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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, DECEMBER

BRITISH

MOTOR NOTES.

THE

You've Put That Engine In Fine Condition-Thanks!"

WE'R

WE'RE proud to give efficient service to the car owner because of his cordial appreciation of good work ex- peditiously done.

The modern machinery and equipment we have at our new concrete Main Garage and Service Station (Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley) enables us to take care of a car whether it needs complete overhauling, or rebuilding, or merely some light adjustment of brakes carburetor.

Our methods of doing business and the very reasonable charge we make for high class work has won us high reputation among motorists.

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The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd. Expert European Supervision. Telephone Central 3950, A. Allison, Service Manager.

LYMPNE GLIDER CONTEST

87 MILES

flown on 1 gallon

of Shell!

·

Flight-Lieut. W. H. Longton, in his

great achievement on a Wren Meno-

plare, in the "Daily Mail" £1,000 Prize Glider Contest at Lympne, used

SHELL

SPIRIT

PERFORMANCE IS PROOF!

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

THEY NEED MOTORS HERE.

They appear to need motor transport in Bamara Province, Russia, judging by this snapshot of a camel-drawn

Specially Written by the R.A.C. Correspondent.

The Royal Automobile Club 19h.p. air-cooled light car has has recently issued certificates in also stlccessfully completed a respect of a number of interesting (similar trial with no mechanical trials lataly completed. Two of stoppage and with practically these refer to further trials of the no delays.

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AC cars, which have already A Cubitt car has been observed successfully passed

through in the test hill at Brooklands. & nambar of observed Using the bottom gear the car Lasts this year. In une ascended the hill from a standing instance the object

to start, stopping and re-starting on demonstrate the effect on the the steepest portion; that is to temperature of the radiator water say, a gradient of 1 in 4. The car by running a car without a carried a full load, consisting fan at forty miles an hour on the of the driver and four passengers. Brooklands track." The car was driven both with and without a

FUEL CONSUMPTION TESTS. No fan for forty-two miles.

An apparatus known as the alteration other than the removal Lovelace Volatiliser has been of the fan was made between the submitted to the RA.C. for an tests. With the fan in use and official statement indicating the with an initial temperature of fuel economy resulting from the 53 degrees Centigrade the tem use of the device. The car was

with perature of the cooling water rua

and without the after five minutes was 800,Volatiliser over a distance of after ten minutes 850, about sixteen miles at a speed subsequently rising slowly to of about twenty miles an hour. reach 900 at the end of the hour With the device out of action The fuel consumption was 35.95 consumption was 28.4 miles per miles per gallon. Without the gallon and with the device in fan and starting at 51 degrees, the faction 32.6 miles per gallon. temperature at the end of five A Saurer lorry has been sub- minutes reached 849, at the end mitted to a 1,000 miles road test. of ten minutes 900, in half an The lorry weighed 4 tons & ewt. hour it had risen slowly to 920 at and the average load was 6 tons which it remained constant until(41⁄2 ewt. The fuel consumption the end of the hour. The fuel worked out 9,84 miles par consumption was 3636 miles per gallon. gallon.

DEWAR CHALLENGE TROPHY.

· HILL-CLIMBING TESTS. The second A.C. test was on The Dewar Challenge Trophy, TWO

cars of the six and four awarded annually by the Club for cylindered types respectively, the most meritorious performance both of which made observed of the year in an officially elimbs up the mountain of Snow certified trial, has this year gone doo using the tram road. In the to the Rapson Tyre and Jack centre of the track on this road is Company. The Rapson tyres a rack 7 inches above the tops were fitted to a 40-50 b.p. car of sleepers and at places there having a laden weight of 246 are rail points which have to be tons. The trial was upon the surmounted. Both cars completed Club's standard routes and the the climb successfully, though average speed was twenty miles delays were occasioned by the an hour. One of the tyres cover- difficulties of the track such as ed. the full distance of 40,003 a brake drum fouling the rack miles, two others exceeded 39,000 and the necessity for furding mile and the fourth nearly small streams. A Stonelight reached 32,500 miles.

DODGE BROS PLANT. THE MOTOR CAR.

EXTENSIVE NEW BUILDINGS.

programme.

stories SIX

How It Supports Other

Industries."

DUNLOP

CORD

MOTOR CYCLE TYRE

the

A welcome ad-

dition to

range of Dunlop Tyres

The Hotor Cycle tyre speelally de- signed for heavy

wear

Supplies of 28 x 3 Cord Motor Cycle Covers

C.704

can be obtained from-

B

J. Gibbs & Co.,

Alexandra Buildings C.4532

(Sundays and Holidays)

AND FROM THE

DUNLOP

Rubber Company, (China) Limited.

Founders throughout the World of the Pneumatic Tyre Industry.

1A Chater Road.

proximately 73,000,000 pounds being used in motor vehicle manu-l facture as compared with 43,000,- | 000 pounds the year previous. The outlet for copper in the automobile industry last year amounted to little over & million pounds--about 10 per cent of the total output. Lead. nickel and tin are used in smaller. proportions.

