HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
NOVEL CURE FOR SPEEDING.
A NAME CAR-OWNERS
TRUST.
N every line of business achievement there is one
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name which stands for quality always inden. tified in the buyer's mind with the best of its kind. In the tyre field the (name, Firestone, bears this relation to the others. It is the name which experienced motorists immediately think of when exceptional quality is desired. Firestone Tyres give the topmost limit of strong, dependable service, with added values in comfort, safety and appearance.
Most Miles per Dollar
Contral 1246 or 1247,
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD.
33 Wong Nol Chung Road, (Happy Valley)....... DRAGON MOTOR LIVERY SERVICE, C. F. PAU, PROPRIETOR.
24, Dns Voux Road, (Hongkong)....
.Cor.tral 482.
Kowloon 226.
THE DURO MOTOR COMPANÝ. Nathan Road, (Kowloon)
[A full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres & Tubes carried at each of the above addresses.)
Firestone
HUDSON SUPER-SIX
For 9 Years Leader of Fine Car Sales
The 7-Passenger Phaeton
GENUINE BALLOON TIRES Now Enhance World's Greatest Value
For more than nine years the Hudson Super-Six has led all fine cur sales. Nothing but consistent leadership of real car vatue could win undhold such owner confidence. Today, with greater beauty of line, lower gravity center and smoother operation. the Hudson Saper-Six also brings the luxurious riding ease and glinost doubled brating efficiency of genuine balloon tires. They are standard equipment ca af Do not confuse with "semi-balloon" types, Hudson's are full sizz and genuine. Iasportant also, Hudson has not merely "added balloon tirin." Bot's running and steering gear have been specially designed for the radical differences alloon tires bring The result is the easiest steering and riding Hudson ever built.
And with these added relinements, Hudson's price advantage over comparable cars is more marked than ever.
Hudson's chief appent has always been in performance. By every way open to proof it has established its supremacy. Its records are famous. In speed, ncceleration. hill-climbing and endurance it holds roarks that, are celebrated among stock cars. The Super-Eix of todny, retaining all those noted murdities, suids a greater economy of fuct, oil and inaintenance, and a service polley of minimum coat, including estonishingly low parts price,
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
88, Wong Nel Chung Road
Happy Valley.
At Mayfield, California, motorisis convicted of speeding aro packed into an aoroplane and given a dose of real speed.
A General campaign for stroot, residential sections, except whore safety and accident provention there are special boulevard pro-| has been swooping the United visions.
States in greator proportions 2. Jail, revocation of licenBOS than has over been undertaken. and taking away the car of those Tho American Automobile guilty will help make streets safe. Association, the National 3. Safety education in shoois. Automobile Chamber of Com- 4. Gathering statistics- for meroo tho National Safety future moans of control. Council, city, state and govern
Relief of congestion by 5. ment authorities have combined through routing of tourists and in one serious undertaking to others who do not oare to stop in mako trafilo anfor for both town. drivers and pedestrians.
APPEAL TO DRIVERS.
A survoy of cities throughout Bosides motivities of officials, the country points to various there is the motorist himself to moans by which this object is whom the Amorioan Automobile sought.
Association has been making a City judges have been clamp-special appeal for safety. ing down tighter than ever on "Safety depends on the driver.”| traffic lawbreakers, provon ive says. F. H. Caley, president of Ohlo Stato Automobile measures have been attempted, the and all sorts of punishments Association. "If conditions are meted out to violators. There is to be improved drivers must still, howevor,
of recognize the personal element: opinion as to the best methods of as still being of the utmost solving the situation.
Importance. The average driver
differonco
LONGEST MILEAGE TYRI
DUNLOP
Supplied at MANUFACTUPER'S
parises.
CORDS.
Dunlop grows its own raw rub- her on its own estates in Malaya; weaves its own cotton fabric in magnificent Mills in Lancashire; and makes its own moulds.
This control of material and quality has a great deal to de with Dunlop supremacy.
Obtainable from the Dunlop Co's own Branch, also from Blocks carried by the Taxi Co., and by. J. Gibbs & Co. Alexandra Bldg. (phona C704- Sundays & Holidays. 0.1898.)
DUNLOP RUBBER Co. (China) LTD. Phone
St. George's Building. Hanghong,
Austin
MOTOR CARS.
In Cleveland, Memphis and falls into the habit of expecting t many other large cities, guilty too much from the protective In its drivere bave met with Hovere equipment of his oar." fines or imprisonment in attempts endeavour to areate safer traffic) to lower the accident and death conditions, the A. A. A. has rates on streeta. Yot some auto-opposed the enactment of radioal mobile officials believe this is only accident prevention measures part of a general remedy that until they have been investigated should be applied to traffic losses, and found practicable. Tempor- SUGGESTED REMEDIES. ary flare-ups of police and judgos, Tho National Automobile freak measures and other such; Chamber of Commerco urges five practices are discouraged. The ways to improve traffio condi- method shown in the picture tions. They aro:
above would surely come un- 1. Hold'spood down to a maxi- der tha category of "freak mum of 20 miles an hour in all mosauros."
