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CONQUERS DESERT AREA:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTOR EQUIPMENT.ness.West and south of Livings

ton the roads follow the river beds until they enter the tsetse tly areas when there are only ocensional, il defined wheel tracks While Dodge. Brothers Motor of no marked trails whatever. Cars have been supplying depend- Although, in spite of mosquito ible transportation to the sclenneta, the flies become constantly tieta sent "fnto the Mogollan more troublesome and completely Desert by the American Museum upset the preconceived notion of of Natural History under the cortain mombers of the exploring, leadership of Roy Chapman party that wild game is the chief Andrews, countless other Dodge object of the tsetse fly's attack, Brothers Motor Cars have been none of the members suffered with giving faithful service to explerera the droad sleeping sickness." and pioneers beyond the frontiers of civilization in many other parts of the world.

This vast desert area, situateï about as far south of the equator as Cube is north, is full of wild From Pretoria, capital of the game and is almost uninhabited Union of South Afries, comes a for great distances except by a report from Mr. C. H. Douglas, few scattered tribon of friendly chief engineer of the Kalahari natives, Failure of a car in the Expedition, stating, "Due to the desort would be an unpleasant ability of Dodge Brothers Screen occurrence, if not worse. Το Commercial Car our expedition escape the fever, permanent white had no trouble at any time with officials in that territory find it. transport.

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OIL SUPPLY.

NOISY MOTOR CYCLES.

of locust destruction, as the anid vehicle has had to cut roads through the Kalabar! Desert for others to follow.

Without the Graham we would have been hopplessly handicapped."

General A. Bezuidenhout in a letter regarding the good service rendered by the truck said:

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In reality the matter is one been found that most riders. entirely for the police. It was ferred to hear the “pop,

"Herewith I wish to place on gasoline engines that are only steps,must be taken to improve exhaust tube, tests showed that a was no standard of silence, and

NO STANDARD OF SILENCE: Pointed out by g-motor-cy the engine beneath them rather REASSURING REPORT,

**«manufacturer" that all makers than to have a silent machino, The activity of the police in were careful to fit r reasonably Generally speaking, the modern. American motorista may be as various parts of the British Isles efficient ailencers to their motor bicycle was reasonably negligent and wasteful about oil in prosecuting motor-cyclists | machines, and that it would be silent when reasonably driven: worry, whose machines appear to be un-impossible to go much further in but it was possible to make the ever. There's We're assured of a plentiful outdoly moly has led to a sugges that direction without affecting most efficient machine nolar if it

tion that the Ministry of Trans the power of the engine.

were badly handled. port has warned the trade that

Compared with ล straight It was pointed out that there

On inquiry at the Ministry, how-duced the engine horse-power by aim at reasonable efficiency. As Teasonably efficient silencer re- that the manufacturer could only ever, representative of the about 12 per cent. Times was informed that this was

a prosecution depended upon the of the Kalahari Desert deserves Leland Stanford heads a group of the Ministry did not propose to delivery of a machine, often pro-dent on the local constable and

Professor W. R. Eckart of not the casa. It was added that

policeman's idea of silence, motor Customers, once they had taken cyclists were very largely depen all credit.

engineers making up the petro-take any action, ns, under exist- ceeded to bore additional holes in the reliance that a bench of "I thank you for all the will-leum division of the American ing legislation, the police possess the silencer in order to get back magistrates placed in his judg ing assistance which was of Society of Mechanical Engineers ed ample powers, great help to us in the locust His division has made extensive

some of the lost power. It had mente campaign."

put for centuries to come.

And so we may continue to use record my appreciation of the about five per cent. efficient. The work done. The way you manifuture, so far, far away, may take pulated the Graham Track care of itself. through the heavy sand dunes.

researches into the availability of oil in this country--and its report is more than reassuring..

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DEPEND ON BUS LINES.

The annual cry of a decline in We easily penetrated necessary to take long leaves routes in California. Nearly 43 course there's a decline, as we use There are more than 1,000 bus our oll stocks is a thin scare. Of regions where no mechanical every two or three years.

por cont. of the cities served by more.and-more-gasoline and other transport had ever before" bpen Graham Brothers trucks also bus linos have no other means of oils. But it's slight in comparl- used. One of the achievements.have been rendering valuable ser- common transportation. the traversing of a sand ridge,vice in that part of Africa, accord- was an excellent endurance triál and proved well the remarkable ing to press reports, in furnishing ability of the car,"

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faith which

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LOW ASSESSMENT.

