LIGHT
ELEGANT
ROOMY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926.
FIAT
FIRM
SILENT
SURE
FIAT-MODEL 503 NEW SHIPMENT ARRIVED
Light, silent and economical, the Model 503 with its metal-frame, combines elegance and comfort.
Its metallic, frame, electrically welded, is firm and can-. not be distorted, thus ensuring a perfectly silent car.
Insulating material is inserted between the body and the Chassis, deadening every sound and eleminating oreaking
The metallic body members are very light and strong. rendering the whole car very light and sturdy.
Let us show yoy this fine car.
Engine:- 4 cylinder 15/30 H.P.
Speeds: 4 forward, reverse
General equipment Speedometer, olock, 4 wheel brakes, Balloon tyres, spare wheel and tyre, Head-lights (self-dimming), motal parts nickelplated.
The very best you can get for your money.
Fiat Model 503 5 seator Torpedo De Luxe
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Saloon Cabriolet
$2650 $2550 $2800 $3500
tar. $3600
Agents for Hongkong and Canton
Societa Italiana Imp. Esp. Estremo Oriente, Ltd.,
·Managers -
A. GOEKE & COMPANY, 3rd Floor, China Building,
Telephone C. 2221.
DOUGLAS
Telephone C. 2221.
MOTOR CYCLES
Twenty reasons why you should choose an "E. W.”
1. Enclosed valves,.
2. Clean crankcase
3. Mechanical pump lubrication
4. Induction pipe houting fuckol
5. Petrol tap filter and drain
New type gear box enclosed kickstart
7. Gear box mir vont
8. Enclosed kickstarter)
Low pressure brakes
10. Taper roller bearings
1.11. Mad and waterproof wheel bearings
3 inch tyres
12.
13. Large section mudguarde
14. Flat mudguned slaya
16. New type fork shackle balts
16. Two tool bags
17 Low saddle position
18. Improved footplates
10. New exhaust system
20.
Control wires through head
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MORRIS PROGRAMME
FOR 1927
MANY IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS
CLIMBING TEST.
REMARKABLE AEROPLANE
PERFORMANCE.
PATROLING MECHANIOS.
Patroling
automobile m10- chanics, who repair autos, x punoturos and give road informa-
Imperial Airways, who are nothing if not thorough, recently tion, are being sent out in the wished to test the installation of country district around Stock the Armstrong-Siddeley Jaguar holm by the Royal Automobile enginos in a 3-ongined air liner. Club of Sweden.
Knowing from experience that the engines have to work their hardest for the first fow minutós while the aeroplane is climbing to its cruising height they ar
full load, should repeat this tost fifty times in the course of 24 hours. Accordingly when the aeroplano had been loaded up, the pilot was instructed to elimb to 3,000, feet, fly down to earth again, and repeat the performance fifty times with as little dolay as pos Bible each asoent. The test wes carried out quite successfully without the air-cooled anginesį showing the least distress.
It is by no means an over with the new, deep-sided, fine-ranged that the air liner, with its statement to say that the rango lined' and more comfortable of cars that are presented by coachwork that is fitted to the Morris Motors (1926) Ltd. in 1927 models. Therefore this new their new programme sets an pattern was ovolved. Its bold, entirely new standard in oar upstanding lines are immediately Not only have prices distinctive and handsome, and it been very materially reduced, and is not uninteresting to note that the appeal of the whole range of, an increase in cooling capacity models extended, but many very of over 60 per cent. is provided. important improvements have Thus the new models are equipp been incorporated, not only in ed to withstand the hardest, most the coachwork, but also in, the grualling work. under any chassis. To such an extent have climatic conditions, and boiling The height of Mount Everest Improvements in general been is now a thing of the past. is 29,002 foot. During the tost incorporated that, in the opinion
Mudguards have been im-the aoroplane climbed a distance of more than a few, they were sufficient to justify an inoroase proved in line and shape while which le equivalent to climbing rather than he accompanied by retaining ample wheel clearanco, Mount Everest five times and and the frontal appearance has thus again demonstrated tho drop in prices.
been also improved by the ad- wonderful endurance of its air- option of a splash guard at the cooled engines. bottom of the radiator. Thue" it will .bo appreciated that, aesthetically and mechanically, provided, combined band and the new Morrie models present side-lamps, with double-filament very groat advance.
(dim and bright) bulbs, ате Before dealing in detail with mounted
the wings. Briefly, the general trend of the the individual models, it should Spoedometer, clook, spring advances that have been made hero be mentioned that, among are as follows. In the past the other things, the controls have gaiters, and other nonessential Morris, because of its proven re-beon materially improved. Both items are not fitted: liability and ecomony and gene- clutch and brake pedals are now holstery, however, is the same, ral trustworthiness, has won for adjustable for reach. The steer the quality of all material being itself a vary enviable reputation.ing column has a very easily
REMARKABLE VALUE.
a
The value presented by the 1927 Morris cars can, therefore, be said to be very attractive indeed, and this applias not only in this country, but all the world
over.
