1932-01-14 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1932.

HINTS FOR CAR OWNERS

ALWAYS USEFUL.

SELDOM HEEDED.

When putting away a part for the lamps are in series the voltage future use, place a tag on it with of the two together must equal the description.

voltage of the battery, that is, if the battery is 12 volts both lamps must have 6-volt bulbs.

Drive slowly through mud. Often- times the impact of heavy splashing will mar the painted surface of the dar.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

PERFECTION IN THE CAR INDUSTRY.

More Attention Given

to User's Interests.

THE SPOTLESS MACHINE.

[By Motoring Correspondent)

Motor cars are still A long But

Before replenishing the supply of grease in any cup about the car, see Leather can be used to make a to it that the outside of the cup temporary repair on a burned-out has been wiped absolutely clean. bearing, where it is impossible to Otherwise some of the dirt is bound way from being perfect. obtain a new one or a garage is not to get in with the lubricant. Once equipped to make the repair. in the cup it will work down into

those who have spent a .lot of time going round tha stand at the Olympia Show will be A nose and rattling windshield the bearing, with the ever-present the first to admit that a marked glass can be securely tightened by opportunity to work havoc with the filling the space in the frame with part. The hubcaps of the front improvement in nearly every direc

tion is being maintained. shellac. The solution should be wheels are no exception to this rule; applied slowly with a brush, Bo of cleaning before adding grease. that it will pack tightly in opening.

Too Much Petrol.

the

Slippery Roads. Do not disengage the clutch and apply the brakes when it is neces- Colour will identify the cause of sary to stop a car, especially on a the smoke coming from the exhaust shippery road; never release the

A bluish

until the car is brought of your car.

grey clutch

4 atandstill. This smoke is traceable to an excess of practically to oil getting past the piston-rings, advice not only applies to the stop Black smoke means that there is too ping of the car on a slippery road, but to general driving; it is best much petrol in the mixture.

or

I suppose that perfection in motor cars would be a completely silent! vehicle with an Infinitely variable gear, which cleaned, and lubricated itself as it ran, could be turned into an open or a closed car in a second by the pressing of a button, and which cost nothing to run.

It is something like that we all want but will never get.

However, designers try hard to approach more nearly to the ideal, and many of the 1932 models repre- year's products. sent a big advance on even last

For my own part I am particular-

ly glad to note that more attention is being given to what might be

When replacing the spark plugs always to keep the clutch engaged in your engine use the type specified until the car is brought almost to Com a standstill, because by releasing for it. The design of the bustion chamber and position of the clutch much of the control of! the spark plug require different the car is lost.

The heat from the sun's rays will lengths to place the sparks in the place in the chamber which gives rapidly dry out the paint of a motor-car body, and rain will pene- the best result.

Test brakes carefully before it is trate the paint, leaving it streaked! necessary to make an emergency and faded, likewise mud will spot stop after the car has been washed it. As a protection from the cle- PEDESTRIANS, DON'T DALLY! Water, soap, or distillate, which hae ments a mixture of linseed oil and been used to remove the grease, will varnish applied with a soft rag will! frequently affect the brake lining, shed rain and prevent checking due, but after a few applications of the to sunlight. This will also restore! brakes it will be removed.

to some extent the original lustre Tugging at the wheel while the to old paint; use a mixture consist- car is standing still not only strains ing of one-tenth varnish and nine- the steering gear, but causes un-tenths linseed oil. necessary wear on the tyres as well.

A car should always be in motion when steered.

Little Trap Door.

Defective Ignition.

When defective ignition is trace- able to the pitting or wear of the points, the latter must receive at- tention. This requires

some

Pedestrians who linger in

the middle of the road to pass the time of day with their friends are the objects of a warning to be erected In the streets of Nice. The notice runs-

"Pedestrians ! On the pavement you are at home. In the road you are a guest. Behave de-

yourself. Don't dally!"

Those who have a battery box licacy of treatment, for the points underneath the floorboards could are not the most rugged parts of a save themselves a good deal af car's anatomy. Remove them care- time and trouble by fitting a little fully and dress them with a very called the user's interests. In other trap-door, preferably of the hinged fine file, or, better, on an oil stone, words, a very great deal is being variety, to give them convenient exercising the utmost vigilance to done to minimise the duties and dif- access to it. Taking up the floor- keep the points absolutely flat. fculties of upkeep.

out.

ALWAYS AT YOUR COMMAND

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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone 30223,

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

Secondly, in regard to the actual

boards is a job which few care to Carelessness in doing this work will tackle, with the result that the result in rounding of the points has yet to be produced, of course,

The car which looks after itself other means can be found, battery is frequently neglected. (filing is not, though it may appear but we are steadily getting nearer material with which the floor le If the rear lamp is wired in so to the initiated, a simple opera- the time when the chief and almost covered, I have noticed that of late series with that of the dashlamp tion), and rounded points are little the only duties the owner-driver there is a tendency to save money in Immediate warning will be given to better than pitted ones. They re will have to do will be to fill up this direction by using carpets of the driver in the event of the rear trict the flow of the primary lamp failure by the dushlamp going current and so reduce the efficiency with petrol and oil and occasionally inferior quality. The result is that

that the in a month to press a pedal to see

or two, if the car is In carrying out this alteration of induction, delivering 4 thin

chassis is kept properly lubricated. used frequently, the carpets, ea- It must be remembered that when spark.

