THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
A Fine Product and a Fine Policy
There are no finer tyres than
DUNLOP CORDS
DUNL
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They stand as the supreme achieve- ment in tyre construction, and set a new standard in tyre service. Behind them is a fine policy-fair treatment- the methods of the Dunlop organiza- tion which help you to get the utmost value from your tyres.
There is a Dunlop Representative at Hongkong, for your service.
DUNLOP RUBBER Co., (China) Ltd. Hotel Annex Building. Telephone Contral 4554.
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE,
Distributors.
Telephone Central 4759..
16 KNOTS
AILSA CRAIG
FAST RUN ABOUT
BRITISH THROUGHOUT
Complete $2750.00 {
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
THE LATEST PORTABLE PUMP..
USED FOR MANY PURPOSES.
DELIVERED HONGKONG.
Sole Agents,
A simple and remarkably offective portable pump has been placed on this market by Mossry Alex: Ross & Co., Ltd. Known as the "Dana " Portable Punip, it has achieved great success wherever it has been in- troduced. There are a variety of purposes to which it may bo put, such as cleaning out newer pipes, pumping out collars, draining land, fire fight ing etc. It may be operated from the rear wheel of either motor car or cycle, the above photo showing it attached to an Indian motor cycle in use by the New York State Forestry Conservation Commission.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1928.
RUBBER WAR.
£20,000,000 DREAM,
The following is an "article which appeared in the London' "Daily Express."]
Mr. H. S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohlo, who was a farm boy thirty years ago, and is now a multi-millionaire, an nounces that owing to the prices which he Buys are ärtfficially maintained by the British Govern- ment on rubber exported, to America, he has organised a 'com- pany and intends to invest £20,000,000 to develop an "Ameri- can rubber empire" in. Liberia,.[ whero eventually it is hoped to have a million acres of rubber treesy
According to Mr. Firestone the plantation will have a: maximüm yearly output of 250,000 tons of rubber; which is more than 60-per cent, of the world's prosent out-,, put. Mr. Firestone says that America now controls only 3 per cent of the world's rubber, and uses 75 per cent. Most of the re- mainder is controlled by the British and the Dutch..
Mr. Firestone expects that it will be six years before there are large results from the Liberian experiment, but after that period, he says, America will become self- supporting in rubber.
"Work For 300,000,"
Three hundred thousand native Liberians, who are described as the strongest and alertest of the African population, will be employed with, a large number of whites. Twenty plantings have alroudy been ordered.
Mr. Firestone asserts that he has purchased a two thousand acre plantation in Liberia from a British concern, which he intende to use as a nursery. He also says that he has already let the con- tract to the J. G. White Engineer- [ing Company to construct a har
bour and breakwater at Monrovia, Liberia's principal port..
The new company will be called the. Firestone Plantations Com- pany. Mr. Firestone, intends to open sumptuous offices in London, which will be in charge of his son, Mr. H. S. Firestone jun., who sail- od recently in the Mauretania. Mr. Firestone has signed a con- tract with the Liberian. Govern. ment giving him the right to ex- plore the country until a million acres have been acquired.
Is. a Day.
He says that the Liberians are willing to work for a shilling al day, thus permitting Liberian rubber to be produced much cheaper than the British rubber. Mr. Firestone also announces that he has leased thirty-five thousand acres of rubber land in Mexico, and that he would have establish- ed plantations in the Philippines but for the objections of the local Filipino politicians.
Mr. Firestone is an intimate friend of Mr. Henry Ford, "but there is no indication whether there is any of Mr. Ford's capital in the new venture. "It is also. unknown to what extent Mr. Fire- stone is prepared to continue sink- ing his millions, if the enterprise proves more difficult than present reports indicate.
Some reporta describe the plan as "a dream.".
TO PREVENT KNOCKING.
NOVEL DISCOVERY.
Instead of being mixed with the gasoline, 'like other substances, a new "anti-knock" has been found that is actually painted on the inside of the cylinder head, and acts as an aid to better fuel com- bustion.
This is a form of catalytic gent, reports Professor Ralph H. McKee of Columbia University. Many of these have been devised, one of them being cerium dioxide. |
One application of this "anti- knock," it is said, is enough to keep the engine running well for
15,000 miles.
One-Profit Savings Returned to Purchaser in Added Refinements and Better Quality
Features
Full-size balloon tyre for whichsteering gear is special ly designed.
Automatic spark control.
