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MOTORING

LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS

SUPPLEMENT

Work has been in progress for brigade equipment is unsuited, some time in connection with the and such an appliance should be widening of Garden Road up as available. Evon a powerful! far as the Peak Tram Station. sidecar carrying The bamboo framework is visible ohemical extinguishers such as from the road, but probably many "Foamite would prove of in- poople have

passed without valuable services, and had there roalising the significance thereof. been such provision last Tues- A glance over the wall where the day's fire would have been ex. open air boxing tournaments are tinguished before it assumed held, reveals the work on the such serious proportions. foundation of the new wall which will result in giving probably from twelve to fifteen

weather.

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 2nd. May, 1925.

·Being the Official Organ of the Hongkting Auto

GOODYEAR DOUBLES EARNINGS.

SOME STRIKING STATISTICS.

.common

·Association).

MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

BY THE R.A.0. CORRESPONDENT.

(Special to the "Hongkong Telegraph")

and operating expenses, fixed After allowing for all selling charges and other deductions,

NEW MOTOR COACH CHASSIS. cost works out at po more than Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. a supply of for the year 1924 reports notining is increasing rapidly in Eng A Wolseley owner, Lieut.

The popularity of motor coach-21⁄2 ponce per mile. come of $12,161,540, as compared land, and many improvements Colonel Ian Forbes, D. S. O., has with $6,507,245 in 1923. Dividende have lately been made in the kept accurate records of the applied on the prior profurenco design of these vehicles. Accord-running costs of bis 14/20 h.p. stock aggregated $1,149,100, leaving to the British journal, "Motor Wolseley since he bought it as ing a surplus of $11,012,440.

Transport," the principal tend- long ago as 1909. His total The surplus, after allowing for dividend requirements on the cy is to provide lighter and mileage for the sixteen yours is company's 7 per cent, cumul-re comfortable cars, the out-about 73,500. His running costs. side appearance of which closely for his old car during last year, What is a motor coach? Now ative preferred stock, left a resembles that of large touring its sixteenth on the road, work feet extra road space. This will that the coach has come in balance equal to $7.78 a share cars.. The majority are run on out at almost exactly twopence be greatly appreciated, especially earnest, it is interesting to know earned on the 831,585 shares of no pneumatic tyres and many are halfpenny per mile for a mileage

value just what exactly is meant by par by pedestrians who at present the term "coach." We notice outstanding. In 1923 the earnings

stock fitted with all-weather bodies. of about 7,900. Patrol consump- have to exercise the greatest that the Society of Automotive on the common stook totalled vehicle has been developed by and repaire only accounted for A new chassis for this type of tion was 22.6 miles per gallon precaution at this point. We do not know whether a footpath is Engineers of the U.S.A, defined approximately 90 cents a share. Karrier Motors, of Huddersfield, | £4.6.6. Petrol" was, of course, an enclosed. single Net sales are given in the and has proved very successful. the heaviest item, the next in to be provided, but we should coach as imagine that one is most nessas compartment body, similar to the report as $115,323,173, against It is suitable for an eighteen order being tax and licenses, seated motor coach or a twenty tyres and insurance. The figures ary, if only to give some protec-sedan, with two close-coupled $106,026,110 in 1923. tion against mud splashing in wet cross outs for four passengers: balance sheet shows current engine. The gear box gives four car and amply prove the economy As of Dec. 31, 1924, the general aonted bus body and has a 32 h.p. are very remarkable for so old a There is a luggage compartment

valned or space for a trunk at the back seats

at $59,647,342, of the body. There is no glass including $11,494,120 cash, $4,000,- pode, and the drive is to a that is realised by buying a first worm-driven Back axle. A steady lass article in the first instance, 000 call loans, $3,135,000 in mark From a report in last Thurs. in

rear quarters. The day's Telegraph:"An innovation conventional type has two doors, etable securities, $31,051,513 in speed of thirty miles an hour is LONG DISTANCE BUS SERVICES. obtained, and the long springs A very interesting develop- that is in keeping with the only, the forward seats being ventories, and $9,996,710 in notes and pneumatic tyres provide oment of road transport is the development of the mainland divided and the right hand seat and accounts receivable. Curront cellent comfort at this speed. forthcoming establishment of a is the introduction of tipping forward to give access to liabilities totalled $6,785,767 in-

