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"HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

NEW! from the ground up!

You

YOU sea, in the New Hupmobile Eight, a cor unlike any previous Hupmobile, or any other automobile. A daring, new design. A new lowness of body--that in creates riding safely withoyi socrifice of head room or road clearance. Doors of unusual width-for effortlein oxit or entrance. And you axperiance on utterly differ- ent driving ease! Today-it's Selective Free Wheeling with Synchro-Silent Transmission -a combination that gives you "the thrift and thrill of Free Wheeling with silent synchronized gear shifting". Making, driving, more corefres, mora restful than ever!

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A new X-Frame adds new sturdiness to the chassis, allminates frame distortion, In- creases riding comfort. Thermostatic Shock Absorbers automatically adjust themselves to every change of load, road, speed, or temperature. Underslung springs and tu- bular, front axle reduce unsprung weight. Roomy, comfortable saats that let you sit woy down-relaxad. One amazing improvement after another in this beautiful, high- powered. Hupmobile Eight of a Hundred Fectures.

THE GREAT EASTERN TRADING CO. 70, Queen's Road, Central.

Phone 23532.

SHOWROOM, 194, 196 & 198, Hennessy Road

Phone 28283.

HUPMOBILE

MOTORDOM PRESENTS

For Service :

FIAT GARAGE: 950, Hennessy Road-

TEL 24821..

THE NEW 1932

FIAT

21c

6 cylinder 22c

6 cylinder

It's a splendid car for the money as you'll find on the road-a car to be proud of. Built on lithe, graceful lines with a motor that has "guts "its a wonderful buy- at the price.

PRICED FROM $2,850.00

AGENTS

A. GOEKE & CO.

SPARE PART DEPARTMENT: « OBINA BUILDING:

TELEPHONE 22221.

Showroom:

FIAT CARAGE: 350, Hennessy Read..

TEL. 24821.

SECONDHAND CAR MARKET.

FUND TO SCRAP ALL SIX-YEAR-OLDS.

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A PROPOSED LEVY.

COACH OVERTURNS

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PASSENGERS FLUNG OUT THROUGH THE ROOF.

A collision between motor conch and a saloon cir occurred at Poulton cross roads on the arterial From from Blackpool to the North, and the concit, crashing through wooden fence and a hedge, dropped two feet into, a field, white it over- turned.

TWO PIONEER JOURNEYS,

LONDON AND THE NORTH.

MORRIS CARS HAVE SAFETY GLASS.

NO SPLINTERING: POSSIBLE.

Safety plate glass throughou! Two pioneer journeys a hole were made by two A.E.C. Regnt overy model of the Morris line has conches, having the company's 180boos à fentüre for some years. All hp. high-speed oil engine, & ferglass in all windows is Triplex wooks ago, when these machine proof against splintering: the mo "Sports saloon, will do 00 m.p.h...

were placed in service on the re-dols in the lower price range share perfect condition, cost £1,400 two

gular night run between London with the larger cars the distinotion That is years ago, for, unde 195,"

The sunshine roof being open and Glasgow by the Scottish Motor of boing, safeguarded, not only in one of hundreds of tempting. offers

the windshield but in every door sixteen" RHAengers-among, Traction Company. As the non- now being dangled before possible the car-buyers in England by dealers who were some from Watford stop journey by two Armstrong and window.

The use of Triplex safety glass who are at their wits' end to dispose were thrown out on the grass, badly Saurar commercial lorries and

shaken.

trailers on heavy oil from London | exclusively means that many poten at any price of old cars taken in part

Four women were seriously injur to Aberdeen, was a record in ita tial major accidents will be more payment for new ones. The second.

ed and were detained in hospital

own way, so was this A.E.C. perly minor in their results, while the" hand car trade is in a desperate at Blackpool. They were Mrs. formance. It was the Braz ocen inevitable minor mishaps of motor, ing will no longer carry the menace state. For the public seeking either Tasker (29), of Higher Triam, Mansion. that sorpression-ignition or to buy or to sell this is a marchester, wile of the driver of the heavy oil engines had been used for of major injuries

The Triplex safety glass used in saloon ear: Mr. Alien Robertannthia

all Morris Cars is not the legondary. vellous opportunity: never have (53), Mrs, Emma Townsley (13) and work.

unbreakable glass of the ancients there been such hargains or such Mrs. J. Holyoake, all of Blackpool.

