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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8; 1926

DODGE BROTHERS

TOURING CAR

When good weather invites you into the country, you will appreciate more than ever the advantages of Dodge Brothers Touring Car. Open to fresh air, and sun- light the Touring Car is healthful and" delightful to drive.

Moreover, it is common knowledge everywhere that Dodge Brothers product is dependable. One eighth of the total weight of the car consists of chrome vanadium steel the toughest and most enduring steel that can be used in motor car construction. This is exceptional. It goes far to explain why Dodge Brothers Touring Car stands up so many years under the hardest usage.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD, 33, Wong Nei Chung Road

Happy Valley

Effective immediately, we announce the following VERY SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS in our delivered prices of HUDSO V and ESSEX Motor Cars":

SIX CYLINDER ESSEX REDUCTIONS.

5-passenger Touring -

$100.00

5-passenger Coach.

$150.00

HUDSON SUPER-SIX REDUCTIONS.

5-passenger Coach

$250.00

9.

7-passenger Sedan

$250.00

7-passenger Touring -

$500.00

The old and the new delivered prices of the various HUDSON and ESSEX models are as follows, all prices being in Hongkong & urrency:

SIX CYLINDER ESSEX:

5-passenger Touring 5-passenger Coach

HUDSON SUPER SIX :

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Old Price: New Price:

$2,500 $2,400 $2,650 $2,500

Old Price: New Price:

7-passenger Touring

$4,000

$3,500

5-passenger Coach-

$4,000

$3,750

Brougham (New Model)

$4,350

7-passenger Sedan

$5,000 $4,750

In the month of April, Hudson-Essex manufactured and shipped more six-cylinder automobiles than any manufac

turer ever made before in a month's time.

THE DRAGON Motor Car Co.,

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CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS.

Special to the Hongkony Telegraph.).

COSTS OF AREIAL TRAVEL.

one of the famous Swedish pilots, Quito che of the most interest. Admiral Lindborg of the Royal and carried as a passengor ing of the series of very inter- Swedish Navy. The machine eating and valuable papers on left Malmo at 11.00 in pouring matters of imporial, impor rain and a howling gale and it Itance real before the Royal arrived at the Felixstowe Air Colonial Institute was that recont Station at 40 p.m. Admiral ly read by Air Marshal Sir Softon Lindberg is 65 years of age and Bruncker on the subject of Impehe thoroughly enjoyed the long rial air routes to India and Australia. After pointing out that, over on a tour of British aircraft journey of 600 miles. He came as the power of aircraft dovetops, contres and he spoke with grant overy one of the Overseas Domi- confidence of the behaviour of the nions will become vulnerable to British Rolls-Royce engine over air attack, he showed how, on the the long stages of sea. other hand, it is possible for the British to get better value and

THE VALUE OF RACING. Kroater results from serial' dove- lopments than any other nation",

The effect of racing aircraft on owing to its area and the great military aircraft design is shown distances to be covered.. Dealing in the latest example of the with the utility of aerial travel, Gloucestershiro Aircraft Co.. be gave details of his racont jour- Ltd.. in their machine, the nay to Rangoon, undertaken Gawcock. Tais is a fast single mainly for the purpose of dealing seater driven by'a Napier "Lion": with the prospective establish- engine of 450 h.p. and is based on ment of various areoplane ser- the famous series of Napler- vices. In three active months Gloster racars which have won 18,000 miles were covered with all the big speed races in England out a single forced landing for the last five years. For a through material dofoot. The long time people have been whole cost worked out at about wondering what the Gloucester- £1,800 including insurance of theshire Company could hope to machine and pay and subsistence get by building auch machines of the crow. Costs of dorial traval as the Gloster I, II and II!. are being rapidly dimished. Five Now, however, the result is years ago 10/- a ton-mile was ro- obvious, The Gawcock, which garded as good. Nowadays about in many features resembles the 4/6d. a ton-mile is an adequats Bamel, is a single-pator fighter figure and within a few roars it with a very high top speed. is expected that it cost will be It is said not to be far short got down to 2/6d. per ton-mile.

01 200 m.ph. with full military load and it climb to 20,000 feet is amezing. It is to be used for Home Defence of Lon- craft approach at a high alti do so that when onemy air- tudo a squadron of these machines

AREMAARLE RECORD.

