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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1930.
AM THE MOTORISTS' PAGE MA
FIRST IN HONG KONG
“1930" BRITISH MOTOR CYCLES
NORTON
MODEL NO. 18 4.90 M.P.
"Unapproachable" as the machines have proved in the past, 1930 witnesses as even diner production in NORTON. Many important improvements are embodied in the new NORTON de signs, including enclosed valve gear mechanism and push rods, detachable "cover for Rocker Box, improved arrangement of cylinder head layout, efficient silencer, and Chromium plating.
COME AND INSPECT IT AT
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
MODEL "A" CARS
Used to Run Down
- Bandits
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How Model "A" armoured
being used In Irak, to down und eradicate bandits of the desert, is told in news dispatches received in Dearborn from far away Bagdad. Following is the account of the
latest raid and of how the Ford cars helped the military police.
A party of 100 armed men from Mutair raided "Aa'ah, 98
miles south-west of Salman Post, where lived 24 fighting men in addition to women and children. The raidera were in three sections. Two storm ed the tents and began to loot and All while the third drove away about 600 camela.
The raiders stayed an hour. Then they went away with their booty toward the south. The survivors set out with their chief toward the northwest. Fortunately for them. they met a police patrol of two arm- ed cars. The armed patrol imme- diately set out in search of the raiding party. After a few hours it came across fotprints, which they followed until sunset, by which time they had reached Al chekka, where the raiders had dis- mounted.
The two armed cars at once launched an attack from two flanks, In spite of the bad ground, the
NEW ROAD BILL
Absurdities in Present System
The Rond Traffic Bill is an over- due attempt to sweep away the ab surdities and anomalies which the
has revealed in the existing aya rapid development of the motor-car tem. It is being treated as a non- party measure, and is meeting with approval in its general expect, al- though certain details of it will necessarily be challenged and al- tered.
At least one provision of the Bill is uncontroversial the ing titution of compulsory insurance against third party risks. If the rast of the Bill was as obviously de- sirable as this there would be nothing more to say except to give it a hanediction.
The Biti abolishes the speed limit for motor-zars, enacts heavy penal tics for dangerous driving, and creates the new offence of "careless driving." The last clause will not! pass without discussion, for it will be extremely difficult to differenti- ate between driving which is only caroloss. The distinction will often be very fine indeed, and motorists who enthusiastically welcome the disapppearance of the speed limit may soon discover that they are out of the frying pan into the fire. Whatever defects the speed-Umit has, the fact remains that it is pos sible to measure speed, but not
The Egotist
What has humorously been said of the handicap under which an egotist labours-that "his overhead is too heavy for his output"-is much more seriously true of the lubricating oil manufactured.
If he is not extracting from every ounce of his man power every gallon of crude oil, and every unit of his mechanical equipment the fullest possible yield, the public must pay the piper in the cost of the finished product.
The Vacuum principle of Standardized Quality-setting a common high standard of materials, methods, processors and manufacture, and applying them alike to the different grades of Mobiloil-was devised to defeat this unyielding law of overhead
The Vacuum policy of placing a premium on men and brains and quality rather than quantity of production was another blow aimed at excessive overhead.
The Vacuum principle, since the year 1866, has been not to seek huge production by price but to compel volume by quality.
It is almost undoubtedly a fact that the Vacuum Oil Company's overhead is lower than that of any other manu- facturer of lubricating oil, and as one result of that, the Vacuum Oil Company is also undoubtedly the world's lowest- priced producer of quality oil.
Study that statement - study what you give for, and what you get from Mobiloil - THE NEW MOBILOIL and see if it is not borne out by the performance of your car, and by the price you pay for Mobiloil.
BUYERS GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hoiel Garage, Qu‹en's
Road, C.4769.
BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chuny
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. CHRYSLER MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China 30-92,
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 & G2E2. GUY MOTOR PASSENGER BUSES.-Republic Motor Co. of Chins,
30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Ga ige, Queen's Road. C.4759, OAKLAND.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd. 1 \ OLDSMOBILE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
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PACKARD MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C.1216 & 6252. PLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. PONTIAC.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769 STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. TRIUMPH MOTOR CARS.-The Globe Automobile Co., Ltd..
1, Canton Road, Kowloon.
VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS-Gilman & Co.,
Ltd., 4a, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 290.
OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf Wolf & Kow, 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.4769. 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. C.1247.
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769; REO MOTOR TRUCKS.—Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-82, Des
Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6262.
· STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotal Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-GIlman & Co., Ltd,
4a, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C 290.
MOTOR CYCLES.
B. 8. A.The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Vaux Road. C.1067. NEW HUDSON MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-82, Des Voeux Rond C. Tel. C 1216 & 6252. RALEIGH MOTOR CYCLES.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6262. ROYAL ENFIELD MOTOR CYCLES.-Republic Motor Co. of China,
80-82, Des Voeux Road C. Tol. C. 1216 & .6252. TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES-The Globe Automoblie Co., Ltd.
