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HINTS

FOR THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

MOTORIST

ALBERT

CLOUGH

FITTING NEW WRIST EINS.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.

PROSPERITY DUE TO AUTOMOBILE.

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popping noise in its carburetor and the engine stalls, when the choke is not pulled out and even when the engine is warm, it frequently stalls when I step on the accelera- tor suddenly. What is the remedy Washington, D. C., Aug., 20th.¡ more than 23 per cent. of the cars) for this?

-Whore a quarter of a con- sold in a certain district, bought Answer: Drain your vacuum tury ago automobiles were a lux- the largest percentage, Baleamen tank and carburetor bowl to re-ury to be indulged in only by the and clerks bought 20 per cent, and move possible water and dirt, and rich, to-day they are the property were second in order, bankers, clean the strainers at tank and ear mostly of labourers and artisans, manufacturers, brokers and mer-

If this does no good. Recent

according to the Committee buretor.

on chants were third with 18 per cent. Economic Changes off and farmers, with a little more than have the carburetor adjusted for a President Hoover's Unemployment three per cent. were last, slightly richer mixture. Use all Conference.

list. the heat on your carburetor that This is because manufacturers To give some Idea of the can ba obtained. Cover the radia have catered to the majority in the amount of publie investment in tor partly or otherwise arrange 90 last decade of the automotive in- automotive vehicles as against This is really a job for the ser-forcibly pressed or driven into its that the circulating water shall dustry and, by producing cars with paved roads and other related in- vice station, where arbor presses hole in the rod. Too much care run fairly hot. If none of these in the range of the poor man's dustries, Professor William James and special reamers and fixtures cannot be taken in replacing the measures suffice, please write us pocket book, have enabled him to Cunningham of Harvard Upiver are found, but some of our corras locking device, which secures the again.

enjoy this modern luxury, the com- sity reports that more money b pondents have called for instruc- pin in the piston or fastens the

Gasoline Saving Attachments,

mittee reports.

Invested in the former, more peo tions regarding this work. Or-rod to the pin for if this gets

Twenty years back automobile ple are employed and it is more dinarily it la preferable simply to loose, one end of the pin will prob Question Is there any virtue manufacturers catered to the prosperous despite the fact it f remove and discard the old pins jably work out against the cylinder in the little device known as the minority in producing bigh much younger industry than the and bushings and replace them wall and wear a groove in it, which vaporizer, which is attached to priced cars. For that reason latter. with new standard ones, but some-will spoil the cylinder and neces- the carburetor? Do you think it sales were limited and poor peo- With the Increase of their pop- times it is thought best to get sitate reconditioning its bore and capable of doubting the gasoline ple were unable to buy cars. Now ularity and reduction in prices, everdize pin and ream out the old probably that of all the others, mileage and preventing carbon that is reversed and figures gather automobiles are offering increasing bushings to fit them. The follow- Rusted Nickelled Parts, formation?

ed by the committee show that 85] competition to railroads, ing suggestions may be helpful:] Question-Please inform me of

Answer: We are not familiar times as many medium-priced cars "The steady decline in rallway Be sure locking devices are re-some substance or mixture that with the details of this particular were produced in 1926 as were pro- passenger traffic since 1920 is ev- moved before attempting to re-will remove rust from nickelled device, but if you will forward a duced in 1907.

idence that the competition of Cun- move bushings. Take care not to parts of a car.

A table prepared by Dr. Ralph motor vehicles is severe," circular of it, we will give you an C. Epstein of the University of ningham states. The railway lost spring or crack pistons, when Answer: We cannot do so. opinion concerning it. If this is Buffalo, for the president's com- has not been in the long-dia- driving bushings out of or into When rust forma on such parts, one of the devices which act to mittee, shows that in 1907 a total tance passengers. Nor is the rall place in them. Avoid bat it does not form on the nickel furnish auxiliary air to the mix of 13,285 low-priced cars, 14,427 way loss in suburban traffic. The tering, bushings when forcing plating, but upon the steel nurture, after it is delivered by the medium-priced and 8,672 high railway loss is confined almost en- them in. and be sure the face from which the nickel coating carburetor, we do not believe your priced cars were produced. At the tirely to the traffic on local traina oil holes and locking holea has come off and the only remedy would find it of any value, assum- end of 20 years this had changed to between adjacent cities or оп are placed right in reaming out is to have the part re-nickelled. ing that your carburetor is a good 3,271,015 low-priced cars, 508,023 secondary or branch lines. bushings to roundness for appro- The rust can, of course, be scour one and is already adjusted to give medium-priced cars and 77,966 priately oversize pins, be sure thated off, but as the steel is exposed, as lean a mixture as practicable, high priced cars.

