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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

Firestone

Tirestane Gum-Dipped Cards and Steam-Welded Tubes were the equijnen}

A each of the first five cars to finish the 200-mile Championship Automobile Base of September 4ib. 1923, at Altoona, Pennsylvania. The incer. Eddie Hearn, drove the entire distance in his Durant Car on Firmione Cum-Dipped cords without a step, averaging 11L5 miles per lour, thus establi sking a new world's recard for 122 cubic inch cars. The first eight mila el this race were run at an average speed of 125 miles per hour.

Most Miles

Per Dollar

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

WOMAN WINS

PRIZE IN HYDROPLANE RACE.

U.S. HILL CLIMB.

SOME INTERESTING FACTS

The annual Pike's Peak (U. S. A.) hill climb is conducted under A.A.A. sanction and is for non- Istock cars with cash prizes of $500 and 8200 in each of the three events. The climb starts at an (altitude of 9,150 feet and ends at 14,109 feet, with grades ranging from 7 to 101 per cent. There are sixty curves on the course. but the road is trém 20 to 30 feat wide. The Pike's Peak bighway least a quarter of a million, gold dollars to build, and is tut 12- 25ths miles in length. In addition to the cash prizes mentioned jatore, the silver and gold Penrose Trophy is annually competed for.

Sofer, nodriverhas wont be Pen- rose Trophy more than one of the three years required for pena dent possession. The Hadsca Super- Six record made in 1916 by Ralph" Mulford, time 18 minutes 2+ 7/10ths seconds, has never been beaten. Some of the records made to date are as follows: Year. H.P.

Car.. Time:

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Brief Specification

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MOTORS

Miss Ethel Hanley at the wheel of her high-powered hydroplane whicTM came in second in a championship race at Cincinnati in which many professional men competed.

ACCELERATION. AND WHAT IT IS.

keep in close touch all day, the i progress of the faster car would be a series of nerve-racking rushes and brutal brakings, in stead of the nice. steady pace

NO NOVICE.

1916 29.40 Hudson

18.24 ↑

1923 18.23 Essex

18.47.6

1923

36.04 Studebaker

19.21.4

19.29.6

21.43.4

1923 25.35 Lexington 1923 25.35 Lexington 19:23 31.76 Chevrolet 26.15.4 There wire fourteen Cars jentered in the 1923 competition.

THREE CENTS A MILE. Cost of Two People's Tour. The most interesting and an- She did not try to get away joyable trip that they have ex- but stopped the car and faced perienced since taking up the sport of motorcycling some seven him manfully.

A motor car, driven by a very made by the other vehicle, and determined locking young lady. Important Advantages of a Good "Pick-up." almost certainly it would be, had just knocked down a man, and again to fortunately without injuring him. necessary now You often read arout accelera-drive at a pace greater than that road con- the tion, but I wonder (say's & Home warranted by writer) if you really onderstand ditions.

There is no need to ask which a great deal about it-what fes- i tores of design make for good car would last the longer.

acceleration. what is justfiable

use of the attribute in your own car, and what are its real ad- vantages.

Assuming that you do not know much more than that the word "acceleration is a concise, technical way of saying "getting

"ADVICE NEEDING

QUALIFICATION.

"I am sorry it happened," she years ago, is the verdict of Mr. said grudgingly. You should and Mrs. H. R. Howard of Po take more care when you are mons. California, after the com- walking. I am an experienced pletion of a ton: from Pomono to driver. I have been driving a car Wilbraham, Mass., in their motor cycle and sidecar. No mechanica!

encountered Light and well-balanced re-for seven years."

"Well," replied the victim, difficulty was ciprocating parts, and suitable en- gine design in general, are mainly I'm not a novice mysalf. I've route and outside of being stuck responsible for good acceleration, heen walking for fifty-seven in the mand on several occasions and having to be hauled out, the trip passed without unpleasant incident. and with this you cannot inter-years!"

up speed." a little chat about it fere one way or the other. But correct adjustment of carburetter, may be interesting.

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Their route leaving Pomona

10 besin with, then, possession magneto and valve-tappet clear whole chassis. Brakes must not was through Fresno, Sacramento. of good powers of acceleration ance will keep the engine at top be allowed to bind or to remain [Cal. Reno, Nevada, Brigham,

is much more important than notch form extra-high maximum speed. The car with good acceleration will win every time on a long, vive and-take ran aginst a vehicle pick-up" that

with a poorer may be even ten miles an faster.

hour

leaves the works. not be interfered with."

car

choked up with mud. If of the Utah, thence through the States

I noticed recently in a manufacturer's manus! of in- internal expanding variety, mud of Colorado, Kansas, Missouti struction the advice: "Carburet will not affect them, but the Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Pennsyl ter and magneto are adjusted to operating mechanism may be vania and New Jersey, crossing best advantage when the car come clogged with dirty oil, the Hudson River at Tarrytown, They should that the pull-off spring cannot N. Y, thence to Bridgeport and Conn... Springfield, !completely free the shoes from Hartford, As it stands, that advice, of the drum. Needless to say all Mass, ending up at Wilbrebem Each car bas to slow down to course, is nonsense. "Tinkering working parts, from the wheels Mass, Mr. Howard's old home.

The total mileage from Pomona approximately the same pace at

is to be deprecated, but it is safe and springs and transmission 25 for any

to say that every car after its down to the brake rod bearings. to Wilbraham was 4223 miles, kind of obstruction. In getting st few hundred miles is the bet should be kept clean and given the cost of gasoline for the trip again, the Blower car ter for readjustment of the car- the right quantity of the right was $28.51, oil 89.45, tyres $12.15. food a camp $40.99, hotel bills And, granting a good engine and incidentals $53.20, a total of kept in good order, don't misuse $122.06 for the complete trip. kind of lubricant.

¡your acceleration. Start off gent- ly, and go through the gears in a

every corder.

away obtains

which a good start. may not have been entirely made buretter. Usually this readjust up by the faster car by the ment takes the form of substitut- time it is agaia necesary to slowing a smaller jet. down for an obstacle.

POSSIBLE DANGEROUS DRIVING. And so it will go on; what the slower car loses on the long, straight stretches it makes up on the curly bits." Look at the matter from another angle. If it were vital for the two drivers to

CHAMPION LADY FLIER.

AN IBRESISTIBLE FORCE.

fashion. Demand NOT ON THREE CYLINDERS. It is a good plan. also, to check leisurely

La sparking plug oils up, or over and correct all adjustments maximum acceleration from the

Remember that ifjection, the fault should be reme- -valve tappets and brakes, for engine only when it is really for any other reason goes out of instance--that are likely to be necessary. affected by the "bedding down "an irresistible force tries to shift died at once. Running an engine puts very severe and uneven process" that is inevitable in the jan immovable object" something's under load with a cylinder "ont initial few hundred miles or $0. got to give!

A further point to watch, for its If you misuse powerful ac-strains on the crankshaft and influence upon economy as well celeration you're getting near to bearings, and will in time lead to

fracture. as efficiency, is the freedom of the that state of afairs!

1924

HARLEY-DAVIDSON

As used by The Hongkong Government.

2-24 ton truck chassis-£740.—0—0

c. i. f. Hongkong.

THE TRUCK WHICH HAS PIOVED ITS WORTH IN HONGKONG

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