1929-10-26 — Page 13

THE HAUNTED

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

CHAMBER.

The Gruesome Experience of Mr. Gritwell,

Unregenerate,

"I was dropping off again when I heard another familiar noise.

Cling-pink-clank!

It was coming along the passage. It was knocking at my door. It [was in the room. I was for it,

"Clank on, old spectre!" laughed cheerily: "You can't frighten me with that old stunt. I'm Egbert Grifwol, the champion chain-rattler."

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MOTOR POWER.

Four Important Factors.

SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1929.

valves might be pitted and warped and their stems beat so that the: valves can't sent properly. Any or ull of these faults may cause loss of compression and resultant Loss of power may result also or improperly The power of your motor de through cracked pends on four important considera-seated spark plugs. tlons. These are:

1. Full compression, 2. Perfect valve action. 3. Proper ignition.

power,

can

COLD ROOM TRIALS.

General Motors

Chevrolet Tests.

me which follows when B

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If the valve action isn't just My name is Egbert Gritwell. the darkness, and driving anoW--

I opened my eyes, expecting to

The cold room of General Motors ¡thỏ car would encounter in the right, power again will be sucResearch Laboratories, designed to open. Address: The Lymyt, Grate and I was driving worse thun the see a headless baronet beckonleg

rificed. Wear, without grinding Cogsall, Gearing-on-Edge. Most snow was. 'Gurr-guir-gurr! and mo to follow him to the hidden 4. Proper carburetion mixture. of the valves,

cause such put ears through tests in freezing

Oil and Grease Tested, of you will have heard of me every time I changed a goar it was treasure chest containing the long-

in a different gurr again; while some-last twenty-six million pound cause an engine to lose power and tappets may not have been given starts easily and quickly, no mat Chevrolet car travels, when it is

Any or all of these factors may faulty action. Sometimes the valve temperatures, is one of the main through a acandalous article

reasons why the Chevrolet «Six It is no eney road that a The Morris Owner, alleged to thing was going clink-pink-clank: But no, the guttering candle only therefore result in great loss of sufficient opening, or may be set have been written by in ons of the cylinders all the revealed the tapestried walls economy in motoring. Each re- to give too much opening-which ter how cold the weather. The being tested out in sub-zero wea- mosquito. Not content with using time; so I was jolly glad, I ran Stayi Stirely there was a change quires constant care and attention would result in under or over-cold room was the first of its kind ther by earnest but unfeeling In the automobile Industry and General Motors engineers. Even me as a quick-lunch snack-bar all tell you, to reach my destination in the room! There was a dark-in order to keep the engine in per supply of fuel. the summer, this insect had the at the jolly old grange, where green, oily look about the walls, feet operations.

The valves may not be properly was originated and developed by though it remains indoors, when cheok to get inside my gearbox England, Home and Beauty await-and the shape of the room

the test is completed the car has timed, and this may cause havoc General Motors engineers.

The object of the cold room is been somewhere. and publish the guilt-edged secreted me.

clrcular instead, of square. To maintain full compression, with the entire engine-knocking, of its frayed pinions. I admit Yes, beauty! For 1 must not Moreover, my four-poster, with me complete lubrication must be main-missing and lack of proper fuel to furnish, Chevrolet quincers an Experiments in the cold FOOD that I did give the rear lever a few omit to mention that Miss Wendy inside it; was rapidly sinking tained to prevent scoring of the mixture when needed.

opportunity to study at close range physical jerks now and then, but Walker, my host's charming downwards, as though into cylinders. The valves must seat

the reaction of the car to the can be made aingly ani are

with any unit of the car-the the little beast need not have told daughter, was waiting my arrival Sweanoy-Todd cellar. Then, just squarely into their positions and

