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HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH · ·MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924.

The Famous

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GARNER

British-built

truck-chassis and passenger-bus.

Two of the famous British-built “GARNER" 2-ton truck-chassis, equipped with pneumatic tyres have arrived and are, now on show in our Kowloon Branch Office, No. 1, Canton Road.

_One_24-passenger_Br.tish - built Bus, English equipped with pattern, complete with body and pneumatic tyres, also of the famous Manufacturer "GARNER" has also arrived by the S.S. "Glensheil ".

Inspection is cordially invited.

SOLE AGENTS:

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

26, Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. C.1036.

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 con- finual interral friction between the foundation cord and the rubber, causing overheating of the lyre 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 wheels examined front and rear for trueness and tracking alignment. If they are at fault in this respect the trend of the cover is subject to a grinding action which quickly destroys the cover.

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 C,3438, China Building, Ist Floor.

A Comfortable Car and a careful Driver

mean Satisfaction and Safety.

CARS

KOWLOON'S NEW GARAGE, FOR HIRE

THE

DURO MOTOR CO.

NATHAN

ROAD

A good car is often damaged by bad storage. Space for a limited number of cars is available -In our modern Garage.

STORAGE

SMALL MOTOR CARS, Recoming Even Smaller.

The winner of the 1911 race was this Marmon, driven by Ray Haroun, and having a piston disolacement of 447 cubla inches.

This in a forerunner of the 9-cubic-inch cars that may be..

It is a 91-inch Talbot. seen in future races.

yours.

spoed

SPEED COES UP.

Last Momorial Day witnesses

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SUPERCHARGER NEEDED.

MOTORING NEWS FROM -HOME.

A BRITISH TRIUMPH.

CURING A MAGNETO.

AN EXPERT'S ADVICE. The magneto on iny machine has Quite the most interesting and stopped producing sparkes ni- algnificant recont occurrence in fogather, Could you give moun idea the motoring world of Hurope has as to what could possibly cause this been the magnificont success of unhappy state of affairst tho 3-litro Bentloy car in the twenty-four hour TACO fot standard care hold over the Moun circuit in France. The

event was very justly describer in "The Autocar" un "the moss gruolling tost for standard carr

This question was asked in a Homo motoring journal the replies boing

Whon a magneto goes on a strike, the most probable causes

To as followe:

1.-Interrupter points stuck or over seen in France or, indeed, iield open duo to a moist or the continurit of Europo." Twello interrupter lover bearing justification for this description bing.

2-Intorruptor platinum points proved by the fact that of forty.

STO worn

one starters only fourteen finish ary dirty, bearings ed. Of these forty-one, fortway to such extent that only represented the pick of the bes knowu products. of continenta countries, and the remaining on was a 3-litro Bentley privately entered by Mr. Duft. The onzin capacity of the Bentley is 2,90: o.c. The car was credited with 1,29034 mitos in the twenty-four hours. The next best perform

con is left to make the contact.

3-Carbon brushes dirty or tummy and stuck in the brush

ldats so they cannot makɑ-- intaet with the calfactor spool.

ance was that of a six-cylinder

4-Brud hoidors ́ertokod, par- nitting the tigh sonston current » discharge to the ground or ramo work of the magneto.

5. Hard rubber collector spool lip ring) cracked or dirty.

G-Magneto has boon, wator

of the interns!

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Lorraine-Dietrich, with un ensin capacity of 3,446 ¢ e, which cover 1,280 miles. As a matter of facioaked, thus shartoning the con- the distance covered by the Fensur or high to sion winding. _The_small_automobile is going f about 211⁄2 inches and strokes Bentley in the time was realls Usually a thorough drying out in a hot ovon will overcome f-little-over-3-inches-for-oight about 100 miles murothan appears

Tifoultion from this o sayo.” to be made smaller.

the official statement. The

7-High tonsion cables wo!, In 1926, according to present ylinders--and an idea of the in signs, automobiles entered in the sinsllness of the 1-inch motor rules were extraordinarily com

having faulty, insulation and plicated and for KOTO rather annual 500 mile classic at the In-may be glanpot.、

A The oight-in-line has boon obscuro reason stop by the oing twisted together.

My advice is that you do not dianapolis Spaceway will have a piston displacement of 91 cubic popular onzino for racers aver Bentley to change a tyre ro inclicstiny opines going at the since 1920, when Duesenberg sulted in a penalty which had experiment too far with the Fate of more than 5000 revolutions displayed wonders with his now the effect of knocking about 100 magneto, because it is an instra- of which came miles off the distance recorded ment that requires export 'alton. a minuto and speeding faster than models, all

tion; especially for the replace. covorud. Bontley W49 a the bigger machines of previous below the 183-cubic-inch limit.us

is hardly conceivable genuino standard car, whereas nent of some

paris. The history of auto racing that the 91-inch motors will be some of the French vehicles, points to the stendy decronso of atraight oights, for their piston though nominally standard, wore engine size for lightness and displacement would limit them really fitted with racing bodies, 21,500 ft. while carrying a load of

In 1911. when the first own to a bore of about 2 or 2 superdcially faked to give the 1,000 pounds.

Turning to motor bycles, there race wis run, the limit was 600 inches be a stroke of a little over appearance of touring vehicles.

The regulations were vory stric is a prevailing but falso impres cubic inches, and big lumbering 34 or 24 inches respectively. cars, weighing 2000 pounds and In the case of four.cylinder en. and part of the race was runion that in the 1,000 oo, class, over made what was then the gines of 91-inch

with the hood up. The Bentley American machines hold mat of displacement.

ranke the roo rds. In point of fact, certainly 74.59 "romarkable" sted of

however, the cylinder bore would performanco mila" speed of 74 59 miles an hour. be about 5 inches dinmotor by ments of British vehicles in in- by British motor cycles and in

high among the great achieve great majority of records are h fittle over 3 inches stroke.

ternational competition.

