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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

FACTS ABOUT BALLOON TYRES. Better Riding Comfort Assured.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER

NERACAR

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

And More Than Ever It Will Be Known as

These photos show the balloon tyre wraps around an obstruction and (above) takes a bump at speed. Below is Mr. J. E. Hale, who is a prominent advocate of the halloon tyre.

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If you have over run your) Mr. Hale is enthusiastic over; ytes low to cushion your body the advantages the new tyre jagainst mad bumps, you will affords. Because there is

appreciate the latest tyre necessity to slackon down for! incovation which some motor road bumps or ruts, be says, aj manufacturers DAVE already bichet average speed is practicali adoptext. It is the air-cushion, or with this than with the older form balloon tyre.

of tyre. This is a tyre with large chesi "Road surface irregularities)

and are containing low air pressure.

toned down and almost" Its obliterated." he explains. "Every- purpose

The World's Outstanding Motor Car Valuesection, thin side

+passenger HUDSON Touring $3,875 7-passenger HUDSON Touring

$3.500

HUDSON also builds the ESSEX 5-passenger Essex Touring....$2,500

Above prices include & cord tyres on 5 wire wheels.)

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

+

HUDSON SUPER SIX

Latest Models on View at our Show Rooms and

Service Station.

Come and See Them.

ESSEX MOTOR CARS

Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley.

Telephone Central 3950.

Columbia

71122

Storage

Batteries

THE MAGNETO & HOW IT WORKS.

is to produce better thing is cushioned that there! riding comfort without entailing) are no sharp shocks or jolts and a loss in any of the advantages one does not have to watch the alrevis experienced in auto mad to put his body in a tense driving.

condition to get over the rough More than year a. this spots nor be worried about being problem was taken in bind by tossed up from the seat.

He!

the tyro engineers of Akron, does not have to pick out all the HUSA with Mr. James E. Hale good places in a rough road be- In the Prestone Company one cause it makes little difference

the plongers. They recognized whether he takes them or not. that greater rushioning and protection egunst

vibrations!

deu nei wer air pressure, andi

FUEL COSTS NO HIGHER "Holes are not near so dan-

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SAFETY FIRST."

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

The NERACAR" was not built for excessive speed. On 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 mus: 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, grease and oil The NERACAR", answers all these requirements and its gasoline consumption is one gallon 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, 1284. -

Studebaker

still support the same Weigh; gerous, the sharp jalt being soften- required rester air chambers jed because the wheels are brought Heu the gross section. more gradually to rest and the A Big & tym for instance. is action absorbed. As for fuel con- iner cased, tu

section of sumption, tests have shown that 17.3 inches. And the original the balloon tyres take no more, if

pressure or 65 pounds is decreas- not less, than regular tyres. fed to 35 pounds to carry the "Naturally, steering is affected!

same weight.

to a degree at very low speeds.! But the lower air pressure de' but under other conditions the manded reater flexibility of the new tires actually favour better tyre carmans, especially the sideleontrol, to crossing street ear wall, because of the greater road tracks at a near-paralled angla contact. The ng-ple mord there is no deflection; the reaction tyre of today would be the staff on the steering wheel from jolts: and would crack under such re- and obstructions is also much less quirements.

nounced: while the soft, wide! Contact of the tyres tends to keep' them true without effort.

ADVANTAGES OF CORDS. Arth-ame time, it was recuz nized. Power air pressure lowered! the barsting strewes on the car Cass Therefore thinner wal with less pipes of fabric wasps xible

That was just what was wanted

"Better controlisalso noticeable under difficult traffic conditions. The larger area of tread contact with the road, combined with the greatly increased lineal total of non-skid edges, gives excellent!

6 Cylinder 1924 Cars

Second December Shipment Arrived

Per S. S.

*M

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON "

LIGHT SIX FIVE-SEATER TOURING CARS

Colour:-GREEN OR BLACK

THE VALUE THAT IS OFFERED IN THE

A

· LIGHT SIX "· IS WITHOUT PARALLEL

Complicated Mechanism Simply Explained. *"How does the magneto work Tasks Capt. E. de Normanville.

