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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930.

MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGE ›

Marquette

BUILT

BY

BUICK

farenette

FEATURES COMBINED ONLY IN MARQUETTE IN THE $1000 CLASS

Wheelbase 114 inches. Closed Bodies by Fisher.

Non-glare Fiber VV windshield,

Now type mohair

upholstery.

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Adjustable front seat.

Remarkable power

plant-67.5 brake

horsepower

High-compression

head.

Rubber rengins

mountings. Completely sealed engine.

Forced lubrication. Lovejoy hydraulla

shock absorbers. Four-wheel internal- expanding brakes. Adjustable steering wheel.

A host of other extra- ordinary features that combine to make the Marquette America's moit complete car in the $1000 field.

EXTRA VALUE

Body by

Fisher

THAT ONLY MARQUETTE PROVIDES

Here is the most complete car ever offered in the thousand-dollar clois

Lift the hood and inspect the Marquette's power plant. Go over every feature of construction in the chassis. Fine workmanship everywhere. Superlative engineering. Expert design.

And the Body by Fisher. The very latest expression of the finest body craftimen in the world. The upholstery is a brand new type. The finest mohair with a rubberized backing that makes it waterproof and dustproof -there's a special type windshield that eliminates glare and gives new pleasure and security to night driving. It's a marvel in appearance, Inside and out.

The Marquette proves it is a true Buick product with a type of performance never before equaled in a car of the price. Getaway like a Rash! Sky- rocket pick-up-10 to 60 miles an hour. In high gear in 31 secondsi Brakes with stopping ability to moich such speed-positive, easy-oper- oling and as smooth as satin.

Drive it today just to prove to yourself that there never has been anything like it anywhere near its price.

BUICK MOTOR

Canadian Factories Mclaughlin-Buick, Oshawa, Ont.

COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN

Division of General Motors

Corporation

11f' Wheelbase Marquette Models 118" Wheelbase Buick Models

124" Wheelbase Buick Models

132" Wheelbase Buick Models

Builders of Buick and Marquette MotorCar

.G.$1,460 to G.$1,580

G.$1,775 to G.$1,910. .G.$2,125 to G.2,165 .G.$2,115 to G.$2,725

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD

Telephone 30228.

33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT......BUICK WILL BUILD THEM.

CAR WEAKNESS.

Efficiency Variations

Not Justified.

What is the weakest detail of the modern car? I mean this question In a practical and humdrum sense, (writes the motoring correspondent of the Evening News). Certain high-brow engineers like to blame the motor industry for not having produced automatic, Infinitely variable gears, engines as flexible us a steam engine, and so forth. That

anything, between 28 and 30 pounds per square inch. None of the four had fallen lower than 25 in seven weeks.

Brakes Below Standard. I wish brakes

came up

can

AUBURN CO.

Avoids Radical Changes în Models.

Roy H. Faulkner, the dynamic vice-president of the Auburn Auto- mobile Company made several inter- esting observations in an interview to-day which threw considerable Hight on the position, that Auburn enjoys. Faulkner explains it this

way!

"Five years ago Auburn built its first straight-eight automobile, the basis of its present straight-eight models.

"Since that time there has been a steady improvement, 3 constant refinement of its lines and mechani- cal units, but at no time has there been a radical change that obsoleted previous inodels. To-day the Auburn models for 1930 resemble in appear- ance greatly the models of 1925, and yet these 1930 models continue to excel in value and leadership.

.

"One of the best examples of this avoidance of radical change was demonstrated in the Caravan of five cars which Auburn sent from one end of the United States to the other recently. In this caravan were models from the years 1925, 1926, 1927, 1028 and 1929. All these cars were bought buck by the factory. from owners. Alight mechanical adjustments were made and the entire group refinished in a similar colour. On each of the cars was placed a small sign bear- ing only the year in which the car had been made.*

"After the caravan was out a fow days it was found that the public misunderstood what it represented. So near alike were the models that they were taken for a factory 'drive away' of new cars.

7E know that the public has towards us and what we have to offer much of the attitude it has towards solicitors in a contested jury, trial. It listens, distrustfully, to each solicitor as he makes his opening statement, and sits back; entirely at its ense, to see what he can prove to back up his claims. Woe to him if he doesn't prove them!

We also know that the public is entirely willing to hear the claims of all lubricating oil manufac- turers, but that it gives its decisions, mercilessly, only to those who make good with proof.