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transportation to the locust des- The average assessed valuation truction service. A letter from of automobiles in Baltimore is This has been de- these the senior officer of the locust $395 a car.

duced from statistics on autom- explorers and in their Dodge service published in one of the chiles in that city; compiled by Brothers motor equipment," saya local newspapers contain the fol- the municipal bureau of receipts, the Pretoria Staff correspondent flowing testimonial:

of a Cape Town newspaper, "s evidenced by the fact that they unhesitatingly penetrated thei fever laden Kalahari Desert for hundreds of miles, infested though It is with the tsetse fly which is associated with sleeping sick-

When

you see

the Maple Leaf

"It is with great pleasure that I testify to the excellence of thố work done by Mr. Heinz with the Graham Lorry.

"This Lorry is certainly the best we have had in the work

VALVE-IN-HEAD

Buck

MOTOR CARS

STILL MORE AUTOS,"

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son with the available oils still

in the ground and the Increased oil fields being discovered and opened up for us.,

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Wells Keep on Flowing, "There are available by flowing) and jumping wells and acreage 6,800,000,000 barrels of crude oil," says Professor Eckart's committee. This amount alone could keep us The first six months of this going for all purposes, let alone your saw the pruduction of 5.8 automotive, a score of years or so, per cent more cars than those But that's only seratching the produced the first half of 1924. surface. The total for this period was 2,173,360 cars and trucks.

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COUPE TAKES PLUNGE IN PAVEMENT.

POLISHED

A huge bus, loaded with human freight, passed safely over a Houston, Tex., pava mont, but a small coupe, following close behind, plunged into a seven-foot holo that open ed in the asphalt and opnoroto. The driver escaped unhurt. Rain caused the freak washout.

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"There will still remain 26 billion barrels of crude oil which can be largely recovered by im- proved and known processos when. the price justifies it," continues the report.

The question of justifiable price doesn't enter, however, because by the time the more easily reached oil is used up, the improved and known processes" will have been so improved and controlled as to make the remaining of an easy matter to recover.

Again, there are so many other sources of oil, and in "such large

the silencing arrangements..

World Leadership

justifies Still Lower Prices!

Graham Brothers apaounce a substan tial reduction in the prices of their completing of trucks and motor coaches, affective January. 7th.

NEW PRICES -

1-Ton Chassis-BB.

14-Ton Chassis-OB 14-Toa Low Charsis-MB

14-Ton, 168" Chest ---FB

15-Tos, 158 Low Chassis-I,}} 1.Ton, 128 Cha

YB Bas Chassis ....

'I, . b, Detroit

-$.975 1245

1295

- 1316

1365

1415 1675

This is their thiril reduction in eight months. It brings the price of their product far below any track of tom. parable merit.

Large prodution juslibes low prites. Graham Bruthers are the largest exclu sive track manufacturers in the world,

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areas, that prices will have to TRUCKS Sold by DODGE BROTHERS

take care of themselves. Pro- fessor Eckard's committee reveals this future source of supply.

"Improved methods of drilling below the present oil sands. the committee suggests, "are expected to disclose many deposits not hitherto available and which will be equivalent to discovery of new felds.

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Much in Reserve.

"The major oil reserves of the United States: He in .some 1,100,000,000 acres of lauds which [have not been fully explored, Tu addition are the vast deposits of oll ahale, coal and lignites, which are co huge as, to promise ani almost unlimited supply."

Besides, there will be foreign importation, or competition, which will assure reasonable prices. And improved methods in refining will get the most gasoline and other products out of the crude

oil.

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So we may continue to waste fuel through inefficient engines, without fear of a fuel shortage..

To be sure, there are "attempts toward greater fuel efficiency. Actually, these are efforts to cover up our own poor driving, to do; for the engine what any good driver does by proper manipula-| tion of the controls. This was pointed out recently by the re- search engineers of the U. S. Bureau of Standards.

COMPULSORY" INSURANCE.

LIABILITY BONDS IN U.S.A..

The legislature of Maine has passed a law, requiring operators of motor vehicles to depositi bond or liability insurance to cover their passengers against | injury or death before registra- tion will be granted them by the state

The law provides that busses carrying up to 16 paseengers must file a bond, or insurance from $5,000 to $20,000, according to the number of passengers carried.

Busses which carry more than 16 passengers" on any one trip must file a bond of not less than $20,000,

TRAFFIC ENGINEERS. Traffic engineers are being trained at the University of Michigan The course, covers stutipela riffi cues of delays and wellnts,"parting, city a.id rogional planning and other 73 lated toples

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