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( ) Cadillac 5-passenger Touring Car
( ) Chandler 7-passenger Touring (54869)
CAN AFFORD".
$1.500
$1.500
( ) Chandler 4-passenger Speedster
$2,500
( ) Clevoland 6-passenger Sport Model..
$2.500
() Dodge Brothers 5-passenger Touring Car
(585184)
$1.250
() Dodge Brothers 5-passenger Sodan
$2.500
( ) Essox 5-passenger Touring
$1.650
() Essex 6-passenger Sudan
$1.800
() Hudson 7-passonger Touring (52088)
$1.750
( ) Locomobile 7-passenger Touring. () Marmon 7-passenger Touring..... (Singer 7-passenger Landaulotte () Winton 7-passenger Limonsine....
REMEMBER:~A Used Car is only as good as the firm
with which you deal.
$3,200
$3,200.
$2,500
.....
$2.750
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33, Wong Nel Chung Road,
Name.....
Address.......
Hongkong.
THE AUSTIN SEVEN
Two seater with dickey Seat. Electric Starting. Electric Lighting, Electric Horn, Dimmer Switch. Spare wheel with tyre. Side Screens, tool roll and accessories:~~~
FOUR WHEEL BRAKES.
Price Ready For The Road -
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT:
SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1924.
ONE HUNDRED MILEN AN HOUR.
THE WONDER OF THE 350 e.c. KILOMETRE RECORD.
One hundred miles an hourl This is a truly romarkable spoed to be attained by a motor cycle baving an engine of lore than 350
R.A.C. -SMALLCAR TRIALS.
SOME INTERESTING EXTRACTS FROM REPORT.
Captain E. do Normanville, writes in the Daily Chronicle :--
As this newspaper took such a
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0.0. enpacity. A spoed that a few trading part in supporting the BUILT ENTIRELY OF BRITISH PARTS BY BRITISH LABOUR,
YEATH ago was quito impossible R.A.C.'small car trials. I ragrot and considered likely to remain wo have not spoon to publish tho,
Judgus' Report in full--unless wo
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Let us considor for a momont Lurned our column into a "To be what'n speed of 100 m.p.h, really continued in our next "affair. means.. One hundred yards in teni Anyhow, theso aro some of the Hocande is what is called "aven twiddlay-bits froin the official time." It takes a very good report of the judges →→
rupnor to equal this, and it has *The total distance covered in vory Heldom been beaten; of thong trials was 1,010.5 miles, fuol coured, one must remember that and oil consumption being moas- the times in thin-cano are taken furul over the first five days only, from a standing start, but a first-i.o., 838.8 miles. With regard to class runnor gets into his stride fuel and ol consumption of the very quickly. Now oven time" various cars, it is interasting to is just about 20 m.p.h. (it is, in compare these with the resulta fact, a fraction over this, but ourjobtained during the light car figures need not be moro than reliablity trials of 1904 and 1914, reasonably approximate). One. Įhundred miles an hour is, equival-
ent to nearly fifty yards a nocont In the former yoar the average: so that a distance of one hundred fuel consumption was at the rate yards will be covered in just over of 30.2 m.p.g. or 20 ton-milos por two seconds.
gallon, whilst the corresponding,
TWENTY-YEARS- AFTER.
A TYPE FOR EVERY REQUIREMENT For Passengers or Merchandias
THORNYCROFT
BEST
BRITISH
MOTOR
VEHICLES
THORNYCROFT
"NOT FOREIGN PARTS ASSEMBLED IN ANGLAND, BUT ENTIRELY
BRITISH.
THE REQUIRED HORSE POWER figures for 1914 were 35.99 and SERVICE and ECONOMY
SPARE PARTS IN STOCK Trust a Thornycroft with your Transport..
