THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
THE STUDEBAKER "COMMANDER”
SPIRIT
MOTOR SHELL
MOTOR OILS
MODEL
SATURDAY, JUNE
1927.
CENTRAL FILLING STATION OUTSIDE CITY HALL, HONGKONG.
The Aslatie Petroleum Co., (South China) Ltd. Hongkong.
1,000 New
STUDEBAKERS
Each Day!
STUDEBAKER
CARS OUTCLASS IN POWER... & FLEXIBILITY ALL OTHERS OF THEIR SIZE AND WEIGHT,
HONG KONG DELIVERED' PRICES.
Dobrer Business Coupe
Custom Coupe
Custom Sedan
ERSKINE SIX. 16.54 HP 107′′ W.B.
5 seater G.$1,200 2 seater
4 seater
5 seater
1,200 1,300 1,300
WITH WIRE WHEELS. STANDARD SIX.
Duplex-Roadster...
4 Beater
1,600 1,690"
1,700
5. seater
Б seater
1,710 1,780
BIG SIX 120" WHEELBASE
27.34 H.P.-113" W.B.
Folding Top Phacton
5 seater
3 seater
G.$1,450 1,455
Folding Top Sports-Roadster
3 seater
1.485
Duplex-Phaeton
5 seater
1,490
Folding Top Tourer ....
7 seater
1,530
Coach (2 Door)
5 seater
Country Club Coupe
3 seater
Custom Victoria
Custom Sedan
Oustom Berline
36.04 H.P.-120" W.B.
Duplex-Sports-Phaeton
5 senter G.$1,786
Folding Top Spots Roadster
3 acaler
3. seater
5 seater
1,835 1,870 1,905
Custom Brougham
5 acater
Custom Victoria Chancellor Custom Berline
4 senter
5 senter
2,030 2,050 2,065
Fire Chief Duplex-Roadster
3 seater
2,090
36.04 H.P.-127′′ W.B.
Duplex-Phaeton .......
7 seater G.$2,220
Folding Top Phaeton
7 seater
2,220
"President" Sedan....
7 seater..
2,675
"President" Berlinu
7 seater
2,755
"President" Limousine
7 seater
2,925
Duplex Roadster
Club Coupe
BIX SIX 127" WHEELBASE.
All prices include 4 wheel brakos sparę wheel, 'tire and tube, windshield wiper, hindview mirror" bumpers, spare horn, tools etc., ela.,
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
25, Queen's' Road, Central.
(THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.)
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The Commander, Studebaker's Big Six Brougham, will attain
70 miles per hour and will accelerate from 6 to 40 miles per hour in 18 2/5 seconds:
Engineering rofinements ineor-four-wheel mechanical brakes and porated in The Commander- a full-vision welded steel body and Studebaker's Big Six Brougham, the comfort provided by anubbers coupled with its recent reduction and full size balloon tyres. in price, have made it one of tho The custom quality of The Com- most outstanding cars produced mander has in no way been affect- by an American manufacturor. ed by the recent price reduction, The Commander, which is which makes it the lowest priced powered with Studebaker's famous four-door enclosed car ever offer- Big Six motor, will deliver 70 miles ed on a Big Six chassis. Deop an hour. Combined with this top cushioned seats with more than speed-extraordinary in a closed ample room for five are upholster- car, is lightning acceleration which ed in fine mohair with broadlace Butler silver hardware. will drive The Commander from 5 trim.
to 40 miles an hour in 18 2/5 se-wide plate glass windows, silken conds. This extreme flexibility is curtains at side and back and further indicated by the fact that dome light reflect the luxury of the car will idle smoothly in high the roomy interior. Its one-piece, gear and, take the throttle for ae-no-draft ventilating windshield is ecleration at a speed of three an exclusive Studebaker feature. miles an hour.
The same artistic instrument
Finely balanced chassis design lard arrangement found in other with even distribution of welght Studebaker cars will be found in on all four wheels makes for a The Comander. An oval dial in- high degree of readability that per- cludes engine thermometer, hydro- mits full use of The Commander's static gasoline gauge, speedometer, tremedous power, and promotes ammeter and oil pressure gauge. : riding comfort and safety at all Coincidental lock and two-beam speeds. The Commander shows no acorn headlights, tontrolled from rear traffic tendency toward side away on the steering wheel; turns even at high speed, and hagssignal light; disc wheels, alemite the road smoothly no matter what chassis lubrication and front and the surface, may be. Added to the rear bumpers are included in the car's rondability is the safety of items of standard equipment.
REFLECTORS FOR
CYCLES.
Girls' Flesh-Tinted Stockings Useful.
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the lighting of vehicles to the Min- ister
of Transport. They were going back to the D.O.KA, candi- tions and, giving the Minister of Transport complete control. The effect of the Bill would be notice i principally by cyclists. The pro- visions relating to cycles ought to
be, vigorously opposed by every
The Read Transport Bill pro-cyclist in the country. vides that in general vehicles shall
He thought the measure, instead
be required to carry a minimum of of benefiting bicyclists, would, in two lights in front and one light to fact, injure them, because it would the rear. Certain exceptions are onable motorists to travel with provided for in cases where the!
greater speed. proposals would be unnecessary or on vehicles for harvesting pur poses. In the case of bicycles there is an option of carrying either a red rear lamp or an effi- cient red reflector.
1.
Beneficial Fashions.
