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TO AVOID A WINTER OF CAR DISCONTENT

CARE THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE TO ENGINE" AND BATTERY

This is the time of year when the motorist must take the utmost care in his driving, and should have

more than usual care of his car, writes W. Gordon Aston in the Evening Standları,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

thoughtless driver gives it a fairly generous throttle and, without any

load to pull, it is soon buzzing round at a high speed.

HOODDAY

TO THE MOTORIST WHO MOTOR NOTES FROM

LIKES GEAR-CHANGING

Easier Control

Does Not Lessen

Driving Pleasure

Sometimes it would seem Fashion is able to exercise her arbi- trary influence on motorcar manu facture.

About dive years ago the fabric People said that the coachbuilt body was dead.

At the last Olympia Show it was very difficult to find more than a single type of fabric body,

By the courtesy of Stratstone,. Ltd., of Pall Mall, who are joint distributors of thead cars in the to make a lowest.pf the 10 h:p.

London, ards I waspecently able

Landhoster. So

GREAT BRITAIN

LONG DISTANCE COACHES

FOR OVERSEAS

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MOTOR CYCLING

AN ENGLISH RALLY

long distance coaches, the two of next year's international trial The controversy over the holding A.E.C. Rangers embody all the latest practices of Canadian body has been concluded by the Auto work and represent the must ad event in Britain from September 18 Cycle Union deciding to hold the vanced type of fast comfortable to 23. It was felt that, Britain hav road vehicles now on service any ing won the trophy this year in employed exclusively on what is its right to organise the trial next where in the Dominions. They are Italy, the A.C.U. should exercise reckoned to be the finest cross- country run in Canada-the route year. On the whole there is no Buffalo between Toronto and Buffalo, which doubt that the right course has beart takes in the Niagara Falls and the taken, and also the most popular pared highways bordering the one.. shores of Lake Ontario,

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The appearance of the first aid Bywheel Coaches imported into ! This was the first ear of modest Canada from England a short while combination of self-changing pre-of local interest. These two A.E.C. that power and size to be fitted with the ago caused a tremendous amount selective gear and fluid flywheel. Ranger coaches were ordered by As cars of 10 hp. rating go, it Gray Coach Lines for operation is not cheap, for the standard four. between Toronto and door saloon model canto 23th, but (U.S.A.), and the bodies were made on the other hand it is a car of by a Montreal firm

The AC.U. are following the character and of quality—a fact Before going into service, one of

Scottish example of holding a which is guaranteed by a name that the Ranger conches was exhibited to was well known in 1897:

national rally of motor cycliats members of the Toronto Transpor

IN SOUTH AMERICA Although it has a high performation Commission, and the Mayor The satisfaction with which the This will take place on August ance with full load it will do it and Board of Control of the City; Ranger has been received in Cann Bank Holiday, but the venue. hux

not been decided. Other A.C.U.. go" under favourable conditions it was also displayed to the public da has undoubtedly enhanced its dates in 1933 are the Isle of Minx its chief charin lies in ita ease of and, so inteuse was the enthusiasm! prestige generally and it is satisi races on June 19, 14, and 16 and control. You cannot

created in this combined effort of factory to learn that under the the team trial on Saturday, Novem- ** miss "*

English and Canadian industry, name of Acla, 190 h.p. Ranger ber 4, the last date being provi- jerk, because the drive is taken up the coach in 4 hours, while double Aires a valuable addition to the there will be an Olympia moter accelerator pedal.

These conditions are simply mur- derous The oil, being stiff, refuses Anyone who assumes that on the to be hustled along pipes and gal-covered body carried all before it, rouds of today, often made addi-leries and through very Darrow tionally slippery by deenying clearances." Hence many parts, leaves, his brakes have the sane badly needing it (particularly pis -pulling-up power as on a dry sum-tons) do not get enough. Thus en

mer highway, is not far short of ter wear-and-tear of a very rapid criminal lunacy, Yet it is quite kind. evident, from what ope constantly. sees, that a great, many people do act on this fatal supposition.

