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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,'

GRAHAM BROTHERS NEW

One Ton

1 TON CHASSIS G 8 1,095

TON CHASSIS From G $1,280

TRUCK

Impressive appearance, well built bɔdies, quick acceleration, volumes of reserve power, easy handling, comfortable riding, extremely low upkeep cost-and depen- able service everywhere i Everything that is desirable in a truck is embodied in the One-Ton. To see it is to realize that Graham Brothers have solved your haulage problem

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co.,

LIMITED

33 WONG NEL CHUNG ROAD HAPPY VALLEY

MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE AT MINIMUM COST. [OTOR_transportation, "of men or materi is, is to-day obtained with maximum security and comfort and a minimum cost when the "tyre equipment is Firestene...

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The structural advantages in these big Cord tyres exactly provide for strength with flexibili'y. The Firestone process of double gumdipping com- pletěly Insulates each cord in liye rubber, eliminat- ing internal friction, while the pliant body of the tyre successfully withstands the blows and strains of road contact, this combining comfort with long tyre life.

Security against skidting, good appearance and car protection are additional benefits,

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.,

33 Wong Noi Chung Road, (Happy Valley)..

LTD.

..Contral 1246 or 1247,

Firestone

TAXING MOTORS.

Which is the Best Method?

- BY

LOGICIAN"

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1925.

HOLIDAY MOTORING. to such a point, invariably one should be sure that a sufficiently low speed is engaged to enable SAVING POCKET AND SKIN. the car to be accelerated on the

instant: it should be "nippy.""

(BY H. MASSAC BUIST IN THE LONDON "OBSERVER":

FROM CYCLE TO CAR.

MOBILE PUBLICITY::

LIGHT COMMERCIAL VANS.

Undoubtedly one of the out- standing features in motor trap-

that

I find that many who have sport development during the past graduated to motor car owning few years has boon the increased Perhaps one offers a more from motor bicycle wherein they use of light motor vans fon retail have had in the past very slow trade delivery purposes. Motor effective argument to theso

engines of the single Transport calls attention, to the The question of motor taxation motorists who incline to be callous spoed

whon one points out that their cylinder type, wil koop in the fact that the trade user has not. | is one of alsorbing interest, more reluctance to change gear, whore- direct drive for instance, in bron slow to realise that in his especially when motorists differ by oftentimes inevitably their circumstances in which you can motor van ho has at his disposal widely in their opinions regarding engine does what motorists callcount separately the detonations, an inexpensive, but very valuable, the best method of applying that for the mechanism, rosulting often the

"slow slogging," is extremely had and feel the engine stutter duo to advertising modium, so

terrible strain of dead hand-in-hand with light van pro- taxation. There is fairly general in cracked pistons, bent connect-contro firing at slow speeds, gress has come publicity badly-

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work in a mulitude of attractive agreement with the basic theory ing rods, broken big ends, and wherein

other expensive failures. I find exerted to destroy the inauhan-forme. that motor vehicles should pay that a very high proportion of ism and relatively little to furn the crankshaft: Those graduat- tax because of the tremendously motorists who

hang on to' 1 heavy public cost of maintaining high gear overlong have not the ing from this school do not even the highways which suffer wear least idea of the damage they are understand that, when they hear and tear more from motor vehi- doing to their cars, particularly motor bicyle engine firing very cles nowadays than from "any in these days of lighter recipro-slowly and when they hear a four- other class of traffic, but whether eating parts, of alloy pistons, and cylinder car engine firing at the that tax is equitably levied is also forth. Nor have thoy any same spoed, the latter's crankshaft point upon which there is notion of the extreme danger of is turning over at a quarter of the spoed of that at which a motor. wide divergance of opinion. In the procedure."

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the case of motoring at Home! For instance, I know one cycle engine is turning when it there is practically a unanimous motorist who" for yeare has emits sounds at the same rate. consensus of opinion against the driven a minimum of 15,000 miles How much greater, therefore, is horse-power basis upon which the per annum in all weathers and the actual abuse of the car engine? tax is applied. The higher the why, whether he is on top or on a We do not make more flexible and horse-power (worked out accord-low gear, slows his car on ap more efficient engines to be mis, or oxaggerated, changes of direa ing to a scale of rating approved proaching a T-turn, or a cross used in this fashion. On the con- tion should be avoided.

At holiday times one notices by the R.A.C. the greater the road, but who never puts in a trary, crankshaft revolutions not tax, the underlying assumption lower gear to approach and make only spell power; they, besides, folk are unduly fussy about the water in the cooler, especially being that the more power the passage, or the turn, as the ecommise fuel, wear, and tear, · ful is the car. the greater caso may be. The result is that

with new cars. Every morning FACTS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW, must be its woight and the greater such a