pecially where the driver's heels Central Chassis Lubrication. rest, are almost worn out. It should dently sprung, ensuring greater I have always been astonished be possible to adopt some better comfort for the passengers, and it that more manufacturers have not kind of floor covering. Even the is not unlikely that the improvement standardised "one-spot" lubrication. coarse hair carpet is an abomina- in this direction will include hy-On the face of it, no other system tlon, although it may wear better. draulic or pneumatic systems of appears to stand a chance; yet there Why more rubber is not used for auspension. Rubber will also play are still a big majority of care with floors I am.at a loss to understand an important part in the improve out it. I know there are snags because rubber nowadays is not ment of motor vehicle suspension. cast, difficulty of repair after an expensive.

Again reverting to engines, some accident, liability to stoppage, and designers expect the development of so on-but surely these disadvan- many manufacturers are using rust- I am very glad to note that so Engineers and designers of satisfactory two-stroke engines, tages are more than outweighed by proofing processes motor-cars in both America and which can be made very compact the advantage of being able to get majority of parts. This is the big- for the great England seem to be convinced that and simple, and of relatively small all lubricating work done auto geat development of recent years, revolutionary changes in motor weight in proportion to their powermatically. vehicle design are pending, and that output, as they will take the form of removing economical. the position of the engine from the

CAR ENGINE AT THE REAR.

Improvement of the Streamline Form.

AWAY FROM CONVENTION.

well

as being highly

What Changes Coat.

and every motorist will rejoice when When I tell people that I am al- he can get a completely rust-proof ways hoping that some manufac- car. Hitherto rust has been the big turer will produce a car that I can enemy., It destroyed wings, panels.

front to the rear end of the car, Some expect the Diesel type en-},

look after without having to carburetter parts, nuts and bolts,

with a more selentile stream-lining gine to be perfected for use in of the vehicle.

passenger cars, thus taking advan-

get my hande in a mega brake mechanism, and so on. To or wear overalls, I ako some day all these components can be laughed at, especially treated so as to eliminate all chance

It is urged that the placing of the tage of the great economy it offers times engine at the rear offers many This writer, however, points cut by those mechanic-engineer-owners of their rusting, advantages, in addition to facilitate that the compression ignition type who simply delight in doing the ing the improvement of the stream-of engine involves the use of very dirty work themselves. line form. A writer in the Amer- high pressures, and its weight per other hand, I get a great deal of

On the

ican Automobile sums up the ad- h.p. considerably exceeds that of sapport from my friends who have

vantages of this change. With the the conventional type of engine.

not been brought up with a span- engine at the rear, he points out, It requires an expensive pump to odours and molee are carried away feed the fuel, and difficulties are exer in one hand and a grease gun

in the other. from the passengers. The close perienced in starting under certain The longer I live and the more I position of the engine to the driving conditions.. He believes that a have to do with cars the lens I like wheels eliminates the long propeller lighter, more compact engine, with crawling below them to get at some shaft.

a lower compression ratio. more Insecessible part and the less I en- The engine at the rear makes it economical in type than that in use joy cleaning up the oil which has unnecessary for it to take up half in America to-day, will be a more lenked from the engine, gear-box, or the wheelbase, and also permits the probable development.

back axle.

HUMBER NONE THE WORSE FOR WEAR.

Revels in Travel Over Rough Country.

steering wheel to be placed further Probably the only reason why There seems no reason why it The District Commissioner of forward. If placed at the rear, the many of the proved improvements should not be possible to turn out Northern Turkhans, Kenya, reports engine can be arranged trapsyersely, have not yet been incorporated in an engine which will not leak off that his 16/50 Humber in the first to the frame, or if desired, one with present-day · automobiles fe the and which will retain that beaut car to have reached that particular flat opposed cylinders, which is per- colossal expenditure that the indus fully clean appearance which it has spot, which is between 300 and 400 fectly balanced, or a short y type try must face in any radical depar when it leaves the factory.

miles from a railway station or engine can be employed.ture from the conventional,

I sometimes think that if only town, near the Kenya-Soudan----- Forward Vision Improved. When it is mentioned that it cost those who designed cars and bullt Abyssinian border. As can readily The space available for passen- one of the world's largest auto-them had the Job of keeping them be imagined, the car had to be gers and luggage can be increased, mobiles manufacturers over £20 at and in spick-and-span condition, driven over some exceedingly rough or the wheelbase can be shortened 000,000 to make a drastic change they would have”, more sympathy country on its way out init it arriV- materially and the weight and cost Uver of his popular model an idea with us who do every odd maintered none the worse, and is in con- of the car correspondingly decreas-may be gathered of what it would ance job in our own garages on a stant use.

ed. Moreover, all seats can be are cost the industry throughout the Baturday afternoon.. ranged between the axles at any world were a sudden and sweeping any

desired height; riding qualities can change-over made in design of the thus be improved, and forward modern motor vehicle, and

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vialpú becomes much less restricted Thul Lit (will be realised how them at

ed to undergo

warily the leading car | manufać- Haing turas 6f the world have to move

the direction of any definite sus away from the conventional, type.

Imodern motor car, which is so

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