Overland "Whippet" Cars.
Unequalled in either Quality or Price. See them at
THE DURO MOTOR CO., LTD.
132, Nathan Rd., Kowloon,
or Apply
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GILMAN & CO., LTD.,
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27th, 1927.
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MOTORING NOTES
MAJOR SEGRAVE
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'Hearty congratulations on wonderful behaviour of tyres during my record run. They are perfect. SEGRAVE" Major Segrave's Sunbeam Car was fitted with
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
DUNLOP
WIRED-TYPE TYRES
on Dunlop Standard Detachable Wire Wheels (well-base rims):
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"Ford That Will Do 60-Remarkable Petrol-Consumption-A "Free Wheel" Motor-Car.
FORD THAT WILL
DO 60.
STARTLING ANNOUNCE-
MENT.
Harper's Naw Depot.
The new Ford depot is to be a reinforced concrete building of one storey capable of housing the entire business activities of the firm. The showroom will be one of the largest in the Colony, having enough floor space to display five to seven cars together.
Another small landslide has oc- curred in Wang Nei Chong Road It is planned to carry a per- near Repulse Bay as a result of manent stock of parts to the valve the recent heavy rains, but motor of $80,000-$90,000, which will as- cars are able to get past the debris. sure that every owner of a Ford An occasional slide on a mountain ear or truck will be able to obtain rond is an excusable lapse, for most his spares without a mement's de ronds suffer from such minor lay. troubles at times.. Hong Kong motorists have no cause to con- plaint. If the Colony's roads dash excellent as roads go in this part
of the world.
The machine, shops will contain the latest machinery approved and recommended by the Ford Com pany, and mechanics who have been trained in the Ford factories will handle all repair work. The store room will have space to stock 100 car
AHS 6 Flus
A
REMARKABLE PETROL CON. SUMPTION.
72 MILES ON GALLON.
A STURDY MIDGET.
The 8 h.p. Fiat is one of the neatest small cars made, and in England one of the most popular. It will be of interest to Hong Kong owners of these splendid little cars' to know that 79 miles per gallen has been secured by an 8 k.p. Fiat in a trial organised by the Automo- bile Club of Queensland. Each competitor was given quarter of a | gallan of petral with which to make. the test rom The winning Fint travelled exactly 18 miles before it i came to stop with its tank empty.
Almost the whole of America" in agog with Heary Ford's latest bid to win back the supremacy of the world's motor markets. Few State questions of burning importance and no daring anonymous booka have raised such a storm of public controversy. What will Mr. Ford's new car be like? Daily Telegraph, that cautions and highly respectable national daily his for once gone rather badly astray in information on the sub Norton, the man who owned the four-wheeled vehicle should have LOCAL OFFICE: 16, Des Voeux Road Central jest. At least motor experts think Norton and made it what it is been able to attain such economy:
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MORRIS
Cars
REDUCED PRICES, BETTER VALUE.
MORRIS-COWLEY. 11.9 H.P.
ATRACK 8'9". WHEELBASE ROADSTER
Seater -DIOKY-
TOURING (4 DOOR) 4 Seater
2 Spater
+ Seater
MORRIS-OXFORD 18.9 H.P.
NETT CASH PRICES,
FOR DELIVERY London Hong Kong £160 £190.
177
210
162
220
195
233
COUPE
BALOUN
4 TRACK 910] WHEELBASE
ROADSTER
2/8 Seater DICKY
£220
4/5 Seater
240
£250, 270,
2/8 Seater
245
290
4/5 Sexter
265
-810.
4/5 Sester
295
340
4/6 Benter
325
870
TOURING
COUPE
SALOON
MORRIS-OXFORD 18.9 H.P.
CABRIOLET
*LANDAULETTE
4′8′′ TRACK 8101 WHEELBASE
TOURING
5 Bester
260
BALOON!
75.Seater
288
£295
335
MORRIS-OXFORD 15.9 H.P.
48" TRACK 9'6" WHEELBASE".
TOURING
"3 Beater
SALOON
& Senter
£325
378
(All prices include FOUR WHEEL BRAKES) (and full equipment)
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Norton Wins in LO.M. It is now known in the uttermost corners of the earth that Norton has just won its fourth solo Tourist Trophy. Always at the head of the world record list, al ways in at the kill on Brooklands, always among the winners on sand, road and track! Shades of James
A consumption of 79 miles ta. the gallon is beyond the capacity of any normal car yet made and even impossible to a great many medium-sized motor cycles; so it is the more remarkable that a fast
Overland "Whippet" Cars.
