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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

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HONGKONG DELIVERED. PRICES.

ERSKINE SIX

"N.A.0.C. Horse Power Rating 18.15 Piston Displacement 100.37 Ou. In.

Tourar Club Badna

***

.5 passanger

3 passenger

Roadster

* passenger

Cabriolet ...

2 passenger

Sudan Royal...

5 pamonger

Drake 1.E. 43 at 3000 Revolutions. Whool Bass 107 Inchon, Speed 62 M.P.II.

G$1,150 Nolt Weight 2292 1.

1,150

**

+1

2437

2297.

2322

2537 •

1200

1,200 1.230

All prices include Wire Wheels, f.onther, Upholstery, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tire and Tubo, Extra Dulb Horn, Shock Absorbera,.

DIRECTOR SIX

N.A.0.0. Horso Power Rating 27.34 Piston Displacement 241.6 Cu. In. Tourer Royal... 5 paasonger

Roadster...

Tourer Royal

Club Bedan

.Sedan Royal...

Brake H.P. 70 at 3000 Rovolutivar, Wheel Bane 113inches, Speed 05 M.PH..

0$1,450 Nett Weight 3070 be....

passonger

Jassenger "..."

passenger.

3030.. 3080 » 3155 3225,

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1,500 1,550 1,600 1,700

passenger

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COMMANDER BIX

N.A.CO. Haran Power Rating 36,04 Piston Displatent 353.8Cu. In. Rondater Rogal 4 passenger Club Bedan...

3 passenger

Cabriolet Regal

4 passenger

Sodan Regal 5 passenger

Brake 11.P. 85 at 3000 Rovolutions. Wheel Base 120 inches, Spend 72 M.PH.

0361,900 Net Weight 3318 11.

1,050

3453 3498 3580..

1

2,000. 2,000.

All Price inchule Dise Whrels, Leather Upholstery, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tire and Tube, Extra Bath Horn, Shock Absorbers.

Brake II P. 100 at 3000 Revolutione, Wheel Base 138 inches, Spted 30 M.R.P

... (12,500 Net Weight 360 lbs.

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PRESIDENT EIGHT.

N.ACC. Horo Power Rating 36.45

Piston Displacement 313 C, In,

2 pasarger

Redan State

7 jassenger

Berline Slate

...

7 progre

Limousine State

7 passenger

Tourer State

4065

4096

2,650

2,700 *2,900

All prices include & Wire Whouls, Chrice of Upholstery, Front and Roar Bempers, Extra Tires and Tubes, Extra Ball Horn, Shark Alwurbers, Luggage Urid.

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central

Tel. Central 4739.

Everything

Great New Chrysler "62"

6ź and more miles an hour with excep

tional imoothness

5 to 25 miles an hour in 74 seconds

7-bearing crankahoft

Invar-strut pistons

Impulse neutraliser

Thermostatle heat control

Engine mounted in rubber

Long, roomy bodles

Alluring colours

Maximum driving vision

Saddle-spring seat cushions

Fine mohair upholstering

f.

Indirectly lighted instrument panel Light control on steering wheel Hydraulic 4-wheel brakes

Road Levellers front and rear, etc., etc,

TERRIFIC TESTS.

A Special "Bumping" Device.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928.

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man ha muddles through hoping gine has been speeded up, it can that his gear changing will improve only be that we are moving the as time goes on has little or no hope gear lever too soon or too late after of over, attalulig proficiency: The pushing the clutch out or are not

cach of the front and rear wheels THIS GEAR BUSINESS may be more or less, but the period the clutch once more, at the sam of waiting is constant and to only time lifting our foot from the ac of the car rests on two rollers.

a matter of trial and error.

celerator and push the gear lever The power required to drive the

Well, ao far it will be seen that forward into the second speed pool- testing machine is furnished by How to Make a Correct the process of changing upward fation. the car itself through the rear

