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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST SALESROOMS

The salesroom of the New York Branch of the Buick Motor Company at 55th Street and Broadway. New York, "sells 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.

Buicks, This Buick Branch delivered, during 1923, 24,585 now representing a cash value of $39,591,918. In 1924, it is expected, that about 30,000 cars will be delivered, a business of over $50,000,000. Few as great a if any of the great New York department stores will do volume of business.

From August 1, 1923, 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 23-1% gain. Sales of this Branch for the first two weeks of May 1924, were 1.231 Buicks as compared with 945 sold in the same period 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.

been greater than Because the value of Buick output has each year that of any other exhibitor, Buick 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 $302,752,950 noi including war tax or freight. In the New York district alone 12-5,10% of the 88,026 new cars so'd in 1923 were Buicks.

SCLE AGENTS:

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

26, Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. Central 1030.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1924.

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS, Increase in Selectivity Claimed.

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"Now York: Two new ideas in antonnas are awong now from radia manufacture and a dejar-two 200-foot Borials, instead of turo in design feature the latest from ano Joan than half form of receiver that is being thigh. It broadcasts musical and propared for the market.

jen ortainment programmes overy It is called the "syncrophase" evening of the week and Sunday receiver and is a five-tube, tuned afternoon, and baseball ecores

afternoon. It's

namo, radio fraquoney of reult brought overy

Ha-Ha" of its out by A. H. Grobe and Company Wias, and the of Richmond Hill, L. I.

announcer, wore known as far na The features that it is contend- South America and Hawalt oven ed make this sot unique and an before the increase of power. Is interesting study are:

has a full-time staff of five people 1-Radio inductances, in the Tho ronson for Erbstain's groat

of form of "bincoular coils," that expanditura

money are designed so na to eliminate onorgy in maintaining the station their own electro-magnetio fiolde might be oxplained psychological- ly, perhaps, as a fondness for and avoid local interforenco.

2-Variahlo condonsers with making an articulate noise in tho poculiarly shaped plates that world. He has been doing that permit of an oven selectivity in in the logal flold hore for years

gives tuning and accurate calibration Radio undoubtedly of stations.

chance for Bonding noleo' rover- The departure in design con-borating a bit farther into spass. sists of setting the condensers Aside from that, however, is vortiually, with diala above, so the interest ho has developed in that only a segment of each dial radio and the fun he gots out of it.

JUST A HOBBY, projecte through the panel to be visible

A the operator.

"It's just a hobby," ho says. horizontal wheel projecting from "I took it up to pass a few oven- the panel below oporates the ings, and I had the common ox- vornior arrangement to such con-parionce of getting deepor into it. danger.

had to buy biggor sets, with LIKE OPERA GLASSES, moro tubes and greater selectivity: The idea of the binocular coils and trickier attachments, And it; is that of two similar solenoids just kept on growing." wound in opposite directions, and Erbstoin got his broadcasting. parallel to each other, so that license the first of last summer,! their magnetic fields neutralize a year ago. His station was each athor. This precludes the installed in the loft of the pony possibility of picking up signals stable near the house. The entiro that are too powerful to be stable now has been rebuilt for eliminated otherwise. Local ata-radio purposes. The interior is tions, it is argued, may be tuned arranged as much as possiblo liko out with caso.

a ship's cabin. It has round

to

A maximum of selectivity, the portholes for windows, Bongoing manufacturers

say, is thus lamps on the beamed ceiling and obtained.

a clock that strikes bells instead

The new type of condensore of house. The studio upstairs is! [according to their designor, furnished as elaborately as the

allows accurate equalization of big city stations.

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Alfred H. Grebe, inset above, presents a new type of reciever

to radio fans. It's called "Syncrophase," and its pocullar calls and condensers are said to provide greater selectivity and perfect freedom from interference.

dial settings, duo to очед

Two slogans indicato the policy separation of stations along the of station WTAS. Ono is "Yos, dial, and permits of greater we have no sopranos," and only case in calibrating the various ono soprano ever took the air: frequencies covering the broad-over the Erbstein antennao; and cast rango.

the other. the People's Briad-

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AMATEUR BROADCASTS.

LES ELEGANCES de PARIS

8, Queen's Road Central. Tel. C. 388,

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Just arrived from the most

FAMOUS PARIS SALONS

A large consignment of TRIMMED HATS

at moderate prices.

Inspection cordially invited.

How often have you worried when Christmas draws near, trying to decide what you will give your friends? One of the most welcome gifts is an artistically finish- photograph of yourself. Why not pay us a call and allow us to show you examples of our work 7

Battery Path.

