HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
LOST IN FRANCE-AND YOUND. FOREIGN DEMAND FOR BRITISH
DUSES,
Recently a lady member of the
of British Tho popularity Automobile Association, driving from Lyons to Montolimar, lost a motor-busca aversons is illustra- largo trunk with valuable conted by recoat orders received for!
omnibuses. Recently Loats from the back of her oar. Vuloan Local enquiroe having proved four 26-passenger. Vulcan busos fruitious, the lady, on hor woro suppilod. for publio sorvlooi rotum to London, reported in the stroots of Riga, Latvia, and tho matter to the Automobile ordors for furthor vehicles have Association. The Foreign Tour now boen reoaived from the samo A.A. quartor. It will perhaps be ro ing Department of the immediately circularised allmembered that last year in the and polico Swedish R A.J. Reliability Trials hotels, garatzen authorities on the line of route.the Vulcan 20-passenger bus was offering a reward for the recovery awarded the Gold Plaquo for of the missing frunk. The next comploting the course without post brought a reply, which was the loss of a single mark, in opon promptly confirmed from other competition with vehicles from Sources; the findor was located.othor countries. As a result of and arrangements wore made for the success a number of Vulcans , tho return of the trunk 10 are in regular service in Stook.
tholm. England.
AMERICAN WORLD FLIGHT
The following testimonial has been received by ~ The Asiatic Petroleum Company, Ltd., London:---
"The "SHELL" benzine which you shipped to Iceland and Greenland for the American Bound World Flight proved entirely satis- factory, Our Flight met with the greatest difficulties in the artic regions, heavy polar pack ice on the east coast of Greenland made it necessary to fly direct from Iceland to West Greenland, and the high test qualities of Shell benzine contributed largely to the success) of this long and dangerous flight."
USE SHELL MOTOR SPIRIT AND
BE SATISFIED.
DECEMBER 20, 1924.
SAL
A REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH OF
SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT.
At the very moment when the photographer was about to snap the above car, which was travolling at terrific speed on the Culver City Spaod way. Los Angeles, the left front wheel came off By great presence of mind, the driver brought tho 'car to a stan still, escaping himself untojured..
MOTOR-CYCLES CHEAP
AND GOOD.
excellence and sound all-round spooifications of these cheaper maoblues.
The production of fancy-priced] motor-cycles has given way to the manufacture of machines at half the cost of three or four years ago.
BRITISH MODELS STILL LEAD THE WORLD. The Motor-cyole Show, says Capt. E. da Normanville in the
In the past year groat stridos Daily Chronicle, olosoly follows the car exhibition in a charac- have been made in the baby, or toristic moro important than its ultra-light class. Those machinos used to be semi-toy in construc- more datal sequenos. It is an. other example of romaricabition, but are now built suitably for continuous work, though İvaluos for money.
still maintaining their miniature engines and light construction.
motor-
In another characteristic it diffors largely from the car show. Though there are several good examples of imported cycles, the vast bulk of those handy little mounts is British.
There aro mator-cyolon from America, France, and Boigium.
But
the striking numorical superiority of British made machines is pronounced by com. parison with the international naturo of the car show.
The essentially practical nature of these small machines, priced at figures astonishingly low, ap. peals to me as one of the chief foatures of the show. They will bring the joys of motor cycling to tens of thousands who had pro- viously thought the pastime too expensive.
BETTER WEATHER PROTECTION.
One can also notiço consider- able improvement in the measure The British motor cyclo still of protection provided against in- maintains its supremacy, and clam nt weather. Whore sido-ar whon you study the inexpensive excellence of the bulk of the outfits are concorned the passon- exhibite, it is not difficult to ger is usually well provided for.
So far as thosoloist is concerned, understand why that supremacy however, there is little material is go marked."
LIGHT-WEIGHTS IMPROVED, Tho chief fazura of the
The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.C.) Ltd. prosent show, however, is the
Incorporated in England).
The Mark of Quality
MOST
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PER
DOLLAR.
big price reductions. And in the same breath one must refer to the
"One-third Longer Life!"
This is what tyre experts estimate to be the added tyre-milcage when tube leaks are stopped.
To overcome this difficulty, Firestone adopted the Steam Welding Process, Steam welding makes the tube one invulnerable unit, a powerful, constant support to the casing.
