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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SOUND VALUE
The price of Dodge Brothers Motor Car is a Gravine index of its value.
Enabled, by their vast resources, to fluance themselves; selling directly through dealer to purchaser; adding now thing to the price of the car to support a free service policy; concentrating on one chassis for their complete fine; eliminating the overhead Involved in furnishing many body types with special finishes-
Dodge Brothers are actually able to conserve a consider- able amount of money in the manufacture and sale of cacli car.
This saying is not only reflected in the price it is re turned to the product itself, and in this way passed on to the purchaser-sound value for his investment.
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$2,400 $2,450
STANDARD MODELS. --- Complete with five Diso Whools, and five Cord Tyres:
3-passenger Roadster...... 5-passenger Touring SPECIAL MODELS.- Comploto with Nickelod Radiator Shell, Cowl Lights, Nic- koled Front and Rear Bumpers, Rear View Mirror, Automatio Wind Shield Wirer, Scuff Plates, Motometer and Lock, Special Blue Leather Upholstery, five Disc Wheels, and fivo BALLOON TYRES: $2,650 3-passenger Roadster
$2,700 5-passenger Touring
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The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Registered Head Office and Show Room.
Wong Nei ChungRoad (Happy Valley).
Telephone Central 3950
RADRIA
GREYHOUND.
WHEN YOU DEAL WITH
DENNIS
You deal with a 30 years old institution that will continue to GROW.
When a man buys a "DENNIS" lorry-admittedly he buys a world famous one of Britain's best, but he buys something,MORE.
lorry
It is the name "DENNIS" applied to Motor Tran- sport and all that goes with it that he is offered. Sole Agents-
Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Limited.
Bank of China Building, Duddell Street.
Telephone C.2487.
Agents for Messrs. Dennis Bros. Ltd., Guildford, England, manufact
the Famous Dennis Turbine Motor Fire Engine.
USE YOUR GEARBOX.
Penalties of Worshipping the Top Gear Fetish. Though the usa of the top speed is much to be preferred to the noison of the indirect gaars, I remains a fact: says a well- known Homo, writer, that 'undus
hanging" on " will demand its toll of trouble. As the poot says, "Every pleasure hath its pain."
And with tho undue insistanoo of "kooping in top," the ploásuro of the quietude and simplicity gonerates pains for the ohassis, Beyond reasonable limits notor- car engines do not like generating power at slow speed. Even those which move in the most golect ciroles have a proforence of
going the pace a bit."
In faot the theorist can make outa vory damning list of troublon likely to accrue from too much top gear work in advorso circum- stancos, and most of them can bo proven true bills in practico vide repair bills, You should never allow the top speed futish to obtain too great a hold of your driving habits.
I was discussing this aspect of motoring with one of our leading: designers the other day. This is what ho said-or words to the same effect.
Quito considerable proportions of averago repair bills- aspecially with small, modern type high-efficiency ongine-can bo traced to the excessive use of the top gear, and the refusal of the average driver to face the work of changing down. People should remember that the gear box is there to use; it is not an fornament or emergency appa- ratus. Just tell them that from mo, will you? -
gear.
SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1924.
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the timo fotish has a lot to answor for. If you can you. should kill tt.
MINIMUM WEAR, MAXIMUM ECONOMY.
And thus it comes about that I "I should say that only about find myself the avowed assassin one driver in a hundred handles of the top gear fotish, which his car properly from the goar causes unduo wear and heavy changing standpoint, and many rapair bills when it is worshipped who think themselves good too assiduously, And it is par- drivers are really 'duda. when tioularly bad on the British small it comes to hanging on the top car type of engine; so once again. we come up against our mad "Some car salesmen oven go so system of motorear taxation, far as sorlouely to strain the which they have just been dis- engine, in showing what they are cussing in. Parliament-which pleased to torm is wonderful discussion, by the by, I meant to pulling at slow speeds. All tell you all about to-day! Nevar they really show is that the mind-Manana.
Bat you should certainly learn engine le capable of standing the abusa of abnormally bad driving. to use your gear-box in the way. But it does not stand it Indo-It is intended to be used as a finitely. It goes to the repairers means to let the ungino develop for a rest curo."
the required power with mini- maximum WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREES-
. And wear After anathermy friend con- economy, and not merely as an tinued: "Touching on this same omorgency apparatus when you question, we have the problem of cannot any longer get along the rear axle ratio. As we have without using it.
mum
developed to-day we soo manu-t So if you are a disciple of the facturore with final ratios of from top speed all the time creod, bo- about 3.45 to I down to almost 6 come a convert. Learn to use to 1. And between these ex-your goar-box as it is intended trames of standard practice you to be used.
find people with similar ongines
but quite unsimilar rear-axle
ratios.
"It follows that entirely differ. Canada imported 104 motor- ent opinions on the same subject cycles during August, last, all cannot both be right. And the but four of which wore purchased Tho cause of the error is vory largely from the United States. bound up in the question of whot-other four were shipped from her the driver will use the gear- Great Britain. During Septem box-or funk it! We have to ber, Canada received 33 motor. think that problem over vary eyelon, of which 32 came from carefully-and make goar ratios the U.S.A. The valuation of Can- to suit, And everyone has his adian motorcycle imports for own idea of what the happy August was $22,615, and for the medium is. Tho 'top spend all month of September $8,091.
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Ford 4 Door Sedan now one of the the most popular cars in the United States in stock ready for immediate delivery. Price $1900.00 (Hong- kong Dollars.)
Make an appointment and take a Trial Spin with-
ANDREW HARPER,
AUTHORISED FORD DEALER
After Junë iat, at No. 8. Queen's Road. Tel. 3005 Central
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