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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
MARKET FOR MOTORISTS.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928.
FIAT Mod $29.
"TROMED
FRANCIS AND BARNETT
Cyclea
From £36:0:0 up.
DOUGLAS E. W. From £59:0:0 up.
'TRIUMPH MOTOR-
CYCLES
From £60:0:0 up.
A.J.S. MOTORCYCLES From £61:0:0 up.
INDIAN MOTORCYCLES From G$245.00 up.
BUY EARLY.
ALEX, ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
Prince's Building. 2nd Floo Ice House Street Entrance. Showroom No. 1 Chater Road.
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IN MOTOR CAR VALUE.
Eugine: 6 cylinder.
7 Bearing Crankshaft,
4 Wheel Mechument Brakes.
6 Dine Hteel Wheels,
6 Full rixo balluam cord tyres.
Automatic windshield wiper, nir cleaner, oil purifier, petrol filter, cowl youtifatur, force feed fabricn tion, front & rear bumpers, leather, uphointery, hydrostatic gasoline
gauge.
Nash Standard Six & sealer. Tourer
......... G$1150.
Nash Advanced-Six 7 scator Tourer......... G$1650,
Prices for other models 01 #pplication.
Free rides to prospective buyers. Sole agent for South China:
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customer to see everything on each shelf before he purchases.
The modern "Automarket" at Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville, Ky., May 15.-1ow" The front much resembles any would you like to drive your auto- store except for the wide doors on mobile into a grocery store and each side. As a car drives up to make your
purchases without the entrance, the door automati- being forced to wait for a clerk cally opens. and without even leaving yourį Inside, the automobile is guided
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Think of the pleasure of shop- ping minus the drawback of hunt- ing n place to park and less the discomfort of carrying bundles!
This is what residents of Louis ille are doing at the "Auto- market," the only store of its kind in the world.
The "Automarket" is to the
what ordinary grocery escalator is to the stairway.
the
MOTORING ON THE CONTINENT,
Helpful Police and Hospitable Inns.
Beneath the shelves is a roller bearing track along which the customer drops his packages,
The drive is in the shape of a into a cement track, just wide! huge "U," at the bottom of which enough for the wheels. The cus- is a turntable which places the tomer need worry no longer about automobile in just the right posi- his guiding-that, too, becomes tion to continue its journey up the automatic.
other side.
The groceries canned goods, fresh vegetables and bakery pro- ducts are displayed on large disk shaped shelves which line the left side of the driveway, These shelves rotate slowly, allowing the
Pedestrians may walk along the inside of the row of rotary shelves and make their purchases at the same time that motorists selecting their goods from the other side.
ANCE.
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Generally speaking, the roads on AUSTIN 7 PERFORM- the Continent are now in good con- dition, so that you need only carry the spare parts taken on a similar journey at home.
A Great Triumph.
Garage, petrol, oil and mechanics are found almost everywhere, and personally I think the inns and One of the things that matter in hotels in France and Switzerland automobile history was performed A holiday jaunt, whether by eur are superior to our own. Even in when Mr. F. Poppe, captain of the Welsh Rugby Football or motor-cycle, on the Continent is remote villages. I have found hot fondon
A fascinating and sometimes thril-and cold running water, and the Fifteen, drove an Austin 7 from ling experience, that can be enjoy-proprietor has a welcome for the Rootes, Ltd.'s, premises at Devon- foreign stranger within his gates. Ishire House, Piccadilly, London, ed at comparatively low cost.
Last autumn, when motoring W.1, to Edinburgh and back in a It is, too, one that no mere rail through Austria and the Trentino few minuten under 21 hours, the or road Journey could possibly ex-in Italy, where the Italians and distance being 878 miles. cel, while you gain that intimate Austrians fought
each
other
This was a demonstration of the
and understanding knowledge of amongst the peaks and glaciers, I rond-worthiness of a small British other na..ions, which is one of the came one night to an old inn with car that is rapidly establishing safeguards against wars.
great vaulted archways.
itself in all the markets of the The inn was cosy, and Lucullus world. The sort of conditions Considering the attractions, the element of adventure and the could not have given us a better which had to be met may be gauged dinner; but there was no garage, by the fact that on the return friendly spirit that I have always and so I asked the proprietor what journey from Edinburgh Mr. Poppe found greets, one when motoring 1 should do about the car. "Bring it was met by a head-wind of such abroad, 11 is surprising that more into my backyard," he said, "drive severity that for thirty-three miles lovers of the open have not ven-it through the front doorway." on end he was obliged to run his tured across the Channel
At first I thought he way joking car on second' gear.. There was,
over-
I think this le due to the fear for I could see no other entrance however, never any sign of of the unknown, a plunge into except the massive doorway which heating, and it was not found foreign rules and regulations, led into the inn. "That is all necessary to replenish any water in "We the radiator of his redoubtable languages, and other imaginary right," said the proprietor.
