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THE BEAN "FOURTEEN”

Although introduced to the public only as recently as the Olympia Show of 1923, the

BEAN

"FOURTEEN

is not in any sense an untried car.

Actually, two years of time and very nearly 200.000 miles of testing were spent in satisfy- ing the experts that it expressed to the high- est possible degree the ideals of the discriminat. Ing Owner-driver. In its finally approved form, the Bean "Fourteen” is a British achievement of more than average interest.

WE SHALL BE PLEASED TO DEMONSTRATE THIS IDEAL FIVE-SEATER TO THOSE INTERESTED.

SOLE. AGENTS:

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

26, Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. C.1030.

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 head.

Most cars in Hongkong run on under inflated

tyres with the above disastrous results.

Have your wheels examined front and rear for trueness and tracking alignment. 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.

Lastly-buy MICHELIN tyres from us and follow the

above advice and tyre satisfaction is assured.

EUROPE-ASIA TRADING CO.

Telephone C.3438.

China Building, Ist Floor,

The seriousness and force of recent floods at Kalgan can be judged from this picture which shows motor cars buried in the wreckage carried along by the water. Another car was also burled at this spot, only the top of the radiator being visible above the debris. Several Chinese were killed near here.

KOBE CLUB'S RUN

KYOTO.

tinue farther along the Ikeda road and strike the Kyoto bighway by |a roundabout methods some miles. down. A section of the ridors who went astray used this method, on the return, trip. So uul- formly bad was the road that one member, with a machine having] alleged balloon tyres, and a pillion-passenger on another ma- TO chine elected to return by rail.

Approaching Kyoto the road!

sbows soie, improvement, but at that point the club had the mis- fortune to encounter a full muster Last Sunday (20th July,) the of Kyoto's honey carta~an awful newly-formed Kobo Motor-gyel-procession that was without end. Ing Club beld,its first official run, The last straw I・ However, as tho with Kyoto as the goal. It was road was new to most of the very successful and well attended, participante and thore is nothing The riders loft Kobe at Ba.m., wrong with it scenically, thoy reaphed Kyoto at.1 p.m., and found the trip very intorosting departed at 4 p.m., accomplishing and well worth while. the return journey in about the A MOTORCYCLIST ASTRONOMER. same time as the outward ono. Mr. Louis W. Riodosol of It is fairly evident that they Millwaukee is using his travelled very leisurely, as a good motoroycle outfit to help his jolub should, though an unusual study of astromy and has a 10- amount of delay through trouble inch telescope mounted on a with machines tends to make the sidecar chasis and very often aforementioned times look worsolparks the outfit on the streat (or better than was actually the corners to permit people to take a look at the heavens. He is Another thing that considerably prominent in the work of the retarded their progress and some-Milwaukee Astral Science Club what marrod the day was the and says that the motorcycle is abominabla-condition of the road. Ja great aid to his study of the A poor road to Nishinoniya by heavens.

case.

far the worst of Kobe's threo A NEW LOW.GEAR RECORD." vory bad oxit. roads was ox- Making low-goar recorda is peated, but it was understood that the latent outdoor sport and F. W. beyond Nishinomlys it would be Gibbons, of St. Louis, is the lat oxcollent riding. Unfortunately,est to lay claim to having done though there were occasionally it. He rode from Indianapolis to some Rome good

stretches St. Louis, recently, with his aftor passing that town, motor cycle sealed in low and the road by no means came up covered the 268 miles in olevan to expectations. For most of the hours and eighteen minutos. way the surface is badly broken This is an average of 25.3 miles while, where any attempt. has por hour. When be finished the beon made to repair it, matters motor was in perfect condition. [have been rendered worse by the Jimbecile dumping all over tho road of huge quantities of trosch- erous ballast, totally innocent of steam-rollor. And this dospite tho fast that the road was partly When the lady motorist was closed "for repairs by the Com-stopped she demanded of the munications Department last year policeman. "What do you want and motorists were compelled to to stop me for?"

A MOTOR "GOAK.'

policeman.

use the Osaka-Nara routo. Por- "You were travelling at forty haps the road is not yet intended miles an hour," answered the for motor traffic, as at one place some 10 miles beyond Nishin-

"Forty miles an hour!" ox- omiya, where the road turns off claimed the lady in astonish at right angles from the Ikeda ment. Why, I haven't been out, read, the bridge is down. There an hour." is a temporary structure that is

"Pass on,

mum," said the possible for very light traffic, but constable. "that's a new exCIIRA hoavler traffic must noods con- to me."

GUESS WHO THEY ARE !

GARDING

A FEW PACIS

BALLOON TYRES

Balloon Tyres are of two types: Small Diameter.and In- terchangeable Small Diameter Trequire 20, 21 and 22 inch wheels, and will be fitted on standard to the leading makes of American Cara in future. Interchangeable, as the word implies, are for use on existing wheels and rims with which motor cars are at present equipped.

Each type achieves approximately the same result. Briefly the advantages of Balloon Tyres over regular tyres are

(1) GREATER COMFORT- The car rides much caster, because it is supported by a much larger surface of air at a low pressure, giving a soft yleiding cashion with slow and gentle re coll, Instead of the comparitively hard cushion with sharp recoll,

(2) TRACTION.-Having a so much wider sur face in contact with the road they give remark able traction." (They grip the road securely when the brakes are suddenly applied and help ~stop the car‍in shotter space.)

(3) PROTECTION OF THE CAR.-They reduce vibration considerably. Rattles don't develop so quickly. They materially lengthen the life of a car, and so lessen upkeep expense and depreciation."

MILEAGE-Greator mileage is not claimed, but they inay be expected to give mileage at least equal to the regular tyres they replace.

PUNCTURES.-Balloon tyres have thinner caresses but as a rule their lower pressure enables them to roll over and absorb objects that would puncture or rupture the regular highly inflated tyre. Pe

POWER, -- SPEED OR HILL CLIMBING ABILITY. If the proper size is fitted, Balloon tyres will not affect the power, speed or hill climbing, ability of the car enough to be noticeable. It might be expected that because they are larger and softer they would use up more power. But any increase in power consumption from this cause is offset by the fact that the tyres are so flexible 'that, they use up less power in rolling over the ground, and over obstacle, in the roads. Regarding average speed, this will be increased because balloon tyres enably the driver "to negotiate bumps or rough spots at higher speed.

The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co., Inc. developed the first successful straight ́alde tyres, the first successful Cord tyres, and was first to build tyres 10% oversize.

·Balloon. Tyres are simply the evolution of these fund- amental improvements in tyre construction.

Stocks of interchangeable Balloon Tyres, in inch sizes, will be obtainable next week from the local distributors for GOODYEAR Tyres...

Alex. Ross & Co. (China) Ltd.

Hongkong.

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don't forget K. 226.

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NATHAN

V

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