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MOTOR-LORRY MARVEL.

TELEPHONE FROM FRONT

TO BACK.

The world's largest motor-lorry arried the world's largest girder through the struts of London.un Sunday, October 18.

The Jerry left Marylebone goods.

THE BUMP OF SAFETY.

DUKE OUTWITS THE ROAD

HOG,

HỒNG KÔNG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 1931

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

An ingenious method has been adopted by the Duke of Marl-, borough to stop dangerous driving"

the 20 or more by motorists on miles of ronds through the grounds of Blenheim Palace Woodstock, Oxfordshire,!.

KEEPING A CAR UP TO THE MARK.`

AIDS TO EFFICIENCY,

ECONOMY. IN OIL' IS FALSE ECONOMY.

MORRIS CARS ABROAD.

TRIP ACROSS SINAI

PENINSULA,

The Assistant Inspector-General' of the Egyptian Army, General Palmer Pasha, DS.O., made early in the your a trip ncftss the Sinai

MOTOR TRADE RECOVERY.

REASSURING FIGURDS: AMERICA'S DECLINE.

BRITAIN'S OPPORTUNITY,

Ten month's registration figures of new motor vehicles in the United

goods vohicles, and to hackney For five consecutive months, Bel- notors wern registered for the first 1gium has occupied the first position time during these ten months; ns as a market for American passenger compared with 2,400 cars, 833, goods cara, importing about 40 per cent, motors, and 321, hackney carriages more vehicles than the Union of in 1930, an increase in the total South Africa, their next best cus- number of vehicles actually sold of tomer. Denmark showed an in- grease in the number of its purs Home Industry's Fent. chases of U.S. cars.

153.

With the presont rates of ox

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The British motor industry, therefore, sold for the ten months change, Great Britain haa ending July 188,087 vehicles of allportunity to competo successfully,

station will the 99-tons girder at Palace, wara a gift from the coun. I that there is no need for the owner Morris Cowley touring model taken | Kingdom, just published by the types in the British Isles, excluding with its rivals in both the Euro

Talm, un a journey to Marble Arch, travelling at the role of 11⁄2 milus na hou” The girles was part of the new Cuntúerland-place Hotel which is being erected oppe site the Marble Arch.

A Day to Load,

The grounds, which, with the try to the Duke's famous ancestor after the Battle of Blenheim, were thrown open to the public by the present Duke.

The speed at which motorists wont through the grounds, becarin a source of danger to other visi tors and "Go slow" notices erect- When the girder arrived by railed by the Duke did not have the from Middlesbrough, it took a any desired effect,

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Motor-cars are, so reliable-to-day Peninsulavin za 14/39 h.p. In

driver to possess much technical from stock, and his Tepat Un the knowledge. Even the non-technia car's behaviour to the Morris Dis-Ministry of Transport, maku plea sant reading in these days of wil al owner-driver, however, will de-tributors for Egypts the Cairo

ing in business circles, rive greater pleasure from his Motor Company, was as follows: motoring, because it will be more Conditions were very severe.

Notwithstanding all the disadvan Lages of inclement weather during econquica?" and more efficient, ifThe ranjis involved long stretchen of he, carries out certain duties at rough solid rock, during which they months, 129,344 now cars wore registered during tho ten regular intervals,

The modern car was continually jarred through months of the motor year, ending

the Irish Free State.

penn markets."

The net imports of motors into

Free Whasiing the United Kingdom during that ten months were only 1,780 cars and. Amorica sooms to have adopted chassis, und 1,115 commercial some means of giving, free-wheeling. motors.

in the cars which they propoяe sold, and that they are included in Already it is a standart equipment Presuming that all these were offering to the public during 1930. Now, on his instructions, sharp car will run for many months 1every part of chassis and body July. This is only 4.4 for cent. the total sales of new vehicles rejon Auburn, Hupmobile, Lincoln, closed to traffio while a turntable straight stretches of reads-bump nothing more be done to it than Thers wore also steep slopes with dawn" on the 1930 registrations for gistered and running on the road, Piorce Arrow, Plymouth, Poorless

to load it on to the lorry. For an other day Cumberland-place was

was built on the road to swing the girdey into position in the build. ing...

