"THE OAR YOU WANT-AT A PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD**
( ) Cadillac 5-passenger Touring Car
$1,500
( ) Chandler 7-passenger Touring (54869)
$1.500
( ) Chandler 4-passenger Speedster
$2.500
( ) Clevoland G-passenger Sport Model......
$2.500
() Dodge Brothers 5-passenger Touring Car
(685184)
$1,250
() Dodge Brothers 5-passenger Sedan
$2,500
() Essex 5-passenger Touring
31,650
() Essex &-passongor Sedan
$1.800
() Hudson 7-passenger Touring (52088)
$1.750
( ) Locomobile 7-passenger Touring...
() Marmon 7-passenger Touring
$3,200 $2,750
() Singer 7-passenger Landaulette
$3,200
$2.500
() Winton 7-passenger Limonsine... REMEMBER:-A Used Car is only as good as the firm
with which you deal.
Check (-) the car you wish further information about
TO-DAY and mail this advertisement to us
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. 33, Wong Nel Chung Rend.
Name.....
Address........
Hongkong,
to
to
Armstrong Siddeley.
FOUR 14.
SPREAD OF MOTOR CAR.rought about by the tremendous phet, it continues, "on the aster- inorense in antomobiles use in iion that 25 years hence those of reount years, Fow of thom ses us who are not run over in the any immediate remedy in sight, meantime will not be fly- TEN MILLIONTH FORD
our offices. or CALLS FORTH. COMMENT. but all deplore the increasing ing
complexity of the situation. New York or to San Francisco New York-Production of the THE PROBLEMS AND THE FUTURE in our privately owned and The Boston Post expresses this operated airplanes and taking it 10,000,000th automobile by the Ford Motor Co. was the signal dina when it says that "to the all as a matter of course? Some- for widespread aditorial comment residents of large cities the auto- thing has got to be done to ro in the newspapers of the country mobila has brought along with love traffic congestion." about tho automoblie and its tbo pleasure of motoring and
access to the country, A TRIBUTE TO PEOPLE AB WELL plaod in modern life. The editorial onsy
AS FORD. -- soaside-traffic writors in general sdom to view mountain and
Soveral commentators point to the motor vehicle with mingled problems which are still far from
the fact that the quantity pon- admiration, amazement. and solution." The Post continues.
"To the dwellers in the rural sumption of automobiles has been alarms. Nearly all of them soo in Ite growing use, vast apport districts the motor has brought just as remarkable as the quantity FIRST COST---VERY MODERATE unities for good and evil, but it is in a new life by bringing the production about which so much fairly generally agraed that its farm nearer to the olty for both has been written and said. "The fact that the Ford Motor Co. has
"
THE ALL BRITISH TOURING CAR.
advantages far outweigh its dis-social and business purposes.
Who would venture to say, boon forced into this remarkable RUNNING EXPENSES.
advantages.
Unqualified indorsement of the however, that the motor revoluspood and quantity production in automobile comes from Arthur tion is anywhere near completo?a tributo not only to the strange
Exceedingly lów.
26-28 milos per Gallon.
YOU CANNOT BUY A BETTER CAR.
NEW MODEL
ARRIVED.
Demonstration Invited.
Brisbane, who writes in the Singe the motor camo sur cities genius of Henry Ford but to the PETROL CONSUMPTION.
it is have grown faster than ovor, not viitorprina" and, ontoergy of the Syracuse Telegram that hard to realize how much going because of the motor but in spito American pooplo which have up and down on the earth those of it. Half the population of the made possible the absorption into ten million care have meant." country is still crowded in small service in this country and the How many ideas, how much dots on the map while even greater part of all those 10,000,-
000 Forde and of over 80 per contį fresh air, how much pleasure and spaoss lie idle and untonantod,
"This le still the problem of the of all the automobilles of all increased health do you supposo that milonge represents "futuro-to deviso a transportation nakes now in uno," says the Brisbane asks, and follow with system that will make possible Jersey City Journal.
-The New York Times touches the command. "If you haven't a the utilization for homes the
beautiful place that are nearby on the same idea in an editorial car, get one,"
A record for brevity in sum- but yet beyond the reach of most dealing with various phassa of automotive development. Con- marizing both sides of a case is of our people." Imade by the New York Tribune, Possibilities of worse traffic ceraing quantity consumption it which
in with the congestion in the future also says:
"Hanry Ford's name is as- statement that "the automo-worries the New York Telegram, bile bas choked our roads, cover-which says that "if the factories Rociated with quantity produc- ad our landscapes with billboards continuo busy and the autotlon. Much loss omphasis has popularized golf, incited crime, mobiles durable, the outlook for been laid on its correlative, quan
roads and streets
tity consumption. assisted in salvation, supported congested a whole populace and cradled a should be excellent. In time, large section of the coming however, the nation may learn goneration. It has had a more how to cope with the problem adon with vast moral and social profound effect upon us than al-presented by this multiplicity of implications. The dizzying speed most any other of our mechanical automobiles. Certainly the pre-of modern life over which people
crate illustration. inventions, but we are still in agent situation calls for thought are concerned has horo ita con- "Educators have regarded with state of considorable vagueness as well as for action."
