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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 lond they have to carry. We can tell you, what this should be.

When tyres are under inflated there is con- tinual internal friction between the foundation cord and the rubber, causing overheating of the tyre and conséquent 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 rún on under inflated

tyres with the above disastrous results.

Have your wheels examined front and rear for frueness 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.

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Keep tyres free from oil and grease.

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, Ist Floor.

NERACAR

Reliability Economy Comfort

Cleanliness Simplicity Safety.

THE LIGHTWEIGHT MOTOR CYCLE WITHOUT A PEER

With the advent of the “NERACAR "and clean two-wheeled transportu- tion, the best known, families of Great Brilian are taking to this economical and confortable means of transportation, Prominent among English usors are the following

The Earl of Haddington M. C.

The Earl of Bective.

....

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

Cal. E. V. North, C.M.G., D.5.0.

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

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

Lt. Col. C. Winterscalo, D.8.0.

Capt. L. P. Sloane Stanley,

Professor E. Emrys-Roberts

Dr. J. P. Broom, M.B.E.

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 Mul-

borough,

The Marchioness of Hoadfort. The Lady Joan Wontworth Fitz-

william.

The Lady Donatia Wontworth

Fitzwilliam.

The Lady Mary Stuart. Wortley. The Lady St. Gornians;

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

ane driving without spooding.

Froo demonstration. Sold on easy terms.

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD. Sole Agents for South China.

Oldsmobile

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

Tel. No. Central 1264,

JUDGING SPEED AND DISTANCE.

Important Factors in Driving.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5,

by steering combined with one or other of the two.

The most frequently usod Is braking. It would be dangerous for me to proach that dooeleration is often safer, but that is un-j questionably the fact.

But most motorists more How are you to learn the art readily apquire safety from of judging distances and speeds braking. And this is the way to on a motor-car? asks Capt. E. improve your knowledge of the de Normanville in the Daily distances and spoods at which Chronile. And how can one bost braking in offoetive. Acquire a knowledge of the way When I am giving inssons on in which the caspood varies the this point, I employ a large rag distances?

Idoll as big as a small child. It Once again the-best-answor of gives realism to the pupil-but all is careful observation during anything cleo will do. practical road experience. But 'Solect a quiet stretch thore aro certain factors which straight road. Use a telegraphi should be recognised by all pain, or anything else, as a mark [drivers which have an important at the side of the road. Plaso the hearing on the problem. Ong of doll at such listance from that these rolates to braking efficiency.mark as corresponds with the table of stopping distances and car speeds given.

A SILLY PHRASE.

J

You often hear people way, HALF A SECOND IS VALUABLE. "Oh! I pulled up in the length of Say. for oxample, that you the car." Get that right out of choose a normal touring spoed! your mind. It's a silly mis-state-of 30 m.p.li. You would then ment, and can only be sub-place the doll (or rug, if you like) stantiated "whon running at 84 foot away from the roadside abnormally slow speeds,

mark selected.

A car with good brakes in Now approach that mark at a thoroughly efficient condition (stoudy 30 mph.. and at the and operating on a dry road with precise moment you pass it got good tyres can be stopped about busy with your brakes. You will at follows: At 40 m.p.h., in 10ft.; find you have a fairly busy time at 15 m.p.h, in 22ft; at 20 mp.h., stopping, in 38ft; at 25 mph, in 60ft at Your next lesson is even more 30 m.p.h.. in 85ft.: at 35 mph, holpful. You must have a pas- in 120ft.: at 40 m.p.h., in 150ft, sanger in the car, and he alone and at 50 m.ph., in about 240ft. must know the roadside mark. In that statement I have as-The driver must be unacquainted sumed everything to be in good with it. order-brakes, road surfaco, tyre As the car passes the solected treads, and weight distribution.mark the passenger must shout The figures are based on dull" Now!" You will probably find! technical facts-co-efficients off that you run down "the child," friction, and so on--about which and do not stop until 26 feat or you do not want to bother.

more beyond it”.

But I would ask you to bother Why? Because you have not to the extent of proving to your learnt how to turn mental know- own satisfaction that you cannot lodge into physical action without, beat them in practico. So first losing a valuable fraction of a of all forget all about that silly second. If you wasto one second phrase. "I stopped in my own you will go 45 feet too far. length. It only applies at 10 in.p.hand that is a very rare apoador lack of speed.

PROOF.

The fact that · practically all the ...makers of the best English cars fit

DUNLOP CORDS

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is

standard equipment, Indisputable. "PROOF of Dunlop superiority. You cannot adopt

a safor policy than to take your ette from the people who know, to wit, the Car Manufacturera Remember too,-overy Dunlop tyre in the Colony has this important protection behind it, viz, the personal protection of the Manufacturer's own Branch

organisation on the spot."

THE

Dunlop Rubber Co. (China), Ltd.

St. George's Building, Cables]

HONGKONG.

*Phone C. 4554.

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ADJUSTMENT: the opposite condition prevaile,

Hints on. What to Do.

the brako clearance increasing with an increase in weight of the load. On some cars, the brake may have sufflelant clearanoo. carrying the full load on a smooth When adjusting brakes it is road, but on an uneven road the well to remember that the small-jup and down motion of the body ost amount of clearance which may cause an altornato binding still fails to cause binding under and releasing of the brakes. A any running condition is the best practice which should be avoided usually 1:32 of an inch is suffici.is adjusting the brakes while the ont, says the Automobile Digest, rear of the car le not in its general Front whool skids como chiefly The method of determining the running position. This condition from rounding a corner or curve proper clearance depende upon is especially bad should one side In tight corners, where ac-

at so high speed that the front the arrangement of the brake of the car be jacked up bighor curate judgment of ear speed wheels logo their traction. To linkage. On some cars, brakes than the other. The best method and distances, is so important, overcome this, apply, the brakes which are given suficient clear-in to adjust the brake on the road, you usually have three choices. gently, which will drag the rear ance when the car is empty, will with the car running under the You must get out of the danger wheels and give the front wheels bind severely even before the full most severe operating conditions by braking by acceleration or a chance to take-hold.

load is carried. On other cars, which may be encountered.

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