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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
ANNOUNCEMENT!
GOODYEAR SUPERTWIST
BALLOON TYRES
Now! Balloon Tyres of super-quality. Goodyear-bullt of Supertwist. Supertwist-Is the new and highly elastic cord material, perfected by Goodyear especially for balloon tyres.
It makes the balloon tyre practical, for It has the ability to withstand the continuous flexing required of bal- loon tyres, and victoriously resist severe road-shocks.
This remarkable now) cord material with 50 per cent. greater elasticity than any material ever used before. practically doubles the tyre J|fe.
Supertwist-is used only by Goodyear. It is built into Goodyear Balloon Tyres of both types-to fit new small diameter wheels-and to fit narly all the cars now in use without change.
GOODYEAR MEANS GOOD WEAR
GOOD YEAR
BALLOON TYRES
MADE IN CANADA
DISTRIBUTORS
ALEX ROSS & COMPANY, (CHINA) LIMITED.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING.
HONGKONG.
Special Dodge Brothers Motor Cars IN FOUR TYPES.
Four special types have recently boon added to Dodge Brothors standard line of motor cars-
A Touring Car, a Roadster, a Typo-A Sedan, and u 1-Passenger Coupe.
These types have been created for that substantial group of motorists who favor individuality in motor car appointment and design,
In fundamental constraction they are identical with Dodge Brothers standard product. Their accentuated amartness, however, is strikingly obvious in many olaborations of equipment and refinements of dotall Special 6-ply, balton-type tyres, nickel-trimmed.radiator shel on touring car and rondstor (optional on closed types) front and rear bumpers, motometer with look, pocial blus leather upholstery (for touring car and roadator specini body striping,
view mirror, automatic windshield wiper, scuff platos, cowl lights and stool diso wheels constitute the more important items of special equinment.
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
ACROSS THE EASTERN
CARPATHIANS.
HUMOURS OF A MOTOR TOUR.
SATURDAY. OCTOBER
BOON
Priinitiva in design, being for the most part constructed of light tree trunks, laid horizontally over foundation of boulders. The oracks are filled in with mud. nd the whole je finally covered with plaster. The outer walls (BY A “TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.) re decorated with panele and medallions of varied design, and The Rumaniane. it is said, like iftorwards paintod with dié- ta bo considered the direot descendants of the Romans, Bumper in different shades of bluo,
groon and gros. they are no road-makers. Ploosti, Tho road asconde past tho one of the largest towns in boulder-strewn bade of streams, green heights Rumania, possesses, for example, ind the cool
Sinaia, the rosort, of but one properly paved "boule-f vard." and this is only about a court and fashion, are kilometre in length. Otherwise rained. Then the pass of Tomos is the devious and dirty streets of cached. Here thore; are still this contre of the great Rumanian-ball-shattered houses that have! jail industry consist of an irregu-heon awaiting repair these eight lar but continuous series of rute,ears. Hero, also, is that other patholes, loose stones, dust, and ad memory of a futile straggle,} pools of water.
nest rows of wooden crosses on British motor-vohicle manu- the hillside by the treas, near the facturers, if they wish to dold Hungarian frontier. The car business in this part of the world. trops down into Brasov, once a cannot bear in mind too carefully hriving industrial town, and now that the roads are most destrus-lowly recovering its motivity. It tive to springe and tyres, and will attracts many visitors from the subject both chassis and body-sun-baked plains to its invigora work to the sovorost strains. The ring mountain air and wooded motorist himself will need norraces.
reininder. He will have boon im. The next objective is the famous pressad-soraly improsted-with the Bran pass, and so to Campu- fact, oven in the best-sprung and Lung. The map shows that the
Yot upholstered car,
ab road to which we now turn le not| automobilo tour from Ploosti to "first class." Suddenly we are the Eastern Carpathians offers a brought to a standstill amidst wealth of attractive aconery heaps of boulders, mounds of which compensates for every loose earth, and piles of stones. jolt. Even in their squalor, the The road seems to have vanished. villages, with thoir peculiar But, in answer to requests for characteristics, blended of East directions, the peasants continue and West, are most plcturesque. to point to what they evidently Dogs, fowle, goose, and turkeys consider to be the track. Thoy do even pigs-wander unconcerned-not regard it as or even mislaid ly to and fro across the roads. And so we drive on through the bont on committing suicide, and 10080 varth, thon along what! saved only by the skill of the resembles the bed of a stream; drivor and the effectiveness of wo cross something like a the brakoe.
