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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, JULY

$1928

AM THE MOTORISTS' PAGE A

AN

B.S.A.

POWER with SILENCE SPEED with SAFETY

In the Stock Machine Trial for standard machines

⚫ selected from stock by A.C.U. officials B.S.A.'s won

4 GOLD MEDALS and TEAM PRIZE.

DUNLOP

TROPHY

Premier Award in the M.C. and A.C, Dunlop Trophy Trial won on B.S.A. 4.93 h.p. O.H.V. (W. Johnson)

Alab won on B.S.A. In 1926.

B.S.A's won the

COLMORE CUP

2 years out of 3-in

1926 and 1928 ·

In the Victory Cup Trial B.S.A's won

Frank Hallam Cup 'Watsonian Team Prize For and year. In succession

LIGHTWEIGHT T. T.

BENNETT RETIRES AFTER TWO LAPS,

LONGMAN'S EASY WIN.

THE WHIPPET.

GETS THE BUYERS PRAISE.

MAJOR FACTORS.

Douglas (Isle of Man) Juño 7. A motor-car Balesman has to Frank Longman won the Light-know his product and competitive products very thoroughly these days weight Tourlat Trophy Race to-day, if he is going to be successful with in fine style at an average of 62.9 the modern buyer. Twenty years m.p.h., riding an O.K. Supreme. or more of experience with cars-- The winner's success was achiev-together with the increasing motor ed in the like manner of Alec education of the general public by manufacturers through advertising Bennett, winner of the Junior Race and demonstrations has made the on Monday, Longman led from the average man a good buyer, beginning to the end, there being not a man among his twenty-four

He no longer buys because a car is a new model or because it ia fashier in appearance. He looks Into the detailed specifications of C. the cars, asks pertinent questiona tim-makes comparisons-and in the end ed off, mist, hung about for usually bases his choice on very some time, and visibility was so bad sound judgment.

rivals who could hold him. ·

When the Arst starter, |Lord (Royal Enfield)

was

that the majority of the riders shed, With the perfected Whippet oc- their goggles W. L. Handley (last cupying the most conspicuous posi- year's winner) and holder of the tion in its history in the light four Trophy, was the second man to get cylinder field, Willys-Overland mer- away. He rode 4 Rex-Acme chants throughout the world report reaching Laurel Bank, completing the mechanical details of this car, and had passed Lord before that buyers are paying tributa to the first lap at a speed of over which 18 months ago set a new 60 m.p.h.

trend for modern car design.

Longman, with a fine start, over- These merchants further state 6 GOLD MEDALS took half a dozen men before reach that this car's quality and proven ing Creg-na-Ban, covering his first performance likewise are major fac- lap in 35 mina. 57 secs., thus es-tors considered by buyers, and that tablishing a lead which was not

this has much to do with the pre- challenged.

sent enormOUS increase in Whip-) pet sales.

In the Paris-Nice Trial B.S.A.'s won

TEAM PRIZE

for 5th year in succession and

3 GOLD MEDALS.

In the recent A.A. Silence Test, every one of the 15 models in the B.SA. range (including 2 Q.H.V. specially tuned models) was tested by A.A. engineers and awarded the A.A. Silencing Efficiency Certificate.

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BUYERS' GUIDE

MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. C4759.

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. Tel. C. 1219. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND.-A. Lung & Co,, 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C.1219, OLDSMOBILE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38 Wong Nel

Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

PACKARD. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel Chung

Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

PONTIAC.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219.

·ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759: SINGER-Gilman & Co., 40, Des Voeux Road Central. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garago, Queen's Road. 0.4759, WHIPPET.-Gilman & Co., da, Dea Vaux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 43, Des Voeux Road 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, C4247.

GUY.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C. 1219. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rosd. C.4709,

MOTOR CYCLES:

B. S. A.-The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Vœux Road. C.1067. ROYAL ENFIELD-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd, 88, Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. ACCESSORIES.-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.226. AUTO-TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS-Keller, Kern & Co., Ltd., .: 16-19, Connaught Road, Central..

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., 88, Wong

Net Chung Road, Happy Valley. 0.1247.

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

Tel. 0.1219.

MILLER TYRESA. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. 0.1219. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES,Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. C.4759.

Junior Winner Retires.

་

Handloy could not keep the pace set by Longman, who created a new!

