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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928.

VAUXHALL

AN

SUPEREXCELLENT SIX.

ENGLISH MADE

PRODUCT OF

GENERAL MOTORS.

'A 20-60 CUSTOM BUILT.

SPORTS CABRIOLET

is due to arrive TUESDAY, the 7th, inst.

If will be a pleasure to show you this fine Car.

LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.

PHONE 3193, MOTOR DEPARTMENT.

NEW CHRYSLER52

In Money-Value, in Performance, in Comfortable Size-Without Rival

The smart New Chrysler "52" at the phenomenalnew lower prices-with quality unchanged-is more than ever the greatest value in the low-priced field.

Fullsized bodies of excep Höräl fineness, roomier by far than any other car of comparable price. Long, Herible carsprings and extra- large balloon tyres, giving you all the comfort of a large, high-priced car.

It has power, speed and pick-up characteristic of all

Chryslers. And, above every- thing, it gives you a smooth. ness of operation and ease of handling and riding, that enables you to use its fleet- ness, and dash with real comfort.

The smart New Chrysler "52" is everything that Chry- aler quality has come to mean among motor cars. Study it in intimate deinil Ride in it. Prive it. Then see how its Low prices put it far beyond comparison with any other car in this group.

Seven Body Types---

Tourer Two-Seater - Coupe DeLuxe Coupe Two Door Saloon Four-Door Saloon

DeLuxe Saloon

Two-Seater and DeLuxe Coupe are equipped with dickey stat.

*;.

A. LUNG & COMPANY

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Phone C. 1912.

THE IGNITION SYSTEM.

Early Development; Recent Improvements.

"THE EXPERT."

The Adventures of a Lad.

The earliest method of exploding

[By Andrew Soutar.] a compressed charge of petrol vapour and air was by means of

The four middle-aged fellows bringing a hot tube in contact with the wind bitten faces were with the mixture. This method, sitting in the snuggery of the however, quickly gave way to "Dolphin" when The Lad blow In. electric igaltion, because it was The squat landlord was a good-na- found that with the hot tube tired soul and gave him the glad method the charge could not be exploded until the platon had reached the top of its stroke, and consequently the piston had moved some distance on ita downward dtroke before, the charge had be gun to expand, with the result that

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"Blowing a bit lan't it, sirt" one of the ancients.

Rome blow," said The Lad. "Couldn't get an inch more than seventy out of the old bus."

The ancient who had opened the conversation went to the window

S'troinary

thing! Twelve-that happened to me," he said, cylinderl Must have cost in plle was when I happened to be push of money. There it was in the ing an old six-cyclinder along at showroom: Twenty-five guineas sixty odd, Midnight gentlemen. Absolutely perfect, Tried tho on- When graveyards yawn and as that glas. Silky, boys-positively silky. sort of thing. Suburb of London. "What's wrong with the works? Near a railway station. Cool said 'Nothing, said the sales. This makes me sweat even now... man, but he sighed like a woman at the sight of the first grey hair. No catch?" said I. Wants driving, sald he. No toy for a novice,"

"As I farned into the rond run- ning alongside the station 1 saw a lorry inefront of me, Going hell- for-leather! I was doing fifty, as I'vo said, but she was doing" The Spirit of the Road,

more! Lurching, too. They'll be "I bought her, started her again, into the fence in a second, said I got into the seat and moved her to myself. Yanked the old hooter out into the road. A mechanic good and loud. They didn't hear came after me and whispered "Go carefully, alr. Why Pesach It. Tried to catch 'em up.

Couldn't get near their tail.” She's haunted, said he 'Sho's The four ancients wore aitting haunted by the ghost of the racing with lips apart, apprehension in motorist who used to own her. He their eyes, their whiskies untouch was killed in a speed trial Split ed.. his head on the track Go "And then?". sald care-f-u-l-l-y! Did 17. Made

a considerable amount of nower and glanced at, the five-year-old straight for Portsmouth, iThought nervous Whisper, ons in #

two-seater that wasn't much bigger than a sowing-machine.

"It'll get wet," he said. "Why not bring it inside?!

The Lad missed the point. "Motoring isn't what it used to be," he said, slapping his thighs. "I suppose you gentlemen have dis- covered that. One of these days I'm going to write a book about my experiences."

The Lad took a deep breath... was being waste Electric igni:

I might be able to do it in two hours "They drashed into the fence," tion was an improvement, as it

from Town. Sira! That car said he." "I was going go fast that enabled, the mixture to be ignited

was speedler than a shooting star. I had to pass them couldn't before the piston had reached the

She was registering eighty, when pull up until 1,was fifty yards top of its stroke, and; sõñeoquent-

only half out. A little more and head. Then I went back to help.” ly, by the time the piston was

there was ninety-five showing on "Mangled, of course," said one of read to start on its down

the old dial. I knew she was good the ancients. ward stroke the charge had

for the hundred when, of a sudden, The Lad shook his head, shut his begun to expand. The first

I saw a dizzy bend in the road just system of electric ignition was

ahead of me. Knew I couldn't turn eyes, and made a sign to the com- pany to remain silent while he of the battery, and coll typo, in

it at that speed. Awful drop of a which a low voltage current of The company nodded prompting-hundred feet on the off-side. My collected his nerves.

