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The FAMOUS JAMES!

***MOTORCYCLE

Come and Inspect

OUR NEW MODELS AT

THE BRITISH BICYCLE CO.

29, Praya East, Wanchai.

It goes on and on

These models of the Austin 7

are ready for immediate

delivery

Tourer...

Coupe Saloon

$1,425 $1,690 $1,690

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929.

MOTOR NOTES

BRITISH CAR FOR RUSSIAN ROADLESS TRANS- THE "JAMES" MOTOR

PRINCE.

X Triumph Super Seven fabric coupe has recently been supplied to Prince George of Russia, who, it is interesting to note, in his desire to enter the ranks of those who and their enjoyment in the light ear, chese one of renowned British manufacture.

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and on

Have you ever watched water gliding smoothly and effortlessly beneath a bridge, never checking, never stopping but going on and on? That is how an Austin travels.

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There is no hesitation, no faltering, as it eats mile after mile of the road. You can find up

better companion for long, strenuous journeys. For its reliability and lasting quali ties have helped to make the reputation of British motor engineering throughout the world.. The Austin is built to give satisfaction not for a year, or two years, but for as long as you demand its services. For the man of moderate means the Austin 7 models are an investment which cannot be beaten. It will be worth your while to see one before deciding on your next

car.

Austin Seven

ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA),

Prince's Building.

LTD.

Service Stations & Showrooms:

Hong Kong

La. Chater Road.

Kowloon Salisbury Road.

Eight cylinder performance at six cylinder cost

STUDEBAKER'S

New Director Eight

STUDEBAKER' New DIRECTOR EIGHT BEGAL TOURER-- Sir wire

wheels and hydraulic shock absorbers, standard equipment.

NLY STUDEBAKER-world's largest miles per hour...its 115-inch wheelbase

of eights, could produce hydramic absorbers a

a remarkable car as The New Director Eight new standard of comfort. When mounted, at so low a price!"

In first cost and operating cost, The New Director rivals the thriftiest sixes! Its power- fai straight eight engine delivers smoother, "more satisfying performance at 6 or 60

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side curtains serve as a windbreak, even with the hood lowered.

Take The Director Eight for a trial run today. Once you have driven it, no other car in its price class can ever wholly satisfy you.

PRICES RANGE FROM H.K. $2,320 To H.K. 86,140.

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**GO-ANYWHERE" LORRIES TO TRAVEL ACROSS- COUNTRY.

THE LESSON. ON THE ARMY MANŒUVRES,

CYCLE.

A NEW-COMER IN THE COLONY:

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Although not frequently met with on Hong Kong ronds, the James motor-cycles are well-known.

highly efficient machines. The Bri-. tish Bicycle Co., whose showrooms

The six-wheeled "roadless " Lor- rice used by the mechanised forces are at 29, Praya East, are sole of the Army and the Territorials in l'agents for these machines, and have their recent summer ranceuvres several models in stock. The have proved so successful at carry models now on view are two 172 0.0. ing heavy loads over ground pre- viously thought to be practicable two-stroke machines, a 330 o.h. v, only for a tractor, that several com- Sports, and a 350 cc. side-radve mercial arms are considering their semi-Sports. These machines were ase in carrying workmen to jobs in inspected by a Daily Press repres inaccessible districts, Hitherto such sentative, who was greatly impress- vehicles have only been used by the ed by the sturdiness of the models. military and in overscas countries. The 350 o.b.v. Sports machine is It is possible too, that they may listed with a guarantee of Ga soon be used for delivering goods m.p.h., and if smart appearance is to outlying villages, isolated farms desired, this machine will at once and senttered cottages in the coun-appeal to the sporting rider who try districts.

desires speed with safety.

The New Transport: A Pioneer.

The Arst go anywhere" vehicle is already in use on the Derbyshire moors, where it is engaged in trans- porting the workmen, with their tools and material, who art en- anged on the erection of an over- head electrical transmission line from Deepear, near Sheffield, acress the lower portion of the Pennine Range, to Hope, in Derbyshire, This line is part of a big scheme sanctioned by the Electricity Com- mission for supplying a large are in the north of Derbyshire. Not tingham and Lincoln with current.

The distance of the Deepcar to Hope section is 14 miles across very rough and difficult country, with steep gradients and strewn with big boulders.

The job had to be done in quick time," said the engineer in charge, e we decided to try, as an ex periment, one of the new British roadless six-wheeled lorries of the type used by the mechanised Army forces in their maneuvres. Although the jah is not yet finish ed the lorry has so far been a definite success.