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1.6 HP.
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# Senter Roadster
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5 Seater Sedan (4 door) 6$1,100
5 Seater Brougham ... G$1,150
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so; in fact, they are almost sure.today! In the early days Rem The consumption of the standard But they cannot say definitely be Fowler rode a twin-cylinder Nor-models in the hands of ordinary cause they have not received Dyton to victory at a paltry 30 m.p.h, owners is between 33 and 40 miles cars." Both the touring and sports should be the ideal car for this
but it was a glorious achievement.to the gallon. in those days
information from the factory.
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ranty here. "The engine ignores
Though its cobic capacity is very Hills," says Mr. Baist. small, its heart is large and it
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models (the latter is one of the Colony. The torpedo model is Monster Speed 'Car. ·
And now nearly Mr.. H. Massac. Buist wrote of smartest small cars made) have a especially attractive to lovers of the The Daily Telegraph saya: Details 20 years later the Trophy is carried this model in the Illustrated Sport- Flong list of successes on road and sports model, which is rather Fat the new Ford car that will short-off for the fourtir time at double ing and Dramatic News that it track to their credit.
replace the 15,900,000 odd that speed. I should like to see was the biggest thing in small "Aivvers" turned out from the hore Nortons in Hong Kong, for
(Continued on next Column.) Detroit factories in the past twenty they are undoubtedly the fastest years-are-published bere to-day, and most reliable ringles made.. The new cars, which will be avail. The price is a little high, but the able in a few months, will be stur. performance and durability justi dier and larger than their famous Aes it. I know a Norton owner "Tin Lizzie" predecessors and will who rode his machine for seven be built in six models, ranging in years, knocking 65 out of it when- & side- price from £80 for a touring car ever he wanted. It was to £98 for a four-door sedan and valve, too. It never let him done, and cost almost nothing a year in coupe, f.o.b. Detroit. The new
mechanical repairs. models will be luxuriously. equip- ped with self-starter, wire wheels, speedometer, oil and petrol gauges,
reverse.
Cheaper Than Ever.
Such a specification at the pries of 200 imposes a great tax upon credulity. And 60" from a Ford!
Deaths During Bacos. People who regard this most dan- a dash-light, shock absorbers and gerous of all races-whether of car four-wheel brakes. The new four or motor cycle is a picnic will be cylinder engine, rated at 34 h.p.unpleasantly surprised to learn is guaranteed to drive the car at that this year two men were killed 60 m.p.b. and will run for 33 miles in the Isle of Man one in the on a gallon of petrol. There will Junior race and one in the fight- be three speed forward and one weight. Even littlo engines of tea- cup size can travel fast enough nowadays to carry their riders to IL violent death. The ill-fated riders were J. Cook of Birkenhead, fatally injured on the Mountain Mr. Andrew Harper, the road in the Lgihtweight rese; and Ford agent in Hong Kong, told Archie Birkin, killed in the Junior. me the other day that he thinks Deaths in the races are by no means the car will be nearer 14 h.p. than rare, yet the speed mounts steadily 34. At aby rate, he doesn't know year by year. It is these races that anything about the wonderful new bave made our motor cycle industry car, and neither does Ford's travel-in the eyes of the world; it is the ling representative, who called here Isle of Man mark about a machine a few days ago. Yet the message that ensures its sale from one end was in the form of a cable from of the world to the other. New York, and must be from a re- liable source. AASTA..
If the specification should prove to be quite in accordance with fact, Mr. Harper's new Ford-depot in Nathan Road, Mong Kok, will just be ready in time to cope with the huge rush of business that will cer tainly flow into it. The nex depok will be finished in November, a lew weeks after the new model is ex- pected to be da the road. It is ta. be feared that Hong Kong roads will, become badly congested, and other manufacturers will try in vain to hold their heads up against
By reaching the 100,000 mark in Mr.__Ford's surprise packet. Who less than a year of production, the can sell a 60-mile-an-hour car for Willys-Overland Company of Toledo £807- All the 'old 'jokes will have to be scrapped, and with them all-manufacturers of the"" Whippet" the opprobrious names applied to has accomplished a record for a the lowly fivver" that has car in its first year. dominated the roads of five con- tinents—has found its way into the farthest corners that-man-can reach
for twenty years"
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I sigh again for speed trials in Hong Kong. Why is there so little desire to get real sport out of thể hobby of motor cycling? Any man oz boy with a fast machine at Home would consider himself an old maid if he hadn't won a few speed trials.
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