1927-06-15 — Page 8

Overland "Whippet" Cars.

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.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15th, 1927.

MOTORING NOTES

Wherever you motor, Wherever you park- COUNT THE

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

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Notes and News-Spare Parts-Tyres-Car with Sleeping Outfit-Noise..

NOTES AND NEWS.

Mr. W, R. Morris, head of the famous firm of Morris Motore, Lid, has promised to subscribe £15,000 to Coventry Hospital on condition that this year's 'carnival produces not less than £5,000.

SPARE PARTS.

AN ADMIRABLE LOCAL ENTERPRISE.

The bugbear of Hong Kong motorists who oven vars of a not

The Unapproachable Norton" particularly popular inake seems is still smashing speed records. On to be that they cannot obtain a

Bervice at April end, that well-known' jockey satisfactory

spares.

CARE AND MAIN- TENANCE.

•Here are a few notes on main- tenance from the Log of an Ordi- nary Owner -

At 2,000 miles the tuppets became noisy, and with some trepilatur the job of resetting the cearances was tackled. It was, however, su- prisingly alaple, especially as the

of the Norton stable, A. Denley, There is a plenitude of spares for covered the kile on Brooklands at the popular mass-production Ameri-tool kit contained a feeler gauge. the amazing speed of 109.22..p.h.can car; in fact one could prob This was followed by draining the a world's record and the fastest bly build a complete machine from sunip and, arguing that-in any case "speed" ever attained on a single spare parts. But if one hak rashly it would be as well to clean the

innde one's sell the owner of an oil filter, the proper draining ping. cylinder motor-cycle.

A certain Asiatic paper features O'Grady or a two-cylinder Strudel, was left in place and the old oil "a page contributed by the Presi- how shall one obtain a new crank-removed by the simple expedient of shaft, or replace a damaged piston. taking out the filter As the orifice dent of a "College of Automotive

is almost flush with the bottom el and Electrical Trades, Chicago, or find new gears for the box?

It will come as a relief to a great the crankcase, little residue was 11.," and on this page recently ap- peared an article headed Koopmany local motorists that there is left behind. The sudden acquisition _your_foot on the Clutch" Wise at least one garage in the town that of three-quarters of a gallon of

Was somewhat ; drivers will ignore this mal-advice can be relied upon to fill the breach. filthy black al if they value their clutch with If this handy firm has not the parti ufarming, but the obvious difficulty drawal bearings. So bad is the cular part in stock, does it send was overcame by digging a hole in practice that the L.G.O.C. buses to England or America for it, the corner of the garden and bury- bear little notices forbidding it, keeping its unhappy customer waiting all but a quart or so, which The famous Flying Squad of ing for eight or ten weeks? No; was retained and used successfully Scotland Yard is to be a flying it turns to its plant and makes the on door locks, hinges and so on. sqund, indeed, for a fleet of cars

required sparc. with a guaranteed speed of over 70 m.ph. is being provided for it. When on active service they will carry a sign bearing the words Metropolitan Police," which will be illuminated at night.

The Dragon Motor Garage, Ltd., at Happy Valley carries in its stock room spares parts and accessories to the value of 800,000.

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Exhaust cut-outs fer cars and motor-cycles are to be made illegal

--In the stock-room ard spare parts and accessories to the value of 800,000; such a stock should prove ample for a small colony. The he wished people would take a look manager told me the other day that round the stork room before buying a car if they did so, they would future. A car is as good as its save themselves auch regres in the spares service," he said succinctly.

This firm has 3o its workshops plant worth from $25,000 to $30,000, with which it can accomplish almost anything that is likely to be re quired. The stock of paint carried is alone worth 85,000.

as this, Hong Kong motorists have With such an enterprising garage little cause to complain at the ser- vice they receive.

CAR WITH SLEEPING. OUTFIT..

in Hong Kong.

