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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

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NEVER TO DRIVE AGAIN.

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Michelia Tyres Mean

The cheapost in the long run.

KNOW YOUR CAR.

EASIEST WAY TO AVOID TROUBLE.

(By Charles S. Clancy in the Sydney Sun),

To become an efficient driver orly romodied. Of course, you must" owner mechanic, it is necessary know just what is wrong, and-only- to learn the business and the car's continued application to your me- accontricities first hand, Only chanice will fit you for the task experience will give you the roof correcting the ill. quired knowledge which results With the modern car ahmost- in satisfaction as a car owner. foolproof, there is vory little can The booklet instructions are too happen which cannot be easily intrionto for the beginner, though corrected. Some of the most trifl- quiet porsual will, of course, im-ing defects, at first puzzling, but prove the general knowledge, and after ridiculous, are oncountered. may result in somo enlighten- In your first months of owner- ship you will probably have to

mont.

It is just as well to know that pay the price of your inexperi-i the differential is nowhere near ence. Close observation of me- the gear box, and that the battery chanical work on your car will is not in the petrol tank, For | probably recompense you in läter! many months as a beginner you operation of the car.

will learn things about your car'

which will be most interesting.

Important discoveries will be

made from day to day, and

TELL AT A GLANCE.

To make a point of learning the

gradually you will begin to im-functions. of the various contrap- agine that all this talk of motions of the car will enable you to chanics is overdone.

toll at a glance what is wrong with the car.

FIRST PROBLEM.

But you are to be disillusioned, for the day will come when you will find that after months of quiet study you have oncountered a problem which is not easily Molved.

It is with the idea of being pro- pared for whatever happens that you should persist in knowing

your car.

There are drivers who novor study the car. Economy to them is of no consideration. They can afford to abandon the ear, leaving it for the survice man. They do- pend on the car to get them through always, and a periodical overhaul by a mechanic is.con- sidered enough to keep the car in condition.

With the love affluent motorist, though, this expensive method of car owning can nover be popular. With so many motorists who must study economy it will novor bo popular.

To remember that you always retard your spark lever when starting the engine, that the throttle controls the engine's speed, that in cold weather the choko must be pulled out all the way, and in warm weather part of the way, or not at all, is to know something definite about each of theso sections of the car.

The information is always handy. The more you can learn about your car the better are you gipped for tackling any task in the motoring business.

One big fault often made is that owners forget that every- thing in motoring can be over- done. Too much oil will have the same result to your car as none at all, although without oil sari- ous damage to the engine must follow.

W!

CAR WON'T GO.

Over-lubrication, though, will rosult in the oil coming up through. the cylinders on to the plugs, and in this condition the car will act "mote."

Motoring has now become the poor man's pastime as well as a hobby of the rich man, who can afford the most expensive car that Over-flooding of the carburot- modern engineers can devise. tor, too, will result in the car re- For the poorer motorist the fusing to start, and if you are not garage must remain his last re- prepared for this you will have source. Te run the car to a me-great difficulty in starting the chanic when some ill develops car.

will quickly run away with repair There aro hundreds of points to costs which were pevar antici- be studied about your car, Pro- pated.

bably you know them. Time only All kinds of trivial complaints will make you an efficient mo- assail the car which can be quick-torist.

company director, of Hampstead. It was stated that Campbell way, Golders Green, N.W, who served with the Air Force in the was fined £10 with £3 Sa, costs war, and had throo crashes, in- for driving dangerously, paga oluding a drop of 2,000 foot, and Ex-R.A.F. Pilot Who It was stated that when driving the accidents left him in a highly

Fell 2,000 Feet.

his motor car in High-street. nervous state. Ele friends re- of his Whetstone, in a zig-zag mannor, alised that, becauso "You will be disqualified on Campbell collided with a lorry, health, he ought not to drive a tirely from holding a licence,

drove on, and ran into a second car, and he was ready to sur said the phairman of this High-lorry. His car was smashed and render his licence." gato Bench _recently to Charles he sustained an injury to his nose A charge of being drunk was "Robertson Campbell, 12, a City and two black oyon.

dismissod.

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REFINED UP TO A Standard NOT DOWN TO A Price"

By J. G. Parry Thomas in The Daily Chronicle

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Greater Safety.

A new automobile tyre has been

Scarcely a wook passes without developed by the Good-year Tyro

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& Rubber Company which the

the announcement of some newmakers claim will give greater sporting record. Attempts on

miledge, better traction and record have become the order of

as regards the day; they aro so common that increased safety most of them are merely reported skidding. in the morning paper, and "thon? forgotten. What does all this

moan?

The new tyre is of balloon type and has an unusually flat tread which extends far up the sides of

People generally soom to have the casing. The design is said Lo reduce internal wear and slim- last much of thoir intorost in any

competitive event, in their eager-ying to a minimum.

ness to observe some new record set up in connection with it. - In certain ways, this is not a bad thing. I may be pardoned for ably solfish through succumbing to the craze. A cricketer waits claiming that a new motoring roan hour or more with his score in cord is always a good sign. It is the "ninoties," in order to reach a moans whereby oxcollence of the coveted contury; and this al workmanship can be gauged, and when a record goos, it is logical though the state of the game is to say that the standard of effici.such that only quick scoring will soryo his sido. Such a perform- ency has risen. What machinery anco is no longer a test of morit: has once done, it may be ex- the man who makes 100 in four pected to do again-although I

hours by ultra-cautious methods am not suggesting that we want is probably inferior to one who the high speeds of the track in takes risks and compiles 99 in everyday life.

half that time.

One admiros the endurance of

Sir Alan Cobham's record flight was'a wonderful achievement. It was a personal triumph, especial-a Channel swimmer, but now wo much dopends on being skilfully ly valuable as it showed the ro liability of a standard aeroplane Filoted into the most advantage- ous tides, it is not fair to say that

in skilled hands, besides adding the man who makes the crossing to our aorial prestige as a nation, in the shortest time is necessarily. Sir Alan, however, set out rather the best simmer. Such a per- as a pioneer than a seeker after formanco, in any case, can be records.

overrated, for it is difficult to see The Spirit of Competition.

who benefit by it. Certainly the time will never come when trip- The chief motiva for record- pore will swim across for a Con- making-though not the only one tinental holiday. In the samo is, of course, the spirit of com-category one might place a motor petition. The 'man (or woman) race in roverse gear, or a flat race who puts up new figures is a pub-on all fours-kneecaps to bo kopt" lic hora because he has surpassed clear of the ground! everybody else in his own parti-

oular sphere, and not because he The spirit of competition is tho has conferred any benefit on greatest incentive to human pro. mankind. Many well-known gross, but, like other things, it sportsmon have become notice- can be absurdly overdone.

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