THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929,
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THE REPUBLIC MOTOR CO. OF CHINA, 30-32. Des Voeux Rd. C.
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BUYERS' GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hengkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. C.4759. BUICK The Dragon Moter Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247. CADILLAC--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759.
C.4759. CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. CHRYSLER MOTOR CARS-Republie Mctor Co. of China 30-32.
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.
DE SOTO MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China; 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.
GUY MOTOR PASSENGER BUSES.-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-32, Des Voeux Road C.. Tel. G. 1216 & 6252. 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 MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-82,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 0.1216 & 6252.
PLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. PONTIAC-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hote! Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. STUDEBAKER,-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. VAUXHALLA-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
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WHIPPET:-Gitman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Road Central,
OUTBOARD MOTORS Rudolf Wolff & Kaw, 54.Queen's Road
C., Tel. C.2173.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS: BROCKWAY MOTOR TRUCKS-The Asiatic American Co. Tel
C. 244. CHEVROLET.--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4759, FARO MOTOR TRUCKS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.
G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung Road,
Happy Valley. C1247.
MORRIS Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759.
REO MOTOK TRUCKS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 20-32, Des
Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. WILLYS KNIGHT TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.. Des Voeux Rd.
Central.
MOTOR CYCLES.
B. S. A.The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. C.1067. NEW HUDSON MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China,
80-82, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. G. 1216 & 6252. RALEIGH MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6752. ROYAL ENFIELD MOTOR CYCLES.-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-82, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.
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TYRES AND ACCESSORIES.
ACCESSORIES.-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. ACCESSORIES-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.220. MILLER ACCESSORIES, A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.
Tel. C.1219.
MILLER RUBBER TYRES AND TUBES Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES.-Hongkong Hotel, Garage. Queen's
Road. C.4780.
THE CHINA MAIL,
BOOMING INDUSTRY
TOWN WHICH MAKES MOTOR CARS
A lad called recently at a motor factory for a job and was asked what he had been doing. "I've been on the drilling," he answered. "Why did you leave A "Daily Express" special cor-your last job?" questioned the respondent writing on a visit to shop manager. "Oh, I could only Coventry says: More motor-cars earn thirty shillings a week! are being built in Coventry this there," said this boy of fifteen, present month than at any pre-"and it wasn't good enough." :
That incident is typical of vious time in the industrial, re-
others, all of which illustrate the cord of the city...
good times in Coventry.
The peak of production is rising steadily, and sales are keeping output. At least pace with
Seasonal "Boom" Without question, taking every
four great works are turning out aspect into account, it is the most! from forty to fifty per cent., prosperous of all the great indus- Of course, the more cars than in the compara-trial towns. tive period of last year, and one "boorn" in the motor trade is sea-. of the most encouraging signs is sonal. As summer approaches the exceptionally good demand the demand falls off. Practically for British cars from abroad. all the motor-cars which are like- Slowly and surely the Coventry |ly to be wanted have been made. motor firms are pushing their way Then there is a lull for several into overseas markets.
months, when the unemployment Everywhere in the city one figures will mount. hears "big figure" talk. There is
Even so, with motor-ear mak- a great new works, which whening having its natural up and running fully, will make no down periods, the other industries fewer than 6,000 engines a week. of the city keep steadily prosper. One factory, at the moment,ous the whole year round. Any completes 1,800 engines each slackness on the "swings" is com- five and a-half days, and there are pensated for by activity on the That is why several others where finished "roundabouts." motor-cars are taking the road at Coventry is the best-paid and the rate of from 200 to 500 a most fortunate of the manufac- week.
turing centres.
Machine-Tool Factory
The
Here is an example of what It is not only in motor-cars the men and the girls in the that Coventry is doing well. Coventry works can earn. There is lately completed-on factory is one with 2,000-odd the outskirts of the town the hands. Its pay sheets drawn out largest and finest machine-tool for a week showed that the aver- factory in the world, to which age earnings throughout the orders are coming from every con- whole establishment were £5 a tinent. The machine-tool trade is week per head, excluding mem-
a "barometer," for when that bers of the administrative and trade is busy it means that thereoffice staffs and every one from is a general stimulus to every a foreman upwards. The £5 class of manufacturing and en-average was an average for the gineering. Machine tools are the workers in the shops. raw material of works equipment.
