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ECONOMICAL CAR OWNERSHIP.

PURCHASE AND

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

vouder's desire to unload it as a average 30 miles an hour on the lever to force the price down still | flat straights acrosss France the farther by £; and may therefore į consumption rises to 14 miles per be able to buy it back for £300 gallon, and on a mountain pası (x+y+z), A second-hand car can Like the Stelvio if the engine is thus be purchased at very consider-¦ razed on the lower gears hotwen MAINTENANCE. | able reduction ou its list price; and the hairpins the consumption may if it is in its first year, and has touch such a high figure as eight These extreme belonged to a single competent, miles per gallon.

not registered on owner, it may be mechanically in variations aro distinguishable from a now car. British roads, but moderate speeds

always make for fuel economy.

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In these days most people wish to their car's cheaply

да possible. Maximum' economy can only be attained by certain methods. of purchase and maintenance, which shall be outlined below.

The two principal economies in

Economy further suggests that nobody should buy a 10-h.p. car when a 7 h.p. will do his work; but

human nature ia prone to purchase consist of buying a guarindalgence, many people buy cars ostentation and other forms of self

anteed second-hand car instead of

which are far larger than they a new car, thus avoiding the initial!

ziced. Each rise in size, horse the depreciation, and in buying a cari

VISIT BRITAIN!

FORD ORGANISATION'S HELP FOR TOURISTS.

Americans who tuke advantage of the reduced transatlantic steam. ship fares this summer and heed the call, "Come to Britain," are ex pected to welcome a new innovation in motor touring which is being made available to visitors to the British Isles by the Ford Motor Company, Limited, of England,

This is a touring hire service, re cently organized by the British Ford company, by which visitors to sonable rates a Ford car, with or without chauffeur, for uso in motor touring for periods ranging from a week end to six months. Ar rangements may be made for the car to be delivered to the visitor at the quay of any British port upon the arrival of his steamship.

"With this new service," the an nouncement said, "it now will be possible for tourists in Britain to reach a hundred and one off-the-

of the minimum size consistent with i power, and cost hoists the expenses danger is involved provided the Great Britain can secure at roa

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Comparatively few motorista coast down easy hills unless their cars happen to be fitted with free.

15-23 per cent is always procurable wheel clutches. A fuel economy of by descending all easy grades with gear lever in neutral. No brakes are sound, a caution which implies that the pedal brake evinces play but begins to apply the brake in the first half inch of its movement, and that the hand brake is not a mere parking brake but will actually stop the car on a fair gradient. Im the descent of freak gradients a gear should always be

lover gears). This method of const. ing is quite simple. The descent is

the owner's needs. Every newly from A to Z, including tax, in zurance, tyres, fuel, oil and replace- boughs luxury depreciates en- armously at the moment when it ments. changes hands. This drop in value

The Economy of Good Driving. is very largely due to the retailer's commission. A jeweller draws a When the car is bought, inferior very high commission on such an driving methods will raise the run- article as a pearl necklace, because ning expenses. A modern set of ho is compelled to lock up a great tyres will often run for 50,000 miles deal of capital in stocking his shop, in the hands of a sexints and care. Į kept'engaged, preferably one of the and to pay a high insurance pro- | ful driver; but a sister set of covers mium. He may thus pocket a gross will require replacement after 7 000

TRANSPORTING

150,000 TONS

OF PIPES.

A FLEET OF THORNY- CROFTS IN IRAQ.'

while twin tyres of the same size carried, while there is a special are provided on the trailing axle. twenty-eight gallon tank of drink- When the vehicle is fully laden the ing water- very necessary featuro weight is divided, roughly, as fol-on trans-desert journeys. In the lows: 2 tons 8 cwt on the front very hot climate the cab is kopt axle, 5 tons 2 cwt, on each of the as well ventilated as possible by driven axles and 8 tons 10 cwt, on holding the doors slightly open the trailing axle.

with stays, and as the doors are hinged at the back a draught is induced into the interior. The cab

A Dificult Trial.

To assist in the gigantic task of laying a pipe line from the oil fields We were able to witness a trial; roof is a double one with an air in Iraq across the Transjordanian of the first of these machines over space between to insulate it from Desert to the Mediterranean coast, the military cross-country course the sun's rays...... a distance of 1,200 miles, the Iraq near Aldershot. The vehicle was Auxiliary Gear Box, Petroleum Co. Ltd., have ordered laden with about 13 tons, consist-

In addition to the normal four- a flest of twelve special Thornycroft ing of 18 pipes of about 35 feet in vehicles. A great deal of the pipo length, and it was run across coun. speed gear box there is an auxili- line will lie across desert country, try, through deep, soft sand and ry box giving a further reduction and in all some 180,000 tons of pipes even up a loose-surfaced gradient of to 1. Final drive is by two will be needed to complete the task. of 1-in-5). To those who ha.. never overdrawing worm axles, and the It will be appreciated that the scen a cross-country type of vehicle rear suspension of the tractar is vehicles selected for such a can put through its paces it would seem by the usual four half-elliptic tract must not only be capable of almost impossible that such a heavy springs, designed to distribute the carrying heavy loads across barren load could be conveyed with such load evenly between the two axles country, but they must be reliable ease over country of this nature. under extremely arduous condi-, But the Thornycroft managed it the wheels to accommodate them- tions. Temperatures as high as 130

selves to uneven ground without degrees, for instance, are sometimes

twisting the frame or springs. The mean wheelbase of the tractor is encountered, and the way often lies

14ft. 3in., but the Eagle semi-trailer across sand and pyor steep rocky

wheelbase is variable, the rearmost The Amazon chassis is a rigid springs being secured to a sub- hills.

