"WHIPPETS."
Model "96" 5 Seater Coach— G. $1,000.
SEE THIS CAR!
Study the specification and put the Car to
You will realise that, ' any test you wish. Although you may buy many more costly cars, you cannot get better valde for your money than a "Whippet" offers you.
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GILMAN & CO., LTD. | DUBO MOTOR CO., LTD),
Fore Kore.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 1927.
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is due to the fact that the tyres have done and are doing all that is claimed for them. track or on the road they give complete satisfac- tion and will continue to do so. You can rely on what we say about Dunlop in our public an- nouncements and prove it for yourself, if they are on the car you buy.
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A LETTER FROM HOME
about
Austin
Seven
iL
10,000 Miles in 7 months Average 47 miles per gallon 13,000 miles to a setof tyres.
Why Ride In Richshaws when you can keep an Austin "7" ?
Please call in to-day and get full particulars of this wonderful litte Car and its bigger brothers,
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
Prince's Building and la, Chater Road. Telephoner: C. 27 and C. 2487.
MOTOR NOTES. [BRITAIN'S WONDER ROUND THE WORLD.
AN INTERESTING “ROYAL
CAR.
2
FUL CARS.
BUILT TO STAND UP TO WAS HARD WORK.
Major HO D. Segrave, the holder of the world's car speed re- cord, reviewed the last Motor Show Olympia on behalf of the Even ing News. In the course of his review he said:
The King of the Hejas and Nejd, is one of the latest recruits to motoring. As a large proportion of his realm is sandy desert, with practically no roads, and often hundreds of miles between villages, there are but few cars which would falfl bis requirements He has, however, selected a 40/50 h.p. New
There Phantom Rolls-Royce, with
are, roughly speaking, two glasses of British cars at the special body by Thrupp & Maberly Motor Show. If I were a man -Ltd., his order being entrusted to without a car and, for either busi- Rootes Ltd, of Devonshire House,ess or pleasure, intended to buy Fone it would not take me more than Piccadilly, W.1.
a few hours to make my choice.
One can divide the cars into classes of speed. There is the car that can attain a speed of about 63 m.p.h. "all out" on a decent ready has a low-petrol consumption, and is medium-sized, and there is the car with a maximum speed of 75 to 80 mp.b.
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The Royal car has many unusual features. On each running board i a specially insulated 14-gallon. tank for spare petrol or water. Between the occasional seats in the rear compartment is a large capa city Alter for drinking water. Enormously powerful headlights are provided, together with a spol. light. Provision is made for two armed soldiers to stand, one on cach running board, in which con- nection special hand grips are mounted upon the pillars of the front windscreen. An elaborate signalling apparatus is fitted so that His Majesty can give his in- structions to the driver without leaving his reat. The bodywork is novel in many ways, as a light steel structure supporting the doors and windows is so arranged that either, or both, of the forward and rear compartments can be opened, or closed. A toolkit and spare parts equipment is carried as the car may often many hundreds of miles from any garage.
The first class of car, of 10, 12, 1-hp, is in the majority of cases well under £800.
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RUDGE WHITWORTH RIDER ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE.
"Mr. S. T. Glanfield, riding à 33 hip. Rudge motor cycle, arrived in Singapore on October 28th in the course of a world tour.
He was at first accompanied by Flight Sgt. Sparkes. The pair set out from London at the beginning of July under the auspices of the Rudge Whitworth Co., with whom the Coventry component manufac turers had co-operated.
complete the tour in a schedule of It was expected that they might 120 days. The object of doing so in such a short time was not 69 much an attempt to break records as to prove the supremacy of British machines.
The behaviour of the motor cycle under "ever varying conditions, is being carefully noted and reports will be sent home. The tourists are also taking the opportunity of visiting as many Rudge agents as possible and cinema films of the journey are being taken..
Journey Of Exciting Incidents.
Fine Workmanship. If that were the maximum
The journey of course has been amount of money I wanted to full of exciting incidents. "After spend I should make a bee-line for leaving London they followed the the Austin stand; where there is usual route erossing over to Bou- nothing but first-class workman-logne from Folkestone," ship
They then passed on to Amiens, Murich, Budapest, Bel- grade, Sofia, and from Adrianople to Constantinople,
They make a 7-h-p., a 12-h.p., and Nancy, #20-h.p. The performances of these cars are more or less level, and my choice would be governed entirely by size.
Or I might make my first visit to the Morris stand, and my wants would be peculiar if I could not satisfy them there. Then the Clypo, the Rover, the Hillman, the Wolseley, with its four, sit and eight cylinder engines, or the Riley, might be able to give me just what wanted. But all that would con- cern me would be comfort and a good equipment of instruments.
Varying Designs,
Here the Turkish: authorities gave a little trouble but after ex- planations had been given they were allowed to pass on. Ther were not altogether finished with the Turks, however, for when they crossed from that country into Asia they were arrested at the fron- tier for having failed to inform the authorities.
Alexandretta and Aleppo were next visited. The tourists then earned the distinction of being the first motor cyclists to cross the Arabian desert from Aleppo to Mosul. Baghdad and Bombay Here the travellers parted com- were the next stopping places. pany as Flight Sgt. Sparke's leave went on alone and completed the was running short. Mr. Glanfeld 1800 journey from Bombay through Agra to Calcutta in six days which is a record for the journey.