Mesere. Thornycroft have ro- daily omnibus service between Kowloon's Arst motor water the rear cross seat. Some models cluding $5,309,525 accounts pay cantly produced a 30 owt. chassis London and Bristol, a distance vehicle on have two doors on the right hand ablo, $1 176,341 accrued interest which has passed the War Office of 120 miles. There is, of course, four wheels which until quite side, there being two fixed cross and bond premiums and $300,000 tests, many of which are extreme a thoroughly good direct rail ser recently, had served as a rosat seats.

accrued dividende. The ratio of ly stiff. For example, a speed of vice between the two towns, lorry for the Sanitary Dopart-

current assets to current liabilities thirty miles an hour must be at which makes this competition.on ment." Progress was ovar slow,

is approximately 9 to 1. Evon" in Hongkong

tained on the level and, in fact, the part of the motor bug the Commenting on

the report the Thornycroft reached thirty-more remarkable. The vehicles coach" is becoming popular Mr. E. G. Wilmer, chairman of nine miles per hour. The engine employed are single decked old ox-drawn water and refuse and in this respact the Hudson" the carts were superseded by the latest model appears to be receiv" dollar sales for

directors, statos that must also pull the vehicle through saloon buses mounted on 40 h.p. more rapid and effective motor, ing a good deal of attention from been exceeded in the past, but start up from rest on a gradient 1911 a regular service, though not 1924 have soft sand ten inches deep and Doonis chassis. As long ago as equipment. Occasionally, visitors prospective buyers. Unquestionab only due to the high selling prices of 1 in 5. Other tests include for passenger carrying, was run can be seen taking a snapshot ly the "Hudson" represents excel- of the war and postwar years." driving through water eighteen between London and Bristol. A

of those antiquated iont value, and it is interesting to He adds that ip point of inches deep.. scavenging carts, and woll

flost of Donnis vehicles was om- they might, for there must be bat with having built the first

note that this firm is credited physical volume, the number The demand for comparatively ployed for the carriage of the few cities left in the world where coach."

motor of tyres sold through Good- light commercial chassis of sound Post Office Mails. A scheduled such contrasts can be seen in

year dealers was considerably in British type has led to the mar time was fixed for the run and excess of that of any previous keting of the new 20/25 out. Star only three minutes grace was commercial chassis. This is cap-allowed. During the eighteen

cart,

but surely. it is time that the

of

one

public services 08 in Hong-

drawn

the

the

kong. Imagine the impression | Conditions for tho motor year. on a visitor of being held up owner, whether the vehicle be In regard to the cash and able of a speed of thirty miles an months immediately preceding in one of the Hongkong Hotel for public or private use, are not securities hold by the company hour and has excellent climbing the war, oach of the vans on the motor buses outside one of the pearly so hard in some places as and to the outlook, Mr Wilmer capabilities. The engine is un-service covered about 113,000 most up-to-dato hotels in the Far in Sweden; in some rospects, it says,

usually large for a one-tonner, milos, but not a single involunt East by a water or refuse cart would be better if they were. All. Due to the higher volume of the dimensions of the four cylinary stop took place during the by oxen ! Wo hope motor vehicles in Sweden are business now being handled and ders being 90 by 120 millimetres, period. The new passenger sor- the authorities will not defor inspected four times a year with the higher costs of rubber, cotton Other features are a four-speed vice will be watched with great additions to the first water cart out warning, and the inspection cash on hand at the first of the drive. The springs are exceptiou- seems assured, will certainly and other materials, much of the gear box and overhead worm interest, as its success which until another mest lorry wears

covers stooring gear, brakes, out.

lights, equipment, operation and your will shortly be required for ally long and 34 by 5 inch pasu-lead to the establishment of many general condition.

working inventories.

matic Lyres protect the chassis other similar long distance ser Belling competition is still keen. from road shock and make it vices all over the country, Ac- The disastrous fire on the

