MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, 18th FEBRUARY, 1928.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
Association Meeting.
CURRENT
COMMENT
Tground for private cars near the Happy Retreat enlarged by the
A special note should be made removal of part of the hillside as of the fact that the annual meeting the space at present is very of the Hongkong Automobile Asso-limited. The waste ground op ciation takes place on Wednesdayposite the Convent on the Wong evening next. The meeting is to be held in the Board Room of Nel, Chong. Road could very well Messrs. Jordine, Matheson and he used for a public stand. It Go., Ltd., and is timed to begin at could be concreted and would .5.30. There should be a large at make most excellent stand.
tendance of members. Testing Drivers..
These suggestions are put forward with the idea not only of benefit- Enquiries made at the Traffic
ting motorists but for the responsible Department shows that during Instidance of the year no fewer than 876 persons vehicles in the Colony is increas-
authorities. The number
of were tested in Hongkong for effici- ency in driving with a viewing by leaps and bounds and there to obtaining "Heences. Of this will assuredly be another big in- number, 680 persons were found crease in the early days of summer to be competent, the remainder the best selling season. Within being referred back for further a few years the regulation of teata. Thirteen driving licences traffic at the Valley will be a big were suspended for varying problem indeed if further park- periods and four were cancelled ing accommodation is not pro- outright.
Bus Routes.
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vided. Football matches KFC. now drawing, enormous crowds and scores of motor cars con- gregate on the Wong Nei Chorig
Jo order to increase the efficiend, sometimes making the road- ency of the Kowloon Burner-way almost impassable. A stand rice various routes are to be allot-
A MORRIS SIX-WHEELER.
PACKARD PRICE REDUCTION. An Important Announcement.
Following closely on the heels of a quarterly statement which show- ed the Packard company to be do- ing the greatest volume of business in its entire history, the Packard Motor Company on January 1, 1928, announced a big price ro- duction on all types of its own custom model' eight cylinder cars. The cars remain identically the. same Packard Eights the company has been building in the past.
The announcement said the |Packard factories are busier than ever before in nearly 30 years of motor car building and at a time when seasonal activity is least ex- pected. This bears out the state- ment for the first quarter of the company's fiscal year, including the months of September, October and November, made public recently The statement showed that during these months Packard shipped 13,020 automobilés, far exceeding shipmonts for any single:~quartor: since the first Packard car was built. It also exceeded the total number of cars for many whole visits to relatives and friends half years of operation. Profits of the forgotten from considerations of company, moreover, established distance. If the seasoned car new high mark at $5,633,868 in- owner may honourably covet any cluding the net income from factory thing of his neighbours it is sure-branches and all other sources, ly, these wonder days of novcítiate Packard executives said they which come but once in a life-believed it was just a matter of time...
good business to share the pros- perity-it-is enjoying with those
One of the fleet of ten Morris six-wheelers which have just been supplied to the Canton Government by the Hong- kong Hotel Garage".
THE PROMISE OF 1928. Motorist's Happy New Year.
ted to certain Companies, which nearby, a suggested above, would The moans that ench Company will be improve matters considerably. restricted to running on the routes i
allotted to them. Hitherto, it has sak Garages.
been the custom of the Companies. We were pleased to read that
The motorist, above all other, to run on all the routes, and the the Hongkong Lind Investiment members of the community, may, Cronkers there are who declare who buy its product. They ex- new scheme has been devised with and Agency Company has decided during the coming year, expect to that motoring is not what it used plained that prospects never have the object of stopping a lot of te build a number of garages on wish that he may enjoy a Happy run; that seclusion is difficult at they do now, that the factories are fulfil his frienda' oft-repeated to be; that beauty spots are overlooked brighter for Packard than unnecessary compelltion, and of the Peak. We have more thani doing away, with touting and once drawn attention to
New Year. Never have cara boon week-ends;, that ears are so reli- now working overtime to meet the certain amount of racing. It is shortage, and it is with pleasure good as they are to-day:
norable as to be monotonous. We current demands for cars and that thought that the Companies will that we note that the work is have they been so
low in cost; hear sighs for what were termed the reduction will make the Packard now be in a better position to run already in hand and that the work never before has there been such The Good Old Days."
Custom Eight cars 'avaliable to ao: Looking their buses to a strict schedule will be completed this year. The choice of sizes, powers and back-and we can look back quite will become even greater,
many more persons that the demand which is an important point to the position chosen seems to be ideal types. Tyres have recently been a long way we cannot but admit travelling public.
Innd we are certain that when the reduced in price; first-class petrol that we have ever had a fairer important changes were made in Nearly a year ago a number of building is complete, the letting is obtainable at Is. 11⁄2d. a gallon share of real enjoyment from our the Packard Eight which, with the A Danger Spot.
many stretches of car than we have to-day. Certain unlimited options of paint and of the garage accommodation will (in London) There is one spot in the Colony be an easy matter.
