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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,

They ALWAYS Run Right

When We Overhaul om

ARE you getting the best out of your car? If not, why not let us give it a good overhaul and tuning. Mr. A. J. Allison is the Engineer in Charge of our Workshops, and will be pleased to give your machine the benefit of his wide experience.

WE SHALL BE PLEASED TO GIVE YOU AN ESTIMATE.

Phone C. 3193.

Lane, Crawford. Ltd.

TEMPORARY · GARAGZ—OBOBS LANE-WAKQHAI,

New

Dependable Auto Service

at Low

Cost

CHRYSLER "65"

IN the new Chrysler Sixes -- the

"75" 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 Chrislee "65"~ New Larger engine-63 h. p."Silver-Dome" high-compres sion, head using any petrol-characteristic Chrysler speed, power and pick-up-counter- weighted 7-bearing crankilift, only car at or near this price with this couly features new, slender profile radiator-new boul-stuiped lamps

uker “65′′ 4-Door Saloon

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 has gone before-as ushering into exis tence an entirely new motoring style that rogstyles all motor cars

.. 9 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 cowl moulding and coat lamp-new, longer chassis and longer, wider, roomier bodies- negarched window silhouette w "afr-wing" full crowned wings - new internal expanding. Chrysler hydraulic four-wheel brakes, unajs fected by weather conditions-Lovejoy hydraulle shock absorbers, front and rear siting ends onchioned in live rubber, instead of metal shackles,

A. LUNG 8 CO.

19, Queen's Road, C.

Tel. C. 1219.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 37 1928

TRAFFIC

DRIVING

KARVER"

Car Management in a

Crowd.

Had

FORD BRAKES,

Service and Emergency System.

FIRST STEAM CAR

Cugnot's 1769 Model.

In 1769 a Frenchman named Nicholas Joseph Cugnot built ane In the New Model Ford braking operated a three-wheel steam- system the public obtains the ideal propelled vehicle, in which coal brake combination-full, intergal was used as a fuel. Fexpanding brakes on front and rear Though henyy awkward and dit- wheela service and emergency: ficult to manage, this forerunner This system embodies the highest of modern cars travelled at 25 safety factorian,

Amilca an hour.

The now Ford brakes are made

posalble through the Ford steel inches ta diameter and are man. spoko wheels to which drums citnufactured to the most precise be fitted of such design as to rendistandards. They are hold to five ly accommodato two sets of internal one-thousandths of an inch (.000)." brakes on the rear wheels. Thus an unusually close limit for such a Is combined the well-known advan- Finrgo dlameter

tages of full internal expanding The unusual feature of the New brnkes with all working parts in Ford braking system is found how- closed.

ever, in the emergency or parking This, affords protection against brakes, which are on the roar wheels, murd, water, sand, road dirt, grease and controlled by a hand lover or other foreign substances enter-located just in front of the gear ing the brake mechanism or be-shift in the contro of the car tween the hands and drúm,' ogía A specially developed two-in-one [By Special Arrangement With The Morris Owner.]

the case with enternal contracting brake drum of exceptional strength brakes when these parts are Xhas been designed for the rear

wheels. The larger braking sur Take up a position on the pave hugging the left-hand kerb. The posed.

The service brake system on the face accommodates the brake shoes ment of any busy street and watch result is that when finally he sees the stream of traille go by. There an opportunity of coming out into new Model Ford car is a completo of the four-wheel system, and a is much to learn. Confidente in the main stream of traffic being four-wheel vatem with internal separate braking surface, slightly others, so close to the left, he has to go expanding shoes on all four wheels, offset from the first accommodates some, carolessness in whilst yet a third section is guilty well out towards the centre of the operated by the foot pedal. It is the parking or emergency brakes, which aro of the band or full foxl of recklessness.

road he is turning into bofore he a complete braking system.

However, in order to provide the bla shoo type, self-energizing. Ab Suppose, for instanco, we are can lock-over-for if he turns too standing at the Cross in that fine soon his back wheels will cut the utmost in safety and to comply with with the other set of brakes, the the spirit as well as the letter of worldng, parts of the parking old city of Gloucester. Four of corner and cross the path.

all existing laws and regulations, the busiest ronds in the kingdom he pulled out a little to the crown the Ford Motor Company has added brakes are cadmium-plated to meet at this point, and traffic from of the aide road before locking. north to south, and from east to over he could have taken the complete and distinct parking or vent rusting and are mounted on a

emergency braking system. This plate of pressed steel.

The steel spoke wheels are bullt west, la controlled by the familiar corner closely,

consists of two internal expanding figure in blue standing whero the

brakes on the rear wheels operated with a steel shell, which fits well four roads meet.

The next interesting item is an by a hand levor and entirely indep over the brake drum. The drum left arm a stream of vehicles lo tion track driver in leather coat brakes.

