1928-10-06 — Page 9

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

WHY CAPTAIN CAMPBELL DIDN'T WIN THE RACE.

JOHN I.

THORNYCROFT

THE LEADING EXPONENTS

ECONOMICAL ROAD TRANSPORT

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WANTED.-ADVERTISER with $1,000, wants to buy nearly new car. No duds ner old models con aldered. Write Box No. 428, căre of "Hongkong Telegraph."

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE Standard two seater, good running order Box.427, cara of "Hongkong Telegraph."

ACCESSORIES.

FOR SALE-Storage batteries, Lucas bull horne, Sparton elec tric horns, wrenches, jacks, pumps, brakelining, tyre paints and patches, spark plugs, cutouts, an meters, windscreen wipers, &c., &c. Prices exceptionally low. Inspec- tion cordially invited. The long kong Motor Accessory Co., 1st] floor, Bank of Canton Building Tel. C.577.

NOTICES.

NOTICE.

It is hereby notified that Messrs. J. Gibbs & Co, have relinquished their Agency for Michelin Tyres and Tubes as from September 30th, 1928.

P.P.-M. MICHELIN & CIE,

por M. DORIAN, Representative for China.

NOTICE.

Captain Campbell's car, a Bugatti, caught fire at the end of the second lap of the Tour-

let Trophy race. He is seen on the right (in racing kit) helping to extinguish the blaze.

CHECKING SMALL

DETAILS.

This incident is given in detail FREE BRAKE TESTS.

bo show what troubles can be en countered from the failure to con Bider the slighest detail in the operation of the car. Even the

Story with a Moralittle vent in the tank cap is im-

A motorist on a long tour had been driving for some time along; adunty road when the motor began to sputter and then stopped.

portant, and so are many similar parts and adjustments.

Usually, when the motor goes wrong, inspection for trouble is confined to it. That, of course, is

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U.S. Police Plani

Froo brake-testing stations, superintended by police officers, have been established in San Fran- cluco (U.S.A.).

Motorists may voluntarily apply there for brake tests and receive

The driver looked at his gasoline the first step in the search. But a report from the officials in Hauge. The tank was half full. when that is exhausted without chargo as to the condition of this battery and success, the search should continue mechanism. They are then ex- He checked his ignition. Then he tested his car along all lines that lend from the pected to have necessary adjust burettor and vacuum tank and engine to the very end of each.

ments made at their favourite ser- vico stations. found them empty.

Such a search covers frst the

The scheme is to Impress the Cuel system, then the entire necessity of safe brakes, and is Ignition system and finally the mealso helpful to any driver who chanical system, including the

becomes involved in an accident, differential, transmieston, and

as it may prove that his brakes Usually, sufficient warning is given beforehand, from the spot where were in good order.・・ the trouble can be traced. The

There was the troubic. The fuel had stopped flowing from the tank. Most likely a clogged fuel line.

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After the line' had been opened up and blown out, the motorist stepped on the starter with a sigh of relief. But nothing came of the effort. The motor failed to budge. spluttering of the engine before

A spectroscope Is now being

It wasn't til late that evening, the car stopped, In the incident re-used to photograph engine knocks, after the car had to be towed to a corded, was enough to warn the The slightest deviations are de Karage and the mechanic there had driver of something wrong in the fected when artificial rainbows aro

created in the cylinders.. given up, that a carcicas helper fuel system. accidentally revealed the cause of

It is hereby notified that we have the trouble. He had opened the appointed, as from October Iet, tank to assure himself there was 1928. MESSRS A. GOEKE & CO., enough gas in it, and failed to re- 3rd floor, Chian Building, Hong-place to cap. After working the kong, distributera for MICHELIN starter for a minale, he surprised Motor Car, Motor Cycle aud himself by hearing the engine sput- Bicycle Tyres, Tabcs and Acces-lar and die of. Borica.

p.p. M. MICHELIN & CIE,

M. DORIAN, Representative for China,

NOTICE.

Stepping again on, the starter,

the boy got the engine running in

perfeet shape. There was nothing

wrong with it.

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The cause of all this costly and time-losing trouble was in the tank cap. Dust, thick and moist," had accumulated over the back of the car during the motorist's long We have been appointed dis-run, and had clogged up the vent in tributers for MICHELIN Motor the dust cap, so as to keep air

Tyres, from entering the tank.

car, Motor Cycle and Bicycle Tubes and Accessories ns from October 1st, 1928.

Suction from the engine had worked until this happened, when Jack of pressure at the tank cnused the flow of gasoline to the vacuum A. GOEKE & CO.,

tank to stop. After the gas in the Brd Floor, China Building.aeuura tank had been exhausted.

the engine stopped.

Mod

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UNION BUILDING, 5th. Floor.

THORNYCROFT

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