1927-04-23 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23,

1927.

MOTOR FIRE SER- VICES.

DODGE BROTHERS.

Inadequate Breaking and Wheel-Locks.

THE REMEDY.

(By H. Massac Buist in the Observer

Good Export Record.

Dodge Brothers, Inc., surpass- ed all previous records in sales of passenger cars and trucks abroad last year with an increase in business of 14.9 por cont. over 1925, according to figures just an- nounced.

ono-

Foreign demand for Dodge Brothers and Graham Brothers vohialos has now reached such

that nearly proportions aight of the company's entire out- put 331,764 care and trucks in 1926 was shipped to buyers in all parts of the world. This increased demand has resulted in the ex- tension of foreign dealers' notiyi- ties into every country of the civilized world.

Half-s-generation ago con- siderable attention was given at frequent intervals in those columns to the advantages of rs placing horse traction by liquid fuel internal combustion-engined chassis for the motor fire services of the big cities of this country To that end I avon made a study in America of fire-fighting equip ment. particularly in regard to

Dodge Brothers gain in export manoeuvring in small space.

To-day nearly all our fire-on-shipments is especially noto- gines aro motor propelled and worthy when compared with the operated. But it sooms to have accomplishment of the industry escaped notice that the chassis of as a whole last year. Prelimin- most types in general use are out of date in two particulars, one of bad which involves D vory method of driving.

When next the reader hears the fire-bell ring, if he will make a point of watching how the motor-driven fire-engine, or fire- oscape, takes the first right-anglo corner in its course, he will see that the method is precisely akin to that of very bad drivers of small and largo passenger cars and commercial motor vehiclos, against which it is urgent that

y estimates of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce for 1926 show that 550,000 motor vehicles wero exported from the United States. This is a gain of 5 per cent over 1925. Dodge Brothers final figures for 1926 show exports of Dodge Brothers passenger

cars and Graham Brothers trucks totaling 39,016, which is a gain of 14.9 por cont. over the preceding twolve month period-

Exports of cars and tracks, ex- cluding Canada, totaled 32,874, an increase of 7.6 per cont. over

USED CARS

DODGE BROTHERS PASSENGER

CARS.

Rondstor

Q$1,100

Special Roadster

.G$1,150

Rumble Seat Sport Road-

FOUR

ster...

G$1,250

Touring (5-passenger).G$1,125

Special Touring (6-pas-,

senger)

G$1,175

SPECIAL

OFFERS

The Sport Touring (5) ..G$1,210

Touring (7-passenger)

.G$1,320

Special Touring (7)

G$1,370

Coupe...

.G$1,278

Special Coupe

.G$1,825

Sedan

.G$1,325

Special Sedan

.G$1,875

The De Luxe Sedan

.G$1,500

GRAHAM BROTHERS COMMER-

CIAL CARS.

Chassis only Chassis and Cab com-

plete

.G$ 920

G$1,055

Express Body Truck tom-

pleto

.G$1,270

Canopy Body Truck com-

pleto

.G$1,305

OLDSMOBILE:-7-Seater.

Screen

Side Canopy

PRICE

H. K. $800.

Truck

.G$1,320

MORRIS-COWLEY TOURING.

PRICE

Panel Side Canopy Truck .G$1,360

H. K. $800.

STUDEBAKER:-Special Six Coupe 5-Seater. Six Cylinder 36 h.p. Has run less than 2,000 Miles.

PRICE

H.K. $3,200. CHALMERS:-7-Seater Sedan 1923, in good condition.

PRICE

H.K. $2,000.

These cars may be inspected at

The Hongkong Hotel Garage

Telephone, Central, 4759.

campaign should be initiated. 1925. Experts to Canada totaled MMMMMMİMMMIMIMIMOMI

Prior to taking a cornot the com- 6,142 vehicles, a gain of 81.8 por paratively long wheelbase fire- cent. over the previous year. fighting machine is put across Graham Brothors, truck manu- woll on to the wrong side of thefacturing division of Dodge road, then is swung round Brothors, gained 191.9 per cent. generally with a certain amount in its Canadian business last of intentional rear-skidding, that year while oxports, exclusive of the driver may got the long Canada, gained 38.7 per cent. chassis round the corner by the wheel describing the smallest are possible. Therefore, as to the bulk of the vehiclo, it is on the wrong side of the road at the critical traffic point when it takes a corner, whother debouching a side into a main road, or froni the other way about.