Well, that is all there is to It, wheels. As the rear wheels ro

quite a simple matter and, although! bad upward changes are not un- and the change down from first tate between two pairs of rollers,

common,, they are not so frequent speed into second is made in exact- What Is described as the most specially, constructed gear con-

na those in changing down. Toy the same way. In practice, of master the art of changing down it course, the whole business is mero- terrific punishment over moted out noxions operate the forwand ral

is necessary to devote a spare half-ly a matter of pressing down the to an automobile in the "road shocklers. Through this means tho test" given to Chrysler cars on a front wheels of the car are rotat If, as we are told, trouble first out to the process on a quiet road, gear lever at the appropriate mo testing, ed exactly as though they were of all came into the world with without a passenger for preference, ments. specially constructo machine developed by Chrysler en-operating on the road and at a Pandora's box,the job, was unless one can be found who is

Try Again. speed equivalent to that of the assuredly completed for many sume help. It may be written gineers...

If, when wo ard trying in the "These engineers explain that rear wheels, paralleling highway folk with the arrival of the one down as an ardom that nobodyjever

in which motorcar fears are learnt to change, down without do-quietude of the country road, as the plan was devised because they driving..

Mounted on all rollers are irre housed. In fact that voting a certain amount of time to advised above, we do not get the had long felt that outdoor open rond tests, given to determine the gularly spaced, raised metal cleats many motorista drive-thole the practice, and, therefore the silent change oven though the on- ability of chassis, motor supports, which severly bump and toas cars for years, without really get body and other parts of the car about the entir etar, exaggerating ting the better of that tiresome to hang together, were entirely the effect of driving over the little lever, in the contre of the car inadequate to meet Chrysler stan- roughest of roads. With the which couples, up the engine with dands. It was because of the limi- machine, the intensity and fre the road wheels. Metallurgists chango down in usually called for revving up the engine sufficiently. tations of outdoor testing that the quency of this terrific pounding a great extent. have shown their on a stoop hill or when he is baulk-In theory the rear should go home new machine was developed, and and wracking can be continued metal in more schets than one and ed on an incline by some other a fraction of a second after the it is unique in its application to indefinitely and can be exactly produced faterials which will driver; Ja, a word at moments clutch has been pushed out, but as dplicated day after day. Automa stand abuse to an extent undream when we are not free to give the this pariod of time is so short as this type of work.

With this now device two cletic controls attached to the throttleed of in the curly date of motor, matter the necessary concentration to be practically impossible of be mentary features are possible of make possible an irregularity" of ing but the duty still remains with that required in the early stages, ing consciously judged, all the tyro attainment, the engineers explain. acceleration and deceleration that every car owner who wishes to get although nowe progress we shall need worry about is pushing the <..

assists in producing a wide range the best service from his bus to change silently and surely without laver into position as his foot First, the subjecting of the car of driving over these bumps. No master the art of gear changing constant effort, just na we now presses on the clutch.

walk or spell without any mental Many sensitive drivers will gain to an enormous mileage of overener will subject his car to such once and for all.

etfort, although when we were tiny a great deal of benefit by the road shocks within the space of a

Correct Changing,

both processes were at firat acancient dodge of holding the few hours, a feature held to be punishment in hundreds of thou-

aands of miles. So uneven

Now gear changing may be re-companied by a certain amount of domestic poker in one hand to impossible in roadway testing, be these cleats and so exaggerated

simulate a gear lover and using the science. ebullition in our grey matter. exact 07 cause no driver could physically their effect that the wheels of the garded

two pedals of the piano as clutch stand the continuously sovere

Changing Down

and accelerator respectively. If abuse and still record the vital per-car are tossed about like a chip Technically speaking, there is no such thing as good changing and formance details while the car is upon a rough sen.

It is claimed for the road shock bad changing, or rather, we should In changing down we have to these wise words are placed on the in operation.

