1925-08-22 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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Effective immediately, we announce the following VERY SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS In our delivered prices of HUDSON and ESSEX. Motor Cars: SIX CYLINDER ESSEX REDUCTIONS.

5-passenger Touring.

$100.00

5-passenger Coach

1

$150.00

HUDSON SUPER-SIX REDUCTIONS.

5-passenger Coach

$250.00

7-passenger Sedan

$250.00

7-passenger Touring -

$500.00

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 22,

PALESTINE TO BAGDAD.

MOTOR SERVICE ACROSS DESERT.

HEADLIGHTS!

"

STABILISING DESIGN.

You may think yourself a very Automobiles bought"-to-day careful, considerato auto driver, will not look muob different from " But before you plume yourself too the cars to be bought in five year's |highly, ask yourself one more time. This is the promise made Recent discoveries of ollin Por- The servico.bas boon establish- queation, how do you handle your to prospective motorists by Ame- rican manufacturers who have sia and Iraq, the land about the ad by the Nairn Transportation henolights? Tigris and Eugurates rivers, and company, Beirut, Syria, and a Do you always dim them on decided to stabilise the design of" the centuries-old impetus of com- largo fleet of Cadillac cars is used approaching another car? Do their products. marco. to aborten the route from in covering the 603 miles of do you always keep them dimmed Packard, Dodge, Ford and the Western world to Persia and sert travel from Beirut, via Dam-except when there are no other several others have long adopted India, have resulted in the estab-ascus, to Bagdad. Heretofore care coming and you can't ace this policy. Thee are no mere lishment of a permanent motor there has been no direct route to to drive without having them on annual models in these factories. car route from the Mediterranean Bagdad and the East excepting full tilt?

Instead, now features are added, shore of Falestina to Bagdad, in slow camel travel. The new ser If you don't-you can't qualify or improvements made, when- the heart of Mesopo¡amis

vice brings the Mesopotamian' as a considerata driver.

ever they happen to be ready for practical use.

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BAGDAD

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Bright headlights are a menade to everyone else on, the road. Keep am dim.

Studebaker is another addition to this group of manufacturers. And don't depend too much on According to Mr. J. N. Willys, glass lenses that are supposed to a leading Amortean manufactu- diffuse the glare and rent or it unrer, the "one Year" car is passing objectionable. Most of them are out of the ploture, and in its pretty nearly as blinding as any place is coming the car with lon- other kind.

gar life and more atable design.

The old and the new delivered prices of the various HUDSON

and ESSEX models are as follows, all prices being in Hongkong Curreucy :

....

HUDSON SUPER SIX:

SIX CYLINDER ESSEX:

Old Price: New Price:

5-passenger Touring. 5-passenger Coach

$2,500 $2,650

$2,400 $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.,

LIMITED

33 WONG NE CHUNE TOAD HAPPY VALLEY

THE SUCCESS OF THE

BUICK COACH

city within nine days of London' times of the year, also, the Tigris and within forty-eight hours of and Euphrates rivers overflow Port Said at the entrance to the their banks; the whole district Suez.canal,

of Hamadi becomes flooded and Tho satiro trip is covered in cars must be driven for hours less-than-twenty-four hours of hub-doop in the mud.

Cadillac There is actual running time.

care of goven-and an overnight stop at Damascus nine-passenger capacity have and with other stopa for meals been found particularly adapted enroute, the journey is completed for the work. The beat is ex- in sixty hours of actual time. treme. There is a climb of 1200 The ses route by way of the feat botween Bagdad and Damas- Suez canal and around Arabia cus. requires eighteen to twenty-one days and the overland camol caravan requires saven to eight weeks.

At the Begand end of the route. l'almo, contentions are made with the railway which runs southeas: to Barsa, on the Parsian guif, and also northeast to the Porsian bardor. In this way travellers who wish to tap the commercial resouros of northern India and Persia are greatly bonofited.

are

Although the oars driven at top speed, it has been found unnecessary to replenish one drop of water in the radiators during the more than 1200 miles of the round trip.

The running boards of the cars, are occupied by 34-rallon gaso. line'tanks which, with the bian dard 20-gallon tanks in the rear, give each car a gasoline storage capacity of 90 gallons.

