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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SOUND VALUE

The price of Dodge Brothers Motor Car la a Genuine indox of its value.

Enabled, by their vast resources, to finance-them- selves; solling directly through dealer to pur- cllasor; adding nothing to the price of the car to support a free service policy: .concentrating on one classis for their completo line; eliminating the overhead involved in furnishing many body types with special finishes-

Dogo Brothers are actually able to conserve a considorable amount of money in the manu- facturo und sale of tach car.

This saving is not only reflected in the prics; it

is returned to the product itself, and in this way.

passed on to the purchaser-sound value for his investment.

The price of the Standard Model five-passenger Touring Car. Complete with Magneto and with five Cord Tyres is-- 32400.

COME AND SEE IT.

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

TOURING CAR

delivered

Registered Head Ofce

and

Show Room.

$

Wong Nel Chung Road (Happy Valley).

Telephone Central 3950

If the writer were asked to sum up the Dennis' 2-2 tonner

THE

DENNIS

2-2 ton Model

Write for leaflets of models in which you are interested.

Alex. Ross & Company

(China) Limited. Bank of China Building, Duddell St.

Telephon

HE WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS AN ESSENTIALLY HIGH CLASS, WORM- DRIVEN MACHINE, BUILT ON THE ORTHODOX LINES OF BEST AC- CEPTED STANDARD PRACTICE. THERE IS NOTHING, EXPERI- MENTAL OR DARING IN THE DESIGN: THE CHASSIS IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF RIPE EXPERI- ENCE ACCUMULATED OVER TWENTY YEARS OF SOUND WORK."

How could you describe in fower words the essential features of the machine you nood for your transport sorvices. Hera you have up-to-datencse in design, sound- noss of construcllan, quality of matorial dopondability-all combined with, and benefiting from, an experience of motor manufacturò which dates back beyond the passing of the Light Locomotive Act,

· in 1895.

BRIEF SPECIFICATION:-

.

30 h.p., 105 x 150 mm. ongiae, forced lubrica- tion to working parts by gear-driven pump, large oil aump fa crankcaso, high tansion waterproof magneto, extornal Forodo-lined clutch, gate change 4-spood" and revorne gearbox, with direct drive on 4th speed, atqgring by worm wheel sector, Dennis worm-driven back axle, oto. The hand brako, is of the expanding type, and the foot brako aots on drum behind the gearbox, both brakes being osally adjusta bla by hand puts in aodesalble positions. All chassis are fitted with front mudguards and Dunlop solid tyres, and supplied with I hoad, 1 tail and 2 side lamps; tool kit, lifting fuck and horn.

WEB-CORD TYRES.

HOW FRICTION

IS ELIMINATED. What has been happening to automobile,tyros that they give so much better service than they did a few years ago1 Thoy look tha.aamo and are made of cotton and rubhor just au formerly. Thon why the extra quality?

The answer is--the cord tyre. It has proved so much superior to the old-fashioned

"fabria tyro that it has practically usurp ed the field.

And now Automobile Topics, a loading publication in the auto- mobile field, announces that "Web- cord", a new type of cord tyre construction, has boon shown positively to be as much of 'an improvenient over ordinary cord as the ordinary cord construction is superior to the old-fashioned fabric construction,

all

The difforance botwoon these types of tyre construction le so slight that it seems incredible that so much extra servics in a tyro could have boon gained through the slight modifications that have boon made. It is in toresting to note that every one of those changes has tended to reduce friction in the carcass of the tyre, indicating that the elimination of internal friction In a tyre is the Buro way to increase tyre mileage.

In the development. of tho pneumatic tyre us wo have it to- day there have been three in portant steps. First, there was the crosswoven fabric tyre, with its layers of heavy duck. Thisi fabric was so tougli and stout that it seemed impossible that any-| thing better would ever be pro- ducod. But its very strength was its weakness, for when the tyre: began to roll along the ground, the threads began to saw against cach other. This friction created internal heat and ultimately onded of the life the tyre.

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THE CADILLAC.

AN INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY.