Specifications and Prices
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
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The air resistance that must be 23.95. overcome when a motor cycle, is) "It will be seen that the averago travelling at so high a speed'as m.p.g. for the present trials is 100 mph. is very groat, as it 35.23, which indicatos a slight varios with the square of the drop back from the 1914 figuren, speed. The usual constant for air but the figures for ton-miles por resistance calculations is .003, but gallon provide more encouraging: this is for lat surfaces, while a roading, the average for the pre- Tel. ̊C.32. motor eyein and rider aro full of sent trials being 32.76. curves, and .002 will probably The host consumption ro- meet the ease. Taking the lattor suits for the present trials are and estimating the sectional area 46,22 m.pg. No. 20, the 8 h p. of machine and rider as 5 kq. ft. Gwynne, the winner of "The the resistance works out as 100 Daily Chronicle" 250 guineas 1b, and the horse-power required cup for the best performance to overcome this resistance as 27 irrespective of class, and 37.63 hp. (for the horse-powar varios ton-tiles per gallon (No 18. the) as the ouho of the speed). It is, 9-19 hp. Seabrook), as compar- however, not easy to estimate od, with 43.35 and 36.67 respec- the surface exposed to air resist-tively for the best in 1914. It is anco very correctly, and a racing interesting to note that by far motor cyclist lies very low over the best petrol consumption was his tank; so 5 sq. ft. may, ho a obtained on the car fitted with a little too much, and if we put itjat variable from the driving; as 4 sq. ft. the necnasary horse-soat.
power is reducul to 21.3 h.p, and
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. it can hardly bu loss than this, which is a wonderful power to be
"Tubular front axlos again; developed by so small un engine. proved their unsuitability for This is not all the horse-power touring conditions, as in every whore such as axle was) required, because wo have also to cast take account of tho "tractive re-fitted it had bent. Pivot troublo sistance, which may be taken as was extensive, and was dua to 20 kilograms per ton for a good inadequate bearing surface and surface.. Supposing the total inattention. It should be romain. weight of the machine and ridur bered that 'Attention' causod to be 350 h., this will work out at dogs of marks in the trials, very nearly 2 b.p.
Noisy back axles may be uttri-
The gear ratio was 46 to ibute to overloaded bearings or and the wheels were 26in. in lack of rigidity of their bou-ings, diameter. This means an enjar both. Kine speed 1
approximatu-
Faulty lubrication was tho ly 6,000 r.p.m, and there cause of most of the spring foru the peed of the soaks, although many of the woro provided with periphery of the light outside springs flywheel. which Was atout gaiters. On the whole, however, 10in. in diametor, must have bean tho general condition of the cars nearly 964ft. per second, or 180 at the conclusion of the triale miles per hour. The exacstop of showed that great advances have the fly whack in moving in the same been made during the past ten direction as the machine; there years in design, construction,
bo added to the rotational spordij "With but four exceptions, and this point will be found to be electric starters were Autod, and moving forward at the stupendous the fact that only two-fifths of a spood of 280 m... while the minute of time (in excess of tho lowest point is travelling back-permitted half-minutes) was lost wards at 80 ra p.h.
(for starts after leaving the depot,
£188. 0. 0.fore the speed of the machine may and materials.
(Sports Model - - - LIO. 0. 0,) Delivery Guaranteed in 6/8 weeks. Catalogues and full information on application to Sala Agents for Hongkong & S. Chinn.
ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China) Ltd.
Bank of China Buildings, Hongkong.
Telephone, Central 27 or 2467.
ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT
ON
SHELL
Squadron Leader A. S. C. Maclaren (.B.E., D.F.O., M.C., A P.C., is USING SHELL AVIATION SPIRIT exclusively on his flight round the world.
FLIGHT
ACROSS
ATLANTIC
FLIGHT
ΤΟ
FLIGHT
ACROSS
AUSTRALIA AFRICA
PERFORMANCE IS PROOF
As the stroke moasuros, 88) and that no time in excess of the me, the piston pood works ou permitted two minutes was lost at 3,460, per minute, ar nearly in the depot, speaks well for the 40 mph and it was not so very genoral oxcellence of this com long ago that 1,000 f.p.m wasiponant,'
considered to be the maximum. We feel that the Trials have pi-ton speed attainable. Lastis,ben successful in demonstrating the time in which the charge as the many morits and, compar to make its way into the cyclin tively few weaknesses of the der is one two-hundredth part of email cars which took part in the a second.
THE CIRCUIT OF AUSTRALIA
Cr.als,
Tomes.
THE HONGKONG. & SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.
The Famous
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GARNER
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British-built
truck-chassis and passenger-bus.
