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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1924,

A HIGH STANDARD MADE HIGHER STILL

Nine years of concentrated effort by Dodge Brothers on a single type of engine and chassis has produced this new Touring Car which combines a smart, low and roomy body with a powerful flexible engine.

In the appearance of the new Tour- ing Car. Its top gear performance, easy riding qualities, dependability and completeness of equipmeut, you will, find that Dodge Brothers have succeeded in raising still higher their traditional high standard of value.

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

$2400.

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

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

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Telephone Central 3950

If the writer were asked to sum

up the 'Dennis'

THE

DENNIS

2-2 ton Model

Write for Infieis of undels in

which pen are interested.

Alex. Ross & Company

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

2-2

tonner

HE WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS AN FSSENTIALLY HIGH-CLASS, WORM- DRIVEN MACHINE, BUILT ON THE ORTHODOX LINES OF BESTAC 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 services. Here you have up-to-dateness in design, sound- nors of construction, quality of material, dependability-all combined with, and benefiting from, an experience of motor manufacture which dates back beyond the passing of the Light Locomotive Act, in 1895.

BRIEF SPECIFICATION :-

30 h.p., 105 x 150 mm. ongino, forced lubrica- tion to working parts by gear-driven pump, large oil sump in crankcaso, liigh tension waterproof magneto, external Forado-lined clutch, gate change 4-speed and reverse gearbox, with dircot drive on 4th speed, stooring by worm wheel soctor, Denals worm-driven back axle, otc. The hand Drake is of the expanding type, and the foot brake acts on a drum behind tho. gearbox, both brakes boing, easily adjusta- blo by hand nuts in Ecoossible positions. All chassis oro fitted with front mudguards and Dunlop solid tyros, and supplied with I hoad, 1 tail and 2 side lamps, tool kit, lifting faok and horn.

MOTOR CYCLE FOOTBALL.

Game Becoming Popular

at Home.

Sometimes those of us who are concerned with the popularising of motor cycle and the sport genorally, are forced to the con- clusion, says a writer in The Motor Cycle, that the sympathies of the general public are not al ways with w, boonure the appeal, of the motor cycle is so largely technical.

To the man-in-the-strost a motor cycle reliability trial in either a race or a moaningless procession of mambored machines. Spoed trials attract the genora! public often only to bore it, and hill-climbs, since the modern choice of 1 in 20 grados has obtained, are little butler.

But the pullie will flock to see

a sporting motor cycle football match. Keen motor eyelists rather scorn the gymkhana typo of event. But have you over Hoon

M motor cycle football match? It is man's game fi Just a spice of danger and a real dematid on skill, nerve, and judg- mont. A game to hold the in- torekt of the most apathetic audience.

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Without wishing to start a dis-! cussion as to priority, there can be filtle question that the Midd- lesbrough M.C.C. was largely re- sponsible for the popularity of the game in the North during 1923) will and for the interest which undoubtedly attach to it this year. Thorst important gumewas played at Richmond, on Good Friday last

your, Darlington and

batwaon -Middlos.

brough. At Ripon, during Whitsuntide, the SAMO teame

played again, while Middles-

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BRITISH RECORDS.

A REMARKABLE SUPREMACY.

A study of the list of world's

brough also played York. F. W. and Brooklands' records standing Dixon, 1 believe, suggested tho at the end of 1923 shows the position of game to the Middlesbrough Club Sunboany car in a originally, and his own participu- remarkable supremacy, holding tion on a miniature two-stroke at no less than 106 distinct records. Richmond provided a most hectic Noteworthy among those is that display; Louds and Bradford have for the fastest lap over recorded also played games, and wherever at Brooklands. For this the speed they have been held the excite-was 123.39 miles per hour and ment and enthusiasm of the the record stands to the crodit of Mr. R. Lee Guinness. The public have been intense.

t. The played by

game

Rules for the game are quite same driver also claims for his simple, and those adopted and Sunbeam the highest speed of all printed by the. Middlesbrough recorded in the official list, name- ly, 140.51 m.p.b.. for the flying Chah are as follows:

behalf mile. shall

the world's' motor the

Among six aside upon a field of similar mension eyelas none was more prominent to that of Association football and during the year than the A. J. S., follows Association rules in gen-though this make, after four eral, with the following excep- successive victories, just failed to secure the Junior T. T. Trophy tions.

