WHIPPET ”
As a result of more economical packing methods, we are able to announce still further price. reductions, as from March 19th, 1028.
The WHIPPET" Model “96* stands alane in car value for 1928.
GILMAN & CO., LTD, } DURO MOTOR 00. LTD,
Howe Kona.
KOWLOON.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21st, 1928.
MOTORING NOTES
testimony to the
Superiority of the BRITISH
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Motor Notes-Farther Price Cuts Dirt Track Races-A Ford Innovation-France Reduces Motor Accidents- Intolerable Taxation" in England--Survey by Aircraft-The Transport of Heavy Articles
American Car-New Motor Invented by Swede."
MORRIS
wide
"With regard to the Cowley, can assure you that I never want to drive anything better, and it is my intention immedi- ately I arrive in Bombay to purchase another one.
I might mention I have had
a lot of experience on the other side with American
but I am certainly going swear by Mr. Morris's machine,
facsimile
of letter
城
THE above letter addressed to a Morris Dealer by a gentleman who has had de motoring experience on both sides of the Atlantic provides a very valuable hint to everyone about to buy a car.
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE,
25, Queen's Road CENTRAL,
(THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LÍTO)
INSURE
YOUR
MOTOR CARS
WITH
GILMAN'S
Rest Olite
STORAGE BATTERY The choice of motorists every- where a battery that has proven its worth in every country of the world HONG KONG: HOTEL GARAGER
"OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE
POLICY
T106
Penst O Leto
MOTOR NOTES.
FIAT TRIUMPH AT BOMBAY.
NEW HUDSON SALES
RECORDS."
WHIPPET”
REDUCED PRICES FROM MARCH 19TH, 1928,
CHASSIS TOURER
ROADSTER
Солов
COUPE
SEDAN
CABRIOLET COUPE
H. 81,325.00
1,550.00
1,720.00
1,850.00
1,850.00
1,950.00
1,760,00
GILMAN & CO. LTD, DURO MOTOR CO., LTD
Hong Karo.
Kowloon,
FURTHER PRICE CUTS
A FORD INNOVA- TION.
ECONOMIES IN WHIPPET PACKING.
A SOUND POLICY,
NON-SHATTERING GLASS.
passes through seventeen operations- before it is ready for use
Officials of the Hudson Motor
The Ford Motor Company, in Car Co report that orders so far
selecting Non-shatterable glass. received this year are greater
for windshieldag has eliminated than ever before in In speed trials on the sea front at Company's history Retail sales the
about two thirds of the danger of injury in motor sccidents. The Bombay, under the auspices of the in New York during the show
glass, remember, will, not shatter, it Western India Automobile Associa- were twice a what they were
The Ford Motor Company are which cause so many serious in- will not scatter jagged fragments, tion, a 10-15 h.p. Fiat recently the previous year; and sales to the
the first manufacturers of cars to juries secured the 1,500 c.c championship middle of Januney were more than
standardize on non-shatterableThe use of the Non-abatterablä by establishing local records for the for the entire month last year. In half mile with standing and flying response to these increased sales, The "Whippet" manufacturers only glass and all the new model cars the mind of the driver one source glass windshields eliminates from starts. For the former the time was the production schedule has been a month or two ago announced and trucks include this in their of danger he is always conscious 30.-secs., or 49.4 miles an hour, increased to 1,460 six-cylinder cars
equipment of 2. while for the latter the time was day. In order to increase pro- large reduction in prices which at
Inspection of the Now Ford 20.4-3sccs., which is equal to an
duction facilities,
A man was asked what he would a two-story one blow brought the car right into Windshield Class shows it to have do if a water glass was crashed on average speed of 60.4 miles an hour building is to be constructed near
the appearance of ordinary glass the table in front of him and he 40 days.
market. At that time it was an- comprises two outside layers of with my hands" and that is nounced that the reduction was not glass with a plastic binder. The instinctively what everyone thinks in the nature of a first stop in a heat and pressure and the product solved
three are welded together under of in accidents when glaas is in-. price war, but simply that 20- creased production and trouble-free running had brought a auzplus profit above what was calculated. This surplus, the company utilized. to reduce prices rather than to pay increased dividends.
The 10.15 h.p. Fiat also won the the Detroit factories in the bay the forefront of the light car with clear vision. Its manufacture answered, I would cover my eyes
handicap event for 1,500 2,000, 3,000 cicand unlimited classes, although | | having to give starts to cars of much greator engine capacity.
