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Belief in the standard of MOST MILES PËR. DOLLAR has brought acceptance of that standard from an ever widening following.
Most Miles
Per Dollar
DISTRIBUTORS:
1 Ton
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
THE GRAY TRUCK. 1 Ton
We are pleased to announce the addition to our agencies of The Gray Truck.
The Gray Truck Chassis is a sturdy, thoroughly dependable job with every part designed and built especially for truck purposes. The Gray Truck represents the very last word in up- to-date light truck construction, where speed and minmum delivery cost per mile are absolutely essential. Specifications, aside from its heavier construction for truck pur- poses, are essentially the same as those which have brought to Gray passenger cars THE WORLD'S ECONOMY RECORD.
33.8 MILES PER GALLON
on a run from New York to San Francisco. THE GRAY TRUCK CHASSIS
is fully equipped with
Generator, starter, battery, drumn head lights, dimmers tail light, front fenders, and complete tool equipment.
Specification and Prices from
Hongkong Hotel Garage.
Tel. 32
Queen's Road,
Show Rooms
Tel. 32
The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd.
FACTS THAT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
Four wheel 10 m... 9
15 m.p.b. 20' 815 m.ph. 10′ 2′′
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STUDEBAKER BIG-SIX.
Wonderful Running
Perforinance.
ין
making use of
NEW YORK SHOW,
TOKYO'S MOTORS.
Number Greatly Increasing.
Some Features of Interest.
is the greatest distance ever Armory-formerly the 8th Coast car. travelled by any motor vehicle inArtillery
Armory-bas
ation
tion of Stars by Healing & Com pany' has also been very large. Tanase and
Company pro- bably come third in the list of large importers; for the four lines they handle-Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and G.M.C.
New York, January 12-The On Dec. 19th last a 1919 Stúde Annual Automobile Show, held
Tokyo, Jan. 21-One of the Trucks have all had very large baker Big-Six touring car which this year at the 285th Field had run nearly half a million Artillery Armory, closed yes outstanding features of post-sales. One order for 30-2-son miles arrived in South Bend, terday with a record of greater earthquake Tokyo is the anor GMC trucks with express bodies Indiana, on its way from Los attendance that any other sumous increase in the number of has already been delivered to the Angeles, to New York City. tomobile show aver beld Desmotor vehicles in. use in the city. Imperial Government Railways, - A rousing reception was ac-pite the fact that the Armory is the first of September there and a numbera have also gone corded the car on its arrival. It situated some distance from the were barely 5,000 cars and trucks to the City of Tokyo. Fifty Macks Fin use here, while a careful have also gone to the Railways, was escorted through the streets centre of the city the exhibit was
at all hours from estimate made last week placed while the City of Tokyo has been by & long line of Studebaker em-crowded
the present count at well over a large purchaser of Federal ployee's band of 50 pieces.
Janary 5 to 12. Daily for three years, this car
In addition to a record attend-10,000-an increase of 100 per trucks from Takata & Company. Takata has also had large sales of tha Maxwell-Chalmers line. ran 400 miles and its total mile-auce, the Show is said by dealers cent in four months!
The failure of other means of age was more than 175,000 before to have made a record in retail
undoubtedly Among the light cars the Gray, starting on its triumphal trip sales, while from an artistic point transportation is across the North American con- of view the exhibit was the most largely responsible for the great which is handled by the Koto The increase in the use of the motor Trading Company, has sold very tinent. It is believed that this satisfactory in history.
Other causes may be well, and a large number of light the found in the lowering of the trucks of this make are now being s like period of time. And the largest floor space in the world, import tariff on pleasure cars and imported.
removal of the duty on drivers report that the veteran is which allowed every exhibiter to the
Although most of the new cars performing as well as the day it adequately display his full line.
trucks, and in the fact that the brought in are of American MANY FOUR-WHEEL BRAKES, was delivered from the factory.
