HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1924.
DODGE BROTHERS
MOTOR CARS
This new Touring Car is at its best where road conditions are at their worst.
Not until then can the owner fully appreciate its luxurious riding ease, nor the full superiority of the new spring equipment.
All four springs are longer, with more and thin- ner leaves, and the rear springs are underslung. Made of tough, chrome vanadium steel, they unite maximum strength with very exceptional resiliency.
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STANDARD MODELS. → Complete with firo Dise Wheels and .flvo Cord Tyrox: $2,400 3-passenger Roadster...
$2,450 5-passcoger Touring SPECIAL MODELS. Comploto with Nickelud Radiator Shell, Cowl Lights, Nic- kalad Front and Rear Bumpers, Rear View Mirror, Automatio Wind Shield Wiver, Scuff Plates, Motomator and Lock, Special Blue Leather Upholstery, five Disc Wheels, and five BALLOON TYRES: $2,050 3-passenger Roadster 5-passenger Touring
$2,700
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Registered Head Office and Show Room. Wong Nel Chung Road (Happy Valley).
Telephone Central 3950'
" If the writer were asked to sum
up the Dennis'
THE
DENNIS
2-2 ton Model
Write for leaflets of models in
which you are interested.
Alex. Ross & Company
\(China) Limited, Bank of China Building, Duddell St. Telephone C.2487
2-2 tonner
HE WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS AN · ESSENTIALLY HIGH-CLASS, WORM- DRIVEN MACHINE, BUILT ON THE ORTHODOX LINES OF BEST A0- CEPTED STANDARD PRACTICE. THERE IS NOTHING EXPERI- MENTAL OR DARING IN DESIGN: THE CHASSIS IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF RIPE EXPERI- OVER ENCE ACCUMULATED TWENTY YEARS OF SOUND WORK."
THE
How could you describe in fewer words the essential features of the maching you need for your transport services. Hors. you have up-to-datonous in design, sound- nese of construction, quality of material, dependability-all combined with, and benefiting from, an experience of motor manufacture which dates back boyond the passing of the Light Locomotive Aot, 'in 1895.
BRIEF-SPECIFICATION:-
30 h.p., 105 x 150 mm, engine, forced lubrica- ation to working parts by gear-driven pump, large oil sump in crankoaso, high tension waterproof magnoto, eztornal Foredo-lined olutch, gate change 4-speed and reverse. gearbox, with direct drivo on, 4th spood, stooring by worm wheel sector, Dennis The hand worm-driven back axle, etc. brake is of the expanding type, and the foot brake acts on a drum behind the '. gearbox, both brakes, being easily adjusta- ble by hand nuts in accessible positions, All chassis are fitted with front mudguards and Dunlop solid tyres, and supplied with I head, 1 tail, and 2 side lamps, tool kit, lifting jack and horn.
THE SMALL CAR TRIALS.
REMARKABLE EVENT TO BE HELD THIS MONTH.
The small car trials of 1924, bo- ing organised by the Royal Automobile Club, will probably prove tho most interesting, in- formatice and really'uaoful to the buying public of any of the long Borios yot held.
There is much unofu) novelty in the rogulations for those trials, which are to ho held from May 12 to 17. They are primarily in- tonded to be of service to the. motorist to whom finante is all Important, the object boing to pro- vide for the following points:-
What will be the first cost? What will this includo in the way of equipment, accommodation and comfort? How much atten-" tion and looking aftur will the car require: what repairs and now parts will be required and how much will they cost? Shall I bo able to do tho ropairs myself? And how will the car climb hills, how will it "pick up," and what will be the consumption and cost of fuel, oil and grease?
There has always been
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desire, and a need, for a stock car trial, but until now the diff- culty of ensuring that none but actual standard oars, as sold to and used by the public, shall com: poto has proved insuperable.
It is intended that the Small Car Trial of 1924 shall be a stock
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car trial, and, without going into one mark for each fifth of a wearisome details, you can take minute occupied. if the driver it that any entrant who succoads does the work alono. When two in running a car that is not a persons are engaged the ponalisa- stock car without boing found out tion is five times as heavy. If and heavily penalised-well, hojnow material or parts are requir deserves to got away with it-l
HEAVY PENALTIES.
ad a further mark for each shill- ing of the cost- will be deducted. The time occupied in the usual Jusi one point in illustration, operations of starting, other than The entry form comprises every adjustments and repairs, comes ongatushin deteil of a car from under the aging RAINB to the particular kind of material for
mark
for
used in the upholstery. And if und afterwards a the actual car running in the trial cach fifth of a minute. Therefore is found to depart in the smallest quick and easy starting, easily detail from the particulars given filled patrol tanks, radiators, and in that entry form, the entrant, oil reservoirs, and easily adjusted without further argument, is brakes (which come under the beading of "Attention.") will be penalised to the extent of £250.
Further, he has to guarantee an advantage. that the specification and the actual car agree in ovory detail with the current cata. logue, and that at least six other identical cars have been sold to members of the public whose names and addresses must be given.
The trials are confined to cars of 1,000 c. c. cubic capacity or under, and seven classes have been arranged, as follows
Class A, price not exceeding £130.
Class B, price exceding 2130 but not exceeding £170. -Class C-price-exceeding £170. but not exceeding £205.
Class D, price exceeding £205 but not exceeding £240,
Class E. price exceeding £240 but not exceeding £275.
Class F. price oxceeding £275 but not exceeding £350.
Class G. price exceeding £350 (unlimited).
Replenishment of fuel or oil or brako adjustment on the road are very heavily penalised, as com- pared with their performance before starting each day.
CHEAP FUEL BENEFITS. The marking system in con- nection with fuel consumption is interesting, as cost rather than quantity used is taken as a basis. Marks will be deduced in relation to the value at current retail price of the fuel used at the rate of one mark for each 13d. worth. Thus a car using a cheaper fuel and perhaps not marking quito so good a mileage per gallon, as another using a very much dearer spirit, will score.
The Royal Automobile Club[ has now opened, under the direc tion of a local manager, its own The prize-R. A. C. gold and office at the Gare Maritime, silver medals and the special Calais, in order to give every prizes already mentioned-will facility to members and associate! be awarded on a system of mark- members using the. Dover-Calais ing which is in itself instructiva, service, special arrangments Each car will start the trial with having been made to effect the a pool of 1,500 marks, and marks speedy clearance of care through will be deducted for repairs and the Customs, the provision of adjustments to the extent of petrol, and so forth.
HARLEY DAVIDSON
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Tel. 32.
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