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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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.

TRIUMPH

DOUGLAS

INDIAN

FRANCIS - BARNETT

Motor Cycles

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

(STOCKS CARRIED)

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

Sub. Deulers

KOWLOON MOTOR CAR & CYCLE EXCHANGE CO.

Michelin Tyres Mean

The cheapest. in the long run.

Shipments arrive every week to ensure fresh goods only.

Sole agents for South China. J. GIBBS & CO., BANK OF CANTON, BUILDING Wook days Phone C. 704 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"

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1927.

| MOTORING FOR THE HOLIDAY TOURING. THE CAUSES OF AUTO MAKES HIGHWAYS

MILLION.

Notable Fresh Enter- prise.

AT HOME AND OVERSEAS..

Through England By

Ford..

--- ACCIDENTS. The ton most common causes of: automobile accidents in St. Paul, U.S.A. as listed by the traffic bureau are as follows:

failure to signal for turns, stops

SAFE.

NEW HEADLIGHT BULB.

An automobile light bulb has

Tbroo hundred and 82 gradə crossings in Minnesota have boon It is not an infrequent practice

oliminated since the stato took boon invented which will throw & among tourists abroad to hire Speeding; driving while drunk; control of main highways in 1921 beam of light up or down and dim automobiles In the Various

and leaving ourb; left turná mado Most of the accidents to podes or increass at the touch of a but countries included in their it from wrong traffic lane; dia- trians, according to the report, ton. The now bulb is techuically indrary Touring in a hired car abedience of stop-go signs; blind-were due to three causes: Stand- known as the depressible beam through a foreign. land involves ing or defective lights; defectivoing in the road-way while waiting double filament bulb and can bo considerable exponse, but many brakes; failure to stop at artorial for street cars; joy-walking: tourists are of the opinion that to highways; driving by boys or walking in the street or highway used with any type or lighting take their own cars abroad with girls under 16 years of age. | whilo Begging for rides, them would involve not only con- That there is a decided fooling siderable expense but a donl of of optimism in the motor trade trouble as woll. That this idea in this country was manifost in is a mistakon one would soom most gratifying, fashion, at the proved by the experioned of Enos coming-of-age banque of the Mo. Davies, Santa Monica, California, tor and Cycle Trades' Benevolent who during the past season made Fund at the Connaught Rooms 3 tour of England, Scotland, and on Tuesday, when Sir Herbert Wales in his own car, a Fordor Austin presided. The response to sedan.

(BY H. MASSAC BUIST IN The Observer.)

his appeal produced a sum of Mr. Davies purchased his £8,452, leaving £1.600 to bo col-Forder from T. Lyoll Puckott, locted in three wooks to make authorized Ford dealer of “Al- this year's record equal to the hambra, California, last May record year the Prince of Wales took delivery in Detroit from the honoured the Fund by attending Hall-Dodds Company of that its Annual Banquet under the city. From the motor eily Mr. Chairmanship of Sir Harold Davies drove his car to New Bowden, Bart. The remarkable York, and thore embarked with growth of the Fund's activities is his company of four for England revealed by the fact that in the on an ocean liner, which also! first Hevon years of its oxistoneo carried the Fordor. it distributed a gross sum of £3,-

Six days later Mr. Davios and 738, assisting 183 cases; the his company landed in Southi- figures for the second soven years ampton, received the car from being 120,308 and 650 cases re-the hold in perfect shape, and tour of Hri- spectively; and for the third seven began thair

"We travelled," says Mr. years, now completed, 69,154 tain. including £11,647 for six years Davies, "3,500 miles in England, maintenance of the Children's Scotland, and Wales; snug and Home at Sydenham, and 1,388 comfortablo, rain or shine, in our "staqucir little Furdor cure And cases, making a gross amount of £93,000 distribted to the distressed never any skidding on English of the motor and cycle trades and roads, vither! It was the season. their dependants, and spent

of the your to see everything at directly on their behalf, in 21 its best, and we shall never for

get the gay cottage gardens, Mr. E. M. C. Instone, a past lovely wild flowers, groen mca- vice-president of the Society of dows and hedges, rhododend Motor Manufacturers and rons, and hawthorn and pink and Traders, said that thas Society white horse chestnut troos in fuli had contributed upwards of £25,-bloom, on every side. There is 000 to that gross amount, Mrs. no space to tell you of all the A. J. Witson, Honorary Assistant noted places of historical and Secretary and Treasurer, made a romantic interest that wo Haw, cathedrals brilliant spooch acknowledging and the beautiful the toast of the Fund; pleading abbeys, and castles."

years.

for still wider support from the In August the Davies party ro- allied trades that the work might turned to the United States, and be further extended. Other speak-motored for two weeks through ers wore Air Vice-Murshal, Sir New York and New England.. Selton Branckef; Mr. David The Fordor was then shipped to Father, the Master Cutlor of Mr. Davies' home in California Sheffield; and Mr. Boultheo Brook, by way of the Panama Canal. President of the British. Cyele

and Motor-Cycle Manufacturers' Summing the trip up, Mr. and Traders Union. Donations Duvies NYA: "For comfort, should be sent to Mr. A. J. Wilson, economy, and pleasure, there is founder and General Honorary no way of travelling to be com- Secretary and Treasury, 154, pared with that we chose. Clerkenwell-road, E.C.1. "

YEAR'S-END ACTIVITIES:

The motor banqueting season may be said to have been brought to a close this year with the second yearly dinner of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club in the gallery at the Royal Automobile Club on the same evening as the Benevolent Fund

#MOTOR VANS.

