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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ONE OF THE FRANCIS BARNETT MOTOR CYCLES.

The above picture shows a Hongkong lady resident sented on one of the new Francis Barnett motor cycles. These excel- lent little machines have achieved a wide popularity at Home. Messrs. Alex. Boss, Ltd. are the Hongkong agenta:

ESSEX SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS

1.

17.82 H.P.-110-inch wheelbase-144.67 cuble inches piston displacement,

Roadster

Touring

Coupe

Conch

Special Coupe

Sedan

.2-senter

G$ 980

G-senter

G$1,150

2-Centur

G$1,160

6-senter

G$1,150

2-seater

G$1,380

5-seater

G$1,250

DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CARS

24.03 II.P-116-inch wheelbase--212.27 cubic Inches piston displacement.

ANA

Roadster....

2-seater

Spccini Roadster

2-seater

Rumble Seat Sport Roadster

4-cater

Touring

5-senter

G$1,100 .... G$1,150 G$1,250 G$1,125

Special Touring

5-seater

G$1,175

Sport Touring

B-sonter

G$1,210

Touring

7-senter

G$1,320

7-souter

G$1,570

2-gedter

G$1,275

2-acnter

G$1,325

-seater

G$1,325

5-senter

G$1,375

5-senter

G$1,500

Special Touring

Coupe.

Special Coupe

Sedan

Specia! Sedah

De Luxe Sedan

HUDSON SUPER SIX MOTOR

CARS

29.40 H.P.-127-inch wheelbase 288.60 cuble inches piston displacement.

G$1,600 G$1,775

Touring

...7-senter

Coach

.5-acuter

Sedan..

.B-senter

G$1,880

Rumble Seat Sport Roadster

.4-Heater

G$1,890

Brougham (Custom Built)

5-senter

G$2,080

Sedan (Custom Built)

5-seater

G$2,270

Sedan (Custom Built)

7-seater.

G$2,875

PACKARD SINGLE SIX MOTOR

CARRIAGES

29.40 H.P. R.A.C. Rating-block test actually develops more than 80 II. P.-288.60 cubic

inches piston displacement.

MODEL 426-SINGLE-SIX-126-INCH WHEELBASE.

MODEL 433--SINGLE-SIX-133-INCH WHEELBASE.

Phaeton

5-senter..

Rumble Seat Roadster ... Sedan

G$2,065 4-seater. G$2,705 G-seater.. G$2,765

7-senter

G$3,216

4-seater

G$3,215

5-seater

G$$,255

7-senter

G$3,335

7-senter

G$3,435

Touring

Coupe

Club. Sedan

Sedan,

Sedan Limousine

PACKARD STRAIGHT-EIGHT

MOTOR CARRIAGES

39.20 H.P. R.A.C. Rating-block test actually develops more than 105 H.P.-381.80 cubic inches piston displacement.

MODEL 336-STRAIGHT-EIGHT-135-INCH

Phaeton

Sedan

WHEELBASE.

5-seater ..4-geuter .6-seater

G$4,185

G$4,200

G$5,800

Rumble seat Roadster

MODEL 313--STRAIGHT-EIGHT-113-INCH

Touring

Coupo

Club Sedan

Sedan

Sedan Limousine

WHEELBASE.

7-seater

G$4,480

4-seater

.G$5,370

5-seater

G$5,510

7-seater

G$5,095

7-seater

G$5,725

SIGNALLING FOR SAFETY.

Giving Vital Information to Other Road Users.

"Pale bands I loved...." The the tail of her car. As I leapt words floated down to me from a over the grass verge towards the distant window ns I was getting ditch, I saw her vanish up the into the car. They carried mem- lane. ories of long ago, and I sighed, writes H.E.S. in The Motor.

Pale hands, pink tipped... one of them lightly grasping the wheel of a powerful American car, the other waving airily but of one win, dow....

It was six months before I was about again, arid lucky Indeed was I still to be alive. But the experi- ence has made me very bitter.

ly?

Why can't people. signal proper-

The most vital thing in the I have good reason to remom world is that those following or ber those long tapering fingers, meeting you should know cractly aheathed on occasion in gloves of, what you are going to do. If the the finest chamois. for it is owing girl in my tale had learnt how to to them that I lost my faith in make proper signals I would have humanity at any rate, in that escaped a nasty erash, but, even section of humanity which handles, so, she had really not allowed m automobiles upon the highway. sufficient time in which to pull up. There was a time when I pune- Too many motorists, other vehi tiliously made the proper signals ele drivera and even policemen. before stopping and before turn-have the most rudimentary ideas Whatever ing to the right or left. In my of trafic signalling. youthful innocence I thought that the circumstances, they give the

Often, as all others did likewise. If a man same vague warnings. waved me on to overtake him, a crossroads, it is impossible to tid so unhesitatingly, and if a fair tell whether the man in blue is and lovely maiden, driving seren: holding one up or waving one on. ly along the centre of the King's Sometimes it is even necessary to Highway, bade me take notice that stop and ask for verbal instruc- she was turning to the right, tions!

Taxi 'Signals: passed her fearlessly on the near side. But my trusting nature waRLondon taxicab drivers,, taken my undoing.

