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"VALET YOUR CAR BEFORE

A HOLIDAY

"Test the Brakes and Beware of Overloading

FRESH LIGHT ON CYLINDER WEAR

BY OWNER DRIVER

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1933

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

Which leads me to observe that

CARS WILL COST MORE

Trends Of The 1934 Models

LOW-PRESSURE TYRE

**HANGS FIRE

NEW BRITISH SPORTS CAR®

HIGH PERFORMANCE-

LOW COST

The remarkable KILOCESSES

af

BRITISH CAR PRODUCTION"

EXPORTS 500 P:C, OVER IMPORTS

trebled.

Last

1831.

year

totalled

EGGS AND IRON BARS

What Home Motorists Endure

ourselves with hooting in such cir cumstances.

No doubt some people smiled when a report appeared that an

The Nine-inch Tyre Lever. In the ten years since 1922 the unknown motorist had been jouney. production of motor vehicles in ing about the country equipped But things have now taken Singer care have led to the intro Great Britain has grown from with a stock of eggs which he very serious turn. is a being has duction of yet another fast sport 73,000 to 222,000, or more thau burled at other road users as the appeared who throws not merely I fancy took him. There are few eggs but iron bars. Apparently, a car, which, it is confidently ex-

who would not like to follow his gentleman was sitting quietly by pected, will beoodie very popular

The industry is now supreme in example, and carry, my, half a the-roadside when a nine-inch tyre. In a few weeks' time we shall be with the motoring public.

Knjwas the 1830 1-litre the home market and contributes dozen eggs, preferably "antiques," lover was flung at his car from a handsomely to the balance, of for production on suitable occa paning machine,mashing the gin to hear the first announcements

Sports, this new Singer is priced

trade, about the cars of 1934."

sions when cut in on, for exam back window. As usual, the male- Aug. 13 is the date, before which, a 296 at home. It will interest Most of us are now looking over the car in anticipation of our sum- somme recent remarks in the House by common agreement, manufac the motoring public to now that In 1824 Imports and exports ple. However, exercising modera-i factor was, in what is always des

imports

dar This question must not be regarded lightly, and motorists. mer holiday. Do the job well and on the subject of horn sounding tuters will not announce their pro- not only is a sports car of this were practically equal at £9,500,000. tion, the majority of us content cribed as a high-powered sports your holiday will be all the better. and the nossible prohibition there-gramme for the coming season, capacity now Available at under

then (58.8 per cent.), in their efforts to trace the egg- Above all things look to the of are not without justification, and though this does not mean £300, but also that this new model 2,818,000 and exports £10,298,000, brakes. It is frequently of the have heard the ipoters" at their that, all, or even many, firms will is in no way a mere adaptation of and the number of cars exported are now little more than half what should co-operate with the police

on or touring car. The car has been showed a es per cent. increase over they were be disclosing their plans

without allowing for the much throwing, as well as the more dan- greatest importance to be able to best around the Largs, Gourock, about that date, the competition designed and built specifically as a

The annual statistical volume of complete equipment now included. gerous. gentry. The Auto Car. stop in the shortest possible dis and Helensburgh areas most sum-

to be first in the field has unhap- sports ear.

the "Motor Industry of Great tance, and when the roads are mer months.

It is fitted with a two-door Britain," published yesterday by crowded and many inexperienced Why the almost continuous hoot-pily made it customary to start

thinking about next year's cars coach-built body with room

the Society of Motor Manufac drivers are at the wheel, emergening I do not pretend to know, but when this year's are still new and four full-size adults to sit in co-turers and Traders, shows that cies arise when least expected:" I suspect swanking most of the

attractive.

fort. has a low centre of gravity A week or two back a driver was time. Making a noise is the only

and a smart, streamlined appear charge with an offence under the way some people can direct atten-

ance. When the hood is up there Road Traffic Act, and the police tion

The smart. is ample head-room. evidence proved that his car could

sweeping lines of the wings and not pull up in less than 143 yards from 30 miles an hour. Any car

running boards add considerable distinction to the model. with brakes which are in a reason- able condition should be able to stop in 40 feet from that speed, yet here was one which required over 400 feet to do it in. Scandal ous is not a strong enough term to apply to such neglect.

Luggage and Stability.

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If you cannot adjust the brakes on your car with complete coa- fidence do not hesitate to hand the

job over an efficiently run garage.

It will pay you many times over

by lessening risk and anxiety, and

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An

For once, two of the highest Unnecessary manufacturers have given us

even earlier ling on what we may Car prices are expect next season. likely, indeed, almost bound, to If you are determined to rise. have the very latest, or believe that revolutionary changes are at hand, you may think it better to wait and see what the next two months bring forth.

to themselves. booting makes me bubble over with indignation, but I admit that, from a legal point of view, it is extremely difficult to define what is unnecessary hooting. On the whole common sepse should decide when the sounding of the hooter is really necessary, and, after all, slowing down at times renders hooting quite superfluous.

