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HANDLER.Six-cylinder, FOR SALE:2-ton Truck Boven-passopger Chandler chassis. 6-cylinder engine Touring Car No. 157. In good of 40 H.P., RA.C. Rating. Only usable condition. Fivegond $3,000 for quick cash sale. Box tyres on five wire wheels. A No. 1474 Hongkong Telegraph. bargain at $750.00. Box No. 1478 Hongkong Telegraph.
BUICK-6-cylinder 7-passenger running order. Five good Tyres on five Wire Wheels $1,500.00 On view at Dragon Garago, Happy Valley.
Buick Touring No. 165 Good
ADILLAO-8-cylinder 5- passenger Cadillac for $1,500 cash, Box No. 1475 Hongkong Telegraph.
AUTHORS AND AUTOMOBILES
C.A.Potts...
The "Drury Lane" Touch. Now, motor racing would be a very suitable subject, for a Drury Lane spectacular drama, but something more subtle is required. for the fashionable West End) theatre. The play for, say, The] Haymarket, must den! with pay chology rather than action. Very well then, here is an idea. The hera is ·IL speed flond with a heavily undorsed license. The heroine is nervous, Sho agrees to marry him if he will promise to observe the speed limit. He promises. They are married. Now we see the effect of repres- sion on a sensitive naturo.
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From Bad to Worse. Bored stiff with driving at twenty miles an hour crawl, tho hero grows Irritable and morose.
The servants leave. He is rude becomes more and more difficult. to her mother and takes no in- terest in her cross word puzzlos.
He His
Why do our novelists persistent-lovely damsel alone in her two-She still loves him, but life ly ignore the motor? It is such senter and the coup by which he an essential part of all our lives kidnaps Mr. Winston Churchill that one would think it would form the chief Ingredient in any and forces "him to ruimpose the picture of our times. But, far petrol-tax!
Things go from bad to worst. from this being the case, the aver
is fined for obstruction. age novelist is quite unable top-i
Or another iden. The rich friends brag about their
who preciate its tremendous influence motor manufacturer dis-average speeds while he sits dumb, on our thoughts and actions.
inherits his only son beenuse he eating his heart out. He ploads insists on marrying the lovely with her, in the big scene, to re- daughter of his piston-ring de lease him from his promise, but.
Everything but Cars.
We have had novels galoreigner. The young man has ideas she cannot understand his point about orses, novels about ships of car, at which his father scoffs. und wife drift apart and life be- for a new and revolutionary type of view and refuses, Husband HANDLER. — 6-cylinder 7-and even novels about railway The girl believes in him and the comes a dreary waste. CHA
Chandler passenger $750,00 cash.
for trains but, as far as I know, no young couple depart to seek their to try and win him back she sug- In order Bux No. 1476 body has written a novel about a fortunes in a cruel world. Hongkong Telograph.
car is true, of course, that intervals of starving in a Blooms-Languidly, he
In the gesta motor tour in Scotland. cars are, often dragged in as ac-bury garret, our here, upheld by start. Mile after mile he drives ussents. They wood wheels and spare to the characters, and are usually labouriously constructs an experi- Great North Road. To him it is Box No. 1473 Hongkong nobody seems to have made motor and the works of an American
ing the main theme of a novel.
Possibilities.
BUICK Touring No. 352. Forecasion, Kenerally to give any the faith of bis.. young wife, at twenty miles an hour along, the LOCOMOBILE-7-passunger rim. Five tyres. Price $750.00 much, mangled in the process, but mental model out of his bedstead agony, but she cannot see it.
Touring top. peint, cash. upholstory, valves and Magneto. Telegraph. Five now Halloon Tires on new
clock, the property of his land- Balloon wheels. Engine 48 HP DOUGLAS, Harley, Indian,
lady, Meanwhile, his brave R.A.C.), and chassis recently
Henderson combinations..
What a wasted opportunity!ing spring gaiters at 1/ od, per young wife supports him by mak- thoroughly overhauled. Splendid Douglas, Cleveland, Indian, Har-) condition throughout. Priceley, Indian Seput solos. From Here is virgin ground simply ask-groas, $3,500.00. Box No. 1477 Hong $ 75.00. Apply Motor Cycle ing to be exploited. Think of the kong Telegraph."
Exchange, Kowloon.
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The "Unknown."
