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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT

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1925

Bydraulic

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Four Wheel

Brakes

THE NEW

STUDEBAKER

THE FIRST SHIPMENT

1025.

Genuine

Balloon

Tyres

Arriving by

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TEL.

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TEL. 1750.

THE HONGKONG and SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.

Indian Prince

The Personal Motor

Gives 90 to 100 miles per gallon.

Weight Only 235 pounds,

Lubricates itself automatically.

Most accessable motor ever built, cylinder head can be removed without disturbing carburettor.

Three speeds - Electric Lighting

Electric Horn - Ammeter.

Fully equipped in every detail and sells under $500.00

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Bank of China Building, Hongkong,

Telephone C27

or

2487.

THE LONGEST MILEAGE TYRE IN THE WORLD,

DUNLOP

CORDS.

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This control of material and

quality has a great deal to de with Dunlop supremacy.

Eupplied at DUNLOP RUBBER Co. (China) LTD.

MANGIACTURER'S

··Bt, 'Gaorge's Buliding,

Hongkong.

Phone C. 4554

DRIVING METHODS.

HOW THEY MAY BE IMPROVED.

oar ownor

JANUARY 19

on the pump hose and pllowing all wrong whop for years it advis high pressurd alt rüsh in without od flushing out the drankcato lamming the valve the other way with kerosene, for they are now! with excessive Internal pressure, using, fresh oil for the Qushing Birt HELD IMMATERIAL MATTER. and eaving engine trouble.' Whether bo was right of widng there are similar rovisions needed; Occasionally observes something that starts is entirely beside the point, for it in all lluoa of care, many of whiop! him thinking along now lines was a very small matter he was are apparent to the maiorist who and is perhaps encouraged to coking to correct in any caso, will ask himself," Why do I do mako a radical change in his and no busy motorist would be this ?"

ACT TO BE REMEMBERED. method of oaring for his car. A justified in taking his time, to

It is well to remember too, lot of presumably good advice isave valve insidos or the trouble offered the motorist, but now and he might have through the that cars are being improved at a ono. Fate that nocossitates a constant again he stumbles over the fact premature destruction of that if it were not all subject to But it showed that he was think-ohange and improvement in the of caring for them. rovision we would now be some. ing. Conventional advice on methods where near that promised land matters of car care was not being This is interestingly demonstrat- where cara will grow on bushes accepted by him without proof of ed in the case of engine lubrica.

their merit. He was out to got tion. and tyros run on forover.

For the past five years car Motoriste got into such a rut of ahoad in his motoring by experi- doing things in prescribed order menting. And, about all, he didn't owners have been told to uso a that they are not at all likely to care what other people thought lighter grade of oll in colder woathor. There were many good be conscious of any errors in about it. mothod. A radical ides offered by some motor "crank, "therefore, will sometimes serve to give the average motorist a now point of

oriontation.

do you

For instance, inw pump up your tyres? Stop at the filling station, unscrow the dust caps and hook the hose to each tpre valve in turn? Test for the desired pressure, ecrow On the caps and go your way?

STORY ILLUSTRATES POINT,

Which calls to mind the fact reasons for thie, but the facts that thousands of car owners are showed that many an owner would sanding their cars to the wash-have had botter luck using the stand and having them ruined be- honvlost oil ho could buy. He was cause it is a tradition of car driving with his engine great- ownership to keep a car in good jy overhoated because of having order by having it washed. No the radiator oxcessively covarod, excessive choking was consideration, is pivon of the fast while that there are times to wash cars sonding quantities of raw gas and times to dry clean them down Into the crankcase to thin Many a newly painted machine out the oil that was already thin that haen't got a speck of dirt on enough.

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it could profit by a cold bath to But this fact was no sooner That's the way it's usually done, help set the varnish. Conversely, discovered by sonsible motorists to be sure. But listen to this many a car that has been washed than out came the manufacturoa true story of how a certain carto doull by a driving rainstorm with more perfect fitting pistons, would boren timos better off radiators that could bo bottor owner did the job in the presence allowed to dry and then treated controlled thormatically and do vices that were doing away with

of the writor.

This fellow did not pump into a polishing.

A lot of amusement was had the evils of choking when start air until he had first jacked up the wheel holding the respective by people who imagined them-ing a cold motor. The old advice selves to be motor wian when a about using lighter oil came into tyre. It was a very quear pruces motorist stopped his ear, placed a vogue again, but this was only inned and not a fow poople touched their foreheads in the jack under a front wheel hub, because there had been a change

for raised the car and commenced in the car itself. annnor usually rosorve anecdotes regardingog Celambrae unscrewing the rim lugs. "He'll It is quite an interesting pro- before he satisfied the world that have a fins time removing the blem for the aur owner, and it the earth is not flat. The man rim," they said. "Gueru ho'll surgeats to him that the "crank" at the filling station said he was have to ask the mayor to remove who seems to have foolish ideas plar ho hail succeeded in getting the streat" So they all stood is well worth watching. the follow to use one of the less around to see the fun. conspicuous pump outlets.

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nonsense.

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VALVE-IN-HEAD

But what the saw was simply Nover indulge in any species these accontrition would have caused congestion. But beyond another instance of a car owner of "road-ho.ging"; it is alwayn

new dangerous, that a plain case of a motor embarking "crank publicly demonstrating opinion of his own. This chap had particulairy foolish brand of been annoyed by a rim squeak and I knew that the best way to What difference does it make remedy it would be to unscrew whother a tyre is standing on the all the logs and then screw them) ground or suspended when the jup again 50 ns to force the tim air pressure is read or when new to tho fellow band equally at all air is being added? Why go

So he placed the jack in paints to all this troubl? Did the poor the most convenient position. fellow really think it was necces-even though nine drivers out of sary to g through all this rig-of ten would have struggled to marole? Did he not see that Jace the jack under axle, assum was the only one who ever did Ing that they would have stopped such a thing.

Int all.

IUS METHOD OF REASONING

Few who observed the process could fail to raise these points but if they did no one else took the trouble to hear the answers I was soon along with this quer specimen of car owner and c cordingly soon acquainted with the facts. He was going to at this troublo

♫ procaution against leaky valves, and this was his method of reasoning:

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Una can pick up many good? deas by seeing how the other fellow does it, particular y if he does it in same ridiculous way. His way may show how useless the conventional method can bot if blindly followed.

The motorist has to ho on his guard for undesirable ideas of In a curtain garage a course. chauffeur conceived the idea of cleaning the top of the open car with

whisk broom, the

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If a tyre is normally pros sing against the tyre valve idea being that this was the only with a forog

60 pounds way to really clean out the many por square inch., it stands to depressions in the lea hor. Sover- reason that this pressure will be al other people who watched him actually greater if space allowed decided to follow his example, for air is contracted throunh mak- und before the year was out there ing that tyro support a fourth of were many leaky tope.

Some one more observing and the woight of the car. Thus if you should let air out of a tyre sensible would have seen that an while it is resting on the ground accumulation of dirt particles in and supporting

fourth of the the pores of the fabric would be car the valvo will be actuated an advantage, and would have! with a greater force, wearing its proceeded to clean the top with a But most frail rubbor section unnecessarily.lightly damp rap. thus encouraging flat Lyrea motorists are content to follow through valvo leaks. Ho insisted the leader in matters of this sort. Most motorists are now familiar that there was enough wear on

the valve rubber when booking with the fact that motardom was

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