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A Suitable Pänishment.: Then there. is"the" fast driver who fits and sounds two or more

Raw Material Prices Rising.

"

for

while the

private car production last year MOTOR CAR INSURANCE

as 171,244, the highest on record.

Commercial vehicles showed on fall. owing to restrictive legisla

Act and the Salter Report.. tion arising out of the Road Traffic

The industry now employs over 1,000,000 persona.

of the

torist uses a smaller car-an aver-

sum

It has a six-cylinder engine with

Last year 1,386,000 motor vehicles overhead valves and balanced disc type crankshaft with four large paid £69,973,000 in licence dutics, bearings and damper, while the fuel tax and local rates on garage pistons are of special aluminium space, nearly, one-tenth alloy, drilled for oil, saving in con- national income. junction with a patented design Because of the basis of our motor If you think that by waiting, scraper ring. The R.A.C. rating taxation, the British private mo

is 1268 hp.

A feature of the car, which will age of 13 h.p-than any other na- you will gain the beneft of the hooters of different notes and uses usual manufacturing miracle of them avea in town. The most suit lower prices and higher quality, he appreciated by motorists who tional, and it costs him in taxa- shle punishment for such people you are this time mistaken. Pri-like high speed travel, is a new tion £30 10% per annum,

mark and Italy. the knowledge that all is well will would be to compel them to drive ces will certainly be higher re-type worm and nut steering with only exceeded in Austria, Den- The British car has a life of seven and one-fifth years (against enable you to drive the car with in front of their own cars. But thelatively; they may even be higher self-centring action,

that the So-and-so brakes will give confidence to the fool shall we always have with us. actually, so confidence.

The report by the Research De Twelve, to be had now for, say, most nervous driver, as they are eight and three-quartet years for Another factor which makes for

the Institution of £200, will cost you £210 at the Lockheed hydraulic operated on the average goods vehicle) and the prices have fallen steadily and con confidence is the proper distribu-partiment of tion of weight, and, as most cars Automobile Engineers on the sub Show, although undistinguishable very large drums, giving

the present maximum of efficiency with protinuously ever since, 1924. They must be in essentials from

gressive action, the foot brakes are carrying a maximum of lugg-ject of cylinder wear

rather disturbing to the theorists. model.

(Continued on next cofulon). operating on all four wheels. For age during the summer holiday

Aluminium pistons, oil dilution. period, careful thought must be excessive speed whilst warming up

the owner-driver the reduction in given to how it is loaded on the car the engine, absence of upper-cylin

the number of oiling points by the if the road-bolding properties are der lubrication, and so on, have all

fitting of Silentbloc bushes will be been blamed for the trouble, but

much appreciated. this report places little emphasis It largely any one of these. blame corrosion arising from

not to be upset.

...

How often do we observe quite tiny cars almost sitting down on the rear axle because a large and heavy trunk has been coaxed on. to the luggage grid, just as three heavy passengers have been coaxed into a seat tight enough, for two? Small wonder the mudguards over the rear wheels rip the tyre treads

at intervale.

Most Cars Are Overloaded. Bad enough as that is, it is not so important as the destroying of roadworthiness, for a keen and sensitive driver can tell at once whether the weight distribution of ́the vehicle has been upset.

The trouble arises, of course, from the fact that most care are overloaded in every possible way, They carry too many people, and, as there is therefore no room with in for even the smallest. suitcase, the entire complement of baggage:

is strapped on behind.

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water.

Surprising Discovery.

As is well-known, water is one of

the products of combustion, and it

Sir Herbert Austin has ssiď i and Sir William Morris has said it with greater emphasis. Prices of raw materials, the commodity prices that we hear so much about just now, are going up, and while that is a good thing for, the pro- ducer (and ultimately, we are told, for all of us), the immediate result for the manufacturer using these etc.

materials is that unless he Other features of this most ing saves on quality or production teresting odel are the high off. costs, he

charge more ciency radiator with stoneguard

In ust

The equipment is very complete, including a 12-valt lighting set revolution counter, dash reading radiator thermometer, fog lamp,

wheel.

is surprising to learn that this Lowering quality is an expedient front. long steering column, and a aitherto unsuspected agent is lar he dare not try; and while the big Brooklands paten; steering gely responsible for eating away process of lowering costs by im- the cylinder-wall surface.

will certainly One of the tests was to suspend continue, a reduction equal to the

proving methods thin plate of cast iron in an at-rise in material costs is not to be mosphere of air and condensing

expected. steam, and even although the sur- face was covered by an oil film it corroded within a few minutes.

The main conclusion reached is that the sooner an engine is warm; ed up after starting the better and that the fitting of thermostate is a good thing.

