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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH HOT

HUDSON

A Greater Super-Six With a New Price Advantage

To-day's Super-Six is the best value Hudson ever offered. It is priced lower in proportion to its worth than any other moter car we know.

More than 140,000 Super-Sixes in service and almost eight years leadership of fine car sales show its position.

Now the new Super-Six motor gives Hudson such a delightful smoothness in action that even long time Hudson owners marvel at the difference.

4passenger Hudson Teuriaz. $3,900

7-passenger Hudson Touring 54,000

HUDSON als builds the ESSEX S-passenger Essex Touring 53,000 1Above prices include five card tyres on five wire wheels.)

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Latest Models on View at our Show Rooms and Service Station Wong Nei Chung Road. Happy Valley. Telephone Central' 3950.

SUPER-SIX

NOVEL PUNISHMENT FOR SPEEDSTERS.

ASONE

RISONER

30.

Speedsters, near Detroit, are now being forced to do street work for the period of their sentence.

SUPPLI

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 198

MOTOR CYCLE NOTES:

HOW AN ENGINE IS

BENCH TESTED.”

[BY "NORTONIA."]

During the manufacture and erection of a motar cycle engine. each part is carefully examined before being fitted, to ensure that each part of the whole is perfect. When the engine is finally great- Jed, it is put on a Test Bench where it is tested to see that it develops certain minimum power and that the whole engine is workingabsolutely correctly.Ifthe engine is to be atted into a frame,) etc., made by the same manufac- turers, it is usual for the complete machine, to be taken on the road by a professional tester, who by long experience becomes able to detect instinctively the origin of]

raps" and "Knocks" which the average motor crelist would pro- bably fail to hear until they developed considerably. The tes- ter, too, classifies the engine. under such headings as "good," "very

good" or "Back for Further examination." He just rides the machine over the firm's pet test course, which (includes one hill, and on his return to the works either passes the machine for sale or bands | it over to -pecial repair) squad with clear instructions as to the work that must be done to

it before it can be passed off test.

Firestone

Follow the tide of economical tyre buying-equin besz

with Firestone Gum-dipped Cords-and learn what most miles per dollar means to you to-day.

Most Miles

Per Dollar

DISTRIBUTORS: The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

is known to be a certain figure.

In factories where engines only This figure is usually much higher are made, it is, of course, im-than the nominal rated horse, possible to fit each completed power. engine into a frame and test

it: so they are ren on the A large number of motor cycle bench and subjected to a test factories employ a device known as | for power by being coupled to the Heenan and Froude hydraulic 2 brake which can be ad-dynamometer as the name im- justed to absorb a varying but plies, water enters into the opera- always known degree of power.[tion of this brake. Roughly, These brakes are of several types its method of working consists and may be electrical, in which of admitting a varying quantity Lease the horsepower developed of water into a casing in which a is measured in accordance with fan is being rotated. The greater the amount of electricity generat-the amount of water in the casing, ed, or may incorporate some the greater will the friction friction device which records the set up between the fan and the "pull" of the engine on a spring casing, the tendence being for the balance.

rasing to be carried round by the fan in relation to the quantity of The bench sest is always the water between it and the very important and a large casing. The water supply can be! amount of room is devoted regulated to a nicety, and ar to the testing department, for ranged close at hand for the it in reality combines three operator STO 2. revolution entirely separate operations.counter and the dial of a As soon as the engine is received spring balance which records from the assemblers it is run the pull which the pivoted fan in by being Elled with oil and easing is exerting. Thus when driven from external spafting the engine is opened out the It rotates at about 800 R.P.M.tester can. by adjusting the and the oil is distributed to every quantity of water flowing into the nook and cranny, the process casing. govern the speed of the taking from four to eight hours, engine as shown on the "rev” From the running in stop the counter, and, when the desired engine passes to the test bench speed has been obtained, read off proper, where it is securely on the spring balance the number bolted to a long bench on which pounds which the engine is are fixed a series of dummy pulling. The actual horse-power engine plates similar to those by can then, of course, be calculated. In practice, however, the testers which the engine is secured in a motor cycle frame. In sait-know exactly the readings which

should be shown by any parti-li "able positions, adjacent to every

bed are oil pipes, a carburettor cular mode! and their records (connected up to an overhead therefore are given in pounds (petrol tank) and a magneto. There at certain speeds. After each is also a sprocket to fit the main-engine is tested, it is entirely dis-

mantled and inspected. shaft. The brake testing opera- tion is sometimes divided into two separate processes. The first consists of the engine driving a Itwo-bladed fun which directs a strong blast of air on to the cyün- der, thus providing the cooling device. The blades of the fan vary in accordance with the cylinderi fcapacity of the engine on test. The areas of the blades have been carefully worked out, with the result that when the fan is revolving at a given number of revs per minute, the power, which the engine is developing

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Firms desiring to avail themselves of the publicity facili ties presented through this supplement, are requested to send· copy not later then the Wednesday preceding publication.

NERACAR

** SAFETY

FIRST."

For safety, Reliability. Strength, Cleanliness and Economy the “NERACAR" stands unrivalled.

The NERACAR" was not built for excessive speed. On plain level roads, it will give a speed of 35 miles, whilst on hills-such as the Chin Wan Hill-it will give a speed of 25 miles per hour, as proved in the recent trials: Considering that most people rarely go motoring at more. than 30 miles on level roads or 20 miles up kills, the "NERACAR" has a reserve speed which is quite ample.

The NERACAR" was specially designed and built; to meet the needs of people who, in their daily avocations and pleasures, find that what is really required is a reliable, fair priced, light two-wheeled motor car that will carry them about safely, economically, at a fair speed and without the risk of having their clothing soiled by dirt, grease and oil. The NERACAR zoswers all these requirements and its gasoline consumption is one gallon to 100 miles!

Write or call for demonstrations

De Sousa & Company, Limited. Sole Agents for South China. 2nd. Floor, St., George's Building, Telephone C. No. 1284.

1924 Buicks Arriving

BRITISH MACHINE FOR CHINA AIR SERVICE.

ne selected for the Shingh (PA

The following 1924 Buick Models, (equipped with 4 wheel brakes), will arrive in Hongkong by the middle of this month :

Four-7 Passenger Touring Two-4 Sports

Four-

Special

Phone Central 1036

demonstration.

The Hongkong

(Maroon colour)

and arrange for