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SOLE AGENTS.
The Triumph of
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY,
JULY 9, 1927.
RACING CAR BURSTS INTO FLAMES.
8
MEA
Imagine your car catching on fire while racing along at a rate of speed close to 100 miles an hour! That gave Norman Batten his thrill on Decoration Day while he was driving in the annual 600-mile speed' classic at Indianapolis. The photograph shows Batten standing in the driver's seat. Note the flamoa at the rear of the speeding car. Standlog up, Butten drove his car off the track.
There's some good in every- thing-even a car that won't
run.
The FIAT.
ip- the Italian Thousand Miles Race, and the race for the Lake of Garda Trophy.
Ist, 2nd and 3rd
1:
Places won by FIAT
509
The "509" and other recent FIAT models can be seen at the new FIAT Showroom, 67, Des Vœux Road.
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BUS FLEETS LARGER. the service of 21,908 operators. This comparen with 69,425 buses At the beginning of this year in the hands of 21,632 companies "there were throughout the United
States 79,800 buses, running in in January, 1026.
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A CHANCE FOR
PEDESTRIANS.
[By Andrew Phillips in The Daily Mail.]
RACING IN ITALY.
1,000 Miles Road Course.
Long-distance road races are It is no longer possible for us unusual these days, but in Italy the nuthorities are not adverse to con- to ignore the facts. The traffic problem in cur/great cities has to tests of this nature. Probably race held for Not only is this the longest rond Bolved. necessary in the Interests of pedes- some years was the 1000-mile race trians, who are, after all, in some held recently in that country. The respects God's, creatures, but even course started from Brescia and in the interests of us motorists. ended at that place, the route go-
Here I do not wish to be petti-ing through Rome. fogging, pad to lay undue empha sis on the damage done to radia tors, wind screens and other parts by violent contact with pedestrians, We must always remember that the latter get the worst of such encounters. Nor need 'dilate on the time lost by fast travelling cars when the owners have to give
zens.
r.
The winning car was an O.M., driven by Minola and Morandi." They covered the distance in 21 houra Amin. 48 1-5 sec., an aver age speed of 47.7 m.p.h.
ROYALTY HELPS.
their names and a lot of personal Second-Hand Car Show, particulars to a fussy oflicer of the
in a private The English Royal Family bo law who interferes piece of business between two citi-lieves in helping local industry in every way possible. At a recent But I do want to point out to second-hand car show where all we the exhibits were for sale the car my fellow-motorists that if study the graphs showing the mum which attracted most attention ber (a). one-hundred-per-cent. was a 10/50 h.p. Rolls-Royce pedestrians, (b) motor-car homi-which the Prince of Wales sent cides, (e) motorists for each of the along and which was to go to the fast ten years, it will be manifest highest bidder, that in the not remote futare (c) will exceed (a). That, of course, will mean an insufficiency of pedes is trying to help the motor indus- trians to do what airmen call "the try sulye one of its most difficult ground work" of motoring, and prob) vas,
will result in much distress in au-
The price paid is not available, but it shows how the Royal Family
tomobile circles. In other words,ployed to reduplicate, so to speak, the number of fatal accidents to life.
rednecd.
pedestrians must be considerably All the world knows that the. domestic eat enjoys no fewer than Den't Blame Him. -
nine lives. A gland taken from Now it is purposeless for us to him, therefore, and grafted on to go on railing at the pedestrian and pedestrian would in all prob- aying that he is simply looking ability confer on the latter the for an early death when he tries | feline privilege. That would mean to crois the road. The perfect that he could suffer eight fatal pedestrian has yet to be born. We motor accidents and still survive inust take him as we find him as a laxpayer. Even if the graft- Don't misunderstand me. I do noting were imperfect and he only lean that we must td him in "took," if I may say so, to the the middle of the back when he extent of four-ninths or five-ninths crazily attempts to get from one of the maximura, that would stil! side of the Portsmouth road to the mean that he had three or four other. What we have to do is to spare lives which he could sub- accept his overdose of original sinscribe to the great pastime of las one of the plagues of modern motoring.
for his enormities.
days, and try to ind a palliative ! Motor-Proof Pedestrians..
I must here admit frankly that So far the suggestions made, have hot. suflicient scientific have been of little value. It is an knowledge to speak authoritative- acknowledged fact that road tun-ly on this subject, but the experi- nets for road bridges find no favour ment would be well worth trying, with the pedestrian. That entails and I recommend it heartily to the. walking up and down a fow steps, A.A. and the R.A.C. Perhaps, and with his ingrained hostility to with a little encouragement," their motorists, he refuses to make even scouts would be willing to under- so small a sacrilice ns this. Also go the test in the interests of all attempts to secure legislation Science and the race of motorists. whereby pedestrians were forbid- If, however, for some reason or den under heavy penalty to set other the foregoing 18 found im- foot in a roadway have failed and practicable, there is one solution will fail, until the bright day dawns of the problem on which to fall when we shall have "chared out the back. It is this: We must breed Reds."
a race of automobile-proof dés-
All that is left for us, is to for-trians. tify the pedestrian in such a way The idea came to me, I will ad- as to make him accident proof mit, when reading of the pla it ex-
Gland Grafting.