machine that there is not a single say, that there are no degrees of deal with a set of circumstances music stand and the paragraph re- The change is directly opposite to those in chang-luting to the actual movement of Second, and regarded as more unit in the entire car which is not bad changing. important, is the fact that Chrysler severly tested under these condi- either right or it is not-similar, ing up. When our engine is la- the feet bo road through slowly top gear (which it while the said movements are made, can exaggerate their bumps of an tions. Front axle, steering as in fact, to change for a shilling. bouring on ordinary rough road from sembly, wheels, springs, body, Whenever a grating nolac followe shouldn't, of course, but sometimes the process le frequently simplified, equality to 40 or more times their chassis, engine mountings, and the movement of the gear lever the does), and we have to drop into a for the simple reason that a bad normal severity.It is impossible 'rigid and semi-rigid as-driver has made a bad change and, lower ratio, it is obvious that now change is not followed by the crash- for an owner to conceive of a car serably is subjected to terrific assuredly, removed a microscopic we have to make the sprocket in ing and grating of gears. Indeed, being driven a distance equiva-abuse. It is argued that if these amount of metal from the teeth of communication with the engine this crashing of metal on metal is shaft speed up instead of slow down undoubtedly the bete noir of many lent to the normal season's mileage parts. will stand. up' under thin the two. gear wheels affected.

as we did in the case of the upward cusitive drivers, and the fear of No Excuse.

change. Clearly, waiting in neu-making a bad change is frequently While a knowledge of the gear-tral will not help us, but only make solely responsible for the bad

change itself.

In conclusion it might be prudent Our only means of speeding up of the gear lever, it is not absolute- box is useful in nequiring a mastery matters worse, ly essential. The statement Is the pinion in the gearbox obviously to point out that bad gear chang- the physical handicaps of high-A MORRIS RAILWAY STATION. made to remove the excuse from the is by accelerating the engine, after ing where Inexperienced drivers man who is always going to get the top gear pinions have been are concerned is sometimes accen- way testing, ainen the latter is in- flexible and calls for a long-drawn-i In order to provide for the in-down to the rear business when he separated by means of the gear tunted by a sticky clutch, the re- All Then, having accelerated, our clutch-case in which the oil has out period of time for completion creasing traffic as the result of the has time to study the diagrams in lever, with the clutch in, of course.sult of using unsuitable oil, or a

vast development of Morris Motors, In this test the car is driven onto td., at Cowley, Oxon, the Great we have to remember is that when pinion in the speed at which the not been changed for a very long a machine in which are mounted western Railway Co. are now build-we pull the lever out of engagement one attached to the Back axle ia time. In the foregoing instruc eight specially constructed rollersing a special station in the vicinity that is to say, bring it to the rotating, we clearly can move our tions it is, of course, assumed that are coming into the in pairs. The distance between of the works. Situated between centre of its travel or neutral post-gear as casily and silently as we the mechanism of the engine the corresponding pairs of rollers Wheatley and Littlemare, it will be tion-the two gear wheels which did with the upward change, for and gearbox is in sound condition.

we wish to engage are moving at the simple reason that both pinious Those who on each side is adjusted so that designed as Morris Cowley.

different speeds, and before we can are rotating at the same speed, but motoring movement on cars several hope to effect a silent change, to secure a silent change down we acasone old, of whose antecedents obviously we have to cause them to simply must speed up the engine they have little information, would be advised to ask a métor friend rotate at the same speed. Very pinion..

Reading a description of the or their local Morris Dealer to as-. well, then.

All we need memorise is that one necessary operations gives an im-sure them that engine and trans- gear wheel, with which we are con-pression of rather a formidable un-mission is in order. : As, a matter cerned in the gearbox, is rotated by dertaking, but in practice the of fact, a badly adjusted carburet the engine, while the other is whole thing takes place in less ter or a plug given to missing at rotated by the buck axle. Let me than a second, and as with every-low speeds will play havoc with repeat that again. One gear wheel thing under the sun, from golf to gear changing, for the simple rea- is rotated by the engine and the Empire ding, it is only a ques-son that the enging cannot be re- other by the back axle. Have you tion of studying detalls and master-lied upon to respond immediately to the accelerator for that all-impor- ing one at a time... got that?

tant increase in speed at the critical When at rest we put our clutch

moment.-Morris Owner. out and move the gear lever into first speed it engages easily because We will assume, then, that we the clutch, as everybody knows, has are running on top gear and have disconnected the engine from the come to a hill upon which the en- gearbox and all the pinions (that gine calls for a change down. The is a posh word for gear wheels) are skilled driver can change geur" at] at rest. Thus, when we gradually practically any speed, but in the'