THE FROGRESS OF THE
PNEUMATIO. TYRE."
NO MOTOR CYCLE SHOW IN
1929,
It will probably come as a surprise to the average motor-cyclist, and to many members of the trade who are engaged on the retail side, says Paeumatic tyre equipment, not
Motor Cycling, to learn that it is only on small goods and passenger quite possible that the Olympia vehicles, but on those of large capa-Motor Cycle Show will be held once city, has developed rapidly in the past two years and, fortunately, early failure with such equipment did not dishearten users, for the tyre manufacturers, with admirable enterprise, tackled the problem of the large pneumatic with such energy and perseverance that their products are now achieving almost ualooked-for success. This has been proved by the general approval and the high opinions expressed regard ing pneumatic tyres by a number of
Prominent users, selected at random, from whom The Commercial Motur has recently obtained reports
The average mileage obtained has exceeded the most sanguine expec tations. Reasonable overloading has caused no failures and no cases of accident that could be ascribed to burst have been brought to our natice. Occasional punctures are unavoidable, but even in this respect the average mileage between such incidents, in the cases of which particulars have been obtained, has been remarkable, being something over 30,000 per vehicle, so that if the liability to puncture were the same for each To something be tween 120.000 and 180,000 miles per tyre would be obtained. This means that many tyres do not experience a single puncture throughout their lives.
For These results apply, of course, to Passenger vehicles only, where, ad: mittedly, the work involved is per haps not so arduous as is found in the case of vehicles utilized for the transport of goods, but they form a good basis upon which to draw conclusions, and we have no doubt that it will not be very long before all, except the very heaviest of goods vehicles will be similarly equipped, with corresponding bear fits to the road, the vehicle and the load.
INSURANCE.
every two years after 1998 and not annually, as hitherto, Arrangements are already in hand as regards this year's exhibition, but the fate of the 1999 Show is in the balance, and it is possible that it may not be held at all.
OIL FILTER IMPORTANT.
If you could see what goes on in side your automobile engine you'd be amazed at what happens to the
oil.
As the oil circulates through the bearings and moving parts, it is constantly picking up fine particles of metal, bits of dirt and other abrasive material.
To prevent serious wear and other trouble in the engine, this abrasive matter is being constantly removed from the oil by the oil filter.
The filter works automatically and without attention, for long periods of time; and, because of its purify ing action, the same oil can be used for perhaps 3,000 miles.
But remember this: When, after long use, the filtering unit becomes filled with dirt, sludge, etc., taken from the oil, it can no longer do the job as it should.
Therefore, be sure to have your oil filter tested from time to time, Manila Times.
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Abore all it was emphasised that the lower price did not mean in Any way lower value. The car that had been on the road for eighteen months at the old price was the same car which was being offered at $1,625 for the touring model, ta
Another Eeduction"
Messra Gilman & Co., Ltd., the local agents, now announce that the models have been still further local prices of the Whippet reduced, in the case of the Touring Car by $75 or $1,550.
This last reduction is the result of economies which have been affect ed in the packing of the ear, and thess economies, following the same admirable policy as before, are being passed straight on to the par- chaser.
All Sold.
The new prices came into effect last Monday, when the first consign ment at the new price was already being unpacked at the Dura Motor Co. Garage in Nathan Boad, the service station for "Whippet" cars. All the cars in this consignment have already been sold, but a far- ther lot is due to arrive on April. 5th. At such a price, and with the high standard of performance of the car, the "Whippet." calls for the greatest consideration in the light car market.
NEW MOTOR INVENTED BY SWEDE
GREAT ADVANTAGES.
CLAIMED.
“A SERVICE FETISH.
