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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

completely cushioned

engine

The

GREATEST

WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL, BUILD THEM

rubber heels for the Buick engine

The Buick Valve-in-Head en gine now has "rubber heels". Here is an engine completely insulated and isolated from all metallic contact with its chassis.” Thick rubber cushions, at all engine mountings, absorb noise, and save the engine" from road shocks and strains. Money can buy no finer per formance than that of the 1928 Buick, no matter how much you are willing to spend.

BUICK

.A.3.30

EVER BUILT

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247,

33. WONO NEL CHUNG ROAD

HAPPY VALLEY.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

GASOLINE PUMP DELIVERIES.

Shanghai Council's Attitude.

| PREVENTION OF SHORT MEASURE:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

gasoline pumps would necessitate an increase in the personal of the. Police force and it is not consider ed that the whole community could be asked to shoulder the expense for the benefit of motoriste only, especially as no question, either of the safety or health of the public is involved, the letter sald fur ther. The Council, therefore, found no necessity for a change in its attitude,

3 November, 1927, the fans was taken up once more by the Secre In last week's dasag" of the taries of the Automobile Club in Shanghal Municipal Gazelle, the dr endeavour to get the Council to matter of inspection and testing of alter its decision regarding the gasoline pumps at Shanghai testing of gasoline publle, delivery garages supplying petrol for motor pumps. This correspondence pub- cars, is dealt with by the Council lished in a recent Municipal In correspondence between them Gazette points out that the humber and Messrs., Beck and Swann, of filling stations has increased secretaries of the Automobile Club considerably, and is likely to in- of China,

crease atill further in the future, i This is a recurrence of a dis- and that it was the opinion of the cussion which started in 1925, Committee that some sort of con- when the Committee of the Auto trol should be exercised over the mobile Club put forth for the delivery installation, which would Council's consideration, the ques, ensure correct mensuro being tion of the urgent necessity to in- given." troduce bye-laws dealing with the testing of weights and measures. The recommendation followed

A reply to this by the Council upon the publication of views of stated its unwillingness still to pubile authorities in America, who undertake a general inspection of maintained that more than 20 per gasoline pumps throughout Shang- cent. of public service pumps were thai, for, reasons practically the. delivering short measure in same as in 1925. Letters had been America at that time.

addressed to the companies respon- alble for the installation of these pumps by the Council, with a view

In reply to the Club's recommen- dation, the Council pointed out that it had no powers such as were vasted in English Municipal au thorities by the Weights and Measures Act of 1878, that the in- stallation of pumps was not sub- ject to municipal licence and that the Council, therefore, had no con- trol over their use. It appeared to the Council that the remedy, for the alleged short measure laid in the hands of the purchasers.

The Bye-law Contention. The Committee of the Automa- bile Club contended that Bye-law

The Council Adament,. {

1928

ROAD

CLOSED!

The concrete base of the new Contral Highway of Cuba.

is not to be ventured on, insist officials, who put stones over it so that tourists will mind the detour signs.

DO BIG BUSINESS.

Roadside markels have sold

to obtaining evidence which might RIDERS HELD DOWN. justify a modification of the Cou.. cil's attitude. Replying to those inquiries, the companies had stated that they were constantly on the many is designed to eliminate $100,000,000 worth of produce to

A new device put out in Ger- alert to prevent malpractices of shock to automobile this kind, and that the measuring It consists of two elastic rubber mate is based on reports from passengers. motorists this year, This esti mechanism of their pumps was shoulder pieces of belling fastened road cars of the American Auto- senlod anti could not casily be tam to the rear of the car and hung mobile Association." pered with. In addition, frequent over the passenger's shoulders. It Inspection had proved to their is supposed to catch the passenger aatisfaction that attempts to alter on the rebound and hold him In the adjustment were hardly ever place. made.

The Council did, however, in-

A noteworthy feat has recently

been achieved by the completion

in ten weeks of a fine new motor tug which has just been put into

35 of the Bye-laws published ndicate its willingness to Messrs. New York, Dec. 25.-Wine isn't service by the Harbour Depart- 1923 empowered the Council to Beck and Swann, to inspect any the only thing that can be made ment of Cochin. She is 40 ft. long regulate the sale of petrol, and particular pump declared by the from the dandellan. And asters by 9 ft. beam and 2 ft. 10 in. draft, that such sale had been regulated Automobile Club of. China to be and golden rod weren't made only and is equipped with the very by Beences. In reply to this, a delivering short measure, upon refor decoration. For Thomas latest type of motor machinery letter dated March 3, 1925, by the ceipt of notlee from the Club, Edison, Inventive genius, has an-which has been supplied by the Council, stated that Bye-law 35

nounced that he has succeeded in Ailsa Cruly Motor Co., Ltd., of

was intended as a safety measure 256-MILE PAVED ROAD. extracting rubber from ther Chiswick, London. This machinery

In respect of "dangerous and in-

flowers, finding a content as high consists of a 6-cylinder 28/36 h.p.. flammable materials, namely, those.

fas 3 per cent. in asters. He ex-marine motor engine fitted with which on account of fire or explo-1

The Minnesota high-way from pressed his doubts, however, as is electric starting motor and B. sion may endanger life or pro- Minneapolls and St. Paul to whether this source would over be dynamo for lighting the ship. perty," and not "ni an authority Duluth is a 256-milo stretch of leommercialized, but that an emer-With this powerful engine and a for controlling their sale. "More paved road. It was constructed at geney supply could be hoped for good turn of speed she is one of over, the periodic inspection of a cost of $5,000,000.

the finest boats in Cochin.

from it.

