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HONGKONG - TELEORAZI

HARLEY

DAVIDSON

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23,

CHEAP PETROL.

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THORNYCROFTY

COMMERCIAL

VEHICLES

BUILT ENTIRELY OF BRITISH PARTS BY BRITISH LABOUR.

A TYPE FOR EVERY REQUIREMENT For Passengers or Merchandise

1924 MODELS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

Sole Agents, Tel. C. 781.

THE FAMOUS B.S.A.

B.S.A.

MOTOR CYCLES, generally admitted in be the flnost value-for-money machines now an the arket, havo met with a greater domand than ever this sonson.

The range has been extundud, detail inprovements have been incorporated on all models, and the B.S.A. reputation for service and reliability has been greatly enhanced by the results of roliability trials, and the experiences of thousands of private owners, during the part sonson in the British Isles, on the Continent, and in every part of the world where motor ogeling is in voguo,

We shall be pleased to show you models of these famous machines.

Prices from $475.00

Take the lift to the 4th. floor.

SINCERE'S

Sole Agents for the famous B.S.A. Cycles,

A NEW SHIPMENT OF “SERIES 3" NERACAR.

THE LATEST MODEL.

AN A.1. PERFECT MACHINE. IT was "Series 3" Neracare that won 1st, 2nd, 3rd., and team prizos in the National SIX DAYS Tris; that won tho run from Reading to Pittsburg and return, Pennsylvania Stato Championship, and won the Pennsylvania State 24 Hour Endurance Trials and the Reliability and Endur- anco Tents in Holland and Italy. All mountainous routes.

A dandy, little machine, capable of BIG PERFORM- ANCES. Koops rider oloan. Simple, easy to handle. 200 miles for $1.00 of fuol. Itide all seasons, any weather..

FREE DEMONSTRATION - SOLD ON EASY TERMS.

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD.

[Tel. No..C.1504.]

Sole Distributors for South China.

China Bullding, 7th Floor.

AN AUTOSUGGESTION.

10'

Seeing that Hongkong, motorists are paying $1.00 per gallon for gasoline, they will probably be envious of the motorists who Biya in the region of the garage showa above. Of course, Ils' in America.

BRAKE MECHANISM.

AIR-BRAKE SYSTEM

FAVOURED.

BY WILLIAM ULLMAN,

automobile is no longer neces-

sary. People used to get hold of the and of a lover and crank over an ongine that they couldn't be in to turn without the aid of

when the electric self-starter be-

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Specifications and Prices

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the crank, but that day passed IF NOT A THORNYCROFT— BUY AN ENTIRELY BRITISH LORRY,

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came available. On this theory many believe that the manually

Now York, June 29 While stopped car must also vanish. motorists pontlar over what typol

announcement

Thle bolief is atrengthened

of brake to specify when purchue-greatly by the growing popularity ing new cars, and while mang-of the power-operated gear shift. factures debate the advantages Not only is this soon on cars of various types prior to the already in service, but is an of their 1925 ounced for Home 1925 models. If it has become necessary to models, automotive onginoors are at work upon an idea that may cease drawing upon the driver's rovolutionize the whole subject of strength to shift geara it is a foregone conclusion that the docaforation.

the operation of the brakes should no Aftor all those thought is gaining headway that longer bo left to the driver's power to stop an automobile physical ability. should be mechanical, just as the

power to start it.

yours

Not only that, but it is general ly agreed in some circles that the power to shift gears should also ba mechanical, thus reserving manual oporation for the work of staering and pushing out the clutch.

The

Power operation of the brakos will have nothing to do with the number of brakes or their loon. tion, since the idea is oqually applicable to four or two wheel brake layouts. It does not even concern the matter of the opera- tion of the brake shoe. power can be applied directly to Powor brakes were thought of the brake shoes, or it can be re- a long time ago in connection layed to the shoes through cables, rods or bydraulic tubes. All with steam trains and street cara, but somehow or other the world that the power brake is going to seemed to think that it was quite do is to do away with the driver's brake pedal, so that he can koop all right for a man to rely upon his right foot 0.1 or near the his own strength to stop a 3,000 poned vehicle hundreds of times acelerator. daily. Power brakes were fre- quently suggested as possibilities for the automobile, but never as nocessities.

own

In a

TAKES PLACE OF DRIVER'S FOOT.' The power for the brakes will take the place of the driver's foot and the strength bohind it type of brako already used in AIR BRAKES NOW PROBABLE. The situation is said to be Europa the car is stopped by its

momentum, tho brako-i changing so rapidly that air brakes will be seen on some operating mochanism bringing into play a clutching device that passenger cars before very long-

of couples the speed of the propeller which, in the mad paco automobiledom, means before the shaft with the brakes. This in next automobile show comes to operated by the conventional town. Air brakes are already brake pedal, but movement of seen on motor busses that are such pedal is no more laborious! running op regular schodule over than pressing on the accelerator. many highways.

