THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE B.M. W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE
WHICH WON THE ITALIAN TARGA-FLORID RACE, 1927 ..
12 B.H.P. MODEL 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 produ e-
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The most modern Touring Motor Cycle of the highest quality ever put on the market.
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A FEW NOTABLE FEATURES
Engine entirely water and dust proof. Double Frame throughout.
Increase of engine power to 12 brake lurse power. Rims suitable for formal or balloon tyres.
All gearing effectively enclosed in oiltight casings. The universally recognised advantages of shaft-drive. Bosch head and rear lights-Speedometer-Horn. All spare parts in stock in Hongkong.
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
Sole Agents:-CHIEN HSIN ENGINEERING' CÓ. First Floor, Asiatic Building.
for Economical Transportation
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the ideal delivery unit
Commercial car user's every. where, in every line of business, have found that the Chevrolet'1⁄2 Ton truck, with paneled body, is the ideal unit for an unusually wide variety of delivery requirements. Combining fast accel- eration, speed and smartness with out- standing economy of operation and main- tenance, it is a decid.
ed favorite among
such users as grocers, florists, dry cleaners, druggists, bakers and laundry companies.
$395
If your business requires a speedy, dependable and economical de- livery truck, come in and see this -Ton Truck Chassis popular haulage unit. We will gladly ar- $495 range atest load dem. $610 onstration to show
you how perfectly it' meets your particular requirements.
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1.Ton Truck Clim
1-Ton Truck Chauh with Cab
All prices fro. b. Flint, Mich.
Check Chevrolet
Delivered Prices
They include the lowest handlingand financing curves available.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE “
25, Queen's Road Central..
Cuble AddresB.
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THE WORLD'S LARGEST BUILDER OF GEAR SHIFT TRUCKS
·MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927.
THE USED CAR PROBLEM.
Is Public Safety Endangered?
QUESTION RAISED IN THE UNITED STATES.
What to do with the accumulat-rapidity and with such decided ing mass of used cars continues changes in design,.' colour and to be a troublesome problem in the comfort that they will completely automobile industry. In the urge overwhelm the owners and drivers cars, As long as the to make new sales, the tendency to of used allow more for a "trade-in" than used car persists, its number will the used car la actually worth ati continue to gain on the outpat prevails, although not to so ex- total of now cars to such an exteri travagant a degree as was the case that the manufacturer will be a few years ago,
compelled to seek a means of re- ducing the second-rate competi- Speaking to the Flint (Mich.)tion that he has built. Automobile Dealers' Association a short time ago, one of the General Removal of Worn-out Cars, Motors sales managers said that
Would met the sweeping repo- the dealers were giving away many thousands of dollars a year through vat of used cars from the streets the highways aid in the lack of a definite policy in appral-and
ing cars and sticking to their apsolution of the congested traffic praisal figures. The Indianapolis problem, give the buyer a better Automobile Trade Association has grade of new automobile, and formulated a plan by which a def-assure the manufacturer and the inite price for used cars is agreed dealer a stabilized price for the upon by the various dealers and new product? Of course, there is these prices: collected widely by a definite relationship between the the association, are published for new car and the used car. the information of the public. ....
"The power of a manufacturer'a product to remain on the road, to A Real Problem.
keep abreast of the other manufac- According to Raymond H. Diet- turer's product on the road or to rich, head of the Detroit coach pass the other manufacturer's prod- building firm bearing his name, the cut on the road is the best recom- used car is developing into one fmendation of a manufacturer's the real problems of the future for product. But to see his product the automobile manufacturer, ain the scrap heaps that dot the he says that in his steady climb to roadside or in the public dumps the saturation point with his un- tint mar the outskirts of every limited output, the manufacturer hamlet and town in the country has become less and less aware of must be an eye-opener to the manu- the possible boomerang in his ufacturer whose thoughts are for
his product to-morrow. limited production.
"Kusting heaps of dismantled "It is no rash estimate to say," automobiles are fast becoming eye- ads Mr. Dietrich, "that by the end sores. Their existence in timé of 1931 one-third of the cars now will bring upon them the same in use will be standing idle in a campaign of obliteration that made used-car yard. In the conglomerate such effective improvements In will be found models of every type rural billboard advertising. These of manufactured nutomobile. The eye-worés are constant reminders used product may vary in degres of to the manufacturer and to the use from 1,003 miles, or, in terms buyer of the final resting place of cash, from the first cash-down that awaits the used car, payment to the fourth wonthly payment,
Maintain Efficiency.