As a whole, use, only one signal. They extend the right arm. This The Reckless Lady.

muy mean (a) that they are turn- One April day, when the sun ing to the right, (b), that they are shone pleasantly on a clean, rain-turning to the left, (c) that they washed countryside, and I was are going to stop. Consequently, sniffing the fresh breeze from the it is never wise to assume that one hills, there came an imperious understands the driver's intention. hooting from my starboard quar- Better far to wait until whatever ter. I gave the "Please pass me" manoeuvre he has in mind has signal and hugged the near-side been successfully exacuted. gutter. With a smooth, humming It is not sufcient to waggle a sound a big grey-green "toupe hand vajrely over the side of the swept by and I caught a glimpse body." If you are going to do any of a lovely, girlish face, lit up with thing out of the ordinary, first the exhilaration of speed and look and see (a) if anyone is ful- lowing you, (b) if any vehicle is power.

approaching. If there is any- thing roming in either direction, make ho attempt to turn in front of it unless you are quite certain that it is travelling so slowly that it cannot possibly have drawn have level with you until you finished doing what you propose to do.

"Ia! Ha!" laughed 1, and trod on the gas.

The white road became a living snake that writhed and twisted be

The wind neath my wheels. shrilled in my ears... The soft sreen of the buddling hedgerows became a long, irregular blur Behind, a faint wisp of blue smoke faded in the sunshine....

Faster Taster-faster!

If the cost is clear and you wish to turn across the road, Now I had gained on her, as either for the purpose of taking a my better brakes and steadier cor- turning to the right or for pull- nering saved me over a winding ing up outside a building on the extend the right arm road. Noy my speed nymph led right,

me a fine dance on some straight borizontally outwards. If you are stretch over the open downs. turning to the left or you are slow- Once or twice I caught the laughing down and wish following ter in her blue eyes, the flash of traffic to overtake you, wave your white teeth between curved lips as right forearm, with a beckoning that vivid face turned to see if gesture, forwards from the elbow, which should be at shoulder height was still behind.

and extended outwards at right angles. This signal should alec be used if you are stopping but do not wish following traffic to stop it should never be ased un- less it is perfectly safe for a vehi- ele to overtake you.

Somehow there was nothing on the road that day. I forget my original destination, ignored the fast-increasing mileage, gave n' thought to the passage of time. The Speed goddess lured me on.. Then I became aware of 1 dainty hand protruding through

fovemen.

When Stopping.

If the rod is blocked and you the off-side window, waving me on are stopping in such a way as to with gentle, cireling

make it impossible for another At the same time the big en was vehicle to pass you, extend the lowing perceptibly and being right forearm vertically upwards steered to the left.

"Packed up!". reflected. "Here was a fine opportunity of retting to know this lovely lady I had only to offer her my asals

Lance

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with the back of the hand towards

overtaking traffic, Finally, if you are slowing down' and wish to signal to those behind you that they should also diminish speed, wave the forearm up and down But victory is sweet, and I could from the horizontal downwards not resist the temptation to tear with the palm of the hand towards past, just to show her that my ear, the ground, as if fanning air to- was the faster in the long run. I wards the side of the car. put on speed.

A these signals are really quite Suddenly she turned straight distinct from one another and, if across the road.

properly made, should not be cap- able of being misunderstood. They

Ditched.

I could do nothing. The bestjoan, with advantage, be practised brakes in the world will not stop from an armchair in front of a in 20 yards a car that is doing over large mirror. Above all, be de Co miles an hour... I could not finite. If every rond user made even leave the road and take to the clear and unmistakable algnals in grass on the right, because that plenty of time there would be fcol of a girl was turning up a fewer accidents and less bad feel- driver narrow road on the off side. So Iing between one vehicle just swerved to the left. to miss and another.

EVEN THE LEATHER IS TESTED.

SATURDAY,

JUNE

1927

The Triumph of

The FIAT.

in the Italian Thousand Miles Race, and the race for the Lake of Garda Trophy.

Ist, 2nd and 3rd

Places won by FIAT 509

The "509" and other recent FIAT models can be seen at the new FIAT Showroom, 67, Des Voeux Road.

Sole Agents for Hongkong; Canton and Macao. SOC. ITALIANA. IMP. ESP. ESTREMO. ORIENTE, LTD. Managers'-A, GOEKE & COMPANY. China Building 3rd Floor,

Telephone 0. 2221.

MORE FAVORABLE BUSINESS CONDITIONS IN GENERAL INDICATED BY BUICK PRODUCTION.

·A·

substantial increase in sales for the first twenty days of February over the same period last year is stated by Mr.. E. T. Strong, President of the Buick Motor Company to be an indication that his company and the industry in general are on the threshold of one of the greatest selling seasons the automobile business ever enjoyed. Such increases constitute an excellent barometer of favorable business conditions throughout the greater part of the world!

"Buick deliveries showed an increase during the first twenty days of February of nearly a thousand cars over a similar period in 1926, Mr. Strong said. "We have found that au tomobile sales are an accurate index of general business conditions."

"The value in using these sales figures as an index lies in the fact there has been nothing done to stimulate sales or create a demand whicir might be contrary to general conditions. The models how on the market are the ones introduced last August with the exception of two additional body styles. which were added to the line later. Thus the upward trend: in sales can be attributed to more favorable business conditions."

The above prices are for delivery in Hongkong or Kowloon. All prices and specifications subject to change." without notice.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR

Co., Ltd..

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

83, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,

HAPPY VALLEY.

The leather in many automobiles cracks and wrinkles after some use. Tho U, S., Bureau of Standards at Washington wants to find out just what, leathers, or imitation leathers, do so and to what extent. Then auto manufacturers may know what sorts of leathers to buy for their purposes. This simple wrinkling machine tells them in a hurry.

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXI CAB CO., LTD.

Sole Distributors for Hongkong and South China.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LIMITED.

Happy Valley

Authorised Sales and Service Station