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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931.

A BARON ADVENTURE.

Illustrating the Perils of Penetrating into

the Past.

By Cyril A Potts.]

Not long ago a gentleman, whosej sanitary. They couldn't find courage hits me with admiration, hitel, and every sort of necessary explained to the Royal Society or was lacking. They couldn't even the British Association-1 forget buy a packet of cigarettes. which bow he was able to project. nimself into the past at will. If

Over-rated.

I had not had the privilege ar On the whole it was darned un- knowing Scryingeoar and Waddle, comfortable. both of whom had the sume ex-

"I wish I could hop back into the Midille Ages for #bit, with ear," he uned to say. Vouldn't

my

y had been erected in the middle, SAVING SECONDS.

The track was rough, but service, able.

The show started with a lot of trumpet blowing by heralds, and aort of proclamation was read, but Waddle couldn't catch the wording owing to the noise made by the At Inst the fing dropped. crowd. The horse got

Arst, and,

| Judging by the cheering, it started favourite, but before Scrymgeour

The Little Things

Which Count.

THE DASHBOARD.

So much has been done already

SLEEVE-VALVE ENGINE.

Public Interest Increasing.

THE WILLYS-KNIGHT.

The public in general is dis- for the Improvement of the major closing an increased interest in the

However, Serymgeour had made that night he crept up to the castir consider the proper placement of fl

hind

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worda

Row on

chalam.

car-

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had had time to change into top parts of the automobile, that en-sleeve-valve type of engine such as he was well away in the lead and gineers and designers are turning is employel in these Willys-Over- toward the little things to make land products, according to Willys imply rompeche mi ne peut, the entire mechanism perfect. Overland officials. Many Umes just beyond the finishing Ine and,

These little Im-

e innovations may seem the question is naked in what way Ito Waddle's surprise, was

Willys-Knight arrival and aimportant, but by the mediately pinched by a sort

aleeve-valve differs

from the poppel sheriff's poss

in pressed-steel themselves, they make quite an in-engine

valve. type, such as is employed waistcoats, and carted off to the teresting and diverting problem." cantle.

For example. British engineere other motor cars.

point out that the Waddle was no end worried, and land body designers have begun to

principle of All traordinary power, 1. might have all his plans, and, having hidden and

Internal with those instruments we find

combustion or gasoline Is the looked upon this gentlemen's claim the car in a word, started a sort Scrymgeour, through the barred the dashboard. The point is made engines

sume. Gasoline and with incredulity. As it is, I am of Preas campaign. There was no window of the cell in which he was that they are in a very poor post-air, properly mixed in the bound to treat. It with respect.

printing, and the people couldn't confined.

ition where they cause the driver buretor in vapor form, are taken

A Duco Re-finish Job rend, anyhow, so it all had to be

Optimism. funvincing Proof.

to drop his gaze upon the road into the cylinder where the vapor done by word of mouth, and

and it

Servingeaur seemed to think it ahead and lose an average of two is compressed to make it highly Serymgeour disappeared, and was a low business. To add to would be all right.

proctona acconcia-in-doing-no-explosive, igniting it the propan Will make you Proud of your Car he couldn't use his

Driving at 10 miles an hour, point of

a

of compression, the resulting "The old bird put me through the had it not been for the festimony/the wetting about, partly be-third degree," he said, "and then driver who takes his eyes off the explosive energy operating the me-j of Waddle, nu one would ever have car for known what bezume of him. Even|cause he didn't want to give the hind me locked up In here. He road for two seconds in order to

It is the difference in the method Waddle's story might have been show away prematurely, partly be seems to think there is something glance at the instruments on the disbelieved hit for the corrobora cause he only had a tankfil of uncanny about the var, but I ex. tinah finds that he has traveled 116 of valving the Willya-Knight tion of the gentleman aforesaid. petrol and there was no more to be plained how it works, though it feet in that lime, a distance half sleeve-valve engine that dis could tinguishes it from engines of other I have often heart Serynger had, and partly because the ronds, was a bit difficult without diagrams, again as far as his braken

types, valving being the term used talk on the subjert.

were all Colonial stuff.

and he doesn't seem to have a me-stop him at that speed. However, he

spread the yamchanical mind. Also, I've an iden That's a serious driving problem, for providing the entry of fresh about, and, by degrees, the people that the backed the nag, which way the engineers. So they have vapor into the cyclinders and the began to look interested.

would account for his peevishness. suggested placing the dash instru- expelling of the burned or dead 1. make those old lads sit up? Ta Finally, somebody carried the However, he's fixed up some sort of ments almost directly in the path gases.

