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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

STUDENTS PRIVATE MOTOR BUS SERVICE.

This fleet of five motor busses is used to transport students of Modesto, Calif. During the hours of school opening and closing these busses are filled with students. They provide ideal and choup transportation to those who live a considerable distance from the school they attend and have no moans of transportation. Modesto is one of the first cities in the United Statos to provide bus service for school children.

ELECTRICAL” MOTOR

MOTOR FATALITIES AND THE LAW.

CARS.

LOW RUNNING COSTS.

A HIGHER TRIBUNALI

(From a French "Correspondent.}

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

“JEWEL TONE EXHIBIT."

COLOURED CADILLACS.

The Cadillac exhibit at the Au- tomobile Saloon, Hotel Conimo- dare, New York City includes twelve custom built bodies by Judkins, Fleetwood, LeBaron, Hol- brook, Brunn and Fisher.

The display of four Fisher bodies has been termed a "jewel tone exhibit," the basis of the colour scheme in each of the four cars being a semi-precious jewel, An aquamarine, a topaz, प्र carnelian opal and a garnet were aelected as motifa and the colours of the body and upholstery have been made to correspond exactly. with the colour of the jewel. The jewels are on exhibition with the

cars,

The aquamarine, ia the colour motif of the Imperial, the paint; BALLOON TYRES BEST.(being a two-tone aquamarine, green light and dark, with a stripe of caprice rose. The upholstery INTERESTING INTERVIEW is n Wiese Wolyertyne aquamarine WITH FIRESTONE OFFICIAL. green, the wool carpet, with a soft Juxurious pile fully half an inch

Jooms.

On Tuesday last, we had the deep specially woven for the pur The steady increase in the number of deaths resulting from what are pleasure of a visit from Mr. R. M.pose in a colour to match. The commonly called "motor-car aBowman, who is at present visit-leather of the front compartment Most visitors to the Decorative eid-nis" pronpls seine considera-ing Hongkong in the interests of is a plove-finish cowhide morocco Arts Exhibition in Paris probably ton of the conditions which ruable the Firstone Tyre Factory. Mr. and in the tonneau the brocaded made their first tour of the grounds s many incompetent people do Bowman is making one of his silk of the upholstery panels is of in one of the electrically-propelled essent last-and to drive periodical visits through Japan, geometrical patterns in fleur-de- woven on Jacquard cars running, there for this pur-will-motor vehicles of all sorts and China and the Philippine Islands, is design

kinds on every "available road, at pose, and must have been struck;

Askul whether ballon, tyres had Fall Bours of the day and night, with

The carnalian opal is the coleur by their comfort and smooth ranh an absence of care and in really come to stay, Mr. Bowman motif of the five-passenger sedin; stated that there Bould be no two the garnet of the four-passenger There were live of thede ning

fax to suggest, eithir indifference, a motor-cars doing the round of the

igorance of the fret that opinions on the question. "From

phacton, and the topaz of the five- exhibition grounds,

Fomicide-less justifiable or ogļevery point of view," he said, "the passenger coupe. In the last, the The electrical equipment con cusables a crims of a very high balloon tre has more than justi upholstery is a Wiese lustre weave It is the best broadcloth in topaz tan, a colour sisted of a 5-h.p. compound-wound order, or the existence of the belief fed its creation. motor and a 40-ccil buttery of the that the possession of a major thing that ever happened in the derived from the dark facets in vebiete, an insumuce policy in von automobile industry. One of the the topuz. The lustre of the lead plate type. The motor was

nortion therewith, and a driver's outstanding arguments in favour material gives it the effect started by means of a ricostatence is a sort of passport into the of low pressure tyres is provided burnished' old gold. worked by the driver's left pedal,realms of excuse.

by the records won on racing The interior hardware of the the electricul' accelerator being

a raikinum, the tracks since their inception. Fisher custom bodies is sterling worked by the right pedal. The reversing

operated facilities which chiefly emble this Practically every racing car in silver, gold-plated in the five-pas gear was through a lever, so that it will be section of the community to be at the United States is equipped with senger coupe and treated with a seen that the operations necessary large upon the rails are threefold. Firestone balloon tyres, and it has transparent enamel in the other heen found that much better re-ears, with inlaid walnut panelling sults are obtained on account of

on the doors, the fact that, whereas the high pressure tyre "jumps" the

to control the running of the car were practically identical with; those usually adopted in petrol- driven cars, in fact, the drivers were ordinary chauffeurs, and had; received no special training."

