1930-07-03 — Page 11

THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1930.

HIGH COMPRESSION.

E

BRIGHT COLOUR.

Feature of Willys-Knight In Demand by Buyers

Car.

Although most motor car manu facturers are developing their power plants along high compression lines to meet the demand of the buyer for

of Fine, Cars.

The demand of buyers of fine cars for bright colours and a wide combination is variety of colour greater this year than it has ever

been before, according to officials of the Lincoln Motor Company. This is particularly true, they say, in the open and convertible types.

Exhibits in the recent automobile shows indicated that bright colours! would be popular this year, but after all, these cars, to a considerable

a car of the highest efficiency, this phase of engineering dates back al- most 15 years insofar as the Willys Knight sleeve valve engine is cen cerned. This fact is creating more Interest than usual in the new Willys-Knight sixes presented by the Willys-Overland Company.extent, reflected the ideas of what Toledo, Ohio, the largest builders of Knight engined cars in the world,

Since the production of the first Willys-Knight car in 1915, the Willys-Overland Company has paid special attention to high compres sion in order to obtain maximum performance.

manufacturers thought the public would want. In the final analysis the purchasere determine colour trends, especially In the cars of the Lincoln class in which individuality is accentuated.

Brown, green and blue in a variety of shades will be the most popular colours this year, according to Lincoln officials, who base their judgment largely on orders so far received and on reports from deal-

Many automotive experts who have made a careful analysis of the sleere valve engine used in the Willys-Knight ears attribute its successful high compression per-crs. formance to its distinct design, stating that it is unusually well adapted to high efficiency work.

It is cited as proof of the claim that the Knight sleeve valve engine is naturally best suited for high compression work, that it does not require a special grade of gasoline to attain maximum efficiency.

Tests conducted over a period of years have been shown a distinct margin in favour of the sleeve valve engine for high efficiency. It is pointed out that the characteristic design of the Knight sleeve galve combustion chamber, with the spark plugs located in the exact centre of the compressed fuel charge, pro- vides unsurpassed high compression performance.

The shape of the combustion chamber in the Knight engine is a true cylinder surmounted with a dome-shaped head. This is said by engineers to be the Ident type for obtaining the greatest degree of efficiency from an engine of the high compression type.

The Lincoln offers twenty-three colours which have been tested and adopted as standard. A purchaser, may have his car finished in any combination of these colours, though, the company recommends certain combinations for their har mony, taste and durability.

Any other colours may be had, however, at additional cost. The demand for special colours is un- usually heavy among those who have more than one car and who buy open cars for sport occasions.

There is an increasing tendency on the part of the public to select fenders with the same colour scheme as that of the body of the car.

sion" Reduced to language that even those not mechanically minded will understand, high compression means that the gasoline mixture is more highly compressed in the com. bustion chamber, thus imparting greater force to the pistons on the Although the term "high com- downward stroke. This, of course, pression" is widely used by many provides a higher degree, of power motor car owners, some will ask than is possible in an engine of low "What is meant by high compres- for medium compression.

THE CHINA MAIL.

$1.15

A GALLON OF PETROL!

TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION IN CHOOSING YOUR NEW CAR.

FOR

ECONOMY

SELECT

A FOUR

CYLINDER

ENGINE

THE FULL-SIZE PLYMOUTH

now at new low prices

SIZE

Plymouth is Chrysler's car in the lowest-price field-therefore it is the only car in that field to offer the distinctive engineering ad- vancements and precision crafts- manship which have made Chrysler-built cars world-famous. Plymouth stands alone among cars of lowest price with internal-ex- panding 4-wheel hydraulic brakes -weatherproof, self-equalising and permanently positive. Plymouthstands alone among cars of lowest price with its full-size dimensions throughout-in body, 'frame, axles, transmission and power plant.

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FOR

BEAUTY

YOU

MUST

HAVE A

FULL-SIZE

BODY

BUYERS'

GUIDE

MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. Tel. 24759.

BUICK. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38 Wong Nel Chung

Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.

CHRYSLER

PLYMOUTH

MOTORS

PRODUCT

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Distribution by New Method Beneficial,

MOTOR TRUCKS.

CADILLAC-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

24769.

ENJOY

MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Quech's Road. Tel. 24759. OAKLAND.---Lane, Crawford) Ltd.

YOUR

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

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.

PONTIAC Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

HOLIDAY

ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road,

Tel.

24759.

TOURING

STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

24759.

VAUXHALL--Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS.-ilman & Co.,

Ltd., da, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 28011,

THIS

SUMMER

ON

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

C. Tel. 22178.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS:

CHEVROLET.---Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.

24769.

Tel.

G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88 Wong Nei Chung Roed,"

Happy Valley. Tel. 80228.

DODGE. South China Motor Car Co., 38, Des Voeux Road. C.

Tel. 25644.

MORRIS Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. STUDEBAKER Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road..

Tel:

24769.

WILLYS KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co. Ltd.,

4a, Des Voeux Road. C. Tel. 28011;

MOTOR CYCLES.

The Sincere Co., Ldt, Des Voeux Road. Tel. 27787.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES.

