THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
10, 1931.
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
CARS THAT FLY.
Aviator and Free Wheeling.
The American pilot further MOTORING HINTS. stutes: "The Hupmobile free
wheeling principle affords the same
A cracked windshield may be the feeling as an aeroplanes which find- penalty for driving, too close be ing an obstacle while about to land, hind a fast car should the left rear rises again to safety with the tyre of the car, ahead toss up a slightest touch of the stick." stone.
If one bears in mind that besides]
the advantages mentioned by If the ammeter does not register Bronte, free-wheeling represents a "charge" when the engine is run- saving in gas which amounts toning at normal speed, consult the 15 to 18 per cent. while at the same repair man immediately. time greater distances are covered | in less time, it la easy to under-
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Among the experts who have wel- comed with enthusiasm the prin ciple of free wheeling which Hup- mobile has adopted for all its models, the name of Emory Bronte, well-known American aviator, de serves being mentioned.
-Bronte--who owns a powerful 100
Discoloured celluloid window HIP Hupmobile was the first stand why the above-mentioned lights can be cleaned with alcohol, civilian pilot to fly from California pilot ends his statement as follows: to Hawaii, and is at present the "Free-wheeling in my opinion, is manager of the aviation department the greatest development that has of a famous Amercian oil company, been introduced in the automotive liis opinion, therefore, is worth field. To realise that, one only has being taken into consideration, mere to try a Hupmobile in heavy trafie- no since he has just put his Hupme the car seems to fly and the driver bile under the most strenuous tests never felt safer!"
one can imagine,
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BRITISH CAR.
Gives Satisfaction in Bechuanaland.
Bechuanaland, in a Report to the Crown Agents to the Colonies makes appreciative observations on the 20/50 six-cylinder Armstrong Sid- deley car with which he was sup- plied last year. He states-on
The Resident Commissioner in
I have delayed doing so until the Why not hoot in accordance with car had been thoroughly tested in the kind of vehicle to be passed every conceivable way. Now, how- long blasts for motor trucks, short ever, I am happy to be able to say tents for drivers who merely need that after running nearly 9,000 friendly warning, and a biting miles over, every species of incredi blare for those who seem to be road bly difficult country, including thick
hogs?
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Even in warm weather it will pay to let the engine get up to a good working temperature before
There is nothing that has con A wobbly rim is sometimes mis- tributed more to safety in driving taken for a loose wheel. Inspect than free-wheeling," says Bronte, the rims first, und if they are found adding: "There is no more guess- to be out of line, loosen the lugs starting off, especially if heavy oil ing in shifting and the driver does and take them up again giving each not even have to use the. clutch.ja turn in succession to equalise the One only has to touch the gear lever alignment.
to shift from second to high, for
instance, without losing speed."
BUYERS'
GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. — Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24759.
EUICK. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759, CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
21759.
FIAT MOTOR CAR-A Goeke & Co.. China Bldg.. 7th floor.
Tel. 22221.
MARQUETTE. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 23, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley, Tel. 30228. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, 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.
24759.
Tel.
Tel.
STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road,
24760. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS-Gilman & Co.,
Ltd., 4a, Des Voeux Rd, C. Tel. 28011.
OUTBOARD MOTORS-Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 64 Queen's Roud
G. Tel. 22173.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
24759.
G.M.C-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.. 88, Wong Nei Chung,
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. DODGE-South China Motor Car Co., 33, Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. 25644
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MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
24769. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.,
4a, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.-
MOTOR CYCLES.
B.S.A.The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. Tol. 27767. NORTON The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road C. Tel
27767.
MOTOR OILS.
GARGOYLE MOBILOIL-Vacuum Oil Company, King's Bldg. SHELL-Asiatic Petroleum Co., " (S.C.), Ltd., Asiatic Bldg,
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORȚES.-Hongkong, Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road. Tel.
24758419
ACCESSORIE." —The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon,
Motor Tel. 56223,
FISK TYRES Gilman & Co, Ltd. da, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel
28011
INDIA" TYRES W. R. Loxley Co., York Bidge. Tel. 22285, MICHELINE TYREŊ –A. Gocke & Co., China Bldg, 7th floor.
20 Toli 22221.
PRESTOLITE BATTERIES.-Hongkong Hotel Garage,." Quean'ı
Road. Tol. 24759 Angel PS
WILLARD BATTERIES Gilring & Co., Ltd, fa, Des Vosrx 3d.
C. Tel 23011
is being used for high-speed, driv-
ing.
A car
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| bush and deep soft sand, the car has given complete satisfaction in every way and we are more than pleased with it.
