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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

The New ESSEX

Essex

with

5-passenger complete

Tourlog

Disc Wheels.

Cowl Lamps. Five Cord Tyres, and Nickel Trimmings.

$2,375

A SIX

Built by Hudson

S-passenger Essex Coach Disc Wheels, complete with Cowl Lamps. Five Cord Tyros, and Nickel Trimmings,

.$2,800

Hudson Patents

Under Much Lower in Price

Priced much lower, the New Essex provides n larger, handsumer body, with even greater passenger comfort than the former Essca And its 6-cylinder motor, built on Hudson patents gives smoothness and perfurniance to the exclusive distinction. heretofore Super-Six.

QUALITIES OF BOTH HUDSON AND ESSEX

its abilities are as exclusive in this field as Hudson's. Think of what that advantage means. And it has in full those hidden val- ues that keep Hudson and Essex cars like new, after thousands of miles and years of service.

So we ask this test -Take a ride. You ayli See how handling enjoy it-that's certain. is simplified. Starts at the touch of your

Loc. Steers easily as a bicycle. in heusy traffic, throttle it down to a crawl. Then note how smooth and alert the pickup." And how easy gears shift. Easy to park (11.

Its low centre of gravity makes safe and comfortable driving on all roads at all speeds.

EVERYONE CALLS IT IDEAL TRANSPORTION"

Re- Simple to keep in first class condition. quires little attention. Labrication for the Milenge most part is done with an oil can. on fuel, oil and tyres is exceptional.

No car we ever announced has met with such a reception. You must be impressed as everyone has! You too will say: "the new Essex provides Ideal transportation."

A 30 Minute Ride Will Win You

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

HUDSON, SUPER

SIX

Latest Models on View at our Show Room and Service Station.

Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley.

Come and see them.

ESSEX

ABOUT RUBBER.

INTERESTING NEW PROCESS.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1924.

CAUSES OF CAR FAILURE.

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An Interesting Analysis of The word "latox" is likely soon Motor Car Breakdowns, to take its place among the well.

What part of a motor-car "Iols known words of the English

most frequently 7 Janguage. It is the correct name you down" for the liquid form in which rub-Which part holds the prima bor comes from the rubber tree. place of honour for reliabilty ? Rubber is now being transported Where should we look for to America from the East Indies reasonable possibilities of effect- in the form of lutox, instead of ining improvement?

I was recently discussing those the blacks and shoots known to the rubber business since the bo-erive with the manager of one of our largest car repairing depois, ginning of its history.

Latex is #L white liquid.ays writer in, the Daily Wherever the bark of the rubber hrunich, and we found ourselves. tree is put, the fluid runs forth, in disagreement i

To settle the argument, he possibly a plan of nature's to heal the wound in the same manducided to dook up his repair uer as blood comes from a cut statistics and see how many jobs on our bodies. This juice is not of various general character- the sap of the troo Sap flavesisties could be grouped under a through the wond, but latex is given honding so as to mako a He has just handed contained in an inner bark, a thin comparison.

of thead in- layer directly beneath the outler me the results

vestigations and wo are both bark.

As is commonly known most wrong!

To start with, the ignition of the rubber of the world to-day comes from vast plantations in "ystem which we all think so Malaya. One of the chiot pro- remarkably rolinblo, is the big- blems involved in bringing rub-gest sinner of all-sins of omis- bar to this country in the form of sion naturally You will hardly istex grow out of the fact that credit that in, nearly 20 por cont. latex changes its form quickly of the minor cases, it was the ufter it has been taken from the ignition apparatus that was at tree. It has been discovered that fault.

Yet that is the charge brought it will remain sweet if ammoniai for some other prosorvatives are against this machanism, and as ddad to it in correct proportions. figuros cannot lie-1 refer to As a conseqnonce of its work on mathematical figures only! we this matter the United States must accept the charge as proven. Unfortunately there are no Rubber Company is now able to carry latex to America in primo soparate details as to magneto condition in the tanks of ships. or coil and battery ignition, nor This development was one of the to whether the cause of trouble first in a

chain of recent dis- was of these units, the plugs, covaries by the United States or the wiring. Rubber Company which promise to revolutionize many 2- facturing processes, expecially the manufactureof tyres.

But some

I should think the bulk of thei mitor complaints inust have been plug trouble, as, porsonally, I have found the ignition system Forseeing the great advantages wonderfully reliable in post-war of the new processes, the United years including the plugs, if States Rubber Company has boon they're good ones, contracting for the latex produc-few manufacturers still fit phigs tion of several of the other which are not as reliable as they plantations in the Far East, might be.

And what in the name of all This source of supply, coupled with the latex produced on its that's wonderful do you think own large plantations in Sumatra stands second on the black let?! You'll never guess! In fact, I and Malaya, assures the Com pany of an adequate supply of could make a lot of money having rubber in latex form for an ex-bots with you about it, only there's lented period and with consider house rule barring the luxury,

The second most guilty com- | able advantage to the plantation

motor-car is-the companies from whom latex is ponont of a

back axle shaft! Talk about still | being obtained.

One of the most important of waters running doop, why, I would have given any solf- the discoveries is a now method of extracting the rubber respecting axle shaft an This process qualified testimonial as to from the latex. gives to the world a rubber far liability,

Yotam assured that it tor- superior to any ever secured.by

ques itself to a state of utter the old processes.

