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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY JANUARY
87: MILES
flown on 1 gallon
of Shell!
Flight-Lieut. W. H. Longton, in his great achievement on a Wren Mono-
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Prize Glider Contest at Lympne, used
SHELL
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PERFORMANCE IS PROOF !
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.
Dennis
MOTORS
As used by The Hongkong Government.
2- 21 ton truck chassis-£740.—0—0 c. i. f. Hongkong.
THE TRUCK WHICH HAS PROVED ITS WORTH IN HONGKONG
SOLE AGENTS
Alex. Ross & Company
(China,) Limited.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING. DUDDELL STREET. TELEPHONE C. 2487.
MOTORISTS AND RADIO FANS.
THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR SHOW.
Developments in Public Service Vehicles.
London, December 6
-All the vehicles described in petrol tank wagon for the 'Shell- the report which appeared last Mex Company. The tanks are week can, of course, be used divided into four sections of 500) under passenger-carrying bodies, gallons each,
Practically every manufacturer The new AEC. six-wheeler is shows examples thus applied attracting a great deal of atten-; For instance, on the Thomycroft tion. This is based upon a power stand there is a very handsome vehicle having an engine of no. twenty-seated “Patrician" motor less than 65 Xh.p. and therefore coach, also a twenty-five seated capable of comparing favourably single decked bus and a fifty in road performance with com- feated double decker, of the Lon-paratively light wehicles of first don type
Manufacturers arejclass make. Loads up to 12 tons now paying more attention than can be carried or bauled and ever to the town type of omnibus Westinghouse brakes are employ- partly perhaps because a numbered in addition to the usual of minor operating companies mechanical brakos. [have started up in London. One of very interesting six-wheeler. the most recent to be licensed is designed for the rapid haulage of the new Dennis double decker. comparatively light Inada, is a This is interesting in view of the Thornycroft built to carry 4 tons fact that nearly twenty years havejof useful load. It is specially elapsed since this firm put on topdesigned for Overscas service in the London streets the first districts where axle weights are omnibus with the worm drive. necessarily restricted owing to which is now nearly universal; the inadequacy of road founda-` for this purpose except where a tions. Messrs. Thornycroft, in: specially
platform level common with many other firms.. essential also build six-wheelers of far.
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THE [size of your tyre bills depends upon how much mileage Fyou 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
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fit Dunlop
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AS SUPPLIED TO THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT.
Obtainable in all sex from stock carned by The Hongkong and Kowloon Taxicab Co., Ltd. Kowloon, and J. Gibbs & Co.. Alaxandra Buildings 0.704 ¡Sun- days & Holidays C 4537)
DUNLOP
Rubber Co., (Chinz Ltd.)
In respect of this last point allarger capacity, very interesting exbibit is the_MUNICIPAL VEHICLES. AEC. double decker of the There are many interesting |"XS" type, recently adopted in developments in the sphero of very large numbers by the Lon- municipal vehicles... One of the don General Omnibus Company, most important is the new 2-ton, This vehicle has a special form Karrier road cleanser. This maj of drive which enables the piar. chine sprinkles and sweeps the form level to be much reduced, a road, a series of brushes conveying Įpoint which is of undoubted im- the dirt and refuse into the į portašce not only in motor buses, wehicle body. When this is felt! but also in one spheres of the vehicle proceeds to the dump," garelsemarrying-work Thus, for where its body is tipped to dis., instance. special low level pose of the load. In this was, | Karrier'chassis has been applied no less than four separâte duties' fin several instances in the trans- are performed by the one machine, fport of horses by road, the low examples of which have, I am · platform having the advantage informed. been ordered for ser- of decreasing the slope of theivice in Melbourne. Christiania jramp along which a restive and other important cities in
horse must be fed into and from Great Britain and elsewhere. the vehicle.
A system of propulsion which Seattle Buys Police Machines. years past these policemen have is the most practica! plan, hav- Reverting to the A.E.C. ex- lends itself admirably to various,
been riding their own machines,ing all police officers operata hibit. a very useful type of municipal services is that of the
but recently these oticers were from one headquarters, vehicle is a
With saloon bus very, British F.W.D. lorry, of which
A leading motorcycle dealer of brought under the easily convertible into an open all four wheels are positively Seattle recently received
same this addition to the regular force charabane with cape cart hood driver. The result of this system order from the City for six new and it was decided that the City tle traffic through the park and
jurisdiction as the regular force it goes without saying that Seat **| The type should appeal where is that the whole of the loaded high powered motorcycles to be would furnish them all-the-year-round services arc weight of the vehicle assists in used by the park police. For mounts, as officials contend this regulated.
their suburbs will be thoroughly run, or where vehicles required securing the adhesion of the
to be wpen in the day time are driving wheels. Consequently needed in a closed form for the machine is particularly well night work.
suited for such work as, say, the
A general tendency in bus collection of stone or sand from chassis design is to bring the quarries. necessitating the driver forward alongside his en-'passage of the vehicle over soft gine, so as to increase the space rough, ground On which available for the body. This is machine of ordinary type would one of the features of the, new be very liable to become hogged. Type of Tilling-Stevens petrol- An excellent double-purpose electric omnibus The system vehicle is the Dennis gully which this vehicle exemplifies emptier and three-way tipping has, of course, certain very walton. In the former capacity a marked advantges. It disposes, tank carrying up to 1.000 gallons jaltogether, of the clutch and or is provided. but this Cap be dinary gear box and thus elimi- quickly replaced by a 4 or 5-ton nates shock and noise and give, three-way tipping wagon body. very steady and smooth accelera. For household refuse collection tion. Also, the electic transmis- the Parefield system, introduced sion enables full power to be by Messrs. Walker Brothers of maintained t extremely low Wican, is particularly inter- vehicle speeris, which makes esting. Obviously the work for safety on exceptionally steep under consideration can only hills. Over 160 of the new typeibe performed by using vehicles of Tilling-Sterens bus have re- which for the most part are stand- cently been added to those aling still or intermittently moving! ready in service in London, and only over very short distances the Canadian Pacific Railway from house to house. Such the Karachi Port Trust, and the conditions are unfavourable to Omnibus Company of China are the economic use of motor among recent converts to the transport, though the latter is system.
