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HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH-MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

ESSEX

A SIX - Built by Hudson

Note How Experts

Praise It

"Hudson has produced a super Essex It looks like the proverbial knockout."From Autumatule Topics "The New Essex is a revelation of performance, ease of riding and smoothness."-Prum Motor Age

"A wonderful value-a car of which Hudion engineers have a right to be proad."-Fran Motor Life

SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1924.

|UNITED STATES AUTO, VALVE ADJUSTMENT,

OUTPUT.

Armstrong Siddeley.

FOUR 14. ”.

THE ALL BRITISH TOURING CAR.

HOW TO MAKE IT. STATISTICS OF AMERICAN

Every motor car owner likos to MOTOR CAR PRODUOTION.

bave his car at the top of its form Very interesting · Bguros on and is proud to find it parforming American motor-car production just a littlo better than an idontl- are given in a recent number of cally similar vehicle belonging to Automotive Industries During, a friend. How many, however, 1923 no fewer than 3,636,599 pas- realizo the fimportance of the senger cars were built, and of valves in the tuning operations by thesa no fawor than 81 6 per cant. means of which they endeavour wore priced at loss than 1,000 to reach this stage of perfection? The valvos, like the rest of dollars, or just over £200 at the normal rate of exchange, while as the car, will perform woll even much as 97 per cent. of the total though neglected for long periode: FIRST COST---VERY MODERATE output cost loss than 2,000 dollars. on the other hand, any skilled Nothing loss than sensational attention that is given thom is Periodically, of has been the growth of production well repaid.

during the last twelve years conred, they require grinding in, RUNNING EXPENSES....

This will be realised on reference and such attention is usually to the following figures -

Yonr

1912

givon thom oach time dotar

No. of Cars. bonisation

356 000

401,500

543,679

818,618

1,493,017 1,740,792 926,388

1913...

1914

1915

PRICES

New Essex Six:

1916

1917

5-pandonger Touring 5-passonger Coach

$2.875

1018

1919

1,657,652

$2.000

1920

... 1.883,158

1921

PRICES -- Hudson Super-Six:

1922

4-passenger Touring 7-passenger Touring 5-passenger Coach 5-passenger Sedan 7-passengor. Sedan

$3,800 -

$1.000

$4,300

85.000

$5.500

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 3950. . 33, Wong Nei Chung Road,

A Name Car-Owners Trust.

:

N every line of business achievement there is one name which stands for quality, always identified in the buyer's mind with the best of its kind.

In the tyre field the name, Firestone, bears this relation to the oth rs. It is the name which experienced motorists imme» piately think of when exceptional quality is desired.

Firestone Tyre give the topmost limit of strong, dependable service, with added values in comfort, Safety and app arance.

Happy Valley.

Most Miles per Dollar

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LTD.

24, Des Vœux Road. Hong kong

how boom and service Station (Happy Valley

Central 482 Central 3950

THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY.

16.

athan Road, Kowloon

Kowloon 2:0

CA full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres and Tutes carried at each of the above addresses.)

Firestone

1923

... 1,514,000. . 2,406,296 ... 3,636,599 Another remarkable point to which we have previously called attention is the increasing popul. arity of the all-enclosed

car.

of tho cylinders PETROL

- becomes necessary, whether the job is performed at home or by

But employeen.

tho garage setting of the valve stem and tappot oloarances is a task that is almost as important, and should at least be chooked up very much more frequently.

The purpose of having aloar anco at all, and the necessary amount of that clearance do not soon to be gonorally understood. Thero is no mystory about it. The clearance between the stom of the valve and the tappet exists for the same reason that a gap is

Thus during 1923 it is estimated loft botween the ends of two ad-

CONSUMPTION.

Exceedingly

low

26-28 miles per Gallon,

YOU CANNOT BUY A

NEW

BETTER CAR.

MODEL ARRIVED.

Demonstration Invited.

that of the cars costing under joining lengths of rail on a rail- TEL. c. 32 HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE TEL. C.32

1,000 dollars, 31 per cont, were way to allow for the expansion closad models, the corresponding of the metal due to heat. figure for 1922 being 26 per cent,

STAGGERINO FIGURES.

In the case of the valve clear-

extreme

As it is

Of the higher priced cars the co, if it were possible to use a valvo with head, stem and tappot porcentages are, not unaturally, large. Thus, 38 por cent of the in one piece, or, if in two parts, production of 1,000 to 2,000 dollar with no clearance at all between cars were closed models, 41 per thom, this would doubtless be the cent, of the 2,000 dollar to 3,000 most efficient method.

obviously the cars, $5 per cent. of the 3,000 not so possible, to 4,000 dollar cars and 60 par moet efficient gap is the smallest cent, of cars costing over 4,000 that will sorvo its purpose.

