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Overland "Whippet" Cars.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25th, 1927.

Overland "Whippet" Cars.

EASY TERMS TO SUIT ALL PURSES,

Unequalled in either Quality or Price.

See them at

THE DURO MOTOR CO., LTD.

132, Nathan Rd., Kowloon.

or Apply

To the Distributors

GILMAN & CO., LTD.,

Hong Kong Bank Building.

Teleph. C. 290.

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MOTORING NOTES

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T

as

rubber

HE Dunlop Company possessos its own Cotton Mills and is thus able to control the quality of the casing material used in Dunlop Tyres, at every stage of manufacture.

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A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.

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PROGRESS AND COMPETI- TION.

A STEAM 'BUS.

LUBRICATION.

A

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21.6 H.P.

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INSTRUCTIONS IN JAPAN.

Anyone who has lived abroad will

the English language after they Du

to make some unconsciously comic phrases out of English words. Especially in connection with motor- ears and machinery do Orientals. make amusing slips.

During the rest forty years a Meanwhile the Steam Appliance Kreat deal of experimental work, enapanies agree at least about that ready agree that those who learn and theoretical analysis in connec- Follow their advice if you rejest Corporation of America has puition with lubrication problems have that of the maker of the car. have renched adult years are liable

shed some interesting particulars been carried out in Europe and nut change the engine inbricating

America. Towers, in Britain, puoi! more often than you think! of a steam driven omnibus,

lished same classical results and essential. For a hundred years the steam!

T1. is propelled by a five-cylinder

many the gists interpreted, them. engine was the one type of machine in use for converting the energy of rotary steam engine and the steam | On the practical side of the quer fuel into mechanical energy. Then generator is of the water tuletion there is still a great deal of aland forty years ago the internal, combustion engine demonstrated variety, the tubes are of especial that there was at least one other design and full arrangements have method. Looking back over the past been made to allow for expansion it seems certain that if there had

and contraction. been no ridiculous "Red Flag Act": in Britain, the steam motor-car

Unfortu

This steam generator is to work

divergence of opinion amongst the experts. Revently there have been

held in England two joint motings

TAXI CABS: HERE AND AT HOME.

A rerent issue of The Motur tele gives some extracts from official notices posted by the Tokyo police in one of the stations.

There is to be a reduction in the of members of the Institution of tariff of all taxis running within Mechanical Engineers and the the London area. Indeed the re- Chemienl Engineering Groms. daction may now be in force. The would have been developed by the at a range of from 400 to 800 g. After some papers that revealed į pre-war rate was sil, a mile and the sage, tootle him with vigour, and presie per square inch and therent industry on the part of the reduction now authorised by the tine that the locomotive became a

fuel used in the two stage combus-1 authors had been read and discuss Home Secretary is from one shilling really efficient engine. nately speeding along the roads tion burner of the boiler is a dis-ed the general impression left, ating to ninepence a mile and wait-

tillate fuel oil, kerosene and other least on a person reading reports ing time is to be charged at four ¦ tions appeared had the comprehen

of the proceedings, is that there is shillings an hour. was considered impossible.

If there had been no "Red Flag

still a great deal that is unknown Act in Britain the engineers of that country (who were doing all of the pioneer work in marine and land transportation) would have tarned their attention to

CAT'S.

motor

BACK TO STEAM. Recently the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in England listened to a description of a new type of locomotive that may easily be the forerunner of a new type of road vehicle.

The main idea is this: The engine [AFR] is at once an internal combustion engine and a steam engine. With the ordinary motorcar engine only one side of the piston is utilised, the other being open to the atmos- phere. The old four stroke cycle of operations for the internal combus tion engine goes on

in the new engine on the top end of the piston. Ou the under side of the piston

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THE ORIGINAL

MALTED MILK

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of all Chemists & Stores

Representative-Mr. H. M. HODGES, P.0. Box 1871, Shanghai.

stenu is used.

low grade fuels and is much cheaper than petrol.

about both the theory and the practice of lubrication.

Many will agree with Dr. Hele

la London there are four firms

who practically, between them, run all of the taxis, about 8,000 cabs being owned by these four fins

When the passenger of the foot heave in sight, tootle horn; trum- pet at him, melodiously at first, but if he still abstacles your pas express by word of mouth the warn-

The heading under which the above and the following Bugges

titie "Suggestions for the

Here is another effort. "Give big space to the festivo dog that shall sport in the roadway" in order that entanglements of the

Avoided."

sive

Road."

There is a jet condenser, a water cooling radiator and an exhaust.

