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HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH.

"MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

DODGE BROTHERS

TOURING CAR

Where downright sturdiness is a first condition of popularity, Dodge- Brothers Touring Car is invariably spoken of in terms of praise.

So universal, in fact, is the car's. reputation for doing unusual things, that the unusual no longer excites surprise.

Particulars.

Special.

$2,370

Roadster 2-3-passongers

$1,040

$2,480

Touring 5-passongors ...

$2,700

.$3,100

Business Coupe 2-3-passengers

$8,300

$3,500

Business Sodan 5-passengere

$3,780

$8,780

Coupe 4-passongors

$3,980

$8,800

Sodan Typo "A" 3-passengers

$4,000

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

88. Wong Nei Chung Road

24-34

KATHED

ALL WHAT

NOW !

Happy Valley.

THE GREATEST FEATURE OF THE BALLOON TYRE

GOODYEAR SUPERTWIST.

Сап properly No ordhary cord

material continuous and reposted withstand; the flexing of balloon tyres.

To make balloon tyres practical Goodyear developed a remarkable new cord 'matorial, known sa Suportwlet, highly elastic yot strong. The superiority of Goodyear Supertwist is duo to ite greater elàsticity and power to fox, with consequent widor distribution of shocks and greater freedom from stone-bruise and injurton.

WHAT'S YOUR M.P.G.P

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

INTERESTING FACTS: 7 ABOUT CONSUMPTION.

MOTORS IN MUNICIPAL SERVICE.

British motor, manufacturers have co-operated very success- By Capt. E. de Normauville, fully with Cleansing Superintend- In the Daily Chronicle.

onts and Surveyors in the pro- Fishermen, golfers and po-duction of specially desigurod liticians do not carry-off all the machines to reduce the cost and honours when it comes to stato inorasso the offlelonoy of refuse ments about the average spood collecting methods. The British or patrol consumption of motor-journal.""Motor Transport," cara. Bome motorists make good points out that no other country "also rane" in the Terminological has developed those specialist. Inexactitudo Stakes.

units to the same extent. Just why it fa difficult to yours ago there were about 5,000)

vohlcies understand. Why should a man motor

In municipal drop in the olub and say, "Just Borvice in Great Britain, and now back from Timbuctoo. and the figure is well over 7,000. averaged a shado under 40, An important pioneer in this including lunch and toa stops rospoot was, the Wostininator and changing a whool."

Corporation. This has a very

Two

The hearers, if experienced large motor floot in oporation, notorists, all say "Liar"-either including one of the big Karrier montally or verbally according 'street sweeping machines, which to the degree of friendship, waters the streets, brushes thom,) obtaining.

and automatically collects the

And it is much the same with dwoopings. This Corporation has regard to petrol consumption just placed a ropaat order with clalms. Many people think it the makers of the Karrior for six desirable, to exaggorate them, mora tipping wagons, in addition 80 that the new motorist to a considerable number already hears from ona 1180r: "On in uso.

'o don't know where 'e are."

WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT.

mmy Jones? Oh, generally about The patronage of municipal 25 tu the gallon," and engineers is divided among {(from another) My dear shap, patrol, steam' and electric 1 never get less that 32 to the vehicles. In the second group gallon on the Jonos "no that the "Supor-Sentinel" three-way tippor is extremely populár. This has a patent tipping mechanism oparated by an injector, supplying The paragraph above is the water under pressure to a large prelude to this article, and you hydraulic ram. The ram is con- had to have it because the facts Inectod to the tipping body by am going to give you are not in means of a universal ball-jointed themselves long enough to fill out connecting rod. The mechanian the column. So thank goodness is fool-proof, shook-proof, and they're intéresting.

silont in operation.

For point one I am indebted to For the spoolalised work of the Zenith carburetter people, and Fire Departments, the Dennis for point two to Mr. S. F. Edge, are engines are supreme not only and both worshippers at the shrine in Great Britain. The now model, of the gentle Goddess of Publicity which is the typo of engine selost- have evolved information which to protect the British Empire merits her imprimatur so far as Exhibition from fire, marks a big this column is concerned. You advance. The pump, which do-

16, 1934.

MICHELIN

TYRES

OFFER YOU THE

MAXIMUM

AT THE

SERVICE

MINIMUM

EXPENSE

Full stocks carried by

THE EUROPE - ASIA TRADING CO..

China Building

Ask To See The Balloon Tyres.

can have point one now if you're livors-600-gallons- a AMERICAN WORLD FLIGHT

minute,

good.

From their vast experience, the weighs only 4 cwt. as against 12 cwt. for an ordinary service pump Zenith carburetter poople find that of similar capacity. The power- аз avorago open touring carful chassis has also been so im- should give a petrol consumption proved as to effect great saving over give-and-tako roads underlin weight, with the result that the normal touring conditions of whole machine weighs about a ton approximately as follows: 7 h.Plogs than the ordinary standard 50 m.p.: 10 h.p., 38-40 m.p.E fire engine. This is a point of 12 h.p., 35 m.p.g: 15 h.p., 25-28 great importanco, sooing that m.p.g.: 20 h.p., 20-22 mpg.; 30soft ground has cften to bo hp, 17-19 m.p.g.; 40 h.p.. 15-16 traversed in order to ranch the best position from which to

m.p.g.

attack á firo.

