THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE B.M. W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE
WHICH WON THE ITALIAN TARGA FLORID RACE, 1927.
12 B.H.P. MODEL
41
R42 500 c.c.
The new B.M.W. Touring Model represents the latest and most progressive form of engineering development applied to motor cycles.
In designing the R.42 model, it has been the maker's endeavour to procure with all possible expediency, every step of technical progress and every item of riding experience for the benefit of a wide circle of clients. The outcome of this endeavour has been to produce-
The most modern Touring Motor Cycle of the highest quality ever put on the market:
A FEW NOTABLE FEATURES
Engine cutirely water and dust proof.
Double Frame throughout.
Increase of engine power to 12 brake horse power.
Rims suitable for formal or balloon tyres.
All gearing effectively enclosed in oil-tight casings.
The universally recognised advantages of shaft-drive.
Bosch head and rear lights-Speedometer-Horn.
-All spare parts in stock in Ilongkong.
May we give you further details of this super-motor cycle? If you are interested in the most luxurious two-wheeled machine in the world, please call or write for full specifications and particulars.
REDUCED PRICE H.K. $830.00
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.
THE DOGS POINT OF VIEW.
"Two Sides to Every Question."
(By J. L. Cunningham.)
Are dogs guilty of the base
"Quite, quite" he responded. "But charges levelled at them by some I wish that motorists would bark at motorists and others, who assert us more often. The polite ones that they frequently make deter-don't trouble about the horn, but mined efforts at suicide?
just say 'wow-wow' or 'woof-woof, With a view to ascertaining the very shrilly, and we always hear truth, I have managed, at great that." trouble and expense, to interview
canine race.
I promised to bark at unobser-
A WAY TO SAFER
MOTORING. '
What we motorists ask is that the pedestrian should study, enro- fully the orthodox road signals, so that his efforts may be readily understood and acted on. In this way they not only help other peo- ple to avoid accidents, but will benoft greatly by their experionco Every one is a potential motorist.when they themselves come to drive I imagine that there are few
Co-operation of the Pedestrian.
people who, if placed in the poai- car. tion of being able to afford a motor.
I look forward to the day when car, would prefer to be without one. one will be able to act na readily on Motor-cars are becoming cheap the signal of the average pedes- er, smaller, safer, and, more effici-trian as one does now on the signal eut day by day. Year by year more of a policeman or scout. will be able to afford the pleasures
'But it is not fair to ask the of motoring, and thus the number non-motoring public to co-operato of motorists will steadily and in-with motorists if the latter do not fallibly increase..
themselves co-operate. It must be some leading members of the vant dogs in future, and said good constructed; others are being plan-motorists think that because they New and safer roads have been a "fifty-fifty" business. Too many morning, leaving my informant "It is a libel," remarked a fox muffling his ripe bone. I then pro ned; existing roads are being are motorlats they have prior claim terrier whose opinions on the ceded to the house of an widened and made as "safe" as pos- on the roads at all times; others subject I canvassed first. "Nolaristocratic alsatian that I know.
ara unmannerly enough to treat with acorn the well meaning asalet- only are we more agile than in my "It all resolves itself into a ques- If pedestrians, especially those ance of those on foot. Politeness
tion of heredity," he asserted, in great-grandfather's day, but we are also more intelligent." And" o my enquiry as to whether the who aspire to become motorists, is just as cheap to motorists as it he resumed his pleasant task of modern deg notices the motor-horn. would study road problems while is to the rest of the community.- exhuming a ripened bone, as if the "Nearly all dogs with an urban they are yet pedestrians; if they Lord Cottenham in Daily Express, final word on the subject had been ancestry," he continued, "answer would learn when and how they can promptly to the sound of either assist motorists by signalling them bulb-horn or electric hooter. The over cross roads or round a dan- instinct is inbred in their subcon- gerous corner, they would not only. be performing a most useful ser- cious selves. For several genera- vice to their fellow citizens, but
snid.
Finding that I still lingered, he went on talking. "My great- grandfather died the year before
sible.
I was born," he said, wiping histions their forbears have strenu would be laying up a store of use- muddy nose on my trouser legs, ously avoided the automobile with ful knowledge against the time
At the sound of the warning signal they both proceed cz- peditiously to the neighbour-
ing pavement,
varying measures of success, and
those that have escaped have trans-when they themselves become dri- mitted the instinct to their descen- vers. dants."
To do this, pedestrians need to "Very interesting," I said. "But know something of the dificultles tell me "
which confront the average motor- "Observe, for instance," he con-ist of the present day and of the tinued, ignoring the interruption, dangers which beset him in various "those two gutterdogs disporting circumstances. themselves in the highway. An automobile is approaching. Is life Every Monday morning one or limb imperilled? No! At the reads of the toll of accidents over sound of the warning signal. they the week-end. The same thing both procced expeditiously to the applies--only more so-after n neighbouring pavement. But in re- Bank Holiday. Pedestrians, I be mote country districts I understand lieve, could do a good deal to mini- that such breeds as the sheepdogmise these occurrences. are still apt to become confused in' the presence of traffic."
I thanked him, and later paid a visit to a country farm to ask an old sheepdog his views. but they say that he simply didn't
"No, sir, e be not right, for understand the sound of a motor-sure," replied the shaggy veteran | horn. He would actually dart thoughtfully, when I repeated to across the road just as if there was him the alsatian's views. nothing about except horses."
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I have already noticed with con- siderable personal satisfaction an increasing effort on the part of pedestrians to help the moterist to the best of their ability by signals. Some of the signals are weird and wonderful, it is true, and one is sometimes at a loss to know what "Why, look 'ee, sir." he told me. information the signaller intends to pest market every Saturday as convey. Nevertheless, it ia a ever is, in maister's old van, an' kindly thought, and the principle there be terrble lot o' cars in town is right. | market days, sir.”
