LOADING UP
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
ANTI-KNOCK GASOLINE.
ON SUMMER TRAILS
CHICAGO Announcement by commercial gasoline. The average the Sinclair Refining Company that automobile mutor now in use do
it has developed an anti-knock Yelups a compression of about 55
gasoline containing no ingredient
to pounds. The dew Binclair product, it is anid, has been tested
that does not come out of under a compression as high as 10
or 96 pounds without developing a khack. Several largo Institutions buvo conducted there tosta, Includ
well, is plonsunt news for car own era in this summer season, when: thousands of motor xypsies are crowding the nation's trails. Thi ng the Armoar Instiute of Tech- development, it is sald, is the re-nology at Chicago. suit of more than a year of experi mentation in the research tabura tories of the company's East Chi tage refinery,
The product is the result of a modification of the company's cracking process and involves only a slight change equipment Stany automobile motore knock Marketing. It is announced, will be especially after carbon has been forted in the company's serviço muluted, and even new motors that stations in Oblo, and it la under- develop high compression are sub-tood will be extended rapidly an ject to this trouble with ordinary i volume of autpot increases.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
BRITAIN'S PREMIER
CAR.
FACTS ABOUT MORRIS CARS
QUTPUT 1,500 PER WEEK -
Other things being equal, it is the man who can see furthest ahend that is the most successful in busi-. ness, and there is no doubt that the remarkable success that has been achieved by the Morris car, not only In Great Britain, but all over the world, is due in a large mensure to the foresight of its sponsor, Mr.
W. R. Morris.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925.
smoker's com-
cause in its construction the best the closed models, labour-saving machinery is employ-panion on the lashboard. ed, and the large numbers produc- On the 11.9 h.p. Cowley chassis, ed cable overhead charges to five models are sted, the 2-seater, be distributed until they assume u occasional-four, the 4-seater, the fixed head coupe, and a very ment comparatively low figure per car.",
The current range at the present saloon. The open models all have time comprises two chassis, one complete weather protection in the of 110 h.p., known as the Morris. shape of detachable side curtains, Cowley type, and the other of the while un the closed cars, window fundamental design, but winders for the glass panels and same larger, more robust, more powerful, aniple ventilation are excellent fen- henvler and faster, the 14/28 hp. tures. The Oxford range includes 2 and 4-seater open cars, the Both these Morris Oxford type. chassis have 4-cylinder engines, of coupe, the cabriolet, saloon and monobloc construction, with side landaulette. All these are.lavishly valves and detachable heads, the equipped and are really automo- top half of the crankcase integral bites-de-luxe in every sense, for, with the cylinder bleek. Thermo- with a speed range of over 50 syphon cooling, a large radiator,m.p.h., a perfectly balanced engine, [ plunger pump lubrication, an ac a noiseless transmission and a sus- cessible Lucas mugneto driven off pension that, by reason of the long-
cross shaft, a multiple cork inset gaitered springs, ballon tyres and WIFE, OR DAUGHTER, OR EVEN FOR MO-
absolutely clutch, and a 3-speed gearbox ballt Gattlel snubbers. is
a
A NICE CHRISTMAS PRESENT POR THE
nothing that the most discriminat-THER, and when Eve takes the wheel in her ing motorist might require.
are in Oxford, Coventry, Birming-in unit construction with the en- comfortable on even the worst road gine are integral and praiseworthy when taken at speed-they luck features of the design. All the transmission is enclosed, the torque tube and back axle being built up
Just before the Great War, in 1913, he was only just starting on the business of manufacturing motor cars, To-day, his factories ham and Le Mans (France), and the total production of Morris vel cles is approximately half the number of cars of all makes that This is all the more remarkable when it is realised that, generally speaking, the design of the Morris Car has not changed since 1913, but equally this success gives proof of the fact that the design was dead right in the first place.
are made in Great Britain to-day
It is on this programme (with
the addition of three commercial AUSTIN she feels at home at once. So snug
vans, two purely for goods and one for goods and passengers on the Cowley chassis) that
Morris
together and being joined to the power unit by means of a large torque ball abaft the gearbox.
In the transmission, as in the engine, the latest and most up-to- date design is used, the universal joint being automatically lubri
Although the capacity of the fac- So safe with its fourwheel brakes. cated; the differential is of the tory is reckoned at 1,500 cars per in is Both brakes have or two on the island roads brings the perfect
Morris Motors, Ltd., were first 4-pin type, while the final drive week (a new car every two min- direct on back axle, the foot brakebeen pressed for delivery the whole
Motors, Ltd., have achieved such and comfy, so simple to steer and control, remarkable success during 1925, easily beating all other competitors.
small car that would go anywhere
and do anything, carrying four pas-an the 4-wheel brake model taking of the season.
effect on both front and rear
And yet the Morris is by no means a mass-produced 'car.
