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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926.

HINTS

FOR

THE

MOTORIST

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 models been named the "Whippet," it has more spoed than the greyhound with all the tenacity of the terrier.

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Absolutely now design.

Speed, over 66 miles per hour.

Acceleration, 6 to 30 miles in 13 seconds.

28 or more miles to the American gallon.

250 milos to quart of oil,

20,000 miles to a set of tyres. ·

Four wheel mechanical brakes..

Irreversible Steering....

56 Inch treend.

Conventional springs.

29 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.

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Plently of clearance for rough roads, This car is produced after exhaustive experiments with European light cars, it combines the best practice of Europe and of the United *States. It has the specifications of a large expensive car with reduced measurements. It crentes a new standard of value. You want the latest improvements and can't afford to buy a new car until you know all about what Willys Overland has designed.

THE FIRST TWO OF THESE CARS WILL ARRIVE SHORTLY

Full Particulars from ¿–

ALBERT L. CLOUGH

FAITHFUL CHASSIS LUBRICATION.

If a car is "rattly the Impres noctor, which fastens the other sion is at once conveyed that it end of this wire to the lamp, are is old, ill cared for and worn out clean and firm, and that the con- and that its owner is neglectful. neation of the flexible cable from Every rattle and squeak, which the connector to the focusing it possessos, lessons not only the attachment of the socket (inside satisfaction of operating it but the lamp) are proporly soldered. actually reduces its possible sales Also remove the lamp itself from value. Those rattles, in a majority the clumping device which holds of cases, arise from worn spring it and clean the surfacos of bolts, and bushings and from these parts, so that a good worn out atooring connections,"ground" will be insced when the cause of which is simply lack the lamp is replacea and the of grease or oil applied at suitably clamp is tightonod. If all con- frequent intervals.

tacts are perfect you should, got a good digit.

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LUBRICATE OFTEN. It is so easy to lubricate thesuVARIATION IN ACID STRENGTH. parts of modern cars that there 5. T., writes: I test the gravity is little oxcuso,, for not doing it of the liquid in such of the cells faithfully, but still it is neglected. of my battery,after each few hun. systems,dred miles of driving and "for a Prossure greasy-gun wick-food reservoir oilers; plun- long time past one end-cell has. ger-operated magazine, oilers.all testod 1275 while the other two roduce the labour of chassis test 1290 approximately. This lubrication, but if the means battery has had a great deal of provided is not used and used charging lately and lights have frequently enough, if the need boen used hardly at all. All threa for using it is simply ignored fis cells call for about the same it too often is) the parts wear out amount of water--rather a largo and the car soon runs like afquantity. What is wrong with rattletrap.

this and cell? Whore grense is the lubricant Answer: It should not be con- ased, every 250 miles is not too cluded that anything is wrong. frequently to re-apply it and this It may be only that this call had mileage is quickly covered "in somewhat weaker acid from the the good old - summer time" first or that electrolyte slopped especially. Oil gets pretty thin in hot weather and runs through a bearing faster than one would think.

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LAMP TROUBLE.

out of it sometime and was re- placed by water. If you care to equalize the gravity readings of this cell with the others, you can interchange liquid among the cells. Take a Syringeful out of Don't consider that a springbell No. 1, divide in hetween cells! shackle or storing connection is 2 and 3 then, a syringeful from 2- well lubricated unless fresh oil or and place it in Land 3 and from grease can be noticed cosing out No. 3 and add it to 1 and 2, keep- from both sides of the hearing ing up the process until differ If there is no sign of escaping ences of gravity among the three lubricant, it probably, is not cells have disappeared. It should reaching all wearing surfaces,

W. A. P. writos: One of the always be realized that the abso- headlamps of my car burnslute values of electrolyte gravity are not a direct indication of coll only at a yellow brilliancy, but condition. The relative gravities the other one and the rest of the before and after the application lights are bright as they should of charging current are of far this dim lamp was defective, int renter significence..

THE UNIVERSAL AUTO SUPPY CO. be. I supposed that the bulb in

61, Des Voeux Road Central.

ATTENTION

FORD OWNERS

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Arrangements have now been completed whereby Ford Owners are enabled to purchase

GASOLINE and TYRES

AT REDUCED PRICES.

