HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
BALLOON TYRES STANDARD EQUIPMENT
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1925.
WORLD'S LARGEST TRAFFIC TUNNEL. THE INDIAN CHIEF OF THE TRIBE
Apparatus to Circulate Fresh Air.
Paige Motor Cars for Continuous Use
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HERE are in service to-day Paige cars that have traveled over 250,000 miles →→→
times around the world-and still running and doing their daily bit. Some of them with this record are in the taxicab service working day and night without the care and overhauling usually given a motor car by a private owner.
It is remarkable that there are motor cars that will'stand all the use and abuse to which Paige cars are subject and still carry on for years.
It would be no mystery to the buyer, however, if he visited the Paige works and saw the methodical precision exerted in the manufacture of Paige parts and the infinite care of assembly.
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The longevity of the Paige motor car would cause less wonder if motor car buyers cou d witness the hours and hours of road test to which all Paiges are subjected until they are so perfect as to receive the stamp of approval and bear the name "Paige."
PAIGE SPECIFICATIONS:
Engine-6 cylinder-334 x 5; high pressure oiling to main and connecting rod bearings, silont front end timing chain, aluminium crankcase; 131-inch wheel- baso; Paigo-Timken axlos; 614-inch frame; springs of special high carbon steel, 40 inches in front; 614 inches in rear; sapbbers, front and rear; petrol gauge and eight-day olock on dash; instruments assembled under glass.
Sparo cord tyre, tube and protector; bumpers, front and roar; nickelod radiator and motameter; automatic windscreen wiper; rear view mirror; sun visor; folding luggage carrier; trunk rails; rear stop signal.
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33, Wong Nei Chung Road
Happy Valley.
PAIGE
DODGE BROTHERS
COMMERCIAL CAR
This car is usually found bearing the name of the best merchant in the neighborhood.
Good merchandising means good judgment and good judgment quickly recognizes advantages as. numerous and impressive as those possessed by Dodge. B others Com- mercial Car.
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
38, Wong Nei Chung Road
(Happy Valley).
AS THIS AUTO MOVES THROUGH THE TEST TUNNEL SAMPLES OF THE AIR ARE TAKEN. THE OBSERVER IS SHOWN SWINGING A PSYCHROMEER TO DETERMINE THE HUMIDITY OF THE AIR,
Experiments conducted in £ The special test tunnel bas special tunnol constructed rear been built 130 foot below ground Pittsburg by the U. S. Bureau and 1000 foot from the pit mouth of Minoa will make auto to the Bureau of Mines ex- driving safe in the world's largest porimental mine Special. ap- vehicular tunnel now being built paratus has boon used for under the Hudson River at New cirulating fresh air and for York.
measuring -the contents of
These tests contre about the deadly funnes in that air. propagation of carbon monoxide Fleets of automobiles, spaced gas, contained in the deadly 40 feat apart, have, been run; fumes that come out of automo through the tunnel at various bile exhausts. Man and m. chinos speed to ascertain the lowest rală have been subjected to numerous at which autos may be driven experiments and thousands of safely. dollars have been spent on the project.
BLOOD ANALYZED.
Drivers and observers in the
The seriousness of these ok-tunnel have been subjected to perimenta is shown by a mishap physical examinations before and in the now Liberty tunnel under aftor tests, the amount of carbon the Pittsburg hills, whon traffic monoxide in the body being de- stalled for a short while. Several termined by blood analysis. drivers wore ovorcome by the Temperature, húmidity, quan- fumes, while ongines kept run-tity, quality, velocity and pres- ning during the jam.
eure of the air in various parts of the tunnel have been measured.
Conclusions made from these experiments will be the basis for adoption of safe methods in sup- plying fresh air and keeping the air in circulation through. "vchi-| cular tunnels.
FUMES DEADLY.
Physiologists of the Bureau of Mines have found that the con- centration of carbon monoxide must not exceed four parts in 10,000 parts of air, or harm would result.
THE HUDSON FACTORY. FOUR WHEEL BRAKES.
FINE STANDARD OF EFFICIENCY.
If you want a motorcycle, you want the CHIEF 61. There is an added satisfaction in riding this INDIAN motorcycle for you know and others know that it rules the road:
The price is bed rock but the quality is sky high. Let us show it to you. Investigate before you invest.
Alex. Ross & Co. (China) Ltd.
Bank of China Building, Hongkong.
DUNLOP
CORDS
HONGKONG
HAVE NOW COME TO STAY,
Doubtless many of the burried- "The enlarged Hudson-Esserfly designed 4-wheel braking sys- plant which makes possible the toms which can now be obtained offering of these fine care at solon certain cars-alwave at eo- low a price," "is one of the most much extra"-will in course of intorasting sights you could time just as hurriedly disappear.]; imagine. The factory covers No modern development of auto more acreage than a good sized mobile practice has needed more | farm, yet it is not its size that exhaustive experience than the chiefly impress you. It is rather design of 4-wheel brakes which the perfect planning of work will be at once safe, reliable and the minutely. systematized officient.
organization. There is no motor Only one British firm of car car plant which represents a manufacturers can claim to have higher efficiency than Hudson~ { proved the officiency of their 4- nono that have minimized waste wheel braking system in the motion to a greater degree. greatest single tost ever imposed
In the Hudson factory, ninoty upon a car-the winning of the por cont. of the constituent parts Grand Prix de France. This which make up Hudson and classic of the aut^mobilo racing Essex cars are manufactured and world was won last year by the finished. Ever such units as British-built So beam, and in axles, clutches and transmissions such unmistakable fashion that are produced by Hudson's own the three Sunbeam cars compe- working force in its own plantting finished firet. second and not bought outside and assembled. fourth respectively. No other That meant only one manufactur- British car has ever achloved ing profit.
success in this event.
I used to boliove-as doce Largely as a result of their] the ordinary man-that the hu- successful racing oxperience, man hair is a pretty fine standard extending over many years, the- of accuracy. I found that the Sunboam Co. now standardieo 4- traditional 'hairsbreadth' in really wheel brakes on practically all COLTAG measurement. The their models. Where wheel. avorago hair is shout two and a brakes are fitted optionally and half one-thousandths of an inch at an extra charge, the brake in diameter. There are many. dosign is too often an afterthought many operations on Hudson and in rogard to ito relation Essex which are executed to a to the general chassie. It is not much closer accuracy than that; sq, in the case of the Sunbeam the piston pins for instance must cars, the list prices of these modola not vary from perfect roundness including the 4-whool braking as much as cug-ionth of a hairdeystem, and the chassis is desigu- breadth. To realize what that ed accordingly which is the only moane, imagino a quarter of an method whoroby the greatest inch and then divide it mentally offioinney and assured reliability, into one thousand parts. Or, can be obtained. split a hair into 10 oqual parta.
"Thore are in the Hudson Chassis several hundrod limits of a single high standard of quality,! toleranco which are loss than one unexcalled for acouracy and pre- The tolerancos mentioned are thousandth of an inch and the cision in the motor car industry. number where the limits are a No one can do better. half of one thousandth and even
"The Hudson objective is to a quarter of one thousandth is very considerable. The samo is maintain a standard of material and workmanship which will true of the now Essex.
"The maintenance of these insure performance and endur limits naturally roquiros inspoctance of the bost type, and to ion instruments of great delicacy, which make it possible to supply combine with this the methods and an inspection force with the the automobile without an undue skill, authority and will to 800 cost. that products are maintained at.
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