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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY,

FEBRUARY

5, 1927.

You can pay for your Motorcycle

out of income

If you do not wish to pay cash down

for either of the following:-

A. J. S.

TRIUMPH

DOUGLAS

INDIAN

FRANĊIS-BARNETT

Motor

Cycles

You pay as a deposit, one quarter only the full catalogue prico Insurance and bank charges are added on the balanco only,which is then divided into seven monthly payments. The cycle is delivered to you ready for the road and you ride while you pay. You have the pleasure and don't miss the money.

ALEX.

(STOCKS CARRIED)'

CHIEF MOTOR CAR IMPROVEMENTS OF 1926.

Ease And Beauty Come First.

Special to The Hongkong Telegraph by Teraol Klein.

Pap, beanly and comfort are exemplified in the Cadillac sport phaeton shown above, representative of the dashing products of 1926, while the whippet, below, shows what is being done in the small cur field, and the supercharger, right, forecasts the engineering developments

soom to conte.

ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd. comfort in body design.

Sub. Dealers

KOWLOON MOTOR CAR & CYCLE EXCHANGE CO.

Michelin Tyres Mean

The cheapost in the long run.

Shipments arrive every week to ensure fresh goods only. Sole agents for South Chini

J. GIBBS & CO... BANK OF CANTON BUILDING- Week days Phone C. 704 After Office hours Phone C. 4532

CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD.

FOR

ALL CLASSES

OF

MOTOR INSURANCE

WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS

HEAD OFFICE:-

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG,

TELEPHONE

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SOCONY

MOTOR

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MODERN OILS FOR MODERN MOTORS

"REFINED UP TO A Standard NOT DOWN TO A Price

NEW TRONS IN FIRE

Out of the routine of improve-

{ measure, Groat› r vision is permite mont consistent with the rise of

Engineers are still fussing with ted by the thin window framel o any progressive industry, the superchargers, which are already steel. Lessof a rumbling, drum. outstanding accomplishment in so far advanced toward perfec-ming noise in the enclosed cars is the automobile field comes forth tion that we shouldn't be sur-noticed. in the form of grace, beauty and prised at their introduction in the Besides providing air-cushioned passenger car. Held, even during scate and greater leg room, ongi- That is chiefly what the your 1927. They are widely in use in eers have dosigned the auto 1926 has to offer as its contribu-aviation, and have been of great bodies to provide ventilation dur- ling rainstorms, with all the wig halp in imotor racing. Yot behind this is hidden a long Their arrival in the passenger dews closed." array of engineering improve-car line will mean the beginning Yet the open car, especially the ments, every one of which con-of greater power at higher snappy roadster with its colourful tributes its little part to the major speeds, more economic fuel con-embellishments, showed itself in achievement for the comfort and sumption, greater motoring facili-1926 as it never did before. It pleasure of the motorist.

ties in high altitudes and loss promises continued popularity, drain on the engine itself.

especially for summer touring..

SMALL OAR IS HERE.

tion to this motor age.

IN MY GARAGE. JUST LIKE HOME.

Abolishing Dirt And Drudgery.

HINTS FOR THE OWNER-DRIVER.

Like Owner, Like Car.

It is a pleasure to enter a home that is well kapt, well arrangød and broathing an atmosphere of comfort and cheer.

Among those many motorists who own their own garagos, port- It is as much a plousure to ablo there are relatively few who enter the autombile of a friend' really troubla to equip those and find it just as cleanly kept otructuros with the few little osland comfortable as the home you sentials that tend to assist them visit.

both in cleanliness and comfort. Not only is such a car good to When I first started as a motor look at from the outside, but it is enthusiast, a matter of twenty pleasant to ride in it. The carpot years ago, I felt that it was part and the upholstery are brusheg of the business, and the hall olean, the dust is eloaned off thd mark of tho skilful chauffeur, to frame parts. No sparo tools, or- Hive with somewhat dirty hands, other paraphernalia are lying and to bu continually soon, with around.

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grouse and oil up to the elbows, Such a car is a real home on

ENSURING CLEAN HANDS. whools.

