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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925.
GENUINE BALLOON TIRES
The 7 P
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
The 7 Passenger Phaeton
Greatest Value HUDSON Ever Offered!
Hudson's consistent leadership in value is emphasized again in the adoption of genuine balloon tires as standard equipment
en all modela.
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Do not confuse with "semi-balloon" types. Hudson's are genuine balloon tires. Also note that Hudson has not simply "added ktioon tires." Both running and steering gear have been specially, designed for the radical differences balloon tires bring, The salt is the easiest steering and riding Hudson ever built,
In All Ways a Finer SUPER-SIX
Of course, as always, Hudson's. thief advantage mechanical la in the experiority design and construction..
In speed, "acceleration, hill- climbing and endurance it holde marks that are famou among all stock cars. Many "of ita oficial records have
never been equalled by any. car regardless of price.
In this territory, ma elsewhere, throughout the world, the great number of Hudsons you sce in service is the best proof of the value and satisfaction they consistently render.
FAMOUS
HUDSON RECORDS
100 miles in 80 min., 21.4 seconds, averaging 74.67 miles per hour with stock 7-passenger touring car. 75.67 live in one hour with driver and passenger is stock 7-passenger touring car.
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102.53 miles per hour, for oda mãe, with stock chassis, "
San Francisco to New York and return, 7000 miles, In 10 dag, 21 hours,
3 mingta
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33, Wong Nei Chung Road
Happy Valley.
DODGE BROTHERS
SPECIAL
TOURING CAR
A family vehicle in the best sense of the word.
Economical to own, easy to drive, comfortable to ride in and smartly equipped with many at- features. tractive speciál
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR. Co.,
33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD
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The Lincoln Highwayin
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MUSEUM FOR TOURISTS
THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR,
A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS.
From a Special Correspondent.
On March 31st of this year and 'resorves will be sent over for Imperial Airways completed their the event. Two special racing first year of operation. They Napier-Glosters are boing built came into baing on the first of by the Gloucestershire Aircraft April last year, but the start of Co., Ltd., at Cheltenham, and a a regular service was hampered third Napier-Gloster is now at somewhat by a strike of pilots the R.A.F. Exporimental Dopart- in which the ground organisation mont at Martlosham Hoath, personnel also joined." One of where it is undergoing tests. This the qualifications which was re-machine, which is of last year's quired by the Government was design, will probably het as the that the concern should complete reservemachine and the two other one million miles in the year, machings are of the very latest) Owing to the strike and the delay 'design. One of them may possibly in getting going aftor this it was bo put on wheels and enterod for only required that they should the Pulitzer Trophy, which is the! dover eight hundred thousand great International race of the milos during the first year and year for land machines. The when the last Napior-de Havil- (other machine will probably be a land landed at Croydon on Marob Supermarine Racer of the very 31st, 825,750 had actual y boen latest type and with this formid-
1925 MOTORCYCLES 1925.
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TRIUMPH" "A. J. S."
INDIAN
Make any one of these cycles your choice this season and ensure perfect enjoyment.
They are all fine cycles, not how cheap,
but how good..
completed, which is the equival- able team England should stand ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.
ent of thirty-four times round the world.
very great chance of regaining the coveted trophy.
News has come to band that
I hear great things of the latest Colonel Soarlo, who is one of the Boulton and Paul Bomber, known best known transport authorities as the Bugle. It is driven by in the World and who was Man two Bristol Jupiter engines aging Director of Imperial Air of 400 p.b. and moont to be a high ways Ltd., has sovered pon-performance day-light bomber, neotion with that firm. It is built to look after itself. On its unknown at present what par-first tosts it was flown by Mr. ticular job Colonel Searle Frank Courtney, the well-known w.ll undertake, but he has very test pilot, who spoke very highly groat faith in aircraft and it is indeed of its all-round perform- unlikely that his services will be anco, and it is interesting to hear Idet altogether to aviation, Mean-that it has now been put into while, Major George Woods production for the equipment of Humphery, who is General the new R. A. F. Squadrons Manager of Imporial Airways, which are being formed. As will be mainly responsible for the Boulton and Paul Ltd., were one running and will work directly of the first aircraft firms to take under the Board of Directors. up.steel construction of aircraft,; The first new machine of the it is not surprising to find that year built for Imperial Airways, the Bugle is an all-steel produc- the de Havilland 54, is now tion. This success is all the undergoing its tests at the Stag more important owing to the pre- Lane Aerodrome, Edgware. It is sont world shortage of timber] driven by a Rolls-Royce Con-suitable for building aircraft. dor" engine of 650 hp and car ries fourteen passengers. Ja order to assist the taking off and Good work has now been done the landing problem, the whole of with the de Havilland Moth, the the trailing edges and the wings latest thing in light aeroplanes are fitted with automatic flaps driven by the 60 h.p. Airdisco which, when the machine is start-
THE LATEST IN LIGHT AEROPLANES.
ing or moving slowly, are right engine. As is now well known
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down, thereby increasing the lift its Airdisco engine has been CORDS
so that the machine gets off produced by the Aircraf: Disposal quickly. When the machine is Co., Ltd., the fill in the gap be- ween the very light type of fying at speed, these flaps COIDO
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up gradually until they are flush aeroplane and medium powered with the plane, and so the speed touring aeroplane. This engine automatically increases. Thuis certainly on the heavy Aida, reveres process occurs when land- but what it loses in this it makes ing, so that very slow landing. "P, by its reliability, smooth running, power and cheapness of speed is obtained.
