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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, MARCH

1924.

LINCOLN

Best in The World

FOR PRICE apply-

ANDREW HARPER,

Authorised Ford Dealer.

No. 2 Queen's Road, Central.

If the writer were asked to

up the

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THE

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DENNIS

2-2 ton Model

Write for leaflets of models in

which you are interested.

Alex. Ross & Company

(China) Limited.

Bank of China Building, Duddell St. Telephone C.2487

2-2

sum tonner

HE WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS AN ESSENTIALLY HIGH-CLASS. WORM- DRIVEN MACHINE, BUILT ON THE ORTHODOX LINES OF BEST AC- CEPTED STANDARD PRACTICE. THERE IS NOTHING EXPERI- MENTAL OR DARING IN THE DESIGN: THE CHASSIS IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF RIPE EXPERI- ENCE ACCUMULATED OVER TWENTY YEARS OF SOUND WORK."

How could you describe in fewer words the essential features of the machine you need for your transport services. Here you have up-to-dateness in design, sound- ness of construction, quality of material, dependability all combined with, and benefiting from, an experience of motor manufacture which dates back beyond the passing of the Light Locomotive Act. in 1895.

BRIEF SPECIFICATION:-

30 h.p., 105 x 150 mm. engine, forced lubrica- tion to working parts by gear-driven pump. -large off sump in crankcase, high tension waterproof magneto, external Ferodo-lined clutch, gate change 4-speed and reverse gearbox, with direct drive on 4th speed, steering by worm wheel sector, Dennis worm-driven back azle, atc. The band brake is of the expanding type, and the foot brake acts on a drum bebind the gearbox, both brakes being sasily adjusta- ble by band puta in accessible positions.. All chassis are fitted with front mudguards and Dunlop solić tyres, and supplied with. I head, i tall and 2 eide lamps, tool kit, lifting jack and born,

A RUBBER STREET.

New Construction to Reduce Vibration.

Akron, Ohio, February 9.— Paving with rubber blocks way. laid early this month for the first) time in the United States, by à rubber company here in a section of the street fronting an Akron plant.

The rubber blocks resemble common paving brick in size and shape, with the exception of a tongue and groove construction on two sides to Join the blocks together in a close union. The (bottom and wearing surfaces of

the blocks are smooth.

With tho ends and grooved sides dipped in hot tar compound ¡to form water-tight joints, the blocks are laid on a concrete base covered with a coating of the tar) compound.

Engineers received permission from the Akron city council to lay a section to test rubber block! paving compounds and construc- tion, as well as to determine the į wearing ellect of traffic upon the blocks themselves. A section 10 by 12 feet was laid in the street directly in front of one of the factory ontrances where loaded trucks passing in and out will give the pas ing a thorough test.)

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Rubber block paving reduces traffic vibration, found in other! pavements, protecting the chanism of vehicles.. On bridges | it is said to be the means of cut-] ting down on the steel work re- quired to withstand vibrations, also minimizing crystallization of the steel, because the rubber takes up part of the shock created by trattic.

NEW ENGLISH CAR.

It is announced that Messrs

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St. George's Building,

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Cleaning Car Systematically, axles. The body should be Causes of Broken. Gear Teeth When cleaning a car always running gear is touched. This are sometimes

completely finished before the

Gear teeth in the transmision" Westwood-Ince, Ltd., of Britannia begin from the inside and work is because the body has a relative-throwing in the clutch

broken off by

100. Works, Lower Ince, Wigan, are out, and from the top and work clean surface with delicate suddenly, by shifting speeds. manufacturing an entirely new down. Working from the top down, varnish, highly polished where-rapidly when the engine and the car, called the Westwood." the body, fender and hood should as the running gear is always car speeds are not equal, or by which it is intended to sell at a be washed, and after that the dirtier, has a tougher varnish, and accidentally shifting late raverse popular price.

wheels, frames, springs, and the lustre is not as fine.

when the car is moving forward.

This new "Westwood" has a four-cylinder Meadows engine, of ¡75 < 120 mm., with an R. A. C. rating of 14 h.p., and has com- pletely enclosed overhead-valve mechanism, with positively driven | dynamo and starter. Other items; [of the specification include a four- speed gear box. Timkea rear axle, semi-elliptic springs, Zenith car buretter, with autovacfuel supply, and Dunlop cord tyres. The engine is claimed to give 32 b.b.p. at 2,000 r.p.m.

The prices fixed arc, £310 for: chassis, £395 for the two- or four- seater the former with double dickey -£470 for the Coupe, and £495 for the saloon.

TYRE PUMPS.

How To Repair. Them. The leather which forms the piston of a tyre pump is rather difficult to form without some sort of fixture for the purpose, says the Automobile Digest. The leather used for most pumps. is about. three thirty-seconds inch thick; and can readily be formed by of a hardwood block means which is drilled to size of the pump cylinder and counterbored to the diameter necessary to form the piston. This .counterbore should be centred with the hole and a plug is then turned to af diameter about three-sixteenths inch smaller than the hole in the block. For most all cases the leather and the counterbore will have to be about three-quarters of an inch larger than the diame ter of the pump cylinder and in order to simplify the forming of the piston, the leather should be trimmed to a feather edge. Sale leather makes the best piston and should be soaked in water until very soft then lay into the coun- terbora so as to centre it, finally with a heavy hammer drive the plug into position. Allow the leather and plug to remain in the fixture for several hours, piercing the hole in the centre after it is removed.

A two by foar timber of hard! wood with holes drilled at each' end for attaching the towropé |fórms an excellent towing bar and has an advantage over the towing rope in that it keeps both cars properly spaced and in the case of sudden stops as are often made in congested traffic, avoids the danger of a rear and collision.

EXCEPTIONAL RIDING COMFORT

The new Dodge Brothers Touring Car is exceptionally comfortable to ride in it is good looking, and it in- corporates

many important refinements of detail.

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The body is longer and lower, eliminating side sway, affording more leg room, and enhancing the beauty of the lines.

Deeper seats, long underslung rear springs and longer front springs, give ample assuranes that cross country touring can be a enjoyed without weariness or fatigue.

Yet with all these improvements, and many others, it is still fundamentally the same car-built on the same chassis and powered by the same sturdy engine.

The price of Standard Model fivé-passenger Touring Car, complete with Magneto and with five Cord Tyres, is

¡$2400.

Come and sée it.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

-Registered Head Office and Show Room" Wong Nel Chung Road (Happy Valley), Tel. Central 3950.

Westport 3 Miles