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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

ROTARY TRAFFIC

ADVISED.

PLAN TO REDUCE CONGESTION.

Direct automobile traffic away fram streat car lines.

Provide one-way etroots. Limit parking in congested

ATOAH.

Provide loading platformis for street car traffic.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1924.

alono about $60,000,000 annually. in doinying traffic. ****il.

Aside from dolays due to street cars, howovor, the greatest slow-"" ing up of traffic, and consequent strain on drivers, comos from busy intersections. If two stroois of equal width, carrying an equal amount of traflo, intorsect, cach can use the crossing only half the time.

REMEDIES.

To avoid this dolay and at tho: Instal rotary traffic at busy cor-same time provide safer crossing,

nora.

Cut off corner curbs at a wider radius,

Those are the salient recom. mendations for the rolief of traffic congestion and consequent roduc tion of accidents made by. Mr. William J. Cox, traffic engineer

Cox suggests two remedies:

1.-Provide circles in the con- tro of crossings whore thoro lai room, ospecially at intorsoctions of more than two stroots. Traffic would have to move around thood ciroles, lines blonding into ono another from all streets und all

TRIUMPH

The tremendously increased demand for Triumph Motor Cycles is striking evidence of their vast and ever increasing popularity:

5 h.p. Model S.D. Dynamo

$800,00

4.99 h.p. Model R. O.H.V. Dynamo...$880.00 23 h.p. Model L.S. Dynamo

$675.00

21h.p.

L.W.

$585.00

Triumph models are equipped with Lucas Dynamo Lighting Sets.

* Delivery from Stock.

"The Old Essex Pep Plus

Hudson Smoothness"

The new Essex has all the stamina for which its forerunner was famous. And its 6-cylinder motor built by Hudson, gives smoothness of performance heretofore exclusive to the Super Six.

Its economy includes not only exceptional gas, oil and tire mileage, but a policy of minimum mainte- nance cost with parts prices, that will astonish you.

ESSEX COACH $2,800

5-passenger ESSEX TQURING, $2,375

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

ESSEN

Late 1 Models on View at our Show Room and Service Station, Coma and see them.

COTUR KARS

Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley. Telephone C.3950

BUICK'S MESSAGE to the INDUSTRY

VER since its founding, over twenty years ago, Buick has re-

Ecognized a two-fold responsibility-a responsibility to those

who buy its product-a responsibility to the Industry of which It is a part.

Bulck's manufacturing and service policies, therefore, have been shaped to the end that every Buick owner might realize the maximum ..out of his investment as measured in terms of uninterrupted, com- fortable and dependable, personal transportation..

Buick's responsibility to the industry has likewise assumed very definite form. In addition to improving, constantly car construction and design, Buick has bent every effort towards the originating and developing of mechanical Improvements that would react not only to Bulck's benefit, but would provide a definite contribution to the Industry as a whole.

How fully the public-recognizes the consistency with which Buick has lived up to its responsibility is manifested by the fact that for the sixth consecutive year Buick occupies first place at the National Automobile Shows-a position awarded upon volume of business.

On this particular occasion, Buick renews its pledge-that it shall maintain, with all of the tremendous resources at its command, Buick's position as the Standard of Comparison. ·

SOLE AGENTS

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

STATISTIES.

Telephone Nò. 1036

Thirty-five cities have reduced thoir motor fatalities.

Motor. vehicle taxos in the United States in 1923 totaled $471,584,000.

Oll, grosso or gasolino destroye a tyre.

Looking backward over the

Mr. F. R. White, chief onginoor rocord of last year in the motor

Farmais federal motor tax bill of the Iowa State Highway Com- Industry, the American National

mission, has shown that the con- Automobile Chamber of Com-amounted to $45,864,200.

Automotive produste paid 77erate road le best and cheapest marca furnishes these facts;

World registration of motor per cont. of the special fodoral for driving. On an earth road, he found, trafo gets 14 ton milos vehicles is 18,023,584, with 88 per oxcise taxos. cent, in the United Statos,

Moro than 8,000,000 persons ware employed last year in the Canto industry,

More than 4,500,000 cars and

trucks are owned on farms.

More than 4,000,000 autos were produced in 1923.

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FIVE POINT INTERSECTION BHOWING CONFUSION OF UNREGULATED, TRAFFIC (LEFT) AN OORDERLINESS OF ROTARY TRAFFIC,

of the National Bureau

Thus all of moving the same way. Casualty and Surety Under-cars could be kept moving and writers. They are made after a confusion would be reduced to a close study of traffic conditions minimum. and accident cases in soveral cities,

2. Cut off curb corners on rudius equal to the width of the According to Mr. Cox, congos- tion is the groatest physical or narrower sidewalk, so that autos nonpersonal cause of automobile trying to mako a right turn could accidents.

Not that they occur do so easily by bugging the curb at busy intersections any more and not interfere with other than elsewhere.

FATIGUING.

traille.

"In any caso," Cox concludce, The strain of driving through "make the safe path the easient! hoavy traffic," ho believes, ro- path to follow and eliminate con- sults in a fatigus which manifests fusion by marking out on the itself in the form of careless-pavement with paint or preforably nox, recklessness and accidents with a combination of paint and on the outskirts of the congested bumpors the paths to bo followed aroa, where traffic control is re- by both podostrians and vehicles. laxed."

If this principio is adhered to in Parking in congested areas, he any given case, improvement will points out, has enst Chicago surely result.

European Grand Prix races at is going much farther, with im-

*motors Lyons, Franco, next August, |provements in

and will develop some novelties in carburators, and a better grada automobiling. One of those is of fuel than has ever been brought the new Fiat 122 cubic inch out. engine, a two-stroke six-cylinder

V-type motor, equipped with al More easily road licence plates supercharger and developing 150 are suggested by Col. J. Scott horsepower. Superchargers are Williams, one of Canada's war expected on other racera as well. herons, in the form of a rectangle higher than it is broad-about ton ingles high by 8 inches broad. Improved production of Col. Williams would have a six- gasolino hus doubled the amount number piste, for instanco. obtainable from crude oil. Ac- divided into two rows of cording to recent figures, gasoline three numbers oach, with the la being sold to 12 times as many year between the rows and the vehicles as in 1913, yet the pro-State at the bottom. Evory car duction of crude oil has increas- would have a permanent number," ad only throo-fold. That is, six with only the year shangeable, timos as much gasolino is being and every state would have produced. And the gas of to-day permanent colour.

MATCHLESS

IN NAME AND REPUTATION

THE MATCHLESS MOTOR CYCLE REPRESENTS THE LATEST AND BEST IN BRITISH MOTOR ENGINEERING

3 h. p. high efficiency side valve engine

sh.p. Low Compression v.h.v, Single-cylinder engine

8 h.p. J.A.P. latest type.tour- Ing side valve 50o Y twin touring engine.

All the above electrically equipped and complete with full kit of tools.

ORDERS NOW BEING BOOKED FOR SECOND SHIPMENT.

for each gallon of gasoline. Ona Tel. 32 HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Tel. 32

gravel road, it le 21 ton `miloa, and on a concrete road it is 31 ton miles.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD,

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Sole Agents—

Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd.

Bank of China Buildings.

HARLEY DAVIDSON

1924 MODELS-IN-STOCK-FOR-

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

Sole Agents,

Tel. 781.

Indian

1924 Models Electrically Equipped.

DELIVERY FROM STOCK.

From Catalogue & Demonstration Apply to Sole Agents

ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China) Ltd:

· Bank of Chlan Buildings.

Duddell Street.

Telephone Central 27 « 2487-

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