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5-passenger

Essox

complete with

Touring

Disc Wheels,

Cow! Lamps. Five Cord Tyres, Nickel Trimmings. :... $2,375

and

A 30 minute ride will win you to the new

·Essex. And you will join the legions who know this new Six, that is built by Hudson, in saying it provides ideal transportation.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

It continues the well known Essex qualities rellability. It adds n of economy and smoothness of performance which bereto-

Both cars- fore was exclusively Hudson's. are alike in all details that count for long satisfactory service at small operating cost.

5-passenger Essex Conch completo with

Disc Wheels, Cowl Lamps, Five Cord Tyres, Nickel Trimmings,

.$2,800

Steering is like guiding a bicycle. ficars. shift easily. Care of the car calls for little niore than keeping It lubricated. For the most part that is done with an oll can. Fuel economy is impressive. Oil consump- tion is unusually low and tire mileage surprisingly high.

to the

The New Essex is backed by a service policy that keeps maintenance down minimuni.

A 30 Minute Ride Will Win You

The New ESSEX

A Six--Built by Hudson

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THE BUICK MODEL "50"

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Combining the qualitles of a chauffeur-driven car with those of a closed car for family use, the Bulck Limousine Sedan is a distinctive It is another evidence of Buick's addition to the Buick line for 1924. policy of furnishing a car for the majority of motoring needs,

The one-piece curved glass that separates the driving compart- ment from the tonneau can be lowered completely out of sight by simply turning a small handle on the back of the front seat. The car is then converted into a Sedan for the use of the owner or members of the family.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1924.

THE MOTORIST'S DILEMMA.

HY BERTON BRALEY.

It was a weary Motorist

Who stoppoth one of three; "I have a grisly tala to tell,

I pritheo, list to me:

"Four days ago 1 drove to town

And on the street did stop, "Ye cannot park that wagon here, Drive on 1 so spake the Cop. "And then I sought another space

Where there seemed room to spare;

Drivo on, drive on 1' Ya Copper quoth, 'Yo cannot park it thoro."

"I needed shelter and a shave:

Ye night was growing dark.

But though to park my boat I'd crave,

No one would let me park.

"I tried ye narrow streets and wide,

For many hours I'd ridden. But ever I would find a sign HERE PARKING IS FORBIDDEN.'

" even tried ya graveyard once,

When uuden did appear

A ghost from out a vault who said,

Ye cannot park in here.'

"Four weary days I've driven 'round

Within this benzine ark.

My strength is getting very low, For everywhere in town-I go

They will not let me park."

A traffic Cop approached the group, His aspect bleak and dread, "Ye're blockin' traffic on the street, Yo can't park here," he said.

Then off yo dock the Motorist

Propelled his dusty Flivvor.

They fished him ouf, all blue and cok! With all his bones ashlver And then the Cop arrested him

For parking in the river!

CAR SPRINGING PROBLEMS.

Should Shock Absorbers be Necessary?

DINOSAUR EGGS.

Mongolia Expedition and Motoring.

While science toys with the 25 dinosaur eggs brought buck from! What is the best type of motor the intérior of Mongolia by the car suspension? Is any one of Third Asiatic Expedition, and the existing methods the most wonders about their relationship officient obtainable? Is it not to the dinosaur skeletons now and possible to do the job to the then unearthed in America. in

withou! thedustrial londers are giving deepl best advantage Car user having to add shock and surions thought to the com absorbers as accessories? These mercial phase of the expedition's questions are asked by a writer many reinarkable discoveries.

Numerous important mineral in a Home' paper, who continues

The spring systems in motor-deposits were found, according to ears have received an onormous Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of amount of attention from the the expedition, and it is only a technical and. From the practical inatter of time. until modern standpoint they still lag behind transportation makes it other units of the car in climbing!sible. The plains are also inha- bited by millions of fur bearing the ladder of perfection.

accus-

The great difficulty is to find animals, and fur traders are al some means of adjustment it roady hot on the trail followed by

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TRANSMISSION. Roiler Chain front

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Studebaker

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LIGHT SIX

should be automatic which will the Andrews party in its soarch FIVE-PASSENGER TOURING CAR

unsure that the functioning of the for fossile.

springs is as satisfactory ut spoed

H!