Now I am sure that most of us How many automobiles are. have changed our ideas complote-thero in this class? Too many. ly, and it is possible, with even a are just means of travel, neglect. little caro, to keep the engine ofed in appearanco, inhospitable your car in such a stato of and cold.

cleanliness that, to use a hack- Yet there's no reason why an noyed expression, you might oat automobile, especially of the your dinner from it. Many of us closed typo, should not be kept" do not take that same care of the as clean and attractive as any garage, or ovòn of ourselves when homo. It Is home itself taken working there.

into the country with us, when I am by no means a kid-glove we go out for a ride.. It keeps us motorist, but I feel that it is onsy comfortable and in good humour to work under cleanly condition.jon the road. It can do so, at best, In the first place, before touch-when it can reflect comfort and Ing the car. I put on a suit of oil-pleasure,

proof overalls, made of a closely That's the physical reaction of wovon canvas. Then I fill my a clean car. Mentally, a wall fingor nalls with soap and smear kopt automobile is a mark of the a little soup on my hands. This charactor and spirit of its owner. is a simple process, and enables

four furniture castors.

you, no matter how gresay you tainers, also fitted with spouts. may get, to wash away all traces Each of them holds a quart, but of dirt with the greatest ease, it is marked on the sido for the

And then I have got past the pint and also the half pint stage where I found pleasure in measure. Ill theas by means lying on a greasy floor. Thore of a moderately-priced oil pump, are never more than a few spots which fits tightly to the side of of oil at the most, lying about my the oil, drum, and which also is Farage, for, as soon as the car is proof against dripping.

LABOUR SAVING. set to rest, I place a shallow tray. about 2 feet 6 inches wide and Cotton wasto. is cheap, and I fo... feet long, under the onging keep a big supply of it. When I In this tray is a little sand. Thus have finished with my tools, I not only is the floor kept clean, drop them into a tray of patrol, but the oil that falls into the tray and, with a small scullery mop is easily removed.

It is easy to get away overy, bit When it is necessary to get un-of groase. I then place them to der the car, I use a small wooden drain on the cotton wasto, and, trolley. This is mude of a piece in five minutes, I can handle of board about 18 inches by 24. I them without any fear of getting have had a piece of old carpet dirty. tacked to it, and it is fitted with When I will down the place,, True, the appeal to the eye has

only a little sand and a long- won grealest favour. Dash and

Steam cooling is another angi-i

I can lie on my back and pro-bandled mop are necessary to grace in design, a long list of neering' feature that is promised In the same field of promise is pel myself where I will with may give the floor a thoroughly good striking colour combinations, soon. By this process, our en- the small car, which appeared in hands, and this alone saves a doal cleaning, for it rarely gets very lowhung chassis and oven longer gines will be maintained at a con- greater style during 1926. The of elbow scraping, and bad dirty. And without this dirt, the labour that falls to the lot of the whool base in some cases, holp stant officient temperature, caus- Whippet was the first of this type, temper.

FILLING UP..

owner driver is reduced to a the illusion of beauty. More at-ing better vaporization of fuel, re- the tendency toward Europeiniz. tention to roominess in the car, nuced piston friction, loss dilutioning American products," in the Years ago I used to fill my minimum. finer upholstery, even to the point of oil in the crankcase by fuel and search for economy and efficiency. petrol tank by means of a funnel I do not need any patent of air-cushioning the seats, in water, and no rusting of the cyl-Smaller engine displacement is and a wash-leather, and, more mixture of sand and soap with crease the feeling of comfort,

the chief factor hore, although often than not, a deal was spilt which to clean my hands. I can Both these promised innova-the car also is built, on a short on the floor when the can was in-wash off all the dirt that has col tiens load to a third, that is al wheelbase, with smaller wheels vorted. Now, for a few shillings, lected with a little hot water, and

I have a small fitment which a nail brush. " To those more or less generalready being pushed forth for the and lower chassis.

This small car tendency is not screws into the spout of the can And today, with pressure provisions for comfort, go the public's adoption. That is the use

more important technical of an antiknock compound that confined to the four-cylinder in the place of the stopper, and grease systems, the dirtiest of all improvements toward the same engineers say will reduce future variety, however. The Erskine by means of which I can pour the odd jobs has been eliminated endless crankshaft vibration, el consumption by as much as 40 Six, first to be showed here at the without any suspicion of drip--the filling of grease cups. rubber cushioned spring shackles, per cent. besides increasing the 1927 automobile shows, is an ex-ping, and; at the same time, there Motoring is now a pleasure, and flexible engine mountings and efficiency of the motor.

ample of the intermediate type is, in the spout, a gauze which it is possible to own and care for and the Marmon Eight, that of filters the spirit.

a car without making oneself a smoother steering arrangements,

BODY IS SAFE.

