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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HINTS MOTORIST

THE ALBERT L. CLOUGH

the choke.

MANIPULATING THE CHOKE

Under these circum-

CARS FOR RUSSIA.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

STRENUOUS EXERCISE.

THE PEDESTRIAN IN PARIS.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1926,

"BUS RACING SENTENCE.

SEVEN-SEATER SUNBEAMS.

A Glasgow bus driver has just Two very handsome 20-60 bp. Parle traffic to the American been sentenced to 60 days im 6-cylinder. Sunbeam touring cars visitor may provide just a little prisonment for dangerous driving. have recently been supplied for more strenuous exercise than that It was alleged that he and the official use in Russia. These cars to which he is accustomed in driver of nuother 'bus were racing Much gasoline is wasted and oiljas slightly as practicable and pro fare of the long wheel-base type New York or Chicago, but the side by side and taking up all the with 7-seater bodies, two of the first few days of the visitor from rond. We have met that 'bus spolled by the careless or inexpert gressively less so as warming Peats being of the occasional fold- the British Isles in the rapid city driver before-but it wasn't in

ing type. The long wheelbase constitute a prolonged night- Scotland. handling of that necessary evil, increases.

On nearly all cars stances the more the throttle is model has a wheel-base of 11ft. mare. For in addition to the starting can only be effected by opened, the leas choking is usually 50in. and the overall length is right hand rule of the road, which Its use, but ton often it is applied required. Many cold engines. 15ft 7in. The were practhin itself is suffelently confusing too freely or left on too long, after running closely throttled for cally standard models in other to those who are accustomed to spared the expense of paying for a time will not accelerate unless respects, except that polished the left, there is the constant the damage that contact with his helped to do so by a partial tem alumiiniam bonnets and alumini- uncertainty as to whether the unfortunate body would have done porary application of the choke,

(Mr. Clough gives some of the discs to the wheels were fitted, next cab is going to adhere to to the car. All this he hears, together with bumpers. The cars that rule, or whether it is going and is a-weary. The only thing The first thing to remember is questions he receives from, time were finished in dark blue, with to be original and make a detour to do is to take the taxi and drive that the choke should be used just to time, together with the

upholstery in antique blue quite different. It is never safe to the other side of the road. as little as possible to cause the answers.

Then one day he finds himself These appear weekly

leather.

to hazard a guess even. The best engine to start and to keep it and provide an instructive refer- going during the warming up ence).

The efficiency of the 20-60 h.p.thing to do is constantly to keep unexpectedly in the middle of the He has an eye to the right, to the left, to Place de la Concorde. chassis, with its very reliable 4- the front and at the back of one. gone to get a close view of the period and that it should be put

wheel braking system, has made

A Paris taxi often evinces anfountain, it greatly in demand in various

affection for the pavement, parts of the world, and particu larlly in Australia and New Zea-

with harmful results.

The Less Choking the Better.

out of action completely and left

Bo, the instant the angine is in

Generator, Ruris Hot.

condition to run without its assis-" Question: My

generator

tance: No warm engine should gets so hot that I cannot bear my ever require choking, in service, hand on it, after 25 miles of

but the vehicles whirling in all directions have made him feel giddy. Perhaps

and one that does has something/driving, although it charges all land, where. the Sunbeam reputa-therefore, that the strong mangay city. At any rate he remem- I

wrong with its carburetor or fuel right at 12-15 amperes. feed, which should be corrected bearings are in perfect condition, immediately.

so there can be no possibility of the the armature rubbing on Starting the Cold Engine.

polepleces. How do you account At starting from a cold condi-for this overheating?

tion has always stood very high.

It is not to be wondered at that is why Paris is called the from London and Manchester bere nothing about the fountain stands timidly on the edge of the when he crosses the choppy bit of pavement, praying that one day so that changes the rule of the the gendarme will wave his white road. truncheon and check the un- censing flow. At the back of his

con-

on

didly on level going, but when it strikes a grade, the engine misses, Answer: On account of their spits and sputters and I have to mind he also realises that, when tien, the average engine requires full, choking only until it first close proximity to the heated engage second gear, when the he does so, it is quite possible fires, after which occurrence, the engine, generators nearly always ascent can be made Ó. K. I have that he will forget all about cross- choking can be reduced little by run at a temperature that is had a new carburetor put on, but ing the road, and merely stand little until none is required. The rather uncomfortable to the touch. this does not help the hill-climb. and gape at the hented

between the gendarme and the degree of choking can be gradually if yours does not smoke or have a ing ability on high speed What troversy which is carried burned smell, it is doubtful if it do you think is the matter?

thwarted taxi-man. diminished unti! missed explo-

Answer: It looks like a case of

The visitor may possess a very Unless there is a burned sions warn of the liability of its is running much hotter than nor- stopping. Too much choking is mal

spot on the commutator or the inadequate fuel feed and we sug- elementary knowledge of the lan- usually evidenced by "galloping" brushes bear on the commutator gest that you check up the gaso-guage, but when he does start to of the engine, by its regular altogether too hot, we doubt if line system in all details, see that cross the road, with his eyes periodic increase and decrease in there is anything wrong, unless it all piping is clear, that the con-glued in the opposite traffic direc speed a sort of rolling sound and

may be that there is something nections of the vacuum tank are tion this is of course after the waved his has in- pulsating rhythm-which

wrong with the thermostatic re- all tight, that the vaccum tank gendarme

RS á signal that dicates too rich a mixture just as

gulator, which is used on this strainer is clean, its air-vent valve truncheon irregular missing and weak explo- make of generator. If this is not is working right and that the vent, nothing need he delayed any "alons indicato overleness. The

working properly, the high rate tube is clear, also that the main more, and that they are no speed object should be always to keep of charge may be continued, when tank vent is open. Try taking a limits very little intelligence is the degree of choking on the the low rate should have been hill with the vacuum tank filled required," for him to understand borderland between a "galloping" automatically substituted and this full, through the plug hole in its that an irate taxi-driver is inform- mixture and a stalling mixture would account for some abnormal top and with the plug left outing him that he should have The charging rate is if the hill can be taken thus, on spectacles on his ears, that for heating. Choking While Running.

not too high. Why don't you have high, a fuel feed derangement is-one whole second the hooter has indicated. If you find that there been honking at him, and that, the service Station cheek it up?

is no trouble with fuel feed please but for the driver's kindness of Won't Climb Hills" on "High."" write us again and we will seek heart, he would have shortly been no

Question: My car runs splen- for another explanation.

more, also that his heirs have been,

H

If a car is operated on the road before it has become warm enough, it may have to be run slightly choked for a while-just

STUNTING NOT APPRECIATED.

Miss Alleno Ray, a movie actress, declared that she would prefer seasickness after experiencing the sensation of riding up a steep hill in Now Jersey with a loosl "stuntung" motor cyclist.

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