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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

A FOREIGN FREAK.

MATCHLESS

IN NAME AND REPUTATION.

THE MATCHLESS MOTOR CYCLE REPRESENTS

THE LATEST AND BEST IN BRITISH MOTOR ENGINEERING,

3 b. p. high fliciency side valve engine.

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925.

AT

EXACTLY

OPEN

CAR COST

$4,000

5h.p. Low Compression o.li.v. single eyelinder engine.

8 hp. J. A. P. latest type touring side valve 50° V twin touring engine.

All the above electrically equipped and complete with full kit of tools. Speedometer and Horn.

1925 MODELS NOW IN STOCK

Tel. 32 HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Tel. 32 THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

AUTO {FINISH

Restore The Lustre of Youth To Your Car

At Small Cost

WE'LL turn out a perfect job. By "per..

fect" we mean that your car will be

a delight to the eye: Smooth; dazzlingly bright; envied by all neighbours.

You'll be hugely pleased too, at the very moderate cost. Just drive your old looking car over to-day and ask us for an estimate.

Europo also excels in the freakishnoss of its designs. The auto pictured hore is an example. Even the front whools are enclosed under the hood. It's only a froak, howover, because it couldn't bo vory efficient when running against a wind at any considerable speed.

|MOTOR CAR CONTRASTS.

GREATEST IN THE BRITISH

MOTOR INDUSTRY.

Necessity has forced Great

Britain, and the rest of Europo for that matter, far ahead of

Amorica in automobile develop.

mont.

High taxes, high maintenonco costs have driven the engineer to design a car that will east a little anossible and could be driven at the cheapest oxpOUSO,

The result is a drove of small automobilos of even as low as Boven horaopo wor, running about the streets of London, Paris and Berlin.

CORRECT GEAR CHANGING.

HOW TO ACT WHEN COASTING.

Usually the novice finds it a

diflicuct task to re-engage high

gear after defeending a hill in) noutral. For some reason many drivers find this particular change extremely awkward. The simplest plan is to practice it at a fixed speedometer roading, pre- forably about 20 m. p. h.

i suppose even a novico under- stands that the engine must be. running when the high gear is re-engaged, otherwise the driver is attempting to connect a moving with a stationary part. The British Morris is an ox-part

engagement depends ample, it is designed in throo Silent models, ranging from a 12-horse- entirely on two factors, viz

First. The clutch must be out,] power CNI costing less than $1000 to 112 18-horsepower but not out so far that it comes vehicle selling for $2400. to rest.

FULLY EQUIPPED, Evon the smallest model has! oquipment equal to many good cars in America.

There in A 12-volt ignition eyytom with five lamps, a speedo mater, an oight-day clock, oil and gasoline gauges on the dashboard, and a complete and efficient aide curtain equipment for inclement weather.

The Improved Hudson Coach The Easiest Steering and Riding Hudson Ever Built This Hudson Coach is the first closed car ever to sell at exactly open car cost. And Hudson, alone, can build it. As the largest producer of 6-cylinder closed cars in the world, Hudson exclusively holds the advantages to create this car and this price.

With Genuine Balloon Tires

And now genuine balloon tires are standard equipment. Do not confuso with 'soni- balloon" types.

Noto, too, that Hudson has not simply "added balloon tires. Both running and stooring gear havó boen specially designed to compensate for the radical differences balloon tires bring.

The result is the easiest steering, most

comfortabio and stondiest riding Hudson evor built. And braking ufficiency in

almost doubled.

More than over, "Closed Car Comforts at Open Car Cost" is the uppormest buying issue. Note now fast the Coach is di placing open cars. As the wanted typo the Coach maintains the highest resale value against the waning desirability of the open car.

Why Buy an Open Car?

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

The puzzled 33, Wong Nei Chung Road...

Second-The ongino must bo accelerated to the right degree.

The right degree is easily learned by the oar. learner should coast a hill, and as the car slows to his selected practicing speed, say 20 m. p. h. at the foot of the hill, he should,

First-Prass the acceleratortill the noise of the exhaust sounds correct for 20 approximately m.p.h.

