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Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China:-
THE CHINA MOTOR SUPPLY CO.
28-28A, Des Voeux Road, Central. Telephone 21558.
Branch Office:-486 Yat Tak Road, Canton.
PETROL & OIL
May make your car go, but does your car make petrol and oil go a long way! The Jowett does Owners Opinions will give you some details which will surprise
you.
You can't run cars for nothing, but of all cars the Jowett gets nearest this desirable
state.
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You will always find Jowetts to the fore when the advantage of the car owner is to be gained.
For instance, we fit a stainless steel ra- diator, being the first firm to do so as standard.
When you buy a Jowett, you don't have to pay for your experience. Our 24 years manufacture has seen to that.
JOWETT CARS, Ltd., IDLE, BRADFORD.
. IDEAL MOTOR CAR CO.
Corner Lockhart and Marshall Roads. New Reclamation.
Tel. 23714,
LOCAL AGENSS.
FUTURE OF AIR TRANSPORT.
More Safety and Greater Speed.
PROGRESS DURING FIVE YEARS.
nearer to Manhattan than
timberlands of Oregon.
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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1930.
SIX AS WELL.
Studebaker Dictator.
FOR
ALL
OF
CLASSES
many bright touches of chromfur have 178 square inches of braking plate.
area and snub the car with light Excellent Interiors. pedal pressure. The hand brake Every detail of the interior] as well as the service brakes finish reflects fine car quality, operate internally on all four Wide, deeply cushioned seats wheels, and the brake drum con- COMPANION TO EIGHT, shaped to afford riding ease, have struction protects the interior of luxurious upholstery. Rear seats the drum and the brake bands. With a longer wheelbase and afin the sedans are flanked by from
An dirt and moisture. range of new body styles, a new upholstered arm rests. As In important feature contributing to Dictator Six selling at the lowest other Studebaker ears, front seats the handling and riding ease is price ever placed on a Studebaker and steering wheel are adjustable the fore-shackling of the front closed car is now being produced. to any driving position. Pedals springs. Long semi-elliptic springs Double.drop frame construction are covered with heavy rubber provide a 90 inch spring base. and the 115-inch wheelbase have pads. The steering wheel is the with 36 Inch springs in front and made it possible for Studebaker Husted steel cor safety type with 54 inch springs in the rear. Before the era of aviation trans-Its only value was along scientific body engineers to design a car comfortable thin grip, which will Hydraulle shock absorbers are portations was confined to two lines and its pursuit was unprofit of exceptionally graceful lines, not break nor shatter. Speedo-standard equipement. dimensions, and limited in these,able financially and extremely Its low swing appearance is meter, oil pressure gauge, amme The complete range of body to a great extent, by natural obtangerous. Gliders were experi- emphasized by sweeping mud-ter, engine thermometer and types includes a five passenger structions. The world was divid-mented with and improved until guarda hung low over the wheels, hydrostatic petrol gauge are four door sedan, Regal sedan with ed by oceans and mountain ranges the Wrights found it possible to and the skilful use of body mould mounted in individual dull silver two spare wire wheels carried in and its peoples were separated combine a glider with a lightings and smart "now colour frames and grouped in an in-mudguard wells and a folding from each other by distances weight engine and maintain flight schemes,
directly illuminated instrument luggage rack in the rear, a two measured on roundabout pathe. under power.
In. appearance the new Dictator panel. Deep pockets, protected by passenger business coupe, with Centuries of isolation have caused
Then began the evolution of the sixes are strongly suggestive of a convenient flap, are placed for leather upholstery and incom- us to judge distances by imagina-power plane. For years the de- their companion cars, the Dictator ward, of the doors under the cowl. partment in the rear deck for tion rather than by miles. For signers" attention was devoted to eight, and President eight and The Dictator six engine is the luggage, a four passenger sport people realize that the Panama finding methods of constructing Commander models. The new quiet L-head type with fully coupe with leather upholstered Canal is more than a thousand planes which would not fall apart Dictators, however, are marked by machined combustion chamber dickey seat, and a five passenger miles closer to New York than is in the air and in building engines a new arrangement of bonnet and an advanced carburetion and tourer.
system. Bore and San Francisco. Or that the plains which were not subject to frequent louvres in groups of three, set off manifold and forests of Venezuela are failures. Up to the time of the by attractive pin striping; and stroke are 3 3-8 by 4 1-8 inches. the war very little thought was given are distinguished by gracefully giving a piston displacement of ranches of New Mexico or the to making the plane for any other curved windscreen pillars, deep 221 cuble inches and a rating of horsepower. The motor purpose than its ability to stay in narrow radiator, big hub caps, and 273
actually develops 65 h.p.. · Com The aeroplane has carried trans- the air. Commercial aviation In portation into the third dimension those days consisted almost entire create the high production which weighted crankshaft,
ponents are a heavy, counter- statically and above the obstructions of the ly of exhibitions at county fairs would bring down coat.
and dynamically balanced and earth's surface. The air has no and air meets.
In fact, as far as commercial fitted with a Lanchester vibration boundaries.
