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“LYMPNE GLIDER CONTEST

87 MILES

flown on 1 gallon

of Shell!

Flight-Lieut. W. H. Longton, in his great achievement on a Wren Mono- plane, in the "Daily Mail £1,000 Prize Glider Contest at Lympne, used

SHELL

SPIRIT

PERFORMANCE IS PROOF !

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

Dennis

MOTORS

As used by The Hongkong Government.

2-2 ton truck chassis

THE TRUCK WHICH HAS PROVED ITS WORTH IN HONGKONG

SOLE AGENTS

Alex. Ross & Company

(China,) Limited.

BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, DUDDELL STREET.

TELEPHONE. C.

2457.

HARLEY DAVIDSON

1924 MODELS IN STOCK FOR

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

Sole Agents,

Tel. 781.

MOTORING SUPPLEME

ERA OF CHEAP MOTOR CYCLING.

Machines for £30.

DANGER OF EXHAUST FUMES

Ventilation Essential in Motor House.

of

It requires only a glance Is the inhalation of exhaust? through the manufacturers' price fumes really injurious to health? lists for the coming season, or of And, if so, what are the best the advertisements displayed in means of avoiding the danger? the newspapers, to convince ans Several readers having pot; that the ars of cheap motor cyclithese queries to me in varying ing has arrived, says a writer in forma, says Captain E de

Scottish paper.

Narmancille in a Home paper, Iji No longer need the aspiring will endeavour to answer them. owner look with yearning eyes'at

In the first place, the reply to the machines exhibited in the query No. 1 is a very decided windows of motoring emporiums, affirmative. I aur informed by a for nowadays even the man with scientific friend that there are a very humble income may see present in exhaust fumes two the sttainment of his desires and deadly gasas--always one become the possessor of a motor them, and sometimes bath. ryele. The reduction in prices, The ever-present one is car- and the marketing of a type of bonic acid gas, and everyone completa machine at almost knows the danger of breathing it. bicycle prices, is having the effect It causes gradual suffocation. of bringing many thousands of and, the gas being heavier than new people into the motoring air, the person overcome sinks to fraternity. This reduction in the the ground, where the denser | initial outlay, added to the low layer of gas ensures death in a running costs now prevailing has very short time. made motor cycling an inexpen-

A DEADLY GAS. sive hobby.

The second injurious "ingredi Most of the light-weight motorent" is carbon monoxide (tech") cycles are listed round about £30,|nically the first, carbonic acid gas, and the prospective purchaser is known as carbon dioxide). who visits the Scottish Motor This is caused by incomplate Show, will no doubt find that at combustion of the fuel, and its that price he has a wide range of

depend upon you can machines from which to make his

being

when the present selection

engine is idling." as it would be in the motor house, for the slow- running setting of most carburet- ters is notoriously bad in, this respect.

MACHINES AT COST PRICE: It has been said with undoubted truth that in many instances the public are being offered machines in the region of cost price, and

Carbon monoxide is even more

a well-informed writer stated deadly than carbon dioxide. It' recently that one of the man attacks the blood and.causas death | facturers in this country was clearing only is. 1d. por machine net profit

by preventing the necessary oxygen from reaching the vital organs by that medium.

DUNLOP

CORDS

for Motor Car or Motorcycle

THE size of your tyre bills depends upon how much mileage you get out of your tyres. Watch Them. Fit a Dunlop Cord next time. Note how much longer it last than other tyres, The test of its merit is on your car, not in our · argument.

CF.M.

BE FREE OF ALL TYRE TROUBLES

DURING 1924.

fit Dunlop

and be satisfied

.It need not be feared, however,

The remedy in the case of a that this fall in prices has been

person overcome by exhaust attended by any towering in the fumes is open-air artificial quality either of material or of spiration, but if carbon monoxide workmanship, and it has been, has been present in the poisonous brought about largely by the infumes it is essential that a doctor tensive war of competition which should be obtained immediately, has gone on during the past few so that no time may be lost in the years amongst the various firms.administration of oxygen. As you Several of the more conservative will not know, if ever such a case manufacturers, however, have comes within your experience Usually this is a fairly simple stood aloof and, instead of bring what has been the constitution of matter, but if it proves impossible, ing down their prices, have the gas, it is best to get a doctor for necessitates expensive strace tural alterations, there is a very adopted the policy of, trying to anyway." win the favour of prospective DASGER OF BAD VESTLATION. simple way out of the difficulty. buyer and retain their present In the case of the average

A USEFUL TIP. public by relying on the honour-motori, matters are not Hkelbtain a length of piping of any ed name and reputation of their to proceed to such desperate material-even rubber will doof makes and carrying but lengths. If he is so ill-advised as about the same bore as the outlet improvements on their machines. to run his engine for any length from your silencer, lead the end It is thought, however, that of time in a stuffs, unventilated out into the open, and connect up prices have reached rock bottom, garage, the deadly action of the the exhaust pipe to the extension, to be injurious?. and that in the coming season the gases gives fair warning before leval will be perceptibly higher unconsciousness supervenes. The At all events now is the buyer's danger is that the warning may chance.

