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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

1925.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TRIUMPH

THIS IS TINY. BUT IT'S COSTLY:

TRIUMPH

4.04 E P

All Chalk DRVE

The proved and improved TRIUMPH type

"P" is the finest value in the world and has a reserve of power which no other motor cycle can offer at the same price

CIF.

£59,5.0

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

BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, HONGKONG.

Bosch

BOSCH SPARK PLUGS:

Mude in many different types ani adniirably adapted to the varying designs and operating conditions of motor cars and motor eyeles:

r 1212 e 18 m m for eyeles

$1.00-

1616 for Eords.

$1.00

1616 em..11 mator cars

$1,00

r 2212 & 18, me for motor cars $1.00

r 3218 e 18 m/m" for motor cars $1.00

BOSCH PRECISION SPANNER:

A tool required by every driver and a *mechanie. Jaws opened and adjust- ed with one hand. Lock nut fires position of jaws. Positive stop pre- vents opening spanner too wide.

$2.10 5-inch Platonin Points (B) For Motor Cycles: $4,00 Short

$4.00.

Long

Platinum Points (Z) For Motor Cars:

$7.50

Short Long

$7.50

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LIMITED:

Toiophone Central 1946, or 1247. 35. Wong Nei Chung Rd.. (ilappy Valley.) Pay vlasy attention to the wine of RO EKTOSCH

not this

This is the type of "mosquito" car that might become popular were it not for its exorbitant cost. Gus Potzol of. Oakland Calif., is its maker and driver. Ho says the car cost him more than $2000. He can make 80 miles an hour, he says. It's a four-cooled affair, with three spoed transmission. Patzel is shown in the car on his way from San Francisco to New York.

ARMY MANOEUVRES.

WAR AND PEACE **ELEPHANT

NEW TRACTOR BEATS TANK.

was chosen, including three miles of soft marshland. The severity of this course was accentuated by the requirement that competing" machines should carry a load us well as hat! one. That trial made casualties" even of the tanks und half-track machines, which were believed to be able to da everything but swim.

the Army's As the "Hathi, elephant came, so near to fulfil Among many motor, vohiales Been during the Army Maling all the exacting military re- oeuvres, last month from plain quirements and has since been so thirty-hundred-weight forries to

improved that she has passed her gun-bouling "dragons"-

trials, it is interesting to note that fanks not the least interesting she is almost a present from Ger was a recent development of an experimental type which the many. Further, that in trials! made at Aldershot in 1921 of) Army konws as the "Hathi,"

commercial tractors from Hathi," it should be mention own country, France, Italy and ed. is the Indian term for elephant,Germany, the German four-wheel This fur from ungainly machine drive Mercedes-Daimler was the represents practically five years only and which stood up to the of experiment and

and

ovolution.work.

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tending all the time to the pro- The "Hathi," in its original duction of a motor vehicle which form, was a number of German would fulfil every military retractor parts captured during the quirement, but would at the same war, which fell into the hands of time have a sufficiently large the expert mechanicians of the commercial value to make its R.AS.C. Their fitst construction production in bulk as a subsidised satisfied the Royal Artillery Com vehicle a practical proposition..

mittee, which was looking out for Immediately after the war it

a wheeled tractor that would haul became necessary to introduce in its heaviest guns. The original the divisional areas a more mobile model stande still in the M.T. type of mechanical transport sheds. The new and improved vehicle for R.A.S.C. and other model, which will draw the heavy transport loads... This need was howitzers and sixty-pounder guns accentuated by the conditions of the medium batteries during | prevailing at Chanak in 1922. manoeuvres is now a product of Necessity urged the provision" of Messrs. Thornycrofts workshops, a lorry that would pull a heavy and, with bodies to suit purchas

tons, howitzer, weighing, five'

ers, is offered in the open market. through or over any kind of coun-

REMARKABLE FEATS: try likely to be met with, not

For the undeveloped territories! only in Europe, but all over the Empire, or carry a lead of about of the colonies and dominions, the same weight, and also to act the Army's elephant would soem

as a winch and wind loads cither to be particularly well suited, as

up hill or off the ground by means it can cross gullies with vertica!

banks three feet high, exort of pulleys and cable.

