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WEAR AND TEAR.

How to Get Best Results,

USEFUL HINTS.

The managing director of Gen-) eral Motors declares that motorists are demanding exact information on one point. They want to know how to get the maximum use from their cars.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MÖTORING SUPPLEMENT.

Sudden stopping on the accoler- ntor is more apt to strain the clutch and the rest of the drive line, though it also fréquently luosena the rear wheels from xle: injures the universal joints; strains the spokes of the wheels! and helps burn up tyres.

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How Damage Arises. He explained that clutches, are designed for easy operation and if the engine is accelerated beyond the paint where the car itself can Immediately follow, the clutch Carelesseness in handling the plates will slip. This heats them clutch causes more wear on cars up and may ffermanently damagE than any other one thing. Many them. Often when a clutch slips drivers fet in the clutch with such it will heat up and expand, result- suddanness as to cause the driving ing in sudden grabbing that is their particularly, hostile to the drive

line.

wheels to turn a little on tapered oxlo ends. Looseness at this point actually becomes a safe. Time and time again the warn guard; otherwise pinion and ringing has gone out that engines gear, would have to endure more deteriorate most on account of strain than at present. Universal inadequate olling. Time and time joints are strained by sudden ap- and time again this has been pllentian of power, especially if demonstrated. The motorist to- they are worn to a point where day assumes his engine to be very they are loose.

economical or oil, and thinks all there is to do is change the oil at. stated intervals. In many cases such a rule serves well enough, but millions of engines require" more oil than they get, and even the engine that is extremely econ- omical is apt to be pressed into extra hard service, which results in a higher rate of oil consump- tion.

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Rody noises often can be traced to carelessness in use of more po- werful brakes as well as to abusing the advantages of balloon tyres. To stop suddenly places, a strain on the body of the car, loosening and weakening it. There is a tendency to drive too fast "over rough spots when balloons lessan the bouncing but the body and the chassis are taking a terrific strain under such circumstances.

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ONLY ELECTRIC CAR MADE.

Builder Believes Demand Will & Grow.

Although some electric auto drivers still prefer the old "show- case" type car, the latest models have been much reduced in

height, as photo above shows. But the very latest in electrica is the one shown in the other picture, with the snappy lines of the gasoline vehicle.

"Electrics

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Detroit, Aug. 12th.

years.

never wear

out,"

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1929.

MARQUETTE TESTS.

Gruelling Work on.

Proving Ground.

GREAT ABILITY,

The new Marquette is a tangible evidence that the field of automo- tive engineering is a dynamic, one constantly striving to produce better transportation, to reduce owner operating costs and to create new standards of perform- unce, speed and beauty..

During the long months of development, Marquette cars were driven over hundreds of thousands of miles in all kinds of weather to test the car's performance.

The General Motors Proving Ground at Milford, Michigan, presenting all sorts of rough and smooth roads! with all kinds of driving condi- tions-concrete, macadam, gravel, } dirt, hills, curves and straight- aways-was the scene of the gruelling tests that prove the Mar- quette a car of brilliant perform

ance,

The experiments with the car's fability as a hill climber illustrate the severity of the tests to which the Buick engineers subjected their new product.

A five passenger, four-door sedan carrying a total load of 450 pounds, was used to test the Mar-! quette's hill climbing ability. This car was driven over a hill 1,400 feet long, one of the steepest on the Proving Grounds-a hill Of the 36 electric automobiles Dunk repents.. "We're servicing than the average

presenting a climb more severe cross-country that have seen the light during the electrics dating as far back as motorist ordinarily encounters in progress of the automotive industry 1908. The battery is guaranteed a full season's driving. in America,only one

survives, for three years, but we have some

The driver,under the critical: And that one, according to its that have lasted seven to eight supervision of

the engineers, maker, stands prepared to lend a

The tyres last four to five approached the foot of this grade survival of interest in electrics,

years, and the motor is made so at a crawling speed of five miles

The lone survivor is the Detroit

that it requires little or no atten-per hour. As the hill was actually encountered the engine Was accelerated and, with a sprue of Electric, manufactured in De-

"When I bought the Detroit power, the car swept upward at a troit and now built under the

Electric Car Company two years rapidly increasing speed. As it guidance of A. O. Dunk, pioneer ago, I changed the design of the crossed over the summit of the automombile man, purchaser until old-type electric from the high grade, 1,400 feet from the bottom, two years ago of bankrupt autobox-like shape to one that con- the car was going 25 miles per concerns and all their belongings forms more with the present gaso-hour and steadily picking up. and close friend of all the bigemenstill is desired by some people, Marquette not only has a powerful line design. The old type electric Further tests prove that the capacity to climb the steepest hills, but It has that unusual com- bination of abilities so long sought| after by all automotive engineers quick get-away, "flashing speed Dunk dropped every saleman and rugged power. No one when he took over the company, achievement has been sacrificed at yet he says he is selling more the cost of the other.

tion."

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in the industry from ilenry Ford however, so we have only lowered down.

it and made it more comfortable inside.

