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ELEGRAPH: MOTORING SUPPLEMENT
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1.
JOB:
HUDSON
Compare It With The
Costliest
You find comparison for Hudson quality only in the small group of fine cars that stand at the very front of mechanical excellence. But do you compare its price at $4.000 with theirs?
The reliability of the Super-Six- chassis is famous. Controls are simple. It requires little care to keep in top condition.
With endurance and performance proofs that have never been equalled, it gives a price saving of hundreds of dollars over cars of comparable quality.
Cars
ESSEX MOTOR EARS
ESSEX-BUILT BY HUDSON :
5-passenger Touring.
HUDSO
SUPER SIX
$3,000
HUDSON SUPER-SIX PRICES:
passenger Touring. 7-passenger Touring.
.$3,900
.$4,000
(Above prices include five cord tyres
es fire wire wheels.)
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Latest Models on View at our Show Rooms and Service Station Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley. Telephone Central 3950.
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Royal Card Tyres are balanced tyres
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A Dominion Tyre
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MOTORISTS AND RADIO FANS.
MOTORISTS Try an expert mechanic for the overbaaling of your engine. Valves and Carburetors adjusted. “Engines tuned to perfection. Repairs carried out in your own garage. Lessons in driving any motor vehicle.
RADIO FANS Tuition in Radiography. Complete tions. Apperatus for sale at really, prices. Crystal; Valve'and Knoek-down sets. Spare parts
THE LIMIT OF CAR SPEED.
Problems that Face the Racing Designer.
Is there a limit to the speed atį which a car can be made to travel? And if so, have we nearly reachedj
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Na bard, of these or olden days
Has ever sung a word of praise
Of my profession;
So please excuse-if I should seem
A trifle bold upon this theme-
This one digression.
My job is selling motor cars
To common folks and movie stars--
Just transportation.
Tho' that be much it is not all,
For I sell Summer. Spring, and Fall And Inspiration.
I sell the highway, winding far,
To wind-swept beach and sandy har Whare wild waves wander
And beat, with never ceasing moan, On rocky cliffs and walls of stone In tones of thunder.
No pad sell the woodland, in the spring.
Where flowers bloom and wild birds sing-
And love supernal
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Comes Blooding back to every breast Just like the birds return to nest With hope eternal.
I sell the rock-ribbed mountains high.
Where snow capped peaks, against the sky. In bold relief stand out;
Where Nature's fiercest battles crash, Where thunders roll and lightnings flash, And crags are all about.
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I sell the limpid babbling brook. With mossy dell and shadowed nook, Where Cupid hides at eve;
Where bashful youths become more bald. And whispered tales of love are told, And maidens, coy, believe,
I sell the forest's beauty, rare.
When Autumn's breath is in the air, And leaves are red and gold: When all the landscape is aglow With colour which no brush may show Or artist's canras hold.
I sell, with unalloyed delight.
The sunset, with its shafts so bright
Of purple, red, and blue:
As vagrant clouds reflect the glow
On menntain tops and tint the snow A briliant crimson bye.
With every single sale I've tried
To sell a thousand joys beside.
So, when my work is o'er
And I have crossed the River Styx
I'll find a superb single six Right there upon the shore.
And good St. Peter, with a smile,
Will say. We've waited quite a while For you to claim that cart.
You've earned, without a single doubt, A perfect right to 'let 'er out" So crank it up and start.”
And then I'll "slip it into high"
And motor off across the sky, On roads sublimely fair:
And search the realm, celestial, For grander scenes which I can sell To other folks up there.
DOUBLE LOCK FOR DODGE CARS.
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-Ray Choper in the "Moter World"
STARTING MOTOR NDISE. Noise in the starting motor is It is expected that thefts of a sure sign of wouble. It may be In the car that is built for speed! Dodge motor cars will be greatly induced by broken or badly word there is a maximum beyond reduced by one of the improve- teeth, a bent armature shaft, a which it cannot go. Why? Isments which Dodge Brothers have loose armature bearing, or badly! the engine power insufficient, or incorporated in their newly de meshed teeth. It should be at- is there some other means beyond signed cars It is a Yale lock tended to at once. the mere increasing of power by built into the transmission, mak which the speed range may being it possible to double lock the extended?
car when idle. The lock is fired!. The limiting factor is not in the floor. within easy reach of much lack of power, or too high the driver.
a weight-to-power ratio. as lack
of adhesion of the tyres to the
road or track, says a Home writer. materially to increase the speed He proceeds-
of his vehicles.
