HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
CONFIDENCE
The foundation of satisfactory motor car travel is confidence in the tyres,
The confidence of car owners in the MARK OF QUALITY has come as a result of tyre servico which answers the most difficult
tests.
famous method is used on select- ed rubber, chosen by experts in our Singapore headquarters. It renders the tyres pra:tically Im- muno from internal friction and the disastrous results of heating.
Let us confor with you as to why Firestone Oom-Dipped Cords, with their safety, comfort and good looks, are best for any
This is largely due to the Fire stone Oum-Dipping process, The car.
Most
Miles
Per
Dollars
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR-CO., LTD.
33 Wong Nel Chung Road, (Happy Vallay)
Contral 3950,
DRAGON MOTOR LIVERY SERVICE, C. F. Pau, Proprietor.
24, Des Vœux Road, (Hongkong) ........
Cot tral 482.
THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY.
26, Nathan Road, (Kowloon)
Kowloon 226.
(A full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres & Tubes carried at oich of the above addresses.]
Firestone
SPECIALDODGE BROTHERS Motor Cars
IN FOUR TYPES.
Four special types have recently been added to Dodge Brothers standard line of motor cars--
A Touring Car, a Roadster, a Type-A Sedan, and a 4-Passonger Coupo
These types have boon oroated for that substantial group of motorists who favor individuality in motor car appointment and design.
In fundamental construction they aro Identical with Dodge Brothers'standard product. Their accentuated smartness, however, is strikingly obvious in many olaborations of equipment and refinements of detail. Special 6-ply, ballon-type tyros, nickel-trimmed radiator shel on touring car and roadster (optional on olosed types) front and rear bumpers, motomater with lock, special blus leather upholstery (for touring oar and roadster special body striping, rear view mirror, automatic windshield wiper, scuff plates, cowl lights and steel disc wheels constitute the more important Items of special equipment.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 3950.
33, Wong Nei Chung Road ....
Happy Valley,
3-passenger special rondster,
$2,730
5-passenger special touring
$2,790
.84.115
$4,140
4 passenger special coupe 5-passenger special “A” szóna
This fiva-passenger special type Dodge Brothers Touring Car wan' given at actumi road text in Hongkong the result being 23-3'4 miles on one. Imperial gallon of Texaco gasoline.
WHAT'S NEXT IN MOTORDOM P
NEW DEVELOPMENTS OCCUPYING ATTENTION.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1924
DODGE REPRESENTATIVE
IN TOKYO..
OHATS ON MARKET SITUATION,
Armstrong Siddeley
Fifteen million car owners Mr. Frank B. Amos, a special| eagerly await a general adoption representative of Dodge Brothers or rejection of balloon tyras and Motor Company, recently arrived four-wheel brakes no that the in Japan from the United States decks may be cleared for the next laat wook. Mr.. Amos was in |big fextures in motordom.
Japan just before the earthquake Thousands of motorists already last year on his way around the have accepted many of the newer) world, innovations and have come to "There is no doubt that busi- regard them as'conventionalities.
ness has been bad at home," said They are awaiting news of nowo Mr. Amos in discussing the au- and bigger improvements in cars.
tomotive situation in" Amarios | *** The question uppermost in the and the majority of motor car minds of most motoriste is not
FOUR 14.
THE ALL BRITISH TOURING CAR.
FIRST COST---VERY MODERATE
What are the coming improve-manufacturers have been running Running expenses. ments" but "What can they Recently, however, with the on greatly reduced sobedulos.
be?" It soome as though the rising prices of farm produces, PETROL CONSUMPTION. automobile wore about as near conditions have changed for the perfect as possible. It does al
most everything a little better better, and there is every indica
tion that buying will be brisk in than necessary. Price appears
to be no obstacle. It is so beauti. the fall. The cause of the de- ful in design that many people Pression in automobila. eirolos think it is too good looking for was largely due to overproduction last winter, when most makers tho practical uses to which it is forced their destors to take too put. What, then, oan there be in
Excoodingly
low
26-28 miles per Gallon.
YOU CANNOT BUY A
BETTER CAR.
the way of something now for many cars, anticipating a heavy NEW MODEL ARRIVED.
the automoblie ?
As one authority says, the
•
demand.
"The long discussed saturation
pubile cannot guess what is com- point' is not far in the futuro ing because it is merely looking now, and the older and more con- for something now. The engineer servative makers aro. realizing knows what's coming because be that automobiles sold for re- knows what the automobile, still placement purpose will constitute
the greater part of their output. lacks.
As far as Dodge Brothers are Also the engineer knows that with the changes in oar use, concerned, business is good. We traflo conditions and the addition are making nearly 900 cars a day, of the various improvements and are now the sooond largest themselves, now demands are manufacturers of motor car in the
Theke world, Ford being the first. mada of the automobilo.
Mr. Amos will spend some domands must be met with new time in Tokyo before proceed- engineering features.
NEW ADJUSTMENT FEATURES.
Designing of brakes, both four-and two-wheel type, for
Ing to China.