The World War brought about a flying is concerned, we are now in dampener, and 104 inch connect- International borders become very rapid development in mil-a position very similar to that of ing rods matched in sets for imaginary lines and every city atary aircraft and with it a general the Wrights a few years after the balance. The camshaft is driven port of entry.. Civilization has knowledge of construction and fight at Kitty Hawk. Our deye by adjustable silent chain and always progressed hand in hand design which later contributedlopment has hardly begun and im-mounted in four long bearings. with its facilities for transporta- greatly to commercial aircraft.provements are coming so rapidly Guards Against Dilution. tion. As distances have been re- Up to as late as 1925, however, that in order to keep up we must Lubrication is full pressure duced in time, writes Col. Lind-commercial aviation hardly exist change our equipment and feed to main, connecting rod and burgh in the New York Times, ed. There were passenger air methods almost as rapidly as 'they camshaft bearings. Oil filter, commerce has made nations more lines operating in Europe, mostly are established.
crankcase ventilator, and ther and more dependent upon one under government subsidy, and
During the next five years we mostatic control of the cooling another for the products which go the US government had develop can look forward to overcoming system, combine to reduce crank- to take up a rapidly rising ed the transcontinental air mail to almost. completely many of the case dilution. The carburetor, is standard of living. Closer in a two-business-day service across difficulties which now confront us. fitted with the semi-automatic
eliminate ternational relations become un-the United States. These were We will undoubtedly be moving chake which
excess avoidable as the vague distances the outstanding examples of com- twenty-four hours a day on our choking. A fuel pump supplies of an old era are measured on a mercial flying five years ago.
established airlines. Radio con-petrol to the carburetor through a new scale of relativity.
An Awkward Flying Period. trol and communication will go a filter from an 11 gallon tank in) Radio has practically eliminated Meanwhile the increasing aero-long
toward permitting the rear. Starting and ignition the element of time from
to com-dynamic knowledge, together with operating continue safely are Delco-Remy, with distributor. munications and its messages better structural design and im-through weather conditions which on the right side of the motor travel over unprepared roadbeds. proved power plants, reached a hold us on the ground to-day. Air driven by an auxiliary shaft. The Bystem is "protected The aeroplane also travels a point where it began to be possible schedules will be improved and it ignition universal road, but it has not to build aircraft, which could will be possible to reach almost against moisture by rubber caps on distributor and spark plug succeeded in eliminating time operate with sufficient. safety and any destination without using cables. All wiring is enclosed in from transportation, although it economy to be independent of out-other means of transport. Рад metal conduits. is faster than any other form of aide subsidy. Then began the senger planes will become larger
clutch engagement ís human travel.
Reducing Travelling Time. aviation. The end of the first operation per passenger will be clutch with a slightly cone shaped We cannot conceive of going quarter of the twentieth century greatly reduced.
driven member. Transmission We can look forward to much gears are treated with a cyanide somewhere without spending time marked a mutation in the history en route. Perhaps it was just as of aviation.
higher speeds than we have at process for extreme hardness and impossible for our forefathers to To-day it is probably in the most present.
More efficient engines, wear. The mainshaft of the gear- imagine talking to some one on awkward period of its existence. reduced structural weight and box is mounted on ball bearings.
Easy Steering. the opposite side of the world. Branches of the industry have better aerodynamic design will all The fact remains that as long as jumped far ahead of their proper contribute and the possibilities of Steering is by cam and lever time is lost in travelling attempts position. Others are as far be high altitude flying are as yet gear with 15 to 1 reduction ratio. will be made to reduce the amount hind. Growth has been so rapid practically untouched..
The four wheel mechanical brakes]. that is lost. Since the aeroplane that an unbalanced situation represents the greatest progress exists. For a period there was an in this direction, it is interesting excess of trained pilots and, a to study the possibilities it offers shortage of planes for them to fly. |toward reducing our ratio of time A year later there was a scarcity
to distance.
way
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real development of commercial on the main lines and their cost of achieved by the use of single disc China Underwriters,
of trained pilots. To-day there is We can look back into the his undoubtedly a great market for a tory of air transport in order to modern inexpensive aeroplane, but forecast its future. Heavier-than-not enough demand for our pre-1 air flight started with gliding. sent more expensive products to
Ltd.
HEAD OFFICE Hongkong Bank Building,
4a Den Voruz"Road Central. Tel. 28121.
509
FIAT 520
"The BIGGEST THING IN
SMALL
CARS"
Is the title of very clever article written in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News by Mr. H. Massac Buist, the famous English motoring critic.
Without its Equal for
ECONOMY, COMFORT, RELIABILITY and
PRICE.
At the present high cost of Oils, Gasoline, and Tyres donot fail to call for a demonstration wheu intending to buy a Motorcar, it will be in your own interest.
A GOEKE CO.
4th floor China Building. Tel. 22221.
Showroom -FIAT-GARGE, 67, Des Voeux Road,
Tek 24821.
AN ENGINEER SPEAKS!
"I
DROVE one of the first cars Nash ever built. That was thirteen years ago. It was a good car then I have learned a lot about motor cars in thirteen years, and I am driving a 1930 Nash '400' now.
Good engineering, after all, is simply that knowledge which enables mea to select the best materials and combina them with the best processes to do a given läsk.
I have made a careful study of each new Wash feature as it was introduced, I have gone over every inch of the new straight-eight chassis from the twin-
ignition, valve-In head angine to the hydraulic shock absorbers and centralized lubricatingaystîm. 1 ́ ́have been especially prosed with the eary steering mechanism and with the positive action of the four-wheel brakes. Each improvement cesma a definite step to- wards mechancal perfection.
I know that Hash never adds a new feature just to be different. A proven engineering pilrciple always lies back of it,
"Personally, I don't believe there is a better designed car on the market today.
WONG SIU WOON,
21 Pottinger Street,
HONGKONG,
1930 NASH 400