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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

B. S. A.

MOTOR CYCLES

Famous For Reliability

and Economy

Full Particulars from the

Sole Agents:

THE SINCERE CO.

MORRIS Cars

REDUCED PRICES

(BRITJANS MOST POPULAR LIGHT CAR

MODELS IN STOCK

Roadster

MORRIS-COWLEY (2 SEATER-WITH Pickeri

BETTER

VALUE

NETT

HONGKONG PRICES

£215. 0.0. £237. 10. 0.

MORRIS-OXFORD 1475 -4 WHEEL Bulakes) £320. 0.0.

Touring

(4 SEATER- 2 WHEEL BRAKKA)

Touring

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

فيكم

Phone.C 4759

SUPERHIGHWAY ROUTE.

BASS BAY

• WIND LAKE

RACINE

ANTIOCH

FOX LAKE

LIBERTYVILLEO

WAUKEGAN

LAKE MICHIGAN

EBLUFF KE FOREST HIGHLAND PARK

WINNETKA

WILNERA EVANSTON

CHICAGO

Proposed route of a new highway along the lake front which will make possible 75-minute tours between Chicago and Milwaukee. U.S.A.

SWANK.

LUXURIOUS CARS.

Swank is a universal complaint | ROLLS-ROYCES AT OLYMPIA. which has many manifestations.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1926.

HUDSON COACH

$3000

The Essex Coach The Essex Tourlag

.52000

.$2000

The Hudson Touring ...$3000

be Hudson Brougham $3606 The Hudson Sedan $4000

Only Hudson Can Build It

Being the world's largest bilders of 6-cylinder cars permits Hudson to give the greatest price advantage, with the finest quality in Hudson history. Everywhere it is called "

•the

World's Greatest Buy” be- cause it is universally ack- nowledged that no car gives like quality, reliability, per- formance and fine appear- ance within hundreds of dollars of its price.

Hudson-Essex World's Largest Selling 6-Cylinder Cars

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD.

"A.C." ACHIEVEMENT.

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

WORLD'S RECORD.

The wonderful figures put up by the A. C. normal 6-cylinder 2 normal chassis, fitted with

You see it, at its zenith, in the The Rolls-Royce exhibits at he-flapper, clothed in a sweater Olympia this year were of excep. like an

early-Victorian sampler tional interest, Not only was the gone mad,

a pair of "chummy"new 40/50 h.p. Rolls-Royce "New trousers (room for two adults and Phantom" with the Rolls-Royce (two children), and a head-glove.six bräken system shown for the

He often drives an aged and re-first time, but this was also the 6-cylinder, A.C. Sports engine on markably slow chassis fitted with first occasion on which the 20 the Montlhery Track, near Paris, super-sports body, an open horse model has been exhibited in on the 17th-18th May, by Mr. T. exhaust and a hundred-mile-an-speeds, the right hand change and Gillett, driving single-handed for hour speedometer. For blatant its newest form, comprising four a distance of over 2,000 miles, self-satisfaction he is hard to the Rolls-Royce six brakes system. have not been allowed to stand bent. But swank, is not confined Among the complete cars shown a for very long.

A

to the young. You see it in the very handsome example was a Evidently the French attach very senile stage, smirking through the 40/50 h.p. Rolls-Royce with a six-great importance to this terrific windows of glittering limousines seated enclosed drive enbriolet test, as a number of French manu- with gold fittings and coats-of-hody by Hooper and Co. This facturers watched the A.C. cur on arms on the doors. It patronizes ear is finished in yellow and black, its amazing run, and since then a the most expensive hotels and with velvet calf upholstery and French arm have sent an engine drinks champagne with every interior fittings of ivóry. A fold-over four times the size of the meal. The spectacle is really ing arm rest is provided over the A.C. to recapture the coveted rather pathetic.

Some Commoner Forms.

But, we all swank in one way

for another. We all kg to let the

less fortunate know that

We

back seat.

honour. They also provided the. car with two drivers for alter- nate speilst whereas the fact that Mr. Gillett drove the whole dis tance himself on the A.C. is a

There are, however, other forms really marvellous testimonial to

of swank from which I confess the reliability and springing of the

(THE JONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.) CAR SALES

SERVICE)

他 Phone C 4602 posses ears of our own, and are 'PARTS

not dependent on public vehicles. Some of us do it iustentatiously is the swank which forces us to janes necessary.

