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HONGKONG

TRLEMENT.

CAR COMPANY USES UNIQUE

ADVERT

"THE CAR YOU, WANT-AT A. PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD?

Chandler Spoedster, completa with now top, now carpate, now upholstery and now paint. Engine thoroughly overhauled and in spton- ald condition. An exceptional bargain at... $2,500

1) Locomobilo Touring Car, complote with six

now Cord. Tyros, now top, new upholstory, new carpot and now paint.Engine. thoroughly overhauled and in splendid running order......

Studebaker Spesial Six-Sports Body, Paint -in fine condition, disappooring hood, 2- passenger Dickie seat, fivo wiro whorls, five. Cord Tyron in good condition. Owner 'drivon; total mileage loss than 6,500 A vory unusual bargain at...........

$4.000

82.000 REMEMBER --A Used Car is only as good as the firm

with which you-dent.

Check (—) the car you wish further information about and mail this advertisement to us TO-DAY

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

#3, Wong Nel Chung Road,

Name Address....

Hongkong,

EWAL

АХ. ОСТОВЕВ

"White Cars" are being used by the Northorn_Toxas Traction Company, to “soll" to the public the idon that riding in street care is both economical and convenient.

HELPS IN MOUNTING NIMS, Every motorist has experienced trouble in mounting rims. The rim Booms suddenly" to have abrunk so that the joint persiste

NEW TYPE OF RACING CAR.

ENGINE.

in striking the wheel folloo, A TWO-SEATER WITH SMALL float obember. The four-spood small sorow jack placed in post- tion on the hub can bo usod to spring the joint of the rim out ward far enough to parmit the rim to bo slipped into place.

SPECIAL DODGE BROTHERS Motor Cars

IN FOUR TYPES

Four special types have recently been added to Dodge Brothers standard line of motor care-

A Touring Car, a Roadster, a Typa-A. Bodon, and o 4Passenger Coupe.

Those typos have been croatod for that substantial group of motorists who favor individuality, in motor car appointment and design.

In fundamental construction they are identical with Dodge Brothers standard product. Thoir accentuated smartness, hoewivor, is strikingly obvious in many elaborations of oquipment and rofinaments of detail. Special 6-ply, ballon-type tyras, nickel-trimmed radiator shol on touring car and roadster (optional on closed typoa) front and roar bumpers, motometer with lock,- special blue leather upholstory (for touring car and roadatur special body striping, rear view mirror, Automatio windshield wiper, scuff plates, cowl lights and steel diso wheels constituto the more important Reps of special'aquinmont.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1248 or 1247.

33. Wong Nel Chung Road

DID YOU KNOW→→

passenger special roadster.

5-passenger special touring.

passenger Rial coupe S-passenger special “A” ardan

Happy Valley

.$2,730

.$2,750

.$4,115.

.84,140

This five-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,

evon, in a disadvantage in ac-|actantion, valves being designed coloration, since an engine aust to remain open or closed for That a large flywheel is an work a little harder to get it longer or shorter periode of platon advantage in bill ollming? The started.

travel Tho lift of gach valve is. omentum stored in a large fly That there may be a very great another important factor result wheel will often carry a car pynt difference in the performance and ing in great variation in engine a particularis steep point, and tofflolancy, of two G-cylinder en- performance. Cooling and the nthe ongins will not have to work gines of the same bore, stroke and arrangement of the manifolds Bard after the car has picked valve arrangement? The chief may render one engine decidedly -speed. A big flywheel, how- differendo domes in the valve different from another, t

aluminum bodies .of the power jet typo, and both have! extensions to the air intako with preasure balance pipes for the

gear box is part of the axle, but where stress passes through the Оло of the latest rácing aluminum of the box, thin steel models, made especially for road supporte-has been added. Every work, is built so light that it stom of superfluous metal has approaches the dead line in been taken from the brake drums,

offort. One power

hundred the brakes stiffened, and lined miles an hour with a 1.500 o.o, with alternate segments of cast car is moving fast, and tho great fron and fabric. Even the shock problem now is to keep the car absorbers are duralumin. The on the road, and not let the total weight of the car is well engine develop too much power under 10 hundredweight, it is for the driver to handle oasily. eprung so are to absorb road jars The engine is one of those de- easily, and the available horse- signed for the first 200-mile race power is about 60, The racing in England. Instead of the body seats only ono, person, but original oast-iron head, it is for ordinary road uso, thore to in made of bronze, with the water the works a two seater, which is ways entirely redesigned. The light enough, and keyed so oor- valves are set in rooking guides. rected as to keep pace in any Coil return springs have been company. There is hardly a added to the rocking lovers, question of doubt that American which no longer move across the manufacturers will place on the stem of the valve as formerly. market, a car similar to this one, At

the forward end of the with aluminum wheels instead of camshaft is a contrifugul pump wire ones as used in England, at fed at the .contro by two a price which will meet the pop- pipes, one of which delivers ular fancy. water through the radiator, this being normal practice. The camshaft is driven by a chain,, but the camshaft sprocket is al most of lace pattern, so numerous are the holes in it. The com- pression is about soven to one Magnesium pistons of special pattern are employed, Cast-iron linors. rather thick in section, are used instead of stool, and the water pump with its cross-shaft drive has boon deleted,

--EXPLAINING IT,

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.

A NEW SHIPMENT OF "SERIES 3" NERACAR.

THE LATEST MODEL.

AN AL' PERFECT MACHINE.

He and

IT was "Borios 3" Noracers that won 1st, 2nd, 3rd.j

team prizes in the National SIX DAYS Trial; that won the run from Reading to Pittsburg and return, Pennsylvania State Championship, and. won the Pennsylvania State 24 Hour Endurance Trials and the Reliability and, Endur- ance Tests in Holland and Italy. All mountainous routes

A dandy, little machine, capable of BIG PERFORM- ANCES. Koops rider clean. Simple, easy to handle. 200 miles for $1.00 of fuel. Hide all 'seasons, suy weather.

FREE DEMONSTRATION SOLD ON EASY TERMS.

You cannot always depend upon the knocking, or " pinging," of the engine to indicate carbon accumulation. This is because if the engine is filled with barbon the valves are likely to be leaking compression. When compression is lowered an accumulation of The crankshaft, which curious carbon does not have the ox- ly enough, has two bearings only, pected results in hill ollmbing or is provided with circular webs, sudden acceleration. It varies and the counterweights are not with different types of engines. only equal to, but are almost If the valves are in the head and opposite the masses they have to thus more likely to be shutting balance. A twin distributor.and tightly, in a dirty engine, or if contact maker is mounted on a they are operating under a higher (Tel. No. C:158%) bracket, which is mostly holes; this is chain driven, while the spring tension, compression will not be lowered, materjally by the two coils are carried on the formation of carbon and the driving side of the dashboard, engine will knock accordingly. Aluminum fe employed wher- The valves remaining tight, an ever possible, even down to some accumulation of carbon in the of the drain plugs and filler cylinders might even increase the

Both the carburetors have

compression.

oaps.

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS.

When they are Most Frequent.

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SHELL

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD. Sole Distributors for South China. China Ballding, 7th Floor.

AVIATION SPIRIT

used exclusively on both

BRITISH

WORLD FLIGHT

and

ARGENTINE WORLD FLIGHT

and from Rangoon to Constantinople,

and also, in Iceland & Greenland on

WORLD F

FAMERICAN

Just as SHELL AVIATION SPIRIT was successfully used on these filghts, so all motorists who

best results, should- Insist ==

quire the

SHELL MOTOR SPIRIT

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM C.. (5, 6) Led