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STUDEBAKER COMMERCIAL CARS

HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES.

ERSKINE SIX TRUCK.

4

B.A.0. Borzo-Power Rating 18,15.

Brake Horse-Puers · 33 at 3,000 Revolutions,

Piston Displacement 160.73 Oubic Inch Whee-Base 107 Inches..

+TON.

Delivery Cassin ....... 1,640 lb· ·GS Screen Delivery Trek

Panel Delivery Truck..............2,500 lbe,

Eng Kong Frics

Price Includes: Bulb Hor, Rumpers, Sinkbers, Spare Rim-Tire and

Tube 30 x 5. Cowl and Instrument Panel.

DIRECTOR SIX TRUCK.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15th,

MOTORING NOTES

MOTOR BUSINESS IN JAPAN.

PROMISES STEADY

GROWTH.

{CONTDJ

STREET ACCIDENTS.

TOLL OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

CAR MARKS RUNNING OUT.

SERIOUS PROPOSITION FON

BRITISH REGISTRATION"

AUTHORITY,

1928.

JURY SYSTEM IN JAPAN.

"THE "DISCIPLINE '

OF MARRIAGE.

TO BE TRIED IN OCTOBER. EFFECT ON PROFESSIONAL

ON LIMITED" SCALE.

glance at the latest list of The Home Secretary, in a writ index marks reveals the fact, that tea reply to question by Mr. before long the registration authori-

TORTO, August · Est. Buxtongare the following parti- | ties will be faced with a dilemma,

The jury system-ja to come into The special English supplement. culars with regard to the number remarks The Motor. The combina effect in Japan on October at this of the Tokyo Maiyu Shimbunsha of fatal street accidente caused by tions of index letters are running year, the Government having post- entitled Industrial Japan Tomechanically propelled vehicles (ex- out, and the Ministry of Transportponed the date originally decided day." gives the following review of cluding tramcars) in England and is giving serious consideration to on by over a twelvemonth, on the the motor industry in Japan today Wales and in Great Britain, show- dealing both with the trade in foreign cars and the home pro

ducts:

England and Great Walee Britain. 14304, 373

483

330 mor g18 1,104

86

Speed 45 M.P.#

Yelt Weight

7:0. Factory

Pries

Extrae

850,

2497 the.

: 793 8:0

G$ 90

୫୦.

Pecking Kkipping Delivery GS-140 255

290

GS 380 1,170 1,200

The motor-car manufacturing in- dustry in Japan is one of the new enterprises which was started dur ing the unprecedented financial and commercial boom that resulted from the European War. As an indus- try, the motor-car production is still in a primitive stage, and from the commercial point of view, it is far from proft-yielding. Neverthe- less, it has a bright future as 20 extensive synthetic manufacturing industry.

Fatal Accidents.

Year.

1910

1911

658

1912

1913

1,052

1914

1.208

1,320

1915

1.634

·1,810

2016

1,499

Humble Beginnings.

1917

1,281.

Speed 50 M.P.11.

one

་

Delivery Chassis...

...2,375 The.

Go P25

GS 95. G$ 150

Screen Delivery Truck...3,380 15x, Panel Delivery Truck..... 3,390 ība..

1,103

95

1,195

95

G$1,200 $85 1,755 470 1,760

Until about 15 years ago, motor cars were owned by a very limited circle of people of Japan. They were provided by machine dealers only 43

of their

small side jobs; the manufacturing of motor-care in this 'country at that time was not even dreamed of.

1918

1.144

1,651 1.408 1,050.

1915

*T,368

1,746

1920

1,812

2,010

1921

1,893

1992

2,091 2,959

1023

2.203

2,433

1094

2750

3,010

1935

3,032

3,401

1026

3,632

1927

3.847

Estate Car and Bus 3,400 lbs.

1,495

95

470. 9,060

Perscas Killed

...

1928 1027

3,493 4,062

B...C: Horse-Power Rating 4735

Brake Horte-Power 70 al 2,800 Revolutions,

Prsten Displacement 251,6 Oubic Inch, Wheel-Base 119 Inchta,

1 TON.

Price Includes: Bulb Horn, Bampers, Snubbers, Five Disc Wheels,

Spare Tire and Tabe 32 x 6, Cowl and Instrument Panel.