Here are wong facts about the wonder-lorry

It cost nearly £9,000 to build.

It has seven joints, so this is

can turn round corners more casi

ly.

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It has 30 wheels on which are £950 worth of rubber tyres.

bumps have been built on the

which are cuaily negotiated at rea sonable speed but are calculated to give a sharp jolt to any road "bog,'

and in telephone by which the driver at the front talks 18 mate at the back,

his

On bottom gear its speed is There is stoering back and front.ph. Petrol consumption is less

{Continued on next. Golumn) thin one mile to the gallon.

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to fill up with petrol, replenish the loose and fixed rocks intermingled, the same period. Further, the re- | cit in the engine; se to the water giving bad and often dangerous

level in the radiator, and pump going. Very steep ascents across motor vehicles for the same period gistration of goods-carrying new up the tyres now and again. But washed-out "khors or nullahs were there is bound to be a gradual very trying to springs and chassis. 44,500, 8 compared with 48,300 falling off in efficiency if nothing. The car at times was working in in 1930, a fall of only 1.5 per cent. more bo done.,,

on the total for the same ten months clined at 30 degrees from the voz-

of last year." The most important duty is thetical. On the. Mitla Pass the drift lubrication of the engine, Not only sand was soft and deep on the cast-gistered for the ten months were New hackney motor carriages re is it essential to test the oil-leveiern slopes for distances up to 100 1,745, compared with 8,053 in 1930, very time before taking the car yards at a time. Returning west-loss in sales can be attributed to la reduction of 96 per cent. This on the read; adding what is need-wards these slopes were against the the bad summer, yet it is partly ed to bring it to the maximum mark on the dipper rod, but fre-collar, and formed serious obstacles, counter-balanced by the actual in- quent renewal of the oil plays a The car ran comfortably on top the Road Tax, such as fire engines, ory important part in the main-gent, without fuss or difficulty, at sic. These increased from 2,4% new tenance of engine officiency, continuous speeds of 18 to 20 kilo- vehicles registered in the ten months good oil of the right grade for the time of the year unless an all-netres an hour, picking up from of 1830 to 2,574 now motors of this the-year-round oil be employed almost a standstill to full running this year.

class registered in this period of will not lose its lubricating pro- in 10 yards. The gear movements

Northern Ireland also helped to perties during two nr. three thou-

leasen the loss of sales in the United Kingdom, as 2,005 new cars, 902

sand miles running. But as it were singularly anay at all speeds, circulates through the engine it and noiseless. She answered readi- collects a considerable quantity of y ta proper manipulations of the dust, metal particles, and carbon.spark, and this proved a very im 5 is for this reason, aren though portant factor in her performance. an oil filter be used in the lubrOn the return journey, when better cating system, that the oil should in,heran comfort- always be drained out after 1,500 ably on good going at be to 9,000 miles. After draining- tween 40 and 50 kilometres an this should be done when the en-higher rates. The car did this trip. hour, The car was not tried at gino parts are still warm, after af paraffin, should be poured in and with three passengers and some kit the starting handle used for a 23 gallons of petrol and half a over a distance of 584 miles, using trip-a "little thin pil, but not dozen or more turns. This cleans gallon of Shell vil, and returned in

good, condition. the bearings of the dirty oll con- tent and makes for minte satisfne- tory running. The importance of using a high-grade oil is em- phasised. Such an oil is only very little dearer than a inferior grade, while the difference its use makes in the efficiency of the en- gine is most marked.

Simple Adjustments. Many adjustments which become necessary from time to time should not be attempted by the non-technic- al owner-driver. The cost of having the brakes tested and adjusted by an expert with the proper equip ment is only slight, while the Bam is true of the clutch and many other parts. It is suggested, how- over, that the owner-driver should text the clearaner between the valve stems and tappet heats, be tween the points of the plugs, and between the platinum points of the contael-breaker. These are all straightforward, simple adjust ments, and occupy only a few minutes,

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as a whole is the condition of the hightension leads the insulated wires which lead from the distri- butor on the magneto or coil to the pluga. The terminals should be kept porfectly clean, while they raust be tightened up securely so that a good electrical contact is secured

Tyres.