Couldn't about foul to six volts was passed ly and leaned forward. "I re- God! Brakes refused!

"I went back," he repeated, "but through the primary circuit of a member driving a racing car shut off. Felt.something touch coil. The current induced in the through a gale" The Lad drank my shoulder. There there was I couldn't find them! Not a sign socondary coll, was of sufficiently deeply and hoped that he wasn't the ghost of the follow the mechanic of them! And the fence was in

me about. Head split, tact!" high voltage to jump across the keeping the fire from anyone. had told gap loft in a sparking plug in the "Bought it cheap," he went on. eyes anyhow. Felt faint. Nearer, cylinder. In the early days, how-

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The whole company was gripped nearer to that terrible bend in the as by a flacier...

"I stammered along to the railway ever, batteries were so badly con-engine will be hard to start, and road.. Hairpin bond. Ninety-five structed that they wore very un- cortain of the cylindera will an hour, gentlemen; The ghost station," said The Lad, ignoring reliable, and the system was not "miss." Never neglect a "malas- leaned over and took the wheel! the tears that were running down

Sirs, we turned that bord at all satisfactory.

ing" cylinder, as this allows raw smoothly as melted butter slither-pany. "I found a porter and told The Magneto Invented. or unvapourised fuel to enter the ing down natick of asparagus! him of what had happened. The great development

The un-I fancy I swooned. When I open-didn't dream this. I said to him. of combustion chamber.. electric ignition was the Invention vapourised fool will creep past theed my eyes I was on the broad I haven't had a drink since oight d'clock. And I shall never forget of F: R. Sims And Bosch, who pre-piston rings, washing the oil film highway, deing a steady forty."

Two of the ancients had covered the pallor of his checks as he re- duced what was then known as the from, the cylinder walle, and magneto-machine, but which is finally enter the crankcase, to their eyes with their hands. The plied: I know you ain't dreamed now simply called a magneto. In contaminate the oll there. The horror had overwhelmed them. t, sir. It did happen. There was two men in that lorry and they were thla machine the necessity for a most usual cause of a "missing" The Lad went on:

killed outright when they hit the Women and Wire. battery was done away with, the cylinder is a dirty spark plug or electric current being produced In the points act too far apart. In-

"About the How the Suffragetten fence. But whore are they?' I naked. "Where's the wreckage?" the primary coil by revolving Itapect your wire cables regularly were stringing wire across the And he replied: "The accident hap

a to see that the insulation has not roads to catch motorists I was pened the night before last!"" in between the two arms of

a short driving to Town from Eastbourne, The Lad waited for some com- horseshoe magnet. The coll is worn away, allowing

Suddenly I saw a wire stretched ment, but nerves had been frayed. rotated by a system of gear wheels circuit.

Ignition Timing.

right across my path! And I was The four ancients, covering their run either from the crankshaft or

On some engines the advanco going a modest Afty. Couldn't

eyea with their hands, rose from the camshaft. Another advantage of this machine is that the faster and retard are automatic; on save myself. Knew that this was their chairs and filed out of the the coll fa rotated the more intense others, there is a lover by which the end. Whizzl

By the ignition can be altered at will through it!" is the curront produced.

The first anciont went again to "The Lad said: "Must have put rotating the body of the switch, For atarting always retard the called the contact-breaker, the spark, advancing it again as the the window and took another look the wind up 'em-what?""

"You have," said the squat land- timing of the spark could be alter-engine fires. Always run with the at the car outside.

"Why didn't you duck!" he ask-lord.. "You've broke their hearts." ed to suit the speed of the pistone, spark as far advanced as possible

"What do you mean?" asked The and in this way greater piston for smooth running, but retard | ed..

The Lad said: "It wasn't a wire Lad. "You can't break the hearta speed would be obtained, Now the ignition when the engine starts days, since batteries both reliable labouring, advancing it again aa at all. It was the slit in the wind of a bunch of seasoned motorists and economical are made, the old the egine picks up. If It is noticed screeen that I had been staring at."so easily as that."

Ha ordered a round for the ap "They ain't motorists," said the

company. Ho ayatem of battery and cell ignition that the platinum points on the

was aqunt landlord. "They be anglera is not labouring under the same "make-and-break" become burned preciative

down here for the fishing. You've disadvantage as it used to. In the rapidly, it most probably means warming to his work.