It can be oporated just as well]

This, howevor, does not re-

Why should a driver be obliged with a hand lover. to use his own strength to stop. his car when there is such an present the type of power brake likely to be popular in America,} abundance of mechanical power beneath the hood? Many are ask because it does not reprosent tho ing this question, and, according possible limit of froodem offort in to reports, many are ready with starting the brako mechanism

going.

the answor.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.

SPECIAL DODGE BROTHERS Motor Cars IN FOUR TYPES

Four special types have recently boon added to Dodge Brothers standard line of motor cars-

A Touring Car, a Roadster, a Type-A Sodan, and a 4-Passongor Coupe.

Those types have been created for that substantial group of motorists who favor individuality in motor car appointment and design,

In fundamental construction they aro identical with- Dodge Brothors standard product. Their accentuated smartness, howovor, is strikingly obvious in many elaborations of equipment and refinements of detail. Special 6-ply, ballon-type.tyres, nickel-trimmed radiator shel on touring car and roadster (optional on closed types) front and rear bumpers, motomotor with look, special blue leather upholstery (for touring car and roadster special body striping, rear view mirror, automatio windshield wiper, scuff platos,, cowl lights and stool diso whools constitute the moore important -items of special equinmont.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 3950.

S...

33, Wong Nei Chung Road

Happy Valley,

passenger special roadster. 5-passender special touring

.$8,730

$2,790 - $4,115 ...$4,140

4 passenger special coupe 5-passenger special “A” sedon

This live-passenger special type Dodge Brothers Touring Car was given an actual road test In Hongkong the result being 23-3'4 miles on one Imperial gallon of Texaco gasoline.

Compressed air seems to be the Any one who knows the theory most convenient form of braking of loverago must appreciate the fact that every time he applies force, since it londe itself to a wide variety of applications. It the brakes on his car he does as much work as is required in kill can be generated by a pump ing the cer's momentum. This geared to the engine as an ao work is geared" down by acessory, or it can be generatud system of lovers to such enby a pump attached to the pro- oxtent that applying the brakes polior shafts, thus utilizing the car's momentum for the supply seems to ho a very simple mattor.of compressed air. It pan also yat all the while the driver bo generated by electric power. exponding an enormous amount of energy. It's one of the things and while this would make use of that help put him to sleep at the electric current that is now wasted on the automobile, It night.

Lecessitatos considerable obanges No automobile with manually in the electrical system and | INTERNATIONAL DANUBE FAIR. opporated brakes will come to a

makes for complications, Ever notice that the car shoad A most important meeting is stop downhill without extracting.

MANY WAYS OF CREATING BUPPLY of you in traffic invariably seoma the International Danube Fair, a lot of oneray from its driver.

Skillful dosign may lead the

Suffice it to say, however, that to have gruator, plok-up than to be held at, Bratislava, from yours? It gets away while you're Aug. 23 to Sept. 2. All of the driver to bellovo that he le "bard there are so many ways of creat thinking about it. It fairly jumps. countries sending osrs for exhibi-ly pressing" on the brake pedal, lag a supply of compressed air Of course it's-aggravating tion-to-this show are figuring on but old Archimedes, who dis as there are of using it.

the principle of the espacially when you have always the impetus road building and covered"

Stopping the car whether by! prided yourself on having a agriculture is getting as prosunt, Jever, says that it is a dolusion the ideal system or by any of the

JUST WHAT YOU PAY FOR..

motorist usually finds that it is that is proportionally cheaper in mappy motor. Frequently you in all the Slavio countries, on somewhat on the order of the many other plans now under

better to bave the job done right every way. consideration or already in use

Incidentally it is oheaper ita, go to the repair shop and start account of the rapid advance of installment plan.

You are able to do a lot by do-renders it uncecessary to expend Rolining brakes is no excoption in the first place. them searching for an explana motor vehicle transportation in tion And it's futile, because the development of the coming it in gentle doses, but you do physical effort, Stopping be to the rule that motorist gets in In the ralining of brakes it'd have the brakes rellped than fo the same amount of work as comes as simple, a mattor as value of repairs, just about what papilonlarly of importance to ser wear the linings down to a point your motorja, and probably munities,

he paya far. By the use of split that the bands are concantria where the bands have do always has boen, as snappy se 50

hold the car back by standing in/tarting, "being" automatio to vets in the attaching of the with the drimi, difarwise the placed:" as: well; «Oireaper, lody!

high degree "per denk of the care in, survice, f. 2

Tildes to the bands it is possible Hoing will wear unevenly and the because it is safer p to out the cost by cutting the solenoy of the brakes wULINO ( ORUDE METHOD, SO LONGER WE

Ruumniat has about 10,300 time element, but aucie rollhtiger croad scoordingly. This is oitan Enghours now.contend that auton of which 7,500 are passeng- is uitatiefdevor as compared villous work. When the mechania

with the wiching it and these frihed he is forced to delwork, from left to auch a crude way of stopping an | or carn.”

though you wore. to get out and';

son forced that the driver of the alarm bell. Naturally, yen pot its waye. *cks ahead always has the advant- tardily, and this is just sufficient ATVIRU has sotually started his to make it soom as though your: tubeure your thinking --ap- oar was nós, quick on the get-

B** your own, mońtal sway.

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