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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
MOST EXPENSIVE HIGHWAY.
What is considered the most expensive and most difficult piece of high-way in the United States is being built to the summit of Cheyenne mountain, 10,000 feet up, at Colorado Springs, Colo. The white line shows how the road will wind its way up the steep incling Six miles of this rond, it is estimated, will cost $350,000.
MOTOR CAR THEFTS.
SATURDAY, MAY
AMERICAN MOTOR NOTES.
Nearly evory city in the United States of any importance holds a motor car show. The princips! shows, of course, are the Now York and Chicago shows, which attract motor car dealers, and distributors from all parts of the United States and from: Canada. At these shows the accosBory manyfacturers have exhibits also. For saveral years the number of exhibitory at these shows has Ua. This is Doon growing sm bocause of the tondency in Amer- loa toward largor and fewer com- panies.
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American motor cars too tond to follow the loader. When one manufacturer brings out a car that has plenty of speed and power, one that will not only eat up hills readily but ploks up in- stantly and accelerates with amazing rapidity, a car that is "Ajxible and easily adaptable to exising traffic conditions, there is a tendonoy for other manufac turers to do likewise. But thea manufacturers know and the public eson learns that a car that to build cannot be requirou ka marr duplicated in six months.. tetice. In these cities a total of
American motor cars are tond- 57,771 autos were stolen last year. ing to become more uniform as to Only 17 per cent. of these, or design and line and colour. But 9847. were not recovered,
it is the performing qualities Although this number of unre which distinguish one car from coverable cars is higher than the another in the United States just 7228 that were not recovered in like in foreign lands.
The dealer who has confidence. Despite the increased number 1923, the percentage has been de- of automobiles atelen in the Unit-creased. Considering the addition in his product need only say to ed States last year, motor car of new automobiles through the the prospective purchaser "take stealing is become less and less year the proportion of cars stolen it and drive it for yourself. Be
your own demonstrator," successful.
altogether is lower than that of
S. D. Briggs, formely assistant previous years, The porcentage of automobiles
"The tremendous number of to J. E. Fielde, vice-president in recovered after thoft has increas-
automobile thefts, says Mr. C. A charge of sales of the Maxwell ed annually.
This, according to the National Vane general manager of the as- and Chrysler Motor Corporations Automobile Dealers Association, sociation, "shows the need for has been named Resident Amori- is caused by better police vigilance adequate certificate of title laws, can Representative with hoad- and portifloats of title laws. for added precaution on the part quarters at the works of Maxwell
Activities of automobila thieves, of car owners, for installation of Chrysler Motors Limited of! last year, were nearly 50 por adequate locking devices and England, in London.
Mr. Briggs, who sailed for Eng- cent, greater than in 1929 and for greater police supervision of
service. stations land February 1, will sočupy aj 100 per cent. above those of 1918 questionable
OVER 50,000 STOLEN
A YEAR.
IN
Ask To See The Balloon Tyres in the 28 major cities in which which.in reality are merely fences position which is analogous to
the N.A.D.A. has complete stat-for organised motor thefts."
Only Hudson and Essex
Have the Coach
It Gives All Closed Car Comforts and at Open Car Cost
Full Size Balloon Tyres Standard Equipment
Naturally when balloon tyres had established their superiority Hudson and Essex would adopt them. They are now standard equipment. They add an even“ greater measure of ridingeauo," steadiness and good looks to the notable values of the Coach.
It marks another margin of ad- vantage in Hudson-Essex values that all acknowledgo.
So Why Buy an Open Car?
No need to accept an open car on the score of price. You pay no more for the Coach, It is exclusive to Hudson and Essex. It provides all the utility you can get in any closed car, It makes Closed Car Comforts at Open Car Cost" the outstanding issue of the year. And because you can get its advantages in no other car it is the largest solling 6-cylinder closed car in the world.
It Is the Car for Everyone
Motorists are fast forsaking the opan type. Every one wants closed car advantages. The Coach is You must the quality car within reach of all. consider any purchase in the light of this, irra sistible trend to closed cars. You must judgo want the resale value will be of any type that is passing from favor. Tho Coach, as the wanted typo, main- tains high rosale value. Comparative values of used open and alosed ears should tell you what type to oboose.
