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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

BALLOON TYRES STANDARD EQUIPMENT

The New Paige Sets Another Mark

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UCCESS from year to year and continuous improvement has been the remarkable history of the Paige motor car. Each year finds it taking new laurets for speed. hill cẩmbing, and for greater comfort and luxury in its appointments.

No matter how much one pays for a motor car, one cannot get more comfort, more Gexible power, more dependable construction than is encased within this beautiful body and chassis ensemble. The new Paige, with its eighteen coats of paint and varnish, stands forth as an excellent example of the coach builder's art,

Step into the driver's seat and see how accurately it answers every demand supplying all and more than is required. Examine the fine workmanship and see how careful the maker has been with his product. Then inquire about the price and you surely have a surprise in store,

PAIGE

SPECIFICATIONS:

Engine-G cylindor 334 x 5; high pressure oiling to main and connecting rod bearings, alle t front end timing chain, aluminium crankcase; 131-inch wheel- baso; Palgo-fimkon axles: 61⁄2-inch framo; springs of special high carbon steel, 40 inches in front; 6134 inches in rear; snubbers, front and reart petrol gauge and sight-day clock on dash; instruments assembled under glass,

Spare cord tyre, tube and protector; bampers, front and rear; nickelod radiator and motomator; automatic windscreen, wiper; roar view mirror; sun visor, folding luggage carrior; trunk railu; rear stop signal,

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33. Wong Nei Chung Road

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Happy Valley.

PAIGE

DODGE BROTHERS

TOURING CAR

It is frequently as red hw a car so ht can be at the same time so remarkably sturdy.

The answer, of course. is simple. Pressed steel parts and prfectly designed steel fo gings are used instead of heavy castings.

Combined with the admirable de- sign and bala ce of the car, this construction results in ease on control, greater tyre mileage, low upkeep cost and long life.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

88, Wong Nel Chung Road

Happy Valley.

CHINA HAS TOTAL OF

-10.000 MOTORS.

SHANGHAI'S BIG QUOTA.

China has a population, when not including Thibet and Mon-! golia and two districts not yet, investigated, of approx mately 430 000,000 people, and there aro [8,508 motoraksu, 1130 motori trucks and hands, and 1.14) motor Joyclos in Chino, noco ding to |cen-u« figures pivan in a Peking

Rove oment bulletin.

The populuion figures ПTO estimates published by the dỉ -| Tectorate-general of posts, Peking moʻropolitan disrint boasts a Ental of over 4,000,00) individuals The province with the largont! number of people, apparently, in Kwangtung, of which Canton is the chief ofty and whore Dr Sun! Yat-on has created sa muab un- rast in roonnt yours. Honan, where Wa Poi-fu was stationed, and Chibli. in which Peking Sin. klan, or Chinese Turkestan, in the provinco containing the small st number of people, about 2,500,000 Wa Pol-fu was ordered by pre- sidential mandate issued follow- Ing Feng Yu-halang'a coup d'etat, to go to Kuko Ner, or Chinghai, a district between Binklang. Thihot, Kansu and Szechuan. Noodless: to say, waste land predominates there and colonization in not a flourishing bu-iness.

Shanghai, of course, owns the largest number of motaroare, as Kiangsu, the port of which pro- vince Shanghai is, desplto Lu Yung-halang's claims, bas tho largest number of any provicon, | pan oly.over 1 000 passangorcare, (nearly 600 truck- and husos and 3 motor croles Kwangtun", however, has 455 molor opclus, while fewer ours and tru›ks. Yunnan province, necording to the censua (izures, main’ains only ono passenger car, but it is not specified whether tho military governor, General Tang Chi-yao (80 o'ton reported assassinat-i od), owns this role machine. machine or not. Shanghai, in 1902, preserved (wo cars, at tho! beginning of the revolution over 200, and in 1922 over 4 000. The invasion of motorcars, truck", bass and oyelos has hastened the movement to mprove road- and highways in towns as well acou try. The tariff on imported) dar in 5 por con', and vol rem ati & Martime Custom houчon, nius.3 par cent, and valor m ati Peking which supports its woll- known oorraj administration.

COMMERCIAL TREATIES

URGED.

MOTOR LEADERS DISCUSS IMPORTANT QUESTION.

Ration of commercial trestien | to automotive products which now rank first in exportation of all U.S manufactures was informally discussed at conferencos recently batweon hi h Government Off- ciale and a dologation of automo. tive executive headed by John N Willy, Chairman of the Foreign Trado Committee of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- MYCO.

Conferences were with officials instrumental in negotiations of commercial tretios of US, with frolan countries and included Prosident Coolidge: Charlos E. Hughes, Socretary of Slate; Mombora of Senato Commi tao on Foreign Relations; ariff Com- mittee; J. Walter Drake, Assist- ant Beor tary of Commerco; Percy Owon, Chief of U. Auto- motive Division; Lou & Domerst- sky, Aseistant Chief of Bureau of Forgiven and Domestic Commerce It was pointed out by the auto- motive representatives that with mony manufacturing Nations thero exists; in finished waree, an exchange nearly equl with U.S. The continuance, however, of this equitablo arrangement, acoms to depend on aonardancs of same) facilites to US exporters of

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1925.

Ford

THE UNIVERSAL CAR

BIG

REDUCTION

IN FORD TOURING CARS AND TRUCK CHASSIS, RUNABOUT ETC., AS FOLLOWS:-

Touring car with starter and Demountable Rims $1090,00 ̄ ̄ Touring car without self starter and Demount-

able *ims -

Runabout with self starter and Demountable

Rims

L

Runabout without self starter and Demountable

Rims -

Sedan with self starter and Demountable Rims

(4 doors) -

Coupe with self starter and Demountable Rims Touring chassis with self starter and Demount-

able Rims

Truck chassis with self starter and Demount-

able Rims

Truck chassis without self starter and Demount-

able Rims

To Ford Owners

$ 925.00

$1030.00

$ 870.00

$1750,00 $1500.00

$ 700,00

$1095.00

$ 825.00

Have your Repairs done at Service Station, Kowloon. Tel. Central 3665.

Andrew Harper,

Authorised Ford Dealer

VALVE-IN-HEAD

BUICK

MOTOR CARS

So safely and satisfactiorily have BUICK Four-Wheel-Brakes per- formed upon thousands of Buick cars that not even so much as a cotter pin was changed in building the 1925 Buick brake equipment.

When better Automobiles are bulltBuick will build them

For Demonstration.

Please call or Telephone C. 1036.

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

33 & 35 Des Vœux cad Central.

finished gonda an are given to In planning your PICNICS or joy rides,

foraien shipperf manufacturod

warer to this country,

It was also indiasted that U 8.

has been in, ponerat, according

don't forget K. 226.

the minimum or se'ual rates of livery cars give satisfaction.

Curios na impor - in belief that there might be established in utual- i'w he'worn all nations and the US. For that reason there `have) n', as yet, bean applied the maximum du'les on imports from any o untry ál·hough a schedule! of rates higher than minimum by 51% and indirectly representinri maxin um chedules emparable

• to thing of athar onuntries are availab'o under U “, tariff.

It was also shown that lack of Dommerals) irontion in resulting in the

THE

DURO MOTOR CO.

NATHAN

V

ROAD

ares ment in cortain A good car merits a good, clean, roomy

counrtien ‹ f highor rates of dulles

on American automobiles than

are applied on moter vehicles garage. Only a limited number of carg ori inating In competetitor can now be accommodated.

nations.

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