Again, it was confidently pre This is the programme as carried dicted that the six-cylinder engine out by the incautious. But it is a would oust the four, oves in quite carious fact that the over-cautious small sizes. That was some years for even to the practised ye that sults by an opposite route. Hay-pular than ever.

Similarly the "right" Was to which is treacherous may look suing got the engine into motion they

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When in doubt about a surface will often achieve the same dire, re-, age, too-but the four is more po-gear, and you cannot get a clutch that 9,800 spectators passed through was recently delivered to Buenosional, as it was not know whether preinely safe the wise motorist will let it "tick over " for some supersede the six" to a large ex-automatically as you depress the that number were gathered in front existing A.E.C. built chassis in eyele show, and, if so, what the

makes an experiment that costs him | minutes. not more than a few seconds. White the coast is clear he tries the affect of sudden brake application, and if there be any sign of tail-wagging promptly reduces his speed until he knows he is well within the safer ty limit.

"He does unt wait until an emer- gency arises to learn that the rond surface has deceived him.

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This means that there is little or no pressure behind the oil to force to its various destinations, and, gain, the working parts are starv

of that without which they can- not function.

The Middle Path for Safety. In this case you go most safely along the middle path. Take a The maintenance of tyres as the halfway house between idling and correct pressure and the ruthless racing revolutions equivalent to scrapping of those with worn-out about 20 m.p.b., let us say-and all treads as now dernunded by law, will be well. The parts will not constitute factors both of safety and be peer-stressed and they will be assured of an adequate supply of lubriciunt.

fernoidy.

Murdering the Engine." - Engines may well shudder at the approach of the cold weather

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tent, and indeed it has done so in all other car-building countries, especially in America. Yet at Olympia there was not one British right-cylinder car, although not so very long ago we could boast close upon a dozen,

This engine is so well balanced that under ordinary running con. ditions you might well think it was a "six." Its exhaust is not noisy, but conveys an impression of vigour that is confirmed by the apeodome-

The iniquitous horse-power tax ister. against this type, though perhape- Other points are that the saloon more important factors are its body provides admirable comfort, length, its weight and its cost of with freedom of movement, for production.

In the Vee form of four adult passengers. This is par motor the first two disadvantages tially the result of the frame con- are reduced, if not eliminated. struction. considered to be essential on any taken underneath the axle; thus Cantilever spring's in 1994 were At the rear the side members are modern car. I do not know one there is no need for floor-wells. that employs them to day

A good example of pendulum ac

of the City Hall during the inspec-use there. Lion.

TO SUIT LOCAL CONDITIONS

In this case a locally built single decker body has been fitted..

date would be. However, it now appears. certain that there will be a show in 1933, although it is to be regretted that there has been a break Prestige abroad has been lost, and some of the advantages gained by the regaining of the in- ternational trophy, thrown away.

A BIG ECONOMY POINT! A very important feature of the The only departure from stan- latest double-deck electrie trolley dard in the Ranger chassis were the bus recently delivered by Ran extension of the wheelbase to 20 ft..somes, "Sims and Jefferies to Derby and the incorporation of the fluid Corporation is the patent cam gear ber of new motor cycles being re- With an improvement in the nvm- flywheel and epicyclic gearbox, In, When the air brake is in operation, order to withstand the opacting both sets of shoes in each rear, gistered, it may be that a very conditions of winter service, the un-wheel are effective, but when the necessary revival in imotor-cycling der frame supporting the body is hand brake is applied, only one set will now be experienced. There is though kept down in weight by the tion, made exceptionally strong, al of shoes in each wheel is in opera- no doubt that there is still plenty This arrangement means of interest, but the classes" from use of duralumin.j.

longer intervals between brake ad- which buyers are now mainly drawn justment, while the brakes operate have been among the worst suffer. ers from the depression. With Recent records show that similar there will be a renewed interest in vehicles with this gear operating

There are, doubtless," many keen motorists who, priding theinselves

Seating is provided for en pas lever and the clutch pedal, will be of the Canadian winter, special at A year ago it was the overhead suspicious that a semi-automatic tention has been paid to the heat der oils, of which there is now a valve first "and the rest nowhere.'