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An immense Dew assembly building, duplicating the present

Those who have never given structure in size is announced by the matter thought will be sur Dodge Brothers as the principal Prised to learn what an important unit of the 1923 expansion ifustomer the automobile industry The plate glass and leather in- is of other leading industries. Itdustries owe a great deal to the The building is

has been estimated that 56 per automotive industry. Last year high, 1,000 feet long and 15 feet cent. of the product of the rubber the leather producers of the coun- wide, with more than one-half factories of the United States is try turned out $3,415,000 square million square feet of floor space. made up of automobile tyres and feet of upholstery leather. Of. Construction work which started Casings, the total amount of crude this total the automobile indus- some months ago is now nearly rubber consumed last year being try consumed 45,260,000 square completed. The new assembly' 525.000.000 pounds as compared feet. which amounts to a little building. paralleling the

with 373,000,000 pounds the year old

over 45 per cent. of the whole. j structure, is just across the street before. In addition to rubber, In addition to this vast quantity which formerly marked the the tyre industry used 75,000 of real leather the automobile in- boundary line of the great Dodge cotton and about 160,000 bales of square feet of imitation leather.

bales of domestic long staple (dustry consumed 120,000,000

Brothers factories.

Factory executives would not imported Egyptian cotton, the Production of plate glass last comment on the number of ad total consumption of all fabrics year totalled 75.000.000 square ditional cars contemplated in this used in the production of tires feet. More than one-third of this extensive addition, but it is be last year being estimated at 178.---39 per cent. to be exact-was lieved that the immediate aim is 049.246 pounds. Automobile used in the manufacture of wind a capacity of 1,000 cars a day. manufacturers used approximate-shields and glass windows for In the face of the greatly over 2,375.000 tons of steel, or about motors cars and trucks. sold condition which prevailed & per cent. of the total output of throughout the entire year just the country, while in the produc- demand for the closed car and The increased popolarity and rast, it is not unreasonable to as- tion of accessories, tools and the record production for the sume that this number mentioned other automotive products, more year 19:2 caused the consump could be absorbed easily Ly than a million tons of steel weretion of upholstery cloth to reach Dodge Brothers dealers.

required, making the total for the the amazing total of 10.425.435 Other units of the expansion industry as a whole 8,980 per cent square yards, almost double the the new cyanide Aluminium is another metal production of the year previous. ¡building, a million dollar addition which has particular use in the

to the power house, and a

manufacture of "automobile and! moth new closed body Luilding.atistics indicate an increased The latter is completed, several use in the 1922 1923 motor car floors having been occupied for in 1921 the automotive consump some time. It is estimated that on of the country's sisminium the total investment represented production amounted to 22 per by these additions, in uildings cent of the whole. In 1922 it had increased to 23 per cent-ap (Continued on next column.)

programme are

alone, will reach $5,000,000.

BAM-

The erection of the body build- ing in the short space of four mouths estal·lished 3 re- cord.

Considering the fact

Top and side curtain materials ing 22,000,000 yard, Hair and were used in a quantity exceed- padding were consumed to the extent of approximately 33,030,- 0030 pounds.

another important item. More. Paint and varnish constitutes than 7,500,000 gallons of paint and vamish were uselin paint- ing last year's motor production.

Lumber consumption in motor car manufacture has reached a that it is an eight story Luilding speed elevators.capable of travell-tremendous fiure. Last year it 400x200 feet in dimension, with a fing 400 feet a minute loaded. The mocnted to 363,075,619 board fort total floor space of 500.000 square building is heated by the indirectas compared with 313,800,000 feet, the time is exceptionally system, fans forcing the washed board feet the year previous short. It is a striking tribute to air down various ducts after it is The consumption of gasoline in the efficiency and financial in-heated by steam pipes on the rrof. the United States amounted to dependence of Lodge Brothers. Fire protection is insured by 10, 51,282.594.177 gallons last year and se all the work was done under 000 sprinkler heads. All stair to this it is estimated that au- the supervision of the factory's ways are safety treaded.

tomobiles consumed 80 per cent. Gwn construction department. While this unit in an enormous while they also provided a mark; Some idea of the mas nitude of building in itself, it is in reality for a large part of the lubricating the fact that 30,000 barrels of only half a building. The other oil which is likewise derived from cement and 16.000 cubic yards half was completed two years petroleum. No doubt a similar of concrete were used in the fago. Taken as a whole, the build- percentage of the gasoline exports building, as well as 4.000 tons of ing is one of the largest single was destined for automobile, con construction steel; 1.464 tons of factory onits in the world with a sumption. It is further estimated, reinforcing steel; 38,000 window, floor area of a million square that the automobile industry as a lights; 500,000 feet of maple floor foot It will be devoted entirely whole courmed 2,659,000 tons of ing, and 600,000 bricks. There to the production of all steel coal last year. As the number of are seven travelling cranes rang-bodies type of construction or motor vehicles produced ing from five tons to twenty tone iginated by and far: Dodge 2,61064, the col consumption in capacity, and four 10-ton high Brothers,

averaged one ton for each car.

HONGKONG

Phone C. 4554..

MR. CAR OWNER!

Why not send us those LAMPS, FITTINGS, etc. from your car and let us make them like new?

A

THE ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE HONGKONG HOTEL. EXPERTS IN PLATING.

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD

BRITISH CARS

By special arrangement with the Austin Motor Car Company, Ltd., we are now able to supply AUSTIN twelve and twenty h.p. cars in Hongkong, all charges paid, at the English factory list prices. Immediate delivery can be given on 20 b.p.: Touring Models.

Austin

Prompt shipment on all other models. Catalogues may be obtained from the

SOLE AGENT

Alex. Ross & Company,