"And how did he pass away?"" I asked, notebook and pencil in
hand.
"Motor:bus," said the fox terrier Iaconically.
At present one cannot perhaps place undue reliance on such help although it depends to some extent
"'ears better'n most o' they "My grandfather was a bit bet town dogs," he continued quietly, ter," he continued, scratching an "Why, look 'ec, sir, it's my job on the appearance of the signaller. ear reminiscently with a hind leg, clear sheep off road when a car's "but I can well remember as a pupa.cooming. I bain't able t' see as py running out with him, and be-well as some,
*cos mo eyebrows ing terrified because he would keeps a-growing down me face, but persist in crossing the road without lor' bleas 'ec, sir, I 'cars 'em'a coom- looking where he was going." ing a mile away."
"Ah," I said, "and do you never do that?"
I retired a little abashed, but, feeling that my report would be in complete without the views of Д lap-dog, I made a point of enlling on my aunt's prize Pekinese.
"The modern dog," he barked, "is entirely different. He looks before going to visit the butcher's shop opposite. He looks both
"What?" the creature snapped, ways, and he keeps his ears open as sitting up in his basket. "Motor- well. Nor does he stop half-way horns? Nasty vulgar noisy things unless he meets a friend."
that upset my afternoon's nap. "Quite so," I interposed, "and No! I never take any notice of what then??
"Well," he replied thoughtfully, "When I want to cross the road "it's rude to pass a friend without I just go," he snorted angrily, "and saying good morning, isn't it? And I don't hurry either. I make the sonictimes when, one is busy growl- cars get out of my way," he added, ing with a pal one doesn't always haughtily, and relapsed into a notice a motor horm"
somnolent snuffle once more. "That's where neeidents happen," arrangement with the I said, wisely.
ROAD SERVICE.
A Resourceful A.A. Patrol.
them"
Owner).
One can usually tell, for example, whether he is a sensible kind of man who is really out. to help, whether he is the fussy type of man whose passion in life is to in- terfere in other people's business, or whether he is the kind of youth who will blissfully wave one over a cross road because he wants to see some "speeding," entirely regard- less of the fact that there may be danger from unseen traffic.
So it does not do to rely too much on these signals at present, and while acknowledging the kindly. thought of the signaller when he waves me round a corner which is visible to him and not to me, I always prepare to meet another car or even a charabane or a hay cart. In many cases the signal has been (By decidedly useful; on other occa- Morrissions one's caution proves to be
well founded.
G. M. TAXICABS,
600 for New York.
The Yellow Taxicab Corporation of New York City has placed an An Automobile Association Road order with the New York branch Patrol saw a motor cyclist with a of the General Motors Truck Com- pillion rider crossing 4 narrow pany for six hundred new taxicabs, bridge. The driver apparently Model 06, powered by a Buick six lost control, and struck the side cylinder engine. The new enbs, of the bridge. The rear of the will replace a like number that are machine tilted up and flung the now in service. The lines of the pillion passenger over the bridge. new cab are long and low, parti- Knowing that there was n fallcular attention has been made to of nearly 20 feet, and that the springing, and the interiors are stream below had, a bed of rocks,
tastefully and excellently finished. the A.A. Patrol rushed to the
The A.A. Patrol called for a scene, jumped from the bridge, and doctor and an ambulance, render. went to the assistance of the pased first-ald, and assisted in making senger, who was lying at the the injured lady comfortable in the bottom of the stream, face down-ambulance for the journey to the wards and seriously injured.
hospital.
TAXI TACTICS.
They may, as has been rumoured, Lack the finer points of 'tact; But then, if you're good-
humoured,
Watch their tactics when they act. In manner that's designedly. Contrived to miss no load; And note how, unrefinedly, They own the blinking road. So carefully meticulous to help
'each other,
Within each coloured taxi they
discern a brother.
Should fortune ever set you At the doors-on night of rain-- Of theatre, I'll bet you That you'll never go again, You'll see beyond the din and..
blurb
And multicoloured barrage. Of close-linked cabs that hug
the curb,
The car you own. Growl "cour-
age,"
And grimly slop through puddles while the hall-stones hiss; Lord help the private owner on
a night like this
With jauntiness abounding.
See them akid and stop and.
pounce
(With confidence astounding, In their brake's last grounding.
once)
On any likely client who's Scen carelessly to wave; Jump. Shift yourself within
your shoes
If you've a life to save.
The eager way in which they
strive and strain for fares Makes me feel glad I didn't sell.
those taxi shares..
--W. Y. 8. GUY,
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Model 526-Single Six-126-inch wheelbase. Phaeton
.5-seater
G.$2,695-
Rumble Seat Roadster
.4-seater
2,695
Sedan
.b-seater
2,805
Coupe
4-seater
2,870
Convertible Coupe
....4-Boater
2,945
Model 533-Single Six-133-inch wheelbase.
Roadster
,4-seater...
G.$2,815
Phaeton
.6-seater
2,815
Touring
7-8cater
2,915
Coupe
,4-seater
3,220
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.5-seater
3,220
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3,235
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.7-scater
3,395
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39.20 H.P. R.A.C] Rating—-block test actually develops more than 105 H.P.384.80 cubic inches piston displacement.
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Phaeton
Touring
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Club Sedan S
Sedan
Sedan Limousine.
.4-seater
.5-seater
.7-seater
.4-seater...
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4,480
4,535
5,675
5,575
5,780
..*5,880
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All prices and specifications subject to change without notice,
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