THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928.
THE CHINA MAIL,
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THE MOTORISTS' PAGE
NEW 1929 MODEL
B. S. A.
MOTOR CYCLES
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DECEMBER 16th.
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BUYERS'
GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. 0.4759.
BUICK The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel 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. HANOMAG.-Wai On Tooung, Ltd., 243 Des Voeux Road, C.
Tel. C. 711.
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
:OLDSMOBILE—The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei
. Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
PACKARD.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. Ç.1247.
PONTIAC Lane, Crawford, Ltd..
ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. SINGER-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Vœux Road Central.
STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
WHIPPET.-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 'da, Des Voeux Rond Central:
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. BROCKWAY MOTOR TRUCKS. The Asiatic American Co. Tel.
.C. 244.
CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769, FEDERAL TRUCKS-Kín. Cheong Hong, 37, Connaught Road C.
Tel. C. 6.
G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38 Wong Nei Chung Road,
Happy Valley, C.1247.
GUY.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C. 1219. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4759. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4759. WILLYS KNIGHT TRUCKS-Giman & Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Rd. C. -MOTOR CYCLES.
Tel. C.
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B. S. A.-The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. C.1067. NEW HUDSON.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road C.
1219. RALEIGH,—A.. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219. ROYAL ENFIELD--A Lung & Co. 19, Queen's Road C. Tel. C
1219,
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES.-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4250. ACCESSORIES.The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon, K.226. AUTO TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS.-Keller, Kern & Co, Ltd.,
-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., 39, Wong
Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley. 0.1247. MILLER ACCESSORIES.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.
Tel. C.1219.
MILLER TYRES.-A. Lung & Co., 13, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. 0.1219. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queon's
Road. C.4769.
FOUR WOMEN
IN UNIQUE MOTOR
TEST
OVER 500 MILES
ZEPPELIN CREW
USE PACKARDS FOR RECEPTION
26 CARS.
Announcement has been made by "If I were a millionaire I would the Contest Board of the American buy a Zeppelin and use it as a pri Automobile Association that four vate yacht!"
women, all possessing only avarage; With this comment on the com- driving experience, recently piloted fort and safety, of the grest Graf The Studebaker Commander and Zeppelin, Lady Drummond Hay, The Studebaker Director in two the first woman to make the West- anique 500-mile tests.
ward crossing by air, disombarked Driven entirely by women pilots, at the close of this thrilling, history a fully equipped stock Commander making voyage...? Roadster on June 13, travelled 500; Before a crowd: estimated at miles on the Atlantic City Speedway 500,000, Dr. Eckener, followed by in 388 consecutive minutes, main-hla passengers and crow in twenty- taining an average speed of 77.21 Ave Packard cars, and attended by a infles' per hour for the entire discordon of police, led a triumphal tance. This record is only 2.4 miles parade up Broadway to City Hall, per hour lower than the American Nine picked officers from New record for fully equipped stock cars York's mounted force proceded the for the same distance, also held by Procession followed by two full The Commander.
military hands several companies Immediately following The Com- of army reservas and a detachment mander's run, the women took of the navy. / charge of à stock model Studebaker' Colourful Spectacle Director. This medal holds all, Comparable only with the de American speed and endurance remonstrations accorded to Colonel cords for fully equipped, stock cara Lindbergh and to the men who In its price clase. Relieving each crossed the Atlantic in the Bromen other in two-hour shifts, the four the lower part of Manhattan Island women completed the 500 mifce the very heart of New York, pre- with an aterage speed of 60.37 sented perhaps the most colourfu inlles por hour."
spectacle of recent months. English "Star"
tangle of tickertape swept thr The two performances were checkstreet, suspended from the sky- ed and certified by the Contest where and to add to the official scrapers-German flags were every- Board of the A.A.A.. Each of thei Studebaker cars was.certified by planes, Aying in the wedgeshape
aspect of the event, three army, this same body to be strictly stock military formation, hovered over and fully equipped.
tho route which the heroes follow-
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In order to maintain the high ed. averages and still make stops for New York, noted for its: hospi rellef drivers and fuel, the feminine tality to distinguished visitors. drivers kept their mounts soaring outdid herself Introduced a new well above the final average figures. note by presenting Dr. Eckener The women who drove the cars with roses-a touch which symbo- were Bertha and Caroline Winnad, lizes the new feeling of cordial- Marie Morton and Mary Jobling, anty between the two nations. All English flm atar:
New York had anxiously followed Studebaker points to these per- the hourly newspaper bulletins and formances as proof of the ease with radio reports. The four days of which the championship speed of tense waiting showed that beneath Studebaker cars
may be obtained the casual, outward appearance of and controlled. As one, Studebaker the Western hemisphere's greatest official remarked, "These two 500 city there was one great question mile runs in which wamen did the "Will they succeed? Then thị "driving · defeat the theory that new came that the gigantic ship women are not as proficient as men had been seen and New Yorkers in niloting motor cara."
again breathed freely." Heralded by a blast of whistles and wel- coming shouts of the city's population swarming to the streets, windows and roofs, the Grad Zeppelin, on October 15, Was which surrounded Manhattan sighted lying through the mists
Island and in what seemed a mat- ter of seconds, the huge craft was directly overhead-and gone.
