THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1925.
GRAHAM BROTHERS
GB
TRUCKS
BOLD BY DODGE BROTHERS DIALER TVERYWHERE
The ability to insure owners of immediate service at all times is an asset of tremen dous importance to truck manufacturers.
In this respect Graham Bro- thers have an obvious advan tage, marketing, as they do, through Dodge Brothers vast and reputable dealer organization.
1-TON CHASSIS:
BB 130" W, B.
116-TON CHASSIS...
CB 144 W. B.
FB 158 W. B.
U. S. CY.
ELECTRICAL UNIT REPLACES
ENTIRE AUTOMOTIVE TRANSMISSION.
BY ISRAEL KLEIN.
Special to the Hongkong
Telegraph.
Toledo, Ohio, July 27,
"A single electrical unit is bolng used in an automobile hère to replace these parts.
Entire transinission, includ- ing gears, gear shift lover, clutch and clutch pedal; flywheel; entire starting mechanism; generator.
That leaves the engine in front and the drive shaft and differential in back. Between these is the new unit for which the following advantages are, claimed:
1. It eliminates clutch control and resultant wear and tear on the transmission.
2. It saves gasoline and en- gine wear.
3. It has an dasy, quick
getaway.
4. It can stop the car.ensily
SPARK LEVER
HIGH IGNITION SWITCH
MOTOR EWITCH
BRAKE PEDAL
STERATOR EM
and quickly by electrical control. quick, easy stop and then, uxacti- 5. It can reverso the car cally in the sams action, backed smoothly and directly from high up the hill. speed.
It can control a car's speed going down hill without use of engine or service brakes... ·
7. Although it weighs only 350 pounds, ic capable of developing 80 horsepower.
TEN-YEAR DEVELOPMENT.
...$1,095
$1,280
$1.330
MBM 140 W. B.
$1,345
LBM 158" W. B.
$1,395
PASSENGER BUS CHASSIS:
Fraser invented the first gearless
YB 158" W. B.
$1,600
traction system for electric eleva- tors 25 years ago.
A Body for Every Line of Business
"THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD
Built To The
Standard.
Highest
UNDER all conditions, Fira
stone Cord Tyres yield
ling, satisfying mileage.
Internal friction--the mo frequent cause or tre failure- is minimiz d by twice dipping the words in gunt #pecial Firestone process, by which each cord is completely içi sulated in live ribber. The strong, flexible constructio of the tyre body insures durability and comfort."
"Sure, Grm road-grip is provid- ed by the design of the cross" and square tread, while the tough compound is an added guarantee of long wear.
The Firestone Cord is the highest achievement of an or ganisation which has success- fully adhered for more than twenty you's to the most ex- acting standard of tyre por- form co
Most Miles Per Dollar.
HAPPY VALLEY.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33 Wong Noi Chung Road, (Happy Valley)...
.Contral 1246 or】 1247.
Firestone
There was no 'clashing of goars, for there are no gears, no dangor of injuring the transmission unit or differential gears in the revers- ing process.
The unit consists of a generator and motor combinad, made so that only essential weight is uti
This radical change in utomo- lized. An 80-horsepower motor, tive design is the invention of weighing only 350 pounds, is
E. M. Fraser," of Yonkers, N.Yunique.
PLE, ECONOMICAL.
The generate unit, attached to Ten years ago he thought of the crankshaft, acts as motor in developing thir idea for automo-starting the engine. When the tive and other purposes.
engine drives the unit above Its He has had several automotive critical' speed, the transmission manufacturers try it out. Only unit be comes a generator, actuat- recently. John N. Willys took a ing the motor within It to drive demonstration-ride in one of his the rear end. own cars with this transmission in it.
EASE IN CONTROL.
That is the ontire idea in a nutshell. The engine merely acts as power plant. The motor in the unit pulls the car.
The unit started the engine
Of all its advantages, the great- without the rasping noise that accompanies this operation in est is what Fraser calls its "over cars of to-day.. It took off easily speed," by which enough power. with a slight acceleration of the can be generated in the unit to engine. It stopped the car by drive the motor twice as fast an electrical control.
The front of an auto is clear of lovers and pedals, with use of the Fraser electric transmission unit, except for brake. pedal and accelerator. Upper photo at left shows this. To the right is E. M. Fraser, the inventor, and below him is shown the unit back of the engine.
shock on the tyres in staiting and autoinobiles but for all sorts of stopping. Ordinary motors propulsion. Motor höatë, large, pull on the tyres at starting and electric de submarines, drag it stopping that "waars switch engines are spin of the them out faster than in the actual purposes suggested, driving,
FOR OTHER PURPOSES. By getting away easily and the engine. By use of this over-stopping just us easily, the car Going up a 15 per cent, hill, the speed, the speed of the engine with this electrical unit in it car was stopped without use of can be controlled within the limits saves that wear on its tyres. the foot brake and started off sought only for the speed of the Cont car. That means a saving in fuel again as though on a level. ing down the hill, the electrical and in wear and tear on the control lever on the steering wheel engine. was suddenly thrown into reverse. | In addition, there's a saving in The car smoothed down to A rubber, due to the elimination of
OLD CAR'S SPEED.
