HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
JANUARY
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
SHELL
SPIRIT
PERFORMANCE IS PROOF!
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.
Dennis
MOTORS
As used by The Hongkong Government.
2-2 ton truck chassis-£740.—0—0 c. i. f. Hongkong.
THE TRUCK WHICH HAS PROVED
ITS WORTH IN HONGKONG
SOLE AGENTS
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Alex. Ross & Company
(China,) Limited.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, DUDDELL STREET,
2487.
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of your engine. Valves and Carburetors adjusted. Engine tune/i to perfection. Repairs carried out in your own garage. Lessons in driving any motor venicle.
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Scrubbing Day.
Minneapoli hes started -a
Spare the Rods. Never cut off the pull brake crusade against dirty license rods unless absolutely necessary tags. Accordingly, Sunday, No- and even then be sure, that the vember 21, was designated wash brake lining is day at Nicollet Park, those effending in this respect being lining too thin or oil soaked: the
not at fault-
YEAR-OLD CAR.
This single-cylinder Winton, built in 1900, was displayed in an "Old Car Exhibit" at a recent luncheon given by the San Francisco Advertising Club in Palace Hotel. A twenty-year-old motor car is a rare thing now and naturally this old car excited much curiosity. How long ago 1900 seems when you look at one of these early cars! In the illustration, Mr. H. L.Dwesney, manager of the Winton Com pany's branch house in Los Angeles, is shown at the steering lever.
ROAD LAW.
BY BERTON BRALEY.
Drive a Ford or a Packard Six,
Rolls-Royce, Paige or a Cadillac.
It matters not on which you x
Your buying eye when you pay your jack: The fact remains, when you hit the track With Touring Model. Sedan, Coupe.
From here to Any Old Place and hack.
A Load of Stone has the Right of Way.
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You may know all of the fancy tricks,
You may be blessed with a special knack Of wriggling out of a traffic mix,
But don't forget that an ugly whack Awaits the bird in a pleasure hack Who gets too fresh with a loaded drag.
He'll stand in the ruius and cry, "Alack, A Load of Stone has the Right of Way."
In the city or "out in the sticks."
The laws are written in white and black. Bnt regulations are simply nix
When a truck has a lot of stone to pack. its backôre sounds like a bomb attack. And if with the driver you dare get gay.
Your car'll resemble smashed bric-a-brac.
A Load of Stone has the Right of Way.
Ency
Drivers list to this wise, wise crack.
If you forget it you'll rue the day
And moan, while standing 'mid wreck and wrack. "A Loud of Stone has the Right of Way."
THE "GAMBLE" OF
CAR PRICES.
Unwise Cutting Down.
very
small net profit per car makes possible.
Others put the cart before the horse and Iy 16 obtain a large output. by previousty pricing the car at the figure it could sell at, if the large output were existing in actual fact.
ifone or two went in for this
To-day says, Capt. E de Normanville in a Home paper) I want to claim your attention. for a plea for the greater stability "amble" I use the word in no of our British mistor industry. uncomplimentary sense, as it is And please do not run away with a bonafide business "cramble" an the idea that it is no affair of would be well.
But when so many select the yours. It is just a little directly, and a good deal indirectly.
same moment for their "eut-price- Now that the show is over we build-up-output" effort. it is can spare time for looking into obvious that all cinno succeed. uch problems, and see where And that is precisely the position the defects are, and what mga-
of our motor industry at "the sures, if any. can be taken to moment.
It is unstable because of its feet a remedy.
And those prices are prices. And now I am going to put the cart before the horse by gising frequently economically impos- you a simple little sum in arisible; they are the result of
ge: output": metic. We shall work back to panic efforts to
its precise meaning in a moment, they are not due to honest rom- petition on an economically possible basis.
OUTPUT AND PROFIT.
ANY REMEDY, POSSIBLE?