ACCESSORIES

AUTO REPAIRS

SOCONY

MOTOR OILS

AND

GASOLINE

"FIRST-AID" FOR ALL CARS

Phone 1246 or 1247 if your car is in distress. Expert repairing and overhauling at minimum cost. Tyres and Accessories. Cars stored by the day, week or month.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Jong Nei Chung Road ...Happy Valloy.

an not entirely immune. There A.C., as well as the human endur-

by discussing roads, or telling the Pass the car in front, perferably Even with this big engine and

come

on hill.

company at large how far we have causes as to corner with what we ast

The wank which with two drivers, the car in the since breakfast. Others

three hours twenty-four fondly imagine to be elna, whereas minutes of its journey only cover talk loudly abunt. "ny car," even, "ay dauffeur," and delight

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to appear in public dressed very obviously for the road.

is usually more reckless idioter od ninety-eight miles, whereas, in in the form of useless and expen-covered 278 miles. The swank which expresses itself the corresponding period, the A.C. This proves sive gadgets and a hundred other that A.C. performance lasts. This latter form of swank is varieties of the sume disease. less effective than it used to be. None of us is entirely free from the drivers of the French car was It is a good thing that one of Years ago, the motorist was some it in one form or another and, an Englishman, but it is a pity thing of a rarity and his regalia after all, it does little harm and that it was not a British car that wens unmistakable. Black leather is good for trade. If it were not gained the honour, and it is a roats, gaiters and a yachting cap for wank many of us would great drawback that the engine were 'de eigene and it was usual acknowlered, openly, that a car used was so big that no instrue- to wear a mask which, in many is beyond our means and would tive comparison can be made. Lenses, WIN a great improvement

on the frecatispiece with which he was normally equipped. The French driver of those days went

to

the

limit our osientation dourishing of an almost-silver- mounted walking slick.

one better and disguised hinwelt After all, the world would be

FULLY LICENSED BODY.

Jack Padget of Knobnoster, Mo.,

as a goat, smell and all At the a very dull place if we had no has built a unique body for his present time it is a little difficult jopportunity to swank. C.A.P. in car. It's made of old auto license to proclaim oneself a motorist by | The Morris Owner.

dress alone, unless pre owns a

| baby two-stroke motor cycle, when

a second-hand flying kit gives the desired impression of reckless idaring.

At hill-climbs and speed events, where the mere spectator must often park his car at some dis- tance from the course, a pair of goggles perched jauntily on the peak of the cap is very popular. There is even a chance of the wearer being mistaken for u. com- petitor, much to his gratification.

As for Myself,

Personally, I try to avoid 'sar- torial swank and drive about in my usual elegant attire, with nothing to distinguish me from the rest of the well-dressed crowd,. unless it be my celluloid dicky from which the staina of travel can be wiped with a damp towel.

plates,

A ROADSIDE REFLECTION (By Stan Bill)

Oh! Why did that chicken cross the road?

HAPPY VALLEY.

MOTOR TRIPS ABROAD The Cathedral of Notre Dame TENTH OF A SERIES OF TRAVEL TALKS

Photo Courtesy Chrysler Maxwell Motor Corporations

It was in this cathedral that Henry VI of England was crotened Aug of France and in 1500 Mary Stuart, afterwards Mary Queen of Sants, toda crowned queen-consort of Francis II. The coronation of Napoleon 1. and the marriage of Napoleon III, took place here.

THE American who goes abroad

.

At the beginning of the 14th cen tury the cathedral assumeil the form which it is in toray,

construction had been entirely car- for my first time will spend rice out, much of his time visiting eithe brals and one of the most famous ba will probally visit and always re- mciler is the Notre-Dare, the cathedral of the Archbishop of Paris which stands on the site of a church of that mame already exist- ing as early as 365,

In Roman times the site of the church was occupied by a temple of Jupiter,

The present church was began ins 1163. In 1240 the original phu of

STREET CARS GO.

Automobile busses will replace

A thorough restoration was car- ridt after 1845 by Lascus al Viallet-le-Due.

The facule of the Cathedraf which known in' be among the finest in the world, dates from the 13th century, was completed in 1240 and is the coldest of its kind.

The church is 436 by 157 feet and 115 feet at its highest.

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ALUMINUM IN BODIES.

Aluminum body panels

are

the entire street car operations in being used in 14 automobile types. Klamath, Ore. This is the second The output of these makes totalled. city in Oregon, to replace the nearly 40,000 last year. street railway system with busses.

AUTOS IN DENMARK.

CAN'T STALL NOW.

If

An automatic crunker has been There are 15,000 passenger cars, (developed to start an automobila 5,000 trucks and 5,600 motor-motor the minute it stalls.. cycles in Denmark. This shows this cranker is used it la neces- Jan average increase of 600 per [sary to switch off the ignition to.

cent, over the figures of 1910. [stop the motor.

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