2. The period of play shall be The little 2 34 h,p. machine was, 1: 15 minutes ouch way, with an however, credited with the fasl- interval of 5 minutos. Commence- est lap over the course of 3734 ment of play as follows:-Each miles, which was covered in 38 team shall lineupon own'goal line, minutes. Subsequent A. J. S..

wore in the Scot- and on referes blowing whistle, successes each team to proceed towards til Lightweight Spoed) bull which shall have been placed Championship, the French Grand]

Prix, the Italian Grand Prix, the on.the.centre spot.

350 ce Championship-of-the Rand, and, as lately as January in this year, the first and second positions in the 400 c.c. Cham- pionship of Australia foll to the

nie make of machine..

3. On the ball going into touch, the linesman shall throw the ball into play over his head, facing away from the field of play.

4. Owing to the difficulty in kicking the ball the necessary distanco, corner kicks shall be While talking of speed records,, takon midway between the corner it is rather interesting to read in flag and the goal post and on the The Motor Cycle that, in Austra goal line. As soon as the referee lian Triale, "greyhounds blows the whistle for game to proceed all players to get on the

move.

5. No handling of the ball all owed by any player under any consideration.

have

shown themselves able to cover half a mile in forty-two to forty- four seconds. It was, of course, proved years ago that a goal grey- hound is far faster than the bost racehorse over this distance, and

6. The refores may, at his dis- erotion, award a free kick against the racing motorist or

it is evident that he can also give

motor

any player who deliberately cyclist a good, if short, run for his comos to a standstill in order to money.

kick the ball. Faul or dangerous

riding may also be penalised by a

free kick boing awarded against penalty may be given for any the offending player. Free kicks to deliberate obstruction."

be taken as Association football. Very little serious danger at

7., Should a player be unable to taches to the game, but the continue, no substitutes are all method of commencement might owed. A playor may, however, lead to head-on collisions, and change his machine during the Mr. Dovoner has suggested modi- course of the game.

fying the method outlined so, as 8. During the taking of a par- to obviate this. Mr. A. V. But alty kick the opposing team are tress, hon, secretary of Middle- allowed to line their goal, but brough M.C C... reports that in must face the field of play.

all the games played no one has

9. The ball must not be allow-boenhurt, and damage to machines ed to be kept in contact with a has been confined to bont: foot- player's machine."

rests and mudguards. The ideal machine should possess good · ac-| coleration and good brukes.

10. 1 le impossible for a player to be offsido.

FOUR FORWARDS AND **

TWO BACKS.

• PUBLIC INTEREST. The game is easily followed It is usual to arrange the and exciting, to a degroo, especi players as four forwards and two ally if kopt"open" by good hefty baoke; generally there is no goal kinks. Nonmotorists are as in- kooper, although sometimes there torented as keen ridors. For ez- may be savon a side, in which ample at Bishopton, the villagers Booing case one player might romain in became so onthusiastic goal. This leads to obstruction, the game for the first time that, however, and in any case the they subscribed for a cup to en.) goal-keeper's engine gets rather sure further games amongst local hot and his clutch still more Rol clubs. Again, at the Ripon Car- Mr. W. A. Dovanar hon.aival last year the game was so | secretary of the Yorkshire successful that the Carnival Contre A. O. U. and the Brad- Committes Immediately de- ford olub, who has frequently olded to provide a handsome acted as refereo, adopts the trophy, available to Yorkshire above regulations and adds' “afóluba in 1924. ***

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87 MILES

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Flight-Lieut. W. H. Longton, in his

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great achievement on a Wren Mono- £1,000 plane, in the "Daily Mail Prize Glider Contest at Lympne, used

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