periments and achievements of the One method of securing this" re-lute Luther Burbank and other sult would be by making it com-botanists. When it is remember- pulsory for every pedestrian toed that by careful selection they wear a kind of diving suit, made were able to grow spineless cacti, entirely of rubber, which when in-secdless oranges, frost-resisting dated, would render him able to wheat, and the like, it is obv bear with equanimity the most that the samo principles applied to violent shock from a fast travel-hunman beings would produce a vece ling ear.
that could stand up to a furious
Here, however, we have to face Ford and suffer no damage. the fact that all the armies in The method employed would be, Europe would never enforce this no doubt, to comb the country decree on women. There might through and obtain a census of all have been some hope in the case the people who had been knocked of our great grandmothers of the ( down by motorcars and had come early Victorian epoch, when the through more or less unscathed. dear dames were, 80 to speak, An act of Parliament would then cloistered in their clothing. But enforce inter-marriago among now-a-days, with the fominine urge these splendid hardy folk. Their for leg display, it is a waste of characteristics would be transmit- time to consider the proposal. [ted in an intensified form to their A better idea in the suggestion descendants. And in a few gene- to apply the Voronoff principle of ratione tlie country would consist whom MILLIONS FOR ROADS. gland grafting to pedestrians. of motorista and those Thousands of testimonials from motorcars could not injuro. Efforts are being made in Texas gratified clients of Voronoff have What would have becomo, of the to have a $100,000,000 road fund attested the efficacy of his treat other pedestrians? you ask. taken an by the legislature and ment in regard to the extension of Oh, that's all right. We motor- approved by the people.
"life. Thare in no reason, then, ists would by then have ucalt with
iwhy his method should not be em- I thom.
དཱིཨསཱིཨདཱིནམཏྠིསནྣཾཡཙྪིཡཏཱིཏིཨཏྠིཡམྤིམདྷིཡཎྜིསཡསནྣཾཨནྣིཡ
THE "AUSTIN SEVEN"
Only takes a day's wages to run it for a month. Not a month's wages to run it for a day!:
The only car which you can run and save money at the same time.
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Now Offices, May 1.—Prince's Building.
2 door,Ice House St. Entrance.
ESSEX SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS
17,32 H.P-110-inch wheelbase-144.67 cubic
inches piston displacement...
Roadster
Touring
Coupe Coach
Special Coupe
Sedan
2-seater
G$ 980
G-seater
G$1,150
2-seator
G$1,150
C-seater
G$1,150
2-seater
G$1,180
5-seater
.G$1,250
DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CARS
24.03 H.P-116-inch wheelbase-212,27 tubic
inches piston displacement,
Roadster
2-scater
G$1,100
Special Roadster
, 2-senter
G$1,150
Rumble Seat Sport Roadster
4-seater
G$1,260
Touring
B-souter
G$1,126
Special Touring.
5-seator
G$1,176
Sport Touring
5-seater
G$1,210
Touring
7-seater
G$1,320
Special Touring
7-senter
G$1,370
Conye
2-seater
G$1,276
Special Coupe
2-seater
G$1,825
5-senter
G$1,325
Special Sedan
5-schter
G$1,375
6-seater
G$1,500
Sedan
De Laxe Sudan
HUDSON SUPER SIX MOTOR
CARS
29.40 HP.-127-inch wheelbase-288.60 cubic inches piston displacement.
Touring
7-seator
G$1,600
Coach
5-scator
G$1,775
Sedan
5-seater
G31,880
Rumble Seat Sport Roadster'
4-seater
G$1,890
Brougham (Custom Built)
5-senter
G$2,080
Sedan (Custom Built) Sedan (Custom Built)
G-senter
G$2,270
7-seater
G$2,375
PACKARD SINGLE SIX MOTOR CARRIAGES
29.40 H.P. R.A.C. Rating-block test actually develops
more than 80, H. P.-288.60 cubic inches piston displacement.
MODEL 426 SINGLE-SIX-120-INCH WIEELBASE.
Phaeton
5-Seater.
G$2,665
Rumble Seat Roadster Sedan
4-seater
G$2,765
5-seater ***• G$2,765
MODEL 433-SINGLE-SIX-133-INCH WHEELBASE Touring Coupe
7-seater
G$3,215
.4-seater
G$3,215
Club Sedan
5-senter
G$3,265
Sedan
7-seater
G$3,885
Sedan Limousine
.7-seater.
G$8,485
PACKARD STRAIGHT-EIGHT
MOTOR CARRIAGES
39.20 H.P. RA.C. Rating-block test actually develops more than 105 H.P.-384.80 cable inches platen displacement.
MODEL 336-STRAIGHT-EIGHT—136-INCH
WHEELBASE
Phaeton
5-senter....
G$1,185
Rumble seat Rondster Sedan
4-senter
... G$4,290 ...G-senter ...G$5,200 MODEL 343-STRAIGHT-EIGHT-143-INCH
WHEELBASE. `,
7-seater
G$4,430
.4-seater
.G$5,870
.. B-seater
G85,510
7-seater
G$5,625
7-seater
G$5,725
Touring Coupe Club Sedan Sedan
Sedan Limousine
The above prices are for delivery in Hongkong or Kowloon. All prices and specifications subject to change without notice.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR
Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
38, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,
HAPPY VALLEY.