Hudson and Essox are creations of the sume engineers. They are built in the same factories, by the same workmer, under the same patents,
In materials and workmanship they are of one quality, In either you got all the utility any olceed car osh givo, with the assured mechanical And you Batisfaction of a famous chassis. pay less oven than for an open car of com- parable quality..
Hudson and Essex Are of One Quality.
ESSEX 6IX
COACH
$2,650
HUDSON SUPER-SIX COACH
$4,000
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
Tối Chung Road
(Happy Valley.)
supervisor or district sales mana- ger in America. He will be made responsible for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the Con- tinent of - Europe, Northern Africa and the Near East.
Mr. Briggs has had a long ex- perience in the automotive in- dustry and for years has been a world traveller. In going to London he is prepared to give the attention to European] dealers which an ever-increasing business abroad demands.
At the same time, that Mr.) Briggs sailed Mr. Arnold de la Poor, managing director of the English company, the Maxwoll- Chrysler Motors Limited, of Englaud, sailed also.
Gerald C. Mazewell, advertis- ing manager of the English com- pany, is in America, making a study of the factory of Maxwell and Chrysler, wholesale and re- tail methode.
At the present time Maxwell Chrysler is exporting 800 cars a montb.
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Driving a Chrysler Six touring car, strictly stook in every dotail except that goar ratio of 8.75 to 1j had been substituted for the! standard 4.6 to 1, Ralph de Palma, the famous racing driver, made 1,000 miles in 786 minutos 6 1-5) seconda elapsed time on the' Culver City track near Lou Angeles, California, recently an average of 76 32 miles an hour. This is believed to be the
1925.
GARGOYLE
Mobiloil
Makethechart your guide
Although competitors have done all possible to the
rate a greater call for their lubricants, the demand for t
vle Mobiloil has nearly doubled
during the past 18 months.
The fact that Gargoyle Mobiloil is not a by- product in the manufacture of benzine and kerosine speaks volumes for its superiority an a motorcar engine lubricant.
The fallacy of false economy is pretty well and understood in these days of rigid economy, consumers are rapidly begining to realize that the best is the cheapest in the long run.
To-day, Gargoyle Mobiloil is the best known and most widely used motorcar engine lubricant. It is safe to say more Gargoyle Mobiloil is used the world than any three competitive throughout brands on the market.
WHY?
Because Gargoyle Mobiloil is manufactured by the largest and oldest strictly Lubricating Oil Company in the world. It is the result of many years of study on the part of a host of automotive engineers whose business it is to know the require- ments of every lubricating oil system employed by motorcar manufacturers.
Try the grade specified in our Chart of While words and claims: Recommendations. carry weight, nevertheless it is the practical test that decides.
VACUUM
OIL CO.
DUNLOP
CORDS
When purchasing a tyre BE GUIDED BY WHOSE BUSINESS IT IS TO KNOW, AND WHO DO KNOW,
The fact that 95% of British Car Manufacturera ft DUNLOP tyres as standard equipment is s striking tribute to the superiority of the Dunlop
Fehind the Car manu- facturers' choice is their practical knowledge of tyros and tyre values..
FOLLOW
'THE CAR MANUFACTURERS'
LEAD THEY KNOW.
I ISTRIBUTORS
fastest speed averago aver made HONGKONG HOTEL
by an absolutely ecock passenger automobile in a distance run. Not a single stop was made for mechanical adjustment, tyre ebauges or even to add water.
The run was clocked, and the time cortifiod to by representiver of the American Automobile As- sociation.
Nearly four billion dollars were spent for motor cars throughout| the world in 1924.
This is an estimato made by Porcy Owen, chief of the Auto- motivo Division of the Depart- ment of Commerce of the United States Government in Washing-
ton.
The United States has 825! per cent of the world's registered Automobiles and motortrucks.
On January 1 thorn ware in all countries operation in 18,615,000 passenger påra, 2.892,000 trucks and 1,262,000 motoroyclos This totals 22,769,000,
Twenty-two manufacturers of motor cars in America have thoir factories in Michigan, 11 in In- diane, 10 in Onio, four in Now York, three sech in Wisconsin and Missouri, two in Naw Jersey and one oach in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Carolina aroma
South
7.1.
ACCIDENTS LOWERED Total traffic accident for the 10. largest cities in the United States, during January, wore 34 per cont. lower then for January, 1924, re- ports the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce..
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