1933-05-23 — Page 2

BRITISH EXPORTS AND IMPORTS

A RECORD SINCE 1927

decline,

cent.

AN ANTI-DAZZLE ALTERNATIVE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.

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WILL TIME BRING ITS REVENGE?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ON MAINTENANCE OF CARS

how the belt can be taken up, this being a little over-slack." Answer.

The fan bracket is held to a

ACROSS THE SAHARA IN. AN 8-H.P CAR

spigot fixed to the cylinder head A JOURNEY FROM NAIROBI

by means of one bolt clamping it rigidly. By slackening this bait ! the fan bracket can be rotated unt til the belt becomes tight. This done, the bolt should again be se curely tightened. Incidentally, the fan bracket should be 'swang over

and not in the opposite direction.

TO LONDON

A two-seater 8-h.p. Morris Minor has crossed the Sahara, This is the first time that a car of a low engine

Ninety-nine. per cent. of pedes. modern road his dream may enceived from owners of Humber towards the nearside of the car, capacity has completed this ardu-

trians, may be argued, would him his life. But, short of that, instantly procure a number of he will know 'rade awakenings as motor-car catalogues if they drew a some great car swoops past him at winner in the Irish sweep; and the seventy miles an hour,& bare yard cars which many of them would buy away, so that the more suction of would be extremely fast and large. its passing almost drags him off his

attitude to feet and the impact of ita exhaust¦

Below is a selection of technical -and other; maintenance, queries re-

and Hillman cars. Perhaps there is a little matter about which you have been troubled! We will be only too pleased to advise our perts are at your service, and the advice is free!

CORRECT TIMING

Question.

FIERCE CLUTCH

"I still run at 1028 9/20 Hum ber and am very proud of its per- formance even to-day. Recently, Question.

however, there has developed a slight fierceness in the clutch enga Would you please advise me aagement, and I shall be glad if you to the correct timing of the 1931 will advise rue how this can be re- Hillman Vortic "

medied." Answer.

Although dipping and dimming of headlights is standard practice in Britain, the same does not seem Telating to March, the latest

to hold in the U.S.A. There appar- Board of Trade returns show that ently the individual prefers to pro- British motor exports for the first test himself from dazzle rather than quarter of this year were the high depend upon the other man, est recorded since 1927, being valued

result is a very wide use of anti- nt £2,106,37-1, as against £163,853 dazzle screens or visors which can during the corresponding period ba hinged down to reduce the glare last year and £2,771,168 in 1927.

of on-coming lights. be considered highly This must

American drivers seem to consider satisfactory from the nationa} view. point as well as from that of the this a more practical procedure, as motor industry; equally if not more lighting efficiency is maintained, satisfactory an important is then it is less likely that a pedes-So the pedestrian fact that motor imports continue to trinn or a cyclist will escape the motorists cannot be based on the beats like a concussion on his ears. notier of either driver. No doubt tiny coterie of people who would In the citira a busy crossing is al- this view had much to commend it, never under any circumstances sub-most as dangerous as a corner at The March inaport figure for cars and parts was about haif that of and it also illustrates the danger stitute tyres for boots. The more Ypres which German guns had re- of imposing definite regulations honest pedestrians contrive to de- March last year, while for the first with a view to reducing anti-dazzle velop a genuine admiration for the gistered to an inch. It is wise to one's moment dis- quarter the total. is fully 25 per

dangers.

technical skill of motorists. The wait, choose Strangely enough, down. although the value of imported At the same time it would seem hot, dusty, sorefooted pladder along creetly, and then leap or run, so strees to days

The cylinder bead cover and the parts is lower, there has been an as if in this country we are now the road imagines-probably with adding, one more

clutch inspection cover must first urban sections of the human race increase each month this year in the committed to the dip and switch ar-truth-that if his bank balance which are already exhausting. The number and value of complete cars rangement now in almost universal afforded him the chance he too could have indeed been robbed of that be removed Turn the engine round by hand until the No. 1 inlet this is offact to an appreciable ex-Intelligently it remains the best and certainty in grappling with a

hundred minor road emergencies of civilisation had won for them.

ing for nearly balf a turn mort, tent by an increase in re-exported solution of the dazzle difficulty,

every hour. He would simply adore No longer may we go about on our

until the "D" of the figures the opportunity. Hence his basic lawful occasions in sweet stupors T.D.C.8, stamped, on the flywheel approach to the whole business of of reflection. An instant of maris in line with the mark on top of And motoriste tention in Cross Street of the Hay the clutch housing. Set the igui- motoring is sour.

No market, and the police whistles blow tion lever in the full retard posi do nothing to sweeten him.

Note on tion.

the distributor longer do they smother him with for the ambulance.

incubus even at night. As we lie in plug. On taking off the distribu- dust, as once they did, whitening

Nor can we forget this modern which wire goes to No. 1 sparking But when water-

we have had the tor cover for correct setting, it bed, unless prudence to domicile ourselves re should be found that the arm of mote from the highway, the very the distributor is in line with the walls of our retreat quiver. Porce contact in the cover leading to No. maybe, and pictures have been tact maker points is just break- known to descend incontinent from ing-contact. walls. Open windows mean that shriek of the klaxon and the clash

Answer.

to

ous journey.