A new twenty-pago illustrated booklet called The Desert Mail". The motor trip from Beirut to with a map and illustrations basi Bagdad is one of hard travel and just been published by the Gener- bazardous going for the sturdiostial Motors Export company. It! ears, both on account of the ex- tells the story of the development cessivo beat and the wadi, or dry of transportation in this 600-mile| river courses, which are deep strip of land which bothunites! and stony and encountered at and separates the civilization cfi unexpected places. Af certain the East and the West.

AUTOMOBILE CARAVAN.

AEROPLANES AND AUTOMOBILES MAKE PILGRIMAGE TO WASHINGTON.

IF YOU ONCE TRY MICHELIN TIRES YOU WILL ALWAYS INSIST ON MICHELIN, TRY ONE OR A SET-BEE ING IS BELIEVING. SHIPMENTS WEEKLY ENSURING FRESH GOODS ONLY.

DISTRIBUTORS-

JOHN GIBBS & COMPANY.

Alexandra. Building, 4th Floor.

SENDAYS & HOLIDAYS, C. 4532,

Telephono C. 704.

A.J.S. 7.99 H.P. De Luxe Passenger Combination Model E. 1 Complete with Hood, Wind Screen" and Side Screen.

STOCKS CARRIED

Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd.

BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.

The Buick Coach is a real closed car-built to Bulck's high. standards of closed car comfort, sturdiness and appointment. The Fisher body shows the graceful lines of the finest enclosed types. The two wide doors; hinged at the front, enable rear seat passengers to enter or leave either door without disturbing people in the front seats. Duco finish. Different colors for each of the two coach models.

And the price! Never before has it been possible to have a closed car with these quality features at such low cost,

For Demonstration.

Please call or Telephone C. 1036.

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD

33 & 35 Des Vœux Road Central.

Hood rattles and body squeaks

FUTURE HEADLIGHTS!

TILTING SUGGESTED, The Illuminating Enginooring Society of New York, an organi sation which, as its name implies deals with every phase of modern lighting, has boon making tests with a patent tilting device for headlights. The result is n

can be stopped by the application prediction that tilting will solve

of strips from an old felt hat be the vexed question of dimming, Tools underneath the front seat

CROSS MOUNTING AND CHASM

DOES YOUR CAR SUFFER

WH

from

INDIGESTION?

HETHER your envine stutters and lies down

on you occasionally, or whether the con-

Aeroplanes and automobiles movement aver organised by [took part in the Maccabeos inter-motorists. On entering Wasbing- national automobilo oaravan ton two abreast, the care formed dition is chronic, we guarantee to diagnose the case

which proceeded to Washington a procession ten miles long. Tho last month from every corner of above picture shows one of the correctly and effect a cure. the United States and Canada: members who flow from San The Maccaboca oaravan is said Fransisco in less than fifty hours

to have been the largest tourist actual flying time.

BROKEN GLASS SERVICE...

CANADIAN EXHIBITION.

An automobile company of { Canada's annual national ox-

Our staff of expert merchanics takes Just as much interest in your car as would the medicos if you personally were laid up or Repairs.

tween the moving parts. The which, incidentally, is illegal in may be safeguarded against thefi Birmingham, Ala., bas added a hibition, which draws motorists The Dragon Motor CarCo., Ltd.

shoulders along radiator and cowl, the State of Massachusetts. The by the attachment of a steel band city-wide service for keeping the from most of the United States where the hood rests, ara among effect of tilting la to shorten the and lock now being manufactured streets clear of glass. The com- will be at Toronto from Aug. 20 such parts liable to cauan squeaks. bears of light sufficiently to be band is hinged, to the rear of pany is operating motorcycle cars to Sept. 12, this year. This is one The fall will stick best if gluedreader it effective, while at the the seat and bends over to be which carry a elde der to receive of the greatest national fairs in down with silicate of soda, or same time cutting off the direct locked in place against the bot the glass that is swept up.

the world, water glass,

glare from approaching vehicles. tom.

Expert and Constant European Supervision.

Telephone C. 1926 or 1247,