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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1926.

The Woman at the Wheel

You can pay for your Motorcycle

out of income.

If you do not wish to pay cash down

for either of the following:

A. J. S

TRIUMPH

DOUGLAS

INDIAN -

Motor Cycles

"PAY AS YOU RIDE" take 6 months or more and have the use of your cycle all the time.

V(STOCKS CARRIED

THE ROMANCE OF THE CAR.

Taxation And Other Things,

(By Special Pormission of The Morris Owner.)

There is something in the amodern romance, I wonder, has atmosphere of autumn that gives beon speeded on its lilting way rise to cogitation." A certain feel-purely because of motoring? ing there is in the air, in the Nothing that I know of brings falling brown leaves as they swirl more quickly that peace of mind, and scurry in the cold edged wind, that effect of pleasant detach- that makes us pause mentally ment from the mundane things and sighing, remember that there of the world, than a good car, has flown another year.

well driven, over good roads in For who counts but summer as fair, weather. The combination, the part of the year that matters? too, is not hard to find.

BOBER REFLECTIONS.

And then, of course, motoring is such a teet for the sternor traits Such was my mood the other that mean so much in double evening, sitting in my old trusted harness. The girl can see the car, wailing at a cross-road for a forceful but gentlemanly way in friend. The warm day's sun was which her man handlen hotel sinking behind the pines; every keepers, policemen and other where was the sound of evening her she is too keen on her difficult objects. He sees whet- of the

approaching finish of things. Maybe it was only of personal beauty, watching whet- the day; but maybe my "mond her her powder-puff is ton con- use it becames 40 turned that fact into thoughts stantly "in that seemed to bear on the ending boring to a man after a while of the year. Yet, thinking so, and whether she is appreciative and wondering what good or else of his masterly driving or if she bad had been done in the past persists in looking at her reflec-

ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd.lv months, and what more tion in shop windows to see how

Sub. Dealers

KOWLOON MOTOR CAR & CYCLE EXCHANGE CO.

Michelin Tyres Mean

The cheapest

in the long run.

"Sole agents" for South China

J. GIBBS & CO., Wook daya Phone C. 704

BANK OF CANTON BUILDING

After Office hours Phone C. 4532

CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD.

FOR

ALL CLASSES

OF

MOTOR INSURANCE

WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS

HEAD OFFICE:-

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.;

TELEPHONE:

C. 1121--2

SOCONY

MOTOR OIL

MODERN OILS FOR MODERN MOTORS

REFINED UP TO A Standard! NOT DOWN TO A Price

remained to be done in the her pose matches up with the future, the occasional pass of a general appearance of the turn

tout... car or motor-cycle directed my musings into a channel of realíza- tion of bow much, year by year, recently, the motor has changed our daily lives.

Not so long ago I was motoring with a dear old paterfamilias to whom the whole of human nature was as an open book. At any The change has been so gradual rate, he had lived long enough to and still yet so sudden. To those Ace three of his daughters married of us who have cars it is not off very successfully. On the realized at all. Only to themoore, miles from nowhere, was envious few who do not (in these car with a punctured tyre, days of generous hire-purchase a perspiring motorist and terms, it would soom foolish peevish-looking female sitting almost to write cannot") own a carefully in the car so that, as car it seems to be so quick and her companion wielded the work- startlingly sudden. For posses-ing parts of a rather tricky jack, sion of any transport-individual he had to lift her weight as well transport that is not tied down to as that of the car.

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arbitrary timetables, to queues We pulled up and proffered and crushos and to hatchet-faced assistance, which was gladly men behind the arch-shaped glass luccepted by the man. The lady of a ticket offico-brings such (I suppose she was, anyway; still changes in the lives of us all. continued her air of bored dis- Somehow it seems to add to pleasure and every time her Romance; to put the whole world companion had to "disturb her to at our feet. As some modern poet get this tool or that she sharply might well write,The hand that made some blithering remark starts the motor rules the world." about not wiping that greasy thing over my new shoes." .Or something really encouraging of When we loft, my Take courtship-for instance, that nature. Who in these enlightened days wise old friend said to me,. would dream of the man and the Well, if that fellow's married to maid of each other's mytual that he's a man to be pitied. If choice sitting over a dish of tea they're only engaged, he's one in the "hest room" and exchang-day soon going to be." What a ing polite simperings about the test, don't you think, of mutual weather and whatnot under the understanding is motoring trou- boaming eye of some fond parent.blo oven?

THE ART OF DECEPTION.

But they had to do so not so What a fuss, by the way, they many years ago." The thought of seem to be making nowadays a pair meeting unchaperoned about this question of taxation. after the sun had fallen would The A A. and the motor papers have then seemed "too" perfectly on one side argue that the only outrageous for words, uy dear." really equitable and fair way of And so they kicked over the taxing us poor motorists is to tracds, did those "young couples have the tax put back on petrol, and, having once learned the art The price of fuel would go up, of deception, took to it naturally but we should not have to pay enough in regard to each other one pound per horse-power at the when the rifts that develop in all beginning of the your or when- domestic bliss came along in ever, we do pay it. The idea, of after-married life. Whereat there course, is that now, we pay a was trouble, unhappiness, and a lump sum, and it is paid whether! busy time in the divorce court, we use the car one day or every

Of course, emancipation of a day, in the year. sort

cama with good King' Personally, I don't see what. Edward. There were free meet-very great difference it makes ings at tennis and golf. But even whether we are taxed one way thon, they were uncomfortable or another. The fact remains and tiring. I mean, the thought that is the aggregate we have to of pushing the pedals of a bicycle pay, in a body, the same total after a really hard set does not sum into the Treasury for the add to the zest of the gamo, and upkeep of roads, and the horse- even if one's swain be the most power method seems just about patient fellow in the world, it is as fair to me as any other. High difficult to be passionate while fuel price is always, a bar to podalling perspiringly,

pleasure motoring, whereas once The car has changed it all. the present Inland Revenue Tax Nowadays the course of true is paid it is, paid, and that's all young love runs smoothly on there is to it. But I hate big balloon tyres to the merry zip of garage, bills every month, and it a willing exhaust note. The car would hurt my loose cash badly mobile bower for fair to have to pay say 2/6 per gallon Rosamond, and aho benefits for petrol for week-ond jaunts accordingly theroby. How many and what-not

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