move the furniture in the little car.. The average petrol con- shares. These are flctitious, and will
smoking-room and dining-room, sumption was just under 36 miles are in reality no obstacle.
and you con drive straight per gallon, " through." And so I did!
from
If you decide to tour in France, Belgium, Italy or Switzerland, the formalities are simple; the filling
The only departure Then, again, you may run out of standard in the car which did this petrol, but will generally find a wonderful run was the fiting of a up of certain forms and a deposit of helping hand when you most need petrol tank in place of one of the £50 on the car-refunded on re-it. A short time since I was pass-rear seats. This held 131⁄2 gallons ing through a vast forest in of fuel, which is roughly equivalent Under the present system of car southern Germany when the petrol to the weight of a passenger, insurance this is practically reduced gave out. It was raining hard, to a paper transacties, and no long-and the world seemed quite empty.
turn.
er a financial stumbling-block., For After some little time two stolid the motor-cyclist it is still sin.pler; German peasants appeared out of no deposit for France and Belgium, the woods, and, seeing the position and only £10, or its indemnity I was in, prometly went off to a bond, for Italy, Switzerland and cottage a couple of miles away in
the forest other Continental countries.
The Automobile Association pro-supplies. vides tryplique, carnet de passage
Now as to the places one visit, where there
HIGHWAY RELATIVITY,
We may be sailing smoothly along the road, at a steady pace and telephoned for of 20 miles an hour, catching a glance now and then of the Within an hour a man arrived beauties of nature beside us, when for the foreign customs, and in- carrying a huge tin on a bicycle, we are suddenly aware of another ternational driving pass, at n from which I refilled. Both these motorist coming up from behind nominal cost, and armed with these men had fought against us in the and passing us at much greater the tourist acts forth. You will be war, but they knew the freemasonry speed. transported to the other side of the of travel.
Unconsciously, at times, we Channel, where your papera are
press our foot down on the ac- checked, petrol will be waiting for can
celerator and find ourselves you, and within half an hour you magnificent scenery, good roads, following that motorist at a much
originality' greets you have really embarked upon the great and.
higher speed than we intended to at every tura, The Pyrenees adventure.,
Both on entering and leaving a are amongst the travel gems, whilet travel.. Many of us are awakened or competitive foreign country be sure to see that high up in the central part of that into a combative all the documents, relative to the chain of majestic heights and state, so much as to create a desire car or cycle are properly endorsed forests you can make acquaintance to speed up and show that fellow by the customs authorities, as emis with Andorra, the world's oldest ahead what kind of car oura real- sion to comply with the regulations and, in population, tiniest republic, ly is.
that has all the glamour of Here is a study in psychology. may entail vexatious delays.
The hall at a frontier varies from medieval days and all the charin It is also a study in relativity. Were there no other motorist on ten to thirty minutes, according to
Then there are the ancient the road, we would never think the climate and the national tem-
chateaux and castles of France in of the speed at which we huppen perament. Last year I passed the the country a hundred miles or so to be going. But as soon as some German frontier in six minutes, on south of Paris, which will take you other driver passes us we imme- the other hand, the year before in back to the Middle Ages; the forests diately assume a feeling of slow- North-Eastern Spain, where re of the Ardennes in Belgium, the ness and inferiority which volution was in the air, it took me beautiful.. uplands and valleys of must at once overcome. over an hour, but then I had Switzerland, and the Italian lakes. We do Ho by speeding up. cinema camera on board and they
All these areas come within cusy Often this reaction is harmless thought it was a machine-gun! reach of cur or cycle, and the cost and soon dies down. But again Driving on the right of the road of the venture would comparo more it may result in the dangerous is the general rule, and if at first than favourably with a holiday at pastime of racing on the highway. you go slowly and keep cool the new home. The outlay, of course, de Our consciousness should be condition rapidly becomes, famillur, penda entirely upon one's personal awakened in us before we reach There is no actual speed limit on tastes and Idiosyncrasies, but this dangerous state. the Continent, but progress: should know a motor-cyclist who did him- always be slow through towns and self well, had a fourteen daya' villages,
tour, and the total cost to him was
of romance.,
Experience of the police of just unde £15.-P. T. Etherton, eighteen continental countries has proved to me how courteous and
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obliging they can be, and I cannot
recall a single instance of obstruc-
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