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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930. HUPMOBILE'S NEW CENTURY 8

A DISTINCTLY NEW CAR.

Designed to. All the gap be- tween the upmobile moderate price Six cylinder models and the 100 horsepower Eight, the new Inpmobile Century Eight, just in troduced, makes, its boy as a dis- tinely new, car from every ungla, including price. The new Century Right. like its running mate, the new Century Six, inherits the ranic of a brilliant Hupmobile predecessor-the "Century" dine of a few seasons ago.. In other respects, however, the new Cen- Lury Eight compares with nothing that Hupmobile has ever done. al- It strikes notes of newness together unique in its price class. Its engine develops great horse Jower and a speed of over 75 miles an hour, with a smoothness altogeher new to seasoned, motor- ists. In engine construction. It follows Hupmobile's pioneered straight eight principle, with high compression cylinder heads, which provide an unbroken flow of power thughout its entire speed range.

The crankshaft of the new Cen-1 tury Eight is of the five-bearing type, welgha.92 pounds, and is fully counter-weighted. It is sta- tically and dynamically balanced and is equipped with a vibration damper of new type.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MOTOR HIGHWÀY.

Reaches Far Into Arctic Circle.

in

Washington, D.C., Sept. 20.. Venturesome automobile tourists who have the desire to visit out of- a point far within the the-way place will now be able to travel to be the northernmost roud Arctic Circle via what is believed to This road is loent- Elaborate Lubricating System existence. No less than 40 points on the feil. in northern Finland, start- extenda Circle, it eight cylinder engine are undering about 300 kilometres with- 230 kilometres farther pressure lubrication at all times. In Much of the credit for long life sonte

This harbour and economical upkeep of Hup-north to the Fjord of Petaamd in

can be at the Arctic Ocean. mobile automobiles

to the

taken is free from ice the entire year, .cure

this rond tributed in providing firessure lubri A description of

briof history of its cation to vital engine points and

is contained

was submitted

the

a

as is se adequately demonstrated construction in the new Hupmobile Century a report which Hight.

.in

by E. W. Skogstrom, director gen- The bare and stroke of the new eral of Roads, Helsingfora, Finland. eight cylinder engine is 2 and to the Sixth International Road The Congress held in Washington from The southern end 49% inches respectively. piston. displacement is 210.2 cubic October 6 to 11. inches, while the standard com-jol the newly completed highway is pression ratio is 5.2 to 1. Pistons connected with the network of other are of a sporial roads in the country by means of in this engine new type.. A light weight alloy, good highway and through this also

with the railway system.

New "Century Eight" Roadster.

Its acceleration is remarkable. developing from 5 to 50 miles an hour in as little as 20 seconds.

There is an attractive variety of bly styles in the new Cen- tory. Eight series, including Coupe

with rumbls seat. 5 passenger four door Salon. Convertible;ecially evidenced on hills. Cabriolet. 5 passenger Touver and the 2 passenger Roadster.

W

. R

Construction of the road begun by the Imperial Russian Government

1916 in military measure to establish communication with the allies and thus offset the German blockade of the Baltic sea. The revolution of March, 1917, interrupt- ed construction but upon the con- clusion of peace Finland resumed the work. The road has now been

for use

time and Rome used by both tou:ists trucks. It is a wide

one of the newest proven developin eats in automotive engineeringis They are as hard as cast iron and nd motor have similar wearing qualities gravel road, five metres get they are much lighter than and the total cost of construction ant iron, giving them a respon-has-nggregated $1,500,000. Tourist that is.es-hotels have been erected in several siveness and power

places and, while they are open One of the features of the new principally during the summer, sont Century Eight is the positive type of them remain open during the A telephone and tele- In designing the new Century of fuel pump used instead of the winter niso. Eight, Hupp engineers have again conventional vacuum tank. This graph line runs alongside the rond gear driven pump provides a con- which can be used for internațional established new precedents in

stant supply of fuel to the car- communication. lody styles, in construction and in oily contour.' From radiator bureter. Water in the fuel can- not accumulate In the housing be- to tail lamp, this car presents an

of its design. A double, unbroken, flowing line that accen- tuates greatly the suggestion, of plain tube type, of, carburetor is speed. The radiator is high and used, incorporating an exclusive) to accelerating pump which provides wide nad is also conducive

an extra spurt of fuel when quick speed through less frontal wind

The resistance.. Thermostatically con- acceleration is demanded.

