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. We can tell you what this should be.
When tyres are under inflated there is coa- 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 wheela 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 coVIZE,
Keep tyres free from oil and grease,
Start and stop gently and take corners slowly.
Lasily 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.
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Right Now.
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CORRECTING STEERING
FAULTS.
EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY.
HOW TO SECURE BEST/
COMPROMISE
"FREAK TUNING,
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1924.
GERMAN SPECULAT-" ORS FLOOD FRENCH. MARKET.
Buyers Make Heavy Purchases.
TAKING GOSPEL TO THE PEOPLE.
All motorista ilko to thành thử: they are getting the best possible! resulta from their cars, and most also like to think that, they are Parlay March 8--Cornian running their cars as economical payors aro purchasing?üll- avail ly as possible. Unfortunately,¿ble now and used bars to bu muzinumsconon.yandmaximum found on the French market, and officioncy do not go well together. | particularly those of madium and But, quite apart from economic-low power. Automobile: trado al driving, the owner may by the with Germany has básn growing| exorcise of a little intelligence. since last October. but at the do much towards securing| beginning of January buying as- aconomy by simple "tuning" of sumed really important propor the car, which, if properly applied, tions, or in addition to establish- | will result in no luss in officióncy,od dealers large numbers of If either officiency or economy speculators swopt into France be entirely ignored, it is a com- and scoured the country for cars. paratively simple mattor to get| The Peugeot Co. has sold 1,500,- The other; it is a satisfactory 000 franes worth of urod care and compromise that is no difficult to out of dute models to German get.
dealers and has refused a bon tract for 800 cars; the Dolago Co It will come as ao frosh or has turned down an order for 200 startling nowe to most readers, automobiļos: ong Vojsin valosmari when it is said that if all con-has averaged four cars a day to siderations of performance bo Gorman purchasers during the ignored, it would be possible so last two weeks; the Talbot, Hot
tune" a 20 h.p. five-seater chkian, Charron, Mathia, Bugatti, | touring car that its regular fuel Citroon and Renault Companies | consumption would be something report big business with Gardonay to hodge themselves in, al- to avoid a possible love on capital ment reparations olaims, like 30 or even 35 miles per gallon many, most of this being with though the financial guarantees to than the usual 15 to 20 that one established dealers, who in many offered them were all that could The demand is too sudden and
too big to be considered as entire expoots from the type of cases drive the cars away from he desired. diminutivo carburetter with the factory.
This sudden wave of intensive | 19 healthy. corresponding jets and choke
MARKS HIGH BUYING POWER.buying on the part of Germany, tubo.
tho While the new Rontenmark which, however, is not confined ELECTRIC LIGHTING. cooling of the onging, gives (Germans a high
to automobiles, is puzzling the These examples will serve to and special timing of the valves chasing power in France, for trade. it interpreted as a euro give a fair idea of current home and ignition will work wonder it is
Indication that Germany po prices and general tendencies of aquivalent at the pre- with fuel consumption and at sout time to six franes, nearly all 80SSES wealth and, indeed, in design. Without attempting to the same time play havoc with the business has been done with most cases the Gorman firms dotail all the remaining exhibits, the rond performance of the car. dollars, Swiss francs or sterling boast of their purchasing power reference may be mado, in con
The aim of all manufacturera is as a basis. With the dollar
concern. writing to the ohision to the much extended ap
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reduction
pur-
Rev. Ernest Rovoal, superintendent of the Rescue Mission at Evansville, Ind., þoliovos in carrying the church to the poopid. "Here is the auto shapol from which tid in doing his preaching now. It has stained ginas, windowa, a, ragular ohurch boll up in the "towor" and earrios; its own organ. Vines growing from pote on the running board are baing trained up the alles..
