THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MOTORING ́ SUPPLEMENT.
Trust A Thornycroft With Your Transport
DEAL DIRECT.
THORNYCROFT
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COACHES & OMNIBUSES
MOTOR VEHICLES
Pioneer Manufacturers of Commercial Motor Vehicles
4 or 6 Wheels
4 or 6 Cylinders
30 Cwt. to 10 Ton Loads
20 to 70 Passengers
JOHN 1. THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED Pioneer Building, Nathan Road, Kowloon. TEL. 56752.
Trust A THORNYCROFT With Your Transport
BEAUTY-PERFORMANCE-LEADERSHIP COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE,
Motorists the world over have long looked to Buick for the new and better thing in motor cars. And Buick hos repaid this confidence year after year. But never quite so drama- tically, and decisively as in the 1932 Buicks. Four Brilliant Eights, in twenty-six models- Newly-styled, Beautifled bodies by Fisherme The Wizard Control, resulting from the Auto- matic Clutch, Advanced Free Wheeling and Silent Second Syncro-Mosh Transmission- New Valve-in-Head Straight-Eight Engine- Now Ride Regulator-and many important improvements.
THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF PETROL PUMP
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932.
only think ahead for the duration of the drive, an hour or so at the outside. They haven't time to stop for oil, water, or air. They are prepared to take a chance on those things.
The average owner-driver usual-
Guessing Customer's Order by Deduction.y orders five gallons of petrol and some oll, but on some occasions To the motorist, a filling-station that afternoon the attendant cor attendant is just a robot who goes reetly estimated, three and four about the operations of replenish-gallons when I expected an order ing the tank and looking at the oil of at least five. and water without a thought in his head. The motorist in mistaken, The writes D. Compton-Jolns. monotony of the attendant's fob forces him to relieve the tedium by a mental game of guessing.
The game is, of course, to size
game,
"It's practically the end of the month," explained the attendant afterwards, "and professional men who are paid monthly often try to eke out what they have left ao as. not to have to go to the bank again before pay-day.
car
Women drivers, I learned; give up the car and its occupants and on the average, much smaller or- from these observations to deducoders than men, except when they the order. It In a very diverting are taking the children for a week. and trip. The wife who occasion- ally drives her husband's gives very small orders. She taken care not to buy more petrol than she la likely to use, presumably because she does not intend to leave a bigger balance in the tank than when she started out. Sho never troubles her head about oll. water, or air; all these things are left to the husband. Women who own their own cars order in larger average is the avorage quantities. but their still smaller than
While waiting for the completion of a repair job the other afternoon I checked a filling-atation attend- He attended to 45 ant's guersER. customers of all types and his gueases were absolutely correct on 36 occasions, a remarkable feat, considering the chances of error. He made no attempt to forecast the brand of petrol that would be or. dered. His guesses embraced the amount of petrol and oil required water and whether attention to and air would be requested.
When a big chauffeur-driven ear draws up outside a pump the at- tendant anticipates an order for us much petrol as the tank will hold and as much oil and water as are needed. This type of driver rarely requests air for the tyres. chauffeur tents the tyres routine job.
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The driver of a battered car, on the other hand, frequently asks for alr, unlesa he is of the bashful type who thinks his order of three gallons is not large enough to war- rant a demand for free air. The the attendant judges this from cast of the driver's features.
Owners of battered cars order petrol in lots of two and three gal lons, and the smaller the order the leas likely is the owner to say any- thing about oil. So far as the 1- ing station attendant is concerned most old cars seem to run perpo. tually without oil. The owner of one ancient machine that stopped for petrol while I was there asked for oil as an after-thought. He almost apologized for ordering a quart of oll; explaining that his oil-dipper had frightened him with a reading of "One-quarter full" when he left home that mor- ting. The oil ordered was the "bob auart" variety. This case was one of the attendant's mistakes. He had forecast that there would br no oil order.
How Young People Pay
+ Their Way
Just as an old car packed full of young folks out on a spree pull- ed in the attendant whispered, "Three gallons of cheap. no oil, and they'll have to whip round to ay." The prophecy came true to the last detail. The price of the petrol was collected in shillings and sixpences from among the boys of the party. I gathered that boys and girls out on a joy-ride
can
order from men.
The petrol-pump psychologist is usually a gental soul. He even survive a demand for free air a one-gallon order. coupled with In such circumstances his emotion- outlet is not loss of temper buti the interested classification of the order as a new type of case.
FOUR NEW EIGHTS
-AND A BIG SIX
The New Nash Cars Are
EN ROUTE!
OMB of the twenty-seven radically new Nash
SOME
cars recently announced in America are now en route to this territory.
These cars, now being widely discussed as representative of the most advanced automotive engineering, bring to motoring new principles of basic design, hitherto unknown to any cars in the Nash field.
Watch for later announcement of their arrival and then visit our showroom for a careful in- spection of their many points of superiority. THE ORIENTAL MOTOR CAR COMPANY.
Telephone 20406. 303-9, Hennessy Road.
NASH
THE "TWELVE-SIX” STANDARD SALOON
ONE IN FOUR-
Upaco 1
EVERY FOURTH NEW CAR SOLD IN GREAT BRITAIN
DURING THE LAST TRADING YEAR
ENDING JULY 31st WAS AN.
"AUSTIN"
What is the reason for the obvious and overwhelming popularity of Austin Cars? Arrange for a demonstration and prove for yourself the excellent quality of materials and workmanship, the pleasing lines and appearance of the coachwork, but above all the value for money offered in the attractive range of 1932 models
now available.
ALEX ROSS & CO (China), LTD.
PRINCE'S BUILDING & KOWLOON GARAGE.
FOR SUMMER MOTORING
AT LESS THAN 'BUS FARE' COST YOU MUST TRY THE NEW 1932
MORRIS
built like a big car
MINOR.
Built on big car lines the new 'Minor' has now a safety rear petrol tank, a longer bonnet, chromium plated radiator and Triplex Safety glass windscreen,
WIZARD CONTROL
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephona 30228.
33, Wong Nai Chung Road.
Happy Valley,
Economy first.
For economy, smartness and roominess the Minor Tourer leads the field.
A.P.D. Eb.
DODWELL & CO.,
ICE
LIMITED HOUSE STREET HONG - - KONC AND AT CANTON
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