In hundreds of thousands of cases the New Mobiloil has proved our claim that it is the most economical and efficient motorcar engine lubricant,

So great is the demand for the New Mobiloil that competitors are compelled to erect and main- tain service stations in order to Snd an outlet for their products; for it is true that the majority of independent dealers prefer to sell the New Mobiloil to the exclusion of the majority of com- petitive brands. "The reason?" you ask. Because of demand and consequent quick turnover of the money invested a steady profit without undue effort.

Demand is proof positive of the superior quality of the New Gargoyle Mobilgil.

Vacuum Oil Company

"It is the belief of Auburn that UNIQUE BODYWORK.

burn owners full protection

Feature at Italy's Motor Show.

the changing of a fender or the shape of a radiator cap hag nothing to do with the inherent worth of an automobile. It is a further belief that if a car as designed right originally there is no need of radical unpleasant bouncing at high speeds changes at any one time. Auburn and swaying on bends.

has consistently followed that prac-

At the Italian motor show at On the other hand, America

tice each year adding re-Milan American makers were the

and scores over us in the matter of finements

advancements,most numerous, outnumbering even clutches. If manufacturers on one but giving the previous Au-

the representatives of the Mallan to the side of the Atlantic

cheaper cars, I should certainly call ly same standard. In the case of the make clutches that are uniform on their investment. There has industry. The only British firms

smooth, allent, trouble- been no repudiation of its engineer- Were Austin and Rolls-Royce. them the weakest general point. I free, and light in have been

operation, ing. The same assurance has been: In the body section undoubtedly figures of braking tests on nearly a

studying a big list of why cannot those on the other side? made its clientle as is given in the the greatest novelty was a door hundred different makers of cars.

Silence of running depends large-purchase of good bonda or real ly upon price, though several cheap estate. Nor has the public been having hinges at both ends, and All these tests were made, I cars are wonderfully quiet. Also unmindful, as evidenced by Au therefore capable of being opened presume, on cara on which the it depends upon the type of per-burns' growth In sales volume. elther left or right-handed. The brakes were properly, adjusted and formance offered. A few British "The new 1980 Auburn models practical advantage of this arrange- makes, and a great many more Con- are now being shown all over the ment is that it allows a very wide tinental makes; definitely sacrifice world, and when they are compared silence in the interests of high and in the matter of either line or mech-single door to be used in place of economical exhaust systems and anical advancement, it will again two doora, elther the left or the be apparent that Auburn has been right-handed hinges being employ- Speed Socrificed to Silence."

able to maintain its leadership while ed according to whether it is desired On the other side of the picture adhering strictly to a principle of to enter the rear or the front com. one must consider one of the most ownership protection."

partment of the car. A 10.30 h.p. famous makes in the world, which Moreover, some brakes fall out of deliberately ancrifices quite

Fiat appeared with a door forty-six adjustment so quickly that the serious percentage of its potential

inches wide, and an eight-cylinder ROAD CONGRESS. owners cannot be expected to have power-output in order that its valve |

Larcia was on view with doors hav- them always even at their rather gear shall be dead quiet.

The sixth International Roading the exceptional width of fifty- poor best. It seems to me all wrong

Body-work and finish is almost Congress which will be held in five inches. that one car can pull up from 25 entirely a question of price, because Washington, D.O.. in October, 1930, m.p.h. in 20 feet, while another car, it is chiefly a matter of material and at the invitation of the

The very wide door gives auch an Perhaps the weakest parts of the selling at the same price takes 45 workmanship which have a stan- States Government, will be attended angle that it is only necessary to modern engine are its pistone. feet. Incidentally, the comparative dard market value--and not very by highway engineers and officials open it slightly in order to obtain Bearings seem to give amazingly ly expensive car has not always much a mater of design, which has from all parts of the world, and will easy access to the seats. It is im- little trouble except when lubrica good brakes, and the provision of none. tion has been preposterously pneumatic or hydraulic means for neglected or the car has been applying them is not always a guar- flagrantly over-driven, but pistons antee of satisfaction. do give trouble, and are generally

Is another story. The fact remains that certain components of the modern Car are not as good as others; there are some parts which are completely satisfactory, and still others which are hardly satisfactory at all.

For instance, it is almost impos- sible to find a bad engine. Of course, some are better than others, but even the smallest and cheapest cars have power units which are marvellously efficient and reliable.

The Weakness of Pistons.

the cause of the first important re placement in the car..

gives a better performance, parti-

in a decent state, since the cars were issued for test by the manu- facturers or distributors. It seems to me preposterous that any make of

ear should actually take more than three times the distance to come to

level, surface, rest, front a given speed on a given than another car takes.

Steering is another excessively

in its own class of size and price,

clattering valve gears.

LONDON STREET TOLL.

