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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

LIGHT MIXTURE.

"FIVE LITTLE JOWETT CARS,”

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1925.

THERE ARE CURVES

AND CURVES!

IT'S GETTING SO WE NEED THAT SIGN IN THE CITY, TOO 'DANGEROUS, CURVE

AHEAD

Everything all Right.-Bump- ing into a pedestrian, a tourist alightly dented a fender,

Instantly stopping the car, the ecoupant climbed out and pro- oooded to oxamine the machine with deep concern. Ho then turned to the "pedestrian and asked: "Are you insured ? **;,

"Yes."

“Good. So is the car."-- Louisville Courier-Journal,

In

thono days of dashing automobiles this form of con versation is appropriato:

“How are you to-day?” "Ob, all right-so far.-Lon. don Free Press.

The police are searching for a wild-looking man who is hiding in a wood near Mold. As he has been seen to make a fush for a tree when anything approaches he is believed to be an esospod pedestrian-Montreal Star

Fablo of the Unusual Cop.- Once there was a traffic cop who was kind and considerate and who never failed, when the engine At one of our big schools a died on the street, to come over pompous youngster whose father "That's too bad. But it was well known, had boon a and say, don't got excited. Take your motor bus driver before inherit- time getting her out. The peoplo ing money, was one day fingering behind don't mind."

Ostentaiously a large soal, which The copper diod from being he is in the habit of wearing, ro- kissed so much by motorists.-prosenting St. George and the Motor Age.

Dragon, and, having drawn the attention of a school companion to it, romarked; "carelessly."

"Ah, one of my ancestors is supposed to have killed the dragon, don't you know!"

Civilization Slipping.-A Chic- ago taxidriver reported that a young woman held him up with pearl-handled revolver and stolo $34.80, bis day's takings. Is

"Good graciousl" inquired the there no honour among high-other, somewhat anxiously. "Did waymon?--The Passing Show he run, over it ?". (London)

Too Great A Risk-Life Insurance Agent-"One moment, sir, before I fill to your applic ation. What make of our do you drive?"

Client-"I don't drive any-I hate them ""

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Novel Tributes to a Popular British Miniature Motor Car,

Evidenso in many forms is con- tinually put forward in support of manufacturers' claims that their particular caza rapresent the last. word in luxury, oponomy, or some other attribute koly to attract the prospective buyer.

The closor tha ovidanoe can be linked with the personality of tho owner, the more effective it be uomos. The following examples of evidence of this description are probably unique in character, and Concorn a car which appears to possess a happy knack of com- pelling this sort of testimony from a large proportion of its users.

Bent to Jowett Cars, Ltd., by al number of onthusiastic owners in a little Sussox village, where thoro is not even an agent for the car, it forms a very valuable in- dication of the regard in which the car is held.

"One little J

Jowett car, very smart and blue.

"A noighbour had a joy-rido, and then there were two; "Two little Jowett curs, 40

m.p.g,

Another fellow heard of it, and then there were three. "Three little Jowett cars out-

eide the village store, The merchant asked some questions, and then there wore four.

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Four little Jowett cars, boau-

tiful to drive,

A lady asked to handle one, and then there were five.

Five little Jowett oars, where

but one had been,

If we go on this way, there'll

-8000 bo umpteen."

Farmer Giles had stopped to. look in. at the wayside inn. Driving a pig to market is thirsty work, especially if the pig is inclined to be at all fractious, and the farmer folt badly in need of refreshment. He was just

This spirit of interest and en- making a start on his second thusiasm is also evidenced by the Life Insurance Agent-"Sorry, pint when an excited youngster fact that two social clubs, con- but our company "no longer rushed in from the road outside.sisting of owners of these cars, insures pedestrians!" The

"Is that your pork out there on have bean flourishing for quite a Passing Show (London),

the road, guv'nor?" he inquired, long time, and they are the only "Pork! What diyo mean clubs of their nature in existence. Always Alert.-On a Kentish There's my pig out there, if One has its headquarters in country road a motor-oar left the that's what you mean," replied London, and the other in Brad- highway and dashed into a cop-Farmer Gilos, pica. It is presumed that the "Yes," said the boy knowingly. highly trained machine scented a "But a motorcar has just gone brace of pedestrians lurking in the by " undergrowth.London Opinion.

ford.

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This spirit of camaraderie is evidenced in ather directions.. For instance, the majority of Jowett car owners move to or saluto Mr. Rowo denies the rumour one another whon passing on the Much in Demand.-Smithers-that he has engaged a London road. The salutation seems to take "Mabel drives her car, so does Taxidriver to come to Hong- the form of an'implied, "How her dad, aunt, mother, and two kong to teach local taxi drivers do you do, I saa your judgment brothers."

