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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923.

HUDSON Announces

Sharp Price Reductions

FOR 1924 SEASON

EFFECTIVE AT ONCE

Get These New Low Prices Before Purchase of any Car

Rumors to the Contrary Notwithstanding the only HUDSON that will be produced in 1924 will be

The Car You Know so Well-the Famous

HUDSON Super-Six

"More

And More Than Ever It Will Be Known as

The World's Outstanding Motor Car Value

4-passenger HUDSON Touring 7-passenger HUDSON Touring

53.675

SO 800

the ESSEX HUDSON also builds

$2,800 5-passenger Essex Touring

(Above prices include 5 cord tyres on & wire 'cheelt.)

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Latest Models on View at our Show Rooms and

Service Station. Come and Spe Them.

ESSEX

MOTOR

CARS

Telephone Central 395b.

Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley.

Studebaker

6 Cylinder 1924 Cars,

Another Shipment

arrived

Per S.S. PRESIDENT JACKSON."

BIG SIX SEVEN-SEATER TOURING CAR PRICE $4,300

COMPLETELY

BIG SIX FIVE-SEATER SPEEDSTER

PRICE

$4,500

FINISHED IN RICH MAROON - DISC WHEELS.—7 wo extra tree's fun bete with tyres and tyre users. Butopere in at and rear). Rear view mirror. Courtesy jann. Clown Duhte.. But nean lamp with org

Commodiu extension curd. Combination stop ana taillight.

Hlare prood viso trunk. Automatic windshiest evranen.

THE MOST FEELY EQUIPPED CAR ON THE MARKIT. Inspection and demonstration invited.

Tel. 32

Show Rooms, Queen'- Road.

Tel. 31

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED

MOTORISTS AND RADIO FANS.

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MOTORISTS Try an expert mechanic for the overbauling Carburetors your engine. Valves and

tuned to perfection. adjusted. Engines Repairs carried out in your own garage. Lessons in driving any motor vehicle.

RADIO FANS Tuition in Radiography. Complete instala- tions. Apparatus for sale at really bargain prices. Crystal, Valve and Knock-down Bets. Spare parts.

For particulars please apply to F. O. Box. 635/

INTERESTING ITEMS.

DODGE INSTRUMENT: BOARD.

The stove photo shows the improved in- strument loand of the new Dodge cars.

ROLLS-ROYCE DEVELOPMENTS.

Four Wheel Brakes & Engine Reaction Damper."

If any forber praid were gooded as to the high ethelency

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IMPROVING THE GEARBOX.

Is the Automatic Gear Change Desirablę?

The air has been full af motor.

"revolutions" just recently ! ot properly designed four-wheel which is a phenomenon usually Phraking systeme, it is furnisher associated with the period just joy my being able to make publie pre to the Motor Show. But we

jealously guarded know from past experience. .. meret : may» Capt. E. de Norman- should kiow, that it is quite une Ville, writing un-ier date of Nothing to have these revolutions on trazer anf another to get them on

hithert

vember 1st.

A- from peday at 440? hit # Cl--it gralears" enteren will fe mapped with front-whevi heye anaith the Tacter

a chasis, saps a Horde writer.

muntii

Miles and

If you east your mind back

NERACAR

SAFETY

FIRST."

For safety. Reliability, Strength. Cleanliness and Economy the NERACAR stands unrivalled.

The SERACAR” was not built for excessive speed. Un plain level roads, it will give a speed of 35 miles, whilst on hills-such as the Chin Wan Hill it will give a speed of 25 miles per hour, as proved in the recent trials. Considering that must 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 prical light two-wheeled motor ear that will carry them about safely, economically, at a fair speed and without the risk of having their clothing soiled by dirt, grease snj oil. The XERACAR" answers all these requirements and its gasoline consumption is one gallon to 100 miles!

Write on all fan demonstrationa

De Sousa & Company, Limited.

Sole Agents for South China. 2nd. Floor, St.. George's Building. Telephone C. No. 1264.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Finns desiring to avail themselves of the publicity facili ties presented through this supplement, are requested to send copy not later then the Wednesday preceding publication.

TORQUE CONVERTERS.

NEW ROVER PRICES.

The new prices of Rover c377

Yet once again the 4 ilea f years of As you know, even

Cale antumbile izstory, you will re the automatic gear chance has Budas way t»«. Hol --Royce member that of the hundreds of cropped up in several directions, for the evening season have been - pususands of paper revolutions An example of an adjustable to announced, and contain serafil bay tent only two or three find their was loud automatic torque converter points of interest, most notable e medusively proved. So in this on omotears actual practice. Was staged at the Paris show, being the praiseworthy reduction

nouncement the w develop.

Antones; these one muy quote. That gear, and also the Constan- in the price of the Rover 3 36 et al four-wheel brusing r

as examples the self-starter and sizesce, and others in similar £10 as a twinsester with a dicky the 1.primatu. "

of slectric fighting the sleeve valve principles now being esperent seat, or £15 as w!' criterion d autoubile exerilence.