For the purpose of adjustmont dollars wero closed.

the maker's instruction book, and motoring textbooks will toll; Figuros regarding the number the novice to two or three placas! of cars and commercial vehicles of decimals what the gap should registered throughout the word ho; but the unfortunato novico bavo also been collected and has neither the means of making the total figuro is given as so prociso a measurement, nor the 18,241,177, of which 15,242,658 aro kill to use it if he had. On the registored in the United States, other hand, one is sometimes told This leaves a total of 3,018,819 that the gap should be, "about molor vehicles divided amongst the thickness of a visiting card other countrige, o which 655,318-which is going to the opposite are registered in Great Britain, i

The bust method of making tho 642,571 in Canada, 460.000 in Franco, 152,068 in Germany, adjustment is to wait until the 130,540 in Australia, and 100,000 angino is as hot as it is ovor in the Argentine. No other likely to get in normal conditions country has a registration figurt immediately upon concluding a running into six figures, although run, for instance--lossen all thof there are twenty-six countries lock-nuts, and scrow the tappots having five-ft uro registration to up with the fingers, until there is, tals, ranging from Italy's 82,357, for practical purposes, no gap at all between tappet and valvustom. to Czecho-Slovakia's 10,400.

unless considerablo It is of course, admitted that Actually, accurato figures are very difficult force he uses, thero will be a film to obtain in certain cases, but af oil between the two- motali even allowing considerablo mar-surfaces, and that film is all the Having gin for possible errors, the dif-gauge that is required ferences involved between theo-adjusted-oach-tappet, the cor lock-nut must be various total are in most casas responding Ho considerable as to make the crowed home securely, and to do percentage figures approximate this while maintaining the gap: unchanged is not easy. There is no royal road to success"; As regards design, there is tendency for American manu- rather is it a question of "bit facturers to reduce the number and miss"; and the first timo tho tank of models somewhat, and this novico altompts year there are 95 makes and 120 it is almost a cortainty that models of chassis, us .compared he will find other that the valvo with 106 makes and 156 modelu held permanently open, or that last year, and 123 makes and 1591 there is a gap of an appreciatio madels the your before. Low fraction of a-foot !

A final test with the fingers pressure types-and-four-wheel brakes are the principal changes should be made, therefore, before in design recorded, and as regards attempting to run the engine. the low

pressure types these Each of the eight (or twelve, if are standard equipment on 3.1 the engine bo a six-cylinder) tap- per cent, of American care, and pets should have just perceptiblol optional equipment at extra cost movement an no more when an on 27 por cent Similarly, four-attempt is made to move it up:

and down in its guide. whnel brukes aro

ly accurate.

11.1

klandard

per, cont, and optional at extra cost on 18.6 per cent. of the various models

BIX-CYLINDER ENGINES

POPULAR.

It is better to set about the task Hyelomatically; start at cylinder number one and complete one valve at a time. And it is im- portant that the cam for eich) valve should be clear of the foot Although the averago bore and of the tappet which it is intended stroke are the samo as last your, to adjust. It does not matter bore 343 in) approximately 87 3 whether the piston is precisoly nt mm)and stroke 48-in, (approx; the top or bottom of its stroke, mately 122.2 mm.), the average eo long as the tappet is quito cubic capacity line increased from free from the ctm.

This method of valve adjust- 2.7.3 to 258 1 cubic inch la proxi- matoly-4;216-e.c. to-4,229-6.c.ment may appear to the novico owing to the slightly larger aver-too delightfully free and-ancy to be really practical, but actually it age number of cylinders.

While twelve cylinder engines in probable that a motorist with have entirely heon dropped, eight-ittle experianco with tools and oylinder engines have suffered a gauges will get more efficient ro- alight reduction, and four-cylinder sults than if he attempted to re- cortain engines have declined further in gulate the gap

motric measurement popularity from 22.1 por cont. last definite year to 19 5 per cont, this year, so when the eiging was cold. In that six-cylinder engines form the latter case, for one thing, & 70.3 per cent, of the total, against differont setting wou'd be neros. 669 por cont. last year.

sary for the inlat as compared

to

+

Thorn fe little cliango to record with the exhaust valves, whereas in the matter of valua location, by the "frue-and-ary" mathed but, a rovarde cooling, pump cir-all gaps are the same-the thick culation has increased in populness of the oll flim-Car and Gof. arity and is ompinyed on 75 4 per cent of American care, while thoremo-#yphon circulation used on 220 per dont and air cooling on only 17 por cont.

Nineteen million automobiles are expected to be registered by the end of this year.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

A NEW SHIPMENT OF "SERIES 3" NERACAR.

THE LATEST MODEL.

AN A.I. PERFECT MACHINE.

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A dandy, little machins, capable of BIG PERFORM- ANCES. Keeps ridor clean. Simple, easy to handle. 200 miles for $1.00 of fuol. Ride all #aasons, any weather..

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[Tel. No. C.1654.]

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD..

Sole Distributors for South China. China Building, 7th Floor.

HARLEY

DAVIDSON

1924 MODELS IN STOCK FORT

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