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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

MIMMOM HINTS

FOR

A British Master Motor

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If you could visit any one of the seven huge Morris faclories in England, you would know at once why no engine, in any car, at any price, gives more con- sistent low-cost running than the Morris master motor.

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From all over the world comes daily proof that the “heart” of the Morris car is a master product-tuned to mechanical perfection-built of best "British material for a long life of faithful service. No wonder so many motorists are changing over to the Morris. Have you tried out a new "World" model?

MORRIS

the Wheel of the World",

from £190.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE, (The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.) Car Sales and Phone Service Phone Accessories [C., 4759 and Parts C. 4602

Hongkong Hotel Garage.

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THE

MOTORIST

ALBERT L.CLOUGH

SKIDDING PREVENTION SUGGESTIONS.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927.

EIGHTS POPULAR”

There are at present about 20, American manufacturers building eight-cylinder cars. The numbor of manufacturers ahows that the vight-cylinder market offers a highly competitive fold.

Koop chain on whenever tho wrong with them. I lately put in roads are slippery and carry them a now dry-cell battory. Does this

· Michael O'Leary, V. C., has ar- In the car until spring. Romom-cause the coils to give out agonor? rived at Brightlingsea (Essex), ber that skidding is most likely; Answer: Our first thought is where he is to take up duty, as on curves, thorofore run very that these vibrator points need to slowly except

whon driving be smoothed and adjusted. Use commercial traveller for Hartell straight ahead on firm footing. thin file or oilstone to dress and Co., net manufacturers. Don't devinte suddenly from a them down in a smooth and flat atraight ahead direction but do so contract and in roadjusting them as gradually and carefully as turn down the adjusting thumb- permissible, Bon that the brakes nut until the vibrator is one act equally on the two sides and thirty-second inch from the core use them as little as possible, re of the coil. If this does not make lying-mainly on the retarding all these coil-units work proper- effect of the closely throttled only you better replace with now gine with clutch ongaged. Avoid ones any that persistently give A dry battery is no applying brakes suddenly and too trouble, violently, especially when on harder on the coils than is the curves. Don't "stop on the gas" magneto." too suddenly, when on rounded roads or when the front wheels are deflected. Perform all con

DRAGGING CLUTCH, Question: In shifting my trol actions stooring, braking car from neutral to low or and accólerating gently so as reverso gours, thore is consider- not to brouk the hold of the ablo clashing but after this first wheels on the road, for when shift there is no trouble getting once a wheel has lost its grip it into any gear. Is this my fault is as free to side slip as to roll or that of the "geare ? ahoad. On heavily crowned roads Answer: Probably neither, but drive as nearly in the middle as rather the fault of the clutch, the trafic permits, koop away which probably drags somewhat from qurbstones and give other and keeps the countershaft goars vehicles as wide a berths turning, when the sliding gears practicable so as to allow leeway are at rost. The only suggestions in caso side slip develo, B. Avoid we can make are that you bo all situations which might call sure that there is, in the clutch for sudden voering or emergency housing, one-half pint of a half brake-applications. If a skid and half mixture of kerosene and starts and the rear end of the car ongine oil and that the clutch, throwa out of lino instantly steer pedal does not come closer than toward the side toward which the threo-eighths inch from the floor rear end is side slipping, at the board, when it is pushed away sure time lotting up on the ac-forward. This adjustment can celerator.

be made by the sot-screw mount- ed on the clutch operating shaft.

GREASING REAR WHEEL, .. BEARINGS. -

COIL-VIBRATORS NEED ATTENTION.

Question Can the rear whool,

Question:-The coils of my Ford sometimes fail to fire the engine and one especially makes bearings of - Car be ablao spark at the points every greased by removing the hub-cap, time they soparats, this one oc- filling it with grease and then casionally stops working, on the screwing it on tightly. road and thon starts in again. These coils seem tight enough in the case.

What do you think is

Answer: No, this will do no good in the way of lubrication. The rear wheel bearings of this car are lubricated through pressure gun fittinge, located on the axle BURMA BUYS. MORE housing, just inside the brake.

drum on each side..

