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THE HỌNGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991.

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How Safety-Glass Was Discovered.

GREAT DEMAND.

FREE-WHEELING.

A New System for

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Nash Cars.

ADDED COMFORT.

The month of June Baw.one of A new kind of free wheeling was. the most interesting motoring an-announced recently by officials of niversaries the 21st birthday of The Nash Motors Company ns' an the filing of the safety-ginas patent.ndded and optional feature of the Nowadays most motorists know four new, sound-proofed groups of that safety-glass is a sandwich of Nash automobiles. two sheets

glass with cellulold Tri- In between--hence the name. plex-welded together by some secret solution, but few know how the Iden originated.

It is Synchro-Shift-Safety Free Wheeling, a perfected develop. ment exclusive to Nash, which may be had at alight extra coat any model of the Your new series cars.

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The Nash Synchro-Shift-Safety

NEW BULLET-PROOF FORD CAR.

The inventor of safety-glass as Edouard Benedictus, a French cheilst of Dutch origin, who had

transmission with its silent second Li Ching Mai, son of the famous thick, and other devices by _in an experimental Iaboratory

gears, continues as standard equip-Chinese atalcamon, Marquía Li which protection and safety aro Paris. One day he dropped a bottle on the stone door, and al-ent on all models. Thus the Hung Chang, recently took delivery assured. It may be recalled that though it was starred inside the motorist lias a choice elther of the fof a bullet-proof car aupplied by Lord Li Ching Mal himself had

le readvanced new cars equipped with the authorised Ford dealer at narrow escape from kidnappers fa cristall that it had contained a

the famous silent conventional Stanghal, according to an an- last April when his Russlar body- P. Pavloff, was severely Imixture of various chemicals which drive or of cars featuring both the nouncement made by the Fordded.

standard and free wheeling drives. Motor Company, Exports, Inc.,. in-

it did not break.

care for

The Nash 900 serica cars, sn Shanghai. This is the second oc- A number of prominent 'Chinese' and other cities recently introduced, were designed casion on which Lord Li purchased in Shanghai

have also bought this bullet-proof and built for free wheeling. In Ford car.

The special car as shown above car to afford themselves a sense of them larger generators battery charging, cooling systems is equipped with bullet proof glass, 'greater personal security. serve idling motors; big, heavy- duty brake systems provide them with a great factor of safely and THE LATEST RILEY valves being operated by two

furnish ample braking power to care for free wheeling, and the entire car is engineered to the new performance requirements.

Convenience and added comfort

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By John Prioleau.l

camshafts, one on each side of the engine, placed high up the block. It is, in fact, a Nino with two additional cylinders, the bore and stroke being 60.3 by 95.2 milll- metres. The tax-rating is £14,

in driving are the chief advantages Although the new six-cylinder and the cubic capacity 1,633 c.c.

had evaporated and conted the terior with a transparent enamel. Benedictus noted the formula, but thought no more about the matter till some time later when he heard of a girl being injured by broken lass In 11 ከ accident. Then he realized that on his shelf lay the secret of unsplinterable glass.

The patent was filed in 1910, but it was not 1 Mr. Reginald Del- pech, the English pioneer motorist, took up the idea that safety-glass was manufactured. Mr. Delpech founded the Triplex Company and began to produce the glas.

of the new Synchro-Shift-Safety 14 h.p. Riley, called the "Alpine" The crankshaft is carried in four At first, when open ears were the free wheeling. according to model, has other and more bearings, and is fitted with a order of the day, and motorists ex-engineers: and its action is ver- important claims to serious con-vibration-damper. It is very pected motoring to entait riska, fectly co-ordinated with the famous sideration, to be discussed below well balanced. Ignition is by coll there was no great enthusiasm for Nash transmission.

there

ere are details of its design and and battery, cooling is by pump, the new Iden. In 1914 the sales

Actuated by a smuli shift tent which will make and the radiator is flexibly mount- were only 15,500 square feet per

appeal to those who like and

ed. The chassis, which has a annum, but in the seventeen years extending upward from the floor that have passed, the attitude has slightly to the rear of the trans- their motoring, and especially wheelbase of 9 ft. 6 in. and a track ft. In stoutly braced by completely changed, and today the mission shift lever, the new drive their touring motoring, to hu kan be conveniently applied or thoroughly comfortable. It is, of

girders behind the genr-box and output of the Triplex factories is

eliminated at will by shifting to course, far more important that a forward of the back-axle, two million squard feet per year.

the free wheel or out of it into car. should go well than be cleverly

conventional drive. This equipped, but in this instance the Liveliness is the principal char- things that count" the LONDON TO COWES. gives the motorist the optiltions Riley, are be well chosen that for asterist is not, of course, unusual

using either drive us Another Triumph for dictate, and makes the regular once in a way I am dealing with. It is not, of course, unusual-

hese first.

