THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9.1929.
Homeward Bound Motorists
OUR BUY BACK GUARANTEE
MAKES MOTORING TROUBLE TREE
ON YOUR ARRIVAL The car you select, new or second-hand, is handed over to you registered and insured, and in all respects ready for the road. ON YOUR DEPARTURE You return the car to us and get our cheque for the pre-arranged buy-back price. ANY MAKE
OF CAR SUPPLIED FREE TUITION DEFERRED PAYMENTS
Full particulars from: T∙H-STAINTON & C? L?
P & O. HOUSE 14-15 COCKSPUR ST· LONDON-SW1 ORIGINATORS OF THE DUY BACK GUARANTEE or from our LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE DOX No 318. SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.
MICHELIN--THE BEST
FOR
LONG
WEAR
LOW PRICED CARS HIGH GRADE FINISH,
Early Showing of New Models Evokes Great Interest.
[By Israel. Kieln for the Hongkong Telegraph.|"
THEY ARE HERE AT LAST!
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AND
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4th Floor
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SEE THE LATEST MODELS AT
The SINCERE Co.
1920.
usage.
.
Typical of the resplendent dash of the 1929 automobiles
is the new Nash, in the 400 series, shown above. Some of the advancements are pictured here, such as the Ngah dual ignition system at lower right, the Chevrolet accelerator
pump at upper right, and the oil-soaked, fireproof air cleaner
of the Oakland at lower left.
Fewer "Accessories,
The gap between the exclusiven swift start, when the throttle la high-priced automobile and that of forced down quickly. This feaing, the steering apparatus has To insure further safety in drly- average usage has become less ture is unique to Chevrolet, apparent this year with the intro-
been improved, four-wheel brakos Along this line go the improve-have been universally adopted, the duetion of the new models for ments throughout the field, impro-corner, posts of seduns "thinned vements that may be expected at down to a minimum for better vi- Heretofore it took from three to the coming auto shows, Nash, sion, and the vacuum tank with ita five years for an innovation first with its dual ignition, Oakland fire hazard eliminated in favour of brought out by the manufacturers with ils novel oll-wetted air clean-the fuel pump. of custom cars to find its way into er, are examples of the new ten- The every-duy field. Sometimes deney. such innovations: took even A longer time coming into popular tomobiles are adopting such prac-parts of the automobile. The day Most of the medium-priced au- All these and more are actual tices of their costlier brothers as of buying a car and then paying To-day, however, liardly is a novelty shown at the "salon of the use of upring boots, pressure another hundred dollars or more expensive productions in New and simpler chassis lubrication, for necessary accessories is gone. York when it may be expected in rubber mountings for the engines, Even the bumpers go with most of some form or other at the show of non-shatterable glass, chromium the finished products to-day. Fuel average cars a little later.
plating and so on.
strainera, oil filters and air clean- The new
The automobiles have been made, era are part of the whole "works," models nlready an- nounced reveal this trend. From wider and more comfortable. Ono The graduation of Chevrolet into- the highest-priced cars to the low-manufacturer, in fact, advertises the six class, at practically the est, improvements have been made as a six-seater sedan what former-same price as the four, to only one that only a few years ago might ly had been designed us an ordi-fof the tendencies of manufactur- have been expected in none but nary five-senter. This has been ers to present better products" st the finest. One instance is the made possible by widening the low prices, Auborn, Marmon, adjustable front seat, which three front seat and putting the emer-Pontiac, Chrysler, and others al- years ago Rolls-Royce proudly geney brake to the left of the so offer brand-now automobiles, vaunted us an innovation, For driver.
with everything the average mo- 1929, Chevrolet introduces it to its customers!
For further comfort, nearly torist would want in the way of every automobile is fitted with comfort, safety, power and effl- shock absorbera or some other cluncy, for prices below the form of shock-absorbing attach-|G$1,000 mark.
Now Small Cars Start Things. Another feature for the new ment. Front end assemblies havoAll this is only a smattering of Chevrolet six in the accelerating been redesigned to prevent shim-|what may be expected qt-the com. pump provided alongside the car-mying of the wheels and its resul-ing automobile show in New York| buretor to assure enough fuel for tant discomfort and danger.. and elsewhere.
NEW "BABY" MOTORS.
LONDON CRUSADE. Excessive Traffic Noise. If the crusade being waged in
London against the excessive noise of the motor traffic succeeds in ridding the road of the practically out lorries which are the
TWO WOMEN'S LUGGAGE.
