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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,- 1928.

Facts and Figures

prove the supremacy of the

ALL-AMERICAN SIX

Tourer. $2,850.00

OAKLAND

2 DOOR

Sedan. $3,050,00

A PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS

By bare facts... listing the actual features that the All-American Six provides. By true figures... giving actual sizes and weights of vital parts. By these two classes of unassailable evidence... this General Motors Six proves it. self the unquestioned leader of its field. The facts are these: Its bodies are by Fisher ... long, low, roomy... the essence of crafts- manship and style. Finished in lustrous, en- during Duco. Staunchly built of selected hard wood and steel.

Its features include the famous G-M-R cylinder. head"... fuel pump,, triplo engine protection 'by gasoline, air and silters, Smooth-shifting

transmission. Velvet-action four-wheel brakes. And here are the figures. A 117-inch wheelbase ...for genuine riding case. A 212-cubic inch engine,.. smooth and silent at any speed. A 79ib. crankshaft. And soon throughout its specifications, In. any comparison... facts and figures prove the supremacy, of the All-American Six.

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GARAGE CROSS LANEWANCHAI.

INTRODUCING

THE WORLD'S

LOWEST PRICED SIX.

7 BEARING, {CRANKSHAFT

ON VIEW AT HOTEL SAVOY

Full Force-feed

Lubrication.

- Silent Timing

Chain. Invar-Strut Pistons. 4 Wheel Brakes.

Air Cleaner.

Thermostat.

23-4 h.p. develops 43h.p.

TOURER

H.K. $1,950

4 Door Sedan H.K. $2,350

THE 667 NEW

WHIPPET

SIX.

GILMAN & CO., LTD. DURO MOTOR CO., LTD.

Distributors.

Kowloon, Service.

· DIRT-TRACK CAR RACING.

Variation of the Motor Cycle Racing Craze.

ON SPARK PLUGS.

Some Useful Hints.

MILLION CARS: Progress in Canada.

population. Quebec ranks second with 18.450 cars, or 4.9 por hund- red, The Prairie Provinces of

Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al-

Ottawa, July 28-Automobile roberta, where farming, is experienc gistrations in Canada will pass the ing a rapid development in the areas 1,000,000-car mark by the end of served by the Canadian Pacific Rail- [By Israel Klein:]

1928, according to a bulletin issued way, have à combined car registra- by the Dominion Bureau of Statia- tion of 244,829. British Columbia In Amorica and Australia, whore The spark pluga tell the conditics.

Iras 77,617 cara, Nova Scotia 80,039, they have been at the dirt-track tion of your engine.

"There were 45,672 motor vehi- and New Brunswick 24,644, game for many years, thecing on an

Canada is building good roads to Vice veren, the action of the cles in Canada on June 1," the bul- unbanked course of earth or cin-motor will tell whether the sparkletin declares. "This was an in- keep abreast of increased automo dors has been brought to a fine art plugs are giving full service. crease of more than 600,000 com- bile ownership. Reporta from ovary It provides all the thrills of road It is therefore essential that pared with the beginning of the province received by the Canadian racing in the restricted area of these little ignition units be kept year. If the rate of increase in au- Good Roads Association indicate tomobile purchases in maintained that more money will be spent on an aval or circular track and, pro in the best of condition. Tosta

for the next few months, the mil- highway construction throughout made by · Ignition vided that grandstands are pro-have been perly arranged as they generally engineers into the working of this on-car mark will soon be reached. tho Dominion this year than in any "More than forty-five por cent of in history Construction of a $50,- are the spectators can see overy part of the motor, with the result all the automobiles owned in Canada 000,000 asphalt road from coast to | fncident in a race,

that we have quite exact informa- at present are registered in Ontario, const across the Dominion is one of tion concerning.it.

The province's total is 486,120, or the projects now under conaldern- an average of 13.7 cars per 100 tlon."