CARS.

Motor vehicle salos in Burma áre 25 per cent..ahead of last to Walton year, according Schmidt, fold representative of the National Automobile Cham-

OMMEMMUMÉM ber of Commerso.

Ready for Any Road!

Long tours are undertaken with a greater feeling of secarity when the motor is fitted with Firestone Full-Size Gum-Dipped Balloons.

hose staunch tyres with their broad trend, take a firmer grip on the road, assuring better control and greater safety,

Firestone Balloons hold up

Faithfully, yielding many extra miles of carefree performance. They are strengthened by Gum- Dipping, an exclusivo Firestone process, which insulates and in-. pregnates every strand of every" cord with rubber. Full-Size and of low air pressure; they are as easy riding, as they are dependable,

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247

33, Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley.

Firestone

FULL-SIZE GUM DIPPED BALLOONS

PRECISION.

Packard System.

Precision with which both main and connecting rod bearings aro fitted in Packard cars has beon made oven finer with the in- stallation of a now machine, the first-of-its-kind, which hones-the journals of the shaft finor than the honing of any razor. Even longer life from bearings is ex- pected as a result,

"The new machine, which is only a recent invention, gives the crank shafts their finishing opera tion. Honing stones as fine as those used for sharpening any razor are held against all nine of the main boating journals and all eight of the connecting rod bearing journals with the eight cylinder, motor shaft and all of the bearing journals of the six eylinder motor shaft in the same The shaft rovolves us

manner

it would in a lathe and the hor ing stones held in the ends of oscillating arms, follow around in the eccentric action of the con- necting rod bearing journals. Honos for the main bearing journals of course remain station- ary, with the exception of the slight movemont forward and back along the length of the journal. "

Streams of keroseno are direct- ed on the stones all the time the machine is in operation to carry away the minute metal cutting and the material worn from the stones. Work on each journal is

On dono automatically.

the eight shaft there are 17 journals and on the six shaft there are 13. The operation on each is idonti- cal. Only a small part of one one- thousandth of an inch is taken off by the hoging stones.

The babbitt connecting rod bearings, in which the shaft rung aftor it is placed. in the car for both types of Packard cars for some time have been bored with a special machine designed and built by the Packard company. Which uses five karat diamonds for cutting. The bearings are hold to a limit of one tea-thous andth of an inch, Fittings of these bearings to the shaft through the use of the new han ing machine in the making of the shaft has been made as perfect an anything known in manufactur- ing with metals.

Deferred Plan of Payment

30% down Balance by arrangement.

MORE CARS FOR TEXAS. NEW SPARK PLUG.

Automobile registrations in A Swedish mechanic has in- Toxae during the first nine vented a new type spark plug months of 1926 show an increase of 45,263 over the total number of registrations for the entire year of 1925.

Aged 74, Mrs. Ellis, a widow, of Winchester-street, Pimlico,, was found suffocated after a fire in her room had been put out.

that cleans itself automatically, The plug can be manufactured to Bell for only slightly higher than the ordinary type, according to advices from Stockholm.

Lord Astor is giving $10,000 to: build a hostel to accommodate 40 students under the South Western University scheme.

FIAT

Deferred Plan of Payment 30% down": Balance by Drrangemeņi

FOR EVERY CATEGORY OF SERVICE

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Only four

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VALVE-IN-HEAD

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It is no longer necessary to drain crankcase oil every 500 miles. Four changes of off a year are enough, when you own a 1927 Buick.

The crankcase in the 1927 Buick Is vacuum cleaned! A vital new im- provement-the Vacuum Ventila- tor-draws all the crank case vapors cut into the open before they have an opportunity to do. harm.

Now, all that is necessary is to " addoll occasionally and change 4 times a year, simply as a super. caution..

The problem for years has been to stop oil dilution. And now Buick has accomplished it!

Come in and let us show you the Greatest Buick Buer Built!

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