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THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928.
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BUYERS GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Rond. C.4759.
BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHEVROLET. Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHRYSLER.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel, C. 1219. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel C.1219. OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wang Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.-
PACKARD. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C,1247.
C.4769.
PONTIAC.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219. ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. SINGER-Gilman & Co., 41, Des Voeux Road Central. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. WHIPPET-Gilman, & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 4, Des Vaux Road Central.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS.
·CHEVROLET.—Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 35 Wong Nei Chung Road,
Happy Valley, C.1247..
MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Ċ.4759.... STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
MOTOR CYCLES.
C.4759.
B. S. A.-The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road, C.1067.) ROYAL ENFIELD-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES.-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. ACCESSORIES.-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.226. AUTO-TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS.-Keller, Kern & Co., Ltd.,.
16-19, Connaught Road, Central,
COLUMBIA BATTERIES.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88,
Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247. FIRESTONE TYRES-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wòng
Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
·MILLER ACCESSORIES A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.
Tel C.1219.
MILLER TYKES-A. Lùng & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C.1219. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. C.4769.
MORE SUBWAYS.
NEW YORK'S GREAT NEED
TRAFFIC CONGESTION.
*TO
KNIGHT MOTOR.
INCREASINGLY POPULAR IN NEW FIELDS.
TROUBLE-FREE.
Built as it is upon a narrow "There is a steadily increasing island not long enough, New sales field for a Knight sleeve. York has traffic problems peculiar valve motored car of more than or-" to itself.
The city has made dinary readability and comfort tremendous progress in adapting and with more than usual motor itself to the requirements of performance, built to a reasonable motor vehicular transportation size and gold at a reasonable price, but is still face to face with in-
"In this sales field the Falcon- numerable problems.
sales."
All rail traffic in New York Knight Six occupies a distinctive position and is participating in an New should be underground. York needs more subways and is increasingly large percentage of building them. Surface trolley
This was the statement of John lines should give way to buses. Watch a trolley car turn the corn-A. Nichols, Jr., president of the cr at Madison avenue and Forty- Falcon Motors Corporation in com- second-street and
appreciate menting on the progress made by what an absolete method of trans- the Company during its first year portation the surface street car in the automobile industry."
"Entry into the business is in a congested city like New York. Imagine what Fifth manufacturing and selling motor Cor- avenue would be like with surface cars, by the Falcon Motors lincs running down the centre of poration, was made only after · a the street.
careful study of what might be ex- pected from the type of car we had decided to build..
of
There is a place for the street car in our nation-wide transporta- tion system but there is no place: "We found that the interest in for it in the congested centres of the Knight sleeve-valve motor had great cities. The day of the been increasing for a long period. elevated train should be passing. Motorists in general expect more in New York also. Elevated from a Knight power plant than structures should be torn down, from other types of motors. streets made wider, lighter and Tree of obstructions.
of "The manufacture
ranges.
Knight
It is easy to forget that the first double sleeve motored cars in the elevated train in New York be-U.S.A. as well as in Europe had gan to run away back in 1868. been confined to the higher price) We didn't have subways running in New York until 1904. It was natural that the cheaper elevated structures should have been built first. But the day of the elevated train in New York should be rapidly drawing to a close.
Other Cities.
New York could very well profit by the experience of other cities, Los Angeles notably, and adopt pedestrian control. That does not mean to deprive the pedestrian of any of his rights but instead is an effort to get into the con- sciousness of the man who walks that traffic rules and regulations and signals are for his guidance as well as for the convenience and safety of motorists.
city.
Lower Price Range.
into com- "Rather than enter
estab- petition with cars already lished in these classes, we investi- gated the possibilities of furnish- ing a Knight motor car in a lower price range than had ever been oc cupied before.
"Such a car must necessarily be
reasonable in its size. It could not be equipped with a Knight engine rendering the without which has become an accepted part of this type of engine construction.
service
"Our engineering staff set about to see what.could be accomplished in the way of building such a car.
"In no manner have
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we ever
"Finally, it was through rigid economy and high efficiency in Pedestrian travel in New York, manufacturing procedure that the especially on certain streets, is at way became clear. all hours very heavy and in the "Response to the efforts of the morning there is a great flow of organisation was immediate, not commuter-pedestrian traffic from only from the general motor car! Grand Central Station and buying structure of the country the Pennsylvania Station to but from the dealer structure various parts
the of
up- well. of the section Itown
There is a similar flow of travel tried to put the Falcon-Knight Six from the Hudson Terminal build-
on a price competition beale in its classr ings down town and from the various subway stations. At pre- sent this traffic squirms its way
"The price was determined by through rapidly moving lines of
what we discovered could be done: motor vehicles. When It is remembered that most automobile rather than by what we felt we accidents are collisions between might have to do to make sales,
"The sales came and in larger motor vehicles and pedestriana the question can well be raised volume than we had anticipated. whether it wouldn't be better to They have been steadily maintain- halt pedestrian traffic long enough jed on n basis of increase totally in to allow vehicular traffic to move accord with increase in our manu- and then to stop vehicular traffic facturing facilities.
