1928-12-29 — Page 14

NOTICE

ADVERTISERS

All advertising to bo insorted in this Motor Supplement, must be 'delivered not" later than 2 p.m. on the Wednesday of the week of publication. -

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

THE NEWEST IN THE SIX-CYLINDER FAMILY.

FIXED FOCUS, DEPRESSIBLE. BEAM HEADLIGHTS

BOLID STEERING BHAFT

| BIX-CYLINDER, VALVE-IN-HEAD MOTOR HIGH-COMPRESSION.CYLINDER HEAD

Used Cars

SEE US WHEN YOU WISH TO

Buy or Sell Leb's 10 Queen's Road C.

Phone: Central 4925

GROUPED DASH INSTRUMENTI

MOTOR MITER

ACCESSORIES

A big display of "Oxidila" and "Mo" storage batteries suitable for al cars. Also accessories of all kinda for motorcars and, cycles such as, Electric horns, bumpers, spark plugs, body polish, tyre patches, brakelining, Jacks, foot pumps, wrenches, &c, &c, All at exceptionally low prices. Call sted inspect TIF HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY CO., Bank of Canton Building, Tal. C.577.,

MODERN MACHINERY

That's why our repair service is beller.

LANE, CRAWFORD'S Ring C. 3193-Garage

TRIPLEX

(Non-splinterable) English Eagle just arrived,

Safeguard your eyes whilst

motoring, against accidents. -Excellent English made

frames, full protection, re- aappable prices.

LAZARUS

THE OPTICIAN.

DUNLOP

MADI

THROTTLE

LIGHT CONTROL SWITCH

SPARK

ADJUSTABLE DRIVER'S SEAT

FULL PUMP

The new six-cylinder Chevrolet sedan and a close-up of the motor, showing some of the

improvemeple.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928.

NEW OIL COOLING

DEVICE.

A Most Effective System.

INGENIOUS & SIMPLE.

Oil cooling and purifying is of such importance, that a very in- genious and simple system devised by the Chopard and Walcker Col is of interest although it has not lyot been applied to passenger cara This firm produces a light tractor fitted with a four-cylinder! engine of 79.5X150mm. bore and stroke, and it frequently happens that this tractor has to haul very heavy loads up steep gradients at: aapeed of three or four miles par hour, thus being deprived of the draught of air which, under normal conditions, helps to keep oll temperature reasonably low. When working in this way the oil attains a high temperaturo, and loses ita fluidity to such an extent that bearing failure sometimes jozMu6J.;

The Cooler.

This engine has a separate gear!. box, and a flywheel in two parts junited by a laminated spring coupling. The forward portion of the flywhool, which carries the ring goar for the starting motor, is hollow, and constitutes the oil cooler and purifier, while the rear portion is the driving member of the clutch. The oil cooling member consists of a rocessed stool forging mounted on the laperod end of the crankshaft, and a cast-iron cover plate with eur ved radial vanes, which Induce a curront of air around it. Inside Flint, Mich., Nov. 20. Į intake ports, a fuel pump instead on the dish instead of the steer this member is a sheet steel parti- At practically the same price of the conventional vacuum tank, ing column, only the horn button tion, the external diameter of as the four-cylinder automobile it an accelerating pump, at the at the steering wheel, long, which is rather less than the in- replaces, the new six-cylinder carburetor to feed extra fuel into chrome-vanadium steel springa, ternal diameter. Chevrolet springs many additional the manifold when the throttle 20 by 4.60 tries, chromium plated The lubricating system is under surprises upon the public. is depressed suddenly, higher radiator, motor meter on the dash pressure, and all is brought gear ratio, fixed focus, depressible and a headlight control switch at through the crankshaft to the rear beam headlights, adjustable the driver's left foot.

compartment of the cooling dy- driver's seat and solid steering The price range for the new wheel. Centrifugal force throwa shaft

Chevrolet passenger car is from it outwards around the sheet steal $525 to $725, at Flint, Mich., plate Into the forward compart while that for the old four-cylin mont. In this way It Is brought der car was from $495 to $715. in contact with the cool walls of The new sedan, however, is to be the flywheel and is returned to the sold at the same price as the old crank case by means of an oll

$675.

outlet in the crankshaft concentric with the Inlet pipe.

A list of the innovations intro- duced with this model, which will bo, ready for distribution January 1, runs the gamut of practically all the improvements to be found on the higher priced automobiles. Such, for instance, aro:

In addition to these features, remarkable in a small, low-priced car, there are such novelties na a A high compression motor, new type camshaft, a heavier smaller bore and stroke for higher crankshaft, grouped dash instru- power, four exhaust and threements, spark and throttle lovers

OPEN TEST.

All Kinds of Fuels to be Put on Trial.

OIL TO COAL GAS. Petrol will meet its competitors In opon trial in England early next year, when the Royal Automobile Club will stage a trial for vehicles,

| using every kind of fuel,

́OLDEST CAR.

