1928-08-23 — Page 11

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1928.

THE CHINA MAIL,

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AM THE MOTORISTS' PAGE AS

POWER and SPEED

with SILENCE, SAFETY and ECONOMY.

THAT'S

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· EXTINGUISHER FOR

MOTOR CARS

NO PERIODIC REFILLING,

Contents Never Deteriorate. Harmless to Upholstering, Machinery. Or Rotative Parts. Contains no Grinding Properties.

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

BUYERS' GUIDE

MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Quien'a

Road. C.4759.·

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.-Hougkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. G.4759. CHRYSLER.A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219. HANOMAG.—Wai On Tseung, Ltd., 243 Des Voeux Road, C.

Tel. C. 711.

MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND.—Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

OLDSMORILE-The Drugon Motor Car Co., Ltd, 33 Wong Nel

Chang Road, Happy Valley, C.1247;

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

Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

PONTIAC Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. SINGER-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Vœux Road Central. STUDEBAKER, Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4759. VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

WHIPPET.-Climar. & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT--Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Vœux Road Central.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. · CA759. › FEDERAL TRUCKS-Kin Cheong Hong, 37, Connaught Road C.

Tel C. &

G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung Road,

Happy Valley, „C.1247.

· GUY.—A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel, C. 1219, ́MORRIS.—Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759,

STUDERAKER-Ilangkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. WILLYS KNIGHT TRUCKS.-G iman & Co, Ltd., Des Voeux Rd. C.)

MOTOR

CYCLES.

B. S. A.-The Sincere Co., Ltd.. Des Voeux Road. C.1067. NEW HUDSON-A, Lang & Co., 13, Queen's Road C. Tel. C.

1210, RALEIGH-A, Lung & Cọ, 19, Queen's Roadp¤›› Tel C. 1219.` ROYAL ENFIELD-A Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road C. Tel. C

1219.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES -Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.. G.4759. ACCESSORIES, The Duro Motor Co. Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.223. AUTO-TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS-Keller, Kern & Co. Ltd.,

16-19, Connaught Road; Central 12427 COLUMBIA BATTERIES.—The Drazen Motor Car Co., Ltd,, -23,

*: Wong Nei Chung Hoad. Happy Valley. C.1247. FIRESTONE TYRES, The Dragon Motor Cam Co, 110

Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley.C-1247

Wong

FIAT PLANES.

TWELVE FLY FROM ROME TO LONDON.

IN FORMATION.

CHRYSLER MOTOR.

'CAPETOWN-LONDON DASH COMPLETED.

WITH DUNLOP TYRES.

"

Manila. The cable follows in full:

Under the personal command Successful completion of the Cape- of H.E. Italo Balbo, Under- town to London tour is reported to Secretary of the Italian Air have been made by a. Chrysler Ministry, 12 Fint scouting aero-equipped with Dunlop tyres. The planes, six model "A.120" and trip was made through the African six model "R.22" left the flying forests and swamps, over mountsina ground at Centocelle (Rome) on and across deserts, both the car and the morning of June 27 and after its tyres showing such performance nine and a half hours' flight, the that they have merited general ap- formation landed at the Britishproval. aerodrome of Hornchurch to at- News of this successful run Is tend the Royal Air Force Display brought lh a cable sent from Lon- at Hendon.

In spite of the unfavourable don to Buffalo, N. Y., thence to meteorological forecasts, the

"The Capetown to London tour flight of machines left its base at

was brought to triumphant con- the appointed time, heading

Chrysler equipped straight for its goal, braving clusion by a heavy storma almost the whole with American made Dunlop tyres. Iway. With a bound, the ma "The Dunlop showed unusual per. chines rose to over 19,000 feet formance in giving 10,000 mile ser- crossing the Alps in the neigh-vice, free from all kind of trouble, bourhood of Mont Blanc. On the undergoing gruelling tests in the fo- French side clouds, high wind and reste, swamps, mountains and de- muring rain were encountered, serts of Africa under the worst but flying at a speed of 125 miles motoring conditions in the world. per hour Hornchurch was reached This fact is the finest possible at three o'clock in the afternoon. tribute that ever can be made to The landing was effected in auch the quality of Dunlop tyres. perfect style as to cause a British Air Force officer of high rank to exclaim: "It looks as if a single machine were coming down."

The chief points of the flight

were:

Distance: 1,240 miles against the fury of the elements.

Time: 9 hours. Speed: 125 miles per hour.

Brilliant Success.

"Upon reaching London, the orl- ginal set of Dunlops which were put on at Capetown, was driven dover the Brooklands race truck for six continuous hours at the speed of 62 miles per hour."