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to give their cars as good. a por-worth franca, French an-Hotchkiss Co., stated that pos- plication of electric lighting to formance as possible without ex-tomobiles are cheaper than those sassing suporabundant capital it motor oyelos. In many cases the travagance, and the aim is very of Gorman origin, even with a 40 was in the market, for automo-necessary current is obtained well secured on the whole. But pur cont. advalorem duty added to bits.
from the magneto, which is also, '. on accountant of the essential thoir purchase price. ·
50 PER CENT. LEGITIMATE. responsible for the ignition. This charactor of the motor-car engine, Most of the business is being The band of age of the leading systems applicable only to single which varies somewhat as the car done with the occupied portion of French automobile companies cylinder machines and a good piles up age and miles, the maker Germany, for restrictions make estimates that 50 per cant. of the example is the Sparklight outfit cannot endow the car with its it difficult to got cars into, the German purchases are legitimato of the British Thomson-Houston maximum potentialition in both non-occupied regions. So long and are being made by dealers Company, which also manufac directions before it leaves his fac-as the busing was confined to who deliver the care direct to turos combined magneto-gonora- itary.
established automobila doalors users, and 50 per cent. are of aftors for ignition and lighting in WHAT CAUSES YOUR CAR velticles..of which the proliminary connection, no objection
Ja the case of highly expensive with which the French firnis had speculative charactor made by connection with multi-cylinder was, persons entirely outside the trade engines. Amongst other exhibits .TO STEER HARD..
roadtesting before it is handed raised to it; but since speculators, who are making use of their specialising in more or less similar B. time outfits aro Messrs. Lucas and The commonest storing fault over to the customer in olaborate acting either alone or with the foreign currencies at is stiffness, resulting from tyros this stipulation loses much of its backing of German banks, have when the, French frane stands Mosers, S. Smith and Bons, who that are too soft or from lack of point, but we are now concerned come into the movement, French low or who are seeking to con-handle the M. L. combined light- lubrication of the steering!
primarily with the ordinary ear of manufacturers have shown a ten-vert their cash into goods in ordering and ignition soța. knuckle
the ordinary m
AFTER THE FIRST 500. It is not necessary to have the
By virtue of the rather hasty tyros pumped up to an uncomfort manner in which many cars now able hardness, but they should be undergo their preliminary testing. kept reasonsbly near proper the owner may after about 5001 prossure: If the tyres are already miles on the road affect several at pressure, the steering knuckles useful improvements by quite) will be the next location to small and inexpensive attentions. amine for the cause of the trouble. Thus it is very seldom that a new Tho steering knuckles nonsist of car after its first, 500 miles a knuckle bolt. on which the cannot be provided with smaller, |front_._wheels_swivel_and_the
jets-in-the-carburetter-with-no- weight of the entire front of the joss in performance and a quite car rests on two bearings, usual useful gain in fuel consumption, ly located at the top of the
An extra air valve fitted in the knuckle. Obviously bearing a induction pipo, though incapable load such as this, these bearings of the wondors that are some require careful lubrication. Give times claimed for it by its it to them if you wish easy makers, will really effect some steering and safely. Incidentally reduction in the fuel required for if grease lubricant is used, re-lonvoring a given distanco if it is. member that special greases for properly used. It is a fallacy lubricating small parts are widoly, hold that, the weakest available and should be used. mixture on which the engine wili | Poor grease will aqueeze out and fire is also the most economical. dry up under the heavy praseuro
WHEN TO TUNE. existing at the knuckles.
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Here again as in so many Hard steering issornetimes things, it is a matter of com. caused by faults in the gear as-promiso, and the driver may sembly at the end of the stooring easily find by experiment how column. After considerable much frequent opening of his service the gears at this loca extra uir valve is desirable for tion develop wear and excessive the best rastilts.. 1. play, which results in poor stear. It is idle to attempt this tun-- ing. Keep the gear housing ating before the engine and the the end of the stoering column chassis are well run in," and filled with grease, once a season whon It is attempted the chassis is usually enough. On some cars details, ospecially the transmis
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd, there is a fairly long bearing on sion system, and the brakes,
Export and Constant European Supervision. Felopbene Centrai 3950.. .A. J. Allison Service Manager.
