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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924.

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SKYSCRAPER GARAGE FOR CHICAGO,

HOW TO GET GOOD SERVICE FROM

MICHELIN TYRES

Keep tyres pumped up to correct pressure for. the load they have to carry. We can tell you what this should be.

When tyres are under inflated there-is-con- tinual internal friction between the foundation cord-and-the rubber, causing overheating of the tyre and consequent rapid deterioration.

Water can also enter causing rust, resulting eventually in the rims having sharp edges which cut the walls of the tyre near the bead.

Most epra ia Hongkong run on under inflated tyres with the above disastrous results.

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Have your wheela examined front and rear for trueness and tracking aligament. If they are at fault in this respect the tread of the cover is subject to a grinding action which quickly destroys the cover.

Keep tyres free from oil and grease,

Start and stop gently and take corners slowly.

-buy MICHELIN tyres from us and follow the

Lastly-

above advice and tyre satisfaction is assured.

EUROPE-ASIA TRADING CO.

solve the

A 40-story

Chicago is trying to parking problem with skyscraper garage, of which, the first 23 floors of the inner court will be used for storing automobiles. Motor Car elevators, tilting platforms and transfer tables are Incorporated In the construction.

Once on the floor, the cars will be moved by gravity, so that fumes! will be eliminated,

.

Room is being made for between 600 and 700 cars on the 73 floors.

It is expected to complete the building by May I. 1925.

Telephone 3438.

China Building, Ist Floor.

AFTER MANY ATTEMPTS,

Ford

THE UNIVERSAL CAR

Four

Door

Sedan

Price

1900.00

Hongkong Dollars

Have you thought over that $5.00

Gold a Week. Proposition Yet ?

If not call and See

Andrew Harper,

Authorised Ford Dealer.

No. 6 Queen's Road, Central.

Telephone 3665 Central,

We have a large stock of 6 to 12-volt batteries for the following AND many other cars:

Auburn

Briscoe

Buick

JJ

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BILL

Ever Been Held Up By a Big Repair Bill?

CHANCES are your car had been so neglected, there was a great deal the matter with it. They finally tinker-

ed up all the kinks-but the

shock of that bill al nost proved fatal.

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Patrons of this GarageCfind_E

it a whole lot cheaper to have us keep their cars ('in

top-notch condition all the

time. It's the best way to avoid those shocking re- gair bills.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Export and Constant European Supervision.

Telepone Central : 950......A. J. Allison, Service Manager.

The Oermsa Automobile De-

alora Avvociation, in co-opera~!

Hou ·with ' tho Allgemein- n

DIESEL TRUCK.

A motor, truck with a Diovel

Deutschen Automobile Clah in engine is being produced in Gar-.

Munich, is planning to

bold many. Manufacturers say hi can interna-

he operated on any hoayy ful

tho frat post-war. tional exhibition during February can be idlo fit any length of time

or March, 1925.

that an international automobil»

raco ha run during May, 1925.

both ovens.to be held in Leipzig.

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CAR STETRG SIDEWAYS.

Joe Royer has reached his gout. After repeated failures, the Detroit millionaire sportsman has won the fansual Memorial Day classic on the

He averagd 98 24 miles an hour. Indianapolis Speedway.

coming in over the line-the victor

Here he is

NEW FIVE PASSENGER LANDÄU.

Addition to Cadillac Family.

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Cadillac

Chandler

Chevrolet

Cleveland

Dodge Brothers .

Elgin

Essex

Ford

Gardner

Hudson Hupmoblie Marmon Maxwell

McLaughlin Oakland

Overland

Packard

Paige

Studebaker

We will promptly

build you a battery

from our large stock

of Columbia battery parts

and to your precise require-

ments, provided we do not have -in stock the exact battery you need.

Columbia

Storage Batteries

YOUR NEXT BATTERY SHOULD BE A COLUMBIA!

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Export and Constant European Supervi ion; Telephone Central 3950...

THE NER-A-CAN.

car.

A. J. Allison, Service Manager."

than that provided in the Nor-a-fairly harl for two years, and has

which is made by the never yet been delayed by trouble- Sheffield-Simplor Company. The on the road; and only had to make, maxim, “Go just as you are un ona minor replioemont Rogarded Capt. E. de Normanville, the your Ner-a-car," neatly sums up other as "the poor man's motor famous motor correspondent of the most obvious advantages of or as a usotul and economical the Daily Chronicle, writes:-

WHERE MOTORCYCLES ARE WORSHIPPED..

What a storm of Indignant this lit la mount, but it is, never render to a car for ruas to the

a parfootly tholose.

oflloient colf club, or for a lady, a shopping for quich Pursuant to its plicy of offorine | tion. It also onatrasts smartly protost I shall arouse if I say vohiolo

ambitious junts, the Nar-a-cat "All the tourinz. The Ner ao bill." It has also beer and can start off a full load Imritic body styles for ovary with the ni kol-plating of rain-that the principal objection of a

airpose, the Catiliss Aptar Car for head-lambs, side lamps and large number of people to the to windorfully simp's to drive:

cape. The designer has motor oyclo in the nood for special and light ta handia, and with its proposed by the same association mediately,

company has jue ana sunbed the hub

roor quarter clothing and the comparative vo-speel fro jon-guar it is 215 [bian of the fau-teant'ı molol included

no ornamented with English coach difficulty of koping. olean!

able of surmounting any ordinary A London inven or has desien-lta ita V-G3 n. The

โต five-parongir bawa and oval windows set at a

bill. The machino, which ed an aura th it con un sideways | 13tion across a road, trad to a ditch. landau, a striking design rested pleasing angle, the somble Novartheless, it is true, and I am

giving the new oar all the rar-ure that many car owners would sufficiently light to be subject of

keep an additional and more the 3 e. tax only, cost £57-10- felimh an eisht inon euro and turn specially for thлo who'd sira Australia wao Anterien's Tradisin & 25 four airgio Baun Wawel loinrod boly of marked in marks of a cu-tom-built creation modest mount for those froquant Its maximum speed is somewhere educator In Bagland, took back The rear window is of liberal solo trips for which it is really in the neighbourhood of 40 miles, emtor égale, blushie so alarmed, ine motor vehicle customer in independently attached to the dividuality.

The Baish of the new body, a size and all windows and doors uneconomical to use four whool an hour, but more Important is the elders of his tribe that they 1923.

Hatinctive milosroon" trimmed in the tonneau are equipped with ir it, wore, not for these usual the evidence of reliability furnish demanded fant it ah suld be pleged

róller shados: The with a Fronda groy, belt-line silk

drawbacks of the two wheelerod by the experience of a friend in clal shrine and worshly- trip, tothor with the natural upholstery is mohair vilvet and I don't think I have seen. hester of mine who owns a un carped so that the dexile in it should and finely of the wheels presente harmonizes in colour with the attempt to get over the dialoulty He has been running the machine be planted, was most attractive colour dombina- Foxterior falsh.

chassis.

Motor car manufacturers aTO

for balloon tyros.

of New reporting an increased domand Zealand's 44.000 miles of high

More than half ways aro hard surfaced,

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