Look! Behind his outstretched|old two-seater driven by un Imita- dent from the four-wheels, service is not affected when the wheels

whlat before him and beret. He shoots up the side, up,

In this combination of two brak- passes a line of cars, carts, vans road, his finger on the horning systems the New Model- Ford and drays.

button, and calmly swings into the driver, has a maximum in safety. Comparisons....

stream of traffic without so much Both sets of brakes are of mechant- Firat comes a handsome saloon, as the flicker of an eyelid. This cal design, of jaimple construction,

Abig display of Ozidilo" and driven by a competent driver, results in a terrible burst of pro-insuring positive action and highest gliding slowly past without any fanity from the driver of the car efficiency at all times with the leaat Lucas storage batteries suitable for fuss in second' goar. Following he swings before,

All cars. Also, accessories of all kinds Itability of getting out of order it is a tradesman's delivery van,

This is again getting too much

In an emergency either set of for motorcars and cycles such as, complete with a boy driver, who of a good thing. Here I know brakes will bring the car to a quick, Electric horns, bumpers, spark plugs, roars the outfit along in first speed the driver of this car approaching, smooth halt.

body polish; tyro patches, brakelining, with the throttle about half open. We'll sit in the back and get him All the wheels of the car. All, at exceptionally low prices Cal

that any brakes can do is Jacks, foot pumps, wrenches, &c., &c... Close upon the rear wheels of the to drive us round the city: Off were brakes on the New Ford and inspect TUR

HONGKONG van a four-seater car, driven by algo. Second gehr, you notice-up newcomer to the motoring frater Northgate Street to the Cross. are designed

drawn

One can see:

A Cheap Imitation.

a

Car

are changed due to the trouble.

ACCESSORIES

NOTICE

то

to effect MOTOR ACCESSORY CO., Bank of nity, jerks itself forward in a The policeman is holding up our this function smoothly, quick- Canton Building: Tel.C,577, sickening manner.

stream of traffic-watch ourly, and with the least possible effect that its driver is frightened to driver. The clutch is depressed on the part of the driver. Tests death of the gearbox, and is con- sequently still in top gear at about and the year lever slipped into have proved them more than ad- The four-wheel brakes, as bas four m.p.h.-and trying to pick neutral as we glide to a standst!,quate in attaining this result.

Our driver's eyes are ahead upon been stated, aro of the expanding up!

The policemant changes his post-the white figure controlling, the shoe type and are self-centreing. A new Ford. development, tion. His right arm halts the stream of cars. As the arm hold-

stationary drops, he which means that under all stream of cars, and his left ing us beckons on the waiting stream depresses the clutch and bring circumstances the entire surface the lever to frat. A touch on the of the shoes contacts with behind him,

The first car to sweep round bim accelerator and we glide smoothly the brake drum whenever pres is controlled (?) by a young lady away--the clutch is depressed-asure. Is exerted to bring them of some twenty summers. She is pause and with a scarcely per-inlo action. The brake on each of a victim of the particularly bad ceptible click we are in second. the four-wheels, has two shoes, a habit of gazing at the gear lever we approach the Cross the total of eight shoes in all, and these driver's loft arm indicates his wish expand to come in contact with the as she makes the changes.

to turn that way, and smoothly we brake drum. Plates upon which

Downcast Eyes..\

As soon as she is beckoned on swing round. Down, Eastgate the braking mechanical la mounted she sweeps half-way round the still in secondwe move at about are of pressed atee! and all working policeman, then changes from ten mp.h. There are too many parts are cadmium-plated to pre- bottom to second-of course drop- vehicles about to render a change vent rusting

The brake drums are carefully ping her eyes to watch the gear into top advisable.

the gate! A lever through

Turning to the right, through a ground to insure proper contact of hurried step back saves the police-maze of side streets, we approach the shoes. These drums pro 11 man's feet, and a 'shout from the Southgate Street. Hero it is a pedestrians on the path causes her revelation to watch the way the She is being to raise her eyes in time to save car is handled..

a lamp standard from destruction.driven, one might almost say, upon We are Following her is a driver who the accelerator only. lacks knowledge of hand signal-shown the correct way to leave a ling. As he approaches the corner side road and enter a main street he gives no sign whatever as to approach the corner, and a his intentions, but finally his pas matter of a few yards before eenger drops a languid left hand reaching it, if conditions permit, over his side--and the driver pulle pull a little towards the centre of the road. Warning is given over to the right.

The next car is in the hands upon the horn and, our speed re- Admittedly latively low, we turn into the main of a nervous driver, he is in bottom gear, but the ear, stream of traffic well over to our owing to a nervous foot upon the own side, and so reach home.

In Brief. accelerator, is progressing in a series of short rushes."

In closing, the main points to This is getting a little too much be remembered in trafic driving of a good thing! Let us see if we are these:

can find a competent traffic driver elsewhere.

Don't be afraid of second gear.

Give visible signs of your inten-

Ah! This ought to prove in-tions as to turning or stopping, teresting a narrow side road,

Drive, on the accelerator-not on

entering the street. An old Lizzie the horn and the brakes. is coming up the side road,

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And, finally, don't get flustered.

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The N

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THE FRENCH MOTOR CYCLE CO.

46, Nathan Road,

Kowloon,

1992

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