THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.
MOTORING
UPPERMENT. SA
TOBER 31-19255
1926
A. J. S. MODEL “G. 5". 24 H. P.
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. COMMERCIAL TRUCKS.
ROADMAKERS AND ROADMENDERS:
RECORD FOR GRAHAM BROTHERS
The announcomont of the Home. Official figures are to hand Government's programme for the showing that no less than 10,800 improvement of trunk roads, Graliam Bros, motor trucks ware comes at an opportune moment, shipped overseas in the first half It meane that during the coming of 1925. This equals the cutire winter, and in all for a period of output for 1924, truly a notable not less than eighteen months, achievement. suitable and useful work will be The Company's daily truck provided for a considerable body production in 40% higher at pre- of the unemployed. It is general-sent than in January, and, ac-
You will never know till you rida one. The New and Improved A.J.S. has twist grip control, Electric lights, Amply recognised: that relief works, cording to factory officials, is Meter and many other improvementé,
Stocks carried, demonstrator can be seen at our show-room, No. 1A Chater Road.
$530.00
STOCKS CARRIED
Alex. Ross & Co., (China), Ltd.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.
Bosch
ROBERT BOSCH MAGNETOS:
The Robert Rosh Magnetos are mado of the best Materials and with equipment ideally designed for quality production,
1-Cylinder Magnetos:
Right or left Hand...
560
2-Cylinder Magaetos:
Right or Left Hand
$85
4-Cylinder Magnetos:
Right or Left Hand 6-Cylinder Magnetos: Right or Left Hand
$80
.$95
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR
COMPANY, LIMITED." Telephone Control 1246, or 1247, ' 33, Wong Nei Chung Rd., (Happy Valley.)
Pay close attention to the name of ROBERT POSCH
"bad this.
broadly speaking, are not a sát being further increased to supply isfactory method of dealing with the demand. In order to cope the emergency, on account of with this increase, it has been which, at the present moment, found necessary to again increase some million and a quarter of factory space at Dofrolt, which population and their dependents now has quarters under one roof, have to look to the State for sup- 400ft by 600ft., In a steel and con- port. In themselves they can crete building erected by Messrs rarely be productive or inspiring. Dodge Brothers in 1917. The total and they can at the most only factory: space has now reached give work to a fraction of those the figure of 250,000 square feet. who are without it. At the same In addition to this; a large factory time it would be unwise to over- ie in operation in Ontario, Canada, look the moral and psychological affect of the employment they provide. The. Unemployment] Grants Committee states that many local authorities attach very great importance to this factor, indeed they believe that
ALCOHOL AS FUEL.
in some cases the preservation of NO CHANGE IN ENGINE order has been materially assisted
by the circumstance that works The same type of engine is ad- of this kind wore in progress. Of aptable to the use of alcohol as all such forms of State assistance fuel, as is used to-day with gaso that of money earned by the mak-line, reports the US bureau of ing or the mending of roads is standards.
probably the least open to all the This statement is made to dispel
obvious objections. Under expert |
an erroneous belief that the use direction the work is of a kind of alcohol requires an engine of that can be efficiently carried out higher compression than the type by unskilled labour-by labour used for gasoline. The only that is to say, which is either unchango needed, say engineers of traised or trained in other occupa- the bureau of standards, is a tions. In some cases, no doubt, larger needle valve opening in similar work hasbeenscamped, but
bad work is the fault of the indi- the carburetor, to afford a richer vidual foreman, and can be provid-mixture of alcohol and air, for od against by more conscientious complete combustion.
"The fact is that alcohol per- supervision. Unquestionably, too, it is work worth the doing, even mits, but does not require, the more valuable and necessary, in employment of a much higher fact, for the requirements of the compression ration than gaso- "Should present inhabitants of this island line," the report reads. than when the Romans engineer-alcohol or other fuels of equal ed the most abiding monuments anti-knock value become general- of their enterprise that it still ly available compression ratios contains. It cannot be productive could be increased, and, as a con- in the sense that the fruit of sequence, higher efficiencies could the labour expended will return be attained.
aftor "many days in the shape of "In the meantime the chief ad- imported food and other nocos-vantage to he derived from the saries of existence. But it is use of an anti-knock fuel is that] healthy and dignified work, init pormits satisfactory operation which the man who do it may with an engine too badly car take a most important consider bonized for satisfactory-operation ation-legitimate pride, and every with gasoline"
year the overwhelming increase
of road transport makes it more
useful and moro indispensable.
