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HONGKONG

Firestone

Firetane Gam-Dipped Cords and. Strun-Welded Tobes were the equipmenÍ SA each of the first five cars to finish the 158-mile National Championskis race af September 29th, 1925, at Fressa, California, on a one-mile board track. Harry Hartz, the winner, averaged 163,6 miles per hour, drove the entire 150 laps without a stop, and established a new_world's record for 122 inch maturs en a one-mile board speedway. The first five mm, all Firestone equipped, finished without a tyre change; the fiess four without a stop. Never beface in the history of the Automative industry has there been such tyre endurance and reliability as that shown by Firestone equipment at Indianapolis, · Altaona, Syracuse and Fresno.

Most Miles!

Per Dollar

DISTRIBUTORS: The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Arrol Johnston

BY FAR THE BEST VALUE IN THE MOTOR WORLD TO-DAY

COLONIAL MODEL

The All British Car

DEMONSTRATION INVITED

Price

£550

SPECIALLY BUILT AND GEARED FOR HONGKÖNG

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

PHONE C. 32.

Brief Specification

4 cylinder 17.9 H. P. 5-Passenger Touring Car., Cape Cart Hood and Storm Curtains. Upholstered in Antique Brown Leather. Dunlop Detachable Spoke Wheels. Dunlop (British) Cord Tyres. One Spare Wheel and Tyre. C.A.V, Electric Lighting and Starting. Speedometer; Clock, Bulb, Horn, Lug- gage Grid. Petrol Tin and Holder.

Soldiers injured in hatilē. bere. after, will be transported to field. hospitals in this Fokker-style arpbulance airplane built for the [US Army Air Service. The picture on the right shows in- terior view of the ship showing cot arrangement and ärst aid equipment.

STYLE AERIAI. AMBULANCE.

SIX CYLINDERS

QURY

Are Luxury Engines Wanted?

A reader wishes to know. whathar'six-cylinder engines are (wanted on what he tergis.“ work- a-day" cars, says a writer in, a Home papar, who continues:.

The point in still left unsettled. Personally if finance was not to be a factor. I should prefer the good six cylinder job every time whether it was for luxury touring for for the work-a day" job of getting to the office. But then {I'm a regular Oliver Twist so far

as motor-cars are concerned. 2 A GOOD “SIX * PREFERRED. I know a wealthy man with įseveral cars who could drive up to the City every day in the super luxury of a Rolls Royce limousine. He is actually driven : ep in a Ford sedan! He keeps his expensive car for longer trips. ~ As he says, there is method in his madne53. The little car. can get about in the dense traffic more quickly than. A big car.. and it gets him there. jevery time. And he is so wealthy

that there is no need to think of appearances!

So my correspondent has at tapy rate one person who shares the view that the "work-a-dayTM car need only be a "work-a-day car. But I do not think” the Imajority would share his jriew. Personally I always !like

drive the best thing I can get-irrespective of the circumstances. And we

to

FOUR WHEEL BRAKES. ing wheel turned to the right or rect any slight inequality which must admit that a good six is

THE CADILLACE SYSTEM.

WLS

always preferable to an equally good four.

THIET-PROOF LOCKS. -."

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the

left, only the brake on the inner may exist in the adjustment of wheel will take effect, leaving the the front wheel brakes. outer wheel free to rotate.

"If one front wheel brake has **Similarly, if the car is moving slightly less clearance than the Some while ago I made The chief purpose in the instal lation of a system of four-wheel straight ahead and the steering other, and takes effect first, the remark to the effect that no ex- brakes in the new 1-63 by the wheel is then turned, the outside greater friction will beat and existing car-lock was effective in all

cirumstances. Locking Cadillac Motor Car Company front wheel is automatically re-pand the rorresponding brake

leased and continues to rotate, drum. The expansion of the drum gears or ignition does not prevent. to give an added

to will increase the clearance slight a thief from towing a car away, sin of safety. Owners are giving the driver power

the direction of the ly, and permit the pedal to be and so far as locking the steering finding that they have, in addi- change

It is impossible for the depressed further until the other is concerned. I must confess I do tion. brakes that are more

dur.: car.

not like the idea, although some fable and operate more smoothly, brakes to lock both front wheels (brake takes effect.

In addition to making every steering locks are doubtless so according to Mr. Ernest Won a turn, no matter how much Seaholn. the Cadillac chief pressure is applied to the pedal. inch of pedal travel count, Canil designed that it would be in

Further provision for safety is lac four-wheel brakes have been possible for them to come inte Our engineering division made by properly proportioning freed from the need of frequent action accidentally. And if you carried on exhaustive research the braking effect between the attention by increasing the life of have ever seen a damaged car

being towed by a breakdown lorry'. work and extensive experiments front and rear wheels. In order the brake lining.

engineer.

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over a period of years, investigate that the front wheels will not lock. The distribution of the break-with its fore-part raised to the ing practically every four-wheel antil after more than enough ing duty among four instead of tail-board of the larry, you will braking system and making pressure has been applied to lock two wheels of itself lessens the see that even locking the steering factual installation of no less the rear wheels, the braking effect load on each brake. Lining wear is not a complete protection.

