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HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

HOW TO GET GOOD SERVICE FROM

MICHELIN TYRES

Keep tyres pumped up to correct pressure for

the load they have to carry.

what this should be.

We can tell you

When tyres are under inflated there is con- tinual internal friction between the foundation cord and the rubber, causing overheating of the tyre and consequent rapid deterioration,

Water can also enter causing rust, resulting eventually in the rims having sharp edges which cut the walls of the tyre near the bead.

Most cars in Hongkong run on under inflated

tyres with the above disastrous results.

Have your wheels examined front and rear for trueness and tracking alignment.' If they are at fault in this respect the tread of the cover is subject to a grinding action which quickly destroys the cover.

Keep tyres free from oil and grense.

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Start and stop gently and take' corners slowly.

Lastly-buy MICHELIN tyres from us and follow the

above advice and tyre satisfaction is assured.

EUROPE-ASIA TRADING CO.

Telephone 3438.

China Building, 1st Floor.

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Cleanliness Simplicity Safety.

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With the advent of the "NERACAR" and clean two-wheeled transporta tion, the best known families of Great Britian are taking to this economical and comfortable means of transportation. Prominent among English users are the Following:

The Earl of Haddington M. C.

The Earl of Bective.

The Earl Fitzwilliam., K.C.V.O.

Col. E. V. North, C.M.G. D.S.O.

Col Sir Edward Ward. Bart, G.B.E.,

K.C.B., K.C.V.O.

Lt. Col. C. Winterscale, D.S.0.

Capt. L. F. Sloane Stanley.

Professor E. Emrys-Roberts.

DE J. P. Broom, M.B.F.

Dr. E. H. Felton. M.B.E.

The Rev. F. W. Hassard Short, M.A.C, T.A.

and many others too numerous to mention.

Her Grace the Duchess of Mal-

borough.

The Marchioness of HeadFort The Lady Joan Wentworth Fitz-

william.

The Lady Donatia Wentworth

Fitzwilliam.

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The Lady Mary Stuart Wortley. The Lady St. Germans.

100 to 115 miles per gallon of gas. 35 miles per hour. This means safe,

sane driving without speeding.

Free demonstration. Sold on easy terms.

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DE SOUSA & CO., LTD.

Sole Agents for South China.“

2nd. Floor, St. George's Building.

Tel. No. Central 1264.

Oldsmobile

The Oldsmobile Four Cylinder Five Passenger Touring Car now sells at a price heretofore unknown in, its class, It offers you a buying opportunity that you · cannot afford to overlook.

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CARROLL & CO.

Telephone Central 2491.

Distributors.

NEW RACING TRACK.

motor cats.

RECENT

SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1993.

EXPEDITION ACROSS MONGOLIA.

Dodge Cars Do Well on the Gobi Desert.

“TRIBUTE BY LEADER OF EXPEDITION.

were also turned over the Mon- golian government.

THE T. T. RACES.

- NOISY-VALVE TAPPRIS.

There are times whan it is al- most impossible to make valve -tappets quiet, especially in an old enging that has seen much ser- vice; and though the trouble may † ba ̈ascribed "to-loose push rod. į guides, very often a check-up of the valves and guides fails to show signs of wear. If [80, if tho vstve tappats continue noisy after they are adjusted to the minimum of clearance, it is avidant that the trouble ties in the push rod assembly-although a flat spot on a cam will make a regular tapping noise which as its speed is identical with that of the valve setion, is very confusing.

Loose push rod roller pins make a noise similar in sound to that of

ralve tap: also & frozen pin, which

forces the cam to strike the valler in one spot only, making a low spot in the roller which naturally taps as the lift of the cam drops into it

LYMPNE GLIDER CONTEST

87 MILES

Where the valve tappets, or push rods ATB of the mush- Furthermore, this siz-room type, examine the face.. The starting discoveries of the, Without motor cars, it would past. Third Asiastic Expedition, with have taken 20 or 30 years, it is engine is particularly popular on which strikes the caro for cor their riceless contributions to estimated. Among the discover the Continent and in our Demi-rugations, as when the push rod jscience and commerce. would ies which science hails as one of nions, and the fact that such a turns around so that the corruga- have been impossible without the mosts important in centuries category will be available after tions are at right angles to the were several nests of dinosaur all, enhances very much the posam, the noise is almost identical

{tappel. That is the blunt, unequivocal: eggs-the first ever found. "In sibilities of the race having a real with that made by a loose valve statement of Mr. Roy Chapman all, 256 crates of fossils were international flavour this year. Andrews, leader of the expedi. brought back, including skeletons tion which returned recently of reptiles fully ten million years from a two-year search of inner-oid. Some of these reptiles, ac- most Mongolia, with the largest cording to Andrews, give obvious and most valuable collection of traces of having been ancestors of fossils ever brought into the strange species being uncovered:

from time to time in North and United States.

