THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929.
TO ALL
“TRIUMPH" OWNERS
IN HONG KONG & SOUTH CHINA !
Please send us particulars of your Car or Cycle to enable us to bring our Register of "Triumpb" owners up to date.
THE GLOBE AUTOMOBILE CO., LTD.
1, Canton Road,
KOWLOON.
Chassis
MERCHANTS EXPRESS
-L10" wheel! COMMERCIAL TRUCK
-120 wheelbase 1%-TON-130 wheelbase 1TON-140 wheelbase 1TON-15ữ” wheelbase
1%TOM-165* whselbare TON-150° whenbase TON-165" wheeïhem
DODGE BROTHERS TRUCKS & BUSES
Trial Cordially Invited
Sole Agents for Hong Kong and South China:
SOUTH CHINA MOTOR CAR CO.
33, Des Voeux Road, Central,
Telephone C. 5544.
CROSLEY RADIOS
THE NEW A C ELECTRIC 7 TUBE
· GEMBOX
OPERATES 200 VOLT 50/60 CYCLE COMPLETE WITH DYNACONE "F"
H.K.$286.00
Come and have a demonstration at
THE SUNLIGHT CO.
137, Des Voeux Rd., C. Distributors for Hong Kong & South China:
THE ASIATIC AMERICAN COMPANY
48, Stanley Street.
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Tel. C. 244.
ACCESSORIES
THE REPUBLIC MOTOR CO. OF CHINA. 30-32 Des Voeux Rd. C
Spare Parts Batteries,
etc., etc
Largest Motorists' Organisation
Electric Accessories, etc., etc.
Those White Lines
On June 12 the membership of
white lines are laid
THE CHINA
COST OF A CAR
The Inexperienced Motor Buyer
VARIABLE FACTORS
One of the first questions usual ly asked of salesmen by the ordin- any car-buyer, most of whose ex- perience lies before him, is about the cast of maintenance. He wishes to know (almost to a shil- ling in some cases) what his monthly bills will be if he buys the alluring machinio displayed before him. It is probably the least easy to answer of all the many conundrums to which that hard-working. patient salesman has
day, perhaps every every heur, of his official life to find a soothing reply. He can so easily, by a little lack of thought or a want of character-judgment, lose a customer on the spot by telling him the worse; or eventually, by glossing things over in a mistaken spirit of enthusiasma loss which may be accompanied by others. Nobody is so suspicious, so set on
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vals than slow-speed ones. The probability is that they use rather more oil, as the temptation to take full advantage of their agile acceleration: and their oasily- attained high maximum speed is almost irresistible. Why buy really lively little light car. cap able of showing its tail-plate to most cars, if you are not going to enjoy its special charms? It may not be sense, but it is eer- tainly natural to show 16 h.p. what 10 b.p. can do.
Recently I came across an in- stance of this, when a 9-h.p. four cylinder car chased a aix-cylinder 16-h.p. across the Yorkshire moors for an hour in the most spirited fashion. The big car won, as it should, but the little
far behind. The only never difference was that the loser was working at its limit all the time and the big one was going com-f fortably. Type for type, the little car was more extravagant
one was
his pound of flesh, as your inex-than the other. I daresay its perienced car-buyer. If he has petrol consumption was not much been promised a petrol consump
more than half that of the big one, but, if only the novice would realise it, petrol consumption is one of the least important items on the modern car's books. Fur- ther, every part of that small car was undergoing twice as heavy a strain as those in the big one, and therefore working twice as bard in half the time. It was shorten- ing its life twice as quickly--thal | is what it amounts to.
Given that the various maxi- mum speeds are only reached on very rare occasions, that the cruising speed iz from 25 to 30 per cent. lower, that the brakes are sparingly used, and that the makers upkeep instructions are faithfully obeyed-generously so in the case of oil-the cost of running modern cars 10,000 miles should be approximately ая follows:-
7 to 10-h.p, featherweight 2
or 4-seater
12 to 16-h.p. family
16 to 25-h.p. do.
$42
$60
$70
This calculated on & gener- ous basis on a series of results obtained in practice, and, of course, does not include insurance or tax or garaging, but it does in- clude four new covers and two new tubes. The first year's costs will be less by the price of these, which is one argument in favour of buying a new car every year.
A False Economy
A report issues from Lawrence P. Fisher, president of the Cadillac Motor Car Company. that shipments of Cadillac, La Salle and Fleetwood cars, A 7-10 h.p. car should average for the year ended July 31, totalled about thirty-five miles to the gal- 40,063 units, an increase of 11.2 perlon of petrol, three decarbonisa- cent. over the preceding year.
or a
miles
Bon-rate of 25 miles to the gallon tyre-wear scale of 10,000 and he only gets 21 and 8,000 he will not rest until the full tale of his grievances has been told in the most unprofitable quarters and as many potential clients as possible headed off that particular emporium. He is full of unreason.