A SERIOUS FACTOR.
So far as power is concerned, We have reached the point at the problem is akin to that of the which this factor is becoming steamship: doubling the power really serious. Wind resistance gives. a disproportionately small can be mit to a certain extent by the initial speed that it is desired increase in speed, and the greater scientific "stream-lining.” and all; the necessities for propulsion at to increase, the more emphatic is
the "dis" of the proportion. speeds, to mention which would be inviting accusation of exag-
WHAT'S THE GOOD? geration, are available. But what' And, after all, you will say, is the use of making the driving what is the good of it all? Rac-! wheels buzz round faster and evering cars are already capable of faster if they refuse to bite the speeds far in excess of anything road 2
that can be usefully applied by The problem appears to be that ordinary people for ordinary pur the weight of the car must be poses. I will not resurrect the kept as low as possible in order Improving the breed" argument that a large surplus of engine although it is sound enough, but power shall be available to will reply by asking you what is give high speed, and yet sufficient the good of swimming the Chan- weight must be left to keep the Be!? wheels in driving contact with There is not the slightest practi- cal value in the performance, and yet I'll bet that more than half of The thought occurs to one that you got quite excited when, hav as an inclined plane driven rapid-ing read the motor article, you ly into the wind secures the lift off discovered that the feat had been an aeroplane, a modification and accomplished once again. No takers? No, I knew I was on reversal of the idea might serve mething better than a "cert," "to press down the wheels of a racing car. The scientifically in
in the St. Leger. clined reader will probably object that the effect would be the same as that of increasing the weight of the car in offering resistance to propulsion Ferbape he is
Anyway you vin ses tīras ing achieved
the road.
A SUGGESTION.
and whalf miles a
To accomplish a speed of say, three miles & minute would be at least as interesting so
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You give your car every care it should have perbag SATO one. You may always thoughtlessly say. “G me a quart of all "..
Quesrunexpected knockrebme. Repair hills saam high and frequenz Operating trumblas multiply....... The repair man simply can't keep the engine swest... You expected to keep the car five seasons. But the engine already shows eigns of age.-
All around you are men who don't tare cars in every season or two-who aren't constantly face-to-face' with unexpected repair bills-who climb long, hills sasily and quietly even when the car is old. ....
They are the men who fondle their car a bit, keep them up well
And they are particularly careful about lubrication.
Have you ever noticed how many of them are enthusi ss on Gargoyle Mobiloil?
NOW FOR ECONOMY.
People are learning that they have a right to expect. mare from thair lubrication. 'More automobile owners will learn the lesson this year than ever before. More will wake. up to the fact that incorrect Inbrication doubles angine repair bills. Instead of saying “Give me a quart of õil” they will ask for the correct grade of Gargoyle Mobileil.
USE ONLY.
GARGOYLE
Mobiloil
Make the chart your guide
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
Firms desiring to avail themselves of the publicity facili- lies presented through this supplement, are requested to sund- copy not later then the Wednesday preceding publication.
NERACAR
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SAFETY FIRST."
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For safety. Reliability. Strength, Cleanliness and Economy the "NERACAR” stands unrivalled.
The "NERACAR” was not built for excessive speed::id On plain level roads, it will give a speed of 35 miles, whilst on bilis-such as the Chin Wan Hill-it will give a speed-- of 25 miles per hour, as proved in the recent trials. Considering that most people rarely go motoring at more than 30 miles on level roads or 20 miles up hills, the " NERACAR * has a reserve speed which is 'quite ample.
The "NERACAR" was specially designed and built to meet the needs of people who, in their daily avocations and pleasures, find that what is really required is a reliable. fair priced, light two-wheeled motor car that will carry- them about safely, economically, at a fair speed and without. the risk of having their clothing soiled by dirt, gresse, and» oil. The “NERACAR” answers all, these requirements. and its gasoline consumption is one gation to 100 miles
Write or call for demonstrations
De Sousa & Company, Limited.
Sole Agents for South China.“ 2nd. Floor, St. George's Building, Telephone C. No. 1264.
1924 BUICKS
THE SHIPMENT OF BUICKS Recently, advertised in these columns, duly arrived on November 20th and---
HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLD
We are now booking orders for the next shipment due to arrive on the S.S. PRESIDENT JACKSON ” TODAY
BY BOOKING NOW YOU WILL AVOID DISA PPPOINT
The Hongkong & Kowloon Taxi CabCo Ltd
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