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Hore's an easy way to sling a hammook, where there are no trees or other supports. Lash two pairs of posts together, saw-horse. fashion, and set them firmly into the ground. Sling thoond of the hummock over these posts and tie them firmly sto tont pins driven into the ground.
Wobbly wheels are often caus- ed by uneven tightening of rit lugs. Jack up the car and spin the wheel Thon foosen all lugs and tighten them evenly.
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DUNLOP TYRES
for your protection.
They are made at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, and they are recognised to-day as the
Standard by which all Tyres are judged.
Local Distributors: Hongkong Hotel Garage, Tel. C. 4759%
Local Branch Offie: 16a, Des Yoex Road Central. Tel. C. 4554.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926.
120 MOTOR-CARS, A DAY.
WELCOME SIGNS.
MR. EDSEL FORD'S PLAN
FOR DAGENHAM.
Extonsivo developments of the Ford motor-aar industry on the Dagenham flat of Essex, with employment for 12,000 mon and an output of 120 motor-cars a day that will supply many European, countries, wore foreshadowed by Mr. Edsel Ford, son of Mr. Honry Ford, in an interview with a Daily Express representative.
"I have been greatly impressed since I have been over here with the British trade outlook," said Mr. Ford. "When I left tho
there must be a turn for the better States my associates felt, that in British trade before we started; our works at Dagonham on the site that we purchased two years ago. They wanted to soc moro business in sight. The deeronse in your latest unemployment returns is a hopeful sign, and I'shall gö back to. Amorica with the idea of encouraging an early start Fat Dagenhac..”.
Mr. Edsel Ford, who is reputed to be worth £200,000,000 and to ho the second richest man in the world, is a slim young man," and This clean-shaven and somewhat angular face gives him an almost boyish appearance. He paid a fine tribute to the British workman.
"I have been to seo our Man- chester works," he said. "It is not what you would call quite an ap-to-date plant, and in this rospect is not to be compared with our works at Detroit, but i the workman at Manchester, despite the handicap, is turning out us good and officient work as is being done "by us in America "I ant immensely plonsed with the Dagenham site. It is the first. time I have soon it. We, have 300 acres good,, flat land that has wonderful facilities for shipping.
"Our trade expansion here will depend on taxation. I find on all hands that this is the bugbear.
Ibelieve that in America we have not only roached, but have. slightly passed saturation point sofaras molor-cars are concerned,
BERKETTS WELLS 7 M GOOD WATER & FEED
DEM SPRING 38M
Death Valley, in California, relentless trap for pioneere of former days, now is a safe to cross as any populated part of the county. Signs pointing to neurest water holes and directing tourists across the waste, have been orected by the Southorn "Automobilo Club of Cali, fornia. An old-time pro- spector is shown at one of these.sign posts in the contre of the hot, dry desert
HAWAI RECORD-
because only about 25 per cent. A MOUNTAINOUS CIRCUIT. of the new motor-cars now being turned out go to people who have not had one bofore."
ESSEX COACH
Prices in Hongkong Currency delivered at your
door in Hongkong or Kowloon.
Special Essex Turing...
..$1,995
Special Essex Coach....
.$2,145
Special Hudson Touring..
...$2,995
Special Hudson Coach
...$3,195
Special Hudson Brougham...$3,595
Special Hudson Sedan......$3,995 These cars may be purchased for a low first payment and convenient terms on balance.
For any closed car-even a "Tour"-you pay almost as much as the Essex Coach costs. Yet what a difference in everything that counts-Performance, Quality, Comfort, Good Looks, and your pride in the car you own. A single ride will tell. And, in price; terms of payment, economy of operation, Essex is just as easy to own. Why accept less than a "Six? Why not have the qualities of the most wanted "Six" type in the world?
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COL DIMITOR
33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD
HAPPY VALLEY
All speed records for the moun- tainous drive around the island of Oahu Hawaii, have just been broken in an endurance run by a Studebaker Standard Six Duplex- Phaeton.
The 86 miles around the island, one of the most noted scenic drives in the world, runs from Honolulu over the Pali ranga with its sharp, hairpin turns far above the silvery beaches' that have made Hawaii.
The car was soaled in high gear, and made four laps of the island, which in itself is a record. ; The previous best time for a lap wes 2 hours, 20 minutes.
Yet three of the four laps wero nade in high gear in better time than the old record, and the average for the four laps was nearly 10 minutes Taster. One circuit was made in 1 hour, 55 minutes-25 minutes under the old record!
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Minimum speed, of course, was made at the hairpin turn on the Pali range, where second and even low speed have been used by cera previously making the trip around the island. The standard, Six came down to 13) miles an hour there, picking up around the turn to reach the summit at 30 miles an hour.
On one level stretch, Fuku- shima, one of the drivers, reached a maximum speed of 72 miles an hour. The sport-loying Hawaiians are making much of the new record. Studebakers are fourth in 'salce of all makes of cars on the island."
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A particularly well-produced road atlas-guide to Great Britain has been produced recently by George Philip'and'8on, Ltd., 23, Fleet Street, E.C.4. There are 64 coloured sectional road maps on a scale of 10 miles to the incb. The Ministry of Transport system of road classification is adopted, and to render easy the linking-up of road traversing more than one section the numbers of adjoining sections are given along the borders, while the main roads are drawn out to the margin of the paper, with the name of the nearest town lying outside the section itself. The maps divided into squares with ro- ference figures along the borders. To these squares places of tourist intorest dogcribed in the gazetter aro indexed. Features of interest to tourists, and sportsmen are indicated by distinctive symbols,
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THE PETROL TAX IN
AMERICA.
«A SOURCE OF IMMENSE REVENUE.
Astounding figures are to hand showing the growth of the petrol tax in America. During the past) year pight more States, impressed by the success of the system, have adopted a tax on motor spirit | with the result that now, out of 49 American States, no fowor than 45 have tax on motor fuel.
The yield from the patrol tax') last year was over £28,000,000, and the cost of collection was nogligible. In the practical work- ing of the tax in America we have a rofutation of overy one of the theoretical objections raised against the tax in Great Britain, mainly by poople who were wholly ignorant about the matter.
It was said, and it's still said, that it is impossible to collect a tax on petrol in Great Britain.! But a great part of motor fuel supplies come from America, and so we have the paradox that a commodity which can bo success- fully taxad in one country is officially declared to be impossible of taxation in another country!
Until the facts of American petrol taxation wore made known; it was a favourito objection of British officials that the cost of collection would bo so heavy that, on this ground alone, petrol taxation was not a practical proposition. The American ax- perience shows that the cost of the tax is less than one-third the cost of collecting each £100 of horse-power tax. It was also said that the high cost of collection would make a very high tax on petrol necessary. Yet, in some of the American States they are able to work a tax of Id. por gal lon, and one State actually finds it profitable to employ a id.per gallon tax,
Inasmuch as motor cara.in the United States cost 20 per cent. less than they did before the war while labour and materials used in manufacturing cars cost from; 60 to 70 per cent. more, the automotive industry is generally recognized in the United States ell industries, to be among the most efficient, of
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