In order that the engine work temperatures an automobile must manifold, the universal joint, the the world about this skeleton in with strained ears to catch the as rapidly, it shot upwards. The the valve springs must work properly, that the pistons are withstand in winter, whether loft action of the rear axle in low my chassis. Insulted, and by a first beat of (No wonder. She guttering, candle throw out. a efficiently to avoid letting some of forced down at the exact time each overnight in an unheated garage temperature, the performance of mere insect! Had a man written could hear the beat of your en-blinding flash, followed by uf the explosive charge in the cylin is designed to do so, the spark in/or parked for hours outdoors. It the fan, the starter, the carburet Buch

home truths about me gine four miles away.-M. thunderous explosion, and again an indoor proving ground where should have called him out, and The evening passed all too was shooting downwards, and up tight.

the exact instant. Otherwise pre- winter weather can be produced at hammered him, but you can't hit quickly, like

Opelrocket. again, and down' again at light- Loss of compression results in a Ignition, or detonation, or missing will. Through the use of ammonia able to make a detailed study of an insect below the belt, so to Wendy and I sat in the ingle nook, ning speed. This occurred about weak explosion in the cylinder and of the engine might occur.

The 80s, the thermometer readings how the motor itself reacts to speak, can you? (If you want aand I told her that, without her, five hundred times a minute. scrap, Egbert, I'm on, provided von life

Up the suction of a smaller charge of exact timing of the ignition is as can be raised or lowered by the frigid atmosphere, and what effect was full of give me choice of weapons. Mine's and all that.

emptiness, blinding flash, explosion, atmos fuel into the chamber. Besidos, a important as the proper, timing of engineers within a short space of 45 degrees below zero has on the lubricants and on the gasoline

a proboseis.M.)

Later on, when phere of carbon monoxide, down part of even this reduced charge the valves, All of these functions time. For instance, with the mer that are in the machine, one sat over the fire with her again, smell of something with may escape before firing, and the must work together, or the engine cury at zero, the temperature can

a blanket test of the car father, having a tinul before retir boilir oll in it, up again, and so part that does explode may not will morely sputter and lose power. be dropped to 45 degrees below they wish, the engineers can make ing for the night, I took my on incessantly.

have its full effect on the piston if And part of the entire ignition zero in three hours.

The use of an electric dynamo. whole under the same circum- I admit that the insect was courage and the whisky and soda A Transformation Scene... some of this force escapes through system, from battery to the dis- right in saying I had steel filings in both hands and said: "Mr.

tributor, may be the cause of this meter, which is both motor and stances. Any car, in order to meet a thorough test, must remain' in in my gearbox and that the cylin-Walker-may I call you Johnnie? clank and gurr-gurr-gurr

And all the time that clink-pink some crack or other opening,

A worn, scored or cracked cylin-trouble. Only a competent elec- dynamo, is a part of the program the cold room for Ave days. dera played the tune of "Kinker have long loved your daughter, louder. The green walls were der is one means by which auch ox-trical, mechanle should meddle with Chevrolet car is lowered on an The engineers, wear, aviators", ing Konks," and that I ought to Will you be a father-in-law to me?" cloging in on

They were plosive gases can escape before it this part of the system. It is too change my habits, but I didn't "Egbert, my boy," the old chap turning red. The room was fet can exert its force on the piston complicated for the average motor-elevator and rolled into the cold suits, even to helmets, like thore roorn. By means of the dynamo-worn by round-the-world fillers, as want his beastly advice,

1

so I replied, you must first prove ting smaller, and so was I. The pistons may have cracked, or ist.

meter it is possible to furnish a the temperatures in which their ground my own and the gears your metal. You must show your was no bigger than a grain of the rings muy have become

road torque for the car, when its work is done is on a par with the teeth all the more fiercely, and the grit. Have you the courage .te

The carburetor may be fixed so remained the same, as they say in chamber?" "My dear, old, next ought to have been, but wasn't

I changed, the more. I sleep to-night in the haunted and there at the foot of the gummed, worn or broken.

four-poster-or where the bedpost]

that the proper combustible mix-rear wheels are placed against a bitter cold which fliers undergo ture will be fed to the cylinders of set of steel rollera set in the con- at an altitude of 10,000 or 20,000

crete floor of the room. The ft. Gaul. (That means that the value year's-model father-in-law," I said.

