HONGKONG STE
EXPLEMENTA
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
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.
NERACAR
THE LIGHT WEIGHT MOTOR CYCLE WITHOUT A PEER.
You can go as you are on the "NERACAR". Wide fenders and broad deck protect your clothing from dirt, dust, oil and grease. It is in every respect a gentlemen's motor cycle.
Strongly built, safe and economical, it is capable of doing 115 miles to the gallon of gas and 35 miles per hour- plenty enough speed.
DE SOUSA & CO.
Sole Agents for South China.
2nd. Floor, St., 'George's Building,
Telephone No. Central 1284.
WARNING
and the dangerous curve is a-foot
THE MOTORIST'S **RIGHT-O'-WAY:"
How to Use Unwritten
Laws.
SEVEN CENTS A MILE.
Cost of Running a Car. The question of what is the cost for the operation of an automobile on a mileage basis Has the motorist any real right has been partially answered by of way in all circumstances? "Or! the L. S. Guvement. has he only partial rights by com- į
In preparation of the annual parison with other road-using budge; for 1925 government ex- units? And to what extent should perts have figured original cost, he insist on his rights-if any?
depreciation, gasolin, tyres, etc., It is to be boped that these and have declared that the cost Safety First problems may at very per mile for automobile is 7 cents long last be tackled by officialdom and for motorcycles 3 cents. this year, says a writer in a Home. Allowance, however, is made
paper...
One thing that is certain is that it is useless to look for any inarked dimination of accidents until the subject is tackled and a code of regulations introduced more closely approaching sanity.
mountainous regions swamps and for certain conditions, such as
poor roads, and while the figure and low in others, the govern- may be high in some localities
ment experts figure that the 7- In the meantime is it always ate and fair, and it has been ac- cent cost per mile basis is dequ- advisable for the motorist to in-cepted by the budget committee isist on any rights he may in figuring estimates.
have, or may fondly imagine" to be his?
The calculations are based on what is characterized as a moder- ately priced car, being neither the lowest priced nor the most expensive make..
5,285 INSPECTIONS PER CAR
The faithfulness of performance so universally remarked in Dodge Brothers Motor Cars, is due, in no small part, to the thoroughness with which each unit is inspacted during the process of manufacture and assembly.
A trained staff of 1,100 experts is employed in this work alone, and approximately 5.285 Inspections are made on each car.
So exacting and rigid are the standards appiled to these inspections that the slightest variation, either in workmanship or material, is sufficient cause for Immediate relection. And, before the car is delivered to the pur- chaser, it is given a thorough, final inspection and tuning up by the Dodge Brothers dealer. The deep satisfaction universally expres by more than 900,000 owners many of them In the Far East – is due in a great measure to the rigid thoroughness of this inspection. programme.
The price of the Standard Model 5-passenger Touring Car, complete with Magneto and with five Cord Tyres is
COME AND SEE IT.
$2400.
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Registered Head Office and Show Room. Wong Nei Chung Road (Happy Valley).
Telephone Central 8950
COMMON-SENSE RIGHTS. There are two “rights of way with which motorists are chiefly concerned, though both, despite general usage by experienced motorists, remain only "unwrit ten laws." and therefore not neces legailead, such law will not sarily binding on legal considera- entitle the main road driver to
European Grand Prix. ions.
treat & cross road like a section
Cash prizes to a total of 230,000 The first and most important of of Brooklands track. these ephemeral rights" is that It will merely mean that the france will be offered in connec traffe on a main road, should main road user must take retion with the European Grand bave preference to traffic joining asonable care to guard Prix race for 1 cu. in, cars, the or crossing it from roads of lesser against cattle coming from the date of which has been fixed for anything but the glory attached for the Touring Grand Prix will | magnitude or importance. minor read-but that the minor Sunday August 3, at Lyons. This to them. It is understood that receive 10,000 francs each and the
"Secondly, there is the right of rad user must shoulder full is the first occasion on which the the winner of the Grand Prix 122 second 5,000 francs. the unobstructed vehicle to pre- care to guard against every cedènce in cases where two cars probable or possible user of the are meeting from opposite direc-¡main road.
**
tions, and one of them is obstruet- ONUS OF RESPONSIBILITY. ed by some third vehicle or equi- Consequently these rights, valent obstruction.
apart from their not being
In such cases of course the rights," should always be ex- party whose so-called "correct ercised with reasonable discre side of the road" is obstructed tion. In any accident where must give way to the party whose such discretion had not been "correct side" is unobtsructed. used. the pleading of rights These ara upwriten laws would be wrong-both at law and amongst motorists, but they are in eɔmmon sense ол this (not legal laws. They are too occasion!
close to common sense to be
It is, and, so far as I can | legalised motor laws.
ensure it, always will be, legally TAKING SAFETY FOR GRANTED. and morally "P to overy But whilst it is highly desirable motorist to take adequate care that we should get some of these and precautions against accident) unwritten laws ade legally at all times and in all circumst- binding, it is highly undesirable ances.
that motorists should begin to That however, does not prevent drive on too definite an assump- the legalising, or or in any way tion that the practice is fully detract from the utility of mak- established.,,
ing one particular driver take There is getting a little too more than a 50-50" per cent. much of the "I've blown the of care at cross roads and in horn, Fat on the main road, so it's similar circumstances.
all up to the other fellow" idea et, We need that, and we need iti cross roads, alike in town and badly. But in the meantime [country. That is bad.
don't be tempted to abuse thei Even when *e get this rights conveyed by unwritten commen-sense Safety First rule (or written) laws..
GERMAN MACHINES FOR SALE:
Front view of seroplane offered with others to the Nanking authorities for $9,000 apiece, foh, Hamborg, Germany The agent making the offer also proposed to furnish German mechanicians to set them up in an aero- plane factory at Nanking.
Automobile Club of France has cu. in: race will receive 100,000 offered a money prize for any francs cash: the second man event it has organized, for until home will receive 25,000 france, quite recently it was strongly and the third 10.000 francs. The opposed to races being run for winner in each of the three classes
DUNLOP
CORDS
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 last than other tyres. The test of its merit is on your car, not in our argument.
BE FREE OF ALL TYRE TROUBLES DURING 1924.
fit Dunlop
and be satisfied
AS SUPPLIED TO THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT.
Obtainable in 'm!! 'stret from alocks carried by. The Hongkong - "and" Xowloon Taricab. Col; Kid. Howloan; and.3. Gibbs & Co. Alezandıs -Buldings: 0,706 (Bus) `daya & Hɔlidays 0.4582):
DUNLOP
Rubber Co., (China Ltd)
Founders throughout the World of the 1--Préumatić Tyre Industry, but c/o. SHEWAN TONES & Co. Lid.
engkong
Phone C4554