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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, · FEBRUARY 21, 1925. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

BALLOON TYRES STANDARD EQUIPMENT•

Paige Motor Cars for Continuous Use

THERE are in service today Paige cars that have traveled over 250,000 miles--ten

times around the world-and still running and doing their daily bil.

Some of them with this record are in the taxicab service working day and night without the care and overhauling usually given a motor car by a private owner,

It is remarkable that there are motor cars that will stand all the use and abuse to which Paige cars are subjected and still carry on for years.

It would be no mystery to the buyer, however, if he visited the Paige works and saw the methodical precision exerted in the manufacture of Paige parts and the infinite care of assembly.

The longevity of the Palge motor car would cause less wonder if motor car buyers could witness the hours and hours of road test to which all Paiges are subjected until they are so perfect as to receive the stamp of approval and bear the name plate "Paige."

PAIGE SPECIFICATIONS:

Engine--0 cylinder--334 x 5; high pressure oiling to main and connecting rod bearinge, alleat front and timing chain, aluminium crankcase; 131-inch whool- base; Palgo-Timkon axlos; 61⁄2-inch frame; springs of special high carbon steel, 40 inches in front; 6134 inchos in rear; snubbers, front and rear; potrol gauge and eight-day clook on dash; instruments assembled under gl189.

Spare cord tyro, tubo and protector; bumpers, front and rear; nickeled radiator and motomotor; automatic windscroon wiper: rear view mirror; oun visor; folding luggago carrier; trunk rails; rear stop signal.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247,

33. Wong Nei Chung Road

Happy Valley.

PAIGE

DODGE BROTHERS

TOURING CAR

Fashionable and roomy in design, with numerous refinements, includ" ing a spring suspension that guar-

antees luxurious travel over the

roughest roads, Dodge Brothers Touring Car is everywhere accorded the kind of welcome it most emphatically deserves.

MODERN TRANSPORTATION.

AMAZING PROGRESS OF MECHANICAL TRACTION.

Starting practically at zero a littlo moro than twenty-five years ago, the numbor of motor vehiclon in uso today in the United Statoa is approximatoly 17,000,000. Throughout tlie whole recorded poriad of civilization probably no other moohanical factor has affected the nature of progress so vitally,

To rovlow all of the changes it has brought about would be an Impossibio task except by the process of contrasting, in ovary department of human activity, the conditions of twentyfivo years ago with those of today.

Yut in even a cursory review of those revolutionary ohangor we can point to no singlo valuable institution of human scolety of pro-automobile days which han baon harmed by the advent of the motor car. To most of them, rather, it has proved a distinot and decided annot.

When Edward Bellamy wrote his "Looking Backward," which was generally received with a amilo, he definitely predicted the | broadcasting of music by telephone, as was later done in England, and, by inference,) 1ho broadcasting of sermons, addreusos and concerts as is done today hy radio.

His book, howevor, is singular- ly lacking in predictions of im. proved transportation methods, The automobilo on we know it Boms not to have entered his prophetic vision. Yot our.bie-i torios show us that overy marked inatorial advance has been the accompaniment of marked im provement in means of trans- portation.

It was only ton years after the publiention of Bellamy's work of roalistle imagination that Col.) Albert A. Pop, for whom I wrote. the first advertisemonts of hisl now motorcar factory, repeated-] ly said that it would be a matter] of only a short time before horsek) waro ruled off the roads. For him; a so people had a ready laugh. Yot there are some cities, and boulevards in many vilior, whore horses are not allowed.

Although this faithful friend off mankind is still very much need-) ed for many dutios, he is fast disappearing from our city strools, without the need of legislation to send him on his way.

While the motor is a luxurioue mode of individual transportation wo are so tuned up to its use that Iwo could not live our daily livon without it any more than wo could without the telephone, the tolograph or the trans-continental} exprose. The investment in it! is roturned many times OVAT the one Item of tho greatest asset we mortals have- time. As such alone, it is one of the greatest resources of Our civilization and ano of tho greatest producers of wealth.

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It reduces miles to minutos. It makes possible the suburban re- aidonce away from the conges- tion of tho city. It enda tho farmer's isolation, widens the mother's horizon, makes for bat- tor children and provides recrea- tion for the father and his family cutaide of hir hours of labour.

HH. Pic Fresident of the

Cadillac Motor (ar to

PROHIBITION P

TRIUMPH

MOTOR CYCLES

Shipment of 1925 Models due in March

Fine engineering has made the name of TRIUMPH famous wherever cyoling is possible.

The Triumph Model P is one of the latest and the last word in Cycles. Something new and still triumph quality remains as known the world over.

Model P. £42. 17, 6 without Lighting Set. Model P. 250. 12. 6 electrically equipped.

Freight extra.

Alex. Ross & Co. (China) Ltd.

Bank of China Buildings Hongkong

Tel. C. 27 or 2487.

Tel. C. 27 or 2487.

THE BUICK

SEALED CHASSIS

Every driving part in a Buick chassis is sealed. Dirt, mud and water are kept out and the lubricant is kept in. That's one reason why Buick cars last longest and give no trouble to the owner.

When better Automobiles are built Buick will build them

For Demonstration.

Please call or Telephone C. 1036.

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

33 & 35 Des Voeux Road Central.

DRIVE IN

To Hongkong's First Filling Station Texaco Gasoline, Oils and Greases

Free Air and Wator.

TO HIRE A GOOD CAR”-

Bright and sheltered,

For General Service and Prempitude:

Phone K.226.

THE DURO MOTOR CO.

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

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The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

38, Wong Nei Chung Road -

Happy Valley.

After climbing an embank- mant six feet high and run. ning 15 foot across the lawn this."flivver" mado a dog- porate effort to climb on over A house at Vinconnes, Ind. The car was stopped with its back wheels in the air and the Intoxicated driver Was taken to the state farm, to sober up.

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