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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 7th NOVEMBER, 1931.

Being The Official Organ al

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

SPEED KINGS.

K.L.G. Kaye Don & Gar Wood

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to Meet Again.

MAY BE IN ENGLAND.

"Any time, anywhere," sak! Kaye Don when he was informal of Gur Wood's willingness to meet him in a motor-boat race in Eng- land,

Kaye Don was feted by the City Hamilton, Ontario, in mail rat week. Ami acenes reminiscent. of last year's Empire Games, he was given a elvie reception, un the Mayor afterwards presented him with a golden key of the city.

will gladly race,

Kaye, Kaye. Don in England or al

Car Wood on his arrival in New York. "Improvements I ani making to Miss America IX will, I think, make her the fastest boat in the world, and I am also plan. ning a new boat which I shall build shortly.

Thus it is probable that the two great apend-bout aces may race on Lough

in Ireland, where Don ade his first record with

Miss England II.

Gar Wood is still anxious to dis- pel the idea that he hus admitted to triking Kaye Done to beat the gun and so disqualify himself and lose the trophy.

"I was not misquote," said Gar Wood, but explanation was misunderstood."

my

An anonymAUS Detroit eports. man las s offered Kaye Don £20,000 for the purpose of building a new speed-bont for the 19:2 Harms worth Trophy.

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN TWICE IN SAME PLACE.

***NEA

Accidents must be contagious. When a motor truck skidded on a highway near West- bury, Long Island, and overturned, as seen at the right, that should by rights have been the end of the day's casualties. But the accident so distracted the attention of the drivers of two other cars that they crashed into each other, with the results pictured above,

⚫ was noriously hurt.

THE 1932 MOTOR-

CYCLES.

It seems certala that the Motor- Cycle Show will contain quilo a number of now 150 cc, models, which will, of course, come within the 15s, tax class. Some of these! This sporting offer has beet will have four-stroke engines, made in the event of Lord Wake- Experiments with such machinesi held deciding not to enter another have made by more than one) boat next year. Kaye Don will | large factory.

not have to avail himself of this The makers of the J.A.P. engine,!

munificent gift, as Lord Wakefield has every intention of building hout for next year's contest.

STEAM POWER.

For Future Giant Planes.

SAFETY FACTOR,

[By Israel Klein}

[The principle of the steam

too, will be making a four-stroke

| 150. It is a side-valve engine with શ detachable head and is a new- comer to the lengthy list of engines marketed by the Totten- ham concern, which will continue in production next season with

detail changes unly.

A new two-stroke unit, to come within the 108. tax class, may be expected from a Midland factory that has not hitherto undertakei. the building of engines, while rumours of simliar developments in other directions are rife in Coventry and Birmingham.

power plant is shown by this which were unknown only a low simple diagram. In the case of years ago. Thus a comparatively the aeroplane a turbine would be light plant will develop some 2,000 naed, instead of an engine, tohorsepower, rotate the

Four such engines would sur- propeller.] Cleveland, Sept. 23.-Steam, dis-pass the power of all 12 engines carded as a course of power by on the huge Do-X, for instance. nutomobilo industry and The possibility of 75 and 100- xiving way to electricity on many passenger transports is fengible railroad lines,

may soon find its with the use of three or four of

these steam engines.

tho

principle of steam power is

baven in the agroplanerest Lakes

Engineers of the Aircraft Corporation are working simple. on plans for a steam power plant consists of

The plano principally

small

tube water

of unusual design that would en-boller, a high speed turbine with

able the construction of transport

reduction

the propeles

to

danger The

tank, is heated by

a burner from a supply of crude

and military planes of much and FL greater alze capacity and speed drawn than has over bean projected.

The steam power plant for gero-

eroll. The resultant stcam passes planes

is nothing new. Iliram into the turbino, rotating that at Maxim used one in a vinne modela fast speed, then goes out to the. he built in 1893 and Prof. Samuel condenser and back to the tank,

P. Langley used steam engine to be used all over again,

inter.

in the plane ho flew three years The design and arrangement of these parts are Kuch that the engineers say they will permit streamlining effects to be built into the body of the

pinne, further

But the type of steam engine the Great Lakes engineers have in mind, and which they are now building for exhaustive tosts, is said to be of quile à revolutionary

DOILER.

PUBL TANK

BURNER

VTURBINE]

PRITELLER

cburacter.

to advance the resultant speed.

The engineers believe that this} will be a very economical and emciont form of power for large' transports and military planos, Ther

nde, further, that it will lead to greater, safety in the air, for the reserve power contained in the steam plant onable a pilot to

cruise several miles while looking

for

#suitable landing place, whether he ran out of fuel or any mechanical

The trouble

CONDENSER

WATER "TANK

witt

ba

aeroplane steam plant. also practically noiseless and vibrationless, they any, and its

Greatest promine fer fower parts will result in lower

If is it proof against serious coat of maintenance. Higher boller troublo, since this element will consist of a number of amull flying spoods also are predicted.

Beeldes, the steam plant should

tubes.

Possibility of building a steam assure clear radio recoption, he engine for aeroplanda arose from system. And it would provide an cause of its lack of an ignition the development of Hight but strong alloy and rustless, stools, adequate heating plant in the pas

nenger cabin for winter flying..

"DAVID AND GOLIATH."

No one

You wouldn't think it, would you, that a tiny midget car of popular English make could cause this wreckage? It did, in London The car crashed into the understructure of the house, causing it to fall to the ground and partly on the car.

BACK HOME AGAIN.

YOU'D BETTER GET

THE CAR CLEANED

UP QUICK, HENRY!

WE HAVE A DINNER AND BRIDGE. DATE

AT THE DOODLESMITHS TONIGHT-AND WE CAN'T GO LIKE THIS!

DEC: 10. Ex "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA'

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ANOTHER · RECORD FALLS.

A Chicago motorist was recently

FUTURE ROADS. toads of the future may be made. arrested for violating 15 elty ordi- of melted rocks, if the proced Inances in three minutes. They in D, Komlos, Hungarian chemist

cluded violating the speed limit. proven practical. Komlos rays, striking four cars, driving on has succeeded in melting rock wrong side of street, leaving scene stotes and sand in a special furnace of accidents, cutting in and out of which also moulds them into proper traffic, falling to stop at stop streets form. The furnace took 18 driving through safety zonen and to perfect. It burns any k “othörn:

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