1925-09-26 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

There is no use going into details

THE AUSTIN

7!

Is the Small Car for SERVICE and ECONOMY.

Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd.

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BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG,

Естату

is simply

another term

for

SHELL

The regular use of Shell Motor Spirit and Lubri- cating Oils results in a marked reduction in running costs.

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. (SOUTH CHINA) LTD. (INCORPORATED IN GREAT BRITAIN)

Ever Been Held Up By a big Repair Bill?

CHANCES are your car

had been so negleel-"

ed there was a great deal the matter with it. They finally tinkered up all the kinks - but the shock of

that bill almost proved fatal..

Patrons of this Garage find it a whole lot cheaper. to have us keep their cars in top-notch condition all The time. It's the best

way to avoid those shock- ing repair bills.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LID.

Expert and Constant Europpan Supervision. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26; 1925.

STEAM COOLED ENGINES.

NEW METHOD,APPROVED. BY LEADING ENGINEERS

RADIATOR

PRESSURE VALVE

HEATER

CYUNDER JACKET

OIL PAN JACKET

Simplified diagram of the combination steam copling and heating system.

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NEW FOREST CHARM.

HAMPSHIRE'S DELIGHTFUL

SCENERY.

THROUGH THE NEW. FOREST |

WITH A SINGER.

Any oversos motorist on" a visit to England who fails to make a trip to that part of Hamp-| [shire known as the New Forest will miss apme of the most de- lightful scenery to be found in Britain. No mattor what time of your it may be, tho Now Forest has a never failing charm of its' lown, and the many side roads which intersect it make it pusy' for the motorist' to enjoy the varied beauties of the score.

The writer recently spout a happy wack, with the little vill. Jago of Beaulieu as headquarters,

exploring the Forest with the aid' of a 10-26 h.p.. Singer, and a. more enjoyable time it would be

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MOTOR CAR TRIES TO FLY.

This automobile tried to turn into an airplane in Clove- land. The driver swerved to the curb to avoid'a collision a and lost control. The car leaped the curb and slid straight.. up the guy wire of a telephone pole, sticking there who it had reached the angle shown above.

a

TRANS-AFRICAN TRIP.

Steam, to cool the engine and itself from the water and, spread-hard to find. It happened that heat the car, will be applied to ing upward through the core, is the gorne was just at its bost and some of the new models to be ex-condensed before it gets to the freshest, and it is difficult to do justica to the miles of gorgeous hibited at the coming putomobile top. shows.

A pump at the bottom of the yellow bloom which were to be This apparently paradoxical radiator keeps the water in con-lieu is a most attractivo spot, de- found on every common. Beau. condition is occasioned by adop-stant circulation. tion of the steam cooling system, Just as the water is circulated scribod in the Automobile As a now method that has been ap.through the cooling jacket, it can coolation's recent admirable Hoad proved by loading automotive en also be sent through a water-tight Book as "acceptable alike to the Here gineers.

compartmont around the oil pan artist and the leisured." Steam lines run from the water at the bottom of the crankcase. boside the Bosuliou River are the cooling jacket around the ongino, The hot water, circulating around ruins of a once great Cistorcian to the radiator in front or to the the oil, forcos the evaporation of abbey, while only three miles licator in the inside of the car.

any fuel gas that might have got-down the rivor is Buckler's Hard,

At the mouth of the Avon In the one case, the steam is ton into it, and thus keeps the oil where from 1743 to 1812, Henry the result of a new kind of cool-pure."

Adams built such famous ships for stands Christchurch, famous for ing system. In the second, it's By this system; the engine heats the Royal Navy as the Agamemits Priory Church, of Saxon the cause of a new and bettor type up much faster, up to the point of non, Euryalus and Swiftsure, all origin. There is à considerable ORAN TO CAPE TOWN BY

of fourteenth-century.

MOTOR. of heating.

steaming, when it's at its highest of which were in the line at Trafal- amount Steam cooling has long been efficiency. Faster hoating of the gar. Between Beaulieu Rivor work still to be soon, but a grout studied by automotive engineers, engine at the start means greater found the little villages of Fawley done about the middle of last Renault car across the Sahara in Captain Delingatte, who will and Southampton Water are to be deal of restoration work was bo romambored as the pilot of a The mothod was found to be ex-fuel economy." tramely simple, once it was decid- Also, say the engineers, alcohol and Lepe, a magnificent view of century.

the Solent being obtained from Lyndhurst is usually referred eight days, has just completed ed to run the line from overheated mixed with the water in winter the latter with giant Atlantic to as the capital of the Now the journey from Oran, to Capo wator jacket to the bottom, in-has, much less chance to evapo-liners passing to and from the Forest, for it is from here that for low on another six-wheeled stead of the top of the radiator. rate than in the present system,

Ronault machine in company This little change brought about bocause vaporized liquids are port, while inland the woods are, centuries past the forest laws the reduction of atoam, formed quickly condensed in the radiator carpeted with primroses and dog have been administered. Here with his wife, M. Bonnaure (the mechanic and an Algerian the Forest Court, "still called by from boiling water in the jackot, coro,

