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THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931,

COMMON GREASES, MOSTLY SOAP

A MENACE TO AUTOMOBILE.

Take Care to-Get Reliable Chassis-Lubricant,

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[By Frank B. Killian, Chief Automotive Engineer, Vacuum Oil Co.]

Soap has only one propor fune-equally important, it stays in the tium in connection with the opera- bearings. tion of an automobile, and that is, to be used in washing the car. Yet Many a motorist has a large quantity of soup, coloured with light oil and sold as common yel low grease, introduced into delicate working parts of his, car every year.

He should

no more think of Jubricating importaut ^parts of his car with theed substances than with ordinary laundry soap. But every time he drives into a service station and subjects his car to "just a shot of_grease," he runs this risk.

THE CHINA MAIL.

TEST METHODS. Improving Dodge Mono-

Piece Bodies.

Important gains_in_the_strength, durability and safety of Mong- Plece anetál bodies, introduced in this country

on Dodge Brothers. automobiles, have resulted from test methods which for sheer brutal The time when necessary changes punishment of materials and con- from winter to spring oils are atruction are believed to be un- being made in the crankcase and equalled in the history of the auto- transmission is the convenient time mobile industry.. In one of these' to attend to the other lubrication body tests a Dodge car was 'rolled needs of the car.

down the side of a mountain, In Steering Gears Bear The Bumps:another the car is subjected to hours Few motorists realize that the of pitching, lurching and pounding parts enclosed in the steering gear on a mechanical device that violent- housing bear the brunt of pressure ly pitches and heaves. The sole produced by turning and the im- function of this odd piece of ma-j pact of the wheels en bumps and chinery is to shake and shock a car ruts, conditions made all the harder to pleces, if that be possible. by winter driving. With the uso) This machine la built in a pit and of balloon

of tyres, considerable consists chiefly four large pressures are built up on these eccentric rollers. When a car is gears, and special lubricants are inshed in position over the test pit- required for them.

with its wheels on these rollers. the wobbling revolutions of the rollers cause the car to bob up and down in | to drain, and a full aupply of lubri. paroxysms of jolts and lunges. eant to fill the housing applied. When the speedometer of a car In many steering gears it is im- being tested on this machine regis portant to avoid. not only common'sters 1,000 miles, the grease, but anything other than know that its body, frame, chassis, lubricante specifically indicated by steering mechanism, etc., have been the oil manufacturer who has subjected to the equivalent of 10,000 Squeaks und rattles are the first made a thorough engineering study, miles on the roughest possible kind sign that a car is getting old. They of automotive operation.. come from the chassis, parts, yet

By studying the effects The drag link ball joints and tle the average automobile operator rod ball joints; as well as the steer, construction after rolling a car

I down pays little attention to many ming knuckle pins should be proper-

n mountain-side and after portant points of chassis lubrica- ly lubricated by a pressure dis- thousands of miles on the testing pensing system. These parts are

machine,. Dodge engineers have The motor may still be sound, generally equipped with pressure' been enabled to improve the brac

ing, design and materials to the ex- and good for tens of thousands of connections, and eare should be tent that they now claim Mono- miles, hut it is with respect to taken to 'see that a supply of the! such, too-often-neglected parts as proper lubricant is thoroughly dis- Ploce metal bodies capable not only the spring shackle pins and bush-ftributed to all bearings. ings, where noises first make them-

How Cars Grow Old. There is only one, practical way to be safe, and that is to insist on a suitable lubricant manufactured hy some experienced and reliable maker, such as Mobligrease, speci- feally made for the part of the ear in, which it is to be employed, and containing a very high proportion of all especially designed and manufactured for the work it has

to do.

tion.

selves heard, that the car passes from a new, tight, quiet operating unit into a rattling squeaky piece of machinery.

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The steering gear housing should bé flushed with kerosene, permitted

of roads.

engineers

on body

of withstanding, without injury, the

ings have become clogged with im factor of safety far beyond that re- If any of the pins or the bush-worst conceivable abuse in ordinary service; but also of providing a proper lubricants they should be cleaned out, even if it is necessary will ever encounter in the service. of quired for any punishment they

owners,

This test has been especially valuable, engineers explain, in pro- ducing proof that the flash and apot welding processes used in Mono-

to remove them to do so, and then Considerable research through a correct lubricant, should be ap- out the automotive as well as plied. petroleum industry has accurately

The Water Pump. determined that products properly):

Another point in lubrication too manufactured for lubricating the often neglected by the average car Piece Body construction instead of spring shackle bearings and pins owner is the water pump shaft the old method of bolting and last nine times as long as common bearing.. and packing. Largely riveting, have completely eliminated yellow greased widely employed. upon the use of a proper lubricant annoying body squeaks and rattles Inventive skill has only recently in these parts depends the reten regardless of the strains or shocks made a product of this quality tion of water in the circulation to which this type of body may be possible, for it is to be remember system.

Bubjected. ed that a good grease, like good oil, is made, not found. Examination of a product like Mobilgrease will show it to consist largely of high ruality heavy lubricating oil- hence its greater value. What is

BUYERS'

Grenees that mix readily with water, as most greases do, and

wash away from the bearings must be employed. A proper grease will be avoided, and only greases lubricate correctly and at the same especially manufactured to resist time afford a good seal against

Even if you paid considerably more you could

not get more satisfying motoring, or ownership,

than you are offered in this new Buick !

NO WASTE.

In all Buick's twenty-five years of achievement it has never produced a series of cars of such outstanding beauty, comfort, performance or value. On this reputation Bulck owners are buying the new Buick with the same confidence with which they have purchased preceding Buicks.

