HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1925.
REAR LOOKS LIKE FRONT.
A Car Which Can be Converted into a Bedroom.
IT TAKES AN INDIAN TO BEAT AN INDIAN.
BALLOON TYRES STANDARD;EQUIPMENT
JEWETT SPECIAL
A Thrifty Six Built by Pargo
Gear Changing Rarely Necessary THE Jewett Works wish to acquaint the motor car buyers with the
mechanical construction of the Jewett.
The Jewett clutch is an engineering feat. Gear shifting on a Jewett is instant without pause and no clashing. The new Palge type clutch, no matter how fast you lift your foot, can neither stall the engine nor jerk the car. It engages and disengages smoothly and gently. The gear box is unusually silent and shifts as easily as the clutch. The powerful, flexible, six cylinder engine makes gear changing rarely necessary.
Easy atecting is one of the most delightful features of Jewett performance. Ateach 'end of the Palge-Timken front axle are ball-bearing steering spindles that respond to the slightest touch on the wheel. The old tension and strain of a "stiff wheel” are torgotten. The frallest woman finds Jewett a pleasure to handle.
JEWETT SPECIFICATIONS:
Engine cylinder, 31⁄2 231 lubricated by high pressure ailing to main and connecting rod bearing two unit electrical starting and lighting, thermostatically controlled automatic park advancaj Palge/Timken asiest exten heavy 6 inch "1" beun steel frame; Improved type four speed transmissions dry plate clutchs special alloy steel spelag), 36* in front, 54 "in rears midi areel universijainti: force-feed chinaals fubrication.
Special models furnished ai slight extra cost with additional equipment Spechil Robin-veg bhur finish with upholstery to matclış apara cord tyre, tuba and protectors bumpers front wind weary nickoled radiator and motometer) trunk and trunk rich (except én twonenter); Kutomatic wladicreen wiper and rese view gairuoti teer stop signal; sun viacej parking lights un cowls Dacsteel as wire wheels optionsi nn all models et alight anzen root.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1248 or 1247.
33, Wong Nel Chung Road,:..
.......Happy Valley.
DODGE BROTHERS
TOURING CAR
The surplus power of Dodge Brothers Touring Car is one great source of unusual satisfaction in driving.
There is ample power for stubborn grades there is no worry over the difficulties of bad roads nor the constant necessity of shifting gears.
Dodge Brothers owners travel comfortably and confidently with minimum effort.
After all, this is the true basis of economy in driving.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd. Happy Valley...
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Hongkong,
Germany's latest invention, a new type of Rumplor, Jooks as though it's going backward when it's moving for- ward. The rear, with its V-shaped windows, as shown horo, is not much different from the front view of many European small cars. In this caso, also, the motive power is in the roar. Another feature is the auto can be converted into sleeping quarters for two.
MOTOR "FASHION" FAILINGS.
DOES MODERN CAR SUFFER FROM OVER-
DEVELOPMENT?
Probably it is quito incorrect for me to preach motoring heresy
GODDESS OF MOTORING.
RESPONSIBLE FOR LACK.
OF CULTURE.
BREAKDOWN OF EUROPEAN CULTURE LAID TO ‘AUTO!
"The cultured life of Europe
in this column, says Capt E. de ia boing sacrificed to the goddess Norman villo in the Daily
Motoring","
Chronicle. But for once I feo! Sadly, Professor J. Ortega of disposed to take the risk-in the Spanish department at tho semi-serious voin. Are we going University of Wisconsin, returns backwards with our motoring from a European visit with this development Instead of forwards? impression.
We all know that wo have gone The automobile, especially the forward, in broad torms, but Ioheap car, is taking the people of want seriously to гайно some Europa away from their accus-{ exceptions which appear to do-itomed life of music, art, learning. mand improvement. Let me com-It is taking them out into the monce with an example from my country, it is getting them own personal history.
iho go," it has instilled in thom Just over 18 yours ago I sold a fooling of restlessnes. This is my 8-10 h.p. Humbor car, which his complaint.
had 54,200 miles to its credit. And!
on
"No more are tho Fronoh and
at the time I hardly think the Spanish people happy to spend
The Improved SCOUT. Détachable Cylinder Head Recordo type. 20% more Power which is greater speed, and various other improvements.
