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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.“ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928.

THE

SUPER-EXCELLENT

VAUXHALL

20/60 H. P. Custom Built Sports Cabriolet recently supplied to a local buyer,

THE "DAILY CHRONICLE" SAYS---- "One of the most remirkable new cars placed on the market recently.. .....ite introduction cronted something of a furore in motoring circles."

Full particulars from---

Lane, Crawford Ltd.

Motor Department.

New

Phone C. 3193.

CHRYSLER "65"

Koo-Chrysler "68" 4-Door Saloon

N the new Chrysler Stxes-the 475" and the "65"- Chrysler now sets striking new measures of beauty, when the artistry of an industry was seemingly at its height-new measures of performance, beyond even the sparkling Chryslers of other days ---- new measures of value-lower prices

It is expected of Chrysler that it shall provide the public with new style, new performance, new quality, new value. For it is the outstanding genius of Chrysler engineering, re.. search, and manufacture that periodi. cally they produce new extraordinary

Features-New Chrysler *65*-New larger engine-&y h. p.-"Silver-Dome" high-compres sion head sing any petrol-characteristic Chrysler speed, power and pick-up-counter weighted 7-bearing crankshaft, only car at or near this price with this costly features new, slender profile radiator-new bowl-shaped lamps

offerings, beyond anything else the industry provides in performance and style... ¶It is natural therefore, that the public has acclaimed these new Chryslers as surpassing all that bas gone before-as ushering into exis tence an entirely new motoring style that re-styles all motor cars... I In view of the unique degree of beauty, power, speed, luxury, comfort, effi ciency and value of the new "75" and "65," it is not at all strange that the whole country is today more than ever Chrysler-wild,

---beautiful coul moulding and cout lampa-new, longer chassis and longer, wider, roomier "bodies- new arched window silhouette-new “cźraving” full-crowned wings-new internal expanding Chrysler hydraulic four-whee! brakes, unaf- fected by weather conditions-Lovely hydraulic shock absorbers, front and rear-spring enda

· anchored in live rubber, Instead of metal shackles

A. A LUNG 8 CO.

19, Queen's Road, C.

Tel. C. 1219.

HINTS

FOR THE

MOTORIST

ALBERT L. CLOUGH

GASOLINE OR SPARK TROUBLE, WHICH?

MILLIONS OF STROKES.

Piston at Speed.

BARRAGE UNDER

BONNET.

Imagine 104,578,064 piston strokes and 156,882,036 explosions in a motor engine Inside 16. days.

FROM ENGINE OIL.

Metal and Sand.

FILTER'S COLLECTION.

Tho

enormous Increase in jefflciency that has been obtained in

the automobile engine in receit. degree, to the numerous round- years can be traced, in a largo ments that are now found on nuements and small accessories aro modern cars,. Some of those ro- seldom sufficiently valued.

The average motorist cannot do it, of course. He doesn't stop to think what is happening under the At least nine times out of ten,fter prevent your engine from bonnet of his "car, when ho is In order to givo ocular evidence when an engine won't start of a "pumping" so much oil, Fit travelling along smoothly. It is of the valuable functioning of an car comes to an unintentional stop, ting each piston with new wings, only when trouble develops that he oil filter, engineers of the General either the engine is not getting the one of which may be of the "oll wonders at all, or gives a thought Motors research laboratories re- right amount of fuel or else there control" kind, will probably pre- to the tremendous work his car cently analysed the residue taken are no sparks occurring in its vent too much oil from reaching engine is doing all the time. But from a cloth filtering unit of an cylindors, but often it is not at once the plugs, unless the cylinders are Studebaker engineors have recently foll filter that had done service in a clear, oven to an experienced very much worn. You will also worked out, to reasonably close car for 10,676 miles. operator, which of the two causes save considerable oil and gasoline limits, what happened in the engine is responsible for the trouble. If by having this work done. A com- of each of the three Studebaker 'It was found that this residue Losting the gasoline supply in the petent mechanic can tell you Commanders when each travelled was composed of one-third matal main tank with a measuring stick whether your engine's cylinders 20,000 miles in less than 25,000 and two-thirds eand elements of (for gage readinga are not infal- laro still in good enough condition minutes on the Atlantic City speed such high abrasivo qualities that

blo) indicates plenty of fuel on to expect new rings to control way two months ago.

they could be used effectively for hand, the presumption is that over-oiling.

the grinding of valves or the Ignition has failed. To see if this

sharpening of knives.

One can visualise, perhaps, the fusillade of powerful explosions, is the case, detach one of the

Distributor Ignition for Ford. the pistons plunging up and down opark-plug cables and hold the

Cylinder walls, pistons, and with Hghtning-like rapidity; valves other parts of the engine, it ie metal clip al its end a "strong" discard the ignition system of that they must have been but a drastically affected by this abra-

Question:

I am advised to rod hot, opening and closing so fast certain, cighth of an inch from the metal my Ford car and substitute for it glowing blur. And all this in selve had the filter not collected it. sholl of the plug, put the switch a distributor system Mke that In

aro

Would hove been

ROUGH ROAD RACE.

*

Erskine in Poland.

SNARLS MEAN THE reach the Studebaker headquar--

SACK.

Courtesy Order for

A

Police.

