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" HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

AUSTIN SEVEN.

7

The Car for the small family. Every- thing that is found on the large Car the plus Comfort, is found on Austin 7. Riding in one is convincing.

Latest Price £169.00. Ready for the road.

SOLE AGENTS:

Alex. Ross & Co. (China) Ltd.

THAT'S IT THE 1925 HARLEY.

The pride of motorcycle achievement.

A new machine at a new price.

Model 61-Standard equipped with magneto, presto- fight, lamp, luggage carrier, pump, tools horn. and speedometer, ready for the road....

Model 74-Standard equipped same as above.. Modal 61-Electric. Hondy for the road.

Modol 74-Electric. Ready for the rond. Sidecar, Single passanger

Sidecar, Double parsenger

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1925.

THIS SHOULD MAKE A WILD CAT WILD.

MIDGET REPLACES STEAM. MOGUL.

YORK GESTRAL LINES

An automotive two-car trafo has hoan installed on tho Cairo division of of the Cloveland, Chicago & St. Louis Hallway, Abovo in shown the augine, which is of six cylimlors, which has also linggago, mail and oxpross compartments,

THE 1925 MOTOR CAR.

INCREASED COMFORT AND

POWER.

Frankly, it will be difficult forg any man who can possibly afford it to rosiat tho tomplation to buy

UNIVERSAL REAR RED LIGHTS.

THE ENGLISH MOTOR CAR.

ACT.

now conviction that when the There souma to be a gonoral

a now car during 1925, for nover Motor Car Act is passed all before have such exceptional vehicles will be required to

models at such attractive prices | been offorod,

foarry a red warning light bo- The value built into the modern bind after nightfall. When the Bill comes up for discussion motor car greatly exeands the dollar for dollor value to be found in Parliament it is expaotad in any other manufactured com offered in the supposed interests that same opposition will be adity, simply because the auto- motive industry loads all others who are alleged to be against in the use of labor-saving minitet a small expenditure on a measure of safey which would chinery and in efficiency for prothem and a responsibility to keep (duction methods, Therefore it gets more results por hour of man-labour expended than does uiters should assume such im- any other industry.

lamp alight, Why those

portance when attached to a bicycle and be regarded without A Kreat muny parsons

heat by evory other road will want now cars this your in: order to obtain balloon tyres and vehicle or is difficult to under- Four-wheel brakes, the one forstand. ne suspects the situation comfort and the other for safety to be a considerable piece of bluff Others will buy now cars in order on the part of a small section of to obtain machines with wear cycling officialdom which will disappear on what the Americans' proof finish.

chow down." Probably Practically all 1925 cara will be call a finished in lacquer, such as Duco, the cyclists' advocates will con- $775.00 or in baked onamol, and oven test the proposal from the outset, $825.00 those high priced cars using substitution of a red reflex fight but in the end will suggest the S825.00 paint will, in some casos, have $875.00 two couts of finish varnish. When S240.00 you buy a 1925 model there is as motorists and other road usory $300.00 lot of satisfaction in knowing that

ASK ME TO POINT THE 27 NEW IMPROVEMENTS. GASCON'S MOTOR HOSPITAL.

2. Kwong Wali Road (opposite the Steam Laundry) Kowloon. Fhone K. 1242. Note-Don't let the cost trouble you if you cannot afford to pay

cash, come in and see me to arrange payment by instal ments, easy and within reach of everybody who is craving for real life in the open this Summor.

So don't wait until To incrrow for it may be too late, only limited number of machines will soon arrive as first shipmont. Come and lot mo have your name. First cons first sorvod.

A. GASCON.

AGENT FOR THE NEW 1925 HARLEY DAVIDSON,

MICHELIN

TYRES

OFFER YOU THE

MAXIMUM

AT THE

SERVICE

MINIMUM

EXPENSE

Full stocks carried by

THE EUROPE - ASIA TRADING CO. China Building

the finish will last for years, that two or three or perhaps even five years hence the car will look practically as good as new.

пенн.

IMPROVED ENGINE

PERFORMANCE,

instead of a lighted lamp. So far

If

"Kid" Johnston, an ax-prizo tighter, who in his day could "lick his weight in wild- cats," koops his hand in by capturing and training these animals. Here he is with a hundred pounds of full-grown mountain lion which he has taught to pull a four-whoaled contraption through the stroots of Manhattan, Mont. U.S.A.

1-25 30

A TRUCK TYRE OF SUPER

QUALITY

The Goodyear Heavy Duty Cushion is a deep, massive tyre of the toughest rubber human skill can mold.

