SINCER
JUNIOR-SENIOR-SIX
A Car for every Puss and Purpose
Delivery
Imate THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19th, 1928.
“ZENITH” MOTOR CYCLES.
TORHOM
H.K. $1,750.
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
LOCAL MOTOR MATTERS.
TO THE PEAK FOR A DOLLAR!
NEW TAXI-CAB SERVICE.
A taxicab service to be known as The Hall--Dollar Service" is, wo understand, to start
HOURER
MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Year...
The car will be the Chryiser Plymouth models, and depots or stations will be maintained at many points of the town, suburbs and popular resorts of Hong Kong, Messrs. A. Lang & Company are the organisers of the intending
Local Motor Matters-The Olympia Cycle and Motor Cycle Exhibition-
Motor Cycling-Woman Driver's Adventure,
manner as
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Island at the beginning of the New | stations in direct communication The head office will advertise their with the head office. The cars will phone number and cara may be be "numbered" and the head office hired in the same will know exactly where any of taxis-the car coming to the door. their cars are stationed or where In such a way should any person it has been transferred to. The require a car, say at Conduit Road head office will have a large map upon which the fleet of cars num bered on little pius. while he moved about so as to know the movements of each car.
project.
Already direct telephone lines have beer applied for which will on the puz all the town and out-point
A car taking passengers to Ro pulse Bay will not need to return.
WILLYS KNIGHT
Six Cylinder MOTOR TRUCKS
Prove Their Power and Economy
In the Most Difficul
Steadily-day after day and year after year --the Willys-Knight double sleeve-valve motor has proven its outstanding advan- tages to many thousands of users. Combined with the most modern features of truck design, all these well known advantages of a trouble-free, quiet motor which improves with use are now available in a complete line of commercial trucks.
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The Willys-Knight engine, as well as the" sturdy construction of the chassis, assures minimum upkeep cost. Carbon is never a nuisance and repairs are reduced to a minimum. As a result, your Willys-Knight
Agenia
Messrs. GILMAN & CO., LTD. 4A, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL.
TEL. C. 290.
·A Type for Every Line of Business
I-ton chamis, 130′′ wheelbase. 1-ton chassis, 134" wheelbase 1ton chassis, 151′′ wheelbase Z-con chassis, 150′ wheelbase 2-ton chassis, 164′′ wheelbase 2 ton chali, 150 wheelbase. 2-ton chassis, 164 wheelbaa
LONG.
Service
truck is continuously on the road, giving the maximum hours of efficient service from your investment.
More deliveries in each hour of service are also possible because of greater speed and easier handling-all of which results in lower cost and more profit.
It will pay you to see this truck and test its service in your own business because, in addition to its long, trouble-free life, standard truck bodies present a clean-cut, distinctive appearance which upholds the prestige of your fiera...
Garage & Service Station:
DURO MOTOR CO., LTD. 132, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON. TiL. K. 226.
ECONOMICA L. LIFE
the head office will relay the in. structions to the station nearest the fare, who will in turn send the car to the doorstep.
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THE NEW DODGE CARS.
On view at
car and Graham Brothers trucks. the South China Motor. Car Company in Des Faux Road are models of the new Dodge The New Senior" and "Standard
Six models of the Dodge Bro- thers Factory are the latest thing the old Dodge cars which have done in cars, and worthy successors" of many thousands of trouble-free. tiles to the satisfaction of the
Owners,
The "New Senior" model is a handsome machine, and to use the words of the designers" they have sought to create rather than bor The new models are a dia
In town the service will operate from Causeway Bay to Kennedy Town for 50 cents. The 50-cent limit for the upper level will be Conduit Road. A very reasonable price of $1 is to be charged for now." the trip to anywhere in the Peak tinet design of their own, and woll district. The cars are ave-worthy di consideration by pros- seaters, and the trip to the Faak pective buyers, for 1 is something of Sombshell. The drivers will wear nest and distinctive uniforms and to avoid any slackness on the part of the drivers, the organisers will have several" Inspectors од motor cycles patrolling the Island.
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"ZENITH ""THREE*
H.K. $570.
Agonis,
Hong Kong & S. China:
Service
GILMAN & CO. LTD. DURO MOTOR CO., LTD,
TEL. 0.290.
KOWLOOK. TEL. K. 276,
weights up to the Peak sand over" destined to die." The man had any of the Colony's trying hills worked with the Company for £
hauling needs. Graham Brather trucks are built to save about $200. The sad news without the slightest trouble. The number of years and had managed in aires that the manufacturers had been told to him by a fortune claim will meet 95 per cent, of all teller whom he believed without the slightest shadow of doubt. The
are also agents for the popular's ware to be good to the poor. The Arburn Motors, one of which has 'bas driver returned to his village Mesara, Alex Ross & Company fortune teller's parting instructions?
Kowloon during the past few days. philanthropist and gave his 200 bean an view at their show-room in a sad man and on the way played The car has attracted no little away to the poor. He lived the attention from owners who have last few days promised by the make, its design closely resembles could for his end. noticed that although an American fortune teller preparing as best he Continental cars. These cars have. unusually strong head-lights in without incident. nickle, with a huge bamper capable
But the fatal day came and went of protecting the car under "trying circumstances.”
KOWLOON 'BUS DRIVER AND
that he was no longer welcome at: His funds being low, he found home and he returned to Hong: Kong where he approached his fortune teller for an explanation. Not in the least abashed, the for- tune teller rebuked the driver "ssy- that he should be glad that the "Spirits" had allowed him to live. job and although very much alive; The driver was given back his
thers Truck is proving very popular Incidentally, the Graham Bro- with many of the Chinese contrac-
A FORTUNE TELLER.. tors who find the power of this machine a great asset to their work. resigned from the Company and Recently a Kowloon bus driver A well known local contractor bas returned to his native village with admitted hauling utterly illegal no other excuse than that he was is 8900 poorer in pocket:
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