For the greater percentage of TAXI RIKSHA..
these cars can all attain more or less the same speed, 90 per cent. The number of motor cars in of them have Dunlop tyres indeed Tokyo has trebled since 1981, when 90 per cent, of the cars in the show. there were 4,007 licensed. To-day tres, and this is one of our big foreign or English, have Dunlop there are 14,500. In 1991 the streets triumphs in the motoring world were filled with rikehas, to the num--and so it is only in design and ber of 17,603 To-day that number equipment that they vary, bas shrunk to 8,770, and these are It is also obvious to anyone that
The solo traveller took steamer at mostly to be found in the suburbs, the workmanship among the British The rikaba pullers of to-day are cars is really fine. Only a few Calcutta and arrived at Penang. mostly old men, who cannot change years ago the low-priced car could He then made his way down to their employment. No young man speed along in favourable circum Singapore rif Malacca. draws a rikaba now, and in five stances at very nearly 80 m.ph... Olagged With Sand, years' time the last puller will have but if they were driven at that
disappeared. The riksha was afspeed very freely they soon came The journey has not been by any
the height in its popularity in to grici. Japan in 1930, when there were Now, so much has the material 300,000 in the country, 60,000 being and workmanship been improved, in use in Tokyo.
these cars can be pushed along at their top speed without any from be resulting. They are made to do it.
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means an endy one. When crossing
the desert between Aleppo and Mosul the machine frequently he came clogged with sand and on ar- rival at Mosul the travellers had to spend two days to recover from
their experiences.
Mr. Gianfeld commented upon the excellence of the roads in Malaya.
From Singapore he will travel vid Sourzhaya to Port Darwin. From there he will ride to Brisbane and Sydney which he considers will be the worst part of the whole trip. From Sydney he will ship to Sar Francisco and then cross Amerika
FRONT WHEEL DRIVE. While front wheel drive has been somewhat extensively developed in
The building of these big arterial America for racing cars, it has not roads by-passes and so forth have hitherto been adopted for produc largely been the cause of this im- tion models, but considerable in-provement.. - terest is being displayed in it and
Peer As Salesman. some authorities (says The Autorar)
Then I walked among the cars predict that it will be the next im from which I might select if my portant development in automobile banking account were fairly elastic. design. This, however, appears Most of them are capable of very rather a sweeping statement to high speeds. If I went to the to New York." make, especially when it is con- British Hispano Suiza stand the sidered that one reason given why chances would be that I should buy front wheel drive may appeal to there, not only because the cars designers is that it permits a much shown are among the finest in the driven either of the two makes of lower build. For some years past Show, but because I should pro- car on which I teated the device there has been a tendency in Great bably meet Gederal Kellner Davis, Its advantages, particularly for Britain, and on the Continent, the general manager, and Lord the woman driver or the novice, reduce the height of the frame frous Northes, his brilliant salesman.
are obvious.
the ground, and some cars of very General Davis has such a charm- Not only that, but the speed with low build have been evolved withing way with him and has such a which, one can change would be a out making radical dpartures in masterly knowledge of his subject great help in trafic and in pre- the transmission lay-out. Un that he has undoubtedly been renting accidents. Soon this de doubtedly front wheel drive has its responsible very largely for the suc- rice will cost about £5. attractions and the elimination of cess of the fine car he sells.
I am sure this device will enable the long, propeller between the con- ventional gear box and rear axle not of high speed and fine finish which who, up to now, have been seared Intent upon seeing all the cars a lot of people to drive-people only permits a saving in waight towe British excel in building, I away by the terror of having to le effected, but makes for smoother should visit the Sunbeam stand change gear. It will also improve running as the single long shaft where every car is painted in the driving and lessen the wear on cars. ja replaced by two shorter transsime attractive colour scheme. The next thing I should have an verse shafts.
The effect is that Here: I could obtain anything my car, whether an Austin, Morris, there is less possibility of transmis from a 3-m.ph. touring car to a Clyno, Singer or Bunbeam, would sion vibration owing to whirling superb and luxurious saloon. Not be radiator shutters which, in a or whin, of the shafts. It is also far away I could pick Bentley's, highly varying climate like ours to claimed that front wheel drive superb jobs, wonderfully fast, which no carburetter can, obvious gives greater stability on corners. strong and durable. Or I might, be set permanently, makes start- DRIVER'S 23 GLANCE, frent myself to one of the fasting from cold in the morning and
Vauxhalls.
the maintaining of an even engine temperature so easy Indy's thought I knew the young
Free Wheel Clutch
I should certainly like a sliding
certainly have
anid. Alfred Gay, when anromoned But no matter from which class, roof on my car. It increases visi- at Croydon for negligent driving I chose I should fit, frat of all, ability, enormously and in summer. at Mitoba. The allegation we4 Humfrey-Sandberg fres wheel time can give a saloon car all the that he was looking at a young clutch. I tried one, and found if advantages of the open tourer, woman on the path instead of notie-made driving a wonderful pleasure. And I should ing an approaching motor-cycle Without touching my clutch fabric body.. combination, which had to swerve pedal I changed rapidly up and By buying a British car I should under the ropes of a road obstruc down without making the slightest know that the engine was thorough- tion to avoid a collision. Gay was | noise, although I had never before i ly suitable for our roads and would "fined £3 and los, coats,
(Continued on next Column.) :-"] be wonderfully reliable,
WILLYS-KNIGHT.
MODEL “TO”-6 CYL. DOUBLE SLEEVE VALVE.
TOURING CAR-G.$1,600.
THE CAR THAT-NEVER WEARS OUT.
An Owner writes: "My Willys Knight ban gone. *140,000 Miles and has never given one minute's “ tremble"; @O
This far has had very "bard usage, and every Mile has been a hard
* one. **A¥• 135,000 miles I Recame noxious to (see just how it was
the pan taken wearing inside, so I had Be the sleeves Were perfeck as was every other part of the engine, which showed no wear at "all",
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