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HIGHWAY SPEED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929.

width. New York, particularly, has gone in for even wider rural pavements, with many being built

More Traffic Aids Road 27. 36 and 40 ft. wide,

Planning.

INCREASED WIDTH.

Safety is being introduced intui pavements through other mediums, such as smooth surfaces, casier curves of a pitch suitable for fair- ly high speeds, wider shoulders, Most automobiles now being better guard rails, better grade greater eight distance at curves, made have a speed of at least 30 crossing facilities, such as under- miles an hour. Car'speeds and passes; and better designed high- the great volume of traffic now way intersections.

be

HINTS

FOR THE

MOTORIST

ALBERT L. CLOUGH

י.

: CUTTING DOWN ON INTAKE HEAT.

thrown on the ronds are exerting Where traffic is quite heavy a beneficial influence on highway streets and reads are, in some design and construction. In the instances, being separated at inter-Jenme on last fall,' you increased the demand of the engine and causing Very likely, when cold weat yer vaporized gasoline to supply the early days of rural, pavement, lay-sections through the elevation of hot-air supply to the carburetor of backfires and stalling, especially ing many surfaces. were built in thoroughfare over the other. your car or applied more exhaust after closed throttle periods. a width of no mure than 16 ft.The cost of such structures is soon heat to its hot spot manifold, so that

Fan Belt Tension. returned through the elimination the gasoline would vaporize more scarcely room enough for a lund

Question: How can I tell of hay and a ear. Lateran 18-ft.)

of congestion.

completely during the winter. Bif the fan belt on my 1927- pavement width was adopted by

fare driving much in intensely hot' car is tight enough to give full Trallic Circles Used, most States with the thought that

weather, you may find it just as effect and still not tight enough to six yards would surely

less expensive but quite suit- and cut down the intake heat auydv.boils at times and I have been lay- necessary to reverse this procedure strain anything? The radiator Adequate for two passing auto-able arrangements for continuous If an engine loses power, particular-ing this to the belt? mobiles.

and safe, travel at intersections ly in hard hill climbing, during, may be made. Notably in New the hottest part of a borrid day and water-pump as well as the fan, its Answer: As this belt drives the Safety in Twenty Feel. York and New Jersey, trafic possibly backfires into the carbure-slipping produces a double effect Recently, however, experience intersections, are in service. These opened, it is presumable that the this should never be taken up so circles, sometimes called rotary tor, when the throttle is suddenly toward.overheating, A V-belt like and Kovornmant Rits demonstrated that in the interestment into which, traffic pours from If there is a "summer heat setting" sary pressure may be put on the bave consist simply of a circular pave mixture is reediving too much heat, that it is without slack, as unneces of speed with safety rapidly the intersecting highways. This for the exhaust supply to the car-bourings by so doing and it is not travelling ear should have a ten-arolds all left-hand turus, one of, buretor-jack or a special adjust necessary in order to insure post. foot Jane, Some drivers, course, should have, even

the greatest contributers to neciment of the hot spot device, recom-tive driving. A good rule in bo more dents, space, but highway aathorities

mended in the manufacturer's maa-tighten it just enough so that the are in accord on a 20-ft. width Some States are adding two buretor air temperature

ual, it should be a topted or if car-fan cannot be turned by taking for the ordinary rural road sub-extra lanes to all highways at the trollable, cold air should be sub-as much force as one would not- is con-hold of one of its blades and using jected to fairly heavy trafic. intersection. This extra space stituted or hot, by rearranging urally apply.

Illinois, Michigan and Wison-Another method is the curved in-vided. The quality of gasoline be

free flow of cars. shutters or whatever means is pro Disappointing Gasoline Mileage. at are among the States

tersection wherein each of the ing used may be a factor in deter-|

Question-1 have a 1928 specifying 20-ft, pavement. Omogazojuis is joined well-travelled roads. Twonty per adjacent by a curve, cutting off necessary. It should be remember run 18 to 31 miles per gallon on to those mining whether such changes are it, the dealer guaranteed would Car which, when I bought cent. of the mileage of rural pave the corner and forming a simple ed that the pressure created by the long trips, but as a matter of fact, ment built on Redéral sid pro- design similar to that on jeeta last

some expansion of the charges in the it has never done better than 16 year were ft. in of grandmother's old comforters, cylinders is the source of the enm.p.g. IIe ins tried to im- gine's power and the colder the prove the mileage for me, but with- Charge is, when it is fired, out success. the greater the rise of its tem gest?

What can you ang perature and its consequent expan: Answer! It is unlikely that sion will be.. Obviously, if the there is anything wrong with the charge enters the cylinders already particular car you have, but the fuc! very hot and partially expanded, its economy of this model did not further expansion in the engine, come up to the claims made for it. while doing useful work, will be A different carburetor has been lessened and power development will adopted on this year's cars and be reduced. Furthermore, exces-better mileage is being secured, wo Rive pre-heating may. cause understand. It should be possible vaporization to occur within the for you to install one of these car- carburetor, where fuel should exist buretors, with very fair likelihood in liquid form only, thereby prevent-of obtaining improved gasoline, ting the flow of sufficient an economy.

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