THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
A. J. S. LATEST!
A. J. 6. 4.98 h.p. Overload Valve Sporting Model G8 Electric.
Engino (84 x 90 m m. 498 c.c.
Lucas Magdyno complete with Ammeter.
Gear Ratio 4.6 to 1 on high.
Handlebars, Semi, T.T.
Baddle, Terry.
Mechanical Oil Pump. Auxiliary Hand Pump. Weight 274 lbs.
This cycle is tuned to do 80 'M. P. H.
To be seen at our show-room at No. 1A, Chater Road.
:
Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.
Show Room No. 1A, CHATER ROAD, OPEN SATURDAYS AFTERNOON will 5 o'clock.
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when you buy a Used Car
at.
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The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
33 Wang Nei Chung-
Huppy Valley.
No other
Motor Spirit
at any price
costs so little
per mile
AS
WAREHOUSE ON WHEELS.
NOVELTIES, IN BRITISH
MOTOR VEHICLES.
Nowadays the up-to-date com- mercial traveller takes with him
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925,
207 PEOPLE KILLED
IN 3 MONTHS.
NEARLY 24,000 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS.
-During the three months of July, August and September this year,
on his journeys his own office, 207 persons were killed in the warehouse, and hotel (complete, Metropolitan police area. A' state- except for bathroom and ser-ment issued from Now Scotland vants),
Yard shows that all but 13 of these)
caused by mo- Such was one of the develop-fatalities were ments in commercial vehicles of chanically propelled vehicles. the latest type on view at the The numbers were as follows:- Commercial Motor Transport Ex- hibition at Olympia this year. Over £2,000,000 worth of vehicles. exhibited, and the exhibition easily the largest ever held in the world.
These include many luxurious and practically accident-proof passenger vehicles, ranging from the superb charabane, costing E3,000, to the deacrt motor-cur, built on the tractor principle, for use over the miles of sand waste in the Near East.
Horses Must Go.
Speaking at the luncheon given in connection with the exhibition by the Incorporated Association of Retail Distributors, Sir William Letts, president of the Society, of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said the horse had to be swept from the road as quickly jaa possible, and motor transport provided for every branch of com-
merce.
The day was coming when re- tailers would not only have to dis! tribute their goads through their
Onnibuses
Motor-cycles
Tramcars
Private ears Trade vehicles Cabs
31
31
9
53
81 .0
Horse-drawn trade and com- mercial vehicles were responsible; for nine deaths, and pedal bicycles for four.
In addition to the above fatali accidents, 23,489 accidents in which' people were injured were reported to the police. They included:-
Private ears Pedal cycles
6,834 *3.385
Omnibuses
2,030
Horse vehicles
1.887
Trade cara
4,749
2,688
1,174
965
Molor-cycles
Tramcars Taxicabs
For the three months ending) June the figures were 226 killed and 25,342 injured.
Jowa town, but throughout the 10,800 MOTOR TRUCKS.
country, and for this reason it was immensely important that new roods should be made and the présent roads kept in a perfect state of repair,
GRAHÀM BROS' RECORD,
Official figures have been re- There was a hovement on foot leased showing that 10,800 Gre- to divert the money
pald by ham Broa, trucks were shipped in of 1926. This motorials to other purposes. Ae-the first half
entire 1924 output. cumulated funds amounting to equals the between £15,000,000 and £20,000,. This company's daily truck pro- 000 had been obtained from the duction is 40 per cent. higher at taxation of motorials, and this present than in January, and, se- money should be used to no other cording to factory officials, purpose than the building of new being further increased to supply roads and the maintenancy present roads.
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the demand.
is
Retail deliveries in June ami uly held up the record deliveri Sir Sydney Skinner congrat established in March and April. lated the motor manufacturers on The 1922 sales of these truck: the wonderful improvenient that exceeded the 1921 sales by 154 per had taken place in the last two cent; the 1923 sales were 105 pr years. He did not think that they cent. greater than those in 1922 had anything to fear from foreign and 1024 forged ahead of 1923 competition in certain grades of by 54 per cent.
their business,
J
There were, he believed, retro- grade people in this country who were going back to horse traffic. It was abnost inconceivable, but perhaps they had some reason.
BALLOONS IN PARIS.
Traders were very serialy More than 5,000 taxicabs in concerned about, their delivery Paris have been equipped with costs. They wanted a 15cwt. balloon tyres: Some 3,200 of: vehicle able to carry their traffte them, owned by the largest com- economically, and they wanted pany, were changed recently from British production.
MORE FOR HIGHWAYS.
twin-cylinder to four-cylinder rars, and had front wheel brakes attached.
1,600 AUTO BILLS.
The first two months of 1925
Figures of receipts and expendi- tures compiled by the American
·000000000000 Bureat of Public Roads show that twice the percentage of auto taxes was used for highway improve saw the introduction in the ment in 1921 than in 1924. Of various state legislatures of more! the 1921 tax receipts. 10.6 per than 1,600 bills, relating to the cent. went to highways.
[automobile industry.
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SHELL'
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., (S’C) LTD. ·
(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND.)
THE TRAIN WON AGAIN!
That overlasting race for the railroad crossing. rooms soldom to change in its olimax-victory for the train. Yet motorists continuo to take the chance. "The ono owning what's left of this car did, at, a crossing near Indianapolis," Ind. He awoko in a hospital.
A Body for Beery Line of Business
Proof of Merit
Its record in past years, in 343 different lines of business, stands as indisputable proof of exceptional merit-and this year it is an even better truck than ever before!
1-TON CHASSIS:
.DB 130" W. D. 14-TON CHASSIS:
CB 140 W, D.
FB 158" W. B. FBM 140 W. B
LEM 158 W. B.
PASSENGER BUS CHASSIS
VB 158 W. B.
U. 8. Y.
$ 995
$1,280
$1,330
$1.345
$1,395
...$1,900
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1926
SINGER
1926
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$2,200
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. FOUR WHEEL BRAKES
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· 35 40 MILES PER GALLON
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