During the next twelvemonth
the Ministry of Transport, it is the total mileage of which is just two. thousand. The announced, will spend three under millions more on road-making scheme, in which nearly forty separate county councils are con and road-mending than in" any previous year. Six and a halt cerned. is therefore a big one, millions sterling is to be set aside and if, as is anticipated, eighteen months-and, in the case of the from the Road Bund for the geus bridges to be built, probably more oral improvement of the trunk roads leading from London to are required for the completion of the present programme, it will Holyhead, Folkestone, Lowestoft, Carlisie, and other routes, and be a godsend to many able-bodied also on the main Highland road workers who have now, the great from Perth to Invernosa.
Work majority of them through no fault will soon be in progress on about of their own, nothing to do but to loaf and fret at the purposeless 500 miles of these various roads, existence to which they are con-
THE AILSA CRAIG
HARBOUR LAUNCH
SPEED 7 KNOTS.
BRITISH THROUGHOUT
COMPLETE $2350 DELIVERED HONGKONG
Sole Agents.
DODWELL & Co., Ltd.
demned. Those who are fortunate enough to be taken on will, it is estimated, take in wages from 40 to 50 per cent of the gross expon- diture on the enterprise, which will, at the same time, still fur- ther tend to reduce the volume: of unemployment by tho-stimula-) ting effect, which it will have on the activity of stuna-quarries, cement and steel worke, road transport, and other contributory Factors in the work of road-mak-" ing. It is also, it appears, the ins tention of the Ministry, în casos where unemployment is not pre- valent in the district adjoining the scene of oporations, to import labour from othor less fortunate areas. This experiment, if it proves to be practicable and suc- cessful, may have an important bearing on the other and scarce- ly less serious problem of housing. In outlining the scheme of work contemplated in the programme for the modernizing of the trunk roads due provision has been made for the needs of the future. The general idea is that those roads should have a carriage-way varying in width from twenty feet In open country to thirty in moro thickly populated districts, with a five-foot footway separated from the road by a gross margin. In accordance with the powers given by the new Roads Improvement Act, trees may and doubtless will be planted along the roadside, after the Fronoh and Flemish fashion, in stretches where they are now lacking blind cross- roads will be opened out and gradients reduced Tinica
BRITAIN LEADS IN CAR VALUE
The New
MORRIS
FEWED TRÅDEƐMARK:
Programme
REDUCED PRICES
F
BETTER CARS
OR the season commencing September 1st, 1925, MORRIS MOTORS, LTD., who make more and better cars than any other British manufacturer, announce the following important improvements in their cars (**
1. The provision of four-wheel brakes on 11,0 h.p. Morris
Cowley models. “Dan
2. The fitting of reinforced balloon tyres on all models.
3. The provision of dipping headlamps on Morris-Oxford cars,
4. Thermostatic control of engine cooling on Morris
Oxford modelky #5)
Important detall improvements, especially in the eosch- work of all models.
Additional to these items none of the features that have made. Morris Cars so overwhelmingly superior during the past twelvo months has been omitted. Instead, still better cars are being offered at still lower prices
buy British
and be Proud of it
The new Morris-Cowley Two-opter. Finest, staring value in the worki, "Complete with four wheel braksa, Lacos 12-volt fighting and starting equipment, balloon fyres, Gabriel Rebound Snubbers, spring gaiters and full equipment, has no competitor în its. class at the price at which it is now Effered
Call and see these models either at our showrooms or the showrooms of our Authorised Sub-Dealers
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE (THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.).
Show Room-Phone C:4759
· Garaga
Phone C. 4802
The fittest survive!
The fittest survive! Neither men nor machines, if they are unfit, can long withst ind the crushing strain of
Buick Valve-in Head motor cars are boxacing existence.
on principles that were
established when the motor car Industry started, and that these cars survived without change in their fundamentals is convincing proof that they are constructed on basic principles that are correct. In the making of Buicks there has been no yearly shifting from one set of engineering and manufacturing principles to an entirely different set. The Buick Valve-in Head principle was right in the beginning, and it has been right ever since. Each passing” year finds this great principle more firmly and securely established in the estimation of the motoring public.
The
alve-in-Head principle is the great reason for the survival motor cars. If this principle had not been correct, Bulok, would have found it necessary to jump from one kind of engine to another in a ceaseless effort to find something that would stand the grilling work a motor car is called upon to do, The Buick has survived every test that more than a million and a quarter users could devise in the most exacting conditions of worldwide service. There could be no better proof that Buick is the fittest among motor cars.
BUICK
VALVE IN-HEAD MOTOR CARS
Please call or Telephone C. 1036.
HONGKONG&KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
33 & 35 Des Voeux Road Central.