HONGKONG
OTORINGS
NEPTEMBER
THE LATEST SEVEN PASSENGER HUDSON."
MOST
MILES
PER
DOLLAR.
F
HIGH TEST TURT
"One-third Longer Life!"
This is what tyre experts estimate to be the added tyre-mileage when tube leaks are stopped,
To overcome this difficulty, Firestone adopted the Steam Welding Process. Steam welding makes the tube one invulnerable unit, a powerful, constant support to the casing,
The remarkable heat-resistance of Firestone Tubes is due to the Firestone antimony process of curing which toughens the fibre and protects against blowout.
Give your tyres the invaluable support of Fire stone Steam-Welded Tubes.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33 Wong Noi Chung Road, (Happy Valloy)
Contrai 3950.
DRAGON MOTOR LIVERY SERVICE, C. F. Pau, Proprietor. 24, Des Voeux Road, (Hongkong).
CoLtral 482.
Kowloon 226,
THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY.
26, Nathan Road, (Kowloon) .....
[A full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres & Tubes carried at oach of the above addresses.)
Firestone
ESSEX
A SIX
"The Car for Everyone"
says noted. "MOTOR"! authority
The New Essex possesses many qualities which I did not believe could be incorporated in a closed car at the. prica.
"It is a type long needed in this coun- try. It possesses grace and beauty, can travel at sustained high speed without passenger discomfort, is our prisingly economical to operate and does not cost much to buy.
"It is unusually smooth; accalor- ates better than the previous Essex, which is saying a great deal, and ir 'the' car for everyone." H. A. Terantous, in MOTÖR.
5-passenger Touring........................................
-passenger Conch
$2.375 ..$2.800
By Hudson
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 3950,
83, Wong Nei Chung Road,
THE BLUGOIBH FAN,
·
Happy Valley.
When one reads that 462,020,385
vided the adjustments of the boar- gallons of patrol were used by Although much stress is placed ings are correot. Otherwise, if motorista in the United States of upon the value of lubrication of the bearings are too tight tho Amorica in the month of March the automobile, many vital points | grenso will molt and run out, -last, one-begins-to-realico what a timt need attention-are-left-un- onusing-the-fan-bearings to seizo, gigantle supply of motor fuel is mentioned. One is the fan. Aor to run so slowly as to be of used up by. motorists throughout sluggish fan, on a long trip, can little cooling benefit to the engine, the world in 12 months. Even with make a junk pile out of the Naturally, when this condition this big consumption going on all sweatest running ongino. Most axlats, the onging overboats, the the time, Amorios in still able to fadsake constructed with a hollow valves warp, and a number of hut by rendrvos of betrol, and at shaft, designed to contain a large other repair-bill-building things the beginning of last April had in quantity of grease; and unce they happen, so that when repairs are alook at the various rafinorios are packed properly, they do not being made to the fan, similar re- over 1,570 million gallona, need attention for sometime pro- pairs must be made to the engine.
.Mr. Look King, one of Hongkong's most enthusiastic owner- drivers, seated at the wheel of his luxurious Hudson, the latest model of its kind and which is fitted with balloon tyres.
ELIMINATING DUST.
7
WORKING ON AIR CLEANERS.
VENTURESOME MOTORISTS.
Many motorists who have some there are too many persons run- olaim to offeloney assert that
Automotive engineors are pay ing olosor attention to tho de volopment of air cleanors in conning motor care who ought not neotion with motors.
to be allowed out. We may take that for granted.
A few auto manufacturers already have adopted some form
Horo is a case in point. A of air cleanor, as part of their motorist caused a sonsation in regular equipment. They are not Aldoregate Street and St. Paul's yet decided on the best typo Churchyard by driving a car on because the subject of air cleaners the offside of the road, and going is still in its primary stage.
on the wrong side of the rofugo.| More for the efficiency of When this venturesome person tractor and truck than for par landed at the Police Court ho sanger use is it ossential that confessed that he had never some mathed be found by which driven beforo; he had had only the dust in the sir be kept out of two lessons of an hour each. the carburetor and cylinders. Yet he had the temerity to driva Dust has shortened the life of into one of the busiest parts of
London. many an engine considerably.
As a result of the growing, That is just where the trouble necessity for air cleanors many lios. People of that sort lack typas have been invonted. Thoy sonse; thoy do not seem to under- range from dry filters and peris-atand that driving a car in a copos to combinations of two or orowded thoroughfare demands more of thore. In all there are some skill and judgment.-Edin, five distinct typos. Į
Even. Dispatch.
The most efficient, according to Charles P. Grimes, Syracuse (N. Y.) auto ongineor, is the con-
trifugal type. After testing all dition he asoribon the following Borta of cleanore, Grimes says, he advantages to it,
finda the dry cleaner conforms 1-Maintenance and sorvico is) most closely with the require-reduced to a minimum. It con- monts for any kind. Thore tains only one moving part on s are maximum officiency, mini-ball-bearing olled sufficiently for mum attention and minimum loss two years of service.
of power.