On the Salisbury side of the its Saxon name of the Swainmate, points out, this is the first motor nativo. As Motor Transport through the raditor, rather than A pipe leading from the steam the cooling of heated water by line to a heater in the car, before Forest, a wilder tract of country sits at regular intervals. Some expedition to achieve success in the steam gets to the radiator, is to be found with moorland and of the finest timber in the forest

th trans-African journey. When a raditator steams, in the affords a dependable and stable sparser trees and fine distances. is to be found round Lyndhurst, From the high ground the River old oaks and beachos which are present system, it is because the heating arrangement in winter. cooling lines were built along Even while the engine is idling. Avon is to be seen, famous for its as historical as anything in the breakdowne, but gives not a mo-

mont's anxiety; and in this re the wrong plan of sending the once it has been brought up to its salnion and trout. Ringwood island.

The one necessity to make spect it is hardly necessary to water downward from the top of, efficient point, considerable heat the chief centre of interest in thio the radiator. Steam, being lighter is supplied. There is little loss of quarter, and has a history, dating such a trip a complete success is add that the Singer was irropro than air, forced its way through heat between the system and the back to Domesday.

a car which is not only free from achablo. the uponing at the top.

this method,

heater of the car, and the heater

By the new system, the over-itself requires no cleanings uch as heated water and steam are direct- that necessary with the exhaust ed toward the bottom of the radi- types.--Exclusive to The Hong- ator where the steam separatos kong Telegraph.

THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM

· · ||

THE LONG AND THE SHORT

• OF IT.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION.

RAPID HARDENING CEMENT FAVOURED:

A New York authority on tran Roads that are constantly upi sport problems has postulated for repair are a constant source that traffic congestion in Now of obstruction. Lately The Auto- York and other big American car has devoted a grout deal cities cannot be materially in of spaco to matters connected proved until cars ro made with road construction, having smaller.

published articles by numerous This statement has been eminent authorities on the sub- ridiculed in many directions, yet joct. Road repairs must, of in my opinion it is worthy of course, become necessary sooner; considerable thought and atten- or later, and when this is the ease! tion.

the great point is to condenke, Obviously the roads of cities them Into the shortest possible. already planned and built cannot time. Hence the widely extended be longthened, nor can they le use of the rapid hardening cement known as Ferrocreto". This

widened at will to accommodato

a greater number of lines of material has lately been used for traffic.. Yet on those roads we the construction of many of the must be prepared for an ever-in-important roads in London, in- cluding Piccadilly and Victoria creasing number of automobiles. Street, and no one could fail to How are they to be accom- notice with satisfaction how'short modated? Surely not by making an interval elapsed before those two-deck automobiles 1

import thoroughfares were open again to traffic,

Some little improvement "can, of course, be made by better. traffic control, thus incrousing the average speed of the traffic

flow. Saturation point in this get away and the ability to direction will, however, soon be swiftly make use of an reached, and future improve. ments must lie in the direction opportunity to slip into an open space in the traffic line ahoad,

of smaller vehicles gonenerally must necessarily be of great as- I think it is easily demonstr sistance to the police who con able that in London, cars are, on trol the traffic, and to road usors. the average, 10 per cent. shorter in general, because such cars can than is the case in New York, | be equally easily and quickly de-i because the excellently made, colerated, and thus constitute a sturdy and reliable light curs lesser danger than the bigger and have obtained a tréniendous grip heavier automobiles I have in on the British market, and have mind.

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proved theinsulyes so extremely We must get out of our minds capable that they are now being at the commencement any sug exported in ever-increasing gestion that these cars are not quantities to a large number of comfortable. They compuro ovorsens territories where motor favourably in this respect with ing conditions are anything but the biggest and heaviest autom- easy. We must admit that. Lon-obiles in Americu, and one part- don has materially assisted Now tcular car I have in mind is re- York and other foreign capitals markable, in that with an overall by demonstrating to then its length of 10 ft. it provides ample method of traffic control, but not accommodation for two fieft. pass- a little of its success is due to ongers, and has an occasional or the fact that the major proportion dickly seat at the rear for two of its traffic consists of motor-other passengers when required. driven vehicles appreciably The largest model turned out by shorter on the average than those the manufacturors of this car is ih, let us say, New York.

only 11ft. Bein, and provides Again, the power of accelera- enough leg room for four 8 ft. tion and the nippiness" of these passengers to positively lounge small cura, resulting in a quick in the body.

violets.

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BETTER AND BETTER

Dependable ten years ago, and five years ago, and more dependable than ever to- day Dodge Brothers Motor Car simply represents the latest phase in a process of continual betterment. .

The first cars Dodge Brothers built estab- lished a world-wide reputation. The cars they are building to-day incorporate the accumulated refinements of those len intervening years.

That important improvemets in the comfort and appearance of the car are made from time to time, implies no basic departure from Dodge Brothers tradi- tional policy of progressive rather than seasonal development.

MADE AT DETROIT AND AT ONTARIO, CANADA,

DODGE BROTHERS

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY,

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD

LIMITED.

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