But careful administration, cou- thoroughly suitable for motor cording to

Motor Transport, Peak on Tuesday last furthor

pled with Goodyear's financial coach work. emphasises the necessity for the

MORE BUSSES WANTED.

the fare for the single journey position, the healthy state of its provision, of suitable appliances

The Talbot W, 25. chassis is a from London to Bristol by road About 16,000 auto busscs are organization and the high level of first olass production well suited will be only 10/6, the return for use in the Peak district expected to be built this year as public acceptance which its pro-to form the basis of a motor fare being 20-as compared with There are several small motor compared with 12,000 in 1924. ducts novel enjoy, should assure coach or for use as a 30/40 owt the railway fare of 29/4. outfits specially constructed for Motor trucks also are expected us our full share of profitable commercial van. The dimen localities where, the usual fire to have a large salo this year.

SUBWAYS URGED FOR

· LARGER CITIES.

London Parie, New York, Chioago and other big cities have had proposals for underground auto roads made to them from

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business.

DEVICE ENFORCES SAFETY AT CROSSINGS.

"Blow up and livo" is the idea behind this grade crossing safety device developed by enginours of the Florida State Road, Department and installed at a crossing of tho Atlanta & 8 Andrews, Bay Railroad at Cottondale, Fla. An island a half cirolo-at thb contre of the road compols the motorist to slow up to make the rosulting bond in the road before crossing tho tracks. A heavy, resilient, wire link fonos keeps the car from crash- ing onto the tracks in esso the driver cannot slow up in time to make the bond. It has stoppad oars travelling as fast as 45 miles an hour.:

sions of the four-cylinder engine are 101-5 by 140 millimetres. The goar box gives four speeds jand the drive is by cardan shaft and live axle. The sleave of the

cardan shaft serves as a torque rod.

time to time. *-

One of the principal reasons is no doubt, the much increased use of all-woathor "core, and the The Commissioner of Traffic Weymann method of bady, con- suggested some such plan some struction dosarves at least some time ago. His idea was to un- credit in this connection... The dermine all the park areae, type has been taken up by mariy especially near the theatro dis- British manufacturers, a good trict, with one or two levels for example being the 12/30 h.p. four-parking cars during theatre and cylinder Sunbeam saloon, which business hours,

J. provides an admirably comfort Other plans for New York aro ablo vehicle with a body of light underground and overhead roads woight, not too large, or too for autos and podestrains. “An baavy to be carried anywhere by overhead system is now being a chassis of moderato.power,`

considored.A "RECORDS OF RUNNING COSTS,

All advocatos of such a systom. Few motoriste keep accurata contond it would pay for itself in records of running costs, but one your or so, by saving vast sums of the exceptions, who le the now lost by delays in crowded owner of a 14/40 hp. Sunbeam, strecte.

has recently given me his figures

of cast for running bie car over LESS FROM NEW CARS.

Columbia

Storage Batteries

We sell batteries:

We recharge batteries. We clean out batteries. We renow battery jars. We ranew battery platos. We renew battery bridges." We renew battery terminale. We renew battory separators.

We renew battery containers.

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We open up batteries for inspection.

STARTING LIGHTING, IGNITION

"famous for

the service

they rondor"

R3JA

We loan you a battery while repairing yours.

We furnish a most complete motor car battery service. We have a large stock of spare parts for Columbia

Batteriea.

We

free battery inspection service at our Wong Nel Chung Road (Happy Valley) torvice Station. This includes

(1) Filling with distilled water.

(2) Hydrometer and volt meter reading. (3) Cleaning and greasing the terminals. (4) Cleaning and wiping off top of battery

with ammonia or soda solution, YOUR next battery should be a COLUMBIA

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

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Expert and Constant European Supervision, Telephone C. 1246 or 1247. A, J. Allison, Service Manager.

SOCONY

MOTOR OILS

GASOLINE

TRIUMPH

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

Stocks Carried.

a total distance of 12,000 miles. Only about 43 por vent, of the ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.

The actual operating costs income in the auto industry is come out at the remarkably low expected to come from the sale of figure of 15% ponce per mile, and new cars and trucks. The rest of avon when the tax and full the returns will come from their Insurance policy are added the maintenance and operation.

Bank of China Building,

Hongkong.