HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925.
CADILLAC ARMORED CAR TRANSPORTS FUNDS.
This new armored Cadillac, with the graceful lines of a closed passenger car, yot steal-lined and bullet-proof, is used in transferring bank funds and securities between the neighborhood branches and the main bank. Even the driver's compartment is protected with laminated, bullet-proof glass.
AUSTIN SEVEN
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THE AUSTIN "7" IS A REAL CAR
Its not the man that builds the car or sells the car, but the man that owns an Austin 7" that really knows what pleasure and comfort can be obtained at the small cost involved in the purchase of an Austin Seven.
SOLE AGENTS.
"Alex. Ross & Co. (China) Ltd.
Bank of China Building, Hongkong..
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LONGER WEARING AND MORE
Goodyear Red Tubes, of perfect laminated construction, are the product of years of careful research and con- tinual experiment.
They last a long time-retain their spring and liveliness over an unusual period-are faultlessly made-and func- tion efficiently under all conditions.
PROTESTS SALE.
CAN A CAR BE TOO ALLURING P
COMMON ACCIDENT. SOME. TIMES HAPPENS IN HONGKONG.
NEW CANADIAN FACTORY. 1925 MOTORCYCLES 1925.
DODGE BROTHERS LATEST
PRODUCING CENTRE.
Dodge Brothers now Canadian: plant, scheduled to begin opora-
By Capt. E. do. Normanville in tiona in February, will be a factory of-real productive Daily Chronicle.
Luckily the averago motorist capacity, and not merely an rarely comes up against a legal assembling station.. problem involving the our which The factory will be in Toronto, is abstruso in its incidence. The Ont, and will displace the one majority of accidents or inofdents established by Dodge Brothers. are straight forward affairs to be several years ago at Walkerville, settled on known lines by the directly across the river from respective insurance companies Detroit. The buildings acquired But there are exceptions,
for the purpose in Toronto are
Such a case bas just boon among the finest erected by the brought to my notice by one of Imperial Government for muni- the loading insurance companies. tions work during the World War, It is so, unusual that it only war Their original cost was $1,250,000 rants our attention in, so for us and subsequent improvements some of its correlative features represent an investment of are risks common to all motorists another half million. Facilities
TRIUMPH"
J. S."
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INDIAN
They are all fine cycles, not how cheap, but how good.
It also serves to emphasiso: A are available for one of the largest ALEX ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.
vital fact in regard to all insur ance questions.
automobile plants in Canada.
The Canadian business will be You should always give im conducted by a subsidiary com- mediato notice of any accident tá. your insurance broker; or insur pany, Dodge Brothere (Canada) Limited, incorporated under
the ance company if you are not wise the laws of Dominion. enough to employ a broker. It will govern ite Own production and formulate
DANGEROUS OURIOSITY. This is what happened. The its own policies, in harmony with motorit left bis car at the top of those, of the paront" organization the private drive to his house. and with the requirements of the The drive is short and straight, countries to be served.. Mr. E. with a decline to the road of about P. Clarkson, it is announcod, 'is 1 in 20. The brake was left on. general manager. Mr. Clarkson, The baker's boy, who normally a native Canadian, has represent- used the side entrance, on this ad Dodge Brothers in Canada: occasion came up the carriage nearly 10 years. drive. And the car was too much
of an allurement to his curiosity.
"The natural preference of
Off came the brake lever, and British subjects for products away the car went down the manufactured by fellow subjects of Great Britain, together with drive.
the possible tariff advantages, make it entirely logical for Dodge Brothers to produce cars Canada for export to other British
It collided with the baker's cart, which was smashed up, and the radiator, lamps and wings of the car also suffered..
in
The motorist thought the entire territory, said Mr. Clarkson.
"This was the thought in mind responsibility must rest with the owner of the baker's.part. But in establishing a manufacturing that the lawyers have plant in Walkerville several years it ago. The output of this plant, got the matter in hand
of
now
John Duval Dodge Detroit, son of John F Dodge, is objecting to the sale of the Dodge Automobilo Company. He is seeking court action to restrain Mrs. Mathilde Dodge, his step- mother, from disposing of the property until his inter ests are proteced.
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BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.
is difficult to know. My opinion however, was practically all ab- has been asked, and I have ex-sorbed in Canada and wo ara pressed the view that the motorist now preparing to enlarge produc- tion enough to leave a good sur- is not to blame.