B

United

offer many opportunities to those possible. to operate the two door who wish to keep pace with modern

The Tyre for ALL conditions.

The Tyre for EXCESS mileage.

FISK

All-Cords

OBTAINABLE AT ALL GARAGES UPON REQUEST.

Sole Distributors :-

GILMAN & CO.,

Tel. 28011.

4a, Des Voeux Road C.

BRITISH MOTORS.

Export Increase and Import Decrease.

Tel. 28011.

developments in highways and high-handles simultaneously, and as soon

the end of the year therefore, the way transportation. The programme as either handle is turned the hinges variable factor, though it is, im-were killed through crossing the on the construction and mainten- locked. There are double locks at No fewer than 111 pedestrians will include reports by authorities on the opposite side are positively

decrease represents a falling-off in the sales of foreign cars and there proving. Here again, a high price streets of London without due care ance of roads of various types, the each end, one being at the top and The fashionable, aluminium piston is not the guarantee that it should during the months of January, results obtained by the use of the other at the bottom of the door,

has actually been an increase in British car sales. haa much to recommend it; it be. I know one very cheap car February, and March, according to cement, brick and other artificial

which has steering that is not bot- the official report issued by the paving the most resent methods and in addition there is a safety

Another reason for the fewer cularly in acceleration, and it ob tered at any price. Its chief rival, Metropolitan Police.

number of cars bought in December viates that irritating slap that was

adopted for the use of tar, bitumen catch on the inside. The door can In spite of the decrease of just is that the severity of last winter prevalent when pistons were made has vastly inferior steering and five and 82 between five and 16. roads In new countries and un- fraction of a second by pressing on now motor vehicles registered dur- owners, anticipating similar condi- Of those six were children under and asphalt, and the construction of be lifted away from the body in a over a thousand in the number of caused many prospective motor of cast-iron. But it does seem to vastly superior brakes. wear out quicker than it should.jp

"Hesitating or faltering" was given developed regions. One of the most a concealed catch; this catch is ing last December as revealed in the tions this year, to postpone buying Springing Has Improved. If I were asked to name the Springing has improved a great

as the cause of 28 deaths.

Important questions will be ways uncovered only when the door is Ministry of Transport's latest re- their cars until the spring. ✨ most satisfactory of all componenta, deal lately thanks very largely to ed during the quarter was 320, com- Highway transport in its various the same way, single-handed, in a and commercial vehicles has increas vehicles in the country is about

The total number of persons kill and means of financing highways, open. The door can be replaced in turns, the production of British cars The total number of motor considering the strain that is put the general use of really good shock pared, with 251 in the correspond, phaace, including its co-ordination few seconds, without the use of any ed to well over a quarter of a million-and-a-half compared with upon them, I should say tyres.

absorbera. This is a point in which Ing period of 1829 and 298 in the with other means of transportation, tools or the replacement of nuts or million, according to the 1929 1,307,000 in 1928, so that while My present tyres have done 11,000 the long, heavy car has an Intrinsic first three months of 1928, will be the subject of other discus bolts. One of the two pairs of estimates of the Society of Motor there may be fluctuations in the in- miles. They are practically as good advantage over the short, light one. The injured numbered 11,441. sions. Tas delegates will also de hinges is mounted elastically, thus Manufacturers and Traders. as new in appearance. They have But, generally speaking, French and The accidents to persons and vote much time to the subfect of tending not only to keep it closed, One reason for this is the big bers are steadily growing.

crease from time to time the num never had a puncture. I had not so Italian cars are better sprung than property totalled 28,384, an increase traffic regulation in large cities and but making It Independent of any advance in British motor exports, it is estimated, that the motor much as unscrowed a valve-cap off British, and British better than of 8,918 over the first quarter of their suburbs, traffle signals, plan warping of the rest of the body. In for during 1929 Britain's exports industry employs directly about Any one of them for seven weeks American, unless your taste inclines the previous year. Private motor ning new ronde and adapting old addition to enhancing appearance, went up by more than 1,100,000 270,000 people. The export trade antil last Sunday, when I thought to the rather soft springe which cars were concerned in 10,272 of ones to prevent congestion of frame the double-hinge door is less expen while Imports decreased by 395,423, is improving steadily, the figures for would see what the air-pressure in certainly fake for comfort at low these accidents, 67 which 109 were, and the parking and garaging #them was Hke-1-inflata them to speeds, but are also able to permit fatal

alve to construct than are two Although there was a slightly small- 1929 chowing an increase of 80 per vehicles

såparate doors- The Autocar

erinumber of new registrations at cent, over those for 1928, +-

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