THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, – MOTORING SUPPLEMENT
All motordom
HUDSON
SER
ESSEX
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SUPER SIY
has turned to Essex
From care of every price and size, motorists are selecting Essex the Challenger as their next car. In speed, performance, beautiful colours and economy, this fine Super-Six compares with cars costing far more. With 7 body styles to select from, riding ease and features usually found only in costly cars, Essex the Challenger bids you pit it against anything that motordom has to offer. We will gladly place à car at your command.
ESSEX the CHALLENGER
THE CHINA MOTOR SUPPLY CO.
28-28A. Des Voeux Road, Central.
Tolophone C, 1558. .
Branch Office:-486. Yat Tak Road, Canton...
Lane, Crawford's
NEW SCHEME
USED
CARS
Buy a Used Car under our Guaranteed Re-Purchase
Scheme.
We will guarantee to re-purchase, at owner's option, any Used Car bought from us and will pay back a definite percentage of the original price paid by the buyer percentages as under :—
Period of use 3 Months 75
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To any buyer wishing to use his car over a longer period we will give special quotations.
Reasons why this Re-purchase Scheme must appeal to you
1. There can be no doubt about the quality of our Card when we are prepared
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3,
to buy them back again.
A Fifteen Hundred Dollar Car costs you less than $2.90 per day over the period of six months, and the Car is your own...
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If you are going on leave in three or four months, you can drive your own
car over that period, and even to the boat on the day you sail, without having any worry about re-selling.
When you arrive in England, we can arrange for you to have similar
service, and can in fact have a car of any good English make waiting for you at the boat when you land.
5. We can supply you with used Cars in Hong Kong. from $500
For further particulars call or phone our Sales Department at Head Office.
Tel. C. 4579.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
DAY. FEBRUARY
U. S. A. MAN. INVENTS
BY THE WAY NEW PETROL SAVER
British care findig ready sale Coventry is to be by-passed.
In New Zealand, says a correspon
dent, are those of the "baby""" class, which are catering for a
Kaye Don hopes to go to market entirely untouched by tona Beach next February.. Americans,
Sir Herbert Nield, deauty chair man of the Middlesex Sossions, said that the will come quick- I when hepple about to drive motor cars will be forbidden to take alcoholic drinks,
"What's the matter, dear?"
"Can't get this confounded self- starter to work. I think thers must be a short circuit some- where.
"How unnoying! Can't you lengthen
"Laporte (Ind)
Herald-Augus.
"Do you ever take Mrs. Glump! for a ride in your car?"
"No, with her jabbering in the back seat my wife couldn't keep her mind on my driving."
...
An express ferry at Queensferry is suggested as an alternative to the proposed road bridge.
A couple of university students were hauled into traffic court the other day on charge of highway burdling in their collegiate fllv.
"Have you a lawyer to act as counsel for your defence?" the jude inquired.
"No, Your Honour," responded the elder of the two, "you- mian! with a frank open countenance. "We don't want a lawyer: we're going to tell the truth."
"We had a wonderful trip.. We BAW new-crested summits leaping Loward the cerulean heavens; we saw foaming torrents ragiu through the hottoms of shadowy: canyons, we looked down from the beelling crags Into the depths of limpid lakes"
"How many miles" to the gallon did you get?"
LONDON-EXETER:
Motor Cycle Trial.
300 RIDERS.
Over 200 competitors took part in the Motor Cycling Club's Lon- don to Exeter and Shaftesbury trial held recently. No "' woman, competed, but there were women passengers in the side cars! and light car.
many
run to The 170-mile night Exuler in the keen air of a star- Huht night proved a jov ride, and! it was a cheerful hand that rode inte the city for breakfast just before dawn. The chief difficulty of the night's run was in keeping down to the schedule of twenty miles an hour,
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A Crash: Machine in Flames, There was one thrill when Harold Jones, driving a ten horse pover Brough Superior motor- cycle and sidecar, skidded, moun- ted a ditch and hurtled down a bank. Driver and passenger ware thrown into a field, and the ma- chine overturned and became lock- ed between two trees. The rider and passenger were uninfured, but the machine burst into flames and was completely destroyed.