i be overlooked, unheeded, or

The Egures demanded are byjuurecognised. no means prohibitive, and even if The growth in popularity of the intending motorist has not the motorcar has far outstripped the necessary capital-small the provision of proper garage ac- though it may be he will gen-commodation, and a very large erally find that firms will let him proportion of cars are kept in have the machine for a quarter buildings that are inadequate. of the price down and the balance from many points of view, and in twelve monthly instalments-especially from that of ventilation.] This means that for the small sum If it is necessary to test the run- of £7. 10s. a person can obtain ning of the engine, and for any possession of a motor cycle in a reason this cannot be done out in variety of sound "makes."

the open air, the ventilation of the motor house should first be over- hauled.

xay

(Continued on next columna.)

CHEAPER THAN PRE-WAR. It must not be thought that the machines priced below £30-and there are quite a number which will probably be on view at the Kelvin Hall are only "glorified)" makes" as the Sun, Excelsior, push-bikes." that is to

Diamond. Calthorpe. Omega, ordinary cycles with motor Francis Barnett, Cedos and attachments. The majority of Hobart. With the exception of a these miniature motor cycles few, such as Hobart, Powell. bave been well-tried and tested. Omega, and Cedos, which use and have been found thoroughly their own engines, proprietary reliable.

engines are fitted, the Villiers

In nearly every case these being the most popular. machines can be bought at less. Let us quote a few prices with than in pre-way days, improved Villiers engines, chain-cum-belt) design and productive methods, transmission, two-speed, clutch. cumbined with the keen com-and kick-starter:-Sun, £29 105.:) petition, being responsible for Excelsior. £30: Diamond. £30. this happy state of matters.

9.: Calthorpe, £29; Francis- In 1914 a single-speed two-Barnett. £28, 10s. stroke machine on the average It will be noticed that there is cost about £27; to-day the minia- but slight difference between the ture. witha aller engine, but makes, such variation as there is with two speeds and clutch, can being, no doubt, dus to small be obtained for approximately points in the construction and the same figare.

specification.

at

Despite the fact that the The Cedos is a larger machine, engine and the modern machine with a plain two speed gear, and is smaller than that of the old- is priced at £30; the Omega. with fashioned models, its greater two-speeds, clutch, and kick- efficiency enables similar speeds starter at £29, Es; the Powell, to be attained, while an added with similar transmission. advantage is that the two-speed £23, 10s; the Hobart at £28. 75. gear box enables the rider t0/60 while remarkable good venture along the roughest and value is offered by the single- billiest roads. The ngle-geared speed Radco at £23, 10s. pre-war machin on the other For between £40 and £55 there hand, could not be expected to are many famous models to be "take" anything approaching purchased, including such excel steep gradient.

lent machines as the 3-5 hp. SOME OF THE PRICES.

senior sports New "Hudson, (50) In order to appreciate the guineas). 2-5 h.p. Rover (£55), cheapness of the modern light the Six Days 294 b.p. Humber weight fow prices might be (£55), the 214 h.p. Ivy (£42), 24 given. Those quoted prevailed at hp. B.8.A. (£47, 10%) the time of the Olympia Bhow in With prices so low the motori October, and it may generally be cycle section of the Kelvin Hall taken that they showe if Show will offer a wider appeal than ever before, and firing aro optimistic fast good busines. w be done.

any, variation

Amonget weights are

light

AS SUPPLIED TO THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT.

qətsizable in all sings fram stacks carried by The Hongkong and Kowloon Taxicab.Co., Ltd., Kowloos, and £. GM by & Co., Alexandra Buildings, 0.THE (SUB- days Holidays 0.4339

DUNLOP

Rubber Co., (China Ltd) € Founders throughout the World of the Pneumatic Tvie Industry. c.o. SMEWANTOMES & Co. Ltd Bongkong — Phone £4554

should doubt it; You can then run your agine Well. I until the tank runs dry without although, not being a chemist, fear of ill-effects. But be careful I should not like to say definitely.... not to leave any leaks at thei

I have certainly felt unpleasant Junction of the two pipes.

One reader asks whether the effects when forced to wait in a growing use of the motor vehicle long string of slowly-moring is injurions to public health. I cars on a hot summer's day, and presume he means whether the when riding in the interior of ♣

саг into which the impreguation of the air in the friend's streets of largetowns is sufficient exhaust fumes had a nasty way

of penetrating.

LONG

LIFE

*FS.

for

In buying a motor car, consider what the cost will be when divided over a period What is the car's rep satisfactory service after the "first year? After the second? And after the third- and fourth F These considerations, in the final analysis, are the true basis of economy in motoring.

And it is this attribute to which Dodge Brothers motor Car owes its chief claim upon the unalter- able loyalty of its owners.

DODGE BROTHERS, DETROIT

The price of the Standard Model 5-passenger Touring Car, complete with Magneto and with five Cord Tyres is

COME AND SEE IT.

$2400.

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Registered Head Office and Show Room. Wong Nel Chung Road (Happy Valley),

Telephone Central 8950.