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THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.

BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS.

BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES. BUILDERS OF MARINET AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY

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BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES

Under Special License

Parsons.

From Messrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.

Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable

For Interal Combustion Engine Working Parts.

DOCK & SLIPWAYS.

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ON ANY TIDE

ALL CLASSES OF SHIP, ENGINE AND BOILER

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HOLLYWOOD BOLD

HONG KONG DAILY

TUESDAY, AUGUST.

CARS OF TO-DAY

Rover Speed Fourteen

Few standard cars of moderate price are more elegant in line and finish than modern Rover modes, including the Rover Speed Fourteen streamlined, four door szupe. This travels rapidly and amoothly

The lines please the eye; the back slopes off towards the ground in one sweep. Entrance behind, owing to the low roof and wells in the floor, is no bat- ter than that of most sports models, but the seating is com- fortable and there is good leg and elbow room; head clearance at the rear is just enough. En- trance forward

2053. and

driver can get in and out by the nearside doorway. The car 18 well found. On the left of the Veed instrument is a cupboard with a door and a fitted tool tray below: a small cupboard is on the offside, and the equipment Includes ty, rolvisörs, two wipers with two motors, a small refect- ing mirror, ashtrays, siding yen- tilators in the sides of the scuttle, and ventilating sections to the front and rear windows, a screen with handle and concepled chain which will give a direct view, a locker behind the door" of which forms a trunk carrier, and a cupboard below in which the spare wheel is carried fat and the door of which has inset two tall, stog and reverse lights, with á number plate behind glass. The tank filler is in the nearside wing, and in front is a combined bum- per and harmonic stabilizer.

PUSH ROD OPERATED

The push-rod-operated over- head valve engine has stream-

trol. The spark lever, which with a high-compression engine wants to be used Intelligently for the Anest results, the dip-ahd-switch, control and the horn button are

the centre of the wheel. A algnal lever, with automatic re- turn is just under the wheel on the offside. The driving position and view are comfortable and safe. The brakes worked em- ciently and give a dr.ver con- Adence. The saloon "held the road well, and for a sports model with only two persons on board, there was the least movement and wheel bounce at the back. More than 35 and 55 miles an hour can be done on second and third. 60 on the level is quickly reached. 70 fairly easily, and the beat speed on an open road is about 80 miles an hour. The rates on the upgraded stretch were 15 and 65. on the new Dashwood Hi 30. and 54,' and with a stand- ing start on third at the bottom of the old hill the top. was' pass- ed at 37 m.p.h. The roads were dry: the breeze Was mostly

ROYAL AIR FORCE

Technical Staff

(Special Air Mall Barvico)

London, Aug. 5. Wing Commander P. 5- Malt- land, M.V.O. APC; who was fay vested by the King with the M.V.O. at Mildenhall for his work as staff officer to the 10.0. Fly- ing. RAF Jubilee Review, is ap pointed to-day to the station at Calshot for navigation duties. It Is at Calshot that specialists, in ali navigation are trained

Wing Commander Maitlarid was formerly in the Navy, and was senioranidshipman af HMS. Dreadnought in 1914-15, when he went in for duty in naval air-] ships. In 1927-29 he piloted one of the Southampton ying-boats on their ploneer cruise from Ply | mouth to Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong.

Squad Leauer Hamers- ley, M.C. ieman staff duties at Fighting Area: HQ, Uxbridge, is 'appointed to Worthy, Dórn station for engineer duties, in which he specialized in 1827-29. Squadron Leader Hamersley is an Australian:

HIS HOT WEATHER

There is nothing more refreshin

than a really good Gimlet.

But there must be plenty of

and it must be

ROSE'S LIME JUICE

Roses

Lime

Jede

FOREGOR AND

Sole Agents:

against the car, especially in the omeer, and bean his service with CALDBECK, MACGREGOR

cutting of the new hill

STRATOSPHERE 'PLANE

NO "FIRE

(Special Air Mall Service;

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London, Aug. 55.

the

Commonwealth Forces In

February, 1816. He joined the RF.C. in October, 1816, and served in France, where he gained the M.C. In 1918.

It was still necessary, however, to test the plane, at over 33,000ft, The only stratosphere aeroplane and the task was entrusted to M owned by France crashed

In 1 Cogna. The plane took off .at Dames and was totally destroyed 3.45 p. m., and was in the air for while on a test flight near ah ur and a quarter before Bonnières-sur-Seine near Mantes, anything went wrong. this afternoon. The pilot, M

lined ports and manifolds, a high | Cognd, was burned to death. compression cylinder head with a compression ratio of 8.7 to 1, and three synchronized inclined down- draught carburettors on the nearside. These are accessible, as are the chain-driven generator, the starter" aft, the mike-and- break and distributer on the side of the crankcase, two water taps, and the coil on the dash, where are also the automatic engine re- starter, cut-out, and fuses. In the dash is a locker, and remov- ble plates allow the backs of the instruments to be got at easily. Valve clearice is not dith- cult to alter.

For more than three years the Farman brothers. who are half English and were among the ear- liest pioneers of aviation have been working to perfect this ma chine which has only just been completed.

On the offside, the sparking plugs at an ankles to the head, the separate Junction box for the lamps and horus. the oil aller with separate breather pipe near, the diprad, the oil pump, on the dash the electric petrol pump. automatic chassis lubrication

tank and Lockheed quid re- servoir for the brakes are all well to hand. Clutch pedal clearance be altered from under the bonnet,

can

The single-plate dry clutch delivers the power to a four- speed gearbox which has con- stant-mesh wheels for second, third, and top, and remote control carried on a separate cross- member and thus free of move- ment of the felxibly held as- sembly of engine. cluch, and Kearbox. There is also a free- wheel. The propeller-shatt open; the half-floating back axle haa spiral beyel final drive. A pedal works the four brakes, wheth have flin. diameter drums, bydraulically, and hand jever the backes only mechanically." The lever is between the front seats, and there are three butterfly nut adjusters. The springs are half- elliptical, and work with hydrau

e shock absorbers; the front ones are fist and have an inter- Teaves and the rear ones have the least camber. The frame here is anderstung, passing under the axle. There is a simplied form of Jacking.

́ON THE ROAD

This Speed Fourteen does not make heavy wether of accelera- tion or speed; it is moreover, quiet, and although it is a sports car, the engine is not "fussy or hesitant in trame, or without flexibility or smoothness of drive. It is well balanced. I have no fault to find with the clutch driye, and the gear-change is simple; the venient short handle has a button Catch

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Suddenly, the machine was seen diving bi flames towards the earth. "It looked as though it was left to its own devices” declar- ed an eye-witness, describing its fall.

It is supposed that M Cogno was overcome while at a great helght and fainted.

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