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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1925.

A Body for Every Business When you buy a Graham Brothers Truck you have your choice of the largest line of standard bodies in the industry. Whatever your require ments may be, Graham Brothers can supply you at minimum cost.

1-ton Chassis:

BB

'+

130" W. B.

1-14-ton Chassis";

OB 140 W.B.

· FB

158" W. B.

MBM 140 W B.

LBM 158W.B.

Passenger Das Chassis:

YB

158" W. B..

U. S. Cy.

$1,095

,$1,280 $1,330 .$1,345 $1,395

$1,600

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone C. 1246 or 1247.

33, Wong Nei Chung Road....

Happy Valley.)

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SOLD BY DODGE BROTHERS DEALERS EVERYWHERE

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Four Spoed

The World's Record Breaking Motorcycle

in

Quality Value-Price,

3.46 h.p. model-Electrically Equipped

H. K. $475,00

SOLE. AGENTS":

RUDOLF WOLFF & KEW LTD.

55, Queen's Road, Contra),

“Phone C.2173,

CLAIMED TO BE RECORD CHEQUE.

Read & Co

may

Brothers $146.000.000M forty Six Million Dollare

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Dillon Read Mo

Pictured above is the largest cheque that over figured. in an industrial transaction. It is for $46,000,000, xo- presenting the purchase price of the Dodge Brothers motor concern. It was carried by airplane from New York to Detroil to avoid loss of interest which amounted to $8,117.60 a day at 2 per cent. That substantiates the theory that “it takes money to make money."."

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Yet there is another way to make money. When John and Horace Dodge' were mere youtha in Niles, Mich.,, they tinkered with every broken clock and recalcitrant gas engine in town. They became so.proficient that it was said that "those Dodgo boys can fix anything that noeds fixing," The Dodge brothers attained success by applying them. selves to the thing they liked to do best.. Parents should bear that in mind in their endeavours to shaps the careers of their children.

|BRITISH MOTOR" CYCLES. BALLOON VERSUS HARD

SUCCESSES IN COMPETITIONS.

TYRES.

INTERESTING FACTS.

During 1924 the British motor A paper of general interent ta. cycle industry put up a mag-molorists was read by Mr. Colin nificent record of successes in Macbeth before the Institution open competitions in all parts of of Automobile Engineers at "the world, and "the present year Glasgow and Wolverhampton has opened under very favourable recently, It is evident that the; auspicoe. It is stated in "The author is entirely in agreemont Motor Cycle that the motor with the. views already put cycle exports of Great Britain in forward about the advantages of January of this year amounted the balloon tyre, and we welcome to over £226,000 as compared the remarks of one who has had with £152,000 for the same month considerable expérience of such in 1924 and about £77,000 for a matter extending over the last January 1923.

eight years, As regards racing and com- Its greatest advantage over the petitions, the A. J. S. machines high pressure tyra, in Mr. started the year well by Macbeth's opinion is its better occupying the first five shock-absorbing abilies, owing places in the 310 .c. class to its much larger sectional in the South African Tourist Bros, with the normal radius. of Trophy Races of January lat, the tyre from the hub contre, This success was followed up enabling roughly only half the. early in February by the break-normal pressure to be employed. ing of the Australian records for Thus the unsprung parts receive the mile.

fairer treatment, and minor rattles

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In the Six Days Winter Trial and chassia noises are consider- held in France early in February,|ably reduced. Owing to larger the conditions were so bad that surface in contact with the road; every rider in the 500 a.c. class, it has greater resistance to lateral with one exception, bad ratired skidding, and wheels locked the by the fourth day. The only sur-car is easier to hold straight. vivor was piloting one of the new Owing to the better road-hold- 404 Triumphs, the only machine ing qualities of the low pressure of this make in the trial, and tyre a slightly higher average. finished the course without the spood can be maintained, especial- loss of a single mark. In the 15 over roads other than those South African Tourist Trophy with the best surfaces; also, due Race the rider of a Triumph to the same reason, fuel consump- finished first in the 690'e c. class tion is generally lower. and made the fastest time against | For Colonial purposes there is all comers, including big twins of less risk of the car sinking into 989 c.0.

bog or sand, on account of the The increased demand for ingrossed width of tyre. As the! British machines is reflected by walle are thinner, giving greater the extension of many factories, flexibility, the tendency for thei Thus, the Enfield factory, at cotton to broak up and separate Redditch is being considerably from the rubber is considerably enlarged, and now covers about reduced, thus providing more

"the eighteen acres,

models durability and a greater factor of manufactured varying from the safety, and the life of the tread 24 hp. Hightweight, to an 8 h.p. is longthoned because there is sidecar combination,

groat adhesion between it and the

Messrs. Packman and Poppe, road.

the manufacturore of the P. & P.

motor cycles, have moved into even more successful than last larger works and have arranged year's, although in 1924 one P. & rider alone won OVOT

a very active racing programme, P.

which it is anticipated will be thirty events.

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FOR TEN YEARS-DEPENDABLE

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Exceptional dependability has been a characteristic of Dodge Brothers Motor Car since the day the first of these" sturdy cars was marketed:

Not once in a decade has it failed to upholp and enhance its reputation for faithful performance.

The reason for its consistent goodness and continued betterment points directly back to the ideals of the founders.

Instead of fluctuating between an end- less series of annual models, they deter- mined, to concentrate on the perfection of a single chassis.

Dodge Brothers Motor Car to-day is the embodiment of that ideal-an ideal that will endure as long as the institution itself.

DODGE BROTHERS

THE DRAGON MOTOR Car Co

LIMITE

33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD

HAPPY VALLEY

SOMETHING NEW IN TYRES It is SUPERTWIST

A Goodyear Contribution

A great many people talk about motor oar tires as rubber tyres."

The truth is motor car tyres get their strength and endurance not from rubber,. but from cotton.

Long recognizing this, Goodyear started experimentation to improve cord material in their own fabric mille.

Success, attended "tho work and out of the endeavour emerged the remarkable now cord material called SUPERTWIST. SUPERTWIST is a balanced cord material "of great endurance, also having the im

portant advantage of greater elasticity:

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A tyre body made of it yields in greater degrao to a blow or shook, giving it greater freedom from stone bruises and similar. injuries.

SUPERTWIST is unmistakably, an impres sive advance as a tyre, material. Teste show that it renders a tyra body incom- parably serviceable.:

Being an exclusive Goodyear development, SUPERTWIST is used only by Goodyear and is now built into all Goodyear Cord Tyres...

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