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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, KOTONING SUPPLEMENT.

A. J. S.

SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.

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A study in contrast is pictured here with the Amlicar, smallest entry in the India.

napolis race, pictured alongside a stock car.

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Indianapolis, Ind., The smallest (the 91.5 cubic inches of the 8-1 San Sebastian, Spain, last year, as automobile ever to compete in the cylinder American mégota. well as the 200-mile Grand Prix 500-mile Memorial Day races at The little Amilcar has been Junior Car Club Contest at Brook- Indianapolis has come here from tested in European races for the lands, England, in 1927.

The Amilcar devalops 118 horse- last two years and has como It is a six-cylinder Amilcar, en- through with several victories. It power at 6.700 revolutions tered by the Thompson Products broke the European record for its minute, which is twice as fast an Company of Cleveland, Its class in both the standing and the stock car motor going at 60 miles an hour. It is equipped driver, Jules Morlcenu, has come flying start for one kilometer,

with a super charger for high mile, at with it to try for the prizes about six-tenths of a offered at the races here.

Arpajon, France; last August, speeds. Thompson Products has This little car, with its V-typo with speeds of 80 and 128 miles installed its own valves and pis- tons to test them on the gruelling six motor, is not only small in atzean hour respectively.

run of the Indianapolis Speedway. but the amallest ever entered here It was also placed first in the 400 In piston displacement. This is 78 kilometer race at Antibes, France, cubic inches as compared with land in the 700 kilometer, race at

ADVENT OF DIESEL MOTOR CARS

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12 and 16-cylindered. Engines to Run on Fuel Oil.

The car has an 80-inch wheel- base and is only 10 feet 9 inches long on a trend 40 inches wide,

USEFUL HINTS.

Tyres & Wheels,

[By Israel Klein.]

Many a car that is found hard-

to drive and rido may still havo perfectly operating engine. The The test of any automobile]per cent. of the racing cars driven trouble in such event may be found power plant in its steady operation to-day, has a mystery automobile in the tyres, the wheela the springa under any and all conditions, To which contains a power plant and the frame itself. get this condition, it has been using 16 cylinders. It is said he The entire dieulty may be at- necessary to increase the number has developed a Diesel engine tributed to one fault-lack of at- of cylinders, shorten the driving which is light enough and strong plunge and speed up the revolu- enough to keep in operation with-tontion on the part of the driver tions per minute. New engines out cracking wide open under the to features of the automobile that

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coming out in the next few months severe strain of reciccesful tion. are small China Underwriters

will follow the European custom- engine should prove successful at tion. They are small matters in built engine practice and operate Indianapolis, It is predicted the themselves, but accumulating 8 on eight, 12 and; possibly on 16 price of automobile fuel, will fall they will, they wind up In making cylinders.

to allow level as low grade mix-

For years automotive engineers tures can be used on the road any-riding and driving quite uncom- have been experimenting with a

fortable and even dangerous. power plant which can be operated

where.

Mystery Car to be in Race,

on the cheapest kind of fuel oil,

Last year Cliff Durant, son of Let us take the matter of tyres use a system of internal combus-[

For these a tyres guage is tion and be light enough to with-W. C. Durant the Detroit financier, first. stand the detonations which are a bullt the Delraft Special for the an indispensable part of the motor- natural consequence of the Diesel Indianapolis race in the labbra lat's equipment. With It ho should operation. The great drawback tories of the General Motors Com- check the pressure of ench tyre heretofore has been the sustained pany. Tommy Milton, who is the once a week, in conformity with weight of the metal used in the only driver to win this race twice, that set by the manufacturer. construction of an engine which did most of the actual work. would drive without confusion on Durant furnished the money and low test gasoline or fuel oil of a drove the car until the super- minimum standard.

Icharger met with an accident, Recently it has been re-1 ported that several automobile

The pressure maintained weekly

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ac advised by the car builder will insure longer life for the tyres and constant onee in riding. Punctures At the track 'In Indianapolis is will be less possible when the tyres. manufacturers who are producing car built by Durant and Milton run under their stipulated pros- cars in the high-priced field have for the race this year. It is being sures. successfully concluded expert worked upon by two men who each ments on a new engine with 12 to draw as much money as the chief 16 cylinders. These companies engineers of the larger automobile work, more likely than not they factories. Everything is in that will be filled with more air than is) had an idea that such a power: car to make it go faster than any-needed. These balloon tyres are plant might prove useful in a pan one ever went before in a race. deceiving and a kick of the foot senger car, but the conclusion has

device, cannot tell whether they are proper

been reached that these 16 cylin-Special supercharger

If a tyre la inflated by guess-

der engines will be tested out in multiple cylindered power plant, ly inflated. If they have too much heavy bus equipment of a trans-special broking system, heavy duty pressure in them, their thin walls tyres and almost perfect driving are quite liable to puncture and continental carrier company,

control make up some of the blow out when they happen to Engine. Has Been Tried Before. mechanical features,

atriko a sharp stone or curb, There is nothing new about a

Passenger cars are powered by If the tyres are underinflated they 12-cylinder engine, as one of the six and eight-cylinder engines

will make steering difficult, rezult fastest ever seen in action was the more this year than in any other

old Sunbeam, made in England for year since the automobile industry in shimmy at high speeds and thye the Grand Prix race in France five began. It is only a small jump endanger the eccupants of the car, or six years ago. This power from the eight-sylinder job to the especially if the road is wet. plant was in miniature, to conform 12-cylinder power plant and then

with racing rules and was so small to the 16, European automotive The wheels should be checked that it could be carried under the engineers know from experience on regularly for alignment, not arm of a mechanic. It was made the road that for case of control only for the safety of the occupants of aluminum and the pistons had from the driving seat, for accelera-

but for the economy gained from

a very short driving area. The tion and for smoothness of perproperly aligned wheels. Misalign actual operating measurement was formance at high and low speeded wheels cause undue wear on the 6,800 revolutions per minute, with the 12-cylinder engine is away out

a development of 125 horse-power. in front of the eight, six and four tyres and are especially hard on the boarings. They result from loosen- This engine was not successful in jobs. And, with the internal coming at the hub and that means commercial work because thehustion principle actually in/opera-]

multiplicity of cylinders made the tion, it is almost a foregone con-loosening of the wheel bearings. skipping at vital points likely. clusion that the low-priced car of The wheels therefore should be During the 500-mile race at the future will be a very smooth tightened up and aligned regularly Indianapolis May 30 it is thought plece of machinery, which can be to prevent wobbling and perhaps likely that a new 16-cylinder motor operated at an absolute minimum will be tried out under actual and tagged within the means of eventually a crack or break in the

axle. racing conditions. Harry Miller, almost every workingman in the famous as the builder of about 90 country.

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