HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
LONG TRIP ON BIGH GEAR.
LYMPNE GLIDER CONTEST
87 MILES
flown on 1 gallon
of Shell!
Flight-Lieut. W. H. Longton, in his great achievement on a Wren Mono- plane, in the "Daily Mail" £1,000 Prize Glider Contest at Lympne, used
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THE TRUCK WHICH HAS PROVED ITS WORTH IN HONGKONG
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ANOTHER NOVEL PUNISHMENT.
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The man seen above was con- victed of speeding and, as punishment, ordered by Jadge" Roberts (seen below) to do two -hours' duty as traffic policeman.
IN HIGH
"Cannon Ball" Baker, well known motor racer, made a recent motor trip from new York to Los Angeles without once shifting his car out of high speed. He is shown deliver ing a letter from the Mayor of New York in the Mayor of Les Angeles:
USED CARS.
Big Losses in America.
Since the first of the year, auto- modele dealers in America have | lost about $19,000,000 in used-car business. This represents the diference between the prices al Howed for cars and the amounts at which they were sold. Add to this cast of reconditioning and jevərhəad-and the loss mounts
much higher.
Of course, few dealers actually lose, in the sense of coming out on the wrong side of the ledger at the end of the year. They make up
¡ for this red figure by the black represented it profts through sale of new cars.
Which by a Jatical course of
Yet the manufacturer sets the
retail price for his product al-
A FEW DON'TS.
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Don't fail to inspect your cat at definite intervals.
Don't leave your ear alone with the moter running.
Don't unnecessarily race your motor,
Don't use emery paper for cleaning moving parts.
Don't ride the clutch-keep! your foot off the pedals as much) as pissible.
Don't fail to keep your brakes adjusted.
Don't tamper with the carbure- tor adjustment-see your service
man
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SELANGOR MOTOR TRIALS, The Selangor (Federated Malayi States) motor reliability trials, without held on Sunday Dec. 9th. were!
very successful. There were no Don't run until the oil pressure accidents beyond a broke fence
Don't run your car
ficient oil.
registers normal.
Don't fail
drain to
on hairpin bend and only onej your car Hup-failed to finish, this
The detailed results are not yet!
reasoning, leads the automobile crankcase every six to eight being due to a badly burst type.i owner to believe prices for auto hundred miles. mobiles AZE Uch :00 high.. Don't flush your crankcase available, says a Singapore paper,! despite a regular series of drops with kerosene.
but it is believed a Douglas 32 the last two years.
Don't put kerosene in the made the fastest acceleration radiator.
time 100 yds.-8. 4-5 secs.), a Don't heglect to use your oil Hudson the fastest in the car | though he has nothing at all to do can-cil is cheaper than repairs.section-11 secs. The best in the
with the trade-ins which bis Doa't drive dealers have to consider. The Springs. result is that the dealer who trades in a used car for, say, $130, and sellä it for $650, makes $100 less than he should have made on the new cat.
OWNER LOSES.
with squeaky slow.running was a 13.9 Albert] car at just over, 4 m.ph. un topi Don't wash your car too often. gear for 100 yards on a slight Once a week is sufficient.
incline; in the cycle section a; Don't allow oil to come in Rover with side car and an In- contact with the tyres.
victa tied.
AMERICAN CAR INDUSTRY.
Its Magnitude and
Influence.
beginning of this year was rough-j 15. 144 million vehicles.
Well if he's willing to accept
And now this is what I wish lower profits, what of it? thinks
you to note particularly the the automobile owner. That
effect of the motor-car on national doesn't seem to affect him at all.
life. If it is true of America, it There's where automobile deal"
Lis true also, perhaps in lesser ers have got together to show the
degree as yet, of Great Britain. auto owner that this loss of profit:
Is the overwhelmingly great!
BUYING "ON TIME.” on the new car really does affect automotive industry"
Mr. Miller say: "Car owner- him, more than the dealer, at United States and Canada anence on the manner of life of of the ship is exerting a powerful in- times. They are putting their mushroom growth, that heads together in an effort to wither as quickly as it has arisen direction is that influence more will the American people, and in no; educate the motorist in the Fre-or is it a stable and vital part of beneficial or more powerful that per methods of trading in bis car. North American national this and the dealer's mutual dustry!
in in its tendency, to overcome the benefit.
concentration of the population in An answer in the affirmative to the cities. Those employed in The argument is that it is the the question itself is not express them are no longer obliged to live owner who keeps the prices ed, is furnished in an article in either near their work or near a of automobiles from dropping Commere Monthly, the magazine railroad. This has greatly in- even lower, despite the keeu com of the National Bank of Com creased the practicable suburban petition manufacturers have to merce, New York, says a writer. territory contiguous to such cities put up with to-day. The dealer who saysAs the author is Mr. as New York and Chicago, but must make a profit. So the mar-E. M. Miller, the bank's stat-the effect of the automobile bas gin is made wide enough to perstician, I think we can take his probably been even greater in the mit the dealer's narrowing figures as correct. And I want environs of the smaller cities.
you to realise that much of what? "A factor of great importance] he says applies to our own motor in judging the future of the in- industry.
dustry," Mr. Miller continues, "is
down, if he has to, to meet a |higher quotation on a used car.
BURDEN SHIFTED.
First of all, as to magnitude Thus the automobile owner gets 88 per cent of all the registered
car.
very large proportion of cars bought on time." Anglicised,
a higher allowance on his used motor vehicles in the world are this means by deferred payments, But pays more for the new running in the United States and and if I may interrupt the author one. It is a question whether the Canada.. Think of it. There are in would like to tell you that an auto dealer doesn't come out win North America seven and one Americon car authority estimates ner in the end, with even a larger third times as many cars as in that something like 75 per cent. profit than any sound business the whole of the rest of the of cars in the States are bought requires.
world! And we consider" the in this way. Bank crossing overcrowded!
Mr. Miller considers the pos That the margin of profit for
sibility of "easy payment" a dis auto dealers is increasing is So far as production is con shown by the comparison of used cerned, Mr. Miller does not give tinct factor for good, from the Cer losses last year and this actual figures, but we can safely point of view of both industry
nation. year. According to a recent re.agree with him that the American
He concludes: "Like every port by the National Automobile Proportion of output to that of other industry, it will unquestion
the rest of the world is probably ably Dealers Association automobile
continue to encounter dealers lost a total of $105,000,- | even higher than 88 per cent.
difficulties, but "essentially it is 000 in used-car sales and trade- This great industry is directly sound. It has expanded to meet ins last year.
responsible for the employmentja demand which has its origin in This loss has been diminishing of 400,000 workers, while the the basic conditions underlying rapidly. During the last three number indirectly concerned in the civilisation of the continent months, the reduction in dealers its various branches is, of course! Quite 80 and if you will sub- losses was 73 per cent below enormously greater.
stitute "country," or "British
those incurred the three previous It doesn't affect the question, Isles" for "continent" you will months, and even more below but you may be interested to have understood from this what that of the first quarter. Yet know that the total number of I want you to understand We this amounted to $5,554,000 on cars and, "tracks," or korries, as have not really started motoring 399,000 cars.
ye call then in the world at the in the country yet!!
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BRITISH CARS
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