1931-02-12 — Page 11

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931.

THE £100 CAR. New Morris Minor

Two-Seater.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

and passenger, and does over forty PETROL FROM COAL.' CANADIAN TOUR. miles to the gallon. I am making arrangements immediately for get-

S.V.ting this model into production,

London, Dec 22, The £100 motor-car has arrived. The place for the honour and glory of being the first to produce It lay between three men-Sir William Morris, Sir Herbert Aus- tin, and Mr. W. E. Bullock, the

head of Singers, Sir William Morris has won it with his Morris Minor S.V., announced below, and probably only by a short margin of time.

A £100 Austin car was expected to appear early in 1937.

Car prices have fallen steadi-

ever Rince the Lirth

Iy

of

the "Baby" type in 1923,

and

it may be noted that the fall has been most rapid dur ing the protection of the McKenna duties.

"It will be called the Morris Minor S.V. two-seater, stated Sir William Morris, in an interview, "I am taking this step because I believe that it is particularly in Time of industrial difficulty that vigorous efforts to improve trade generally should be made. The in- troduction of this new model will give employment, I confidently an- ticipate, to a large number of British workmen, as well as pro- vide comfortable and reliable motoring for many members of the public."

|

but it will be a few weeks before the full rate of output is available.

جي

THRILL FOR KAYE DON.

A Far-Reaching Discovery.

Out to Capture the Rutherford Medal.

"It has taken me nearly a year; What promises to be a very im to combine in the design of this portant development in the oil several hundred feet of wire rope, With the aid of an axe, dynamite. new S.V. Morris Minor engine world, with possible far reaching an assortment of pulleys and a elliciency, reliability, and aim-effects on the cost of petrol, in an Buick, Mr. H. F. Needham la dut plieity to the degree that I con nounced in U.S.A. In the process to capture the Rutherford medal siler necessary.

The new car is finished in naval, being successfully

of distilling patrol from crude oil, for the Arst trans-Canadian motor

achieved by tour. grey, with red upholstering and hydrogenation, a process that was It is thirteen years Bince the lining. The body is coach-built originaly evolved only from 50 to award WES offered and Mr and has a cellulose finish that can 60 per cent. petrol is usually ob- Needham is the first candidate for be sponged clean. The need for tained; and with the world's con- what is recognised as the hardest polishing has been reduced to the stupendous figures, the remaining test over faced by mator and man. minimum by the introduction of sumption of motor fuel reaching to With A stock eight-cylinder as few bright parts as possible. residue after distillation totale Buick, equipped with oversize tyres The Introduction of this car enormous quantities of by-products and raised to give the engine clear- should materially improve British that far exceed he world's needs.ance over muskeg and stumps. expurt trade in cars.

To increase the ratio of petrol and Needham is now deep in the road- decrease the quantity of residue, less wilderness that

separates has long been the aim of the lead- Hearts from Nipigon in northern ing oil experts. This according to Ontario. As Needham has survey- Woolston (Hampshire). many, and has been further deed his route, the gap is 600 miles.

December 15. the latest reports is now in Ger It took him but three days to go Mr. Kaye Don, the famous veloped and improved by the Stan- from Halifax to Hearst, but the racing motorist, had a thrilling dard Oil Co. of New Jersey next 30 miles took a week. Once experience in Southampton Water (U.S.A.), which has formed a subat Nipigon, he picks up the trans- to-day when the 400 h.p. speed sidiary corporation-the Hydro Canadian highway and will have a bont Crescendo, in which the late Patents Co., which, under certain good road to the other side of Fort Sir Henry Segrare made practice conditions, is issuing licences for William and then nothing but n runs. caught fire during speed use of the new process. Already trail to Kenora, from whence he tests.

18 of the leading oil companies in will have to blaze his route to the He had already made two runs, U.S.A.. have purchased shares in Manitoba boundary.. His troubles in which he attained a speed of a the Hydro Co. to enable them will then be over until he reaches mile a minute, and was preparing should the new development prove the Rocky Mountains. There is for a third run when Crescendo as successful as experiments only a short stretch in the moun- caught fire. Great flames spurted promise-to reap the beneßts ac-tains lacking a highway, and once out from one of the cylinders, but feruing from the hydrogenation re-over this the route is clear they were speedily extinguished. covery process. The Standard Oll Vancouver.

