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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1924.

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ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST SALESROOMS

The salesroom of the New York Branch of the Bulok Motor Company at 55th Street and Broadway, New York, sels and delivers more cars and more dollars worth of automobiles than any other salesroom in the world. And Its sales are increasing all the time.

This Buick Branch delivered, during 1923, 24,565 now Buloks, representine a cash value of $39,591,918. In 1924, it is expected that about 80,000 cars will be delivered, a business of over $50,000,000. Few If any of the great New York department stores will do as great a volume of business.

From August 1, 1928 to May 16, 1924, deliveries of this Branch amounted to 20,139 Buicks as compared with 16,295 deliveries for the same period the preceding year. This represents an increase of 3,844 cars, or a 28-1% gain. Sales of this Branch for the first two weeks of May 1924, wore 1,281 Bulcks as compared with 945 sold in the same perlod last year. This is an increase of over 30%. It is no wonder that a record breaking volume of business is expected for the new season.

Because the value of Bulck output has each year been greater than that of any other exhibitor, Bulok has held first place in every National Automobile Show in the United States during the last six years. In 1923, Buick sold 218,516 motor cars, representing a value of $302,752,050 not including war tax or freight. In the New York district alone 12-5/10% of the 88,020 new cars sold in 1928 were Buicks.

SOLE AGENTS:

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

28, Queen's Road Central,

Telephone No.j C.1036,

In planning your PICNICS or joy rides,

don't forget K. 226.

Our livery cars give satisfaction.

THE

DURO MOTOR CO.

NATHAN

ROAD

A good car merits a good, clean, roomy garage. Only a limited number of cars -can now ps accommodated.

THE NECESSARY ACCESSORY.

ESSENTIAL ITEMS WHICH SOME EQUIPMENTS LACK.

Capt. E. do Normanville, writes As follows to the Daily Chron #cle:-

Query: "What is a motor-car *ccessory ?"

Answer; "Generally spoaking, it is one of the necessary fittings

Hory.

CARS

FOR HIRE

STORAGE

As the bare said when offor the passengers in the rear questioned as to the charins of seats of our esra the same mea coursing-it is a matter of opinion. sure of comfort we enjoy our

But up to the present, I think selves. the manufacturer's opinion has more than bold its due away. Very low standard modul cars are equipped with all the appliances which experience has taught us to be necessary for reasonablo average comfort and safety.

Another thing which is coming along slowly, is the radiator another thermometer. That is

A ftment which example of

"accos- through being called an sory" is not standardised on anything like as many cars as it should.

A QUESTION OF SAFETY. The more important of those In conjunotion with radiator

the classifications is Fafoty shutters, it enables tho driver to the bost officiency and

on a car which the manufacturer element. I must say that no on- got nood not supply so long as he calls closed .car, and fow touring economy out of his car and is It an acceвbory.” And there is a models, can be said to boas safe thoroforo something which should modicum of truth in that cynicism. | to drive in bad weather as they be fitted by the car manufacturor. Of course, it is not easy to draw should be-if they do not carry Even without radiator shutters, the lino of demarcation between an automatic windscreen wiper. the "accessory" in question is what is really a needed Eitment

of very real utility,

on a car and an admitted acces

Easy Riding

DODGE BROTHERS

Touring Car

Dependable

I grant that a goodly number

AND EVEN THE HUMBLE PLUG. of present day cars are equipped

And thus we come down to with hand-oporated wipers. But, though they are greatly bettor some of the other details of the than nothing, they really beg the accessory world, where the quos-: question by comparison with the tion of opinion is more open. real thing. When you're driving Porsonally, for example, I'm in bad weather oiroumstances, very fond of a good gradient you need both your hands for moter, which, in addition to its driving. Visibility and road obvious interest, often calms surface are both far more treach my momentary fears thus: "No! orous than normal.

Everything's quite all right. She to bo pulling doesn't seem proporly, morely becauen this rise is really one in eleven, although it only looke one in

There are two chiof types to choose from-ono uporated elect rically and the other by the suction of the englas. There are occasional theoretical and practi- twenty."

THE TIWINDSHIELD HAT,

Lady motorists find a friend in a new kind of hat fashioned by Elaine, the famous French milliner. The hat is designed especially for touring in open cars. It's a windshield in itself. It's made of isinglass and bound in gay-coloured velvet ribbon, and the deep square crown allows it to stay put despite the strongest wind.

SIGNS MEAN WHAT THEY SAY.

