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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MOTOR NEWS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

"FLOW" PRODUCTION V MASS production, Flow production

fifty working

PRODUCTION.

means that all components of an (BY THE R.A.O. CORRESPONDENT.)",

While in industrial matters ago moving in the same direction assembley are kept continually The motor industry cannot owner who was still using it for implies experiance, it does not from machine to machine, the alaim any great antiquity, but everyday Korvice. The firm necessarily, imply efficiency or work being timed accurately so Boveral firms originally formed would very much like to find the willingness to adopt the very that a steady stream of material, specially to build motors of one original 1899 machine, in which latest methods or machinery. In gradually evolving from its raw kind or another have now passed the engine was mounted over the this repoct the British motor into its finished state, is obtained, the age of twenty five years.front whool.

dustry as a whole was at one, Thus, for instance, the Albion Firms which came into the time open to criticism. Greate machine in the factory of Morris Engines. Limited weighe Motor Car Company, of Glasgow, motor industry from the cyola in-changes have, however, been OVOR 300 tons and incor- celebrated its somi-jubileo last, dustry have, of course," much older made since the war, and it is at porates over December, having started from records. It was in 1869 that the past doubtful whether some of stages where different operations a small beginning in 1899 and first British bicyalo was built in the British fastorios cannot now are carried out. The work passes attained a firm position among the Cheylesmoto Works of the claim to be absolutely on a level from face to face by pneumatic the leading commercial vehicle firm which is now known as with the best American factory hoists and never touches the manufacturers of the world. Morers Swift of Coventry, organisations. --

floor botweed its arrival as a Among motor cycle manufac- Recently this firm rucoivod In a recent papor road before rough casting and its completion. durers, Mossre. H. Collier and punctually a letter which was the Institute of Automobile Engi The machine delivers a finished Sons, of Plumstead, built their inarely addressed "To the oldest neors by Mr Woollard, the Gene ongino overy four minutes, and fret Matchluss cycle in 1899, and established motorcycle manufacral Manager of Morris Engines, the result of the adaption of when a historical exhibit was tory, Coventry. It had reference, which are built in great numbers flow" production as applied to -arranged at the last Olympia I ballove, to the renovation of a at Coventry for the Morris-Cowley the Morris engines is a saving of Motor Cycle Show a Matchless lady's tricyold some thirty years and Morris Oxford care, one re-approximately 50% in space and built in 1902 was staged, having old but still in serviceable condi-markable development foreshad-in power used and not much less

on purchased from the original tion:

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owed was that of moale served than 50% in labour. The factory by a moving conveyor track in a is at present working twenty- workman's canteen. In compar-four hours a day in three shifts, ing British with American me- each shift having a half hour thode, Mr Woollard pointed out break for a meal, necessitating that the British ideal is "flow" the service of hot food by means production rather than mass of a moving conveyor.

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MOTOR CYCLE ESCORT.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1925

Body for Every Ling,

AL CUSHION

Proof of Merit

Its record in past years, in 343 different lines of business, stands as indisputable proof of exceptional merit-and this year it is an even better, truck than ever before!

Ton Chassis, G. $1,55) Ton C.1.760 delivered. THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LIMITED.

33 Wong Nai Chung Road,

Happy Vally.

GÄÄHAM"DRÓTICERETA DIVIAION OF DODGE DROTIERS;

GRAHAM

BROTHERS

SOLD BY DODGE BROTHERS

DEALERS EVERYWHERB

TRUCKS

Lord Allenby, British high commissioner for Egypt, is under constant protection of motorcycle troopers when ho ventures abroad, as this picture, taken in the shadow of the pyramids, shows.

FOR TEN YEARS-DEPENDABLE

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Exceptional dependability has been characteristic of Dodge Brothers Motor Car since the day the first of these sturdy cars was marketed.

Not once in a decade has it failed to up- hold and enhance its reputation for faithful performance.