Bat Я grotesque and grinning in a

the motor, yet proper compression

Chevole engineers are con- of the car changed down every "Put me among the ghosts and shape. It was like a cheese-mite had boasted that for two pins I will not result unless this fuel torque can be made to parallel the

resistance the clanking chains? Give me goblins with long whiskers for legs, and would sleep in

car would en- stantly engaged umon experiments mixture is also used properly. The counter when driven outdoors on similar to the one outlined Not and Gobelin tapestries! For two wearing horn-rimmed specs and a tion chamber. My boast had come park must be hot and properly a highway in the same tempera- all of these, however, are com pins I'd sleep in a haunted com-top hat. (That was me, eh. Mr. home to roost,

The mixture consists usually of ture. In this way, the car can be ducted in the laboratory. General The above was written previous

[Shuffrey?-M.)

At that moment I felt something about 15 parts of air to one of room. To add to the severity of summer and winter for test pur made to haul its load in the cold Motors proving ground is used to my terrible and gruesome ex-

The thing emitted a weird, sing like a pin pricking me in the nane gasoline by weight, but as winter the test, a blast of air is direct poses so that the car will be as perience in the haunted chamber)

song, buzzing noise, and I could of the neck. (That was me approaches this proportion will which I am about to describe.

just distinguish the words: Since that awful night I am such

"Don't treat the poor little car I woke up, to find daylight stream-ratio, it must be such as to give

having an early breakfast. M.) have to be reduced. Whatever the ed against the radiator, to nearly a perfect product as auto-

simulate the same wind resistance motive science can produce. a reformed character that when me a guttering candle he con- that way!

lining the walls of the room and the greatest energy when it la ig change a gear now it makes no ducted me to the haunted room and You may be a minera! yourself tinting the tapestries with a softnited by the spark. The more com more noise than the purr of a wished me as good a night as some day!"

In proportion to its population, There are now 232 approved air- duotona cellulose finish. My mangel-wurzel calling to its young, might be expected.

Then I realised my awful situn- nightmare was over.

bustible the mixture, and the hot- Denmark is the greatest user of plane types from which to choose emong continental private or commercial craft in the and my engine is so quiet that you I was soon as snug as a saUse tion. I was no longer Egbert

I was a reformed character from ter the spark, the greater is the re-automobiles could almost hear a pin drop-in a roll, deep in the downy Gritwell, the leader of the gate that moment. I was no longer provided of course there are no hid-ment of Anders Larsen, U. S passed rigid tests of the U. S. De. sultant pressure on the pistons, European countries, is the state- United States. These planes have gudgeon pin, for instance.

feather bed that floated on the crashes, the konkering here, the Gritwell the Gate-Crasher. I was den leakages.. old-world fourposter, with the big noise of the Bath Road-I was Egbert the Euphonious. I was a

Department of Commerce. This is what happened.

partment of Commerce. I had been invited down to a candle guttering on the worm-simply a minute speck of carbon different man. At that moment I house party at one of those half-enten whatnot at my bedside, and being tossed up and down on the felt another sharp pin-prick in the timbered, haunted, moated granges was just settling down to slumber top of an rep.-m-ing piston inside neck. It must have been that that are fast disappearing from when I heard a familiar sound. a badly. carbonised cylinder, beastly little insect again. (Yes, England and reappearing in. Gurr-gurr-gurr!

"This is not playing the game," Egbert, it was me, having a second I protested. undertook to breakfast off the different man→→ sleep in a haunted chamber, not M.)

more

time you did. Egbert-M:).

A Chamber of Horrors,

bustion chamber!"

To the Spooks."

Many a true word is spoken in jest, and after my host had handed

America. It was a long cold "Rats," I muttered drowsily. journey across the moor" through "rats in the wainscot.".

"A Product of General Motors.".

me.

The

Then I remembered I

haunted combus-

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