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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926.

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Model "Q" Sports de Luxe TRIUMPH

MOTOR CYCLE

Has Arrived

See this cycle and be convinced that it is one of the nicest jobs you have seen for a long time.

SPEED UP TO 65 M.P.H,

Almost the price of a standard model "P"

Can be seen at our Office or Godown 1A, Chater Road.

ALEX. ROSS & CO. (China), LTD.

Puch Motor Cycles

3-H.-P.

In order to introduce these excellent little machines, we are making a special offer. $330 CASH ...

$350 TERMS

Cali and make an early inspection at our office. LEYSECO CHINA CO., LTD.

PHONE C. 1221

̈471 Fròon, BANK OF ANTON BUILDIND 6. Drs Vaux ROAD, CENTRAL,

HINT MOTORIST

FOR THE

ALBERT L. CLOUGH

RUNNING INTO THE CURB.

There is hardly any object the differential,....... It is not ́u more immovable than a ourb-steady sound, but sooms. to occur stone. It will stand an almost in-once in each wheel revolution, finite amount of bumping with A good mechanic con find out being affected in the slightest. nothing wrong with any of tho The thing that hits it is what is gears or bearings and ovorything. bound to suffer.

is woll lubricated. This noise. Is not hoard when the rear end is: run, jacked up, but only, whón) the car is on the road. Can you suggest what may bo causing it?

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MORE CARE NEEDED, The above remarks are made in. an attempt to make motorists more careful as to avoiding strik- Answer: You may find that," ing curls with tyros of their cars. whon the car waight is on the Even though a car is moving rear axle, ono of the brake drinns vory slowly, it is so heavy that rubs`against the dust shield of there is a large amount of power this brake or against some other stored in it and when the col-stationary part which is close-to- lision occurs, all this power is the drum. Push the car slowly concentrated in a blow on the over the floor and have someone tyres-frequently on one of them watch these parts intently to see whether they clear at all parts of the revolution. If a brake drum Not only so, but as the edge siderabic looseness in the out- does not run true, if there is,con- of the curb is usually a sharp board axle bearings or the axle right angle, the impact is con-housing is cracked or sprung a centrated upon a very small part noise like this sometimes is pro of the tyre, and it is on this ac-duced.

alone.

DEATH ON TYRES..

count-that-fabric-breaks, which ERRATIO GENERATOR ACTION, result in pinched tubes and F. W. S. writes: I am having eventual blowouts are so often the following peculiar, trouble caused by curb collisions. Low with the electrical system of pressure tyros are considered

this manner.

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ny

car. When I start

specially likely to Bo injured in the engine, the. ammeter shows charging current, but after run- PUTTING RUNNING DEAR OUT OFning the car for a half hour more

-ALIGNMENT.

or loss, the ammeter needle Backing up hard against the drops to zoro. The next day for curb, besides injuring the tyres, sometimes ovon before the may also misalign the rear axle. generator gots to work again only Striking a curb head-on, with the to stop generating after a while. front wheels, in addition to tyra Can you account for this?" damage, is likely to shift the Answer: Your generator is front axles on the springs and built to furnish a high charging striking it a glancing blow, mayeurrent when it is cold, and bend the steering linkage and lower rate when it becomes throw the wheele out of parallo- warm, the switch-over being lism. Wheels would be smashed automatically performed by a all too frequently if the tyree did thermostat, which cuts.in a field not protect them, by suffering resistance when the generator most of the effect of the impact.ets hot and the low charging

INTERMITTENT GRINDING

NOISE.

A. MCC, writes: My coach makes a peculiar grinding noise, which seems to come from

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LIMITED

33 WONG NEW CHUNG ROAD

HAPPY VALLEY

rate is called for. Probably this resistance. unit is burned out or otherwise open-circuited, so that when it is switched into circuit by thermostat, the field circuit is broken and there is no current at all produced. Substitute a new field resistance and this itrouble should.coase:

STEERING-GEAR LOCKS.

C. J. J. writes: In un-parking my car, last evening, I cramped the front wheels as far as possible to the right and whon I tried to straighten them I could not do. so. Finally, a friend, by taking hold of one of the wheels moved it enough so that the steering gear would work onco more. What is wrong and how can such an occurrence be prevented.

Answer: The usual cause of this trouble is that, through some disarrangment of the stedring linkage, it can be moved so far toward one side that the drag- link comes into the same straight the line with the knuckle-arm to which it is attached, thus losing the mechanical advantage that is required when the gear is to be returned to the straight ahoad position. Banding of parts of the linkage, in an accident, some times brings about this condition. You had better jack up both front wheels, move the gear to its ox- tromo right-hand position and sou if the above or some equivalent effect is not produced. If you find that parts are bent, they can probably be restored to normal. position by the use of heavy wrenchos.

MOTORS IN U. S.

ONE FOR EVERY SIX-

PERSONS.

Washington, Aug. 9-With just a little crowding perhaps, overy person in the United States could take an automobile rido at the same time,

The Department of Commerce has worked out a table of rations on motorcar ownership for the entire world, and the table in- dicates that most countries have, all the cars they neod.

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In United States there is one automobile for overy six persons. Contrasted with this recordin Afganistan, there is one car for each 1,200,000 of population or a total of five cars in the country,

Between the extremes are tho other countries of the world. Hawaii is second in ownership with a car for every oloven porsons. Canada is third with ono for overy, thirteen and Now Zealand fourth with one for every fourteen persons. Australia is fifth with a car for overy twenty- ano persons,

..It is estimated that there is one car for every seventy-one persona of the world population

PACKARD

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Then ask the price!

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

33, Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tol. C. 1246 or 1247

Hongkong.

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JEDN

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DETR

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

33 Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley HONGKONG

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