ADVANTAGES OF SIX-WHEELERS.

The Difference Explained.

hundreds of rigid six-wheelers have now been built and are in service-some for as long as two jor three years-and the predleted. excessive tyre wear has not taken place. On the contrary the tyres have actually shown a bigger milenge, in proportion to th weight carried, than those on four-

BUGATTI'S WORK.

..

Pioneer of Speed. SMALL AND LARGE CARS.

The extraordinary growth of wheeled vehicles. The reason for Distinction of building the small-

of the interesting leat and largest private cara

that name.

ever

At present, he is building a 2,400

The extent.p. motor boat to travel at 87

rond transport in the last few this is one years has led to a complete res things that was discovered as a constructed belongs to Ettore Bu- vision of preconceived ideas. result And, as a result, it has been in- with this type of vehicle.

of practical experience gatti, maker of the racing cars of cumbent upon manufacturers of Owing to the "hopping" pro-

The smallest car was the Baby transport vehicles entirely, to re-gress of a vehicle along the road. Peugeot (for he was designer for consider their previous designs,

Peugeot), and, the largest his new the differential mechanism, pro- Hence the rigid six-wheeler. The curliest attempts at build on either side of the vehicle, la

vided between the driving wheels straight eight. tourer, which is 23

feet long. ing a six-wheeled vehicle consist (constantly in motion: ed in telescoping a waggon an of this movement is almost um.p.h. and in which he hopes to trailer into a single unit with the believable until one suppression of one pair of wheels. matter out by means of two New York, in 50 hours.

teats the cross the Atlantic, from Brest to But although this might be re- speedometers, garded as an evolutionary ate, direct to the road wheels and the the origin of the Duesenberg fac

Bugatti was also responsible for the articulated six-wheeler, as it other to some part of the engin tory in the U.S.A. During the war, came to be known, was never more head than a makeshift; a vehicle with noticeable difference in the rend-plane engine, which were acquired of the differential. A he designel an 8 and a 16 cylinder such definite limitations as re-ings of these instruments will be by the French and American Gov- gards speed, safety and manoeuvr found in a few yarda of progress, ernmenta. ing capacity that it could never At the end of a day it amounts to possibly become the prototype of a matter of miles, and in a year fed a subsidy for the erection of a a new class. p

many hundreds of miles.

special factory in which Bugatti

One

connected

The American Government grant-

The difficulty in the way of de- What actually happens is that aero engines were made, and so signing a proper six-wheeled levery time one of the wheels loses the Duesenberg plant was built.

more imaginary its adhesion, momentarily, it is Profiting by this experience Dues-

vehicle

than real. It was argued that pun a portion of a revolution by Jenberg's have been making racing, whilst it was possible to steer a the engine operating through the ears ever since. four-wheeled vehicle around re-differential mechanisni. When the latively small ares and maintain wheel comes down on the ground all four wheels in rolling contact this excessive speed must

with the road, this could not be checked by the friction of the done if the number of axles were increased to three, unless there on the ground, and this, tak

Eng place continuously, makes an

MOTOR SHOPS.

Big Profits Made. Travelling butcheries, in motor

vehicle were articulated, or unleas ppreciable difference in the wear vans, have been found in Englant two of the axies, were steerably of the tyres, whilst, the wasted to be more profitable than fixed: mounted. It was only when it was realised that the wheels of a engine revolutions show equally stores, vehicle, proceeding along a.rand in the annual fuel bill."

are never in perfect, rolling-con-

Wheel Spin Stopped.

Two motor shops owned by a lco-operative society sold ment to the total value of £3,068 in six months, and showed a profit of 18: 10d. in the &.

tact with that road, but that. On the other hand, in a proper rather the vehicle proceeds in ally designed rigid six-wheeler with Eeries of hopa, more or less pro- a fully compensated bogic, wherò As against this, the centra! nounced according to the rond one wheel can only leave the store of the company sold £2,5d5 surface and the machine's speed, ground when the other wheel on worth of meat, and the rate e that the conception of the modern the same aldo pressed firmly profit was 45. 1d. In the £ rigid six-wheeler became feasible. Into contact with it, and where all

It was then seen that if the four of the wheels are positively It will be seen that in order to rear wheels were placed as close driven from the engine, there must obtain the full benefit of the rigid together as possible so that there always be at least two wheels in six-wheel type all four wheels would be very little difference in contact with the road on opposite must be carried on proper com- the position of the arcs described aides of the vehicle, and there- nonsating, bogies and all four by each axle when the vehicle fore this wheel spin, can never wheels must be positively driven. turned, the fact that there was take place; with a net result of Thus, the futility, of designing, a only partial rolling contact woula considerable lessening in tyre rigid six-wheeled vehicle and only allow of the slight necessary wear and a very considerable driving one pair of wheels is at lateral displacement of the tyres diminution in the cast of fuel. ence apparent. Also meraly to, which must take place whop the The practical proof that this is hang an extra pair of wheels the vehicle turned.

correct lies in the fact that if under the rear portion of a four- [differential · mechanism be-in-wheeler is equally purposeless, Practice has abundantly proved the two axles, these advantages as to act in a compensating man- corporated in the drive between unless the bogies are so arranged. that this theory is correct. Many immediately disappear.

Theory Proved.

ner

(FIAT

The Fiat Agents

have much pleasure in announ- oing the extension of their Show- room and Service Station at

David House

67, Des Voeux Road, Central.

New Workshops will be opened under the supervision of an expert from the Factory.

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