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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926.

THE 1926 "AUSTIN SEVEN"

ALEX ROSS a Co. (China),

Bank of China Building.

The Master Tyre of Master Builders

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HINTS

MOTORIST TRIUMPH

THE ALBERT L.CLOUGH

SHIFTING GEARS QUIETLY.

Every motorist wishes to shift manintain the level just below gears deftly and without clashing. the upper pot-cook of the oil Some can'do so to perfection but reservoir and this amount, what others acquire the knack only over if proves to be, has to be after long practico and a few added to the total required for] drive the same car for years and each 750 milos. The amount] never get the trick. Unless there added between drainings and is something wrong with clutch refillings represents the quantity or transmission, the gears of lost past the piston rings, practically all cars dan bo shifted through possible leaks at the smoothly, if only the operator crankcase and back through the has required skill.

transmission. With everything |in perfect condition it should be vory amall, but with loosely fitted piston rings and leaks at other. points it may become very large! You can hardly oxpect to avorage more than 600 miles to ach gallon of oll used.

THEORY OF QUIET GEAR- ENGAGEMENT. Obviously, two gears eannot be meshed without clashing, If one of them is moving and the other is stopped or if their teeth are moving at widely difforing spoods. Practically speaking, low and reverse goare 'cannot be The Automobile Association, meshed, unless the clutch has of London, realising that there beon "fully released long enough are many motorists who would to let its connected gears stop like to make short runs out of und unless the car is at rost and town on a summer evening-justi second and high gear cannot be for dinner and possibly a game quietly engaged unless the engine-of tennis, golf, etc. has appro- driven gears and the car-driven jacked several hotel proprietors gears are turning at about the holding the A.A."official appoint- same speed.

ment. As a result, arrangements have been made at a number of botels for a special meal to be supplied at 9 p.m. on at least one There is no excusa for clashing evening each week. Motorists low and reverse gears, if the are thus able to leave town ag clutch releases cleanly, but lato né 7 or 7.30 p.m. and yet bo engaging second speed and even assured of adequate refresliment high gear quietly is not so easy, at the end of the trip. So far, because its satisfactory accom-hotels in the following places plishment depends upon the around London have decided to substantial equality as to rim-try the experiment:Ascot, speed of the two gears of clutch Aylesbury, Box Hill, Bushey, members to be meshed. This is Eton, Guildford, Hindhead, operator's Maidenhead, Maidstone, Seven- matter of the judgment and is affected by oaks and Shalford. many indeterminate factors.

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ESTIMATING RELATIVE GEAR-SPEEDS DIFFICULT.

INTELLIGENT PRACTICE DEVELOPS DEXTERITY.

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The whole secret of smooth gear shifting is founded upon the Correctness of those judgments and only practice, supplemented by conscious trial-and-error ex- perimentation, can develop the requirod dexterity. The best way to attain skill is to take the car. into an unfrequented road and spend a few hours in studying goar shifting alone, going through the first-to-second, second-to- third end thirdback-to-second ohangos, until they can be made. smoothly.

A FEW GENERÁL SUGGESTIONS.

All except the last of these should be made with the engine fully throttled and whether they prove clashless depends largely upon how quickly they are made. Try shifting the gears, instantly after full clutch release and then try making the shift a little lose promptly after clutch disengage- ment, until noiseless results are obtained. The third-to-second change is the most difficult, requiring a higher òngine and clutch shaft speed, in proportion} to car speed at the moment of skrifting:

F. J. H. writes: When running over rough roads, at low speeds, there is a sort of dull plunking" noise from the vicinity of the left rear wheel. Spring bolts have been checked up. the axle nut tightened and rim-nuts set up. I any almost convinced that this noise comes from the wheel itself, which is of the disc type. ! Can you make any suggestions?

Alswer: "Possibly - you could

| interchange the rear wheels and}

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if the noise shifted to the other; side it would locate the trouble'] in the wheel itself, but it is not clear what could be wrong to make one wheel make more núise i than the other. Have you tried: the loft wheel bearing for looseness. The cylindrical roller bearings on which the wheels of this car

are somewhat subject to wear and are inadjist- able. Possibly enough lost motion has developed at this point to cause this noist when running over hubbly roads Perhaps someone could ride on the rear of the car and locate this noise more definitely than anyone within the car could, do it.

WH, S. writes: Having just purchased a new Ford car, I should appréciate it very much if you would advise me just how much oil it should use when run neatly every day?

Answer: About one gallon, is required to fill the oil reservoir. of this engine and the manufact- urors recommend that "the oil should be drawn off, discarded and replaced with fresh oil at the nd of each 750 miles of service. In addition to the initial filling, ome, oil is usually-required to

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