Now that service. stations are becoming so numerous and that the principal seems to be generally established, that if anything goes wrong with a car the proper thing to do is to take it to the appro- priate depot, it seems that the time has come when the pid fetish-born of lack of standardization of never
A Swedish engineer A. Wennerby transferring a part from one car to in Gothenburg has completed and another is due to dies queden tested a new type of two-stroke
At present, if one has, say, a
high-speed motor of a highly leaky radiator, most of us would be implied construction. According quite content to take it to the to statements by the inventor, the The whole basis of motor insurervice station and swap it for an-new motor can be run on both light ance as at present conducted leaves other in a batter condition. In and heavy fœe) oils. Many delicate room for very considerable improve. practice, however, we have to make and expensive parts have been mont. There is protection in the aver one visit to the service station for climinated. It has no valves, and age comprehensive policy against our radiator to be replaced with a the piston does not enter the crank risks which thousands of motorista service" one, and a second vinic caso as in ordinary motors, whereby seldom or never incur, whilst there for our own radiator to be replaced more effective lubrication is made are other risks covered which, owing after it has been mended
possible, as the viscosity of the Personally, says & writer in Zhe intricating oil in this way is not to special circumstances, are not by any means of universal import Light Car and Cyclecar, I see no affected by the heated piston sur- ance. For example, says The Light reason why one should not run a face. The simplified construction Car and Cycletar, & man who runs car with a defective back axle to of the various parts gives the motor an out-of-date car, worth, perhaps
the "makers...” service station, get it greater resistance, and durability, only £25, has no need to insure it exchanged for another which had the motor starts instantly, Tuns against theft; & huge proportion of been overhauled and let the matter smoothly and noiselessly, and its motorists gain nothing by their end there. These things will, speed can be regulated from 100 to comprehensive policies protecting doubtless, come in course of time. 2,000 revolutions la trying to alimiante the fatite of earlier types them against third-party claims WINNER OF THE SCHNEIDER the laventor har adopted an outside whilst they are driving other people's cars, and few private
carburetor instead of an inside one owners need protection when their
and has been able to shorten Now that certain restrictions have the proportionate length of the ears are being driven by others, for. the very simple reason that they been removed by the British Air stroke, which is 100 millimeters never allow anyone else to touch Ministry, it is possible to give some with a cylinder diameter of 199 them. If insurance companies would details about the wonderful Napier millimeters. The speed of the pin- clear up matters of this kind and Lion engine which made victory ton has been reduced “and is 23 study the insurance problem from possible in the race for the Schnei- - metus per second, or about half the motorists' point of view instead Like all the Napier Lions, this motors. The present model has
der Trophy last year,
of the speed-in previous two-stroke of purely from their
OWD, there would be a much better feeling be engine bar 12 cylinders arranged in only one celinders but it can sim
three blocks of four cylinders each. be made with two or more cylinders The bore is 51 in, and the stroke for the use in boats, for railway 6 in. A feature is the exceptionally transportation, automobiles, etc., high ratio of 16 to 15 with a penity ranging from about
The overall dimensions are parti cularly interesting the height being 2 ft 10 in, width a ft. 2 in, and length 6 ft. 8 in enabling it to be
tween insurer and moured
** CUP = SOME DETAILS,"
2 to 500 HP. or more. This teat model has 10 II.P., but is consider. ably smaller and better than other motors of the same strength. A
A REVOLUTIONARY ENGINE
The R.101, which is being built by the Royal Airship Works at Cardington possesses a framework largely built of stainless steel, installed in airerait having a small Swedish company is being organiz The engines of this vessel will be fuselage Developing 875-hp at el for the exploitation of the new of a type using crude oil fuel and 3,300 r.p.m. the engine only weighs invention developed by William Boardmore & 835 Ib, so that for every horse power
Co. Known as the "Tornado" this developed there is under one pound motor runs on a form of cheap crude of weight. The oil consumption is oil coating something like a quarter about 3 gallons an hour, while it of the price of the aviation petrol consumes fuel at the rate of 50 used in existing acro engines. Of gallons en bourred 650 hp. it dispenses with carburet The winning Supermarine-Napier fully) ten, sparking plugs and magneto: machine was actually fitted with an ther
The performance of this type will entirely new design double redaccle'e | certainly be watched with more than tion, spur gear... This did not alter fond'
ordinary interest for its extensive the frontal ayer or streamline shape employment would, among other of the aircraft, though it increased policz things, result in chepper air travel, the weight to 1.05 lb. par hp.
NO LUCK!
Rustic (having stopped car hope- Beg pardon, "zur- but one in them pesky, plain- traps a bit further
going to
lieve It. Lotör
THE POPULARITY
OF
DUNLOP
is due to the fact that the tyres have done and are doing all that is claimed for them. On the track or on the road they give complete satisfaction and will continue to do so. You can rely on what we say about Dunlop in our public announcements and prove it for yourself, if they are on the car you buy.
DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED,
FORT DUNLOP, BIRMINGHAM.
LOCAL BRANCHA
164, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL.
BE HAPPY AND SAVE
MONEY.
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