At least four main of large dimensions.

roomy, but neither is its engine transmission available at all times these

The latter Thornycroft:

to control the car through motor features of the design and equip ja

performance is excellent for a The annual London to Cowes compression on wet or icy pavement call for unstinted congratu- well up to its work and the

The brakes, both hand'

The 4-speed gear-box has 14-h.p. Rare for seagoing motor boats meats, on steep grades or in traffic lation.

and foot, are instantly adjustable the familiar Riley "silent" con- furnished another Thornycroft emergencies. success, for the winning cruiser Kittihawke was equipped with gives the driver the positive trans- | real comfort. two Thornycroft engines.

nission action. Pulled. back She made the passage of 186 gives him free wheeling, Wher Secondly, the vacuum feed tank, miles at an average apced applied, it operates in all three under the bonnet, is fixed with a over knots, despite Atrocious forward speeds, uncoupling the

limit of a little over sixty miles weather conditions. So bad were engine from the rear wheels when good-sized filler, so that, in the all speeds up to the comfortable

event of failure of the

Autovac ever the motor is

an hour. Pebblecombe Hill, with not actually they that out of 14 entrants, and Living the car and allowing the system, it can be used as a gravity 11 netual starters, only one other driving coast forward smoothly in be, seldom suffered, but as one second, with twenty-five miles an tank. Such failure is, or should gradient of one in five at the one top, was taken on third and low, second or high. It has no who suffered it lately, ut night hour as the minimum speed. effect on driving performance when and on mountain road with no

bont completed the course.

The new Buick offers all those advantages and features

which provide the supreme motoring luxury of

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the highest priced cars-but at less cost!

The new Buick is Buick in quality and value through and through. So eloquently are these things evidenced in Buick products year after year that orders totalling millions of dollars were placed for this now Buick-before the cars were actually available. With such a display of confidence in Buick-you, too, can buy the new Buick with every assurance that it will give you e greatest motoring satisfaction you can possibly expect.

114 Whoolbase Buick Models

118' Whoolbase Buick Models

124 Wheelbase Buick Models

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When forward, the shift loves from the driver's seat, there beingstant-mesh third, with which vivid no need to stop the car. That is acceleration is available in traffic, but the pick-up on top is also really commendable. The engine

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runs without perceptible vibration

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not in use, but may be shifted in or help within 12 miles and no light good performance, which might out of the drive at any forward to work by, I appreciate to the full have been slightly bettered..

had been more familiar with the speed. Thus the Nash system the fact that, in to get home,

I changed down a entirely selective, casy to operate you need not dismount the entire

too soon. The speedo- and simple in its netion.

valve-mechanism before you meter is marked, to show the In starting It allows the car to pour petrol into the tank. roll forward smoothly through low, autovac. valve is usually very precise moment when changes second and high. When it is reliable, but between reliability should be made. operating, the clutch pedal does not and complete failure there are ne You have have to be depressed in shifting intermediate steps. gears either forward or back. The either all the fuel you want or Nash Synchro-Shift-Safety trans-none at all. mission pruveute gear clashing in

In

The gears run quietly and there. is no unpleasant reasonance in the ssicon. The brakes are smooth and powerful, and the steering In

shifting: so in free wheeling the Thirdly, the grouped-system-of light. I find little to criticise shift lever action is silent and chassis lubrication is so arranged this remarkably handy and willing effort is reduced to a minimum. that for all ordinary running car should prefer more space driving over rough roads, Nash lubrication the floor-boards nood for the driver's left foot between free wheeling sends the car steadily not be taken up. Lastly, jucking the brake-lever and the clutch forward without the jerking motion projections are fitted to the backpedal, and, so far as the body work sometimes occasioned by

uxle, and these projections have is concerned, I would think more uneven same clearance as the front highly of it if it had another two-

It the pressure on the foot throttle.

I know It conserves fuel and operating parts axle. This is a "comfort" point or three inches of headroom for

the back passengera, the every owner-driver will appreciate allowing the motor and entire power line to idle whenever who has hitherto had to carry is a fashion, but I think it is

une. The lines are excellent and the foot to removed from the ac-llock of wood to compensate the the whole appearance of the car celerator. Then the car coasts difference between the clearance

The price £365.- fore and aft. freely under its own momentum.

Either a block of very attractive. Free wheeling allows power to wood or twa jacks of different

heights.

England's New Roads, flow in one direction only-from

by

bad

the motor to the rear whcela. The design of the engine ial More than 300 miles of all-

When It is operating, the rear

wheels cannot drive the motor as much the same

as that of the concrete highways were con-

the foot is removed from the ac-better-known 4-cylinder Nine, the structed in England during 1930. celerator. They run entirely free until such time na the motor is speeded up to correspond with their revolutions and to drive them faster.

Its action is both thrilling and satisfying in conjunction with the Nash sound-proofed hody, chassis and transmission. It gives the sensation of silent, amooth flight and is particularly pleasant on leisurely drives. At the same time the Nash system provides the driver with quick control over the car on slippery rends or grades by its, chay shift back to the conven- tional drive.

of

An over

ad.

The Synchro-Shift-Safety free wheeling consists rolling or one-way clutch mo- chanism, which transmita power while being rotated in one direc tion, but rolls free when its direc- la reversed. It is of the vanced, roller type. Ruggedly ballt, with a maximum number of roller bearings, it is a notable unit structurally. In it all wear ing parts are made of the highest grade, electric furnace alloy steel. Exhaustive tests have proved that the drive's rugged strength la more than equal to the greatest atrains that can be placed upon it.

Uniform Traffic Code.

The Uniform Motor Vehicio code of the United States, National Conference on Street and High- way Safety has been adopted in whole or in part by 29 stateя,

ALLEY

GOSSIP.

WHAT A

BORE THAT MES, SPORT, COUPE IS!

YOU KNOW

SHE RECENTLY BROKE HER REAR AXLE,

-AND

SHE INSISTS ON TELLING ALL ABOUT HER, OPERATION.

YEH?