There
more
Let us assume two motor-car manufacturing firms, respectively Jones. Limited, and Smith, Limit- I am prepared to admit that all ed. If Jones, Limited, produce this is of primary interest to the and sell-10.000 cars a year, at a motor trade itself; but it has also net profit of only £10 per car, an interest for the pablic. In they earn the handsome sum of general terms, the more stable. £100,000 wherewith to pay the the British motor industry, the shareholders. Remember the net better for everyone connected. profit-only £10 per car.
with the developmen: of British If Smith, Limited, only sell motoring, 500 cars a year, they require a
remains the net profit of £200 per car in difficult problem of how to re- order to earn £100,000 a year, wedy this state of affairs-how You see, therefore, how vitally to get our British motor industry the question of a large output back to the more stable-condi- affects profit-8aining; and its tions which used to exist. effect on the reduction of produc- It is a very difficult problem, tion costs is nearly as striking. and can only be cured by drastic". And you see, therefore, Low means. My suggestion has many every manufacturer of popular defects but here it is li types of inexpensive cars longe Let the trade organisations to be amongst the select few with get together and say, "In future really big outputs. It is his we will only protect the prices, prime goal.
of cars which wa A LEGITIMATE LE ve reasonable
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Kesterred by the point, der Fashtubs and scrub from fy leef lubrication, reamly why there has been so henshies were awaiting them and improper leverages. Often
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end to the great difficulty in read-reduced in length they are tou ing license plates due to a coating short when new brake lining is of -m ud. --- Attiémolile Topics. - installed.
much pe letting by the
few with the really big outputs hehe and good organisation in elvetis the value to the public which a long ru
action, would fairly put
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for Motor Car or Motorcycle
THE size of your tyre bills depends upon how much mileage you get out of your tyres. Watch Them. Fit a Dunlop Cord next time. Note how much longer it lasts than other tyres. The test of its merit is on your car. not in our argument."
CF.H
BE FREE OF ALL TYRES TROUBLES DURING 1924.
fit Dunlop
** STUDEBAKER SPECIAL SIX,
and be satisfied
SETS NEW. SPEED RECORD.
Thundering over 854 miles (1,365 kilometres) of desert roads! and mountain trails lying between. Salt Lake City, Utah. and Lost Angeles, California (U.S. A) e 1924 Studebaker Special-Stx standard touring car, driven by Mr. D. A. Jenkins, of Salt Lakej City broke all existing road records between these two points and lowered the best previous running time by one hour and fifty-eight pinutes.
Leaving Salt Lake City at 4: a.m. on October 14th, Mr. Jenkins' arrived in Los Angeles at 2.43: a. m. October 15th. 23 hours and: 43 minutes thus elapsing. This is one hour and ten minutes less! time than is required by the Losį. Angeles Limited, the fastest trainį between these two points.
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This record, timed and verified by telegraph officials, sets accomplishment for speed be. tween Salt Lake City and Los Angeles which has never before! been equalled by automobile.or railroad train.
Even more remarkable than the record of speed attained, was the endurance displayed by the car. Despite the fact that the course lay over mountain and desert roads, over which the cooling: system of the car was natural-; y subjected to severe test, noj water was added to the radiatori during the entire run. The American Express Company! sealed the filler cap at Salt Lake City and broke the seal at Los Angeles. When checked in at the end of the trip, the motor Was running a smoothly and as silently as it was when it left Salt Lake City,
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With the addition of this record- four official road records are" DOW held by Studebaker in California.]; The three previous records were set by the Studebaker Light-Six. Despite innumerable attempts to lower them, these records have remained unequalled for nearly three years.They are:-
Valley route record Los Angeles to San Francisco, total) distance, 411.1 miles; (660 kilome! 'tres). Official time, 9 hours, lāj minutes, 50 seconds.
Copat Route Record-Third and Townsend, San Francisco to main postoffice Los Angeles, total dis-
Lattes (725 k de 10 hours, 12 min
Official
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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
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BRITISH
CARS
By special arrangement with the Austin Motor Car Company, Ltd., we are now able to supply. AUSTIN twelve and twenty b.p. cars in Hongkong, ali charges paid, at the English factory list prices.
Immediate delivery can be given on 29 h.p.. Touring Models,
Austin
Prompt shipment on all other models.
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