The Con new road with a surface compar-ly some of the adventurous days of upholstering, established them as where a much-needed road, im-pany's enterprise in this matter is able to a billiard table have been yesteryear seen in the coals of an customs cars. At the same time provement, ought to be taken in to be commended and is deserving opened in the year which has just after-dinner fire, following. per the equivalent of a very consider hand for the safety of motorists of every success.
passed into Father Time's store chance, a trouble-free run of afable price reduction was made cupboard.
hundred miles, take on a rosente through equipment added to the Many thousands of ducky people hue in the memory, those days ear, including such things as two in the community will assuredly when we struggled with a broken spare wheels and tyres mounted in New Year by the acquisition of spring from a hairpin and emergit is customary to add very con- a long-coveted car, and it is aled triumphant at the end of unsiderably, to the prices New York Show. comforting thought that a very no doubt, but we are apt to forget running from G.$500 to G.$700 on hour. These were glad momenta, The new prices show reductions large proportion of them will be Thirty-two manufacturing com- Morris cara, These happy folk that we were not always so auc- the enclosed models with somewhat punies producing 44 makes of will for the first time taste. the careful, and that a train journey lower cuts in the prices of the open cars, 19 makes of trucks, and one joys of real freedom of movement; was not infrequently the and of models, taxi-cab, will exhibit at the New the sea for the town dweller a far from, perfect day. York Automobile Show, January (every week-end, the shops of the
we could never'obtain more satis 7 to 14. Last year 35 companies cities for the country
No, the golden age of motoring faction from car ownership than exhibited.
mouse, is with us now. Whether we be we can in this exceedingly Happy when he (or she) be so minded; seasoned roadfarers or novices. New Year.-Morris Owner.
"and other road users, this being in
Robinson Rond, a few paces west
of the chair stand at Seth'e
Corner. The bend in the road-FEWER EXHIBITORS. take the first step to a Happy contact breaker or forged a valve wells in the front fenders for which
way here is very narrow and it
is quite dangerous for cars pro-| ceeding in opposite directions to pass-especially as the bend makes the road a blind one. A good many motorists are using this road, and a little more room at this spot would be greatly appreciated. Number Plates,
A great deal of doubt appears to exist among local motorists as to the use of number plates-many assuming that they can eh-man' the plates from one car to another. This is not the case. The Regula- tion reads: "Number plates will not be transferred from one vehicle. to another unless permission has first been obtained from the C.S.P." We are given to under- stand that the Licensing De partment has had, difficulty with the records owing to this fact not being aufficiently widely known. When a car has been licensed and a set of plates issued for it, the plates are for that car alone. It would greatly assist the author- itien if motorista, when securing a .cond car, would obtain a com- pletely new set of plates and dis- pose of the first car with plates complete. After all, there is very little to choose between one num- ber and another-they all serve the official nurnote for which ther were intended.
The Races,
The traffic was excoptionally hoavy during the first three days of the Races and we were pleased to note that nothing of a serious nature occurred in the way of accidents. It appeared, however, to be time that further parking place was provided. The present) stand was allotted to. owner drivers this year and these! were truly grateful for the chance of parking their cars on the stand provided for that special purpose. We should like to see the parking
A FLEET OF MORRIS SIX-WHEELERS FOR THE CANTON GOVERNMENT.
karos culonasta $ Ukrar kronista ponyol a zot und UNSERVED TO
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'On Wednesday and Thursday last the above fleet of ton Morris Six-Wheel vehicles (ssen outside the Peninsula Hotel Gar age at Kowloop) were sent up to Canton by train by the Hongkong Hotel Garage to the order of General Li Chal-sum for the Canton Government. The trucks, which are to be used for transport purposes, are of exactly the same type as have been so successfully employed by the British military authorities.
Our third shipment of the famous 1928 HARLEY-DAVIDSON CYCLES
are now in stock, (Only one 1928 Harley Singlo.O.V.H. model,
... and One 1028 Combination left.) Our Fourth Shipment is due April 9th., by s.8. President Pierce,
BOOK YOUR MOUNT NOW.
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THE GASCON MOTOR CO.,
REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN ON ALL MAKES OF MACHINES.
Tel K. 1942.
2, Kwong Wih Rodd, Kowison.
(Opposite
Steam Laundry)
Tho A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF SPARE PARTS AND
· ACCESSORIES IN STOCK.
30 13
Change Oil Every 1,000 Miles.
Reason Number
-Carbon
.
You cannot stop carbon from forming in your motorcar engine. It forms in every engine. And you cannot prevent bits of engine carbon from entering and contaminating your stankcase oll. If you have driven your car for 1,000 miles you may, be sure that your oil contains a dan gerous amount of carbon particles,
ter All: substances which contain 'carbön,' when burned, give off smoke. Start a bonfire of,papers. The papers turn into smoke. All smoke. contains soot. All soot is carbon...
There are countless little bonfires of benzine and bil burning inside your engine cylindere when you are operating your motorcar. Because benzine and oil both contain carbon, a residus of carbon soot always re- mains behind in the combustion chambers,...
Carbon is hard. Diamonds are made of carbon. Particles of this. hard, carbon soot work their way by the piston rings, collect in the crankcase off, where they steal engine power and wear coatly engine parts.
Fresh oil is always cheaper than repairs. Drain the carbon-laden oil from your crankcass every 1,000 miles. Refill with the correct grade of Mobiloll. Changing oil will give your car more power-more miles of trouble-free operation..
Mobiloil
Make the chart your guide.
VACUUM OIL CO.