ARLINGTON SIX TRUCK

R.A.C. Horse-Power Rating 2734. Brake Horse-Power 70 at 2,800 Revolutions. Piton Displacement 242.6 Cubic Inch Wheel-Base 146 Inches, Speed 48 H.P.H.

11-TONS.

Express Chassis .............. 2,55% Ibm. Arlington Fanerai Car .. 3,905 Ibe. Bellerte Ambulance ......4,040 Tom.

G$1,285 2,385

G$100

100

GS. 185 G$1,520 515 3,000

2,560.100

520 3,180

Prices Inclates: Bulb Horn, Bumpers, Snubbors. Five Disc Wheels,

Spare Tire and Tube 32 x 8, Cowl and Instrument Pane!

BIG SIX SPEED TRUCK.

R.A.C Torse-Power Rating 36.04). ** Brake Horse-Power 85 at 2,800 Revolutions...

Piston Displacement 355.8 Cubic Inch Wheel-Base 158 Inches,

Speed 60 MPH.

2-TONS.

Express Chassis 3,115 Ib.

GS-,755

9,085

G$115

115

De Luis Funeral Caz..... 4,606 Ibe. De Luxe Ambulance * 4,606 lbs. $,185 115

G$ 240

760 3,880 760 4,080 Price Tacludra: Bulb Horn, Bumpers, Hydraulic Absorbers, Fire Disc

Wcels, Extra Tirs sad Tube $4 x 7.30, Cowl and Instrument Panel.

Repairs were made in those days in a primitive manner by unskilled mechanics. There was only one shop in Tsukiji, Tokyo, which engaged in an experimental manufacture of motorcars in spare moments of its main job, e, repairing, but the enterprise was failed from a commer. cial point of view. This shop was managed by Dr Kishi, and in later year, the shop became the Tokyo "Automobiles Manufacturing Works. Demand For Motors After War

Period,

CAREERS.

FAMOUS LAWYERS' VIEWS.

MR. JUSTICE EVE ON A “HOR- RIBLE SURRENDER."

Judges of the High Cours, eminent K.C.'s, and a well-known ing (a) fatal accidente during the the problem. In many cases Y has round that, being quite a new ex novelist, attended Gray's Ion Hai years 1900 to 1917, and (b) persons been reached for the second identi- periment, it was wise to move with on July 20th to listen to à disesv caution. Opinion is divided as to sion on the effect of marriage on whether the trial by "twelve good a professional career, killed in the years 1996 and 1927, fication letter. for which years alone theas Sgures A considerable number of old men and true is suitable to this "That marriage is дл

essential identification marks are available :--

have lapsed country. Those opposing it point discipline for a successful profes- through care being scrapped" or first to the failures in the working | aional career, was the topic select- licences not being renewed, and one of the system in other lands far ed for the annual Ladies' Night dis- way out of the difficulty would be more democratically advanced and cussion of the Inn's Debating to re-issue these. It is said that shake their heads with doubt: The Society.

Government is well aware of the Lord Merrivale, President of the special legislation would be requir drawbacks and has strictly limited Divorce Division, who only a few ed to permit this to be done, but, the powers of the jury men, who hours before had finished his sum- even so, serious complications would will not be permitted to ask ques-ming-up in the Bonn divorce case, tions, investigate or examine. The and Lord Justice Greer, attended... arise if, for instance, the proposed almost supreme position of the "It is essential to be married in reduction in the licence fee for old Judge has not been weakened, for order to make progress at the Bar," the jury will be asked for its declared Mr. du Parcq, KC an cars released a considerable number opinion only after the Judge has ex-president of the Oxford Union. of used cars at present held up.

made the final summing up; in who opened the discussion for the other words, as things go in Japan, Aye" The second alternative is to con- the Judge's summing up being 1,958

tinue the existing markings with different combinations of letters and figures. When examining the full list of allocated letters this suggestion does not appear like!