The fire occurred almost at the Co.'s experimental plant cost

Six-Months' Survey. moment Mr. Charles Harrison was £1,000,000 to erect and is at pre- It all sounds simple establishing for Great Britain the sent refining 5,000 barrels of crude who has never attempted travel in to anyone world's outboard speed record on oil-equal to 210,000 gallons-the wilds of northern Ontario. the Medina River, East Cowes daily.

cost more money to build a rail- Hydrogenation is the process of way around the north shore of Lake adding hydrogen to crude petro-Superior than it did to penetrate leum at high pressure, ranging as the Rockies. It is this stretch of than many small cars seen on the

high as 3,000lb. per square inch. wilderness which has forced Cana- roads to-day. The engine differs It is advisable to occasionally By varying the amount of hydro-dians to cross Canada by motoring from that of the ordinary Morris inspect the shackles and "U" bolts gen added, it is possible to obtain through the United States. The Minor in that it has side by side which secure the springs in post-products of predetermined and road is slowly being built, but valves instead of the overhead tion. If these are neglected they superior quality. The present Needham Is not waiting for the valves and cam shaft. It is fully may work loose, and even when cracking system of distillation of highway to win the Rutherford equipped with three speeds, four you eventually tighten them it crude oil, operates under a pres award, prize trophy of Canadian wheel brakes, speedometer, may be found that rust has form-sure of 1,000lb. which decomposes motordom. Triplex glass screen, wind-screened on the threads so that either oils to ylold at the best, 60 per Needham has spent six months wiper, driving mirror, hood, side the thread strips or it is impos- cent. petrol and 40 per cent. low surveying his own route to avoid curtains, and hood bag, has ample sible to adjust the nuts at all..quality residue. Hydrogenation, canyons, large rivera, muskeg and luggage accommodation, conceated | A Black shackle bolt will cause unlike "cracking," does not break the thickest of forests. Aeroplanes spare wheel, full-length frame unnecessary rattle, while if this down the petroleum atoms, but have left gasoline and oil in caches with semi-elliptic springs and ad or the "U" bolt is slack, uncom-builds them up and it is claimed, for him. Then he bought equip- justable shock absorbers Electric fortable rolling may be experiene- may yet give as high as nearly ment and stocked his car until it lighting and starting are of course ed when cornering, together with 100 per cent. recovery.

looked like a combination of black- included.

wheel wobble when the speado- When it is stated that the daily smith shop and a lumber camp. meter gets round about the thirty production of crude petroleum in Then he set out on his trail-blazing mark.

U.S.A. is now approximately 124 journey.

An "unexpected development" at the Morris works, which resulted in many men who were expecting to have to "stand off having their notices recalled, was report ed in The Daily Telegraph Saturday.

On

"The new car," went on Sir Wil- | 52,039 m.p.h. lium, "ix in no sense thodox production. It is

Ап uror

larger

"The new car has a speed of up wards of fifty m.p.h. with driver

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ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

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CADILLAC Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

21769.

FIAT MOTOR CARA Geeks & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.

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Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

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STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, Tel.

24759.

WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS.-Gilman & Co.,

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OUTBOARD MOTORS.—Rudolf Wolf & Kew, 64 Queen's Road

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MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.

24759.

Tel.

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Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. DODGE-South China Motor Car Co., 33, Des Voeux Road. C.

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MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rond. Tel. 24759. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.

Tel. 24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.,

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TYRES AND ACCESSORIES.. ACCESSORTMES,Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road. Tel.

24789, ACCESSORIE.The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Tel. 5625, FISK TYRES Gilman & Co., Ltd.. An. Des Voeux Rd. C.. Tel.

