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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 23rd NOVEMBER, 1929.
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COLLE
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The above picture show another shipment of the popular Buick and Marquette cars on display at the Dragon Motor Car Company's premises at Happy Valley Great interest has been aroused locally in the Marquette car, Buick's latest contribution to the automobile markets of the word. Elsewhere in this issue we publish a report of a 200 mile trial of one of these cars in Scotland. Photo Mee Cheung.)
Hern Blowing.
CURRENT
COMMENT
TRIUMPH CARS. MORRIS NOVELTY,
The 1930 Super-seven. The First Travelling
Bath-room. MANY IMPROVEMENTS.
Constructed on a 30-cwt. chassis,
the car is designed as a bath-room, and rest room, for the Indian Potentate.
In front is the bath-room, and
Several new body designs and FOR INDIAN RULER. considerable improvements in ex- fa sorry case. In the clangour. of isting body types with an entirely A Travelling Bath-room has just trams and of heavy traffic his new radiator are the keynotes of been completed at the Morris- In connexion with the question of vehicle is, except the pedal-cycle, the Triumph policy for 1930 in Commercial Works, England, to prohibiting noisy motor horns, and the most silent of moving things. relation to their Super Seven cars. the order of HH. the Ruler of "checking excessive horn-sounding. He can hardly be expected, when it may safely be said that nothing Bhopal. It is interesting to note that the need does arise to call atten-has been left undone to make the drastic method of dealing with the tian to his presence, to lean over Triumph Super Seven the finest noisy motorist is taking shape in his windscreen and shout. It is small car in the world. Scandinavia. The Royal Automo- true that the more able the driver bile Association of Norway proposes the more sparing he is, in the use casing for the radiator give on one side of the rest of the car
The new narrow ribbon type of to protect the Norwegian nervous of his horn and the more ready larger area for the waterway, and system from the attack that heed to accommodate himself slently to a more imposing front to the cars a luxurious divan," and on the leas hooting makes upon it by the ebb and flow of the traffic with consequent improvement dressing chest. abolishing entirely the use of motor around him. If is true tos that, the
body line. The chassis' horns in Norwegian cities. In in the course of a horrid competi-remains substantially the same and hot water is supplied from
The interior is electrically it. limited way the silencing of horns tion in the power to startle horns The wonderfully smooth running tank in the roof, heat being obtain- has already been tried in some great have reached a quite needless and powerful engine is as hitherto ed from a cities in prescribed hours of the pitch of hideousness. But while equipped with
three-bearing radiator. aight, and in certain areas; but the general din of the average crankshaft and four-wheel, wholesale prohibition of hooting modern city remains unabated hydraulically operated, brakes are essential in India during the hit seems a coinset of impossible per- their complete disuse must be left retained. Chromium fection, thinks the Manchester to such happy communities as throughout for all the usual bright special opaque glass,
pluting weather, and the windows, are of Guardian. Even this has, how those of Aabo and, let us hope. parts. The windscreen
·ever, been adopted, with success in Oslo.
one town, for the inhabitant of
Asbo in Finland is free from the Motor Hat Rack.
A
of all
other side is a' washbasin and
connexion with the
There are hooks for the curtains,
allowing models is of safety glass.
those inside to see outside, but There are no fewer than ten from peering in
precluding any person outside models including the open Four-)
The car is 20 ft. 8 in. long, and
screechings, the bellowings, and Motorists will welcome a must Seater Tourer, and Tourer De 6 ft. wide. the yelpings that accompany mo- dern transport in all other places, useful hat rack which has been Luxe the appearance of which has and it is upon the peace that reigns invented for cars, and which is bean further enhanced by the thus provides comfortable wecom- in Aabo that the Norwegian or proving very popular at Home. It adoption of a single panel opening modation for two persons. ganization buses its proposal. consists of a small nickel frame windscreen shaped to the contour Three types of Fabric Saloons, Given skilled and considerate driv- which is easily fixed, and which of the scuttle and by the adoption a Fixed Head Two-Seater Coupe, a ing, the argument runs, the motor does not in any way obscure the of an improved hood of new Coachbuilt Saloon, a close coupled car need no more advertise its aplaw and Co., Ltd. are the agents.
vision. Messrs. Whiteaway, Laid-jilesign,
Saloon Landaulette together with proach with hideous and variegated
The body of the Two-Seater De the Super-Sparts model completes Luxe takes a noises than did the victoria, the New Motor Roads.
new form, giving a range so diversified that there lorry, the hansom, or the old horse
more room for the dickey seat and is now a model to meet every need. bus.
Steering in Silence.
Peak residents will have noticed the work which has been commenced by the Bowen Road Tram Station. This is, we understand, in connex- will ion with the scheme which
It may be true of Aabo, and even of Oslo, but the motorist who tried to steer in complete silence provide additional motor roads on and safety through the general in the mid levels, ultimately linking of an industrial city would be in up with Magazine Gap.
THE MODERN WAY.quadrupled its output of passenger vehicles, a large proportion of which are being supplied for
What Will Happen to municipal purposes.
Ад
the Trams?
BUSES POPULAR,
Not a few Corporations have already acrapped their trams en- tirely, Lincoln and Swindon heter two which have done so recently. In both cases Leyland Motors: each annual report of Limited, have been entrusted with: municipal passenger transport un- the orders for the replacement dertakings is published it shows buses.
Many more are augment more and more clearly the growing ing their service with buses and tendency, on the part of Corpora- quite a number are taking up part tions in the United Kingdom, to of their tram tracks where it has discard the trams in favour of the been found that buses will be more motór bus.
suitable. Here again, preference This gradual change over is also for the Leyland has been very clearly reflected in commercial marked, particularly since the introduction of the company's new vehicle manufacturers program- double-decker, the Titan, and the mes, especially in one of the lead Tiger and Llon, single-deckers. ing British manufacturer-
Since these models have been Leyland Motors, Limited com-introduced no pany which has specialised in tha municipal accounts
fewer than 21 form of transport and which has opened with the Leyland Com- have been over 90 per cent. more provincial pany, in which are numbered municipal busea in service than Barrow, Blackburn, Blacknool, any other company. This old Bradford, Exeter, Lincoln, Maid- established concern, during the stone, Reading, Southport, Swin- last 8 years, has more than, don, Wigan and Plymouth
RATTLED.
THOUGHT. DAD SAID HE HAD THE
CAR FIXED-LONDER WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT. NOW - JUST"
LISTEN TO THAT NOISE!
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灵分
SECOND SHIPMENT ARRIVED
By the "KOREA MARU" on November 5th.
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