MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 3rd. 1931.
Being The Official Organ of
'THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,
"An Even
Better
K.L.G.!"
THE NEW
K.L.G.
K
plugs
Solo Agents:-
The Fongkong Motor
Accessory ・ 0.
Bank of Canton Buliding, Int Boor. Kowloon Branch:-475,
Nathan Пода
(Next to Yaumati School).
BRITISH SUCCESSES IN TRIALS.
Remarkable Feat of Morris Minor.
LOWEST PRICED
CAR.
Mysterious New Model.
ENGINE AT BACK.
By Jnek Frost.}
A YEAR'S TEST.
Within a Period of
Sixty Days.
THE BUICK WAY. The a few weeks have seen could not be incorporated in the more international triumphs added (tail lamp assembly, The lamps of
Within a period of sixty days (1 the long EINE British an overtaking automobile will
the Buick engineering staiT can sarvesses in triads of spores and jalways pick up the little red but-
(now do as much development work jendurance, triumphs which musižion, and its use by motor cyclists The work's lowest-priced moter-
at formerly could necomplish e appreciated at their proper and cyclists at the rear of their made its first public appearance in year, according to A, F. recently in a London showroom be- Bassett, Managing Director of Ivalar throghout the world. Two machines has been a great preven-fare 600 motor agents and denters General Motors Export Company.
Engleh ears tied with Italians,tulive of accidents. I would be a from all parts of the British Inles, Austrians, and Germans for the wise provision if I were compul- but
"A test car can be put on the NO one was allowed in General Motors proving ground coreted Coupe des Glaciers in theory for every vehicle that uses approach within five yards of it, a to-day and, in n_comparatively Alpine trials. two of the existing the road to have one of these little rope enclosure encircling the plat-short time, run 25,000 miles under world's speed records for baby anfely devices fitted at the back form on which it slowly revolved the constant supervision of the fears, set up only five days before for it. The red reflex button is The information given about the Buick engineering staff. If some by British nighines, the MG, probably one of the best life-cur, which has set the whole motor.new experimental device fails to Midget and the Austin Seven, were savers yet invented, and in certain ng world talking since I exclusive stand up under the constant strain
high ly announced its coming last spring, of
speed driving the beaten by a car said to be privately one of the cheapest..
way vague, and I understand that engineers have little difficulty, ly designed and built by Lovd
the greatest efforts are being made under these conditions, in din- Ridley, when he attained 105.12 miles an hour over the flying the
The twenty-first anniversary of to prevent anybody from obtaining covering what is wrong." Mr.
Aling of the safety-glass particulara. The price, which will Basselt said. kilometre and 101.56 over the patent, was recently celebrated. be in the neighbourhood of 185,
Discussing the engineerlig ro- Bylng mile; and the first £100 Most motorists are acquainted as I have already indicated, will not sources of the Buick Motor Com ear to be marketed, the Morris with the theory of safety glass, be decidect upon until the eve of the
pany. Mr. Bassett pointed out that Minor, achieved the astonishing two sheets of glass, with a sheet Olympia Show.
the engineering act-up of General Agures of an average of 100.39 | of cultuloid in between, but few m.ph. over a mile in both direc-know how the idea originated The "Mystery" car, as it is de-Motors Includes a technical board tions, 104, over the dying kilo The Inventor of safety glass wascribed, is to be called the "Scarab" comprised of the corporation and metre, and 101.96 for the double Edouard Benedictus, French It has its air-cooled twin-cylinder division engineers, representatives chemist of Dutch origin, who had engine, with overhead valve, and of the General Motors Research 131 experimental laboratory in also its threespeed gear box, bundaboratories and engineers from the proving grounds; these, in There is always been a subtle | Paris. One day he dropped a the room, deep, and comfortable-
addition to Bulck's own engineer- attraction about that designation.
buttle an
the stone for, and looking back goats
ing staff which numbers about 476 "the £100 car," says o home writer, although it starred inside like a
Ample Room
men, constitute the engineering but there has, until the Morris crystal, it did not break. He re-
foundation on which Buick buildā was exhibited and delivered into[membered that, it had contained a The front seats appeared to be better automobiles.
Imixture of
rertain
chemicals incket shaped, giving
only great AL
·
the hands of the public last years had evaporated and coated ample leg room but also beggars |
FOR ALL CLASSES OF
rua.
MOTOR Insurance
WRITE
FOR OUR PROSPECTUS
China Underwriters, Ltd.
HEAD OFFICE Hongkong Bank Building,
fa Dan Voyeur Road Central. Tel, 28121.
