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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Scrutator" Replies to Queries.

T" Scrutator" is prepared to an- swer questions relating to motor- ing. Queries should be addressed to him c'o Hongkong Telegraph. They should be sent in not. later than Tuesday cach week. Below will be found a question and Janswer.]

H.A.S. writes: There is still a knock in my engine, after having all the bearings adjusted, and ! suspect that it may come from lose piston-pins, Is there any test that will show whether or not this knock is from the pins?

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Answer: You can set the engine running idle, and attach a 'valve lifter, so that the exhaust valve of one of the cylinders can be opened, at will. If, when it is opened, the Įknock ceases, there is good reason

to believe that the piston pin "off this cylinder is loose. The rest of the cylinders can be tested suc-| cessively. This test is based upon the following considerations: When the valves are operating! normally, suction exists within the cylinder during the intakej stroke, while during the com- pression stroke there is pressure within it and the effect of the sudden reversal of the force acting on the piston, is to bring out any looseness of its pin. With the exhaust valve open, the piston is practically under atmospheric pressure during whole cycle. with

WENT OVER BANK.

This machine, carrying three women and a man, plunged over a 40-foot embank ment at the Virginia one of the Chain bridge near Washington. One of the women waAY "seriously injured. The man was ent about the head..

SOUNDING THE HORN.

Unnecessary Hooting a Source of Danger,

How to use and hów nọt 10

CHEAPER PETROL.

FOUR-WHEEL. BRAKES.

More Popular but Need- Doubtful.

Although four-wheel brakes are gaining in favour among the

no gaseous pressure on the piston abuse the electric horn was tho first time in nearly 10 years/utomobile manufacturers it is

jand play at the pin is

developed.

PETROL PRICES.

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The Reduced Rates in America.

Washington, Aug. 3. For the

a question whether they are subject of an article in a recent motorists are coming to know Home paper. And letters received in some states the meaning of really necessary or really worth

while. from several motorists in Devon, "Cheap gasoline,"

". This doubt as to the practic- particularly in the Exeter arda. Back in 1915, when dimsump* show that the sounding of the tion was not so great because the ability of four-wheel brakes is warning device is

a burning number of autos in use was de expressed by several automotive question in that district.

cidedly less than now, gas sold engineers who have been among Yet, it As the difficulty is one which for 11 cents in New Jersey, 15 those studying their use.

is believed generally that four-." might be started in other parts [eents in Mässachusetts, and even) wheel brakes will come into » of the country, I will deal with 10 cents in Illinois and other wider use, even on middle-priced it, says Capt. E. de Normanville places. in the course of an article.

That, however, was held to be cars.

Reduction in India,

Following on the news that the

That this belief is well founded price of petrol at Home had been

1 appears that the police the "market price at the time is proved by Buick's adoption of reduced from two shillings to Is.authorities in Devon are not and the Federal Trade-Com- 81d. per gallon only 1d per emmoured of the quint motorist, mission, in a ruling declared its such system.

But that doesn't mean that the gallon above the pre-war price Traps have been seks and opinion that Standard Oil com four-wheel brake system is fully came the announcement that in motorists have been fined for not punies virtually fixed the price improved and ready for general consequence of the heavy supply sounding the horn when taking for the entire country.

jadaption There is much to be of petroleum spirit in America bends in the rind,

Fallowed then a period, espe-done toward making it practic- affecting the world market prices. Please mark the word "bend "jcially after the war, when money lable for use on the medium-priced the price of petrol in India, as should have no criticisin 10 was plentiful and motor car

car. The east must come down.' Burns and Assant would be offer if such action were taken in prices were not beyond the reach reduced by 2 annas per gallon with regard to closed or blind corners of the average man. The demand and yet all four brakes react as effect from the morning of July. And in justice

Se did the evenly and perfectly as those to the police for gasoline shot up.

tairw being installed on the SIDECAR SPRINGS 3rd. The price of petrol in this activity which i propose price. And as a result, producers Duesenbergs, and other high-

Country is now Re, 12, which is criticise. it must be admitted that and others seeking fortunes.i still 716 annas above the Home 1. have GREEN

only second-hand rushed on the oil fields of Texas, priced motor cars. OLIVE

Until this is brought about, en- COLOUR SCHEME prier, and we understand that the knowledge of the type of bend Oklahomm and California, and a

gineers say more attention should Automobile Association of Bengal in question.

period of drilling set in unequalled be paid toward perfection of the intends to push on its campaign

in history. A Safety First Rule,

two-wheel brakes now in use.. with amabated energy, and to

This frenzy was at its peak in They need further improvement. press for a farther reduction of at But if these correspondents the summer of 1921. Production the opinion is, and the trans- feast 4 unnas per gallon,

assume then the police author records were smashed in July misson brakes need development. of that year 569,711,415 gallons!

