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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, APRIL

1927.

Your guarantee of ab- solute battery satis- faction, of low initial cost and minimum repair bills.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

33, Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley.

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Storage Batteries

THE

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Michelin Tyres Mean

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SOCONY

MOTOR

OIL

MODERN OILS FOR MODERN MOTORS.

REFINED UP TO A Standard NOT DOWN TO A Price*

STANDARD REPAIR CHARGES.

How They Will Affect the Owner in England.

Tho iden of the ropairor In connexion with the Austin working to D schedule of hoheme, which is already in standardized charges for Topaire operation, the charges set out uro is. ono which immediately those for actually carrying out moets

with the approval of the job and do not include the all motorists, and wore this cost of supplying any now parts. done always there would be far Those in the absence of any loss likelihood of any quibbling instructions to the contrary; will over the amount of the bill than be fitted by tho repairers at thoir thoro is generally, the ownor discrotion and, of course, the cost would also have the satisfaction added to the figure sot down. In of knowing approximately what addition would be charged the the cost of the job would be bo-cost of any oil, groase and putrol fore he puts it in hantl.

used in the course of carrying

It is only quite recently that out tosts aftor the repair has boen British manufacturers have given oxocutod.

any attention to the excessive The whole of the chassis in chargos that are so frequently joach case has been considered made for ropairs, and the outcome when the lists have been propar- is that some have prepared lists ed by the manufacturers, and of charges for the various jobs certain body dotails have also. and have standardized them. It been included.

is interesting to note, also, that SOME 12 H.P. AUSTIN CHARGEN. certain large garages and re-

Taking some oxamplos from

pairars have prepared schedulos the booklet relating to the 12 h.p. of their own from which they are model we find that £1 12s. 6d. is) able to quote roadily an estimate charged for removing the cylinder of the cost of any job put in hand, hoad, decarbonizing, grinding-in eo far as tho labour chargos are the valvos, adjusting the tappets) concerned.

It must be remembered that, and tuning-up the engine on the road. For removing the radiator generally speaking, the stand and lamp brackets, diamantling ardized costs of the jobs are only and ropacking the water pump, those of labour and that any spare fitting a new pump driving spind- parts used and so on are charged lo and/or new ball races to the. jextra.

apindlo. then reassembling the SCHEMES OPERATED BY AGENTS whole, a charge of £1 7s. 6d. is The manufacturors' schemes mado. These two examples alone are, of course, operated by the of the cost of jobs of this type are recognized service agents or re-sufficient to give an idea of the pairars for the particular cars to charges fixed. Then in regard to which they apply, and one would the general chassis details which hardly expect to find them operat-require periodical attention for ing at any wayside establishment. officient maintenance, the cost of It is up to the car-owner to make greasing all spring shackles, for an authorized dopot, whore stooring and brake and other he should find the charges. those small connexions is 48, 6d.; that of the schedules. One of the for adjusting and compensating latest concerns to adopt stand the four-wheel-brake system is ardized repair charges is the 10s, whilst if, in addition, it is Austin Motor Co., Ltd., who have necessary to tako down, ease and prepared schemes relating to clean all the connexions the cost

becomes 178. 6d. The correspond- . their various models.

Thore is no doubt now that iting charges for one of the earlier will not be long before similar 12 h.p. chassis, with only a rear- schemes are taken up and put wheel-braking system, are 5. into operation by practically all and 106

woll-known manufacturers in SOME BODY DETAIL CHARGES. whoso intorests an officient and In connexion with body details, economical after-sales service the cost of fitting a new front. reacts. Motoring then, from the wing is 12.8 6d; fitting a now upkeep point of view, we honning board and valance or a rather different footing from its valance alona costs 15s. 6d. cach present status.

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CHANGE YOUR OIL! Forceful Advice.

LUXURIOUS TRANS-

PORT.

Rolls-Royce Cars in India.

(The following appeared in the house organ of The Internationalį Motor Co..

It is an unusual thing to sec a "Undoubtedly the entire Chiline of more than 30 cars parked nese Navy could peacefully float together, in which every car is a at anchor in the printers ink that Rolls-Royce. Yot such a scene was recently witnossed at Delhi has been used to shout the mese during the Conference of Princes, age, change your crank case oi! presided ovor by H.E. The every 500 miles," and still I will Vicoroy of India. The long line put myself on record without fear of cars mado a very fine sight, of contradiction that there are at the Viceroy's Rolls-Royce being Hókat two truck owners in the decorated with the Imperial United States of America who crown on the front of the have overlooked the importance radiator, while the Rolls-Royce | of this little big thing.

of each of the Ruling Princós boro the emblem of its ownor.

"It's little because it doesn't're- quire much of an outlay in time. or money, and it's big because that steady powerful heart-beat of your faithful old gasoline bread winner if neglected is going to promaturely weaken as sure as now laid eggs are a month old.

"Remember, real success inį the hauling game depends not alone upon mileage not main- tonance costs not operating costs-not days out of the shop, but the net rosults of all four fac-) tors lumped together.

"Yes, a high grade motor truck at times sooms to actually possess instinct, some claim that each has a real personality and some enthusiatic ownors actually go so far as to class them as almost human. The idea is fine so far as it goos but they have not reachod that point where they are self-repairing. The driver can wear the skin off his fingers or knock a piece of bark off his shin and they will eventually heal and be as good as when he was a day old, but when those cylinder walls woar down, the wrist pins begin to slap and the crank shaft jour- nals wear lop-sided, because they have been splashing around in a diluted oil mixture with less than 21% Aubricating kick, a day in coming whon a healing operation will be necessary to the tune of many dollars that raight just as well have been handed to the ro ceiving taller and left, to accumu- Inte compound interests."

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3 WON NEI CHUNG ROAD HAPPY VALLEY

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