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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 1927.

MOTORING NOTES

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

DUNLOP

TYRES

AS STANDARD EQUIPMENT.

DUNLOP RUBBER CO.

LIMITED.

-18à, Dzs Vœux-BOAD-CENTRAL.-

THE Car Manufacturer natur-

ally has to take responsibility for the entire excellence of his product even though he pur Chases certain component paris (such as tyres) from outside sources. No wonder that he takes every precaution to ensure that everything he fits is the very best obtainable, and no wonder that practically every British Car Manufacturer fits

DUNLOP

TYRES

It is

as standard equipment! wise policy to rely on the know. ledge of the car maker and replace with Dunlop when the original tyres have lived their life (a long, long life when the tyres are Dunlop) |

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ENJOY LUXURY MORTORING

AT RICKSHAW PRICES

by owning

Austin Seven

For full Particulars of this Model, emphatically the finest value you can get for your money to-day, please enquire from the Agents.

ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.

Prince's Building and la, Chater Road. Telephones: C. 27 and C. 2387.

(4.7.319)

Motor Notes Commercial Vehicles-Motor "Team" Racing Tactics-Greatest Speed on Land

MOTOR NOTES. COMMERCIAL

A ROYAL CHOICE.

It is known that Her Majesty Whilhelmina of Holland always supports the Dutch automobila în dustry by using exclusively Spyker moter cars the Spyker being the only car of Dutch make.

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VEHICLES.

BIG DEVELOPMENTS IN

6 WHEELERS.

RECENT EXHIBITS AT OLYMPIA,

Morris Commercial Cars. The in- ! gime has a nominal rating of 13.9 h.p., and the useful load capacity of the vehicle is 30 cwt, to 2 tons, The type must obviously. be woll suited to carry a" coach body of tho moderate proportions, but

the proent example staged at Show is fitted with a complete fire- fighting equipment, incorporating a pump driven from the transmis- son, in addition to chemicas ex- What is called the rigid sixtinguishers and other appliances. wheeler is a comparatively new de. Available at a moderate price, this velopment, but it has already Morris fire-fighter should find, a separated out into two fairly dis ready market among - Municipali tinct groups designed with equally ties and owners of large estates, distinct objects. In the one group its abilities in respect of cross- we have six-wheeled chassis intend- country work being an important fcil to carry bue or coach bodies. point in ita favour.

Here the main object of increasing the number of wheels is to give larger carrying capacity without increasing the axle weight and, st the same time, to give smoother running over rough roads, and to produce vehicles lese injurious to The introduction of a service of roads of light construction. Clyne taxis in Hong Kong, earlying within this first group are in the New Year, should help to many interesting modela. popularize this extremely efficient British car, which does not seem, up to date, to have achieved the success that it deserves.

Now, after the liquidation of this automobite factory, Her Majesty had to select from choice of foreign makes; by no mcane an easy matter. A few days ago the General Motors Company of Paris had the pleasure of receiv. ing telegraphic advice that the Queen had selected the intest model Caddilac This royal distinction is wonderful tribute to 23 years of Cadillac manufacturing, which was commemorated in August last.

CLYNOS IN HONG KONG.

The second group of six-wheelers is, as has been mentioned, designed from a somewhat different stand- point. Here the object is primari Jy to produce a vehicle capable both of travelling at satisfactory speeds on main roads and of suc- Com-cessfully negotiating unanade

tracks or traveling across country. Some of the machines in this group are not much dissimilar from those

already described, while others differ a very essential features."

Six-Wheeled "Passenger Vehiclas.