The Imperial Japanese Navy has let in the clutch we move off gently; early stages matters are simplified that part of the proceedings is aim-somewhat if the car is not travel- recently placed an order with the ple. It is the next step which ling too quickly when the change Supermaine Aviation Works, Ltd., causes that sinking feeling 'with a made. In the ordinary course of Southampton, for one of the the complete tyro.

a car

over roads 40 times as rough as

those he will travel, and all within exaggerated hammering for hour the space of a comparatively few after hour, then Chrysler cars hours. Yet this is what the must certainly stand up under the Chrysler road shock test was de most severe conditions met on the

highway. signed to do in order to overcome

of such a test.

should be or do

CHRYSLER “62”

TWO-DOOR SALOON

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CHRYSLER “62" perform

ance-at its low prices, re-emphasises Chrysler "62" superiority.

Superiority not only in speed and acceleration-but in com fort,style, safety, dependability and long life-all and more. than you can get from other cars costing hundreds of dol lars more.

Note these unmatched fea tures:

62 miles an hour plus smooth, easy miles. 7-bearing crankshaft in perfect balance. Flashing acceleration in traf fic. Unusual hill-climbing abil ity. The easiest car to steer. Chassis spring ends mounted in rubber shock insulators.

Hydraulic four-wheel brakes always perfectly celf-equalised for positive safety.

Chrysler stylish lines and ap pearance. Roomy bodies: Sad- dle spring scating. Unusual fineness in fittings and uphol stery, Latest shades and tones in colour combinations. Chrysler Standardised Quality in engineering genius and pre cision manufacture. Trouble free performance day in and day out.

Take the wheel of a "62.” That's the place where you can most easily prove that it is everything a car should be and does everything should do.

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his Morris owner's Manual.

The Two Pinions.

Not too quickly.

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of events, this state of affairs will twin-engined "Southamption" fly come about naturally. Our first ing bonts. This machine has a step in the change down is to push hull of metal construction and is Here I must remind you that one the clutch out and move the gear similar to the flying boats of the pinion is rotated by the engine and lever to the neutral position at the Royal Air Force now engaged on a This disconnects our cruise. to Australia and the Far the other by the back axle, and if same time. we merely push out the clutch and engine. Now we rapidly lift the East, and it is understood if the push the gear lever rapidly across left too, letting the clutch in again, trials in Japan are satisfactory fur- and press down the accelerator ther orders will be placed. This into the second speed position we pedal, obviously speeding up the flying boat is fitted with two of the cannot possibly hope to secure a engine, and, since our pinion la famous Napier Lion engines which quiet change in rising into second now coupled to. the engine shaft, have beca so prominently to the gear from first it should be patent this also will be speeded up. All fore in recent speed and distance that the engine will have to turn

WHILE TRAFFIC WAITS.

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over more slowly for a given road we have to do now is to push out records, both on land and in the air. speed relatively to the back axle as soon as the higher gear ratio has been adopted. This should be easily apparent to the veriest tyro.. Therefore, before moving the lever into the second speed. position we must permit the engine to slow down. This is easily ac- complished by waiting for a period varying with different cars but averaging about half a second, or while you count three, after coming Into the neutral position.

In practice we should rev up the engine a little, push out the clutch with the left foot and lift our right foot off the accelerator as we bring the gear lever into the neutral. posi- tion. Then, having waited for the necessary period, we very gently press the gear lever into second speed. Our pause will have en- abled the two gear wheels concern- ed to revolve at approximately the same apéed, and a silent change is the happy result,

We now come to changing from second to first, and this is accom plished in exactly the same manner except that It is much easier, for the simple reason that we only have to pull back the gear lever. This ease, however, is often the undoing of the novice, because he is too anxious to get it over and therefore faile to pauso for a sufficiently long period. Once more we have to press down the accelerator and rev up the engine (and, of course, pro- pel the car proportionately faster); push out the clutch, bring the genr lever half-way across and wait a little longer than we need in going from first to secondi

On the writer's car it is possible to count eight in this operation, Just rapidly enough to say each numeral distinctly. On yours. It

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