The rapid growth of motor veh!-
to what the effect has been." Not
one,
it hoe baon a developmont
an entirely pleasing picture, to be cle use le sean by the Pittsburgh mixed feelings the influence of Bure, but certainly an Interesting Sun as a forerunnor of further the automobile on the tempera- transportation developments of ment and world outlook of the Tho newspapers, along with great moment: "Things certainly young. Business men in othor are do move rapidly in these times," fields of merchandising have de- the automotive Industry,
"Who dares plored the expenditure upon au- sorously about the the Sun comments.
tomobile 'luxury' of money that thinking
should be going to more homely the traffic problem that has been stake his reputation as a
nocossitics. Battles have boon and won with motor trucks taxicabs. Revolutions have been made with a couple of armered
HUDSON
In Every Way a Finer Super-Six
pro-
cars.
"But the record is not all on that sido at social instability.. England defented at least one serious railroad strike by the use or the threat of the automobile, And it might be argued that social stability has gained by the rise of what may be described almost an a new middle class composed of automobile owners,"
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
C. 4758-Car Hire Service for Hongkong. C. 4750 For Motor Showroom.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
Motoring at Tram-fare
The
Austin
Glves car comfort and protection at the price of a combination... Running cost is under 3 cents per mile or
na
Seven than tram-fare.
more
Motor Starts Instantly In Coldest Weather-More Economical In Fuel and Oil-Easier Riding and of Course Old Time Super-Six Power, Pep and Performance.
Among all the Hudsons, we believe there has never been a model of such richness and beauty as the new Sedan. Its exquisito grace and charm of line is supple- mented by a luxury of upholstering and appointments equalled in few cars at any price.
We concede no smoother performance in any car. steady vibrationless flow of power gives to the new Hudson chassis an individuality that all concede. Added refinementa assure prompt starting in even the coldest weather, and important increase of gasoline and oil milenge..
The New Sedan
With the Greatest Super Six
Motor Ever Built
A
HUDSON also builds the ESSEX 5-passenger touring 5-passenger coach
... $2,375
$2,800
HUDSON Super-Six Prices:
$3,800
$4,000
$4,300
5-passenger so lan
$5,000
7-passenger sedan
$5,500
(Hudson Equipment includes 33 x 6.20 Diso. Weels and fivo 33 x 6.20 BALLOON TYRES)
You will agree there is no rival in value of the new Hudson Sedan.
4-passenger touring.... 7.passenger touring.... S-passenger coach
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
zelephone Central 3956,
38, Wong Nel Chung Road
Happy Valley.
NEW RECORD FOR CONTINUOUS DRIVING.
100 HOURS AND 30 MINUTES CONTINUOUS DRIVING.
Mr. Harold L. "Daredevil" Lookwaad, owner of a score or more of world's records in the porfomance of hairralaing stunts! extraordinary. established a now world mark in New York recent- ly, in a Maxwell car; he com- pleted 100 hours and 30 minutes of continuous driving.
Police and hospital attendants who assisted in removing him from the car into an ambul- ance at the end of the endurance run pronounced the ovent the most thrilling demonstration of human stamina that they had ovor witnessod.
The endurance stunt, which for thrills had probably navor! been equallod in New York automobile circles before, started at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, June 10, at Broadway and 56th strect under the auspices of the Colt-Stewart Company. Maxwell and Chrysler, metropolitan dis- tributors, and with full co-opera- tion of city and police officials.
Lockwaad then drove to the! City Hall, where Francis P. Bont, director of, the City Board of Investigation, ·looked the handcuff which attached Look- wood's luft hand to the atooring whool of the car and that key nover loft the possession of Mr. Beat until he himself released Lockwood from the wheel. The hood of the cor that was sealed at the start still carried its seal un- broken at a late hour Saturday night-Rovoral hours after the finish.
Price
Soats two adults with children; has electric lighting and horn and complete all-weather equipmen', spare wheel and tyro. The 4-cylinder engine is watercooled, three spoode Chasale are provided and brakes fitted on all wheels. lubrication is by grease gun. Electrical startor.
Delivered Hongkong Ready far the toad £188.0.0 (Sports Model £10.0.0 Exten.
Ak for Moto:ing at Tran-fate," depicting the car shopples, bustness uro, and wask-sid`jaunts with the child ́un. Sole Agents —
ALEX. ROSS & CO., (CHINA) LTD. Buak of China Bul,ḍlage, HONG KONG.
Tel. 27 or 1487.
Tal. 17 or 2487.
A FINE PRODUCT AND A FINE POLICY
There are no finer tyros than
DUNLOP
Elthor Mr. Colt or bir, Stowarź along with one or more of their representatives, wore with Lock- wood most of the last twenty- four hours of the run. 'At the} Bnish Baturday afternoon, Mr.] Colt said to the assembled nowo- papormon: "It is the most re- markable demonstration of hu- man stamink, grit and power of will that I have over seen. Look- wood is the ..
Thava! MANUFACTURER'S,
met. As for ni speaks for itself."
CORDS.
They stand as the supreme achieve- ment in tyre construction, and sot newirfandard in tyre service.
Behind them is a fine policy-fair treatment the methods of the Dunlop, organization which help you to get the utmost value from your tyres.
Obtainable from the Dunlop Co's own Branch, also from Stocka carried by the Taxi Co., and by J. Gibbs & Co. Alexandra Bids (phone C.704- Sundays & Holidays C.2582.)
DUNLOP RUBBER Co. (China) LTD.
51. Osurga's Building.
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