HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
DOMINION
In Royal Cord Tyres there are no cross threads to chafe and heat the tyre. All the Cords go one way in each layer. Thus are thousands of miles added "to normal tyre life
ALL SIZES IN STOCK
COMPETITIVE PRICES
Sole Agents.
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
Royal Cord A Dominion Tyre
NERACAR
"SAFETY FIRST.
Cleanliness JLLT!
For safety, Reliability, Strength, Economy-the "NERACAR" stands unrivalleti.
The NERACAR" was not built for.excessive.speed. On plaín level roads,it will give a speed of 35 miles, whiist on hills such as the Thing Wan jill it will give a sperd of 25 antes per ligue, as proved in the recent trials, Considering that most proggle rarely go motoring ät juure than 30miles om level roads or 20 miles up hills; the NERACAR has a reserve speed whigh is quite ample.
The "NERACAR" was specially designed and built to meet the needs of people who, in their daily avocations and pleasures, find that what is really required'is a reliabie. fair priced; light two-wheeled, noto?, car that will carry them about safély, génoinically. At fair speed and will aft the risk of having their clothing wiled by dirt, grease and cil. The NERACAR" adswer all these requirements and its gasoline consumption is one gallon to 100 miles!
Write a call five denarustrations
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DE SOUSA & COMPANY, IMITED.
Sole Agents for 2 outh China,
2nd Floor, St. Geo ge's Building,
Teleghone U. No. 1264.
Ford
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
TOURING CARS
SEDANS (WIRE WHEELS;-
TRUCKS
H.k. $4250
H.K. $4600
H.k. $1178
DELIVERIES. OF
TOURING CARS AND
SEDANS FROM STOCKS.
1RUCKS FROM OUR NEXT SHIPMENT.
ALL ELECTRICALLY EQUIPPED WITH
STARTERS.
ALEX ROSS & CO. (CHINA) LTD.
NO CHANGE IN OUR AGENCY FOR THE ABOVE
Full Stock of Spares Carried
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
CHINESE MOTOR":
STUDENTS
Being Trained by Ford Co
Detroit, July 8. Routine of the manager in which Ford Motor Co. is developing the 100 young Chinese students at the plant as expert service mon shows that they are working in each depart- mont until they have mastered the major oporations Each student, night hours a day is get- ting practical experience in the factory. AL 4 o'clock each Wednesday the whole group meet in the school building for an hour to discuss sonte problem of automobile construction or operation.
One of their number who is a mechanical engineer conducts a drawing class once a week for forty members: Another leads a class in mathematics." The students have all been picked by Dr. Joseph Bailie of Pekin Uni- versity: In their studies here they will familiarize themselvesį with the process of manufacture, care and repair.of the Ford car. Fordson rractor and the Lincoln. In another year many of the class! will be ready for service in their native land.
"U TURNS" BARRED. The authorities of Boulder, Vo- lorado, have instituted a new rule; whereby motorists may, not make
a complete turn in a roadwayi-a "U turn"--with the idea of proceeding in the opposite direo tion. Drivers who desire to re trace thoir steps in this manner. must take the first turning on the left and reach their original street by the somewhat circuitous but safer method of going round a block of buildinga. As a reminder to motorists the inscription "No U turne" is painted on various. prominent highways.
One Way to Save Money
P
ERHAPS you have never looked at your "niť
bill in just this way:
Correct off is not an expanse "it is a saving, Oil
if the one motoring supply you buy that has a direct elisen on the entire sperating cost of your ear,
Good fires wear longer: good gasoline gives
But they are both straight, ex- . greater mileage. jampe. They have no direct effect on the other operating expenses of your ear.
Lubrication is conservation -the prevention of wear, the saving of due expense, the. Jengthening of the Wfe of your car. – 50% of all engine troubles are" due to faulty lubrication.
leorrect wil difds to the i perating expense of your car; the correct oil sures operating expense.
USE ONLY
GARGOYLE
Mobiloil
Make the chart your guide
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
We have pleasure in announcing that this Com- pany has been appointed Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China for ARROE-JOHNSTON, LTD, Manufacturers of the well known
ARR L-JOHNSTON and GALLOWAY CARI-
The prices of these cars in Hongkong will be the local equivalent of the listed prices ruling in GREAT
BRITAIN.
