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ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. C.4759.

BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung

Road, Huppy Valley, C.1247.

CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHRYSLER-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219, MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage; Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND—A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C.1219. OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

PACKARD. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung

Road, Happy Valley, C.1247. PONTIAC.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219. ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. SINGER-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Vœux Road Central. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C4759.

i WHIPPET.Gilmar & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Road Central.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET, Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road: C.4759. G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Cor Co., Ltd., 88 Wong Nei Chung Road,

Happy Valley. 0.1247.

MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759, STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759.

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B. S. A.-The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. C.1067

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PROPELLER.

MAKER'S CLAIM.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928.

FOTO MOTORISTS

ILL-FATED EFFORT.

ATTEMPT TO SPAN THE ATLANTIC.

PACKARD ENGINE,

Under 30 feet of salt water, Graphic description of the end buried in the sea weed some of the ill-fated German attempt to where under the surface of Man-span the Atlantic by air from east hasset Bay, L. I., lies what prob- to west is given by Fred W. Rhode, ably was the most expensive rac-mechanic on the Heinkel plane ing motor boat propeller ever which crashed at Horta, Azores. built and certainly the most inter-In a letter to the Packard Motor esting.

Car Company, by which concern It was the answer to a chal- he formerly was employed, Rhode lenge of the statement that a told of the battle he and his two modern American automobile companions had for their Ilves plant can make anything that can when their plane was dashed, be manufactured from a paper of

a

pins to a bride's trousseau or a complete wreck, into the sea.

Rhode installed a Packard 800 locomotive. The assertion was made first to machine tool manu-horsepower engine in the Heinkel

D-1220 plane in Germany, 'facturers.

"Be

The Packard Motor Car Com-fore installation," he wrote, "the pany had wanted a machine which motor was exhibited at the German would grind all of the cylinders of Experimental Laboratory for Air- either an eight or six cylinder car craft. It aroused very great inter- motor at one time and make each est, particularly among the German cylinder exactly the same as any engineora. of the others in the same block.

"I installed engine in the Heinkel Universal practice then was to hydromonoplane D-1220, We had grind each cylinder separately, a trial flight of one and one-half leaving to the skill of the opera-hours the first day. The second tor of the machine and the alert-day we started for a record flight. ness of the inspector the question with 1000 kig. useful weight. of exact uniformity. It was re-Through some misunderstanding, cognised that mechanical exact-

ness would, if it could be obtain-we stayed a few minutes less in the ed, eliminate human error and it air than necessary to break the also was appreciated that if the world record. Ten hours, 43 min- eylinders could be held precisely utes, 32 seconds was our time. We alike a smoother running motor needed 16 more minutes which we would result.

could have done very easily.

"On October 12 we started from

as it

Machine tool manufacturers, called into consultation, dismissed Warnemunde-New York as our the suggestion as an impossibility, aim. The motor behaved They agreed that such a machine should on the first lap which took would do all that was suggested to Amsterdam. From Amster- for it and that in addition it prob-dam we went to Vigo, Spain and ably would considerably reduce then to Lisbon, Portugal. After costs. Packard then was seeking being lost in the fog we reached to make its cars available to a Horta in nine hours, 28 minutes. of The motor didn't miss once, even greatly increased number people and at the same time im- when we went through the fog and prove them. The added reply of later through rain. the machine tool manufacturers "Well, after eight days of wait- fired E. F. Roberts, Vice-Pre- sident of manufacturing, and his ing in Horta we were to start for Harbour Grace, "Newfoundland. In (organisation to action.

order to get there by daylight we

"We will design and build a bad to start at night. We did it

but that was the end of our trip and we thank the Lord we are safe.

machine that can do the trick our- selves," said Roberts. "If Locher, Brown, Crane, Louie Roberts,

"The sea was quiet and smooth Christensen and a few more

but there were high swells we around here are stumped by a didn't see. We started three times. gadget like that it will be the first The third time we were at about a time we ever heard it can't be

speed of 100 miles an hour. We done' chorused at least."