2-The owner can see it por The dry contrifugal air cleaner, form. as shown by the accompanying 3-The air resistance through diagram, consists of a set of fans, the cleaner did not charge through by which the air is rotated at two years of use and the carburo- high speed being drawn in at the tor, once adjusted was sot for life. samo time. This high speed of 4 It helps to smooth out violent] rotation causes dust in the air surgen in the carbutior air stream to fly outward toward a smaller that are so common when full chamber from which it is pleated power is being developd at low by inrushing now air and tho auc-lapsed. tion caused by a compressed Air cleaners genorally cause a amount of aix at the centre of the loss of about two horsepower in
eleanor.
ADVANTAGE.
Grimes found that this cloaner was 97 per cent. efficient. In ad-
BY
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the efficiency of the engine but |ongineers agree they make up for this in their other good features. especially in longthening the life of the engine.
LAMENT.
BEETON
BRALEY,
Oh, why did I go to the Motor Car Show,
Oh, why did I fall for its lure 7
I once was content, but now, sinco I went
I know it in hell to bo poor
I've gazed upon miles of all fashions and styles
Of motor cars shiny and bright,
Until through my brain runs this crazy refrain,
I chant it all day and all night:
"Landau and Landaulette Roadster, Coupe, Speedster and Sportster and Cabriolet; Brougham, Victoria, Runabout, Van, Touring Car, Limousine, Coach and Sodan1"
The name of each model befuddles my noddlo
And that is not all of the mattor, I'm also obsessed with the phrases exprossad By salesmen who spillod me their patter. My hoad's full of wheels off of automobiles,
And if you should happen to peop At me on my cot you would hear, like as not,
Those words I repeat in my sloop:
Full floating rear axles"-" Elliptical springs," "Vibrationless motor with frictionless ring," "Oil-cooled carburetor"-" Invisible spark," "Transmission equipped with the multiplo aro,"
Asmart, eager pick-up "-"A smooth flow of power, "Most miles to the dollar"-"Least cost to the hour." "Gangsugo on the dash-board"--"Concave tripla gear," "A job that'll last you for twenty-five years!
Oh, why did I go to the Motor Car Show ?
I wanted oach car that I saw. But though I desired it I could have acquired it
In no way—eave bronking the law." Contentmont-where is it? - My Motor Show visit
Has made me an envious wight Who groans at his fato and bis boggarly stato,
While chanting by day and by night :::
"Landau and Landaulette, Roadster, Coupe, Spoedster and Sportster and Usbrioles; Brougham, Victoria, Runabout, Van, Touring Car, Limousine, Cosch:and Beduxi!*
Armstrong Siddeley
$6 FOUR 14.
THE ALL BRITISH TOURING CAR.
FIRST COST-VERY MODERATE RUNNING EXPENSES...... Exceedingly
PETROL
low
CONSUMPTION...... 26-28 miles
per Gallon. YOU CANNOT BUY A BETTER CAR.
NEW MODEL ARRIVED.
Demonstration Invited. HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
C. 4758-Car Hire Service for Hongkong, C. 4759-For Motor Showroom.
THE HONGKONG & SHÄNGHÀI HOTELS, LTD.
Motoring at Tram-fare
The
Austin
Gives car comfort at and protection the price of a combination. Running cost is under 3 cents per mile', or no more
Seven than tram-fare;
Sents two adults with children; bas electric lighting and horn and complete all wasther equipment, spare wheel and tyro. The 4-cylinder engine is watercooled, three speeds are provided and brakes fitted on all wheels. Chassis Price Delivered Hongkong Ready for the road £188,0,0 (Sports ModelF:£10.0.0-Extra.!”
lubrication is by grease gun. Lectrical starter.
Ask for "Motoʻlag at Tram-fare," dapleting the ear for shopping, hvalnesı uso, and wack-end jasofs'with the children.
Sole Agents
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA) LTD. Bank of Chias Buildings, Tel. 7 a 2482.
HONGKONG:
Taj. 27 or $407.
THE QUALITY ARGUMENT.
DUNLOP
CORDS.
The Dunlop Cord is a quality tyre. It is built to an ideal-not to a price. But just because of its pre-eminent quality it is as cheap a tyre as any motorist can buy, for long mileage it yields ces cost-per-mile to inimum.
Are you profiting by Dunlop QUALITY and Dunlop SERVICE?
Obtainable from the Dunlop Cole own Branch, also from Stocks carried by the Taxi Co. and by J. Gibbs & Co. Alexandra Bldg. (phone C.704 Sundays & Holidays 0.4588.)
Supplied DUNLOP RUBBER Co. (China) LTD.
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