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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2-1923

AVIATION IN CHINA.

AN INTERESTING SHANGHAI-BUILT BIPLANE

MILEAGE

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Longer Mileage

Decreased Petrol Consumption

Conservation of Engine Fower

Increased Cushioning

Reduced Driving Strain

Lowest Inital Cost

Lowest Running Cost Per Mille.

It may not be generally known Chinese mechanics and riggers that there is in existence in On the right will be seen a three- Shanghai An Aeronautical quarter head-on view of the Society comprised of Chinese machine.

military and civilian flgers. Not This machine, known only is that so, but members of Schoettler I, is a biplane, titted the body have actually completed with 160 h.p. Diamler-Mercedes the construction of a biplane in partly water-cooled engine, smil their workshop at Lunghwa. it was built entirely from local This machine was designed by material. It bax a climbing Mr. F.L Schoettler, who is capacity of 10,000 feet in 13 seen in the above photograph minutes, and a flying speed of with the biplane and staff of 120 miles per hour.

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TAR AND THE CAR.

How to Avoid or Remedy Damage.

again." You may think it-buț ARE BRITISH CARS TOO Finally, I recognise that the you must not turn your thought/ into action.

You must keep quite slow for about 100 yards, so that your The inefficient methods unde- tyres can get rid of all the tar which tar spraying is carried out and tarred chipping- which will in many parts of England have be sticking to them. If you ac-

CHEAP?

Behind the Scenes of Automobile Finance.

finance side is not directly my business. But I'm going to med- dle with it, all the same! How long are these unstable economic factors to remain in force? Is it not time that prices should be raised to--at any rate-the pay-

been criticised several times re- celerate immediately you are of It is improbable that you take ing their way level? What cently in the Lawton papers. It the tarred stretch you will get much interest in the financial as-fahout the shareholder's is gratifying to know, therefore, quite a lot of the dreaded subs, peets of the British motor indus and interests?

try. -657 a whter is ad Hune that the Ministry of Transport is Antenna your coachwork. endeavouring to bring about AN improvement.

HOW TO AVOID DAMAGE. Motorists who do ens inter in efficient tar-spraying must take adequate precautions to prevent the paintwork being dimaged.

DUNLOP

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NEW FRENCH ROADS

Paris. August, 20-Provision for tarring and covering France's rights national and secondary highways with anti-dust treatment proba- bly will be made by Parliamentį seen. The work. expected to cost $100.000.000, is expected to take eight year.

If, in spite of your gate, you piper. But you ought to you. You had better hurry up and still get some tar on your paint know! It's quite & big item in our buy that new car before they all work, you should see to its ro- national industrial activity. So take my tip? mal immediately. The Lager we are just going to make a little you leave it. damage.

the

the digression into the mutter.

I want simdedy to give me A piece of wadding or soft the names of half a dozen firms. If you have to go over a newip- flannel dipped in new milk is selling medium-sized family cars spread patch of bar, the prime very effective and if used cafe, at the present time who are mak- essential is to go "dead Slow."fully will effect a clean removal, ing money by se doing. By dead slow" is meant at a New butter is also quite a useful speed literally below 5 m.ph. As Plounsing agent. ale, these bad patches are nor

exercising extreme caution..

A SAFETY FIRST WARNING.

very long, and it is worth while If tar or tatted, chippings are on parts where there is no paint, If you where religously tea or where the paintwork has speed of three or four in p.h. and passed its best days, a piece of the mudguards of your car are tag woked in henzole er methy- reasonably extensive," no tarlated spirits will pre quite will be thrown on the coachwork, «feerive.

There are many cars being sold loss- the shareholder"-

the difference in the cost of the. money is being spent to make up you buy and what it actually

You will agree that this is all wrong, but you will probably say "Well! What's it got to do with

does cost.

though even at that speed some It must be remembered, how, me, anyway?" may find its way to the insite of ever, that both these fluids attack the mudguards

varnish or paint as well as tare

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coachwork.

WHERE IS IT LEADISOj!!

And you must remember neser so that they should not be used. It's got this much to do with to follow another car too closely on the better-finished parts of the 'you it cannot go on indefinitely. on such patches.

Money put up by shareholders. wheels will throw spots of tar or Finally, just a Aafety Fist has got limits to its "pay bearer" tarred stone chippings on to your item in fuxari do tarned stretches, Capacity, just as our own bank- own car. Bar wheels throat such i Rememberth at thegame “Skidy."jine accounts have limits, things further than front wheels. Cyclete stvald dismount on fur- As motorists, therefore, we face Why? Never mind by thered patches, but if they do nokļa situation which must terminate.

five them plenty of roots in case prices must either be made...

they skid.

economically sound or the com And if you addendly strike alpanies must pass into the hands And when you get to the end tarred patch at speed at night of the bankruptcy court officials.. of your self-imposed three-mile time, don't be two fierce with your per-hour speed limit you will brakes. It is better to have tar on four or five weeks and see an

Yet we look round for the past: think. Thank goodness that is the coachwork than to risk a over! Now for a

sane speed dangerous >kid.

moment!

A. PRECAUTION OFTEN NEGLECTED.

PROOF

The triumphs of Shell in the French Grand Prix, the, Boulogne Grand Prix, the Aerial Derby, the King's Cup, the historic Atlantic and Australian flights, are one form of proof of superiority. Another is the evidence of

Prominent Motor Journalists

juther crop of price reductions.) It seems to have developed into a sort of Fashion. If the show | approaches, "You must cut down your pieces.

At the present time there i junly one adequate reason for re-i during prices so far as the bulk

of British manufacturers is con-; cerned. That reason is the ut tempt to achieve a vastly in- [creased output, which shall in itsi future reflex action make the Howered price An economic!

practicability.

PRICES COMPARED.

Thir is another point that in- terests you. In buying many British cars, you are getting too Imuch for your money! And I

mean that quite seriously.

I can give you the names of

who have witnessed the testing of Shell: quite a number of British cars

MR. H. MASSAC BUIST in The Oherrer.

"A higher useful compreskion than any other of the well-known brands"

CAPT. E. DE NORMANVILLE in The Motor Chener.

The superiority of Shell......so convincingly demonstrated "

MR J. OWEN in The Referee,

"In every case Shell Motor Spirit went Further than the others" MR. ARTHUR J. SALMON in The Deily Graphic.

Shell came out on top to a remarkable extent.

SHELL

DEVELOPS THE UTMOST HORSE-POWER

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

which are now giving you better! jvalue for money than in early 1914. Some of the difference in made up by improved manufac- turing methods, of course,

I have been comparing the 1914 prices of several cara with their! present prices, and making allow- lances for the changed monetary. values, and for the improved equipment of to-day but hot for any improved quality of road performance.

The results are very striking. To take an outstanding example my arithmetic tells me that ine price of the 12-14 h.p. Crossley to-day should be £7jc-whereas] it is actually priced guineas. And there are many other examples.

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So, whilst you may justly say that the financial matters of thei British motor industry are not directly your affair, you should jat least recognise that there are [many examples of abnormal

value for money.

AFTER THE CRASH.

Here's what happened when a motor cycle and side car crashed into a big touring car on the Ft. Sill boulevard. Lawton, USA. The rider of the motor cycle was killed and three perse as in the car were severly injured.

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