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Local Agents,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SEE FOR SAFETY I

INSURE YOUR CARS WITH THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

THE MOST EXPER TENCED MOTOR INSCE. OFFICE IN THE WORLD.

THE UNION TRADING CO., LTD.

Princes Building.

Phone 0. 587.

1927 AUSTINS

THE REASON WHY

the "Austin Seven" is so popular in Hong- kong is because it is cheap to operate and can be stowed away in any little corner, thus saving garage bill. Futrhermore, it is always ready for service.

Reduced Prices from £165.0.0.

ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd.

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BANK OF CHINA BUILDING.

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Kowloon Agents:- The Motor Car & Cycle Exchange

DOUGLAS MOTOR CYCLES

Twenty reasons why you should choose an "E. W."

1. Enclosed valves.

2. Clean cranki

3. Mechanical pump

bricktion

4. Induction pipe beuting jacket

Petrol tap fitter and drain

6. Now type gear box onclosed kickstart

Z Gear box' air vent

& Enclosed kickstarter

B. Low pressure brakon

10. Taper roller bearings

THIS IS HOW YOU MIGHT LOOK, AND FEEL, IF YOU. DRIVE THROUGH HEAVY RAIN, WITHOUT A WINDSHIELD OLEANER.

By W. T. Morris.

Coating the windshield with a mixture of equal parts of alcohol The first essential of safe driv. and glycerins may be of some ing-or safe walking is to be help in kooping the windshield able to see where you are going clear but don't depend on it in a Stormy weather brings increased heavy storm. hazards and difficulties, not the A visor for the windshield is leas of which is the obscuring of also thoroughly worth while in the motorist's vision through both good and bad weather. snow, sibet or rain on the It shades your eyes from the

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1926,

or injuries than any other form of sport

But pillion riding may claim CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD.

to bọ more than a sport it is a cheap and offbient moans. of transport. There is no call for the suppression of the pillion riding as a dangerous sport any more than in hunting, moun faineering or boxing. The motor cycle is cheaper than, the railway for cross-country journeys, and provides wonderful opportunities for increasing health, plonsuro and knowledge.

It can safely he urged that there are no avoidable pillion accidents due to causòs for which pillion riding as such is responsib le. Negligence, foolhardiness, bad road conditions are common to all forms of road transport. Let us regain a sense of pro- portion and remember how faw accidents there are in view of the fact that there are probably nearly 100,000 pillion riders in Great Britain ovory fine wook- end.

Pillion riding in-essentially al democratic form of transport, and enables large numbers of the working classes to enjoy frush air, and the beauties of Nature. To forbid it would tend to pravant young married couplesofton compelled to live in lodginga- from gaining easy and cheap access to the countryside. The railways are too dear and railway delays too numerous..

A few months ago the Carshal ton Motor Cycling Culb hold, à "pillion Trial" on a wet day over the Surrey hills and socon- dary roads. Nearly every mach- no completed the course. There were no accidents or untoward ovente. This trial is included in "The Motor Cycle" filin on view at Olympia during the Motor Cycle Show,

The suppression of pillion rid.

FOR

ALL CLASSES

•OF

MOTOR INSURANCE

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WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS

HEAD OFFICE:-.

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG,

TRIUMPH

TELEPHONE:-

·O 1121-2

TRIUMPH 1927

The new and Improved Model p». Now selling at £55,0.0

Delivery at your door, Stocks Carried.

Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.

AND

windshield. It is difficult to see glare of the sun and koops heavy ing would have a damaging effect Kowloon Car & Cycle Exchange,

the road clearly in stormy rain from bluring the windshield on an important British industry. weather and it is impossible to between the strikes of the The growth of pillion riding drive safely, unless the wind-automatic wiper. Most new para shows the demand for a dual use shield' is clear.

now come equipped with this of machings. Its suppression is Every car should have a wind safety accessory.

likely to stom demand, with con- shiold cleaner, either automatic Lastly, in the interest of clear sequent bad affect upon employ- or manually operated. The and safe vision, do not clutter up ment. A diminution of sales, automatic device is a great your windshield view with tends to increase production convenience and a valuable safe-stickers. Once a fad, stickers on coste, with the further bad effect guard as it permits you to keep the windshield are now frowned on Britain's flow" of motor cycle both hands on the steering wheel, upon by public safety directors exports to the Dominions and to where they should be at all times and in some cities are actually the Continent in competition with American and German while driving.

prohibited by ordinance."

machines.

DEMAND FOR A

PETROL TAX

PROBLEM FOR MOTOR-CAR DESIGNERS.

OWNERS IN FAVOUR.

The importance of this trade is shown by the fact that in 1925 the British byole and motor-cycle industry croatod a credit item in the national balance sheet of £6,329,770, which represents a balance of £5,886,033 in exports over £443,737 in importa.