The car has been through the most difficult parts of the Territory; it negotiated the sand dunes and mopane
forests of N'gamiland in should not be operated the north last year, while our most more than 8,000 miles without hav-recent trip was, through a section ing the valves inspected. When of the Kalabari in the South-west, valves are neglected for a long a country popularly but erroneously period, they become so badly pitted described as a desert, really a that the laborious job of re-grind- magnificent grazing country covered ing them takes many times as long for the most part with long grass as it should.
and thick bush.
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Linseed oil is good for loose wooden wheels, followed by a coat of paint. The oll is much better than water to swell the wood,
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The most common causes of spark plug trouble are: Points spaced too far apart, points too close to- gether, points covered with soot, a cracked porcelain, a defective spark plug gasket, or leaky threads in the shell.
Here the car had to plough through deep, thick, soft sand (a terror to many Cars) push through and over, thick bush (thorn and other) which sometimes reached to above the top of the hood, and bump over appallingly rough ground. Owing to lack of water on the route we had to travel during the Spring season, our Summer, when the heat our difficulties and the added to bush was, of course at its densest.
I really did not know which to admire the most; the power of the When the gears of the electric engine which in spite of the heat starter become stuck, turn off the enabled us to get through the worst atuel; the ignition switch, put in high gear, sand where othors And then gently rock the car back strength of the springs and con- ward and forward. This will re-struction which resisted the worst lease the starting motor gear from the fly wheel gear, and the starter will then turn the engine easily.
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without danger though others broke axles; the quality of the enamel which though scratched in every direction by thick bushes When a spring becomes broken, beating against it for miles came a block of wood can be substituted out in wonderful condition after a for an emergency period. Jack up few days polishing when we got the body until it is the height at home; or the tyre (Dunlop Rein- which the spring should hold it, forced Balloon Fort 31 by 5.25) through without a then place a block of wood of the which came proper size between the axle and single puncture. Altogether a great the frame. Faston this in place tribute to British workmanship and with a wire or rope, and drive care- fully..
design,
The variety of the going may be guessed from the facts that whereas The radiator hose connections in our average mileage on some days the, water system of the engine was only six per hour, on one day should be frequently inspected. we were doing nearly 60 miles an Often these hose connections look hour across one of the great "paus". fair on the outside, but they are that are such a distinctive feature bad on the inside. When the walls of the country. of the hose become decayed, they have a tendency to swell and close, thereby preventing proper cireula
tion.
I have no hesitation in saying that I regard this car as admirably suited for this country, and with one or two minor adjustments to suit the climate and other peculiar If the engine shows too great a ities of South Africa and its roads, tendancy to overheat, the radiatorit nced fear no competitor... is probably clogged, and should be eleaned thoroughly with hot water and washing soda.
When a loose bolt or nut is found in the drippan, it is wise inime- diately to learn where it belongs and resent it.
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BENTLEY MOTORS LTD..
Merger With Napier's?
TEST COURSE.
In Cape Colony with a Morris.
170-130
"Look at that new Buick pulling so easily through this deep sticky mud."
"Yes it must be a pleasure to own a car like that to travel anywhere with no fear of getting in trouble."
ET behind the wheel of the new Buick
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The
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The Eights with Buick's Prestige
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone 30228,
31, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
ed her burden and took me to the top of the worst section of road available for test in town.
"Then I spun away to Napler Street with a higher opinion of the -little sine-välve engine than I had
expected to have .....
RUSTLESS STEEL.
Demonstrated in Ford Sport Coupe.
"Napier Street, which one reaches via the High Level Road to
The ability of rustless steel to The motoring correspondent of Sea Point, runs down a hill which the Cape Argus, invited to test an would send a driver's heart to his retain its lustre under the most try- S. V. Minor by Messrs. Johnson mouth if he were not certain that
Motor Co., Ltd., Morris Distributers his brakes were perfect. But I ing weather conditions is demons- for Cape Colony, recorded his im- felt that Sir William's guarantee trated in a Ford Sport Coupe oper- pressions as follows:-
protected me as I approached theated by the United States Coast "I drove through Cape Town, and incline. The earth fell away un Guard in Florida. then over a test course, in the side- der the car's front wheels. I took
The car Was vaive Morris Minor, the new car the plunge and found that I could
purchased last that Sir William Morris promised, check the car at several points March. Since then it has been ex- us when he was here last year. It down the hill without fear of slid-
is the cheapest little car in South ing or of the wheels failing to lock posed to salt water climatic condi Africa. Let me tell you how I with the foot brake alone. runs.,
disappointments as I snugged into "1 was prepared for a few little the driver's seat and set out down Burg Street
I pulled up sharply behind a roving horse-cart. The little Mor
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A Thoroughbred.
across the broad, pot-holed face of "Now for the most strenuous tast
hour. Green Point Common at 20 miles an
tions for fifteen to sixisén hours a day. When photographed recently the car was literally covered with to remain so long that it had begun beach sand which had been allowed
to eat into the lacquer and was dif- ficult to brush off.
