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THE NEW

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Hydraulic

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.

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THE HONGKONG and SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1925.

THE BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY.

Waging War With Difficulties.

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THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT LEADING TO TO-DAYS EFFICIENCY.

(By H. Massac Buist.)

1150

through the subsequent remle DISPENSE with RICKSHAS

sion whereby, in 1896, it was permissible to travel at twelve milos an hour and the motor movement in Great Britain had its roal and tardy beginninga;| and the second concession in 1903, whereby, on and aftor New Year's Day, 1904, it was allow- able to travel at twonty miles an hour; and through the over-co-

were

AND MOTOR BUSES.

You'll lose nothing on time-you'll gain in punctuality and all this at less cost than "Richsha or Bus fares. Its worth considering

in Hongkong or Kowloon..

The mighty miniature in your garage ensures satisfaction and provides cconomical and reliable transportation.

THE

£169.0.0.

SOLE AGENTS FOR:

"AUSTIN SEVEN"

Alex. Ross & Co. (China) Ltd.

THAT'S IT-THE 1925 HARLEY

In face of the facts that an acquaintance with the British mingling and clashing difficulties early a motor machine as any motor industry would serve both of advancing design yet another produced in the world was evolve to inform and to convince the stage forward ore, seemingly, we ed and built in those islands-roador that there is nothing so had given our engineers time to Butler's 2-cylinder, water-cooled, utterly foreign to its fundamental take full advantage of the fresh atage in the ovolution of metal- petrol motor cycle of 1887 was in characteristics as looking back possibilities of the last-but-one many respects far in advance of ward.

most pathollo endeavours to dis- Germany's pioneer work of the Granted that it has won laurels lurgy and, especially, amind al-

none; nevertheless, same period, but the law of this second to country did not allow of its being the paint to note is that it has cover where we stood, and stand, usod-that the first really reliable never rested on them; therefore in regard to labour problems, and motor bicycle was ultimately it is not doing so to-day. On the 50 forth, the captains of our in- pvolved in Coventry; that we contrary, like most things British,dustry strive undismayed. Those have led stage by stage in motor our motor industry does not are but a few of the many phases ing for the people as represented make much ado; it merely doas. of that strange, opposition that dogged and thwarted this amazing by our utility vehicle industry, WAGING SUCOESSFUL WAR WITH has consistently and effectively whose latest unique omnibuses SUCCESSIVE DIFFICULTIES.

Not ono

of the survivors movement. Despite all vicis- are available for visitors from

the rapidly thinning situdes, it remains a shining joverseas to ride in during their among visit; that in the realm of sport ranks of motoring ploneers in example, and is indeed the vary British cars have won such Blue this country can remember aloutcome, of an irrepressible spirit Ribbon events of the world as a time when the industry was not of optimistic belief and ceasglose- em-ly courageous commercial and Gordon-Bennett Race in the early struggling strenuously to

itself from some scientific endeavour.

FROM THOSE UNLIKELY days of the movement and the ancipate

BEGINNINGS TO THESE Grand Prix of the Automobile handicap or restriction. Soma-i

AMAZING USES. Club de France last year; that times the problem concerned

The very beginnings of motor- the standardised 6-cylinder car legislation, which first rendered was evolved in London; that it well-nigh impossible to when the War broke out Great a motor vehicle if you could got ing in Great Britain Britain was the only country in one; at other times it was to sufficiently inauspicious, for, in

promoter which there had been produced overcome some obstacle to the addition to the legal handicap, and were standardised and avail-attainment of greater reliability, the company. able aircraft engines of sufficient and, later, to achieve some detail abroad in the land the con- to lift full-scale of that elusive refinemat in sequence that the support that soaplane into flight-some ron-service which has been attained was nòeded during the first dered invaluable service during by this industry to an aggregate decade of the movement was been never scoorded it by a public the Battle of Jutland; that degree that has the only airship light from achieved by any of its rivale, which, after an initial burning of Europe across the Atlantic to the There has been, as there is in the its fingers, would not finance the United States and back again present, a seemingly endless industry again until it had was made by a British-built struggle against competition of a emerged from all its early vicis-

The pride of motorcycle achievement. vessel with engines of British character that obtains in no situdes and, right hardy growth, dosign and production; that the other country in the world which had actually established itself,

A new machine at a new price, industry. And despite lack of such theoretical- only non-stop aeroplane, flight has across the Atlantic from New- perhaps greatest of all was the ly indispensable assistance, as a

was awful, enduring endeavour, with permanent branch of manu Model 61-Standard equipped with magnéto, presto- light, lamp, luggage carrier, pump, tools born, and foundland to, Ireland

brilliantly Buccessful facturing engineering which

speedometer, ready for the road...... made with homo-designed and such built ongines produced by results, to provide those vital could be ignored no longer, be- another firm; that the multi-munitions which constituted the cause it would not die but do Model 74-Standard equipped same as above.. cylinder engined small car late campaign the first motor war To-day we cannot exist as Model 61-Electric. Ready for the road....

move in Sidecar, Single passenger was pioneered in England; that by land, air, and water in history nation either in peace or in war Model 74-Electric. Ready for the road.......