It is an chavurdhary fact that while thero has buon so much progress since the War in the de- tail design of aircraft there has heen no machine yet produced will be able to go straight up to a that an a general all-round mathem with very little, waste of still higher altitude and engage

caine can aurpass the performance time.

IMPROVEMENT IN NAVAL

AIRCRAFT.

of the do Havilland 91. This machine was produced in about 1917 as a daylight bomber with sufficient speed and manoeuvra- bility to be able to profect itself. Some interesting, test work has New machines built to this been undertaken by A. V. Ros specification are constantly being & Co., Ltd., in Southampton produced and yet, in spite of this, Water with a new kind of Napier the D. F. 9a standa supreme among engined single contral float British, aircraft. That is to say, amphibious biplane known as the it stands supreme among aircraft Bison Mark III. It is designed of the World, French, Dutch Gor as a Flest spottor for getting off man and American included. the decks of ships and aircraft The D. H. 9a was designed by carriers, but it was not expected Captain Geoffrey de Havilland when the Fleet was in action to and was originally built by the slight again on the desk. The Aircraft Manufacturing Co. most that was expected of it was After the War the de Havilland that the machine would flop into Aircraft Co., Ltd., took over the the sea with flotation bags and rights of all the D. H. machines then the pilot would bo rescued. and a number of D. H. 9a's bave In the latest design it is fitted eince been sold by the De Havil- with wheels and a float so that it! land Aircraft Co., and by the can take off the dock of the ship Aircraft Disposal Company.

on its wheels. and having com- pleted its task and, having ex- hausted its petrol it can alight| The Aircraft Disposal Co., Ltd., on the sea and in due course, which, since the end of the War, when the Mother ship is less have had the handling of all the active in defending itself against war-time stock of British aircraft, the enemy, it can pick up the are now gotting towards the end machine as good as now and use of their supply of old seroplados. it again. This obviously is a Therefore, it will not be very much more sensible policy than long before the word "Disposal" that of using the machine once will disappear from their titla. and then allowing it to be sunk. In future, I am told, they are to be known as A.D.C. Aircraft, Lid. Alroady they have produced two new types of engines, and one of these, the 60 h.p. Cirrus, is being put into fairly heavy production.

ORIGINAL DESIGNS. "

FOOT POWER.

At their works at Croydon Aurod-It's nice to go riding, in auto- rome they are now installing the mobilon. It's lovely to journey on latest and most up-to-date plant four rubber wheels. No matter for the manufacture of airoraft what type of an auto man owas, and engines in quantity. They be just likes to ride because it's have got together an exceedingly. resting his bones. The whistle of competent designing staff and at trains sends a man on a race ta the head of the Drawing Office is hop right aboard and go speeding Mr. John Keaworthy, who was through space. There's always a at one time the designer for lure you're unable to kill. You {Austine and was, in fact, the first know, as you ride, that you move,

parson to turn out what is now though you're stili. known as a light aeroplane. Mr. Why is it we all, when we're go- Kenworthy has recently produced ing to lunch, will often encourage some very interesting designs that lazy-like hunch to hand out... full of original features aed much our fare so's to ride on a car, more of them ie likely to be seen when, frankly, we know just how in the future. On the ongino foolish wo are? aido, A.D.C. Aircraft Ltd., will. It soome wo've forgotten our retain the services... of Major logs and our foot. They're robbod Halford who was one of the or their chance when we purchase designers of the original B.H.P. seat. Whero, formerly, all sort engino which later became the of biking was tried, today it's too Siddeley Pums and which is now easy for people to ride.

one of the most reliable engines We talk about hoalth, but wo in the World. Major Halford don't do our bit. The exercise has recently produced the 120 thought makes us all throw a fit. h.p. Airdisco engine and the 60 Let's atidy to the boolth gag, but h.p. Cirrus, engine and is also cut out he talk. The best aid to working on other very interest health fo get out and walk... ing designs.

FACING A GALE,

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on June 16th from Malmo le Confectious highways, to inspect The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Sweden to Felixstowe on the driver's license or for any

Swedish seaplane with a Rolls Royco "Eagle IX" engine. The machine was piloted by M. Flory

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