"To meet the competition, rail- the expanding reamer will work it soon forms again.

ways bought automotive equipment, Nickelled Devices of this type, when used without chattering and that it is parts, which have been subjected with carburetors that are adjusted the committed

A special survey was taken by The railways, either directly to determine the or through subsidiaries, early in so guided as to keep the axes of to blows or other hard usage, very altogether too rich, do improve the class of people buying automo- 1929, operated about 1046 motor the holes perfectly true. The often rust at the points where gasoline mileage, while the engine biles. This survey shows that la coaches over 10,519 route miles, and smoothness of the reamed holes the nickel coating has been knock is calling for very little mixture, bourers and artisans, purchasing the service is expanding.” and the exactness of the pin's fited off and while the use of metal but they have practically no effect in them is of great importance. polish temporarily improves their at the larger throttle openings. If the pin turns too hard in a appearance, they never remain per- In so far as they correct, over- bushing the bearing surfaces will manently bright again. Inferior richness, the tendency toward rough up and cut out rapidly be- nickel plating frequently scales carbon. formation is reduced. side causing the piston to slap. off, even though there is no hard These devices have little value in A very light drive fit or a snug sange The best jobs have a plat connexion with carburetors that pering. Ninety-three per cent. of increasing.

Automobile thieves are not pros- British motor sales are steadily hand it is the best general recoming of copper over the steel, with are so designed and adjusted as to the automobiles stolen annually motor vehicles and parts from Janu- Exports of British mendation that can be given. A the nickel deposited on that,

give a properly proportioned mix are recovered, according to the ary to March, 1928, totalled £2,060,- pin that turns in the piston baises Backfires and Stails.

ture at all ranges of speed and California State Automobile Asso-528. For the same period in 1929) throttle opening.

ciation.

they were £2,555,138,

and is stationary in the rod, is Question: My-car makes

HUSH-HUSH. MOTOR

BOAT.

120 M.P.H. Boat.

WEIGHS FIVE TONS.

A lightly built girl, dark haired and bronzed, wearing 11. blue beret and fawn costume, standing Gft. and weighing less than nine stone, came Apeeding down Southampton Water to Cowes and landed at a secret shipbuilding yard which has housed her £25,000 motor-boat for four months.

She was Miss Betty Carstairs, the millionairess with big financial interests in oil, who has spent £60,000 in three years to attain her ;ambition to be the first motor-boat fracer to travel at over 100 miles

an hour,

an

Miss Carstairs's craft has a Imaximum speed of 120 m.p.h.. Mr. ¡Gar Wood's vessel has testimated maximum speed of 130. mip.h. Both bouts are akimmors, for one-step hydroplanes, which ride on the water and do not cut through it.

The International trophy is janother British cup which America has retained since she captured it at Cowes in 1920.

All British.

The vessel is all-British, even the cedar of the hall being import- jed from British Honduras; 25 ft. in length with a beam of 9 ft. 6 in. She has three Napier 1,000-h.p. engines mounted in the hull in unicorn (triangular) form. The kirive is through a single gearbox to three propellers.

Segrave's 1,000-h.p. Miss Eng- land is a "light car" in comparison with this boat. Not only the material, but also the brains that planned it are all-British. Thu Hesigner is Mr. A. H. Hawker, a hative of Chatham, now resident In Canada. The bottom of the boat in 4% in, thick and the hull

In. The framing is in one piece bent from gunwale to gunwale.

All the under water part is chromium plated and painted with graphite to reduce friction, and from stem to' stern is as smooth as plate glass. Skimming over the water at 100 miles per hour she will make less wash than an Ordinary Thames motor-boat of 6 h.p., travelling at six knots,

The craft is so huge that it will take Miss Carstairs and two desiatants to drive her.

Miss Carstairs will sit centrally in the aft cockpit steering the dual Hynchronized rudders, one aft and one, forward, with a wheel like that of a powerful car, and on elther side of her will be an assistant, qne to, watch the 15 recording instruments, and the other to work the controls under her direction. The noise of the three engines in operation la so great that orders from Miss Girstairs will be made through a sensitive microphone fitted with headphones.

Despite her speed and her five tone weight her control is ao delicate that she can be stacred without great physical offort and she can turn in a space as wide ab the Piccadilly roadway. "

One of the greatest problems will be protecting Miss Carstairs from the enormous wind pressure' induced by the need of 110 m.v.h. Which she hopes to attain, a aveed which the wind pressure is strangling.

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