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LOCAL MOTOR, NOTES & NEWS
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, the 19th. Jały, 1921
Being the Oficial-Grgan of the-Hongkong Automobile Assecration).
HOW TO INCREASE MILEAGE.
JUST JETTISON THE JET.
and saved nearly a pound o wetk on my petrol bill,
ON OVERHAULING.
owner
OLD SPANISH· BRIDGE.
Dunlop's record of achievement in the field
of Paeumatic Tyra construction, Is unepualted.
DUNLOP
In the year 1888. Tunlop mado
the first pneumatic tyre.
In the present year, the Dunlop Cord the longest mileage tyro; It is the product of over 30 years FXPERIENCE in tyro mantifacture,
Obviously you cannot offact t
POINTS TO BE NOTED. material saving in petrol without Those who prefer to do their some racrifice of road perform own verhauling should bear in WHAT CAN BE DONE BY
NICO. In the sem case my car mind that if maximum porform CHANGING THE JETS.
was 5 m.p.h. slower all out atance is to be obtained, certain, Though we should all like to Brooklands, and took five second vital points must be given utten- We would like to cumidiment). In is "Notas and Comments" buy our petral more cheaply--longer to climb the test bill. tion. It has been foun 1, in atost ho-Public Works Department the other day, the Telegraph assuming the maintenance of But that loss gave me a rain of instances whore car owners com- the week for altering the location, enquired whether it-would-but-good-quality-the-present-price.issoms_98_per_cont_increase in plain of performanos-that-by
-well, -hall wo say not so bad ar jm p.g.
giving small but vital printscard- of the lamp post at this corner of the possible to issue to every Nathan and SalieFury Roads, moter hence solder a copy of it might be, and match butter than
DONT "EAT" PETROL.
ful consideration the performance] TUOTO important Traffic was throw or four yours ago, Kowloon. The lamp previously im
For conditions as they are to- of the car is made perfectly ac- was set right in the middle of the Regulations, an they affect ear says a Home writer. junesin, with the result that and eyele owners, this enquiry Nevertheless our post-bag con- day such a change would be exceptable and satisfactory to the cara coming down Nathan Rune being prompted by the fact that tinues to contain little pleadings trome, and I should not survost For instance, on the models torrds the ferry bat a very a motor owner, when summoned from readers on the question of more than a change of the main built by this company we usually
cute right-handed turn lo malo for an offence, pleaded that he greater m p.g. economy. And one jet to one size smaller, unlond says the Paige-Datroit Mo'or This picture shows Balboa Bridge, bullt by the Spaniards during the early Tour has now been set a few did not know the Regulations readers wants to know what an extreme economy comes before Car Co, that in an effort to have history of Panama, and which has been in dlause for centuries. A dating Harley feet down Salisbury Road on the So far as its duty goes. the Economy jet is, what it dues, and the plasuros of a 'responsive car.
So here And those of you who want quiet valve action, the valve Davidson c,clist is seen testing its strength. ferry side, and c. rẻ have a much Government in only corcorned to generally all "abant," it. more natural curve to take when 400 that the Regulations are goes.
netrol economy shoud renjember lifter or tappots have been set up eloso. Ofton we find they havel the Government An economy jot is merely a that there are many ways in ruding the earnet. Practicslymublished in
the clearance on the Palgo from! Cineff, but it is nevertheless analfer jet. When you buy which you may make your engine .052 ins, to .04 inc. Our em all the mater uses havo
that comparatively few now car the engine is "Light"-"at potrol." negotinto this corner and the in-fact
a copy of the and has to drink a lot of petrol The most common waste in this jare so design that the valve provement in doubtless very much people over wed appreciated
at least it will be. Finzette and that the newspapers It is consequently fitted with direction is to lot the engine rov clorinco cinnot be maintained. when the road! is mended again. have only published faw jet or jets in ascordance with its all out on a low gear. That's this than 035 inc. clenanesi of the more important chanves. needs But after the first 530 or from every standpoint, and shoul for the intake valve an 1903 inc
unsiderations of space have 1000 miles of running its spiritous ant bo indulged in unless circum-clearance for exhaust valve.
