Ever Been Held Up By a Big Repair Bill?
HANCES are your car had·
been so neglected, there
was a great deal the matter with it. They finally tinkered up all the kinks but the shock of that bill almost proved fatal.
Patrons of this Garage find it à whole lot cheaper to have us keep their cars in top-notch condition all the time. It's the best way to avoid those shocking repair bills.
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Telephone Central 1246 or 1247...A. J. Allison, Service Manager.
R. 33.
This British Airship used.
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solely on her recent flight over the North Se after having broken loose from her moorings during a terrific gale.
Any failure of the engines would have meant a total loss of the airship.
THE BRITANNIA TROPHY.
AWARDED FOR FLIGHT AROUND AUSTRALIA.
(SPECIAL TO HONGKONG TELEGRAPH).
The Britannia Trophy, which
A USE FOR PRICKLY
PEAR.
POWER ALCOHOL FOR AUSTRALIA.
As is well known, prickly paar,
Is awarded annually by the Koyal a cactus of the Oponia tribe, is Aero Club for the most mer one of the worst posts that itorious performance in the air Australia bas to deal with, and during the past year, has been hitherto it has not been dealt awarded for 1924 to Wing Com-with, but left alone. In Now mander Goble and Flight Lieut, South Wales and Queensland Molatyre for their flight round there are more than fifty million Australia in a float seaplane, acres abandoned to the post, and The remarkable feature about this acreage is increasing at the the flight was that the Rolls-rate of one million acros por Royce engine with which the annum.
machine was equipped required All efforts to eradicate the pour practically no attention through- have failed, and the cost of a out the trip, which was at the national effort for this purpose- time the longest trip ever made would be enormous, certainly not than £250,000,000, and with the same engine. The less Trophy was recently presented at possibly without result. It has a banquet to Wing Commander beon found impossible to destroy Goble, who is at the time of the paar by uprooting, and tho writing In Great Britain to only known method is by means undergo a Staff course at the of a parasite which livos on the RA.F. Staff College at Andover, outside of the pear, and if it gán So far those in the running för be introduced into the cellular. the Britannia Trophy this year formation below the tough skin, aro Sir. Sefton Brancker, Mr. kills the plant.
Alan Cobbam and Mr. Elliott It has been known for long for their Rangoon fight that power alcohol could be and Flight Lieut. Booth and distilled from the pear, but the crow of the Airship R. 33 for cost of outting, crushing, and its wonderful performance when distilling has been estimated to it broke away from its mooring be so enormous that the return mast at Pulbam in a gale, drifted of one and a half gallons per ton out across the North Sea and would be quita incommensurate then fought its way back in the with the expense, gala. When it returned at
Five years ago Dr. W. M. Pulham it was found that the
commenced investiga- whole of the twenty-eight hours Sinolair
of into the problom trip had been accomplished with tions
pear, in con- the nose of the airship bashed in the prickly
with research that As the rosult of breaking away from the mast, which made the he was conducting into the pro- airship extremely difficult to blem of cancer. Assuming that cancer is a disease of the collu- bandie.
lar system, he deduced that the cactus should be able to give him useful informatian which by an- alogy might be available for cancer research. He bas during the past five years obtained a great deal of information, but so. far it throws no light on the pro- blem of cancer.
BRITISH AVIATION. WATER COOLED AERO- PLANE ENGINES.
(Special to the Hongkong Telegraph
In a
nection
On looking through the list of
On the other hand, he appears the big flights completed since the to have solved the prickly pear War-it is extremely interosting
problem. He has resolved the to note that practically every one difficulty of getting the parasite of them has been completed with inside the skin; he has discover- a.water-cooled engine and so far only one really big flight, i.e. the ed a method of distilling power alcohol from the crushed pear to World's Altitude Record. is held give a yield of 14 gallons to the by an air-cooled engine. list of some twenty long distanceton, and thus it will be possible flights ranging from 17,000 to for him and his associates not only to clear the enormous 1,000 miles in length the only nereage now abandoned and free engines used are the Rolls-Royce it for migrants, but to provide the Napier and the "Puma,"
power alcohol for Australia from Practically all the big races of limitable and local sources. recent years have been won by
One really interesting and am- water-cooled engines and more- oyer so far as one had heard, all using feature of the business is! the machines being prepared for that there are parts of Australia, the big speed races this year are where, to ensure economy of cost, also being equipped, with water- prickly pear will have to be cooled engines. It was, of course, cultivated for the production of a machine with a water-cooled power alcokol.
The same has received the engine on which Sir Sefton Branker, Mr Alan Cobham and benediction of the Queensland Mr. A. B. Elliott made the big Government, and will receive flight from London to Rangoon those of both the New South Wales and Federal Governments. and back.
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SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925.,
GREATER PRODUCTION LOWER PRICE
The following substantial reductions are announced In the prices of Graham Brothers Trucks effective May 15th.
1-ton chassis from G $1.175 to G $1095, 1-1-ton chassis from G $1375 to G$1280, f.o.b. Detroit. Other "hassis prices reduced proportionately.
At the end of the first quarter 1925 Graham Brothers were first in the industry in the manufacture of 1-1-ton trucks.
In the 1-ton and 1-1-ton field they were second. Large production and large sales permit low prices.
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