1929-04-04 — Page 13

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929.

BUY THE WORLD FAMOUS 'SUPER ELTO' OUTBOARD MOTOR

If you want unfailing reliability and full outboard satisfaction.

"Elto" Outboard Motors are the result of over 25 years' experience in Outboard design, and whether you want a Motor for Racing. Cruising, or Utility Work, there is an Elto Model to meet your needs.

May we have the pleasure of de- monstrating these motors to you?

SOLE AGENTS:-

RUDOLF WOLFF & KEW, LIMITED,

1st floor.

54, Queen's Road Central,

AUT

Tel. C. 2173.

ACCESSORIES

THE REPUBLIC MOTOR CO. OF CHINA.

Spare Parts Batteries,

etc., etc.

30-32 Des Voeux Rd. C.

Electric Accessories,

etc., etc.

BUYERS' GUIDE

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MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. C.4759.

BUICK. The Dragon Molor Car Co., Ltd., '83 Wong Nei Chung

Round Happy Valley. C.1247. CADILLAC.--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. 0.4759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkeng Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHRYSLER MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China 30-32,

Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6262.

DE SOTO MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,

Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6268. GUY MOTOR PASSENGER BUSES-Republic Motor Co. of China,

30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C4759. OAKLAND.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd..

OLDSMOBILE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

PACKARD MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,

Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C.1216 & 6252. -TLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,

Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. PONTIAC.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

RULLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759, STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Boad. C.4759. VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf, Wolff & Kew, 54 Queen's Road

C1, Tel. C.2173.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS.

BROCKWAY MOTOR TRUCKS-The Asiatic American Co. Tel.

C. 244. CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. FARO MOTOR TRUCKS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,

Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38 Wong Nei Chung Road,

Happy Valley. C.1247.

MORRIS Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4759. REO MOTOR TRUCKS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32, Des

Voeux Road C. Tel: G.. 1216 & 6252. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759.

MOTOR CYCLES.

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B. S. A.The Sincere Co., Ltd, Des Voeux Road. C.1067. NEW HUDSON MOTOR CYCLES.Republic Motor Co. of China,

30-S2, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.. RALEIGH MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,

Des Voeux Road G. Tel. C. :1216 & 6252. ROYAL ENFIELD MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China,

30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES,

ACCESSORIES.Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. ACCESSORIES.-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.226. MILLER ACCESSORIES.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.

Tel. C.1219.

MILLER RUBBER TYRES AND TUBES-Eepublic Motor Co. of Chins, 30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1215 & 6252,

·PRESTOLITE BATTERIES.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. C.4769.

TWO BAD BODIES.

WARNING TO NEW BUYERS

THE CHINA MAIL,

At this season of the year great many inexperienced motor ista are ordering new cars; and many of them order coachwork which they afterwards learn to detest. Amidst the glamours of # showroom or in the fine colour printing of a catalogue, the look of a body is apt to dominate our minds; in prolonged ownership, it is practical convenience which There are two very popular types of body against which most members of the public require to be warned, because their appearance is as attractive as their comfort is negligible.

counts.

display all the acceleration of which its dimensions are capable. (As a matter of fact, a coupe almost always has a dickey, and therefore suffers from the die-

agreeables outlined above as ap- plying to the open two-seater.) But the close-coupled. saloon under the outward appearance of a coupe harbours four seats, or occasionally five, all under cover, and is therefore immune from the abuse which all experienced motorists heap on dickeys. It is, as its name suggests, a saloon, but it is a very smail and cramp- has only two doors, but they are ed saloon. Almost invariably it

how contrive to look much better abnormally wide doors, and some- than four narrow their width certainly facilitates doors, whilst

ingress and exit.

Regret Their Choice The first has been moribund in the minds of wise men for twenty years, but is endowed with a wholly undeserved immortality by a constant succession of new owners. It is the popular "two- seater with dickey." It makes an almost irresistible appeal to young married conples. For one- thing, it looks far more dashing

Any.

than the staid "tourer." how, they prefer to travel a deux, and their suitcases, which have not yet lost their honeymoon sheen, will travel so cosily in the flapped boot astern. So they select their "option," and before

very long they regret their choice.

is so great that they can block an On the other hand, their width entire town pavement when they swing open, and have even been known--if incautiously opened to knock old gentlemen off their feet, with the inevitable result of a lively fracas. Further, owing to the weight and leverage of auch an enormous door, the

hinges soon began to give trouble

unless the coachbuilder is at once his work. skilful and well remunerated for

The owner may usually be seen cocking an anxious eye to his left flank whenever anybody is at- tempting to enter or leave his car and this anxiety is well founded. This objection is, how ever, the least in the indictment.