Prize Offered in Novel Competition.

the American motor alow

There are

are many Light Cars on the

the Market,

but none have been tried

and proven like the-

AUSTIN SEVEN

Can be seen' at our

KOWLOON GARAGE SHOWROOM

ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.

Prince's Building.

2nd. flour,~~Ice House St. Entrance. NEW KOWLOON SHOWROOM,

ADOPTED FOR 'PLANES.

FIAT IN GERMANY, One Third of Car Imports.

Air-cooled Engine. Of the 116 listed aircraft manu- facturers in the U.S.A., 75 aro.us number of molor cars. From nearly Germany Imports a considerable ing air cooled engines, and 11 of the 12,000 cars imported during the first 12 aircraft engine builders are six months of 1926, imports rose building air-cooled engines. to 6,000 in the corresponding period Meanwhilo, cars lag endly of 1927 and reached 7,900 In tho

chaser." Yet thore wore brave

Purifles Oll, men in those days. We turn to This system of cooling bas the old pictures which show them proved most effective, and since it behind, for only three of them-rst half of 1928. The Italian upon lofty vehicles of the phaeton cases of boaring failure. A fur- use this simple and efficient cooling gle of interest, holds becond place bowlered and re-whiskered, high was adopted there have been no one American and two French motor industry in this great strug shape, hard-tyred, rudely sprung ther advantage is that it acts as method. without a front or a back to hide an ofl purifier. By centrifugal

among the importing nations and the Fiat Imports tatal up to on their crudities, wo admire the force all heavy matter is thrown adherence of this foreign matter third of all the motor car imported dauntless nerve of the pioneers, outwards, and comes in contact to the walls of the casing is so into Germany. If the Americans wish to show the with the periphery of the flywheel complete that a chisel sometimes world what the old motorcars were with such force that it adheres. has to be used to remove it. As a holes are drilled in the plate, thus

one compartment to the

QUAINT TYPES.

In

cars

There will be classes for motors they have offered a prize for the ke they must exhibit not only the After a time the accumulation may precaution against the possibility allowing the cil, to pass directly

but the heroes who, drove be cleared away by taking off the of the whole of the space being from

vaned cast-iron cover plate. The Alled with foreign matter, a few other.

using fuel of the crude-oll class, the joldest car of any kind. It will them, paraffin class, for self-produced gas, joccur to many sufferers that they and probably for coal dust.

Entries will be accepted from any maker, irrespective of nationality.

IM ENGLAND

The casing of a tyre is hidden,

but upon it largely depends the service you get,

Correct balance between the tough Dunlop Troad and the Dunlop Casing makes a perfect-

cover.

The Casings of

It's

the

Casing

that

Counts!

A® British

as the Flag

DUNLOP

CORD TYRES

..

are built up from cotton material produced In the vast Dunlop Cotton Mills-to tyre experle specifications.. For MAXIMUN MILES SPECIFY DUNLOP

Dunlop Rubber Co. (China) Ltd. Tel. 0, 4554.

1st Floor, Pedder Building.

in it. Grim humorists will send know that car, and have ridden

the announcement of the prize to certain of their friends. But the Americans arc quite serious; They have begun to talk about i self-propelled vehicle which existed in 1805, the property of one Oliver Evans. But it does not seen to be extant. Vanished aleo, we believe, is Trovethick's steam

ear of 1802. We take it that. America has no objection to steam. Any form of propulsion makes a motor-car for this com- petition. A hundred years ago, there were a number of steam conches on English roads. A re- gular service of power-driven bunes ran between Cheltenham and Gloucester in 1824, and the things which are being said about the noise and stench of modern traffic were said about them. But in 1824 the result was to banish engines to the railways. There is, for was, in Vienna a petrol motor- car which was shown at the exhibition of 1878, A Mecklen- burg mechanic, Siegfried Markus. balit it by taking a four-wheeled handcart filling an engine tween the hind wheels, with wooden chair above it, and steer- ing-gear to the front wheels. But ten years earlier Etienne Lenoir, born a Belgian and naturalised a Frenchman, made an automobile by fitting a gas engine to a car- rlage on which he travelled from. hia factory in the suburbs to Paris, six miles, in an hour and a half.. It did not become popular. The development of the motorcar was to come through the development of bicycle and tricyclo. The frat motor-bleycle was built forty years ago, when Gottlieb Daimler put a vertical petrol engine be- tween the wheels of a "safety" of crude design. It did not much attract even the adventurous cyclists of that ago, but there was no doubt about the engine. In 1884 Carl Benz built a horseless earrings, which was a tricycle- with steering wheels in front and the engine under the driver's seat. It does not look much queerer than other tricycles of that epoch, it would do sight miles an hour, but the historian records that: "Benz'e great difficulty was to find a pur-

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