Suggested Remedies.

It is also suggested that the ex-

I am sure many drivers of cars periments show the need for the use

loaded in this manner must have of cylinder material showing great-

HEAT TREATMENT OF WORKING PARTS

THE

a.

USE OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL "IN A FACTORY

Of the many ingenious processes

On

Long-range, high-powered head lamps with special leness and sle- tric dip and switch control the steering wheel, together with the dua arin electric windscreen wiper, will have special appeal to the motorist who does night driv ing in inclement weather, while for trials or long runs to be "under- taken in fast time, the special quick action lever type patrol tank filler cap will be greatly appreciat ed.

been puzzled at the way in which er resistance to corrosion, the need which go to the manufacture of ROYAL DUKE'S NEW CAR the car yaws about when taking for lubricants of greater protes: the modern car there is none, per corners or when being braked five value, and the addition, of violently, and I am just as sure various, things to the oil and fuel haps, which needs so much skill that the last thing they blamed which will lessen corrosive action. and precision as the heat-treat-

was the weight hung on behind. It is all very interesting and ment of the working parts

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You Must Be Firm)"

Drivers simply must be firm on this question of excess luggage. Cut down the weight ruthlessly and save anxiety and possible back

jaxle trouble,

upsetting; but I, for one; 赶了

One of the most enthusiastic motorists among members of the British Royal Family is H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester. He is a skilful driver and takes a very keen interest in everything to do,

An example of the most up-to thankful that a responsible body date methods may be found in the hardening shop of the Wolseley Co., is pursuing investigations in

at Birmingham, where costly plant fully employed. Such, indeed, is has been installed, and is kept with his cars. the pressure at Wolseleys that the

scientific manner."-

end to much of the nonsense talked The final conclusions may put an.

on the subject in the past.

For years past, His Royal High- hardening hp Naa ben increased ness has been a Sunbeam enthusiast to three times its original size in and has just purchased his sixth the last two years," and even now car of that make. It is

Far better send on the bulk of the trunks and cases by rail than drag them behind you and upset - readability. Bear in mind that 30 BRITISH CHASSIS FOR further extensions are being built closed limousine finished in matt

during July the roads are · more“ congested than on any other month, and that balance, speed, and brak. ing are vitally important factors in road safety.

CHEKIANG

an en-

SAFER NIGHT DRIVING

in

black relieved with white lines, the A stranger in this hardening interior

being upholstered shop night well think that he was brown hide. Several features have suffering from a nightmare of been specially designed to meet the It is learned that the Chakiang traffic signals, for all around him Duke's personal requirements. Highway Adaninistration Depart Another thing to look out for ment of the Chekiang Provincial are the familiar red, amber and are corners I was nearly giving Governments of China has recently green lights, changing their up motoring the other week-end added to its fleet of motor omni- colour, apparently, with alarming Within a space of two hours I buses by buying 30 British chassis indiscrimination. Actually, these found myself face with b rounding a bend close in on my Morris Commercial and 10 Com themselves are regulated from

car These comprise 10 Bedfords, 10ights indicate the temperatures of the many huge ovens, which in side. Brakes saved the situation mer, trucks. The great importance

A remarkable advance in electric Then a motor cyclist, complete with of this purchase lies in the fact central office like the control room pillion rider, took to the grass that these are the first British of a liner. The foreman in charge lighting has been brought about by margin and fell off between my chassis to be bought by the Che-here is surrounded by numbers of the introduction of the Deir street car and the hedge, and I had hard ang Administration which al electrical instruments which he sets lighting system, which is a British ly recovered from this before a van ready maintains over 300 buses and mot me head on an his wrong side of the road. Fortunately nothing was damaged except my temper.

Excessive Horn Bounding,

lorries,

COASTAL MOTOR BOATS FOR CANTON

I do not for one moment suggest that that sort of thing happens avery day, but that it can happen indicates the need for extreme cau have tion. Under no circumstances should it be assumed that the fool

Tenob, Browd and waiting for you Gu

the corner

to provide any required conditions production, invented and develop-

for the ovens. To such Bne limits led in the G.E.C. Research do they work that the normal Laboratories.

heat of 910 degrees centigrade can The Osira lamp introduces an be maintained to within 3 per entirely new technique in street lighting.mily of the Watford

cent

In all, there are over 30 ovens Road, Wembley, Middlesex, has John I Thornycroft & Co. Ltd., and more will be installed as soon as already been installed with the new obtained contract for two the extensions arg completed, system, and the excellence of the boats with armament Nearly 4,000 gallons of oil are in lighting has excited bigh praise Provincial Government in constant use for quenching pur from lighting authorities every The approximate cost of poses, and millions of parts are where, and has been the subject of these - vessels -15 £22,700 each.

tested in a month's work.

enthusiastic comment by the press.

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