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JUNIOR-SENIOR-SIX Car for evry Plase and Purpose
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th, 1928.
WILLYS KNIGHT
STANDARD SIX
H.K. $1750.
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
KOORÅR
MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Motor Notes-Local Motor Cycling Notes-China Bus Co.'s Additions-Round the Roads A New Era in Motoring- Olympia Again-Willy's Overland Triumph-Great Motor-Ways for Spain. "
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Is Your Way"
and the best way to get the maximum result from the money spent on trans-
business port, for
or pleasure, is to invest
·in an
Austin
Full details of all the models, from Austin "7" Touring and Saloon
Model, to the Austin “20??
will be gladly given to all lovers of Cars who appreciate car value, and always insist on the best,
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
Prince's Building and la, Chater Road. Telephones: G. 27 and C. 2487.
Humber
[4.P.39]
The Sturdiest Car for Overseäs”
NLY a close examination reveals the small detalls of Humber construction that tell so surely in actual use. The margin of strength in their every part. enables Humber Models to withstand the test of rough roads and heavy usage-a fact that has long established them in the favour of Colonial Owners.
4/20 HL.P. 2/3. Soster.
with Dickay Gest
Toilear
9/28||ILF. 4-6oá CHE
Selesa
14/40 H.F. 3-3 Seater with Diskay Best 16:40 ELP. 5-Seater
14/40 EL.P. S-Boater
B-Jean 14/40 H.P. 2 Coupe with Diskay Beat
$10 HP. 4-State Terr
Other Models of 20/55 FLP. Dunlop Tyres and Front Wheel Brakes Standard.
MOTOR CYCLES, THE
O.H.V. *Spoff** Motor Cycle" is panicularly suitable for riders overseas. The engine possesses wide margin of power, and the entire construction is of the strength ceisty, for ese on indifferent roads. The low mödie 'poshion gira exceptional mablity and cadence to the ride.
BUMBER LTD. COVENTRY, ENGLAND. Export Breach Office 94. New Bond Street, W.1.
Bong Kate AgiETE? MESSES, LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD, Hair Kong.
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MOTOR NOTES. CHINA 'BUS CO.'S
ILLUMINATED ADVTS,
BRITISH ROADS..
FOR
We have become accustomed to the various signs that confront us on every road in daytime, but mercifully at night the veil of darkness has cast its mantle over most of them and, for a time, blotted them out. Now, however, & new method of night sign illumi- nation is threatened, says The Motor. We are to ace in a near future some such guiding slogan as this glaring through the dark- ness: 20 miles to Medbury and have Beefox when you get there."
ALL CLEAR NOW!
"Last night, madam," said the touring motorist at the ancient hostelry, you informed me that the Duke of Wellington once stayed in this hotel. Is that a fact !
"It is, sir, a solemn fact. He slept in the very room you had last
might
Was it just the same as it is
BÓW!"
Just the very same, sit." "Same bed in it?"
"The very identical bed."" **Great Cesar!" exclaimed the motorist. No wonder they called him the Iron Duke!"-CONTACT in
The Motor.
ADDITIONS.
14 NEW THORNYCROFT
VEHICLES...
LOCALLY BUILT BODIES.
OLYMPIA AGAIN.
FROM OCTOBER 11TH TO 20ri.
REPRESENTATIVE SHOW,
The date of that most important event of the motoring year, the International Motor Exhibition, is again fast approaching and, as usual, at this period rumours are rife as to increases or cuts in A big addition to the China prices, new models and so forth.. Motor Bus Company's fleet of There is really very little official motor buses will be made in the news to be gleaned on such subjects, course of a few weeks when another however, and all that is certain is fourteen new Thornycroft A long that London's great exhibition type of vehicles are put into com building at Olympia will contain mission. Two of these few vehicles from October 11th to 20th a re- have been recently completed. presentative display of the finest These were officially inspected and products of the world's motor fac tested in Kowloon on Monday after- tories among which British exhibits noon with very satisfactory results. of chassis, coachwork, components, It is interesting to record that tyres and accessories may confident the bodies of this new fleet are be anticipated to rank very entirely built by the China Motor high
Within the Dext Bus Company in their own work. shops. They are of strong design numerous announcements will, no and excellent finish, reflecting much doubt, be made as to new models next season's programmès. credit on their workshop staff. The for right first class passenger seats are Quite. recently a new model Rover was announced. This is the 4- upholstered in leather and mounted
"Sportman's Coupe," the on springs. There is accommodation enter for 16 third class passengers and the chassis being the 6-cylinder two seats are of polished teak wood litre type. The body is a genuine The floors of the first class compart wide, giving access to both front Weymann with two doors, 40 inches ment are covered with linoleum and rear seats. Behind the coupe which gives pleasing ap-
"
Low
weeks
pearance to
the compartment. is a luggage box equipped with two large-size trunks. With a maxi- Floors of the other compart- ment are laid with wooden strips. um speed well in excess of the The windows are of the adjustable mark, this model is likely to
make a wide appeal. sliding type, designed and made by the body builders.
