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gained the following awards in the recent English
INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS TRIAL SPECIAL EXHIBITION
MEDAL...
The B. S. A. toum on 3.49 h. n. models completed the " course without losing a singlo nark and were the only team to complote the Trini with absolutely clean shoots. ALSO MANUFACTURERS, TEAM PRIŻE CLASS "B"
Riders of B.S.A. Motor Bicycles also gained the following awards:
10 GOLD MEDALS
1 SILVER MEDAL
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SHELE OTOR SPIRIT
Shell
"SHELL" PUMP
Situated in Douglas Street
Des Voeud Road Osutral, and opposite The Douglas Steamship Winef.
The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S. C.) Ltd.
NEEDS MUST WHEN
"A LITTLE TOO FAUST
By FRED
GILLETT
BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE MORRIS OWNER."
Since 'interviewing Hamlet in We shook hande on it, and I plus-fours and persuading him to considered the bargain complote. exchange, or partly exchange, his, I had to oxplafu to him de'icato soliloquising mania for a motorly that, though Marguerite was car, I heard that our old operatio not included in the specification, friend Faust was also appearing she might say "Yes," if he of on the stage in modern. dross, fured her an engagement ring Here was another, opportunity with the philosopher's stone set for pouring oil on the path of a init troubled and trugic hero, and At that moment, an unearthly holping him to drown his sorrows' note, sounding like a diabolical Ha! Ha!" was heard outside in petrol..
the door.. We both started.. "What's that?"Tasked. **Er4 visitor I was expect- "I'd
I found Doctor Faust in his laboratory, clad in his dressing gown, wearing what looked like
..
rung him up just before you
came.
"Who is hof "
a "property beard hooked being, stammered Faust hind his care, as though ready for a quick change. Apparently he was just about to drain a go- blot of koison to the droga.
"These dregs of toa and coffee
lecs,
"One of the directors of the Underground. He has promised to take me anywhere, quickest way, cheapest fare. Ho wants Are worst than Mephistoph-me to sign a contract for a season
eles."
ticket."
So he sang, toying with a goblet of poison, because he said he was fed up with life and had failed to obtain any satisfactory synthetic results from the Philosopher's Stone.
He gavo a slight start at my sudden appearance and dropped the goblet, bidling mo, Avaunt, dread shapo! Bogone Return
"Don't put your monomark on any contract till you've had a trial run in a Morris!" I warned him.
Promising to felch the car and start the restorative trontment right away, I hurried off to find Marguerite and savo Faust from hoing fooled into buying in the wrong monomarket.
It was Valentine's day off- to those infernal combustion re-that is to say, Marguerite's gions whence you camą!"
brother had a holiday that day. Evidently he had been calling Marguerite, Valentine and I fock spirits from the vesty doop and our seats in the Cowley and drovo mistook me for somebody else. off to pick up Faust. A little do- hurriedly explained that I was lay was caused at the start by a not the personago who finds om-flat tyre. Valentine sang while ployment for work-shy hands to wo inflated it:
do.
"Canst thou do aught for me?" he, said, or rather sang.
Canst supply mo with the thrill of skimming o'er the earth's surface drawn by the gentle throb of some unseen powor, produced by the working of a volatile spirit?"
"Certainly." I replied. "That's what I'm here for."
"Canst give a magic car that goes without horses?"
"I'canst,
Even the flattest tyre will
swell,
When it's pumped up tight and
swell.
Sad the smile of sister kind, When you've left the pump be-
hind."
To our dismay, on arriving at Dr. Faust's door we saw a large flame-coloured car of foreign make standing outside. We had beon fprestalled..
eye.
At that moment a tall person- age with a diabolical smilo cime No, he said, that was impos-out of Faust's doorway. He had sible, He had spent his life in a short pointed heard, Potsdam the study of producing an aerial moustaches, streamlined chariot by means of magic, and brows, and wore a red doublet and had failed! Therefore, the thing hose, a rapier at his side, a guitar was impossible. The age of on his back, and a tall feather in miricles was dead, he said. He his cap. was bored with existence.
SATURDAY, JANUARY
Meph. Ha, hal So it is. The oxhdust in white-hot. The clutch has seized. The plugs are inurnt out: The cylinders aro carbonlaod The radiator has boiled away. The wiring has fused. The water- jackets are orackod. Ha, had Hot enough for you t
Faust: I am not satisfied.
Moph. No mattor. I will make It hotter for you later on. I have servico stations everywhere. Funst auspiciously): make of car is this?
What
Meph. Ha, ha! My own. It! is called the Unholy Terror.
Foust: Where is your factory? Meph pointing downwards): Ho, ha! I will show you over-- or, rather, under our works later
on,"
Faust (still more suspiciously): You said this car was Empiro mado.
Meph. So it is. The chassis is' Prussian The wheels are Turk- Jah The dynamo is' Soviet, The. tyros are Spanish. The wind- screen Italian. The magneto is Yankoo. The floor-boards Swod- ish. The upholstery in Chinose. The plugs are Dutch. The bonnet is Parisian and the engine Swiss. Nearly every ampire--and most republics-have had a hand in fabricating this box of tricks -- "Except Great Britain," inter- rupted Valentine,
Mephistopheles winced. "It was assembled in Canada, ha, ha ho faltered feebly.
