THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1929.
TEST FIRST U.S. ROCKET AUTO.
MAIL FOR BUSES.
Tho U. S. Postmaster General has recommended to President Coolidge that the government, ja order to facilitato the distribution of mall, force motor buses to carry it by contracting at rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Com- miasion.
HOW DO THEY DO IT?
Two-car owners are becoming more numerous. A recent survey reveals that 20 per cent of car owners in the United States have two or motor vehicles.'
USED FIAT CARS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
We never offer a car that we cannot recommend,
FIAT GARAGE
67, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel: C.4182
Because it's new
Because it's
individual...Because it's the most beautiful automobile of the day. this new Buick-the car of cars
is enjoying the of years
Buick
year
THE NEW BUICK
Drawing, the greatest crowds-winning the most enthusiastic praise-rolling up the biggest demand in all fine-car history-the Silver Anniversary Buick with New Master- piece Bodies by Fisher is scoring the most sentional access ever won by any new quality car!"
Millions of spectators thronging Buick showrooms in all parts of the country} Tens of thousands enthusiastically placing their orders for this Buick of Buicks and car of cars!
And all because it is not only a leading engineering achievement of the past twenty- five years-cubodying performance abili- ties unmatched anywhere in the world-but
Is THE NEW STYLE
style-a fascinating new mode-of automo- tive beauty and lurury|
The motorists of America, "looked to the leader for leadership” in automotive design. Buick answered with this epic car, setting entirely new standards of style, beauty, and comfort, as well as of dashing performance. And the public is responding with over whelming demand-a demand that has forced the great Buick factory to produc tion levels unprecedented in its entice history!
THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY
BUICK
also because it ushers in an catirely new WITH MASTERPIECE BODIES BY FISHER
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT ||! BUICK WILL. BUILD THEM.
Experiments are now being con- ducted at. Santa Monica, Calif., with the first rocket auto to be con- structed in America. Lou Moore, noted racing driver, is conducting the road tests and is shown above inspecting the rear, mechanism of the unique car. Rocketa dlachary- ed through the holes visible in the top picture propel the racer along the bosch at Santa Monien as shown below. Moore expects to try soon for a speed record in thecar,
SOUND SYSTEM. Car Horn As Traffic
Policeman.
"PRESS THE BUTTON."
Pedestrians may yet have cause to rejoico in a new control for traffic invented by Charles Adler, jun, a signal engineer, of Balti
more.
impulse, and transmits it to a con- tral-box, which operates the mechanism which changes the lights..
When an amber light appears in a lens near the rod Bght the motorist knows that his signal has registered,
A moment or two later he gets his green light; simultaneously a red light appears on the main thoroughfare; and the car from tho
way.
In addition to allowing crosscross-street secures the right of traffe to interrupt main traffic, the new system will enable foot travellers to obtain the right of way by pushing a button.
Sound and light are "on point" in this achenc.
Operation of traffic lights at cer- tain outling Intersections is to be placed in the hands of Wie traffic itself.
Main Road's Advantage. After a predetermined interval, the lights change back from red to green on the main avenue and from green to red on the side street.
In caso a second motorist, travelling through the cross-street, reaches the intersection just after the lights have changed back to' Vexatious balts at isolated inter- favour main traffic, ho cannot sections when there is no cross-immediately get the right of way. traffle for which to hall aro He may blow his horn at the allminated,
sound-collector; he may ace the amber light, indicating that his signal has registered; but the re light against him will continuo until a fixed interval has passed,
A vital factor in the plan is the autohorn, which starts an electrical sequence that actually changes the lights.
Auto-Horn Does It Approaching a much-travelled main artery, the motorist in the cross-street finds himself stopped at the street-intersection by a red signal-ight. Of course, the normal signal-light for the main road is
Then the lights will change to give him, and any traffic which has been halted behind him, the right of way across.
If cross traffic should be heavy at times, so that ears honking con- tinally at the sound-collector, main traffic is still assured the right of Ho halts his car near a horn-like way at stated intervals, and recap-- contrivance mounted on a pole tures the continuous right of way
green.
4t the kerb. He hanks his auto-ns soon as the rush of cross traffic horn.
A sensitive microphone inside the sound collector on the pole con- verts the noise into an electrical
coases,
There is also provision for push- buttons on the poles, so that pedes- trains, can operate the system.
ACCORDIAN
RENOWNED LUSTROUS CAR POLISH ONE (SOILED CARTON) BOTTLE SUPPLIED FREE TO FIRST USERS.
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(Successors A. LUNG & Co. Auto Dept,)
30, 38 Des Voeux Road,
Cross Section of Regular or High
Pressure Tyro Under Load
The type of tra rides more directly on the wide ridder strip at the center of the tread. That is where the weight and wear come, ad that is where rúra rubber in areded. The walls and Bevad of thla lyre are thick and attif, making mecossury the vin, af targa design for high pressure tyres.
Cross Section of Gum-Dipped Balloon Tyre Under Load
This type of tromlow pressure Balloon-carries the load on wider surfara, therefore grooves are cut directly in the center of the Firazone Trend to permit saay £exing. Instead of large, helley rider strips and projections which retard fexing and cause skidding, the Firestone Tread ja provided with small pros sections and narrow' rider wirips, which increase daxlbilly and ziva gruntar safety and skid-protection.
Scientifically Designed
The Mark of Quality
BALLON TYRE TREAD
the Balloon tyre practical. More than ever our patrons to-day ap- preciate Firestone foresight which saves them costly tyre experiment and insures motoring safety, com
Car owners, the world over, are heralding this latest example of Firestone ploneering for Better Tyres Glance at the section and you will see why the scientific Firestone tread, supported by a Gum-Dipped carcass has made fort, and--
MOST MILES PER DOLLAR,
Firestone
GUM-DIPPED TYRES
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
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A new international highway, It costs money to keep roads The British motorist is apt to Enown as the "Arnold Trail," con- safe for motorists in the winter in offond the automobile Jaws In 200 necting Three Rivers, Quebec, the United States. Last year's different ways. However, traffic and Portland, Mo., will be opened bill for keeping snow off the roads officers of England know only this year, according to the Ameri- varied from $6.40 a mile in Vir- about half of the laws, as some of can Automobils Association, ginia to $106.32 a mile in Wyoming, them date back to 1836.