on
The up-
A large output has been created varied rake, and the ignition and the same as that incorporated in by public demand. To-day the mixture controls on the steering the other Cowley types. It is manufacturers have taken their column have been rodesigned to
a more simply that these cars have not fundamental design and improved have a nicer" "touch,"
it vastly, yet, because of the big positive action, and no springi-so many of those little rafine- scale of production for whichness in them. Those alteratione, ments and accessories that while they are fully equipped, they can together with the improved gener- incorporate these improvements al handling of the cars, their not perhaps essential, are very and at the same time offer the greater stability on corners, and intriguing, pleasant and at- new cars at appreciably lower their freedom from roll, make the tractive. Both types of Cowleys prices.
new cars extraordinarily pleasant
roprosent equal value for money, Engine, gearbox and back axle to drive. remain unchanged, except for The electrical oquipment It is purely to meet the precise minor improvements. The frame. (Lucas 12-volt) has been material wishes of a larger section of the however, is entirely redesignedy simplified, the mut-out and public that the two rangos have In place of the three-quarter fuse now being separate from been introduced, a fact that will elliptic rear springs,"long semi-the switchbox,..so that the
elliptic under-slung members are wiring is less complicated and be fully appreciated when it is now used, and the frame, which quite trouble-proof. The battery realised that it is now possible to is a much more rigid and sub is carried in a cradle inside the buy a complete 11.9 h.p. Morris stantial job of deeper channel frame, yet in a position where, car, with all its many virtues, section is upswept over the back inspection of the acid level is an for the remarkable sum of £148 axle, and downswept again to the easy matter.
108. rear dumb-irons. Its side mem-
bors are braced by a box formation "The foregoing applies equally of running-baard irons and cross-to both 11.9 h.p. Cowloy and hängers, so that a most sturdy 14/28 h.p. Oxford models, but the and yet light construction is the distinctive difference in size be- resultant outcome. The new tween the two typos has been cars are better sprung than were retained, the Cowley wheel-bave the old models, and because of being 8 ft. 9 in, while the Oxford the improved springing they is 8 ft. 10 in. Cowleys are fitted handle better on the road. Those with 9 in. brake-drums and 27 in. who are conversant with the de- by 4.40 in. tyres on three-stud lihtful way in which old-type wheels, whereas Oxfords have 12 Morris cars responded to. thoir in, brake drums to balance their controls will realise that" in the increased power, weight and new models a very high standard spood, and have 28 in. by 4.95 in. of controllability indeed bas been tyres on five-stud wheels so far. as the "open" models and coupe reathed.
are concerned, the enclosed four- seater types (saloons, etc.) having The four-wheel brake system 29 in. by 4.95 in. tyres and wheels. has been redesigned. A more All tyres are Dunlop reinforced direct system of operation has balloons. These, acting in con been instituted, and every brake junction with the long, supple now has a separate and individu- springs and the all British Smith al adjustment, the necessity for shock absorbers, provide ideally comfortablo riding and road. lifting the floor boards when com pensating for natural wear in the holding qualities. linings having been eliminated A 'POPULAR" MODEL COWLEY. by placing the adjusting wing
BETTER BRAKES.
nute at the ends of the brake As has been already indicated, rods, thus making them easy of the range of types has been ex- Although it provided access from the front and back of tanded:
the car respectively. The now absolutely unrivalled value in its braking gear is very effective, class, the 11.9 h.p. Morris-Cowley and the distribution of pressure in its 1926 guise was, it was felt, is exactly equal on four wheels.more than sufficiently adorned A very important improvement with accessories to meet some is the incorporation of an all-tastes and pockets, and while a car so fully equipped naturally stool dash. This rigid superstruc- ture serves a multitude of good appeals to those who appreciate purposes, among which can be such luxuries, there must be an onumerated the following: It equally wide circle of motorista, or would-be motorists, whose
carries the seven-gallon petrol
forms yet another cross-brace for more simple requirements are the frame; it enables a perfect met by a car which, while being fitting bonnet to be used; it absolutely reliable, comfortablo tank in such a way that it cannot and economical, is not equipped drum and is easily detachable, with anything that is no absolute. It has also enabled a most aty essential for pleasant, day in tractive pressed-metal facia board and day out, motoring. There- to be used in which the in-fore, for 1917 a new range of Morris Cowley models has been struments are all grouped to- gether, are properly illuminated, produced, distinguishable mainly and are, moreover, flanked by two from counter-parts by the fact that they have rear wheel brakes "cubby" compartments wherein only. On these models, two- may be stored maps,, gloves, or and four-seater touring bodies any of those small parcels that only are listed, and the coach- add so much to the convenience work is in grey only. While of the driver and his passenger, absolutely identical, so far
Naturally the most immediato-gino, chassis, coachwork, etc., ly noticeable change in the care are concerned, with the four- is the new flat frontód radiator wheel-braked Cowleys, those that has boon adopted. How cars do not carry such a replete ever attractive in general lines list of accessorios, and, therefore, the old D-fronted radiator may sell at appreciably lower pricos. have boon, it was found that it For instance, instead of two was undesirable to match it up hand and two alde-lamps being
as on
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