As a result of the remark in·· than 38 different devices." states in frent is purposely made less is proportionately less than with

only two brakes. Not content question a new lock, which I Mr. Seaholm. "Most of these than in the rear.

this, Cadillac engi- believe is not yet on the market, installations were tested by long.! "The fact that the hand brake with hard drives under the most is divorced in every detail of its acers have provided a special has been brought to my notice. trying conditions before the mechanism from the service brak- type of lining which is bigbly This Cadillac system was finally de- ing system provides a third factor compressed, formed to the shape bination, and is contained

of safety. In short, the complete of the drum, and subjected, a compartment with a lid. signed and perfected.

When the lock is set it is very "Cutstanding safety features braking system of the V-63 con- during mancfacture. to three in the Cadillac system,” hei sists of three pairs of brakes distinct heat treatments. This unlikely that a thief would hit on continued. are the combination front internal and rear external lining, moreover, is burnished the combination, and immediate- interferes with the of front internal with rear ex-combined in the four-wheel brake by machine before assembling the ly he

jmechanism contact with an ternal brakes the correct proper system just described, and an brake bands on the axles.

"AR རྗ result," says Mr-jalarma Klaxon horn, for in- tioning of the braking load entirely separate set of internal

extraordinary stance is established. between the front and rear wheel; brakes acting on the rear wheels Seaholm.

brake service is

Opening the lid of the lock and provision for

and operated by the hand lever, amount of complete control of front wher in steering This makes a complete reserve rendered before the clearance compartment locks the bonnet, so between the lining and the drums that the wiring cannot be ent and under all driving conditions.

"There is another important has been appreciably increased. the lid cannot be closed again. "The service brake pedal ini the V-63 simultaneously operates that occurs from the use of in- further

advantage." says Mr. Seaholm. A unique feature, which Further, any attempt to move the minimises need for car by pushing a towing while internal brakes on the front wheels and external brakes on ternal brakes on the front wheels. adjustment, is a device consisting the lock is set similarly sets the the rear. By this combinon Their use produces an automatic of a system of levers which gives alarm in action. The primary the effect of the expansion

thermal equalizing effect which the desired pressure on the drums action of the lock is to break the Dealers Pleased by New front internal brake drun is is sufficient, when the car is with less travel of the brake sparking plug circuit, so that the

neutralized by the opposite effect, travelling straight ahead, to cor-pedal as it nears the floor board. engine cannot be started. of the expansion of the drums of i the rear external brakes.

The Hongkong

& Shanghai Hotels Ltd.

Dennis

MOTORS

As used by The Hongkong Government.

2-24 ton truck chassis - £740-0- 0 c. i. f. Hongkong.

THE TRUCK WHICH HAS PROVED"

WORTH IN HONGKONG

SOLE AGENTS

Alex. Ross & Company

(China,) Limited.

BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, DUDDELL STREET. TELEPHONE: C. 2487,

DODGE BROS.

Prospect.

"Nothing was more gratifying to Dodge Brothers dealer than "All motorists who have tour- the recent announcement of ed mountainous roads not un- Dodge Brothers tost they were commonly find that the brake erecting an immense new as pedal if it

operates external sembly building and other new brakes-will apply the brakes units which would enable them earlier in its travel after braking materially to increase their pur down a long grade, than at the duction,” said the Dragon Motor beginning of the grade. This is Co., Ltd, local dealers for Dodge the result of heat from friction Brothers, in viewing the sales which expands the drums and prospects for 1923-4.

decreases the clearance between "Although the factory has been them and the brake lining. If enlarging its facilities year after the original adjustment is fairly year, it has never been able to close, some brakes under such meet the demand," they added. conditions may seize.

This was true even for the fiscal "Conversely. a trike pedal year ending in July, 1923, during which operates internal bakes which period approximately will not take effect as early in 200,000 Dedre Brothers motor the pedal travel when the brake ars were built and sold. If Dodge drums are hot as at other times. Brothers dealers were able to the brake clearance has be

nake such a phenomenal record come exce-sive, the pedal may ast year, it is easy to see that even strike the toesh and before they will do even better during the brakes take efficul

he next scal year as the "By combining the two kinds present line of cars represents a of brakes, as Cadillac engineers much greater value than ever have done in the V-63", continu efore. The cars look better andjel Mr. Seaholm "the applied ide better. And yet they retain position of the brake pedal hard- all the former advantages of ly changes as the drums expand. economy and dependability that In the case of front wheel Accou: ted for the enormous de-brakes safety in control is more Tand of the past,

| important than maxímum ability to stop quickly. A front wheel which is sliding without rotatión, OILING LEATHER CLUTCH,

has no power to change the direc- Castor oil or neatsfoot is best tion of the car. Front wheel for softening a leather cone brakes must provide against the latch. First clean the leather contingency of locking both froat ind scrape the glazed surface wheels on a turn.

hen apply the oil and allow it to "This is accomplished in the enetrate the leather overnight.V.63 Cadillac by a construction Graphite and oil are used on which provides that when the metal-to-metal clutches.

*brakes ago applied with the steer-

braking system.

1924

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