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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27th, 1928.

MOTORING NOTES

A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.

Motor Notes-New Buses for Shanghai-Mr. Chrysler's Car Deal-British Motor Cycles-New Demand for American Cara- Tiger and Fly Paper-British Cars and Overseas Markets-A New "Steamer "Motoring in 1938-

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HENTM ladies started cycling thirty- one years ago they rode on Dunlop tyres. And the lady cyclist of these days accepted Dunlops as a matter of course. You wanted a pneumatic tyre-you ordered`a. Dunlop. A Dunlop tyre was no novelty to them. "Simply be- cause even at that time Dunlop had been making tyres. for ten years. To-day, of course, Dunlop have been, makers and the leading makers-of pneumatic tyres for forty years. There's a deal of experience to be gained in forty years of tyre making for every kind of vehicle running on every kind of surface, and at speeds ranging froma the 20 miles per hour of the carly motor carriages · to the 203.8 miles · hour of Segrave's Sunbeam.

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GRADUAL-PAYMENT MOTOR

REPAIRS.

BRITISH MOTOR- CYCLES.

SOME RECENT TRIUMPHS.

MR. CHRYSLER'S".

CAR DEAL.

THREE-DAYS TALK IN

HOTEL

PRINCIPAL SHUT OFF FROM WORLD.

"In these days when almost every- thing costing more than a few IN EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. shillings can be bought on the hire- purchase system, it is strange that

A 977 cu. Triumph model "W!? the scheme has not been adapted to motor cycle ridden by Victor Bar

NEW YORK. motor-car repairs Looking at it

Few transactions in the financial from an owner-driver's poins of clay recently established a new res

Melbourne cord betwee

and history of the world have been ear- view, it would seem that there is

Sydney, beating the previous re ried through with greater simpli some merit in the idea when exten-cord by 1 hour iï min. and former city than that which marked the sive repairs or a complete over records set up by 330 and 100 cc. merging of the two great motor-car haul become necessary. Nobody, says The Light Car and Cyclecar, and 1,000 cc. sidecar machines. companies of Dodge and Chrysler, their united capital of Barclay's time for the journey was with would wish to be bothered by mak- 34 min. less than the Melbourne £50,000,000. ing monthly payments in settlement

Sydney express, 3 remarkable Mr. Clarence Dillon, of the Now of, say, a £10 account, but it might achievement for such a small ma-York banking company, Messrs. be worth it to some people if the chine which weighs but 193 1. fully Dillon, Read, and Ca, which head- bill came to £20 or £30.

equipped.

ed the syndicate purchasing the British motor cycles bad aDodge interests for 299,200,000 in magnificent record of successes in May, 1923, returned from Europe the Continental events throughout only two weeks ago. He met Mr. 1927, and & perusal of the results Walter P. Chrysler at Luncheon makes heartening reading. It is in a city club and the conversation clear that Continental manufac drifted to motor-cars. turers have not yet drawn abreast of British design. With regard to export trade during the year, com petition from American manufac turers is still of great importance and in both Germany and France public attention has been directed towards motor cycles to a largely increased extent. This is borne out by the proposal to hold separate exhibitions, for cycles and motor cycles in those countries for 1928 and onwards, so that in close auc- cession there will be shows in Lon dozi, Paris and Berlin.

The repairer, of course, would re- quire some kind of socurity before agreeing to the arrangement, and the agreement would have to be very carefully worded to prevent any trouble or ill-feeling arising if, after the work had been done; but before it had been fully paid for, it did not turn out to be quite 'satisfactory.

SCARING THE NOVICE.

Why

do not all motor-car manufacturers devate attention to "clean-up the appearance of their engines. Nothing is more calculated to scare away the novice or repel the old hand than an ap parently jumbled mass of pipes and rods beneath the bonnet, says The Light Car and Cyclecar." It aug- grats complexity to the newcomer and offends the mechanical orderli- ness of the experienced driver. Whilst most English care have won derfully improved in this, respect in recent years, there are some that still have a long way to go before they can be put up against the pro- ducts of Continental factories.

Why foreign manufacturers and particularly the Italians should have been allowed to obtain such a notable lead in this respect is dif- ficult to understand. The mystery is deepened by the fact that for clean lines British motor-cycles have no equal 1.

THE INSECT.

Owner of Austin Soven, after collision with six-wheeler lorry: But do you mean to tell me that you could not see me coming on a straight piece of road like that?"..

Lorry Driver: "Sorry, gur'nor, Tort it were a fly on me wind- screen!"- OSBORNE,

in The Motor.

BUDGET ENCOURAGEMENT FOR PNEUMATIC TYRES,

The rebate" in the licence duty which the Chancellor of the Exche quer proposes to make in the case of a commercial motor vehicle which

In the recent Austrian T.T." race an AJ.S. machine gained well deserved second place in the 300 c.c. over a very torturous route. The course was a very difficult ne with numerous beads and curves, and in some places the road surface was terribly bad, agu

They disenssed the companies in which they were interested, and the talk lengthened as the two men discovered that each company and something in "engineering skill or in distribution ability that the other needed. They agreed to send engineers and accountants to study the respective plants in & pre- liminary survey.