March 5th, was the 266th an niversary of the birth of Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac, one of that group. of early French colonisers who explorers and

stand out as prominent figures in Then came the invention of the American history. Cadillac was cord tyro, built of Inyora of cords. the founder of the city of Detroit, It is obvious that it would have commander of Mackinac, and for beon an ondlass task to build up a number of years Governor of a tyre by the process of laying the territory of Louisiana. His Jone cord on at a time. So the brilliant achievements, his re- cords were made into shouts, tiny sourcefulness, determination and throads being crosswoven vigour place his career on a lovel through at intervals. It was the with those of Jacques Cartier, theory that these cross threads Champlain, Frontenac, La Salle, would hold the cords together in Marquette and 'Joliot.

a fabric until the tyre had boon Detroit was a mere trading post constructed.. but when the tyre when. Cadillac drove the first went into action the cross threads posts for the fort at Detroit In would broak down, and the 1701. It was a strategic point, "cross-sawing" so harmful in well chosen, and required defence fabric tyres would be eliminated. against both Indians and hostile But in many cases they did not European forces. Prior to this break down, and though the time, the restless Fronch noble- change produced a vastly better man had come into possession of tyre, much internal friction re-a 20,000-acre tract of land in mained.

Maino, and an island off the

Of especial interest, in view of coast. He had explored much of the recent invention of web the eastern part of the continent the Gulf of cord," was the method of treat-from Quebec to

He had takon part ing the aquaro-woven fabric and Mexico. tho ordinary cord fabric with in {1 nava! Uxpedition sont rubber. The purpose of this out from France against the

troatmont with rubber was to Atlantic coast.

cover so far as possible sach For nine years following 1701 thread and cord with a coating he successfully hold Fort Pon- of rubber so that, as the threads chartrain ai Detroit against or cords. rubbed together, the hostile forces from without, and rubber coating would act as a treason from within. He was buffer to prevent friction.

then made Governor of Louisiana, Two methods of treating with and in lator years Governor of the rubber have been in vogue. The province of Castelsarrasin in first consisted of softening rub-France.

This

ber into a dough" that was Throughout the organisation of soft enough to spread easily, the Cadillac Motor Car Company, dough" was spread over which has adopted the name and the fabric, an effort being made coat-of-arms of the rugged French to have oach throad or cord on pioneer and coloniser, his birth- tirely covered. The rosults wore day is suitably commemorated quite good, considering the fact each year. that only imperfect success could be expected due to the in- ability to trost oach thread or cord separately.

A a meeting of the Sporting The other method consisted of Commission of the Automobile dipping the fabric into a rubber Club of France it has been decided solution. To got the rubber into that the French Motor oyele the form of a solution, rubbar Grand Prix, will be hold on July gum was dissolved with gasoline 30. A total of 10,000 francs will or some other agent. The result be offered in cash prizes, it being of this method was also unsatis-loft to the organisors to determine factory badause the rubber did.] not penatrate into the heart of how this amount will be distribut ed. The official distance of the the cords..

The gasoline or other sub-circuit le given as 14.3 miles, stande did, however, get into the inside of each individual thread

or cord says Automobile Topics, gin liquld rubber and becomes with the result that the finished literally saturated with rubber. product was a ploce of cotton Microscopic examination shows. fabric, devitalized by the liquid, that the tiny filaments of cotton but having a sort of rubber flm in the heart of each cord arè on the outside. In a large num- thoroughly rubberized. In addi- ber of instances the fabric was tion each cord is covered with a

of really of less value to the finished coating the pure rub tyre after this process than before bar, giving complete assur- with against friction the rubberization was attempted."anço

The new web cord process is the other cords against which it one of the now revolutionary dis resta in the carcass of the Goyories announced by the United tyre. Web cord represents so States Rubber Company. The long a stop forward in cord tyre company brings rubber in its ori- manufacture us to constitute” one ginal liquid form, from its groat of the most important develop- plantations In Sumatra, transportments in the unti ing it to America in the tanks

of ships and then distribüürg

to 146 factories in railro

history of

LINCOLN

IN STOCK

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For Price Apply-

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Authorised Ford Dealer,

No. 2, Queen's Road, Central.

P. M. HODGSON, Esq.,

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Valon Building. Hongkong..

Being desirous of becoming a member of the Hong kong Autmobile Association, t

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