are in fuel filter, through which the

Last autumn I was riding with trolled radiator shutters

standard equipment. casoline must pass before reach-several Beduin in the Syrian desert cluded AN The fenders are long and sweeping the carburetor, eliminates south-east of Damascus (writes

A fine mésh ing Interior upholstery is of dirt and water.

screen, surrounding the gasoline correspadent of The Times). Our

camels frequently crossed high quality mohair with a nap

tracks left. by pipe at the carburetor, provides a

motor-curs designed for long wear,

Special

cause

New "Century Eight" Phaeton.

machine-buffed Bedouin leather in harmonising tone is used In the open Models. '

Adjustable Seats. The new

Mechanical Innovations.

and

HUNTING OSTRICH.

of

Progress in the Desert.

Those who have ridden in this new Buick, are amazed at the unusual degree of comfort and the marvellous performance of

The BUICK 8

The Eights with Buick's Prestige

No matter which model or series you choose you can expect the quality that has made Buick the outstanding value in its price class for over 25 years. This adherence to Buick quality from the beginning has developed confidence in the public mind— confidence that causes thousands of Buick owners to buy Buick

again and again.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.,

Telephone 30228.

LTD.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

brought to the headquarters of the running of this sort is unnecessary tribe on the morrow.

to said

As

much

cars.

His cara-

with a Rolls, for everything is built to such limits of accuracy that the unit is perfectly free before it has fired at all. This early test is car- ried out for two reasons (1) to ob- tain a surface-polish on all the working parts and (2) to scour the crankcase of all impurities.

The second purpose is achieved by the simple method of lubricating the engine from the "main," rather than from its own crankcase. A supply

NEW PASSENGER MODEL.

To meet the demand-largely in the overseas markets for a high power single deck passenger model of the driver-behind-engine type the

As Their Forefathers Lived. This system is already in use among those northern tribes whose territories touch on the settled lands of Syria and Trans the Jordan.

The sheikhs of some of these tribes now possess In the sand. Presently one Farther south, however, the tribes

'my companions

continue to live their lives just as me, "I wish I had enough their forefathers lived. Firearms money to buy a motor-car. If I had are ine only possession which tank containing hundreds of gallons a car, by Allah, I would soon be their ancestors of a thousand.

of oil is connected to the engine come wealthy." I asked him how yrs ago did not have. The

pump and the lubricant then follows would bring him reason is not always poverty. A its usual course, finally draining out Д motor-car wealth. "1 would hunt the fat camel sells to the butchers, in from the bottom of the crankcase. ostrich with it," he answer Egypt for about £16 or £17, and

There is thus a continuous flow of ed. "The feathers of the ostrich many Beduin own 55 or even 100

fresh, cool oil which removes all bring much money."

camels. Moreover, they are pre-

impurities In Its passage through The sons of Nuri Shaalan, sheikhpared to pay for anything they the engine. of the Bualla tribe, he added, had

£20 ja want. second check against foreign mat- used a motor-car for this purpose sometimes páld for a good hawk, ter in the fuel supply.

Crankcase ventilation is also a with great success. The ostrich for instance. No, the explanation. feature of the new Century Eight cannot be overtaken by a horseman, of their continued simplicity of isolated Hupmobile Century cylinder engine. A special mash still less by a camel-rider, but with life ls that they are so Eight has adjustable front seats screen is built into the crankcase a motor-car it can be run down among their deserts that they do Alier cap to eliminate foreign fairly easily, as it always runs on not come into contact with new in all closed models. A full

A.E.C. have produced the "Ranger." The air enters through dat ground, in the bottom of volleys things, and so do not acquire the

Nuri Shaalan's sons had want of them. three-inch variation in front seat matter.

