THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928.
CHEVROLET
HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES.
NATIONAL SERIES “A B" PASSENGER 4.A.C. Horse-Power Rating 21.
Brake Horse-Power 35 at 2,200 Revolutions. Platon Displacement 170,9 Cubic Inch. Wheel-Base 107 Inches Speed 50 M.P.H.
I
Model
Kondater
2-pass, 2,000 lbs. Tourer
B-pass, 2.056 lbs. Coach (2 door) 6-pass. 2,310 lbs.
F. O. B. Nett Factory Extras Weight Price
G$195 496
Packing Nett Shipping Hong Kong Delivery
Price
h
C$ 64
+
G$216
G2 766
67
210
706
585
40
205
800
Coupe 2-pass. 2,170 lbs.
696
40
205
900
Sedun.-pass. 2,390 lbs,
675
40
205
.980
Cubriolet 4-pasa. 2,276 lbs.
605
40
255
1,000
715
40
265
1,020 Landau Sedan 5-pass. 2,350 lbs.
Hong Kong Price includes spare rim Tyre and Tube, Ramper, Bulb Horn, Right Hand Drive.
NATIONAL SERIES “A B" COMMERCIAL.
R.A.C. Horse-Power Rating 21.7. Brake florae-Power 35 at 2,200 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 170.8 Cubic Inch. Wheel-Base 107 Inchos,
Half Ton Chassis
Half Ton Chassis, & Cab No. 500 2,015
Speed 45 3.P.H.
1,615 lbs. G$375
G$20
C$155.·'G$560,
490
20
216
725
., 128 2,280
530
20
240
790
"P
103 2,705 $
570
20
205
856
104 2,530
580
20
- 265
965
"
Panel Express Truck
.. 205 2,205.
000.
20
260
870
Eight Pussenger Bus
...34.2,265
015
20
255
850
Cab Top Express Truck
Screen Express Truck
Combination Truck
Hong Kong Price includes sparc rim Tyra and Tube, Right Hand Drive
CAPITAL SERIES “L Q" UTILITY.
H.A.C. Horse-Power Rating 21.7.
Brake Horac-Power 31 at 2,200 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 170.9 Cubic Inch. Wheel-Bass 184 Iriches.
+
One Ton Chassis.....2,130 lbs. G$520
G$ 45
1% Ton Chussia......2,230 lbs.
520
116
1 Ton (146) Chassis 2,410 lbs.
620
215
0$105 105 186
G$ 730
800
920
Hong Kong Price includes spare rim, Tyre and Tube and fenders,
400 lbs, G$ 95
775 lbs.
960 lbs. 1,000 lbs.
800 lbs. 270 306 775 lbs.
EXTRA FOR BODIES MOUNTED ON 124" CHASSIS.
Sedan Cab.ND.. 506 Cab Top Body No. 328 Screen Body .No. 303 Combination No. 303 Panel Body..No. 105 12 Pass. Bus No. 39
G$ 30 GS 65
G$ 180
175
80
118
320
236
30
145
410
250
30
145
425
30
126
425
130
435
All Prices and Specifications subject to change without notice.
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
·08 Queen's Road Central
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that of wood, while the lightness and durability are greater than the wood construction formerly used. Perhaps the greater gain for the
Tel Centrol 4750.
•£9,000,000 SCHEME
MOTOR ROAD TO INTERLAČE WHOLE OF ENGLAND,
£3,000,000 UNDERWRITTEN
THE CHINA MAIL,
FIRESTONE
HIS TYRE PLANT, IN ENGLAND
THE DEDICATION
Arrangements have been com- Modern man, able to converse ploted for the underwriting of with the four corners of the earth, £3,000,000 out of, £9,000,000 requir- was portrayed in Akron, Ohio, re- ed for the first stages of a scheme cently.
to build motor roads 'interlacing The drama of the scientist was the whole country from Newcastle laid in the office of Henry S. to Portsmouth, from Liverpool to Firestone, Sr., president of the Hull, and from London to Liver. Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co. pool. This is an amplification of Harvey Firestone arrived at the the London to Brighton inotorway plant early in the morning. He of which so much was heard last conferred with his scrotaries. Ap
parently he did not think he was August,
introducing a new era of communi
Funds are already forthcoming for the expenses of an application to Parliament for power to con- struct this section, and it is hop ed that work will begin next sum mer. All surveys are now com- plete for an avenue of 140,000 trees and coloured reflectors on each side of the road for the guld- ance of night drivers.