The rustless steel, of which ex-
posed metal parts of the Fords are
de, was covered with sand. But
it was easily polished of and the rustless steel became as bright and
When on July 10 Mr. Justice Ben- You should never drive with one nett in the Chancery Court appoint- foot on the clutch pedal. The ed a receiver and manager for clutch is in this way partly released, Bentley Motors Ltd., it was under causing instant and constant slipstood that prospects of an early re- ping, and the
car will lack speed. construction of the famous "frm To overcome this the driver feeds more petrol, causing the engine to were not unhopeful.
"I should lose my reputation for overheat and also wasting petrol. Опе -possibility now
being ris's four-wheel brakes were smooth. veracity ff 1 aald the Morris. S.V. examined is a merger with the firm The tyres are smaller than those on travelled over the jarring uneven Rear tyres, because of tractive of D. Napier and Son Ltd., of the Morris Miner, but the gripping nesses like a £1,000 limousine. and brake strafft, wear more rapidly Acton. Before the War and up to surface is ample for a car in or did not. It was a nasty test for than front ones. The left rear tyre a few years after the Armistice about the 1,000 lb. class. The gears her; but she took it like a thorough is subjected to, moro atrain than Napier cars were as renowned on are small but of standard pattern. bred. I did not have to slow down, the right because it is lower on the road and track as Bentleys have I slipped from low to second and turn and draw back to the road, crown of the road, if not in the been recently; since about 1922 from there to top within 40 yards, in The willing little fellow went at it which give rustless steel it lustre rough at the side as other cars are Messrs. Napier have devoted their which distance the car had to do a passed. Careful drivers change activities mainly to the construc- sharp turn to the left. We made back tyres for Tront, and frequently tion of aero enginės, patek
our way through the Malay quarter left tyres for right. Thus the The firm has been approached on to the foot of the steepest hill In mileage of the tyre la increased. behalf of the receiver for Bentleys, Central Cape Town-the upper
Mr. Roper Frere, and his proposals stretch of Longmarket Street will shortly be considered.
SUCCESS IN HONG KONG,
Easy Changing,
'clean as when' It was now. This
was possible because the qualities.. cheerfully and won over without extend all the way through the any suggestion that 20 miles of this metal. would not be to its liking.
"When I returned to the show- A MOTORIST'S QUEER MUSEUM, rooms in Burg Street I had utterly failed to find any little disappoint- ments."
A Top Gear Car"
In a little room off Piccadilly f
· NEW "ROAD UP” SIGN.
"As 1 approached the hill I
a very queer museum. The ex- The Automobile Association at
changed from top to second and
hibits include a crumpled horn Home has latroduced a new A.A.
down to third (an unmechanical "The Morris Minor S.V." Bays (cow) and a crumpled horn (deer), sign to wara motorista of road ex-
woman could change down in this the Natal Advertiser, is a real sur stuffed pheasants, partridge, a drek cavations in connection with the
car even though she failed in a prise.There is plenty of leg room, from Regenta Park and a awan, | laying of gas and water mains,
The transport manager of a well-luxury, Imousine). The car con- plenty of side room and plenty of horse-shoes, stones and a selection electric cables, etc.
The lack of uniformity signs at known. Hong Kong firm recently tinued up the one-in-siz slope. At performance Once in the car one of golf balls, and
Chasgow works of the steepest fart of the lumine forgets that one is in a baby
parators of the mussum le present used has been a source of Albion Motors, Ltd. He spoke in point so high above the town, that
"Getting away from the catalogue Mr. Reginald Delpech, Sales Direc considerable, confusion to road glowing terms of the results, one looks down to the flat roofs of and coming to the actual performer of Triplex Safety | Gling, Ltd. users, whilst in many cases the obtained from fleet of the eight-storey buildings and away ance on Natal roads, the SV. take and the exhibits are objects which notices have been too close to the Alblone of which he
la In to Woodstock and to Milnerton Berea Road on top easily. She will have crashed into the wind-screens obstruction ERY
particularly stopped and toner also take Mayville on top. Run in, charge and was
the S.V. should be what is known ass top-gear car
"She has an easy cruising speed
visited the
In size, shape and colouring (the anthusiastle in his praise of a 80/85- And then, on this, nasty Incline, familiar yellow and bronze-blao); cwt. model purchased a year ago. I started again. That was a hard the new A.A sign le elmilar to the He had just seen & further machine thing for any little car to do. I
of motor cars, and have been sent
by grateful owners who might have
been seriously Injured if ordinary
"School "Cross, Roads," and other of the same type landed before be expected her to kick and to aplut of 85 to 40 miles an hour with a las had been fitted to their cara.
warning signs, and the wording left for Scotland on leave,
"Road Un" is brief but expliclt
ter, but she did not. She shoulder
the comfort of a big car.","
Mr. Delpech. is proud of him -museum.
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