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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1925.

"AMERICAN BRAKE TESTING DEVICE.

The Mark of Quality

This mark identifies Firestone--the tyre equipment which measures up to the high standard of service we ourselves aim to deliver.

The Firestone process of Gum-Dip- ping accomplishes the great vital need

in tyre service It prevents friction and avolds excessive heat.

On Tubos this mark indicates select- ed rubber and workmanship of highest skill.

Ask for both tyres and tubes bear- ing the Firestone name and Mark of Quality.

MOST MILES

PER DOLLAR

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD. DRAGON MOTOR LIVERY SERVICE.

33 Wong Nel Chung Road, (Happy Valloy)...

C. F. PAU, PROPRIETOR.

24, Des Vuur Road, (Hongkong).

.... Central 1246 1247.

Cor fral 482.

Kowloon 226.

THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY

Nathan Road, (Kowloon) ...

[A full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres & Tubes carried at each of the above addresses.]

Firestone

DODGE BROTHERS

TOURING CAR

Where downright sturdiness is a first condition of popularity, Dodge Brothers Touring Car is invariably spoken of in terms of praise.

So universal, in fact, is the car's reputation for doing unusual things, that the unusual no longer excites surprise.

Particulars.

Standard.

Special

$2,870

Roadster 2-3-passengore...

$2,840

$2,480

Touring 5-passengers .....

$2,700

$3,100

Business Coupe 2-3-passengera

$3,300

f

03,520

Business Sodan 5-passengers

53,780

$8,780

Coupe 4-paasongors

$3,880

$3,800

Sodan Type "A" S-passengers...

$4,000

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.;

88, Wong Nei Chung Road

Happy Valley.

Amarioan engineers have invented this machine which

is placed into the bodies of automobiles to tost their brakes. It is called a decolerometer. It is hold down by a heavy weight and springs. When the brakes are applied, the weight moves against the springe, causing a pointer to move on the dial. This shows the distance required to stop the car from a given spoed,

TOURS FOR MOTORING.

SURPRISING FIGURES.

ROADS SIGNS FOR MOTORISTS.

A. A. ENTERPRISE. From 1st May to 31st October, 1924 (6 months) the Automobile

During the first nine months of Association Touring Department this year the Automobile Asso- issued more than 170,000 itinera clation erected 6,898 road signs----- rios, running to the colossal'

Of this over 750 per month. mileage Df approximately number 3,598 indicated the names 68,000,000 or 8,000,000 in excess of villages, while 1,184 were direc- of the total issued for the whole tion signs. Signs giving warning of last year. The Itineraries have of danger points numberod 714, touched practically every motor while 225 "Temporary Diver- ing road in England, Scotland, ion" traffic signs were put up in Wales and many in Europe and connection with obstructed roads, beyond.

roads under repair, otc.

With the advent of winter the prossure on the A. A. Touring Department is now lighter, and applications for routes can be dealt with, in nearly all cases, by return of post.

THORNYCROFTS FOR JAPAN.

FOR RECONSTRUCTION WORK.

BALLOONS ON TAXIS. Paria taxicabs are to have bal- loon tyros. More than 5,000 sets are being fitted to the cabs.

RED LIGHTS BEST. Red is the opsiest colourto.ace, is the conclusion of exporimontera | at a test of various colour signala! on motorists, conducted by the Bureau of Standards.

It was found that, under daylight condi- tions, the signals' discernable in, their order, were red,green, yellow and blue.

Thearrivalreportedby the Japan

DOUBLE DUTY, Automobile Co., at Nakano, near Tokyo, of a shipment of Thorny- Anderson arranged a method croft lorries indicatos that the on a tost engine by which tho gigantic task of task of recon-air was first directed through the struction after the Japaneso crankcase and then into the earthquake is now proceeding, carburetor to take its part in the Those lorries created an excellent fuel mixture for the engine. impression, and the engineers in He also added a filtration sys- chargo of the re-orection of the tom by which oil sprayed into chassis reported that their work the carburetor opening from the proved a great doal deal easier crankcase and brought in with in comparison with the assembly the auction on the air might be of other vehiclos they had pro-kopt from this opening. viously handled, by reason of It is altogether experimental. their greator accuracy of finish Anderson admits, but it has good and interchangeability, while prospects of boing practicable they Woje Also enthusiastic and finally of making auto driy- about the excellent manner in ing choaporsod more economical. which the chassis had been Dilution of orankcase oil withị packed for shipmont-a matter water and unburned fuel accelor-i of considerable importance to atos the woar of engino bearings, oversens buyers. One of those cylinders and pistons. It has Thornycroft lorries has been boen under the eyes of engineers acquired by the Japanese Army for several years and many re- Transport Depot, and others are inedies have boon offered. The to ho equipped with tipping idea prosented by Anderson is bodies.

one of the latest.

YET ANOTHER SHIPMENT

JUST ARRIVED OF THE FAMOUS

B. S. A.

MOTOR

CYCLES

An early inspection is advised.

THE SINCERE CO.

Comparison Confirmation

W

IS

THEN you are choosing a car, comparison alone will indicate what is best value and what beat suits your needs. Typical of AUSTIN excellence and value and offering the cheapest travel in the world is.

The

Austin

Has it-

Seven

4-cylinder Engine

Ask yourself wint

other car at the

same price gives you the same performance and equipment.

Water-cooled Pump Lubrication

4-wheel Brakes

Shock Absorbers

Electric Horn

A Door for the Driver

Adjustable Seats

Grease Gun system.

ASK AN AUSTIN OWNER

Standard Model

Sports Model

Clhassis

£155,0.0

... £170.0.0 £120.0.0

Alex Ross & Co., (China) Ltd.

Bank of China Building Quoon's Road. Tal, C.27 or 2487.

Hongkong.

STRONGER AND MORE ELASTIC MATERIALS IN GOODYEAR BALLOON TYRES

1-24-18

The special characteristics of balloon tyros-particularly their thinner sidewalls and extreme fexibility-brought on now prob lom in design and important requiroments in materials.

There developed an immediate need for a now kind of cord matorial, of extreme elasticity and endurance;

No ordinary card material may be expected to withstand pro- porly the balloon type's continuous flaxing and still resist the severe roadshooks.

So goodyear solved this urgent problem-by perfecting a re- markable and exclusive cord material called SUPERTWIST.

Tosts made with tyres embodying this now material showed that it delivered in excess of 100% greater service than a tyre containing an equal number of plies of standard cord material. It was demonstrated in these tosts that Goodyear SUPERT- WIST literally doubled the life of the tyre,

All Goodyear Balloon Tyres are made of this incomparable matorial-Goodyear Balloon Tyres to fit new small diamotor wheels, and wheels on the majority of care now in use.

IN BALLOON TYRES AS IN OTHERS Goodyear Means Good Wear

GOOD YEAR

BALLOON TYRE S

MADE IN CANADA. DISTRIBUTORS

ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA) LTD.

BANK OF CUINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.

SEPTEMBER 18 WORST..

FOR SALE

September of this year has been the worst traffic accident monta WNER of 8 h.p. De Luxe of 1924, bealdos being 17 per cent. 1924 B 8: A Combination worse than the corresponding wishes to dispose of his machins month last year. Accidents then before going on leave in April amounted to 2100, or about 38 next Perfect condition. Numer por cent, above the August dus spared. Particulare from Bor Holl

No. 1359 Hongkong

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