Experts Meet,

Those experts met in Detroit and worked out statistics covering all phases of the two great industries. They brought their figures and facts to New York, presenting Mr. Chrysler with information about Dodge care and Mr. Dillon with that relating to the Chrysler plant.

This armed for investigation, the two financiers engaged a hotel suite and shut themselves off from the world for three days. No lawyers This make has also been prominor accountants were invited to ent in the newly established Dirt attend. Track racing near London. At At the end of the three days the Stamford Bridge, for instance,merger had been worked out and Hudspith on a Mac.c.. A.7.S. won accepted as satisfactory by both from the redoubtable Gas Kuhn sides. At this particular meeting there were some 30,000 spectators and it appears as if the new sport were guing to challenge seriously the popularity of greyhound racing,

TIGER AND FLY PAPER.

MOTOR PIONEER'S HUMOR-

OUS EXPLOITS.

It is probably the first time. in history that such a hig deal has been arranged. so informally,

Cut Prices,

The amalgamation of the two companies will make a new rival to the General Motors and Tord com- panies. It is already hinted that this present deal is but a prelude to an even bigger combination in the motor-car world designed to challenge still further the supremacy of the present leaders.

The amalgamation comes at a moment when competition is ex- tremely

aggressive, when the various companies are striving to outsell each other in improved models and cut prices.

SHARE PURCHASE.

ACQUISITION COSTS CHRYSLER £34,000,000:-

New York. The absorption of Dodge Motors by the Chrysler Corporation will

company with estimated combined annual output of 700,000 ̈cara, as compared with

The first man to go through The Dodge Corporation will lose, Burmah by motor-car, ir. Francis its financial entity. Mr. Chrysler Birtles, the intrepid Australian ex- becomes chairman of the new board plorer who is crossing the world and Mr. Dillon chairman of the from London to Melbourne in france committee. 14 hp, Bean, gives some amusing impressions of his exploits in an interview at Rangoon

A "Once in the Persian hills," he said, "when I was snowed up for half a day, Dacoit brigands came charging down from the mountains, eyed my blankets and my spare is equipped with pneumatic tyres, Dunlops, and made off with the ic certainly a step in the right blankets. I'd rather they'd stolen direction, but, in our opinion, says "a tyre, for I haven't had a pune- The Commercial Motor, it is not ture yet and with several feet of quite large enough. Take the case snow on the ground blankets are a

This ia of a ton goods vehicle.

a lot more sustful than the best tyre taxed at £80, and the result of ever made. equipping it with pneumatic tyres "It was impossible to follow the all round would be a reduction in Dacoits through the snow. I was the duty of only £12. As the cost unarmed on principle, for a Dacoit of conversion to pneumatics may will kill you at dace for any re- General Motors output of 1,500,000 be £100 or more, there may still not arms you've got, so I had to drive in 1998. It will leave the Ford be sufficient inducemeat to owners on all night to keep myself from to change the equipment, but we sleeping and freezing to death. must, of course, consider the matter Dacoits are disagreeable compared

The Chrysler Company will give` from other points of view as well. with blacks whom I know from Á The reduction in tax will certainly to Z. The Afghan is fierce and Dodge Preference abare, one Ordi

one Ordinary share for every. not be only financial gain. The the Persian is polite. But their

mary for five Dodge "A" abares, potential money-cerning value of a bullets all hit the same. vehicle on paeumatic tyres is con- "I don't mind tigers. Coming B. It will assume control of and one Ordinary for 10 Dodge siderably enhanced, not only be through Burmah I have kept the £11,400,000 worth of Dodge Deben- cause traders consider that goods tigers off with fly-papers. I spread tores, thus nhsorbing the company carried by zach vehicles are less a dozen By-papere round my camp at a cost of about £54,000,000. The liable to damage, but from the fact at night and turn in quite Peace Chrysler Company will withdraw that much greater mileages can be fully, for the tiger is an animal ite Preference shares, issuing ad- of dignity and no dignified creature. would dare to face human being after squatting down upon a sticky "fly-paper.

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NEW 'BUSES FOR SHANGHAL

Twenty of the latest type i Turning for a moment to deve

Express gear-driven omnibuses will lopments in steam propelled vehi cles, the Sentinel Waggon Works, load capacity in 10-19 tons of a soon be appearing on the streets says a Home circular, have intro load such as sand. The tipping of Shanghai in the service of the duced a new heavy duty, high mechanism is very simple, consist China General Omnibus Company. speed 3-way tipper, mounted on ing essentially of a vertical tipping They have been specially built by their rigid six wheeler, which will cylinder rigidly-mounted in the Tilling-Stevere, Ltd., in England, nadoubtedly commend itself to chassis, open at its top end and and are equipped with a 20-70 MOTOR SUNDRIES COMPANY hauliers whose work calls for self having working in it a ram. The horsepower engine and Dunlop

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