We have made arrangements with the Arról- Johnston Company, whereby a vísitor to Great Britian from the Far East will be enabled to purchase at list prices an Arrol-Johnston or a' Galloway Car for his use in the Homeland, and on his return to the Fer East to have the oar sent to the factory to be over- bauled and suitably geared for the Colony of Hongkong." In addition, the car would be packed, insured, "and shipped to us for delivery in Hongkong," fros of all charge to the owner,
Further particulars can be obtained from our Garage Showroom in Podder Stroot.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL Co., Ltd.'
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ESTERN PORTAL OF SINCLAIR CANYON
FINE MOTOR ·ROADS.
Coast to Coast Tours in Canada.
TAMENKY AN "S"
CURYE IN SINCLAIR,
CANYON
A THRILLING STREICH OF BANER-WINDERMERE MOTOR ROAD
WHERE THE BANFF-WINDERMERE" MOTOR ROAD FOLLOWS THE WINDINGS OF BOW RIVER NEAR BANFF
An event of great moment to the, through virgin forest with vistas of through the Kootenay Valley is fol- history of automobiling took place fanew-cappoi peaks revented through lowed by the solent grandeur of on June 80th, when the Banff-Wic- openings and on the curves. The Sinclair Canyon at the rond's west Another bungalow dermera Motor Highway in the Ca- road' begins "974 miles east of ern portal nadian Rockles was officially open- Banff and from Banff to Lake Win- camp is found at, Sinclair Hot d. This is the last link of a 6,000 dermere in the Columbia Valley is Springs where several days try that 104 milles more. It is possible to be spent profitably. Lake, Winder- mile system of more Tour, fol- motor this distance in one day, but mere Camp nea: Invermere, ist a form the "Grand Circle
lawing which the motor tourist the wise motorist will not hurry, very popular resort and the center may visit ten national parks in Ca- rather he will drive slowly and for visiting many natural wonders. nala and the United States.. take in side trips and enjoy the After passing through the Colum- bin Valley, tourista find excellent This new road is 95 miles long camps by the way and extends from Banff, Alberta, Thirty-five miles west of Banff, a free motor camps Almost overy to Sinclair Hot Springs in the Lake detour runs to Lake Louise, the town strung. along the motorway Windermere District of British Co-lovellest of the ranny lovely lakes in both Canada and the States.
From It is anticipated "that" at least lumbia, crossing the Great Divide in the Canadian Rockies.
via Vermilion Pnes at an altitude there another nine miles of excel-16,000 cars will pass over this new of 5,680 feet. The roadbed is of lent roadway leads to Moraine road during 1923 and that 75 per
cropped
gravel and 16 feet wide. Lake in the Valley of the Te. Fesks, cent of them will be from the This highway will induce Despite the heights to which it where a new bungalow camp invites States. climbs, the grades are remarkably to a stay. Returning to the main many Carsuelans to motor down jow, the average being per cent road, one climbs up the pass under through the Pacific Coast staini with a maximum 408 feet of 0 per Storm Mountain where there is a land the cruse-the-border-travel in cent. The cost was $7,700 per mile. new attractive rost house, then bound to result in a better under Scenery along this new highwa past Marble Canyon to Vermilion standing between the two countries la superb, much of the way it leads River Camp, a beautiful drive as well as mutual financial profit
THE ERA OF THE MOTOR. | hitherto was the high-water year.
REMOVING TAR SPOTS.
The Capital invested in the busi- The appalling methods of tar- Some Facts and Figures.