The aims of the Motor Roads Development, Syndicate, Ltd., head-
cation in Akrob.
The typewriters clicked rapidly in adjoining offices. Office work. ers bent over their desks. The tale. phone on Firestone's deak tinkled.
"Just a moment," he said to his secretary, "I'll be with you as soon as I make this call."
He went to his desk and sat down to a microphone..
Immediately his voice went over the telegraph lines to New York- ed by Lord Askwith, are more am- over the radio current to London bitious than this.- A further and to Brentford, which is in the scheme has been drawn up for heart of the London metropolitan covering the whole country, North, district.
South, East and West, with motor- He talked to 300 Firestone re- ways which will link up practical- presentatives who gathered at ly every important manufacturing Brentford, London, to dedicate the centre in England. Following are new $3,000,000 English Firestone. the main motorways proposed, on plant. They heard. him aa' If he which cars will travel probably at were on a platform in front of a speed limit of sixty miles an them.
Hour in perfect safety, under con- The ocean, grown smaller by the trol of special police provided by Graf Zeppelin's fight, shrank still
the company:
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more as the voice from Akron sped across the surging Atlantic. 1-Brighton to London (at a Firestone talked 10 minutes to coat of £3,000,000). Sur those, congregated in Brentford. veys completed.
Afterward he made a personal call 2-Birmingham to Liverpool (at on the same hookup to his son,
a cost of £6,000,000). Most Harvey Jr., who was then in Lon- of the survey already com- don. pleted. Ninety miles in length. This is under the chairmanship of Sir Edward Brooks.
Happy as a Boy
He was as happy as a boy when he finished the conversations,
3-An extension from Brighton to Southampton and Ports- mouth, about sixty miles in length. 4-From Birmingham to Bristol and Cardiff, branching near
The feat was more intricate on -Worcester to both banks of the other side of the ocean than it
the Severn.
was in Akron, according to G. B. 6-London to Birmingham, 100 Ransow, who supervised the set-up miles in length, joining the on the American side of the Atlan- circular London road pro- posed by L.C.C. 6-Liverpool to Hull
"Harvey told me the reception of my speech was excellent in the au- ditorium of the plant," he said as he laughed. "They understood me very plainly."
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The
tic ocean.
Frestone talked directly into a microphone upon his desk. 7-Newenstle to Leeds, joining call went straight through to New the Liverpool-Hull road and radio current to London. The en- serving important centres tire system worked perfectly. like Bradford, Huddersfield, Į
After talking to his son, Fire- and Sheffield.
stone carried on a conversation On the Brighton road it is now with Sir William Joynson Hicks, proposed to build * tunnel at British industrial "Icader.
York, then over the trans-oetanic.
Pebblecombe, between Buckland,
"He was more excited than I
and Epsom Downs, and to utilize was," Firestone said. "I guess he the services of about 500 miners had a set speech and be was deter-
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THE NEW ERA
MANUFACTURERS MEETING THE TIMES
COMFORT ESSENTIAL
[By L. H. Cade.] There is no doubt that
a fast
who wants reliability, no more than in that most uncomfortable convey- adequacy in the matter of road per-ance, and I can compare it with formance, and more comfort and nothing more painful than a camel cleanliness than he has been able ride.
