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WHIPPETS.”

Odel "$6" 6 Sealer Coach—

G. $1,000.

SEE THIS CAR!

Study the protfoation and put the Car to

say test you wish.

You will realise that,

although you may buy many more costly cars, you cannot get better value for your money" than a "Whippet" offers..you.

GILMAN & CO., LTD. Į DÚRŰ MOTOR CO., LTD."

Howo Kosa.

KOWLOON.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1927.

MOTORING NOTES

Motor Car Users Owner-Drivers Owners

Read This Cable Received

From London.

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

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Motor Notes Sportsmanship in Motoring-The New Clyno Cars-The Silencer

Problem-Light Cars.

MOTOR NOTES. | THE SILENCER PROBLEM.

WHAT WILLY'S KNIGHT DESIGNERS ARE DOING."

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After November, 1st licences for motor-driving will be issued at Amsterdam only to applicants test- ed by the official experts and who, are provided with medical certificar, most automobile engineers have cates as to their fitness which must not be more than a fortnight old.

The oil strainer is the most com mon cause of trouble in the lubri cating system, and it is advisable

to remove the strainer about every 2,000 miles for cleaning.

La the development of the modern

devoted a great dead of time in their efforts to secure more silent operation of the car. In cars with

Poppet valve engines, noises which inevitably develop in the engine i self tend to drown sundry other noises which develop in other units. la cara powered with the Knight

double sleeve motor this order is exactly reversed. Due to the un- usual silence of the Willys-Knight

SPORTSMANSHIP

MOTORING.

SIGNALS THAT WOULD MAKE "OUR ROADS SAFER."

[BY JOHN PRIOLESU.]

WILLYS KNIGHT. MODEL "70" 6 CYL. DOUBLE SLEEVE VALVE.

TOURING CAR-0,#1,600

THE CAR THAT NEVER WHÅRS OUT,

An Owner writes: “ Mỹ Willys-Knight has gone.

140,000 Miles and has never given one minute's *trouble

This Car has had very "hard usage and every Mi's has been a hard A 135,000 miles I leesme anxiʊua to just how it was, wearing insile, so I had

*

at the pan taken off ........ the aleeren' were "perfect is was every other rart of the engine,

which showed no wear at all.”

GILMAN &"CO., LTD. | DURO MOTOR CO., LTD.

.Hơna Koud.

∙KOWLOOK.

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IN of the European countries which caution, and at the same time con- have any road systems at all, and veying to the driver that he was good many in other parts of the of a road of greater importance world. So long as the situation re-than the subsidiary road crossing mains such that nobody need neces- his. sarily be in the right, and overy body" enn quite easily be in the wrong, so long" shall we have very small check on accidents at erosa Toads and places where dispute on this point may conceivably arise in the minds of the victims.

In view of the local experiment with a beacon light that is evi- dently not too popular some in- torest attaches to Mr. Prioles's defence of the system in this article which appeared recently in the

Evening Standard:.

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My lighthouse system need not, however, entail. Priority. I should like to see the beginnings of road reform on lighthouse lines made by an appeal to the ingrained sports MOTORCYCLES INCREASE.

manship of the Englishman. If An article. I wrote the other day the system, which would be extreme Although the use of motorcycles

on the urgent need for the starly simple, were explained to him in the U.S. is decreasing, their motor expecially, the engineers have use throughout the world is increns had to eliminate all possible sources dardisation of a warning signals and the reasons for its adeption

of noises arising from the chassis

on the roads has brought me a num-given, he would at once see that he ing:

ber of interesting comments and and everyone else would be happier and body as the double sleeve en-, give actualy,gels quieter as it is criticisms. In the main, their au- and safer for a system of warrings subjected to wear and therefore thors wish to know on what lines which everyone would obey. sounds from the chassis tend to be-I would inaugurate my lighthouse come more noticeable. As a result system and how I would propose to the chassis of this car abounds with standardize the rule of the road as special features to insure the silent well as the warning. operation of the entire mechanical assembly under all conditions.

The world census until January 1st was 1,720,241, with the United Kingdom ranking first, Germany France third and the United States fourth.

Recond,

USE OF DIAMONDS. Because diamonds are the hardest things in the world they are used in the manufacture of automobiles.

would simultaneously receive n The car on the subsidiary road fashing signal orange in colour.. denoting need for caution and signalling that the road was secondary road.

These two distinctly different colours and the fact that the light is flashing in character "could be made to convey all the warning and their meaning and value ap necessary, both by day and night, preciated by the motorist to the same extent as now exists with all those who command or have had anything to do with a craft...

Red as a warning signal should. : be used most sparingly and only in extreme cases. I should say that the great majority of the positions marked upon the highway 15 Dangerous are not dangerous in themselves, but are made so by the careless driver. cond carved dangerously, there

Souses tould be stiitably placed.

traveller approaching this highway from a side road would sen exactly the same signals, with the

A To return to my, renders' ques- ́ tions, I set out my lighthouses in this way. Take any highway so like, such as the Portsmouth road or the Bath road, and imagine

That is a very apt comment. The rule of the road, as we know to our yourself to be driving away from It has been found with all Knight-cost, is absolutely inadequate for London. So long as the road was The hardest steel can be reduced to engined cars that the majority of the needs of modern travel. As straight you would be warned of dust in a very short time by bring mechnical noises arise from the things are at present, the traveller side roads to left or right by my ing it into contact with a grinding chassis and not from the engine, cedence over the traveller on an- nmediate caution arose.

on one road has no right of pre-lighthouses long before the need for and therefore che finds special

wheel, but on diamonds abrasives have little effect. What experts be-

diamond so hard that it is consider- ed a freat. Ten years' continuous

features of design on Knight-engin-

of the entire car throughout its life.

