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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
THE BALLOON TYRE SENSATION
GOODYEAR SUPERTWIST
'An announcement of vast importance. A remarkable discovery.
Goodyear has developed an incomparable now cord material known as Supertwist. Elastic and durable, it withstands the constant bending and flexing that ruins ordinary cord material.
Supertwist-with 50% greater stretch' that practically doubles tyre life--is used
only in Goodyear Balloon Tyres.
It is built into Goodyear Balloon Tyres of both kinds-to fit new wheels-and to fit nearly all the cars in use to-day without change of wheels or rims.
Ride more comfortably, and add to the appearance of your car by equipping with Goodyear Balloon Tyres.
Goodyear Means Good Wear
GOODYYEAR
BALLOON TYRES
MADE IN CANADA
DISTRIBUTORS
ALEX ROSS & COMPANY, (CHINA) LIMITED.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.
Bosch
BOSCH SPARK PLUGS:
Made in many different types and admirably adapted to the varying designa and operating conditions of motor cars and motor oyelos:
r 1212 e 18 m/m for cyclos..... $1.60
r 1616 e 14 for Fords
1,00
r 1616 og for motor oars ....... r2212 e 18 m/m for motor cars 1.60 r 2218 e 18 m/m for motor or 1.60
1 60
BOSCH PRECISION SPANNERS:
A tool required hy every driver and mechanic. Jaws opened and adjustod with one hand Lock nut fixes post- tion of jaws. Po-itive stop provents opócing spanner too wide,
3-inch.
$1.30
5 - 14 inch.
$2,10
Platinum Points (B) For Mator Cycles':
Short....
$5,00
Long
$5 Qu
Platinum Polots(Z) For Motor Cars:
Short
Long....
$9.50 $8.50
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Coptral 1245 or 1247
33. Wong Kei Chung Read... Happy Valley.
Pay close attention to the name of ROBERT BOSCH and this
Trade Mork
BING
CONSTANTLY
IMPROVED
BUT NO YEARLY MODELS
Donge
Brothers MOTOR CARS
The Dragon
Motor Car Co., Ltd.
CAR
MILE:
TURDAY
As you fill up with gas th the morning to help keep it running.
If you buy a bötfle of polish for the car that is part of the ex- pense of keeping it rolling. Sup- pose you never bought polish for Suppons you never köpt it
HOW TO KEEP A RECORD What does it cons you to "roll" your oar ? N
Enough motorists are getting looking decent. Wouldn't that down to business on car ownership hasten the day when you would to render the matter of mile cost a bo obliged to trade in for vital factor, It is becoming more new car? And would a reduction and mora important to know how in the number of years of usa of much it costs to travel enoti mite your car make the annual cost of than to know what the car sells owning just that much more? for, how much gas it consulnes Having discovered what it costs and what the repair bills are, you to run your car, the next because the mile-oost tolls the point is to translate this into mile whole story of ownership.
cost. Hore you have got to study
If a motorist shows a high mild your own osas carefully, for it is cost for a low price car, he is obvious that your results will either oareless in: owing it or he vary according to the number of has not made a truly economies! miles you average per year. purchase. If he gets an unusual-
ly low milo cost from a high-ONE AVENUE OF EXPENSE. priced; luxuriouscar, he leju tiled The man who keeps his car a in suspecting that he is enorificing gumber of years and spreads nut Komething somewhore along the his mailoage accordingly may find: live. Perhaps his our bas become that his car goes out of style and a plaything and not a real service that this makes a difference! Tho to him.
man who tries to get a lot of mileage out of his car in a short [time.runs into expenses that gro the obvious result of inadvertent neglect. On the average, how over, most people figure a normal mileage per year five to ten thousand miles and igure on the year life of the car...
COST OF “ROLLING “
IMPORTANT.
*
Every motorist can profit by Bading out how much it costs bim to roll his car. There are reasons, however, why many people he Hitate to figure things art, and not the least of those is the mattor of
That is, if you use your car depreciation. Most car owners
normally it is more accurate to figure this as a "dark horse,
figuro that it will serve you, a and give up before they start.
For all practical purposo de-certain number of years rather preciation can be figured on a than a cortain number of miles, very simple basis. In purchas-! Suppose, therefore, that you log your automobile you can as- have run your car three years, certain, for instance, whether you covering 20,000 miles. Suppose aro acquiring a one, two, three it is rated as an eight-year car five, seven or ten your car. That and cost you $2,400 complete, then, should be your basis of delivered and tax paid. Suppose calculation. If you are buying a you have paid $400 for storage, car that reemo to last the average $200 for repairs, 8160 for tyros,! owner about five years and the 800 for State licensos, $450 for delivered price is $1,000, you are insurance and $30 for inotdontale. eponding $200 a year for owner Your gas and oil has averaged, ship of the car itself. In a sense let us say, 2.5 cents per mile. you might term this "ient.".
