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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928.

WOOL INTEREST ORTO MOTORISOVAN

RELIABLE-SPEEDY-DURABLE

B. S. A.

MOTOR CYCLES

SHOW THEIR SUPERIORITY IN 1928 VICTORY

TRIAL & COLMORE CUP TRIAL.

EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESSES PROVE BEYOND

DOUBT THAT

B.S.A.

IS THE BEST VALUE

FOR MONEY,

INSPECT. MODELS

WE HAVE IN STOCK BEFORE DECIDING ON YOUR

NEXT MACHINE.

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

AUTO-TOTAL

THE LATEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE FIRE

. EXTINGUISHER FOR

MOTOR CARS

NO PERIODIC REFILLING. AGENTS:-

KELLER, KERN & CO., LTD., 16/19, Connaught Road C.

BUYERS GUIDE

MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. C.4769.

BUICK. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung

Road, Happy Valley, C.1247.

CADILLAC Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759, CHRYSLER.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tél. C. 1219. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C:4769. OAKLAND.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C.1219. OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83 Wong Nel

Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247. FACKARD. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung

Rond, Happy Valley. C.1247. PONTIACA. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219. ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. SINGER.-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Vœux Road Central. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rond. C.4759. WHIPPET.-Gilman & Co., 42, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 4s, Des Voeux Rond Central.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung Road,

Happy Valley, C.1247.

MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759.

MOTOR CYCLES.

B. S. A.-The Sincare Co., Ltd., Des Vaux Road. C.1067. ROYAL ENFIELD-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 85, Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. 0.1247.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES.

ACCESSORIES-Hong Kong Hotel Garage; Queen's Road. C.4759. ACCESSORIES-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K:228; AUTO-TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS-Keller, Kern & Co., Ltd.,

16-19, Connaught Road, Centrál.

COLUMBIA BATTERIES. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88,

Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley, C.1247. FIRESTONE TYRES The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38, Wong

Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

MILLER ACCESSORIES A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.

Tel. 0.1219.

MILLER TYRES A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tél. C.1219, PRESTOLITE BATTERIES--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Be Road, #GÃ4759;

FINE CARS.

PACKARD CARS.

WHAT AN ORDINARY INCOME MEETING REQUIREMENTS

WILL BUY.

THE KNIGHT.

OF TO-DAY.

PUBLIC NECESSITIES.

Necessities of to-day are the There was a time when the aver-luxuries of yesterday in the age man never dreamed of possess-jeveryday life of the average ing a car with a Knight double-American. This is true whether it is the home, dinner, table, re- sleeve engine. That type of en-creation, dress or family auto- gine, because of its comparatively mobile which is considered. expensive manufacture, has so long

People of this country insist on better things continuously and been associated with cars in the will not be satisfied without them. righer price classes that a person It has brought about a different of ordinary income never consider-system and a different conception ed it possible to own one.

of living. That extravagance has

But now, after many years of de- no part in this new picture, more- velopment of the Knight engine over, is attested to by the con- and improvements in facilities for stant increase in the average manufacturing it at lower cost, the American savings and investment Willys-Overland Company is able accounts, as reported by the banks to offer the general public a six of the country and by governmen- cylinder Knight-engined car to sell tal surveys.

in the same price class with ordin- A few years ago those who had nry low-priced' poppet valve 'sixes. (automobiles were satisfied with "It took five years of the hardest most any kind of personal trans- work Willys-Overland Inc., has portation. Now, comfort, speed, ever done to produce that car," quietness and pride of possession obtained. said Mr. John N. Willys, president are demanded, and

With the of the big Toledo manufacturing wastefulness does not enter in average American, plant when he was asked about the with his motor car either. Statis- new Standard Willys-Knight Six tics show that he is learning to that he recently placed on the get this luxury of yesterday by market.

spending just a little more for it "Our Knight car manufacture in first cost and then holding on started with. the Willys-Knight to it long enough to make depre- Great Six and we have been work- ciation charges low, arriving at a ing on it ever since in one way or net cost that actually shows him another," he continued.

ja saving.

"Now we have attained a manu-¦ As with many other things con- facturing goal which we set when sidered necessities, increasing we started to change our Willys-, public understanding of this new Knight production from four cylin- conception for private life of der models to.sixes. It has been a 'what has long been an adage in dimcult task and it has required business, results in wider distri the maximum energy of both en-bution of the necessities. This gineering and sales departments to sets up a typically American cycle bring it to a completion.

for, with increasing.absorption of "One of the reasons has been the product, production goes up and exacting manufacturing require. With increasing production costs mente put upon the Willys-Over go down, in turn extending distri-

bution and savings.

| land plants in the development of An appreciation of America's the Willys-Knight motor. Basical-awakening to a new mode of liv ly this power plant is one foring caused us to begin planning. higher priced eara. In Europe they years ago for the business we are more expensive to build than knew we would be doing to-day, the average poppet valve motor. In It resulted in our introduction of Europe, where the first Knight the Packard Six seven years ago. motored cars are built, they have Because we really were dealing bean confined exclusively to the with a sound fundamental our highest priced vehicles and have reasoning was sound. The whole been accepted 19 the ultimate thing is proved by the fact that achievement in smoothness, effi- since the first Packard Six sedan ciency, durability and economy of was brought out in 1920 the price* operation.

of the car has been reduced to less "Here, we have had to maintain than half of the figure at which it the European standards of excel-originally sold, and the production lence in construction for that is is vastly greater.