From Alaska to Cape Horn; Spitzbergon to Cape Town and Siberia to India, Dodge Brothers cars are to be found in operation,

subjected to

the oftentimes

hardost possible usage.

In tho remoto districts of Thibet, high up in the Himalaya Mountains, Dodge Brothers cars are carrying mail for the British Government twice a week. A sodan and two 3/4-ton commerci- al cars are traveling over a route 108 miles long. There is no road but a track has bean been marked out with white stones. This track passes over low peaks, un- dulating hills and unbridged rivers. Dodge Brothors cars are the first and only motor vehicles in Thibet.

Problems of Manoeuvring. The case of the driver of the fro-angine differs from that of the driver of an ordinary motor vohicle, in that the former is more or less compelled to use this dangerous method, whereas the lattor does so merely from Bolfishness, carelessness, in difference, or ignorance. Un- questionably, the majority of our firo-fighting appliances are not provided with adequate wheel- locks such as it is quite possible able to produce the power from and easy to design meroly by ap-relatively much less bulky on- plying the lessons already learnt gines.

from racing, and by producing No further orders should be wheel-locks proportionately as placed by our large cities for ample as are provided in our motor fire-engines and escapes standardised large passenger unless they have properly com-, cars, such as, the "New Phan-pensated, mochanically assisted tom" Rolls-Royce, the Daimler onclosed internal expanding "Double Six," the eight-cylinder- brakes of large diameter to the in-line engined Sunbeam, and so front wheels and have much forth, and which aro not neces-ampler wheel locks. Then there sarily the utmost possible.

need be no difficulty in getting Fire-engines aro relatively any firo-fighting machine machines for the speeds at which need round corners without they must be driven and man-swinging out and making the couvred about towns, and in faco dangerous turns in question.

A Hint to Bad Drivers.

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of the fact that most of the Little, if any, extra cost is in- chassis in use have rear-whool volved; merely the application brakes only. Therefore, apart of well-known principles. from the necessity to provide ampler wheel-locks, in an age of smoother road-surfaces, increased accelerating powers, and denser traffic, there is need to transmit braking offort through all four wheels.

In the meantime, let no drivers, of private cara great or small, or of utility vehicles, make believe that they have any oxcuse for following the 'methods often reo- This becomes the more neces-dered necessary when handling sary in that fighting fires in Lon-such unwieldy machines as the don, and in some of our other majority of our fire-fighting ap- big cities, is a very much more pliances.

difficult problem now than it was Ordinary motor vehicles have before the war, by reason of the adequate wheel-locks, and there increased height of new buildings is no question of compulsory Therofore greater power is hurry when corners fall to be Hooded for pumping water to the negotiated. On the contrary, the top of them. More powerful sole concern should be to drive machines require more ample tirom in such a fashion that each chassis accommodation, including machine is wholly on the right longer wheel-bases and widor side of the road both when taking

Yet miany of

the and immediately after having thorough-fares to bo negotiated negotiated a corner. by these vehicles remain

tracks.

narrow as formerly.

Four-Wheel Steering!

де

HAVE YOU

SEEN

these, New Morris Cars at close quarters? Have you examined their fine appointments, full-epuipment, generous seating and delighful » colours?

If you have not, you ought to vist the nearest Morris Dealer before you buy a car. Otherwise you might buy another make and pay more money for less luxury.

MORRIS

from £190.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

(The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.) Car Sales and) Phone Borvice | Phono Accessorice JC. 4759 and Parts JC. 4602

GRAHAM BROTHERS 1-TON. MOTOR TRUCK CHASSIS

AND COMPLETE VEHICLES:

Chassis only

.G$1,170

Chassis with cab seat....G$1,240

Chassis with

completo

cab

.G$1,305

Express Body Truck com-

*plete

.G$1,485

Canopy Body Truck.com-

plete

..G$1,530

.G$1,565

Stake Body, Truck com-

plete

GRAHAM

BROTHERS 1-1/2-

TON MOTOR TRUCK CHASSIS AND COMPLETE VEHICLES.