to have, before on two wheels. We I was so glad when the transport those thin shall see safe and sure motor-cycles authorities changed which will be more in the nature of ponies for a motorcar, and chuckled two-wheeled cars than motor-cycles at the ease with which I should of the generally-accepted type. now go to the Hill Station-until I As an example, and a fine one, saw the car! It was an ancient of obscure American
for the purpose. Considerable op- mined to tell it. He was very ner-motor-cycle is very attractive.. In there is the machine which has machine position is, of course, anticipated vous as if amazed and he showed all the years of my roadfaring I matured in the brain of Cyril origin. Its radiator cap was a jam
Steel Concrete
from the railways, but the com- it, but he told his story." pany insist that they are not to try to kill the railways. They pro-' pose, on the other hand, to pro-!
yards for railway traffic,
NEW ORGANISATION vide special garages and goods
BETWEEN CHRYSLER AND DODGE CARS
FOR OVERSEA TRADE
Announcement has just been made i
manufacturer is the absolute uni- by the Chrysler and Dodge Brothers formity of the pleces turned out on Corporations, that the newly organ-
SPECIAL TYRES
FOR THE MERALCO TWIN COACH
The rubber magnate known throughout the world laughed as he bent back to his work.
have never
Speed and Confort
another gain in lightness and Brothers trucks, the Plymouth and last July, was the first to require necessary to send over a trained' two-wheeled motor-cars. Not yet. Interesting job, but I hope that it the autovac. became, choked by the
No
found a thrill which Pullin, one-time winner of the tin firmly wired on: the clips which Senior Tourist Trophy Race. had once held the bonnet were no exceeds that of full throttle riding Other T.T. winners have turned mors, and a dirty piece of tape and on a powerful "hog-bus,”
their attention to designing but a rag did duty either alde. Lug- But the opportunities for enjoy-they have concentrated on sports gage was "lashed" on all round the ing this are very rare. You can models.
running boards and behind; every The new English Firestone plant buy any number of motorcycles
shape and size, irrespective of divi- is of steel concrete construction, which will give you seventy, eighty, Cyril Pullin is getting older-and sion of weight. with a two-storey administration or even ninety miles an hour, but wiser. He has evolved a motor- Paint! There was none left to building and a four story ware- house. It has a capacity of 2,000 you cannot let them out. You have cycle with a pressed steel frame spoil, and the pockets on the doors tyres a day. The plant will start to go along in the forties, and once which protects both the rider and held the driver's brush and comb in a blue moon you can step on the the engine. He has Introduced and shaving requisites! When the production immediately.
Mr. Firestone's closing remarks gas and turn the hedgerows into an novelties which are borrowed from engine started it made a noise like
ilne of Indistinguishable
green car manufacture and has aimed at a bag of chains being shaken, and i were: "In building our English these dies. Every part is inter-ised Chrysler Export Corporation, Latest test of the tyre en plant our plans were laid for large colour,
the production of a machine which we left with the carburettor leaking changeable with every other from will devote its entire time to the gineer's skill was the advent of expansion and we spared no ex- In spite of the limitations of cir- can be driven for long distances badly in a sound like the beginning the 'same dia.
development of closer co-operation large capacity motor coaches, with pense to make it the most efficient cumstances, the manufacturers have without entalling fatigue.
of a small barrage! Very closely allied to the with all Chrysler and Dodge a growing need for a large, plant in the world. We have taken gone on and on in the provision of
But even Pullin te talking glibly Some distance up the steep slope stamping made from akeet metal is Brothers overseas organisations. medium-prosaure, single tyre that from all our plants in America and speedirons.
hour on his new of the foot-hills the radiator cap They have devoted of 100 miles an the forging made from the bar
Overscris Distribution would cushion road shocks like a Canads the special designs for tyre more attention to speed than to any machine. I think this is a mistake. how off, and we then had a white stock. Here, again, the art haa
The Chrysler Export Corporation balloon and yet stand à 6,000 building equipment, all of which thing else. You Can
buy tiny- So does be, because he says that jet of steain that looked “like a flag advanced tremendously in the last will have charge of the overseas pound continuous load.
