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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, 27th. SEPTEMBER, 1930.

~Being The Official Organ at

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COMMENT

Move Along Please!

We recently made reference to the improvement effected by moving certain of the bus stopping signs. but a complaint has reached us that drivers do not always observe the re-arrangement. The case in point concerns the "Stup" just beyond the Wanchai Market where the sign has been removed seme yanis past the bottleneck. It would be well if the drivers were given definite in- structions to pull up exactly at the just.

Hand Signals.

Hand signalling is not always done as clearly as it might, and drivers of following vehicles are often at a loss to understand the in- tention of the driver ahead. We observed a particularly annoying instance of this while driving down the Peak the other day. An ob- viously femine hand kept popping

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and some speculation was indulged in as to what exactly was being signalled. After some distance had been covered, the following car re- ceived the signal to pass, but while actually doing so, the same hand suddenly commenced another de- monstration of waggling. It was then noticed that the only reason was the flicking the ash from a cigarette!

First Over.

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Misses Belcher and Budgell, who

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CARS STILL DUE FOR RADICAL CHANGES.

Engineers in Europe and America Testing Developments.

[Special to the Hongkong Telegraph by Israel Klein.]

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CONVENTIONAL DR.F

FRONT WHEEL, DRVY

REAR UNGURE DRIVI

Cars of the type shown above, now a "freak," may be general in the near future.. Sketches show some of the proposed improvements: 1-Rotary valve engine. 2-Pilot wheel to afford easier steering of trucks and buses. 3-Coll springs. 4--Arrangement of seats in three types of "drives."

Two Motors in Gear.

Far from being satisfied with, Single sleeve-valve engines have time and in just the right way, all the present automobile, engineers been in use for many years, and without the least effort on the part in the United States and Europe for quite some time an American of the driver. are devoting much time and study company has been considering In England, the old type friction are driving their Morris-Oxford to development of new parts in introducing this type of motor in drive car, by which the differen- touring car from the Cape to Cairo addition to improvement of what America. Its advantages are said tial consists of one disk pressing on a privately organised relia-they have to-day.

to lie in its utter simplicity, its vertically against another while bility trial, reached Vittoria Falls

From the radiator to the rear fewer parts and its supposedly revolving, instead of meshing recently, and their arrival coin-

gears to gears, has been revived. cided with the completion of the axle, from the tyres to the top, greater dependability,

marked changes may be expected

This same car also introduces new road bridge across the Zam: for many years to come. In the

rear-engine design, which has The official opening of the research laboratories of large While in Europe certain efforts been taken up by other European latter had been arranged for a companies and of the various are being made toward develop- engineers. date some time afterwards, but the governments, both in America and ment of a dual type of many- By adoption of the rear-engine engineers in charge gave Miss Europe, engineers are even now cylindered engine, in America the drive, the engineers say they have Belcher facilities for making the experimenting with engines, tendency is either toward the more direct drive, eliminating the first actual crossing, and a fitting bodies, springs, transmissions, straight-line motor or the V-type drive shaft, and permit of a little ceremony was inaugurated, brakes and their related parts 12 or 16-cylinder engine. The roomier body suspended equally The colours of the Rondebosch Girl that have yet to enjoy popular dual engine is actually two between the axles, Guides, with which Miss Belcher favour.

separate motors, each with its own

Springs and Brakes, Too. is connected, were tied across the Some of these laboratory out-crankshaft, but both united by centre of the bridge, and the fits, would still be considered scaring to, single propeller Besides these operating develop- Morris-Oxford, with some 25,000 freakish if suddenly thrown on shaft. The V-type motor, how-ments there are such problems as miles to its credit before it started the market to-day. Yet the ever, has a single crankshaft. braking and springing to which Just as the front-wheel drive, engineers are giving considerable from Cape Town, has now earned future may see their adoption the distinction of being the first generally.

after years of experimentation, is thought. When these are done: car to cross the new bridge. Such, for example, is a form of finally being adopted for popular there will still be the problems of use, these and other laboratory efficient body design, of improve- compressed air motor and trans-developments may also see the ment in engine chassis and body mission that was described as light. In fact, the front drive materials, and of many other A proposal to construct a speed-long as three years ago by H. A. itself may force the introduction details that go into the construc- way along the shores of the Wash Hayden, independent research en- of an entirely new type of engine tion of an automobile. by the Automobile Racing Asso-gineer, and whom a gathering of for its special purpose, besides

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ciation has been up for considera-members of the Society of Auto-new methods of springing and are being tested in a wind tunnel. For example, 'new body shapes tion for some little time, and motive Engineers applauded for body design." would now appear to have reached the idea.

of one of the country's labora "Free-wheeling," just intro- tories in order to determine which a stage farther towards fruition.

duced by one of the larger com-would be least resistant to wind The Lords Commissioners of the

Air Instead of Gas Tank.

panies in America, is a different pressure, thereby affording Treasury are now prepared, it is According to Hayden's plan the matter. It concerns the automa-greater power and economy to the stated, provisionally to make a engine under the hood would tic control of second and high motor, and yet conform to reason- grant of the necessary tidal lunds. actually be an air compressor, rears without use of the clutch, able standards of beauty in The scheme as proposed pro-storing air in a tank under the and at any speed..

design. As a result of these vides for a straight concrete trackback seat for power when wanted.,

In England, a concern building testa we may yet be riding in egg- about fifteen miles long and some This power would go through a high-priced car has gone a step shaped automobiles, if our esthetic 200 yards wide, and is estimated to reciprocating air engine on the farther and made it possible to senses will permit. cost £300,000. The plans include rear axle and would be more shift through all gears without The chassis itself may in the a waterway for motor boat trials, immediate than could be gathered touching the clutch pedal. The future be eliminated and and a motor racing circuit contain-up by the ordinary gasoline motor. device is called a "fluid flywheel" ing replicas of the most notable.

In Europe all sorts of engines coupled with a "self-changing" racing bends and corners in the and transmissions are being tried transmission. world's racing courses.

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out, far different from the types; we have on the roads. There's an engine with a horizontal rotary

the

entire body may become a unit The with engine and wheels. radiator · may also change its uspect. Even the gasoline motor may become either a Diesel-type of oil-burning engine, or a mere generator for electric drive cars. All these ideas are not mere

Automatic Clutch. Further to make it easy for the Speaking at the House of Com-valve arrangement that eliminates driver; and another English in- mans during the Report Stage of many parts, is said to be quieter, vention, is the automatic clutch the Road Trafic Bill, Mr. Herbert cheaper and more durable than control, a device that would throw theoretical high-flyers. They are Morrison, the Minister of Trans- the present poppet-valve or even the clutch in and out, as gears actually under test to-day, some port, said: "

the sleeve-valve motor.

are to be changed, at the proper even being put to 'commercial use.

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"There will be the highway code which we are going to publish, and as to which we shall secure pub- licity. On the basis of this code we shall conduct education," not only among motorists but among pedestrians as well, who equally In June of this year the export According to the Foreign Travel Motor vehicle license fees and Detroit, Aug. 19th-The latest

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