1923-11-03 — Page 9

HONGKONG TI

MOTORING, SUP

SATURDAY

VEME

SPEED TRACK ON FACTORY ROOF.

Where the Fiat Cars Are

ated.

The above picture gives a general view of the speed on the roof of the Fiat-Motor Company's factory af Lingotto, near Turin. The rack, which is constructed throughout of armoured concrete with a special type of asphalt as a top dressing, is made safe by a thick concrete wall 5 feet in height on each side of the two straightway stretches and on the inside of the curves, and by a wall nearly ten feet in height on the outside of the banking. Advantage is taken of the very high banking to instal workshops under it, where the testars can carry out such adjustments as may be shown necessary after their test runs. There is a direct entrance to thesa shops at the end of the straightaway, "and cars can come out of the shops and enter the track again without interfering with others going by at speed.

MILEAGE

DUNLOP CORDS Provide

Long

Longer Mileage

Decreased Petrol" Consumption Conservation of Engine Power Increased Cushioning Reduced Driving Strain Lowest Inital Cost

Lowest Running Cost Per Millə

INSIST ON A DUNLOP

AS SUPPLIED TO THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT

This show one of the straight stretches on the Fiat speed track. It is slightly cambered in order to allow water in run off into the gutters on each side. As the hot water heating pipes are carried on the ceiling of the shops immediately under the track, there is sufficient heat to melt snow as it falls. Consequently, testing can be carried out on the roof all the year round and under any weather conditions.

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PROOF

The triumphs of Shell in the French Grand Prix, the Boulogne Grand Prix, the Aerial Derby, the King's Cup, the historic Atlantic and Australian flights, are one form of proof of superiority. Another is the pridence of

A MOTOR CAR IMPROVEMENT.

TO BEGINNERS.

DUNLOP

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POPULAR STUDEBAKER.

RECORD YEAR EXPECTED.

On September 1st, this year,į the Studebaker Corporation had surpassed its entire production for 1922, according to s report just received from the Studebaker factory by the Hongkong Hotel Co., Studebaker distributors for Hongkong The sales of the last four months of this year" will. One of the first things a begin therefore represent this year's ner should realise is that there is increase over the 1922 record. a great deal to be learnt in motor-Production for the first eight! "ing. It is not just a matter of months of 1923 was 110,540 cars]

sitting in a car, learning the as compared with 109,222 for the ¡controls and how to steer. A full calendar year of 1922. the heginner should study the tech-August production was 15,700 tonical manuals before starting to care, and broke all previous ax drive. Good and safe, driving is records. Production for the first! standard equipment on their new due to all other road users and to eight months of 1923 was more models for 1924. Capt. E de oneself, it cannot be acquired in than 32,000 in excess of the first! Normanville says 1.

a few haphazard lessons from a eight months of last year.

Important "Safety First

Development.

Dealing with the decision of General Motors Company jadopt four-wheeled brakes

Sales are expected to exceed

lopment sets the seal of definite/conditions requires a general 150,000 cars this year as againstį

It is safe to say that this deve-car dealer. Driving under modera

110,269 last year. And they are)

approval on the suitability of four knowledge of the problems of wheel brakes for inexpensive cara traffic, reasonable imagination to which are ownerdriven by the foresee possible dangers, decision well ahead of production which in acting, and a full understand-Amounts to about 30,000 cars for ing of what can and can not be the Erst two months of the pre- done with a car. Study the hand-seat quarter as compared with books of cas driving.

30.199 for the full third quarter; last year.

average motorist.

DOUBLED EFFICIENCY.

This welcome improvement in! Safety First factors comes at a timely moment. It is obviousį that the better the braking system!

All plats are running at capa city to meet the continuous. large demand for Studebaker cars from virtually every section of! the world.

of a car the better measure of particular Baick design of front safety for its driver and other wheel brake. In the normal types road users.

hitherto used the brake shoes are Before detailing any of the pressed against the inside of struction at South Bend, Indiana, Buildings are now under con- specific factors in this particular the brake drum. Consequently the U.S.A., which will increase Stude-} design of front-wheel brake, jefficiency of the brake is directly baker manufacturing facilities will briely reiterate the general proportional to the pressure you still further in order to meet more jadrantages of the broad principle exert on the pedal.

adequately the insistent demand! The braking efficiency of a car! To get the double efficiency of for Stude haker cars, Work on is fundamentally dependent on four wheel brakes therefore you these additions. requiring an the grip of the tyres on the road have to press the pedal investment. of approximately; [Obviously, therefore, if you can double effort.