English.

is right, old Dan; yours is a Withers-"Who has it most of

Jowett, so is mine." the time?"

I

Smithers-The garage man." -Princeton Tiyer.

We sometimes think, aftor reading the accident lists, that "our citizens are divided into two classes, the carless and the caroless. Boston Transcript.

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Sole Passenger. Your 'bus is light this morning,"

·Cookney Conductor: "Yus! But only 'alf a minute, sir."- Ex.

The only timo some folk are in! a hurry is when they happen to bo in a hired motor.

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The perils of the Peak pades- trians are chially motors and muscles.

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The light car is in greator demand now, says a London now spaper. Motorists aro at last bo- coming moro considerate for] pedestrians.

The other day a Kowloon man caught a bus and was uninjured. All the same, ite a dangerous

"Evory body should learn to drive a car." Starting with those who do.-Belleville Intelligencer: practice..

Chivalry may havo overdone the thing at times, but it didn't in front of the house and honk. Brockville Recorder and Times.

Natura is wonderful, but she makes few heads as hard as wind- shields.Kingston British Whig.

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One of the things we may yat Hongkong, policeman holding up a motor car to allow pedestrians to cross the street.

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One is justified in asking if it is possible for a manufacturer to build this characteristic into hi product. The firm, would prob- able say, "Decidedly, yes!" The writer is inclined to think, how- ever, that it is due to a happy) combination of circumstances largely attributable to the success of the design as a whole, and its distinctive appeal to the motorist of moderate means.

Again, the firm would Bay, Wo made it so." HowevDI, this is not for us to decide.. Suffice it to know that such a happy state of affairs doce exist, as the following goes further to pŕove. Overseas readors arc award of tho extraordinary averago native once he becomes nonchalance displayed by the accustomed to the new machines of the white man, and his dis- cernment ofton amazon us. Ho appreciates a good thing, and You can't drive a car on hot affectionately christens it with a phrase, in his own tongue, ex- air alone.

pressive of his own opinion, with a celerity that is wonderful. Thus of Mysore, Southern India, have taken a liking to the little Jowett car because of its capacity to negotiate the difficult roads of the district" at a speed rarely attained by other cars, and it is now known throughout that

Lot poots sing thoir. BS Many a driver has had a smash. the nativos of Hassan in the State)

song,

And gaily smito their lyre,

Be careful of dangerous curves, up because he had an arm around

Give me the man who whistles one.

while

He's putting on a tyre.

-Mount Union Dynamo,

It is said automobiles of the future will weigh only one hundred pounds. This will give the average pedestrian bettor than an evon broak, Toronto. Star.

Free

Say it with brakes and save the flowers.-Winnipeg Press,

Proachor":"Sorry, but TIF

ave to return this second-hand car. I bought.

Auto Agent: "What's matter with it?”.

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Prenolor: Wo-oll, I don't want to say but I can't keep it and stay in the ministryAmerican Legion Weekly.

- Ethyl gas is sold to give Increased mileage and take tho kneel out of motor-car engines. Ethyl mqot Lizzie-Niagara Falls Reviews,

ROUGH GOING.

The above photo shows rough travelling near Kirin in the Northern Provinos.

province as Jildi-Jow," which

up

moane," Go quickly,"

To sum

our remarks, such enthusiasm can only be engondered in minds so diverse, as those indicated, by a car of real charactor.

Its apt slogan is now, known thoughout the world, for who has not heard of the "Littlo Engine with tho Big Pull"?

GOOD ROADS SAVE,

A study "inado by the Iowa State Colloge shows the dif faronce in cost of maintaining oarth and improved roads. The former requires an annual cost of $25.600 a mile for each 500 cars, , while the good roads cost £20,650 a mile for the same number of

·cara;

1-95-4

WEATHER

SOMETHING NEW IN TYRE MATERIALS SUPERTWIST"-A GOODYEAR CONTRIBUTION

Cords, not rubber, is the material which gives " motor car tyres their strength.

Recognising this fact, Goodyear started experi mentation to improve cord material.

Success attended the work and out of the endeavour emerged the remarkable new cord material called

'Supertwist."

"Supertwist" is a balanced cord material, of great endurance and of much greater elasticity.

Supertwist" is unmistakably an impressive advance in tyre construction.

ward thin-

Its superiority takes on added significance by reason of the strong tendency now sidewall low-pressure tyre building.

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Certainly all tests made so far show that ply for ply it renders a tyre body incomparably. serviceable..

"Supertwist" is an exclusive Goodyear develop- ment. It is built into Goodyear Balloon Tyres of both types-to fit new small diameter wheels, or the wheels on the majority of cars now in use if with straight side. or 30 x 3 beaded edge rims.

Goodyear Means Good Wear

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