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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

TRUST A Thornycroft With Your Transport

DEAL DIRECT

THORNYCROFT

SIX-CYLINDERED

COACHES & OMNIBUSES

MOTOR VEHICLES

Pioneer Manufacturers of Commercial Motor Vehicles

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Full Range of Spares carried in Hong Kong and Shanghai,

4 or 6 Wheels

4 or 6 Cylinders

30 Cwt. to 10 Ton Loads 20 to 70 Passengers

JOHN I. THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED.

Pioneer Building, Nathan Road, Kowloon. TEL. 56752.

TRUST A THORNYCROFT WITH YOUR TRANSPORT

FOR SUMMER MOTORING

Economy first.

A.P.B. zb

For economy, smartness and roominess

the Minor Tourer leads the field.

[Speedway, U.S.A.. for durability WILLYS-OVERLAND research and covered 30.030 miles in

LEADS.

SOME OUTSTANDING

PERFORMANCES.

48 days, then went on the give and. take country roads of the U.S.A. and i still giving an excellent no count of itself.

Is South Africa.

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smoother and quistor engine.

Progress, however, has not been confined to the engine. Every detail of this smart lue of cars is characterised by the most up 10 date craftsmanship.

Body lines are long, sweeping and graceful. Interiors are roomy

STUDEBAKER RIDE CONTROL.

ADJUSTABLE TO ALL DRIV- ING CONDITIONS.

Studebaker's automatic ride con-

n Willes Six secured first place in and luxuricus with appointments.trol is the nearest to perfection

fully in keeping with the other in riding comfort now obtainable.,. quality details of the car,

Commercial Unita.

Nair Johannesburg, South Afrien, The fame of Willys-Overland's cars for outstanding performaner is

three races, also established a new world-wide.

record russing between Jobannis. While minor improvements bare hurg and Bloemfontein, a' distance been made in the Willys-Overland | of 280 miles; maintaining an ́avers, Six

Silver Streak 100,000 Mileage speed of 05.9 miles per hour

In the commercial field where Motor in all its essential, it is thereby lowering & previous record purchases are made more upon the the same power plant that bas by 35 minutes.

basis of mechanical excellence and startled the motor world with its A standard Willys Six was award-proven performance than upon any

The Willy long list of successes. Some of these ed ai gold medal at Wellington, New other consideration.

THE WORLD'S BEST FOR ROYALTY

are as follows:-

Overland Company is ancancing their new line of Truck and Bus Chassis in which speed, power and

Yet this unique Standebaker deve- lopment does not limit itself to ramfort alone, but also has a direct * bearing on safety, according to the Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Stude baker agent in Hong Kong.

"Speed; for those who desire it, is a recognized attribute of Stude beker performance. But, not every Studebaker owner its

a specit demon.'. Indeed, most of them are * satisfied with a comfortable 40, o

54 miles an hour. Yet, they like to know that when speed is requir- ed, their Studebaker is emphblo of rising to the occasion.

"Both classes of drivers find equal safety in Studebaker auto- * matic" ride control, because these double action hydraulic shock ab. sorbers adjust themselves automati- cally to enery driving condition, he it speed, road surface or tempers.

Lare.

sway,

If you take a curve at a fast rate your shock absorbers net to hold the ear, down and prevent Or if you unexpectedly rutar hole in the road,. the absorbers instantly control spring action to cushion the shock and prevent bouncing."

strike

Studebaker automatio ride zon- Royal transportation-Prancing steeds no longer are part of a king's retibus, King: Gustav V, of Sweden travela by rail in die private train and by automobile in his Cadillac V-16, both pictured here.

trol gives the driver complete free- com to devote himself exclusively Zealand for the lowest petrol con-

to handling his car, without having Predecessors of the Silver Streak Ishmption tests, with, un actual

to bother with manual adjustments. won the 1930 and 1931 Pike's Peuk mileage of 27 miles to a gallon. In:

It is superior also because of this greater sensitivity, as well as the Climb, Colorado. U.S.A., and in this contest 18 cars of other makes

economy have been combined fact that it is able to think.' for the latter your also established 10 competed, acceleration

road making them the world's outstand-the driver quicker than he could do. and speed records 1n Denmark's greatest

it himself. under the auspices of the American automobile race, the Willys Six ing value. Automobile Association.

triumphed with an average speed of 72.01 miles per hour.

A Willys-Over Iand standard six Toadster broke all records by seven

At Las Tunes, Argentina, the hours, covering a distance of 8,770 Willys Six demonstrated its extra miles between New York. Las ordinary superiority over competi- Angeles and return to New York. tion by winning a road race, at a

speed of 71.75 miles per hour.

U.S.A.

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A standard Willy Six Roadster WOM started on

the Indianapolis

AT LESS THAN 'BUS FARE' COST

YOU MUST TRY THE NEW 1932

MORRIS

built like a big car

MINOR.

Built on big car lines the new "Minor" bas now a safety rear petrol tank, a longer bonnet, chromium" plated. radiator and Triplex Safety' glass windscreen.

DODWELL & 00.,

LIMITED

- ICE HOUSE STREET

HONG KONG

AT CANTON.

Willys-Overland not my cele brates its 25th anniversary year as A motor car manufacturer, but

Embodied in the shock absorber rane shaft is a small brain' in the form of a bi-metal thermostat, re

This

during which time it has become acting spirally on a valve, one of the largest Inlders of valve reduces or enlarges the size trucks.

of the oil vents in the absorber to compensate for changes in density, due to temparature, of a special liquid operating through the ther- mostat. Thus shock absorber re- sistance is either inèreased or re- Juced.

The 1939 line is available in three At the annual re between popular wheelbases, sizes, 113 Mexico City and Puebla, two stand-inches, 131 inches, and 157 inches ard Willys Sixes raced against cars at prices as impressive as their of rauch Higher price, winning first mechanical superiority. and second place in this annual thrilling mountain ultitude of over 10,000 feet. The wiuriing Willya Six covered the coured of 73.8 miles in 75 minutes.

Face,

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The company is being amply

The shape and size of all pas- repaid for the time and care spent ages in the vane shaft control in perfecting the details of their the degree of resistann musel by

the rate of action of the springa.. commercial units by the ever

On "bad roads or at high speeds. increasing volume of business resistance is built up. On smoсth attributable largely to the reputa surfaces and at low specs, resist- Mechanical Superiorities.

ance is decreased. In this manner, tion these units have gained for

he degree of control affecting the Many Mechanical" Supériorities insatisfactory performanes and low riding quality of the car remains" the Model 8-88 Willes-Overland has maintenance cost in actual service. virtually constant." incorporated many mechanical the Model. 8-88 superiorities in which assures it a place of import- ance in the motor market.

Chief among. the outstanding

the superiorities is new Silver Streat Motor.

Including Beven body types, every model of the, Willys-Overland Eight ne is strikingly beautiful in every detail. Their size is s Impressive as their performance. From the enthusiasm which has already been manifested, it is certain that this new Willys-Over- land. apdel will occupy a 'new pisition of leadership in its particular class during this year.“,

the

1982 Willys-Knights.

The twin-sleeve engine in the 1932 Willys-Knights takes, front rank as the most powerful engine of any typo ever built by Willys-Overland, world's largest builder of Knight engined care. Because of its highly satisfactory performance from every angle during the past year, it is unchanged but for minor refinements, which have produced. a

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