MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
LARGEST PNEUMATIC TYRE.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HARLEY DAVIDSON
1924 MODELS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. SHEWAN TOMES & CO. Sole Agente, Tel. C. 781.
THE FAMOUS B.S.A.
B.S.A.
MOTOR CYCLES, generally admitted to be the finest value-for-money machines now. on the market, havo mot with a greater domand than ever thin sosun.
The range has been extended, detail inprovements have been incorporated on all models, and the BS A. reputation for cervico and roliability han been greatly enhanced by the results of reliability trials, and the oxperiencos of thousands of private owners, during the past season in the British Isles, on the Continent, and in overy part of the world where motor oycling is in vogue.
We shall be pleased to show you models of these furnous nachines.
Prices from $475.00
Take the lift to the 4th. floor.
SINCERE'S
Sole Agents for the famous B.S.A. Cycles.
GAS
SERVICE
PAINTING - Motor Cars and Cycles. ELECTRO-PLATING-Of Motor Car and
Cycle Parts.
MACHINE SHOP-Lather Work, Milling, Planing, Drilling, etc.
WELDING-Oxy-Acetylene Welding of Broken Motor Parts.
UPHOLSTERING-Tops,
Cushions,
Cushion Covers, etc, minde and repaired.
ELECTRICAL Generators, Starlors, elė, --
adjusted, repaired, re-wound.
BATTERIES-All makes of Starting, Lighting, and Ignition Batteries repaired, andfur, recharged, Now Columbia-Batteries in stock.
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Export and Constant European Supervision.
Telephone Central 3950.
̈A. J. Allison, Service Manager.
This young lady is just an tall as the tyro, which will be used on a spesial type of airplane now boing perfected in the US. It is a 64 by 14-inch balloon type cord and will sustain a load of 20,000 pounds at an inflation pressure of 15 pounds. The tyre was mado at Akron.
MOTORS AND NERVES.
SEEKING RIDING COMFORT
department
of the Society of Automotive Engineers, "the vortical necelerationu sre sponsible for the greatest degree
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THORNYCROFT
COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
BUILT ENTIRELY OF BRITISH PARTS BY BRITISH LABOUR,
If autos, as some say, have of discomfort and fatigue. It is mado nervous wrecks of us, possibile, however, that the obango automobile engineers are trying of acceleration, and its duration IF
rakor than acceleration' itself
to cure 1
At least they're encontrating may be most important, on a mean to prevent our going] further to the dogs,
Their plan for our redemption lios in designing a car that will bo really, comfortable, vibration jinas, shockless, smooth, bilout and
socoro-ballelujah!
Spring suspension has been studied most assiduously, bur
SMOOTHING BUMPS. "Vertical accelerations caused by irregularities of road surface or otherwise are foit by the pas enzor as pressures, the charac toris.ics of which depend upon the type and duration of the acceleration.
"Closely related to the straight that is only part of the programme vertical motions and perhaps to help sottio our nerves Besides l'uprineine,
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as engineers turqually severe in their effuct uro those due to pitching or relation it, other factors that make for of the vehicle about a transvarsu i comfort in riting are accessory control, tyres, whois. chassis franie, seating, body, engine and transmission, secting Kr. brakes, teating and ventilation system and aven lighting.
How heating, ventilation and lighting, or even some of the
Horizontal motion, that is the as it moves Rot on of the car forward or backward, has com paratively little effect on the pis- ear-except when a driver lams on the brakes or starts with a jerk. Yet the engineers
have that to Ain ly in its rolution to striking obstacles along. the road.
uther factors mentioned, have anything to do with riding enn- Fort and nerves may be beynird the luy mind to understand. But
Several methods are employed! enginners maintain that improper : visina alects the comfort of in studying those points related motorata especially the driver to riding comfort. All seek the that a muffy car sums their same goal, holies and that lack of prope ventilation might make them! dizzy.
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INCLUDES EVERYTHING,
the dash board to make riding oasier and more comfort- | able.