SEVERE TEST.

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steady draw-pull of 9,000 lb., haul a ten-ton trailer, load up a' gradi- In February of this year a trial font of one. In ton at seven miles of crosscountry vehicles was held an hour, or travel through soft al Wool. A terribly severe course sand. All those accomplishments and more, it is claimed, can be guaranteed. It can be loaded light and made up as an armourad car, run thirty miles an hour on the road, haul a six-inch howitzer through a river with a depth of over 4 ft. of water, and cut figures of eight on the soft sands of Al- dershot's Long Valley.

16 KNOTS

AILSA CRAIC

FAST RUN ABOUT

BRITISH THROUGHOUT

Complete $2750.00

DELIVERED HONGKONG,

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Sole Agents,

Whether the" Hathi" has ac- quired a commercial value aş yet cannot be stated. The purchase of a large herd of "elephants would raise the Army Estimates, but it is hoped that the "elephant" as a subsidised vehicle will find favour with haulers and agri-. culturists. It has all the advant- ages of the caterpillar tractor, and," with its rubber tyres, doos not cut roads and paths. The first War Depart- ment 30-cwt. subsidy lorries produced in 1922 had no commer- cial value and cogt nearly double the price of to-day. Now there are six makers turning them out in far greater numbers than can¦ be subsidised. There is reason to hope, it is, stated, that when the! commercial man, will attend the manoeuvres on the look out for! everything new in the tractor | line aco the Army's "elephant" perform it will become popular and so provide a reserve herd" against the contingency of war, that will cost the country practi-; cally nothing for upkeep.

SIMPLIFIED UNITS.' Internal gear pump lubrication and an automatic fan belt tight oner are characteristics of a new wator pump.

1926 HARLEY-DAVIDSON BIG TWIN SIXTEEN worth white improvements on the 1920 tapley-Davidson Twin? & still more efficient motorezale

mora comfort and more clans,

Big, wide guard-witch panel for ignition and lights outils the battery capacity relay cutout-in- creased generator apeilyi eleven aller improvementia. that help make the 1926 Big Twin Harley-Deviant the greatest value h all the world.

Let us point out these new 1926 features and let us tell you about the other superimities of the Harly- Davidson, Than give the new undel o teyout on the roxil. NO OBLIGATION" of course.

THE NEW HARLEY-DAVIDSON SINGLE (LIGHT-WEIGHT)

ifere is just the motorcycle you often thought about and wanted a single cylinder, easy to ride, low in price, Cheap, in spiteẹp.

No trick to ride it.' Even, the novice can learn in the distance of a city black! Bary to control and hundle.

It's an honest-to-gmadness as Lorcycle with perfor meira Dial thrills the old timers and delights beginners.

Spend ver fifty and then some. A sturdy single, designed with the exacting theragliness and built to the bigh quality standards you expert of HARLEY-DAVID- SON.

TWIN FEATURES.

“Alt ilespeed and power you want and can see. Low sadule position, great riding comfort, Truesed koj frame with forged haud. Cushion seat-post with long main and buffer springe. Double-acting conflicting brake; sofa and surge Dependable Harley-Davidson unttery-ganerator, igni

tion and lighting system.

Helina) spring, donble acting cushion fark.

Aleinite lubrication at all bearing surface exempt in

mator transmissions

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Hurley-Davidson mechanical oiler assures proper

motor lubrication,

SINGLE FEATURES

Fourstroke.cycle motor, 21.1 cu. in. piston displace."

ment, side by sidic valves.

Harley-Davidson generator-battery, ignition and

bighting system on electric model.

Switch panel and relay cut-out on electric model. Standard Harley-Davidson spring seat post.

Three-speed progressive transmission,

Regalation size footboards,

Wheelbase 55 inches.

Gasoline capacity three gallona; oil three quarts. Balion tyres, 26x3.30 inches, regular equipment. 70-80 miles to the gallon of gasoline.

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Telephone K 1242. Repairs to all makes of motor-cycles. THE GASCON MOTOR CO.

2. Kwong Wah Road, (Opposite Steam Laundry) Kowloon.

The fittest survive!

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BUICK

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