As an example, on both of the

third-class by read

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exception that where a greater mea sure of caution would be normally called for from him than from the traveller on the high road the dis tinguishing colour of the lantern would be changed...

Priority, as I said, is one of our chief needs, next to standardised do doubt that we shall come to it. warnings, and in the end I have

I believe that a lighthouse system

on the lines I have described would

lieve to be the hardest diamond in

other, even where the first is using clear right the flashing lights sa "A" class, and therefore main should be plainly visible a mile off. ably. No laws in the world are hastan its coming very consider- the world has been discovered,ed chassis to insure silent operation highway, and the latter a "C" or As you approached within twa or so elastically applied as English three hundred yards you would see, and in the light of so much I do not think that we shall get the bold black and white stripes of warning would, I am sure,

plain sense, A lighthouse system our road traffic properly reformed

teach the British road uses the im- until we institute, some form of

portance of having some sort of what I will call Priority, whereby

rule of the road that everyone can "A" roads have rights over "B" roads, "B" roads over "C" roads, and so on. I base this belief on some twenty peare driving in most

service in the Chevrolet factory has Willys-Knight chassis, Belfex, Shae reduced its original weight of 30 kles, formed of rubber impregnated carate to 25. But even this loss of five carats is considered triviare used to anchor the chassis when compared with the thousands upon thousands of dollars worth

this diamond bas outlasted.. WASHINGTON DESIGNS NEW

LICENCE PLATES.

springs to the frame in place of the usual style of shackle bolts. This arrangement prevents any metallic contact between the springs, and the frame and also provides for a much quieter chassis,, for these de- The 1928 automobile licence plates vices are not subject' to wear and of the State of Washington will be therefore cannot rattle after having i black letters on an orange back been in service for a long period. ground, according to information In addition to this feature, the rid received by the National Autoing qualities of the car are improv mobile Club. An order for 450,000 ed as the Belffex equipment pro- sets of plates has already heen vides à more flexible and cushion- made and work is going ahead ing effect between the springs and rapidly at the State licence plate frame than the steel type of shackle factory, which will also make bolts. licence plates for 1daho, as done the last two years.

Was

MORE WOMEN DRIVERS. Women motorists in Germany are reported to be on the increase. The police department in Berlin how issues permits to women at the rate of about 120 per month.

HIGH SPEEDS.

Furthermore, by using these rub- ber connections in place of the shackle bolts, the frequent necessity of greasing the shackles. is eliminated."

THE NEW CLYNO CARS.

Interesting informations to It did not need the new British hand concerning the new all-British seaplanes to demonstrate in the Clyno cars. An entirely new.9 Schneider Cup race that the aero which is available either as a Tour- h.p. model has been introduced

planc. is the fastest of man's trans-ing car, or as a Fabric Saloon. It port contrivances. That had al stands for motoring economy for

size it offers ample, accommodation In spite of its very modest engine for four fulled passengers, whilst on the level it is capable of fifty miles an hour.

ready been proved. Flight Lieu tenant Webster attained 281.45 miles per hour, but last year the Italian Major Bernhardi reached 246.493 and in the year before been much improved for Overseas The popular 11 h.p. Olyno has

Lieut. Doolittle (America) managed use. A new shape of radiator has 232.573. The 1923. speed was, how-waist line of the body and greatly besa adopted, which raises the ever, 177.28, and Major Segrave, in improves the general appearance. his motor car at Daytona beach last A grouped instrument board is fit March, did 203.841, so that the aero- ted. The flywheel is enclosed, the plane may be and to be only four clutch has been improved, and all years ahead of surface "vehicles." bodies are equipped with four It is interesting to reduce the door. This model is available with figures as far as we can discover n fabric saloon as well as with the them; lo time per mile, thus:~~...

usual body range., Seaplane

12.788 secs. Segrave's Motor Car 17.060 17 Motor Cycle Train Airship

Horse. Man

29.875

30.---

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33.643

1 min. 33 1/5

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The 18-35 hp. Clyna is a com pletely new design, incorporating most up-to-date principles. The hore and stroke are respectively 69.5 mm, by 105 mm, Forced lubrí- cation is provided to all parts. The 4 mina. 10 2/5

Ricardo anti-detonating type of Which of these will develop besi combustion head is adopted. The is not hard to guess. On straight fuel tank is slung at the rear of courses and in favourable condi- the chassis, the wheel-base of which tions acroplanes have unofficially is 2.in. larger than that, of the pre- recorded 300 miles an hour. The vious 12.28 h.p. Clyno which the time has conte, however, when we new car supersedes.

Here again must cease comparing air and land due attention has been paid to speeds and confine each group to Overseas requirements. The track ita element. That means that "in | is 4ft. 8ins, ground clearance § ins.. discussing aeroplane speeds we and the flywheel is enclosed. The must take birds 'and projectiles for top gear performaäcé, in Temurk- comparison.

"able,

round the supporting column bril liantly illuminated, as well as the white pedestal on which the light houses should stand.

In ordinary circumstances the lantern would flash a green light indicating in itself, the need for

Cents for oil or

dollars for repairs

-remember.

What we mast have, first and above all things, is a uniform and educate the rond-user in the way he universal danger-signal which will should go.

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