The reason for its consistent goodness and continued betterment points directly back to the ideals of the founders.

Instead of fluctuating between an erd. less series of annual models, they deter. mined to concentrate on the perfection of a single chassis.

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Dodge Brothers Motor Car to-day is the embodiment of that ideal-an ideal that will endure as long as the institution itself

DODGE BROTHERS THE DRAGON Motor Car Co.,.

LIMITCA

Ja WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD

HAPPY VALLEY

1925 STUDEBAKERS.

POPULARITY OF NEW MODELS.

Sales and registrations, figuraa in the United States indicate that the new Studebaker models have truck an exceedingly responsive cord in public favour. Following|

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announcement that their] Octobor sales exceeded in value those of all other American auto- mobile manufacturers except the Ford Motor Company, Studebaker now announcas that their Nov- ember sales for 1924 were 33 per cent. greater than the correspond- ing month of 1923, and 47 por cont in excess of November 1922 sales. In New York-a city in which approximately 100,000 new auto- mobiles will be sold in 1924-1 Studebaker rogistrations for Nov- omber wore exceeded only by Ford. In California-¿. State in which the trend of Automobile buying is always watcbed with in- terest-Studebaker registrations for October and November have led all other six-oyliador makes. During each of these months, Studebaker registrations bave abown over 200 cars more than the next six-cylinder mako.

Nor has the sales activity of this concern been confined to the United States Studebaker ship- ments abroad during November woro greater than any other month in history showing a gain of 49 per cent. over November 1923 shipments. The shipments from the factory to export marketa simply reflect a demand from Studebaker dealers for the now Studebaker Cara. But figurea show that this demand is based on consumer buying.

In Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, the Studebaker dealer established an unprecedented record in that territory when 45 new Studo! bakers WOTO delivered in a period of ten days. In Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, where Studebaker registrations have exceeded all other makes- including Ford-for nearly threo years, sales, have received still greater impetus through the arrival of the Studebaker models: Featuros of the Now Stude- bakors which are undoubtedly contributing to their success, are the Duplex body, combining opon car freedom with closed dar com- fort; the handsome now body lines; the inoroased power; the new force feed oiling system; the optional hydraulic four-whool. brakos; and the host of body: rofinements, mary of which havo nevor boon shown before on any fother care.

1-28-28

Announcement!

Another Goodyear Creation

The New Goodyear Pneumatic Cushion

Demountable Tyre

Operators of light commercial vehicles It

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30 x 3%

will welcome the announcement of this not puncture easy to apply.

new tyre.

For a long time they have needed, for swift-moving, punctual service, a tyre that would p

perform with absolute dependability.

One that has maximum cushion. One that lasts many thousands of miles, One that, above all, provides freedom from all kinds of tyre trouble.

Rugged as a solid, and almost as re- silient as a pneumatic, is this new Goodyear Pneumatic Cushion Tyre.

Cross section of "the new Goodyear

Demountable

Pneumatic Cushion Tyre

profile-light in weight-built on

a solid steel base these are several of its attractive features.

It has the Goodyear patented hollow.. centre, the deep-cut All-Weather Tread and is made of a special new Good- year rubber compound that is extra resistive to abrasion, kerb and rut wear.

Call on your Goodyear Dealer im- mediately to see if you can use the new Goodyear Paeumatic Cushion De. mountable Tyre in your service. If you can, you have found the tyre you want, for it assures thousands of miles. at low tyre cost per mile.

Note the thick

tread and follow

centre which pro vides maximum

cushioning.

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GOODYEAR

PNEUMATIC CUSHION TYRES

MADE IN CANADA,

DISTRIBUTORS: ALEX ROSS & CO. (CHINA) LTD. BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.

DRIVE IN

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

Froo Air and Water.

TO HIRE A GOOD CAR

Bright and Sholtored.

For General Service and Prempitude.

Phone K.226.

THE DURO MOTOR CO.

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

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