With its six-cylinder, 95. h.p. chased a number of these great Although the Beduin have not adjustment is possible, providing this vent, circulates though the and so on. ensy leg room for drivers of prac- crankcase, and the fumes tically all heights. Coupled with vapour within are then drawn out birds and shot them from the car yet themselves made much use of engine the "Ranger" is similar in this feature, the adjustable steer- under the car through an exhaust while travelling at high speed modern inventions, they are in- almost every respect to the now well- Ibn Saud, the two main points of difference are new model orthodox ing column makea,it a simple mat- pipe by suction created by air They had lassoed one and captured creasingly coming under the in- known A.E.C. "Regal." The only the diagonal end it alive, afterwards presenting it to fluence of them. ter to fit any driver focomplete passing across

King Feisal of Iraq. A band from king of the greater part of the that in the comfort and handling ease. The of the exhaust pipė....

the same tribe hired, not very long Beduin nation, travels between the steering is, of course, employed, and Extra Heavy Frame.

motor-cars eight front compartment is ventilated

ago,

from principal parts of his dominions the seating capacity is correspond- ingly lower. It is intended that the through the cowl.

Contributing to the smoothness and riding ease of the new Cen-Damascua. With these, a machine-by means of motor-car,

He also modating 26-28 passengers.

The chief features of the "Regal" Chief among the mechanical tury Eight is the exceptionally gun being mounted on one of them, van usually consists of some sixty "Ranger" shall carry a body accom-

sturdy and well-braced frame. If they made a raid on a branch of the cars of various, sorts. features embodied in the new is of the double drop type, 1654 Aneyza tribe, with which they were owns a small fleet of aeroplanes,

run by British pilots. Again, and "Ranger" are given below:--

95 hp, six-cylinder engine 100 Six sturdy at feud.

some half-a-dozen wireless, tele- graph stations have been installed mm. bore X 180 mm. stroke, "over- To Beduin, the chief thing about at various points in his kingdom. head camshaft, detachable head, force lubrication, four and the chase is the bag. Their hunting These things can hardly fail, as magneto ignition, pump water clr- for good balance the rear "placed between the engine support tapers forward for

shorter is done principally to fill the pot. time goes on, to force a wider out-culation, ย arme which

are made Integral turning radius and easier steer. They search in the desert for hares, look on the nomads. Up to the gallon oll sump, seven bearing with the crankcase and the front

Ing. Another outstanding feature and having found one sleeping present, however, progress has not crankshaft, unit construction engine croas members; these supports are

Single plate clutch, 16 ins. dia- In connection with the frame is among the rocks, they get within carried the Beduin beyond the and gearbox.

meter, with wearing surface of 380. set at about a thirty degree angle the use of a special type of noise about five yards of it and shoot it rifle and an occasional box of from a horizontal plane, giving a

sq. ins. lesa rubber spring shackle. This with a rifle. They also take them matches. - cradle-like mounting. to the en-

Four speed spur gearbox of slid- gine. Instead of the conventional type of shackle precludes the on the run with hawk or hound.

necessity of lubricating these Motor cars could be of great bene-

ing gear type with exceptionally chassis parts. In addition, theyft to the Beduin. Breeders. of

It is common knowledge that when wide gears and large diameter the rear engine supports and the are nolueless in operation, camels, their lives are spent in frame, the rear engine-to-frame

One plece rear axle, with worm Horm contact is a solid metal-to-metal necessary feature for the modern wandering about the desert search- a car is new the oil in the crankcase shafts.

ing among the stones for pasturage should be drained off and replenish- contact, providing greater rigidity

Other convenient features which and water for their beasts. There ed by fresh lubricant after a few gearing in separate case. where it is needed at the roar of will please the, modern car buyetare enormous tracts of the desert hundred miles. The reason for this, shaft, mounted on parallel roller" In search of something new, are in which there are no wells, but of course is that however "clean" bearings with large double thrust This rear mounting is entirely the headlights, which are control where there is excellent grazing for a new, casting may be, there is ball bearings. Very large pli capa- new and exclusively Hupmobile. led by a ratchet type foot pedal, camels. In winter and spring the necessarily an amount of grit and city. Bevel type differential with It consists of four rubber plates oversize starting motor, full-vision rains caude great shallow pools of other impurities which mix with the axle shafts 3 ins, diameter and of Foot brakes of Dewandre Sarvo placed between the rear end of windows, inono-control type of water to form in some of these disoll when the singing is first run and 100 ton steel. the crankcase and the rear end of fullvision windshield, triple tricts, and at those seasons the forms a mild grinding paste! If the cross member, so spaced as to hydraulic shock absorbers front Beduin drive thele herds thither the oil is drained out, most of this Vacuum type operate on all four equally distribute the weight to and rear, and Hupmobile's own Often it happens, however, that abrasive goes with it and after wheels assisted by handbrake on rear each one. These plates consist road shock eliminator.