Lürss is $1,456,619,954, the cost of ring the roads that are now being the material bought last year practised at home give owner-driv Twenty-five years ago, said an was $1,289,614,326, the employees ers many heartburnings for their American motor manufacttger in numbered 253.104, and the wages stained coachwork A simple a recent speech; only four motor and salaries "bill amounted to method of getting rid of the a vehicles were known to be in ex-: $395,707.531. The industry has a noying spots is to put a dab of istence in America, and perhaps rapacions maw for material. Last margarine over each spot, leave not inappropriately, me of them year it took nearly 4 million for three or four hours-preferably was to be found in Barnum and tons of steel over 7 million in the sun-and then it will be Bailey's circus. There is certain pounds of aluminium, 105 million found that the tar has softened fly a hint in this latter fact of song pounds of copper, roundly 27 and can be removed without
oddity about the new-comer and of million square feet of plate glass much trouble. the attitude of the public towards over 408 million feet of timber,
it. But twenty five years have to my nothing of big figures in
seven
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extraordinary change the matter of lead, tin, nickel. Wanted, British Statistics. The little-powered vehicle of feather (real and artificial),uphol- America has 84 percent of the those early days struggling for stery cloth, curtaining, hair and world's total of motor vehicles. recognition, uncertain in its pre-and padding, paint and varnish, and her output is somewhere formance, regarded with some and the like.. amusement and with some con- tempt, today Stands for a gigantie i industry and for a peaceful and beneficial revolution. Today there!
The Ubiquitous Cars,
Our ai
about the same proportion. This leaves 16 per cent. to he shared among Canada, Great Britain, per capita basis there is Italy, France, and other Euro
are 14,507,588, motor vehicles re-e vehicle for every nine parsons pean countries. What their in- gistered in this world of ours, and
america, and the machine is dividual contribution is cannot. of this total America claims it takes minister and congrega- tries has an organisation at all
playing an ever-developing pari. be said, for none of these coun
fewer than 12,239,114. The Be curiosity of the circus has become a common-place of everyday life, an essential part of our industrial and social systems in the space of a few years the world bas come almost motorised.
turn
Striking Statistics.
to the
tion to church, it takes the child- comparable with that very live to school, it is of definite Automable Chamber of Com- assistance to the industrial and merce. Some such body would
Railway be of roal assistance professional man. e-Companies are attaching flauged motor industry, which, recover- wheels and running the motor- ing now in some measure from car on rails It is developing the effects of the slump, has still- suburban and rural areas the to fight against the effects of For any data relating to the¦farmer could not to-day do with-Jan inequitable motor tax, and-by importanée, financial and other out it. These things account in the very nature of this fight is. of the motor industry, we must measure for the tremendous out- hampered in its efforts to regain to "Auriga, not inurely put, but there is also the export its overseas märkets. The world because it has a huge and by far trade, which Jast year reached is in the process of being motoris the greatest, output, but also 66,791 ears and 11,443, trucks, ed, and Britain, has hitherto had because in the National Autono-These figures fall greatly short some share in that process, con- bile Chamber of Commerce of of the 1920, exports, which were tributing quality, if a long way New York it has an agency for 142,508, cars and 20,136 trucks, behind in the mere matter of looking after the interest of the but it has to be remembered that volume. There are reasonable trade the like of which no other in that year the European moter hopes that the overseas trade country can boast. This Chamber industry had not got going again will be won back and, once a is an association of manufacturers after the war. This fact also ex-real start is made, appreciably and others concerned in the plains why in that year, if me- increased., Overseas critics, who industry, and not the least of its mory serves aright, England was make an art of franknowe, have activities is to keep the world the American maker's best cus-asked for adaptablilty on the informed of the doings of the tomer; lust year it was Australia part of the British maker, and American makers and to emphas for curs,11,236 in all, and, inter- that is now forthcoming. What Ise the utility of the motor car.estingly enough, Belgium for essentially is needed is vigorous Hence we have an annual volume trucks, this country taking 2,824 publicity regarding not only the packed with interesting and strik. of these commercial vehicles. quality but the volume of output. fing statistics: The latest issue For all this to have happened But of that the British maker as tells us that 1922) was a record within twenty-five years is a whole fights shy-as if mere your. The production reached indeed evidence of striking de-figures were everthing! If, as he 2,069,064 vehicles, of which velopment. It could be carried now claims,'hé is litking service 2,106,396 were cars, the remainder farther, for in addition to direct to quality, then the facts should being trucks, or, as we know production and the effect of the be common the world over, them, commercial vehicles. This industry on the steel, metal, American publicity, worked total represents a 60 per cont, glass, leather, and other trades, through the Chamber, is a valu increase over the year before and there
· tyre-makingjabin asset for the industry. Lot [22 per cent. Increase on the factories and the accessory Frases the British maker stüdy its value,
output of 1920; which to be taken into account,
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