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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926.

THE 1926

AUSTIN SEVEN "

SPRINGS

-1592 AND TO-DAY.

A New

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Firestone

GUM-DIPPED BALLOONS FOR MOTORCYCLES.

This powerful tread with built-up shoulders finds a foothold in any kind of going--up steep hills, through deep mud, sand or soft dirt. Here's real traction for you-real power and speed. And here's far greater safety on turns, on hills and on the straightaway-than tyres ever gave you before. Now is the time to fit your machine for all roads and all weather with full-size four-ply Gum-Dipped Balloons.

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16 KNOTS

AILSA CRAIG

FAST RUN ABOUT

BRITISH THROUGHOUT

Complete $2750.00

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DELIVERED HONGKONG.

Sole Agents,

Shaping steel springs in Studebaker's spring ́shops., Springs, which are so vital to that out of all American manu the modern automobile, are a facturors, only three now make comparatively modern devolop their own springs. One of these ment in the veliicular fold. Stoel is Studobakor, which has made springs first came into use about them for a great many years. the year 1670,-

This company has just complated

The earliest known device do- a now spring plant 995 feet long. veloped for, casing the strain of and 125 feet wide. The flat stoel riding over rough roads was a bars onter one. end of this build" leather throughbrice," which first ing and emerge at the other and appears in history in 1592. The as finished springs, ready to at- carriage body was hung on four tach to the automobile.

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of these large leather straps. Every shipment of stool is an- which to a slight degree softened alyzed chemically to insure pro- the jolts over poor ronds. per composition. Before assembly

The next improvement was to cach spring leaf must be heat fusten the tips of these leather trouted and the is shaped and straps to flexible, vertical posts. "tompered in, a large steel drum These were in reality the first revolving in a tank of oil carries springs. The vertical posts several sets of huge, steel jaws. werd next built of steel, which Next it goes into a strong solu- allowed creater flexibility, lion of hot salt water, which

Gen. Lafayette's carriage, pre- tonghens the metal to a marked sented to himr by the American degres.

Light Weight Overland

The "Whippet"

We have pleasure in announcing that the Willys Overland Co. is now in production on an entirely, new type of small, light car, FAST, POWERFUL ECONOMICAL TO RUN, LONG LIVED.

Very aptly has this addition to their already fine line of modelo been named the "Whippet," it has more speed than the greyhound

with all the tenacity of the terrier.

Absolutely new design.

Speed, over 55 miles per hour.

Acceleration, o' to 30 miles in 18 seconds.

28 or more miles to the American gallon. 250 miles to quart of oil...

20,000 miles to a set of tyres, Four wheel mechanical brakes. Irreversible Steering:

56 inch treead. Conventional springs.

20 x 4.40 Cord Balloon tires. Engine developing 31 horsepower. Remarkable acceleration.

Low hung body of very pleasing lines. Finished in Blue lacquer.

Ample room for passengers,

Plently of clearance for rough roads.

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public and now in the Amorican Before assembly, every spring Museum of Transport maintained is tested to make sure that it is by the Studebaker Corporation in not too hard and brittle, or too

When South Bend, is an out-standing soft und yielding. example of this constraction. sembled, the flexibility of oach

In 1804 the first semi-clipsie spring is tested on a huge scalo measurements. It creates a new `standard of value. spring made its appearance. The which shows how many pounds latest improvements and can't afford to buy a new car until you type of spring is bolted at its of pressure are necessary to proas know all about what Willys Overland has designed. centre in the axle. Each end of the curved spring flat. Sots of Spring is attached to the frame two springs are then picked out, having the same flexibility, and. This type of spring roniains to these go to the front or near of day the most popular. Om of all the same car, insuring equal ro- automobila manufacturers who sults on the car. exhibited at the last New York Every spring on a Studebaker show, only 8 used springs, of a car is testod under a prossuro far different design and several of greater than over applied in. those wore derivations of the actual service. The combined semi-eliptic idea.

pressure applied in the test to a A recent investigation disclosed set of four springs is 8,800 pounds.