THE ROMANCE OF BRITISH MAGNETO MANUFACTURE.
remarkable aptitude for copying and improving. In this case the reverse of the usual policy was at first forced upon the British Lighting and Ignition Co.
After the conclusion of the At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 it was almost im War, however, the opportunity mediately recognised that very occurred for the creation of a large numbers of motor vehicles distinctive type of British magne- would be required for various to, not modelled upon any pro- branches of military service. A viously existing product, but re- little later it became equally presenting fundamental changes improvements rondered apparent that there would be aand
by tho and tho vory big demand for aero engines. desirable
of engines spood In both spheres the British manu- increased facturing Industry WAS well consequently accentuated imper. equipped, with the one serious feotions of the rotating armatura exception that, prior to the war, and made practicable by the materials practically all our engine manu-availability of new facturers had allowed themeolves possessing exceptional possibili-; to ho wholly dependent on įtios.
Consequently, in the year 1922, Gormany for that essential com- ponent, the magnoto. In fact, an entirely new type of B.LIO.
produced WAB
and one largo German concorn had magneto obtained something nearly ap-marketed after prolonged tests. proaching a monopoly of the In this machine, which will view at the British British market, and the few be on. attempts made at competition by Empire Exhibition, we have the British firms had met with vory first British-built magneto in which the armaturo la stationary little encouragement.
Now, the design and manu-and the field toagnet revolves. facture of a good magneto re- One or two foreign firms had quires not merely salontife previously worked on this prin- knowledge, but very considorable oiple, but the B.L.I.C. stationary experience. Early attempts to armature magneto was in no develop distinctive types, while sonso a copy of the foreign but W16 simpler, fairly successful, were not suo products,
smaller, cessful
chicapor enouph
the lighter, when
Though magtiotos had to be applied to and more efficient.
hos
the ro. it
on only been such work that completo lability WAS
absolutely vital. market for less than two years,' Everything possible bad to be the B.I.C: stationary: armature done to make the British magneto magneto is now fitted as standard manufacturing industry efficient by the makers of upwards of!
ps quickly as possible, and le was twenty. woll-known varieties of
G. 4554.
Made in the largest motor works in the British Empire, by British workmen, at Long- bridge Birraingham England.
THE AUSTIN SEVEN Complete electrical equipment, 4 cylinder water cooled engine, brakes on all four wheels. Price delivered Hongkong, roady for the Road £188.0.0.
Early delivery can now be given.
THE AUSTIN TWELVE 5 seater open touring oar. R.A.C. rating 12.8 h.p. B.H.P. at 2000 r.p.m. 20. Upholstered in leather Adjustable driving soat. Equipment includes spare wheel and tyre, clook, rear screen, luggage carrier, and spring gaitors. Price delivered
· Hongkong ready for the Road £395.0,0.
Particulars of Other Models on Application.
N.B. Residente proceeding home on leave may purchase Austin "Twelves" or "Twenties" in Hongkong, and tako delivery in England, use the car for a period up to six months, return it to an Austin Depot, for packing and ship. ment to. Hong ong without extra obargos,
Sole Agents for Hongkong & South China
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA) LTD.
'Bank of China Buildings, Queen's Road. Telephone 27 or 2487.
WOMAN MOTORIST'S FEAT.
JOURNEY OVER MOUNTAINS.
The day has long since passed
Hongkong.
'drove her Clavoland Six Touring oar-pulling a trailer with more tho than 1000 pounds, "over numerous canyon and mountain grades of the northern route froni Buhl, Idaho, to Los An- |- geles, a difficult trip for even an experienced driver and one which subjected the oar to a gruelling
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for this purpose that the British British motor cars. It has proved when mombors of the so-called Lighting and Ignition. Co., Ltd., itself on the raoing track and in "weaker Fox" hesitate at the was originally formed in the road triale, and also in arduous suggestion of piloting a motor test
GOT, Time and the progress of When asked if she did not fear your 1919 as a propriotary com daily service, and it is now pany of tha famous drm of practically certain that this first, western civilization have done the venture, Mrs Scott repiled: original product of a business mush to overcome the hat debts "Ob, no! I bave tested my Clove
Vickors, Ltd.
In the early stages the B.1.0. in ugurated in its inception with and dangers which one wis al and Six for the past two years magotns were accurate copiosa first policy of imitating a Ger-ways liable to encounter before and know how dependable it is. of the German machines which it man machine represents the travel by motor dar came into its It can be fully counted upon for
the utmost of endurance "A was their duty to replace. So magneto of the future, the own. long as the War lasted no principles of which will in the However there are few, women attempt was made to deviato in nurse of time, bo universally who would venture to repost the interesting experience of MrC important details from the origi-adoptod. nal modole. Quantity output was
Mary O. Boott, wife necessary, and any experimental Montreal, Canada, is going to Bantt, of Boo work that might have held up replace it white
arrived in': Tor: Ant
from
output could not be justifiedija atzi In general, it bin been the n Britisher who has originated and ugl the German who has – shown various
of us are familiar with niirror, used by
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