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Hongkong Delivered Prices
Morris-Cowley Roadster, Morris Oxford Roadster
Morris-Cowlog Touring
Morris-Dxford Touring-"
Morria-Cowley Coupo
280 220
Morris-Otford, Coupo
200
MORRIS SERVICE
Morris-Cowley Balopa
235
Morris-Oxford Saloon
·510
Morrin-Oxford - Cabriolet
Morris-Oxford Landaulet
370
The Hongkong Hotel Garage
Car Balos & Phoue
Barvics 1 Thong
Abonemories JC. $750
& Parte 4609
"The Wheel of
the World"
$40
The Hongkong & Shangbai Hotels, Ltd.
NEW SCIENCE,
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1926.
Aerial Photography
Now aerial photography is al- in mapping projects. Heretofore, straight line at extremely high Rochester, N.Y., and officers of most taken for granted. It is need airvoyors had to spend monthsin altitudo with no land-marks to the US Army are working to in other than military activities, a small section to get accurate guide the pilot, who has to depend gether toward more improved for advertising municipal growth topographite mape. With the so- only on the sun, the horizon and methods to take pictures from and privata antorprices, called multiple lens aerial camera, his special photographic instru- airplanes flying high in the sky,
Its greatest advantage, how an air photographer covers that ever, is to the army. And it is by territory in a few minute, and MAPPING THE EARTH, the US Army ther this new the maps may be completed with
mode of photography has been in a few hours, e
"SPEEDY DEVELOPMENT.
Aviation, young as it is, al-developed. roady has given birth to anothor solence almost equally important in adding to the knowledge and activities of mankind.
Although still an infant, aerial photography shows a marked im provement over that of the war The new science is aerial photo days. During the war, it was graphy, that fascinating, advon-only on the best possible days turesome art of mapping, the that photographs could be mado earth by cantora while flying at all from any altitudo, and then overhead.
only betwoon 10 and 3, in bright daylight.
Equipment and materials have developed so that now it is pos aible to secure. good photographs at any time of day.
The World War hastened the birth of this science, Inventive genius, pressad forth by necoesite, brought it out in its first attempty to catch quick, distant glimpses of enemy camps or of enemy The greatest service of this tórritory..
ments. especially with shifting winds. If the pilot drifte more than a bighth mile from the line, ho falls to secure the necessary overlap and his flight is a failure."
It is easy to drift from a course;
Two hundred square miles of land can be covered by this mo-
RESEARCH GOING ON. dorn moans, at the same time scouring sufficient overlap ro
The Air Corps Technical School quired for map-making purposes.
· MEN HIGHLY TRAINED,
at Chanuto Field, Rantoul, Ill., is Offcore trained for those duties the centre of training in this have to be especially enthusiastic scienca, It is an outgrowth of a for the work, to make them off-sories of army schools, the first of cient pilots and photographers. which had been established at Its' a job of patience, keen por- Langlos Field, Va, in the fall of Research work in this field is ception and control, and endur-1917.
For such work it is often nedos- still in its infancy. Chemists of a porfectly the Eastman Kodak Company at
ance,
science, both in war and poaco, issary to fly along 4
to snap them fast and accurate, despite weather or other disad vantagen.
In the photographic school at Chanute Told, officers and on- listed men are taught the mathe matios involved in photography, principles of this science, naga- tive-making processes, lantern- lido making, photographic optics, cameras, practical ground photo- graphy, copying, filters, the work of a photo section and mosalo making, ........
Officers get additional instruc tion in practical aerial photo- photographs, their interpretation graphy, the military use of such and aerial intelligence.
In addition they have to be. ex- collent aviators.
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110
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25, Queen's Road Central
Tel. Central 4759.
Ford
TOURING CAR
Price with balloon tyres , and
SELF STARTER
Delivered in Kowloon
H.K. $1,220.00
ANDREW HARPER
Authorized Ford Dealers
Chatham Road, Hunghom, Kowloon: 6Queen's Road, Central HONGKONG.
Telephones: C 4895 ́ & K 1216.
Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd. Sub-dealer
Bank of China Building, Hongkong
The Ford car enjoys everywhere an enviable reputation not only for complete satisfaction in everyday use, but for being the most reliable car under extreme driving conditions. The famous model T engine develops ample needs that arse. This power, power for any combined with light weight, low gear ratio, and the simplicity and directness of Ford control, make the Ford car supreme in con- quering the emergencies of difficult driving conditions.
This same supremacy of performance, which is essential in negotiating heavy sand and deep mud, is responsible for that quick getaway" which has made Ford cars so popular for modern, crowded city traffic.
Ford Motor Company
Detroit, USA
THE new B. M. W. touring model R.42, represents the latest and most progressive form of motor cycle engineering.
In designing the R.42, model, it has been the endeavour of the makers to procuro with all possible ox- pedience, every step of technical progress and every item of riding experience for the benefit of motor cyclists who demand the latest and bost
The most important improvements as compared to inodels, aro mentioned herounder:-
Increase of engine power to 12 h. p., notwithstanding the same cylinder capacity, achieved by means of an improved utilisation of the comprearion chamber and an increased cylinder cooling surface.
Detachable aluminion alloy cylinder-liends..."
External contracting braite acting on the vibration damper drum.
Cantilever springs with shock storlier (recoil spring leaf.)
Noisolone spiral bevel geur on rear on rear wheel.
Rims suitable for normal and balloon type tyres,
J.E.H
The B. M. W. Touring Motor Cycle.
12 Br. HORSE POWER
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THE LEYCESCO CHINA CO., LTD.
Bank of Canton Building