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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

FOUR WHEEL BRAKES. YOUNG MAN'S FANCY!

U. S. CHAMPIONSHIP RACE.

INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL?

By Israel Klein.

The four-wheel brake question has finally quleted down and re- lapsed into the same old problem of improvement,

f brass, vetore the introduction

MOTOR-CYCLE'S PET NAME ON NUMBER PLATE,

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"Some men look upon their mo- tor-cycles in the same way that others look upon their girls and call them fancy names. Nippy the name I call my machine." of four brakes, engineers worked This explanation was made at over the individual brake drums

TRIBUTE TO FIRESTONE TYRES.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926,

AUTOS WELL BUILT.

been run that distance at the distance without a stop. It is hard STUDY CONCRETE ROADS. average rate of 127.78 miles per to imagine a more gruelling, teat bour. In addition, the following of tyres, or a more conviucing proof ploted on 875 miles of plain and Investigations have been com-

Not more than 2 1-2 to 5 per world's records were broken in this of the superiority of Firestone Gum steel reinforced concrete ronde, cont. of motor vehicle accidents race by Barl Cooper-75 alles, Dipped Cords and Steam Welded varying in age from one to ten are due to mechanical failures in average speed 182.29 miles per hour Tubes. To be able to resist the years. A Anal report on the in- the machines, according to Colonel vestigation will be presented on A. B. Barber, automotive au- At Culver City, California, on 100 miles, average speed 131.30 thrust of these pounding speed Dec, 8 and 4. November 29, 1925, Firestone Gum miles per hour-150 miles, averago machines, to negotiate the turns at Dipped Cord tyres again carried to speed 130.41 miles per hour maximum speed, to withstand the victory the veteran race driver, Everu oar that finished in this torrific heat generated, to break ad-

thority.

BUYS PATENT RIGHTS.

The B. F. Goodrich Company

facturing and sales rights, of the rubber ace puncture-proof pneu

USE STANDARD CHAINS.

Standard' non-skid chains can

and their component parts, Hoare, Hampstead Police Court Inst Frank Elliott, in the 250-mile event was equipped with Firestone aitional world's speed records, to hae purchased the patents, manu-

month by Frederick, C. Cull, of they still at work now. The Langthorne Street, Fulham, who same problems trouble them.

appeared, charged with a new Additional problems harass offence under the Motor Car Acts them, as a result of the four-that. of having an ornamenta- wheel brake innovation. Notion on the index plate of his mo- they face the intricacies and tor-cycle. A constable who sto theories of equalizers and equali-ped the defendant suid the word zation between front and rear. "Nippy" was painted on the index- besides left and right, brakes.plate of the machine above the They are trying to get rid of the numbers. cable control of such brakes. They are experimenting on im- Lyell) provements for the hydraulle whether Nippy system.

On the Chairman (Mr. J. P. R.

naking the .defendant.

was the name given to the machine by the All these, however, are second-makers, he replied that it was not. The defendant. was fined five ary to the major problems that, existed before the advent of the shillings, and the Chairman four wheel-brake system.

marked that the case was the first

The chief question concerns of its kind, and should serve as a the differences between internal warning to the public, for in and external types of brakes. future similar offences would not

be so lightly dealt with. There are advocates for each, now as before.

Those advocating the internal iween the brake band and the order to make the expansion type of brake do so for drum in

its cleanliness in addition to its slightest tap on the brake pedal! effectiveness. But the advocates effective,

of the external contraction type, A type of brake is being tested of brake argue simplicity and ac- that has a wrap", of 300 per cent. cessibility for It.

around, the drum. The idea is to afford quicker response to the slightest pressure on the pedal. The minimum "travel" of brake pedal and the ease of depression make stopping of a heavy car, at high speed, a simpler operation.

Four-wheel brakes have brought another factor into the maze of problema. The brake action must be made light enough for any wo man to control it with ease. This means minimum clearance be

National Championship Race. All tyres and tubes. world's records for the 250-mile) In accomplishing this remarkable

do all these things unfailingly, are distance were shattered when it feat, Elliot drove his Firestone Indeed the accomplishments of was announced that the race had equipped Miller Special the entire master product.

BEAUTY

THE IMPROVED

a matic inner tube. Rubber ace is be used on ballon tyres, making a patented sponge rubber inner chains of special construction ltyre made of pure rubber and air, þunnecessary.

COMFORT

Ford

AUTO EXPERT NEVER SAW A CAR

NEA

Although he has never seen an automobile, J. F. Cloutman of Albany, Calif., is an export auto mechanic. He repairs his own autontabile and those of his friends by touch. Cloutmun, blinded long before automobiles had " been invented, learned how to repair thoni when a car he owned broke down and the driver couldn't fix it.

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