It has maximum load carrying ability with as much cushioning capacity as is possible in a tyre of solid rubber

are concerned there would be no great disposition to pross the matter further than that. If correctly positioned and effective- ly constructed a reflex warning device will pick up and roturni 'the light of a motor car or motor cycle hond lights. But who is to' Never before have ongines been see and who will be entrusted with Ao quiet, so ernooth, ac powerful the duty of seeing that the devices or as durablo. Those features have used. not only aro effective bean achieved by small changes and disposed of effectively, but In general, crankshafts are heaare so maintained? In the case vior, pistons and connecting rods of a rear lamp the caso is simple, are lighter, ond bearings are Any observer can discora whether! largor. These things make for the lamp is alight and is doing its amooth running, durability and work, but not until a lamp is long life,

flashed and flashed from the right Many thousand milos have been direction--bobind-ean it he dis- added to engine life by improvocovored whother that reflex light; ment in lubricating systems. is properly positioned or is in use' The use of fibre gears or silent at all. If that duty is to devolve chains has added to ongino quiet on the police they will have such

Air intako oleaners and oil considerablo addition to their; purifying systems also cut down nightly duties that, in many dis- engine wear, as does also the tricts, they will have little time fitting of a radiatory shutter, for other matters. For that rea- since it reduces the warming up son wo may expect the police to period, and it has been shown object to any exceptions being that most engine woar occurs at permitted to a universal rear light this time.

regulation, and we do not think Power increase have been ob the Home Office is Mikely to tained in various ways: By ehangaccept anything in the Dill that ing the shape of the combustion is opposed by the polion. chamber, by raising the compres-oyclists had not listened to the sion by increasing the valve intransigent who appear to have opening, for raising the engine captured the control of their offi speed, and, in some casos, all these methods have boon used.

In most instances, stoaring goars have been redesigned HO that cars stear more readily with balloon tyres than they did previously with standard time. motor accident, the presence of a And th 0 control mechanism price of rod glass on the bicyclo has веод improved In

bs advanced as proof that the many othor rospects. Sov- cyclist must have been visible to oral cary

of: the the overtaking motorist-which lighting awitch lever on the wo fool auro would, occasionally stooring wheel, Gear shift lever at least be a wrong assumption. and clutch pedal aro mero easily |operated, and in many casos, the brako podal takes less prossuro than formerly.

and in some cases, shock absor ENCLOSED CARS ARE CHEAPER, bere, spare tyree, radiator shutter, Upholstory is more durable, as well as other items, are fitted. and cushions and sout back much Brighter colours are coming moro comfortablo. Closed cars into ине, and this is still now cost very little more than another reason for buying a 1925 open cars, dus largely to the per- model. The new cars in hand- faction of the two-door, five some shades of blue, green, groy passanger olonod car, variously and brown are far ahead of the called a coach, two-door sedan, older machines in sombro black, {brougham, coupe brougham, for almost black shades of groen

coupo-sadan and so forth.

The driver's comfort has boon The purchaser of a 1925 oar enhanced by the use of one-piece should give it much better care windshields and the adoption of than ho has his previous machines automatic windshield cleaners, because the new models are de- and boaters are now common in signed to run for years with fow closed cars so that they are just repairs, if they are not neglected. as comfortable in cold weather an Cars of yentoryear wore likely to at any other time.

become lather dooripit, after two Moro complete oquipment in a for three years, oven with good distinctive fosturo of many 1925 care, but the car of today is so cars, and includes such essential molentifloally built that if it is not accessories as bumpers front and abused or neglected it will last a roar, sun-visor, stoplight, rear long long time, as those who buy 'windshield cleaner, olook, heater, pleasure and profit.

ΠΟΥ havo

cial organisations the question of} a universal rear light regulation might probably would-not have arison. As it is, we fear we must pross for aqual responsibilitios all round, lest in the case of a cycle-

or blue.

Ask To See The Balloon Tyres, mirror, radiator thermometer, 1925 cars will discover to their

construction.

The Goodyear Heavy Duty Cushion gives maximum cushioning, greater traction and greater mileage because

1. The high quality of rubber com-

pound.

2. A greater total volume of rubber. 3.- Better methods of manufacture. 4-The All-Weather Tread Design.

Cushions Goodyear Heavy Duty should be used for all heavy hauling where carrying capacity is essential to handle the loads, and where the greatest possible cushion is desired to reduce upkeep expense.

Goodyear Means Good Wear.

GOOD YEAR

HEAVY DUTY CUSHION TYRES

MADE IN CANADA

DISTRIBUTORS

Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd.

BANK OF CHINA BUILDING,

HONGKONG.

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