MOTOR CYCLING

THE CASE FOR THE PILLION.

Contrary to the popular belief of the opponents of pillion riding, the presence of a pillion passenger on a motor cycle tends to increase stability and safory: Will the petrol tax return?

rather than otherwise. The ad-1 This is the question to which dition of weight does not reduce all British motor-car manu- the factor of safety. The accurate facturers are busy guessing the balance of the motor cycle is in answer at present, says a Home no way diminished by the pillion

passenger rather the reverso. Horse-power, of course, is the than that which seeks to suggest There is no greater fallacy basis of motor-car taxation now;} but all motorists are convinced motor cycle is not under proper that this is an unjust basis, and, control when a pillion passenger headed by the Automobile Asis carried. A pillion" passenger does not increase the anticipation sociation and the Royal Autom obile Club, a vigorous agitation of danger, provided he or she sits astride and the driver remembers is being organised throughout the increased weight on the back

paper.

111." Med and waterproof wheel bearing the country in favour of a return wheel.

12. 3 Inch tyrės

13. Largo nection mudguards

14. Flat mudguard stays

16. New type fork shackle bolis

16. Twa took başı, o

17. Low nuddie puritisa

18. Improveu foutplates

19. New exhaust system,

20. Centret wires through hond

ALEX ROSS & Co., (China), Ltd.

BANK OF CHINA, BUILDING, HONGKONG. Kowloon Agency:-

THE MOTOR CAR AND CYCLE EXCHANGE.

MICHELIN TYRES

GENERAL AGENTS & DISTRIBUTORS

FOR SOUTH CHINA

The EUROPE-ASIA TRADING Co.

Ist. Floor, Pedder Building, 12, Pedder Street,

Ask for the-

NEW MICHELIN PRICE LIST

bhowing catest Ropaucliani

NEW STOCK EVERY WEEK

to the petrol tax.

Statistics show that pillion

If this agitation is successful riding has no greater percentage

it will altor the whole trend of motor-car engine design iri Britan.

of having to change their policy,, The hored-power tax-which in order to produce motor-cars amounts to a tax on the cubic with larger but loss tromendously. capacity of the cylinders of a efficient engines, which would motor-car's ongino-has develop-compete with American produc- ed the small but immensely tions in their own class. officient engine as the outstand. Such a change in policy would ing feature of British manu-ontail a large capital expenditure facturing practice. An engine in scrapping existing plant and nominally (and legally) rated laying down new machinery and at 12-h.p.often develops anything in research work. from 50 to 70-h.p. inactual "Motorists as a body would practice.

welcome a return to the petrol American manufacturers, on tax," said a director of a famous the other hand, specialise in British firm of motor-car manu engines of from 20 to 25 nominal fustu rörs to C newspaper horse-power according to our representative. "Thero can be no rating. Since the horse-power tax question of the unfairness of the was imposed our 12-h.p. class horse-power tax. An immense cars have held their own in com-lorry and a large private motor. petition against thoir 2025-h.p. car pay- the same, tax, yet the American rivals, which sell at lorry, thundering along with a only slightly higher prices, five-ton load and solid tyros, does despite the McKenna import ten times as much damage to the duties.

roads as the private vobiolo

AMERICAN OARS.

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also.

"The lorry," ho continued, naturally usus much more: If the patrol tax wore re-st-petrol than the private motor-car, ablished British manufacturors so that petrol tax would ensure would have to compete against that those who damage the roads their American rivale on a much most would pay the most towards more equal basis, The petrol their reconstruction. consumption of these larger "A potrol tax would American engines is not much remedy the grievance of the man greater than that of British who uses his motor-car only at super-efficient engines of much wook-ends. At present ho nayo. lower horsepower, while the ac just the samo tax as the man. commondation and luxury afford who uses his car all day and ed by the larger American vohicle most of the night as well. If a are naturally more attractive. patrol tax wors in force, he would British manufacturers, there maturally only pay for the roads fore, are faced with the possibility as he used them."

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MOTOR OILS

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On your next trip to Faris,"" "visit the Packard salti. room, Champs Elysias, 102.

Unsurpassed

Performance

BRIDGING the turbulent Parisian traffic stands the ma- jestic Arc de Triomphe-cul- mination of a sculptor's dream! Beneath it pass, in review, the chosen motor cars of both con- tinents.

A Packard, its beauty undimmed by this rare setting, pauses with the traffic-then leaps ahead, quietly but definitely asserting its mastery of the boulevard. The powerful agility of this. newest Packard is the culmina- tion of an industry's ambition,

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

33, Wong No Chung Rd., Happy Valley. Tal. C. 1246 or 1247

A S K THE MAN WHO

Hongkong.

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