Filty Men on One Trip. Every day it carries on one trip at least 30 men to their work on the different sections between Deepcar and Hope. It saves enormous amount of time, for with out it,the men would only be able to travel to the nearest point on the rand and then would have to walk across country, perhaps two or three miles or more, to the eeetion where they were working. The only alternative is horse trans port, and that would mesa about

THE 1930 MODELS.

EASIER TO DRIVE AND TO

MAINTAIN.

Much of the information in our possession concerning the new cars which are being prepared in secret for the 1830 genson is necessarily of a kind which cannot na yet, be made public, says The Motor. Some general trends are, however, already clearly defined. One of the outstarding points is that although there will be but little, if any, in- crease in prices, the cars of 1930 will be easier to drive and less trouble to maintain than are cur

rent types, despite the high stan dard already reached in these re- spects. To meet the call for top- gear fexibility "there is to be a further increase in the numbers of cars with six and eight cylinders at moderate prices. Ease of mais. tenance is to be promoted by s more general use of hearings need ing no lubrication, by grouping grcase-gun connections in accessible positions and by Д wholesale. adoption of chromium plating.

If there are to be no sweeping changes in chassis design, Olympia should nevertheless be able to re- tain its interest on the score of body work novelties, to which more attention is now devoted than ever before, particularly in obtaining more pleasing lines and in giving wider choice in colour schemes.

ten journeys to the lorry's one, at| MOTOR-CAR CRASHES INTO. half the speed, and with the great danger of the horses falling and stumbling into the dips and holes hidden by the thick heather. The lorry simply rides over all obstrue-| tions as if they were non-existent.

The vehicle is, of course, of entirely British design, and I con- sider it a great tribute to our manufacturers. There cannot be much doubt, I think, that there is a future for these roadless lorries for commercial purposes, On 20 average ours does about 30 miles a day, of which hardly any is on roads.

Eight Change Speeds.

A BANK. POLICE ALLEGATIONS OF A 20-MILE WILD RIDE.

The story of the frustration of a financial genius by a dirt.

The

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AT THE

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EMIL JANNINGS and CAMILLA HORN

AT THE

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Commencing Thursday, October 10th, 1929. EDGAR WARWICK Presents the

WARWICK REVUE Co.

IN REVIEWS OF THE REVUES.

THURSDAY & FRIDAY

OCT. 10th & 11th

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

OCT. 12th & 13th

MONDAY & TUESDAY

OCT. 14th & 15th

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY OCT. 16th & 17th

'CLEVER COMEDY! DELICIOUS DANCING ! ELEGANT SETTING!

"SAFETY FIRST.'

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It is probable that no device yet Ralph Redford Crabtree, aged

contributes known

towards the twenty-three an orchestra mana-

safety of motoring as much ger, of New River-crescent; Paliers which has recently been installed Green, elected to go for trial when

at the factory of the Hillman Motor accused at Highgate Police Court Jar Co., Ltd., of Coventry. This 接 brake-testing plant of being drunk in charge of a me- consists of tor-ear, and of stealing, the car. which is now in operation at the Bail was allowed.

"THE PEEP SHOW

IN INNUMERABLE PEEPS

"HIGH LIGHTS"

A FUN BURST

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND"

A JOYOUS MISCELLANY

"AIRY NOTHINGS

JUST FOR FUN BOOKING AT MOUTHIE'S AND THE STAR THEATRE

PRICES: $3, $2, $1..

"LAW, SHOULD BE ALTERED,"

BENCH'S SUGGESTION TO THE HOME OFFICE.

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The question of intent, to steal

does not enter into these cases,"

said the chairman of the Southend

Bench in dismissing three charges Mr. Barker, for the prosecution, end of the finishing line.

Every motorist," says Modern of stealing ear against Wilfred said the car was stolen-there was no other word for it-from outside Motoring, the official organ of Coghill, aged sixteen, a Westclif The Mall, Southgate, and it was hostes, Ltd., the world exporters clerk, who had admitted driving off

appreciates the and later abandoning five cars. « The wheels are independently alleged that Crabtree drove it for of Hillman cars, sprung eu that if one of them goes quite twenty miles in a criminally danger of ill-adjusted braket, but

Coghill had pleaded guilty to over a boulder it simply yieldsnegligent manner.

accurate adjustment is not easy to

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without affecting the other wheels He ran into a motor-cycle com- accomplish by hand. In fact, it is theft, but the Bench, after hearing or straining the chassis. The en bination near Totteridge lane, told of this new brake test that his explanation that he only wanted gine is 30 h.p., and an S-speed gear-Whetstone, and pushed it along for when a car, the brakes of which the cars to drive round in, dismise- box is fitted. Gradients of in 9 some distance before he freed the had been carefully adjusted by ed the case. or even steeper, with loose sur car from the combination and drave band, was placed on it, it record; faces, are climbed without any ofl. He was chased for five miles ed a difference of 100 lb. pressure trouble. The vehicle has never yet by two motor-cyclists, until he final- on the two rear wheels. This, of stalled or got into difficulties. ly crashed into the premises of the course, would be more than enough With the help of this lorry we Westminster Bark at Muswell Hill to cause a skid with certain, road

conditions." hope to get the work finished in Broadway. about a fortnight."