"You in the ezultant fulaess of to work out so easily, for it seems

you thought WLI • your that however the combinations are

triumph, but which you now see was It is plain that the system is horrible surrender, and bubbling varied clashing of letters must largely in the nature of an experi- over with an asinine admiration occur. Short of cancelling all ment and the judicial authorities for your divine Sophie, reiterate existing numbers and letters and tion does not work antisfactorily, settle every penny you have or have declared that, if this innove-again and again that you will Scrapping all number plates in use it will be abolished. For the pre will earn on her, and at the end and issuing new ones when the time sent, only criminal cases will be of the interview, at Pa's kind

tried. by jury and this not unless suggestion, you ask hind to be good. comes for a change, it seems inevit the accused desires it Cases that enough to instruct the family solici able that there will be duplications. involve the Imperial Family or tors that eminent firm of Bushin. high personages connected with the Grabbit and Hold-fast-to prepare Cancelling existing numbers at blood" royal, and crimes having a settlement on these lines. any time is quite an impracticable bearing on the defence of the realm "A little later you find that you!

are beyond the scope of those that have deprived yourself. of every idea, and it appears advisable. may be tried by jury. If, after therefore, to establish some change the lengthy and secret preliminary sent or future, and all that is left penny of your money, either pre- investigation by the procurator out of the settlement is the suit

4.155 3,380

4.934 4,606

SAFETY FIRST FOR MOTORISTS.

LORD DEWAR ON SURVIVAL BY LEAPS AND BOUND'S.

Lieut. Col. Wilfrid Ashley, Mini-

The outbreak of the European war, which stimulated unprecedent- ed activity in financial, commercial and industrial undertakings, even-ter of Transport, at a-luncheon In tually became the means by which connection with the Road Fellow many wealthy people were enabled ship League-the newly-founded to purchase motor-cars one after the road-users' section of the National ather in rapid succession.

The increased demand for motor-

"Safety First" Association-laid.

Arguing for the 'Noes," Mr. practically the apportioning of Justice Eve said that the negotia guilt or otherwise, the jury will, tions for marriage were a farce. for the most party, be expected to The bargain was one-sided, and decide as the Bench decrees. The clearly it could not be upheld in a jury if he thinks their decision in court of equity. Judge is empowered to dismiss the

correct, to empanel a new jury and to keep on dismaing the faries until he is satisfied with the what verdict pronounced.

Man's Triumph.

cars resulted in the appearance down three essentials for the lessen. that will mark a definite distinction which is a feature of trials here, in which you stand, one suit in

of importers apecializing in auto-ing of danger to life on the roads. mobiles, and at the same time, body-manufacturing became a profit What is wanted, for the increase yielding enterprise. A number of of safety on our roads, he remark- engineering works planned the pro-ed, is road sense, road manners, and duction of parts of motor-cars.

road fellowship. Road sense is the 54,000-Motors In Japan In 1927. G$2,140

At the close of 1997 there were knowledge of the right thing to approximately 54,000 motor vehicles do when driving, cycling, or walk in Japany principally of American Angon road“ · Road' manners manufacture. Although the year witnessed the partial elimination of means the putting of that know the Ford plant in Yokohama as a ledge into action. Road fellowship leading factor in production, due to is the combination of road sense the change in models, it was one of the best recorded Sales were dis- and road manners tributed over the utility range, with commercial vehicles in the lead, asing

sual, and several important de velopments took place which pro misc continued progress.

BIG. SIX MODEL "75" JUNIOR TRUCK

R.A.C. Horsó-Power Rating 36.04. Brake Horia-Power 85 at 2,800 Bacolutione. Piston Displacement 3588 Cubic Inch. Wheel Base 158 Inches. Speed 56-M.P.H.

2-TONS.

Chassis

G$2,410 ..........de pulize........... 4,400 Iba..

G8140 GS 240 Police Patrol

4,70€ now. $4,410 120 "Sedan Bus (15-pas.) ... 7,130 Iba,

4,510 .120

76)

G$2,770

5,290- 870 5,510

Prices Includes: Bulb Horu, Hydraulic Absorbers, Bumpers, Five Diso

Wheels, Extra Tire and Tube 34 X 7, Cowl and Instrument Panel..