The bases were tested by. Sub- Inspector A. H. Mason, Vehicla THE ALL-CONQUERING MOTOR Inspector of the Police Department.
COACH.
Others present of the tests were Mr. D. Burlingham (D.S.P., Kow- loon), Mr. RR. Roxburgh, Far East representative of Messrs. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd and Mr. Ngan Shing Kwan, Manager of the China Motor Bus Company.
The brake system was put to a
The public seems to have been vastly impressed by the extra ordinary development of the motor coach. The August Bank Holiday coach traffic wae, of course, enor mous, because, apart from the cop-rigorous test by climbing_Taipo" tinually growing popularity of the Road Hill and Observatory Hill at coach for day trips, the number of Kimberley Rond, Kowloor. The people who elect to travel by coach
lutter has a gradient of one in five. to their destination for the familyThe hand and foot brakes wer seaside holiday is increasing in tried independently and in each way which, although marvellous case they were found to be highly is perfectly understandable. The satisfactory. coach gives almost a door-to-door Four more of these new vehicles service, booked seating accommoda- will be ready for service next week tion and a complete avoidance of when increasing improvements may numerous irritations and annoy be expected in the travelling anees, the delays and petty troubles facilities offered by this Company. inseparable from a railway journey, involving, as it does, cabs and porters, struggles för seats and that strange propensity for losing time. from which railway staffs suffer during a holiday rush
Because of the (virtually) door- to-door service rendered possible by the use of "feeder coaches, the total time occupied by a road journey up to say a hundred miles ja, says The Commercial Motor, no
HIGH SPEED AND PETROL"
CONSUMPTION.
That it is impossible to get some thing for nothing is a law of almost universal application, and is certainly particularly true in the case of any factor concerned with motoring. Thus, for extremé
comfort we must seek supple springs and pay the penalty of undue bouncing at high speeds; engine flexibility is only to be obtained by a certain sacrifice in maximum power outpat, and fast travelling is penalized by a very marked in- crease in the amount of fuel con- This last-named point is aumed. "one which is often overlooked.-The
longer than that which is entailed by railway travel, and the added attraction of road travelling makes the coach a serious competitor even for journeys of 150 miles or more. Then the railway journeys are never looked upon as part of a holi- day, whereas a day's journey out by coach and one back definitely add to the pleasures of the holiday period, and this fact," in its turn: | Motor, gives the justification for such really long journeys as, tar in stanec, London to Plymouth, or the Midlands to Scotland...
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MOTOR ROADS NOT WANTED
IN ENGLAND)
We do not-hail" with joy, saya WASTING BUSINESS MEN'S
Motor Cycling, the announcements * VÁLUABLE TIME.
which were hade by the daily papera last week concerning & Business, men cannot afford to project for building special motor waste valuable time through losing roads, We think that the sponsors their way, and this fact does not of the scheme. are extremely. appear to be fully appreciated by optimistic in considering that the those responsible for the placing most overtaxed section of the entire of eign-posts, says The Light Car community is likely to extend a and Lyclecar. The trouble occur very hearty welcome to it, parti chiefly when a road which is nutcularly as we cannot help thinking entirely completed is partly open that the first effect of the opening to traffic. All too often the por of such a road would be that of tion in use is boldly signposted to the old roads serving the same dis the ultimate destination of the tricts would be allowed to fall into road, and the driver coming across disrepair, and the money thus, saved. it for the first time leaves the old to the Boad Fand applied to some and familiar route in the belief purpose providing no direct benefit that the new one will save him to the road.users who provided it. time after a few miles he comes A further unfortunate aspect-of- to the end of the completed section the idea of building private toll and finds himself lost in a maze of roads is that the obvious Parlis- by-ways..
Imentary inference will be that if Mape give little help, as a rule, the motoring community can afford. and much more attention should be to pay tolls it can afford to pay paid to signposting new roads. If higher taxes
the section which is open does save We have heard it suggested that time there is, of course, no reason if the idea of private roade Extend- why it should not be used, but ed until they assumed the propor every care should be taken to ensure tions of the failways there would that when motorists come to the be no need for many riders to end of it they do not lose their license their machines because they way. If, on the other hand, the might never need to use them on completed portion of the road leads public highways. Mr. Churchill's to nowhere in particular, there is obvious move in the extremely un- little object in directing trathe likely event of that state of affairs 4long it
coming about would be to increase- the petrol tax.
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