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THE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932.
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ROCKNE SIX *65
R.A.C. Horse-Power Rating 23.4.
Brake Horse-Power 68 al 3,200 Revolutiona.
Piston Displacement 190 Cubic Inches. Whati-Bass 110 Inches.
Speed CU M.P.H.
Nett
...5 Wire Bedford 2 2,518 lb. ... Wire Bedford 5 2,543
P.O.B. Packing Kong Factory Shipping Cash
Modul
Wheels Upholstery
Coupo Regular
Price Delivery Price G5583
G$205 G$780
Coach Regular
595
203
800
Coupe Regalar
...5 Wire Bedford 4 2,610
020
210
630
Coupe DeLaxe
... Wire Bedford 2 2,508
630
210
640
Sodan Rogular
...5 Wire Bedford 5 2,018
635
210
846
Coach DeLuxe
... Wire Bedford 6 2,003
1140
$10
800
Coupe DeLuxe
Wire Bedford 4 2,080 Roadster Regular ...5 Wire Leather 4 2,550 Sedan Deluxe
6C5
210
875
675
215
890
...0 Wire Bedford 6 2.725
180
315
BOG
Convertible Begular.. & Wire. Bodford 5 2,888 Roadster DeLuxe .. 6 Wire Leather 4 2,080 Bonvertible DeLuxe & Wire Bedford 2,785
695.
203
000
790
220
940
7:40 - 210
$50
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT-EXTRA OHARGE Spare Tire & Tabo 18 x 5.25 $11. Leither Upholstery $16 Safety Glass $24. Chrome Plating & Wheels $25; 0 Wheo d $30. Cross Shaft Brakes $7. Fender Lamps $7. Reinforced Spring 84. Lacquered Fenders 813. Tire Covers per pair: Chroma 821, Uotors 81%, Black 816. Hingo Mirrora $8. Side Wings 10. DeLuxe Trunk SA Mirror & Electric Clock 89. Sportlight 816, Special Color 840, Phileo Transitone Radio Receiver 870.
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ROCKNE SIX “75
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R.A.C. Horse Power Rating 25.4.
Brake Horse-Power 72 at 3,200 Resolutions.
Piston Displacement 206 Cubio Inches. Wheel Bare 114 Inches.
Speed 65 M.PII
Coupe Regular
...5 Wire Bedford 2 2,018lba, G$685 G$315
G1000
Coupe Itegular
... Wire Bedford 4.3,010
720
220
940
Coupe DeLuxe
... Wire Bedford 2,908
730
228
955
Sedai Regular
...5 Wire Bedford s 3,013..
735.
920
955
Coupe DoLuxe
...8 Wire Bedford 4 3,060
785.
225
Но
Roadster Regular ... Wire Leather 4 2,080 Sedan DeLuxe
776
295
1,000
...6 Wire Bedford & 3,123
780
225
1,005
Convertible Regular...5 Wire Bedford 6 3,008 Roadster DeLuxe ...6 Wire Bedford 4 3,080
795
220
820
230
Convertible DeLuxe 6 Wire Leather 5 3.185
840
225
1,016 1,050 1,035
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT-EXTRA CHARGE Spare Tire & Tabe 18 x 5.60 312.00. Leath- Upholstery $18. Safety Glove 324. Chrome Plating 5 Wheels $25; 3 Wheels $30, Propeller Shaft Brakes 38. Fonder Lamps $7. Beinforced Springs $1. Mountain Gear Ratio $4 Lacquered Fencers $13. Tire Covers per pair, Carome $24, Colore $21, Black 318. Hinge Mirrors $5. Side Wings Sis. DeLuxe Trunk 395. Mirror & Electric Clock 19. Sportlight $16. 8p.cisi Uolor $40. Philoo Transitons Hako Recuiver $0.
STUDEBAKER SIX
B.4.C. Haris Power Rating 25.4. Brake Horio-Pouër 80 at 3,200 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 230 Cubic Inches Witel-Base 117 Inches. Speed 70 M.P.H.
Coupe Regalar
Coupe Regular Sodan Regular
6 Wire Bedford 2 3,0151 Wire Bodford 4 8,070 ...Wire Bedford $ 3,170
Brougham Hegalar...5 Wiro Bedford 6 3,120 Roadster Regular Wire LeatherTM 4.8,025. Coups Regal
915
G$840 G$230 G$1,070
800
1,128 915- 236 1,100 235 1,155
235
2201 1,162
...6 Storl Bedford 2 8,105-
245
940 1,185
Convertible Regular...5 Wire Leather 6.3,200
985
245 1,230
Coupe Begal
„6 Stés! Bedford 4 3,188.
995
Sedan Rega!
68ten Bedford & 3,260.