The Associated Daimler Co. show a six-steeled omtibus of large

Approved By The War Office. The Clyno is a thoroughly end completely covered. The en- Fearrying capacity, - double-decked

The six-wheeled Albion chassis „cient and economical machine,

gines & 60-120 h.p. sleeve-valve, for useful loads of 4 tous has been cheap in price and very easy o Daimler. The vehicle is equipped built to comply with the War Office petrol and oil. Its powers of hill with climbing are excellent, and it has brakes on all wheels, which are at really substantial paying load. Westinghouse air-operated subsidy specification, and to carry. more than enough speed for any ted with 38 ina. 3 in, pneumatic The engine is of the well known normal work

tyres. The body framing is entire | Albion 30-45 hp. type; the cool- ly of lightweight metal construeing system has been designed to tion, all members subjected to cope with tropical and arduous stress being composed duralumin, which is also used ex behind the main gearbox enables of conditions. The auxiliary gearbox elusively for the exterior pariels, full engine power to be developed floors, roof and fittings. The seat at very slow travelling speeds when exceptionally adverse conditions particularly comfortable Unare encountered. The rear brakes encouraging the use of pneumatic the Dewandre vacuum servo system doubtedly the six-wheeled chassis is operate on all four driving wheels,

tyred totally-enclosed double being employed. The deckers which can competa success clearance with standard tyre equip- ground fully with the tram-car in the only ment is 11 inches; the rear tyres respect in which the latter has being 8 inch single pneumatics. hitherto been able to claim an ad- vantage; that is to say, the pas

enger carrying capacity.

LOCK-UPS IN KOWLOON.

One of the most serious questions connected with the maintenance of a car is the question of garaging If the car owner happens to have his own private garage the matters accommodation on both decks is naturally simplified, and it is left to his own initiative whether it is to be merely a structure to protect the car from the vagaries of the weather when it is not in use, or whether it is to be a lavishly fitted workshop where all the little. in cidental ills to which the motor car is heir can be doctored and set right.

A 72-Seater Bus Chassis. One of the most impressive ex hibits at the Show is the six-wheel

The

Wood Fuel For A Petrol Engine.

The Karriar goods-carrying x- wheler may fairly be ended the To those who are not fortunate

Britain. It is built to comply pioneer of the type in Great enough to poses a private garage the question is really pressing. The

with the War Department require service nowadays in public garages ed Karrier passenger chassis, whichment and will carry a three ton is on the whole extremely good, and forms the basis of a 72 seater 'bus, load on roads or two tons across cars are well cared for at a very

This chassis is a magnificent piece country without difficulty. moderate rate. Cleaning and small of engineering. The power is de-

vehicle exhibited i fitted with a repairs are done by elilled men,rived from a single-sleeve-valve en-

patent gas producing plant which often far more expeditiously and me developing up to 120 b.p.. and enables ordinary wood to be used efficiently than by the owner. Yet combining fine acceleration with an

as a fuel; 20 lbs. giving an equiva in spite of all this there are many needs and, low fuel consumption. admirable lack of vibration at all

lent performance to a gallon of disadvantages in the public guzugę, especially to the man who regards cessibly placed on the rear side. the petrol installation; as a conse

petrol. The fitting of the produser. The engine auxiliaries are all a does not interfere in any way with his car more as a human being. than a machine to transport him The crankshaft runs on ten bear

ings, with central Bywheel; the mixture of the two may be employ

quence either petrol or gas, or a from place to place.

occurs.

This type of man can never be ingle plate clutch is air cooled ed. Thus, petrol may, for exam entirely happy while his car lies and a rotary-vel oil cooler le pro-ple, be used when starting, the ga night after night at a public garage fitted and provision is also made about ten minutes. Another in- videi. Air pressure brakes are becoming available from cold in There are so many little accidents for operating the brakes mechani- teresting Sitting on this vehicle is which might, and occasionally do occur in the rush and hurry of busi- cally if required. The vehicle is

apateat winch gear which," of ness. As a result perhaps a wing provided with two inter-connected course, increases its ability to is scraped or some petty pilfering petrol tanks of large capacity and,

while space does not permit of rdinarily awkward position.

extricate itself from any extraor A real boon to the car owner is ference to all the other interesting the lock-up garage, a place with features, one cannot avoid mention expert service close at hand, and of the beautifully designed and im yet providing absolute security for mensely strong spectacled" frame the car. The "Duro" Motor Co. of mckelled steel.

The Latest Patrol-Electric, have realized this and hope to start immediately upon a programme of In a sense intermediate between building which will eventually result the trolley bus and the ordinary in the provision of 60 lock-up petrol bus is the petrol electric garages at the back of their pre-omnibus, which combines the ad- mises in Nathan Road.