: Stock carried.
ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd. "
Bank of China Building,
Hongkong.
THE LONGEST MILEAGE TYRE IN THE WORLD.
DUNLOP
CORDS.
Dunlop grows its own raw rub. ber on its own estates in Malaya; weaves its own cotton fabric in
magnificent Mills in Lancashire; and makes its own moulds.
This control of material and quality has a great deal to do with Dunlop supremacy.
DUNLOP RUBBER CO., (CHINA) LTD.
DISTRIBUTORS.
word "decarbonisation" had been their leisure moments in intel- THE HONGKONG coined. At any rate I know it Jectual contemplation," Professor not nor did that wonderful little Ortega sighs. "They are crazy
car.
THE CARBON PROBLEM.
for little trips, and the whole family starts out with no thought of good books or music. Putting tho matter another The means of travel is cheap and way, that particular car did well the lure of the open roud is, over 50,000 miles without being enticing.
decorbonised, and it was still run- "The truth of the matter is bo- ning merrily when sold. The car of ing soon more clearly from within today is hardly grumbled at if it by various plonoora of thought nouds decarbonising at one-tenth and by leading Frenchmen. of the distance; and I could name
"Today, in Spain, France and you a few which are unpleasant also in England, we can observo a to drive after 2,000 miles, unless physical shifting a change in-1 they are so treated.
stilling into the people the Amor- May wo not seriously allege aican restlessness, the desire to be retrograde development in that particular? I think we may, and
on the go every minute,
"The cause? Cheap care în groat numbers, accessible to avory giving the private owner other family." troublos of a kindred nature.
I query whether "fashion" is not
In regard to the much moro frequent need of docarbonisation,
I know that huge demand very real one, is incomparably prohibits the quality of patrol one more troublesome and expensivo bad in those days. And I also than it used to be-and needs know that the system of Treasury elimination,
rating has imposod high officiency
engines with their corresponding
tendency to carly carbonisation.
OVERWORKING THE OWNER.
Then, szain, we havo our front
But I am not for the moment wheal brake and low-pressure concerned with causo or oxcuses tyre developments, "addling ros-
only facts.
pectively and materially to our safety and comfort; but each also adding materially to the work
I do
A TROUBLESOME DEFECT, And the facts are as stated. which the car owner has to do to Should we not, therefore, find keep them in tune, ways and moons of overcoming I am not arguing against such) this dofoot? Are wo not all fino developments--but disposed to take it laying down direct attention to the remark- when there must ha a provantiveable concurrent Improvement or cure if only people were made there would be if they did not to find it?
noed so much adjustmont atton-
Every now and then some solunt- tion from the driver.
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THE SINCERE CO.
milk supply is brought to the city in motor trucks.
Physicians in the country own 144,000 car.
ist is announced to have disco- And that is the baslo point of vored a "dopo" which when mixed my "horesy. Are not our re- with petrol will provent carbon- cent and present-day develop isation. Is there anything in monts for ever loading tho car Stolen CATA throughout the In Cincinnati 97 per cent of tho such claims or is there not? Ars owner with more and more work United States number more than the petrol companies prosecuting when the primo desideratum 100,000 annually. This is more resenrab in such directions?
ahould be the precise opposite ? than the total number ownod If it is possible to overcome the Even the overhead valve QMI- Cars in Germany, Austria, Bul- trouble by any chemical addition not claim Immunity from such a garia and Turkey, to the petrol, then surely it is charge. It is the same story- time the petrol companies began Efficiency and, or, Fashion. to swakle the job. Alternatively, Are we overdoing it? Ought! it may be some genius will avolve primo consideration to be the amoobantest means of automat-reducing of the work necessary ically preventing early carbonis-for the owner-driver? Is it not ation.
time manufacturers began to But whatever may be the make that a leading plank in ultimate solution, the defect is a their platform ?
In the United States every year oarn to the value of $2,000,- 000,000 are junked.
The average price of new care hold in 811.
Motor busses, are transporting 289,000 school children to school every school day.'
New York polics recently sold
Motor busses are used by 134, confiscated automobilos at au low as 10 cónts each.
straet railways, b The automoblo Industry gives In the United States:15,000,000, employment to 2,750,000 workers, I motor vehlules are registeredāts
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