It is modern plate glass made proof", But fancy prices to be obtained.

against splintering and fragmenta- ion by reinforcing it with sheets hundreds th small dealers and

of transparant substance that is agents are threatened with bank-

both tough and flexible. This cellu laid-like material, placed between suptcy.

In America the long-expected-200 miles-changed over into the

two layers of plate glass, becomes Many gehemes have been propos-eight-inder Ford made its how a southbound coach. This machine an integral part of the resulting

The car has the arrived in London at 11.23 laminated glass when the thre el to cope with the situation. Ong Tew days ago.

the increased safety they demand. The model is supplied as a chassis only, price £175.

regular non-stop express

410 Miles on 34 Gailona. The observation party on the inaugural run went north by the conch which left the new. Vittoria at 7.51 p.m., and at Boroughbridge

shoots are subjected to high tem- peratures under heavy pressure.

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of the latest is to form a fund for some low frame, new radiator, and and the northbound coach made nively shaped bodies as the new Glasgow, at 11.30 am.. having run buying in and scrapping cars over gylinder models also the silent the 410 miles on 34 gallons of fuel six fears old by means of a levy second, synchromesh gearbox. The In both cases the engines were al- of £1 on each new car sold, the engine is a V-elaht, that is to say, most new. Normally six coaches 1 being added to the price to be it has two banks of four cylinders are employed for the Loixden Clasfortable coaches, and properly plau working side by side on the same gow, London Edinburgh services, ned roadside meal arrangemente naid by the public.

erankshaft it is ghimed to deve- and the first-mentioned journey, by passengers are well served. Twe Boroughbridge. and points which are worth mentioning lop 66 b. and give 75 miles an Grantham, The Anzual Flood,

hour, on the road. The engine ap- Gretna Green, takes 16 hours 23ars thut on the outward run of over 200 miles it was only neces chanas down from top The annual production of newparently is interchangeable with the minutes, and the second, by Gran

improved four-cylinder.

tham, Boroughbridge, Newenalle. un v

goar twice one of these changes cars is about 180,000, but of newFourteen different body types are Lauder, and Dalkeith; 15 hours 53

1.7 givm was occasioned by a bridge under motorists only about 20,000, and to be had, a convincing refatation minutes. Connexions that number only in good times of the iden that mass production from the two Scottish cities to repair-and that in the matter of Prices Oban, Aberdeen, and Inverness. smell or fumes the passengers did necessarily limits choice.

not realize that they were travelling | lu ordér to sell 150,000 new cara run from $400 to 8650, nominally With day and night services, com-

(Continued on next Column.“ in an oil-engined vehicle. traders have to accept in part pay- £02 to £130... ment more than 130,000 old ones. Secondhand machines pile up in cellars and warehouses, a drug on the market.

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Bus from the traders' point of view that not the worst. Under stress of competition weaker short-sighted dealers offer ridicu long prices for the cars they are naked to take in part payment. There is regular list, issued by the traders' organisation, of recog- nised allowances for every model of every make (which is why they never seem to care how beautifully your car has been kept), but there : are many dealers ready to bid more and sellers eager to get it few rounds extra, although they cannot espect proper after-sales servicé from these price-cutting gentry.

Organised Serap Heap, For the growing, pile of wond- hand ears the proposal is an ór-i ganised seray herp. Manufacturers and traders would pael contribute 10%, to a er stral fund for every new fear and, the price being raised by 41, and traders would undertake to eal to the central fund for 25 every

Bar they take in jhrt exchange that is oven rie venis old and was valued at under £500 when new. These liacards would be broken up and sold for scrap."

Schemes of the sort have been tried in the United States, where the used car food is even worse, Many traders declare that unless something is done to ease the situn- tion half the small dealers are doorped to extinction.

A Livelier "Hornat."

Ne models. continue to appear, and they are not all inspired, by

the common idea that the public will buy nothing but the most. economical. A "special" Wolse ley Hornet has just been an nqunced, designed for cager-minded owners who delight on "perform ance." The engine is the same, but twix carburettersi are provided, a special exhaust system, oil cool- ing, extra large brake drums, re- mote control gear-box, revolution. counter on the dash, and zin, wider | traskiin front Chua i rear-all aim." ↑ing rehabt pendo-ebrabinëd--witht. (Continued on next column.)

We are confident that the

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are the best MOTOR CARS

in the world to-day

for the money.

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HONG KONG.

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