The Moth hae production. NEW AIR FREIGHTER, been specially designed for The first machine designed use in the Dominions and purely and simply as an air elsewhere out of England. freighter is now undergoing its It has 。 "specially robust trials preparatory to being put on undercarriage; the engine re- service. This is the Avro one- quires practically no attention at ton lorry." It is á conver-all; it has folding wings, so that] sion of the Avro Andover, it can be stored in a barn, and it which is a very successful amis equipped with a handle starter bular ce that was designed for use like a motor car and can be run in the R.A.F. in Iraq and Egypt; and operated by one man as easily It is driven by a 650 hp, Rolls- as is a small motor car. At the Royc"Condor" ongine and all present moment the selling price the very latest things in wireless of the Moth is about £900, but and other side for the guidance of when it is put into production it the pilot have been fitted. Owing is likely to be considerably less to the extraordinary comfort than that: With the pilot and a which can be obtained in this heavy passenger and luggago it machine, it is probable that it can take off aasily, land very will be converted into a passenger slowly and maintain the speed of
When purchasing a tyre
BE GUIDED BY WHOSE BUSINESS IT IS TO KNOW, AND WHO DO KNOW.
The fact that 95% of. British Car Manufacturers fit DUNLOP tyres as a andard equipment "is a triking tribute to the superiority of the Dunlop
lyre,
Eohind the Car manu- facturers choice is their practical knowledge of tyres and tyre values.
FOLLOW
THE CAR MANUFACTURERS'
LEAD THEY KNOW.
LISTRIBUTORS
sarrier and put on the service as 80 m.ph. Moreover, its petrol HONGKONG. HOTEL
oomsumption is something less
such,
A THREE-ENGINED PASSENGER than thirty miles to the gallon.
MACHINE.
Of passenger machines for Im-
IMPROVED PARNALL PIXIE. The Parnall Pixio light plane,
perial Airways, the most interest- which proved success.ul at ing is the three-engined; Hawker machine. This is not likely to bo Lympne, has now been fitted with
a goared Bristol Chorub complated this year, but those engine. At the Lympne meeting who have been privileged to see the geared Cherub bad not s the designs speak very bigbly of it. It is equipped with thres chance to be tested, but now it Bristol Jupiter engines etch giv-troubles and Mr. Frank Courtney has got through all its teething ing 400 h.p. and it is likely to be recently carried out tests on the used or the Cairo-Karachi section machine at the new Parnall of the Imparial Air Route to the Aerodrome near Bristol and is East, where its three engines will
reuder it almost immune from very onthusiastic about the ma
chine. The lack of vibration with, foxoed landings. Mr Alan Gob thie engine ie delightful and with ham, who repently flow to India a slow running efficient airscrow and back, is very emphatic on the the machine has a very fine all- subject of forced landings in that
car class.
particular part of the world. Alround performance and must cer though he foreseea little danger tainly classed among the boat of personal injuries from such light aeroplanes of the motor- forced landings, ho thinks it is cycle class, as opposed to the lightaeroplanes such as the Moth, probable that it would take a week or a fortnight before nesint which may be called the light anco could be obtained and the machine could be put lo order again and therefore he says that, if commercial aviation is to bo made a succoss, the forced landing queation must be entirely eliminated.
RAIL-TRUCK DELIVERY
A new way of saving time and highways in the shipment of ma- torial by truck, from city to city,
·SCHNEIDER CUP ENTRANTS. is proposed by a British railroad
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GO QUICKLY, GO ANYWHERE, AND
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COST LITTLE TO RUN, BUY A
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It is good nows to hear that man. He would ship the loaded Write for Catalogue of the Little engine with a big full.””] England is to make a serious truck by mail, botwoon oitios. attempt this your to rogain the
COST, OF MOTORING Sahneider Trophy which the The average cost of running an When you travel over rough Yosemite National Park is Amorioan Navy won from Great automobile is 10.27 conta a mile, Pennsylvania is to carry markers roads travel in second and alump going to bave a museum for its Britain in 1923. The Royal Aero according to estimates by experts at historio points telling the way down in your goat. This tourists where specimens and Club have cabled their challenge of the Iowa State College of Eng- story of each locality, so that relieves the spine from shock, other exhibits from the park will He who drives may rend.
says an osteopathic physician. be on view.
to Amerios and it is understond insering. Trucks: cont 11,05, and that a fall team of three machines buesos 24.10 corte a mile.
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Telephone C. 2704,