'JAPANESE COURTESY

SOME NOVEL MOTORING RULES

The principal difficulty of the undertaking was to take the group so far from its base with-

Perhaps New York, with its out losing its formation and street traffic problem, and its in- maintaining,-naturally, the-same numerable automobile accidents, average speed for each separate might take a leaf out of the book 'plane.

of Japan for the regulation of The trial wan a brilliant suc- such matters. There moral sua- cess, in spite of the adverse atsion is the order of the day, with mospheric conditions, against all possible courtesy. The streets which the machines had to fight are placarded with cchépicuous continually to prevent losing posters, some of which read as their formation or being forced follows:- down.

"Oh.. automobile!

You are

The Fiat R.22 and A.120 aero- beautiful; you are swift; you are planes are powered by Fiat A. powerful. But do not take advan- 22 H.P. engines, the engine which tage of your beauty, your speed holds the word's record for dura and your power. tion of flight and for the dis- tance covered in a closed circuit.

DERBY WINNER.

IS KNOWN AS A “GOOD

PICKER".

"Be considerate of your little brothers, so inferior to you-the dog, the horse and the pedestrian.

"The dog is afraid of your bal- loon tyres, which so easily may crush him. Give him room, that he may pass in safety,...

"The horse is frightened at It is not good luck alone that your noise, your smoke, your bad Avoid offending his places one in the proud position odoura.

of owning a horse good enough to ears, his eyes, his nostrils.

"The pedestrian seems to be,l win the Derby. There must be brains, money, ambition and, above of all, of the least account to you. all, the faculty of correct selection. Yet you would do well to have in the make-up of an individual pity on him and spare him; for who crowns his career by leading to-morrow he too may be driving

a car," a winner through the paddock at Epsom. An excellent example of the Derby winner type was found) In the personality of Lord Rose-, bery, who stated at Eton that he

The six wheelers which the well would win the Derby, marry the richest woman in England and bo-known Albion Motor Car Co., Ltd., come Prime Minister-and who of Glasgow, have just delivered to

the Indian Office, were of a parti achieved all three ambitions.

ALBION SIX WHEELERS.

DE P

Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, the cularly interesting type. In order owner of Felstead, is above all to give the maximum loading things a "good picker." He is a space, the driver's seat was plac- millionaire who knew where to find ed in a forward position on the his million and who has the re- right of the bonnet, and the con- pulation of selecting business sub-trols modified accordingly. The ordinates of outstanding excellence, vehicles are shod with 40 in. x9-in, is the husband of a beautiful wife, wheels are carried by a special single pneumatics, and, spare cosmopolitan who finds both profit and pleasure in many lands, device fitted between the body and is one of the discoveries of the the driver's seat.

In a apocial tast the vehicles famous British 20/26 Star Car. and is a practical horseman who proved extraordinarily efficient, has found a Derby winner. Sir the excellent cooling system being ¡Hugo is not

a particularly outstanding fea a fortuitous occur-'

ture. In one of the tests a tem- rence" by any means. Indeed, one

is almost, inclined to believe that perature of, 100 dega. Fahrenheit

be picked his parents and his place was artificially produced, and the of birth.

ESCAPE BY AEROPLANE,

machines proved capable of deve-

loping full power without. over heating or bolling. Such a per- formance indicates an extremely high standard of efficiency under

Paris-According to Buenos tropical conditions, Afres despatch, Major Baldasarra,

"LONGEVITY.?

who was sentenced a work, ago-to 20 years', penal servitude on the charge of having": murdered..a 'brother. officer, cha's mado`z drama-Twenty years old and still go-

tle escape from prison.

Ing strong! A report just to hand

By some meang women's clothes tells of a Commer 4 tonner now. In Baldasarra put them on, picked the was delivered from the Commer were smuggled into his coll.service at Haywards Heath which,

2 lock of his door and walked calm Works to Mesurs, Fickfords, Ltd., ly out, die gesag min 1909. The present owners say A few hundred yards away he that they have used it for nine mped into a waiting" aeroplane vears on heavy, work and long and soared off in the direction of fourneys, and that it is still doing MILLER ACCESSORIES.-A. Lung & Co., 19 Queen's Rd., C. Chile just as the prison warders good service.

* Tel. C.1219.99%

+having discovered his escape rush-This surely constitutes: striking MILLER TYRES —A. Long & Co. 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tal €1219.pl into the street after him, too testimony to the enduring quality PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, - Queen's`plate, to do anything -- but shake of Commer products, and there is

Ilond. C4759:4

their fists at a rapidly disappear- no reason why this lorry, should Ing speck In the empyrean.. Inot go on for a few more years.

OLDSMOBILE

-FLEXIBLE PERFORMANCE

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Body lines that reveal a scientific understanding of proper proportion-interiors whose appointment express exacting taste things that you naturally expect of fine cars. Oldsmobile Six gives you all these at a price within the range of millions.

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"Sedan (2-door) Sedán (4-door)

.M$2,500.00

M$2,500.00

.M$2,600.00

.M$2,800.00

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Telephone Central I246 · 33 Wong Nel` Chung- Road.

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