Brougham Begal
240
1,020 945 1,0.0 245 943 1,020
6Steel Bedford 5'3,18). ...6 Steel Leather 4-8,135 Ronditor Regal Convertible Begal ...Steel Leather 6 3,20
1235 1,285 1,285 1,560 1,080 250-1,340
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ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT EXTRA CHARGR Spare Tire & Tube 18 x 5.50 $12.50 Leather Upholstery $20. Chrome Plating 5 Whaela 130, 6 Wheels $26 R-inforced Springs 35. Fropeller Shatt Brake 83. Mountain Gear Ratio $7. Special Color $59. Lacjuered Fenders 3:0, Tire Covers 124. Estrie Clok & Mirror 19. Dirgible Light $25, Cigar Lighter $t. Extra Windshield Wiper, Delaze Trunk $15. Extra Sun Visor #3 Tire Copar Mirrors 80. Bide Wings $15. Philoo Transitons Radio Receiver $70.
Equipment and Prica subjtel to change without notice,
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TRIAL TRIFLES.
NOTES ON THE FORTHCOM-
ING MOTOR CYCLE RELIABILITY TRIAL.
aro
SAFETY FIRST AT CROSS ROADS.
VIEWS ON THE CANADIAN TRAFFIC RULE.
WISE WORDS TO
Nina Rexford
THE WOMAN AT THE
WHEEL
a, clutch.
!
Had the prophet of old been candid before the first mile's he- Competitors in the forthcoming!
Tho hopo expressed in a letter in compiling his list of the three hind. If you must have a mas matur-cycle reliability trial reminded that their number, plates, The Times that Cabinet Ministers things which were too wonderful culine presence at your elbow, me he'a a comparativo for which they have already paid attending Ottawa would return for hiin, yen, four which he know to it that
with a determination to introduce not, today, it is a certain fact stranger, or, better still, in love for, will be handed out this even ing at the Central Fire Brigade a simple Canadian remedy for that to the ways of engles, ser with you. In which case he'll be Station at 6.30 p.m. sharp. Route motor accidents at gross-roads has ponts, ships and men he would less ikely to register éxcitement at cards will also be given and the, aroused a conflict of opinion among! have added a fifth: the ways of the deafening crash of your chan- For the prophet ge down, and may perhaps even committee will answer any ques the users of motor-cars. The writer women with care
one refrain from nagging you about tions concerning the trial.
of the letter stated that in Canada | wue, a man, and if there's Attention must be paid to fixing, and throughout the North Ameri-thing men love to proclaim at the the way you're maltreating your the number plates to the machine can continent the sign of approach | top of their voices it is that One plate must face directly for to a main thoroughfare consists of cut-throat razor in the hands of a ward on the machine and the other a white cross signal painted with baby is no more dangerous weapon and than a car in the hands of a wo- face to the rear. The plates must the single word. "Stop"; be securely fixed to the machine sol every driver does stop. The casen- that they do not drop off through tial point urged was that the stop vibration. Considerable trouble ping, when required by notice, was caused to check marshals in should be complete and beyond all the last trial through competitors question. riding with only one plate in posi- There is agreement that the mea tion; and, on several otcasions, sures suggested might lead to in- the marshal had to shout to the creased caution by motor drivers, rider for his number. This year but a criticism advanced was that the committee decided to penalise town-planning in England is. dif- any rider not complying with this forent from that in America, where rule,
streets and roads for the most part
:
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. On the subject of watches it is of are at right angles to one another. interest to note that the open. In this country approaches to main checks will be regulated by an roads are often more complicated. expensive chronometer. This is Crossing, it is pointed out, are also trument has seen five years service more numerous in England, and on
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Now these remarks are address ed to women in their capacity as drivers. For hate wo one another
never
If humanly possible, -kep your car on the garden path till your husband comes home. If the fates have ordained that the garage shelf must be knocked down three times a year and the mower smashed, it is so much more satisfactory for flummoxed by a police
so vilely in drawing-room him to do it,
When or on dance floor, once at the wheels of our respective cars there is a fellow feeling between us that makes us wondrous kind.
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You may hear this sort of thing from a man to the woman beside him: "There, just look at that.
a bad That's what gets motoring name." See that mad as cutting the earner as though it were a hunk
told me that-when he was feeling depressed and there was no Laurel and Hardy film showing, he at ways found an excellent pick-me- up was an hour in Hanover square. watching women parking their
cars.
There-by Bus.
coln's Inn."
He said that one women MART euvred round an opening for quite twenty minutes, then finally took herself off with a, "It's no good, Joan, we shall have to try. Lin-
Never give a man, justification for saying a thing like that about you. Leave your ear in the gar
the kindest attendants you can g with the widest entrance and
find, and travel the rest of the way by bue
Then, for merey's sake, don't try to be a big strong man. There's a noxious type of female in whom the first whiff of petrol awakens cheerest of chiffons, yet no sooner
the latent male. Ciad her in the
does she get à car into her clut- ches than she seems to imagine her
féminine imitations have ceased to man, ie., when you shoot under)
or overlook a be; and she swings round a nasty his up-raised arm red light, talk. The golden rule bend heavily decorated with while is, never give the man time to!
lines and uniformed arms on top gear, with a cigarette nearly blind- think. Talk.
