GENERA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MOTORS
GYC
TRUCKS
This entirely new line of General Motors (G.M.C.) Trucks is powered by the famous G-cylinder Buck Valve-in-head engine. This is in every sense of the word a modern truck-designed for modern traffic. These trucks are available in the following chassis types:
1-ton Model T-20-6-cylinder:
132-inch wheelbase 23.41 horsepower 2-ton Model T-40-6-cylinder:
136-inch wheelbase 29.40 horsepower 150-inch wheelbase 29.40 horsepower 162-inch wheelbase 29.40 horsepower
2-ton Model T-50-6-cylinder:
136-inch wheelbase 29.10 horsepower 150-inch wheelbase 29.40 horsepower 102-inch wheelbase 29.10 horsepower
These G.M.C. Trucks are supreme in flexibility and in en- durance. Equally remarkable is the low price which is only possible because of the tremendous volume of General Motors Production. General Motors (G.M.C.) Trucks and Tractors are also available in heavy duty types, the capacities of which range from 2% to 15 tons.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1248 or 1247.
33 WONG NEI CHUNG, ROAD
THE
HAPPY VALLEY.
MOTOR UNION
INSURANCE CO UP
Incorporated in England
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(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association) PROMPT AND LIBERAL CLAIM SETTLEMENTS.
LOCAL AGENTS,
THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd.
York Building...
Phone C. 587.
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FOR
ALL CLASSES
OF
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HEAD OFFICE:-
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING. HONGKONG.C.
TELEPHONE:
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B. S. A
Model S27 O.H.V. 4.93 p.h.
The B.S. A. 4.93 h.p. O.H.V. model motorcycle meets the demands of those riders who desire fast riding in com- fort and reliability. The exceptionally low saddle position makes it an easily controlled machine, and every part of it is up to the world-famed B.8.A. high standard of quality.
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And it is sold by us at a price made possible only by our economical handling costs.
Ask for full particulars. THE SINCERE CO., LTD. SOLE AGENTS
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.
EXHAUSTING TEST THROUGH ROCKIES.
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Orders a Morris.
"NEW ZEALAND'S MOTORING · BOOM.
Mr. Williams, Minister of Public H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Works, complained in Parliament recently honoured Messrs. Morris that the people of New Zealand Motors (1926), Ltd, with a visit have nearly £30,000,000 invested in to their works at Cowley, Oxford. motor-cars. He said that motor- His Royal Highness was keenly cars caused the farming community. interested in the firm's special
production methods and has order to waste too much time away from ed A standard Morris-Oxford their farms, and this hindered pro- Coupe, which he intends to drive duction, thus retarding the pros- himself.
perity of the country.
One of the thrills encountered by tourists, as well as contestants, in the recent test run out of Denver, was this double hairpin turn on Berthoud Pass. No reckless driving here.
Up and down mountains, through valleys and canons and over long level stretches of pavement on the Colorado plains, stock model motor Cars have competed, starting August 23, in a spectacular 1200- mile test of what has been built into them by their makers.
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Along their route through the scenic Rockies they swung around thrilling curves on shelf roads from whose outer rims cliffs drop precipi tously. They went up and down) long grades which, despite careful planning by road engineers, re- main a challenge to the smooth flow: of motor power, and the efficient functioning of brakes.
They completed ten crossings of the Continental Divide in covering five times the course of 240 miles.
This reliability, run, arranged by the Denver and Rocky Mountain News, Scripps-Howard publien- tions, and supported by Denver au- tomobile dealers, combined all the elements of testing motor car per- formance under a wide variety of road conditions and quick changes of altitude. It was sanctioned by the American Automobile Associa- tion as a means of providing the motoring public" with information: on how each make of car. meets these conditions likely to be en-, countered on long tours.
Not Tested for Speed.
Entries were limited to stock model closed cars, in order to en- phasize performance of the type of car in most general use.
The cars were driven over roads on which traffic will continue as usual. The test was not a race. Schedules for the drivers. were based upon strict compliance with the legal speed limits of the Col- orado counties through which the route passes. A car urviving at a control point ahead of schedule was subject to as heavy a penalty; as though it had lagged behind.
The promoters merely looked on this as a reliable demonstration of the stamina and road-ability of the motor cars that have been de- veloped for the public.
