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SYNCRO-MESH TRANSMISSION.

New Invention on Motorcar.

:

NOT POSSIBLE TO CLASH GEARS.

THE HONGKONG

motor to keep speed safely retard- ed. Frequently, however, it is impossible to judge the steepness of the grade until one is making the descent and unless a car is equipped with synero-mesh trans- mission, it is often very difficult to make the shift, because of the speed of the car.

Simple Principle Involved, The principle of syncro-mesh is merely this: When a change is made from first to second, second

Of all the numerous improve-to high, or high to second gear the ments made to keep the entire car about to mesh are made to revolve two spinning members which are in tune with the advancement at the sume speed, In the signalized by the new eight-in-line ordinary way of transmission valve-in-head engine of the 1931 one of the genre is always rotating Bulck automobile, one of the most in proportion to motor speed and -outstanding from the viewpoint of the other in proportion to car speed and it is necessary to re- the owner and driver is the pro-vulate the car on engine speed vision of syncro-mesh transmis- with the accelerator or brakes sion according to Mr. C. F. Cress. until the two speeds are nearly Manager of General Motors China equal in order to shift gears with

out clashing. This is what makes it very difficult to shift gears on

Inc..

some bad hills.

TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1930.

We have To-day Removed

FOSTERING

AERLL SPEED.

Air Races to Stress Faster Aeroplanes.

There

MORE SPEED, MORE EXPENSE.

are 'two. significant country in 11 hours and 25: the National Air Races which would be possible to fly from developments in connexion with minutes aetual dying time, it

On Chicago to New York in thre opened recently at Chicago. is the emphasis being placed on Hours and the other way in less speed this year and the other is chan four hours on the international feature of the schedule. annual flying

games, write. Lauren D. Lyman.

鞋 regular

Reach Five Miles a' Minute.

Juan T. Trippe, President of Pan-American Airways, and Hugh Wells pilet. attained five miles a minute in an all-metal Fleetsel

mail

Hampton L. I., to North Beach,

and passenger plane las

Queens..

Speed, it is being recognized more and more, is the one greai asset of aviation. Since the navy and the army have quit their fast dying has gone to Italy, Eng speed programmes, the palm fo Last yea land and France.

They went up to 10,000 feet and Walter Beech built a plane in hi equipped it with a special Wrighf almost gale proportions. Travelair factory at Wichita an caught a tail wind with a velocity whirlwind 300-horse-power engines flight east Hawks had the Oh

compression winds up to 10,000 feet on the which, with high Cylinders and a 10 to 1 blower weather reports furnished him by developed more than 400 horse he meteorological service of the In this plane Douglas. A. T. Maddux Lines. He pick power. Dayis whipped the best the arm, his lying level from these eports obtained with pilot bal cone clutch has done its syn-and navy could produce for the

oons and a theodolite at each chronising work. After the two first time in the history of th

Lop. ears are completely and smoothly National Air Races. meshed the cone eluteh automati- cally disengages.

Syncro-mesh transmission, feature heretofore of only the

The cone clutch gradually grips highest priced cars made by its corresponding member on the General Motors and found in the side of the freely rolling gear products of no other manufacturer synchronizing the speed of the than General Motors, enables the two rotating parts. The owner to get the greatest possible mechanism is so timed that the enjoyment out of handling the toothed clutch operating inside sweetly flowing power of the new the ample core clutch slides into wight cylinder engine. Synero-mesh with the teeth on the side mesh is a feature of all hat the of the freely rolling gear after the

8-50 series Buicks

The Buick syfter-mesh is device which enables the driver to shift from first to recond, second to high gear and from high bark to second at arysspeed with mut clashing. The advantages ar Tumerous,

There is the add tional ples are in driving whic goes with the ability to pluti gear. qarietie Any driver CR shit Kurs quietly equipped Tinick.

11 i BNB, Po que

The comat "tutio

safe driving is important. All seaton ed motorists know that it is wi Paal it to second gear when going a steep grude and nae fi,

dow

This year Travelair has turne out several of these fast plane. No difference in the method of When approached by the re Lifting gears on the part of the committee, representatives of bob river is Breessary but the driver the army and the navy indicato on will End himself moving the that this year they would not ente ear shift lever with an easy, lanes in the Thompson Troph

liberate motion which gives the race. which is the substitute ma elutch time to do its syn- the former caliniitei els ing anotining work before the fouth-

for-all. This time the may ha utca gages. Thus the old uncovered an entry to the saler, innoyance of jerking the uret

one. in a every nilever into place, far fear car Curtiss Seahawk built over fra biplane to a well-streamline qared will be lost or gained before.

be meshed.

imenoplane and powered with vinted.