1, Canton Road, Kowloon...
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4789, ACCESSORIES.-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon, K.220. FISK TYRES-Gilman & Co., Ltd, 4a, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel.
3. C. 290.
MILLER ACCESSORIES.—A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.
***Tel. 0.1219.
MILLER RUBBER TYRES AND TUBES.-Republic Motor Co. of (MARChina, 80-82, Des Voeux Road C. Tel, C. 1216 & 6252.
PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
WILLARD BATTERIES-Gilman & Co., Ltd., 4a. Des Voeux Rd,
C. Tel C 200, 2 v
The former Bernice Chrysler, daughter of the multi-millionaire automobile magnate, leaving St. Bartholomew's Church. New York City, with Ler husband, Edgar W. Garnisch, former Weat Point football star, just after their wedding.
police were able to drive within 500 yards
of the raiders, who sought shelter behind rcoks.
One machine gun was unloaded
carelessness or recklessness, still less to say with precision when one degenerates into the other.
Opposition will probably be offer- and placed on a high aite overlookinged to the suggested speed limit of the raiders. One car stood by to 30 m.p.h. for heavy motor vehicles support while the other drove the such as char-a-bancs and omni- camels homeward. After dark, the raiding party made good their escape and crossed the frontier.
Inquiries show that the raiders' casualties were twelve killed and six wounded. Twenty camels were cap- tured from the raiders, and all the booty was recovered. Each armed ear had only four machine-gunners.
This was the second raid by the Mutair on Irak during the summer season. In both, the Mutair were heavily defeated by the police who have been successful by the use of their Model "A" armoured cars,"
Rapid Fire Opened
It was night. A Ford Model A phaeton motor No. 492.176. was travelling along the road leading to the village of Tirnov in Bulgaria. In the car were the sales manager of the Ford dealership at Pievna, Dr. Petroff of Sofia, and Chauffeur.
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Suddenly a party, of bandita who who had been hidden behind a pile of road material, jumped into the road and opened a rapid revolver fre point blank at the car. The chauffeur accelerated, the car re sponded Instantly and in a few min- utes was out of range.
buses. As this is a maximum, the average speed of these vehicles will work out at a little over 20 m.p.h., which will entail the alteration of time-tubles and the slowing-down of this form of traffic generally. This will place motor-couch companies at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the rail- ways. The division of the country into twelve separate areas, each with a paid chairman and two paid commissioners, with powers to issue! licences and define routes for public} cervico vehicles, such as motor, coaches and omnibuses, is an inno- vation for which there is much to be said in spite of the hostility with which any increase lu officialdom is regarded--Truth.
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Between Cairo and Suez lies the old road built by the Romans through the Ismailia Desert and still to be seen along its ninety mile Immediately upon arrival at the stretch are eight towers which they next village the car was examined | erected to serve, as, outposts or to ascertain the extent of damage. relays for caravans, No fewer than fifteen bullets had
For many years the ancient track struck it. Three, at least, would was abandoned, the only means of have proved fatal under ordinary communication being an Indirect circumstances. One struck the car railroad from Cairo to Lamailla and an loch below the upper edge of the Ismailla to Suez, a journey of about left front door and, unstayed, would saven hours. During the war, how- have penetrated, the side of the over, it occurred to some motorists driver. The ball, its force spent, that they could use the track for was exactly what happened, for fell harmlessly оп to the floor.rapid transportation and it soon motor traffic Immediately increased Another shot struck the back of grew in favour to such an extent as along the cld' highway.
33, Des Voeux Road Central.
rapid transport, strong impetus has been given to the Suez Bahorlea and huge quantities of fish are now be- ing sent by road.
the front seat on the top edge. Ato warrant repairs which were badly The journey from Cairo to Suez third hit the left rear door in a needed in several parts. Public by motor car now takes an average A G.M.C. truck fitted with a re- Hne with the side of Docter Petroff, opinion, very strongly voiced by the of three hours and this time will be | frigerator body was built locally but the force of the Impact was local newspapers, actuated the reduced sil'l further when the neces-under the supervision of General arrested by tho ateel and the bullet Ministry of Communications to sary repairs are offacted.
Motora plant in Alexandría. It was did no harm
othe make these repairs in spite of the This more rapid means of trans, an extremely well-turned out job, Thean ahots were fired at an aver fact that it had long been reluctant portation has brought forth unex and proved; absolutely satisfactory. aged range of three yards. Need to do so leat it should deviate the pected economic developments both in use. Insulation was obtained by less to add, all three passengers are main traffic from the Cairo-Suez for Cairo and Suez and has fuereau closo-packed core of cork chips. now confirmed Ford all-steel-body Railroad and prove detrimental to ed the value of the latter city as the between tw wood-lined metal, enthusiasts,
the State's railways receipta. This castern fork. With this artery for | panels.
Tel. C. 5644.
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