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Lights controlled from switch on steering wheel. Instruments, Including clock and petrol gunge, in single grouping under glass on siivered dial. Emergency brako, operated from the dash, thus giving more front seat room." One-piece windscreen, auto- maid windscreen cleaner, rear view mirror.
Cowl ventilator operated by fool
Combination stop-and-talf; light.
Master key controls locks on steering gear, spare tyre car- rier and igalilor switch.. Nickel-plated radiator, wal- nut Anlabed instrumenı board and many other refinements.
ATUDEBAKER makes the engines for all its
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cars, as well as the clutch and the steer- ing gear, and the differential, the springs, the gear boxes and the axles. Studebaker makes, also, all the gray iron castings and forgingu. Studebaker builds its own bodies, trims them: and paifits them.
These operations are performed for all Stude baker cara in Studebaker's own great plants, eliminating the profits of outside suppliers and' partsmakers. Only Ford is on a similar One-Profit basis of manufacture. Studebaker stands alone in the fine car field.
Therefore, Studebaker is able to offer you a car more scientifically designed and built—a car using finer materials and more painstaking work. manship-a car with such advanced features as are shown at the left yet at a low price, T
STUDEBAKER, South Bend, Ind., U. S. A.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE (The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.)
Sales
Servioc
Tel. Central 4759.
Tol. Contral 4602.
Studebaker Special Six Duplex Phaeton
14-171
BUILDERS
QUALITY VEHICLES FOR
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ESSEX is a “SIX”
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$2,000 for
for the Coach
Everyone knows the superiority of 6 cylinders. Those who know are not content with less than Super-Six performance. Itincreases power smoothness, flexibility and car life without adding to weight or motor size. Its principle is patented and exclusive to Hudson and Essex. And Hudson-Essex are the world's largest selling sixes.
That volume makes possible the lowest prices in history.
In Essex there is a big saving in cost, a greater economy in operation, and a finer satisfaction- from the ease and comfort of riding and driving.
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Everywhere it is regarded with Hudson as
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World's Greatest Value
Hudson Coach, $3,000 Hudson Brougham, $3,600 Hudson 7-Pass. Sedan, $4,000
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD. 33, Wong Ni Chung Road
Happy Valloy.
MOTOR-CYCLE FUÉLS. that are little less than "High | REVOLVING GARAGE.
DISPUTE OVER TOURIST..
TROPHY RACES ENDED:
The dispute between the Auto- Cycle Union and motorcycle
manufacturers over the use in the tourist trophy races of alcohol
explosives, and that while they ginger up" ongines, their use en- courages freakish design of no practical value to the ordinary motor-gyclist.
MILLIONS FOR ROADS.
A catalytic agent, or catalyst, and other fuels that cannot be In 1920 $1,250,000,000 will be
Is a chemical substance which obtained through ordinary com- spent on the construction of hard causes a chemical reaction to take mercial sources
place between other substances, settled recently, while in itself isn't absorbed or
apon to London, expects have a garage with revolving door. Thus a car parked on the floor can be brought around to the door by the rotation of the floor.
CAR EVERY YEAR.
amicably surfaceuronds in the United, If the presunt rate of automo-
States, according to Mr. W. H.bile manufacturing continues in
in"any way changed.
The anion, after hearing the Connell, president of the Ameri- another 10 or 12 years the output Thus it helps, and even speeds arguments of the makers, decided can Road Builders' Association. will be sufficient to supply overy up, the mixture of the air and to alter their decision that there This is twice the amount of money family with a new car every year, gasoline in motors.
should be no restriction on the spent building the Panama Canal. fucle used.
PERSONAL BAGGAGE.
Competitor will therefore have
to use fuels that are avaliable to ordinary riders at garuger und
If
COVER DASH LIGHT,
Roughly speaking, the production fas doubled every four years during the last decado.
CARRY A TOW ROPE
An automobile may be taken
If you are in the habit of driv- A tow rope ahquid, find along to Europe as "personal filling stations. The fact that ang at night with dash lights bura room in every motorist's antips/ baggage," like a truck. It may decision has been reached will be ing, or if you operate a car with ment. This is especially neces either be packed up, or driven'
welcomed by motor-cyclists. - the dash light in series with the Mary when you go on a journey right on the her and secured to
The makers case was that in tail light, cover the reflector with through country that is strange. the deck.
recent years fuels have been used e pisen of green or red celluloid to your