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FAMOUS ROAD HEAD-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TRUCKS SUPPLANT CAMELS.

GRAHAM BROTHERS IN

AUSTRALIA.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, AUGUST

Camels, those dependable baaats of burden, which have carried the wealth of the Orient since early

Biblical days, are finding their usefulness in West Australia curtailed by the adoption of the

motor truck..

In the vast stretches of grasing land in West Australia where sheep raisers number their flooks by the hundred of thousands, camel carayana for years have been the media in hauling the wool clip to the warehouses near the, beacoust. The loads they word able to haul were considered largo for such beasts, but their gait was slow and often rising

Australia"

markets got sway from growers into West Australis. This aws before they were able to make in 1915. Prior to this he saw the delivery of their wool clip.

importation of the first American But this condition is rapidly made automobiles Into Australia, phasing, Adoption of Graham back in 1903. He has been a Brothers Trunks by these shoop resident of Forth for 20 years and raistro has enabled them to rush this is his third visit to Detroit. their wool clip more quickly to "Wool and wheat are the main quently convert it into money West the marketing points and conso-staya of our economic life in more readily.

sald Winterbottom. "Sometimes we have droughts, but those appear only to stabilize our sheep brooding industry. We do not have much rainfall in some of our sections, nor have we any rivers of consequence to drain our lands. Our mountains are not high and very little help from the snow is expected..

This situation was disclosed by w. 3. Winterbottom, Managing Director of the Winterbottom Motor Company, dealora for Dodge Brothers, Ino. at Perth, W. A. and Rupert S. Hardon, Director of tho Standardized Mo- tore, Ltd., who, with Jack Kloster works manager of the same com pany at Sydney, N.S.W. Dodge Brothers Dealers. visiting the factory of Dodge Bro- thers Inc., Detroit."

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Mr. Winterbottom has the dis- tinction of having imported the first Dodge Brothers Motor Car

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roads are natural earth tracks or macadamized.

starling or 81,804,515. §) we have what is regarded as gho of the finest motor oar establishments in all the British Empire,"

Rupert S. Hardon, of the Stand- ardized Motor Ltd., is just as ent thusiastic over the sales of Dodge Brothers Motor Cars and Graham Brothers Trucks in New South Walos.

"The cost of motor cars and trucks in Australis is practically 100 per cent, greater than that in the United States. This is due to the heavy import tax and the heavy freight charges. Petrol, or gasolina, costs approximately 60 Mr.pente a gallon with an additional tax of six cents a gallon for tho State. Wo have no oil wells, al- though the Common-wealth has Brothers Motor Cars back in "We began handling. Dodge offered a subsidy of $100,000 for 1919 and our first your's sales anyone who drills in an oil woll totalled 300 cars and trucks. Wo of good production. All our oil expect to sell 3,000 cars and and gas must be insported. Caso-trucks in 1626" he said: line comes in four-gallon tin cans. Recently several American "The Australians have much companies have opened gasoline of the British conservatism In and oil stations similar to those them and for this reason, they "Our farmers are rapidly in the United States.

dependability and strudiness in turning to the use of the motor, Our solos of Dodge Brothors their means of transportation. car und truck. We do not huve Motor Cars and Graham Brothers That is the reason Dodge Bro- the fine concrete roads in our Trucks have steadily climbed anthers Motor Cars and Graham rural-sections that you havo-in-nually until in 1925 we did a Brothers Trucks have found such

gross business of 360,903 pounds ready sales in our country":

the United States. Many of our

This is the starting place at Adrian, Mich, of one of of America's famous trans-Continental roads. These piers consist of stones from 17 States and Canada, sent in by former members of the tour.

Car statistics just issued show!" that there were, at the end of 1925, 1,410,000 motor vehicles and cycles registered in United Kingdom, which is an increase of 91,476 over 1924. Amorica had 20,204,260 vohicles of all categories register ed at the end of the year.

There are in the Straits Settle" monts 517.5 miles of metalled roads 'exclusive of those main- tained by the Municipalities). On Singapore Island there are 102 miles, in Province Wellesley. 172,6, Malacca 147.2, and Penang and Dindings 88.6.

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A CABLE FROM MR. FRANK GRAY

(Ex M. P. ron OXFORD).

giving his experiences with Jowelt Cars Fitted with

DUNLOP

| CORD BALLOON TYRE

CADLEY

FROM KHARTOUM, FRANK GRAY.

Dated 4th May.

Received 5th May, 1926. Both cars driven into Khartoum yesterday. These cars have been driven for more than three thousand miles through a trackless country of sand, rock, bush and camel thorn. These cars were forced through bush, raced into banks of sand and bunped over rock, and yet only one tyre was destroyed in the process. You may safely challenge the manufacturors of the world to supply sn equal record, and claim this as the triumph of the British manufacturer.

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FRANK GRAY.

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