farmyard, encircle a few trees, The towns are great poultry and finally emerge upon the high- markots. The trade is in liveway again.
birds, and an animated traffic it It is an easy day's run to the is. If a noisy, crowded, and sulphur springs of Calimanesti, violent altercation is taking place through flower-strewn valloys, in the Piada or at the street gay with wild violas, campanula, corner, there is no need for giant foxgloves, and snapdragon. alarm. It is probably only an Thon, leaving the valley of the argument about the price of a Olt, Siblu, formerly known as couple of squeaking chickons. Hermannstadt, or Nagy Szoben, Practically no dead birds are lies ahead.
sold, except those that hava mis- The road almost due west taken the speed and direction of through Fagaras leade again to the car.
Brasov, whence a highly: attrac-
to
Of the oilfulde, whose dorrioks tivo but adventurous byway may dot the hillsides, all that need be the followed southwards through Baid here is that they add nothing the parses of Mount Choin and
of the attractiveness the Mount Buzana-8,000ft, to 10,000 Bconory. The English tourist ft. above sea level. Here the nar- misson the hedge and open fonces. row road, made, It is said, by the the front gardens, creepor covered Germans during the war, huga cottages and porches that are auch the mountain sides in a giddy, a refreshing feature of his home-serpentine course, about 20 hair- land. Instead, he finds that the pin bonds being negotiated in a village dwellings, which aro rise or drop of '3,000ft. Not far shaped rather like Noah' ark, from the summit wild raspberries are, for the most part, sot end on are to be found, large and luscious. to the road. Walls or closely A fow pairs of hande sucocaded built foncos and gatos, offectively in picking about 5lb. in half an bar the main door of the houses hour. Below, the car winds its from the public gaze, and make way downwarde through pine and an almost continuous boundary beech, larch and birch, to tho wall along each side of the road.safor havon of the valley, and so The smaller houses are very back through Valoni to Ploesti.
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 A.I. PERFECT MACHINE.
IT was "Series 3" Noracars that won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 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-
All mountainous routes.. ance Tests in Holland and Italy.
A dandy, little machine, capable of BIG PERFORM- ANCES. Keeps rider cloan. Simple, easy to handle. 200 miles for $1.00 of fuel. Ride all seasons, any weather.
FREE DEMONSTRATION-SOLD ON EASY TERMS.
[Tt. No. C.1564.]
DE SOUSA & CO., LTD.
Sole Distributors for South China,
China Bullding, 7th Floor..
33, Wong Nei Chung Road
Happy Valley.
3-passenger special rondater.
$2,730
THE CAR YOU' WANT-AT A PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD"
S-passenger upecial touring,
..$2,790
4 passenger special coupe. 5-passenger special "A" sedan
$4,115
( )
.$4,140
This 'five-passenger special type Dodge Brothers Touring Car was given an actual road test in Hongkong the result being 23-3/4 miles an ons Imperial gallon of Texaco gasoline.
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Chandler Speedeter, completo with now top, now carpets, now upholstery and now paint. Engine thoroughly overhauled and in splen- did condition. An exceptional bargain at ... $2,500 Locomobile Touring Car, complete with six now Cord Tyres, new top, new upholstery, now paint. * agine now carpot and thoroughly overhauled and in splendid running order........
( ) Studebaker Spasial Six-Sports Body. Paint In fine condition, disappearing bood, 2- passenger Diokle seat, fivo wire who-la. five Owner Cord Tyros in good condition. driven; total mileage loss than 6,500 A very unusual bargain at........
$4,000
$2.000
· REMEMBER :- Used Car is only as good as the firm
with which you deal.
Check (the car you wish further information about and mail this advertisement to us TO-DAY.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33, Wong Nel Chung Road,
Name
Hongkong
SHELL AVIATION SPIRIT
used exclusively on both
BRITISH
WORLD FLIGHT
and
ARGENTINE WORLD FLIGHT
and from Rangoon to Constantinople and also in Iceland & Greenland on
AMERICAN WORLD FLIGHT
Just as SHELL AVIATION SPIRIT was successfully used on these flights, so all motorists who re- quire the best results should insist on
SHELL MOTOR SPIRIT.
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (S. C) Lid.
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