"I have been fooled," said Faust.
"And he shall be foiled," said Marguerite.
Meph.: You must give the davil bis duc,"
Funst: I will not have this car at any price.
ایان
You've
Meph. You must. signol a contract with me to drive this car till you die of it. Hence- life forth you'll spend your boneath its chassis, tinkering in vain with gears that will not mesh, with brakes that will not act and nuts that lose their thread; while boiling oil shall drip upon your brow and bearings seize and big-onds come adrift: Ha, ha!
Faust: No, no. Marguerite, savo me!
Marguerite, who had been sit- ting quietly in the Cowley now joined in, and at her voice Meph' istopheles began to squirm and writhe,
Marguerite: This foreign car
you want to dump. "We all rogard suspiciously. Though Faust has got into
the sump"
By acting injudiciously, He'll yet escape the trap.
you laid,
And laugh at your dospotic
power.
Whon seren mystic, worils
are said,
That glow with patriotic
power.
Your foroig fake with
scorn we treat
Although you shout so loud
of it.
This slogan you can never
beat:-
Buy British and be Proud
of it.
"This is the vory dovil!" mut- Had he tried golf, I asked?tered Valentine. "He's got poor Yes. Man-jongg Ping-pong? Faust on toast." Cross-word puzzles? Spellicans? "It's only old Mephi," said Mur. Yes, he had tried them all, and guerite. We are not afraid of As, the seven mystic words, they had failed to satisfy his him, I know a spell of soven Buy British and be proud of it," craving for something simultane words, which will crumple him were pronounced, the effect on ously soothing and exciting. So,up. B-R-A-B-P-O-I! Guess what Mephistopheles was, instantane if I had nothing botter to offer, that monomark stands for!" ous. The spell was broken. Ha he would wish me good night | Mephistopholes, with a laugh wriggled in helpless rogo, and bit and got on with his cup of poison, like an electric syren, helped Dr. the inflexible glass of the wind- "Stay! By the way," ho add- Faust into the car and drove off screen... Then ho- gripped the ed, my lost youth- canstat a dickens of a pace in a cloud starting-handle and swung it of smoke and a smell of burning. vainly. The red car suddenly thou restore it?
Marguerite did not hesitate a
EL
burst into flames and in a few "Lost youth' Why, of course! That's easy, The restoration of moment. The brave girl, gripping minutes nothing was left of it.
the steering-wheel with both Faust took off his falso beard lost youth nowadays mechanical scienco-all done by hands, and jamming both foot on and laughed. We all got into the kindness and machinery. Thanks the accelerator as they say in Morris and continued our journey to moter-cars, there are thous-fiction was after him like a swal to the fancy dress ball at the
low making slides on the sun-Palais de Danse. ands of people getting younger shine. The big red racing cur every week.
snorted and swayed as it ate up "And what would the treat-the road at 90 miles an hour. The ment cost?" he asked, beginning little Cowley followed at fifty. to gat interested...
"We'll catch him yet. Ho can't
I told him that the treatment koop it up. Seo! he is already in the Oxford manner cost losing power," sang Valentine, little more than the Cowley pointing to a trail of molten ex- treatment, but that both were re-haust pipe and red lead, which asonable and lasting.
He offered me his philosopher's was mingling with the tarmac.
The finale came quickly... A
| stone-which, he said, would mile further on we found the big make gold-in payment. I told red car drawn up by the roadside, him he had better make that its radiator steaming, its driver offer to an agent and so what he cursing, and Faust singing de said. I did not think it likely Iriously in jazz time, "Nobody that any bank would cash knows what a rod haired motor philosopher's stone,
can do!"
Then, to encourage, him They carried on a wordy duel showed him "a 'picture of in song. Mephistopholes had a Marguerite, not at the spinning large Bass. Faust had a tonor. I wheel, but at the steering-wheel bad not even a "flver" or a small of a Cowloy. The vision on- Guinness so I held my tongue. chanted him so much that he'
Meph. Ha, ha! Sold again. burat in song. Instead, however,
Faust: You have sold me a dud. You have brokon your contract.
of singing "All hall; thou dwell
ing pure and lowly! he sang You promised mo a flory chariot All's well. You're selling Faust which would be the hottest stuff a Cowley:
on the road,
SORRY SIR Bur COULDNT THINGS OF ANY-
THING ELSE TO
DD-
"O1916 BY REA SERVICE, INC.
Some people run out of gas, and othera out of judgmont, when driving a car.
1927.
HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
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Plan of tables opens at Moutrio's on Monday.
This is how Alex. Ross and Company's
system of puchasing out of income works on Triumph Motor Cycles.
You pay as a deposit, one quarter only of the fall catalogue price; Insurance and bank charges are added on the balance' only, which is then divided into seven monthly payments. The cycle is delivered to you ready for the road and you ride while you pay. You have the pleasure and don't miss the money. This offer is for a limited time only.
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