Reineer ta

namely:-

1. The hirp-purchase system,

2 Inexpensive instance, and

car

3. The indiscriminate grustingover obstructions, the balloon

of driving licences.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926.

The March of Merit

Public demand for a product in- creases in proportion with the product's ability to prove its worth.

Year after year, from the very begin- ning, demand for Graham Brothers Trucks has increased from 50 to 150 per cent over each preceding year.

1925 was typical. Graham Brothers production for the first six months equalled their entire output for 1925.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

of

33, Wong Nei Chung Road

Happy Valley.

GRAHAM BROTHERS

SOLD BY DODGE BROTHERS DEALERS EVERYWHERE

tyres merely folds over the ob-

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GIANT MOTOR CARGO SHIP.

TRUCKS

.when the power

Hire purchase, and insurance are struction, thus preventing a mo- The cars were designed for each in themselves perfectly legimentary loss of power which is fourteen passengers and the au-timate commercial, transactionpe yet, experienced thorised speed in the exhibition jointly, they facilitate at compara: wheels leave the road or track SUCCESSFUL BRITISH VESSEL. grounds was fifteen kilometra antively small outlay the possession surface."

The largest single-deck ship in hour, though it is doubtful and reckless neer of mudor vehicles, whether they ran faster than six and the user is further furilitated to seven kilometres owing to the by the present fatuous licensing of in Hongkong particularly, balloon the world, and one of the largest drivers. These facilities ar real, tyres are essential to safety, on motor ships afloat, is the Britial crowds and to the generally ex-and have born, and are being, freely account of the winding ature of built vessel "Silurian," which has pressed desire of the passengers to proceed at a walking pace inmuleuse of with results inimic the roads.

to the

order that the various buildings

Mr. Bowman is convinced that

ease

can be immerse

Bust completed her first year at Another interesting

sea. She is a most remarkable somnion safety, and the fact gleaned, dispels the impres- might be noted at leisure. Out-motor vehicle in the hands of a nosion which some motorists have, ship, for though displacing 14,600 ixconsiderabte amaber of prople has that low pressure tyres cause a tons and carrying 10,500 tons of side the grounds they were able become such positive common certain loss of power un account cargo, she has a draught of less to keep up with the ordinary Paris anger as to call for the adoption of the wider traction surface. than 26 ft.

Stevedores everywhere have beer traffic, and often attained a speed |„' dem measures, not only for the "As a matter of fact" said Mr. of 30 kilometres an hour, but the protection of limbs, but also for the Bowna, an actual coasting tea loud in their praise of her design commercial speed is probably be protection of life; that is, protection was carried out which emphatical-an account of the extreme tween 18 and 20 kilometres. The against homicide, which is, beingly disproves this somewhat com- with which her cargo load carried in the exhibition pro-committed on such a large seale as non impression. A car fitted with handled. She has five bably averaged between 1,110 and 16 make the word rident. When the old type of high pressure holds and six hatches. One of the 1,200 kilometres, this being some sed in ponnection with a mor tyres, was allowed to coast down holds is nearly half the length of what higher than the ronomic vehicle tality, quite a misnomery, ta certain hill. The distance the vessel (which is 430 ft.). An- loud, which is, 1,000 kilos.

It cannot. Les tom plainly stated travelled was mearured and the other is reached through a gigantic The batteries were charged up that any killing of a reasonable run was again made after balloon hatch measuring no less than 65 ft. It sur-by 24 ft., which is very useful for every night when the cars were being within the King's prace tyres had been fitted. returned to the garage by simply homicide,"

who and prised even the most sanguine en-outsize cargo such as locomotives, &M Another coupling them to the charging what happen to be the agent and gineers present to find that the bulky machinery. board, but in order to insure

the instrument, and to find out the balloon tyres actually carried the hold is in the form of a tank, so against stoppage they were charg-cause of homicide is the function machine a considerably greater that a proportion of cargo can he ed for about an hour during the the coroner and his jury; but, distance than did the ordinary oil or other liquid when required. Although this "enormous glip day a well. The batteries were in finding-co doubt owing to pneumatics,"

does 10% knots en service, her! carried in two separate cases in the predominance of the obvious in

