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Motor Cycles
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ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd.
/Sub. Dealers
KOWLOON MOTOR CAR & CYCLE EXCHANGE CO.
Michelin Tyres Mean
The cheapest "in the long run.,
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J. GIBBS & CO., Week days Phone C. 704
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OIL
MODERN OILS FOR MODERN MOTORS,
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926.
In the Studebaker Duplex you forget the weather
A LUXURIOUS CAR.
SPEED-PERFORMANCE-BEAUTY,
The Improved Packard Eight..
speed, has given the big increase in horen power..
AB
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Following the recent announce mont by the Packard Motor Car Company of the Improved Pack To take care of the addöd ard Six, the company has made power of the motor, the clutch public details of improvements in has been mado more rugged as the Packard, Eight which aro have the gears of the rear axle. Bald to have given this woll Packard cars are the first to have known car a big increase in installed the new type of roar. power, spoed, performance, be-axle goars which, it is said, will auty, comfort and safety. Pack-prove
revolutionary ard calls the Elght the Boas of charactor as wore the spiral the road" and asserts it can out.bevel gears, years ago. perform any stock oar in the The increase in power of the world in everything from agility Elght has resulted in a perform-1 to top speed on the opon road. ance, according to the Packard The same slim thoroughbred-company, that give it a com- like lines for which the Eight manding position in either city has been distinguished have boon or country highway traffic.. Its retained but they have been so top spoed, as a result of the refined as to add greatly to the greater power, even with enclosed appearance of the car say those cars, is declared to bo oxcoedod who have viewed it. Announce-only by cars of racing construc- ment of the company says that tion.
the long continued policy of al- While basically, the improved lowing for individual expression Eight in appearance is the same with an almost endless combina. as before, the refinoments in body tion of colour schemes and up-lines have added greatly to ita A number of changes holstering patterns remains un- beauty. changod.
have been made in the interior
and
arrangements. Although the sportiest appear fittings ing open cars with the same wide Among them is the installation range of colour combination are of hassocks to replace the con- provided, Packard takes pains to ventional foot rails. Wider, full point out that claims for agility Crown typefenders and wider and speed are in terms of en-running boards, have beeen in- closed cars, normally thought to stalled. They add much to "the be less responsive in traffic per improved appearance and give formance and open road speed greater protection against wheels than open cars of the roadster splashing. The roof of the en- olosed bodies has been lowered and sport phaston type,
considerably and extended be- Through changes which have
yond the windshield to give a been made in the inotor, without permanent sunshade and an im- in any way decreasing its simpli-proved, type of head lamp has city, the power has been so in-been added. creased that it now will develop
A wide variety of body types one hundred and ten actual brake is offered, sufficient to most every horse power. Beauty in the car requiremont.. In addition, for has extended to the motor. All persons who want touches of exposed nuts have been heavily their own personality in body de- nickel plated and polished. A sign, there is an almost unlimited control rods, piping, etc., also are selection of custom designed and nickeled and polished. Aluminum custom built bodies from the parts are scraped and sand blast country's best known custom ed. Even the ferrules on the body builders. These are bodies: spark plugs have been nickel built to the order of the owner plated as have the nuts used on with all the opportunity for per- the spark plug terminals.
gonal choice given in solécting a Aluminum alloy platone with costume from a famed modiste. Invar steel struta are used in In the standard bodies there also the ongine. With the now is a practically unlimited variety method of slotting the skirt de of choices in colouring and up-l veloped by the Packard engineers bolstering combinations. they are set with a tolerance of With greater beauty, it is only two thousandths of an inch, assorted, a big increase in com- preventing slapping of loose fort has been built lit the Eight, pistons when the motor is cold, already noted for its luxurious As in the fniprovel Sir, the cylid-ease in riding. Packard Aays it ders and crankshaft journals of will be known as "The Restful. the Eight are honed with honing Car." Its long wheel base, rug- stones as fine as those used in ed but easy spring action, ad-| bringing a razor to the keenest equatoly controlled, deep cushions odge. This precision in man-held rigidly to fixed contours by ufacturing, typical of the whole inspectors, the complete lubrica- car, is protected by the oil rootily-tion of the chassis at all times ing and chassis lubricating and the roominess of the bodies,{ systems, a combination of in- make for this restful comfort. surance against excessive wear Packard onginoers say that the which Packard was the first auto-great power of the car gives both| mobilo to have built into it
bodily comfort and mental page The cylinder bore of the Eight because it rolls along over the has been increased one eighth of road at any speed so offortlessly. an inch, making it three inches With the growing tendency of and one half. The stroke remains motorists to spend more time in as before, five inches. A new in their cars and the big increase in take manifold around the centre long distance motor travel, ment- of which circulates hot exhaust al and body restfulness, 803 gases is so designed that dis-Packard engineers, are among tribution of gas to all eight cylin- the most important features of dora is perfect. The same type the improved Eight car. Much of improved cylinder head as that is added to the mental ease with used on the Packard Six has an increase in the safety factors, been incorporated into the Eight, through brakes which cannot permitting of a "higher compres-fail in their uniformity of
aotion sion which, with increased motor for power,
WHEN SHE "PINGS." DON'T FORGET TO-
If the engine starts to knock or "ping" when climbing a bill, better results will be secured by letting off on the gas than by retarding the spark. The car always logos speed, when the spark is rotarded, but it may bo a positivo aid to the engine to let off on the gas. It is best to try feeding more gas the moment
after having let off enough to stop the ping-ping." As the onzine guins speed it naturally will tako more gas with less com. plaint. If retarding the spark must be resorted to, however, rotard slowly. Too sudden or too extrome retarding will."kill" the engine quicker than anything olsó.