there is a heavy rainfall in a parti- further drainings and replenish wheels. All of the Internal expand of rubber vulcanised between, two

cular place one year, while in the ments, the interior of the engine ing type.

Matier stearing giving extremely Modern Decorations. steel plater. One of the plates is

Hupmoblie carries out in the next year there is scarcely any, or becomes relatively clean

The manufacturers of Rolls-Royce easy control. riveted to the engine support New Century Eights the modern the rain comes a month or more member while the other is bolted motit which is so characteristic of later than usual. Whether the rain cars, however, employ a method to the crankcase, providing a live the Hupmobiles of to-day. Thus pools are full or dry can only be which removes these Impurities in zubber insulation between the two you and the modern note ascertained by pending ont camel, the preliminary engine tests. When metal contacts. Thus, all metal parts are fairly bandaged, in rub exemplified in the Instrument riders to examine them.. This may an engine is assembitu It is placed Bory and wear is hikimited while panels door handles, light switch, take many days, whereas by using on a text bed and is run in, gently, nerves are befriended by the and of course, in the very on a motor car all the pools in a very under its own power. It is not thorough job of silencis achie, terior design of the cars them large, tract could be inspected In a motored" In by external power, for ins

Wingle day, and the information this reverses the stresses. Also tyres, ed by the Hupmobile engineers."

cross members brace the frame

Hupmobile Century Eight are the inches in length. rubber mountings and insulation device between the engine and

and provide a maximum of rigid. frame. The front end of the en- gine rests on two rubber plates,ity. The frame is extra wide at

rubber insert mounting between

the engine.

car.

:

Great Benefit of Motor-Cars.

SCOURING THE CRANKCASE.

Chrome vanadium steal springe and aydredile shock absorbers.

Rigid frame with maximum sec tion 11-Ins: deep and tubular cross members to eliminate distortion.

X 84ina, pneumatic balloon Detachable disc wheels with 88

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BUYERS GUIDE

MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. Tel. 24759, BUICK The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei Chang

Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.

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

24759. FIAT MOTOR CARA Goeke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.

Tel. 22221.

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

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong No.

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228... ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.

24759.

Tel.

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

24759,

Tel.

WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS.-G#maa & Co.,

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

"

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

C. Tel. 22178.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Boad. Tel.

24759.

G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd. 88. Wong Nel Chung

Chung Read, Happy Valley: Tel. 30228.

DODGE.-South China Motor Car Co., 83, Des Voeux Road. C.

Tel: 25644.

MORRIS. Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24769. ́STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS.-Gliman & Co., Ltd.,

48, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.

MOTOR CYCLES.

B.S.A.-The Sincere, Co., Ltd, Des Voeux Road., Tel. 27767, NORTON The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road C. Tel

27767.

MOTOR OILS.

GARGOYLE MOBILOIL Vacuum Oil Company, King's Bldg. SHELL-Aalatic Petroleum Co., (S.C., Ltd., Asiatic Bldg.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES.-Hengkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road.

24750.

Tel.

ACCESSORIA-The Duro Motor Co., Nithan Road, Kowloon,

Tel. 66225. /

FISK TYRES-Gilman & Co., Ltd., 42, Des Voeux Rd. G. Tol.

28011. INDIA TYRES.-W. R. Loxley Co., York Bldgs. Tel. 22286. MICHELIN TYRESA. Goeke & Co, China Bldg., 7th floor.

Tel. 22221,

PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Qudan's

Road. Tel. 24759.

WILLARD BATTERIES-Gliman & Co. Ltd., da, Des Voeux Rd.

C.-Tel. 28011.