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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

The World's Outstanding Motor Car Value

+passenger HUDSON Touring. .$3,675

7-passenger HUDSON Touring

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53,500

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HUDSON also builds the ESSEX

5-passenger Essex Touring......$2,800

(Above prices include 5 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.

Wong Nei Chung Road. Happy Valley.

ESSEX MOTOR CARS

Telephone Central 3950.

WHAT NEXT?

TOTOR

TYRE SIZE

Not

Donghnut

One of the welcome develop- Įtemporary need for a greater ments in connection with post- number of tyre sizes to be made war motoring, mys" H. Hassso and larger stocks kept for replace Buist in the London Observer, has ment, which objections are typicalį been the standardisation of pro-jof those inherent to all innova portionataly larger tyres per tions, and which in time are self- vehicle capacity than were used eliminated

before the campaign, despite the The Americans hold that on fact that car builders are at their their cars they are not yet using wits end to design their "vehicles the largest tyres, vehicle size,Į so that they can be made suf-weight, and speed had in mind ficiently cheaply to come within the that they might do, therefore the purse range of war-improverished (advocates of the use of still larger buyers. There is no galwaying tyres on these classes of vehicles that, for car, weight, wo were point out the positive advantages, grossly under-tyred, as it is styled. These consist of greatly improved in the pre-war period, in that the riding qualities resulting in more vast majority of paeomatics were comfort and less fatigue to the made with canvas fabric as dis-passengers and drivars, less tine: from the corded form of vibration, fewer adjustments to building up the treads. To-day prevent rattle developing in motor even the canvas type of tread is vehicles, and increased wearing made much better than was pos-life of the given car, all of which sible before the campaign, because seems to be a confession of weak- the amount of knowledge gained ness in spring design and chassis in the handling of rubber from details. They touch on other the time it is taken from the ground, however, when they trees to the time it is embodied in assert that their experiments the finished article, is almost in-show that, as applied to their conceivable, so great has been the vehicles-as distinct from those progress. No canvas tread can of European design-the use of equal the carded form of construc-larger tyras than are employed tion. At the same time the cut-tready ensures against skidding. ting of prices by the tyre makers increases adhesion and braking has resulted in these vastly better action, involves less wear on the pneumatics being available at road achieves quieter running, less cost than the pre-war charges, jand encourages the production of despite the fact that they give proportionately lighter chassis, three times the service.

IMPOSING WRONG DUTIES.

therefore lower sprung, weight. | They further insist that larger tyres can be used at propor-i tionately lower pressure, that: But this had lea to a wrong there is less chafing of the sides conclusion in certain quarters tolby road ruts, and that they should the effect that, tyres being to-day have longer wearing life, among proportionately so much cheaper other points.

then hitherto, we may get sati:- In this connection it is in- factors, results by putting on to teresting to note that the Wire the tyres those duties that should Wheel Corporation of America" not be discharged by them, and ports a steadily increasing thereby save the trouble of demand for 20 in. wheels equipped attacking soch important and with what are styled balloon tyres costly problems as suspension designed specially for. Chevrolet Une phase of this is the tendency and Ford service. These wheels to market cars with tyres of pro-have a 20 in. base and the tyres portionately very ample size, and are 28 in. by 4 on a 27 in. by 315 to run them in slack condition to in. rim. While it is admitted that Thice the faults of car springing balloon tyres are scarcely beyond than which po greater form of the experimental stage, no serious tyre abuse could be conceived accidents have been reported to hor any more undesirable form of date in connection with punctures motoring from the point of view and bursts occurring with these of safety, as instance the danger larger section tyres when cars when corners are being negotia are moving at relatively high ed or brakes are being applied. speed. It is held that the de- Never run on tyres slacker tharisigners and makers of steering the pressure which the makers gear will solve the difficulty of specify should be maintained for parking and maving almost the given size.

stationery cars, or those at slow

In America there is forecast speed, as in garages, when the Doughnut tyre, otherwise equipped, with

balloon tyres i

the paeumatic, of such enormous which, it is further maintained. air-cushion proportions as practi- are not punctured easily.

