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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ACROSS AMERICA.

3,772 Miles in 76 Hours.

SALESMAN'S BUSİNESS

TRIP.

Finding it necessary for business reasons to drive his own car from Los Angeles to New York, a.sales. man set out with, a frlead in a Dodge Brothers' Victory Six, which had already covered 12,427 miles. Usually a good deal of preparation is made for such a run, but, the business was urgent and they had to start without delay. They took | turns at the wheel during the arduous run.

Up and down mountain roads, across deserts, through raud and rain and in city traffle with thrilla

BY THE WAY

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT

TEVER wear good gloves when

testing the battery with a hydromoter or when filling it with water. Acid that spashes upon the leather quickly eats it to shreds and once it gets a start there is no stopping it until the whole glove is worthless.

the Queen's Race at Bula-

Iwayo, recently, W. 3. Mitchell

on bis 340 c.c. Twin-Port New- Hudson made the fastest time, in his class and broke the record for the course.

and hair raising adventures thrown LISTEN,"

in, the pair carried on.

Forced off a mountain road in Arizona in a collision with an ap proaching car their car was dam- aged to the extent of a caved in body, broken windshield, bent front

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remarked . the over oxasperated driver, his shoulder, Lindbergh got to Paris without any advice from the back seat."

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10 make a temporary repair_to a broken petrol pipe, secure a potato, force one end of the

careful to take the potato out of ends of the pine together and glide the pipe. Then bring the broken the petalo over, making a sleeve' of it. This tip will see you home,

"Laicas" storage batterics suitable for, axle and steering gear, and dam-broken pipe into the vegetable to aged front brakes. Surveying make a hole right through, being their plight, the two men uninjured, agreed that the all steel two wall- ed body had saved their lives. The car proceeded under its own power to Kingman, Ariz., where a Dodge dealer effected emergency repairs | without replacements and mainly with a sledge hammer,

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LIGHTS AT CROSSING.

A means to eliminate railroad erossing accidents in Michigan has been made public by Frank F. Rogers, state highway commission- er. The plan is to equip each crossing with flood lights so that at night approaching traine udally be seen.

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This accident cost them three hours in time, in Kangas the drivers were again delayed by

dooded ronds and a 90 miles detour WAH necessary. At one time it ralued so hard that they discon- nected the fan to prevent it from throwing water over the engine, Stops were made six times en route. for changing and replacing tyres..

Arrived, at last in New York, the speedometer reading showed they had negotiated 3,772 miles at an average of 43 miles per hour;

transcon-

outrunning the fastest tinental trains by more than seven hours.

THROUGII a ruling by the South Carolin state supreme court, gasoline cannot be sold in that state on Sunday. This law grow out of the old Sunday blue laws" of South Carolina,

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Ma man in my car!"

wife has run away with Not

"Good heavens!

your new car?"

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HE present automobile is 250

The preacher than the pictor

car in vogus before the World War, according to W. L Velie, Jr., vice president of the Velle Motor Corporation. Besides, he says, the present car of $1,200 is as good as the car of 12 years

ago costing $4,000 or $5,000..

The companions speaking of the A

event Inter said: "We kept the accelerator down all the way and put our faith in the car. We owe our lives to the body construction of the Victory Six-in our opinion the finest car in America, regard less of price."

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928.

THE NEW BERLINA WEYMANN FIAT SALOON “521”

The above picture is of one of the new products of the famous Fiat Factory-the

Berlina Weymann “521.”

AUTOMATIC GEARS,

No Gear Lever Or Clutch.

INFINITE RATIOS.

[By a Motoring Correspondent.]

I recently drove what honestly be described as “n dream

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The exterior appearance of the car was that of a perfectly normal little "Gwynne 8," but the first thing that struck one on getting into the driving seat was the absence of a clutch pedal and gear lever. To start all one did was to press the accelerator pedal' and the car accelerated smoothly and quickly, while to stop one simply pressed the brake pedal,

The car, in fact, had neither gear box nor clutch in the ordinary

sense of the word, as it was fitted Variable Speed Gear, a British invention, which, in fact, abolishes all need for gear-changing and for the use of a clutch.