INTERESTING STORY
་..་
OF HAROLD LLOYD'S LATEST COMEDY
SHOWN IN AIR
How an acroplane was converted by an enterprising director, into a private reviewing theatre, is told in the story related below.
Harold Lloyd's latest screen play "Speedy" was in the process of receving its finishing touches before being presented to the public, and a production director wanted to
"The sight of your beautiful airship ....told again the story of Columbus and Magellan, of Cabot and Balboa." With these words Acting Mayor McKee, af New York City, welcomed the pioneers and gave them the freedom of the American metropolis,
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car, and have ridden in it. Crim humerials will send the announce. ment of the prize to certain of their friende. But the Americans are Leonard John Bright, 19, quite serious. They have begun to Ing the picture to this group of dis-motor mechanic, was sentenced to talk about a self-propelled vehicle tinguished reviewers, he rented an 12 months' imprisonment in the which existed in 1805, the property aeroplane and setting his projection second division by Mr. Justice of one Oliver Evans. But it does machine in the rear compartment, Shearman at Devon Assizes for the not seem to be extant. Vanished took his guests for a trip five thou-manslaughter of Alford Ciat-also, we believe, is Trevethick's sand feet above the California, hills worthy,. at Bishops. Tawton, steam car of 1802. We take it and gave themt an advance showing Clatworthy, with a pillion rid- that America has no objection to of the picture on a screen erected er, was attending to the Hghts, of steam. Any form of propulsion just back of the pilots cockpit. his motor-bicycle when Bright, who makes a motor-ear for this com- Thus "Speedy" was given one of was motor-cycling, ran into him. petition. A hundred years ago, Its first showings at a hundred and Witnesses said that he was riding there were a number of steam ten miles an hour!
fast,
on English roads.. Bright said he imagined either regular service of power-driven his tyre burst or his speedometer buses ran between Cheltenham twisted, into the front wheel, and Gloucester in 1824, and the GOOD MOTORISTS REWARDED The Judge, in passing sentence, things which are being said about said that a great many people the noise and stench of modern But For many years past insurance drove every day with grant reck-traffic were said about them. companies have recognised the lessness, forgetful for the moment in 1824 the result was to banish careful motorist and have allow that very great speed on English engines to the railways. There ed a bonus on the renewal of roads was always dangerous. In 18, or was, in Vienna, a petrol policies in regard to which no dealing with cases of manslaught motorcar which was shown at the laims have been made, writes theer by negligence he always bore lenburg mechanic, Biegfried exhibition of 1873. "A Meck correspondent of the that in mind "Manchester Guardian." The re- The Judge continued: "It is wheeled handcart fitting an engine. Markus, built it by taking a four- Juction in premium differa in unusual in English iurisprudence between the, hind wheels, with a smount according to the Insurance that a man can be convicted for wooden chair, above it, and company. But the prowess of the committing an offence which he storing-gear to the front wheels. proved good driver of long experi- does unintentionally. As regards But ten years earlier Etienne ence who has never had an acci- the offence, I have my own feeling Lenoir, born, a Belgian and na dent has never been rewarded by about this matter. It comes be-turalised a Frenchman, made an a crude design.It did not much chaser" Yet there were brave men Insurance companies, who have fore every Judge, and one has to automobile by fitting a gas engine attract even the adventurous in those days. We turn to the old en disinclined to draw any dis- deal with the standard of this to a carriage on which he travelled cyclists of that age, but there was pictures which show them bow- inction between him and the less case. I do not want to dietato to from his factory in the suburbs to no doubt, about the engine. In lered and be-whiskered, high upon experienced though eminently safe other Judges as to what that stan- Paris, six miles, In an hour and a 1884 Carl Benz built a horseless lofty vehicles of the phaston shape, driver.
dard is, when for the worst offences half. It did not become popular. carriage, which was a tricycle with hard-tyred, rudely, sprung, without As the present tendency is for of this kind I have over known The development of the motorcar steering wheels fnfront and the a front or back to hide their motor Insurance premiums to in more than 18 months given. The was to, come through the develop, engine under the driver's seat. It crudities, we admire the dauntless crease, this substantial encourage state of our roads is getting apment of bicycle and tricycle. The does not look auch queerer than nerve of the pioneers. If the Tent offered to the caraful, experi-palling. The professional driver rst motor-bicycle was built forty other tricycles of that epoch, It Americans wish to show the world meed motorist is doubly welcome, is careful and kindly; it is the in-years ago, when Gottlieb Daimler would do eight miles an hour, but what the old motorcars were like and should help us towards a high-dividual driving a car not on busi-put a vertical petrol engine be- the historian records that "Benz's they must exhibit not only the care er general standard of driving, nose who is reckless.
tween the wheels of a “safety"" of great dimoulty was to find a-par-l'but the herces who drove then
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