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FOURS & SIXES

INCREASED POWER T

LONGER WHEEL BASE

CHROMIUM PLATED RADIATORS

LONGER SPRINGS

GREATER BEAUTY

And LOWEST PRICES in their respective classəs

SHOWROOM SERVICE STATION

"DURO" MOTOR CO., LTD.

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

DISTRIBUTORS GILMAN & CO., LTD.

FIRST AUTOMOBILES HAD

NO SPARK PLUGS!

Motoriste nowadays know the im portant function of the spark plugs; but few realise that the first auto- mobiles sold in Amerisa were not equipped with them.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929.

STUDEBAKER 'CORPORA-

TION.

ENLARGES CANADIAN

OPERATIONS

MOTOR NOTES

AUTOMATIC BRAKE.

APPLIED WHEN ACCELERA- TOR IS RELEASED.

A motor-car with a foot-brake which is automatically applied the mement. the driver takes his foot From the accelerator has made its appearance.

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A THOUSAND-CAR GARAGE.

LONDON'S LATEST.

COTTON IN MOTOR TYRES.

Automobile tyres Are slowly taking the burden of passenger and freight loads away from wagons and carts throughout the world, but just what goes into a tyre to give it strength and durability to carry such loads swiftly and safely is not commonly known.

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It was the discovery of the val canizing process that made it pos sible to manufacture a rubber tyre with resilient strength and paved the way for the commercial era of the rubber industry.

"Charles Goodyear, after whom the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, U.S.A., was named was the discoverer of the valcaniz- ing process.

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WILLYS

KNIGHT

CARS & TRUCKS.·

SHOWROOM "DURO" MOTOR CO., LTD. SERVICE STATION J NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

DISTRIBUTORS -GILMAN & CO, LTD.

LOCKED-UP ENGINE. Į PARKED CAR ON RAILWAY

LINE.. A MYSTIFYING TROUBLE.

An

unusual and mystifying trouble which might baffle many ex- perienced motorists is described by Focus" in The Light Car and Cyclecar.

CANADA'S CARELESS

MOTORISTS.

For the first time royal patronage is being given to the opening of a garage in the West End of London. Next week the Duke of York is to open the new Lex Garge in Little During a test says the motor cor- Poultney Street and Lexington The belief that a tyre is made respondent of the Daily News. I Street. Only a short time ago Co-entirely of rabber may be held by was driven along a straight road Ionel Ashley, as Minister of Trans a few. In fact, there was a time at a speed of about fifty miles, anport, opened another of these big when it was believed that tyres hour. Suddenly the driver remov- garages, which it is hoped will do were cut out of rubber. ed his foot from the accelerator and much to relieve the pressing park- the car on its own account came to ing problem in the West End, but atandatil smoothly in the same "the Lex." which the latest and distance one would expect if the biggest of these, super-garages is ordinary foot-brake had been used. called, is something more remark- able. It has cost something like £180,000 to construct and can accom- modate over a 1,000 ears on its 100,000 square feet covering five floors. Moreover, all of these cars can be got out and the garage clear- ed in twenty minutes, a feat which the very latest of the American Cotton constitutes a vital part in garages "could scarcely equal.

the building of tyres. At the cot- Runways of an easy gradient are ton mill the cotton is woven into provided to the three higher doors cord. The Goodyear Company as well as to that in the basement maintains its own mills in various from four entrances, thus leaving parts of the United States so as to the lifts free for the use of mo-be able to manufacture the best The automatic brake will hold the toriats, who are furnished with grade of cord possible, which it was not until he had taken of Decurring on the railway lines of

sinks for dressing-rooms and bath known as Supertwist and is used other parts, involving three hours the radiator, manifolds and several rooms, while there is a clubroom

exclusively in Goodyear tyres. Each and waiting-room for chauffeurs. hale of cotton entering the Goodwork, that be discovered the cylin Being in the centre of theatredom, year mills is sampled and every and alled one of the cylinders with der head gasket had sprung & lenk the garage will help to solve the role of Supertwist is tested before problem of parking for theatre and use to see if it has the high ten-water, which, being incompressible,

clients, a restaurant

difficulty sile strength demanded and the naturally prevented the engine

from being turned. which managers say has seriously degree of elasticity required. affected their business, and at the Bame time it is likely to have the effect of bringing down the high tariffy for garage accommodation in Mayfair.

car on the steepest hill; this makes starting on a steep gradient easy, for it is not necessary to use the hand-brake.

The device is the invention of a young Swiss, M. Badertscher, and patents have been taken out in all parts of the world. It virtually re- Walkerville, Ont.-The Stude moves the necessity of the custom- It sounds odd, but it is a fact, baker Corporation of Canada, Ltd., ary foot-brake control, though one In the original one-cylinder car, has opened a new plant here for was fitted on the car for emergency according to H., Rabezzana, re, the manufacture of bodies

for purposes. search engineer of the AC Spark Studebaker and Erakine passenger When the car is at. rest and The opening of the neutral gear engaged the new brake Pug Company, ignition was accom. I automobiles. plished by a "hot tube which new plant, according to an an-is on. The driver engages the first had to be pre-heated by the motor.nouncement by D. R. Grossman, gear, lets in the clutch and ac- ist-usually with a blow torch. vice president and general manager, celerates—the brake is released and This hot tube was one of the marked the completion of the first the car starts. chief causes of uncertainly in major project in the corporation's pioneer motoring. It was slow in expansion programme made public reaching the right temperature, un-last year. certain in its functioning and its The company is increasing the we fraught with difficulty and dia use of Canadian materials, it is ger to the owner.

stated, and looks for export busi- nces to parts of the British Empire. to be stimulated under the influence of the preferential tarit. Extensive improvements have recently been carried out at the main unit or Plant No. 7. The new plant now In the intervening years of auto opened and in operation in all de motive progress, spark plugs, like holstering, trimming and painting partments on the construction, up- other componeat parts of the auto-of bodies is known as No. 9 and mobile, have been gradually deve loped and improved to the end that comprises 160,000 square feet in two they might be dependable, trouble arge buildings formerly occupied by

the Gotfredson Corporation. free apd long-lived. As a conse quence, there are spark plugs to-day

The first spark plugs introduced were surprisingly bad, the engineer reminds us, and if one of them were used in present day engines, it would not last a minute at wide open throttle.

early perfect na it is possible, for "men and machines to make' them.

