HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, MARCH
192
TRACTOR AT KOWLOON-TONG.
Fordson at Work on Road Making.
Firestone
FIRESTONE GUN DIPPED CORDS cost you no more to begin with-and they are more economical in the end because their longer mileage reduces the cost per mile.
The special processes -irestone employs-gum dippings, curing on expanded air bags, blending and tempering the rubber-have added thousands of miles of service to tyre performance. Are you benefitting? Fit FIRESTONE CORDS and be more than satisfied.
Most Miles
Per Dollar
TRIUMPH
1924 Model Motor Cycles.
Just Arrived
4 H.P. Triumphs Model S.D. equipped ready for the road with:
Electric Magdyno Lighting Sat
Roller Chain Drive, 8 inch Tyes.
1.
Price:-H. K. $800.
SOLE AGENTS :-
Alex. Ross & Company,
(China) Ltd;
Bank of China Building, Duddell Street. Telephone C. 2487.
DISTRIBUTORS: The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
1 Ton
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, drum 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
1924
Four wheel
brakes
BUICKS
OFFICIAL POLICE
BRAKING LIMITS
(Testa diways car-
ried out dry roads)
10 m.p.b.
·BUICK PERFORMANCE
BUICK PERFORMANCE
ON DRY ROADS
ON WET ROADS
9' 2" 10 m.p.h. took 2'
15 m.p.h.. 20′ 8′′
20 mph, 27
25 m.p.b. 58
15 mph. 10 ? 20 m.p.b.
25 m.p.....
++
16' 812 27
"
17
-1924
Four wheel
brakes
10 m.p.h. took 3′ 11′′ 15 m.p.k. 11' 20 m.p.b.
20′ 8′′ 25 m.p.h.
29′ 9* 30 m.p.h. 33' 811⁄2 30 m.p.h...
241′ 371⁄2′′ - 35 mph. „ 59 1* (Speedometers were tested before and after the test and BUICKS
30 m.p.b. 83 3′′
35 mi.p.h: 113"
**35 m.p.h.
++
were found to be registered correctly.)
سلام علی
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXI-CAB CO., LTD.
The above pictures show a Fordson tractor at work levelling roads on the Kowloon Tong site. The machine is of 25 borse-power and is palling a two-ton stone roller.
MOTORING IN JAPAN.
The Yokohama-Tokyo Road.
FORD FIGURES.
SOME STRIKING STATISTICS.
The completion of the new main highway from Tokyo to Yoko. Detroit, Dec. 29-Approxim- hama, which was to have been ately forty-nine per cent. of the open for traffic at the end of this passenger cars and trunks pro- month, has been postponed until | duced in the United States during April, 1923, says the Japan the first ten months of 1923 were Advertiser, Financial and other Fords. difficulties, arising out of the great disaster of September 1, have caused the delay.
Construction work, which was suspended for some time after the earthquake, has been resumed, and about 75 per cent. of the whole road is nowactually finish The department's figures on jed. The part from Shinagawa to cars and trunks, the latter in- Omori has just been completed, cluding fire apparatus and street and will be opened to traffic this sweepers, shows a total of 3.396.- month. Two miles of completed 633 for the first ten months.
road, íron Tsurumi toward Kanagawa, were opened six weeks ago.
NEW SECTION TO BE OPENED SOON.
of
This is shown by a comparison of the automobile production Department of Commerce and figures given out by the U. S. those of the Ford Motor Com pany here.
Ford production figures for the same period, which include as those of other companies, cars and trunks made here for as- sembly in foreign countries, totals 1,639,374. This total how- "Since the earthquake
ever, does not include the pro- September 1, said Mr. Ko Tanaka, duction of the plant at Manches- chief engineer of the Road ter, England; which manufact- Bureau of the Department ofares practically all of its parts Home Affairs, in an interview and which produced 27,606 cars with &
representative of the and trucks during the first tan Japan Advertiser, "traffic between months, nor does it include the Tokyo and Yokohama has greatly ten-month output of 69,452 cars increased, ad the old road has and trunks by the Ford Motor become inadequate. We realize Company of Canada, Ltd. the necessity for the new road, and are doing our best to com-
A comparison of the trunk plete it as soon as possible. The production figures shows that 62 The total section from Shinagawa to Omori per cent. were Fords. has just been finished and will be amber of trunks turned out! open to traffic early in March. during the ten months from Delay in opening this part of the January 1 to November 1 was! road is due to the failure of the 320,285, with Ford trunk produc- Electric Company to remove the tion for the same time totalling old Tokyo-Kanagawa electric car 200,996.
station at Yatsuyama. We have received several protests from Shinagawa interests concerning
the delay in opening that section ders and there are several more We will not of the road, and I have received a to be acted op, promise from the officials of the consider any such applications, will we permit the Electric Company that the Yat-nor
of AD electric suyama station will be removed installation before the end of this month.
сат line along the road, "Such portions of the road as as was proposed by one company. were completed by last Septem-To permit either would be to ber were not affected at all by the defeat the primary object of the earthquake, nor is the actual road road, which is to provide a modern construction being held up on that motor high way for private motor between Tokyo and account. It is the construction vehicles H of the new Rokuge Bridge Yokohama." that is holding up the whole work. This bridge will be over
ROAD IN SPLENDID SHAFE.
a thousand feet in length and Certainly the Road Bureau is to will cost Y410,000. Work on it be congratulated on the appear- was started on January 16 andance of portions of the road now will take at least another year open to traffic. The section near to complete. When this bridge Taurumi is everything that a is finished the rest is easy.
motor highway should be 64
As originally planned, the feet wide and as smooth as glass. Tokyo-Yokohama main highway The surface of the road is incom was to have been completed in parably better than that of any of March, 1925. About a year ago, the concrete roads so far construct however, an agitation was started in Tokyo. This section of the ed by local automobile interests road, which was completed before which led to the Road Bureau the earthquake, was absolutely Agreeing to have the road finish unaffected by the great shock, led by the end of March, 1924. -In and does not shows. single postponing the opening of the wrinkle. It is to be regretted. road until April, 1925, therefore, however, that the authorities do the authorities are simply going not see fit to keep hand carts and back to the original plan. bullock carts off the road, as We have received many ap-originally planned. Due to the plications for permits to operate great width of the road, however, motor bus services over the such trafic is widely spaced and road," said Mr. Tanaka," and it is feasible for say motor ready we have returned more vehicle to maintain a high rate than 20 applications to the sen- of speed. -
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HARLEY
DAVIDSON
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