Every motor of every pro lucor With so much rain of late it is precluded newspaper inchlication dosires are somewhat satiator, stancos really demand it. surprising (pelgher from pustio full. The duty devolves on
And for your top gear fant has its own paculiaritios but none experience) that
of the Fall motorists to make themselves
touring in the open country, le will perform heat if the valve Colony's +cenic inntir role
acquainted with the Regulations That means that you can her run at her happy speed" clamanca is too clase.
If the driver likes to spool no have been closed
trafic
and whhough it might be anfgenerally. fit a smaller jet or jots you know that little "n-6-h"| on acerat of land-lips. It will preciated act of assistance on than those originally in the car from the carburetor when the Asionally, or if he is going to drive, andor hard roat conditions dur- to remembered that last year the part of the authorities 10 and obtain equal road perforomzine is happiest ? several of the reads were closed pravide free copies of the Regula- matice-or as near as makes no That's the speed for combining ing hot weather, it is none are for varying periods on account tions for licence holders, the matter whilst olraining a vin- economy and spend, and when that the engine ha perfic ly fren Some owners hava had pistora of Jazdslides, and although writer of the notes fears that able reduction in petrol expendi-you exped it muth, the patrol
little tightor thin there have been some very heavy atorists 10 never hope for tare.
consumption increases out of all installed
those fitted at the factory myd rainfalls these tast few weeks thom The local Automobile Let's take nu exempli grátia: proportion to the gain in m.ph.
quite frequently this ін the there has yet to be ri ported any- Association is including the Suppose your car, when new,
cause of grief under hardwork thing other than fow samili kopulations in its official hand- I was Zenithed with a 95 main, j-t
ing circumstances. scours nothing serious enough | bok shortly to be published and and a 95 subsidiary. After you
CONNECTICUT SPENDS $46,000,000.|
It is ais essential that the to warrant road elsing As the cat may go a bong way towards have driveu 1000 milos you
For Canneclicy' highway work piston rings fit gool in the grovos many cuttings through which nurlantving the dinteulty,
would probably find no praction- | notur rindu pass become grown!
ble variation in read performance the sum of $16,000,000 was spent, of the pistons. Rather thin ex over, with grasaus and shrubs sol
An innovation in inver tubes if you changed to a 99 main jut exclusive of averhead, from 1895, peri nont with the many trick when the State Highway Depirt. | juston rings on the market, it is will
which is found much favourjand an 85 subsidiary. frequent.
But you would find a marked ment was organized to July 1. recommended that in all caseH MORA
at Home, is motorists
rings direct from the The campaign which the Kow. manufactured by Messrs Callier improvement in m.pg.varying, 1923, according to the report just the car owner obtain standard
Tyres, Ltd. of St. Albans, Eng of course, with the type of car, submitted by the former Highway piston loon polee inve been ronducting Hand. It is known
the hut averaging, shall we say, some Commissioner Charles J. Bonnet. factory service station.
Increasingly hanvy traffic and, If the fancy piston rings sold against young Chinese cyclistsProssuralastic Ture, and is 10 por cent. or therealnuts
equipment houses to night with dynalare be extend-
That changing over of the car-ho inability of the State to con-by ed to the Huskong side of the Chained by the manufacturers to harbour. These youths on cycles practically punctus proof on buretter jets after the first 100 struct as much now work or owners were so much hotter that Recount of its unusual thickness miles on a new car is what we replace as many worn-out road the original equpiment, you mas ATO a far greater danger pedestrian and vehicular trafic which varies from seven six-call changing to economy jets, as the demand of the towelling bo sure that rings of the kind teenth's of an inch thickness at Some car manufacturers so advire public would pormit marked the in question would be included in than the majority of motor cu the sides, to ten-sixteenths on the their customers, but in any case period covered by the report the original factory equpiment by and it is only because they have
total number of tiles of road in Motorcar manufacturera spond No ing been permitted to ride in top or road contact surfac. It the experiment is simple and in- Practically 15 per cent, of the ovary automobile maker.
would at first he thought that & expensive to try.
the Stato had beon improved ovoonsidorable sum- yearly expori- Supplied at their haphazard way without a thickoned tube would he loss AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE. July 1, 1923. At the timo 1,114 menting with piston rings alone MANU⚫ACIU ER'S check that the cyclist danger rosilient than the ordinary thin has becom
But whilst such resetting of miles of the trunk line systern had Any owner may rest assured that Ho real. A Tow
tubo, but nx matter of fact, it'
the type used in his car are best salutary lessons, such as tho
to has been proved be more the carburetter is a recognised boon improved..
