1928-11-28 — Page 9

SINGER

JUNIOR-SENIOR-SIX

Car for every Plase and Purpose

Immediate THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1928.

“ZENITH " MOTOR CYCLES.

Delivery

TUZIOA:

H.K. $1750.

BOURER

GILMAN & CO., LTD..

MOTORING NOTES

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

IN SUMMER OR IN WINTER

IN HUMIDITY OR

DROUGHT

The

Austin Seven

Cheerfully carries on.

Its metal body resists even the Hong Kong climate,

and its sturdy well-tested engine recks not of Tropical rain storms, muddy roads or any of the shocks

that Motorists are

heir to.

OWN AN AUSTIN AND enjoy life.

ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.

Prince's Building and 1a, Chater Road, Telephones: C. 27 and 0. 2487.

THE

MAZDA

FILAME

TN a motor lamp the" flament is the part that really matter. The Mazda flament is strong—ir stands up to comtant rough usage. on bad, surface roads, and it gives good light -always the same good light.

Fit

MAZDA

LAMPS

FOR MOTOR CARS

MAZDA Lamps-always;

You will see better.

[A.E.3.3)

Local Motor Matters Studebaker Recorde-News from Great Britain.

LOCAL MOTOR

MATTERS,

CARELESS DIRT CARRIERS.

The above heading perhaps may be à little unfair, for it is the parties who engage these women dirt carriers who are really at fault. This objectional practice of drop ping lamps of dirt, sharp, granite flints and sometimes, even half bricks, over the highways both is the town and on the country roads has been allowed to continue with out being checked. Last week the sections extending from the Post Office in Des Voeux Road Central to the On Lok Yuen Cafe and Pedder Street were a mass of fed mud, small stones, and broken bricks. No attempt was made either to keep the road clean or to clear away the broken stones. It would be & beneat to both the Sanitary | Department who have to sweep the ronds and the motorist who has to pick his way amongst the stones, if the parties responsible were made to supply their carriers with deeper and more suitable baskets.

On the New Territory roads, st one place, blasting operations are being carried out and the road nearby is a mass of small sharp granite pieces and broken flints, chipped off by the stone-breakers. It is a serious matter. to pass over this section and even If blow out does not occur there and then the smaller fints which stick to the tyre are gradually forced into the cover and finally result in 1 puncture.

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Coal is another commodity which is transported by hand round the town, and a good portion, of it is dropped over the route.

Repair Work On The Castle Peak Road.

Repair work on the Castle Peak Road has been very much in evidence The during the past few weeks.

last mile or two of the road before reaching Castle Peak has been | raised, levelled and re-surfaced, in a very efficient manner. One of the corners has been neatly and cor- reetly cambered with a gradual sope towards the mound on the side of the road.'. This corner is at present generously sprayed with sand to protect the newly laid tar surface whirb has not hardened efficiently to take heavy traffic. It is also encouraging to note that the work on the corners a little. further on is progressing rapidly, and very soon the last corace will be eliminated.

However, where road repairs are being carried out, only a very anak portion of the road in reserved for motor traffic and should it be in section near a corner as it was last week-the passage should be taken carefully,

An Excellent Display Of Motor- Cycles.

Perhaps the very best show-roem display of motor-cycles yet produced in the Colony wae the six Indian motorcycles seen at night in the showroom of Messrs. Alex Ross Garage in Kowloon, The motor. cycles exhibited were the new. 45 Scout modela, and they looked very inposing with their red colour. effect. The cycles are separated in the centre foy a red Indian side. car with a jade green band' on the door. These cycles should ind favour with the motorcyclists who want a handsome and powerful side-car outfit.

Incidentally, six of these new cycles with side-cars have beca ordered by the Canton Government for police work in that city. Can- ton, apparently, has accepted these cycles for police patrol work a has been done in Hong Kong and most places in Europe and U.S.A. The St. Vincent De Paul !! Car.”.

The car chosen this year for the Annual car raffle of the St. Vincent de Paul Bazaar is a very handsome Ponties,

which can be seen at the Bazaar's show-room on the pre- mises of the old Hong Kong Elec- tric's show.room at the corner of Des Vœux Road and Ice House Street. The car is the s-senter, four-door Sedan model. The price of the raffle ticket (there are also 10 consolation prizes) is at the very reasonable figure of $3.

A Large Range Of Fronch Cycles.

The French Motor Cycle Com pany, whose premises are in Nathan Road, has attracted considerablø interest among motor cyclists in Kovicon. Of late, the Frenchr Motor cycle industry has progressed leaps and bounds, "quite a

number of important records have fallen into their hands. The design and sot up of French motor-oycles is quite distinct from that of any other nation, and without a close knowledge of motorcycles one can invariably detect the difference.

The Manager Mr. Charles Gerer, bas just received two sodels of the famous F. N. Belgium oycles These cycles are built under direc. tion of one of Britain's best riders, M. J. Patchet, and hold world's speed record for single cylinder engines which is sufficient proof of their speed capabilities. Other cycles on view are the famous French Monet-Goyen cycles, which bid fair to be the premier cycle of France. These cycles, however, are fitted with M.A.G, engines of typical British design. This is. again, explained by the fact that the designer is a Britisher--Mr. D. Marchant. There are eleven models on view at the show-rooms, and a visit to the Store is certain to prove of interest.

MOTOR NOTES.

GERMAN MOTORISTS AT STUDEBAKERS' WORKS.

“ZENITH” “THREE”

Agents,

H.K.$570.

Hong Kong & S China: GILMAN & CO. LTD.

Tax. C. 990.

The visitors were particularly struck with the care and thorough- Desy of the testing in the research laboratories nud on the Proving Ground.

ALBIONS IN SINGAPORE. The 150 members of. Die Alige- Albion motor vehicles have always meiner Deutseber Automobil-Club had a very considerable popularity who made a 2,000-mile motor tour in the Malay Peninsula, and an of leading cities in the castern half interesting order has been received of the United States and Canada from the Singapore Municipality during October, were given a glimpse This order is for six chassis-three behind the scenes of American for gh-ton loads and three for +ton motordom on October 19th when loads. All the chassis are to be they were entertained in South fitted with three-way hydraulic | Rend, Indiana, by The Studebaker tipping gear. The tea mudel is Corporation of America.

a fairly recent addition to the The German motorists who made | Albion range, and embodies 30-45 their motor tour under the auspices | hp engine, tour-speed gearbox, of the American Automobile Asso- and overhead worm driven" axle. Ieintion, were escorted around'Stude- baker's Proving Ground and taken on a trip through the various manu- facturing and assembly departments of the factory and entertained, at

',

The four-ton model has a 35-58 hp. engine, and, like other Albica models. four-speed gearbox and overhead worn drive

The interesting point about this a banquet in the Studebaker Ad-order is that all chassie are being ministration Building.

fitted with pneumatic tyres.

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NEW STUDEBAKER PREMISES.

Construction of a new unit of the South Band plants to house-en- gineering department offices and provide increased facilities for the research engineering laboratories has been runounged by The Studo- baker Corporation.

When the new building is com pleted early in November. 181,000,

square feet of floor space will be available for Studebaker's Dew engineering headquarters Removal of the laboratories from their pre- sent location was necessitated by the increased demand for sppos in the plants brought about by a steady increase in anles and production.

The announcement states that the research'engineering work which has been responsible for the achieve- ments of Studebaker and Erskins cars will be carried on us before in the new laboratories.

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