The entire unit weighs as much as the parts it replaces. And it costs about as much in quantity production, perhaps it will cost less, says Fraser.
It can be applied not only to
Fetch drove his travel stained INTERESTING AWARD. car into New York 53 days later, Where thousands of motor cars
40 M.P.H, WITH 1903 MODEL with the greatest ease and com
now skim along the highways SIXTEEN YEARS. IN USE.
fort to the occupants Fetch much
Near Miami, Florida, recently of the time faced almost impos. At the recent International & motorist, C. P. McLain wassible wastes of sand, mud and Motor Show held at Melbourne, arrested for driving his-ear 40 hundreds of miles were covered much interest was aroused by the miles an hour. Ordinarily this in territory where there was not competition for the prize offered would not be anything out of the the least semblance of a road. for the vehicle in the best con- ordinary for arrests for speading At times through the sands of
are make in Flordia probably as Nevada he had to, use the floor dition after at least ten years often as cisowhere. The car Mr boards of the car to get traction service. The trophy was won Mulain was driving, however, enough to move the vehicle for- by Messrs. Foy and Gibson Pty. nude the incident most unusual ward a few feet at a tine. His Ltd., who have what is probably The car, now making a tour only map was a Union Pacific the largest general stores in throughout the state of Florida | Railway guide.
Melbourne. Mossra. Foy and
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was the famed "Old Pacifio," a The Old Pacific has a one
It has not yet been, put into production. Efforts are now being made to interest automotive manufacturers in it, get their
additional improvoments on the reactions and opinions and make.
unit.
That it is about ready for prac tical use is shown by the fact that this is the sixth transmission. unit tested, and that it has finally been revealed to the public.
BIG BUB SERVICE
New York passenger busses last year carried 101,000,000 pas- sengers. In Detroit they carried 20,000,000 and in St. Louis 13,000,
000,
# ETHICS FOR MOTORISTS
A code of-motoring ethics is to
be drawn up by group of national ly known mon. The code is spon- sorod by the American Automo- bile Association.
GAS TAX REVENUE Iowa's proposed gasoljno tax, of cents on a gallon, is expected to bring in an annual revenue of 55,490,000,
one cyclinder Packard in which cylinder, nine horse power motor, Gibson own a fleet of some Al E. T. Fetch made one of the first It weighs ready for the road 3,000 bion vehicles, and the actual if not actually the first, trans-pounds. It cranks at the side prize-winning machine was a 25. continental tours of the United and drives through a chain, slackewt, model which has been in use
The newness of the automobile. States.
in which is taken up by moving for over sixteen years-surely is shown by the fact that the auto-
the buck
rear axle. When
The veteran old motor car, was
MOTORS STILL NEW
caught speeding at forty miles an originally built it had a governor wonderful evidence of sound demotive industry, ranked second hour and the driver was taken which limited its speed. to 20 sign and workmanship on the during 1924 in the number of ap before a justice of the peace and miles an hour. Greater speed part of this old-established Scot-plications for patents fled. Radio Auto patent applica-. than that in 1903 was considered tish firm of commercial motor was first. fined.
tiene amounted to 4621.. During the first seven days of foolhardy. the tour which now is being made more than 1500 miles were covered and an accurate record
of the gasoline consumed dis- closed that seventeen miles had been obtained to each gallon of 45 gas,"
For years "Old. Pacific" rosted) in one of the buildings of the Parckard Motor Car Company factory at Detroit.. At the re- quest of James Palmer, Prökard distributor
Jacksonville,
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Florida, it was shipped to Florida as is," Only a very short time was required to put it in perfect running condition by tho Jack Honville service station and then it was started out to call upon every city in the stato. It is proving, Palmer says, a big ät- traction in every city it visite.
The transcontinental trip of "Old Pacifio" was made in 1903. E.T. Fetch who was famed in the early days of the automobile as road driver, and who now lives at Jefferson Ohio, insists the trip was the first ever made with an automobila under its own power from coast to coast..
The start was made at San Francisco June 18, 1903 and
manufactures,
COMBINATION PLANE PASSES FIRST TESTS SUCCESSFULLY.
The first test flights of the Stalling Amphiblan airplane, designed by Captain Charles Nun gesser, the famous French ace, went off successfully at Roosevelt Field, Long lala The plane is capable of landing on land or water; has 135 h. p. rotary motors; car passengers and pilot at a top speed of 100 miles per hour with a cruising speed of 73 miles per hour over 5-hour periods; it's wing span is 40 feet from bow to rudder, 30 feet, and wel with load, 2200 pounds. z
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