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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

2, SATURDAY, JULY

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on top" with 5 Take the Peak Passengers up. Accelerate from 5 to 40 miles in 6 seconds and average over 25 miles per gallon.

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Four Wheel Brakes.

28 by 4.95 Dunlop Cord Balloon Tyres.

Replete with all Accessories.

Nothing More to add or Buy and Service After Purchase.

Investigate this Car with the wonderful Aluminium Curl Finish and Astonishing Ac- celerating Powers.

Complete and Ready for the £295-0-0.

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THE B.M.W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE

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12 B.U.P. MODEL R42 500 cc.

The new BMW. Touring Alodel represents the latest and most progressive form of engineering development applied to motor cycles.

In designing the RAZ model, it has been the maker's endeavour to procure with all possible expediency, every step of technical progress and every item of riding experience for the benefit of a wide circle of clients. The nitrome of this endeavour lias been to prodice-—

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The most modern Touring Motor Cycle of the highest quality ever put on the market.

A FEW NOTABLE FEATURES

Engine entirely water and dust proof.

Double Frame throughout.

Increase of engine power to 12 brake horse power.

Rims suitable for normal or balloon tyres.

All gearing effectively enclosed in oil-tight casings. The universally recognised advantages of shaft-drive.

Bosch head and rear lights-Speedometer-Horn.

All spare parts in stock in Hongkong.

May we give you further details of this super-motor cycle?

If you are interested in the most luxurious two-wheeled machine inthe world, please call or write for full specifications and particulars.

PRICE H.K. $880.00

Sote Agents:-CHIEN HSIN ENGINEERING CO. First Floor, Asiatic Building.

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ALBERT L. CLOUGH

FINAL DRIVE-GRAR ADJUSTMENT (CONCLUDED).

The following instructions apply to readjustment procedure on à

1927.

NEW AERO ENGINE. HIGH SPEED SAFER.

Interesting London

Figures..

The fatul accidents from 1920

to 1926, the survey shows, was 360 for cars going not more than 10 miles an hour, a percentago of 36.49 of the tolal accidents.

At spreds of over 20 miles an

Runs Upside Down. Progress towards the develop- ment of a now type of noro engine London, June 2-Tabulation of which will be required if commer figures gathered by the London elal flying la to be anything of a Safety First Council in the city's succoax, is slow but sure. A mile-metropolitan area, shows that the stone was marked at Southampton largest amount of fatal accidenta recently when trinta took place of occur when automobiles are going.. a new Beardmore engine specially only ave to ten miles an hour, designed for commercial work. This has six cylinders in line, but the whole engine is inverted, the sylinders being underneath and! the eraukease on top.

This arrangement has many present one is due, to the sale advantaxes, particularly in the hoar, however, there were only use, Can't you run with a little better shaping of the nose of the 45 fatalities, or 4.49 por cent, of typical form of axle, which is very leaner mixture, after you have the machine. The engine develops at

the total.. largely used. If the pinion-shaft arbon cleaned out, and thus make least 800 II.P. at the comparatively can be mulled in and out more it accumulate more slowly also low speed of 1,350 revs. per than barely perceptibly, its ber-have any cll-pumping which may minute, so that the propeller can the Boardmore "Typhoon," weighs ings need lightening. Loosen the be present, overcome? Perhaps if be fitted to the crankshaft without locking ring-nut around the you installed another cylinder-intermediate gearing, such as is about 2% lbs. rer H.P., and is pinion-shaft and tighten the nut head gasket in addition to the pre-30 frequently a source of trouble, made by William Beardmore und under it until only the slightest sent one and readjusted the valve The new engine, which is called Co. Ltd., of Glasgow. erlwise freedom remnina.clearances, it would run consider- Tighten locknut and restore sheet jably longer before knocking re- metal washer that locks the two commenced. Why don't you try nuts together. Alignment of the ruuning on one of the brands of large ends of the gears is done by anti-knock gasoline and see if that' adjusting the whole pinion-shaft does not help? It would not cost in or out, by screwing the sleeve you much more to use this kind of: which carries it in or out of the fuel.. neck of the axle housing. Remove the clamp-bet and the lock which engages notches in the edge of the alceve and screw the whole sleevel in the direction required until the gear teeth are flush. setting the lock in the nearest notes and engine. As there are four rings fastening its clamp bolt. To cor- cach piston, please tell me Pactly mesh the ring rear with where to place the new ones.

Answer: We should install the pining it must he moved to the right for closer and to the left them in the two top grooves n

This each piston. for looser engagement," involves loosening the locking, wires and the locks of the twal barings; one on each side af"th differential carrier, which looks are similar to that on the pinion- shaft, sleure. To mesh the gera jelser nerew the notched adjusting! ring of the left bearing in and that of the right bearing val, by the mes number of nutches. Tal secure lauser mesh reverse the Backlash of above procetare. 0.005 inch between the teeth off

When the two goars is correct.

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this is secured, end play in the differential carrier is taken up by adjusting its two bearings together. until end shake is only just per- ceptible, and checking up gear backlash to see that it has not been disturbed Creat care should be in taken that the locks notches of their adjusting rings and that the bearing gap bolt lock wires. are replaced to hold the locks in place. After all these adjustments. the gear mesh may not be the most silent obtainable and sometimes a slight change of pinion-shaft adjustment, one way or the other, may improve condi-: tions. In a later article mere exact methods for verifying mesh will be explained.

Starter Gears Jam. Question: Quite often, when I step on the starter button of my car, the engine won't budge and when"I try to turn it over with the hunderank, it takes all my strength to move it, but after it is loosened the engine handcranks easily and the starter turns it all right. What causes this?

Answer: When you have this | trouble it is because the teeth of the starter pinion de' not mesh properly with the teeth of the tis wheel gear. They come together wrong and jam one another so that they are locked and the starter motor cannot turn. The us cause of this failure to mesh pro- perly is that the pinion shaft is het or that the startér drive is not properly aligned with the Cywheel)

You better drive your car geur. around to an electrical station which services cars of this make and let them see what is causing this faulty starter gear mesh.

Carbon Knock Recurs Early. "Question:: After I had driven myar 800 miles the vacine! began to kneel, when pulling on a hill. I had the carbon removed and the valves ground and it ceased to knock for about 700 miles, when it complenced again and the more it is driven the worse the knock gets. What can you suggest?

Answer: Apparently the first case of knocking was due to carbon and it is fair to assume that your

PACKED PARIS.

Streets Still Jammed.

Issues which we have always considered, as of comparatively recent origin can be traced back as having been knotty points cen- turies ago. History verily repeats itself.

Traffic problems in Paris have not changed much in 250 years. The streets are jammed now. The streets were jammed likewise un-] der Louis XIV.

Some one has dug out. of the writings of Nicholas Bolleau, the great French post, critic, and eutirist, his complaint against the overcrowding of the streets.

There were only a thousand enr ringes in those days. There are about 700,000 vehicles of all sorts Tranning about Paris to-day.

Locating Compression Rings.

Question: I propose to install two special compression-rings on each of the pistons of my

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