machinery was built in England as engined motor-cycles with twin such a speed is obtainable with of truce offered to fate. Every malle few years. The result is that we distribution of Chrysler Sixes, The Twin Coach, which made.far as it was possible..
ports, high compression ratios and certain modifications of compression or so we stopped to "slop" a bucket find a greater number of forgings
"In opening the new plant it was overhead valves, but you cannot buy ratio and valve timing.
of water over the car, and to fill used in place of castings, with Dodge. Brothers cars and Graham its bow to the public a year ago
The new Ascot-Pullin is an up the radiator. A ittle further on strength. The bracing of the De Soto motor cars and the new Hne a single tyre of such capacity. American staff to start operations,
At long last the industry has will be sold as a quiet and comfort- thick red dust. The driver calmly CES and The engineers went to work and but it is our intention to withdraw body has kept pace with the great of Fargo commercial
Goodyear was the first to delivers all of the American staff as fast as realised that there is a real and an able touring job. It should be disconnected it and sucked at it tin increase in strength in the trucks.
uncatered for demand for really pushed like the horse dealers used the trouble dispersed! bracketing of the chassis.
The advantage of this arrange-tyre that filled the bill-a 12-ply possible."
The The best labour is available at comfortable motor-cycles.
to push the sale of a lady's pony as In trying to surmounut a large one would have thought of bang ment to the overseas organisations medium pressure 40x10.50.
So much has been written and
a docile mount "fit for a lady to rock one running board was cast ing a sedan over the road ten is obvious as it provides for the Manlia Dlectric Company is at pre- the site, and the Brentford docks
ride." years ago us we do to-day and still most economical and efficient co-sent assembling a number of these may be used for water shipments. said about the road performance of
adrift: this was soon remedied by the modern motor-cycle, that, as It is all nonsense to talk about the simple method of tying a rope hope to have a quiet body at the ordination of all Chrysler and Dodge Twin Coaches.
Shakespeare has it, "Methinks he the motor cycle movement langulah-round it and over the hood to the end of 600 miles of travel.
Brothers export business.
The Twin Conch Co., starting
does protest too much." We have ing. So long as the industry can other onel- Greater Speed Requirements The methods and policies which from scratch, in To-day cars
are operated at have prevailed in the past and of that one year has put 250 of design. To this end the body and speeds far in excess of those of a which have been so successful in the these mass transportation units, chassis were made an integral unit, few years ago. Long sustained overseas distribution of Chrysler worth three millions of dollars, on the body supporting about 60 per runs at 50 miles an hour through and Dodge Brothers products will the roads and streets of America, cent of the load. In other words, machine. the unpopulated. sections of the be continued. But the co-ordination The reason for this lay in the fact it was not necessary to design' a country' are common even with cars of all efforts will permit even that although a new company, it chassis to support itself, the In actual fact the motor-cycle is a good one. of the lowest price class. The closer and more specialised atten-was old in experience, the Twin, body, and the live load. This is more controlistile than any car and The fact that the producers have method of throwing the already cars are designed to stand it, not tion to the needs and requiremente Coach being conceived by Frank the advantage of the Twin Coach statistics show that it is not respon at last freed themselves from the loose top of the gear handle at only as regards the engine and the of the overseas markets.
