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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925.

THE AUSTIN “7" AS A CAR FOR SPACE.

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS PARODIED

(By Stan Hill)

The troubles of garaging are soon over come with the “Austin 7."

Its requirements for space are as modest as its price. With hood down its hoight is only 4 ft. 9. inches, while its width over all is 3 ft. 10 inches. The length is 9 ft. 2 inches..

Thus the owner can erect his own garage whore he would not do so in case of a larger car. „

C. L'F. Ready for the Road

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THAT'S IT- THE 1925 HARLEY

The firs shipment of 1925, Harley Davidson Motor Cycles with side-cars, will arrive the first week in June.

Book your order now, as there are only a limited : number of machines left,

ASK ME TO POINT THE 27 NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

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SKÝ"FLIVVERS'

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MOTOR-CAR DEAD.

Mr. Elwood Haynes, who built the first motorcar in the United States, and also a discoverer in the field of metallurgy, has died at Kokomo, Indiana, at the age of 67, after a brief, illness.

A famous father's ambition that his son shall make an even bigger mark on the world's history than Mr. Elwood Haynes, who was he has himself lies behind the born in Portland, Indiana, in 1857, vast new scheme which Henry was educated at the Johns Hop- Ford has conceived for air trans- kius University It, is claimed port.

that he discovered tungsten Ford's name is a household chrome steel in 1881, an alloy of word in motoring, and it has chromium and nickel in 1897, ap become his dearest wish that the alloy of cobalt and chromium in. name of his son Edsel-whom be 1900, and stainless steel" in has already made president of 1911. In 1893 he designed and the huge Ford undertaking-shall constructed a motor-car with a be written bighest and boldest on single cyclinder air-cooled engine, the scroll of aviation. He wants chain transmission, and cantilever Edsel to be "King of the Air."

springs which was first driven in I am able to tell now, for the July, 1894. A company was first time, the complete story. formed in 1893 which still exists Not only the Ford millions, but under the name of the Haynes

as many more as may be required Automobile Company, and of this are behind the great project Mr. Haynes was president, until which father and son have begun his death to evolve.

FROM WHEELS TO WINGS.

Tho brilliant organisation which won Honry Ford his wealth and fame is evident in the way this oven greater problem is being tackled. No detail is being forgotten.

Patiently, methodically, the way is being pavód for the day when the Ford sheds its whole and takes instead to wings.

The engineering division of the Cadillac Motor Car company oc-

cupios four floors of an entire wing of one of the company's manufacturing buildings. It in- cludes a dynamometer test room, extensive offices. It employs 136 mon. Their work is creative and is always concerned with the

future.

It is Henry's belief that the future of human progress depende upon more equal distribution of population throughout the world. They will have the simplest upon an opening up of vast possible motors. They will be resources which still lie dormant. built of the fewest possible parts. Transportation as oivilisation | Their metal construction will on- And so, having conquered the able them to stand out, in all problem of road transport, be weathers, without coming to any foresees the world's salvation in harm., a universal taking to the air.

Likely to be even more historic than the first Ford motor-cars be able to jump in them and go aro half a dozen little metal lying away. We shall have"

air-trucks" which have just errand-boys of the air. emerged from the great. Ford plant at Detroit.

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They will be so easy to fy that any farm lad, or handy-man, will

What others have been talking about, the two Forde, father and DAILY TRIAL TRIPS. son, are actually beginning to' They are new experiments in accomplish under our very eyes. feather-weight metals and simpli- They are tackling this "air pro- fied motors. They are the fore-position" in precisely the samo runners of the winged lorrios way as, years. ago, Henry which are to revolutionise trans- tackled the motor car proposi

tion. We do, not need to be re- port.

These little trucks with wings minded of what he accomplished are being flown cách day over in, that fiold; and the scope in, tho 250 miles which separats this new field almost staggers tho

Detroit and,

Chicago the imagination, ge plants of the Ford Company. ALTERING TIME AND DISTANCE. With their half-ton loads on The ohoap, safo, universal board, these aerial trucke soar aeroplano means not merely a up in the morning and rotura change. It means a revolution.. in the evening. Every detail of It means we shall have to alter' their performance is being noted all our present notions of time mothodically. Every dofect is and distance. Indirectly it will recorded--and is being remedied. lengthen our lives, because wo They are being tested in the air shall be able to do so much more just like a new type of car on the in any given period, thanks to road.

tho, speed at which we shall durt Edsel Ford is now suporintond- hero and thore in cheap littlo ing laboratory experiments of the "flivvers of the sky.". most complete and costly kind. "Awaiting only the day when a Already, thanks to these machine is evolved which roally researchos, the first batch of satisfios, Edsel Ford and his ex- "air-trucks are hundreds of ports, the vast Ford plant is pounds lighter, per machino, roady for mass-production. Motal than any aircraft of similar size air-trucks will stream forth, not produced before.

In tons, or hundreds, but in FOOLPROOF 'PLANES. thousands, and the ramifications The aim of the whole thing is of the Ford organisation will a van of the air, and also a little distribute them broadcast. The passenger typo of air-car, which world will tako to wings,ts shall be as absolutely practical a commercial proposition as the existing Ford of the road."

We shall wake up one morning. to find that the air ago, long- promised, has actually dawned.

STAN Hill 1925.

QUARTER CENT A MILE. Motorists pay an average of a quartor of a cent a mile, in the form of registration fees and gaso- fine taxos, according to the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. The computation is made on the basis of an average annual mileage of 6000 miles for each motorist.

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