The Thornycroft vehicles selected six-wheeler of the, military, type, frame bolted to the main trailer

with no trouble at all, and it per formed figures of eight in the soft sand as easily as a taxicab turns in the Strand.

under all conditions and to allow.

commission of £500 on a necklace | miles if the driver is stupid. The commenced at a safe speed, varying map shrines of history which other are capable of carrying about twelve' powered by a six-cylinder overhead frame. This sub-frame can be bolt

which he sells for £3,000. The pro-inflation pressures must be tested fit on the sale of a new motor-car and adjusted weekly. The

car)

with the character of the road, and the gear lever is slipped into neu- trai; it may refuse to come cut of gear unless the clutch is eased,

One

wise would be inaccessible. can visit gray, old university towns, does not oven distantly approach should normally be stopped by run

crag-perched castles, walled citics this figure; but if he snakes Ex on aing off its impotus, instead of by

and the mere isolated places of his the sale of a £300 motor-car, and crashing ou the brakes and grind At the foot of the descent thetoric interest and beauty.

"At Deal townspeople can point its purchaser dies, the market valueing the tyre treads against the road.; clutch is withdrawn, the throttle of this car is instantly reduced by | Acceleration should always he opened to a degree varying with the out where the Romans came ashore; two subtractions. It has degener-gradual and smooth to avoid wheel road speed, and the gear lover is at Perensy where Norman Wil- ated in value by becoming spiled spin, with farther damage to the "felt rather than "forced" back liam's conquest began. At Strat- and need, which drops its value to treads. High speeds should be into top. Some novices experience ford can still be found the lanes £300-y; and in addition, since he studiously eschewed.

difically in performing this change where Shakespeare trod and in can. obtain any number of duplicate The fuel bill, in turn, bears a silently. They should form a habit heeeny Buckinghamshire the earlier cars, for £200.2, its value has sunk constant relation to sjeret up hills of executing the change at a set haunts of William Penn. Shipping to £300(x+y). Since the sale is on the lower gears. My own car road speed, say 23 or 30 miles an still rides the sheltered waters of likely to be more or less com- normally eovers 22 miles on n hou, when the car will soon become Plymouth Sount as in the Pilgrim

nutinued on vert zalum.)

father's day. pulsory, he can probably use this galloa of fael. If it is set to

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accustomed to the noise of the re- quired engine speed,

Lubrication.

Taking rather a longer view of economy, the chassis should be maintained faithfully, especially in, respect of lubrication. The hubrien- tion chart should be meticulously | obeyed, all grensing and oiling be

ing carried out according to the manufacturer's schedule. Above all, the engine oil should be main- tained at the indicated level and the sump shoud be drained at the recommended intervals. Economy in engine oil is morely camouflaged extravagance. During use, a cer- tain amount of water enters the crankcase, partly through con. tamination. from exhaust gazeG penetrating, past the piston rings, partly through internal condensa tion. This is churned with oil in the pump and ultimately forms an emulsion devoid of lubricating qualities although the dipstick may continue to show an encouraging level. The sump should be drained every 1,000 miles, and the sump may wisely be Hushed with one of the special liquids sold for the purpose, | Engine oil. further becomes diluted by fuel elements through excessivo use of the strangler when starting up the engine. Fow engines will start and warm up without a car. tain amount of strangling, but stupid-and-impatient-owneṛa-om- ploy their stranglers for too much. If a cold engine is really atubborn," the owner should experiment with a modified use of his strangler, | ledving it half or a quarter shut during the warming-up process, instead of closing the air intake compistaly for several minutes, Alternatively, the strangler may be rapidly opened and ahat several times in quick succession until the enging settles down to run evenly. A cold engine should never bo-so- celerated appreciably Misconduct in these respecte not only dilutes the oil but produces rapid wear of pistons and cylinder block.

treme conditions.

tons of pipes. varying between valve engine (4.3/8 x 5.1/4 in.), and: ed in any one of several positions thirty and forty fest in length. The 6-ten rigid six-wheeled Amazon has been modified in small but on the main frame to suit the length chassis forms the basis of the outfit, important details to meet the ex of load that is being carried. and to this is attached an Eagle filters are fitted on the intake side, applied by hand wheel, and there Special air Brakes on the trailing wheels are semi-trailer unit capable, if need and a tropical radiator of Still is a sent at the back of the trailer bo, of being uncoupled from the tubes keeps the engine at a reason for a brakesman. tractor portion and supported at

able temperature. A reservo sup-i its forward end on steel-tyred wheels

ply of eleven gallons of lubricating i lowered for the purpose. 12.75-80 in, pneumatic tyres are fit ted to all six wheels of the tractor,

Single

Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, aro locally represent- oil is carried, additional tanks ened at Pioneer Building, Nathtu able sixty gallons of petrol to be Road, Kowloon.

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4 or 6 Wheels

4 or 6 Cylinders

30 Cwt. to 10 Ton Loads

20 to 70 Passengers

JOHN I. THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED,

Pioneer Building, Nathan Road, Kowloon,

TEL. 56752.

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