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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

MIMOSA FESTIVAL ON THE RIVERIA.

BALLOON TYRES STANDARD EQUIPMENT'

SATURDAY, APRIL 4; 1925.

TRIUMPH

The Triumph gets you home in a jiffy. It takes a Triumph' to take you there and bring you back.

Stocks Garried.

An Extraordinary

Car

PAIGE motor cars are built for people who require a motor car that is different from

the ordinary.

For people who require the long symmetrical lines in their motor car which are the embodiment of grace-look at the Palge and compare its beauty.

For people who require comfort in motoring-the Paige wheelbase of 131 inches makes any road, no matter how hilly or rough, seem like a smooth level highway.

For people who require a motor car with a powerful engine-the Paige has an engine that leaves all competitors behind, as has been demonstread in hundreds of speed contests, For people who require a staunch and rugged motor car that will last for years-the Paige chassis is built of "I" beam steel to withstand every demand from the engine and roadbed,

car made by In short, the Paige has been built for motor buyers who require reputable builders with years of experience behind them-the Paige Motor Car Company has been building fine motor cars for 13 years, each year adding new laurels. A firm of grent financial strength back of every car,

PAIGE SPECIFICATIONS:

Engine 6 cylinder-34 x 5; high pressure oiling to main and connecting rod bearings, silent front end timing chain, aluminium orankcase; 131-inch wheel- haso; Paige-Timkon azlas; 814-inch frame: springs of special high carbon steel, 40 inches in front; 6134 inches in rear; snubbers, front and rear; petrol gauge and sight-day clock on dash; instruments assembled under glass.

Spare cord tyre, tube and protector; humpers, front and rear; nickeled radiator and motomoter; automatic windscreen wiper; rear view mirror; Bun visor: folding luggage carrior; trunk rails; rear stop signal.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33, Wong Nei Chung Road

Happy Valley.

PAIGE

SMOOTH PERFORMANCE

A program of constant me-

chanical refinement involving

the body, engine, clutch, brakes

and other units of Dodge

Brother Motor Car, has resulted

in an unusual smoothness of

performance. You have only to

ride in the car to instantly

appreciate the decided freedom

from vibration.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

88, Wong Nei Chung Road

(Happy Valley).

Large crowds attended the first of the three "Battlos

of Flowers arranged for this Bosson at Cannes Our picture shows one of the decorated cars, Mimosa wan the favourite flower at the Festival. Takon by The Timos staff photographer.

TOURING IN SPAIN.

WONDERFUL SCENERY. AND CHARMING PEOPLE.

MOTORS IN NORTH BORNEO.

Whilst roading an account of the recent Motor Show we could Mr.E. Halford Ross, who recently not holp thinking of tho compar- wont from London to Vienna and ativoly rapid strides that motor hack in his two-seator Cubitt, has transport has made in this! recently returned from a similar country, says the B. N. B. Heraldi. tour in Spain and this trip, liko Many of us remember when the former, is to form the subject Sandakan, the Capital, boasted of a book.

two traps as its only whoolod

Mr. Rosa writes as follows vehicles except buffalo and bul- regarding the performance of his lock carts (and many of us have car: We wont to the end of ridden to and from the races in the parth at Cadiz and Gibraltar, those buffalo carts and thoroughly our Cubitt going wonderfully-on enjoyed the rides.)

Later Mr. Dalo purchased an ope occasion for nearly thirty milos on first speed without get-old motor car, which spont moat ting het. Some of the roads word of its time in the sos! Mr. W. G.

Darby, wo awful, morely tracks of ruta,

boliovo, first ran a motor regularly although "Sometimes, over the Southern soveral contrivances, throo mountains, we wondered what whooled cycles, etc., were tried would break first but noth-

from time to time. Govornmont, ing happoned, although there Houso abandoned its carriage were stretches of road (sic) of a hundred miles without sooing, laftor Mr. Darby had imported and obtained & motor shortly anyone other than an occasionalia, and we boliave we are right. mulateer. Tho only other care oncountered, louring extensively 1918 those two cars together with in saying that even as late as

Lan

ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.

Bank of China Building,

Hongkong.

DUNLOP

CORDS

KOIN

we wero, were two Rolls- Royces, driven by professional Chubb were the only motora in an enormous car owned by Mr. chanteurs, and they were going Sandakan, whilst Josselton HONGKONG

doad slow.

"We croased one range of moutains allowing tho Cubitt to

honstod the one "taxi."

Ia 1924 in Sandakan 61 motor

Leer itself in the deep ruts for 70 vehicles ware registered, and in Josselton 31 oxcluding Govorn- milou constantly on low gears.

how run9 & car and thore are

But it was well worth while, fornent lorries, etc. Paper Estato we have seen the most wonderful several motor vehicles at Tawau. scenery and have met the must charming poople, and have had a |dolightful time.

IN MADRID.

has

The illustration which we publish horewith is from Mr. Ross' own pan, and he writes as follows regarding the harom of AMUSING SAFETY RULES,Į the Moorish Kings of Spala, in front of which his car is soon- Recently A dulegation of

"The Alcazar, Soville, was the municipal oflivials from Madrid palace of the Kings of the visited Paris with a view to dis- Moors first, and afterwards that covoring somo moane of dealing of the Catholic Kings of Spain with the ever-growing, traffic including Charles V who was congestion in the Spanish capital. Emperor of the Holy Roman They have come to the conclusion Empiro, Pator the Cruel and that greater rather than loss Edward the Black Prince lived speed is necesenry in the streets thero for a time, Ferdinand and of Madrid, and they are consider- Isabella, Phillip II and his In- ing the advisability of probibiting; quisition, metod out their justico the use of the motor born.

which The programme from its walls.

"Cervantes often came there. boan issued for the bonefit off Its exterior is mediaoval and pedestrians has many amusing rugged, while the interior is a linjunctions. They are asked to run, to Rories of the most beautiful pic walk oarofully, not to

or to

roll turos imaginable-the court of read newspapers, the handmaidons, the hall of thio cigarettes, whilst in the street. ambasandors, the mosque, and Thoy are requested not to form the roots of the various Kings into groups. Podestrians aro and Queens; the colours are gold, also informed that they have silver, rods, browns, and blues. proference over vehicles, and that Christophor Columbus came the latter must stop if anyone to the doorway and petitioned prefers to stand still in the middle Ferdinand and Isabella for three of the road. ships in which

be to discovor Coloured bands aro to some islands in the Atlantic painted across tho stroot, and which he was convinced were padostrians aro asked to walk larger than Spain; they between those bands when wish- thought him mad. And whoning to reach the other side of tho he bargained for ton por cont. road. To catch a tram or a bus of all profita accruing for him- by running is forbiddon. solf and his family for over. Ferdinand wondered whethor, if

ho euceooded, he would over oollect bis royalties,

ON VIEW IN EUROPE. Twenty American auto manu- "The prosont King, and his facturers have shippod thoir bost) English Queen Victoria, who samples to Goneva for the motor is the most popular person in salon hold thero in spring. Spain, reside there frequently." Franco alone oxcoods America by the number of uxhibits at this salun.

SUBSTITUTE FOR GAS.

55,000,000 TYRES. A Russian reports having por- This year will soo the produc- fected a method by which a bettor tion of $5,000,000 tyros, or 10 por and cheaper gasoline substituto cont, above that of 1924 according This is may by dorived from vogotable to an American station. oils, crude oil and coal tar. Even based on the large production and the residue of this proooms, he sale of cars in 1923, for which's says, is higher in offleiency than large replacement of tyros is that of the gasoline residue. expected this year.

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