In this space we could not possibly enumerate the many features and advantages that contribute to the remarkable · popularity of this new Buick. You must see it and ride in it — to appreciate why Buick is the car that satisfies so completely.

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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone 80228.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

The BUICK 8

Incident in Ford's. Activities.

the washing action of water should water washing action, and main- In the great plants of the Ford tain this acal over long periods of Motor Company nothing is ever operation.

thrown away that might be turned Front wheel lubrication is a to useful purposes. From ships of simpler matter. Properly manu-steel to scrap paper, kindling and factured lubricante for this pur-twine, everything is salvaged and pose are designed to withstand the utilized.

GUIDE

MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. Tel. 24755.

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

Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET. —Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

21759.

FIAT MOTOR CAR-A Gocke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.

Tel. 22221.

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

Chang Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garege, Queen's Road, Tel. 24759) OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. '30228. ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

24759.

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

24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS-GIman '& Co.,

Ltd., da, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel, 28011.

OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf Wolf & Kew, 54 Queen's Road

C. Tel, 22178.

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

24759.*

G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nel Chung

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. DODGE-South China Motor Car Co., 33, Des Voeux Road. C.

Tel. 25644.

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

24769,

WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.,'

40, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.

MOTOR CYCLES.

B.3.A. The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. Tel. 27767. NORTON-The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road, C., Tel

27787:

MOTOR OILS.

GARGOYLE MOBILOIL-Vacuum Oll. Company, King's Bldg. SHELL-Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.C.), Ltd., Asiatic Bldg.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORES. Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bleen's Road.

21759, ACCESSORIE-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Tel. 56236.

Tel.

FISK TYRES, Gilman & Co., Ltd.. da, Des Voeux Bd. C. Tel.

28011.

INDIA TYRES.-W. R. Loxley Co., York Bldgu, Tel. 22255. MICHELIN TYRES A. Goske & Có Chinas Bldg., 7th floor.

PRESTOLITE BATTERIES, Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen' Beste Bond VIOLA 91759,

WILLARD BATTERIES,— Glinan & Co. Ltd., 41, Des Voeux Rd.

Use Oil Can.

frictional temperatures In these The business of salvaging old bearings, as well as heat trans-materials and converting them in- mitted from the brakes. The bear-to useful articles, though but an ings on the wheel spindles should incident in the activities. of the be well packed and a small addi- Ford Motor Company, is quite an tional supply should be placed in industry in itself. The savings the hub barrel.

run between $4,000,000 and 35,000,- Again, common yellow greases 000 a year, and so constitute an im- should be avoided. They readily portant item in decreasing produc- dehydrate and oxidize that. ie, tion costs, which in turn means harden in service, leaving the lower prices to the public. bearings, in many instances, dry. Used lumber, ranging from Examination of the old grease will beams to small boxes and crates, show the motorist what has, hap goes to salvage. Pieces containing pened to common yellow grease.

nails are run through machines. that automatically remove the nails Many other points require re--75 kegs of them a day. Every gular attention with light oil from stick that is as large as eight an oil can. Small bearings on the inches long and an inch and a half generator take only a few drops.' wide. is saved and put to Clevis pins on the brakes, and' use. Many of the amaller, pieces their actuating mechanism, should are used for making pegs, while be similarly supplied. The ends of the scrap and sawdust that remain the roda connecting the spark and are burned to help furnish power throttle levers on the steering for the plant.. wheel with the distributor and A great deal of the lumber is carbuurettor should have attention. used for making boxes and crates Likewise, the fan shaft bearings for the shipment of Ford parts to should be supplied regularly with company branches. Similarly, lubricant properly manufactured cardboard cartons in which grease if they are equipped with materials are received at the plant compression grease cups, or chassis are knocked down and returned to lubricant, if they have a pressure the shipper to be used again. connection.

When after several trips, they are It should be borne in mind that damaged, machines, cut them prior to successful summer opera- and the carboard pieces are used in tion of a car all parts throughout packing.

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the chassis should be gone over by Waste paper-250 bales of it a a compotent. automotive mechanic days sent to the company'a and properly tightened and any paper mill, where it is converted worn parts renewed... into cardboard. Glass salvaged

A few hours spent in this work from old, motor cars, is cut to sizes will produce many thousands of and used for glazing. In factory miles of pleasant, efficient, opera windows. Tubing from old boilers tion. The average car operator is cut in lengtha and made into gives little attention to the tyre fence posta. Rope is unwound and rims and removable wheels. If the reduced to string

fe parts are cleaned of rust and Five gallon paint cans become covered with a light conting of map buckers with rollers manufac graphite grease, easy and prompt tured out of waste wood. Burlap changes can be made on the road. brought in by Ford ships is sewn The approach of Summer makes into bags. Scrap of cloth and advisable particular attention to leather, are made into aprons and proper servicing of the battery. hand-pads.

Another Important consideration One section of the salvage de in the operation of cars is to see partment is devoted to rubber goods that the wheels are kept in proper alone. There boots and gloves are aligament.Up-to-date service mended and put back into service, atation are equipped with special hose is spliced and saved, and zauges for this purpose. Wheels numerous other rabber articles are out of alignment mean

salvagedy репле many

ting from

-Thousands of tools" that become

the shops are

reclaimed?// Fliess for earthdugand files aro

sühlden each; dayusand files are better than

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There are four standard models, 2 four- cylinder and 2 six-cylinder, with wheel- bases from 109 inches to 136 inches. Payload capacities range from 1,200 to 3,850 lbs. R

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SOUTH CHINA MOTOR CAR CO.

Tel. 25644.

33, Des Voeux Road Central.

Tel. 25644.