'South America, showing that the When the party started front-two hemispheres were at one China. Mr. Andrewe was told time connected. that camels and horses were the important mineral deposits only means of transportation known in the interior of the country he was about to penetr ate. To cross the Gobi deert alone VI A feat to test the endurance of the most rugged ear, and had been accomplished but seldom. T. ford the streams. and cross the hilly., roadless Five Classes Arranged. wastes of the unknown land

The Auto-Cycle Union has! beyond the desert, however, was considered an utter impossibility. decided to include a 500 c.c. class Nevertheless, Mr. Andrews in this year's Tourist Trophy

Races, and has determined that: had made up his mind.

no fewer than five races should "Dodge Brothers rules prevent be promoted. These will be as ed them from contributing their follows:--Side car combination up ears to our expedition." he said, to 600 c.c.; Solo motor cycles up but I felt that I had to have to 500 c.c.; Solo maior cycles up them. anyhow. even though to 350 e.c.: Solo motor cycles up numerous other manufacturers to 250 e.c.; Solo. motor cycles up had offered to supply me. I had to 175 c.c. penetrated Mongolis before and It is fairly evident even at this I knew just about what would be very early stage, that the crowd-- required of a car.

ing of five races into one week, is ' "So I bought three Dodge going to be a prodigious task, and Brothers cars at full list price in the Union, therefore, has reserv : Peking one touring car and two ed the right to cancel any one of Je-ton commercials. I tried these classes, if it is found im- in possible to make the necessary insurance company China. I believe, in an effort to arrangements for the running of insure the cars before starting such race, or if the entries are the trip. They only laughed at not sufficiently good to warrant me, even when I explained that it.

every

To have abandoned the 500 co. I cared for nothing except lusur- unce against total destruction. race would have atomistically

.fut cut We had our mechanics and ser-

many well-known concerns, who have supe vice parts and knew that we

class in could survive any accident ex-ported such cept annihilation. But the in- surance companies said no car! could get in, much less get oud- we travelled at our own

and risk.

What those cars did was a revelation to the whole eastern world. We crossed rivers, plunge ed in and out of deep ruts and thumped over boulders until we thought everything must shake to pieces. But those cars kept going. Terribly overloaded, they did the impossible day after day. Sometimes

wild chased we

tha animals across

roadless! plains at high speed. I remem- ber once the speedometer was registering 40 miles an hour when we were in hot pursuit of a drove of wild asses. One would think no car could survive such abirse, as the plains were natur. ally full of ruts and mounds. It is announced that, recently. But WB drove them back to the motor racing track at Mira-China, after 10,000 miles of this mas, about 30 miles from Mar- sort of usage, and sold them sailles, was officially inaugurated, without difficulty for more than and the prospects of opening for the price of three new Dodge racing in May, are sufficiently Brothers cars in the United promising. It measures five kilo-States. moters round, and has two

"The Chinese were eager to get straights, each thres-quarter mile these cars. They had done some- lang, joined by flat curves of some 1,550 ft. radius, and speeds of 120 thing that no other car had ever done. The company that bought m.ph can be maintained. There

ours now as 25 in operation, is also a loop in the track, pre- carrying from seven to fifteen sumably to introduce a more ex-1 citing element on occasion, than desert from Kaigan to Urga. This mere lap races provide.

trip formerly required 30 tedious days. With their Dodge Brothers cars they do it in 48 hours-and there are no roads.

passengers 800 miles across the

A vacuum tank which has run dry can be filled by closing the throttle and turning the engine over with the starting motor. Mr. Andrews added, as a mát | Thirty seconds should be enough ter of course, that he would again time to draw sufficient gasoline take Dodge Brothers cars op his into the vacuum tank for starting next expedition, which he plans. purposes. "After the engine is to start in June, 1924, started the vacuum tank will The expedition which he led info Mongolianccupied two years. take care of itself,

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the

flown on 1 gallon

of Shell!

Flight-Lieut. W. H. Longton, in his

great achievement on a Wren Mono-

plane, in the "Daily Mail" £1,000 Prize Glider Contest at Lympne, used

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Telephone Central 3950,

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