HINTS
FOR THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, COTURING SUPPLEMENT. "SATURDAY, JUNE
MOTORIST
by
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
SKIDDING.
Don't Let the Wheels Lock or Otherwise Loose Their Hold.
When a road wheel loses its stalling skidding and this means hold on a slippery road and ceases driving slowly whenever roads are to roll in definite contact therewith, slippery. Whenever a car la on al its directional effect upon the curve, centrifugal force Is tending.. course of its car ceases and it has to make it leave the curve and to hardly more guiding influence than "ro" off on a tangent" to it and would a rigid rubber-shod support.some of the worst sido-slips are the If both wheels of a pair thus lore result of taking curves too fast: A their grip, that end of the car imilar side slipping tendency retains no inhereni tendency to exists wheti a car is driven along move in any particular, direction the side of a heavily crowned road. and is free to swing sideways in Many motorists have an impression obedience to any forces that may that four wheel brakes increase be acting upon the ear. All the ability of skidding and some
caused
been by the have akidding slippage either of both front connect or of both rear wheels and brakes the prevention of skidding calls for the prevention of this. To cause a wheel always to retain its held upon
a alioner road, its of a pair of wheels and it goes adhesion thereto may be increased without sayiner that a greater brak-
known to dis- their front wheel on. the strength) of this bellef, but all the evidence seems to be to the contrary, for skidding is caused by the locking
by chains, and if the Force applied ing effect can be secured, without
POUNDS OF PUNCTURES.
This Oklahoma highway truck, equipped with an individual electric plant attached to a magnet seven feet wide, picked up 351 pounds of motal off 20 miles of dirt road. The truck and its magnet are being used regularly by the Oklahoma state highway commission to savo motorists the trouble of punctured tyres.
at
to turn it or to prevent its turning locking taking pince, when both Two cells would not crank or light any way? Local mechanics give la nevor permitted to exreal the pairs of wheels instead of only one the ear antisfactorily. Plates may differing answers to this question. force of adhes on, acting at the road pair are braked. The fact, seems have short-circuited through the Answer: No. There is no danger contact, it will never slip and to be that pronerly proportioned separators, but it may be that en- of damaging the ignition apparatus breaking, providing uugh material has fallen off the as the ignition switch and all other contribute to skidding. The only four-wheel way of avoiding skidding is to force at rear wheels, when used plates into the bottom of the jar, switches would be in the off post- moderate power and brake applica-with any sort of discretion, makes so that the plates touch it and tenk- tion, when you were charging. tinn in proportion to the slipperiness skidding resulting in the turning age takes place. We suggest that Even if they were not off, there of road conditions, ao that neither round of a car a very unlikely you have a battery man remove the would be no harm done, but the pair of wheel ever lose their true happening.
middle cell and see if it cannot be battery would gain no charge. rolling action. This is easy to. Short-Circuit Battery-Cell.
pat into service, temporarily state but difficult to carry out. In Question The battery of myfleust, by replacing a few separa- practice, although bad skids can be-runa dowa while the cartora and washing out the ecil to re caused by sudden violent applica- is standing, so that i have move shed material. This should tions of engine power on very icy to crank the engine by hand. not be a very expensive job and
service for roada, it is violent braking that I think the trouble in in the middle might restore causes nearly all the bad skids. 9 cell. Can this be caused by short-time. extremely "glare" ico, a very slight circuiting of the plates through the Charging Car Battery With braking force is enough to lock the insulating separators? Could I
Radio Rectifier. braked wheels from turning and to make the battery work by cutting Question: I have a battery.
my 'radio set utterly annul their guiding in out the middle cell? I suppose charger with fluence, with a resulting skid. ought to get a new battery, but and when my car battery Avoidance, as fer 118 pas can you suggest anything else that gets low, I just hitch the alble of. conditions which would "get me by" until spring? charger onto it, without removing demand sudden Hiоря is the Answer: The trouble is pro- its cable connexions. Can doing most effective way of fore-bably exactly what you surmise this damage the ignition system in
some
DECLUTCHES ·
ITSELF.
German Fitting for Motor.
LESS WORK FOR DRIVER.
See the new World-wide improving the near four la
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This is a car for all closates, all gradients and the roughest condition-for parts of the world where repair shops ar few and far between, for places where a car must always labour under difficulties.
And because this car is built by Morris Motors--the greatest car manufacturers in Europe-you have the absolute certainty that it is going to fulfil its purpose. There is no stronger guarantee possible than the nameMorris on the badge.
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Simplification of car operating, mainly has been directed towardst gear-box, but in-) ventors now are paying some at- tention to the clutch.
Single-plate disc'elutches are remarkably easy and light to oper ate, but Herr Erdelen, of Berlin
The Choice of the-
G. W. R. L. N. E. R.
and
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
for their new
RAIL-ROAD SERVICES
THORNYCROFT
SİX-CYLINDERED
COACHES & OMNIBUSES
Preferred by experienced users!
Further particulars of our Lorries, Vans, etc., for
1 to 7 tons, and Coaches or Omnibuses for 20 to 45 passengers forwarded on request to:-
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HONGKONG
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Telephone Central 4881.
DEAL DIRECT.
TIME TO CUT DOWN.
BUSES BEAT, RAILS.
(Germany) would abolish most of its plates; but Erdelen's Inven- the effort of declutching by using tlon employs a different principle. a servo mechanism. He recently By a clever coupling of the ac-
With only 18 per cent. of tho Motor bus lines. In the United patented an Invention which celerator pedal to a vacuum cylin causes a motor to declutch itself (der, through a control valve which world's oll resources, 'America in States cover twice the ground
[is joined to the induction mani
from the transmission.
fold, the full release of the acce- 1928 produced 68 per cent of the steam and electric railwaya do, it Because of the enormous power lezator. pedal disengagea the world's production of oll, accord- is said. Bus lines travel over which had to be transmitted, the clutch, while acceleration of the
and electric
clutch fitted to Major Segrave's engine, by decreasing inductive ing to Thomas P. Henry, president 035,000 miles; steam Golden Arrow was too substantial force, allows the clutch to re-en of the American Automobile Asso- railway lince cover only 207,000 to be moved by foot pressure, and
miica.
a servo motor was used to, unlock
gage.
ciation.
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