In the poppet type of engine the be a sort of god. And think of the report to an old baron who lived a show in the town to-morrow, and of the driver's vision at all times

valve mechanism consiste of A eash i could make

Ina theatrical-looking castle near-I gather In to play the chief part.bove the railistor in front.

eye cirenlar plate of metal mounted on This would require better He went on to describe Bir groans, by, and one day some of his staff ton't know what it is, but they're

The valve in opened by Morris Oxford Six would grabbed Serymgeour by the scruff create in a world in which nobody of the neck, yanked him across the probably going to present me wills sight, of course, but good eye-sight a steni.

the freedom of the city,"

is esential in driving anyway. At means of a eam or bump on the raises a "push had ever travelled faster than drawbridge and chucked him down

"But why lock you up?" asked any rate, it would make the driver camshaft which

tho turn raises in the banquetting hall, where he Waddle. horge.

more "instrument-roselous," which rod," which in As he talked, his imagination lay on a lot of partly decomposal

The result would valve stem and as a result opens "Well, I expect he sees he's on to he isn't today. soured and soared und

Rut rushes.

a good thing," replied Scrymgeour, de closer attention to driving and the valve. It is closed by means of

which pulls let's get down to facts,

The

old boy, who Serymper "He isn't going to risk someone to the maintenance of the driving strong spring said hind the manners of a pig, aut else getting at me and stealing his mechanism.

In Besides, with the instruments off

the Willys-Knight sleeve- in an antique chair on a sort of thunder. He probably turn me

and he the dash, the space they occupied valve platform and scowled at him. De into a limited company. addressed Seggingenur "Ha,

shelves and sleeves of grey iron, one within director."

eupboards, to the great delight and the other, travel up and down be The two of them asel to discuss it had claimed to possess a machine was more crawled than ever,

asked whether it were true that Next day. Waddle says, the town Convenience of The wonten tween the piston and cylinder wall for hours together,

He perially.

in such a muniter that when porta or openings, which are cut in the In the end. Waddle ways, they which could beat the fastest horse, had practically to fight his way in. got to want it so bully that it ac-Serymgeour went through

Everybody signed to be making for dragged forward by the armour upper end of the sleeves, come into tually happened. All i know but usual patter, and the end of it was the market phee, so Waddie went de no good by staying,

olates 14. Waddle says he knew register with each other and with

the corresponding

port it personally is that both men went that the baron fixed up a trial for there too. out together in Serymgeour's ear the very next

day. He didn't

When he got there he saw that and he couldn't ince the rest of the sylinder wall, the valves are open. intake port, which allows the and disappeared for several weeks. mention what the prize was, but stake had been erected, at deproceedings anyhow, so he wished Serymgeour still missing.

intimated that unless the car won, foot at which a great heap of himself back in the present day fresh gus to enter is on one side and the exhaust port, which per- I'm a bit hazy about history, but, Scrymgeour would meet with

faggots had been piled, and on top as hard as he could wish. according to Serymgeour, the two

of the faggots he saw the twisted Serymgeour's relations are ex-mits the burned gases to leave, la

but on the opposite side. of them suddenly found themselves Waddle says there was great remains of a Merris-Oxford Six. pecting him back any day,

somewhere in the Middle excitement next day, and the whole The car. Waddle says, had been Waddle and I know better.

I want back

The sleeves are actuated by small engine vnives and has the same ing developments, bringing to the Area, complete with car. There population turned out to see the smashed to atoms and the petrol Waddle to tell the whole story to rods connected to an eccentric advantage of quiet operation and motor car field a new conception of smooth and quiet operation com- were knights in armour knocking fun. A stretch of road about a was tricking out of the burat the Royal Society or the British shaft, taking the

the positive control at all speeds. about, and men-at-arms in leather mile long had been roped off, and a tank.

The entire Willys-Kaight sleeve-bined with a power and specil Association, as the case may be, camshaft used in other engines. jerkins. The roads were ruiten sart of grandstand for the baron's) At that moment great roar at their next meeting, but he won't. The operation of the sleeve-valve is valve engine has been designed to development to meet all modern and everything was a bit in-party and the County folk general-went up, and he saw Serymgeour He is so shy.

similar to the operation of steam: keep pace with the intent engineer-driving needs.

tion a

Waddle has always asserted that nothing is impossible of achieve ment, provided one wants it hard

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Serymgeour's idea.

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