2801122 INDIA TYRES WR Loxley Co., York Bldgs. Tel. 22285, MICHELIN TYRES A. Gocke & Co. China Bldg., 7th floor

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a

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to

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million gallons, it will be realised The Rutherford medal has a long what vast potential wealth looms row of restrictions. The car must ahead for the world's oil industries cross Canada entirely on its own should this new process be the power. The driver is allowed one success anticipated. Not only, it assistant but cannot recruit a gang is reported, is the hydrogenation from a lumber camp If he finds him-| process applicable to crude oll, but self in difficulties. He is permitted even to coal and low-grade lignite, to cross railway tracks but must and as Australia possesses vast not run along a railway right-of- quantities of the latter, the de-way, Ferries and rafts are banned velopment of this latest system of for crossing rivera. He musi distillation may yet have a very bridge or ford them. important bearing on the produc- tion of motor fuel in this country.

WHY CHANGE THE SUMP OIL?

The trip is exciting more interest in the Dominion than a trans- Atlantic aeroplane hop. Every yard of the journey offers a test whichris a challenge to the driving In these days of advanced motor-skill and ingenuity of the operator ing every one is aware, if they read well as being a magnificent test their instruction books, of the fact of the power and ruggedness of

the manufacturers

car. Needham expects his that the sump oil should be changed the Canadian badlands in approx- Buick to carry him safely through at the end of a given period of running- As this oil changing is

imately ten weeks.

that

recommend

a more or less costly business, par- ticularly if the sump is nearly full CLEANING TARNISHED PLATING]

when the time for changing ar-

rives, there are probably many who feel that they are wasting time

The following is a very effec-

and money in working in accord- tive method of cleaning tarnished ance with the instruction book. nickel plate or brass-Mix a Drivers of long experience who small quantity of pumice powder have made a check of the condition. with a small packet of any dry or have felt the better runningenp powder, and apply a sprink- that is a feature in overy car afterling of the mixture to the metal the oil has been changed, realise with a fairly wet rag, rubbing that the money is well spent. well. When the tarnish has been

Oll engineers tell us that good oil removed, rub with a dry cloth, does not wear out. Why, then, is it and finish off with the usual metal necessary to change the contents of polish.

the sump? The real reason is that while oil does not wear out, It be

comes contaminated with harmful water, and from carbon which foreign substances during its sometimes forms on the undersides period of work in the engine. So of the pistons and falls off- far no mechanical method for abrasive matter may also accum~ cleansing it has been devised, and ulate from engine wear and tear. It becomes necessary to change the The ol' filters incorporated in the mixture when the content of for- lubrication systems qught to take eign matter in it endangers engine care of all this for some time, with life.

...the exception of the water,, which,

O thins out and apparently loses although one of the products of the its body because it becomes diluted combustion of petrol, should only be by petrol that is, the heavy, un- present in very small quantity. consumed portions of the fuel which Water produced in the form of blow by the piston rings into the steam from the petrol burned crankcase. A certain amount of normally pagars out of the exhaust, dilution goes

on in every engine. and if any serious amount gets into but it is not harmful unless ex- the crankcase it can only have come ceeds about five per cent of the from a leaky cylinder head gasket, volume of off in the crankcase. a defective water passage, or from

The factors affecting dil dilution external sources. are too numerous to allow them to It is impossible to go thoroughly be discussed here, suffice it to say; into the matter of oil changing in a however, that poor or low grade short article such as this, and like- petrol an improperly adjusted wise it is not possible to prescribe carburettor, undue use of the choke a definite Hmit as to the time off or gtrangler, badly fitting piston should be used before changing: rings, too low an engine tempera- This is affected by the type and ture, or a badly ventilated rank-make of engine and Its conditions ease aggravate dilution. Since of service. Ar a general rule, oil dilation is gradual it is worse with should be changed every thousand an engine which consumes but little miles in the summer, and every 500 of that with one which consumes a milles when operating in the winter, lot: also affect a small erank or under conditions of extreme cold case more than a large ons because Motor car manufacturers recom

the volume concerned,mend certain definite periods for sil Contamination of the pit occurs changing, and their “instruction through the ingress of road dirt, books should be carefully followed."

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