Apparently road congestion in the Old Country is not quite the evil bogey that it is popularly sup- posed to be. "In one day quite recently I covered 200 miles on good main roads among the Cotswolds," writes "Focus" in the Light Car and Cyclecar. And although the weather was iden! I travelled mile The automobile industry is now after mile without meeting another progressing to rapidly and along. vehicle. A friend of mine had a quite impossible to describe any such unexpected channels that it is similar experience in the. Midlands. thing as the last word." But the Of course, if conditions around Standard Company have put on the London and the large cities are market something remarkably near taken as evidency it is easy to draw it. Their novelty is a car that can erroneous conclusions, but motor quickly and easily be turned into a vehicles will require to be multipli-sleeping compartment, so fitted out ed enormously before such condi- that it be used as a tolerably tion become general,!

comfortable wayside hostel or an Any motorist who has travelled consists of a black curtain to fit all-night sleeper. The equipment up or down that famous trunk along both sides and along the highway, the Great North Road front screen, a curtain for the rear especially in winter-will allow window, two pneumatic pillows and that this is so mis-staternent.

During his record breaking drive at Daytona Beach, Major Segrave used K.L.G. plugs in his 1,000 h.p. Sunbeam car.

The Associated Daimler Com pany, of Britain, recently received a repent order from, the Argentine for no less than seventy of their low-loading passenger chasses, to be fitted with 28 seater double-deck bodies.

America claims to be the pioneer of the sleeve. valve engine, It is elainel that the double sleeve en- gine was invented over 24 years ago by a Chicago engineer,

TYRES

Tyres are alwaye FLYI

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one of the upholstery units, and a slips, folding legs for attachment to pillow support hinged to the body framing behind the rear sea quito netting is also provided. This useful equipment-adaptable, alike to the 14-28 h.p. and the 18.30 h.p. models-is priced at only £5, and when not in use can be stowed into the rear seat squab.

NOISE]

Noises and rattles im cars are frequently very hard to eliminate since the cause cannot be traced. car owner was once troubled by

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a noise that only became clearly audible at some 35 m.p.., but be came deafening at 40. For several expensive days he examined the bonnet and itain, especially balloon tyres or clutch, fan and generator drives, tyres for high-powered cars. They subtle ruses could banish the dis- but no amount of packing and form a substantial part of every motorists running expenses account, cordant sound. At last it was Here is information, that if not found to be caused by a loose cowl- Lexactly news, will at least serve to ventilator!

impress upon local motorists that

At a local inquest ou Monday on. that the open road in the Far East a girl who had been run over and has its advantages-conomically. killed by a motor bus as shu Tyres are cheaper in Hong Kong stepped off the pavement outside a perhaps throughout the Enat-than mission, the jury recommended that anywhere else in the world. It is signboards should be erected out- possible to buy the leading makes side all churches and other places here at & lower price than would be of assembly. The type, proposed obtainable at the factory gates, was that used in England and eleg either in Amerion or Britain. A whore to give warning of the well-known local denler explained proach to a school of steep hill. the reason for this amzing fact. Such a proposal is hardly likely to The price-war out here is very find favour with municipal authori koen in the tyre market," he said, ties, or even with the public. The and every firm is out to cut its public is naturally expected to rivals throat, If Firestone relook after itself to a certain ex- duces prices, Goodrich will also retent, at lenet. At a famous junc duce; and they would fight each tion in New York there is sign other in that way for ten years hearing a skull and crossbones, before either would withdraw from beneath which is the laconic legend, the market."

I will get you taking chances.".

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At a very early stage in the life of the ear the clutch-of the leather cone type-became very herec.. Washing it out with petrol proved to be only a temporary cure, so, which recommended that treatment disregarding the instruction hook alone, about 12 drops of collan oil were injected with a cycle oil can, that the several parts of the dutch the starting handle being turned so obtained their duq quota, An assistant, of course, depressed the clutch pedal so that the oil could be introduced just where it was

Overland "Whippet" Cars.

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5 Senter Tourer...... G$ 000

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Sestor Coach... $1,000

5 Seater Sedan (door) G$1,100 Seater Brougham... G$1,150

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(Continued on page, 9.)

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