R. Sageel, original designer and weighing 30 per cent. loss per sible for so many accidents as are speed fetish means that the motor them chassis but also the body. When
builder of the famous Sage seated passenger (40) than any-
thing else on the road. cars. But it is not to be wondered cycle will quickly develop along have made dozens of journeys. The Chrysler Export Corporation Safety Coach.
at that, while we have been talking lines which will make it an even in these old hired cars, for no one on a body go up with the square will include efficient and experiens. It is an everyday occurrence on From the public standpoint it about speed, the public has assumed more popular machine than it is trust his own smart conveyance to of the speed, every time a bump on ed men who have been assisting heavy city routes for a hundred has unusual rider appeal and that the manufacturers have built to-day.
those terrible roads. The courage · and calm of the native drivers'ls, of hour, instead of being compared as in the development of the overseas passengers, to pile into the thiess are days in which every motorcycles for the benefit of young five to three with a bump struck organisations of Chrysler and Twins" and that means a capa square foot of streets and roads bloode who Hike Bashing out at
course, drawn from ignorance; the car's themselves live on, simply be at 30 miles an hour, the ratia is Dodge Brothers. Operations will city load for tyres as well as extremely valuable. Cities are dangerous gaits.
And now, as I have said, the
cause, like the old soldiers, they In other words the continue along the same lines as in coach, but the load is equally divid being forced to tear from build-
never die "they only fade away. stress on the body is nearly three the past and personal contacts will ed between all four wheels, so ings to widen streets, and even manufacturers have changed their times as great..
be much the same as heretofore. that makes it easy on everything, put through subways to the tune ideas. They will still bulid sports. All of the improvements in body As in the past, Chrysler cars will end the balanced load makes the of a million a mile to meet the modals because there will also be a
Where Caution Rules
At one end of n 25-mile stretch silence is not confined to the body be sold by Chrysler distributors and job ride equally easy in every seat over growing volume of pubile demand for tast, machines Youth
will be served and motor cycling as the journey, to the Hill Station in of hill road in India motorists are alone, but some of the credit must dealers, and as before, Dodge Bro- and keeps it from pounding the travel. go to the more rigid chassis con- thers cars and Graham Brothers road and the tyres.
Transportation engineers and a sport will continue to flourish. the midyas by a machine called given a timed slip forbiddling theta struction used. Where we former trucks will be sold by Dodge Bro-Two 50-horsepower engines, highway traffic analysis every- We do not want woolly touring "tonga" a two-wheeled chariot to perform the journey in less than ly believed in having a fair amount thers dealers and associate dealers. each driving its own rear wheel, where are searching for means to motorcycles for sporting trials and with no springs, that was dragged, four hours. of flexibility in the chassis, to-day The separate identity of these two divide the stresses of 100-horse- speed up traffic and get more aff-competitions generally, but neither stage by etage, by two small pendes. there is very little, There are great lines of motor vehicles will power, and load with stresses en ciency from the spaces allotted to do we want racehorses on which to For the first half of the stago wa No Horns at Night
as many cross-members be, maintained.
distributed that each part bears public travel The Twin Coach tour, its sharb was the object of Fageol's meets the test for 100 per cent, At Olymple we see several
road space efficiency by athling machines whose bracketing” and gusseting of the fewer stresses are passed on to
has power cross-members is very much more the body. The chassis absorbs | (Continuéd at foot of mezt Its entire length and breadth for been adapted to the requirements of *aturdy. The result of this is that them.
·Column.).
carrying passangers,
the more sedate type of roadfarer
it is remembered that the stressès,
the road is struck at '50' 'miles. an
25. to nine.
twice
sused in the chassis and the
Elciency Essential
the short space
created an unfortunate impression supply, the public with machines . While driving through a villago The public seem to lie of the opinion which will take them anywhere, at we were held up by several children. that the motor-cycle is a dangerous lesser cost than that entailed by the sleep in the middle of the road! employment of public service The driver lost no time by descend- vehicles, so long will the market being from the car, but aroused the astonished infants by, the simple
The Safe Machine.
IN THE HILLS
A WOMAN DRIVER'S EXPERIENCES
In the old days in India we made
went very slowly, but when we In order that Paris citizens may acared the end we simply flew, enjoy quieter night, the Chief of jotting over the ground, everf Boñe Police" is adopting a "Suggestion.
whereby no horns may ko sounded an achel
between 1 am and. B ́ a.m.
Many weary hours have I spent