According to driven fau. manufacturers the fuel consumption of the engineer to move things about ' is about the same in quantity as band to keep them moving. That the petrol consumption of the ordi- is impossible without lubrication. Dary amiibus.

the Shaw who said that it is the duty They rent the taxi to the driver on dog with the wheel spokes shall be

a maintenance agreement.

Many people think that it would

Then again there is :- "Beware the wandering horse,

pass him by, do not explode an that he shall not take fright as you exhaust blow at him. Go soothing-

It has been said that it is Jubrien-etually pay the taxi drivers if the tion that makes moving machines cut bad been greater-say down to

sixpence intend of minepence sy by," possible.

mile. The argument is that moreį people would use the taxis if the fares were at eixpence as a mini-

mum.

What seems to be needed in Hong

Perhaps the contributor who sent the extracts for publication was a driver who carefully

motor-car

selected a journal that circulates amongst motor cyclists in the hope that when they pass motor-cars on their motor-bikes they will soothingly by."

There can be no doubt that the great incentive to inventors and

Try it seems to be the only designers at work on steam engines for road transport is the belief that method of finding out the value of the fuel bill will be much less than & lubricant, Many of the motor

When one manufacturers recommend this ori with petrol engines. considers the value to a nation of that particular brand of lubricat a great invention (such as the Paring oil for the mechanism of the Kong is a new type of taxi-cab that son's steam turbine) it seems strange engine. Unless there is a very good will replace the ricksha. A fleet of that the Government does not spend reason, such as a definite guaran-smal! Austin Sevens at a minimum more money on scientific research tee from one of the well-known oil faïe of twenty cents might pay very companies, it is unwise to use any well indeed. The car would need in connection with road transport.

to be a two-seater, with casy access, ingly by." and exit arrangements.

THE POPULAR POWER.

On September 30th, 1926, the total number of private cars in Great Britain was 696,232. Of that num

It is, of course, auch easier to carry a good supply of water for -stemm' raising purposes on a locomober 600,193 were registered in Eng" Live than on a motor-ear, but if the land, 54.478 in Scotland and 29,201 designer really wanted to arrange in Wales."

for water tanks on the chassis he would be able to do so.

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES. There are steam engines in nee for commercial vehicles on the roads and they manage to carry a suf- facient water supply. No doubt the first development of this new idea wilt he with commercial vehicles, and the experience so gained will doubtless lead to experiments by the makers of touring cars."

It is of interest to note that in Wales the number of inotor eyeles registered is greater than the num ber of notor-cars. The motor- yeles number 32,216 and the ears 20,291. In England the number of motor-cycles registered was 437,207 and in Scotland the total

49,491.

was

THE WINNING NUMBER. It is remarkable that in Great Britain there are only 96 cars of tax rating of 50 horse-power or over. There are 608 owners who pay £45 a year tax.

What is the popular size of engine?

The prospect which appeals to the owner driver very much indeed is the replacement of the electrical self-starter by steam for the great advantage which the steam engine. hua over the internal combustion engine is the ense of starting up.

A great deal of mechanical in- Kennity has been displayed in con- nection with modern self starters but in the end they all have one great wenkness-the storage battery that still worries many an owner driver. Great are the advantages of electricity, but great also is the anxiety caused by the battery, Anything electrical is a worry in driven cars with engines in the class

It is the (tax-rating) 12 horse- power engine. That easily wins. The total number of cars in Great Britain rated at 12 horse-power works out at 176,940. The "run- mer-up" is the 11 horse-power car, of which 66,169

recorded. There, were 41,038 cars at 10 horse- power rating. There were 540 elec- trictly driven cars and 573 petroli

were

the tropics because the humidity between 1 h.p. and 6 h.p.

affects insulation.

ECONOMY FIRST.

It is

The storage battery has a big

A study of these figures showB strain put on to it when the self- starter is at work. If there were that the economical car is the popu only the lighting of the car the lar cur in Great Britain. battery could manage that fairly probable that in North America the easily. It is the sudden demand most popular car is one that would for a relatively big supply of elev be about 2 horse-power | English trical energy when we press the tax-rating. The popularity of the switch of the self starter that does now Erskine model shows, however, that smaller powers are bravely the damage.

competing.

If we can rise steun on one side

of the engine we have no need for The system of taxation of cars an electrical self-starter. It is even that obtaine in Great Britain helps possible that we shall be able to do to make the car with a small engine without gear box, or at any rate popular, but the petrol and tyre the low gear needed for starting the bills also have their effect on the

motorist.

Car.

other lubricant than those recom- mended by the mankers;

Cents for oil or

dollars for repairs

It is only fair to add that great efforts are being mado by many people who are interested in motor- gyeles to improve the silencers. We hope that in time all motor- hikes on the road will go sooth-

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