1924-05-10 — Page 13

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924.

EXCEPTIONAL RIDING COMFORT

Tho now Dodge Brothers Touring Car is exceptionally comfortable to ride in it is good looking; and it in corporates many important refinements of detail.

The body is longor and lower, sliminating side away, affording more log room, and enhancing the beauty of tho lines,

Dooper seats, long underslung roar springe and longer front springs, givo ample assurance that cross country touring can be enjoyed without weariness or fatigue,

Yot with all these improvements, and many others, it is still fundamentally the same car-built on the same chas8ÍÐ and powered by the same sturdy engine.

STANDARD MODELS-Complete with five dise whools

and five Cord Tyres:

3-passenger Roadster 5-passenger Touring...

$2,400 .$2,450

Westport 3

Miles

SPECIAL MODELS-Complete with Nickeled Radiator,

Shell, Cowl Lights, Nickoled Front and Rear Bumpers, Roar View Mirror, Automatic Wind Shiold Wiper, Scuff Platos, Motomater and Look, Special Blue Leather Upholatory, five Diso Whoole, and five BALLOON TYRES:

3-passenger Roadster 5-passenger Touring.

.$2,650 $2,700

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The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Registered Head Office and Show Room.

Wong Nei Chung Road (Happy Valley).

Telephone Central 3950

GREYHOURD

ACCURACY PAYS.

WHY COSTS CANNOT BE CUT.

"Is extreme accuracy · really nobesadry in a motor-car, and if so, why 7 Could not much chouper car be produced ifloss money wore spent in the *ox- trome accuracy' wo road so much about? And could not such a Car give reasonable' satisfaction and rollability in use to tho many

thousands of would-be motorists who do not wart the last word in refinomont?**

After asking theso very sano questions, my correspondent, says a Home writor. must have had a twinge of the gout-or ro- ceived an income tax demand- as he proceeds to more wrathful tirades against. what he torms "wholly unwarrantod, rofine- ment"--and domands the aid of my pon in their suppression.

But I wonder whether ho would really appreciate their suppression if it were brought about? If it were, I think wo should once more find him "agin the Government.”.

IS ACCURACY EXPENSIVE? It would, of course, be possible to produce a very much worse.onr than any of curront ropute, and yet gat reasonably good service from it. But whore this corres pondont le divorced from accuracy is in the belief that exactness of measurement is vital to costs of production. It is not.

If you want to cheapon a car you would use inferior quality material and inferior coachwork." So long as you are going to stick to your limits of accuracy on a production job' it makos mighty little difference whether that limit is "plus or minus one-thou sundth," or "plus or minus five- thousandths.

PITY THE POOR PISTON! Talking about pistons and their accuracy of fit, I wonder whether you over stop to think what they are doing when you sit calmly in the place of hon- Cour, and "trend on the gas"--

Americansso for "accelerato"

Do you think how vital the accurate fitting of the gudgeon pin is "gudgeon pin "is mech- anicalese for "little ond."

Each piston has to come to a dead stop some, 4,000 times a minuto from an average speed of 15 m.p.h. and a maximum speed. of well ever so much bigher. I say ovor so much higher " bo- aduse I've calculated the maxi- mum speed three times and got a different result on each occas- ion and, at the time of writing. tempus is fugiting!

Similarly each piston has. to accelerate from zero speed to maximum somo 4,000 times a minute at ordinary car spoede. This means some acceleration," as it has to be dono in 0.0015 of a second..

So, apart from the general argument of the cost of accuracy boing by no means oxorbitant, you can readily recognise how important accuracy of fit is in such parts as gudgeon pins, A littlo undue play there would play havoc with durability. And

is much the same with most parts of a motor car. Accuracy pays-handa down.

THORNYCROFT

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I

FROM-

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Tel. 32.

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Because you get a Touring Car,

Runabout, Sedan

:

or

Truck

AT ONCE.

You don't have to wait for either

cars or parts when you place your order with--

ANDREW HARPER

After June ist.

at

6, Queen's Road 'Bank of Canton Building

Authorised Ford Dealer,

No. 2 Queen's Road,

Central.

N these days, when first cost is often ·

IN

a decisive factor, choice is made easy, if a low initial outlay will secure an absolutely reliable vehicle that is world famous for its efficiency and durability, for its economy in operation, and its record for continuous service.

The present prices of the * DENNIS" Commercial Vehicles are but little higher than pre-war prices.

SHELL

· gives a sense of security based on proved merít

Sole Agents-

Alex. Ross & Co.

(China) Limited,

Bank of China Building, Duddell St.

Telephone C.2487

DENNIS

Dennis Bros. Ltd.

Guildford, England.

THER Motor Spirits the world

over, um at being "as good os- "Shell"-a worthy compliment. You get more power and greater mileage. to the gallon from Shell Motor Spirit, because it comes straight from 'natwe rich in aromatics and napthenes,

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. ĮBOUTH CHINA)-LTD

IMDISPUTABLE} PROOF.

of Dunlop superiority Is contained in the face that practically all the makers of the best English Cars CHOOSE..

DUNLOP

Pheno

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CORDS

as standard equipment

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they know!!

IFAD,

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“Also obtainable from stocks, carried

Branches at Hongkong & Kowloon, Alezandra Building. Sundays & Hol