Curtiss Conqueror motor steppe up to about 800 horsepower,

ean

MARMON

FOUR

NEW STRAIGHT 8's

IN

FOUR PRICE FIELDS

This is the year to watch Marmon ... Figure out the best you've seen at your price... Then call on Marmon . . .

Cap your choice

of finest cars with the new Big Right. Choice of moderate-priced cars with the Model R.... And at prices in-between, the Eight-79 and the Eight-699... Marunen's will- ing to compare Fitment against Fitzzem,Style against Style, Roominess against Roominess --and all the other qualities you favor- against any other car at or about the same cost... And leave the final judginent up to you... 1930 is more than ever a straight- eight year-and Marmon's the one manu- facturer that has been getting experience building straight-eights exclusively for Bearly four years.

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New Records Looked For.

When Hawks, Captain Arthu B. Pare of the marines, with the Seahawk. Doolittle in another Travelair, Mattie Laird in h latest creation and one or twr Fathers get together at Chicago ¦e likely that a new record of Suma

nort will be made. The course ridiculously short for such plane - 10 miles on a five-mile coutrem but before the rare is called it may be lengthened.

it

Speed, it has always been held, s expensive. The cost per day of hoving the engines of the Bremen end Beropa to thirty knots make. nese great ships anything bu cruonicul. 19 aviation also the heney bas been held in the past at high spurts are very expen it.. Bowever, several air ba parlors are beginning to doub a's thenry mi point um that a le mileage per hour goes up th enda par made have a tendency te GAN.. One operator alinates that if he can get '136 „iles an hour cruising speed from ais trimotored, fourteen-passenger James as against 100 miles an

ante

te, at which he has been operat ng in the past, his overhead per ile will be ent from $1.30 to 90 nts berause of the added thirty alles an hour.

The super mail plane envisioned tasks is likely to result in

y Colond Linergh and Captain

atirely new form of air trans

th Some far-seeing operators him that our whole air transpor. viewpoint is wrong in that we save followed generally the path: of commerce pioneered first by the tage and later by the railroad.

across these oldi hábitual lines.o: communication. They should By Hireet from one great centre to

Captain Hawks, with his trans continental lights, has foes-Airplanes, they argue, should cut public attention on this busines: of more speed, as has Culone Linether. No such speeds 2. Chiese two Biers have shown oval long distances Face ever hea altamed abroad, and their coast. to-roast flights are The significent because their plane are commercial aircraft capabl for carrying a pay loud.

other and these centres should be collecting depots for mail and; assetters from intermediate mounts by air, automobile or train.

The entrance of foreign fliers Although they have not come to compete but simply, to denton-

rate, in our National Air Races. s another, departure from 'trad'- on. Since we have ceased to. sempete in the Schneider Cup the

Two years ago Clarenné D Chamberlin, speaking before group of railroad executive declared that a five-hour servic intween New York and Chicagters of the United States have was perfectly feasible or would b practical a year or two hence Chamberlin said as to the rail road men:

had little chance to get acquainted with the fliers of Europe. Thr pilots who are here this year.have! not yet entered their planes in the "That kind of transport is going Thompson Trophy race, but some- to get somewhere, and you ra thing of the speed aver short dis men should be the first to anres attained abroad сал br recognize it." Since then specs learned from the Blackburn Lin- have again increased, until to-day, cock of Alchorley, the Dewoitine with a plane like Captain Hawks of Doret and the Breda Columbo Texaco 1. which crossed the will fly.-N. Y. Timur,

Austin Co., has purchased a plant in Toronto and soon will begin assembling cars there.

IN CANADA, TOO.

Austin Opens Branch. This will b the first motor com- pany in Canada not owned or The Canadian Austin Car Co. Jelosely allied with an American Lid, a subsidiary of the English 'company.

TIME. OUT!

FOR GOSH SAKE! WHAT YOU WAITIN' ON? LET'S GET

GOIN'/

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FIAT

FIAT GARAGE and SHOWROOM

350. HENNESSEY ROAD.

our

We have appointed the LANCIA GARAGE

authorized SERVICE STATION. All repairs will be

executed under the personal supervision of Mr. C. BORANDI.

Our SPARE PARTS and MICHELIN Departments

will becarried on at China Building, 4th floor, with sales depart- mentsat LANCIA GARAGE, Telephone 23557, and at FIAT GARAGE, Telephone 24221.

A. COEKE & COMPANY,

FIAT

Telephone 22221.

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MOTOR WORKS, TORINO

AND FOR

MICHELIN TÝRES.

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