MICHELIN

TYRES

OFFER YOU THE

MAXIMUM

AT THE

SERVICE

MINIMUM

EXPENSE

Full stocks carried by

THE. EUROPE-ASIA TRADING CO.

China Building

Ask To See The Balloon Tyres.

ENDURANCE RECORD-133 HOURS.

IT

This is what happened when three motorists who didn't beliove in signs met on a rickety bridge spanning Wolf Creek at Dayton, Ohio, recently. The signs warned drivers that the bridge couldn't hold more than six tons at a time. The three motorists tested it and motors and bridge wore hurled into the stream. Six wero burt, none seriously.

A NEW SHIPMENT OF "SERIES 3" NERACAR.

THE LATEST MODEL.

AN A.I. PERFECT MACHINE.

was "Borles 3" Neracars that won 1st., 2nd, 3rd., and team prizes in the National SIX DAYS Trial: that won the run from Raading to Pittsburg and return, Pennsylvania State Championship, and won the Pennsylvania State 24 Hour Endurance Trials and the Reliability, and Badur- All mountainous routes. ance Tests in Holland and Italy.

A dandy, little machine, capable of BIG PERFORM- ANCES. Koopa rider clean. Simple, easy to handle. 200 miles for $1.00 of fuel. Ride all seasons, any weather,

FREE DEMONSTRATION - SOLD ON EASY TERMS.,

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD.

[Tel. No. C.1564.]

Sole Distributors for South China, China Building, 7th Floor.

With a nurse at his side, and an ico pack on his boad, Allen Flaber drove about Kansas City, recently to a now non-stop endurance record of 133 hours, or five days and 13 hours. The previous racord was 122 hours, made by Daro Dovil Lockwood. Fisher's logs and arms ware Ho is shown here, badly swollen when he onded the run. with bands handcuffed to the whool.

`LOWER FUEL COST.

FIGHT IN U.S.A."

2. Efforts to make availabló a great volume of the national pro- duction of gasoline, resulting in lower pricos, besides attacking price fixing tendencies.

fixing.

cal defects in each, but either And how many of us would adds very materially to safelika to lay bands on the man

3. Court action by stato and driving conditions-espooially on responsible for undignifying the

Washington, Aug. 17.-A three-federal authorities, socking to certain types of osrs. I main- work of a sparking-plug by call- tain, therefore, that on such cara ing it an accessory? And the way battle by a triad of govern-break up efforts at standard price they should be standardised. same applies to the oil we put in ment agenates will be started

against the big oil producing com- The various states, it has been CRUELTY TO PASSENGERS. our engines.

Some manufacturers still ex-panies, in an effort to reduce agreed after a conference here, Thon the is the over-popular

will begin the battle by starting: and equally necessary 2000s-hibit un-warranted paralmeny in sory," the rear wind-soreen for fitting-wall, not the best quality The motorista sido will be court-action-to-lower-fuel prices. touring cars. There ought to be plugs. This is really an insult taken by the U.8. Department All information gathered by the sooloty for the Prevention of to the car buyer, and, as there of Justice, the Federal Trado federal Department of Justice Oruelty to Rear Passengers and are only shillings in it, it seems Commission and the National will be made available to the they should instituto proceedings time for all cars to have pluge of Association of Statos Attorney state authorities for the purpose. in all suitable cases of such recognised performance and dura-

"Their fight for lower fuel conts neglect.

bility.

motor fuel costa,

Generals.

SHELL AVIATION

used exclusively on both

BRITISH

SPIRIT

WORLD FLIGHT

and

ARGENTINE WORLD FLIGHT

and from Rangoon to Constantinople and also in Iceland & Greenland on

FAMERICAN WORLD FLIGHT

Just as SHELL AVIATION SPIRIT was successfully used on these flights, so all motorists who te quire the best results should Insist

SHELL MOTOR SPIRIT

ONE THING "OHEAP.. In practically all circum- And I have often told you that will take the following direction: stances, the lot of the passengers the falsest of false economy is to 1. Publication of information Every mile of road built and in the rear seat of a touring car buy oil of quality inferior to the collected by the Department of maintained by the Amerioen is not a happy one. It was com- best you can get. Neither Justice, showing that gasoline government and the various paratively all right a-many years should you over use it. Tanoy production in the United States staton conts snob altisen only

go, when a ride on a car was oll-consumption figures are not much higher than consummers 0015-part of a cent annually saY THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM C. (SC) treat. But nowadays we should yet for us ordinary mortals.

are led to bellare.

government statisticians.