admirably adapted for the CARRIAGE OF HEAVY heavier work of transporting the
LOADS.
refuse from, the town to the Practically all the leading destructor. In ..the Pagefield manufacturers show four-wheel-system the power vehicle has a ed lorries for the carriage of loads, tipping body with a runway that of 4 to 6 tons. For the most can be extended aft down to the) part these present no particularly ground. A wheeled truck is new features, but Thornycroft's drawn by the power of the are able to draw attention to a engine on to the body, which is trial just completed under Royal then brought back to the Automobile Club observation, horizontal position. The truck One of their lorries..carrying alis then transported from the 614 ton load, has ran over the garage to the district where the official routes & distance of 1,000 work is in progress, where it is! miles without any involuntary deposited by means of the tip- stop and with the remarkable ping gear. The power vehicle fuel economy of 123.34 ton miles then returns for another truck per gallon. This is approximate-land, meanwhile, those in the y 19 ton miles par gallon, hetterjares being worked are moved than any previous officially from house to house by horse observed performance.
baulage. Whenever a truck has Among the flexible six-wheel-beer filled, the power vehicle era, already mentioned as an takes it up on to its platform, outstanding feature of the Show, carries it to the destructor, and. Messrs. Scammell, the pioneers there tips its load. Thus the of the system, have varied and motor vehicle is
almost con- Kentucky territory for
the interesting exhibits. One of these tinuously ranging, covering a Cadillac Company, during the is a 12-ton drop-frame general-considerable mileage and oon- Announcement has been made past eighteen months. In his purpose by the Cadillac Motor Car Comformer automotive connection, in
machine which can veying a big aggregate load and a few minutes be pany, Detroit, of the appointment which continued
con-therefore working under con- for twelve verted. from a 1at of Mr. William W. Lewis, years, he covered every district body
platform ditions making for good economy. former central district manager in United States and Canada as hinged" and
body with Meanwhile, the horses are bm- to the position of advertising district manager, and also served secured to long steel stanchions.ly light ehört, distance, work to removable aides ployed only for the comparative- manager, succeeding Mr. Verne for a period of six years as on these stanchions hoops can be which they are better suited E,Burnett, who has been trans assistant sales manager. He is rapidly fixed, converting the having regard to the higher cost ferred to the secretaryship of the well-known in automobile circles machine inté & lilt van. Another of General Motors institutional throughout the country, and his exhibit is
mechanically-propelled advertising committee.
Scammell 12-ton vehicle, which consequently Mr. appointment 28 advertising three-way tipper with a net means a bigger capital standing Lewis' previous experience has manager is significant of the capacity of 12 cubic yards without idle if the vehicle is used for Ben wholly as a sales executive, close co-operation of the Cadillac allowing for any piling up of the slow houses-to-house work He has covered the western Company in all of its distribution load. A third is a 2,000 gallon) (To be concluded next week). Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana" and activities,
MOTORISTS Try an expert mechanic for the overhauling your engine. Valves and Carburetors adjusted. Engines tuned to perfection. Repairs carried but in your own garage. Lessons in driving any motor vehicle.
RADIO FANS Tuition
in Radiography. Complete instala- tions. Apparatus for sale at really bargain prices. Crystal, Valve and Knock-down sets. Spare parts.
For particulars please apply to P. O. Box. 635.
New Appointment.
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Founders throughout the World of the
- Pneumatic Tre Industry.
4 A. Des. Voeux Road, Central
Hongkong Phone C4554
DODGE BROTHERS ANNOUNCE
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS
Dodge Brothers have not simply brought eat a complete new line of motor cars. They have done some- thing infinitely wiser and better than hat.
They have brought new beauty, new riding ease and new mechanical per-. fection to the producs on which their reputation as builders has been founded.
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They have built a better and more desirable Ize of motor cars yet basically and fundamentally the identity of their product remains the same.
The same sturdy engine is under the hood, the same dependable chassis, improved in numberless de- tails, underlies the body.
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But the rear springs-cow under- slung-have been materially length- ened. The wheelbase, too, is longer, and the combined result is a notable improvement in riding qualities.
Bodies of all types have been designed to give improved sp pearance and greater comfort. Lower, "longer, with deeper Beats and more leg room, the lines of these new cars are low-swung and graceful the interiors are com- fortable and roomy.
New head lamps and fenders, especially designed by Dodge Brothers to conform with the general lines of the car a ling straight hood and cowl effect longer and wider running boards unusually wide doors-combination stop signal, and tall lamp-and instruments attractively grouped on raised panel-are a few of the numerous". body, innovations- com. mon to all types.
features
with
Combining these important mechanical improve- ments too numerous and technical to enumerate here, it is not ex- travagant to predict a reception for the cars unprecedented in automotive annals.
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Registered Head Office & Show Room Wong Nei Chung Road (Happy Valley).
Telephone Central 8950.