A bint was given to me in the city of a wonderful new capstan
Insurance Gift
a
£100 life insurance
One firm was so pleased with lathe which is still a Coventry its employees recently that secret. That lathe, I was told, fully paid will simplify Beven separate policy was given to every one who operations in motor making had been on the pay roll for five down to one. It will should its years. Most of the factories promise be fulfilled-have to be work on а bonus piece-work installed in every motor works system, so that when orders are and in most other machine shops flowing in the men and the in the world. It is said to be a girls have a share in the proa "revolution" in machine tools.
A périty of their employers. Other industries in Coventry good man in a motor building shop are booming. Thousands of men will earn £8 to £10 a week. and girls are making artificial silk -the largest factory in the town is for artificial silk.
The Coventry girls deserve a special mention of their own. Go round to any of the machine All the little tabs and labels shops, where hundreds of girls which tailors, hosiers and from fifteen years of age up- drapery houses put on their gar-wards are working at complicat- ments are made here, and husi ed, whirling machines, and the ness is particularly brisk. Then, works manager will say that no too, Coventry produces equipment girls in any other town in Britain for automatic telephones, and are as good or as thorough as the great deal of this material is Coventry girls. being shipped abroad-to Austra- The skill has been born in them lia, Africa, and other parts of the from a long line of craftsmen British Empire.
forefathers. A large number of the girls take a fine pay packet hoine with them on exchequer day.
Unemployment Reduced Unemployment in Coventry is substantially down in relation to last year. The total ́is just 2,000, including people on part time, which is remarkably good for a total population of more than 160,000 with 62,000 workers on That insurance registers.
the
KING'S AMBULANCE
Mann
2,000 at present unemployed in- From the point of view of the cludes a percentage of unemploy-doctor particular interest at- ables, and also a certain number taches to the construction of the of skilled men, who drift between motor ambulance chosen for His the various works and periodical-Majesty's journey from Bucking- ly take a vacation, "on the dole."ham Palace to Craigweil House. Another fact to be remember-The body of the ambulance was ed is that nearly 18,000 people-specially designed by according to a recent municipal Egerton and Co., Ltd., of Norwich census come into Coventry each and London, consulting engineers morning to work from Birming-to the Medical Insurance Agency, ham, Leamington, Warwick, and built by them on to a 45-b.p. Nuneaton, and the surrounding Daimler chassis. The bed, which districts.
is placed on the right, is made Juvenile workers are doing ex-[to slide in and out of the car; traordinarily well. There is only should the need arise it can be one boy, registered as unemployed turned about without disturbing in Coventry, and that is because the patient. For those in imme- he wants to be an analytical chem-diate attendance on, the patient ist, and vacancies for embryo there is an armchair on the left analytical chemists are not fre- at the head of the bed, and at the quent thereabouts. There are foot an upholstered seat. A dark also fewer than a dozen girls, green carpet covers the floor; under the age of eighteen, "out." there are three large windows fitted with blinds, and there are two electric lights. By means of a special electric heating appara- tus and an electric fan the tem- perature inside the ambulance can be regulated at will. A mahogany and nickel hand-basin is supplied with water from tank. A single swing-door, with glazed window, gives access from the back of the car. Exhaustive tests had proved this ambulance to be capable of carrying the pa- tient in comfort while maintain- ing a high average speed. The accompanying illustration shows the interior as seen from behind. These ambulances are supplied by the Daimler Hire Company, of Knightsbridge, S.W
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33, Wong Wei Chung Road, Happy Valley
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Major H. O D. Segrave, left, with his "Golden Arrow and J. M. White, right, with his Trip- lex" at Daytona, Fla., where they endeavoured to exceed the world's record of 207.5 miles per hour made in the "Triplex" by Ray Keech. Major Segrave was successful in this and also in annexing the world's speedboat title with his "Miss England.”
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