For nearly two years we have necessary in building a power plant of the Knight sleeve valve been conducting a survey to learn, type. But we had to conform to among other things, just what lower price standards as well.

owners expect of an automobile. This inquiry shows us that we! To bring the high achievements in manufacturing and design, re-

were not wrong in believing that, Ipeople would buy automobiles as quired in the construction of 4

they buy shoes-pay a little more; Kaight motored car to the price first cost and use them longer! range of the lower priced aires has

ito more than break even. necessitated mechanical develop in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, ment of specialised machinery, the

for instance, we have obtained a attainment of the most efficient remarkable picture. Tulsa is manufacturing procedures in all famous for the vast quantity of departments of the plants and the new wealth which has flowed into closest regulation of all elements it through Oklahoma oll. Here it entering into the work of building would be believed the average the car.

life of an automobile in the first "The reception of the Willye-owners' hands would be a mini- Knight Great Six and of the mum for the whole country. Even Willys-Knight "70" which closely with such an unusual city as followed have helped materially. Tulsa the average Packard taken Both of these cars stepped into in by us in trade for a new car large sales volume in their respec- during 1927 had been retained by tive price classes,

its first owner almost four years. This was more than twice as long "To keep up with the steadily in-

as the average original owner creasing demand for these models kept the car which was the next we had to do rather unusual things largest in number traded in for in our manufacturing departments. Packard during the year.

"We were aided by the fact that)

The averages for Tulsa and the the basic principles of the Knight rest of the country do not take double-sleeve motor remain un into account cars which have been changed. We have not been faced replaced for any other than nor by the high costs necessary to mal reasons. New cars bought make complete revisions in design. because of theft or loss of the old The power plant of the Willys- car for other reasons would in- Knight standard six is the same, crease the average age of our cars in its engineering principles, as in first owners hands somewhat that in the other two Willys-but this has not been considered Knight models. Experimental work in our survey. was not neccessary to prove the corectness of the theory or of the design. We knew what standards we would be required to build to and we have been able to use the

Chrysler's insistence on accuracy same manufacturing equipment for the power plant in this car as we in manufacture is aptly illustrated use for the other models.shafts. Each cam on every cam

In the manufacture of its cam- We know that we could plan to shaft is very accurately checked by build along the same lines for a

a specially constructed machine, long time to come and this was Chrysler being the pioneer in this been a fact in our favour.

ingenious method of checking. ***

There is a feeling -of... · general satisfaction throughout the entire Willys-Overland organisation, now

CAMSHAFTS TESTED.

that the goal we set has been ac- a - Willys-Knight -in such a wide complished. We believe

range of price classes, that every

will mean great motoring public

id except that for the lowest priced light cars will be satisfed.

GENERAL MOTORS

TRUCKS

3.

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SERIES

PROVIDE-

A Truck for Every Purse and Purpose,

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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

83 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD - HAPPY VALLEY.

ALWAYS INVESTIGATE WHAT GENERAL MOTORS HAS BEFORE YOU BUY,AĆ

Chrysler "62" Fea- tures of Performance, Quality and Long *Life-

1. dix-CyBader Engine, of

Chrysler design

2. 7-bearing Crankshaft, with Interchangeablo akimisan bearings

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Kội and moni mamotional

Miles an Hour

4. Typical Chrysler Acosista-

#. Impulse Nancraššome

6. Wabbed Crankcases Com

struction

V. Vanslated Crankzenia

6. Lavar Bael Jurus Platona

8. SpécisiEngina Manifolding

10. Exdualva Type of Cellądar Fead, and Combustión Chenar

11. Bilchroma Valvon

12. Od Plicer

13. Air CleanDE

14. ThermentatieHeat Control

15. Manifold Hat Control 16. Cellular Type Radkor

17. Fall Promo Olog Bystem 18 Robber Eagles Monachies 19.15-ich-Base Road Wheels 20. Balanced Front Wheela 21. Pivotal Scouring

22. 4wheel Hydonulla. Benkov 13. High Carbon Seasť Springs

24. Upqcially designed Rear Ale for Balloon Tyres, 28. LaveHeere on front and

28. Indirectly Lighted Instrus

nant Fanal

27. Faden Theft-proof - Num.

bering Systems

26. Electric Fuel Gauge 19.Headlamp Cpatrol on

Brewing Wheel

30. Narrow Corse Pillies

31. Ailicitable Broschng Whool 32. Cadet Visc

4. Baddle Spaing Best

Cushions

34. Hos Bured Mohair

Upholstery

35. Rigid Typs Curtalas on',

(36. Adjustable Front Seat is

Tourer

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37. Law Centre of Gravity

38. Doublé Beaded Body Cons

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40. Attrsativa Colone. Combé-

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Sensational New LOWER PRICES! Quality Unchanged

40 Body Styles

Chrysler's sensational rise from 27th to 3rd place in sales in 42 months is the result of a phe- nomenal public preference that has continuously demanded a record-breaking volume of quality motor cars.

Chrysler's tremendous produc tion and rapid growth are the direct results of public recog nition of values and savings which only Chrysler Stand- ardised Quality can provide. You will then instantly recog nise why Chrysler cars-by the most astounding price savings which result from a huge and rapidly growing public de mand

are today more than ever the most marvelous motor car values in their respective price classes.

A. LUNG & CO

&

19, Queen's Road, C.

Tel. C. 1219.

CO.

SERVICE STATION: 215, PERCIVAL STREET WANCHAL