drudgery. For a few more shillings, Imarty to garage Controls have been made more The details that have already the higher class. accessible, especially to the bean perfected, In the last year. More small cars may bo ex- have a couple of glass of con- Sagapore Free Press. wonian driver. The car itself has cover an increase in engine speed pected within the next year. In become more dopondable. A and compression, heavier "vibra- fact, it is tho prediction of Yet in the laboratories of the tionless" crankshafts, Crankcase Thomas J. Little, Jr., president of large automobily. factories, re-ventilation to prevent dilution and the. Society of Automotive Engi- soarches are still going on that, recover unused vaporized fuel; air peers, that the small six and the when ready for public consump cleaners and oil filters.

larger, luxurious and expensive

even

MECHANICAL AIDS.

inder walls.

tion, will cause as great a'revolu-The body itself, clief point of car will be the prevailing models" Lion in automotive history as did interest in the last year produc-of the future. Even the popular the self-starter, four-wheel brakestion, shows greator favour for the four will die out, he says, in]

[all steel construction as a safety favour of the economical six.

and balloon tyres,

CAR CARE.

A Few Useful Hints.

[By Israel Klien.)

The most pleasant music to the ears of the driver is the sweet Hum of a purring motor.

The most atrocious noiso, for which there's no excuse, is the squeaking of the brakes.

now designing brake drums so

Nine-tenths of the brake jobs that the rivet hoads are sunk a little deeper, to avoid contact with that come to the service stations, the metal of the lining..

it is estimated, are found to have Rubber or felt linors and metalno free movement at the external shims under the lining are now rear anchor support of the brake. being used to evold squesling The result of this is lack of con- brakes. Harder, high-carbon steel tact het woen drum and lining at is being utilized for the brake the roar, while high pressure is drum now-a-days, assuring true applied at the front of the brake. circularity of the brake bands.

This is like a brako lining out

It is sometimes the least diver of trus, causing hard steel parti- gence from true circularity that cles to be ground out by the brako causes brake bands to wear down action, so that squealing is the at one point and cause 'squealing.result. If the rear anchor support The woaring part, then, should is onsed up a trifle, it will permit Yet, it's easy to silence that not only be hammered to shapo, the lining to come into contact noise so that the hum of the mo- but should got a rubber linor, or with the drum at that end, to oven lor could be the mare onjoyed. a motal shim undor the lining be- up the pressure all around, It's in fact possible to provent tween the rivets, to make up for such nciso altogether..

the wear at that point.

Of course, all foreign mattor between drum and brake lining Brake squealing is the result of Use of a lubricant.is not ad-should be removed, and if the a scraping or plowing action ofvised by automotive engineers to drum is snored it should bo metal or grit in the lining, Grit take the squeal out of brakes. smoothod down with emery cloth. from the road, caposially, after Sometimesdry powdorod graphite, If the band is worn down, it long country run over dirt high-which will not collect dirt, is ap- should be renewed, and if it isn't ways, is excusable. But the metal plied, but oven this is only a perfectly concentric with the dust that gots in between the markeshifts

drum, it should bo hammered brake drum and lining could have Application of an oily or greasy down to conformity.. boon kept out in the first place. lubricant is dangerous. It often Motal dust comes from scratch-leads to violent seizing of the ing of the brake drum by the brass brakes, causing unconfortable can be tested by applying the wire in the Frake lining, high driving and perhaps serious dam brake and trying to insert a thin rivet heads, or particles of stool age to the car. Sheared rivets plece of metal, like the blade of a from the drum itself. All this, in might result Goits might be knife, between the lining and turn, is due to a worn-down brake stripped, and even a brokon axle drum to find any spot where the

lining fails to grip the blade. lining, although enginogre afe might be the disaster.

Truo oircularity of the band

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STUDEBAKER

HONGKONG DELIVERED PRICES.

STANDARD SIX

Duplex-Roadster.. Duple-Phaeton.... Couch (2-Door) ... "Sports-Roadster.

Country Club Coupe.

Victoria

Custom Sodan.

Custom Barlino

BIG BIX 120" WHEELBASE

Gold $1,425

1,450

1,550

1,550

1,570

1,660

1,710

1,780

Country Club Coupe....... Gold $1,800

Duplex-Roadster......

1,840

Duplex-Sports-Phaoton..

1,950

Sports-Roadster

2,000

2,090

Victoria.....

2,120

Custom Brougham..

2,170

2,240

"BIG SIX 1277 WHEELBASE

Duplex-Phacton.....

Gold $2,160

2,440

2,660

2,740

Fire Chief..

Custom Berlino

Brougham......

The President Sedan...

The President Berlino

All prices include wheel brakes spare wheel, tire and tube, windshield wiper, kindview mirroie cigar lighter, bumpers, spare horn, tools etc., elc.

THE HONGKONGA

GARAGE

25, Queen's Road, Contral.

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