TOP GEAR AND ECONOMY. They go on to say: "Those The requirements of municipal- figures ого

ities are not limited to heavy! takon AU general average over a large vehicles, Motor ambulances aro number of different makas very necessary, and the use of and types of cora. Much,care by officials is found to in- of course, doponds on the indivi- crease their officiency to a vory

both dual car, the condition of the great degree. In

theso engino and transmission, the skillsphere the Austin is prominent, of the driver, and many other the 12 h.p. and the 20 h.p. chassis things; but on an average the boing strong, durable, moderate above figures are what a car in price, and suitable for use in

all countries.

will

50% farther than Supertwist

stretch

Tyres ordinary cord material.

ombodying thle enduring no material have delivered in tests 100% greater service--an unusual and important accomplishment.

Goodyear{ Supertwist is. an oxolueive production.

should do.

Practically speaking, an in- crease of 15 per cent. in the consumption should bo made whore a car has to do a fair amount of town work, and about 10 per cont, incroaso if it has a closed body."

So there you aro--straight from the horse's mouth-or induction! pipo! I know that many of you: will say you get more, but such an authority should give us truo gas" and the very nadir of "hot air," (Too subtle 1). Ler's pass on thon.

SAFETY FIRST.

J

Uners of care with four wheel brakes should normally drive as though there wore only two. Koop tho reservo control for emergencies.

WHEN ENGINE GETS OVERHEATED, STOP!

The following testimonial has been received by The Asiatic Petroleum Company, Ltd., · London:~

"The "SUELL" benzine which you shipped to Iceland and Greenland for the American Round World Flight proved entirely satis- factory. Our Flight met with the greatest difficulties in the artic regions, heavy polar pack ice on the east coast of Greenland made

it necessary to fly direct from Iceland to West- Greenland, and the high test qualities of Shell benzinc contributed largely to the success of this long and dangerous flight."

USE SHELL MOTOR SPIRIT AND

BE SATISFIED.

The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.C.) Ltd.

(Incorporated in England).

TO DECREASE VALVE NOISES.

THE PROBLEM OF CRANKCASE OIL DILUTION.

Mr. A. C. Edge-pardon, 8. F. Edge, I mean, also has some u8g. ful data on. this subject. And what is sauce for tho A.C. is presumably satice for the gander. As soon as you notice steam

He sets out to show that for sizzling out of the radiator cap, tappots is one source of a noisy Improper adjustment of valve good m.p.g. good top spood per-stop. The engine is overhoatod

One barrier against the use of ongine If the adjustments are obaspor fuel in modern auto- formance

highly and neods attention, or you will loose the space widens and the mobile engines is the dilution of of the car desirable. And so say all of us. cause norious damage to it by valve lifter gives a bammer blow crankcase oil with the unburned But we didn't know just how going on.

on the valve stem. Adjust the portions of that fuel, much until Mr. Edge stopped into Give the motor time to cool, space to the thickness of a visit- Crankosao oil dilution presents thon proceed slowly and carefully ting card while tho engino is cold. his testing breeches.

EFFECT OF ENGINE SPEED. He took a mosurod quantity of petrol, and driving his six- cylinder car up the Hog's Book (thinking, no doubt, of his prizo pigs) he took the min.gi at 20 m.p.b. on top gear, and then at This in omparable material is built into Good-the same speed, but using the year Balloon Tyres of both types-for now second gear' small diomotor wheels-and for practically all the cars in use today without any change.

Goodyear Means Good Wear

GOOD YEAR

BALLOON TYRES

MADE IN CANADA

DISTRIBUTORE"

ALEX ROSS & COMPANY (CHINA) LIMITED.

BANK OF CHINA BUL

Telephone:

The results aro very ia- structivo. When on top gear the consumption was 26.4 m.p.g When on second gear the con- sumption was only 16 mpg though the car spood was just tho samo.

I havo. often told you that

potrol consumption, though

until you got home. Then follow When the engine hoats up the problem to apgineers in the the trouble. this procedure to find and remedy valve stom longthens and takos Jase of gasoline, a rather highly

radiator.

Drain, flush and rofill the up nearly all the clearance, makolatile fuel, which would be increasingly groator with the [ing hut little aviso, if any,

The twisting and pounding of 100 of a loss volatile and cheaper a loose radiator will often causouel. The problem, therefore, t connections the core seams to open.

a remedy the former before adop- ing the latter.

Tighten the fan belt., Inspect hose against leakage

Drain out old oil and refill with

now.

Havo carbon cleaned out. Have carburetor adjusted

right mixturo.

Boo that valvos aro

properly.

AMERICAN MOTOR CYOLESTARS In a paper read before the

FOR AUSTRALIA.

Society of Automotive Engineera Early this month the four star acontly, Ivad L. Anderson, for professional motorcycle racing utomotive engineering student

Bien of U.8., Ralph Hepburn, at the University of Utah, soos timod Paul Anderson, Jim Davis, and a possible solution in removing

Johnny Beymour sailed for the he lighter oil from the lubricant See that muffler isn't clogged. Kangaroo Country, having signed by a process of ventilations are Thon, when you're driving, be contracts to race motorovoles in This consists of the passage of 3 sure that the spark is advanced that section of the world this air through the crankuasa in largely was not directly of the spark to contingencies of all the records in America and the crankosdoll cooler and to the proper point. Adjustment winter. They hold practically cha way that it would keep 'portional to the horse-powar belog developed, but that certain engine speeds "drank petrol die proportionately to the power being developed.

Mr. Edge has gone ona belter aud demonstrated -- it by utmale e ni thủ đô

Bar you immi shot

driving is an important detail in will undoubtedly give the

carry, the waste vapor of the auccessful motoringi

Australian riders « run for their fighter oil into the combustion. money.

chamber

when th