SKIDPROOF ROADS OR CARS?

an in-

It is true that the owner of a four-seater is often driven to take on board persons whom he would far rather leave behind. But equally the man with the dickey quite frequently wishes to Will the future bring skidproof carry passengers whom he cannot roads or must it be left to car relegate to the exposure and awk-designers to attempt the difficult, ward arcobatics inseparable from if not impossible, task of thinking the dickey an aborninable do out some way of making cars vice, originally invented in a more | themselves skidproof without the snobbish age for the transport of use of auxiliary equipment like menials. So elderly relatives and chains for the wheele is important people with whom one teresting question raised by the desires to ingratiate oneself have "Light Car and Cyclecar." Jee- to share the front seat with the bound roads are, of course, driver; and the recent bride has irremediable evils, and even if a to be banished to the dickey, great deal is done--as it should wherein, on any cold, wet day, she be to solve the slippery-road pro- develops a temper, of which even blem, we still think that car de- the final week of the honeymoon signers should face the fact that failed to provoke any complete they, as well as road engineers, symptoms.

owe a duty to the public.' Of paramount importance, for ample, is the need for perfect equalisation of all four sets of brakes. We have proved that on a car in which this ideal has been attained as nearly as possible skid- ding even on icy roads is greatly reduced. Here alone is scope for inventive genius Improved sys- foolproof mechanical

A "tourer" may occasionally prove much too large for the con venience of a childless couple; but a two-seater with dickey suffers from more intrinsic faults. . If finance limits a young couple to keeping their original car for several years after the nursery has begun to fill, its shortcomings are the more violently apparent. tems of

A Modern Innovation

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of com-

DYNAMO BRUSHES

The second fundamentally bad equalisation are needed, or the type of body is quite a modern in-wider adoption of hydraulic brake novation, and its weaknesses are almost perfect means

operation, which provides the less realised. It is usually

pensation. described as -a "close-coupled saloon." At a casual glance one might take it for a coupe, which on paper is the ideal car for an affectionate couple of the same or

It is wise occasionally to remove different sexes, says the New dynamo brushes and to clean them Statesman." It relieves one from and the commutator segments. In the social necessities of harbour- most dynamos the brushes are held ing unwanted guests. It offers in their guides by spring triggers. full weather protection for a hus-By raising the trigger with the band and wife, or two golfing fore-finger the brush can be with- friends, and their baggage. It drawn, being careful not to pull looks extremely dashing.

off the flexible stranded-copper Technically, one may perhaps lead. Stray carbon may be re- claim that it is lighter than a moved from the commutator by a saloon, and allows the engine to soft wad on the end of a pencil.

Did Not Look For -

In New of the widespread attention that has been directed to the matter of motor accidents during the post season, it is in- teresting to note that out of 864 deaths so caused during the year 1927, only a total of eighty, or aine per cent occurred at railway crossings. While the number is deplored, gas being too many, there is reason for encouragernent in the fact that government re- ports recently issued note E marked tendency towards a de- crease in this percentage of crossing fatalities.

The year's total of 864 moter accidents compares with 606 during 1925, the increase largely reflecting the tremendous in- crease in the number of motor caro travelling on Canadian ronda. Despite this fact, railroad

Cause of Car. Accidents

crossing fatalities for the two years Motor accidenta era becoming were exactly the same, numbering mare frequent. Every sane mo eighty. Thus, while the per- torist deplores this.... If accidents centage of such fatalities in 1927 are to be lesaared, the sane was nine, in 1925 it was over motorist must educate the culpably thirteen per cent.

negligent motorists..." e

It is interesting to note that the In co-operating in the elimina total death rate in Canada from tion of grade crossings, in supple- - motor accidents in 1927 was 8.1 per menting recognized and standard hundred thousand of population, warnings with wig-waga and other and for 1926 it was 6.6. In the devices the railways are doing a United States "during 1926, the great work towards the stil lateat year for which figures are further reduction of croesing atgi available, the rate was 18.2, or dents but, they cannot do the nearly three times our own. This work alone as is demonstrated by fact, and also the diminishing per- the report which shows that day by centage of crossing accidents in day the automobile driver "ignored Canada may be set down to the warning broke through "ates": various safety campaigns that "Did not look for the approach of have been carried on, and to the train. father and daughter killed"; efforts that have been put forward Crashed into side of train. Fined. both in the way of crossing protec$10 in court". These actual quota--- tion and by the publicity in which tions from the list of "dangerous latter direction they fave been practises" are from the report of greatly aided by the public-spirited the Board of Railway Commis- attitude of the press towards the sioners, matter.

The report of the Board of Rail Bureau of Statistics states that in A report issued by Dominion way Commissioners shows that the Province of Quebec, Montreal forty-five sccidents occurred at protected crossings, and also that tomovile death. Toronto's contri

is responsible for one half of all an- during 1927 there were seventy-butions in Ontario was only about four secidents as a result of motor twenty-three per cent of the total. vehicles ruaning into the sides of It is to be noted, however, that in trains, and twelve unfortunate at tempts to beat the train. In the the case of fatalities occurring out preamble the report states "Not-side the dty limits, the injured are withstanding safety devices and frequently harried to city hospitals" cautionary signals, people take and thus unwarrantably increase. chances and diaregard safety, the city death rate.

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WHY

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THE REPUBLIC MOTOR CO. OF CHINA.*

30 - 32, Des Voeux Road C.

Telephone C. 1219 & C. 6252.