BIG SIX MODEL “78" SPECIAL TRUCK.

R.A.G. Hortc-Power Rating 36.04 Brake Horre-Power 36 at 2,800 Revolutions,

Pisto Displacement 3058 Owbie Inch Whod-Bis+ 185 In-ken,

Speed 50 M.P.H.

8-TONS.

Chassis ........4050 1. Sedan Bus (19 pas) 7,490 lbs Parlor Car (20-pas.)7,350 lbs. Observation Car (22-ps»)7,850 Iba.......

G$2,7:3

G$120

G$ 255, G$3,150

5,925

120

6,205

120 -1,025

6,995

120 1,025

885 ·6,240 7,540 7,540. Price Includes: Bulb Horn, Bampers, Hydraullo Absorbers, Bavez Dise

Wheels, Extra Tire and Tubo 32 X 6,75, Cowl and Instrument Panel,

BIG SIX MODEL "75" HEAVY DUTY TRUCK.

R.AC. Horie-Power Rating 36.04.

Braks Borte-Power 85 at 2,800 Revolutions,

Piston Displacement 8658 Cubic Inch Wheel Base 184 Inches.

Speed 45 M.PH. Z

81-TONS.

Charit

5,290 lbr. G$3,175 G$120 GS 255 683,000

· Street Car (22-pât.) --- 8,550 lbs. 5,896 120 1,025 7,040 Price Includes: Balb Horn, Bumpers, Hydraulic Absorbers, Seron Dise Wheels, Extra Tiro and Tabe 34 x 750, Coel and Instrument Panel

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central-

A SHAKESPEARE JOKE, DUNLOP STAGE "THE ELEVEN AGES OF TYRES."

Shakespeare's "Beven ages of manis amusingly brought up to date in a window of the Dunlop depet at Birmingham in England where cleven different vehicles, each fitted with paeumatic tyres, are ranged in order from the cradle to the gravema

"Tel Central 4780.

They begin with the perambula- Lar for the age of six weeks; next comes the baby's tricycle (at three years old), followed by the fairy cycle (nt six); the "push bike (at fifteen); the motor cycle (at eighteen); a 7 hp motor car (at) twenty); an deroplane (at 'twenty. formator can (at thirty), a 30 hp motor cay (at fifty); a bath chair (at ninety); and, last of all, a motor hearse for the centenarian,

The One Yen Taxi,

Lord Dewar delivered the follow. epigrams on, the subject of "Safety First":

from the existing system. The Motor puts forward the suggestion tentatively that this might be done by placing the figures of a new series' first and the index letter or letters after them. Thus London would begin again with 1A and the combinations could be the same 'na A four-figure registration now. plate for London would read 3289A, or a later one 2212X. There would, no doubt, be duplications, but they would be such with a distinction.

FORTY YEARS OLD.

the accused chooses to admit his guilt, the case will not be tried by which you can sit down, and your

pyjamas. & jury. There are thus a laige.

“This is a delightful condition number of differences between the form of jury trial that Japan is for a man who is about to make his about to adopt and the system pre way in a difficult profession at n vailing in the British Empire or time when his earnings are barely America, and the caacs that will go suficient to pay 'bus fares. before a jury here will be such where difficult points of law will not he involved and the issues will be more or less clear cut and simple.

Special Hotels For Jurors,

trict Court, just behind Hibiya In the region of the Tokyo Dis Park, there is being erected a hotel that will be set apart exclusively for the use of jurors. During the period of tria), the jurors will be kept here in complete isolation, but the hotel will afford them every reasonable comfort, and. ...con-

Every day is a leap year day when crossing a one-way street..

Scientists tell us slow thinkers STORY OF PNEUMATIC TYRE'Svenience. It is to cost. Y.70,000

live longest. But not when they are crossing a one-way street." Then it is case of the survival of the quickest.

