THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
1926
"AUSTIN 7
WHEELS NEW AND OLD,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1926.
THE WORLD'S BEST SMALL CAR.
A Trial Run Will Convince You, Call or Phone.
Price
(STOCK CARRIED)
£169.0.0
Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd.
1,1
Show Room No. 1A, CHATER ROAD,
OPEN SATURDAYS AFTERNOON till 5 o'clock.
No other
Motor Spirit
at any price
costs so little
per mile
AS
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ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., (S’C) LTD.
[INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND. Į
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Time changes vehicle wheels, as this photo shows. wheel of present manufacture is shown with one used 170 yours ago by pioneers in Georgia. U.S.A.
MAKING ROADS SAFER.
Motorists overseas intending to visit the home land for a tour will find in the general adoption of the white line, for long and consistently urged by The Auto- cary Fi simple and efficacious means of ensuring greater safety on the runds. This cannot fail to be appreciated by those to whom driving on crowded highways is a novelty.
HEAT DESTROYS OIL
NEW LIGHT CAR..
HILLMAN MODEL AROUSES
INTEREST.
For considerable time popular} rumour had been busy with regard to the ektirely new car that the old-established Hillman firm were introducing for 1925-26.
'The new car was shown for the first time at the Olympia Exhibi tion, and such had been." the before-Show interest in this cur that the Co. introduced the policy of issuing tickets for their Stand at Olympia..
There is little doubt that the new Hillman "Fourteen" is one of
the finest 2-litre cars that have been placed on the market up to the present time, taking into con- sideration its extremely moderate) price.
Lubricating oil is not worn out by friction but is destroyed by exposure to the intense heat of fuel combustion in an automobile engine or by contact with the hot exhaust valve heads and piston. tops, says . T. Wagner, lubricat- ing engineer of the Standard Oil Show were the double dickey, Company of California.
AUTO LIFTS HURT.
The models exhibited at the
"Fourteen" 5-Heater Tourer and the "Fourteen" Saloon.. All models are particularly suitable for overseas service, construction of chassis and body being parti- "Free auto rides hurt our busi-cularly sound, ground clearance ness," contends the city railway good, and the road performance company of Cedar Rapids, Ia. Se under the most adverse conditions The the company has asked the city exceptionally satisfactory. council to increase street carlatter point. was borne out in the fares from 7 to 10 cents.
early days of September by a most difficult test carried out by the London motor journal, The Motor, from which the Hillman came through with flying colours.
engine of
Mammoth Factories Give
Studebaker "One-Profit" Values
The Studebaker Special ·
Six Coach
\TUDEBAKER has built
S
and equipped great plants in which
-engines, bodies, clutches, steering gears, differentials, gear boxes, springs, axles, gray iron castings, and drop forg- ings. Thus it eliminates the profits of outside parts and body makers. One-profit manufacture not only effects savings which allow, Studebaker to use better materials and workmanship, but It ensures perfect co-ordination of units. For every Studebaker part is designed and produced under the supervision of Studebaker engineers.
Only Ford
in the low. priced field
and Studebaker in the fine car field pro-). duce cars on a one-profit basis.
Studebaker "One-Profit" cars offer more in value, performance and endurance be cause of the conditions under which they are manufactureći.
STUDEBAKER, South Bend, Ind., "U. S. A
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE (THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI KOʻTELS, LTD.)
SALES
Tel. C. 4759
SERVICE Tol 0. 4602
TUDEBAKER
ITY VEHICLE FOR 7 3.`Y. E· A
Fitled with
72 mm. X 120 mm. bore and stroke, giving 35 b.h.p. at normal revs., the chassis has power enough to take even the Saloon model anywhere under the most
conditions. adverse
Provision also of a 4-speed gear-box is of niaterial assistance in this respect. The world exporters of the Hill- man cars are Messrs. Rootes, Ltd., 141, New Bond Street, London, England, who at the present time have representatives touring the world. Any enquiries in respect of territory not represented will, understand, receive their immediate attention.
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LONDON TRIES DOUBLE- DECK OMNIBUSES.
All-enclosed double-deck 'buses have at last made their appear- ance in London. Commenting on the interest aroused in the use of vehicles of this type in London and the provinces, Motor Trans- port refers to their advent as being another nail in the coffin of the tramcar: up to the present the only point where trams have scored over 'buses In England has beon in their all-weather necom- modation, so necessary in the fickle English climate.
SEND INVITATIONS.
Ten thousand invitations to 104 different countries have been
Friendly Counsel
Graham Brothers truck production for the first six months of 1925 equalled their entire production for 1924,
Words of commendation from good business men in every part of the world are responsible.
Thoroughly sold by their own experience with these trucks, they in turn are selling their friends,
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33, Wong Nei Chung Road, (Happy Valley) C. 1246 or 1247,
GRAHAM BROTHERS
TRUCKS
·
SOLD BY DODGE BROTHERS DEALERS EVERYWHERE
1926
SINGER
1926
FOUR SEATER DE LUXE,"
16
TWO SEATER "DE LUXE
$2,200
$2,200
OVERHEAD VALVES
BRITISH THROUGHOUT
FOUR WHEEL BRAKES
AUTOMATIC WINDSCREEN WIPER
COMPLETE ALL WEATHER EQUIPMENT
PNEUMATIC UPHOLSTERY
DUNLOP RE-INFORCED BALLOON TYRES
35/40 MILES PER GALLON
LARGE RADIATOR
SMART, EFFECIENT AND ECONOMICAL
SINGER"
represents all that is host in British (Light Car Engineering.
FOR FULL SPECIFICATION AND DEMONSTRATION
LIGHTING GAS USED.
APPLY TO
GILMAN & CO., LTD,
HONGKONG BANK UILDING.
SLOW TRAFFIC.
CAR EVERY YEAR.
Proposal has been made In If the present rate of automo- issued to delegates to the Second A Detroit automobile frm uses World Motor Transport Congress, manufactured lighting gas in Paris that horse and other slow bile manufacturing continues In New York, January, 1926. Tho testing its motors. The company moving traffic be barred from cer- another 10 or 12 years the output event is sponsored by the National says this gas is cleanor, safer and tain streeta during rush hours. will be sumcient to supply every Automobile Chamber of Commerce more economical than gasoline. Other proposals are to restrict familly a new car every year. and will be held at the time of Were it not for its bulk, it might parking, limit the size of street Roughly speaking, the production the national automobile show in be used better on every automo-cars and increase the number of has doubled every four years. New York..
during the last decade bile.
one-way streets.
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