Colonel Horlick said road users owed a great debt of gratitude to the arbiters of ladies' fashions for the short skirt and the flesh-tinted Under old statutes, said Mr. stockings. The motorists could Lougher, Local Authorities always see the girl with the flesh- throughout the country had made tinted stockings who cycled along by-laws and regulations which the ronds. (Laughter.) It was were most confusing and irritat-the man eveling along in blackt ing, and a source of worr" and ex-coat and trousers whom they pense to the users of the roads. could not see. The law as regarded lighting was in a state of absolute confusion.
Commander Kenworthy there- upon jocularly suggested white or flesh-coloured trousers for men.
The Bill had adopted many" of the suitable clauses which ap-
He urged it should be made com- peared in the old Acts, and parti- calarly the recommendations cfpulsory for dazzling head lights Sir Henry Maybury's Committen. to be dimmed or dipped while Clause 1 was the dominating meeting, other, traffic.
clause, because it provided that There ought to be certain spe- every vehicle on any road should, cial tracts of road for motor traffic durine the hours of darkness, with no speed limit either by night carry two lights, each showing to or day. At the side of these spe- the front a white light, and one cial tracks there ought to be a side lamp show to the rear a red light. road for cyclists, and outside that
a path for pedcatraina." Dazzle Lights,
Mr. R. C. Morrison said he fear- Referring to a clause which em-ed pedestrains might diminish as powers the Minister to make re- motor cars increased speed. gulations concerning the use of
He suggested that what Jamps on vehicles, Mr. Lougher said no satisfactory device suit-wanted was a clause compelling able for general adoption and on pedestrians to be illuminated at which the Minister could make a night, and to carry large dinner the road to warn general order had been found to bells across
motorists that there were pedes- deal with dazzle lights.
trians about. (Laughter.)
Once the Bill became law every manufacturer of cycles would fit a red réflector "to each cycle that he turned out:
Not Unreasonable.
WOB
Col. Ashley, replying to points raised in the debate, sald the chief This was a measure which was proposal that stood out in the Bill long overdue, and if passed into was the power which it sought to law would be welcomed not only impose either a red lamp or an by users of public highways, but efficient red reflector on the pedal by every citizen who desired to cycle.
give effect to that very excellent Surely that was not an unrea- motto, "safety first."
sonable provision. It could not
Fran.
“Tail" Lights.
Sir Park Goff, seconding, said he possibly entail an expense of more Bupported the Bill in the interests than two shillings at the most, and of the travelling public. Side cars the reflector would probably be and pillions were the most dan eficient for ten years. Could it be gerous, and accounted for most of suggested, that this was an undue the fatal accidents. Those who amount to place on anybody? The used them were mostly boys and provision would undoubtedly help girls who were quite ignorant and the cyclist from the point of view unconscious of the danger they of safety, and would help the drivers of all mechanically-propel- led vehicles, on the road.
Colonel Ashley mentioned that What was wanted was some uni- the Postmaster-General had in- form system for the whole country formed him that he had issued or- so that people would know exactly ders that all push-bicycles used by where they were. Some people the Post Office were to have roflec- suggested that cattle and cheap tors placed on them to the num- should have red lights on their ber of 20,000. tails but cattle and sheep did not travel by night. (Labour members give the Bill a second reading, and
But they do.")
send it to Committee for detailed Colonel Wedgwood, who had an consideration.
The second reading of the B1 amendment on the order paper re-
masterpiece of Deluxe design with all the luxury of costly equipment found ordinarily in special-bullt cars, yet at a One-Profit price."
A feature of this beautiful car is the ventilating system (exclusively Stude- baker) which ensures fresh air without draughts of moisture. There are four- wheel brakes, disc wheels and practically every item of equipment the owner desires.
It unites the quiet smoothness and power of the Studebaker L-head motor with the riches of Deluxo detail. Its moderate cost is the result of Studobaker's facili- tles-an unprecedented value-as you will agree when you see this car.
"HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
25, Queen's Road Central
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BUILDERS
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VEHICLES FOR 75 YEARS
THE B.M.W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE
LEM
12 B.H.P. MODEL R42 500 c.e.
The new B.M.W. Touring Model represents the latest and most progressive form of engineering development applied to motor cycles. ⠀
In designing the R.42 model, it has been the maker's endeavour to procure with all possible expediency, every step of technical progress and every item of riding experience for the benefit of a wide circle of clients. The outcome of this endeavour has been to produce~~~ ·
The most modern Touring Motor Cycle of the highest quality ever put on the market.
A FEW NOTABLE FEATURES
Engine entirely water and dust proof. - Double Frame throughout.
Increase of engine power to 12 brake horse power... Rims suitable for normal ör balloon tyres.
All gearing effectively enclosed in oil-tight casings. The universally recognised advantages of shaft-drive.” Bosch head and rear lights-Speedometer-Horn.
All spare parts in stock in Hongkong.
May we give you further details of this super-motor cycle?
If you are interested in the most luxurious two-wheeled machine in the world, please call or write for full specifications and particulars.
PRICE H.K. $880.00
Sole Agents:-CHIEN HSIN ENGINEERING CO.
First Floor, Asiatic Building,
Ho suggested the House should TRAFFIC IS SPEEDED. SPEED LIMIT GOES UP.
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DIESELS TO RACE.
Diesel, or crude oil burning, en- The states of Washington and Indiana have raised the legal maxi-gines will finally participate in auto racing. T. E. Myers, secre~ This applies to the state announces rules are being drawn
for such a contest in 1928. highways outside city limits.
The progressive system of traffic control by stop and go lights, stead of the synchronized method, per cent and has reduced accidents hour. 29 per cent.
iecting the Bill, said the measure was agreed to without a division, has speeded up Chicago traffic 80mum speed limit to 40 miles an itary of the Indianapolis Speedway,
handed over the entire question of-Ex
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