"The Falcon-Knight was accepted to permit pedestrians to cross in complete safety. Other cities by the general public as something have found the plan a good one which it wanted and the matter of which results in a reduction of price has rarely ever been discuss-
ed by purchasers. automobile accidents.
New York has an overhead "With a production schedule set! motor-way extending from Park for 1928 which will represent three avenue and Fortieth-street to times as many cars as we built in Park-avenue and Forty-fifth- the nine months in which we were street which ought to suggest making, deliveries in the past year, similar motor-ways in other parts and with this schedule based of the city.
conservative estimates New York could make more use dealer organisation, 30,000 Falcon-
Other of pedestrian tunnels.
of the sales field cities have such tunnels and find Knight cars for this year will give
an indication
they relieve pedestrian conges which is open." tion. Sixth-avenue and Thirty- third-street, to give a single illus- tration, is a congested spot where tunnels could be used to advan- tage.
:
Street Trucks.
оп from our
BOAR'S ESCAPADE
to
The following hunters' story is I can well appreciate the pro. tests of truck drivers at the sug: well attested. A local shooting gestion that loading and unload-club went out after "pig," meaning ing of trucks shall be done at wild boar, which are very plentiful night. And yet I don't see how this season, and very audacious New York is going to escape night owing to the hard weather. They loading and delivery. At present found one. Finding the under- the presence of trucks on streets growth in the woods an impediment convert streets where ordinarily to his movement, the boar took to there would be room for four the highway and was making ex- Janes of travel, to ones with roomcellent time, beating evena for only two-lanca.
safety, when he met a local land- By building more subways, lord who was stepping on the ac eliminating elevated structures, celerator of his light car and doing removing surface lines, substitut fast time along the forest road in Ing buses, removing trucks from the opposite direction. The boar streets during day-time, widening charged the car and knacked it of streets, pedestrian control, clean off the road into the ditch. building of over-head motorways, building of pedestrian, tunnels. Then, somewhat damaged, as the building of arterial highways all blood traces showed, it resumed its these are means whereby New Journey and got safely away. The York's traffic congestion can be car was completely smashed but the
driver, only slightly Injured..
Delivered.
Remember
member you can have a Buick at this moderate price
—and Buick offers these unrivaled quality- features
Lovely Hydralis Shock Ab sorbers, front and ease Smart lowering Fieber bodies Form-Etting alloend seat cush
ions
Rich color romanšen, kolde and out
Ballet-type beadlamps - Adjumabis weering column The Buick Doubla-Lock (Ope turn of the key locks both he nition and steering wh
The Cases Buick Seiled Char sism with every operaciau past weled kildea dirupenal, dass proof, waterdighe housing Triple-clad anglos
Vacuuni classed crankcase One solusel Jolat, instead of tape threemand automatically Lubricated
Buick mechanical sombasībrakon Torque-suke drive
Five-bearing aucluce stowing
Controllable-beam bonding lea Balanced Engla Air Gear
Gasolina e There circulation control Auch control *Vacuum ventilator (an all dia
Gon)
Spark plugs maled against water Flugins monatings of vanïïone rubberboth front and rest
fashionable Buick
You can have your choice of body-types at remarkably low price 3 And they are Buicks through and through-offering true Buick luxury, performance and long life.' They give you the flashing getaway-mighty power- and brilliant flexibility of the famous Buick Valve-in- Head engine, vibrationless beyond belief.
They give you the beauty and luxury of Buick's smart, low-swung bodies by Fisher with colorful, richly ap pointed interiors.
They give you the supreme riding comfort, over any road, provided by Buick's cantilever springs, Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers and form-fitting tailored seat cushions..
They offer, in addition to low cost, the advantages of the liberal G. M. A. C. time-payment plan, the most desirable yet devised.
And you will always know. for your Buick, or more utmost in motor car, value, SEDANS G$1,615 to G$2,600,
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whether you pay G$1,525. that your money buys the
COUPES G$1,610 to G$2,350. SPORT MODELS G$1,560 to G$1,910,
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33, WONG NEI, CHUNG ROAD
HAPPY VALLEY.
WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM
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1.81x-Cylinder Engiäs, of
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Interchangeable shimlen bearings
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Miles Hour
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24. ThermostatleHost Control
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21. Pivotal Steering
22. 4-whee! Hydrasile Brakes 23. High Carbon Steel @grlaşı
24. Spacially-designed Rans Addie Lee Balloon Tyme 25.Larsilers on front and
Your Springs
34. Indirectly Lighted Incons
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37%. Falco Theftproof Nam
belag Team
18. Electric Fuel Cenga
29. Headlamp Control on
Bering Wheel
30. Narrow Corner Pillars
31. Adjustable Being Whoa! 31. Cader Visor
33. Sadšla Opring Boot
Cushions
34. Fina Figured blobale
Usbolicary
35. Rigid Type Cuzinins en
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36. Adjustable Front Seat In
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A. LUNG & CO.
19, Queen's Road,
Tel. C.1219
SERVICE STATION:-215, PERCIVAL STREET, WANCHAL.