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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

PROVED BY A MILLION MILES

Before the new Oldsmobile was presented to the public more than a million miles of testing were put behind it. For two years it was threading the traffic of street and highway....

ning the gauntlet of exact- ing tests on the General Motors Proving Ground.. 1,177,000 miles of wearing and tear- ing use!

Asaresult, thenew Oldsmobile brings to buyers those fine car qualities which

have heretafore been avail- able only at higher prices- high speed combined with steadiness... true smooth- ness combined with rugged power...quietness combin ed with ease of operation- --All in a six whose stamina is a matter of engineering" record!

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BRAND NEW MODEL.

Prove this car for yourself and you will know why thousands of buy- crsare choosing the new Oldsmobile Six.

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PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.,

Telephone C. 1246... Telephone C. 3500...

LTD.

33, Wong Nei Chung Road $3, Des Voeux Road, Central

THE

LOW FINE CAR OF

PRICE

THE CAR OF THE

FUTURE.

SATURDAY.' JUD On

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which reaches a very high state THE RECORD SPEED. of perfection in many Amorican! cars, to-day. The other would have some sort of diminutive supercharged two-stroke engina of

motor-cycle size, working at an almost constant high speed and delivering its power through some

Made on Firestone

Tyres.

Grected With Cheem

After bringing his car to a stop Keech alighted amid the roar of the crowde

Koechs' average speed was loss Driving Without Gears.

than a mile better than that) of [By the Hon. Maynard Groville,]

Daytona Beach Fla., April 22the former title holder, Capt. Mal- colm Campbell, British driver, who Ray Keech, driving a monator in February sent hie Napler Some time ago Mr. Basil Dean told me that, in collaboration with motorist is not so much concerned Philadelphia sportsmen, today set tho

At the moment the ordinary speed car built for J. M. White, Special roaring over the sands, of bonch here to avorage Miss Margaret Kennedy, he was with developments-of-this-nature

sort of torque converter.

$9,000,000 FOR A' CENT.

writing a phyto succeed"The He is interested in the elimination a new world's record for automo-206,956 miles per hour. Constant Nymph," in which the of the gear-changing terror,les when he averaged 207.55200 The Triplex Special was equip- hero wasd motor inventor: He though he often will not own its ntles per hour in two runs over ped with Firestone tyres and they wanted to know what would be the This factor has taken procedence the official beach

withatood the speed remarkably most desired and important inven- somewhat naturally in the mlads

woll tion for the improvement of the of designers, and there are now

Sending the thirty-al-cyclinder- modora car, and I unhesitatingly many excellent 'dovicos for this d Triplex Special against the voted for the elimination of the purpose.

ind in the official test at ad clutch and gear box. We called The most prominent of all is average of 201.56774 miles per in Mr. Constantinesco, who, with free-wheel device, several types of hour, he covered the first hile' inj hia famous torque converter, has which are now on the market. I 17.86 ecconds. gone further along this road than have tried one or two, and think anyone else up to the present, and the result is in "Come with Me," Car engineers and designers in every country have reached some thing like finality as regards the type of transmission, and they are now turning their attention to the transmission itself. The method of getting the power from the engine to the back wheels of a car has remained much the same for the last 25 years, and both users is still there, under the floor

wasting power boards, and makers realise that it is high hampering the engine, though its time something was done.

at the New Theatre.

For everyone cant\increase in' they are of tremendous value, both with wind at his back, Keech lash-owners pay nine million dollars, Coming back down the beach the price of rubbor, American car in economising petrol and in the ed over the mile in 16.88 seconds, according to the American Auto- ear-box enables one to do any making 218.00374 miles per hour, mobile Association, which is con- thing with "öne's gears without

ducting a campaign to free the " worrying about the clutch, and this is a marked step in the right runs was 17,345 seconds.

His average per mile for the two country from the "foreign mono- direction. It suffers from the dis- advantage that it only removes the more obvious symptoms of the disease, without actually removing the disease itself. The gear-box

There are two main advantages more striking deficiencies

and

are

to be gained by a complete re-removed, and one is inclined to. vision of the transmission system. forget its existence. It is for this First, the elimination of gear reason that I think that the matter, changing, the bugbear of the new cannot remain where it in, but driver, and secondly, something must go forward in the ordinary! which I think will be far more course of evolution. important in the long run, the pou- sibility of the use of a far more effleient and entirely different type of internal combustion engine. I Is impossible to prophesy with any manine. My own car is one which almost continual certainty as to the trend of an requires, an

Pump Handling.

I should like to point out here that all this la absolutely agaitist myself, as I am a gear-changing

industry like the motor trade, as "pump-handling" of the change so many exterior forees come into speed lever if one wants to get play, most of which have nothing really good resuits, and quite whatever to do with design, while frankly I love it, and consider it the sudden arrival of a successful is really one of the few interesting gas turbine, the resuscitation of things one does when driving a the steam turbine, or new car. If a gearless car comes in method of projecting power might I shall probably give up motoring, completely turn everything upside or be seen driving some, by then, ancient monstrosity, going through curious. and Inexplicable motions to the amusement of the general public.

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Two Main Types. Engineering progress is, how

Finally, I am not sure that gear ever, usually rather by evolution: than revolution, and on this basis changing is not a rough and ready I can see two main types of motor test of one's fitness to be in charge vehicle supplying the needs of the of a car at all, and that in a gear- motorist of the future: One with lean age driving will become far a largo flexible power plant, a top more dangerous than it is now, gear car, with a lower gear ratio 18 anyone can learn to steer a car only for starting purposes and for in a few minutes, but there are emergencies, such as the genius of many more things in driving than Mr. Henry Ford first evolved, and that.

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FIAT Mod 920

MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MODEL

"520" CHASSIS.

"En bloc" engine with detachable cylinder head, crankshaft supported by seven bearings, perfectly balanced and fitted with vibration damper-Solex carburettor Petrol feed by auxiliary tank fitted on the dashboard-Ignition by battery and high tension distributor-Lubrication by pressure by means of gear pump fitted with special filter-Water cooling by means of centrifugal pump-Single disc type clutch controlled by pedal- Gear box for four forward speeds and reverse, gear lever fitted in the centre-Transmission shaft fitted with two cardan joints- Motion is transmitted to the wheels by means of conical gears with curved teeth Left or right steering of the worm screw type-Hand accelerator and advance lever-4 Wheel brakes of the self-energizing type FIAT patent-Steel artillery wheels for low pressure tyres 14"X45"Lighting set by means of a dynamo and battery-Two front lights fitted with an additional bulb for town use and anti-dazzle; tail lamp and dashboard lamp-Electric self-starter by means of motor acting on the flywheel, with pedal switch-Suspension by semi-eliptic springs with shock absorbers,

7.11"

Body space Length of the chassis 12" 9" Width at front.

Cylinders

6

Bore and Stroke 68×103, mm. Total cubic capacity 2244/cm3

Wheel base,

9' 6"

Width at rear ....

Wheel track

. 8"

22/2" 3' 8" 8"

Minimum clearance about

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Telephone Central 4821-

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