In studying legal precedent to plus for export.
arrive at a decision, I find only "The population of Canada is! ono standpoint upon which such slightly less than eight millions.
Bank of China Building,
Hongkong.
SOCONY
MOTOR OILS
GASOLINE
DUNLOP
A view appeared definitely tenable. The percapita ability to absorb CORDS
It is the opinion that to leave a automobiles is, substantially tho car normally safe in one's own same as that of the United private grounds constitute the States. The Dominion Govern- taking of reasonable precautions ment realizing that manufacturo to protect other people or other of automobiles in Canada for people's property,
Canadian consumption exclusivo- Had the car been left similarly ly would have insufficient volume safe on a public road, then the to permit prices comparable with motorist would be responsible for those in the United Statas, the interference of a curious-amended the tariff regulations, minded and meddling boy.
making Canada a free trade
Had the car been left similarly country for export. That is, raW safe in the private drive of amatoriala imported into Canada! public institution it is still pro for manufacture," and parts or bable that the motorist would be units brought in for assembling, hold culpable.
are assessed at the time of entry.
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But in my opinion the private and the duty is remitted when drive makes all the difference, the completed motor vehicle i and the circumstance of the exported. This naturally makes privacy of the grounds would more desirable the expansion we appear to constitute a vital factor have always had in mind, relative to the taking of "all
"As soon as possible after the raasonable precautions.*
opening of the Toronto plant in As the boy had no right in the February, production will be on drive, and ds there was a side a much larger scale than in the entrance, specially intended for former Canada plant, to care for bis use, and which he was the ever increasing Canadian and known normally to use, it is fair other British demand for Dodge to argue that he was trespassing Brothers motor cars. from a technical standpoint- enough to make his employer responsible for his misdeeds.
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Mr. Clarkson was born in Hali fax, NS, the son of a British army officer. As a youth, lie as- SIMPLE SAFEGUARDS,
cepted a commission in the Cana- You will have gathered from dian Field Artillery. After some the foregoing that it is not service and later additional train- enough merely to leave your ing in the Royal Military College brake on. From the legal stand-be was sent to South Africa with point a car so. left can be con- the Second Canadian Mounted sidered as "alluring" to a curious Rifles first lieutenant in boy, who may therefore, (legally) charge of guns. Shortly after be expected to tamper with the the peace declaration in 1902 lovers; and any resulting damage following two years in Africa, ie the motorist's responsibility... Lieutenant Clarkson returned It follows that whenever you and accepted an appointment as leave a car, particularly on a hill junior assistant to the chief you should adopt all reasonable angiaver of Dick Kerr Co., Ltd., precautions. It is an excellent on the construction of the Eas idea always to leave the front
tinge-Bexhill tramways in wheels pointing into the curb, and southern England. Subsequently only a few inches away from it.ho sorved as secretary of the If you have an ignition lock it Sandringham Motor Works, Ltd., is a good id a to leave the low Kings Lynn, England, and soon gear in and take away the key after was made manager of tho in your pocket.
concorn.
In law, I think all these ad- Love for the homeland and the ditional measures would be con-belief that even batter opportu strued as "reasonable precaution nities awaited him there, induced booause the meddling hay would
Mr. Clarkson to return to Canada'
have to do some actively wrong.
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differont from exercising in 1907. Surprised to find the curiosity which bo is expected motor car industry still so far in to do legally. But it would not its infancy, be accepted a position
be enough to say, "I loft the as assistant superintendent of construction with the Canadian brake on."
General Electric Co., later roplac- ing the chief and taking charge. of
"A hidden defect night at some the company's givil engineering
HONGKONG
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future time cost a human life, and programing and building construc Write for Catalogue of the Little engine with a big full."
it might be the life of my son ortion generally. He soon organized daughter," was a remark of H.H. bis own company and was in turn Rico, president of the Cadillac bought out by the Canadian Motor Car company, in commont- General Electric. Immediately Ing to a convention of distributors before becoming Dodge Brothers upon the company's policy of representative in Canada, ho was adhering to the most rigid stand-in charge of the Consolidated ards of dependabilitý,
Motors, Ltd., at Toronto,
A. & P. LEONG HINGKEE & CO. China Buildings, Sole Agents. Telephone C. 2794.
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