HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
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 Touring Car. lis top gear performance, easy riding qualities, dependability and completeness of equipment, you will find that Dodge Brothers have succeeded in raising still higher their traditional high standard of value.
STANDARD MODELS. -- Complote with five Dise Whools and five Cord Tyron: 3-passenger Roadster 5-passenger Touring...
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$2,100 $2,450.
SPECIAL MODELS. --- Complete with Nickeled Radiator Sholl, Cowl Lights, Nic- keled Front and Rear Bumpers, Hear View Mirror, Automatic Wind Shield Wiper, Scuff Plates, Motometer and Lock, Special Blus Leather Upholstery, five Disc Wheels, and five BALLOON TYRES :
3-passenger Roadster 5-passenger Touring...
$2,850 $2,700
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Registered Head Office and Show Room:
Wong Nei Chung Road (Happy Valley).
IN
Telephone Central 3950
CKEYEJUND.
N these days, when first cost is often 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.
DENNIS
The present prices of the “ Commercial Vehicles are but little higher than pre-war prices.
Sole Agents-
Alex. Ross & Co.
(China) Limited.
China Building, Duddell St.
Telephone C.2487
DENNIS
Dennis Bros.,Ltd. Guildford, England,
MOTOR CARS FOR BUSINESS.
A BIG INCREASE PREDICTED.
Substantial increase in the use of American motor wars-part- icularly thear of the higher grade by European business mon is pro- dicted by Mr. Falconer E. Crowe kold governing director of Crono and company, European shipp ing and forwarding agents, tho frat man to introduce the uso of motor lorries jato Switzerland and one of the first to uso a motor car for gonoral business purposos there, who is in America en a flying businosk trip covoring Montreal, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago.
Mr. Crowe stopped in Detroit on route from Toronto to Chiengo for the purpose of seeing the fac- tory which produced the Cadillac car which he is using fortravel In ovary part of Europe. He has his head offico In Basle, Switzer- land, maintains aloven offices in various citions on the continent. and three in England. A large part of his time is spent on the road and ho travols wholly by motor car.
European business mon are just beginning to realise that motor cars are a commerical necessity rather than a luxury, Mr. Crowe states. After his own experience ho boliavos that the dopendability, performance and riding com- fort of American cars will make them European favourites with those who come to use them for oxtensive travel and for busi- ness purposes.
In the Alpine mountains so little provision has been made for the convenienco of motor car travel that it is still necessary to carry a whip to drive cattle from the roads. Other parts of Europo, according to his picturo, would be an American maiorist's paradise,} as he states that ho drives be- tween towns at a speed of 90 to 100 kilometers (55 to 62 miles) por hour..
Mr. Crewe speaks hopefully of the Dawes reparation plan, and statos that Germany's greatest draw hack today is uncertainty and its greatest asset would be a definite plan of procedure. Prior to the purchase of a typo 59 Cadillac which he drove 150,000 kilomoters in England, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy and then traded in for a V-63, he had driven practically avary high-grade. European car. It costs him eight pounds to lako his car across the English Chan- nel. The English rouds, he states, ] are excellent and those in France aro being rapidly repaired after the havoc of the war,
NEW SWEDISH FUEL.
As a means of popularizing sulphite spirit-a product of the Swodiah wood pulp and paper- making industry--as a motor-car fitol, the Swedish Board of Trade proposes that duty of 10 ore por liter (about 1 conts a gallcon) shall be imposed on imported petrol.
SATURDAY, JUNE 7. 1924.
THORNYCROFT
COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
•
A TYPE FOR EVERY REQUIREMENT For Passengers or Merchandise
TRUCKS
FOR HAULAGE
FROM--
2 TO 6 TONS
3
BUSES
SPECIALLY DESIGNED; FOR THE COLONY.
BRITISH BUS FOR BRITISH COLONY
TRUST A THORNYCROFT WITH YOUR TRANSPORT
Tel. 32.
SERVICE and ECONOMY
SPARE PARTS CARRIED
SPECIFICATION and PRICES
HONGKONG HOTEL' GARAGE THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.
YES-THIS IS THE PLACE FOR
AUTO REPAIRS
AND SERVICE
Packard Service
at
IN STOCK
Tel. 32.-
Flivver Cost
-that's what characterises the business methods of THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. That's why we have earned high repute among car owners.
Expert-workmanship, plus a complete line of parts and accessories, enables us to solve all your problems.
WHY WAIT TILL YOUR CAR LIES DOWN ON YOU? LET US TAKE CARE OF IT AND IT WON'T !
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Expert and Constant European Supervision.
Telephone Central 3950...
SATISFACTION GUARANTETD is the first principla of the Dunlop Rubber Go's. Tyra Service throughout the World. Consequently the Dunlop Cord is the SAFEST purchase you can make.
DUNLOP
Follow the argument:It is a WIE Tendan beccese of the Company's declared polley el setitfuction pursanteed. It is a $231 turchier eho tecruse the tyre is necessarily Quilt to live up to its guarantee.
Think it out, la relation to your Tyre Bills. Are you paying for tyres on which your tyre dealer guaranteza satisfection 11. In stipulatieg TELOP CCFD yet are purchasing a tyre which is backed not only by the Menufacturing fem. Faby Let also by the Warsfacturing Company's ¿WN BRANCH ON THE SPOT.
REMEMBER THEN--
TO BUY DUNLOP IS TO BUY
SAFE.
THE TERMS OF SALE ARE, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Obtainable from the Company's own Branch, and also from Stocka car- Tried by the H.K. & Kowloon. Taxi Co., also from J. Gibbs & Co. Alexandra Bldg, (phone C704-7 Sundays & Holidays Case.)
Dunlop Rubber Co. (China) Lid. Founders throughout the World of the Pneumatic Tyre Industry
St. George's Building) Hongkong.
Prices on application.
Phone 3C4554
SHELL
gives a sense of security based on proved merit
A. J. Allison, Service Mariager.
THER. Motor Spirits, the world:
Shell
worthy compliment. You
get more power and greater mileage to the gallon from Shell. Motor Spirit, because it comes straight from.nature. rich in aromarick and hapiliones,
THE ABATIC PETROLEUMÍ :CO, FRKTK CHERA Lep
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