Mr. Bowman instanced, an in- an angle-iron frame under the car. pasek-- juries veteresting experiment carried out They are two 1.250 b.h.p. 6-cylinder engines are comparatively small.! become accustomed to pronounce by the Osaka Taxi Cab Company. Beardmore-Tosi Diesel units, m'e Whenever it was necessary to re- move a battery or part of fl, this gree of the particulas This concern operates 300 taxis, and installed by William Bear-

hanivide before them, namely, 10 was done in a few minutes by run-say whether or not, in their opinion,

and the mileage per high pressure more & Co. Ltd., the famous shit- ning hand-trolley under the car falls within or without our tyre worked out at from 6,000 to builders and engineers, of Glas-

18,000 miles. Ten of the taxis'

matter

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gow.

and lowering the containing cases other of the Iwo most serious were fitted with balloon tyres and Beardmore-Tosi engines have on to it. The cars were built to degrees of "uurdlar" or run between 70 and 80 kilometres slaughter." It is this differentia check made, with the result that proved among the most eloquent without recharging the accumulation by corners juries which calls it was dicovered that the balloon missionaries in the cause of the ril for the most serious considerationtyre gave from 12,000 to 14,000 engine for murine propulsion, and in motor vehicle fatality cases, as niles. "Needless to say," con nowhere, more so than in the cass The running costs up the circumstances surrounding them tinued the Firestone representa- of the Silurian," Her oil con- favourably with those of petrol so new and so complicated that tive, "the remainder of the Com- driven cara, the charging current

tors.

a fit and proper subjects paay's fleet of cabs are to be fit-sumption is 10 tons per day for

being uses at the rate of 500 to

|

for investigation and determination ted with balloon tyres in

the

all purposes; under similar condi

tions a steamer would consume 4 tons of coal. Add to this the Another interesting observation saving in machinery space, person-

680 watt-hours per cur-kilometres before a judge and jury. Let the future. during the first six weeks of ser corner and his jury still make the vice, and afterwards averaging preliminary inquiry into the chase was made in regard to the deep nel and engine-room expenses, and 450 watt-hours. The cost of cur- of the homicide, hat let the higher and somewhat wide tread found it is easily seen which system is rent per car-kilometres thus work

tribal prostore the degree.

ed out at Fu. 0.25 with the supply

on balloon tyres. This is provid-the more profitable. It inay be that, in addition to finded on account of the fact that at 60 centimes per kilo watt-hour.

The "Silurian" carries 560 toms The upkeep of the battery is call the degree of the homicide, it when the tyre flattens out at the of oil, enough to keep her at sen would be well to give the higher point of road contact, it is most for 50 days. There is not an ounce culated at 20 centimes per kilo-tribunal power to inquire into all the necessary to guard against strain of steam nor a boiler aboard the metre, so that the total cost per circumstances surrounding the acing the carcass as a result of the ship: all saxullary services being 100 kilometres comes to Fear 42. quistion of the vehicle and the compression of the rubber against electric. from dynamos driven by 48 against about Fes. 70 for insurances effected in relation there the road surface. The provision smaller engines of the same Beard- petrol-driven cars of the same size to, which in some cases might have at the present rates for petrol and very material bearing open the of the tread allows the rubber to more-Tosi type.

degree of the homicide.'

spread into the trend, thus pre- From the number of inquiries out, a power to avoid a policy venting the damage which would (third-party, for example), should otherwise bo. caused by straining,'

oil,

In any

received for these cars it would the homicide be found to fall short appear that public interest has of manslaughter, would not matorial been aroused, and as the elec-

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GAS TAX REVENUE.

The gasoline tax instituted by ly inquire contingency would do would do much to protect the most tricity supply companies are ar much to check the neckless.

angred of all vested interests, name-the Provincial Government of ranging for charging stations, it The sending of all cases of motory, human life, and save it from Canada in 1925 will give the Pro- is probable that they will be used vehicle fatality to he tried before being held so cheaply by those who vince of Quebec this year a re- more extensively than hitherto for a judge and jury would not affect at the present time have only got venue of approximately $750,000. commercial purposea-Manches any vasted commercial interest; to risk the finding of a coroner's Laat year the province collected ter Guardian.

but the possibility of such an ordoal jury-and trust to luck.

Inbout $520,000.

2-20-36

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