they will examine the radiator · man comes admirably must be its wear upon the roads. slowly to a critical part of the Many drivers seem to be so and fill it up to the cap level. The assumption is, of course, road, but his car is nothing less obsessed with the idea that in This is quite wrong. Water ex- false, and is generally recognised than an obstruction and often making a turn the rear wheels cut pands when it gets warm, there- so to be. One effect of such a times a menace when it gets to the are described by the front fore it follows that it contracts system of taxation has hoon to the very part where danger is to wheels that they proceed at right when it is cool. No radiator ought produce a type of motor car be expected. With too high a angles straight across the road to be filled to the level of the filler which will evade high tax by gear engaged, a car cannot be into which they intend to turn to cap. It is not to the purpose that being small in horse-power, and manoeuvred, but, in effect, is loft, or to the right, before at every raditor is, or should thus England has become a nearly in as bad a cuse as if tempting to make the turn. By the be, supplied with an overflow pipe. country producing not the car somebody put it athwart the time they have accomplished it, The water may heat up and ex- with the ideal horse-power for ita cross-road and left it stationary generally they are "on the other pand so quickly as to be an excess size, but the car with the least at the critical part. One should fellow's side of the road" and only of that overflow pipe's capacity possible effective horse-power for never have to change speed when begin to true up and take their to discharge the surplus. There its size. The light cars of Fing traversing any part of the road right station on the road after is no more fruitful cause of steam land (some of which are so petite where danger is to be anticipated. proceeding 50 or 100 yards. Thi pockets the most-to-bo-avoided- as to become engineering jokes) On the contrary, before one gets je a great cause of accidents. The led trouble in connecting with the are primarily the product of a

driyer should practise to discover water-cooling system-than over- system of taxation and not the

how neatly he can make a turn to filled radiators. When the water product of unhämpered British engineering ability. So far as the safeguards against the use of right, or to left, into a road with-is cold there should always be left other and untaxed spirits for fuel. out getting right athwart the unfilled at least three or four English method of taxation goes,

The whole subject is one of in- thoroughfare into which he is inches of clear space at the top of therefore, it can be dismissed as

with his rear, noarside reasonable space for expansion ax thoroughly bad, because it has tense interest, more especially to passing, also without fouling the the radiator. This will allowa

ongkong motorists by reason of curb

it heats to the normal tempera- tended to produce hundreds of freakish and ridiculously low a whispered possibility that the wheel. powered cars. The oxchequer basis of taxation here is shortly. has been robbed at the expense of to be changed. engineering practice.

If we take the method of im- posing the motor car tax in' Hongkong we find that, although there has been an improvement on the Home. method, there is still room to criticise. There is a graduated scale of fees imposed, the weight of the based on velticle and not its horse-power. If the car or truck has solid tyres it pays more than if it has pneumatic tyres, and the foes for public hire vehicles are much higher than for private vehicles. But in spite of a very ingenious attempt to make this imposition of tdx on the weight basis an equitable one, there are several anomalios to be found. Firstly, the car which is used, say only once a week for pleasure, pays just as much as its comparable fellow which is used every day and which gets far more use of the road towards the upkeep of which the revenue from notor car taxation gees. Most of the private motor cars in Hongkong the $24 per under year scale, but no one would contend for a moment that all such cars get an equal use of the road. It is only right and fair that heavy commercial vehicles, especially those with solid tyres, should pay more than light cars, but there should be sonie differ- ence even between heavy vehicles which use the roads a lot and those which use the roads so much less.

come

The problem of finding a truly equitable basis of motor taxation which is easily workable and in- expensive in operation is not easy, There has been a very interesting suggestion made in the Philip- pines recently that only a purely nominal fee should be made for motor car registration and num.! ber plates, and that a tax should be put on petrol instead of on cars. The arguments in favour of such a' course seem fairly sound-at loast much fairer than in the case of a' tax on cars. The car which used the most gasoline would pay the most tax: thus the heavy high-powered cars and trucks would pay more than light ones, and a much-used car would pay more than its follow which only went out once or twice a week. The heavy road-wearers (both in the matter of weight and fro- quency of use) would pay more than those that did not wear the road so much. If the motor car tax! were made into a gasolino tax it

In driving, too, you should natture at which the engine should. "saw" your car. All unnecessary, be run.

PACKARD ANNOUNCES

Packard announces that already more than 15,000 new Packard owners have found in their cara the most notable improvements since the introduction of the electric starter, These improvements are (1) chassis lubricator, (2) the motor oil rectifier. Together they double the life of Packard cars.

The Chassis, Lubricator

With the exception of six

points that must be oiled by hand once every

- 10,000 miles, the chassis,

points requiring regular 'attention, 45 in all, may be oiled in less time than it takes to sound the horn.

The pull of a plunger, a second of time, and every part is bathed in oil,

How much would your car be. worth to-day if it had no electric starter? How much will your car be worth two, three or four years from today If it has no chassis, lubricator and motor

•oll rectifler?

These improvements, found to gether only in Packard cars, are among the most important ever made in motor car design. While the electric starter In- creased the sale of cars the chassis Jubricatoränd the motor 'oll rectifler double the life of cars-cutting depreciation to half and making the Packard the most economical car in its.. class to own, to operate and to malotalo.

The Motor Oil Rectifier The motor oil needs to be changed but once in every 2,500 miles. The

lubricating qualities

preserved through re

complete and automatic

purification once every hour while the motor is running.

The result - longer life" of parts,

oil, wer costs for......

operation.

First by ten years or more to protect the interests of owners. through retaining standardized appearance and in offer. ing no yearly models, Puckurd is now first to muke it easily possible for owners to get out of their cars the long and desirable mileage life built into them.

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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.,

LIMITED:

33 Wong Nei Chung Road.

Happy Valley.

PACKARD

would be fairer all round, although ASK THE MAN WHO

there would have to be some

OWN'S ONE.