Under the old method of so- prostration so frequently (com- ite "lapeiso8 parating the rubber from the Paratively) that latex-a process known to the linguaes "I was never good at industry as coagulation-the latex nguages-discredit it to the was poured into a vat or pun.second place in order of unrelia Chemicals wero usually added, bility 99

But, in more serious voin, this and soontherubber particles would come together in a white, moist is truly astonishing and a matter The rubber mass thus which needs attention. It seems formed was then removed from to suggest that in our very de. the remaining liquid and through sirable search for lightness we have overetopped tho mark. rollers to press out the moisturo.

Not only did this old method Thore should be no difficulty in fail to utilize all the rubber from making an axle shaft good for the latex but the part that ro mained is now known to bo of great additional value.

MOTOR CARS

Telephoné Central 3950.

THE BUICK MODEL "50"

LIMOUSINE SEDAN.

Combining the qualities of a chauffeur-driven car with those of a closed car for family use, the Buick 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.

Sole Agents

Hongkong and Kowloon Taxicab Co., Ltd.

Telephone No. 1036.

mass.

500,000 miles.

un.

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The next most prolific cause of unreliability was found to be the Under the new process, a tiny, road accident, which I should stream of latex is permitted to certainly have thought took pre- fall on a rapidly revolving metal cedonce to rear axle shaft as a disc in a hot room: Highly cause of car failure.

Closoly grouped aftor that atomized by the rotation of the disc, the latex is broken up into comes whools, springs, cylinders, ting particles. The air, inter- pistons and brakes-all fairly re- mingling with those tiny partioles llable servants in normal circum- of rubber, dries them practically stancos, but not so well found on instantly without raising the the list of trouble as other units,

Another important feature of temperature to a point that is harmful to the rubbor. The use- this schodule is the 4 per cent. less liquid is carried off as vapor of failures due to the steering goara unit which should be leaving the pure rubber bohind.

The disc spray process is also like Caesar's wife, only more so, of great value in that it providos which is really the top-we find

At the bottom of the list- now and greatly improved

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method of mixing the crudo rub-grunkehafts and water circulat- ber with the various compounds ing systems, the two most re- which must be added during thellable units of a car's a anatomy. process of manufacturo. In the And it was leaky radiators and I thought past the crude rubber, arriving at water-joints which the factory in its hard, dry state would head the list: has been cut up and then workout into a soft dough by boing passed' through powerful hot rolls. Tho

lato war, passongers carried by: compounding ingredients woro then poured over the soft dough London busos increased by 130 which was run through the rolle por cont. as against an incronso again several times in order to of 18.7 per cont. for the electric

tramways. bring about as oven a mixturo as possible.

Under the now process tho

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In the four years procading the

other essential materials may be improvement under plantation sprayed from the disc at the samo mothods but it can readily ba time as the latex, and oach soon that with so many different partiole of rubber receives its plantations, there has been of correct proportion to prepare the necessity a wide varition in tho Riding Across A Continent. Introduction, ano passes through marblo hue. Here and there they rubber correctly for manufactur-rubber produced. Under the now process developed by the a fow miles of volcanio lava in the lio, largo pieces and small piccos,

Bince rubber first became an United States, Rubber Company A writer in The Motor Cycia, form of greyish-white hills or as far as the eye can see. Mons speaking of a journey by motor mounds, and then suddenly one ago there was a great forest here, artiole of commerce nearly a uniformity is at last established oyale across the United States, comes upon a scene that just with mighty leviathans towering century ago one of the bugboars and one of the biggest obstacles oyok. Just before Holbrook, the wrestles with the attention. The up to the sky. Something hap. Iack of uniformity, in the crude appears with the obvious abult- of the industry has been the utter to successful manufacture: “dis«. raveller passer through one of earth is strewn with trunks and poned. Now we see it some rubber as it came to the factories ing advantage to the manufactur the most remarkable. natural remains of trees, some 4 and 5 fti gigantic ruin.: A ruin, indeed, but to be manufactured, into rubbéred artiolo.and thus to the benefit]2

and, magnificent

for to the Patrified Forest. As an solid stone of a reddish-brown done."

TRIUMPH

Britain's Most Famous Motor-Cycle

EQUIPPED READY FOR THE ROAD WITH ELBCTRIC MAQDYNO LIGHTING SET AND BUĽB HORN,

ENGINE--4h.p. Triumph, single cylinder. 85 X 97 m.m. Boro and stroko, - volume 550 cc.'; rollar bearings

to big end decompressor. TRANSMISSION.

Roller Chain front 584 tu, back 36 × 38 in. The front chain is onclosed in an oil- hath gear ease,

TANK. Extra strong. Capusity » Potrol.

over 2 gallons; Oil, 2 pints. TYRES. 26 x 3 in. Dunlop Mugnum. BRAKES.--Registored design compensat- ing foot brake. Front internal expanding on wheel hub.

1924 Models on Show At-

Alex. Ross & Company,

(China) Ltd.

Bank of China Building, Duddell Street. Telephone C, 2487.

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Studebaker

24

LIGHT SIX

FIVE-PASSENGER TOURING CAR

Price $2.700

Colour.

Completely equipped.

Green or Black. New Models Arrived.

Before deciding on your car obtain specification

And let us demonstrate a 6 cylinder

Studebaker.

The Worlds Greatest Light Weight Car.

Tel. 32 HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Tel. 32

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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Firms dosiring to avail themselves of the publicity"facili- ties prosented through this supplement, are requested to send copy not lator then the Wednesday preceding publication.

HARLEY

DAVIDSON

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