Japanese people are last becom-origin, several European lines Undoubtedly the chief feature ing used to motor transportation have also had good sales. The This Big-Six with approxi- mately one-half million miles to of the Show was the large number-perhaps in a short time ey Nichi-Futau Citroen Company its credit, is not a rebuilt car. of new models shown for the first will actually prefer it The motor has the cricinal time with four wheel brakes and
DEALERS ENJOY LARGE cylinder block, rear axle shafts balloon tires as standard equip
ORDERS. and housing, while most of the ment. There is no doubt that both bearings that were in the car of these features will shortly be-
Automobile dealers in Tokyo when it was delivered from the come standard thoroughout the were generally hard hit by the salesroom floor four years ago American automotive industry. earthquake and fire, but they are There were comparatively few If we say that the average body or motor changes, and colour among the most fortunate of local merchants, for their business has displayed showed had an unprecedented boom since owner drives his car-10,000 miles schemes a year this veteran Big-Six has nothing of unusual interest. The the disaster. No single firm bas rendered the equivalent of 50 four-door, four-passenger sedan, brought in say large portion of
a compact closed body, with the 3,000 automobiles received Even the smaller companies years of service.
The demands made upon ittrank mounted behind, showed a
in the city since Septem- have done a rushing business, have been unusually severe. This great gain.
The highest priced car in the ber, the largest single order the Central Automobile Company car was delivered on June 13. 1918, to a resident of Santa Faula, Show was listed at $9,000.00, being the one for 1,000 motor having placed 20 Kelly Springfied busses placed with Sale and trucks with the Navy Department. California, who drove it 94.000 and lowest at $490.00 Frazar by the City of Tokyo. Accessory houses generally have miles and then sold it to the Prices generally showed a down Comparatively few of these, how had good sales, and there is no Associated Transit Company of ward tendency. some
ever, bave as yet been delivered, doubt that from now on the sale. Los Angeles. For the next three maintaining the old prices but This firm has imported and sold of automotive parts and acces years this Company used it including much additional equis-several hundred Fords in the last sories wil be a big item-Japan
as bumpers, spot four months, while the importa-Advertiser: daily to deliver Los Angeles ment. sach newspapers to outlying Cali-lights, etc. fornia cities. In this service the "Big-Six carried
are still in use.
the
makers
There were 74 cars 2nd 7 three taxicabs exhibited, the remainder quarters of a ton of newspapers of the 328 exhibits being acces- in the tonneau-a burden equal sories of various kinds.
to the weight of ten adult perį
sons. In addition, the motor pul-
led a trailer containing a fall tonning of the road into the Pacific Ocean where it turned upside of newspapers.
Perhaps the most remarkable down. A year later it was badly record made by this car is itsmaged in a collision and towed survival of three severe accidents off the newspaper run. Its third While in the hands of its original mishap occurred when it turned owner, it was wrecked by run- turtle on a wet curve.
HOISTING CAR ON BATTLESHIP.
OFFICIAL POLICE
BUICK FLEFORMANCE
BUICK PERFORMANCE
1924
BRAKING LIMITS (Tests always car-
ON DRY ROADS
ON WET ROARS
1924
ried out dry reads)
10 mph. toof 24
.10 mph. took 3'11"
Four wheel
15 m.p.b.
brakes
20 mph. 27
20 mph
25 m.ph. 58
25 m.p.b.
30 mph. 83′ 3′′
30 m.p.h.
16-834 27.1 33 874 41 31
20 m.ph.
25 m.p.h.
11′ 9′′ 20 87 29
brakes
30 m.p.h. 35 mph.
BUICKS
42′ 9′′ 59 1 Leat and
35 m.ph. 113 35 m.jh.
(Speedometers were tested before and after the test and BUICKS
were found to be registered correctly.)
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXI CAB CO. LTD.
Captain Reginald Colorado received & present. with him when the Col
the U
« Photo shows ff being
Captain Belknap
Tokyo bas placed MAAY Citroens in the taxicab service. P. Dourille & Cie. of Yokohama, whose office was completely des- troyed in the earthquake, are now back at the old stand, and report the sale of 60 Mathis cars to a local taxicab company.
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Storage Batteries
We sell batteries. We'recharge batteries. We clean out batteries,
We renew battery jara.
We renew battery plates.
We renew battery bridges.
We renew battery terminals.
We
ranew battery separators.
We renew battery containers.
We open op batteries for inspection.
the service
they render"
We loan you a battery while repairing yours.
We furnish a most complete motor car battery service.
We have a large stock of spare parts for Columbia
Batteries
We give-free, battery inspection service at our Wong Nel Chung Road (Happy Valley) Service Station
This includes **--
(1) Filling with distilled water.
(2) Hydrometer and Volt meter reading.
(3) Cleaning and greasing the
(4) Cleaning and wiping off for of battery
with ammonia or sods
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