car of this nature denies them some arrangements The equipment

tion is to be found in valve ar- upon their skill with the gear: Bengora, and owing to the severity in a very much lower temperature. I better times it is quite certain that

It is for this reason that I ad-rangements. ente the use of those upper-cylin

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on front and rear wheels have one of the finest of outdoor pas- averaged 83,000 miles between brake times. This year would seem to over mark the beginning of a motoring

time for them. They suffer much lubricants, are mixed with the pet-porters have become either luke nothing of the sort, and for that one located on the dash and the 80,000 miles! Oliviquely thingis not revival, and next year may perhaps

from the neglect, which spring from ignorance.

After a cold night fuel is not to lively in evaporation, the stickiness of the oil, makes thin engine staff, and the batteries are apt to lose a little of their" pep," especially if the previous evening they have had to supply the apps for some little time without receiving any charge In these circumstances more harm can be done to the engine in three minutes in the garage than would be by five hundred miles of beðin- ary running.

col and, therefore, mitigate the warm about them or have definite reason I recommend that they try scouring netion which have rely returned to the simple, silent,it for themselves, W. Gordon

Aston. In the Evening Standard. ferred, because wherever the petrol side-by-side valve, goes they, of necessity, go,

too.

Do not target that, in cold-wea ther motoring, the motto must, al- ways be, Keep the power plant na warm as possible." Every time it gets caid it has to be warmed up again by burning petrol and, as E ove suggested, that warming-up process is fundamentally bad for it.

Automatic radiator shutters ·or

the good old-fashioned rug should be used.

WHOSE WAS THE PLEASURE

MOTOR INSURANCE POINT

INFRA-RED RAYS

TO WARN CROSS-ROAD

TRAFFIC

An invisible ray," device which started as a burglar-alarm may soon, be used to prevent accidents at night at lonely road crossings.

At Brighton Walter Fiedorick Howard, of East Grinstead. was suminoned for driving a motor-car The choke is brutally applied,

without--insurance policy in with the consequence that the cylin

A final word as to the battery. force, and William James Young. dors are drenched with liquid pet In the dark days" it is apt to also East Grinstead, was summon.

An Evening Standard represen ral, which quickly scours the pile underfed and over-worked." ed for allowing him to use the car paratus depending on the principle

tative was informed, that an op off the walls and pistons. Having The remedy for this is to have it done this, it descends into the sump regularly topped up"

selenium bridge," being and, if It was stated that Young lent. of and contaminates the lubricant

to sensitive to an infra-red, or inviai- necessary, given an occasional extra Haward his car for a trip therein.

boosting charge. This applies, par Brighton. Haward was stopped by: ble, beam, is being tested officially Now, at Inst, the engine fires. In ticularly, to cars which have a good the police and had no insurance on behalf of the Ministry of Trans- the fear that it may stop the deal of town work to do.

policy with him, but produced it, port, The experiments are being the next day. The policy was taken unducted in the North of England. If these are successful it is un- out by Young, and stated that the Car was insured for use of the derstood that the Ministry will re policyholder's businces, for his doommend to local authorities that mestic or social purposes, or his the apparatus be used at all dan- own pleasure, and could be driven, gerous crossings. by anyone to whom he gave autho rity,

NEW ROADS IN HUPEH

HAN RIVER BASIN SERVED.

In a telegram despatched by Gen-In eral Hsu Yuan Chuan, Comniander

DOUGLAS MOTORS (1932), LIMITED

RECEIVER APPOINTED,

A receiver and manager of Doug

Motors (1932), Limited, has been

of the 10th Army, who is respon appointed by Mr. Justice Farwell sible for the expulsion of the Com-in the Chancery Division. inunist-bandits from the Hung Lake aren, to General Chiang Kai Shek, it is stated that motor roads are being constructed by the soldiers under the command of General Hsu.

Defendants contended that Ha ward-was-covered by the policy when he was stopped.