JOIN
ASSOCIAT
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE
ABSOCIATION
1
A Fow Advantages:
10% Off Motor Car InsuranOP
From Legal Advios.
Reliable Drivers Supplied
Free Mechanical Advice'
Etadacad harbour transport Charges
Associate Membership of the
R. A. O and A. A. London.
B. D. EVAKS
Hon. Secretary.
Clo "Hangkong Talograph"
deal of
Disc wheels are fitted and vach independently sprung.
always been
"On the chief engineer's staff scepticism of the possibility of the interior with a transparent room. for the honnet houses alone there are 60 men, more than building a car at this price which enamel. Benedictus noted the only the battery, the steering the entire engineering depart would not only give faithful ser fact, but thought no more about column, gear lever, fost contents of many companies, Mr. vice but also be capable at such the matter patil he heard some trols, and hand brake. There is Bassett continued. performance ns Is normally time Inter of a girl being injured a special recess for the spare expected today of midget curs by broken glass in an accident. wheel.
"An entire lifetime can be spent which cost from 25 per cent. to Then he realised that on his shelf
studying one certain motor part 100 per cent, more. Naturally, it lay the secret of unsplinterable
without learning all there là to is not to be expected that the glass.
know about it. The patent was ted in
At Buick there Morris Minor that accomplished 1910, but it was not until Mr. The other now Rover, the 12-h.p. ore specialists for everything. this remarkable feat is indistin Reginald Delpeck, the English "pilot," with six-cylinder engine There are 17 men working on guishable from the model you buy pioneer motorist, look up the idea and four-speed gear box, has been engine developments alone.”
* dealer's, but Whatever that safety glass was manufac-designed for the motorist who, is modifications were necessary, it tured. Mr. Delpech Tounded the necustomed ta 'n high-powered enr was a note worthy achievement of Triplex Co., and began to produce but must econoniae on tax, Insur which the British industry mov] the glass. The output to-day is unce, and running expense. well be proud.
two million square feet per year.
مامان
Among the recent outstanding! contributions made by the Buick staff to the improvement of auto- Bülck motive engineering are syncromesh transmission, the ol Lemperature regulator and the car-
silencer, These proven fentures are built into all 1931 Bulck)
The sucresses of the invicta,) The windshield wiper will lost THE SPARK PLUG. [buretor alr intake cleaner and the Talbot, and the Rileys in the longer if used occasionally. |Alpine trial are, however, of far is not good practice to use it when
*
It
•
WHEN TO RENEW.
The sparking plug is of vital im- portance to the satisfactory run- ning of a motor vehicle, although until failure takes place owners and mechanies are apt to neglect this important detail."
QUICK WIT.
more immediate interest to the the glass is dry, because particies Vital to Good Running, straight_eights. average owner. There can neverlof grit which adhere to the wind- have been a more strenuous testishich will scratch the glass. either for muschines or men. During the summer season, start Fourteen hundred and seventy-five the motor and allow the wiper to miles over the Alps of Austria, operate for a few minutes each Italy, Switzerland, and France time the enr is washetl. six days, at an average of some- thing like 25 miles an hour, is a
There was a good example of programme from which none bui The latest publication of the
business enterprise to be seen in the very best ears are likely tuistatistical department the
the Vauxhall Bridge-road. A car dashed into the plate glass window at all let alone with Society of Motor Manufacturers emerge credit. There is not
nothing freakish and Traders, Lid, is full of valu-
of a motor establishment there. hout this incomparable trial.able information regarding the Motorists frequently ask why it within an hour the front was The competitors simply have to state of the British motor industry is beller to change sparking plugs boarded up and a notice affixed: make the best
after a certain mileage has been "Cars Hterally hurl themselves in possible over to-day, #peed most difficult, and longest, highest mountain roads in Europe, cars for the year ending Septemtion of the plugs. As a matter of
An extinute of sales of private run, when apparently the engine is here for repairs."
functioning in the present condi- which is exactly what every owner-driver who takes his car to 1931, indicates a decrease fact. all sparking plugs should be?
the
of
of
4,000; sales of goods-carrying
the best touring-ground in the vehicles a decrease of 2,000; sales renewed after 10,000 miles, and changed cariler than otherwise world hopes to do kimaclf of hackney vehicles a decrease of some earlier.
would be necessary. As sparking- Absolute reliability and high 800. This decrease in sales will entrine-effelency AFC essential be at the expense of foreign
The reasons for this procedure plugs are inexpensive, it is more The cooling system must do Its Imporis.
