1930-02-06 — Page 12

THE

CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930.

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ANTHE MOTORISTS PAGE A

FIRST IN HONG KONG

“1930” BRITISH MOTOR CYCLES

NORTON

MODEL NO. 18 4.90 M.P.

"Unapproachable" as the machines have proved in the past, 1930 witnesses an even. fner production in NORTON, Many important improvements are embodied in the new NORTON de- signs, including enclosed valve gear mechanism and push rods, detachable cover for Rocker Box, improved arrangement of cylinder head layout, efficient silencer, and Chromium plating.

COME AND INSPECT IT AT

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

BOLE AGENTS.

THIS LOW COST

FISK

gives true All-Cord

MILEAGE

Why not replace that wornout tyre

FISK PREMIER ALL CORD.

A

A fully guaranteed FISK

TYRE at an unusually low

price.

You can't try more MILEAGE for the money.

SO BUY FISK TYRES TO-DAY

OBTAINABLE AT ALL GARAGES UPON REQUEST.

Sole Distributors:--- GILMAN & CO.

Telephone C. 290.

4A. Des Voeur Road C.

RADIO SUPPLIES Electric Gramophones

& Motors

Tone Arms and Sound Boxes. Super Elto Outboard Motors.

RUDOLF WOLFF & KEW, LIMITED,

Ist flour.

54, Queen's Road Central,

Tel. C. 2173

TRIP IN PERSIA

Studebaker Director's

3,000 Miles

Praise for the championship per- formance of a Studebaker Director ander extreme conditiona has just been received from an owner In Persia, according to Arvid L. Frank, sales manager of the Stude- baker Pierce-Arrow Export Cor- poration.

RULES TO FOLLOW

Winter Service for Cars

If one would adjust his auto- mobile for winter service in the samê way that he adjusts his house, there would be an appreci able increase in the already great number of cars and trucks that operate successfully twelve months in the year throughout the cold belt of the country.

The trip, described by Arthur Upham Pope, American business All that is necessary, according man, started in Egypt, traversed to the Ford Motor Company, is an the Syrian and Mesopotamian de-application of the same commen sorts and ended in Teheran, Persia, sense that prompts one

to alter a distance of over 3,000 miles. one's manner of living in house The journey, undertaken as a bust when winter follows summer. Just ness trip, was made in a Director as we start fires in our furnaces, Six. The report by Mr. Pope was fortify our windows and doorg penned following the party's safe against cold, change our manner of arrival in Teheran,

ventilating a house, Increase the weight and warmth of bed cover ings and dress more warmly, so are there simple, sensible adjustments for preparing an automobile for satisfactory operation in winter.

"After the most furious going, the car looks and drives like new," Mr. Pope declared. "It has gone through snow and sand; in rough valleys below sea level and over still rougher mountains nearly 10,000 feet above. It has travelled |over good roads, poor roads, desert trails and parts of wilderness with out even tracks.

The service department of Ford has compiled a set of rules that may be followed with profit by any motorist who desires comfortable use of his car through the winter "From Jerusalem, Palestine to months. If some of them appear Teheran, Persia, with detours of too intricate for self-adjustment, several hundred miles, in six days your dealer is in position to pre- without change of drivers, would pare your car for the low tempera- be a tax on any car, but our gal- tures, snow and ice that are ap- iant Studebaker pulled throughproaching. These simple sug without trouble, even thoughgestions are: cauelly overloaded and at all times pressed at a cruel pace.

Twisting Trails

to

"The trip from Damascus Ruthbah Wells, 269 miles, was nċ- complished in 7 hours 45 minutes, but times and distances in the. Syrian desert bear almost no re- lation to times and distances else- where. Long stretches of sharp, loose stones, twisting trails in dry river beds, deep holes concealed by duat, ruts and ridges, terrific dust clouda, uncertain tracke-all these things make fast travel difficult. That our car reached the Ruthbah Wells from three to four hours be- fore any of the other twenty care which left at the same time shows the mettle of the Studebaker.

"Everywhere we went," Mr. Pope concludes his letter, "we made better time in our Studebaker than experienced drivers in the region had thought possible. Never once have we been stopped because of nny failure of the car with, the ex- ception of two halts on a terrific grade due to a tendency to heating. On both occasions it was a very hot day and we were dogged by a following wind which rendered the fan practically uselesa. After we got rid of our excess baggage of over 500 pounds, the car negotiated overy hill like a breeze.

"The Director was not secured for a pleasure trip but for serious business where time counted and

dependability was essential. I had expected the Studebaker would fully meet our requirements and

that is why I bought it, but I had

and

no conception that it would have Buch reserve of capacity stamina."

ALL KIND

OF CAR

REPAIRS.

FIAT GARAGE 67.A, 673, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. C. 4821.

WISH CAR or

shows the rat:

DELS

Front Drive Car being load.

"PAGE.

Adjustment of the shock ab- sorbers. Cold weather tends to thickon the fluid used in ab sorbers and adjustment of the needle valve should be made. Road conditions in winter are quito different from those of summer and absorbers.should be prepared for the greater demands that are made upon them in winter driving.

Adjustment of the generator charging rate. Cold weather brings longer nights and lights are used more. The gravity of the battery should also be check- éd.

Ignition should be checked and plugs adjusted to specified Apaces, so that the starting of the motor will not exert undue strain on the battery.

