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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

TELEGRAPH POLE SAVES AUTO.

Automobiles and telegraph poles aren't good friends, or dinarily. But this time they got very chummy. This anfo" through crashed a bridge railing in San Francisco and would have plunged to destruction if it had not hit the tolegmah pole, which prevented its fall.

THE WHITE SAFETY LINE.

WAS ONCE BLACK.

900-MILE NON-STOP

RUN.

Los Angeles, U.B.A., Setting a

The Autocar notes than the au- record, and breaking records en thorities in Kent have been devo- route, a new Studebaker Standard loping the sytem of white safety Six Duplex-Phaeton checked into lines and now a danger spot. in in-Los Angeles at 4.21 a.m. December dicated by a board white line 6, finishing a 900 miles non-stop painted across the road at right run from El Paso, Texas.

With angles to the direction in which its gear sealed in high, the Stude the car is travelling and having baker made. the run in 24 hours the word "Care" stencilled near it. and 21 minutes.

Although scoffers have already

Piloted by Edward R. Luster Been jesting about the numerous strange signs and the amount of and C. S. Payne, the Standard Six reiding matter which is appear went over the route under grent ing on the road surfaces, this new handicaps, being compelled to type of signal la very much better make 32 miles of detours on the than the red triangle, and has the way, and in addition fighting a advantage that it cannot be used blinding sand storm near Indle, for dvertising purposes, as the and encountering a

combined Fed triangle has been. The Auto-wind and rain storm in California car also reminds its readers with for more than 100 miles,

The ear broke the old Stude- an Irishism that the first white line was a black one. It was; Inbaker record between Phoenix and fet, a line painted near the Vic-Los Angeles, and came within kers shed in Brook'ands track to feight minutes of equaling the prevent ears from coming so Present record between the two close to the shed at the corner cities, act by a Lincoln. The time that another car could not pass.

between Phoenix and Los Angeles WAR 12 hours and 24 minutes. The old Studebaker record for this trip was 8 hours and 16 minutes.

REGULATE LAMP POWER.

A maximum strength of 50.000 candle-power in any part of the beam of the head-lamp is all that wil be permitted in Massachusetts after Jan. 1. A further reduction

Checked out of El Paso by tele graph officials and El Paso news- papermen at dam. Los Angeles time, December 5, with its gear sealed in high, The ear ended its! Phenomenal run to Los Angeles with its motor. running just na prettily at the end of the 24 hour

to 80,000 candle-power is consi-on-stop, grind as the day it left the factory. It was officially dered.

checked in at the main office of the same telegraph company in Los Angeles, and the Real was removed by officials and newa- papermen here.

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16 KNOTS

The non-stop run was accom- plished by refuelling en route, petrol and oil being furnished the pace-maker by Studebaker dealers along the way in sealed tins. Refuelling was made possible by special connections with the gas tank from the rear seat.

The Studebaker used WGB strictly stork. car, with nothing removed to lighten it in any way. The only extra equipment carried consisted of a motometer, a front bumper, shock absorbers and two spot lights. The Duplex body, which has the roof of the car built in one unit with the lower body. was not touched!

Averaging 36.90 miles per hour, the sturdy traveller beat the average mile per hour time of the Sunset Limited, the fastest train on the Southern Pacife, which makes 815 miles in 23 hours and 30 minutes-with an average of 34.55 miles per hour-on its run from El Paso. Altogether the Studebaker set an unusual record for speed in its charge across the désert and mountain country, adding to the Studebaker laurels. in road records in California, all of which have been made by non- professional drivers.

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Records made by Studebakers which still stand in California to-day are: Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, 854 miles in 23 hours and 43 minutes, an average speed of 36 miles per hour; three Los Angeles-San Francisco records- Valley Route, 441.1 miles in nine hours, 15 minutes and 50 seconds; Coast Route 458.7 miles in ten hours, 12 minutes, 30 seconds; round trip 864.4 miles in 21 hours and 23 minutes.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1926.

Dodge Brothers Price Reductions

Effective immediately, we announce TREMENDOUS PRICE REDUCTIONS in our delivered prices of both Standard and

"Special Type Dodge Brothers Motor Cars. Details of these Startling Price Slashes on passenger Cars are as

follows, prices being in Hongkong Currency and for

delivery ex Garage :

Standard Type Models: Old Price: Reduction: New Price:

Standard Roadster

Standard Touring

$2,300

$200

$2,100

$2,400

$300

$2,100

Standard "B" Coupe

$2,700

$300

$2,400

Standard "B" Sedan

$2,900

$400

$2,500

Special Type Models: Old Price: Reduction: New Price:

Special Roadster

$2,500

$300

$2,200

Special Touring

$2,600

$400

$2,200

Special "B" Coupe

$2,900

$400

$2,500

Special "B" Sedan

$3,100

$500

$2,600

$3,400 $600

$2,800

Special "A" Sedan

In addition to the above reductions in Hongkong Currency

of delivered prices of Dodge Brothers Paseenger Vehicles,

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the following further reductions are announced in the

f. o. b. factory prices in Gold Dollars of Dodge Brothers

Commercial Vehicles.

Commercial Car Models: Old Price: Reduction: New Price:

Screen Side Type

G$885

G$75

G$810

72" Panel Side

G$947

G$62

G$885,

96" Panel Side

G$1,225

G$50

G$1,175

AILSA CRAIC

FAST RUN ABOUT

BY ITISH THROUGHOUT

Complete

$2750.00

DODWELL & CO.. LTD.

DELIVERED HONGKONG,

Sole Agents,

COACH OPERATION.

Motorcoach operation, the standardization and. regulation of motorcoaches, and the handling

of freight and store-door de- liveries by motor truck are to be the principal topics discussed at a national automotive transporta-| tion meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers, to be held in Philadelphia November 13 and 114, 1926.

Thess new prices come at a time when DODGE BROTHERS product has reached the highest peak of perfection in its

history. They cannot be overlooked by anyone who has the slightest interest in the value his money buys.

IT'S FASY TO BELIEVE,

THAT SOME GASOLINE . IS MIGHTY CLOSE TO

FIRE PROOF.

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33, Wong Nei Chung Road

Happy Valley.

KO NEA