"But the most amazing thing beaten 'em at their own job." magneto there are very few parts that the condenser is defective, which are liable to get out of when alther a new one should be order, and about the beat piece of installed or the magneto should Occasionally the advice that can be given to auto-be repaired. motive operators is to leave well magneto may become demagnetis alone. However, even the best of ed. This trouble is raro, but operators are liable to have a cer should it happen it la best to tako it into a service station and have tain amount of Ignition troubles, and I will now attempt to show it remagnotised. After a general how to locate and, overcome such overhaul it may be found that the magneto is out of time. In this troubles.

case, consult your manufacturers* instruction Book as to how to re-

Locating Ignition Troubles

NASH

ed.

To-day presents a

New and Finer Motor Car

New Twin Ignition Motor. New Salon Bodies.

If the engine fails to start, or time correctly. If your ignition auddenly stops, the first thing to system Is of the battery and coll be checked is the fuel supply. type, the source of the trouble may Assuming that that is all in order, be in the battery, the next thing we examine is the

Care of the Battery. ignition system. Remove each The battery needs very little plug in turn, clean the terminals care to maintain it in good condi- with a toothbrush dipped in petrol,tion, the most important point and adjust the gap between the being to examine it about every 10 The three new Nash Series, which (74hearing crankshaft with hollow- points to .025in. Examine each days to see that the liquid is about are being introduced everywhere ed crankpins, Bijur centralized plug to see that the insulation is half an inch above the top of the to-day, achieve the ambition of my chasela lubrication, Houda!lle and not cracked or broken, and that plates. Add distilled water if manufacturing career.

Lovejoy shock absorbers, Riflex.

the current has no chance of being necessary. The liquid in the bat-They represent an entirely new Nash bumpers and bumperettes, shortcircuited through the crank-tery consists of a mixture of puro type of motor car, priced moderate- chrome plating over nickel for all ense. See that the electric wires sulphuric acid and distilled waterly, but offering you all the beauty exterior metal ware, double-drop connecting the distributor and in the proportion of one to five, and quality and performance frame, one-piece Salon fenders and plugs are in good order, and that If a fresh mixture has to be pre-heretofore exclusive to very longer wheelbase lengths. all connexions are clean and tight, pared, always add the acid to the expensive automobiles, ·

"I don't think anyone will ever Then lay the plugs on the top of water; never add water to acid. To create such a car we had to want to use all the speed and the cylinder block and turn the Chemically pure sulphuric acid develop an entirely new type of power the engine delivers. engine over by hand. Watch the must be used, as the ordinary design and invest over G.$2,500,000 "If my judgment te worth any- plugs to see that a spark is pro commercial aeld contains- im-in dies and machinery alone, thing you' will find it well worth

duced in each. If no apark la pro-purities, which would spoil the "Naturally space precludes the while to-day to examine this new duced, the fault will probably le battery. If it is suspected that full listing of all features but I automobile development with the in the make-and-break apparatus. the battery needs recharging, the do want to draw your attention to greatest care." Remove the end cap of the magne density of the solution should be a number of the outstanding to and examine the platinum examined. The minimum figure attractions such as:~,

(Sgd.) C. W. NASH, points. Rotate the engine slowly to which this can be allowed to Twin-ignition, high compres until the points are at their fall can be ascertained from your slon, Bohnalite aluminum alloy President, The Nash Motors maximum distance apart. Then Instruction book.

pistons with Invar-struts,

Company. WONG SIU WOON, SOLE AGENT FOR SOUTH CHINS ZI, Pottinger Sirest., ''Phone C. 17. Barvice Station: 76, Dás Vœux Road Central. *Phone C. 644,

measure this distance; it should If, on examining the battery, the be between 1 and 20 thousandths liquid appears to be whitish, the of an inch. See that there is no battery must be recharged by duat or dirt between the points, running the dynamo on it at low and if thy do not appear very speed. It is advisable to take bright they should be rubbed over your car in to a battery service gently with a magneto file. See station about once a month and let that the make-and-break is work-them examine it thoroughly. Ing correctly. It le quite possible Always keep all connexions clean that you may have over-oiled the and tight, and examine carefully magneto, and that some oil or the connexion between the battery grease has got between the plati and the chassis, as this provides mum points; if so, wipe them clean the earth without which the whole with a piece of lintless cloth. The electric apparatus of your car platinum points should never be could not operate. If the vehicle rubbed with emery paper, and it is to be left idle for any length they are cleaned with a magneto of time, the battery should be well file bo careful to wipe them clean charged and kept in this condition of any small bits of metallle fil by recharging every three weeks, Ings.

If, however, the vehicle is to be The distributor cover should be left ble for a period of coveral removed occasionally and inspect months, It is best to take your ed for an accumulation of carbon battery in to a service staon and dust. The inside of the cover let them look after it for you. should be cleaned with a cloth In general, the best advice, as inoistened with petrol, and then regards the electrical equipment on wiped dry. At the same time, see your car is to leave well alone," that the brush is not sticking but don't forget to add distilled If the points on the spark plugs water to the battery every ten are dirty or too far apart, the days, If necessary.

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(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)

SPECIALISES IN MOTOR INSURANCE

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