NERACAR

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-sucb. 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 bills, the "NERACAR" has a reserve speed which is quite ample.

The NERACAR was specially designed and bullt 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

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De Sousa & Company, Limited.

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

Studebaker

6 Cylinder 1924 Cars

Second December Shipment Arrived

Per S. $.

**PRESIDENT JEFFERSON "

LIGHT SIX FIVE-SEATER TOURING GARS

Colour: GREEN OR BLACK THE VALUE THAT IS OFFERED IN THE "LIGHT SIX" IS WITHOUT PARALLEL

Columbia

cally to render it unnecessary t

provide wheel spokes. Some!

maintain that these will be un-

iversal for luxurious cars in five:

NUT SUGGESTION.

Storage Batteries

YOU want a storage battery

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of reputation, a battery that has proved its worth for years in every country in the world. That is the Columbia.

Columbia Batteries are made by the world's oldest manufac-" turer of electric batteries. They are made the best a battery can ..be made.

"

Columbia Storage Batteries are your guarantee of motoring sat- isfaction of" quick starts and bright lights.

Your next battery should be a Columbia.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

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Telephone Central 3950

A. J." Allison, Service Manager.

Columbia Storage Batteries

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Society girls acted as traffic police on Fifth Avenue, New York, recently as a means of advertising a benefit show. Miss Katherine Leslie is shown here taking the place -for a few minutes of a regular police officer.

MOISTURE IN PLUGS.

years' time. I cannot accept this When the spark plugs are of for one thing, because the more the type with the doable nut atd

luxurious the car the more likely the top of the porcelain, see that A TEST WILL CONVINCE YOU OF ITS EXTRAORDINARY

• TEL. 32.

ROAD QUALITIES AND VALUE

Inspection and Demonstration lavítid

SHOW ROOMS QUEEN'S ROAD- TEL. 32. THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED

1924 BUICKS

it is that the engineer responsible the hexagon nut is tight before for its construction has studied tightening the knurled nut which: the principles of suspension. He keeps the spark plug wire in cannot go very far in that direcplace. This will eliminate the tion without realising that the danger of improper adjustment! pneumatic tyre itself can never at the spark plug points. take the place of the springs. Each item has itsfunction in the scheme) of things. Over-tyring is in my view, as undesirable as under-1 tyring. The theory that we should practically put a "dough. nut" pneumatic on the outside of the brake drum is preposterous. Imagine the effects of heat when employing the brakes for long spells. Think of the unnecessary cost of the pneumatics, of thái rolling weight you are asking the engine to deal withal, and of the collapse of the car when one such tyre punctures or bursts. I do not think the pneumatic tyre will ever take the place of the wheel proper. Nor do I think that the sole, solution of the problers of perfected Buspension is to be found in the use of tyres proportionately larger than the relatively handsome sizes we ara using in the most carefully thought-out car schemes to-day wherein what were formerly call- ed-over size tyres are now the sizes employed ordinarily..

The possible disadvantages of employing larger section pneu-| matics-what the Americans call "balloon" BA distinct from "doughnut" tyres on current type cars are that, for a given body and chassis weight, "their use may result in a larger tam- ing radins aud. narrower "rear seats, either of which can be obviated by changing, the vehicle design in detail; the need to redesign the chassis parts, such as wheels, rims, front-wheel brakes, frames, and other unita; increased danger of accidents

Irregular fring is often caused due to tyre bursting when the

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.

by moisture gathering on the car is travelling high The Hongkong & Kowloon Taxi-Cab Co Ltd.

part

speed the need of greater This trouble may be cured by effort to turn the steering wheel greasing the porcelain with vase, when a car is not in motion, which Hine or hard gresse.

is done. Infrequently, and the

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