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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, – JULY 23, 1927.

WHITE ARMS FOR COPS. 50 MILES' PROCES-

SION OF MOTORISTS.

HINTS

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ALBERT L. CLOUGH

THE GENERATOR FIELD-FUSE.

London in trying out the prae- tice of dressing up its traffic police with white sleaves, so they may be easily discerned at night. The plan to dress them completely. In white overalls has been dis- milased.

FIVE YEARS' TOLL

300 Riders in London- to-Edinburgh Run.

STRANGE FUELS,

"Gazogene" from Charcoal.

Paris, June 21.-Thirty auto

One, weighing 11 tons, travelled 150 miles in one day, and another, weighing eight tons, ronchod spoed of 35 miles an hour.

In one case, a small touring ear, running on granulated peat char- coal, exhausted its original supply. along the way. For the rest of

The motorists and motor-cyclists who left London last night on the mobiles on a three weeks' tour the journey the driver stopped at annual London-to-Edinburgh run through: France, recently, demon-bakers' shops along the way, charcoal and. will arrive in Edinburgh in astrated the usefulness of fuels bought wood steady stream, from about seven other than gasoline in automotive travelled on this! o'clock onwards, anys" a Home touring.

Cách gazogene vehicle ia journal in all week.

equipped with a generator, which Most remarkable in this demon-is a sort of furnace. A slow are The American Road Builders' The final portion of the routo is! Association reports that more than by Rommano Bridge to Penicuik,stration was the run made by 14 burns the necessary fuel and pro- Mounted upon many generators, except at most extremely re- 100,000 persons have been killed and by the main road to the city of these 80 vehicles on what is duces a gas which is fed into the may be found a small glass-enclosed duced engine speeds, and the closed- and 3,000,000 injured in highway The first rider is due at 7.10 at the called "gazogens," a fuel manu engine through a carburetor. fuse, the burning out of which ac-circuit battery system, with prac-accidents in the last five years. Waverley Market.

factured on the spot by the motor

Of the 14 gazogene vehicles, Over 300 motorists and motor-. more. counts for many cases of generatorstically an indefinite amount of ener- Property damage totalled

cyclists started on the run from car itself. This is generated from eight used "carbonite," a special that do not send charging current gy available from the storage than $2,000,000,000, to their batteries. This fuse is in lattery and the possibility of using

Wrotham Park, near Barnet, last charcoal, wood or other similar compressed charcoal made up into circuit with the winding which as powerful colls as desired, is than to run it at a moderate speed miles in front of them and 24

evening with a journey of 416 substances.

egg-sized balls, and having the charges the field-magnets of the capable of furnishing almost any claims that the opposite is true, hours in which to complete the heavy loads over the entire trip purity.

advantage of cleanliness, éase of All of these vehicles carried handling and greater density and generator and when it "blows," the amount of sparking energy requir Which is, right? generator loses its magnetism and ed.. In the early days when prim.

Answer:

distance. Although the course in- becomes "dend." It burns out ary batteries were used as the fxquires the least ganoline per mile cluded some difficult sections, not- when the voltage developed by the vition course, the supply of current when it is run at moderate speeds, ably on Ukley Moor; the test was. generator becomes abnormally high was limited and had to be carefully any between twenty and thirty rather one of physical endurance enough to overheat its field wind-economised and therefore the ope miles per hour. At very low than of mechanical efficiency. Ings or burn out the lamp bulbs and circuit battery systems of that day apeeds an auto engine is wasteful The first competitor left at 7. the usual, reason for this high vol-ometimes produced sparks which of gasoline and its very high fric. p.m., and was followed at half- Itage that the generator is presented considerably less ener+ional losses make it, also wasteful minute intervals for 2%1⁄2 hours. not properly connected to the batay than did the magneto sparks at very high speeds. Morcover, at There were fewer competitors tery and thus not enough current lowever, oven under these condi-high car speeds, wind and tractive than usual, but the proccasion ex- flows to keep the voltage down to ions, the results obtained by the resistance call for a large amount tended for a distance of over 50 normal. If ever The generator two systems were hardly distin- of power. A seems to us to be miles. Most of the sidecars were

guishable.