Tiny Round-the-world Tour.
29,000 MILES TRIP.
To Cost Under £100. ONE FROM U.S.A. Two new "baby" motor-cars are worn to make their appearance on Eng-main cause of its nerve racking Two intrepid young English- lish roads this year. Both are din, It will have served a useful women have set off to drive round expected to be on anle early in the purpose.
the world in a 7 h.p. "baby" cur, spring and at a price not exceed- The time has certainly arrived armed only with one revolver Ing tavo gares.
when all such decrepit vehicles, and with a solitary suit case for One is being made behind the many of them relics of war pro baggage. Their names are Miss locked doors of a mater engineer'a duction, should be barred from Gladys de Haviland and Miss workshop. The greatest secrecy the streets, or at least restricted Mona and it is the first time that prevails as to details and no one into low speeds to minimise their two women have ever attempted the town beyond the half-dozen per-excessive noisiness. ny
the journey without the help of a sons in the workshop knows what While a careless driver: may is going on inside, but I understand make the best of vehicles noisy in "Nearly all our clothes, apart, that the new model in atted with operation by gear crashing or in- of course, from overcoats, are of motor-cycle engine, is air-cooled, attention to
necessary adjust-silk." said Mias de Haviland in an and is capable of a speed of seven-ments, it is not always realised Interview before she left Eng- ly miles per hour. A prominent what extreme care is taken land, because silk folds up into mator manufacturer in the Mid-by British manufacturers to pro- nothing. We have a silk tent lands in interested in this car, duce quiet running vehicles, which is just a handful when it and it is not unlikely that his For many years Thornycroft is backed away.. company will be behind its pro-lorries have enjoyed the reputation. There has never been such s duction next year when it will be of being the quietest of heavy tiny world expedition. "We are vohistes on the road, as indeed the carrying only one spare Dunlop The other motor-car has already makers have always claimed them tre as we hope to got round on made its appearance in the United to be as a result of their methods the original set. States of America, and in spita
We are taking St. Christopher
sold at a figure under £90,
sirable feature (1.5%
man,
.
+
of the demand there for the road employed to ensure this most de with us for luck. He is the forenco to a light car, it has detall as the perfect "pairing" of statuette of him bearing a baby ster and the family saloon in pre- These include such attention to patron saint of motorists and a friend presented us with a little achieved a certain popularity. It is Ukely to make an appeal here timing gears, the mounting of the
if only for its simple construction engine on rubber-insulation blocks, over a river.
so simple, in fact, that it can and the designing of all power
"We will complete about 29,000
in Americn; unassembled, and speeds, and the special type of thousands of miles, and maintain securely packed in a crate, direct Thornycroft aprings which are dat throughout its traditional quiet to one's door, and be erected at under load and reduce to
be despatched from the factory shafts so as to avoid whip at high miles before we finish."
running,
home by any owner-driver with the mlulmum the wear on shackles, all After all, noise is caerally an most elementary knowledge, the of which are prolific cauaca of indication of wear, and the equally only aid being a book of rules." transmission. noises.. The crate, incidentally, is water-
When driven with ordinary care vehicles for lasting service is born good reputation of Thorny roft tight, and can be. placed in one's and duc nitention given to run of the painstaking efforts of its garden for use as a garage. This ning adjustments. a Thornycroft manufacturers and the extremely motor-car will also sell for con-vehicle can be depended upon to
ino manufacturing limits they 'siderably fons, than £100,
| run for many years, and many
work to.
LOCAL: AGENTS,
VISI
THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd
York Building.
Phone 0. 578.
Artistic Grace Accentuated by the Sweeping Lines of the New Hupmobile CENTURY SIX
The New Contury.Six will.autify your most ardent implute for Beauty, Its graco of lino and modernistic contours make ita appearance out- standing in the motor world... You urn sure to feel Power in the New. Century Six, Power that con tinitally surgen shiend, regardless of road or climatic, conditions. You wille thrill to its vibrationloxi spoed, and you are bound to enjoy ita remarkable sase of handling and its application
of the most modera, safely princi ples. Come in and let us tell you about thein. Make us prove what we say in a trial ran.
Sole Agents:
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- Propriutofi C, F. PAU
24, Des Voeux Road Central Tel. 8552 and 482.
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