THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, JUNE
4, 1927.
HUDSON-ESSEX
With the Patented and Exclusive Super-Six Advantages
HOW AN AUTOMOBILE IS MADE.
No Room for Human Error..
[By Iernel Klein for the Hongkong Telegraph.]
Lead the way on a B. S. A.
A mount
you will
be proud
to
World's Greatest
Value and
Largest Selling "Sixes"
The low prices which have made Hudson and Essex, famous have largely been achieved through the simple process of using Inventory materials quicker, and getting a greater output from plant machinery than is commonly done in industry. Mechanical conveyance of materials has been developed to an unusual degree. So quickly are materials consumed in the unusually efficient manufacturing processes of the Hudson Motor Car Company, that the public actually goes riding in Hudson and Essex cars before the commitments for most of the raw materiala, are due for payment.
ESSEX SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS.
Touring" Coach
Sedan
5-seater
b-scator
5-gcater
HUDSON SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS
G$1,150
G$1,150
G$1,250
BSA reliability has been proved beyond all question by outstanding success gained in open competition. 1927 BSA. Motor Bicycles are the greatest motor cycle value in the world, embodying every modern feature and every part maintains that high standard of quality for
· which. B.S.A. is world-famous.
Let is demonstrate the features to you.
THE SINCERE Co., Ltd.
Sole Agents.
Touring
Conch
Sedan
Roadster
Brougham
De Luxe Sedan
De Luxe Sedan
7-seater
5-senter
B-senter
2-seater
5-seater
5-seater
7-senter
G$1,600
G$1,775
G$1,880
G$1,850
G$2,080
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G$2,270 G$2,376
The above prices are for delivery at your door in Hong- kong or Kowloon. All prices subject to change without notice.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central '1248' or 1247.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD... ·HAPPY VALLEY..
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As the c. ankshaft turns, the machine shown in the upper photo cuts all its surfaces at six different angles to proper size. This "contour lathe" is one of the most ingenious devices in the modern auto plant. In the lower photo, another assurance of accuracy is shown in "balancing" pistons by means of a scale.
The great exactitude demanded face of the bearing,90 fiuely that in the construction of the automo-no variation from the true can be bile is in the production of the detected. moving parts.
Diamond for Fine Work.
Machines are employed and This is one of the many opera- tools used that cut to the exact tions in which diamonds are need- measurement, leaving no room for ed for their extreme hardness to human error. The machines
eut the finest and smoothest of range from the heavy, cumbersome surfaces obtainable. drilling and milling operators to bearings are cut similarly by n Crankenae such fine and precise lathes and group of diamonds set in a core grinding instruments that diamonds have to be used as cufthem firmly in place. These are of copper and fuse metal to hold ting surfaces.
mostly black, rough diamonds of the kind not useful for jewellery. but highly efficient in precision
Only the setting of the machinery is left to man. The rest of the operation needs only work. his. supervision and the work of replacing pieces as each is pleted.
Where extremely fine grinding com-has to be done on bearings, pistons and other important engine parts, Mechanical Hands,
a diamond is used to out the edge The aluminum crankcase and of the fine grinding wheel smooth the gray iron cylinder block, com- and true. ing from the foundry, meet a bat- The great need for such accu- tery of giant milling and drilling racy in cutting or grinding down machines in their first course a part to exact dimensions may be through the factory. Each is pointed out in the case of the pia- handled as
a workman would ton pin bushings in the upper end handle a toy at a lathe.
of the connecting rods. Here the They are cut down to size. The engine undergoes such
severe holes are bored out smooth and strain that every moving part has ground smoother, They are twist- to be exist and close fitting to ed and turned by powerful make it durable and workable. mechanical hands as they go So finely ground are these through these operations.
parts that their glassy surfaces Finally they are set into a can't show the marking of a lead drilling machine where as many pencil. So close, to exactitude are drills as there are holes to be made their measurements that any in each part cut out these holes variation can be detected only within a few seconds.
through an instrument that multi- plies this slight variation ten-fold.
Crankshaft Cut at Once.
. In grinding and boring, machines work in baths of lard oil and water, and in some cases of
An ingenious machine called a pure oil; to cool the surfaces of contour lathe is so made that six the tools and of the metal that is tools move in and out with the un- being cut.
even surfaces of the revolving The used oil runs to a tank crankshaft, cutting down these underground, is cleaned of im- surfaces or "cheeks" to their exact purities and brought back för dimensions. Here, three distinct further use.
shapes of "cheeks," all set at dif- The finer operations in the auto-ferent angles, are cut down in one mobile plant are in the manufae operation.
From Forge to Lathe.
ture of the parts that go into the Accuate as this and similar crankcase and cylinder block lathes are in the construction of assembly-the crankshaft, the the crankshaft, they must be platons, piston rods, wrist pins and checked up by another ingenious valves.
machine that transforms vibra- tions of the shaft into a visible light wave. This is the crank The erankshaft, camshaft and shaft balancing machine. piston or connecting rods are drop Crankshafts have to be balanceil forgings of tough steel, forged to avoid vibration when in, opera- under heat Into their peculiar tion. One is turned' vertically shapes by an electric or a steam between two supports on the drop hammer.
machine that converts their degree The other parts are castings or of vibration into electrical pulsa- cuttings of steel or a hard alloy tiona. These, in turn, are convert of ateel and chromium, or of nickeled into a light wave that fluctuates | and gray iron, to give them tough-on a scale, amplifying the vibra-
nesa and rigidity in ude.
tions 120 times.
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THE AUSTIN SEVEN"
The Austin 7 is as good as its name, and it has an extra good name,
REMEMBER, A FEW Ss WILL DELIVER TO YOUR
DOOR ONE OF THESE MODELS, » Balance payable to suit you. Stocks carried.
ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd.
New Offices, May 1.-Prince's Building.
: LIABLE FOR INSURANCE.
2 floor, Ice House St. Entrance.
PARKING UNDER
HOTEL.
The forged pieco is first cut The skilled operator can tell by roughly down to size. Then the the positions and degrees of fluc- precision machines take hold. tuations where the crankshaft is A bushing or bearing of babbitt off balance. He corrects this by metal is forced under great heat drilling a hole out of one or more
If an out-of-state motorist over- The Savoy Hotel in London has Into the brass beating surfaces of of the counterweights on the stays his free time in Massa-adopted a new plan to solve the After it is trimmed down it is more, and continues his tests until a state license and liability Insur-owners have contracted for the taken to a machine that has a the light runs straight down the ance In accordance with the new diamond for a cutting tool. This centre of the scale without flue-law. Thirty days is the "reciproconstruction of a huge garage. diamond cuts down the inner eur-usting.
city" limit for Massachusetts. under and around the hotel.
the connecting rod, for instance.shaft, tests it, again, drills soriochnactts, he may have to take out intricate parking problem.ANA
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