Latest nows of triumphs to

ters concerns a severo test in Poland, from which an Erskine Six royal sedan emerged with fly- ing colours. According to cables from Warsaw, the Erskine defeat- ed a field of 120 competitors in a race from Warsaw to Lodz, cover- |ing 1103 kilometres in 17 hours 43

minutes.

on and turn over the engine. If no use on other cars. What advantageing Inferno of flaming gazes, apark la seen jumping between the would there be in so doing? Could the track smoothly and evenly, re- Meantime, the cars raced round cable clip and the plug-shell, it can the magneto still be made use of? be concluded that Ignition has

gardless of the barrage proceeding failed but if good sparks

Answer: Such a distributor all the time inside the engine. observed, the inference is that unit, with its single spark coll, is It is calculated that each piston gasoline does not flow properly much simpler than your present travelled 43,571,370 feet during from the main tank out of the outfit, consisting of timer and four that terrifle driving test, and that spraying-jet of the carburetor. vibrator coils. The distributor, as each valve opened 26,147,006 times, Some inking as to whether it is usually mounted, is more readily a gasoline or spark trouble, that accessible than the regular timer. shuts down an engine, may be needs. no oiling and carries obtained by hoticing its behaviour wires which are subject to bending just before it stops. If its power and eventual breakage. Coil vi gradually falls off and explosions brator adjustment is done away become wenker, even while the with and the single breaker of the throttle is being opened, if it then distributor system gives more ac- begins to miss explosions and per-curately timed sparks than does haps backfirea, just before stalling the four vibrator arrangement. it is highly probable that the sup- The magneto cannot be used to ply of fuel mixture to the engine supply current for distributor igni, has failed. If, on the contrary, ition, but current can be taken from suddenly stops firing or stops fring the atorage battery. regularly, but when explosions de

. Battery Ignition for Ford. occur they scení normally strong until they cease altogether, Question: Does it do a Ford ignition trouble may be suspected, engine any hurm

opornte Some of the common causes of it on battery ignition current, gasoline failure are: A stopped when the magneto has gone wrong? the force. up carburetor filter-screen or clog- How much juice" does it take This is the result of an order 38.& milos an hour, for the dis ged piping anywhere in the system, from the battery for ignition pur-issued by the city's chief of pollee tance, which amounts to 684.90 Jobstructed vacuum-tank inlet poses? It seems not to make any that a policeman's first task is to miles.

screen, yacuum tank flapper-valve difference in the ammeter reading. not seating or vent-valys that does not open and air-leaks at the it on battery ignition current Answer: It does no harm to run vacuum-tank pipe connexions. Common causen of ignition failure Only a fraction of an ampere is TC: Loose or broken connexions required to operata the Ford ut or between the battery switch, ignition system-an amount too small to he noticed on the ammeter, make-und-break and spark-coll. Short-circuiting of the high-ten- | sion wire from the coll to the centre connexion of the distribu- lor, a defective condenser or broken down spark-coil.

Looking for Ollproof Plugs,

S. L. W. writes: I have a lot of] trouble from my enr's apork-plugs fouling with oil and I have to clean them every few hundred miles or my engine skips badly. Inve tried several kinds of 80- called non-fouling plugs, but none of them have lived up to the claims made for them. Can you give mo the name of a plug that is really oil-proof?

Answer: No, we cannot and we don't believe there is such a thing, Inatend of hunting for oil-proof plug, you had bet

النت

AFFECT EFFICIENCY.

Plug Change Noted.

SAME MOTOR, MORE POWER.

A recent engineering test in a Chicago (USA) laboratory show- ed that an automobile engine run- ning 20 miles an hour and equip- ped with spark plugs that had been. In use slightly more than 10,000' mlles developed 206 horse-power. With a new set of plugs the same engine gave a horse-power reading qf 26.4.

One "horac-power" le sufficient to lift 33,000lb. one foot in one minute.

The method used in determining! Įthis unit is very interesting, Back in the 18th century James Watt (inventor of the steam engine) and Matthew Boulton etarted to manu- facture hoisting engines to replace the horses then used in the coal mines of England,

In order to compare the power [of one of their engines with that of the number of horses required to perform the same work, they under- took to test the pulling power of a heavy draught-horse. They found |that a horse could lift 350lb. of: coal 100ft, in one minute, which is equivalent to lifting 88,000lb, one foot in one minute.

Longest Road.

The longest paved motor round in the world is said to be tho Pacific Highway, running from Vancouver, B.C., Canada, along the Pacific Coast to the Mexican bor Įder, a distance of 1476 miles.

to

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policeman who anaris: "D'you think you own this street? or "Whatsa matter, are

The race was arranged by tho blind?" to a motorist, who mis- Automobile Club of Lodz, and in- takes n traffic signal or takes the cluded some of the most difficult wrong turning in Cambridge highways in Europe. In winning (U.S.A.) is likely to receive less first prize against a field, includ- than one week's notice to leave Ing both European and American cars, the Braking Six averaged

be courteous to motorists.

According to his Instructions This news follows closely on the and courteous manner that they made by the Erskine In America, drivers are to be told in a quiet heels of the record-breaking ran are viointing a traffic rule, and, if where 10 new world records word they are first offenders are to be established when the car travelled given a mild lecture and dismissed 1000 in less than 1000 consecutivo with a warning.

minutes.

YEARS OF LEADERSHIP

Buick

BUICK FOR 1929 WILL HOLD ALL ITS

OLD FRIENDS AND IS GOING TO

MAKE A HOST OF

1

NEW ONES.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33, Wong, Nei Chung Road,

Happy Valley.