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**THE CAR YOU'WANT-AT A PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD"
( ) Cadillac 6-passenger Touring Car
$1,500
( ) Chandler 7-passenger Touring (54689) ......
$1,500
( ) Chandler 4-passenger Spoodster
$2,500
( ) Cleveland 6-passenger Sport Model...........
$2,500
(Dodge Brothers 5-passenger Touring Car
(585184)
$1,250
( ) Dodge Brothers 5-passenger Sedan
$2,500
( ) Escox 5-passenger Touring
$1.650
7) Essex 6-pussonger Sedan
$1,800
( ) Hudson 7-passenger Touring (52988)
31.750
( ) Locomobile 7-passenger Touring..
$3,200
() Marmon 7-passenger Touring
$2.750
() Binger 7-passenger Landaulette
$3.200
$2,500
() Winton 7-passenger Limousine..... REMEMBER:-A Used Car Is only as good as the firm
with which you deal.
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33, Wong Nel Chung Road.
Nume
Address.....
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YUTORING SUPPI
BATTLE OF PETROL
SATURDAYS AUGUST:
1924
PRICES.
Interesting Story from Omaha.
The picture on the left, shows the Fire Commissioner Mr. John Hopkins, Omaha's Best price cutter, filling an order. Right-At the "150 League" Headquarters. Left to right, Mr. George H. Carey, secretary of the league, Dr. Despescher and Misa Ruth Mitchell, stonographer."
Omaha, June 27th. They are evon computing gasoline pricoo by decimal points of a cont hors
now.
Ono dosler, not to be outdone į by other price slashers, is solling it at 12.9 coats a gallon,
Printed price tags no longer adorn the tanks at Omaha's 125 filling stations. Chalk is the only medium that can keep pace with ja single day's developinonta.
Every half hour soes some now low cost sensation splashed all over the sidewalk to attract motorists' attention.
But at Omaha's gas rages i
"The Old Essex Pep Plus
Hudson Smoothness".
The new Essex has all the stamina for which its forerunner was famous. And its 6-cylinder motor built by Hudson, gives smoothness of performance heretofore exclusive to the Super-Six.
Its economy includes not only exceptional gas, oil and tire mileage, but a policy of minimum mainte- nance cost with parts prices that will astonish you.
5-passenger ESSEX TOURING............ $2,375 5-passenger ESSEX COACH.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR
$2,800
LTD.
Telephone Central 3950. 33, Wong Nel Chang Road, Happy Valley.
Starting at 2014 cents a gallon in March the price at first drop- pod slowly, thon rapidly-17, 15, 14, 12, 13, 134, 134, 134, 13 cents.
And none daros guess what the future may bring.
them. Then I began passing them out to my friends.
"Wearors made signed pro- mises not to use gasoline for pleasure purposes and to walk when the distances were short until prices came down."
For it all a dinner party and an attack of Insomnia may be blam-club invited Dr. Despechor to toll A community improvement
its membare about the plan.
od
A physician, a couple of attor-Right then and there, the little neys, a packing house official, an dentist, who never had made a insurance man and a dentist were speech In his lite, began his dining at the home of Federal Judge J. W. Wookrough. The talks six nights a week, with atumping." Now he is giving! subject of the haploss gas con-noon-day lectures scattered in war sumor arose during the meal. between.
The dentist, a little Fronohmon,: A municipal election rolled Dr. F. J. Despescher, listened around. Firo Commissioner intently, but said little.
John Hopkins, up for re-election,
That night, unable to sloen, made cheaper gasoline a cam- the thought of the consumere paign issue. He was swept baok plight kept running through his into office by an overwhelming mind.
majority.
"All at once I realized that I He immediately began to make] hadn't boen listening to my good his pledge. At one of the frianda," ho says, "but to every engine houses he set up a motorist in Omaha. It soomed muntoipal filling station. Savon- to me that if wo would all speak toon cents was his price, fout, it would have to have some In May, the "15c Loaguo influence in bringing down the started up in business right next prices.
door, not with any infontion of "Now a man can't always be running the olty's station out of talking about cheap gasoline. business, but to help it soll gas at But he can always wear a little 17 cents.
button in his coat lapel. 8o I. Then the **150 Loague decided that such a button, with brought its prion down to 15 cants. just the inscription. 150 Since then the cutting has boon League," would be the thing.
"So next morning when I got down town I ordered 2000 of
THE CAR AND THE CAD.
going on right and left.
And the fever is spreading to! other Nebraska cition.