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A NEW A. C. MODEL. Motorists of all ranks will bol
model. So they must direst their at- interested in the news of a new teation not only to better springs,AN but to batter headlights and bat market at the price of £275- wonderful value for a car of ter body design. Not only that, but they have their eyes on the the A. C clues. A sample of this engine and brakes and almost interesting, innovation is gow every other part of the car even realy and on show at the firm's showrooms in Landon, Every thing is first clase; the chassis, engine, atc., are in every respect The question of mantel and similar to the usual 12-h.p. A. C The money is hoing Havod in nervous fatigue offers quite a
equipment and body dotails, but problem to the engineers.
To study it effectively they are the well known A. C. lines have beginning with research into the been retained for the body. In actual motions of an automobile pile of the reduction the equip These are vertical, lungitudinalment and finish of the cur are of the highest quality and leave and transvETIA,
"According to general belief" nothing to be desired, and it is, therefore, safe to predict a big sags John A C. Warner, assis untruture for this latest production
of li research
of A. C. Cars, Limited.
manager
NEW THRILLS FOR MOTORCYCLISTS.
Motorcycling always did havo plenty of thrille. But with this new model it ought to carry a lot mors. The big rubber-týnd wheel on the outside is prop÷lled by revalu- tions of the wheul ineldo. Thisayole was invento i in Italy. lieroman and a girl ars set for a race in Rome.
A TYPE FOR EVERY · REQUIREMENT For Passengera or Merchandise
THORNYCROFT
BEST
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MOTOR
VEHICLES
THORNYCROFT
NOT FOREIGN PARTS ASSEMBLED IN ENGLAND, BUT ENTIRELY
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SERVICE and ECONOMY
SPARE PARTS IN STOCK ́
Trust a Thornycroft with your Transport.
Specifications and Prices
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE NOT A THORNYCROFT-BUY AN ENTIRELY BRITISH LORRY,
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C.4759-For Motor Showroom
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ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST SALESROOMS
The salesroom of the New York Branch of the Buick Motor Company at 55th Street and Broadway, New York, sells and delivers more cars and more dollars worth of automobiles than any other salesroom in the world. And its sales are increasing all the time.
now
Buicks, 1923, 24,565 This Buick Branch delivered, during representing a cash value of $39,591,918. In 1924, it is expected that about 30,000 cars will be delivered, a business of over $50,000,000. Few if any of the great New York department stores will do as gient a volume of business,
same
From August 1, 1924, to May 16, 1924, deliveries of this Branch. amounted to 20.139 Buicks as compared with 16,295, deliveries for the aa increase of 3,844 period the preceding year. This represents cars, or a 23-1% gain. Sales of this Branch for the first two weeks of 945 sold in the same May 1924, were 1,231 Buicks as compared with period last year. This is an increase of over 30%. It is no wonder that a record breaking volume of business is expecled for the new season.
Because the value of Buick output has each year been greater than that of any other exhibitor, Buick has held first place in every National In 1923, Automobile Show in the United States during the last six years. Buick sold 218.516 motor cars, representing a value of $302,752.950 not including war tax or freight. In the New York district alone 12-5/10% of the 88,026 new cars sold in 1923 were Buicks.
SOLE AGENTS:
HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
26, Queen's Road Central,
Telephone No. Central 1036.
(n planning your PICNICS or joy rides, ion't forget K. 226.
Our livery cars give satisfaction.
THE
DURO MOTOR CO.
NATHAN
ROAD
A good car merits a good, clean, roomy
garage. Only a limited number of cars
an now be accommodated.
BIK-WHEEL TRUCKS.
CARS
FOR HIRE
STORAGE
Tho birgent; Fervicó that AN IMPROVISED PATCH.
Bix wheel trucks will finally be garage can give to, ita custɩmera A blowout patch can be easily mate by removing the outside manufactured on a larvo rosie, is satisfaution rubber of an old casing, Cut off now that Charles M. Sohwab, the. the head, out off a portion eight steel king, has gone into the auto or ton fnches in length and tape producing game.
Athlok coating of vaseline of This kind of the piller posts and ants below
the ends so it will not out the truck has been under test for over the annnectnya wit help prevent
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