Bad Going.
Pouring rain during the whole of the morning almost flooded Bome of the by-roads over which the remainder of the course was laid. This Included five tests. hills before the finishing rist was reached at Shaftesbury (Dorset), into which mud-bespattered girls and mén, covered from head to foot, and soaked to the skin, came Hmping early In the afternoon.
Mr. T. G. Mecten fell over his machine, which skidded when rounding a hairpin bend, and the machine hurtled into the village with, Mrs. Mecten in the sidecar, hit it was pulled up before she
EXCURSION AIR RATES.
Air travel can be done between Cleveland, Chicago; Kansas City and St. Louis on, excursion rates now. A middle restine ins started, week-end excutalpha be- tween these points, the fare being the same for a round trip is a Tegu- lay one-way fare,
SAME TRAFFIC SYSTEM.
Fifteen of the large cities of the United States have adopted?, the Modél trams ordinance spooned by the National Safety Council,
ROADS IMPROVING.
NEW PETROL SAVIR During the fiscal Four 1929, mine
Walter Critchlow, 1913-D J, Whton, than 7400 miles of federal-mid high- 1. UB.A has patented Vapor Moisture ways were improyed in the United Pertot Saree and Carbon Eliminator "for Autos and. Engine that beats inferee aret Slates and Howell, according to e. U. S. Department of Agrient 034 Panda, report sa high, la 48' miles, on türe.
lion. New Forda, 65.
Other makes report, amazing' introners (OU
1⁄4 to 1⁄2 mors, teen
Mr. Critchlow, offera to' mend. 1. to Intro- [duse. He, who wants Country and Blate
(per month,
Day-Areneles eratywhere to make $250 to $1,000 Write him today, W. Critchlow, 1998-D 12, Wheelon, IL U.S.A
It is proposed that roar tinde number plates should be square..
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`QİL ENGINES FOR 'BUSES.
Experiments are being carried! ✨ out by the London General' Omni- Gateshead is to have "robot" bue Company with a view to heavy oll engines being fitted to its traffe controls. }
omaibuses.
The proposed Firth of Forth road bridge will cont. £6,000,000.
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"An official of the company said to a Daily Mail reporter recently-- Heavy oil-engined omnibuses aro coming to London streets because our engineers are convinced that Fifty new air-cooled "no-tip" they are, far more economical than taxicabs are to be placed in aer-petrol engines. When they will make their appearanès it is im vice in London.
possible to say,
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See the First British "1930" Motor Cycle to Arrive at Hong Kong.
NORTON
MODEL No. 18 4.90 HP.
The advancement for 1930 in British production of motor oyoles can be first represented in this Colony by the 'dhapproachablo" NORTON just arrived. Many impor tant improvements are embodied in the now NORTON designs, including enclosed valve gear and pushrods, more efficient aflencor, and rust-proof Chromium plating.
TAKE THE FIRST CHANCE TO INSPECT IT.
SINCERE'S
THE SOLE, AGENTS.
Firestone
WE
CHRYSLER
-above
all others.
SOLE AGENTS
The Republic Motor Co. of China.
(Successors A. LUNG &0%. Auto Dept.)
30 32. Les Voeux Read
GUN-DIPPED TIRES
Stands by you in
EMERGENCIES
HEN à quick stop is imperative and your brakes scream out--then you'll thank the good, common-sense which prompted you to equip your car with Tires- tone, the strongest and asfest tires made.
Whether it's the sudden stop, the quick get sway of the steady pull through heavy loads Laydné Tirmiones ara on the job-100% in suring you safely, traction and economical: performance.
Come in, ipi di khow you, the features that enable Firestone Tires tɔ load the world,
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Telaphosa Cuniral 1246 or 12472 WONG SEUKUNG HOAD":"HAPPY VALET.
Firestone