CLEARANCE.
RAISES LESS DUST..
the shaft that carries the steering should not be overlooked. In arm. In some cases this gets everything as "froe and doing lubrication from the main hous- its work as easily as it ought? Jing, but in others there is a Nothing is more absurd, than to fabricator for the bearing, which fattempt doonomy or any other. is apt to be placed in a position tuning of an engine if the brakes not readily discovered. If your are binding or the gear-box is
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VALUE OF GROUND passage under the car is most car has this boaring lubricator, absorbing twice as much power. favourable to reduction of "dust-be sure that it gets its propor as it ought, because it is impro- raising..
| lubricant.
perly lubricatod, It has often hoon coinniented
"ADULTERATING THE "EXTRA A not froquent cause of bad upon that the Cubitt car suomis
There are many different types to raise comparatively little dust stearing is found in breakage of even when travelling fast, and the spring contre bolt, which It is now generally known that passengers in the back soats do allows the axle to work back of extra-air valves on the market, along the spring. Obviously all of them more or less effective tho 1924 model. Cubitt cars have not suffer serious inconvenience
used. The majority merely built with a low chassis fra mojing the mattor of the dust-raising not on the other, the car has take in cold, and probably been re-designed and are now from the dust. When consider when this occurs on one sido and if properly fitted, adjusted, and which enables a very graceful proclivities of a particular car it longer wheelbase on the brokon and handremo appearance to be is often overlooked that not only side. This gives the car a con- gritty, air, but some draw hot stant tendency to sheer off toward air from a muff on the exhaust secured for the complete vehicle. do the oibor users of the road the shortor side. A quarter of an pipe. One wonders that do car is
suffer from the, dust raised. but so well known, is that the form almost as badly affected.
from the orank case. A relief A point, however, which is not the rear passengers in the our au inch difference will produce this atted with a device to.draw.air
effecti
valve or broather in the latter is large clearance of 104 ins, under It would really be a good thing A similar tendency is caused, nocessity in any ovent, and it the chastis has been relained, both for the car usors themselves by front wheels that are not might be possible to combine the end this feature is one of con and for the public at large, if all properly aligned. A heavy bump with the valve intake, so that the viderable practical value. cats wore manufactured with the of any kind, even a jam against "extra air" drawn into the in- In the first instance, it allows amplo road clearances of the the curb may cause misalignment duetión, pipo was charged, with for, safe usage over bad roads Cubitt módels. It has been de of the front whesls.' In caso this oily vapour...
adh as one encounters off the monstrated in those models that happens the best way to handle It is worth trying, and a tem- beaten track in this.country and a low chassis and body lins can the mattor is to have the repair-|porary, experimental arrange- As a moze or less usual thing in bo obtained in nonjunction with shop align the wheels, as it will ment could be rigged up by, kny some of our Overseas Dominions, a ground clearance of over 10 hava special equipment intended amateur whose par élready bad – bat in addition to this, the 6loarlias..
specifically for the sèrvice.
fan extra'air valve d
Most Miles per Dollar
The Practical Reasons
for Tyre Superiority
LL the essentials
· of superior tyre performance, a re combined in the Fire- stone Còrd.
The tread compound is ex- 'ceedingly tough, wearing down evenly and very slowly. The body of the tyre is sturdily constructed of ply upon ply of gum-dipped cords. each cord completely insulat- ed in five rubber; and Inter- I friction, the usual cause of p emature tyre failure, is prevented.
And the Firestone · Cord possesses" nõre than dura”, bility. Safety is, assurd by the many ang'es of the cross and square trea, while its pliant, flexible body protects the ar and adds unusual comfort to motoring.
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
24 Des Voeux Road, Hongkong
Show Room and Service Station (Happy Valley).
Central:6482 Central: 3950:
THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY.
26 Nathan Road, Kowloon
CA full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres and Tubes carried at each of the above addressés,)
Firestone
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