If he thrusts a menacing faceing her, and one hand on the through your window by all means.
wheel. assume the expression of an early! English martyr resigned to what's
of cake!"; but if one woman cuts coming to her But not one who's a corner and another woman spots been put to the torture by having
A man' can carry it off, perhaps i-sometimes; but a woman, never. One last word. When the by- paer looms ahead and the chara-
in the East and has a variance of such i route as that from London her in the act of cutting, does she her tongue removed. Then when thang behind you sounds like the
less than half a minute a year. So don't—as olbórs have persisted in former trials-argue with the check marshal on the reliability of your own time-piece. In any case bia word is final!
to Guildford a compulsory stop on every approach to the main road would probably cause congestion.
An R.A.0. View,
An official of the Royal Auto- A competitor in his first trial mobile Club doubted this possibility borrowed a watch and dropped it of increased congestion, put was ufter the first check through con- dubious as to whether a compul- tinually drawing it out of his pocsory stop would be more effective
Ho ket for reference.
W08, of than the existing system if the course, virtually put out of the latter were properly observed. He running. Advice:-if you have a pointed out that thero was already watch other than a wrist watch-a standardized sign to warn a tie it around your neck with a driver on a side road that he was piece of string like a necklace. In approaching a main road or ai road this manner it can be consulted at of greater traffe importance. The any moment with case and safety. sign consisted of a red triangle At the committee meetings this placed inside a red circle and year the question of dispensing beneath it was a plate bearing the with speedometers was the subject cross-road symbol and the words of considerable discussion, The Dead Blow." final vote was a very narrow thing Thero
was no compulsion to stop
in favour of the sperdometer.under our highway code, but if or- While not an all important ad-dinary, vigilance was not exercised vantage it no doubt gives a lot of and an accident occurred the offer- confidence to those who are equip-der would be in a difficult position" ped such instruments. It would in the Courts. It was admitted be well for those without speedo that cyclists, traction-engine- driv- meters to practise with a watch
ers, and others outside the motor- against the mile-stones and to make ing community seemed to have little a rough memory of their positions idea of the significance of existing around the course. At 4 mph.signs. The view was taken, how- the mile should be covered in ex-ever, that under present conditions actly two minutes and a half. the substitution" of "Stop" for Thirty-two entries are the off-"Dead. Glow" signs was unlikely cial list to date but it is hoped to be more effective, and would that this number will reach thirty-mann the scrapping of a gatem now five before the start on Saturday, under trial. Compared with previous years the
It is understood that the report
entry list is somewhat sinall and of the Inter Departmental Com although all endeavours have been mittee which has been investigating made to rake in a larger entry the the qestion of traffic signs will iaus number seems to have reached its its report early in the autumn. limit. It is regrotable to note that
no entry has been received from
the police flying squad, which in monotonous. The hill climb which cludes a number of clever Chinese is included in the secret section la riders.
only known to the. Chairman of It is feareil that a certain the trial committee, who is not amount of hesitancy, to enter the trial is due to the long hours of competing, so there can be no ques- night riding which, in the first tion of any rider having an idi trist at Kowloon, proved very mo- vantage over another. No inform notonous In that trial the run ation about the water splash is was continually on the main road and at a slow speed of 20-m.ph, given except that it has been na This year it has been raised to 24 vigated by the chairman without m.p.h. and the course includes a incident riding a standard, ma- lot of sporting ridding. There are shine. Nor is there any reason to two secret sections, a small hill become, alarmed at the so called climb of rough nature and a water rough stuff, meaning the secret splasts.
on Bootions. Here, again, the Chair The increase of four miles per man has ridden over every inch of hoar in the running time does not the proposed raite without it stop. sound a vast difference but when He emphatically states that there tried out the other day the writer is no danger or cause to become found that a speed of 27-96 mph. alarm. The frontier toad, includ was necessary, which was far from ed in the course, will also be new [flingtinued,ak faol af peis column. to many riders.
immediately draw her husband's attention to it and wax satirical!
She does not. She belongs to the great free-masonry of women drivere,
look at your husband for a few you drive triumphantly on, don't minutes. Give his faço time to emerge from his cont collar and cool down.
post promises roaring of Niagara, and the sign- EL strange, maybe hilly, maybe signal-infested, down but three miles further on, then is the time to remember that frail- by thy name is woman, and mur- mer over your shoulder:
John,, dear, I've a little head. » Will you take over now 1
And so come out of it with hon-
Male Kagging.
If you're a nervous parker, avoid Never drive with a man you parking as you would mushrooms know really well sitting beside that grow under trees. An odious you. He'll
grow unpleasantly youth of my acquaintance once our.
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