MOTORING NOTES
(CONTD.),
THE MOTOR AGE.
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'SCORCHING". ACROSS EUROPE. COPING WITH INCREASED TRAFFIC.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4th. 1928.
French authorities are now con-
sidering the problem of linking up with These Emportant Trans-Con timental routes, and the French suggestions are certainly nuda; cious..
It is proposed that ronds from Dieppe, Havre and Cherbourg sha ment in Paris, and that that road and the motorway from Canville, Brest and Saint Nazaire will all converge of Tours.
From Tours there will be one ad to Lyons. There it will split up into this, one going to Mas Gigantic projecte me now, under a second to Save and the consideration regarding toow mezin third direct to Gienna, whers"all roads Beress the Continent of $112-
Le w'il le comected by a const Europe
voul with the Gouin-Swis
A German-Swiss italian nann highway. sortium has been farmed; and it is
Planning two great Trans-Con
tinental roads for mutanol£les.
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On the roads nothing will be permittel ve fast motor traffic. and a speed of 10 miles an hour will be the mingetan.
One of the Fonds will begin at Hamburg and will go across ciun- & try to Frankle on-Ma'n, Bader Zurich, Milan and firma,
Another coming from Stettin, will pass Bertin, Leipzig, Munich and Verona, und wili jóla the first at Genna,
From Genes the road will l eni. Pisa. Florence. Rome and Nußles, to Regio, at the extreme southern pin "of the boot" of Italy.
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"The great advantage of such roads will be that there will be no villages and towas to pass through, th nigh special side roads will lend to the various places en route.
It is felt that if motor trafen reases in the next few years as it has done in the past half-dozen years, traffe on the existing kind of high ronds will become impos
unless sile
of this acheme special automobile roads rapidly materialiars,
"Moving Obstructions,
Should the engine peter out after | flooding there may be an air Jock | (due to the lack of an air release in the fillervay or else ta når i rapped in the ads of the petrol wipe), checked vent hole in the button, some moving tickler obstruction in the petrol pipe (blow through it Tron both onda, Booding (punetored float. t needle, or dirt of needle seat). much too weak a mixture, very bad or tenrly spirit, or an empty empty tank. All this presupposes that the valves are working proper- to such ne extent that the railwaysy and the petrol really is rurard are finding, it'difficult as copë with
Tourist traffic has during the past two or three years increased
16 ja therefore necessary to add to traval facilities "by ereating these great motor highways. The interesting poins, mans the
Tourists who bring milliards of French motor roads is that theytes to France will, it is belly naive the railways and swirly deed, appereinte this mods of travel, as it will able them to see much vyted to inter traffic.
more of the country than they would otherwise,
will be overhaul roads construite
It is hoped, two that two; over- head motor" Finds from Bordeaps wilf link un with the exatom at Saumur and Tours.
On thew projected"rontis, motors red wil de "praefcally un- limited,
They will be froma sõit, to 100ft. wide and will have petrol station and restaurante nt Estery,!s.
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Misturing due to water in the car- buretter is nearly always accom panded by loud banging - noises Too weak a from the silencer. mixture enuses popping hack in the carburetter, and is cured l fitting a larger jet.
The of flooding are obvious.
symptoms
Nome of these small ailments is Plans for the construction of
so cumpliented as description on mistor reads in this country have Paper may make it seen. They arè vfairly numerons, however, so been put forward at various times not blame yourself if you are
KIL in recent years.
not find a troubls at onek, We have al lawn fawed in our time, and will be again!-Rex Brittain.
A London-to-Birmingham major way, to be carried through Chy private enterprise at a vosk of £6,300,000, has been proposed.
Larel Montagu of Beaudeu his
Af minor roads en runde will lead up to them, and at rill' points where there are cross-roads there given details of a private pro- will be a perfect system of signal ling.
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from London to Manchester, to jret for constructing a motor rad
Post £15,000,000.
A projected motorway from In- don to Livepral met with opposÍ -
oh from the cuibways.
This Northern and Western motor-was from Coventry' to Moun- chester, linking up. Bruingham and the industrial Midlands, bas also been put forward
Tu February 1923 the Minister of Transport foreshadowed the von struction of a long stritch of main road, parallel to one of the coun try's great trunk ronds, for 'experi Untal purpI809.
A £4.500,000 schrine te engatract a special risad from London” „to Brighton for motor vehicles only, with 40 miles of special track pl thlord the support. in April 1525, of a new company to carry in ont.
DOCTORING THE MOTOR-CYCLE.
TROUBLES THAT BAFFLE THE MOST EXPERT.
SLOW AND SURE METHODS REST.
Not all minor moter-eveling troubles are electrical in their origin, though the long-suffering components which are responsible For the spark are blamed for near- ly verything-especially when the eamen is baffling..
The arrangements. by which a
•properly stomised mist of petroli and air in fed to the engine are so simple and effi lens that we ne apt to take their working for granted Yet, like everything else mechanical, they are to some small. extent liable to derangement through neglect or simple mis- chance.
Intermittent mixfring is difficult in diagnose i may be trely an oily sparking-plug, or an electrical connetion which has worked loose, or an ailing magrejp, Sonstimes the fact that it censes when the engine is revved up may con firm you in this impression, as at higher rates of speed the spark is naturally stronger.
Ingenious Diognosia,
But the most ingenious diagnosis may prove to be wrong, The majority of nechanjes, however ex- pert, with admit- they are honest that at one time or another they have gone so far as to regnove And test the magecto when the fault ultimately proved to have nothing to do with the spark at all. Though some men have an un- canny ability for going straight to the root of the trouble, however obscure and misleading, the dead certain method of dingnosis does not exist. Long experience tempis me to say that, if you are sure it is carburation suspect electrical trouble, and vice versa.
methods "of
Slow and "analysis seem to pay best, and by the time you have carried them to a logical end you will have learned some new Chung--which. is
why motor cycling is such a perpetually fascinating hobby, apart from being a sport. You
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cam never know it all;" even if you have ridden for a quarter of a century your 1928 mount will spring some totally new surprise.
The Choked Jet.
If there is a really lively spark at the plug points it will probably (though not certainly) fire the mix- ture under compression, so it is best to look elsewhere.
If the engine does not start int all look for a choked jet, dirt, or water (the last véry elusive) rising and falling in jet, dirs in the passage from the float chamber to the t (or quite possibly water); a chored petrol pipe, or petrul filter. If the carburetter floods quite freely try the jet first. If it does not, this gives you a clear in- dication that there is something wrong. between the tank and the float chamber.
PREVIOUS BOY FORGER. FAKED DOCTOR'S NOTE TO
PLAY TRUANT. "
An Egham. Surrey, boy, aged 1, who was charged at Chesses th theit adrited that he had
Forged doctor's evetificate saying he was unable to attend school „for seven days owing to influenza.
Sent a small boy into a shop for a pair of trousers, which he after- wards sold.
Obtained three pairs of Hanuel trousery from another tradesman by writing a letter. There he hid in some bushes.
Stolen & carriage watch. Stolen rubber stamps from his schoolmaster's private room.
Stolen a razor from & hairdress- er's shop.
The boy's schoolmaster, said he believed the boy had a mental kink, He was excellent in school work.
The Chairman (Mr. J. H. W. Pilcher to the boy: What did you do these things for "I don't know,"
He was placed on probation for two years on condition he went to stay with an hunt in London.
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