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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

NEW PONTIAC ARRIVES IN HONGKONG.

The

The above picture taken for the Telegraph shows one of the new models of the "Pontis." These cars embody stylish coach work and most convincing performance.

local agents are the Oriental Motor Car Company.

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THE "SEVEN" METAL SALOON. (NEW MODEL) The days are not far distant when you will again be thinking of your matshed, the bathing beaches and the countryside, but have you considered what your means of transportation is going to be this summer. Do you intend to rely upon buses and hire cars or to experience the joys of travel at Four-own-time and convenience by that most econoical form of transport THE AUSTIN "SEVEN"

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Full particulars upon application to the Agents.

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BRITISH SPEEDWAY.

Scheme for the Wash.

CARS & MOTOR-BOATS.

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Sportsmen at Home Are xiously awaiting the result of a Board of Trade Inquiry into the application, of the Automobile, Racing Association, Ltd., to con- struct (1) a speedway for au tomobile high-speed trials; (2) a racing-track; (3) a motor-boat waterway and a drainage canal;

SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930.

BRITISH OIL MOTOR ENGINE.

Revolutionary Claims.

TRANSPORT SAFER AND CHEAPER.

[By the "Daily Mail" Motoring Correspondent.]

"The important difference be tween my engine and others which work on the Dieset principle, ho said, "is that the quantity of oll injected into each cylinder is exact. ly proportioned to the speed of the engine."

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The engine now under test is a converted nero-engine produced during the war, but, even so, it is giving about 150 brake horse-power with a weight of about 8ib. por horse power.

I am able to reveal the secrets | smoke, one disadvantage of the signed this weight could easily be

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If the engine were specially de-

brought down to under dib. per horse-power, which would compare favourably with any petrol engine.

time..

and (4) a spectators stand and of a new British-made internal ordinary Diesel. subsidiary works on the foreshore combustion engine, which it is

Mr. Contalen told me that he was of the Wash between Clayhole claimed will not only make motor- and Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, ing much cheaper but will also convinced that his type of engine,

At present experiments are. go- and to construct a seabank some make air, land, and water transport which he calls the high-speed in- 144 miles in length enclosing absolutely safe from the point jection Diesel, will bring about aing on all over the world with en- gines of the Diesel type, and there these works, and an area of fore-of view of fire. on which the revolution in our methods of trans-is no doubt that the perol engine shore of about 10,000 acres. The The principle scheme has not met with any new engine will be run is not a port as important as the first in-will be superseded in a few years serious opposition, and, unless new one and was originally detroduction of the pétrol engine... something unforeseen occurs, the veloped in Germany." Diesel project is likely to go forward. gines have been used for many The promoters. propose to con-years to propel ships and for struct a scabank 15 miles long, in stationary work, while recently miny Continental firms have pro- n straight line from the existing duced this type of engine for lorry seabank of the Steeping Alver,

chassis. near Gibraltar Point, to the exist ing seabank of the Witham River,

Trouble at Low Speed. near Clayhole. This will give a

Certain disadvantages were, how. straight main speedway 15 miles long and 600 feet wide, and there ever, always encountered, the chief will be a subsidiary racing-track of which was that these engines 45 feet wide, with a return road would not run slowly in a satisfac-

bends, and irregular

in length tory

They developed eight miles. It is proposed also what is known as the Diesel knock to make a spectators' stand four when under light lead and at low miles in length, of which the speeds.

the

manner.

lower portion would be used for The designer of the new British garages, shops, stores, restaurants, crude oil engine, which runs on etc. About one mile of the the Diesel principle, is Mr. Louis building will be a covered fireproof Coatalen, who is also the designer pavilion, with reinforced concrete of the "Silver Bullet," the car in walls and floors, and a steel-frame which Mr. Kaye Don is shortly to roof. Main and branch roads try to break the world's land. would be constructed to connect to speed record at Daytona, Florida. existing public roads and

Mr. Costalen and the engineers spectators stand.

of the Sunbeam Works at Wolver- Further, it is proposed to con-hampton have been working behind struct a motor-boat water way in closed doors for nearly three years front of the centre of the stand to make the British Diesel com- They have about one mile long and 300 feet mercially successful. wide, with return loops at each been faced with many complicated they believe that end, and about a quarter of a mile problems, but

at last produced an in diameter and from 12 to 15 feet they have

will revolutionise deep. This waterway, the

main engine which drainage canal, and the Steeping not only the motor trade but also River would all be connected, and air transport. light draught vessels would be en- abled to pass to and from the sea. The land to the north-east of the spectators' stand is being reserved for a landing and parking ground carburettor is necessary, as the for aircraft, for aerodromes, and charge is fired in the cylinder by works. It is not intended that this the heat of the compression of the part of the reclaimed land shall be actual engine. developed for agricultural pur. poses at all.

World's Ideal.

Evidence in support was given by Earl Howe, who said that, if the scheme went through, 2,000 men would be employed in the work, which would last for two

years.

The new Diesel engine runs or crude oil costing a few pennies a gallon instead of about 18. 6d, the magneto or price of petrol. No

The normal inlet valves admit pure air, while a special fuel valve in the centre injects, pil at high pressure.

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I had an opportunity recently of! controlling the experimental engine on the test bench in the Wolver- hampion factory. Its performance Was a. revelation. It would ac- celerate smoothly and quickly from 200 revolutions a minute to 2,200 Captain Malcolm Campbell without any hesitation and in a the famous motorist, said the way unknown to the petrol engine. The difference between Mr. track proposed would be the world's ideal one, and he was Coatalen's engine and the ordinary convinced as to its practicability. Diesel is that in the former he uses an oil accumulator which stores Captain Barnato, a director of the fuel at a constant pressure. the association, said the speedway This fuel is injected into the cylin- would enable motor manufac- ders direct by mechanical means turers to test their products for and is measured proportionately road-worthiness.

according to the speed of the on-

The scheme was strongly sup-gine. ported by local public bodies.

The cost of the scheme has been estimated at between £300,- 1000 and £500,000.

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The result is that at any speed the exhaust is free from fumes and

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