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Two of the famous British-built “GARNER" 2-ton truck-chassis, equipped with pneumatic tyres have arrived and are now on show in our Kowloon Branch Office, No. 1, Canton Road.
One 24-passenger British - built Bus, English pattern, complete with body and equipped with pneumatic tyres, also of the famous Manufacturer GARNER" has also arrived by the S.S. "Glensheil ”.
Inspection is cordially invited.
SOLE AGENTS:
HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
26, Queen's Road Central,
7.
ON BUYING A USED CAR A used car should be looked over with extreme caro, chocked up and tested thoroughly before being bought, Thore & re nondescript dealers who wait for just such persons who are lux in
this safeguard. They doctor up the car so that it runs like now"
while undergoing test,
And
it broaks down shortly after purchase.
THE FINEST FLIGHT. They har no prepared aorad- They had no prepared bases with spires and, facilities for repaire. They just pushed off from Melbourne on a three-yar-, old Fairey Serplane with a Rolls- *By completing the Cireult of Australin Wing Commander Boyce Eagle ' VIII engine, flow r und Australia and did thoir Gabio and Fiving-Officer Me-j
lj >b. Air Force have pat up a perform-
the orankcaso oil so it has the ing from such porformances na ance which may fairly be claimed the trans Atlantic Aght or the consistonoy of mucilage.
Quieting defective transmis-
Some of the tricks used aro :. Running the car on soft tyres, to hide rattles and hard springs. Covering up engine bearing
Intyre of the Royal Australian "Without in any way dutrict-knocks by chemically treating
as the finest flight in the historyland-Australia flight of the sion or rear end with sawdust of of Aviation.
Egland-South Africa flieh, or
On their arrival at Melbourne the mara recent flwht by M./Powdored cork packing..
on May 19 they had covored 8 5 8 miles in 44 days, an average of one can say unhesitatinly that]
Polterior d'Oisy to Indo-China. about 200 miles a day, in 90 flying the Australian flight is a better
Injecting gold into a noarly dead storage battery.
Mounting a new body on old
Besides watching for such
bou e, or only a little loss than niece of work than any of them. It ohoria.
100 nules an hour over a course has called for a more prolonged infractions, the prospective buyer which faced every point of the
off art than some of the great flights should compass. But they were not aut of the past and it has been done to break record- or to put up without the external as-tande stunt," as the modern phrase has
and vast preliminary organisation
chock up the timing tho mator, NOG that cho CAT doesn't smoke ton
of
made.
A thorough
it Thoir task was to make which alone have made th others mucha sign of worn cylinders | rapid survey of the coast of
pagthic. It was a plain two and insist that Australia, with a view to judging job, and it has won for the test, including hill climbing, bo where coast-defence air stations Royal Austalan Air Force the mny best be placed.
admiration of all the World's They were not able to devote
avaintora. thoir timo ashore to overhauling their machino and resting: they had to make notes, write reports, and interview local people us to Tokyo has 9935 motor cars and gical peculiaritios of each locality, is estimated at about-15,000,
RESTRICTIONS WANTED. After a wook's trial of the plan to do away with all parking ro gulations, Akron, O., is returning to its old form of ilmliing parking down-town, except for a few
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., (S.C.) LTD, the topouraphical and meteorolo- trucks Japan's total of autos minor changes; Mortorista called
for the return-to restrictioŁap-vi
Telephone No. C.1036.
Dunlop's record of achievement ju tho- field.
of Pneumatic Tyre construction, is pacquailed,
DUNLOP
In the year 1888. Tunlop made
the first pneumatie tyre.
In the present year, the Funlap Cord the longest mileage tyro It is the product of over 30 years EXPERIENCE in tyro manufacture.
PRACTICALLY ALL THE MANUFACTUFFPS OF THE BEST ENGLISH CARS RE OGNISE THE SUPERIORITY OF DUNLOP CORDS,—becaure they plank for Dunlop Cords as their standard equipment.
Obtainable from the Dunlop Co'n oun Braich, also from Etrela carried by the That Co. and by J. Gilba & Co. Alexandra Bldg. Iphone C.701 Eundays & Holidaya 0.1888.)
Suppiled at DUNLOP,
MAND+ACIO`ER'S
OP RUBBER Co. (China) LTD.
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