SIDE-VALVE· ».. O.H.V.

ANOTHER AFRICAN

EXPEDITION.

An expedition has just started on the arduous journey from Cairo to the Cape.

Three Morris-Commercial Six Wheeled vehicles are being used end are in the form of two caravanis

One carn and a supplies wagon.

Which is the more populer, side. valve or overhead valve machine? Last year the Ariel output was re- presented by 10 per cent. side-valves and 60 per cent. O.E.V.'s. The OH.V. percentage was even then epcsidered extremely high, but to, van is used for dining and the day the figures show 68 per cent, other for sleeping, and both are O.E.V's and 31 per cent. side-luxuriously furnished and equipped

valves.

From this it would seem that the side-valve machine, once so popular, is now definitely on the wane. The fact that this is by no means due te a general lack of demand is shown by the fact that a recent week's orders for Ariels amounted to the high 5gure of 1,125.

with every possible convenience.

There is a neutral position on the accelerator pedal where the brake does not come into action and the engine can be used as a brake. This is to prevent constant braking on acceleration. But as soon as the accelerator pedal is allowed to come back beyond the neutral point, on

goes the brake.

sible, owing to the neutral position, After a little practice it is pos to use the accelerator in the same way as

foot-brake pedal and for choking or stopping.

"ROAD FINANCE.. MOTORISTS AND "LOCAL

AUTHORITIES.

THORNYCROFTS IN

AUSTRALIA.

Crude rubber in different lotu, af received from the Goodyear planta- tions, varies greatly in the manner in which it will cure after com- pounding. A bale of crude rübber is taken from each of four or five different lots and mixed together for blending.

Chemicals need in compounding are tested for their degree of purity And strength. From every batch of compounded rubber a sample is taken for curing in a small mold and tested for toughness and wear. ing ability.

Figures recently published sum- marising the registrations of com- mercial motor vehicles in Victoria, N.S.W., divulged the interesting fact that Thornycrofts were the only British make showing pro gressive increases for 1926-7 and 8. The load carrying ability of any This must be all the more gratify.pheumatic tyre depends entirely on The Automobile Association basing to the makers, in view of the. the capacity of the tyre to hold the addressed A letter to Highway fact that the total registrations of air within it. Therefore, it is the Authorities in England and Wales British built vehicles show a de- tyre's primary function to hold the eline, although it is hoped this is pressure of the inflated tube on the (a) the importance of accelerat-only temporary, in view of the big inside. It must also resist the ing the construction of new prospects for motor vehicles in the pressure on the outside from road roads and the widening of Australian market. existing arteries;

urging--

&

(b) the need for steps to be taken i

to provide for the equitable distribution of highway costs over all classes, and

(e) the necessity for the future revenues of the Road Fund to be devoted exclusively to road costa.

It will be remembered that two' Morris-Commercial six wheelers were successful in crossing the hitherto unconquerable Kalahari Desert some months ago, so that the A model resolution is also being capabilities of these vehicles, for ex-submitted to each Council for adop plorative tasks have been thorough tion and subsequent transmission to ly tested.

to local members of Parliament.

contact.

What a

A few days ago, he says, I heard of a man who endeavoured to start his car and found that the starter would not turn the engine and that it was absolutely impossible to move seizure had occurred, he proceeded it by hand. Imagining that q to strip down the whole engine, and.

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USE OF CELLULOSE LACQUERS,

concern

It is intersting to observe the satisfactory results which are now being obtained from the employ- ment of cellulose finish on commerci. ! al motor vehicles, not only in this country but elsewhere, says The Commercial Motor For instance, one American

has 75 coaches, which have been sprayed- with such lacquer, and one vehicle which ran for over two years, cover- ing 88,000 miles, required only cleaning and polishing at a cost of 30/-. This was not an exceptional case, and it is expected that at least four years of service will be obtain ed from this class of finish. It will thus be seen that it compares very favourably with the older methods of painting,

Under the heading of "inexplic- Net of extra- able negligence,” a ordinary accidente due to the care- loseness of motorists is published by the Canadian National Rail- ways in an analysis of accidents

Canada last year;-

1 driver parked on the railway

lines while he had a sleep.

44 motoriste "drove into the sides: "

of moving trains.

38 drove into the sides of stand-

ing trains.

1 tried to drive between two railway cars while switching- unsuccessful,

12 parked too near the railway

tracks,

* went for a' drive along the

railway tracks-they met ex-, presa trains.

1 driver left his car on the tracks to search for something he had dropped on the road. When he returned there was. nothing left of his car. 1 driver stopped on the railway

tracks to adjust his load. 11 found boo late that their

brokes needed relising. Forty per cent, of the accidents at level-crossings were due to the same inexplicable negligence" of motorista: 325 vehicles broke or damaged level-crossing gates which

had been shut.

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