!

four-seater.

engine and -frnat-wher brakes, ed with, are marvels of mechuri. The figure for the "to be Apart from srl outstanding cal ingenuity and engineering knoken in furore asthe "Fourteen," As a matter of historg, the examples, the motor car is per- achievement

is als down, and the new price ---Raske engineers have let fected by eradus development. One may safely go even further. of £45 in the four-enter in- studiously experimentant

AS APSORBING PROBLEM. This principle provides a maxim. Chudes a four-speed gearbox. The sandrew heel-braking systems for

new 6cylinder modei, concerning with a At the present time an exzepam of torque effort. me yours past, but and they ut gepal ath

been much s attention imminus of efficiency losses to which there has Last have found the rape when being given to the possibilities of is degree Dever previos ap speculation, is of 1 hp, and is ithey consider best suited to Bolt imparting the

equipped with four-wheel brak- change speed proximated.

ing.

and Both six-cylinder Hoyee chassİN

mechanism It an absorbing | We can say all ther and be It is not likely that you will probam, and one which I have adhering to Baets. But if we state

formeen "have shock absorbers. be able to see these new brakes personally

10 all-prings, beer closely at the Show, a the Bulls-Rugce Vestigating for some 20 years past to revolutionise

in that they are therefor going motoring We teompany do not stage chassis, Although 1. have never get either do not know out sabject or that the are no offsetting de- and only exhibit warno- types of achieved anything, I have lesat should else be able to show rea-fects, such as lack of efficiency. eachwork. It is a case of ca enough to appreciate the difficul-son why. There are many serious hace of wearing qualities, noise. Motonets will be intersted selva sans dira" with the chassis

ties which have to be overcome to fealties to be overcome first. Another point to note is that muke "ideal-"Inlance with the learn that e walyptn- oil is beins!

weight, adaptability, and so on elite strailia e a suit the the 20th model will not be able essential feature on being with such gear, we have frt of a Betish have produced auto- But to zevolutionise motoring Two French manufacturers apri motor fuel. It is said that, withite And accommodation on the «fficient means of vaporisation, it stand at Ulgimpia. the pace being can be umni in petrol engines et-facer up by the he brother

-tacting from cubi but a special display of the smaller

a certain rats will be on view Degents state that, in at. & run on pernol gave 24 ming (adulfstreet shown ons. *

ANOTHER IMPEWEMENT. with it perts, and halfenac slip-i Tips, bhari pouku, and with eucalyptus; There is another important however, the beauty of working is an infinitely able gear often need sudden acceleration dl alone, the apex. It is further lovil Rogue improvement but it ale! is an entirely different easily controlled by the drive on a known gear ratio of known Taimed that euc cyprus oil mixės jis going to be a difficult matter propition from working beauti- it is easy to price but extra power of acceleration. I do not

ordinarity difficult to produce Mylike an automatic channe ruusly with petrol beazole, and for me to convey itt. you in so fully in pro.ctice. Meohol, and it wens sw 3 derir-niany words.

the

tonising agent. The Common You know, however, how ali wealth Goverment is said that modoe-car engines suffer from interesting itself in the experie; what western periodic vibration" The t

a disease which is not of realis the import Icept great

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MAGINE.

PEUTE TING "THE MACD GUSTS"; meticulously ex acting boxury cat

INTERESTS.

You may al- know of the Amule, when a motoristha maonic vibratam damper. **. figure ip legal proceedings, it is ingenions box of tracks tited on in the capacity of the defendant. the crankshaft, and having the but recent intance of a prose-effect of eliminating the air.

ution in England, supported hgfdefects of "pemèdic vibration." the Automobile Association. But all the cleverness of this shows that the war mag one-device does not entirely eliminate rusions be taken with advantage per the vination, and even on a the enemy's ramp. In this Rolls something eparching 20 cake a man in charge of a herd per cent of the orgaık evil is of cattle refused to assist #still left unchecked. motorist to get the beasts out of You would have to be a cap the way, with the result that he dous crine to cavil at it but it was delayed for about a quarter is there all the wate of an hour. A prosecution was The Roll-Royce ezgineers instituted on the question of have now perfected device. principle and in the general in-which effectually eliminates the terests of the motoring public. aforementioned "remnants of The defence argued that the best periodic vibration" It consists way for a car to get past cattle is rigid arms attached to the engine. for the driver to go straight on carrying friction surfaces in such and not to seek the interventiona mander that minte move-

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of the driver in charge. The ments have the maximum effect bench. however, took the view on the friction surfaces. that this was a case of wilful lobstruction, and the defendant

was convicted and fined.

SUNBEAM CARY FOR INDIA

EXIT-VIERATION.

I don't suppose I have "got home" with my verbai explantion of this new intention! As I could not quite understand it myself; until I saw it and tested it yester) The new Governor of Bombay, day, I forgive you if you have Sir Leslie Wilson is taking out not fully grasped k with him a fleet of Sunbeam cars.! But on the road!"Well, it's just; The Sunbeam is by no means un-perfect.. known in India, where its high- You can drive the car at five! grade qualities have always been imp.h. on top. push the accelerator very fully appreciated. The cars pedal right down, accelerate up in the new Governor's fleet com- 30 m.p.h.-or over and fail

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For example, anyone who has all be produce a periveted over matic gearchanging systems, and studied the problem we would clutch action nearly as the first I tried was some

how you if a dozen methods of difficult a problem as such a gear years ago. It worked remark producing infinitely variable is in itself. And there are several bly well and was quite satisfac- gear and thead work bearti- other difficulties to be overcome, or for country tourin

But for andriving, where you. Personally think "the ideal fully a model- Unfortunately.

1924 BUICKS

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For the sixth consecutive year Buick has been assigned first place at the National Automobile Shows which will be held in the United States during January 1924.

As has been the case in previous years, the choice of positions was made on the basis of the greatest dollar volume of business done by mar ufacturers during the year at hand. The fact that Buick has been given first place six times in succession is convincing evidence of Buick's leadership, and the leadership of General Motors, in the automotive world.

Buick is now producing over 1000 cars a day-the greatest production in its history.

prize two 24-60 hp. 6-eslinder Altogether to trace sny symptom The Hongkong & Kowloon Taxi-Cab Co. Ltd.

limousine-landaulettes, one 16-40 of periodic vibration. At high h.p. limousine-landaulette, and speeds, of course, you would not one 16-40 hp. open touring car. look for it.

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