A mile
sengers in comfort Other con-
In confidence that makes traffic driving an in- cerns have emulated their policy, wheels, while a hand brake oper- but Morris Motors, Ltd.. hadates shoes of the rear drums only the factories the "flow" method of achieved so much experience by the The detachable wheels are shod production has been instituted.
time their competitors started that with balloon tyres of Dunlop card This means briefly that, instead of terest instead of a terror, and to think of the
their product has never had any manufacture; a 12-volt Lucas light a large number of similar parts serious competitor. The basic ren- ing and starting set with a silent being subjected to the same treat- sons for the success of the Morris chain drive to the dynamotor is ment as the same time, every single car are that it is a type of vehicle included; while the chassis speci- part is machined or made by an that the public wants; it is econo-fication incorporates such desir-operator skilled in his own particu mical both to buy and to run; and able components. as spring gaiters, lar work, and it is then passed on
miles you get to the gallon of gasoline makes
Gabriel snubbers, Enota Autoram for further treatment to another your purse feel just as comfy,
chassis lubricating system, a Smith particular branch... In this way the five-jet carburettor supplied from a continous flow of the best work large tank in the dash, a radiator procurable is obtained, and the re- thermometer and other useful ac-sultant product is so reliable thut cessories. In fact, one of the chief its roadworthiness is a watchword features of the Morris car is that among motorists.
it is made of the finest materials and by the finest workmanship that can be found in the automobile in- dustry the world over to-day.
It is not a cheap car built down to a price. A study of its design Wenhol from coal is being de-! Horse feed is giving way swift- will show that it is a high-grade rived by a new proress utilized ly to auto fuel. Consumption of vehicle, which, being in great de-once it is bought there are no fure time, its performance on the road by a París company.
From 30 to lay in New York, for instance, mund in its own country, is being ther accessories to buy, for it is is-such as to give owners of für has decreased from 25 to 35 per built at a price far below that sold completely equipped down to more expensive cars very furiously 40 pounds of the fuel alcol.ol can
charged for other small cars, be the last detail, including even, on a think. be obtained from a ton of eval. cent. in the last year.
COAL ALCOHOL
LESS HORSIC FEED.
At the same
Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd.
Show Room No. 1A, CHATER ROAD, OPEN SATURDAYS AFTERNOON til 5 o'clock.
Morris-Cowley 11.9 h. p. Cars.
Model
HONGKONG NETT PRICES
2 Wheel Brakes
4 Wheel Brakes
Roadster 2 seater £215.0. 0 £223.10.0.
Occasional 4 225.0.0 233.10.0
*BRITAIN LEADS IN CAR VALUE
The New
MORRIS
REGISTERED TRADE MARK
Programme
REDUCED PRICES
F
BETTER CARS
OR the season commencing September 1st, 1925, MORRIS MOTORS, LTD., who make more and better cars than any other British manufacturer, announce the following important improvements in their cars -
1. The provision of four-wheel brakes on 11.0 hp. Morris-
Cowley models.
2. The fitting of reinforced balloon tyres on all models.
3. The provislen of dipping beadlamps on Morris-Oxford cars.
4. Thermostatic control of engine cooling
Oxford models.
Morris.
5. Important detall improvements, especially in the conch-
work of all models.
Additional to these items none of the features that have made Morris Cars so overwhelmingly superior during the past twelve Instead, still better cars are being months has been omitted.
offered at still lower prices
**
Touring 4
"}
Coupe
2
Saloon
4
19
Commercial 2
240.0.0
237.10.0 246.0. 0
256.0.0 265,0. 0
295.10.0 305.0. 0 248.10.0
buy British-
and be Proud of it.
J
Morris-Oxsford 14.28 h.p. Cars.
HONGKONG NETT PRICES
2 Wheel Brakes
4 Wheel. Brakes
2 seater £291.0.0 £300.0.0
4/5
2
Model
Roadser
Touring
3/4 Coupe
Cabriolet 4/5
Soloon 4/5 Landaulet 4/5
311.0.0 320.0.0
366.0.0 375.0.0
401.0.0 410.0.0
11
421.0.0 430.0.0
51
431.0.0 440,0.0
11
Prices include star dard equipment.
Irices include standard equipment.
The new Morria.Cowley Two-seater. Finest motoring valas in the world. Completo with four-wheel brakes, Lens 12-volt lighting and starting equipment, balloon fyres, Gabriel Rebound Snubbers, spring gollers and full equipment, has no competitor la lia alash at the price at which it is now offered.
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(THE HONGKONG and SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.)`
CAR SALES &
ACCCESSORIES
Phone C.4759
SERVICE &
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