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A New Standard for Motor Cars
HE new Palge models have created new standards in motor car classeg.
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In appraising the Palge value do not consider the price until you have matched this cor, unit by unit with any other motor car, no matter what the cast. Then, and only then, consider the price and you will readily see that Paige has created á new value in motor care that disturbs all previous standards of class consideration,
Here is a motor car built on strikingly beautiful lines, from the tip of the radiator to the rear of the chassis. A car that is upholstered in bright, finished, heavy grained leather. A full seven-seater with a 131-inch wheelbase and five-foot spring suspension, A chassis constructed of 631⁄2-inch “I” beam steel, rigid and rugged. An engine so free from vibration and so silent that a pencil can be balanced on the top of the radiator cap.
PAIGE SPECIFICATIONS:.
Engino-6 cylinder-31⁄44 x 5; high pressure eiling to main and connecting rod bourings, silent front and timing chain, aluminium crankcase; 131-inch wheol baso; Paigo-Timkon axles; 646-inch frame; springs of special high carbon stool, 40 inches in front; 614 inchos in roar; anubbers, front and roar; potrol gaugo and oight-day clock on dash; instruments assembled undar glass.'
Spare card tyre, tuho and protnetor; bumpers, front and rear: nickolod radiator and motometer; automatic windscroon wiper; rear view mirror; aun visor; folding luggage carrier; trunk rails; rear stop signni.
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33, Wong Nel Chung Road
Happy Valley,
PAIGE
A LONG TIME INVESTMENT
Dodge Brothers Motor Cars give satisfactory, reliable service over a far greater number of miles than is commonly expected of an automobile.
Fine 'materials, rigid inspection and constant care in assembling, all con- tribute their share in making Dodge Brothers Motor Car yield the utmost in value.
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It is this unusual standard of manu- facture which guarantees to the owner a long time investment and long time satisfaction.
DODGE BROTHERS
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Happy Valley.............
Hongkong.
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1925.
MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN. INDIAN CHIEF 61.
Progress in Trackless Trolley Cars.
(8pecially Contributed to the "Hongkong Telegraph.")
As my most recent contribu. Jassured. For example, the big Hona donlt with the exhibits at patrol distributing company, the Olympia Car and Cyclo Shows Monary. Sholl-Mex Ltd., have of 1924, it is proposed at the mo-ovor fifty Scammoll six-whoolers mont to considor principally tho in service. The typo is equally iwo nections that had no big ex-popular among goneral hauliers. hibitions in that year; namely, Such firms as Plakford's, Mo-i the marine motor and the coin-Namara, and Coventon's have marcial motor volicio.
big looks of 12-ton Scammells. Engineers use the same type for: transporting heavy machinory, taking loads weighing as much as twenty-five tous.
As regarda marino motora and motor boating, the very satis factory signs of improved trado that have recently been observ- ablo are duo in a largo measure to the standardisation of four flexiblo six-wheeler has been Recently the principle of the cylinder engines of moderate applied in conjunction with tho power, a development of which British 1. W. D., lorrios, built at the Allen Craig Motor Company Slough. The principal feature wore the pioneers, This firm of this make is, as its initials bava, now added a small six-indicate, the four wheel drive, cylindar model to their raugo, which means that overy ounce of This is known as the Ailsa Craig the weight of the vehiclo assists "Kid Six" and is of 16/20 h.p. It in eccuring adhesion of the embodies the overhoad valves whools. The importance of
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MASTER OF THE ROAD.
SOLO OR COMBINATION.
Stock Carried.
and valve gear and all the ample adhesion when one is ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.
carry, needs no omphasis.
TRACKLESS TROLLEY
CARS.
to
othor features of the four dosling with big loads, such as cylinder engine of the same make. six-whoolers are required The heavier type of engine built by the Hatno firm is also doing admirably. This in the 20/24 h.p. modol standardised by the Thames Conservancy, whose
Great progress has boon made example has recently been follow recently in the construction ed by the Railway Administra-and use of trackless trolley cars tion of the Sudan. In their case, in place of ordinary traincars. the engine is fitted in a stool Various towns in Great Britain launch 28 feet long.
are steadily deserling the tram- The practice. of constructing way systom in favour of this more boats of steel rather than of wood flexible typo of vehicle, and at ia certainly increasing, the ad-least ono that previously dep- vantages boing more than ordinonded upon trams has now arily apparent in hot countries, abandoned them altogether. Ono though quite considerable ovon in of the latest and most improved moderate climates. The Seamless dosigns of trolley bus is that in- Steel Bint Company, of Wake troduced by Messrs. Ransomes, feld, find the demand for their Sims & Jefferies, of Ipswich. ships lifeboate vory brisk. The dieadvantages of stel boets in and of vory simple design th- It is of the single motor typo this connection have been over- como. Those were all connected roughout. The back axle is worm- with corrosion due to one cause fitted either with a tramcar type driven. Tho chassis can be had or another, and now all thesof controller or with a special CLUBGR have been effectively elimated, provided only that the introllor combining hand and |boats are painted inside and out;
foot movements corresponding to at regular intervala. As regards lose required for operating the strength and freedom from illutch and gears of a potrol
vohiclo. affects of heat, the scamiose staol) system of construction is obvious- FOR CROSS-COUNTRY ly the most perfect.