In the first place, the growth of the one-yen taxi business brought a strong demand for cheap passenger cars, notably Fords, Chevrolets and Whippets among the Americanis, Citroens among the French and Motor-cars are increasing by leaps Morris cars among the British. und bounds. Pedestrians are sur- One-yen taxi companies have been viving by the same process. · ́ formed in all the leading cities. These companies rent the cabs to ple of this country how to live be- The motor-ear has taught the peo- drivers, in many cases agreeing to take care of all repairs and main-yond their means. tenance as well as the oil used, the An optimist is a horse-fly sitting driver paying only for the gasoline on a spare tyre... consumed. The cabs have fixed rates, transporting passengers any- where inside the city limits for Y.1, with certain specified charges Following is an automobile census for each mile travelled outside the of Japan, based on complete figures city, time consumed in waiting and for the first 11 months of 1927 and in some cases extra passengers. estimates of the imports and produs Reports of companies engaged in tion of December. Figures are this business have been exception calculated for December 21st of each ally favourable. Orako figures in-year- dicate daily takings of about Y.25

BINTH.

und, according to the authorities, will be the equal of the best hotels in the country,

"It will be found that there are

many other essentials to success be- sides matrimony, and some of thei are not in accord with matrimony."

Mr. Gilbert Frankau also argued against the motion.

marriage enaned success in any line

Judge Sturgess said that a bapps... of life.

The motion was lost, there being 171 against.

CARD-INDEXED LOVE.

Most of the attachments took

place before marriage, but 20 hus bands and 41 of the wives admitted that their affections had strayed from the home circle.

NEW YORK, July 20th. Seven love affairs apiece is the average number indulged in by the married men and women of to-day, according to exhaustive investiga- It is exactly forty years ago since

The Tokyo District Court also is tions conducted by the Bureau of John Boyd Dunlop applied for the being remodelled and one of the Social Hygiene of New York City. patent for the first pneumatic tyre. devices being installed is a cont He had just retired from bis veleri: trivance whereby the accused will The research work occupied four nary practice in Belfast, the largest be electrically propelled from Fears, and the conclusions are based shoers worked for hims one in Ireland, where twelve horse, beneath the basement of the Court on the affairs of the heart of 200 to the dock, the artifice working on married men and women of middle- The majority While a boy at school in the the lift principle. This expedient class circumstances. village of Dreghorn, Ayrshire, his has been put in so that the defen- were between the ages of 30 and 40, native place, Dunlop had observed dants may not be subjected to the and had been married from five to that a large wooden roller was strain of the scrutiny they have to 16 years. easier to pull than a smaller one, undergo when entering the court because, as it had a larger ares of and being conducted through the surface bearing on the ground, the long aisles, something that, accord- pressure on each unit of area was ing to defendants who have been less.

sequitted, is a form of punishment of wheels with flexible rims that committed to prison-North China For yeare he thought on the idea and torture second only to being would flatten out and so increase Daily New the area of contact with the road. It was a complaint from his small Passenger

eon Johnny, then nine years of age, Cars Truck Buses: Total which actually materialised in the 17,783-8,4437 24,166 Arst rubber tyres to be filled with the one-yen cab system that the ...... 21,248 1,583 $1,600 32,088 air. Johnny had grumbled about HOPE TO OPEN IT IN LONDON

IN 3 YEARS. metered taxicabs have all but dis- 196 24,980 12,115 2,623 42,727 the difficulty of riding on thin solid 18,711 54,029 tyres over the uneven stone sette appeared from Japan. Moreover, 1927 35,318

t-(Not reported).

of Belfast's streeta. there has been a'considerable change

London is to have a His father thereupon made "two ia the type of car used. Cheap

Japanese Makes cars are principally" in evidence, although SOME eccond hand machines, the cast offs of the older companies, are to be found.

a car. Drivers' rentala, vary.

So great has been the success of 1924

·Buses. **

Another notable development has been in the field of bus lines. These have sprung up in the last year of so with almost as much rapidity as the one-yen cabs. Almost any where in Japan the bus line is found to be operating to increasing patronage. This movement, in fact, corresponds to the bus development in the United States immediately after the World War.