All such possibilítica are prevent-

"Anti-Eyesore" Masts.

and it is claimed that it does not disfigure the landscape to the same extent as the usual lattice work type..

Car Smashed Up.

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them.

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They instructed the clerk, how. ever, to make representations to the Home Office in the matter, and suggested that the law should be altered.

Coghill was "also charged in one instance with stealing petrol, and

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the sum of £10, a condition being A policeman went to him, anded by the new test at the Hilimar in this case he was bound over in As interesting fact about the Crabtree said, "I am as drunk, as works, which is, incidentally, the that he paid £2 28. 6d. damages to erection of the line in this scheme a lord. The car

one owner, whose car was abandon- was completely fret of its kind to be employed by An inspecter said British muotor car manufacturer, ed after a collision with an omni- is that the. wire is carried on a smashed up.

when At the end of the finishing line, the bus, 178. 6d. towards the expenses Crabtree mast that

admitted, new type of elendar steel

car is placed on the braking plant, involved by the police in circulat which has been specially designed charged, that he was drunk. to be as inconspicuous as possible, The divisional surgeon said that with each wheel in contact with

Crabtree told him that he was pair of rollers. These rollers are ing the descriptions of the missing drunk, but he certified him to be revolved under electric power, and cara, and £1 each to two other

other means of getting home, recovering from the effects of drink, the ear wheels, of course, turn with hers of cars, who had to find and was not fit to be in charge of

Each of the four devices has a

Magistrate's Hope, a motor-ear.

The owner of the car said that dial, which records brake pressure! Mr. J. W. Burrows, one of the while he was insured to meet the in pounds. First there is a test magistrates, said that if it had not damage to the car, the insurance for "drag"; then the hand-brake been for the present state of the policy did not cover a claim for is applied, and the brakes are ad- law. Coghill would have gone for £55 which he had received from the justed so that there is exactly 300 trial. "I hope," he added, "that the bank for damage to their pre-ib, pressure on each of the rear it will be possible by some amend. wheels. The foot-brake pedal is ment of the law, to make the taking mises.

Mr. Stanley Davis, one of the operated by a graduated rod and, of cars in this way a punishable. Capetown. -A Port Elizabeth | motor-cyclists who chased Crabtree, in the same way, adjustments are offence and enable the court to deal: magistrate for the first time in the said that he called to him, after he made so that each front brake re- with it satisfactorily.".

Mr. Hay Halkett, the magistrate history of South Africa sentenced a crashed into the motor-cycle com- cords 400 lb. and each rear brake

at Marylebone Police Court, ac- motor driver named Johnson to bination, "Stop, you mad fool," 300 lb.

The whole test occupies some 17 quitted a man of a charge of steal- four months' imprisonment and ten but Crabtree drove on-sometimes

minutes and at its conclusion the ing a motor-car, adding: "These lashes for negligent driving. on the pathway.

Johnson is known as the "king" Mr. Groebel, for Crabtree, naked brakes have been thoroughly bed cases, which resolve themselves into of road pests.

whether there was sufficient evid-ded down and adjusted to scienti joy-riding, are unprovable anless

TEN LASHES FOR ROAD PEST.

NEGLIGENT DRIVING

SENTENCE.

A young woman declared in evi-ence to support the charge of steal- fic requirements. The superiority you can prove that petrol is stolen." dence that be drove his motor-car ing the car. All the evidence they of this to the hit-or-mise methods The man, who had pleaded that he at her and knocked her down. She had was that the owner missed the of hand adjustment is obvious. The took the car for a joy-ride, had pre- clung to the radiator and, was car, and that he subsequently iden- Hillman Company is to be con viously been remanded by Mr. R. dragged along. The motor-car did tified the one found at Muswell gratulated on being the first British E. Dummett, who said: "How concern to install this somewhat long can a person keep a car for pot stop but went over her. She Hill as his property. spent twelve days in hospital.

Mr. Barker replied that the car expensive apparatus, and to pars joy-riding before he can be said to Johnson had twelve previous con was in Crabtree's possession for two on its beneat to Hillman owners in have stolen it? To my mind it is

the form of even increased safety nothing less than theft"

rictions.

hours.