The method of operation was ex- plained in, this way:

The beam from the headlights of a car which is approaching a cross- road interrupt a beam of infra-red light passing across the road ahead of the car. This interruption auto- tomatically lights a "Vehicle ap

proaching" sign, which faces any traffic that is nearing crossing from the side read,

If the side-road traffic, operates the device..a similar sign warna main-road traff

Thus, it is claimed night motor- ing will be made safer.

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Mr. T. 3. Owen (prosecuting) Young: But the policy says the car can only be used for your busi ness or your own pleasure, not Mr. Vainey, K.C. (instructed by somebody else's pleasure-It was Messra. Pescock and Goddard), my pleasure to lend him the car stated that he appeared: for D. The magistrate decided that as Estaten, Limited, who owned Young was not in the car it was £180,000 out of £200,000. Debentures not being used for his pleasure, in Douglas Motors, Limited, and but as there was a possibility of the interest on the £150,000 had not defendants having misunderstood i Tanoshib and Kingshan, between been paid. The only assots of D. the policy they dismissed both sum-vestigating the possibility of solv Toshi and Yokiakow vir Tien- Estates, Limited company in monses on payment of costs. men and between Yokiakow and liquidation-wer, the £190,000 De- Shayang Automobiles and buses bentures.

Those parts of the rond which have already been built are between

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scen plying smoothly along these roads which help considerably in hastoning communications in these parts of the Han River basin, The two branch roads between YokPakow and Chienkiang and be tween Shayang and Chunghsiang, are now under construction and are

* Dazzle "Froblem.

The makers of this device are in-

ing the dazzle problem. The basis on which they are working is that when the headlights of the two ench

It won stated that. Douglas. AT THE SCOTTISH-SHOW #roaching ears focus on Motora, Limited, consented to the appointment of a receiver on D.

other, short, invisible, rays

Tinaitie the headlamps will be. interrupted rand bring into action automatic

The drivers would then be reliev ed of the responsibility of "dim-

Estates Limited, undertaking AUSTIN MODELS PROMINENT** dimming."

pay their costa,

At the Scottish Motor Show, at ming "it would be done automa.

expected to be completed within-ceiver and manager for three the Kelvin H, Glasgow, twenty-tically.

Mr. Justice Farwell appointed a

«months" with liberty to not at once

£2,000 for wages,

one week. With the original motor and leave to borrow not more than fivo Austin vehiclea were ex- road running between Shayang and Shani which is under repair these Han River towns, will thus be close- ly connected with the Yangtze City.

MOTORIST GETS A

SURPRISE

hibited, including the latest „ambu- lance and vANK,

HE WAS ANNOYED

Hayes, Middlesex, collided with the new Austin Light Twelve-Four SO HE MADE FORTUNE OUT

car which was passing a stationary omnibus.

No fewer than seven, models of "

were on various stands, and the Austin Ten-Four van, made ite firat ; public appearance,

OF MOTOR CAR RIMB

Dukes walked towards the other The associated firms of D. Car Mr. H. L. Perlman, who has died car and, and £2) I havn St Ab namel. He was told that the car law & Sons, Ltd, and Moir & in New York, built a fortune on a was a police car, and he said, "Oh, Baxter, Ltd., staged an all-Austin fit of irritation COLLISION WITH, POLICE CAR yeah.

display comprising fourteen dif. During a motor trip in 1000 be ferent models, and the stands of had to change four tyres and in This evidence was given at Hamilton Bros, the Eastern Motor fiste each with a hand-pump A motor-osa" -driven by Alfred Ealing, when Dukes was committed | Company,-. Lauriey Taggarts, The experience so annoyed him William Duker, aged 33, described | for trial on charges of driving while Pender & Company, and J. Twee that (says Reuter) be invented the da a director, of Lansbury-drive, | under the influence of drink and die, also had notable Austin ex-detachable rim for motor, wheels -

Continued as foot of next Column) "dangerous driving.

hibita,

And made a fortune..

other beneath the rear seat

While differing in many points from the general design of English

economy point of the highest im portance to operators of public witness the same in motor-cycling service vehicles.

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