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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH,

Giving the World

what it wants

in appearance

Well-proportioned, roomy body; elegant lines: stylishly finished in serviceable colours.

In performance

and economy

50 miles an hour, 30 miles to the gallon; oil, 1,000 mp.g; tyres, 10,000 miles perset; a ten- years-service engine.

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In comfort

Reinforced nud highly, efficient suspension, silent, smooth-running power unit; exclusive interior refinements; Dunlop low-pressure, tyres.

In service

Unfailing dependability under all conditious.. an after-sales service backed by a world-wide organisation.

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MORRIS

The Wheel of the World

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, GARAGE. The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.).

Car Sales and) Phone

Accessorios C. 4759

Servico Phone and. Parts C. 4602

MOTOR DEVELOP- MENTS.

Date of New Ford Specification.

ROYAL PATRONAGE,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927.

Extensive Additions.

COTTON IN AUTOS.

July S. Some of the parts made PACKARD PLANT, nexion with the now turbino. up Indicate that the new car will

The now boiler will furnish 3000 havo a longer wheelbase, approxi

boller horse power and deliver mately 110 inches; that the

steam to the turbine at 325 pounds radiator design will be changed;

pressure.

Use of cotton in automobile Exhaust steam at 85 manufacture la increasing rapidly,, that the engine will have pump

pounds pressure will be led. lubrication and a longer piston

More than $1,250,000 is being through a high pressure 24-inch Textile Merchants of New York. roports the Association of Cotton" stroke ratio in relation to the bore spent by the Packard Motor Car Pipe more than a half mile to the In tyres alons 69,000,000 pounds. measurement; and that the Company for improvements in the forge shop doing away with the of cotton were used the first three opleyelie gear and fly-wheel power plant at its factory. Many soparate power house. Steam at months of this year. abandoned in magneto arrangement will

favour antirely new in industrial power de-for the forced hot water heating added feature to the operation of

be features of the programme are en- atmospheric pressure will be used of orthodox three-speed gear-box | velopment. The scale of operations is such A complete new heating system

The greatest economies will be the power plant. All wood pieces, that Mr., Ford cannot afford to for the factory, a 6,000 kilowatt effected in the combination of the shavings and sawdust will be col- change his type of ear with the steam turbine and dynamo, a new power and heating plants. Power lected from the entire plant and frequency characteristic of other 1200 horse power boiler and a will be produced only in propor- carried to the power house in a Therefore, doubtless he has taken are the main installations. enterprising motor tradors, system for burning wood refuse on to the heating requirements 24-inch pipe line, under air pres- into full consideration the fact

so that the steam from the boilers sure. It will be ground up in a Usual pratico is to regard heat will at all times be doing double big machine and delivered to two How. duty. Healing temperatures will 500 horse power wood burning is destined to replace the four-ever, power is to be a by-product be regulated at the power house. boilors in the form of sawdust to be held at Covent Garden on Sylinder-engined type in general of the new heating plant, in con- The wood refuse system is an Through this plan there will be a

By H. Massac Buist in the

Observer.]

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Nevertheless, ho has also experi

The King has given patronage to the "Motor Car Show which will be held at Olympla la October, and the Prince of Wales that soon the six-cylinder engine as a by-product of power. has given his patronnge to tho Official Motor Ball and Carnival

the 19th of that month in aid of The Motor and Cycle Trades Benemented with smaller, higher com- volent Fund, the annual banquet. pression, faster four-cylindor of which is Royal Highness engines than ho has been using. attended in 1924; This year's president is Sir Charles Wake field, the fund having been found ed by Mr.A. J. Wilson in 1906. It has already distributed over £100,000

The general opinion in the in- dustry and trade in America is that Ford engineers have devoted so much time to Improving four- cylinder engines that the new car

will be, of this class with distri- butor ignition, as distinct from Motor sportsmen' attention will magneto. The radiator shell will be focussed on the Isle of Man be of the Lincoln form, about 9 when the three Tourist Trophy inches wider and 3 inches higher motor cycle races will be run by than the present Ford design." In the Auto-Cycle Union under coñdi-any case, the wheelbase will be tions wherein the international longer than in the current. “T” element will be unprecedentedly type; the centre of gravity of the prominent, for this Is now car will be lower, and the body recognised as the premier motor fings will be conventional and, eveling test of the world. The therefore, different. Altogether, leyal hope is being expressed in the ear will conform more to the Islandy and in motor-eyeling general motoring practice of the eircles, that in view of the import lay. auce that now attaches to these

Long Contemplated. races, and of the world status of "We began work on this model this British industry, the Prince several years ago," said Mr. Ford. of Wales will honour the 1928 "In fact, the idea of a car to series of Tourist Trophy mutor succeed the Model T has been in cycle races by witnessing them my mind much longer then that. in the tale of Man. Assuredly But the sale of the Model T con- such recognition would do much to tinued at such a pace that there | farther, enunurage motor-cycling never seemed to be an opportunity

of all clas808.

to get the new car started...

