49 m.p.h., plus!
RIDE the WATER
at Express Train Speed with a Sea-Horse, World's Champion
Outboard Motor
TOR speed look to Johnson Sea-Horses These out- board motors now hold more existing speed records than all other makes combined. A Sea-Horse "32" has skimmed across the water at the amazing speed of 49.34 miles per hour!
The dependability of Sea-Horses is as well known as their speed, dua co the roller bearings, case-hard- ened and precision workmanship as exact Es
parts in fine motor car cagines.
Great features like Full Pivot Steering, Release Charger for sure easy starting, Water-cooled Under- water Exhaust, etc..which no other outboard motors Enjoy, cxplain why the Sea-Horses oursell all other : makes combined
Call or write for color illustrated catalog, show. ing Johnson's complete line of Boats and Motors, now offered with electric starter plus suxiliary rope. starter or with rope-starter only.
Four-Cylinder Sea-Horse "32" $395
Bleric-starting Optional er $395 Monarch of all parthenien mas tars. Holds the Amprican escoral at 49.34 m. je l Seven, other Saw Here, $129. 19. fan, de factors. Pertai Payment terms.
JOHNSON SEA-HORSES
ALEX. ROSS & COMPANY (CHINA), LTD,
HEAD OFFICE: PRINCE'S BUILDING.
HONG KONG DEPOT: CHATER ROAD.
Phone: 22487:
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KOWLOON GARAGE:
SALISBURY ROAD.
Phone: 56486.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1930.
MOTOR NOTES
MARKET.
NEW FIGHT FOR CAR! political move of any kind, but is simply a tradiig project brought about solely by the success of the Ford and General Motors plan of marketing British-built private and commercial motors in Europe.
American manufacturers have f found that the trade slogan "Br fish-built has a formidable sales value on the Continent.
AMERICAN FIRM'S FACTORY IN LONDON.
ALL BRITISH MAKE,
Trade experts who have seen the production plant for the new fac able with it in Britain as yet. The tory say there is nothing compar Dodge and Chrysler cars are two American,makes which have always held a great reputation among British motorists in the home mar ket, as well as in the Doninions. British motor market in force five General Motors came into the years ago. They purchased the Vauxhall Company factory at Lu- ton, and a few months ago they decided to build thare the Chevrolet, Fords are pushing foward with huge factory at Dagenham,
With the utmost secrecy propara tions are being made by the immen. sely wealthy Dodge Chrysler motor car combine of America to fight, in the European markets, its world trade rivals, the Ford and General Motors Corporation, with a big factory at Park Royal, London.
Production chiefs from the com- bine's factories in America have spent weeks in London and Europea studying the market and settling Essex. plans
The latest conveyor assembly.
CAR.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGE,
TRAFFIC CONTROL IN
NEW YORK.
"STAGGERED" LIGHTS.
CHURCH WALL CRASHES DURING A “HYMN.
STANTLING "ACCIDENT.
The congregation at the Wesleyan Church, Headington, Oxford, had just started the singing of the se cond hyinn at the morning servico, when there was a loud crack, and the wall behind the pulpit collapar ed.
The preacher Mr. E. J. Smith, choir scrambled to safety in the of Blaydon, the organist, and the nick of time.
New York City, which has had light controlled traffic system for about ten years, has taken a fur- The service was brought to an ther step forward, On all east- west streets of Manhattan lights a prayer of thankfulness for the end after the preacher bad offored are now staggered," so that an form proscribed rate of speed, caused by excavations close to the automobile proceeding at the uni-cape of the congregation.
It is believed that the fall was about twenty miles an hour, finds wall. the light, turn red to green as it. approaches each intersection, and taries, said that the church, which
Mr. A. Harris, one of the secre can go across the island without has accommodation for about 200 stopping. This is, of course, people, is being replaced by a new the actuality; a car delayed bo- statement of the ideal rather than building.
Crack in the Wall,
He added that morning, when he entered the chapel that he noticed think anything about it. a crack in the wall but did not.
crack,"
een intersections must wait as before. However, the police test indicates that the new system saves formerly required and in some at least 10 per cent of the time
cases 30 or 40 per cont
We suddenly heard a Traffic is further speeded up by he said. The preacher, the or the shortening of the light cycle,ganist, and a mixed choir all hürri which had been too leisurely. On ed away from that end of the long heavily used. north-south church, and the wall came in with avenues the interval of green light crash.
For a time it was, impossible to one and a half minutes. For cross-see anything, but when the dust town traffic the interval is reduced cleared away we saw the ruined from one minute to thirty seconds. pulpit and organ and brickwork The "stagger" system is now used lying all over the choir seats. On a few north-south avenues, and There was very little excite- This system has long been in suc-of whom were women, showed re will presently be extended to all.ment, and the congregation, most cessful operation in several other markable coolness under an orden! American cities,
which was certainly not pleasant."..
plant from America has been receiv EDSEL FORD BUYS BRITISH is shortened from two minutes to ed in London, and it is hoped shortly to have it working on a | progressive scale. Contracts, are being negotiated with British Grms for the supply of as much British material as it is possible to use, and these contracts with sample goods are now undergoing rigid scruting by the heads of the com- bine in America.
Everything possible in body and chassis that can be made or user- bled by British labour, or be sup plied by British firm, will be British in the forthcoming modela of the two makes, the scheme being eventually to supply the whole of the European markets with these British-built cara.
No Politics.
The new scheme, which may have a revolutionary effect on the home market in number of directions has, nothing whatever to do with Tariff Reform, Empire Free Trade, the Safeguarding Duties, or any
Mr. Edsel Ford, the son of Mr. Henry Ford, after the announce ment in a London paper of the almost perfect British car, a Daim- ter of 20.30 h.p. with Auid fly- weel and preselecting gear, asked one of his Detroit chief engineera to test the car in London.
As a result he has bought one and it will be shipped to Detroit. in a month. It is likely six mo dels will be on view at the New York car show in the new year.
This departure is further proof of the high esteem in which cars of British manufactue are regard ed throughout the world. The now Daimler representa the highest form of British design, and its ac- ceptance as such by prominent en- gineers of America is, most signi ficant for the phrase Value for money is better understood in that country than anywhere else.
By a curious coincidence, the les son for the day was the story of Elijah and the thunder in the mountains.
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