It is said that recent develop- Alec Bennett disappointed, his monts in the light car field have em- machine was out of condition with phasized the fundamental features the result that after limping around which were introduced by the Whip- two laps, he retired with magneto pet and which have been steadily trouble. He was riding an O.K. maintained in its production. Motor Supreme.

elements of construction, the Whip-| car authorities say that in its basic

record for the course in his second pet remains as distinctly advanced lap, which he accomplished in 36 as when it was first presented. mins. B sees, defeating Bennett's The Whippet, engineers state, still time set up last year by one sec. has the only motor in the light four Nobody challenging the leader, cylinder class that actually develops Longman "cruised" round the last 100 per cent. more power than its lap to win the race in something official rating and which develop ttle less than 83 m.p.h.. He won this power with actual savings in by nearly half-an-hour. Thirteen cost of operation. completed the course out of the 25 Power, speed, economy and starters. The first three were:- stamina accomplishments of the

Whippet have set a new high stand- |

1. F. A. Longman (0.Kard of. performance in the light car Supreme) 4h. 11m. 59sech.

Enfield since its initial presentation

2. C. S. Barrow (Royal field) 4h. 29m. 1ɛec.

3.

26seca.

E. Twemlow (Dot) 4h. 29m.

"LURE OF SPEED,"

MAJOR SEGRAVE'S THRILLING

NARRATIVE.

18 months ago. Since that time the combined mileage of the Whippets In the field is estimated at more than half a billion miler.

Willys Overland officials declare; that the recent reduction in Whip-

pet prices, which places these mo-

dern cars in direct price competi- tion with the lowest priced cars, was not an attempt to meet a price: situation for it was definitely do- cided that the original Whippet)

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USEFUL HOMESIDE

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The Society of Motor Manufac- If there still survive any who quality and beauty should be main-turers and Traders, Ltd., has just mourn the supposed murder of ro-tained regardless of what prices issued the 15th edition of the Re- mance by machinery, they must be could be reached.

gister of the Motor Trade, which disillusioned by Major Segrave's It is pointed out, that part for has again been prepared in close book. "The Lure of Speed." It is part and specification for specifica- co-operation with the Motor a record of motor racing in Europa tion, the perfected Whippet duplic- Agents' Association, Ltd., and the since the war, and, as such, an in-ates the original car in every de- Scottish Motor Trade Association. valuable reference book for the stu- tall of quality and workmanship The British Cycle and Motor dent of the development of the kind with even greater value being offer. Cycle Manufacturers' and

of motor-car everybody uses; but ed at the new prices in some details Traders' Union, Ltd., have also it is far more than that. It is one of construction.

co-operated in regard to motor

of the most moving tales of adven- The tremendous sales volume is cycle interests. ture, and one of the most sympathe cited as evidence of public accept-

The book contains, upwards of

tie and interesting descriptions of ance of the Whippet, and an in- 15,000 names of persons, firma real motor racing that has ever dication of its quality leadership in and companies engaged in the been published..

the light four class.

Motor and Allied Industries, and the latest edition will undoubted- ly continue to be regarded by all concerned as a comprehensive survey of all those who have.

It cannot be easy to write of, motor racing at all. The doya when racing, whether on road or track, gripped a whole continent you. You brace yourself at the the necessary qualifications to be in a passion of excitement are turns. Insavery nerve you feel considered legitimately membera dying, if not dead, and while the every movement of the car. Once of the Motor Trade according to sport will always have its consider or twice, even, you feel that they are the various classifications adopt- able band of devotees it no longer your hands on the wheel. Major ed in the Register. makes the appeal to the Imagine. Segrave's powers of description are Members of the S.M.M.T., the tion of millions that it did. After remarkable. No purple patches are M.A.A., and the S.M.T.A. are reading "The Lure of Speed," it as to be found anywhere in his book. Indicated in prominent letters, curs to one at once that one of the His is a plain statement of fact, while the membership of the So principal reasons for this neglect with occasional delightful touches cicty is also shown separately Is that its extraordinary fascias of humour. He shows you from the General List of the tion has never until now been ade the Intensely human side of this Trade. quately described.in

great game as it has never been. A separate edition known as The book is an account of how shown before. He makes every car the Register of the Motor Trade the author became a leading racing he drives come alive for you. They (Colonial Section) is being com- driver, describing his struggles to are each a sensitive creature res piled from information obtained set a place in the Sunbeam team, ponaive, sulky, Inspired, humiliat from Colonial Associations, etc., the snubs (to put them mildly) he ed, elated, incomprehensibles is and will be found, when issued; to endured, the disappointments and the car of everyone who loves and form a useful Directory of the the hard work-above all, the Im-understands it.

names and addresses of firms and mensely hard work. He describes The book abounds in technical persons in the Motox Trade in the a score or more of famous races ities of what may

Dominions and Colonies, rba de- The Information contained in faEngland, France, Spain and scribed as the Rudyard Kipling the Register is kept up to date by Italy in minute detall. Yet, so far sort--fascinating, to those who the issue of three quarterly Lists from being wearled, you are unable know nothing, clearly. and of Additions Alterations, and to put the book down. It does not simply set out to those who Deletions. matter whether you have ever raced do. There not a new driver, or, The price

or even watched a race. He claims for that matter, an old one, who 108 your undivided attention from the will not learn a great deal by read-the SIMUM. first page to the lasting this book

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