THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
When You Wish To Buy A Motor Cycle
Go To ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd.
THEY have the best linos in Hongkong.
THEY guarantee their cyclos.
THEY give you three monthe free service. THEY give the Purchaser the host deferred terms.
1/4 Down, balance to suit buyer.
Where can you got more for your money?
A. J. S. DOUGLAS INDIAN TRIUMPH FRANCIS - BARNETT Motor Cycles
(STOCKS CARRIED )
ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd.
Sub. Dealers
KOWLOON MOTOR CAR & CYCLE EXCHANGE CO.
Michelin Tyres
Mcanj
The cheapsst in the long run.
Shipments & arrive every week from France to ensure fresh goods only. Sole agents for South China!) J. GIBBS & CO., BANK OF CANTON BUILDING
Phone C. 704 Phone C. 704
CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD.
FOR
ALL CLASSES
ÓF
MOTOR INSURANCE
WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS
HEAD OFFICE:-
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG,
TELEPHONE:
C. 1121-2
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
ESSEX SUPER-SIX.
PARISIAN SUPER- STANDARD DESIGN.
GARAGES.
How a Problem is Being Solved.
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SPRINGS OF STUDEBAKER.
GOOD ROADS PAY.
Tho now Essex Supor-Sir has There are thirteen leaves in the Traffic on the state highways. Dodge Bros. Aim.
boon designed for easy, simple front springs of the Studebaker of California has increased 93 por service work. The clutch and Standard Six Custom aodan and cent, in the past four years fol Automobiles capable of run-transmission are separably de- twelve in the rear. The front lowing an expenditure of $100,- ning for years and having mountable, Main bearings can springs are thirty-six inches long. 000,100 for good roads, the state standard body design not subject be adjusted without removing, while the roar springs measure highway commissioner recently
announced. In a city of six-Boven-and eight to radical changes each your will radiator or front-end drive cover.30 Inchos. storey buildings it was not reason-be the biggest sollers in 1927, 20- able to expect that garages could cording to Mr. E. G. Wilmer, continue to monopolies valuable president of Dodge Brothers, Inc. ground floors only. In Paris the Manufacturers who have sensed upward growth began nearly two this condition and are offering years ago, and at the present time the public the greatest possible thero aro Home half-dozen dollar value in their cars will skyscraper garages, one of which continue to dominate the motor has a capacity for 1,700 cars.
industry, Mr. Wilmor says, and those who fail to realize what the Public domands in a car will gradually drop back in the race for business.
Spiral or inclined roadways are used for reaching the upper floors, and although electric elevators are fitted, these are roserved for disabled cars. Some of those gar- Mr. Wilmer points to Dodgo's ages have very novel features. record last year as proof that tho For instance, the Banville gar-public appreciates more than ever ago, recently erected near the bafore the efforts of manufact- Place Peroire, in a wealthy ra- urers to make cars that will give sidential district, has a private long service. He says: box for each of the nine hundred care it can accommodato; tonnis courts will be constructed on the flat roof, and it is intended later to build a swimming bath in the busomont.
A RACE TO THE TOP FLOOR.
"Dodge Brothers, Inc., through its dealers, sold in round numbera 330,000 cars and trucks last your, a gain of 71,000, or 27 per cent, over the 1925 total. The motor industry, as, a whole, in the United States and Canada, based Although at present in use, on eloven months' official reports there will be an official inaugura. and December estimatos, sold tion early in the spring, when 4,480,500 cars and trucks, a gain some of the host-known pro- of 3.8 per cent over the previous fessional race drivers will indulge year. Comparing our gain with in a spoed contest up the spiral that of the whole industry indi- track from the ground floor to the cates to me the wisdom of making roof. The building has six focre, a product designed to give maxi- and the distance up the track is mum service at the lowest pos- about 550 yards. Banville garage sible cost. has been laid out on the principle of a private box for oach car, ench box having water, electric current and compressed air, and standard by which the public the car owner has sole possession judges an automobile. A. car that will give good performance must of the koy.
have three essentials: Long life, quick and cheap service and body design that does not have to be radically changed each year to keep up with the offerings of the rest of the industry.
Perivace As Standard, "Performance is now
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Deferred Plan of Payment 30% down Balance by arrangement.
FIAT
Deferred Plan of Payment
· FORGEVERY CATEGORY OF SERVICE
519. 40 H.P.
THE HIGH-CLASS CAR
30% down Balance. by arrangement
The Cars of HIGH POWER
507. 15-20 H.P.
5/7 Seaters
512. (20-30 H.P.
tho
Another interesting garage in the Rue Marbeuf, a few yards from the Avenue des Champs Elysees, has been built by the concessionaire for Bugatti cars, and is unique in having a two way spiral track from the ground
"If a car has theso essential to the roof. Cars go in on the qualities, and if the price is one right-hand side of the building which gives the buyer round wind up against the outer wall value for every dollar invested, it until they reach the tenth-storey will always command the public's roof, and emerge on the left-hand favour. side of the building without over
having crossed tracks. As the "Quality and appearance of drivers reach their particular interior appointments is another floors, they bring their cars to important factor in determining rest under the numbered positions the public's response to a con- allotted them, and no matter how pany's cars. The great majority crowded the building may be of buyers does not want the frills, there is no bumping.
but it does ask that the interiors
Two other garages have been bo wall constructed, have a good erected by one of the leading appearance and wear wall. The Paris taxicab companies on saving of a few dollars on the, ground which became available original price of the car, if this after horso cubs bad been abolish-saving ig effected through ed. One of these garages, on sacrificing quality of interior- the Boulevard Raspail, in furnishings, does not appeal to the Montparnasso district, has the prospective customer of to- six floors and a flat roof, each day. He realizes that such a measuring 328 by 82 ft. and cap-saving is expensive in the long able cf accommodating 1,200 run and prefers to own a car that cars. There is an external in- is originally priced right to insure clined track from the ground to satisfactory performance. the first of the upper floors and from the first floor to the roof a circular covered track wide enough for two cars abreast.
Market Well Judged,
"The automotive industry pro- ceeded sanely in its production programme in 1926 and in most.. cases it judged its market accu- rately.
The biggest garage in Europe, erected by the same company on site of former horse-cab stables, is in the Rue Cardinet, in the
"With business on an "oven northern portion of the city, and comprises ten floors, each 279 by keel, an abundance of crodit at. 118ft,, giving a total floor area of reasonable rates and few ovi- more than 320,000 square ft. dences of over-expansion in basie There is a spiral roadway at, one industries, there appear to be no ond of the building, the space in clouds on the business horizon the centre of the shaft being used that warrant any feeling other for storing cars, and electric than that 1927 will seo a cop- of prosperity that elevators for cars and passengers tinuance aro by the side of the roadway. characterized business in 1927."
RAILWAY CROSSING DANGER.
509, 9 H.P.
TEL. C. 2221
The Cars of
HIGH UTILITY
4/5 Senters
$503. 12 H.P.
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Juiet-at every point on the speedometer
The new Valve-in-Head Engine in the 1927 Buick hardly seems to be in the same car with
you.
This wonderful result is due to vital engine improvements which have made the 1927 Buick Valve-in-Head Engine vibrationless, beyond belief.
Quiet and smoothness prevail at every pointon the speedometer.
Come in and try this remarkable new car. You never have driven anything like it.
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