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right.

The average cax re-

repes to generate, see if this field

occupied by girls.. fuse lum buried out, and if it has,

inner piston- Question-WIE

An interesting contrast was pro- l'edals Vibrate. I don't put in a new one until you are

rings, pat in under the regular vided by Harold Karslake's 25- sure that current has a free path

George Question When" my Ford carings, take up their looseness and years-old machine and through the battery. See that the

If so, Brough's ultra-modern 100 m.p.h. battery cable dampa are tight and accelerating or is running at 10 and to prevent slapping? map.h. the pedals vibrate

competitors. very under which rings should they be Giant. Those two Lust the battery terminals are freerongly, they cease to do so at placed?

who rode in the first trial of the font corrosion, that the battery higher or lower speeds. I thought Answer-These immor rings are series, were next to each other, cells have plenty of water, that that this might be due to the very well worth trying, as their use and the latter was competing for Fenerator eirenit connexions at the battery and elevhere are all tight tel's glipping and tightened it, often makes the action of the his sixteenth London-Edinburgh

bit without resolt. What can you regular rings enough more positive gold medal. ruggest?

so as to improve compression and to reduce oil-pumping and slapping very noticeably. They sometimes are very useful in improving the running of an engine until such time as a thorough overhauling or reconditioning job can be conveni- An inner ring ently performed. should be placed under each regular ring.

(and that the relay" (reverse current at-out contact points are free to dore positively. Then replace the ...Answer—A prarently your en fuse with a new one, which mustgine does not run perfectly even e of the five ampere size and start and produces a jerky effect at 10 the engine. If the new fuse blows.m.,h., which is of the same rate it indicates that the trouble has not as the natural vibration of the been removed and that the electrical elals. Quite likely your engine system had latter he inspected at has a weak cylinder that accounts | service sinti a. The generator for this unevenness of mavement field-fuze is a valuable safety device and this may be due to lack of gas

Rectifler Current Consumption. and should never be replaced with tightness of this cylinder or im- a wire or a larger fuse.

perfect action of the coil-vibrator {‚·

Question. How much should it which serves its plug. If you can make the engine run smoothly, the cost me per day of 24 hours for pedals will probably cease to vibcurrent to operate" a two-ampere You better make sure battery charger of the tube type? that the engine arms are tight to The way it figures out from my the frame and that all bolts holding bill, it seems to cost fifty cents. the grank-case and transmission housing together are secure.

Magneto and 'Battery Sparks.

Why not call and let us tell you How about our BASY TERMS. simple they are, and how, con- Questión Which throws the

stronger or hotter spark, n' high-rate. We can promise you in enjoy-ension manele or a battery igni- able chat, and you will not be on system? pressed to make a purchaset.

Answer-Under present condi- tions, one cannot be considered superior to the cther, certainly an far as practical results are concern.

The magneto supplies all the Question-A claims that it takes ed. electrical energy that can be ad-more gasoline per mile to run the vantagously used for ignition pur-average our at a high rate of speed

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Answer-You have figured this altogether too high. This rectifier does not consume more than fifty watts and and at that rate it would call for 1,200 watt-hours for each 24 hours or 1.2 kilowatt hours. If your rate is say, 10 cents per kilo- watt-hours, the daily cost. for cur- rent would be about 12 cents.. You can readily figure the cost at any other kilowatt-hour rate,

Backlash in Pinion-Shaft. Question-My-car grinds in the rear-end, when it is descending i hilla and the engine is being used as a brake and also when running on the level at ten or fifteen-m.p.h., but when running at 25 to 30 m. p. h. it does not grind. What is the cause of this?

Answer-It is impossible to tell with certainty, but in many in- stances of anal drives, which are noisy especially when the engine is holding back, the trouble can be traced to lost motion in the pinion shaft, due to looseness of the bear- ings which hold the pinion in posi- tion relatively to the ring-geur. While this may not be the cause of trouble in your case, it might be well to test the pinion-shaft and see if it has undue endwise play.→ Copyright.

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