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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT:
ENGINE RELIABILITY. BALLOON TYRES WIN
GRUELLING TESTS FOR PACKARD,
FAVOUR.
1924 PRODUCTION SURPASSED.
The proportion of balloon tyres,
Rellability of the modern high; speed gasoline motor of great! power has been brought forcibly to the attention of the world in compared with high pressure the last few days. Events on the Lyres, is growing larger steadily, water and in the air also have according to Miller tyle men, and demonstrated what an important indications point to their in- part automobile engineers are having in the development öf aerin transportation and high speed water travel.
creasing use on passenger cars. Twice as many have beon pur- chused in 1925 as for the entire year of 1924, according ustimates.
to
In this personal story of the
Improved methods of manu- great epochal flight of the PN 9facture have helped to make bul No. & which for days clainted the loons popular, as low pressure attention of the entire world tyres at the present time have! Commander Jahn, Rodgers said the wearing qualities of high "the engines worked perfectly pressure corda, which represent- |
PUT A NEW SPRING DRESS ON YOUR CAR and there were no signs of leaks, ed a big advance in construction
PAINTING-Motor Cars and Cycles.
ELECTRO-PLATING-Of Motor Car and Cycle Parts.
MACHINE SHOP Lathe Work, Milling. Planing,
Drilling, etc.
WELDING - Oxy-Acetylene Welding of Broken Motor
Parts.
UPHOLSTERING → Tops, Cushion Covers, etc., made
and repaired.
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ELECTRICAL Generators, Starters, etc., adjusted,
repaired, re-wound.
BATTERIES--All makes of Starting, Lighting, and Ignition Batteries repaired and/or recharged. New Columbia Batteries in stock.
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or any other trouble."-
Across more than 1,800 miles! of the open Pacific ocean the two 500 horse power Packard motors of the big flying boat ronrud without once missing an explo-
mothods several years ago.
FRENCH ENTER SPAIN.
manufacturers
sion for more than 25 hours hurt- French auto ling ten tans of plane, men and have been starting factories in gasoline through the air at DC Spain with the dealre partly to miles an hour Only when the avoid the heavy taxes in their own forces of nature upset the calcula-country, and also to get a better tions of men with head winds that entry for their products in the called for greater power and the
Latin-American countries. consequent use of more gasoline did the great plane come down The motors ran right up to the time the last drop of gasoline was exhausted and went dead automobile engineers and arti- gether. Commander Rodgers sans in the plant of the 'Puckard commented on the "total expendi-Motor Car Company. ture of gasoline.”
How merited was this trust is
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While a whole world walted and shown in practically the last prayed during the ten-day search unfinished sentence in the log of of the ocean wastes for Commun- the last tragic flight of the Navy's der Rodgers and his gallant crew great airship, the Shenandoah. of four, other equally bravelCommander orders car in chang- heroes of the U. S. Navy were ing course, all engines working placing their trust with confi-perfectly," reads the log..
dence born of many successfully
The Shenandoah twice before
met grueling tests in still other had fought successfully against motors designed and built by portions of hurricanes.
storms which approached the pro- There
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was every reason to believe her safe in the air under any condi tion. However, just as cities have been leveled by earthquakes or tornadoes, and just as great ships of the sea have been sent to the bottom by typhoons, the Shenandoah met one of these as yet unconquerable forces of nature before which she was forced to bow after a terrific. battle during which she was rolled and tossed like a chip in
heavy sea.
Engines of the Shenandoah were 300 horse power motors especialy designed and built for her
by the Packard company. Fuel W13 fed them by an inch and n half gasoline line, that ran nearly the length of the ship. Men familiar with the great airship have mar-
to
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1925.
Why
CADILLAC ANNOUNCES NEW V-EIGHT MODELS.
(Circle) Front view of New Cadil ine fixe-passenger custom coupe. showing new radiator design.
All new Cadillac open vurs, like the
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are custom-built.
DUNLOP
CORD TYRES
should be on your car.
They are the outcome of the longest experience in tyre building.
They are made from raw materials, the production of which is contr lled from its source.
They are made on the proved best principles, applied in the best way.
They give longer mileage and better service than any tyres in the world.
AND the DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY maintains its own Branch organisation on the spot, to give effect to the Company's universal policy of Service and Efficiency on all Tyre matters
veled since her tragic last night Dunlop Rubber Co. (China), Ltd.
at the cool courage of her com manding officer, Commander Lansdowne right up to his very plunge into eternity. His last! order shutting down each motor) may well have saved the lives of those who escaped the fatal nun- dering of the ship. He must have known that in the breaking up the gasoline line would be severed and the ship filled with highly explosive gus which the flame from the exhaust of any of the motors would have set off. His order shutting down 1}] motors it is believed undoubtedly saved an even worse tragedy.
While men in motor boat racing do not stake their lives on the dependability of motors as they do in the air no more gruelling test for a gasoline engine could be devised than that given each year during the Gold cup race and the great 150-mile Detroit sweep- stakes contest. Packard motora) easily took first and second places | in both these speed boat classics this year.
Baby Bootlegger, owned and driven by Caleb Brugg, millionaire. New York sportsman, was the winner of the Gold Cup race at; Manbasset. Bay, Long Island Sound, and Miss Tampa took second place. Each boat had a Packard Gold Cup motor of 260 horse power. Still another Pack- ard powered craft, piloted by Coi. J. G. Vincent, vice president of engineering of the Packard com- pany, set a new world's record for the second heat of the race but later was put out of the run- ning with n broken propellor shaft.
The 150-miles sweepstakes race at Detrolt was won by Col. Vin- cent Labor Day with Packard Chriscraft II and Baby Horace III was second, 15 miles ahead of the nearest other contender. Both boats were powered with Motorists of Utah may have to Nearly one-third of the intør-| American storage batteries Packard 12 cylinder Sweepstakes pay 31 conta, rather than the 2 state roads, getting fodoral aid, wore shipped last year to 96 dif-motora developing 600. horse conts they are now paying, in has already bean place under forent countries or sections of the power. Both tore through" thị tax for each gallon of fuel they construction or completed. This earth. They totalled 238,153 and water at 60 miles an hour for buy. The bill for this has pass-covers 25,000 miles of highway, represented a market value of the whole 150 miles without either ed both housos.
costing more than $450,000,000. $2,869.851,
motor once missing an explosion.
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