The model that is most attractive "As long as the used car serves is the type of car that is likely to its purpose of utility, as long as change owners frequently. The it takes the buyer to his destina- model that has little to commend it on and returns him to his honie, is doomed to remain unhandled and exercise it to the full extent of to begin its disintegration early, itd utility. When it has exhausted The position of this despised model its utility, withdraw the used car) is not unlike that of the unfor- from traffic and replace it with a -tunate old maid at the party. The product that is an advance over point of all this is that the mum the withdrawn product. Scrap the ber of used cars steadily increase. worn-out car, but scrap it with It seems reasonable to areert economy and wisdom. Do the task that in the course of a period of along the lines of the intern- years the chief menace to thefationally known manufacturer of production in quantity of sew an-moderate-priced automobiles who tomobiles will be the used car. purchased 199 vessels of 813,820 The approximation of perfection ions for $1,710,000 from the mer- in the building of the chassis has chant fleet corporation.
made
the mechanical equipment "Place a proper estimate on the of the automobile an unquestioned value and utility of the parts certainty. The scientific progress according to their period of service of paint and lacquer producers and deterioration. Then put those has made the refinishing of a used parts in service where their de- ear an inexpensive operation. The ierioration, will not be likely to improvements in parts and orna- cause injury or damage. montal devices are available to the! "This absorption of the used car buyer for a small sum. With by the manufacturer through his these advantages of chassis, paint dealers after the completion of a and improved parts, the used car specified mileage or at the end of a will compare favourably in con- stated number of years, and tho gested traffic or on the open high- disposition of the salvaged parts. way with the higher-priced new will give to the manufacturer a car, It is reasonable to suppose cane protection against any drop in that the improvements in the new price that may arise from a surplaa models will not appear with such of used cars."
PARK FOR PATRONS.
Theatre Troubles,
SYDNEY HAYMARKET SPACE.
"DRY" DRUNKS.
14,509 in New York. CANCELLED LICENCES.
Just as well the U.S.A. is dry. During the last three years The part played by motors and 14.59 drivers in New York State motor accommodation in Sydney's alone had their licenses cancelled. amusement business is being because they were drunk while in demonstrated by the uptown trend charge of motor vehicles.
Obviously the 8ummer is of new theatre construction. Because parking facilities in the drier still, for the average number present theatrical district are of these charges in New York dur
per overtaxed, the builders of the ling the hot weather is 150 Capitol Theatre chose the Hay-month. market as their site, and in the now-empty side streets they cat-gest theatre in Australia to date, mate there is room, for 500 cars. opened last week at St. Kilda, fully
seven miles from Melbourne. The parking problem is cardinal principle, however, i/ serious one for downtown theatres that once motor patronage has In the area bounded by Park and been attracted, there must ta Rowe streets, there are eleven
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theatres, accommodating 15,000 ample accommodation for the cars. people, all of whom enter at about Thus, the Capitol will be situated 8 p.m. and. emerge between 10.30 on an "island" formed by the two sections of Parker-street, Hay- and 10.45 p.m.
street, Campbell-street and Pitt At least half these shows appeal street, and facilities are such that to an "automobile audionee," but while 500 cars can be accommn- such a demand on parking space dated, the furthest car will be no exists that the habit of going to more than 100 yards from the the theatre by private car had theatre. been abandoned by many in favour of trams and taxis, while in sum-watching the experiment, and at mer this section cannot be terapted the same time "spotting" other into town at all.
locations offering similar advan The erection of the Capitol in tages. Several large houses, cach the Haymarket follows the ten-with a capacity of 3,000 people, dency in theatre, construction throughout the world to avoid conare planned for erection in Syd- gested areas, and to rely on motorney in the near future. They will occupy widely-separated positions, patronage rather than on transl-not because the managements fer ents. The Roxy, the biggest business competition, but because theatre in America, was delt they simply desire to avoid com- berately built in a deserted area petition for parking space. of Broadway;"the Palais, the big-
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Thousands of owners have travelled thousands of miles in their sturdy little Austins-----and at a cost of a penny per mile!
In Hongkong, an Austin “Sevon" can
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We shall be pleased to show you how easy it is
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