Luckily, magnetos very seldom! do go wrong beyond the hope of produce greater flexibility and non-skid ad traction results. In!A TEST WILL CONVINCE YOU OF ITS EXTRAORDINARY cuadside repair. However, I will greater cushioning effect. Thus, rough going this is particularly explain as simply as possible. the thin-walled, low-pressure. true because there is contact at To understand the operation of large-section tyre is just as all times, the tyre being so flexible! the magneto all you have to do effective acainst blowouts, and that it rolls and folds ever rough:

TEL 32.

ROAD QUALITIES AND VALUE

Inspection and Demonstration invited.

SHOW ROOMS QUEEN'S RQAD TEL. 32.

to recall two well-known. farts just as durable, as the more surfaces maintaining a nuiformly THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED which you have probably heavily constructed cord tyre.

forgotten. First, if a coil of wire

is revolved in the field of a per-

manent magnet a

EVERY bit of the world's outside, but insulated from, the or contact-breake

of the long ex-

oldest manufacturer of electric batteries goes into the Columbia Storage Battery.

A Columbia Battery, in your car is your assurance of quick starts, bright lights, economy, and continued satisfaction,

We have a Columbia Battery of the proper size for your car, no matter what its make, Let us show it to you,

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.'

Telephone Central 3950. A. J. Allison. Service Manager.

MOTORISTS AND RADIO FANS.

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MOTORISTS Try an export mechanic for the overhauling 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 instala- tions. Apparatus for sale at really bargain prices. Crystal, Valve and Knock-down sets. Spare parts.tum

For particulars please apply to P. O. Box. 635.

for voltage.

and the

current is shape of a spark. For this pur caused to flow through the wire :) pose a and, second, if another coil is switch is inserted in the circuit. mechanically-operated placed near to, or, say, wound We call it the "make and break," It serves first coil, & current is inducted in simply, as its name indicates, to: the second coil also.

break and then re-make A SIMPLE TRANSFORMER. the primary circuit at de The first coil is called the finite intervals in

the cycle primary, and the second the of engine operations. If it sticks. secondary. If the secondary coil or for any reason fails to work is made up of a great many more properly, the primary circuit is turns of wire than the primary not brokea, the secondary cur- the induced current will be of a ren; does not flow, proportionately higher pressure engine "misses fire."

There is a fourth main part of: The electric current which the magneto, which is simply a lows in the primary winding of rotary switch. This is the high the armature of your magneto is teusion distributor. A central of only a few volts, whereas the arm, electrically connected with: secondary coil carries a current the secondary winding of the of some 7,000 volts. So you see armature revolves over a number! that there must be an enormously of small contact pieces, each of greater number of turns of very which is connected to the ter fine wire in the secondary coll minal of a sparking plug. than there are of comparatively CLEANLINESS ESSENTIAL thick wirg'in the primary.

You cannot see the armature cylinders, there

If the engine has four or six junless you take the "mag." to

will be re-! pieces, and that is not advisable ectively four or six contact but you can see the maquets-therefore, switches the current Į pieces. The h-t. distributor. They form the horse-shoe frame through to the particular spark- of the machine. And there, ining plug that is ready for it. those two pieces of mechanism.. you have the essential "work." butor very seldom gives trouble. If it is kept clean, the distri The other items are merely swit¡ Carbon dust may collect on the ches of one kind and another, and surface of insulating material in means of collecting the bird-ten-which the contact pieces are set, sion current from the revoling and afford an easier path for the armature.

high tension current than the one via the plugs that we want

HIGH AND LOW TENSION SWITCHES.

it to follow. Cleanliness here, as

For instance, it is necessary elsewhere, is essential And

suddenly to break the primary cleanliness, together with the

larger area of contact"

1924 BUICKS

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 manufacturers 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.

elreuft in order to obtain the surge few drops of oil every now and The Hongkong & Kowloon Taxi-Cab Co Ltd.

of high-tension current which is then recommended by thall

so powerful that it jumps across makers is the only attention

the points of your plu