ACCESSORIES-Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road. Tel.

24769;

ACCESSORIES. The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon

Tel 56226/

FISK TYRES Gilman & Co. Ltd. 4a Des Voe

28011

PRESTOLITE

Road Tel

Hongk

Hotel Garage

Queen

Des Voeux Rd.

The Unapproachable

Norton

REGE TRADE MARK

It will bring you to the choleent spots in the short- est possible time, with com fortable and safe riding.

Easy payment arranged

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FIAT GARAGE

Rapidly increasing use of the motor truck by the farming inter ests of the nation is providing a channel for the ready disposal of fruits and vegetables for which there formerly was no commercial outlet.

Application of the truck in this respect has supplemented its normal sphere in the transportation and sale of general agricultural pro-

ment Illustrates that 23 per cent, or 2,305 carload equivalents, were shipped by truck as compared to 7,829 cars shipped by rail and truck combined.

ADVANTAGES.

CO.

TEL. 25674.

Improvement of truck equipment ITALIAN ENTERPRISE

has been another result of the rise of the merchant-truckman. Where formerly most of the trucks were mado-over automobiles and small

A comparatively new development half-ton trucks, during the last two in the merchandising of perishables yoara a considerable number of one in the section surveyed, the report and two-ton trucks have replaced states, has been the advent of the small ones. Many of the truck- the truckanan merchant. Originally men-merchants formerly operating starting when growers sent mien with one small truck each, are now fruit to using larger trucks, or more than with loads of melons or peddle in nearby towns, many of one... these peddlera branched out, bought. their own trucks, purchased produce the rotor truck on production and In commenting upon the effect of

direct from the farmers and then merchandising the Government sur built up their own clientele. At the vey said: Bame time many farmers, when the fruit and vegetable season opens, become truckmen-merchants them

Motor Highway Into Abyssinia.

The building of a highway from the Eritrean port of Asaab into the interior of Abyssinia will soon be undertaken by Italy. This new artery will replace the caravan route and it is estimated will cost 15,000,- 000 lire. The road will parallel the railway between Gibuti and the Abyssinian capital of Addis Abeba but will pass through the foun

ducts, with a startling effect upon selves, selling the produce of their direct to the rural retaller many tainous region, with Dessi as its

crop production in many areas.

This is strikingly illustrated in a transportation survey made recently by Brice Edwards of the Bureau of Agricultural Economies of the United States Department of Agriculture. It discusses the move. ment of the 1928 crop of fruits and vegetables in southern Indiana and Illinois and emphasises the large recent increase in the use of trucks for the transport of farm products, "Motor truck transportation in southern Indiana and Illinois has developed chiefly during the Isst. | four years,” the survey states. · "A" characteristic of the use in this section is the supplying of rural and small city trade by wholesale and retail peddling with the truckinan acting as middleman as well as carrier

In southern Indiana, the Govern ment's statistics reveal, 65 per cent. of the 1928 crop of fruits and vegetables, including that portion. sold to canneries, was moved by truck This truck movement .com, prised a total of perishables, trucked to their destination of 5,120 carload. equivalents. The similar rail-more- ment equalled

One

the

1

"The truck has rendered a real service by moving fruits and veget- ables rapidly from the grower

miles away. It has made a good market for second-grade prodice, fresh fruits giving the consumer and vegetables in good condition at low prices.

own farma and that of their neigh bours in nearby cities and towns.

Both of the developments of the merchant-truckman Ides have re sulted in the direct delivery of fruits and vegetables to markets "Five years ago, 88 a typical much farther from the producing example, growers in south-eastern district than formerly served. The Illinois shipped apples to Indiana- truckman-merchant of both classes polis by rail. Several weeks or can profitably afford to diatribute months Inter, the travelling salesman perishables to more distant markets for the Indianapolis firm, in making than con the commercial truckman the rounds of the rural towns, sold hauling for cartage fees alone. (Continued at foot of next Column

They Never Come Too Big for Plymouth.

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In the inspf the giant lias entere peak and in Anding it roomy and comfortable.

terminal.

In the undertaking, Italy is en- thusiastically supported by the King- of Abyssinia who is keenly inter- ested in the new road, which will be built in five sections totalling in all nearly 400 miles through districts where trade has been restricted by lack of transportation routes...

The vast project la a most diffi- cult one. Bridges must be built- and many culverts used as a safe- guard during the rainy season. Work is to be started in the dry season and continued over a term of months. It remains to be seen whether any of the exist- ing caravan routes. can be used .88

basis for the highway? If not, another 5,000,000 lire will be added to the estimated- coat. Experts feel, however, that although the cost of construction-la very heavy, the expense will be more than justified by the benefits this new road will bring not only to Abyssinia but to the Danakil conn- try atretching through the Italiaï colony of Eritrea which is undly. In. need of transport: advantages. The territory which will be served has 4,000,000 inhabitants.

the same apples in towns only a few miles; from where they were grown. The apples were much the worse for their trip of 150 miles, each way had the many handlings. Now nearby,lamand is supplied direct from the roducing locality in a few bours at small cost and with fresher