Second,Fren the clutch by slight depression of its pedal.

Third. "Feel" high gear notch' with the gear lever. In all prob- ability the levor will slip silently into high and he can then let his

Somo of the smaller cara, liko the British Austin, or the Franch Mathis, are of only seven bored power. Yet they are designed to carry two passengers comfortably and go up to 45 miles an hour.clutch pedal up happily. If ho Their gasoline requiroments aro hears a grating the grating will low.

not bo severse enough to damage Opposed to these attempts at the teeth of the gears and ho con economy are some of the most instantly push the levor away If the gorgeous affairs over soon on the again toward noutral. streets of London-or New York. grating occurs with this gentle. And oven those intended feeling for high gear the accelera- mostly for the colourful princes of tion is either too much or tuo India and other Asiatic countries, little, usually the latter, and if he whore lavishnose and display is quick he can vary the degree of acceleration and fool for high persist.

onco moro very gently.-Aut- omobila Digest.

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A COMPROMISE. The Maharajah of Alwar, for: instance has had a. Lanchester! mado oupoeially for him. It looks more like an old-time horse- drawn couch than a modern au- tomobile. But it is so construct-

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.ed as to give its owner the height

Telephone Central 1248 or 1247.

33, Wong Not Chung Road

Happy Valley.

Harley Davidson

HERIC

1924 MODELS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. SHEWAN TOMES & CO. Sole Agents, Tel. C. 781,

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of comfort and pleasure.

NEW USE FOR SPEEDOMETER ACTS AS PETROL GAUGE.

The coach body is built apart from the ongino, so that an occu-

As many small cars are not pant could hardly believo he is being drawn by modern motive equipped with potrol gauges, methods. It is sald actually to their drivers have resorted to float along, despito rocky and using the speedometer as a sub- stituto. Knowing the averago! rutty roads.

The ongino is of the six-cylin-number of miles they can got der, 40-horsepower type, and from a gallon of gas, they sot back the tripodomotor to zoro the chassis has a wheelbase of

joach tim10 that gasoline le of 178 inches, almost twice the length of a Ford. The body is purchased and have no further worries until the approximate elaborately ornamented.

distance represented by the num- The Maharajah of Rows has a bor of gallons in the tank has Lanchester Fodan just as boon drivon.

elaborately ornamented and For example, if the owner of a specially equipped. This car car obtains eighteen miles per has a special ventilating system gallon, upon purchasing five 80 the Maharajah may keep gallons of gas, he should be able cool under the hottest rays of to drive at loset ninoty miles the Indian sun.

before another purchase must be Even the windows are made of made. By turning the trip back a special type of glass which is to zoro ha is reasonably cortain opaque only from the outside, that he can travel for at least rooping out the sum and the eighty miles before saain rofill- vision of curiosity seckers.

ing. Though the speedometer will sorvo vory efficiently as a gasoline gauge, it cannot entirely bo doponded upon.

DANGERS OF A HICKETS CAR.

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This, however, is through no fault of its own, as it must be Novor tolerate a rickety car. A understood that mileage in ot loere wheel may come off just the only indication of fuel con- about the time it is necessary to sumption. The idling of the car, cross a railroad. The automobile much running through congested may collapse while travelling on districts, bosidon loaks in the car a narrow road abutting a pro- buretor, gasoline tank or lines! olpido. Tife cor may run wild will all consumo gas which will down a steep hill if the brakes not be recorded by the speedo-

meter.' are not functioning properly.

DRIVE IN

Station

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

Free Air and Water.

TO HIRE A GOOD CAR

Bright and Sholtorod.

For General Service and Prompitude.

Phone K.226.

THE DURO MOTOR CO.

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

(Happy Valley).

THE BUICK "SIX"

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Owners express surprise that a car so power- ful and spirited as the Buick Six operates so smoothly and quietly. Such outstanding performance explains why the car is 'winning and holding the good will of all who buy it.

For Demonstration.

Please call or Telephone C. 1036.

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

33 & 35 Des Vœux Road Central.