$6,000,000 (gold) is progressing| rapidly.

maske four tyres grip equally. instead of only two, your efficiency

is doabled. That is the A.B.C. of the matter.

LESS SKIDDING DANGER,

,

The new six-storybody building. now nearing completion, contains

In the new design. however, 480,000 square feet of floor space. But in practice other factors the band brake is outside the It is expected that this building arise. The effective grip of the drum. This type of brake-as will be ready for use before snow tyre on the road is dependent you probably know has a ten-flies.

amongst other things) on the dency to wrap itself on so

Boon as even & light pull is ex-Dew, four-story storage building Shipping will be facilitated by a weight that tyre is supporting. ferted on the end of the band.

Suppose you are running along

and a train shed which are being the road at 30.m. p.h. with only

Consequently the four brakes added to the present facilities. rearwheel brakes. Suppose also on the Buick can be applied with Dimensions of each of these addi-

Prominent Motor Journalists that each of those rear-wheels out any undue pressure on the tions are 76 x 364 feet. Both are

who have witnessed the testing of Shell:

MR. H. MASSAC BUIST in The Observer.

A higher useful compression than any other of the well-known brands"

CAPT. E. DE NORMANVILLE in The Motor Quiner.

"The superiority of Shell......so convincingly demonstrated MR. J. OWEN in The Referee.

In every case Shell Motor Spirit went further than the others"

MR. ARTHUR J. SALMON in The Daily Graphic.

Shell came out on top to a remarkable extent.

SHELL

DEVELOPS

THE UTMOST HORSE-POWER

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

possesses 50

unita.**

obtain "road-gripping pedal, and you

thenow practically under roof and maximum efficiency where you will be soon ready for use. need it most-at high speeds. Now apply the brake. A pro

A mammoth new foundry,alone portion of those "gripping units": There is another ingenious im- costing approximately $2,500,000 jautomatically disappears. Why?provement in this particular de- £515,000), will measure 722 z 683 Because the act of retarding the sign, When you turn a corner feet. When finished this will be car's progress transfers a portion or make a sharp steering move the largest grey iron foundry in of the weight pressing the back ent) with the brakes applied, the automotive industry. wheels down to the front wheels. the one on the outside front Studebaker's factory facilities wheel releases itself automatic-to-day are unexcelled in the in- ally, and the one on the inside dustry, and its financial standing front wheel is increased. In this way your 50 gripping!

and splendid reputation the sub- Janits may become only 45, But This is achieved by the special ject of favourable discussion

if you have brakes on the front design of the stub axle and the throughout the world. wheels as well their assumed 50, brake-operating mechanisma. "It, gripping units" would become 55 has two useful effects.

PERFECTED DETAILS.

With four-wheel brakes, there In the first place, any normal] fore, you save the loss in gripping skidding tendency on a greasy capacity which occurs with only road is minimised.

TO A CORRESPONDENT.

W8. Les Your c query will bej

rear wheels brakes, and also Secondly the braking of the answered in next week's issue of double your main gripping caps inside front wheel creates & tane the Motoring Supplement [city.

Getting down to bedrock sin plicity, all this, theorising mesde: |that in given equal circumstances you can stop car with four wheel trakes in half the dista you could stop it with rai

dency for the car to pivot about that wheel, and thus assists in rounding the corner.

There are other detail improve ments, but these are the chief:

erica insurance making: s: 10 per cen

Driving petrol engine with

RETARDED SPARKING.

the spark unnecessarily retarded|72

comm

ce of overheat- the sparking

1A, Chater Road. HONGKONG Phone C.4554.

MR. CAR OWNER!

Why not send us those LAMPS, FITTINGS, etc. from your car and let us make them Eike new?

THE ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT

(OF THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.)

EXPERTS IN PLATING.

Dennis

MOTORS

As used by The Hongkong Government.

2-24 ton truck chassis-£740.-0-0 c. I. 1. Hongkong.

THE TRUCK WHICH HAS PROVED, ITS. WORTH IN HONG KONG

SOLE AGENTS

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Seaters, at 2650.

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