TODAY

THE PROVING GROUNDÅ FOR

MOTORCAR ENGINE OIL IS

IN THE AIR

and

your car with its modern, high speed, high compression engine has the same need of reliable oil as an airplane engine.

For the things that automotive en- gineers have learned from the airplane are directly responsible for the increased power, speed and flexibility of the modern

car,

The simple statement, therefore, that, out of all lubricating oil available, such famous aviators as the Round-the-World, US Army fliers, Commander Byrd (North

Pole Flight) Colonel Lindberg (New York to Paris) Major Dagnaux (Paris to Madagascar) Captain C. Kingsford-Smith (Around Australia) U.S. Army fliers (San Francisco to Honolulu) Major Miller (Around Union of South Africa) and others too numerous to mention in the limited space available, have chosen THE NEW GARGOYLE MOBILOIL, is worthy of more than casual attention.

Faulty lubrication may not mean disaster to you as it might to them, but sooner or later it will result in costly repairs.

VACUUM OIL COMPANY

Fuel should be drained out and ACCOUNT SERVICE

all strainers cleaned, this includ- ing the sediment bulb, and the carburettor.

Lubrication practices should

be changed according to climatic conditions in different parts of

Cunocar Plan Aids Small Shops

Motor cars are to-day used for the country, this applying par-but the service recently established almost every conceivable purpose, ticularly to the motor.

An efficient anti-freeze liquid by the Cunocar Accounting Service should be put in the radiator. of Portland, Oregon, is decidedly

an innovation. Hose connections, and water, pump packing should be check- ed.

Brakes should be adjusted.

NEW LICENCE FEES

Regulations for Cars in Canton

Canton, Yesterday.

Salem, Vancouver,

The Cunocar Accounting Service, a bookkeeping service on wheels entering to the smaller firms who do not have a bookkeeper on full time basis, has thirty small trucks In operation on the Pacific Coast. Offices are maintained. in Portland, Washington. Tacoma, Bellingham, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Headquarters of the firm is In The following are the revised re-Portland, Oregon, where the systems gulations for motor-car licence fees was thought out and planned and in force from January 1:-

patented by Cuno R Bryant, prasi- dent of the company. With busi- Public seven seaters, $160 per ness in the various cities Incress- annum.

ing daily, more cars are continuai- Public five seaters, $140 per ly in demand and the firm has Installed its own body building Private cars and public tracks plant at 456 East Ash Street. of not over 1 ton, $180 per an- num, d

ed

annum.

Private cara and public tracks over 1 ton, $250 per annum.

All other vehicles will be licens

as formerly,--Canton News Agency.

Mr. Bryant states that over $6,000 has been spent in trying out patterns and models and a-truck body has been perfected. Ford chassis are used. The latest model weighs about 4,000 pounds and is ton feet long. The six-foot ac countant can do his work standing un if he wishes, as the cars are six feet two Inches high inside.

Instead of using fir or hemlock for the three-ply veneer inside the bodies, imported ash and oak, are utilized in the Cunocars. Each car. has seven plate glass windows, with striped awnings for summer use. A small window just ábové the floor at the back aids the driver in parking.ne

WITH

AN EXPENSIVE

LOOKING CAR

AT A VERY

MODERATE

PRICE

DODGE

SIX

ITS USUAL

DEPENDABILITY

COME AND SEE IT AT

·SOUTH CHINA-MOTOR CAR Co..

*33, Des Voeux Road Central Tel C. 5644

aides and one on the left fender.

representing

INCREASED POWER Alternative Fuels for I-C Engines

Last year the Cunocar Account- ing Service kept books for 850 different firms on the Pacific Coast, $12,000,000 traniacting business. worth

and

By means of a fuel stomiser or seventy-eight distinct lines of busl ness. Approximately 85 per cent, gas generator it has been found of the business transacted in Port possible to run an engine of the land, where the service first start internal combustion type on either ed is done with automotive con- petrol, parafin, fuel oil or af cerne truck operators, truck discohol, and it is said that more tributors, top shops, garages, wheel power is given and a lower fuel shops, sign shops and automotive consumption obtained without parts concerns.

BUICK MODELS FOR 1930. --

any alteration to the engine. The device consists of a chamber placed between the carburetter and the inlet manifold, by means of which the incoming charge af The 1930 motoring season las algas is subjected to centrifugal ready shown promise offering valu action, which has the effect of able Innovations in baarity and

The bor of the Curocar is covered mechanical refinements that the Ringing the wet particles of fuel first with felt, then with linoleum public is looking forward expectant is vaporised. During recent tests on to a heated surface, where it and to insure perfect insulation, ty to the announcement of each new of a four-cylinder engine which the car is roofed with a three-inch make and model of motor car. This normally develops 52 brake h.p. at thickness of cork. Celling lights catural carlocity among local 1,200 r.p.m., it was found that by above the built-in desks provide motorista is now satified with res the use of the atomiser, and run- artificial light. All wires are run pact to Buick, for H. V. General

in copper conduite, so that replace Motors Java has announced the new ning with a high-compression [ment can easily be made in case a 1930 model, a motor car of new long. cylinder head and on Alcohol wire should happen to burn in the low lines which should appeal to all fuel, an additional 17.4 h.p. was

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