April of this year a British sido. ear combination with a British engine created new world's re- cords for the flying kilometre and the flying mile In the former and the size of the racer's engine for the supercharger. It is duo number of other notable achieve jovent a spoed of over 157 kilomet

to this auxiliary that the smallments of the products of the res per hour was reached. was only a fifth that of 1911.

various branches of the British At Brighton recently a 1.000 0.c. oyulo had two Motor Industry. For instance, at British motor At the same time, behind the spaudy engines of 5000 or scanes realed an even lighter car revolutions a minute can maintain the Cannes Motor Boat Mooting, matches with a 20,000 cc. foreign of 91 cubic inches piston displace- their speed without a break.

the Grand Prix Race for 14-litre motor car of racing typo. The Without the supercharger, the boats was won by a British boat first was a flasco owing to one of ment not ready as yet to enter that race, but promising to be small engines would have to be fitted with a Sunboam-Talbot-the car tyres bursting. In the come an important competitor in slowed up because the suction Darracq engine, a speed of 55 second race the motor cycle, led the next event. Unofficial re-atroke is so short that not enough | kilometres per hour boing at throughout and won esally, in on- ports of its recognition strass its time would be given the engine tained. Tho 100 kilometro race anction of the course attaining a importance for the future. to draw up enough fuel and air was also won by a boat fitted apoed of 120 milos an hour with

At the time of the first raco, in for complete combustion. The with a Sunbean engine.

slight resistance from a following 1911. Ralph De Palma's Simplex supercharger is used, therefore, In the air a Napior "Lion" wind. reached within three inches of to force air into the cyclinder engine has put up a record by The representatives of the Bri- 660 cubic inch limit. It had a during each suction stroke at at being the first single aero engine tish motor cycle industry started hore of 54 inches and a stroke least twice atmospheric pressure that has flown over 100,000 miles the year well, since on the first of the length of its bore.

so that enough mixture la reveivon the Trans-Continental Air January a. 234.p. A J 8, won Another competitor the Flat, od at all times and the small on Route. Another Napier" Lion the 400 a.o. solo championship of which came in third, has a dis-gine is maintained at a high and engine, flying in South America, Australia, anothor machine of the placement of 589 cubic inches, consistent spoed.

has put up a new altitudo record, same make occupying second with a 5-inch here and 714-inch

Therefore, it may be safely pre having reached the height of placa. stroke.

dicted that every car having an Longing of 91 cubic inches displace. 122-ment will carry a supercharger bores maintain it at a high speed.

at the Indianpolis Spuedway kawi

a light, ono man, streamline racer

Evon this size cylinder would

toar through 500 miles of track at bo impossible of endurance and

a speed of 98.24 miles an hour, consistont high spood were it not

TINY ENGINES. Compare this with the cubic-iúcu car of 1924, with

A CLOSE SHAVE.

40FOOT

Three occurants of this au- tomobile jumped to safety as the machino crashed through the guard rail of a Los Angeles bridge lo hang procariously suspended 40 feet above the ground.... Miss Rena Williams, the fourth pass- enger, foll the entire distance, but escaped with only minor steering Injuries. A broken knuckle was blamed for the accident:

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KEEP CAR ON THE LEVEL.

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OIL AND GAS' MEASURE. MENTS ARE INACCU- RATE OTHERWISE. Considerable trouble is caeloned for car ownors because of their habit of not having the car on the level when seeing how much gas ar oil they have, Un- less the car is on the level the oil indicator will not register the! truth about the crankcase con toate, nor will the gas tank have the amount of fuel It registers, Over-olling is as serious as oll; starvation, and too much gasoline la sometimes as undesirable as too little, especially where a car

OTHER NOTAULE

ACHIEVEMENTS.

This year, has already soon

GID

is to be stored for a while. One PUT A NEW SPRING DRESS ON YOUR CAR

motorist bought five gallons of gas, thinking he hadn't enough to drtvo him to the wainge Because ho didn't have the car on the level, the tank was supplied with five gai- lons of gas that evaporated during the winter's storage.

BLOWING OUT MUFFLER. To avoid putting the muffler on the elok list and running the risk of boing fined for driving through a town with what would amount to a cut-out open do this:

Close the throttle before switch- ing on the ignition if you have been using the engine as a brako when going down hill. If the shrottle is open the exhaust mani- fold and mufflor will be filled with unburned war. A dischargo of burning pas from one cylinder will bo auffiolent to causo a torrfi flo explosion in the exhaust line. resulting in wrecking the muffler.!

PAINTING Motor Cars and Cycles.

ELECTRO PLATING-Of Motor Car and Cycle Parts, MACHINE SHOP Lathe Work, Milling, Pläniog,

Drilling, etc.

WELDING-Oxy-Acetylene Welding of Broken Motor

Parts.

-UPHOLSTERING - Tops, Cushion Covers; etc., made

and repaired.

ELECTRICAL Generators, Starters, etc., adjusted,

repaired, te-wouad.

BATTERIES All makes of Starting, lighting, and Ignition Batteries repaired and/or rechorged. New Columbia Batteries in stock,

If the throttle is clorod and the THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

engine allowed to turn over a fow-timen before the ignition is

itched on, the exhause line will] have an opportunity to be cleared of unburned ga

Expert and Constant EuroTS

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