Popular With Post Office.

PRIZE STREET.

Novel Contest.

. !

According to Motor Transport. banquet, just as the big motor the English post office authorities cycling dinner clashed this your with the Junior Car Club's yearly vans and abotit 200 sido-carriers. now own nearly 1,000 light motor dinnar. Motor Show enterprise These vehicles supplement, and closes with the 25th yearly ax-in cortain cases replace, the work hibition now being held in Edin- of pillar box collection, parcel burgh.

collection and delivery, and ser- Prospects of motor trade are vices batween hand and sub- encouraging, especially as ro-offices carried out by haulage. gards oversous enterprise. The contractors. The G. P. O. motor attention the Dominion Premiors fleet continues to expand, and by have given to the question of the doing so, it is claimed, gives the motor industry of this country in regard in its export prospects will

taxpayer more economical sor- vico. not have escaped notice: nor the fact that our manufacturers "aro dispatching an expert delegation at an early date to investigate again the whole situation of the export markets. It is sincerely to be hoped that, as a result of their experience here; the Em- piro Premiers have roulised that we are designing cars suitable for

America's ideal strest will be service in the Dominions, and the Biscayne Boulevard, which that that can be done satisfac-skirts Biscayne Bay along the torily without attempting any- Miami shore, if the prize winning thing so utterly foolish as to copy designs for stroot traffic control American methods, which, in any and lighting standards, and for case, could not be exploited in model gasoline stations, are fully this heavily taxed country of adopted. high-priced labour and restricted S. Grillo, of New York,, won sales field as cheaply as infires prize of $1,000 for the best Amorien,

Instead, wo make a type of observation towers and proposition which is worth its traffic signal standards, in a com- money because it has certain petition conducted by the Bis- foatures which the "American in- cayne Boulevard Association, for dustry cannot offer, and which use on that straat. H. Roy Kolloy have overtheless only to be made of Los Angeles receivod, $750 for known overseas for their value to his best design of suitable gaso- be appreciated. We are offering line stations for the same high- as good value to-day: but it is in a different, though equally suit- ablo, form, boing, in fact, in many The purpose of the competition rospects more up to date than was to seek ideas for the best corresponding American ontorways to improve this now stroot, priso.

HUGE GARAGE.

Los Angeles is to have a 13: storey, $500,000 garage in the downtown district. The building will cover 78 by 155 foot and will offor at least a partial solution to the downtown parking problem.

way.

It is 100 feat wide and extends; three and a half miles along the bay, joining the Dixio Highway to the north.

equipment.

A Year Round Car

Giving Many Years of Service

HE lasting satisfaction of fine car

in the Stude

baker Standard Six Duplex Phaeton. Studebaker endurance is proved by hun dreds of Studebakers with records of 100,000 miles or more, which are still in DUPLEX-PHAETON daily service..

STANDARD SIX

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The Standard Six Duplex Phaeton, an open car-may be made a closed car in 30 seconds. Roller side enclosures are drawn. to give closed-car comfort in bad weather -an exclusive Studebaker feature. Let us show you the Duplex Phaeton and take you for a ride in it.

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The Hongkong Hotel Garage.

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.)

Car Sales and) Phone Accessories. O. 4750

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Service Phone and Parts C. 4602

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PACKARD

Thoroughly Dependable

To those fashionables who gather at the great race courses

of the world the newest Packard, pedigreed descendant of a long line of champions, makes a powerful appeal. The first touch of the throttle imparts to the driver the thrill of a spirited thoroughbred, heart pulsing, eager for action!

A few minutes in traffic-or hours on the open road-leave a rich satisfaction born of the certainty that this car has no equal in performance.

Nothing but a ride in the Packard Eight can tell you. its story!

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

33, Wong Nei Chung Rd., Happy Valley, Tel. C. 1246 or 1247

On your next trip to Buenos diri, vinit the Packard sales- rdom, Calle Flerida, 643-653

Ta both competitions, H. Roy Kelley of Los Angeles came out a winner. Besides gotting $750 for first prize on gusalino station designs, ho won second prize of OF $600 for traffic standard designs.

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Hongkong,

DISTINGUISHED FAMILY

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