Tyre pressure has a direct bear ing of the economical and efficient running of the car. The majority of war-drivers know that an under- inflated tyro nover. lasts so long as one which is maintained at the right pressure. The walls of the Cover are slaained undaly, white skidding is always more likely with a partially, dat tyre. · An overinflated tyre, too, is expensive, for the car tends to bounce more From the road, the wheel spins, and in suddenly checked when it returns to the road surface, again Engine efficiency is affected, con-

Tyre pressure also affects füel con. siderably by the clearance between sumption and the general efficiency, tha, valve stems and tappet heads, of the car. Unless the tyres be If this be too great the valves kept at the pressure recommended pen late and folose early, with by the maker," rend in accor the result that a full charge of danes with the weight on sach wheel firing mixture is not taken into at the time, driving is rendered- the cylinder if too small the less pleasant, the comfort of the valves do not clos perfectly, so car-occupants is decreased; while. tint some of the firing mixture the actual running costs for fuel: when undergoing compression and oit show an upward tendency. escapes. The clearancs should be A reliable tyre pressure gauge tested with a feeler gauge; and if should be part of every owner. incorrect, according to the car driver's equipment. The modera makor's instruction book, it should gauges are inexpensive End vory" be reset.

Mad Mad Peasy to use. A rule should be The plugs are subjected to n very | mado to test the pressure at least high temperature, and in time the once a week. Two or three minutes metal of the electrodes or points is all that is needed to go «round, wears away. This gives a wider the four road wheels and the spark. gop over which the, spark must

There should be no need to re- jump, and if too wide the efficiency mind the owner-driver that the of the engine is sadly impaired, grease ups should be attended to The exact gar varits a little, but regularly. The maker's directions that advised by the car maker or should be carried out to the letter, the plug-maker should be adopted for lack of lubricant decreasce The plug aliould be cleaned, any efficiency and increases wear and soot or carbon deposit being scrap- tear. All controls should be îng [ed off, and the gop should be fest- peded now and again, oiled or ed with a feeler gauge and react greased the case may be, and by bending the points attached to tightened up if there be any the plug body..signs of undue play. One further The contact-breaker can be re point. The battery should be moved quite easily and should be topped up when necessary. The tested, again with a feeler gauge, seid solution should come an eighti and read by loosening the lock of an inch or so above the top of nut, Borowing the platinum farther the plates Distilled water, and in or out, and Antily tightening this alone, need be added to care the lock-nut. A further luty rect the level, unless any acid has which makes a considerable differ bem spilt, in which éad this bat- ence to the running of the engine tery should be tested at a garage (Continued on niet Column.) "and fresh olectrolyte added, powe

this leaves the British makers with and Studebaker, and is optional Scotland, Wales, and Northern Chrysler Six, De Soto Dodge, a sale of 18,143 motors in England, for a small extra payment on the Ireland, a remarkable recovery in Duesenberg. De Vaux (the new business, experienced by few other tradca in England. Comparisons American production), Essex, may be adious, but it is only by this Graham, Hudson, Marmon, Nash, mess that a true appreciation of Willys-Overland, and Willys- the successful endeavour of our British motor industry can be ex- Knight. pressed.

For bant reason, let us so how.

In many of these American cara"

have been treated by their custom-larged form of the bicycle monster. the American motor manufacturers the fred-wheel arrangement an on cm. According to the figures re-hub-is fitted behind the gear-box Automobile. Chamber of Commerce, and operated by a short control crease in vehicles sold exempt fromcently published by the National

tion of motors for this year is 27 standard gear-changing lover. It E.S.A., the eight months' produe lever placed directly behind the per sent. under that of the 1950 corresponding period. The total is claimed for this arrangémiat that eight months of 1931, in 1930 there wheeling out of gear and so use the given is 2,054,701 vehicles for the the driver can thus throw the free- Intire production TYEB 2,510,146 automobiles.

engine as a brake it so required.

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