Chassis only

.G$1,640

Chassia with Cab Seat ...G$1,705 Chassis with complete

Cab

.G$1,775

Express Body Truck com-

plete

.G$2,020

Stake Body Truck com-

plete

.G$2,086

GRAHAM BROTHERS 2-TON MOTOR TRUCK CHASSIS AND COMPLETE VEHICLES:

Chassis only

Chassis with cab scat ....G$1,850

Chassie with complete

cab

Farm Body Truck com-

plete

...G$1,785 ·

.G$1,920.

.G$2,230

Stake Body Truck com-

plete

.G$2,230

Hydraulic Hoist Dump Body Track complete (1-1/2 cubic yard capa- clly

.€$2,695

ESSEX SUPER SIX MOTOR

CARS.

Touring

.G$1,150

.G$1,200.

Coach (2-door) Sedan (4-door).

G$1,250

HUDSON SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS.

Touring (7-passanger)...G$1,600 Coach (5-passenger) ...G$1,740 Brougham (5-passenger) .G$2,085 Sedan (5-passenger)....G$2,216 Sedan (7-passenger) ..G$2,380

PACKARD SINGLE SIX MOTOR CARRIAGES (Model 426): Phaeton (D-passenger) ..G$2,750 Roadster (Rumble seat) ..G$2,850 Sedan (5-passenger)...G$2,859

PACKARD SINGLE SIX MOTOR CARRIAGES (Model 433):

Touring (7-passenger) ...G$8,803 Coupe (4-passenger)....$3,300 Club Sedan (5-passenger) .G$8,845 Sedan (7-passenger)....G$3,420 Sedan Limousine (7-pas-

senger)

,G$3,520

PACKARD STRAIGHT FIGHT MOTOR CARRIAGES (Model 330)1

Phaeton (5-passenger) ..G$4,290 Roadster (Rumble Seat) .G$1,390. Sedan (5-passenger)....G$5,416

PACKARD STRAIGHT EIGHT 'MOTOR CARRIAGES (Model 343): Touring (7-passongor)..G$4,685 Coupe (4-passenger) G$5,475 Club Sedan (6-passen-

ger)

G$5,6201 Sedan (7-passenger) .G$6,735

MUMMIMIMMIMIM Sedan Limousine (7-pas-

Where & white line is set in the contre of the road at a corner ap- proach, it should never be passed over. There is no occasion if the In this connexion I do not, seo rohicle is handled properly. One much use made in England of the should not take a curve or a principle which was demonstrat-corner, relying on the camber of ed to me in Now York in 1913, the road to prevent side-slip out- where buildings are much higher ward, According to the weight of than any rising in London, and the volicio, its contro of gravity, where many important streets are add the condition at the moment still extremely narrow one-track of the road surface, the spoed ways. The most powerful firo- should always be no regulated. engines the Americans have de- that there is novor any possibility flect all four wheels manoeuvring, of skidding. If there is, thon the with the result that such huge machine is being badly drivon at

Work has started on a highway Four hundred and forty cortif- machines can be taken round that moment. This remark also right-anglo turna in ox-applies to taking a cornor with to run the entire length of Cuba,catos of automobilo registrations traordinarily narrow thorough the camber against you on your about 700 miles, contract for and lioeneca to drive wore rovok- faron. That facility is easily correct side of the road: stick to $78,000,000 to complete the pro-ed or suspended during a period to bo the of two weeks by Charles A. Har available to dosigners of similar the lawful course and do not foar ject is believed vehicles in this country, where the slope. It is merely a mattor largest highway contract over noet, New York commissioner of

motor vehiclos. we have the advantage of being of judging the speed accurately. awarded.

CUBA BUILDS NEW ROAD.

AUTO LICENSES REVOKED.

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G$5,885 The above prices are in U.34 Currency and are for delivery ex garage, Hongkong. All prices subject to change without notice.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247. 38 Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley,