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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NEW BEAUTY-New ComfoRT OLD DEPENDABILITY

Comfortable and attractive beyond your expectations, it is also emi- that nently gratifying to know Dodge Brothers New Cars retain their fundamental identity chassis and engine, matured and perfected through nine years of brilliant mechanical evolution.

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

COME AND SEE IT.

$2400.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

KEEP WHEELS ·

ALIGNED.

Wabbles Wear Out Tyres.

Wheel misalignment produces a tyre abuse that has grown more rapidly probably than any other. Under whool misalignment aro classified many conditions which Jaro caused by wheels failing to run true. One feature of this ab- use which many motorists do-not understand is that anywhere on the car can be out of lino,

The front wheels are camborod to provide ease in steering and are tood-in to take care of the spread as the car is driven forward. However, should the carsbor or pitch be decreased or increased it will affect the too to a great ex- tent and causo prematuro wear Lowing to the fact that the tyre

runs one-sided.

Rinis occasionally are respon- sible for a wable which can be misconstrued as misalignment. The wheel itself can be in perfect alignment and yot the rim may not fit snugly on the wheel and the tyre therefore wabbles. Framos become bent and sprung so that! the axles do not run parallel. This springing

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd. crepite or tending may a

Registered Head Office and Show Room..

Wong Nei Chung Road (Happy Valley). ·

Telephone Central 3950

“If the writer were asked to

up the 'Dennis' 'Dennis'

THE

DENNIS

2-21/

ton Model

"Write for teaflets of mudela in

which you are interested,

Alex. Ross & Company

(China). Limited." Bank of China Building, Duddell St. Telephone C.2487

2-2

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tonner

even be noticeable, is

the loss

nono

destructivo.

Rear as well as front bear- ings may become loosened and allow the wheels to spread and drag. In any case of premature tread wear on a tyre.. it is advis- able to check up on all of those features of the car to prevent any

recurrence.

A muturist never makes a mis- take by checking all those things Lover himself at frequent intervals, or by asking any reputable tyre dealer to examine them for him.

LIGHTER BODIES.

A paper has recently been read by Mr. W. Ferrier Brown; bofore The Midland and North of England Centres of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, on "Auto- mobile Body. Engineering," in which he suggests that body-work is too liberally proportioned, and that considorable saving in weight! could to effected by romaving| unnecessary timber and reducing Tron-work to a mining m The nature" magnitude of the stresses to which a body is sub- jected, are considered and calcula- tions are made for the necessary sections required. The

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duced sections, which resulted in saying 119 lbs. in weight, formed the basis of the paper. Dimensions and illustrations of tho varjous parts were given.

SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1924.

THORNYCROFT

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A TYPE FOR EVERY REQUIREMENT For Passengera or Merchandise

TRUCKS

FOR HAULAGE

FROM--

2 TO 0 TONS

BUSES

SPECIALLY DESIGNED

COLONY.

FOR THE

BRITISH BUS FOR BRITISH COLONY

TRUST A THORNYCROFT WITH YOUR TRANSPORT

Tel. 32.

SERVICE and ECONOMY

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LIGHT CAR CONVERSATION.

We take the following. by E. F. B., from The Light Car und -Cyclecar:--

Good evening, Morris, how, is

the wireless?

Not at all up to Standard,

Austin.

That's a pity, but what a low

Are you have.

I know it ought to be Tel-Bot

could not a Ford a long pole, Have you seen Albert about it? Yes, he said the whole set it

too Crouch-od, Well, Eric-Campbell knows all

the A... of wirdleys. But he lives at Stoneleigh, and you can only go by Rhode. What about old Mory, then? He has gone to Hamplon with

Girgine.

Well, there's that chap Mathis. Unlucky again; he has gone for

cruise up the amber with Seabrook, Salmson and Seult. Oh, well, there is Hurst mun; ha "is a Deemster with valve Mets. I called on him, but he bad

gone out with Rorer.

In that canо I am afraid 1

The use of a body frame is advocated. as being useful for assembly purposes, insulating the body from the chassis, and assur- ing that the chassis and the body match up properly. The success- ful application-of-cast aluminiumIt mouldings, WRS described in detail, and it was shown how these overcome 'n host of troubles, and add considerable strength to the structure.

A suggested basis of com- parison for body weights conclud- ed the paper.

cannot help you any further, but expect you will Triumph in the end and your set will be, Matchless.

might bo, but-at-present-the work has been all up Hill-

DICE.

Well, sorry 1 cannot stop]

longer, so G.N.

Good Night, old Bean.

Who is the Oldest. Motorist!

It does not seem that motoring has any affect on the longevity of its patrons, as one roads of tho motorist of great age.

Visitors To Wembley. Visitors to the British Empire Exhibition should investigate the

In his ninetisth year, one of offer of six months' motoring in

Messrs.. D. Napier und Son, Ltd., England without extra charge to clients Mr. E. W. Brooks, of those who purchuse Austin cars Duvals, Grays, Essex-is still at export prices. At tlio end of

an enthusiastic motorist, and the visitor's stay the company has recently acquired of one the pack the car and deliver it, duty latest 10-50 h.p. 6-cylinder Napier paid, at a main port of the pur-motor carriages, with which hol chaser's country without THE

hopes to enjoy many more years additional payment.

motoring.

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

IN

How could you describe in fewer words the essential features of the machine you need for your transport services. Horo you have up-to-dateñess in design, sound- ness of construction, quality of material, dependability-all combined with, and benefiting froin, an experience of motor manufacture which dates back' beyond the passing of the Light Locomotive Agi.

in 1895..

BRJEE SPECIFICATION :--

-30 h.p., 105, 150 min. engine. forced lubrica tion to working parts by gear-driven pump. large oil samp in crankcase, high tension waterproof magneto, external Ferode-lined clutch, gate change 4-speed and reverse gearbox, with direct drive on 4th 'sperd. steering by worm wheel sector. Dennis worm-driven back axlo, etc. The hand brake is of the expanding type, and tho foot brake acts on a drum. behind the gearbox, both brakes being easily adjusta- ble by hand nuts in accossible positions. All chassis aro fitted with front mudguards and Dunlop solid tyros, and supplied with I head, 1 tail and 2 side lamps, tool kit; lifting jack and horn.

any

AS TRACTOR DRIVER.

President E. C. Emott, of Purdue University, proves as adept at running a tractor for the first time as he does in: running his quiversity. Here he is on a power outfit used on one of the institution's farms in Indiana.

LYMPNE GLIDER

CONTEST

IN STOCK

Tel. 32.

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

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PROOF

The fact that practically all the makers of the best English cars t

DUNLOP CORDS

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standard equipment, indisputablo PROOF of. Dúnlop superiority. You cannot adopt safer policy than to take your cue from the people who know to wat, the Car Manufacturer Remember "too,every Dunlop tyre in the Colony, has thi important protection behind viz., the personal protection of the Manufacturer's own Branch organisation on the spot.

THE

Dunlop Rubber Co. (China), Lt

*Phone St. George's Building, .C, 4554,

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