After the automatic cylinder were about to emerge from the grinding machine was operating water as we were caught by a high and after the device for autoswell and made a salto, putting us matically trimming all eight with our closed cabin three yards grinding wheels with eight five under water in a second. Our karat diamonds had been shown toaters (pontoons) as well as the to hold the bores so exactly alike left wing went into a million pieces. there was no measurable-differ-1 happened to be near a window. ence and five a glass-smooth I opened the window while crash- finish, Roberts made his boast. ing. The pilot bumped his head "We can make anything from a and chest was for a few seconds paper of pins to a bride's trous- unconscious: I pulled him with seau or a locomotive."

me to the surface while Mr. Bobk Col. J. G. Vincent, Vice-Pre- nearly drowned trying to get After sident of Engineering of the through a small window. Packard Company had forgotten we were out we noticed we were the boast of his fellow Vice-swimming in gaseline. A terrible President when he was literally feeling. This all happened two hunting the world over for a new miles off-shore on the open Atlan propeller for his racing motor boats with which he had won the tic. Our plane was sinking and famous Gold Cup and equally we could Hardly swim on account famous 150-mile Detroit sweep. of the heavy clothes.

"Well, help reached us in time It was found that a bronze and the rest of the plane was pull- 'propeller thrashing around 4,000 ed Into the harbour where the same revolutions per minute as it drove sank after our arrival. The plane a boat 150 miles at 50 miles an is totally damaged and of course

Everything hour was pitted and gouged by not repairable.

stakes races.

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the water as though a hammer broken. I disassembled the motor and chisel had been taken to, it. a few days later and found him As the propeller wore down all right., Mr. Merz, the pilot, told himself he was very much speed decreased until at the end me

of a 150-mile race a boat would be satisfied with the Packard motor going 10 miles an hour slower and will try to have Packards for than at the start. Col. Vincent his future trip." conceived the idea that if a pro-

peller could be made as hard as the transmission gear of the car he designs it would stand up in definitely.

by, Caleb Bragg, millionaire New

ROYAL ENFIELD. The Dragen Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38, Wong Nel could not be made of five per cent. basset Bay. Col. Vincent took

Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247,

Propeller manufacturers agreed York sportsman, to drive his that the theory was correct. But Packard-engined Baby Bootlegger they added that a boat propeller in the Gold Cup race on Man- nickel steel, the material used for the prized propeller with him to Packard transmission gears. Port Washington, scene of the They drew attention to the dif- race, and installed it on Bragg's TYRES AND ACCESSORIES,

ficulty, because of its shape and speedster. He made a runaway ACCESSORIES Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. the accuracy necessary for per- out of the first heat and, was well fect balance, of making a racing out in front in the second heat ACCESSORIES-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.226. propeller even when bronze was with the race practically conceded "AUTO-TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS-Keller, Kern & Co. Ltd.,used. The opinion of the manu to him. Suddenly the Boot-

16-19, Connaught Road, Central.

facturers interviewed was unani- legger" sheered on the top of a mous KVAR AYAT wave, from another boat it was. COLUMBIA BATTERIES The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33,

Roberts' boast was recalled to passing and, leaping into the air, Wong Net Chung Road. Happy Valley. C.1247.

Col. Vincent in jest and at once crashed down so heavily as to FIRESTONE TYRES The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88, Wong, the challenge was issued. Three tear both the propeller and shaft

Nef Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

weeks were given for the task completely out of the boat. Col. MILLER ACCESSORIES-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. In that time special tools were de-Vincent lost the race but, to him

Tel. C.1219.3

signed and built and the five per of even more importance, he lost cent nickel steal drove the the propeller

MILLER TYRESA. Lung & Co., 13, Queen's Rd., C.. Tel. 0.1219, PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road C.4759

Colonel's Packard Chriscraft to Divers several times since have victory and a new world's speed made ineffectual efforts to find record for any kind of water craft the only existing five per cent,

Later Col. Vincent was invited nickel steel motor boat wheel.

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