:: Sales In 1927, Altomobile sales in Japan during 1027 have been estimated as fol- lows: Towste senger 6,700 Medium passenger cars. 1,300 Heavy passenger cars ................

400 €,000 Light truck and bases Medium and heavy truck

and buses

600

Total

17,000 (Continued on nezt Column).

1025

FIRE MUSEUM.

Each of the 200 received cards on. which were a number of typewritten

questions. There were more than 40 cards altogether, with about 400 questions.

One card was known as the "love" affairs card". The one for women asked them for a list of all the

or

boys" with whom they had been in love, either before or after their. own marriage; whether the "boy" was older or younger than them museumselves; the colour of his eyes and air tubes from sheet rubber one which will tell the story of the hair; whether he was short or tall, Included among the motor-cars thirty-second of an inch thick; fix-birth and growth of fire insurance thin or plump or fat; if he resem

and fire fighting and trace the in bled the girl's father or brother Produced by the domestic manufaced them to a wooden dise, with turers at present are:- A

thin strip of linen and blew them ception and development of the disposition and appearance, Automo Hakuyosha Seisakujo up with a football pump. The tyres London Fire Brigade.

the extent of their petting' (The Hakuyosha Engineering were then fitted to a tricycle made Negotiations are well in hand for

spooning Works), 1000, Sugamo-machi by Dunlop from American elm to the purchase of a site in the City. suburbs of Tokyo:

bis own design with specially and it is anticipated that it will be D.A.T., Goshi Kaisha Dat Shokai shaped rims. The whole was com ready for opening in about three (The Dat Partnership, Ltd.), 3922, pleted one night at ten o'clock and years' time. Nagasaki-mura, saburbs of Tokyo.

The idea of a museum originated so eager were both father: and son Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Nai-nenki to test the new device that the boy with Mr. Bertram Williams, of the Kabushiki Kaisha (The Mitsubishi went out for a run in the moon Licences and General Insurance Internal Combustion Engine Co., light and returned triumphant at Company, who for years has made Ltd.), Yurakacho, Marunouchi midnight.

a bobby of collecting relics, such Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo),

When a racing cyclist who was as fire marks, old policies, firemen's Simplex, Goshi Kaitha Orient shown the novelty expressed his badges and uniforms, and to these Jidorba Seizosha (The Orient Auto- doubts about it the inventor chal will be added the antique fire ep- mobiles Manufacturing Worka Part lenged him to a race on his thin gines, uniforms, badges, policies. nership. Ltd.), 55, Ikejima-cho, solid tyres against the nine year and prints at present in the passes- Minato-ku, Osaka, go-Gasu Deusi old boy on the homemade tricycle panies.

old boy on the home-made tricycle sion of the various insurance comperty, phon

Kogyo Kabushiki Kniha (The the first of the unending tale of Mr. Williams said to a Daily Takyo Gas Electric Engineering races to be won on Dunlope, Al Mail reporter Works, Ltd. Omori-machi, Tokyo: though Johm: Bord Dundo revoluI have collected 450 different

Wolsely Kabushiki Kaisha Jabi kawajima Zosm-jo (The Labikawa- jima Shipbuilding Yard Co., Ltd.), 5. Sanchome, Shin-Tsukudajima, Tokyo.

tomised cycling and made motar cars possible he himself could not at that time ride a bicycle; indeed there is no record that he ever rade one all his life..

marke up to now.

years I have tramped London and its neighbourhood where there are old houses, looking for there fire (Continued at foot of next column.) i

The investigation showed that throughout the thirties the women were little more active than the men, though in the next decade- they

definitely outdistanced them.

marks When I have found any I have called upon the occupants, On and offered to buy them, one occasion. I was handed over to the police for trying to rob the landlord of a part of his pro-

Some of the marke in my.col- Iection are very fine, and although

I have paid only a few sbillings for each of them, they are worth - pounds. "In order to obtain: old- "pojicier dave "advertned for years, and alindat, Every day – 1 get replies of varying interest. It is a most fascinating pastime.