The revival of interest in elec- 'tries, Dunk asserts, is the result of three developments:

1. Perfection of

an improved, lighter and, more powerful battery for the power plant.

"Swamped" With Orders.

NEW

JOHNSON,

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ERE is the king of the Sea-Horses-Johnson Sca Horse 32. It is a high speed Class D motor and this season has hung up records of speed, en- durance and power all over America.

This Sen Horse is equipped to give its owner everything he can ask,

The Johnson Release Charger is one of the con tributing factors to the efficiency of this leader of outboard motordom. With this Johnson-inven- tion, starting is certain and its ease is so marked that the exertion is negligible. An easy tug of the starting rope starts the Sea Horse on its way. This powerful motor is so quiet that even at high speeds all the noise heard is the sweetly reassuring whir of smooth-running machinery. The Johnson Underwater Exhaust does away with exhaust noises and exhaust fumes as well..

There are other Johnsen Sea Horses they range in price from $115 to 2325 f.o.b. Waukegan, IL. Easy payments if desired.

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Motors

TYRE RECORD IN MAY.

By producing 8,145,468 tyre cas-

The results of these accelera automobilea than he did two years Under actual tests the car has read speed well in the seventies, tion tests, together with a proven, 2. Rise of the idea of a third ago. In fact, he says he car in the family for use of the swamped with orders that are too straight-away from 5 to 25 miles new stands of performance in s is consistently necelerated o General Motors officials say, cleate elder members.

many for him to handle at pres- per hour in 8.8 seconds: from 10 car of the weight and class of the ings in May, tyre manufacturers in ent. He is putting up a new fae-miles per hour to 25 miles per Marquette. 3. Redesigning of the bodies to tory, however, and when that is hour in 6.3 seconds; from 10 to 40

the United States set an all-time. conform with the gasoline power-completed his production will in-miles per hour in 13.4 seconds Although priced within the month production record. The pre- and from 10 to 60 miles per hour reach of millions, only the finest vious record was 7,883,805, set in in 31 seconds.

materials have gone into the con- April, 1928.

ed models.

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fcrease with the demand.

"There is a big demand to-day for electrica," he says, "not only in the United States, but in China,

Monk Invents New Battery "The new battery," says Dunk, "was developed by a Jesuit monk in Spain and perfected by Ed- Japan, India and other countries muntio Almeida, a Spanish eng and recent water power develop- where the price of fuel is high neer. It is being commercialized

by French engineering concernments have made electricity quite This battery has a displacersent cheap. It is easier and cheaper to half that of the present battery, those countries than it is to ob- recharge a storage battery in and will therefore reduce the weight of the present electric ain gasoline or petrol. from nearly two, tons to less than the weight of the average gasoline automobile.

"In this country we find such noted characters as Mrs. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison. Mrs, S. S. Kresge, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., battery will charge Henry B. Joy. Harry B. Jewett, itself in one-half to three-quarters F. C. Denkman, the Davenport of an hour, while those still in use lumber king, and others riding in have to undergo recharging of

"The new

from six to seven hours. Besides electrics. It's a great vehicle for one charge of the new battery will shopping and city driving,

take a car from 350 to 650 miles. "And its cost of operation, is ex- depending on the speed of the car, tremely low..

while the present battery takes

an electric from 75 to 110 miles. an a single charge.

"The effect of this will be that much longer journeys will be made in electrics, with recharging of batteries being done, while, the owners have lunch."

Twenty Miles Daily Average.

Maintenance Is Low,

"Taking a representative" sur vey of 2500 electrics in the United States, the average cost of main- taining an electric for an entire month is only $5.67, and that in- cludes electricity, battery care and repair of parts. Without rc- pairs, the cost is $5.33 a month. which shows that the car hardly

That doesn't say that the pres-wears down."" ent electric la unit for extended|

use before it has to be recharged Tyre renewals per year is a The average car, Dunk reminds fraction under eight dollars. The ua, is run less than 20 miles a car is so easy on tyres." day, and that goes for gasoline

vehicles as well. So at that rate, runs from $2800 to 400, but the The price of the present electric even the present electric can be batteries make this cost so high run for five days without recharg- and when the new type batteries are produced in large enough

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Dunk sees an increased demand number, Dunk believes the price for electrics in the United States of the car will be greatly reduced. with the rise of the three-car-fam- The Detroit Electric, sole Bur-' lly. It is the only automobile an vivor of a field of 36, is now made elderly person can handle with so that it can be operated on vary- safety. It is practically poiseless, ing speeds from five to 25 miles emooth and comfortable in opera- an hour and can be accelerated for tion and requires a minimum of short distances to pass other ve attention on the part of the driver.hicles to 35 or 40 miles an hour.

WHAT A CROWD.:

ALABAMA LEADS.

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Along with the fact that Gall- Alabama led all other American fornia already has the largest motor etates in highway construction dur- vehicle registration, it is reported ing 1928, according to the State that licensed automobile operators Highway Commission. in that state are increasing at the 634 miles of roads were finished and More than rate of 27,000 every month,

1344 were under construction.

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