tions per 10,000 miles,
about & gallon of year-oil fer the same distance, and say £5 for unlook- ed-for failures, such as plugs, lamp-bulbs, small breakages, losses, and repairs. No car, whe- ther it has 7 or 70 horse-power. should be allowed to run for more than 1,000 miles without having the base-chamber drained and new oil supplied. This is added to the cost of consumption week by The fact is that in
A ear that uses a gallon One way week. the cost of motor-upkeep has be- for every 1,000 miles really re- come practically standardised, quires that in addition to a sump- and, in another, that it can vary ful. There is no worse vice than more widely than it has ever done cil-saving. It can be a very ex- since the first De Dion tricycle pensive economy, coughed its painful way out on to
It is not wholly the fault of the the broad highway.
inexperienced owner that he con- Apart from the obvious fixed tinues to run his unfortunate en- charges, such as taxation, insurgine on the black waste which, at ance, and garaging, the mainten- the end of 1.000 miles' hard work, ance of cars in most categories in represents the oil essential to effi the matter of oil, fuel, tyres, and ciency and safety.
Makers cou- running repairs has been reduced | tinue to make the business of to a common denomination. With sump emptying and filter-cleaning the uormai type of car, the stand the most arduous and disgusting ard touring-family sort, the ex- of any maintenance job. Perhaps. peuses per 1,000 miles can usual. they think it pays to compel the I be calculated with fair
owner to crawl under the car in curacy. A two-litre six-cylinder | order to unserew a plug and dis- salcon, driven, as a rule, at about mantle a filler, with a usually forty miles an hour, occasionally fragile washer. Let one who has at sixty, carrying an average load crawled under quite a number of of three people with odd extra
cars of all sorts assure them it loads, will cost about the same to it does, it will not do so for long. run as any other of a different Engine-speeds are increasing make, no matter what the respec- every year, and the importance of tive manufacturers may claim, being able easily, quickly, and Nor will there be much difference comfortably, to make sure that between the monthly bills of they are getting real lubricant at these and, of any
other cars all times, is being, borne in upon driven in about the same way, the most careless driver. The re- the horse-power varies sults of neglect are so extremely considerably. A bigger car has expensive. bigger tyres, for example, which
unless
ac-
cost, in the first place, a good
deal more than
Sometimes one hears of a car which is particularly extravagant
those of in oil, for example, or in tyres.or
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medium-sized car, but their life is usually the same, calculated in pourds, shillings, and pence.
High-Speed Cars
rating and sold
in petrol. It is practically cer
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tain that in each case there is a as their rivals at the end of the saving grace and that in other year, If you drive any of them ways the economy is exceptional. very hard, they may cost twice as Many unconsidered factors con- A car of my acquaintance uses much. It is unreasonable to ask tribute to one's weekly bills. A about a gallon of engine oil for the salesman a question to which car with a very high engine-every 30 miles, but as it only uses he cannot possibly know the an- the British Automobile Association that many
"Motor Transport" points out speed and a spectacular perform- a gallon of petrol for twenty miles swer. The car's bills depend very passed the 400,000 mark. New with but little knowledge of drivance, but with a low horse-power (and it can go very fast indeed). much on the car's owner.--John members are joining at the rate of ing conditions. A line laid exact may quite easily cost you more decarbonised only once in every
at a low price. is, taxed at only £16 and need be Froileau in the "Observer." over 2,000 per week, and the pre-ly in the middle of the road at a for every 1,000 miles than another 20,000 miles, things work out rea- sent season will undoubtedly bo marked by a considerable expansion bend is seldom the best position of bigger power, higher tax, and sonably. of British motoring. Every A.A. owing to the camber of the road the same or less efficiency. High- member is a direct subscriber, the being adverse to a vehicle ap speed engines, unless they are very little difference in the up Association having no affiliation ar- preaching a right-hand corner. very good-and therefore com- keep expenses of the different cars. rangements with any other bodies. Thus, the white line should allow paratively expensive need a good in their several classes. · A 10 It is the largest organisation of more room for a machine taking deal of attention and certainly re- h.p., a 15 h.p., a 20 h.p., and a motorists in the world.
a turn to the right.
quire renewals at shorter inter- "sports," each cost about the same
The conclusion is that there is
PONTIAC
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Automobile Dept. C3193.
GILMAN & CO.
4A, Des Voeux Road C..
FORD AIRPORT
PRAISE FROM DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH
operation in this country," he said.. "It is not only equipped for heavier- than-air but. also has a mooring mast for lighter-than-air craft. Perhaps no city in the country, un-. less it be Wichita, or Los Angeles, is more air minded than Detroit. Nothing as yet has surpassed the Detroit Air Show of last year, and nothing is ever likely to surpass the Ford Stout airplanes as they be come further improved in matters of minor detail. It is an exhilarat- ing experience to have visited this air centre and to have made the air facilities at the Ford Airport. ·Journey from Cleveland to Detroit The Ford Airport at Dearborn which can be continued to Chicago, is one
of the few real airports leaving Detroit at 3 pm. sad ar- worthy of the name at present in riving in Chicago at 4:50,"
Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, Direc- tor of Research, Aviation Business Bureau, writing his "Air Trave- logues" for the Domestic Air News, published by the
Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Com merce, comments on the position of Detroit in aviation and on the
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