Mr. Andrews demonstrated that

His

as it is when running slowly. it was not necessary to rely on And that problem is further coin-the plodding camol in order to plicated by the need for equal penetrate the rich interior. officiency of action whether the three Dodge Brothers-motor-care driver

has four did what the. fur traders and alone or

others interested in the commer passeners aboard.

cial development of Mongolia had WHERE DOCTORS DIFFER. Some leading car manufacturers considored impossible. Trips that fit shock absorbers as standard formerly required months are equipment-an admission that now made in days. There are no the normal type of springing is roads, but that seems to make little difference when one is using not all that can be achieved.

Dodge Brothers car.

On the other hand, many of the

The importance with which the leading car builders do not fit this detail of oquipment, ovon when results of the expedition are view- the price of their products is such ed by the press is reflected in the that cost is obviously no consi-countless editorials which follow. Jed the travellers' return. Typical deration.

And the best dosignors have as of the comments is the following, many differont ideas of spring as from the Dallas Journal

"That the discovery was due the tyro companies have for patterns of trades. One is tempted to the courage and determination to wonder whether none of them of the man who comprised the scientific expedition need not bo in right!

The shock absorber itself is a statod. But an interesting revela- somewhat crude device, and lotion is that it would not have tors of protest from manufactur. heen possible without the aid of ers are not invited; One must that modern of modorns, the admit however, that it does its automobile. Motor cars penetrated hundreds and hundreds of miles work well.

into regions that had never scont- TWO DIFFERENT TYPES.

ed the odor of gasoline, following Now that I have allowed, my with onso the trails which had self to be drawn into this shock been made by caravans of camels. fabsorber or no shock absorber"

The loador of the expedition, Mr. dispute I had botter explain Roy Chapman Andrews, is quotod point upon which many motorists

are not clear,

...

having said that all of Mon- golla is accessible by motor car, There are shock absorbers and shock absorbers as of course, and that a now fields for com you know. But sometimes their mercial exploration and devolop action is entirely different, and ment has been opened.

"From which it may be seen that is a point you may not a-that great possibilities may be

dinosaur eggs equately appreciate.

hatched from These accessories fall into two Comnierce is a follower of the main categorica. There are these flag, we have been told. But it which are intandad to incroaso

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name of

the flexibility of the springs, and may also be said that it follows those which are intended to do the oxplorer in the

science." opposite--to reduce flexibility.

Generally speaking, the latter

the

the

only one signal-the left armi-ox Arm signals thould always be operate in one direction only, tended horizontally. This cau-given when : tions the drivers bohind to slow

down and watch the vehicle ahead.

1. Stopping.

journey.

18 AIR THE SOLUTION? It is necessary therefore when leaving the spring unchecked ardaring shock absorbers to know when the whool runs over a bump just what you want, and to see' 2. Pulling away from the curb. but chooking it from coming that you do not get the type The main point to remember, 3. Turning at streat interseo-down too quickly on the return which will make matters worse. If you ask me to say which is, danger in traffic, Many acoldont's

You must remember that when the best type of springing now in ocour because one driver does not however, is to give some form oftions. know what the other follow is warning to the driver behind you. Besides giving the signal when going to do and these could have Learn the code recommended by making a left hand turn or pula wheel is forced upwards, the uso. I must frankly admit that boen avoided had proper signals the traffic authorities here and ling out from the curb, take a compression of the spring is a I do not know. It seems to vary quick glance to the left and rear stronger power to push the wheel so much with different types of never forgot to use it..

back on the road than the mere care, and it is probable no general been given and obeyed.

Codes of arm signals are all Mechanical signals, such as to see that the way is clear. based on extending the left arm. stop lights, should be supplement Don't signal half-heartedly weight noting on Newton's (or statement as to the best type

algnal as though you meant it Einstein's) laws of gravity: Bome authorities recommond led by arm signale.

would-be accurate.

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