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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, APRIL. 10, 1926.

TRIUMPH

The 1926 is the Most Improved of Cycles:

New and more rigid frame.

New Clutch with double adjustments and many other improvements worthy of note:

The new 1926 Model F is superior to last year's cycle in detail and performance.

Stocks carried

Call in and arrange terms.

DISTRIBUTORS.

ALEX. ROSS & CO., (CHINA) LTD.

Bank of China Building Hongkong.

THE FUEL

OF THE FUTURE

How many people, reading that]ment of Scientific and Industrial the world production of motor cars Research has been conducting is increasing by leaps and bounds, experiments in the production of pause to think about the fuel power alcohol from root crops. supply of the future. Assuming

The third memorandum or report that in course of time every

of this special Board has recently civilised country reaches as high a percentage of ear owners as exist been Issued and contains many in the U.S.A. at the present time, statements as to the experiments how long will it be before the world conducted and results achieved. supply of petrol is exhausted or As might be expected the Board becomes so depleted that its price has confined its work entirely to beedmos prohibitive. This is not the production of power alcohol, an alarmist theory, but, contains and has not concerned itself with such a high degree of probability the problems that would be bound that the problem is indeed an

to arise in the, conversion of an

arresting one.

Official Investigation.

As evident of the importance attached to this matter in official circles we have the fact that since 1916 the Special Fuel Research Bourd of the Government Depart-

THE AILSA CRAIG

HARBOUR LAUNCH

SPEED 7 KNOTS.

BRITISH THROUGHOUT

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Two Major Advantages Studebaker Alone Offers

1--One-Profit. Value

THERE are only two manufacturers who actually build their cars complete-make all their own bodies, engines, clutches, steer- ing gears, differentials, springs, gear boxes, nxles, gray iron castings and drop forgings.

One of these is Ford in the low-priced field. The other is Studebaker in the fine-car field.

Because we eliminate the extra profits and overhead that many other manufacturers have to pay to outside parts and body makers, we are able to use finer materials and workmanship-yet charge no more than competing curs.

Under this One-profit policy, the entire car is designed, engi- neered and manufactured as a

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2-Unit-Built Construction

complete, harmonious unit in Studebaker plants. Being Unit-Built it functions as 2 unit. And this adds years to its life-gives you scores of thousands of miles of excess transportation-greater riding comfort-

As a natural outgrowth of One-Profit Manufacture and Unit-Built construction, a third great advantage to the buyer is attained "No Yearly Modele." Because All phases of manufacture are directly under Stude- baker control. - Studebaker cary are constantly kept up- to-date. Improvementa ara continually mada-nof saved up for spectacular an

which make nouncements 'cars actificially obsolete. Resale values ars, thus Stabilized.

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minimum repair costs- and finally, higher rosale value.

The Standard Six Coach is the most powerful closed car in the world of its size and weight. Its equipment in- cludes full size halloon tyrea; an B-day clock, and petrol gauge; automatic windscreen cleaner, rear vision mirror, light control on steering wheel, and other attractive features,

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engine adapted to the use of petrol to an engine that could be run on alcohol. That, of course, would be; a matter for the automobile j engineers, and there seems to be little doubt that a more or lesk gradual change could be effected. without any great difficulty.

Produced From Roots..

The Board was emphatically of the opinion that the growing of grain in this country for the speciul purpose of using it for the manu- facture of power alcohol was "unthinkable," and it stated that is its opinion, if power alcohol is to be produced at all in Great Britain or in Ireland from vegetable materials other than waste ones, it must be from a root or tuber of some description. The roots and tubers on which the Board has been working, and which it considers as being most suitable for the pur- pose, are potatocă, mangolds, and Jerusalem artichokes, In fact it goes so far as to state that these are the "only possible raw materials which could be grown in "Great Britais and Ireland for thei production of alcohol for power purposes."

It is well known that potatoes have often been advocated as the source of an alcohol fuel supply, but the conclusion come to was that it! was very unlikely that they could be, grown at a price that would make | it possible to obtain, alcohol from thom for use as an alternative to patrol at anything approaching its present price.

It was found that one ton of potatoes produged 20 gallons of 05% alcohol, so that every El costs to grow a ton of potatoes is equal to one shilling on a gallon of alcohol for raw material alone.

Potato Alcohol,

The mungold is of course an easier crop to grow, but it only produers eight gallons of alcohol to the ion. Against this there hari to be set the fact that the average yield of mangolds per acre is more than three times as heavy as that of potatoes. The price per gallon for potatoe alcohol for the raw material) was seven stillings a Tallon, whilst mungold alcohol was only three shillings and ninepence.

The Jerusalem artichoke wave al Lyield of about 19 gallons to the ton, and an average crop is about 12 tons to the acre. It is also possible to prepare cellulose of a pure and resistant naturë from the stalks of the plant..

Summing up the whole report. it at once becomes obvious that the production of alcohol for fuel pur-1 poses on large scale is, at any rate, a practical possibility ever, if the price would be rather high compared to the present charge for. petrol.

A Heartening Recollection.

In view of the impossibility of estimating how long it will be before the supply of petrol is exhausted, it is at least reassuring to learn that we should be able to run our cars on alcohol.

It is also gratifying to realise. that quietly, and behind the scenés, as it were, a Government Depart- ment is working scientifically, and withal, resolutely, at a problem that in the years to come may well be a matter of vital concern to every motorist in the kingdom.

By special permission of “The Morris Quarry

GETS JAIL SENTENCE.

The Kentucky supreme court struck a severe blow at autol thieves when it sentenced a man to two years at the penitentiar

of Quality

A Heavy Duty Tyre for Continuous High Speed

The Firestone Hoavy Duty Pneumatic for Lorries and Buses is built extra size and Gam- Dipped for extra strongth. This Firestone process insulates ovory fibor and cord with rubbor, thus reducing friction--keeping, thesO big tyros cool in hard service.

Improved non-skid tread gives unusual traction. The side walls.

are of the same tough, slow-wear- ing rubber compound as the tread

Contre rubber strip increases mileage by aiding balance in de- sign and preventing strain on the carcass and cushion. H

Other Firestone features fur- ther contribute to safer and more oconomical bus transportation: and highway haulage.

MOST MILES PER DOLLAR

Firestone

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$2,000

TEL. C 1246 or 1247

ESSEX COACH

The main issue with Essex, has always boon to give greatest value for the money. Its fulfill- ment of that aim was never so clear and ils sales supremacy 80 completely acknowledged as to- day.

With Hudson, it outsolls every other line of 6-cylinder cars. Economies possible only to the largest production of 6-cylindor cars, and the experience of four years' concentration on cloyod cars have resulted in the best care and lowest prices in Essex history. Esox is built on the

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Super-Six principle by Hudson workmon in Hudson shops. No other maker shares its advantage' In quality Hudson and Essex, are easy riding and easy stoor. ing. Their unfailing reliability and economy are known every- where.

And their conspicuous and increasing succosa roflects the rapidity and completeness with which the real facts regarding automobile values have penetrat- ed the entire market.

World's Greatest Values

Essex Tourin $2,000. Hudson 7-Passenger. Phaeton $5,600. Hudson Conch $3,000.

Hudson Brougham 53,600. Hudson Sedän- $4,000.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.