SOME REVOLUTION.
At the average speed of 100 miles an hour for 500 miles, tho wheels of a racing car turn 336, 000 times while the enginė, revolves 1,596,000 timos ·withi 6,886;400 explosións.
Drain the craukgaso and refl with lighter oil,
Open-car freedom or
closed-car protection in 30 seconds
HE Studebaker Duplex is a pew-type open car. All the freedom. and airiness you could wish for summer driving. Plus the pro- tection of an enclosed car for stormy weather.
In its steel-framed top are unigus roller side enclosured. You pull *them down like lowering a window shade-quickly and without leaving your seat. All curtain trouble is banished. And when the storm passes, the enclosures roll up just as easily.
The Standard Six Duplex-Phaeton (lustrated) is a car of thrilling performance. According to the rating of the Royal Automobile Club,
STUDEBAKER Standard Six Duplex-Phaeton
KE-134
it is the most powerful car of its size and weight in the world Andras anfor lighting switch an its full-size balloon tyres with long resilient springs assure unsur- passed case of riding.
Equipment la unusually complete and includes: automacko apark con- ·
steering. Wisogi; potrai gauge on the, › danh;; automatie--windscreen elona; rear view mirror; dowl
Jideologidegial, Jock 59. Igniting andatering wheel controlled br the Xay that operates thì spare-
One-Profit savings enable Studebaker to offer you the outstanding ventilator: top light and splen power, comfort and quality features of the Standard Six Duplex- Phaeton at an exceptionally low price. In fairness to yourself comic in and see this new-type open-closed car.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
(The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Lül} Car Sales and] Phone
Accessories
0.4759
Service Phone and Parts C. 4802
STUDEBAKER
BUILDERS OF QUALITY VEHICLES FOR 74 YEARS
PACKARD
Thoroughly Dependable
To those fashionables who gather at the great race courses
of the world the newest Packard, pedigreed descendant of
a long line of champions, makes a powerful appeal.
The first touch of the throttle imparts to the driver the thrill of a spirited thoroughbred, heart pulsing, eager for action
À
few minutes in traffic-or hours on the
open road-leave.
a rich satisfaction born of the certainty that this car has no equal in performance.
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Nothing but a ride in the Packard Eight can tell you
its
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
33, Wong Nei Chung Rd., Happy Valley, Tel. C. 1245 or 1247
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RIGID SIX-WHEELERS. Thorneycroft of which the Budan
Count Bethlen, the Hungarian Government has ordered a fleet of Prime Minister, In the course of 23, two Kerrior omnibusbs of 40 the second reading debate in the and 20 seating capacity for Sal National Assembly on the Upper The British War Office, as in ford Corporation, and a Morris, House Reform Bill, said that the generally known, is particularly with a simple method of conver-paragraph enabling some of the anxious to encourage rigid six- sion into a half-track machine, members of the House of Hapsburg wheolare as vehicles which can which is to be produced in quant-
be employed normally for com-ity...
mercial work and for military trdnehort in the event of war,
During the last month "Motor
Aransport has published full
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Miss Lucy K. Yates, well-known gratitude towards the Archdukes,
details of such productions of four for her work on behalf of the
different manufacturera-Guy overseas settlement of women ani who had shown true Hungarisn
fealings. for doubledook omnibuses, a girls, has died,
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