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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT! SATURDAYY

JANUARY

1930.

SILENCE AND SAFETY.

there line

SMOOTH POWER AND FLEXIBILITY.

Roosevelt

MARMON-BUILT

THE WORLD'S LOWEST PRICES STRAIGHT EIGHT.

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NOISELESS GEARS.

Comfort

Automatic Device.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY TESTEN.

Motor-cycle Show

Features

3-WHEEL SURPRISES,

Germany at cularly interested air line of Holla

the

arrangements to bris over to Englände for the

The motor cyclos have

Silence and safety was the koy-on car lines, the angin note of the Motor Cycle Show, more fazible and engine. which was held recently at machine being casier 40-cont

Missing from the automatic self- by an expert. In such an amer Olympia, Kensington W One of the surprises of the show changing Armstrong Siddeley are rency, the automatic change can be The motor-cycle trade has taken the familiar gear stick with which used without the possibility of to heart the criticisms that have will be a new three wheeled two- so many people play so many tunes, nursing the gear, and a drop from been made of motor cyclists.senter vehicle, with the performa-- and the usual whine of mounting top gear to second is as quick as a really great effort has been made, ance and silence of a car and the apeed in the lower gears, fa

one ratio change.

not only to add to the safety of running costs of a motor cycle, Despite the fact that water in the motor-cycling but also to allence This is a BSA, with ■.9-h.p. These are unregretted losses, and they are replaced by a device which Patrol prevented the motor from the machines, so that they are not engine, and taxed at only is an inducement to change gears at showing its best performances, the a nuisance to the general public owing to the three wheels

Armstrong Siddeley saloon or to other road users, it is capable of 60 miles an hour every opportunity, instead of funk- big ing the task. They are the only covered the 80 miles between Motor-cycling has made tremen and is priced at 115;*; lossos, too, for acceleration, flexibili- Sydney and Mittagong in 2 hours dous strides on the Continent

been retained.

ty, and complete control all have 10 minutes. On the return journey, during the last few years. Many The cheapest medium-weight These facts were its spoeds were botter, and it kept foreign visitors will be coming to machine in the show is £39 176. discovered in a 200 miles run in a P a speedy 60 on all fat, straight London especially to see what Od. Triumph (Daily Mail) 20/60 h.p. model during the work-stretches of road, dropping little speed on cornera-where third gear|

end,

To a driver used to a substantial, was used as a check--and acce- long gear-lever, the small stick onlarating rapidly again, Top gear top of the steering wheel and the flew all normal hills, but it was lack of immediate response which not asked to do overmuch hill climbing, because of the enay follows its alteration of position method of changing down. scoms freakish. That feeling exists for, perhaps, five minutes' traffic driving.

The new Razorback hill Was climbed in third gear at 35-40 miles

Ensy After Dark.

..

After running up and down the an hour on either side, and the maximum speed would have been scale of gears a few times and gaug-about 65 m.p.l. The speedometer ing the strength of the clutch con- recorded only 60 m.p.h., but the trol return spring, the fact dawus needle could not go past that figure. that there is not anything freakish about the system. At the end of 60 miles' running the scoffer is like- ty to become an enthusiast, and one who treats a car as a piece machinery, to be jollied along the automatic systems. The steer- somehow and as quickly as posing wheel la not illuminated, but sible will any: "Allah be felleltat ed! Here is something to reduce the travall.".

Night driving does not bring any

of uncertainty in gear changing with

the lever can be felt falling into the notches on its segment which Indicate the various speeds, and/ there is not any hazard about pre-selection.

No Guesswork.

The exhaustive test of this cari Definitely, it is an improvement confirms my opinion, expressed pre- upon selective sliding gear transviously In The Sun, that 21 mission, because it eliminates normally Intelligent person who did timing-which mostly laues not know the first thing about a work and reduces genr-changing motor car could learn to drive it to # mathematical certainty within 15 minutes. And the certainty with which the operator greater part of the fifteen minutes would be spent in learning to. steer.

cannot interfere.

CAR PRODUCTION UP.

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There cannot be gear-clashing, because there are not any gears to clash. An epicyclic train, as is this transmission. uses clutches instead of gear wheels, and the variations in ratio from bottom speed to top are accomplished by using the

The estimated production

of transmitting power of more or automobiles and motor vehicles fawer clutches. That is all there is for the first eight months of 1920 in it.

is not at 4,446,000 units by the First speed transmits through National Automobile Chamber of one clutch; second through two;Commerce. This is an increase of third through three), and top locks 37 per cent. over the same period. the transmitting assembly into one unft, which provides direct drive from flywheel to differential. This method makes pre-selection pos- sible, for a change in the position or the gear lever is merely. a

for preparation change of speed. The clutches! are not affected until the fool con-: trol is pushed down. This action disengages the previous speed and, qn its return back to normal posi. ilm, engage the speed then indicat- ed by the gear lever. Pre-selection may be made five minutes or a spit second before the gear is changed. In either instance, the ultimate operation is the same.

Quick Action.

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Driving in traffic, these changes may be made as quickly u the fingers can alter the gear-lever posi lions. A flick of the right thumb and ધ quick stamp with the left foot are the only physical exertions required. The gear lever can be thumbed down to the neutral position at a complete stop or dropped to second for quick get away if the car still has mo mentum. Actually, third speed is Aufficiently flexible to take care of all re-starts on-level streets, and its speed range in from 2 to 50 miles an hour.

Because there is not any gear whine third "apced is an excellent medium for city driving. It can be used practically continually. Lower speeds are equally as silent, and the only variation In sound is the tune. of the motor røveving higher in the lower ratios and growing more allent us speeds are changed up.

Check and. Accelerate.

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The

of the automatici change is appreciated in distance driving. Running in top, the selec tor lever can be placed in third speed position and kept there, for emergencies. When swinging into a sharp corner a quick shuffle of the left foot effects a change down to steady the speed without the use of brakes, and offers a medium of faster acceleration as the curve is Laken. Particularly, this is useful for fast travelling on the greasy roads which existed during the week-end.

Hills can be anticipated in the same manner, nó that, tho, car, can rade over a crest instead of strugg- Hing. It is a pleasure, instead of a task, to make these constant changes, and with a little use the driver's action becomes as auto matic as that of the gear box,

The descent of steep hills always in safer when lower ratios are used as a check, but a clean change down when the car, is over-running the engine usually only le accomplished

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