In taking this action the company are not only providing for a long felt want, but are giving an added encouragement to motorists on the side which undoubtedly gives far greater scope to the motor-car.

BETWEEN RIO AND BUENOS AIRES.

"

Eight Whesis Next, Another entirely new Scamziol]

production is an eight-wheeler,

which is a development from the well known Scammell fexible, six- wheeler of the tractor-trailer "type and is designed to carry 13 toss. The engine gives over 70 hp. on the brake and the gearbox provides vantage of the smooth acceleration 4 speeds. The carrier or trailer of the electrical machine with the portion of the machine, in place power of completely free movement, of a single axle, has two short which cannot be possessed by any axles, arranged in line, each carry. machine that has to keep in tquching two wheels on roller bearings. with overhead wires. Messrs. Between each pair of wheels is a Tilling-Steven have now produced broad leaf spring so connected that aix-wheeled electric bus chassis each axle is free to oscillate shout with many points of interest. The longitudinal axis. Thus the engine is of Ricardo design, having proper distribution of the weight 4 cylenders and developing 92 h.p. over the four tyres is secured, the Lowering the best previous time Obviously the reasons which in road camber being accurately fot of 43 days between Rio de Janeiro fuence many manufacturery to lowed. and Buenos Aires by 20 days a adept the six-cylinder engine do Light Six Stridebaker, with already not apply in the same way in this more than 100,000 miles behind it, case, since the transmission is pure, completed successfully the first lap ly electrical, there being of its hazardous trip of approns mately 20,000 miles from Rio to New York City.

A Six-Wheel Drive. The latest production of the Four no Wheel Drive Lorry Co. goes beyond mechanical connection between the the firm's name, inasmuch ni, engine and the road wheels The instead of four wheels it has sit, electrical apparatus used on the all of which are positively driven The drivers of the veteran car, Tilling-Stevens is of a type that by the engine. Even with only Mario -Baroni and Casimero has very successfully survived a four wheels this type of vehicle Scuderoni, also made a new record large scale practical test over a might be fairly classified as in the on the second lap of their hemi-period of something approaching cross-country class; initas sphere to hemisphere" journey twenty years, so there is nothing in when they rolled into La Paz, the the least experimental in this new capital of Bolivia, 18 days out of model. The units are so arranged Buenos Aires. To reach La Paz in the chassis that a very low load the drivers had to cross the Bolivian line is obtained and the chassis can border at Tres Cruces," a lofty mountain pass covered with snow,

In La Paz they caught up with another car, with New York City also on its objective, and learned that its drivers had taken five months to cover the distance be tween Buenos Aires and La Paz.

Never before has a veteran · ear

wheeled form it is difficult to ge how it can be surpassed by ang existing wheeled vehicle in cross- country work. It has an exce)- tionally efficient cooling systems and accommodate a body taking 70 para auxiliary gearbox to enable full sengers, or can carry a dead foad agine power to be utiEsed at very of about / tomare chien Flow travelling speeds. The ability

Morris 6-Wheel Fire Fighter.

of this machṛe to extricate itself. |

six-wheelers is that produced by It is of course, in to mall The lightest of all the British tions must be seen to be believed. put of apparently impossible posi-

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measure due to the fact that the front wheels are not merely being

been subjected to such a gruelling Countries to be traversed include pushed, but are themselves actively teat of ita rugged, durable construc-zcerly overy typographical charão assisting the propulsion of the tion. The Studebaker will push up teristic, known to the geologist. | whole, machine. The rear suspen through the forests of Peosme, and Plains, forests, swollen and dritd-up sion is on the War Office paterb Central America, into Mexico, and rivere, mountain zones, snowy ze principle and the vehicle should United States.

by gions—even sections unknown to the be of great value fox military m (Continued at foot of next column.) I tread of an automobile wheel. well as for civilian purposes;

SERVICE

It is our carnest endeavour to ensure that layers of Willys-Knight & "Whippet" Motor Cars are not only satisfied at time of purchase, but remain satisfied throughout the lives of their Carai

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