Now for the pep!
الردة
The Breaking Point. Gradually, his mind gives way
Taking the jack handle from the beneath the strain. Something snaps in his brain. He seca red.
trol locker he murders her, then, putting his foot hard down, drives at 80 miles an hour, on and on, through towns and villages, over Krowse moore, and haggis farms, until, car and all, he hurtles over the cliffs into the sen
An Opportunity.
possibilities. The subject might be trented in almost any style. Take the "Shocker," for instance. What about a motor-pirate whe It is the day of the great race. seurs the road in a ear of incre- Papa's fortune is on the car of his dible speed and power, holding the millionaire tourist, forcing us moment a car of unknown make, own manufacture. At the last Rolls-Royce into the ditch, rob with a heavily goggled driver, ap- bing him of his, ill-gotten gains pears on the starting line. The course, takes place "off" and if The latter part of the action, of and making him walk the running-ferowd jeer at its unconventional not considered infra dig. might board? Think of his thrilling appearance and pații, stripping off be shown by means of a cinéma- skirmishes with the police, the his shirt; hangs it to Longtograph films, but probably a few ruses by which ho evades capture, Tom, hls acts of chivalry towards the
hints by other characters would
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World Leadership justifies
Still Lower Prices!
Graham Brothers annice a substan tial reduction in the prices of their complete line of tricks and notor coachts, effective January 7th.
NEW PRICES
1 Ton Chassis-BB.
13 Tou Low Chars's-Mi
8.976 1245
12-Ton Chani-CB
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1 Ton, 158 Chiis-FR
14-Ton, 150 Low Choosin-- LB
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14.Ton, 128 Chad's-EB
1415 1575
VB Bus Chura's
1.4.b, Detroit
Now we have a thrilling descrip- be considered mure in keeping tion of the race, and any novelist with the West End. Anyhow, the who fails to make a job of this main idea is the thing. There is chapter had better give up writ-money in it, I feel sure, and, if ing and start a silkworm farm.
someone does not do it soon, I have a good mind to have a cut int it myself the first time I have an hour or so to spare.
Virtue Triumphant.
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The unknown car, of course, wins. Papa is ruined. He has By special permission of "The
Morris Owner.")
lost his shirt. The winner now ungoggles. "My son!" "Father!! "You have ruined me;" "No father, I have made your fortune. Here, take this." The generous son hands over the old envelope on the back of which his working drawings are scrawled. The father, overcome by this genero-
RALEIGH CYCLES.
NOTABLE RECORD.
1315sity, falls on his neck, makes him The year 1925, or at any rate. a director of the company and the first eight months of it, proved gives him a free hand in the pro- most successful for the Raleigh duction of the new model. While motor cycle. In a report just to he is doing this he is reverently hand, we notice that up to the end kissing the toil-roughened hand of
of August 1925, no less than 41 the young wife.
gold medals and 24 cups and other awards had been won at Trials in General reconciliation. Sob the British Isles. On one gruell- stud. Finis. There is no end of ing test alone, the London-Exeter material in this racing game. Trial, six gold medals were an The girl who promises to marry the nexed.
This is their third reduction in eight mouth. It brings the price of their product far below any truck of
Han parablo merit,
Large production jusfifie low pricer Graham Brothers are the largest exclu Bivo truck manufacturesa in the weld.
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winner of the 200 miles race. The It is also interesting to learn villain who puts sand in his rival's that during the 1925 season, the super-charger. The mechanic who suspects foul play tor cycles and over 100,000 cycles, faithful factory actually sold 10,000 mo- and gets to work with a vaccum cleaner just before the start, thus The villain could be killed in a Wine" will run for Congress-at- enabling his young master to win. Chicago." Mr. Beer" and " Mr. lurid smash or left gnashing his large" from Illinois if teeth at the start with a whole proposed by clyth of dud plugs.
the
a plan "wet" Chicago Democrats is carried Out. Then, why not a motor play?
Candidates with the name of Beer" and "Wine" actually are Everybody agrees that
preparing to enter the race, A. J. drama is going to the "demnition Cermak, a leading Democratic bow-wows" and the reason ia politician, disclosed recently. simply want nf enterprise. Candidatos with such popular Dramatists are incapable of in names
are sure winners in venting new ideas and situations. Illinois," Mr. Cormak said.
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