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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

19 SINGER 26

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Specially Geared for Hongkong ·

"The 1926 Singer represents the

highest standard of British Motor Car

Engineering & standard which

guarantees that every purchaser

acquires a car made to last.

FOUR SEATER

$2,200

DE LUXE"

British Throughout

TWO SEATER "DE LUXE" $2,200

Equipped with overhead valves, four wheel brakes. automatic windscreen wiper, pneumatic upholstery, Dunlop reinforced balloon tyres, complete all-weather. equipment, large radiator, etc,

For Full Specifications and Particulars apply to:-

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

HONGKONG BANK BUILDING.

TRANSPORT TRIUMPH. ARMORED FORD CAR.

DESERT, NOT IMPOSSIBLE.

FIGHTS EASTERN SHEIK.

This is the fourth and last of a Schna, Kurdistan, Persiu-Dur- series of interesting "articles re-ing the recent rampage of a sheik garding the recently ended third in this district-shelks have a Asiatic Expedition af the Amert-propensity for wholesale robbery can Museum of Natural History, and retail murder as well as a written by Roy Chapman Andrewa,taste for gaudy clothes-the Ford leader of the party of explorers cat was used to good advantage and scientists. It will be remem-by a British force sent to quiet bered that the many discoveries him down. An air-craftsman who made during Dr. Andrews three served with an armored car com- exploring trips have contributed pany, admitted as much in a letter valuable additions to the science written to friends when the chase of Geology and interesting in was in progress. The letter formation regarding many mons follows: trove animals which roamed over the earth millions of years ago, (By Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews. This great practically unknown territory half as large as the United States which we refer to as the "Gobi Desert is not any more all desert thin was our West when the old georgraphies labelled It the "Great American Desert." Much of it will never be good for anything except grazing, but there are vast regions where water for irrigation can be found at 15 feet. The motor car will be the means

the

"I am serving in an armored car company, a branch of the Royal Air Force. It may seem a joke to some motorists but among our cars we have: several Forda fitted up with two guns, a Lewin and a Vickers, and armored wind- screens. The body of the itself is in the form of a "Vanette' with a detachable half-hood.

car

"The company ís on service here againat an unruly aheik, hence the necessity for armored curs. But this service entails

Up And Over.

of opening this vast country tolong journeys into the hills and the world. As I said in pre-mountains, with very stiff gradi- vious article camels were the only ents to be climbed.. Out of the means of transportation known in three types of "cars we have, the the interior to be traversed be-Ford excela the lat, and the others fore we make our explorations. come off second best." Those most familiar with country assured us that to ford the streams and cross the hilly wastes of unknown land beyond the desert was utterly impossible. Nevertheless I had confidence in Dodge Brothers Motor Cars and delërmination id

our

plans!

Carry out

"There is a gradient here known as Chem-Chemal; and the Ford simply walks up it, while the others fail. The climb is made loubly difficult by the fact that melting snow from the mountains as strewn the track with loose hingle and huge boulders.

"If ever, a car underwent a severe test the Ford has, here in

What these curs did was a re- velation. With terribly. over- loaded cars we crossed rivers, thumped over boulders, and drop- peding holes until we thought Kurdistan. Everything", can be they must be shaken to pieces said in its favour, particularly in but they continued day after springing of chassis and body." day to, necomplish the seeming | impossible...

Without motor" ears the work

years.

The cars which we used on eui first trin were eagerly bought- they had doge what no other em had done."

we were able to do in a few to the interior of this vast months would have taken many waste, bringing mut louds of sblus and other previous furs, on and other valuable products, Transportation is the greatest eed of the country and Dodge Brothers Motor Cars are supply- ng the need just as the "covered nggos" drawn by horses or oxen applied transportation to the hardy pioneers and emigrants who were the early settlers in our own great West.

Now a 700-mile trip across the dusert, requires 48 hours-with camels it took 80 tedious days Now GO GF TO Dude Bratho

Cars are making regalar trips fur

› SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926

"Send One Over"

A solid trainload of 104 Graham Brothers Trucks was shipped recently to six Dodge Brothers Dealers in the State of Florida, U.S.A. Ten days after arrival every truck had been sold-and more were on the way.

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Similar shipments in varying quantities have recently been forwarded to China, the Philippines, India, Australia, South Africa and South America.

All these constitute an exceptional record- but this record Illustrates an important

point.

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Business men all over the world need no longer feel that they must devote valuable time to investigation of trucks before making their 'choice."

The remarkable record of Graham Brothers Trucks in practically every country has reduced an important buying problem to the simple expesient of asking the Dodge Brothers Dealer to send one over."

THE DRAGON #MOTOR CAR CO. LTD.

33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY

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GRAHAM BROTHERS

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THE 8-88 ROADSTER

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THE 4-44 ROADSTER

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This Motor Car into San Francisco Bay, costing the life

of its driver, Mrs. Hazel Selbyć:

Same body design as the model 8-88 Roadster with same conveniences. Upholstery of brown Spanish leather. Snap and pep to satisfy the most exacting demands on a real "pleasure" car. Looks that make it the centre of many eyes wherevor it is parked. Not a pocket edition but a real car the same as the other 6-Sixty-Six models. 120" wheelbaso.

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