ANDREW HARPER

AUTHORISED FORD DEALER

6; Queen's Road Central 2. Chatham Road, Hunghom...

Tel. C.4895.

Tel: K.1216.

MICHELIN TYRES

GENERAL AGENTS & DISTRIBUTORS FOR SOUTH CHINA

The EUROPE-ASIA TRADING Co.

1st. Floor, Pedder Building, 12, Pedder Street,

Ask for the-

NEW MICHELIN PRICE LIST

Showing Latest Reductions

NEW STOCK EVERY WEEK

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WATER INJECTING DEVICE,

I buvo tried several new ones and there is no difference. What C. H. S. writes: Iain offered is wrong?

an easily-installed device for in- Answer: Probably there is a jocting water vapor intà engine poor electrical connection in the cyclinders, which is claimed to be circuit of this headlamp.. We be-a great gas-saver and carbon- lieve that this headlamp circuit)remover. It is sold on a money roceives its current from a bind-back" basis, What I wish to ing screw on a small connection-know is whether there is danger hourd on the front of the dash asof damage to the orgine in the the left hand side. Seo if the use of water vapor.

barod part of the wire is clean Answer: There is no danger of and that the screw is tight, Muke harming the orgine by using such sure that the contacts in the con-judòvice,

VARIATIONS IN ENGINE SPEEDS.

WILY APPARENTLY SIMILAR ENGINES DIFFER.

AMERICA'S TOTAL.

81 PER CENT. OF

WORLD'S CARS.

Eighty-one per cent of the world's motor vehicles are owned Those people who take an in the United States, and foreign interest in the relative perform countries bought 536,741 Am- ances of different curs are often erican motor vehicles in 1925, puzzled when they find that machines with engines of an according to "Facts and Figures almost identical type and cubies!f the Automobile Industry," 1926 edition, which has just been capacity, with similar gear ratios and the same sized tyres, have published by the National Autom not get the same range of speed. Pile Chamber of Commerce.

Special attention. to foreign

One car, for example, may have trade and new developments in

maximum of 40 ini.h, on third, another is unable to exceed 30 the use of trucks and busses aro m.ph. or 35 m.p.h. on the sun ong the chief tendoncius of the yeur noted in the statistical gear. Nor is here any apparent

review." evidenco of the reason.

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Many things combine to limit truck and bus field, it is noted Among the activitios in thb er ongine's speed, but

that there are 14,000 miles of bus principal is that the cylinders routes operated by electric can fill and empty only at u

railway companies. Thirty-one relatively low speed of revolu-railroads are using motor bus tion, taking loss and loss chargo

equipment.

28 thut speed increases. It In addition to this, thoro' ig & follows, therefore, that if there large aniount of bus operation by is the slightest ipodiment to independent companies. In eight the entry or escape of the gases ratos, where analysis of the

ono engine which is not present in the other, that will be figures has been made by the United States Bureau of Public sufficient to limit the perform Roads, 31 per cent. of the bus

in

anco.

It may be that one engine has routes are neither directly or a smaller choke tube than the indirectly competitiva, with the

railroads. other, or that. both have similar.

Taxes paid on motor vehicles choko tubon, but that the internal | passagos of ono are either longer totalled $667,000,000 in 1925. This and more tortuous or of loss area was close to the total of taxation at one particular point than the required for the entire highway other. The exhaust gases of one bill of the nation. This bill am ounted to approximately $1,000,- acar may oscape freely, leaving 000,000, of which, however, nearly residue, those of the other may $300,000,000 was raised by bonds. bo baffled in order to make the car run silently. In both caNON

Con-

the ongines "rov" until a point is the other at 40 m.p.k. reached whore very little mixture sequently one engine is deemed indeed is reaching the cylinders, to have rouched, the top of its only sufficient, in fact, to keep rovs" at 35 m.p.h., the other at the engiho rovolving at that the higher speed. In. a sonec, spoed, but the limit speed is lower vibration does not limit the in ono than it is in the other. speed, but the prosence of somo- Vibration is a subsidiary causething unbalanced can, really ba of trouble, as it may happen that rogardod as a factor increasing one engine develops a rough, the load on the various parts of popleasant period at 50 m.p.h., the engine concerned,

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