This car is produced after exhaustive experiments with European light cars, it combines the best practice of Europe and of the United As-"| States, It has the specifications of a large expensive car with reduced You want the

of the car.

CAR-PRIDE.

EXTERNAL APPEARANCE

Every motor owner with reasonable degree of self- re-pect

the upholstery, using a soft cloth and a leather-dressing on which you can rely. Then clean all the metal on the insides and rub up the instrument board with a little furniture polish.

The next procoss, which many people quite mistakenly put first,

wishes his car 10 app is to wash down the exterior. A

as cloun aud smart, au

is, his personal appearance, writes Major Forbes-Leith.

serious error, frequently made, is

to turn on the hose pipe as full as

once met a man, owning a Ford, possible, and to project the water nt the car with considerable force. which, he declared, had never The result of this is that the force boon cleaned externally s nee the of water drives tho. grit into the day he bought it. Its filthiness had given it a curious distinction, surface of the varnish, making marks which can never be re- and he had reached such a stage moved. These scratches may be of occentric pride in his dirty car quite tiny, and hardly, visible to that no one could induce him to the naked eye, but they mean have a brush or a hose pipe' put | that the degeneration of paint and on it. It was certainly one of the! sights of the small town in which varnish has commenced. Once this scratching has occurred to he lived.

any extent, it is not long before the beautiful, shiny paint-work of

Rational people, however, have no wish to emulate, his eccentri-

ty: We al like to keep the new car becomes dulled and

rough. external appearance of our carį BEST CLEANING METHODS, clean and smart, not merely for

The correct mode of procedure the sake of our reputation and is to turn on a gentle flow of credit, but also because dirt means

deterioration which will tell water, and use this to soften the heavily against the car when the dirt. Then, with a wet sponge go carefully over the paint-work, time comes to dispose of it as a

rinsing the sponge from time to second-hand vehiclo..

time. It is unwise to bear heavily It would soom trite to observe on the sponge, for this will mean that the secret of a smart appear-merely that you are rubbing the ance in a car, as in everything grit against the paint work and else, lies in systematic attention. you are producing scratches. Just as the good horsemun at- Alternativoly, you may use tends to his horse first on return-lukewarm water and a little soap. ing from a ride so the really keen Whore this is done, it is neces- motor-owner will on most occa-sary to ensure that a rinsing aions, attend to his car immediatly process follows, so as to remove, he returns to the garage, or very races of the soap. This rinsing soon afterwards,

can be done with a hose, if you Possess one.

BANISHING MUD,

The last process is the polish- At this time of the year we ing. There are many preparations begin to pick up mud fairly re-which claim to achieve wonders gularly whe ever we go out. To in the polishing of cars, but loave the mud to hardon on the though some of them are good, cur after a run is a short-sighted my own experience is that a policy. The w se man gets rid of chamois leather of fair size pro- it before it drice. It may be aduces the best polish with the aid little inconvenient to attend to the of a little "elbow-grense.". Take car immediately, but it is cor-one small portion of the surfaco tainly well worth while.

and treat this thoroughly, rubbing The cleaning a car is not, as with a straight motion. I have circular motion some think, one of those tasks found that a which can be done without any produces. marks of similar shape., special knowledge. It is like which are very obvious in cortain most other tasks, in one rospect lights.

at least namely, that there is a In the course of the polishing, right and a wrong way of going wash the leather regularly in about it. The right way will give soupy water, and wring it until it you the best results in the short is practically dry. A polish ob

tained in this way lasts longer. est time.

If you start properly, you will than any other I know of, and is begin with tho interior of the car produced with a minimum of cleaning the dust out with a still scratching.

broom and a carpet brush. Of The final touch is to clean the course, a vacuum cleaner is very wind screen and any other glass, much better if you possess one, as well as the brass or nickel of Next, attention will be given to the exterior,

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