THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
19 SINGER 26
Specially Geared for Hongkong
The 1926 Singer represents the
highest standard of British Motor Car
Engineering a standard which
guarantees that every purchaser
acquires a car made to last.
FOUR BEATER "DE LUXE" $2,200
British Throughout
TWO SEATER "DE LUXE" $2,200
Equipped with overhead valves, four wheel brakes, automatic windscreen wiper, pneumatic upholstery, Dunlop reinforced balloon tyres, complete all-weather equipment, large rudiator, etc.
For Full Specifications and Particulars apply to:-
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MOTOR CAR REGISTRATION.
(By Israel Klela for
The Hongkong Telegraph.)
Automobile registration was in- troduced primarily as a revenue
mensure.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
THE SMALL CAR IN AMERICA
A REVAMPED. AUSTIN SEVEN.
Little motor cars on wheel- bases ten Inches shorter than the Ford and capable of giving 50 to 60 miles on a gallon of gasoline will be introduced to America by It has become of increasing Detroit manufacturers soon after. benefit, however, in tracing stolen the new year. It may be possible cars, running down criminals, that some of them will be exhibit- getting appropriations for high-ed for the first time in the national ways and in guiding automoblie automobile shows at Now York makers and dealers in the distri-and Chicago. This development. bution of their cars.
follows certain predictions made Yet complaint is made that the earlier in the year that the auto- figures compiled by the various mobiles of the future would! states are inadequate and mislead- steadily decrease in size and even- Ing. Some of the flagrant errors tually bring Americans to using in registrations are pointed out care about the size of a small kit- by John W. Scoville of the chen table: This, of course, is Chrysler Motor Company.
the European Idea which the Registration, he points out, is United States is going to copy and the counting of all licences issued to that end Continental Motors by the state. Yet, he says, "it is Corporation has imported from not certain that all license plates England.u standard model of the issued by a state become attached type of small or "bug" car widely to an automobile. Some plate used in Europe, and contemplates are lost, misplaced or destroyed. designing engines which will go Some owners fail to get new into smaller cars for this country. license plates.
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"Many automobiles are regis- tered in two or more states. Many cars registered in the year are destroyed before the end of the year."
Big Difference.
So Scuville concludes counting the number of cars in a state by the registration system is highly
erroneous,
A company starting sales in 1924 took note of the number of cars it sold in the various states
"This car is "the "Austin," which has been found best adapted to resigning for use there. Such cars, it is pointed out, will be built and marketed, there chiefly for city or interurban driving over smooth paved roads and they will be two and, four-passenger jobs.
The makers who will introduce them calculate that the "Rug" cars will fill a distinct niche in motoring service for city-dwellers: First: Bacuse of fuel economy. Second: They can be parked
and tried to check it up with the in a 90-inch space. state count of its cars for that Third: US cities are HOW year. Eight states reported a
count of only 25 per cent. of the practically all paved; so much so that there is a new field for run- cars sent to those states.
Adding about 15 per cent. for abouts of a smaller and more re- cars still held by dealers, this fined type. leaves 60 per cant. of the actuall factory sales in those states un accounted for, so far as the official state counts are concerned.
These new runabouts, or "bug" as they have been called through their diminutive size, will be exact miniatures of the larger cars that Total registrations at present we are familiar with. Most of fare obtained in one of two ways: them will be closed jobs and their 1. By counting the number of body lines will be every bit as license plates issued by the stato.snappy as those of the larger 2. By counting the names of models. They will be equipped automobile owners as furnished with baby balloon tyres, dise or by companies that supply mailing wire wheels. gear shift, instru- lista.
ment board, head lamps, four- wheel brakes, and practically
Inaccurate Method.
Both are inaccurate, Scoville every standard accessory new in points out. Reasons behind this vogue.
size'
are many. States headquarters The general appearance, may get a delayed report of car and fittings of the baby cars will sules, because local officials hold be such as to make them appeal
up license fees and records.
In many states, the cense
directly to the youth of the land and the probability is that both
doesn't show whether a new or sexes of "Happers" will develop a not car was registered. In others, cars are driven with oldi license plates.
national craze to own and run them.
NEW AIR SERVICE.
In four southern states, the new car registrations reported! were more than 30 per cent, below: the number of actual new car sales. In other states, the new ear registrations reported were
This is be above actual sales.
A new air passenger service has cause cars bought in one.state are been opened in Germany between registered in another. Many cars the great industrial district of the bought in New York, for instance, Ruhr and Munich, with an inter- are registered in New York. Imediate stop at Frankfort, Con- The result is น misleading nections will be made with. the in both source of information to car dis- Cologne-London service tributors, who, depend on registra-directions.
tion figures to tell them how state sales go. And information ob tained from this source for police benefit is also undependable.
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STEERING ADJUSTMENTS.
When adjusting the steering gear, allow a little play to prevent ite binding and to relieve the arm from vibration and road, shocks, One inch travel of rim on the steering wheel is about right.
MANY ARE CARELESS.
Sixteen out of every hundred motorists cross railroad tracks without looking to right or left. This is the conclusion of the de- pariment of safety of the Balimore. & Ohio Railroad, which has just completed a nine-months' survey of grade crossings.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, " 1926,
"Send One Over"
A solid trainload of 104 Graham Brothers Trucks was shipped recently to six Dodge Brothers Dealers in the State of Florida, U.S.A. Ten days after arrival every truck had been sold-and more were on the way,
Similar shipments in varying quantities have recently been forwarded to China, the Philippines, India, Australia, South Africa and South America.
All these constitute an exceptional record- but this record illustrates an important
point.
Business men all over the world need no longer feel that they must devote valuable time to Investigation" of trucks before making their choice.
The remarkable record of Graham Brothers Trucks in practically every country has reduced an important buying problem to the simple expeclent of asking the Dodge Brothers Dealer to send one over."
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SOLD BY DODGE BROTHERS DEALERS EVERYWHERE
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THE 8-88 ROADSTER
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THE 4-44 ROADSTER
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This ice boat, built by George F. Mox of Dayton, O, is capable of a speed of 90 miles an hour. The boat is built on the lines of an airplane. A motorcycle engine operates, a four-foot propeller. The boat is comfortable and 'safe and will float in water.
Same body design as the model 8-88 Roadster with same conveniences. Upholstery of brown Spanish leather. Snap and pop to satisfy the most exacting demands on's real "pleasure" car, Looks that make it the centre of many eyes wherever it is parked. Not a pocket edition but a real car the same as the other 6-Sixty-Six models. 120" wheelbase.
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