Racing Which Looks Dangerous. This Information, coupled with The roar of the super-tuned cars advice on spark plug and motor hurtling round and skidding in the maintenance, should assure the dust, the blackened, bogoggled motorlet a good running car, pro- faces of the drivers and mechanics,vided he follows it. the clouds of dust drifting with

the wind, provido a spectacle such Gasoline has several elementa, as can never be witnessed on a including sulphur, that cause cement or board track of the older spark plugs to wear away. If type. The success of a particl-sulphur is present in an excessive pant in a race on the "dirt" de- amount it will hasten deteriora- penis as much, if not more, on the tion of-the plug electrodes as well akill of the driver as on the speed as the valves. When the electrode of his car: Constantly, as they is worn away by the action of tear round the bends in a more or sulphur, cleaning with emory Jess continuous skid, the drivers cloth or a scraper is of no avail. are experiencing narrow escapes; Another source of deterioration. an over-corrected, skid may sand is the Iron content in the gass- them crashing into the inner bar-line. This in time leaves a brown This rier of the oval. When passing a coating over the insulator. competitor at speed there is the coating, under certain conditions, ever-present risk of becoming en- is a good electrical conductor and tangled with the wheels of another causes missing of the engine racer, while if a bend be taken too because the spark current travels fast the car, slithering in the loose through the coating instead of dust, will be hurried by contrifu- jumping the gap. Stuce the coat- gal force towards the outer edge ing can't be cleaned off readily, and may well end in over turning. the best remedy is to change

Thus there can be no doubt that plugs, dirt-track racing for car, when fully developed in this country, will be every bit as full of thrills as the motorcycle events that now take place many times a week. The public will go, not as it does "to the dogs" or to Brooklands mainly for the purpose of betting, but will crowd against the on- circling wire-protected railings with the same enthusiasm as it; would flock to a. cinema to see some thrilling film or to the stir- ring pageantry of the Aldershot tattoo.

Worn out spark plugs cause missing of the engine, which in turn produces the following six major troubles:

1. Oil pumping, causing forma- ton of carbon and sticky valves.

2. Poor starting and excessive drain on the battery.

3.

Poor running.

4. High gasoline consumption, 5. Larger engine repair ex pense.

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6. Poor driving antisfaction.

·The condition of the motor can!

be revealed by examination of the spark plugs.

If the base of the plug is cover- ed with a dry, hard lump carbon formation, the engine has good compression but is consuming too much ofl.

If the plug base is covered with a fine, soft, dry carbon-like lamp- black, the engine has good com pression but the carburetor is set too rich or the choke is not open- ing all the way.

If the plug base is covered with a fine soft carbon wet with gaso- Iine the engine has either poor

The possibilities, therefore, are that dirt-track ricing for cars bids fair to become, an open-air amuse- ment for the multitude, besides a valuable means of developing and testing automobiles. Consider the evolution of the vehicle developed on the dirt." It must be skid- proof; it must be capable of terri- Ac acceleration between the bends; it must be incapable of overturning and equipped with powerful brakes in order to enable the driver to avoid the consequences of an acel dent to a car in front of him. What Has Been Done in America.

In America, where for many compression, the carburetor mix- years specially tuned-up Fords ture is too rich, or the choke isn't have been popular for this class of open all the way. racing, all sorts of special fitments If the base of the plug is wet have made their appearance. For with clean of and gasoline, the instance, special front and rear ignition system is defective and axles and springs have been made isn't furnishing the proper spark 80 as to allow the chassis to be to Ignite the charge offset with regard to the centre cylinder. * * line of the car, the fóra being that the weight of the vehicle and its By making proper adjustments driver shall be as near as possible in spark plugs and the rest of the to the Inner edge of the track to ignition system you may save minimize the risk of overturning gasoline and oll, reduce the wear as the result of a skid. One of the on the engine to a minimum and reasons for the old-type Ford realize quiet and powerful opera- being so popular was the great tion.

In the

ease with which its pedaloperated It is recommended by spark two-speed gear could be manipulat-plug engineers that these units be ed and the rapid getaway which it renewed about once a year. made possible.

Less "Orphans."

If we consider the possible lines

of development of already fairly Dealers in parts for "orphan" are experiencing low European cars, we may find automobiles that what may be described as an their worst season in the past 15 optimum height for the contre of years. Present figures show a de- gravity is arrived at. In order to crease of 40 per cent. In volume prevent overturning, constructors of trade and the amount is still of present day sports and racing dropping off. ears make them closer and yet

closer to the ground. Is it not cycle dirt-track racing, and even possible, however, that a car which

mile courses, may be too short for

it is impossible to overturn may successful car racing, for to get akid to a groutor exient than one the excitement and to give the which, while low enough not to drivers a fair chance the track overturn readily, has a high must be very wide, especially on enough centre of gravity to cause the bends, and spectators should the vehicle to heal over to a very be placed high up on eloping ground around the course with light extent, thus putting greater amount of weight on the nothing to mar their view of any inner wheels? If this rather deli-

part of it. cato condition can be arrived at,

At first it will doubtless be ding as it is from any likelihood his own theories as to how best he can make his car hold the track.

