THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926,
Prestolite Battery
REST-O-LITE Super Service storage batteries are all that the name implies. Exceptionally powerful and long lasting, they are made of the best materials that can be assembled.
The separators in this battery are made of especially selected and treated-cedar-**** for high porosity; reinforced with hard rub- ber strips--for strength, and durability. Other features of construction combine to- make it the most powerful and lasting battery that has yet been devised.
Prest-O-Lite Super Service Batterica will give you far greater satisfaction and prove much more economical than any other battery you ever used.
'THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE, Show Rooms and Sales-25, Queen's Road, Central.
IDEAS FOR TOURISTS.
Motorists will find the following suggestions of constdar-
able benefit..
If you'ro thirsting for a. drink without 1 drinking Vossel, any piece of paper will do for a cup Start with a square piece of paper. 'If you haven't a square piece, fold the extra part back to make a square. Then follow, the folding directions shown horo, in the order specified. The dotted lines show the starting points before each operation.
BOARD
Wot wasther and dirt roads should be no hindrance to the tourist who knows how to get out of a clay rut. All that is needed is a plank and stout rope. Sot the plank lengthwise well under the hind wheel and tie the rope from a wheel spoke to the far end of the board. By careful application of power, the car will pull itself out of the miro.
CORD
Long tours bring dust and grime into the car through the openings in the floor board. To avoid having dusty- clothes after a long trip cover, the gear shift lever, as shown, with part of an old inner tube. Tie the tube cover well at the top.
PACKARD
the Choice of Diplomats
THOS
HOSE who are chosen to represent
their countries at the courts of the great Capitals must in turn possess equip ment in keeping with the importance of their missions.
Ten prominent American diplomats have recently selected Packard cars as affording the distinction necessary to their business and social activities.
In England, a Packard Six has appeared at the Court of St. James, while in France, an Eight has stood, an object of beauty, at the gates of the Palais de l'Elysée.
The diplomatic preference for Packard is not confined to Americans. Govern- mental leaders of many other countries are also Packard owners.
So strong an international appeal would be impossible if the merits of the product. were not fundamental and unquestioned. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
33, Wong. Nei Chung Road,... Happy Valloy. Tel. C. 1246 or 1247
Hongkong.
ONLY PACKARD CAN BUILD A PACKARD
FILLED WITH SAND
INDIAN
Stock Carried.
Salesroom at 1a, Chater Road, open every day Sun- days excepted) until 5 p.m.
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (China), LTD.
Bank of China' Building,, and 1A, Chater Road.
ATTENTION
FORD OWNERS
Arrangements have now been completed whereby Ford, Owners are enabled to purchase
GASOLINE and TYRES
AT REDUCED PRICES.
ANDREW HARPER
AUTHORISED FORD DEALER
6, Queen's 'Road Central Chatham Road, Hunghom../
Tel. C.4895. Tel. K.1216,
MICHELIN TYRES
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Dents in automobile bodies may be removed easily with home-mado "dinger" shown here. Fill a sheet of leather with sand, twist into a tight ball and tie. This is soft enough to avoid cracking the paint, and yet take out the dents.
HUMMING TYRES.
MISLEADING NOISES EMITTED BY SOME CARS..
There is an increasing number
Dry, dusty roads, which will be found especially, in hot, arid country, are harm ful to the springs. To keep this dust from ontering be- tween the leaves, wrap a putter around each spring. Do not wrap too tightly, so that a little room may be left for resiliency,
WHITSUN HOLIDAYS-
HEAVY HOME MOTOR TRAFFIC.
As was generally anticipated, of cars on the road to-day with the fine weather prevalent dur- tyras which set up an almost in-
describable noise, which some-ing the Whitsuntide holidays, times can be heard half a mile combined with the considerably away. This trouble is by no reduced railway servicos, result- means confined to one make of
tyre, and is apparently caused by ed in a tremendous volume of certain typos of non-skid rubber road traffic during the four days, trends...
from the 21st to 24th inst.
The noise is similar to that The records of the Touring Do- which might be produced by violently shaking marbles in apartment of the Automobile As- wooden drum, but it sometimes sociation show that the routes reaches such a pitch that it ro-
issued considerably exceeded sembles a scream such as might those sent to members for the lead to the impression that serious same period last year. axle trouble was developing; in! The A. A. road patrols had an deed, we know says a motor exceptionally busy time during journal of two manufacturers the holidays. who within the last few weeks members received road informa
Nearly 127,000 have been misled by the noise tion from the patrols, while 1.845 and have taken down their back vehicles which ran short of axles to discover the cause. supplies-had petrol, oil, or other The low-pressure tyres seem to requirements, obtained on their he responsible for the more in-boladf. Over 400 cars and tense forms of the sound pro-motor cycles broke down and re- dnesd, which is accentuated when ceived mechanical assistance. they aro undor-inflated. Correct while 494 accidents, the majority LIT over-inflation. apparently of a minor naturg, were reported. greatly diminishes the volume. The road surface also has an im-Outfits, which were on. the road The A. A. Night Rond Service portant effect, the worst being tho Now bituminons-surfaced up to 1 pm, assisted in can main roads and the next concrete. nection with 5 accidents, 144 cases of mechanical breakdowns, Curiously enough, this high- helped 92 members by obtaining pitched buzz of the tyres may not running supplies, and answered bo audible to the occupants of an 1,104 road information enquiries. enclosed car, who may be sur-
prised to notice foot, passengers 100 yards ahead, who have
evidently heard the approach of der 10 hp.. "Empire" motors The demand for the four-cylin- the vehicle, turn round and stare built by Mesars, J.-W. Brooke, of at it,
of Lowestoft, has become BO BI We have heard this sound pro- tensive that the makers have peeding from occasional cars for found it possible to reduce the years past and have attributed it price of the full equipment, to to some peculiar type of non-skid £95, ex works. This engine usos. tread, but now that it is becoming only about six pints of petrol an a common feature, it is a matter hour and is being extensively which we suggest would be well used not only for fast small boats, worth investigation by the tyra but as the power unit of sabin manufacturers. The trend of to- cruisers of 40 foot, and more and day fa all towarda, dead silent also as an auxiliary on large cars, and it is decidedly annoying yachts. Among well-known for the owner of a car which ho yachtsmen employing the Brooke regards as particularly quiet to engines are Sir Thomas Lipton, find that its passage can be heard Lord Waring and Mr. Liono) de
considerable distance away, Rothschild."
M
HOLZER
TAPPING
GʻOODY
ALLWEATHER
BY the miles they give
and the comfort they provide, Goodyear Tyres span the gap between maker and user with a structure of enduring confidence.
Next Time Buy
GOOD YEAR
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ALEX ROS9 & Co., (China) Ltd.
BANK
INA BUILDING, HONGKONG.