Briefly stated, the gear is a friction, one, and is controlled by a governor. As the engine speed increases, the governor weights which are inside the engine fly wheel, fly outwards, and through cams and a conical friction Bur- face the gear ratio is altered in conformity with the speed of the engine.

DIFFERENT kind of an automobile race is suggested by Ettore Bugatti, French motor car manufacturer. He aug gests that a number of well known racing drivers be equipped with exactly the same type car and the The result is that an infinitely winner will prove himself the best variable automatic gear is obtain- automatic ed. In addition driver.

any

connected with the little engine really amazing acces clutch governor puts the engine to nou- leration figures could be attained. tral, when it is just turning over. The car would shoot away in To drive a car fitted with this trafic from far more powerful gear is then simplicity itself. All vehicles, no time being lost in gear one has to do to start is to press changing. the accelerator pedal and the car It could be started away amooth- glides away, the gear automatically from a standstill on ly going higher as the speed of the gradient, and it was impossible to stall the engine, as directly it had enging increase

For those who cannot deal with got down to the idling speed, the the intricacles of the conventional gear was automatically in noutral, gear box, a car fitted with this in-or free. Again, when going down. vention is therefore ideal, to men- hill, the engine could be used as tion nothing of the mechanicala brake by simply pulling back the Joy stick, and this would hold the advantages.

car on almost any gradient.

"Joy Stick" Control. I can hear, however, grumbles The gear is at present made for from the gear-box experts who like small cars, but sets are being made to change down, and who look upon for larger vehicles, and one for a correct gear manipulation n's tank of 20 tons weight. Not only! relief to the general monotony of should it have great possibilities driving. Now, as a matter of fact, for the ordinary driver, but it they need have no fear, as with should also be of great service in this Invention the manufacturers racing cars,

Friction Linings. have thoughtfully provided a con-

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trol, which they call the "I cannot conceive how any car alter or hold the gear in any post- box when pitted against a similar This is a simple engined vehicle with the R.A.V.B. tion desired. lever, like an ordinary brake lever, gear in a race, however skilful the and to lower the gear ratio the driver, as with the friction gear driver simply pulls it towards him, the speed of changing the infinito while to allow the engine to number of ratios is so much operate it automatically he pushca greater. it away. He can, therefore, change down at any speed through an infinite number of ratios, ofther using his engine as a brake, or if he wants sustained and ferce the gear down longer than the acceleration up hill he can keep

On the test that I made of this automatic gear would allow, Invention I found that with the

I was told that on the car con- cerned the friction linings had not been renewed for 30,000 miles, and even should wear take place the linings are easily replaced at a the. R.A.V.S. gear is cheaper to small cost. It is also stated that make than an ordinary gear box and can be removed or fitted to the car in a low minutes.-Ex

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ROM the day the new Ford truck was first introduced, men have talked of its fine appearance, of its remarkable features, of its evident rugged quality, of its low price... THEY saw in the new Ford truck the means of hauling heavy loads long distances in a short time at a low cost.

THEY knew that the 40 horse power engine would move large heavy loads with required speed. They were im- pressed with the lubricating system combining gravity, splash and oil pump; the simple and efficient ignition system, the water pump and the gravity fuel feed from the electrically welded gasoline tank built integral with the cowl..

THEY approved the heavy frame with five heavy cross members, the torque tube drive, the three-quarter float- ing rear axle, the four-wheel brakes, the selective sliding gear transmission, and the rigid new Ford steel-spoke truck wheels.

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SIMILARLY, they recognized the fine practical design

of the front spring suspension developed especially for heavy loads and yet with the desired flexibility, (Hou daille hydraulic shock absorbers help materially to relieve the strain on rough roads) and the full sturdy cantilever spring on each side at the rear-an innovation in rear spring suspension on trucks.

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going over its many interesting features you also will see that here, is an entirely new Ford truck-new from radiator to tail-light. New in design. New in con- struction. Now in everything which is summed up in the word "Performance."