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Bank of China Building,
Hongkong.
THE LONGEST MILEAGE TYRE IN THE WORLD,
DUNLOP
The commercial utility of the hydroplane has now been de- for whoole-particularly driving The substitutionofchain tracks faitsi established, and these wheels-in motor vehicles is no bigh speed craft are being adopted longer associated merely with for a variety of useful purposes the production of lighting mach- in many parts of the world. Thus, inen. What are For instance, Messrs. Thornycroft "roadless" vobicles are now avail have supplied several to the able in several typos. Customs Authorities of Spain for the latest in the "Super-Sentinel" One of dealing with smuggling. The
roadless tractor, which is cor- Suez Canal Company use two of tainly capable of dragging a load THE the same make for inspection under conditions which would service and as pilot boats, Tho
Fishery Board of Scotland employ prove fatal almost immediately two for the prevention of illegal to any ordinary vabicle or tractor. The tractor alone can success- trawling. Messrs. Thornycroft
GONO
have also sent out similar vessels fully climb gradients as one in for service in such varied dis-ope, and for use wherover rough cross-country work has to tricts as South America, Cuba, be
ita Greece, Sweden, and France.
popu- COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, larity is assured. The diffioultios Turning to commercial mctor of the track have been overcome, originally experienced in respect | vehicles, the variety available to the prospective purchaser is well bility and also vertical flexibility. This now provides lateral foxt- shown by an analysis recently The tractor accommodaten itaolf issued by "Motor Transport."
This revealed the fact that there to uneven ground or the camber aro on the British market 300 of the road, and the lateral petrol-driven models, 55 steam through the ordinary front whools flexibility gives oase of steering' wagons, 20 steam tractore, 40 electric vobician and 35 fire on-
and steering gear. gince. Thoso figures may soum
The "roadless" principle is applicl both to lorries and to
excessive, which is accounted for particularly by the fact that tractors. An interesting applica- models often differ from one an-
tion is that in which the prin- tho ciple is incorporated in other only in one or two ro British F. W. D. lorry so as to pects. For example, two modela of equal power, hullt forgive, in the aggregate, positively driven front wheels and the passengere and goods work ros flexible track of great width in pectively, may be identical ox- cept for the length of the frame place of the ordinary rear wheels and the springs.
GIANT PNEUMATICS.
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,
Phone C. 4554.
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Not very many now models of The use of paoumatic tyros on ordinary four-whooled vehicles of motor vane and on public servico normal design have been recently vohiolos is increasing steadily, introduced. Among the most in- and it is found that, when tyros teresting is the now 4-ton Dennis, of suitable dimensions are fitted, an improvement on the old 31 their life is much greater than ton model, of which some sovon would have been expected, and thousand went into military nor consequently anticipations that vice during the war. The frame tyre costs would be high have of tho now model is deoper and fortunately proved incorrect. the radiator gives increased cool. Thus, for example, on a "C" typ ing capacity. Front and roar Karrior saloon bus operating whools are of the same diameter largely on bad and hilly roade in and the chassis has a somewhat the North of England and cover- lower loading platform without
ing woll over 40,000 miles undesirable sacrifice of ground in a year, the first punc- olearance. The springs are long- turo occurred when the bus er, and bouncing on rough sur-had run over 18,000 miles and tho faces is provented by the fitting next at 27,000. These results aro of auxiliary voluto springs. The equally creditable to the tyros engine develops about 50 b.h.p. and to the chassis, The Karrior If the engine sooms to run which is overy third of a turn-
Meanwhile, developments have vehicles have to their credit a fairly wall at high speed or when on a six-cylinder and every been very considerable in typos vory large number of wonderful it is pulling hard but misses half turn on a four-cylinder of vehicle which a little time ago lange, recorde. For example; irregularly when running slowly engine. If the compression soems would have been regarded as thirty-seated bus of this make, it usually means that the com- to be about the same on two or abnormal.
working in Yorkshire, has compression is weak-means that the three of the cylinders and the pletod upwards of 130,000 miles vales need rogrinding. The other others have much lower compres- The position of the flexible without an overhaul or any way to toll is by turning the eng-sion this will mean that the six-wheelor la now absolutaly|sorious braakdown.
ino over with the hand crank, valves need regrinding.
BIX-WHEELERS.
WHEN VALVES NEED REGRINDING.
The compression should be tho aame on all of the cylinders,