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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

OUT OF THE PAST

This automobile, was the world's wheel, Incidentally, note the 100 miles an hour to-day, but it fustest in 1982. It was the fam- steering apparatus that Barney was fast enough to make the folks bug "999" racing model of Henry has hold of. Of course, this was of that time gasp in wonderment one of Ford's first creations in Ford, who is shown standing, and the automotive industry and it when Ford and Oldfield tried it was driven to world records by wasn't as fast as those racers that out on Lake St. Clair, Michigan Barney, Oldfield, shown at the go around speedways better than in 1902.

Record Attendance.

out

Jers

ever

USEFUL HINTS.

Valve Trouble in

Cars.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1929.

Mostently set or seasoned.

them war-

guides sometimes require from engines, "warped and burned first 10,000 to 16,000 miles of 1,000 to 2,000 miles of running valves began to lie before they have become perman When a valve does not closo com- set of cylinders worth a dozen now noticed. operation of any engine makes tho pletely, the compressed burning ones, so far as warpage. Is con- gas, which reaches, under or corned. On most of dinary operating conditions, a page of 5 to 15 thousandths of an temperature of 1,500 to 2,000 de- inch occurs in 15,000 miles of grees Fahrenheit, is forced with running. great velocity through the small opening left and burns the valve face or warps the stem.

"Thus, every hour's operation of the engine adds to the value of the material in these parts, but makes it necessary to service or MEANS LOST POWER recondition the valve seats as soon as possible after the engine We have eliminated most engine shows such reconditioning to be and chassis noises with improve needed. ment of our cars, but have still "The guile, a small cast-iron to find perfection in the valve rod extending into the valve port mechanisms. Yet this is one of where the heat from the burning the most important factors in the gas has greater opportunity to proper functioning of a motor.. warn it soon loses its perfect The seriousness of valve impor-changes the direction of travel of alignment with the seat and fections and their causes were re the valve. cently taken up at a meeting of the Society of Automoblie Engi- close the valve regardless of this "The spring has the power to neers, by Jack Frost, one of its untrue condition, but does 80 members and a noted automotive through the valve striking a small engineer.

"Valve trouble in most cars." gaining the full seat through

portion of the seat first and then Bays Frost, "means lack of power, pendulum-like swing of the stem. the engine will not idle, the car This produces a metallic click will not climb a hill as it used to. that defies removal through cut-

ting the tappet clearance,

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Ninety per cent. of the valve troubles, according to Frost, are the results of misalignment of the through the same misalignment. "Sticking valves are produced valve head with the valve stem, j valve-stem guide or valve seat.

Fifty thousand to 100,000 times "The valve seats and valve-stem closed in the normal running of 4 day the valve is opened and guides are subject to seasoning," an automobile. he says, "as is the case with all conditions, this side-sinp of the Under the best

intense heat generated in the au- an extent that it will seal the parts made of cast iron, and the stem will produce carbon to such tomobile engine brings a rapid valve stem in its guide regardless change in the texture of the metal of the amount of clearance, and distorts these parts. The "With the advent of high-speed

THE ANCIENT MOTORIST.

NEW YORK SHOW. committee in charge of floor space three-quarter ion 'sizeж were

regulations, Ample room between shown. diaplays allowed the great throng! An interesting feature of the which , poured through the Chrysler Motors display was the entrance for a week, to pass with introduction of a new Dodge Six, a striking answer to the plan for serious FOREIGN CARS SEEN. greater space allotment than ever under the Chrysler banner.

crowding. With increasing the Dodge prestige Tho Surpassing lu attendance, sure the largest array of Chrysler built familiar

before Chrysler Motors displayed radiator emblem retained the course from Sydney to Melbourne in 24 hours; and how this fact Argument: How modern cars on good roads cover a reliability coverage, cars shown and makers

Dodge interlaced represented in all previous dis-

caused an ancient motorist to discourse of perils encountered and exhibited. Special triangles with the Chrysler wings overcome; and of why he gnashed his teeth on dry metal. plays, the 29th National Americas and Pennsylvania Hotels and at show was the dinner given to four- hows were held at the Commodore

adited. Automobile Show was held at the the showrooms of Chrysler, Dodge, teen hundred leading men in the An impressive, feature of the

It is an ancient motorist And he spake through bearded Grand Central Palace, in New De Solo and Plymouth distributors, automobile industry, in the ball-

mouth; York City, from Jammry 6th to and dealers throughout New York room of the Commodore Hotel by January 12th, Inclusive. There and Brooklyn. wan, not a last year's car in the

the National Automobile Chamber three hundred exhibited in the of the Chrysler line were display the guests were 120 representa- Representative body styles in all of Commerce. Included among three floora reserved for the show: jed, including There were 16 makes of natomo- Chryslers, two lines of Dodge

lines or tives from 34 overséss countries. biles represented, five of which Brothers passenger cars, the De were manufactured abroad.

three

SELL-THEN BUY:

Sato Six and Plymouth, the Fargo and Dodge Brothers commerciali More than 15,000 peuple visited vehicles, station wagons, buses, the Grand Central Palace on the delivery curs and trieks. Fifty- Arcording to the National Auto-i opening day, yet although this three passenger car body styles on mobile Ciamber of Commerce, the number was greater than that of even different chassis, in addition, automobile industry, in purchas- any other year, congestion was einl types and complete Fargo the largest buyer of automobiles to the 42 different Dodge commering 1.7 cars while selling one, is avoided due to the foresight of the commercial vehicles in half and in the world.

UNMATCHED IN APPEARANCE

AND PERFORMANCE

BROCKWAY

TRUCKS

"Yon tooth-marked cup recalla

to me

A hard, trial to the south.

"These modern ears on modern

roade

Leave me stone cold," quote be. "If you would hear of dangers

drear Fill up-aid hark to me. "With one-lung spitting smoke

and sparks

And spare tubes aft and fore, We steered a cruise 'round cart

and horne

Which fled before our roar. ***Era Liverpool we passed three

cars,

Seized up and well ablaze, But still abend eight others fled, Hid in their dusty hnze.

"We used a rope and tackle aft To climb o'er Razorback, And stopped at Picton for an

hour

To put the engine back. "With doleful sobs and heartyj

'bange*

Our tyres burst one by one, By candlelight" we fixed them,)

and

Reached Goulburn with the sun.

*We could not sleep, we could

not eat,

'On, on,' was still our ery, Until, upon a baking plain The water-tank bolled dry.

"Such sacrifice you won't

belleve,

Its like you'll never hour: Yet in that water jacket we Poured all our bottled bear,"

"Parched, won and wild, we

chewed the dust

To and, in the first town, That

locysts had gnawed through the bridge

And let the beer-train down,

"After reconditioning the cylin dera and running the engine for the asme distance again, the war- page wll be very little. The little valve guide, then, is imperfect until it has, warped and settled. Wo must then cut the valve seat true to the angle that the guide

"It is impossible, whew a valve guide warps and loses its original aligament with the block and the valve seat, to bring it back, yet it is ridiculous to, replace it. The has taken."

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