The route jed over Lookout mountain and down into Idaho Springs, thence over Berthoud Pass for the first crossing of the Con- tinental Divide at an altitude of 11.300 feet. On the western slope of the Rockies the ears went along
Scenic splendours like this, along the narrow canyon of the
Big Thompson, greet tourists on the route taken by the con- testants in the recent stock, car endurance run out of Denver.
portal of the nearly completed six-son canyon, famous for its scenefy, the Fraser valley and past the west, mountains through the Big Thomp-
mile Mocat tunnel.
and rolled into Greeley, whence a 54-mile stretch of level pavement led back to Denver.
Over Great Divide Again. Over rolling country the route led Each car was inspected before through Granby to the mountain the start of the ran and after each village of Grand Lake and thence cireling of the 240-mile course. back over the Continental Divide, After each 240-mile lap, the cars by way of Milner Pass and the Fall had 45 minutes for oiling and ad- River road at an altitude of 11,800 justments. Official refueling sta- feet. The cars came out of the tions were scattered along the rout.
SIMPLICITY NEEDED. LONDON TRAFFIC.
Fear of Driving.
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CEMENT ROADS.
New Product Tested. Proposed Co-ordination. To the average automobile owner The Automobile Association is construction of concrete highways
Engineers and scientists believe, driving a car is simple. But to the carefully studying the proposed will be revolutionized with the adop poor fellow who sits on his front extension of the present London tion of a quick setting cement, a, perch all day Sunday, while the Traffic Combine to include under new development in the industry, average motorist is out enjoying one management all the passenger that sets in from three to seven' the country air, the mere thought services of the Metropolis, includ-days, compared with three weeks of driving a car is mental torture.ing railways, omnibuses and tram for the present product.
This fear is caused by mechanical way systems. inability, nervousness or timidness, according to C. B. Waterlow, writ- ing in the Autocar.
Women and men who have reach ed and passed the age of 50 or 60 are subject to this fear of auto driving.
The quick results are obtained' Considerable publicity has al-simply by grinding. ordinary ready been given to the advantages cement finer than usual. An automobile of less intricate of the scheme as viewed from the The first exterisive use of the new! construction, one embodying a standpoint of those whose interests product has been made on the Dixie change of gearshift, would remedy are directly concerned in the fur-highway near Pontiac-the road all this, according to Mr. Waterlow, therance of this project, but the that connects Detroit, Pontiac and and thus enuse an increase in de- Automobile Association takes the Flint, the world's three largest au- mand for ears.
view that thero. is another angie tomobile manufacturing centres. from which these proposals have Here, over a 1040-foot stretch the yet to be carefully analysed.
concrete was poured, with steel wire to reinforce it. The thick- Any proposal which necessitates ness of the mixture was 10 inches- But with a simplified gear shift, the creation of a new statutory body at the edges of the 20-foot phye- one which would eliminate the with extensive powers to government and eight inches in the centre, clutch release, the speed shifts and traffic in the Metropolis calls for which is not unusual in highway, the numerous other things that eats of those classes of vehicles the dally by a University of Michigan careful investigation In the "inter-construction. Teets were made occupy one's mind while driving owners of which would not be re- laboratory representative and when, a car, driving would become a plea-presented on a controlling author a tensile strength of 2000 pounds or sure to this class of people,
ity primarily concerned with pas-better was obtained the road was senger transport.
pronounced safe for traffic.
Indicating the confidence of en- In the absence of full particulars gincers in the durability the new' of this new "grouping" scheme, it concrete, the stretch of road just is obviously impossible to express paved was at a heavily travelled any definite opinions, but should point where a "sink hole" had un a legislation be introduced to give dermined the pavement, randering effect to the scheme. as at present the highway impassable. Prepara- outlined, the Automobile Associatory to paving, it was necessary in tion wil thoroughly examine the one place to make a fill 70 feet deep' proposals and through the me to overcome the handicaps of the dium of the Motor Legislation Com soggy earth, peat and black loam. mittee take such action as may be Paralleling the main road the en- necessary to safeguard the inter- gintere erected a unique plank road ests of the owners of private, to which served traffic during work on tor vehicles.
the project.
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