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the car will be as free from skid- found thint every driver will have

|to overturn.

| Alterations to Special Racing Cars, with too light a vehicle, having a Fairly close-ratio two-speed low gear (a combination which, on gears with a lightning change are a good surface, would ensure won- likely to prove popular. Air derful accelaration), violent wheel- cleaners for the carbureters, and spin and consequent skidding are even for the pump breathers, will likely to result; on the other hand, be an absoluta necessity if the excessive weight or too high a'gear engines are not to be ruined by the will cause the vehicles to be slug- gritty particles suspended in the gish, so that they take too long to ale during a race on a dusty dirt plek up again after slowing for a track, Wire stone guards of a curve."

No Dearth of Suitable Tracks.

finer mesh than those at present | used for road and track racing will be adopted for radiators to

There is a very large number of preserve the honeycombs from the disused racecoursea Acattered impact of flying stones, and brakes about the country, many of them will be improved so as to give tre- being In the suburbs of large mendous retarding power without towns. Those could speedily be any risk of locking the wheels on rolled even enough to eliminate the treacherous surface of the serious bumps and hollowa, whilst track.

the cars themselves would soon It may well be found that the wear down the grass and provide quarter-mile courses for motor-the necessary earthen surface.

CHEVROLET

HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES,

NATIONAL SERIES “A B" PÅSSENGER. 'R‚‚Á‚C, Horgr»Power Rating 91,7. Brake Horne-Power 35 ut 2,200 Revolutiona Piston Displacement 170.3 Cubic Inch. Wheel-Bost 101 Inches Speed 50 MPH.

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Model

Rondstor

Touror.....

Packing

NILL Fastory Extras shipping Hopkeng

Price

Dalltary Prica

F. . .

Hell Weight

2- 2,000 jbg. 5-pan, 2,056 lbs, Coach (2 door)..................... 5.9068. Coupo

G$495

$34 G$216

G$768

495

$7 210

705

2,316 lba.

583

40 265

800

2-рава.

2,170 iba.

50$

40 265

000

Fedan... Cabriolet..... Landau Sedan

5-pasa.

2,390 lbs.

675

40 205

$80

........ 4-pass.

2,270 lbs.

5-pass, 2,306 ību.

695

715

40

265

1,000

40 203 1,020

Hongkong Price includes spare rim Tira & Tube, Bumper, bulb Horn,

Right Hand Drive.

NATIONAL SERIES "A B" COMMERCIAL,

#AO, Hocar-Power Rating 21.7.

Brake. Harre-Power, 35 at. 2,2011 Revolutiona.

Piston, Disp Ferment, 170.8 Cuàg Inch.' Wheel-Buns 107 Inches.

Speed: 45 M.P.H.

$375

G120 G$155

$550

490

20

213

725

530

20

- 240

700

103 2,705

570

20

205

855

101

11

2,530

560

20 265

BG5

205 4,265

000

20

250

870

+

34 2,265..

015

20

255

190

Half Ton Clausies .....

1,615 lbs. Half Ton Chassis and Cab No, 560 2,015, Cal Top Express Truck

128 2,280 .. Beroon Express Truck Combination Truck Panel Express Truck Eight Passenger Bun

Hongkong Price includes spuro rim Tiro and Tubo, Right Hand Drive.

CAPITOL SERIES "L O" UTILITY,

R.&.6. Horic-Power Rating 21.7.

Brake Horn-Power 31 at 2,700 Nevolutione,

Piston Displuerment 170.9 Cubic Inch, Wheel,Bare 124 Inchen,

Ond Ton Chassis .................. 2,1301. 08520 G#45 G1165 $730 114 Ton Chrussiskengas

2,230 lbs.

134 Ton (146) Chuasts... 2,410 lbs.

520 115

320 .215

105

183

800

020

Hongkong Price Includes spare rim, Tire and Tube and 4 fenders."

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EXTRA FOR BODIES mounted ON 124" CHASSIS.

Sedan Cal'.

No. 506 400 lbs. G# 83 0 $30 C$ 65 G8180 Cab Top Body.............................

No. 328 Bereon Body

No. 303

775 1.

175

30

115 $20

950 the.

233

30

145

410

·Combination

No. 303 1,000 lbs.

250

30

145

425

Panel Body

No. 405

800 lbs.

270

20

125* 425

No. 39

775 (b.

305.

130

433

12 Pass. Bun

All Prices and Specifications subject to change without notier

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