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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 9 1927.

THE STUDEBAKER "PRESIDENT"”' LIMOUSINE.

DOMINON"

in the Tyre Firestone leadership is based on close adherence to the idea of extri tyre quality withont

extra cost.

And high among those en- gineering principles which have won a worldwide follow- ing, is the Firestone process of Gum-Dipping. This in- sulates and impregnates every

View of Lake Louise in B. Ish Golumbia on the Canadien Pacifio Xallway.

Field!

strand of every cord in rubber, and gives remarkable strength with flexibility.

The motorist who fits his ear with Firestone Full-Size Balloon Tyres has abundant proof that he will enjoy safety, comfort and trouble- free travel at surprisingly low

cost.

Made Within the Empire.

Firestone

FULL-SIZE GUM-DIPPED BALLOONS

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247,

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY, ·

QUICK STARTING

NON WASTING HEAT

RESISTING

SHELL MOTOR OIL

(BLENDED)

HELL offers you motor lubricating oil

Scientifically blended to do properly the three things which oil ought to do.

1. At cold air temperatures it is free

flowing to give quick starting. 2. At crankcase temperature, rela

tively thick to ensure economical consumption. »

3. At cylinder temperature it has good fluidity to reduce friction but retain sufficient body to ensire cfficient. lubrication,

Shell Oils as sold to the public are exactly "the same as were used to set up the world's speed records of 1926 for both cars and motor cycles,

Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S. China) Ltd.,

AS

ASIATIC BUILDING.

AS

SHELL

MOTOR OIL

SHELL JAURIT

Custom design and the welded steel body have given this car low-swung graceful lines.

is offered in three combinations of colours.

FRENCH FUEL SITUATION.

Search for Petrol Substitutes.

The French Government appears to be afraid of its own plan for creating a State monopoly of the importation and sale of petrol. A law should have gone into effect 'in March whereby the State or some company under the "direct control of the State, should have had the exclusive right to import petrol in- to France. It has been declared that the time is not opportune for auch a measure, and, as a con- sequence the Government will ask Parliament to postpone the applica- tion of the monopoly until April 1, 1920.

In all probability the matter will be definitely shelved, for the capital necessary for such an enterprise will not be readily forthcoming, and the Government does not possess any of the machinery necus- sary for the distribution and sa of petrol throughout France. At the present time half a dozen im- prtant groups, mostly English or American, import petrol into Frafee under Government licences, one of the obligations they have to full being the maintenance of ad- equate stocks at certain points as a guarantee against shortage in war. In four years the producer "gus vehicle has been developed to such an extent that it is perfectly practical for lorry service and can be applied to passenger cars, It la not generally known that in case of necessity the whole of the French farmy motu“ Transport service could'j operate without any foreign sup- plies of fuel. Much yet remains to be done in the development of | liquid substitutes capable of being used in passenger cars without any mechanical changes.

A move of great importance haa just been made towards the produc- tion of motor fuel from coal by the formation of a very powerful gom- pany combining practically the whole of the mine owners in the Pas-de-Calais, the North, Sarre, and Moselle mining regions.

This company, with a capital of five million franes, which can be increased to 25 millions at the de- cision of the conncil, has for its object the chemical treatment of coat and lignite and their solid, liquid, and gaseous derivatives to produce synthetic petrol. The pre- sident of the company is the gener al manager of the Mines de Lens, and the board of directors com- prises the managers of practically all the well-known mines in France. While these important schemes are being developed, French inotor- ists are growing mole and more dissatisfied at the price they .are having to pay for petrol and at the way they are being treated, by thei foreign-controlled panies.

petrol

com-

A short time ago there were im- portant reductions; prices being brought down practically to the level of those prevailing in Eng- larid. It appears, however, that this was merely the outcome of competition between the various importers, and an understanding having been reached, substantial Increases were imposed on two occasions. There has recently been a trifling reduction of 10 centimes per litre-announced as an imoprt- aut concession to the public-but even with this the retail price in France is nearly 50 per cent higher than in England.

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The cheapest rates are those in force just outside the city of Paris, where 5 litres from a pump.cost 12 francs. At present exchange rates this is equivalent to a fraction more than 1s. 9d, a gallon, whereas the price in England is only 1s. Od. or even less.

WHAT AN INSULT!'

George T. McDermott of Topeka, Kas., got an offer of only 3319 for his old bus. That was ao outrnge- our that he bought a new car out- right, built a $100 special garage and installed the old car in it to yemain there for the rest of its days.

TAXING MOTOR CARS, sien which state-

In view of Government's objec- RECOMMENDATION TO BASE tion to a petrol tax recommended

IT ON HORSE POWER.

that the Commissioners. should agree to adopt a tax based on Important recommendations no horse-power for private cars and to revising the present system of cars registered as hackney taxing motor cars are contain in ringes at the scale recommended proposals of committee No. 1 of by the Government committee on

car-

CLEAR TEXACO MOTOR

OIL

TEXACO

TEXACO

the Singapore Municipal Commie- automobiles subject to a supple- GASOLINE

SCINTILLA

MAGNETOS

Prices on Application

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE:

Queen's Road, C.

Telephone C. 4759.

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PACKARD

the Woolworth Building A has defined the trend of

architecture, for metropolitan busi- ness structures, so Packard has established a fashion standard for good motor cars.

Clean, straight lines, exquisite attention to interior niceties and quality fittings throughout, have added that smartness to tradition- ally brilliant performance which explains Packard's continued domi- "nation of the quality field.

Only the designers know the " strength of those choicest steels which are concealed beneath the beautiful exteriors of car and building.

THE DRACON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD,

Tole phono Contrat 1240 or 1237.

13- WONG NIE CHUNG, ROAD

HAPPY VALLEY..

ONLY PACKARD

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THE VOLATILE GAS

DISTINCTIVE

UNIFORM

QUALITY

mentary tax for cars registered as hackhey carriages, and that all cars registered outside Singaporo should pay the difference between their own supplementary tax and Singapore supplementary tax he fore utilising Singapore roads,

The committee also approved the Registrar of Vehicle's recommen- |dation regarding classification of motor buses for routes according to condition of bus.

It was also decided to recom- mend that the present maximum licence fee for motor buses be in- creased from $200 to $300 per an- num, the actual sum to be charged being left to the discretion of the President and the Registrar of Vehicles.-Ex.

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berer motor tans are driven;

Packard beauty compels · admiration.

CAN BUILD A PACKARD