1825 models will reveal many suspect that one of the next big novelties in the way of brake developments will be the elimina- equalisation and adjustmention of the transmission for all With the advent of the need for normal driving. The car will be brake inspection, engineers know in high goor constantly, with the that motorists will soon complain engine perfectly capable of start- if they are forced to the ing off without extra goaring repair shop for frequent brake down and the clutch built to ab- adjustment. The adjustments sorb all shock. There would, of must be so simpla that they can course, bo a special pedal or lever be made in a few minutes time to operate a low gear in omer- by the owner bimself or perhaps cancies as when starting off on s automatic.
very cold day before the engine has warmed up to its full output or when climbing mountains,
The next thing in tyres is be- lieved by many to be the two-tube balloon The motoring publio i« This development, however, fa growing weary of changing tyres. aid to ho scheduled to follow It is always #keptosi o the development of the electric punctureproof sohemes, but it is gearshift and to be adopted only boginning to notice that motor if the latter proves unsatisfactory. busos using four rear tyros reveal] Much interest contras on the the advantages of running "with development of tho electric the aparo on.":
gearshift because many 800 in its Some years ago a Pennsylvania great simplicity the development motorist oxperimented with of the fourth speed · Iden-in four roar tyres on touring America. "Fourth speed car. While the plan had many this side of the water bas never disadvantages-the least of which been popular because it has was the unsightliness of the rear always boon as much as tho -the outstanding advantage, was American publia could do to that in event of a rear-wheel handle thras spoods. With the puncture the owner did not have electric device, a fourth spoed to stop for a tyro change. From adde little to the complexities of this exporimont-and others like care operation and much in the it-bas developed, the Idea way of soonomy to the gas that the ordinary tyre ought to be mileago. equipped with two inner tubes,
ELECTRIC GEARSHIFT.
on
Here is where improvements follow improvement. The two- Opinions are divided as to the tubo idea could not be advantantages of eliminating the used satisfactorily in a high transmission, and for that reason presasure oord tyre, because there are many to boost the with the tubes under fifty or electric gearshift as a means of sixty pounds of air pressure retaining this time-honoured unit. friction between them would bo It is contended that the more excessive. When one tube puno the transmision comes Into turod, the sudden, expansion of play the logo refinement is the other to fill the extrs gap required__ in engloc and would be too much of a strain for clutch. Running in a constant rubber. The good tube might "high," experience shows, zus. even force itself upon the nali quires" great engine flexibility that had punctured the first tabe, which can be obtained, only by. thus resulting to a double pune means of the best materials and ture and a flat tyre.
workmanship, and often at the The balloon changes the altua- expense of great surplus of power tion. Here the tubes would be Tho transmission has always undor_comparatively low air served as a tremendous help to pressure so that friction between the engine and clutch. If it can them would be minimized. In be retained without annoyance to event of the puncture of one tube the motorist, the chanosa are that the good tube, being under oom-it will not depart as quickly as paratively low pressure, could some people imaging and expand to fil the gap without Some of the biggest develop- danger of bursting. Since the meats are going to be along the walls of the balloon tyre are 80 lines of "ougine diet." For yours flexible no particular barm would the engine has been fed care be done to the tyre if the motoristlessly and it is only now that drova on for the rest of the day engineers re developing ways relying upon the ano tubo even and mesos.of.Toeding it plean air, though its pressure might not be moist air, air of proper tempera- quite up to normal..
Mature, filtered oil waterless The plan calls for considerable gasoline. In thin, air, oil and gar experimentation, but it looms cleaners will play an important. upon the automotiva horizon as part, and since this development one of the coming things. With produces smaller and more so alight a margin between a low- afficient engines. preauro balloon and a flat tyre, charger for, extra and so great an annoyands, to the needed, li expected motorist when the margin is re-
moved, it is logical that tyre ́ ex- peris should now turn tháir atten- lion to the development of the [two-fubaj
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when
Demonstration Invited.
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
`0.4758--Car Hire Servios for Hongkong:
C. 4759-For Motor Showroom.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
Motoring at Tram-fare
The
Austin
Seven
Gives car comfort and protection at the price of a combination.
Running cost is under 3 cents per mile or no more than tram-fare.
Beats two adults with children; has electric lighting and born and complete all-weather equipment, spare wheel and tyre. The 4-cylinder engine is watercooled, three speeds are provided and brakes, fitted on all wheels. Chessia lubrication le by grease gun, Electrical startor.
Price Delivered Hongkong Ready for the read £118.0.0. Gports Modet £10.0.0 Extra) kak for "Moto-ing at Tram-face," dépleting the car for khopplex, buzimasa wag, and wash-wad faunts with the shiidran, Sole Agente:-
ALEX ROSS & CO."(CHINA) LTD.
Tel. 37 or 1487.
Bark of Călan Buldings......
HONG LONO.
', Taj. 27 or 248T.
A FINE PRODUCT-AND ́A FINE POLICY
There are no finer tyres than...
DUNLOP
CORDS.
They sand as the supreme achieve- ment in tyre construction, and sok a new standard in tyre service.
Behind them a fine policy -fair ript- the methods of the Dunlop organization which help: you to get the utmost value from