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"The Model T Ford car was a New Word: July 3

pioneer. There was no conscious Meantime, the Ford works at public need of motor cars when It is still the Detroil have been operating two or we first made it. three days a week only for some world which are just beginning to pioneer car in many parts of the time past. Therefore the 1111- nommerment that has been made be motorised. But conditions in simultaneously in practically all this country have greatly countries in the world to the effect changed that further refinement in that Ford is about to introduce or car construction is a new type of ear, while, neverthe-desirable, and our new model is a fess, continuing to supply the recognition of this. famous model "T," is no news "With the new Ford we propose until such time as a complete to continue in the light-car field, specification shall be available, which we created on the same The large 30-50 hp. Rolls-Royce basis of quantity production wo is the only car type in the world have always worked, giving high which has been in production, and quality, low price, and constant

service." lin course of evolution, longer;

The than the Model T Ford."

From the point of view of Euro- new type will be produced pean automobile engineering prae- wherever Ford manufacturing is trise nobody would recognise the undertaken, including these current Model T Ford as a light islands.

Most of the departments of the Ford works in Detroil, U.S.A., are now closed for three pr four weeks in proparation for the production of the new car type, the preli minary specification of" which in expected to issue in America about

Firestone

CYCLE

TYRES

Quali

car. Nor will the abortive nego- tiations between Ford and Flat about à" year ago be forgotten in this connexion. The new Ford is spoken of by the American executives ns a light car.

Marketing and Manufacturing News.

By way of complementary enter- prise, the 7 h.p. Austin, which is being manufactured as well by the Gothaer Waggonfabrik of Eisen- bach as at Birminghani, is to be built, and marketed, in saloon form in America to sell at a factory. price of 450 dollars, or, say, £30. The European type of small car is not entirely unknown in Amerien; instance current enterprise. in marketing there on a large scale the 7-12 h.p. Peugeot.

The uniquely situated motor showrooms of Messrs. F. S. Ben- nett in Orchard-street, by Sel- fridge's, and which have a road- way on three of their four sides, have just been aequired by Messrs. Pase and Joyce, Ltd., the renown- ed motor traders of Euston-road, who hold n Royal Warrant of appointment as

utomobile advisers and suppliers of motor ears to the Queen of Norway, thus initiating an important forward step by that enterprising firm, whose services will soon be avail able more conveniently to those situated in the West End of Lon- don, Marmon cars will be dis- played in the large showroom in Orchard-street.

MOTOR SIRIT

system.

SHELL MOTOR

FREE AIR

OILS

FREE WATER

CENTRAL FILLING STATION

OUTSIDE CITY HALL, HỌNGKONG,

The Asiatic Petrolqum Co., (South China? Lid. Hongkong.

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savings of 12,000 tons of coal a year.

An interesting feature of the work now in progress is that more than 15 miles of pipe will be used..

CLEAR TEXACO MOTOR

OIL

TEXA

TEXACO GASOLINE

THE VOLATILE GAS

MULES CARRY TRUCKS".

HOW GRAHAM. BROTHERS. TRUCKS ARE BROUGHT INTO BUCARAMANGA. COLOMBIA, ON THE BACKS OF MULES

DISTINCTIVE

UNIFORM

QUALITY

AMERICA

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Jag 100 AANMUCE MAY

WHAT IS IT?

OR surefootedness and extra mileage insist on being fitted with Firestone Cycle '1 y res: The broad tread with bu It-up shoulders, clings tenaciously on the turns and possesses the toughness to withstand high speed strains and the wear of rough roadways.

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

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

The above machine was: made by an American youth. It attains a speed of 40 m.p.h,

The

need for Omham Brothers; manufactured goods into the city or fand parts weighing about 140 pounds trucks in out of the way placon in shipping produco, aut la by pack mule assigned to cach muže, Large unite like well as in centors of population is over natrow and perilous mountain the motor were carried by two to form trails. Yot, in and around. Bucara-mules 'uttcted together. The trip by strikingly illustrated by the story of manga, Graham Brothers trucks and mule pack over the mountains red Bucaramanga, Colombia, In the commercial cars are being oporated in 'quirom 10 to 15 daga and though the midst of a large and fertile agricul- large numbers on a net work of roads, cost of fraightage is heavy, including tural district producing high quality 20 kilometers in total length, which ocean. river and railroad, transporta coffee, tobacco and other valuable anen of the valley.

abruptly end at the mountain con- tion, the trucks, have added greatly

to the prosperity of the valley, Auto-fo farm produce, this city is completely These trucks 'and' commercial cars, motriz, Silva, 8. “A. Dodge Brothers walled in from the outaide world by 40 of which were imported during the Dealer to Bucaramanga“ reports. The the Eastern Cordillera mange, of the last year, were brought into thayrni- | number, of: Omham Brotham, trucks Kuides Mountains. The only practic-ley like everything else on muis- sperated in Bricorumanga far exceeds able means of getting porsona, or buck, tho-trucke wors disanamibted (any other mouka,