And when you and others Bro stationary in a traffle block, it le. The Cad who Comoe up A TYPE OF DRIVER WHO last and Drawis along tho SHOULD BE ELIMINATED. | outside until he can get half his You got your occasional cad some other car-and so noses his noar front whoo! in the way of oven in the bost golf clubs and vulgar way to the front. you get him with about equal are the tricks of The Cad, as dif- These proportion in the vogue of tannie. forent from the overyday errors You get him a littlo more of driving due to ignorance and frequently in the social club. But lack of experience. You never
by the Lord Harry you get him seo the Gentle Sox indulge in in worst proportion amongst mo these reprehensible taatios. torists, asserts Captain C. do
AND HOW TO "DOWN" HIM 1 Normanvilla in the Daily
What, then, shall we do with Chronicle.
Why is it that we have such an him out of our midst?
the Cad? How shall we hound How can abnormal proportion of this Un we short circuit his short oir ploasant Porson in our ranks ? ouits?
There is a distinst-though Those be minor matters which perchance subtle-difference be I submit should be tackled in the tween the bad driver and the Cad Motor Legislation as and when, in the Cat,
and if ever, wo got it, For a first| You can prove this by offanco, Mr. Cad should get 40s. moment's thought and the aid and for subsequent offences 40 of sex differentiation. You often days. He is a confounded nuis- find the fair charmer a-wheelance, and one, moreover, who guilty of driving errors. But you frequently carrion in his wake a nover soo her behave like a ead. wholly unwarranted weasure of So long as ignorance may be the danger. cause
she is with us. But the
Cad in the Corts distinctly of the rid of him, and so far as I can Consequently we ought to be) malo speolos
see the only way to stamp him out to make his offendo a legal!
ope.
THE WAY OF A CAD." My many-worded friend Mr. Walker John of the lk and the Ono can possess a small moas- dictionary, not Johnnie is not ure of sympathy for the taxi- too clear as to the preetse la driver, who is the worst offender, terpretation to be given to the because in hila case timo is defin word Cad.
But I take it that the man not adequate excuse, and those itely money. But even that fa who advantages bimself at the disagreeable and dangerous habits. discomfort and incovenience of should be stamped out.
hin fellows is-A Cad. Grant | mo that then shall you see him swhool at nearly every traflio stop and in most other circums taticos.
WOMAN DUYS SPEEDWAY. Mrs. O. G. Armington of Houston, Tox is said to be the ...When you are gently slowing only woman motor car. TRČU your car for a trafic stop just course owner in Amerion. She shead it is The Cad who outshas just bought the Houston c across your bonnet and forces: Bloodway, where she expect to you to undue braking affort and attract the grosteat “track' diare the loss of your due position. of the country
Armstrong Siddeley.
FOUR 14.
THE ALL BRITISH
TOURING CAR...
FIRST COST---VERY MODERATE
RUNNING EXPENSES.
PETROL CONSUMPTION---
Exceedingly low
26-28 miles per Gallon:
BUY A
YOU CANNOT
BETTER CAR.
NEW MODEL ARRIVED.
Demonstration Invited.
TEL. G. 32 HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE TEL. 0,32
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
THE
AUSTIN
SEVEN
Twp, 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 -
(Sports Model
£188, 0.0. £10. 0. 0, extra) Delivery Guaranteed in 6/8 weeks. Catalogues and full information on appliostion to, Sole Agents for Hongkong & 8. China,
ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China) Ltd.
Bank of China Buildings, Hongkong, Telephone, Central 27 or 2487.
EVERY MOTORCYCLIST KNOWS AS
WELL AS EVERY MOTORIST.
DUNLOP
E--Bero two élatinet hinds of tyear, (a) CORD tyras, and (b) FABRIC tyran. E.— FABRIC Lyres sza mads of distinctly ekeaper and inferior material than nửa CORD tyres.
3. There in 20 temparison beiwzak ike txo materiala, either fa, cost of pro- duction; or in durably,-
1024 T. T. RESULTS A TWEEPING
TRIUMPH FOR
DUNLOP CORDS READ THE RESULTS AND NOTE PLACINGS NOW ON DUNLOP CORDS.
Stocks carried.
Compare these prices
28 x 9 Motorayclo Cord $12:50 26 x 21****
26x22 (27 rim)
24 = 3****
28x9
18,90
16.10
18,90
Obtainable from the Dunlop Co's own Branch, also from Stocks carried by the Tan and by Jo Gibbard 106, (Alarm (phone 070- Sündays & Holidg