The remarkalle heat-resistance of Firestone Tubes is due to the Firestone antimony process of curing which toughens the fibre and protect, against blowout.
Give your tyres the invaluable support of Fire- Stone Steam-Welded Tubes.
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33 Wong Noi Chung Road, (Happy Valley).......
Central 1246 or 1247.
DRAGON MOTOR LIVERY SERVICE,
O F. PAU, PROPRIETOR..
24, Des Voux Read, (Hongkong)........
Cor tral 482.
Kowloon 220.
THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY. Nathan Road, (Kowloon)
[a full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres & Tubes carried at each of the above addresses.]
Firestone
development from the last exhibi- tion, sxsept, perhaps, in regard to lex shields.
From the mohanical side the chief item I notice is the waldome though aquaily overdas-adop- tion of mechanical lubrication. Even last year this obviously desirable feature was only just gatting really going," but this yoar it is at last an anooptod principle of dasiga.
**
As with car dävelopment, vo in motor-cycles has the brako quos- tion raasived prominent attention during the past 12 months. Many examples of enclosal rear brakos can be seon, and internal expand- ing front wheel brakes are now more prominent.
BALLOON TYRES COMING? Not to be out-dons by maro motor-cut minufacturers, tiro are sevaral examples of meats 1316 oquipped with ballon tyves
tha prapartin of such machi 198
thing like sa great as at the i fear exhibition,
is
Motorcycle minafızlavors are going in re slowly with this dov olpm sat. Ballann tyros are ac- copteri as litable and servicable far haivy sidocar outfits, but for sub work it is not yt ugrand that they offer advantages greater than the normal type of tyco
on
In conclusion I would venture
Mist! A minor otitiam. motor-cyclo manuissturers som to have entural a competition as to who can make the oxhaust pipa and silencor the mast ob
trusive epoliator of mechanical symmetry.
Why this orazo bas como into] boing I do not know. Possibly it in an endeavour to make the machines look like racers.
That was the impression I ob-| tained; and I think it is an un- fortunato one to foster, as tho average motor oyelo is still too noisy in proportion to the bulk of other mechanical road transport. AUTOMOBILE TESTING.
STRANGE EXPERIMENTAL
DEVICES
The Washington Bureau of Standards operates a car which is equipped with ninety mechan- ical devices which tell the com- plote story of what happens to a ear when running,
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Ask To See The Balloon Tyres.
The recent shipment of -
MATCHLESS MOTOR CYCLES
has been solä.
Another range of 1925 models is on the way to Hongkong.
now
Hongkong Hotel Garage, Tel. Central, 4759
It is known as "Bruco's Chariot" INCOMPARABLE CORD MATERIAL IN
of explosions GOODYEAR BALLOON TYRES
so named after the man who contrived it and it records such itoms as the number of explosions in each cylindor-the number of, revolution of each whoel-just how much work the piston does sucking in cas and air, and many other vital fxels The stovepipe arrangement is nod to measuro wind velocity and to obtain wind protection.
FISH AS SPEED CAR'S MODEL.
Sig Haughdahl, auto spoed ro- cord holder of the world, owos his championship to a fish. A dart- ing fish off the Florida const gave Sig the idea of a slah-like racer.
The car that took Haugħdahl ovor-land at the fastest ollp over taken by man was built by him along the lines of the fish he saw in Florida. Never more than 20 inches wide, the body of the car is sleek and spoody. Its record, which has not yui boan broken, is. 180.27 miles an hour, made at the Daytona Beach speedway,king*
The fish-like car is shown- above, with Haughdahl atv thé right
Goodyear has perfected a new construction of cord material known as Suportwist which gives to the individual oorde as much as 50% greater clasticity.
In other words, the cord material Cloodyear is now using will strotch up to 50% more before it breaks than the former cord used by Goodyear and competitors,
Suportwist is distinctly & Goodyear development and is, sod only by Goodyour.
Under abnormal conditions of road service, toate frequently show 100% excess mileage for tyros mads from this now cord material over tyres made of the old construction.
With the superior All-Weather Tread and this vast improve", ment in the durability of the cord material Goodyear Tyres aro now beyond comparison,
This incomparable materiai le now used in regular. Goodyear production and is built into Goodyear balloon tyres of both kinds to i now sinal diamofor whools, and the majority of, whosts now in use. 1
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