The reason why four-wheel ities are either guilty of pero gasoline were produced. an brakes impress motorists, engine- secution, as different from pro-lincrease of 44,000,000 gallons over secution, or making an error of the previous month.

ers say, is chiefly because the two-wheel brakes they have judgment,

But producers didn's stop there. been using, have not given real I have never heard of the More wells were drilled and tisfactory service. The two- Exeter authorities being a short time ago, despite the heavy wheel system could just as well Production of the Ford Motor motorist, so assume that the demand for gas, the supply was be made to perform better: and,

greater still. Governor McMaster! Company continues to move up campaign of theirs is intended to new records. During the week public safety. If the road of South Dakota bought much of in fact, well enough for present ending. Tuesday, July 17, domes bende are really only gentle this overproduction" and sold it be accomplished, therefore, there tic assembly plants turned out curves, as I am informed. then to the public at 16 cents. Then would be no need of adding two

the police activity for Safety things started for fair. misconception

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The prices of these care in Hongkong will be the local equivalent of the listed prices ruling in GREAT BRITAIN.

We have made arrangements with the Arrol- Johnston Company, whereby a visitor to Great Britian from the Far East will be enabled to purchase at list prices an Arrol-Johnston or a Galloway Car for his uso in the Homeland, and on his return to the Far East to have the oar sont to the factory" to be over- hauled and suitably geared for the Colony of Hongkong. lo addition, the car would be packed, insured, and shipped to us for delivery in Hongkong, free of all charge to the owner.

Further "particulars can be obtained from our Garage Showroom in Pedder Street,

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FORD OUTPUT.

140,803 cars and trucks.

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automotive needs. If this could

nore brakes to the 'cur. First is undertaken throngir, a Oklahoma leads in production Inefficiency of the two-brake The new record is 428 better

of petroleum. California and

system, however, bus caused mark

You may take the following mexas ure tied for second honors quite a stir among the safety ex- than the previous high. which, was 40.375 for the week rule as an absolute fact for all. The United States produces ending Tuesday, June 19.

Safety First interests"]t is

and use unbelievable quantities Ponents and legislators of the [country. Several states havo att error to sound મ warning of gasoline.. "In 1922, when con- been compelled to pass iuws call- Fordson tractor production for device at any time when such

sumption reached a peak, the ing for regular brake inspection." the week was 1,131,

warning is not necessary.”

wholesale value of gas consumed I smaller localities, also, police There are several logical argu-] new record ments for this rule. We will by domestic and export sources authorities see that the brakes on

approximately 1,150,000,000, automobiles work properly.

The Lincoln division of the Company also set a

for the week ending Tuesday deal only with the more import was

with a total of 206 cars.

Ford

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ant: And in this connection; there Bre 1Wo categories of. Safety First consideration the motorist personally, and the mutorist and other road users,

Familiarity Breed

Contempt.

HONOUR FOR FAMOUS

'DESIGNER. "

Brakes are considered now the nxost important part of the "au- tomobile, due to the potential danger lying behind their faulti- A great honour was paid to Mr.ness. For this reason, the Na- Ap. H. Royce when a statue to the tonal Safety Council is pressing designer of the Rolls-Royce cara nationwide campaign to educate was unveiled at Derby recently the driver into having his brakes

We will take the motorist and The R. R. factory was originally inspected regularly before he guër other road users first. T make at Manchester, but many years out on any trip.

This organization has been" the point clear, I will take an ex-ago the growing demand for the treme case on the reductio ad cur necessituled extensions which sending out circulars giving in

the existing site did not permit,structions on the proper care of absurduin principle...

If every car driver who passed and the scene of operations was brakes, their manipulation, ad- a pedestrain walking on the path-shifted to Derby. way sounded his horn, the pedes-

train would get so accustomed En

justment and maintenance. Sug- gestions on the right way to stop the automobile in all conditions

the sound that it would cease to Exeter police authorities if they of traffic are sent out, so that be a warning at all. It would be-took action against that danger-street safety may be increased.

An automobile owner who looks- come an unpleasant addilionious small minority who use the

noise to the normal sounds of warning device too much, and after his brakes at regular intor traffic and cease to convey rely on it as giving a right of way, vais, who tests them weekly and "warning", at all.

But from the Safety First stand-sees that they are immediately

A more important defect of un-point it is extremely difficult to adjusted, if they show the least necessary hom sounding is the lay down with accuracy the pro-tendenty toward slipping, needs psychological effect it has on the cise point where the horn should no more than two-wheel brakes to motorist. He will gradually, be sounded--apart, of course, from stop his car effectively, under any

conditions. and even unconsciously, form the obvious occasions. the exceptionally bad habit of On a gradual and gentle bend,

driving on the horn.

I say emphatically that it is in- GLARE PROTECTION, He will come to think that be- culcating greator danger to.de. The most effective protection cause he has sounded the horn all mand the sounding of the horn. against strong sunlight and glar- is well. He will take bonds on To force such aution is simply to ing lights is a shield of opaque or the horn" and even corners. teach the motorist to drive on translucent material placed in. Such driving is a serious offence the horn." And that is one of the the left-hand corner of the wind- against Safety First principles, most dangerous types of danger shield, behind which the driver and I would gladly applaud the ous driving...

may hide his eyes.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1923.

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FIRST

CENSORED

HOLD TIGHT MILLY

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HOUR LATER

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