Saloon cars are easily are that at the end of 10,000 miles economical to fit a new set after, work properly at both 1,000 and the most popular, the proportion plugs are generally pretty well worn 9.000 feet above the sea: In warm as compared with other types of out, states Mr. H. Thornton Rutter The elec weather and in cold; in wet and bodywork having risen from 46 in the Morning Post.
trodes are usually burned and pit-
and nerves; considerable experi-hackney vehicles by 3.2 per cent. Difficulty in starting, due to
enco of mountain motoring: per- fect fitness and limitless pluck- theac are indispensable.
* *
a 10,000 miles than incur losses
?
In these directions.
During a test of an engine, re- In dry. A wide steering-lock (the per cent, in 1927 to 88 per cent. ed. the insulator is covered with Cently fitted with old sparking- Talbot in reported to have climbed in 1930. The number of private
plugs, it developed 31.2 h.p.p at an the Stelvio, the longest, highest, cars, larries, and hackney vehicles carbon, through which some of the engine speed equivalent to 20 miles and narrowest carriage, rond in in ивс hns Increased from electric current leaks, and there is an hour on the road. The same Europe, without once the hairph benda reversing at 1,434,256 In 1929 to 1,532,820 in often a harmless looking deposit on motor, fitted with a new, Bot of very unusual 1930. Goods-carrying vehicles the surface of the Insulator which sparkmakers; produced 18 hp. at foat); faultlons brakes, steering have increased by 11.4 per cent. at high speeds may cause preigni- the same engine speed, a gain of anti-suspansion; ice-cold judgmont private cars by 7.6 per cent, and tion.
nearly 7 h.p....
Another source of the spoiling of worn-out plugs, runs the battery good plugs is the iron content In The figures which are given re-down, making more frequent re- some "cheap" petrol. This leaves garding imports are of particular charging necessary. Alao worn a brown coating over the insulator. Interest in that the number of enra "miss" at certain speeds, allowing trical conductor at high tempora plugs waste petrol because they Such a coating becomes a good elec It is rather surprising that some imported Into Great Britain grows provision has not been made by smaller each year. In 1825 over gas mixture from the cylinder to ture, causing "missing" of the automobile manufacturers for the 41,000 cara were landed at British pass into the exhaust unused. Be engine, because the spark current fitting of a red reflex glass button ports, and in 1930 only 9,781. sides the waste the unvaporised will travel through the coating. at the rear of motor-cars and his is due to a certain extent to particles of the petrol are apt to rather than jump the gap between trucks as
a protection akuinst overeens mankers setting up fac-seep Into the crank-caso and dilute the electrodes. accidenta, due to inoperative tali tories in England. An analysis the lubricating oil to its disadvan lights. The cost of these reflox has been made of the number of tage. buttons in only a few pence, and persopa per car In oach of the their Atting is a very simple counties for the year 1930. minttor. In fact, there appeara to London there are 43.9 persons, per be no reason why the glass button ear, and in Middlesex 27.8.
*
In
An Economical Course.
This coating is difficult to clear from the insulator, and so when owners sen that this has a dark That also adds to the expense of brown colour, they should change running, as the oil. needs to be the plugs to avoid trouble,
AND NOW FOR THE
1932
HARLEYS
OUR FIRST SHIPMENT OF THE 1932 HARLEYS
IS ON THE WAY
PRICES
ARE
GREATLY REDUCED!
BOOK
YOUR
TRIAL RUN NOW!
MOTOR CAR OVERHAULING
Bring your car in and we'll soon tell you what has to be do 10, and wo'll prove by our estimate that our prlues are as honest ae our workmanship. Your job will be supervised by ("Gas") Gasoon.
THE GASCON MOTOR CO.
2, Kwong Wah Rosd,
Tel. 66242,
Kowloon.
Your car'need never
LOOK OLD
Sironizing will keep any car looking new through thonsands of driving miles. The original beauty comes back at once when you to the wonderful Simoniz Kleener. Then Simonla adds sparkle and provides mighty protection for the finish. The Nooner you Simonis the better.
THE SIMONIZ COMPANY, CHICAGO, U.S. A.
SIMONIZ
TUE GUARDIAN OF MOTOR GAR BEAUTY
Obtainable from all Dealers-
HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY CO
Sole Distributors: Bank of Canton, Building:
"STREET
SCENE."
B
D
ย
"AND TO THINK THAT I PAID A DOCTOR
TEN DOLLARS TO TELL ME I NEEDED EXERCISE!
ANSWER A LEMON.
name of a car?
Tho witness
explained that "I sold five lemons for $210," said "lemon" was a term used" In the a witness in a dispute over a motor. trade for 'second-hand cars of little car business in the King's Bench value. He Division yesterday.
Mr. Justice Avory Mr. Justice Avory-Is that the 'le a lemon,
-answer