At the British Empire Ex-without such a notable development as

in- we voyage. to an increasing

ASK ME TO POINT THE 27 NEW IMPROVEMENTS, the production of the first prac-hibition will be seen the cream of the air, we pass under the waters, Sidecar, Double passenger... ticable double-sleeve valve engine this well-manned British

GASCON'S MOTOR HOSPITAL. to be standardised was achieved dustry's latest products, each a extent on their surface, we in England, where the first strictly commercial proposition transport our goods and ourselves of our agricultural twenty-four hours continuous in its kind, yet the vistor will fail overland, we conduct a growing 2, Kwong Wah Road (oppeslic the Steam Laundry) Kowloou. Phone K. 1242. driving foat was accomplished by to discover a hint of wound or number

power

THE BUICK "SIX"

a motor

never

years,

UNDER

It: We

was

$775 00

$325.00

$825.00

$875,00

$240.00

.$300.00

'cash, come in and see me to arrange payment by instal meats, easy and within reach of everybody who is craving. Don't let the cost trouble you if you cannot afford to pay

for real life in the open this Summer.

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So don't wait until To-morrow for it may be too late, only a limited number of machir os will soon arrive as first shipment. Come and lot pe have your name. First come first served.

A. GASCON.

AGENT FOR THE NEW 1925 HARLEY DAVIDSON.

MICHELIN

TYRES

OFFER YOU THE

MAXIMUM

a 6-cylinder British car on the weakness sustained in this well activities each and all by means Note pioneer scientifically constructed nigh ceaseless battle for ex-of the motor industry, which wo motordrome in the world, the istence and development; nor of also call upon to transport our motor it is already abundantly plaia 1925 MODELS NOW IN STOCK Brands Automobile Club's the fact that, for one long spell infantry over land in war. And

track at Weybridge; that the first of nightmare

artillery in the next aeroplano flights, stage by stage manufacturing in the British that we shall be asking it to haul!

campaign. from England to Australia, also Isles was divorted from its norm-our

Whenever a great football from England to the Cape were al lines of development.

match or other athletic or sporting undertaken by British aircraft GATHERING STRENGTII

OPPOSITION. «. with British engines; that we

Possibly one of the most vivid gathering draws scoros of thous- have evolved the first airworthy aircraft engine of 1,000 h.p. and ways of enabling one to grasp ands of folk from all quarters has done of the country to Wembley, that in our London-Cologne Air what this industry

shall find traffic being Service a British engine has would be to set its current pro-Epsom, or another contre, then is ducts against their prototypes you flown 100,000 miles and

air thanks to the prowess still in use daily to name but a built at the inception of the directed by wireless from the few outstanding achievements-movement in the Motherland,

That would have been possible of the British motor industry. assuredly it were allowable to

so were it not for a quaint and in- THE INDUSTRY'S SCOPE TO DAY. To-day no fa ar than seventy: indulge in retrospect on notablo an occasion as the present eradicable characteristic of the

no eight firms are engaged in Great were it not that even a slight Britisher to take next to

trouble to preserve the milestones Britain manufacturing passenger by which ho has progressed from care for private ownership; forty electric frankly unpromising beginnings in building petrol lorries; eighteen

and "sixteen to uncommon wonderful attain- jateam mont. In point of fact, up to a vehicles. The last figure sorves, fow yours ago we had a reason-incidentally, to illustrate to visi ably representative temporary tors from what are commonly collection of early motor cycles, miscalled new countries, bow old motor cars and other sorts of and elaborata is our civilisation motor vehicles and machinery, and how dense pur population to But it dissolved in the course of the square mile, in that you shall now drive for days together in the the War years and is practically past recovery in rural districts of England and detail and variety. For our not pass an electric vehicle. present purpose that means, por- Nevertheless the products of those force, that we are compelled to sixteen manufacturers are sold! make comparison, if at all, as for use on our thoroughfares, between home-built motor pro- That there has been an amplo duots and, where there are any, manifestation of vigour and cour- foreign ones in given catogorios; ageous enterprise is proved by for it must be had in mind that the fact that, whereas we have no the British industry is quite fewer than seventy-eight builders catholic in its composition, pro-concerned with passenger motor- ducing motor vehicles for all car production in the current sorts of users, because variously year, on the ove of the Great War lined purses have to be catorod when Europe was at its most the for if there is to be such a thing prosperous and this now war-

impoveriaed country was as a national industry.

richest in the world, we had only THE POINT OF VIEW, Therefore each product should forty-seven builders of private bo judged from the point of view cars. During a decade, too, the from which it is designed, built builders of coachwork have in- jand offered; also in face of the creased from fifty-seven in 1914 components: fact that there is no motor to ud fewer than 100 to-day; while vehicle made of such poor manufacturers of material to-day that the metal, have increased in numbers from jor fabric, of which it is fashioned fifty-five to 118. Few people re- is not vastly botter than the alise that against a total of about most costly available for build-13,000 vebiolas built in Great! ing, practically irrespective of Britain in 1913, according to the cost the very beat examples of latest information the output per half a generation ago only, far twelve months nowadays is some leas of a quarter of a century 80,000, representing the direct. back. Through that phase where-employment of upwards of 250,000 in speed was limited to four men. The last figure reveals why miles an hour on the highway British cara are very different ench vohiole being proceded by a from those built in certain other man carrying a rod flag, whereby countries. Many of our designs it came to pass that the birth of call for the use of skilled labour the motor movement in this in, plenty; the number of men country was arrested artificially, employed reveals that labour le full uso being made abroad of not grudged. the Bae opportunity so oroated;

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 Voeux Road Central.

(To be continued)

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