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FUNTS.

FOR THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

MOTORIST

ALBERT L. CLOUGH

THE "LIFE-SAVER," THE COTTOR PIN.

It's just a little loop of bent securely bent applies with equal up steel wire, but it carries an force in regard to lock washers, awful weight of responsibility. (locking wires and all other Every car on the road would go to auxiliary fastening devices.. pieces, within a short mileage, if

it were not for the faithful "ser- vices of these hurable enfety de- vices. Safety of Hfe and m depends upon them constantly. The unscrewing of nuts, which hold vital parts together and the-| dropping out of pins, which join important car parts are most usually prevented only by the pre- senee of coltor-pins, so placed as to resist any turning off tendency. or detaching. The purpose of

Clutch Discs Stick Together.

WELL PROPE THIS KEROSENE fixoshit!

NEW MOTOR CRIME.

Carelessness' Defined.

SPAIN TIGHTENS LAW.

The crime of "carelessness" has been added to motoring offences by the new penal code recently intro- duced in Spain. There are two degrees of this crime-"serious" and ordinary.

Some definitions of "serious: carelessness" laid down by the could have been foreseen by the code are:-If and, when the act uso of ordinary intelligenco: if the time and means employed by the person concerned were hope- Beasly inadequate, and consequent- ly caused harm to persons or pro- perty; or if there should be any other circumstance which, in the opinion of the tribunal, proves the seriousness or recklessness of the misdemeanor, as being suMelent for sentence.

"Ordinary carelessness" is de- Aned as: "When the tribunal considers that the driver did not utilise foresight, prudence, or skill."

Question The fabric-faced mul- Penalties under the new codej tiple-disc clutch of my-car drags are more severe on motorists con-

can

In addition, the motorist has to pay compensation, which, in the extreme, cases, is computed at 20 timea the annual salary of the victim.

and they seem all right. How do you account for this trouble? engine is at fault. If the car Answer: We do not believe the coasts at high speed, with the clutch out and the engine idling and there is till rumbling, it is not due to the engine. You better seo

SATURDAY,

1925, 1929.

OLDSMOBILE SETS NEW RECORD.

Arthur Barnes and his mechanic, Fred, Schultz, ea- tablish a new Australian, racord driving a slock model Oldamobile from Brisbane to Sydney in 15 hours 8 minutes,

a reduction of 57 minutes over the previous record,

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PETROL, NOT WATER.

Mistake Causes Serious Harm.

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BE CAREFUL!

garage at

An employee in a Brisbane while standing near a naked light accidentally caught his clothing alight.

Under the impression that he was throwing

enveloped in flames, which were not put out before considerable injury had been caused.

used to hold a supply of water for In many garages a petrol tin is radiatore. In view of the possi- bility of confusion it would cer- tainly appear from the foregoing that such a practice is definitely undesirable.

PRINCE'S MASCOT.

this article in to urge upon overy and spins, when try to start out/victed of carelessness, ranging one, who has to do with motor cars, to make it, almost a ancred after the car has been idle for a the death, paralysis, blindness or from eight years in the event of duty to see that cottor-pins are few days, but after it is

once lunacy of the victim, to six months infall by replaced when they have freed, it operates all right. If if the victim is rendered unfit for been removed in the disassembling put in a stick to keep the dises ordinary work for more than 60 of car parts. No more important separated, I

leave it for days. bit of advice bearing upon the pre-weeks and have no dragging at vention of injury to persons or of starting, How can this trouble damage to cars can be put into be prevented? print The steering gear is held Answer: Apparenti; there is together by pins kept from drop- nothing mechanically wrong and it ping out or by ball joints secured seems probable that the surface from falling apart by cotter-pins, condition of the fabric is the The brake operating linkage and trouble. The facings may have parts of the brakes themselves are become gummy and you might try hept from coming apart and be- jwashing them off with kerosene coming useless by the same tiny squirted onto them through the but indispensable locking devices. opening in the top of the clutch There is nothing to prevent the housing. If there is a hole in the nut that holds a wheel on its axle bottom of the housing, close it that the drive shaft runs true. a tin of water over him, a co ed a bronza aoldier us a mascot from working off and ditching a temporarily to retain suflicient Have someone watch it with the league soaked him with petrol and car inve the cotter-pin inserted herosene and open it afterwards to floorboards lifted and see if it the unfortunate man through it and the axle end. drain it. Spinuing of a clutel vibrates or "whips" nt high Spring-bolt lock nuts will drop off after remaining idle, is not very speeds. See that there is nothing and lot the spring ends loose from bothersome, if low or reverso gear loose about the universal joints the frame, wore it not that they is engaged and the eluteh hold out, and that there is no excessive ara cotter pinned or secured with before the engine is started. Iost motion at the ends of the rear lock washers. Aside from the When the enging starts and the protection to passengers afforded clutch let in gently, with the hand by cotter-pinning of fastening de- brake set, the discs are pretty vices, is the use of the cotter-pin sure to be separated and further supported and that the body-bolta to safe-guard motive power and trouble prevented. transmission parts against losing their correct adjustment or even against getting adrift und work- ing havoc upon themselves and neighbouring parts. Whatever is it would shake itself to piecca. said as to the necessity of pun- can drive it up hill at 30 m.p.b., ctilious care in replacing cotter- but down hill it rumbles as if all pins which have been removed, by the body bolts were loose. I havo new pins properly inserted and looked over the engine bearings

Rambles at High Speeds. 1 Question--At high speeds, my conch rumbles so that it seems na

springs or looseness at their clips, Make sure that mudguards, mufler and all such parts are securely

are all secure,

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Studebaker's Erskine Six wins world-wide favor

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Boo how effortlessly it steers, how readily it turna corner. Note how soft its clutch action, how immediate the response of Nash 4-wheel brakes, and finally, how dynamic the accel- eration of its new Twin-Ignition motor.. Drive this car, and you will find yourself driving with more pleasure, more confidence, than

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