Mr.Alan N. Cooper, a Kenya coffee planter, has arrived in Eng- land on the completion of the last. stage of an 8,000-mile journey from

His cara. Nairobi to London. 1931 side-valve model-was pur- chased second-hand with a consider- able mileage already to its credit. He set out some seven weeks ago- with one companion, Mr. Walsh, and travelled through Uganda, the Sudan, the Congo, the, Cameroons, Nigeria,

the Sahara, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, and France. The trip across the desert between Gao and Regga, a distance of more thethan 800 miles, was accomplished in

four days.

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brought into the country, though use. At reasonable speeds and used display this eame nonchalant speed secure peace and leisure which years valve is just closed; continue tura spoonsful of paraffin inserted in the another Morris finor, in which.

COTR.

Increased excess of exports over of our of the imports is again latest returns. In March alone the balance in favour of exports was £688;993; last year it was only $217,510. For the first quarter of this year this excess of exports was no less than £2,088.974; last year it was less than a million sterling.

"Reward of Enterprise.

Endoubtedly the more energetic and enterprising methods displayed by British manufacturers overseas have been largely responsible for the improvement recorded in the export figures; but while the in- dustry deserves credit on that ae count, it must not be overlooked that for the past year or two world conditions have been particularly favourable to British motor pro ducts. In the first place, the de- (uwnjog mau no pantyjung).

preciated exchange value of sterling has assisted the export trade to those countries still owing allegi- ance to the gold standard, an ad-

vantage that cannot last indefinite-his clothing and gritting his throat, ly, of course.

In the second place, economic con nose, and eyes. ditions have favoured the purchase proofed roads are awash with and use of small cars where pre-palescent slime, their wheels spat viously the larger types have been ter him, hug he the hedge never so preferred, and where, when condi-closely. Their hooters squawk at ions more early approach normal him with a wounding imperiouslain dances on the mantelpiece, 1 cylinder, and one of the two con. ity, it is not improbable that larger ness, suggesting a sergeant major's cars will again be in demand. bark, barbed with oaths. British manufacturers will then be less favourably situated in selling small cars that are economical to run, and will have to comply still better than of late with the demand for big cars that are cheap to buy; in the latter sphere they will again, experience the full and direct force of American competition.

The Daydreamer.

On long trudges most of us day- dream; and after a few miles, especially in dull country or on a hot day the tramper loses the real world and wanders in a universe of rennis. If he dreams deep on the

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Slight variations of the setting may be made by slackening the belt holding the bottom timing arm on

to the base of the distributor and

of gears and the crescendo of a celerations disturb the light sleeper. Bury yourself in, some remote vii- turning the whole distributor in- lage, and the rarity itself of these side the arm as much as is neces nocturnal distubers makes their sary, making sure, of course, to passage all the more disconcerting lock the arm securely again. Turn- The patients in a city hospital caning the distributor in a clockwise sleep through the din. because it direction retards the ignition, aud is practically incessant; but Sleepy vice versa. Hollow drawses in its ancient still ness save that thrice, perhaps, in the night a huge lorry from one of the chain store depots rumblès through, conveying food to the coast, and all the walls shake.

I have recently purchased, Speed and hurry and noise are bad enough, but they are not all. And second-hand, & Hillman "14." It is who can ignore to-day the reek of over-hot at times. It may be a running very well, but I think gata hot charred oil, screening the dead-matter only of fan adjustment, and lier. odourless gases which bang I shall be glad if you will tell me heavy in all our streets?

Jess

more.

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Senseless Speed.

Some day, no doubt, the noise will be smoothed down till it ceases to offend. Some day, no doubt, there should be an end of visible vapours and searching, odours. But the speed will never be taxed. And much of the speed is so sense- If two men leave Manchester for Bettwa-y-Coed, and the one drives so gently that nobody need ever skip out of his way,, whilst the other drives so vigorously that he leaves a trail of frightened humanity along the whole route, what margin separates the pair at their journey's end in Wales? Fifteen minutes, maybe-hardly. And to what does the speed merchant devote that quarter of an hour which he has stolen from the clasp of inexorable Father Time? He lounges in a bar a little longer before he feeds, consumes an extra cocktail, toys with a few stale magazines, grumbles that his food is not ready, brags a little about his driving, and stirs up a few me mories of the trip. We, suffer through his speed; and we suffer to no noble purpose. If he were a surgeon hastening to a purulent appendix we could bear with him. If he were a lover fresh home from the Indies yearring to meet hie bride we would bear with him. But he just a fool in a hurry. He' bas no possible defence for his folly, and we know it as well as he knows it. This explains and justifies our resentment.

What the future holds for us no wreaks man may guces. Time strange revenges. Maybe within & century or less a few surviving motorists will potter along decay- ing roads, lamenting the good old days as the pedestrian does to day. Overhead there will be an incon- ceivably rapid and rackety swarm- ing of seroplanes. Playful Inds in sport paner will nose-dive at our bonnets, and zoom as we swear Grass may grow over, the cracking tarmae is the last few motor-cars. bump painfully along dreaming of the billiard table surfaces of 1033 when cars were cars Who knows, Then, if revenge, fa' posiblet in

the pedestrian Wil

grin n on the 14tror all the mot

Mback on some

ENGINE COOLING

Question.

The frictional surface consists of a Ferodo lining riveted cone. Where there is a tendency to fierceness, one or two table. holes in the rear of the flywheel will provide the desired remedy. Holes are provided in the flywheel plate in such a position that should surplus will drain off. coo much paraffin be inserted, any

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Near Reggan Mr. Cooper met were Mr. Gilg and Mr. Kay, of Liverpool, setting out

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