THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
DODGE BROTHERS
TOURING CAR
When good weather invites: you Into the country, you will appreciate more than ever the advantages of Dodge Brothers. Touring Car. Open to fresh air and sun- light the Touring Car is healthful and delightful to drive.
Moreover, it is common knowledge everywhere that Dodge Brothers product is dependable. One eighth of the total. weight of the car consists of chrome vanadium steel- the toughest and most enduring steel that can be used in motor car construction. This is exceptional. It goes far to explain why Dodge Brothers Touring Car stands up so many years under the hardest usage.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO, LTD.
33, Wong Nei Chung Road Happy Valley
Effective Immediately, we announce the following VERY SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS in our delivered prices of HUDSON and ESSEX Motor Cars:
SIX CYLINDER ESSEX REDUCTIONS.
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5-pässenger Touring -
$100.00
5-passenger Coach -
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$150.00
HUDSON SUPER-SIX REDUCTIONS.
5-passenger Coach
$250,00
7-passenger Sedan
$250.00
7-passenger Touring
$500.00
The old and the new delivered prices of the various HUDSON
and ESSEX models are as follows, all prices being in Hongkong Currency:
SIX CYLINDER ESSEX:
5-passenger Touring 5-passenger Coach
HUDSON SUPER SIX:
Old Price: New Price:
$2,500 $2,400 $2,650 $2,500
Old Price: New Price:
7-passenger Touring
$4,000
$3,500
5-passenger Coach Brougham (New Model)
$4,000
$3,750
$4,350
$5,000 $4,750
7-passenger Sedan
In the month of April, Hudson-Essex manufactured and shipped more six-cylinder automobiles than any manufac-
türer ever made before in a month's time.
THE DRAGON Motor Car Co.,
LIMITER
33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD
HAPPY VALLEY.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1925.
THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
ANNUAL MEETING.",
London, July 9th.
The Twentioth Annual Mosting.
the
BRITISH TRIBUTE.
THE SINGLE SIX PACKARD.
It has to be a good pretty good Yankee car that can overcome
of the Automobile Association my initial prejudice; but when wan held at the Savoy Hotel on after doing that it contrives to fill July 8th. The Rt. Hon. The Earle with an uncontrollabio lust for possession, then I can aBHUTO of Donoughmore, P.C., K.P., Vice-President of the Associa- you it is something right out of
the common ruh tion, prosided.
The Single-six Packard, costs In moving the adoption of the (in England) semething under Annual Report, Lord Donough nine hundred pounds, and is, in more stated the A, A, was twenty my bumble opinion, as near being years old, and that up to four the very best car in the world as a'alcek, on the previous afternoon makes no difference. This la membership exceeded a heavy praise, I know, but it can't quarter of a million by 623.
be helpod-I must speak as I find. During last year 61,000 mom-{ If I had leisure and one of those bors joined the Automobile As-cars, I would like to drive it round sociation, showing that the As-Coventry, Birmingham and Man sociation was a body having the ahester, and other places whore confidence of the motoring public. motors are mostly made, and take During the Easter Holidays British managing directars out of 91,000 members received road in a run, just to show them, you formation, and 6,000 were helped understand.
The plain fact is that this is a by tho, A. A. patrals in connection with breakdowns, more or losaoar in which I simply cannot find
a fault. serious. The Whitsuntide figures
It is as docile as an angel, but completly eclipsed the Easter figures, for 114,000 membera ro-5008 Jiko, the very devil. It is colved information in one way or supremely well sprung, it is un- another from the A. A patrols. cannily silent, it is a miser on Those figures justified the claim potrol. it stoors no heavier than a that, without the A. A., motorists wisp of cigarette smoko, it climbe would feel a want that would have does most things a good deal bat like a chamois-in short, it just to be satisfied somewhere elso.
ter than you would think pos- The A. A. was at present (sible. patrolling 20,000 miles of main Mind you it is not one of these road; the A. A. Road Service undergeared contraptions, for Vehicles last year covered over without any fuse or flurry it will |12,000,000 miles, a
do its modest savanty on the level,
The A. A Fras Legal Defones nor has it got a hugo engine, yet Scheme continued to be very it will do white Hill, Honley, with muco used by members. That four up, at a minimun of twenty- service is well decentralised. The five miles an hour. The Hind- A. A. Aron Offices were able to head brings it down to about fifty- pivo exactly the ran a help to local five! The Single-Six is, of course, members as the Head Ofico in not to bo confused with the Twin- London.
Six.
There was one other point in
Yes, believe me, people, the six.
the Report to which he would like cylinder Packard is a very won- derful car indeed. I wish it wero to refer, because it was one con-made in this country, and I can't cerning which he had had export for the life of me see why it ence. He was glad to see the
A A. rocommendation in favourshouldz't be, though owing to the of the off-site traffic rule. Ha higher cost of raw material over had soen- it working in France here it would naturally come out! and could testify to its efficiency heartly wish the Packard
more expensive.
Lord Donoughmore formally were British. moved the adoption of the Report, which was carried, unanimously,
It is easily amongst the first half-dozon best oars in the world, |
at a figure which has hitherto
Mr. Charles McWhirter, Chair- been associated with, compara man of the Executive Committee tively speaking, mediocrity.The
of the Automobile Association, in Tutler. presenting the Balanco Shoot and Accounts for the financial year, said that he could again 'con gratulate members on the finin cial position. This was not due to a mere matter of routing. It was dependent upon knowledge, upon initiative, constant vigilance and most excellent Staff, under the eontrol of the Chief of the Executive Staff, Mr. Stenson Cooke,
With regard to the Committee, he wondered whether it would be out of place for him to say that the Committee controlled the policy of the Automobile Associa tion Controlling the policy of A. A. meant maintaining the polloy that was originated in 1905 ➡"service for mombers on the road." On their Committee they had a body of men with very varied and diverse intorests in commercial professional, and religious life; these men freely gave up their time to the service of the A. A. and they were amply repaid for their services by the honour of serving upon the Committee of the largest motoring organisation in the World.
GR-U-R-U-FE.
Which being interpreted means "Watch me do my: stuff." For it isn't every- where you can see à 500- pound bear riding a bicycle down the street, as does this bear in Berlin,
Concerning finance, the Income and Expenditure Account for the year showed a surplus of income; over expenditure of £39,734, | which was only 7 per cent of their total income. The subscrip- tions and entrance fees a mounted to £438.135. They bad spant during the past year £447,000- £63,000 more than was received from the members' subscriptions, which meant that members were | receiving value for their money,
Their first gront expense was the road, and the road ombodied the raison d'etre, the be-all and end-all, of the Automobile As-] Last year the sutomotive in- sociation; therefore it was only dustry consumed approximately reasonable that their largest ux 9,000,000 pounds of nickel. Of pendituro, which was two-thirds this total about 75 par cont. von- of their total expenditure, should sisted of nickel used in automo- be on the road.
tive steals, while the remaining
MUCH NICKEL USED."
It was interesting to know that 25 por cont. was nickel used in in 1913, the year before the War, castings and in plating. the membership bad dropped to 30,000, and expenditure on the road to £12,000. Six years lator now, membership was a quarter of a million, and expenditure on the road £310,000 for the year.
MANY ORPHANS CARS.
There are more than 600,000 automobiles in the United States described as “orphans" by O. “A
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Mr. McWhirter formally moved Nano general manager of the The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
the adoption of the Balance Sheet and Accounts, which were carried unanimously...
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