THE MING YUEN STUDIO

Official Photographers to the "8.K.T."

As a result of these changes, casting Station." Living up to Alfred Grobo, manufacturer of the latter, the station accepts no

HOME ITEMS.

about 30 miles from

Lou- this set, claims oase of control, contributions for maintenance

din in a north or north-west groator selectivity, clarity, from anyone and seloots its pro- volume and greater distance for grammes as dictated by popular Wireless for Poor-Law Patients.direction, so as to serve as wido A much area as possible. an request and response.

The Bromley Guardians have Broadcasting In Spain.

Instead of controlling tho Tae station was a pioneer in received a present of a two-valve thore ambitious soheme will bo attemptod regards, music. volume by a series of plugs in the remote control," the system of wireless sut, with six pairs of Short plays, of an average Barcelona: Under the suspices amplifying circuit Grobe has having the programme rendered carphones, for the use of the in- of 20 minutes and nover more new variable input a considerable distanco from the tirmary patients. The guardians than 40 minutes' duration, one the Spanish "Associacion utilized a

point.

Several are bearing the cost of tuo wiring, night a week, are an experiment ¡Nacional le Radiodifusion" method of control which gives broadcasting (National Broadcasting Associo- six gradual variations and permits nights a week dance music from so that the patients will be as that it is now hoped to develop tion) an English company is maintenance of the most desirable a ballroom in Chicago a broad- to listen-in without moving trom into a perinadent source of enter- talament; while the sequence of putting up a high powered broad-ratio of radio to audio amplifica-oast from WTAS, the connection thoir beds.

boing through a epocially built WINTER BROADCASTING. travel talks and historical, solen- casting station at the Hotel Colon, tion.

The British Breadcasting Com-tific, and informative lectures are totophone line. Every Monday night the programme given in pany are now deciding vanding syetonitized under the Kimball Hall in the city and sent developments for their wise direction of Mr. J. O. Stobart, out from the Eigin station programines. The broad lines vs He is one of H.M. Inspectors, who Erbaloin himself broadcasts at the policy being followed aru, has been lont to the B.B.C. for a Now Become Famous.

times from his office desk it the entertainmont side, to wadet year by the Board of Education, still more the general appeal of in order to study the value of Chloage: - "Lonesomeness, Chicago.

And tho father is raising up the programmes; and, on the broadcasting for education. while the family wore in Florida,

family of radio experts, too. Of technical side, to give the nuces- Foreign affairs will be handled for the winter."

That started the idea in evenings this summer little Olivia sary signal strength to reach the by the British Institute, of In- the head of Charlie Erbetoln, Erbetain, 10-year-old daugther, remover villages where conta ternational Affaire, and the open- Chloago attorney, according to broadcasts a bed-time story.

with the everyday activities of ing talks with be given by Lord his own account.

life can be useful. The company B. four and Lord Grey of

convinced that the kapela Faitodon. There is to bo #? It was about 20 months ago,

montal high-power station, 99' definite allotuent of time to folk-, One of the most modern radio and he began tinkering with a

New York is made the centre Unsimsford will as that, and now songs and dances, and to a soriós installations in the world and the small navy sot. The end is not largest radio personnel detailed yet in sight, but at prosent ho of world-wide wireless through that all the experiments save of take on The Art of Laving. ia tho ΟΥΠΟΙ and principal the high-power station. "Radio Doon finished it is waiting for ne to any oooan liner is carried by announcer of the largest pri- Central." Rocky Point, LL, and Post Office verdict. the Leviathan. Each operator vate brondessting station in the the receiving station at River-authority is satisded that such a has had more than 10 years ex-world at his country estate, Villa head, L. I. Messages from foreign nign-power stallon dues hút m

oquipment, some of the Héboats perience in wireless. A "high

diner Wardless of the Leviathian have submarine power vacuum tube main trans- Olivia, 30 miles from the city countries to the United States are terfero

all received at Riverhead. Here abilities, and grauts permis signal equipment, which la ured near Eigin. mitter can talk with either side

B. B. U., Recent improvements on the the signals are separated acording to

station for indicating the direction in of the Atlantic regardless of the

station bave inoreased its current to the countries from which they will be placed, somewhere which ■ itfsbost may be loosted.. ship's position.

from '500 watts to 1000. Its are resolved.

in the centre of Barcolons. This is tho first of its kind in Spain. We are promised that the Teatro Liceo will be connected up dur- ing the forthcoming season of Grand Opera, as well as the Palaco of Music, and theatre where national opera is produced. The station has boon allotted the official letters EAJ 1; and wave longth will be 325 metres,

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