"It goes without saying," the adapted to that particular motor Kowloon magistrate has boon
rositions. for tho following practice after a car has run itself!
that until the con-or the maker would never havo' administering of late, will do all
Pro-surolastic in. there is no reason why an report mys reasons: The the good in the world. There is Tubo, owing to thicknows, is very economically-minded motorist necting links are finished, the installed them. not a motor driver in this Colony hard to stretch (about 40 lbs being should not make a similar ro- demand for super-road activity
the steering apparatus abould not who does not go in fear of a col required in the larger sections to adjustment on a car which has will not cease.
bá overlooked. It is very tire- lision with a Chinese cyclist flats it to the full nizo of the done a your or two's service. WHITE BUDES IN YELLOWSTONE. Home to drive a car that doesn't! bocause of the latter's apparent tyrol and when a blow is impart
Sixty now White buses, each steor aasily and to this end all total ignorance of traffic rules. ed, owing to the car riding the price of petrol was very stiff
the and for my 300 miles a work it accommodatingelevan passengers, movable parts of the front axle obataclo CATE
on this cost me the best part of £150 àhave been shipped to Yellowstone such as king pins, tie rod bolts, And whilst speaking of traffic road, tho prossura at
I was then driving an Park for service this sonson. The steering drag link, and the stoor- rules, it is porlinent to ask who spot is reduced for &
fraction year.
95 Yellowstone floot now includes ing goor.itself should be cleaned thor any attempt is over to bolof 1
second holow what is Angus-Sanderson with two
out and freshly oiled. mado to teach Chinese pedestrians necessary to keep the tube fully jets, which I changed to two 85's 270 White busoe. that the midlo of the roadway expanded, and consequently the is not the safest place in which tyro is able to give at this point, to walk. The indifference and and ao pass over the obstacle disdain with which the average with a minimum of vibration in Chinese pedestrian treats modern the
as would a samo mannor fast moving trullic is responsible" Balloon lyre." In this way for more than half the accidente the resilience is greatly im which take place hore. But why proved. should we so consistently despairi
tensi landslides heconic
ovor,
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Local teal with those tulos:
of over bringing about an im- provement when there is so little have won carried out on various | -dono which in calculated to effect | typos of cars and buses covering| that improvement? Thore area period of twelve months, and "Go Slowly" nigns for utotor cars not a single fault or failuro has and instructions plenty for vintor to be recorded. The Hongkong| driyore, but whore are the instruc-| Hotel Motor Dept. has stocks on tions for podentrians? Ona fears hand now, and will be pleased to that it is the Chinese pedestrian supply information to those in- who nooda instruction far more toronted. than experiencod motor drivers
and something in the way of
now one
education miglit bo attempted AUTOMOBILES IN, SWITZERLAND,
Switzerland bas Notices in Chinese urging the greater uso of the sidewalks, the automobile to evory 175 inhabit- careful crossing of the road, etc., ants, whloh gives a total of 22,655) might help. Put to do nothing motor vehicles in that country. except alghing for a bettor stato l'he largest number of cars in of things, strikea us as being ex-owned in the Canton of Zurich, while the Canton of nassively optimistio and also not 3,728, of very much use.
Genova comos nort with 3,424..
Some three or four year ago
MOTOR CYCLE FOOTBALL.
CIT
While working on tho, mator,
** This interesting acilon picture of a motor cycle football match was secured at a game in Middleboro, England. The sport has become quite a popular one in the North of England.
prices.
PRACTICALLY ALL THE MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST ENGLISH CARS. RE- COGNISE THE SUPERIORITY OF DUNLOP O )RDS,—because they plank for Dunlop Cords as their standard equipment.
Obtainable from the Dunlop Co's own Bra ich, also from Stocks carried by the Tuxi Co, und by J. Tibbs & Co. Alexandra Bidg (phone C704- Sundays & Halidays C.4589)
DUNLOP RUBBER Co. (China) LTD.
St. George's Building. Honkong,
Alive
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HERE'S energy-animation-
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