The mile cost-of-your-motoring That much is simple enough. is, therefore, 10.5 cents. Know If you are in doubt as to the|ing this, it le possible for you to. actual life of the car you are buy-compare your experience with ing, and If the dealer tells you the particular oar with other that it will last as long as cars you have owned or with the you make it, there is no need experience of other oar owners. to be confused Many cars that You have something to go by have passed the period of their when you get down to brass tacks active life will contine to give in buying or when considering transportation service to some the purchase of a new car. one who is willing to nurse them Find out what it ogata you to slong, but when cars roach this "roll" your car. It is a feature point they usually get down to a of intelligent and progressive our common price lovel Perhaps ownership. It eliminates the they are only out of style, but in financial gamble.
any event they are good for a
cash sale of about $100 or a trade:
in allowance of a little moro,
depending upon competition in WHITE STRIPS ON ROADS. the trade and the type of car it is being traded in for. This figure the motorist should regard as velvet," and since he will pro bably spend an equivalont amount fot accessories on his next car, it
-PLANS FOR REGULATING
MOTOR TRAFFIC.
An experiment in traffic re- is just as well that he overlooke|gulation has been tried with it entirely.
BUCCORA on the main roads in Worcestershiro.
QERY BY AVERAGE MOTORIST.
All corners and bands in the The average motorist, when reaching this point, naturally main roads have had a broad, asks: "But suppose I am careless white longitudinal, stripe painted of the car and neglect it? What on the surface to mark the mid- it I have to have it repainted? Idio of the road. am obliged to spend a lot of money
Motorists and others driving.
MICHELIN
TYRES
OFFER YOU THE
MAXIMUM
AT THE
SERVICE
MINIMUM
SHELL
EXPENSE
Full stocks carried by
THE EUROPE - ASIA TRADING CO. China Building
Ask To See The Balloon Tyres.
AVIATION SPIRIT
used exclusively on both
BRITISH
WORLD FLIGHT
and
ARGENTINE WORLD FLIGHT
and from Rangoon to Constantinople and also in Iceland & Greenland on
AMERICAN WORLD FLIGHT
Just as SHELL AVIATION SPIRIT was successfully used on these. flights, so all motorists who re
the best quire
results should insist on
to make it live out its allotted on the roads have been advised SHELL
years of what you call 'active to keep within this strip on the proper side, and the advice has. Borvice?"
This is all part of the deprecia-boon followed.
It has been found also that] tion considération, and can be figured as easily as the general whore a stream of traffic is going doprcolation itėm. All the along a road the strips prevent motorist has to do is figure in the the dangerous practice of over- bills he pays for repatre repaint taking on a bond.
The sohomo is the result of a ing and such like!. Thoy nu- tomatically record the deprecia-visit to America made recently tion over and above the annual by Mr. G. F. Gettings, Worcester "rental" of the'vehicle itself. shire county surveyor, who found It is easy enough to keep ro- the white strip in extensive opora- pair bills on file. Some owners tion with satisfactory result, are inclined to hide them, but. At present a washable paint is generally they can be found. Gas being used for the white strip, but purchases and supplies are ob the possibility of using some other tained from the monthly garage material is under consideration. bill, while transportation items inourred in travelling dan be added by most bu inoes men who
MOTOR S SPIRIT.
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (S. C.) Ltd.
SHANGHAI'S MOTOR OMNIBUSES.
the Councillors and offiolais of both · Municipalities, and to the police, both of the International Settlement and the French Con- coastón, for their unfailing pour-
A PRELIMINARY INSPECery and ready assistance and TION AND A TRIAL TRIP. advice, which had been invalus. A very interesting afternoon ble to the Company in dealing was spent on the 8th inst by with the many foltial problems number of guests of the China with which they had to cope... General Omnibus Co., Ld.. view The gathering then drank to ing the company's garage, and the success of the undertaking. float of buses at Connaught Road, The vistiors were then taken know the value of knowing whore LIGHTER FIRE ENGINES. The bugo machines, all spick and for 15 minutes on in the span in their new paint, were brises around Jessheld in the lined up for the visitors inspec
their monoy KODS,
Nothing should be overlooked.
comfort and
mineds of
It is foolish for a car, owner to' Fire, the loading organ of the tion, whilst the conductors and course of which they were able ta say that his car costs him 3 cents fire brigades of Great Britain, has drivers were ranged alongside, appreciate to the fill the ged a mile to operate and then add an article, on the new Dancis Officials of the company damons, "Of course, this doesn't include atent, turbine pump, which is trated to the visitors the way in the mach
Ably ambothy dáð It depreciation and repairs and odde fitted to the Dennis fire engine which the Filling-Steynne: petro, wall of them thIE L and oads." Fizure in every that is protecting the British electric pngine opora thing that is in any way a part Empire Exhibition. The pump busen in Various sis
card:
of kooping the car in service, in delivers 600 gallons per minute, struction were ranged around the oluding the cost of the car itself and; by reason of its unique very spacious garage for examio- and all the incidentals it involves, design and construction in gun
Height Juxury
MOTOIL CAR. King of Portland, saw their car plunko over the brink of Crooked RIVIT CANYON
Ung, bears Ing they PATLY stepped from, the machine
SHOULD INCLUDE STORAGE metal throughout, we gbị
-IN, COSTS.
awt. whereas an ordinary ser Storage should be included in pump of similar capaci STANDARD HAND CRANKS.-
the "rolling" cost, even though. Instead of spaolal band orank it in habit with many for avery, make of Bar," we may leave it out Tho atgra
hon have only two or three car in part of its, opor (standart sizes for all came. Mr. 8. | If you don't give it she
Evelyn of engineers, is at get rust work dat ing standard eisen - for pava vo