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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927.

HOW AN AUTOMOBILE IS MADE.

Huge Presses. for Body Building, [By Israel Klein for the Hongkong Telegraph.}

HUDSON-ESSEX

With the Patented and Exclusive Super-Six Advantages

B.S.A reliability has been proved, beyond all question by outstanding success gained in open competition. 1927 B.S.A. Motor Bicycles are the greatest motor cycle value in the world, embodying every modern fenture and every part maintains that high standard of quality for which B.S.A. ia world-famous.

Let us demonstrate the features to you.

THE SINCERE Co., Ltd.

Sole Agents.

THE

MOTORUNION

INSURANCE CO LTD

Incorporated in England

(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association,

SPECIALIZES IN MOTOR INSURANCE

For full particulars apply to: --- THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd. Prince's Building."

PhoneC. 587.

CHINA UNDERWRITER, LTD.

FOR

ALL CLASSES

OF

MOTOR INSURANCE

WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS

HEAD OFFICE:-

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.

MEN!

TELEPHONE:

C. 1121-2

When you buy a necktie or a shirt you don't go to a ship chandler, So when you buy a Motorcycle, why don't

you

firm who

go

to

SELL THEM SERVICE THEM

and are able to give you the spares peeded,

WE SELL

WE SERVICE

WE HAVE THE SPARES.

Our line is the best in Hong Kong. Quarter Down, Balance To Suit Buyer.

A. J. S.

INDIAN

TRIUMPH

DOUGLAS

BRANCIS BARNET.

Motor Cycle Acessorices. in Stock.

Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.

Prince's Building..

2 floor, Ice House St. Entrance

The ane and even chalk marks on the car body, shown here, tell how perfectly smooth it must be before it gets its first coat of paint. Buffing, shown in the lower view, is part of smoothing the body to n glasslike surface.. From thin sheets of steel come troplating process. They are the parts that make up the en-buffed, polished down and then closed bodies of to-day.

nickel plated, going through a second buffing operation before being finished.

One man can handle each sheet. but huge overhead granes and sturdy conveyors are required to transfer a batch of these from one department to another.

Chromium Repinces Nickel,

Once started in the process ofing is coming into me. Chromium

A new process. of chromium plat-| manufacture, the body becomes is the next hardest metal on earth. one of the simplest operations. init is rudlow and extremely dur- the entire automotive construction, able. Huge and powerful presses stamp

A chemien process has been

but radiator shells, fenders, doors found by which this metal can be and windows from these sheets of used for coating parta, like steel, jast as su many simple tin radiator shells, which are con- keeps polish indefinitely, besides stantly exposed to the weather. It

preventing rul

Loys.

fach press has set of die forms, one fitting nicely into the other, with only the thickness of the heel steel separating them. Those mighty dies, like jaws, come together minst the sheet stool and produce the intricate fender, or the door or other part of the body, each with its peculiar volutions and designs,

Nearly All Steel.

The rest of the body gues through a washing and drying pro cess, similar to that of the fenders, bufore even the first coat of primer

is put on. This is a gry quick- con-drying paint which is sprayed on and then baked into the steel after three conts have been applied.

Every part of the body is press ed steel, the only exceptions being the wood-frames of the seats and

the wood floor of the car itself.

The top to-day is made of a fabric, sometimes rubber-coated to prevent the drumming noise that was formerly heard in enclosed

cars.

The primer act as a filler, which smoothens the steel structure of the body. After it is applied, the (body is rubbed down thoroughly with wet pumice and all the ro- maining irregularities, the cracks and crevices, are filled in by hand with a grey putty.

Before this primer coated body gets its first coat of colour, it goes ihrough rigid inspection. The Once the parts of the body are body must be so smooth that chalk- put together, and long before it is marks made on it will show even trimmed inside, it undergoes an and fine, without a single gap to extensive series of painting opera-reveal an irregularity. tions. The invention of quick The body is then washed down drying lacquers has cut down this and polished thoroughly, dried and operation by many weeks. Yet it prepared for the colour process. is still a long run of ecating's and To-day this is done in quick rubbings and polishings and dry-suceession, one coat of quick dry- ings.

ing lacquer being sprayed almost) Immediately over the former, with the intervention only of a good rubbing. The paint dries almost under the spray gun.

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Buffed to Smoothness, The steel that first goes into the body is full of nicks, dents and other irregularities. These must be hammered out, the parts must!

Many Coats Applied. be shaped smooth, they must be

To prevent a colour from cover- ground down and buffed to perfecting any part of the body where it form. Buffing is done with a fine isn't wanted, that part is covered hair brush and a soft rouge to with paper. Even then a dash of bring out complete smoothness,

wrong colour doesn't hurt, because it can be polished off easily.

No coat of varnish is required under the new process, for buffing

rings out the original colour and, the fine polish of the car.

The rest is left to hand painting of the body lines along the mould- ins and Couches of painting required to the final finishing roure a good job.

Parts like fenders and running bourds, those taking black colour. are still put through an enameling process, instead of being painted by the quick drying method. The are dipped into a large bath of hot enamel and hung up to dry Before being dipped they must be washed in a bath of sulphuric acid, alcohol and water, and dried passing through a hot oven, t keep all possible dust particles of Those parts like the radiator shell, door handles and inside metal trim, which get contings of nickel, go through a copper clechassis.

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The painted body is then put on truck, brought into the uphol tery department, finished Inter aally with all its necessary equip aent and bolted on the finished

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The low prices which have made Hudson and Essex famous hav. 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 convoyance 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 materials are due for payment.

ESSEX SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS.

Touring

5-scater

G$1,150

Coach Sedan

5-senter

G$1,150

5-senter

G$1,250

HUDSON SUPER SIX MOTOR CANS.

Touring Coach

7-senter

G$1,600

5-seater

G$1,775

Sedan

Beater

G$1,880

2-senter

G$1,800

Brougham

5-seater

G$2,080

De Luxe Sedan

5-seater

G$2,270

De Luxe Sedan

7-genter

G$2,875

Roadster

"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 1246 or 1247.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY,

and

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