane. The production of the battery soon made the magneto "Good roads supplanted bad automobile will not be affected by unnecessary, and developed the roads, and good roads make for Saving for Plane.
the use of the airplane to any distributor and coil as we now higher speed. Higher speed made Going further into the matter, appreciable extent. We will use have them for ignition purposes. four-wheel brakes a necessity, and let us see what the cost would be.the automobile and the airplane, In one case, we are using a 32,000 as we do now,
Minimising Wear.
four-wheel brakes: made high automobile and in
"Formerly, oil was carried by speed. with safety possible. another 1 In travelling over the ground, separate leads to each part to be "Along these lines, also have $10,000 plane. In our cost we have only a limited number of lubricated and after being used come easier steering, easier con- estimate, the figuring is different roads. being cohfined by the once was allowed to drip on the trol of cars and more comfortable If the plane is used and operated crowds. Just imagine what free-highway. With to-day's lubrica- ears, because the comfortable by the owner himself for his dom the air offers; one can go tion system of force feed by oil driver is a better driver. private
Front use in connexion with anywhere and pick his own rond pump, oil filters are made possible, seats have been made adjustable business or pleasure than it is if from any starting point, one can permitting oil to be used over and exactly to meet the driver's re the calculation of cost operation is select" more than 360,000 over again, based on the use of the plane by imaginary air routes and help because oil is kept clean
Wear is minimized quirements. an aircraft operator. The latter himself,
"Consider a few of the advances "Then will be much higher and estimated
came the air cleaner made by automotive and associated Mankind has been striving for which further protects the engine lines in recent years: on' a different basis. If we travel liberty and the 30,000 miles by plane, estimat-menial, economical, political, etc.,the carburetor.
freedom-physical, by preventing dust from entering “Tyre "life has been increased ing the cost at $10 an hour, the-ever since the world began. We tional wear on piston and rings. miles and even more.
This saved addi- from 3,500 miles to 15,000-20,000. total will be $3,000 and in case of do not want to be dependent In using the automobile at 12 cents our actions on the actions of compression and higher powered country drives has increased from "Doped gasoline made, higher "Average speed for cross- a mile the total will be $3,600 others. We all want to do the engines possible. The result of this comparison things we beat, like, and there is
6. 16 miles an hour to 85 miles an shows that after we have travelled no better place in the world than new type of spring suspension and
Balioon tres brought about a hour. have to
"Maximum speeds the sky for this freedom.
vastly increased the utility of creased from 25 miles an hour to shock absorbers.
more than 85 miles an hour. "Introduction of alloy metals: "The tensile strength of steel made lighter pistons possible, and has been doubled, and its use has with improvements in the tensile been extended for all-metal body strength of all metals, lighter construction for safety and quiet reciprocating parts. This made ness. more flexible performance and Cars once without tep or wind-
shield are sensitive motors.
now completely. "Various manufacturing Im-enclosed and heated, provements, saving time and it may be practical, to provide Some day, money have of course been a them with cooling systems In time, major factor in volume productión summer.
OCEAN OF GAS.
BAR SELF SERVICE.
Automobiles in the United Self service gasoline stations States used more than 14 billion are barred in the state of di- gallons of gasoline last year and ana, in line with a recent ruling travelled more than 168 billion of the state fire marenal, who miles, figuring 12 miles to a gal-claims that such stations are lan-
gerous without an attendant."
lon.