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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

OLDSMOBILE 6-CYLINDER MOTOR CARS.

110-%1⁄2-inch wheelbase 30 x 5.00 Balloon Tyres-six 2-78- inch x 4-4-inch cylinders—19.84 horsepower (R.A-C. Rating) -L-head engine-crankcase ventilation, (dual air cleaning und oil filter)-only 3 to 4 oil changes a year-four-wheel brakes→→→ harmonie, balancer-two-way cooling-three-way pressure lubri- çation-boned cylinders-high velocity, hot section manifold- double valve springs-silent timing chain-full automatic spark-thermostatie' charging control-balloon geared steering -double offset, low gravity frame-easy, shift transmission-twin- beam headlights, controlled from steering wheel--Duce finish beauty of line-and many other features of demonstrated worth. This entirely new Model Oldsmobile will be available in the following types:

Series E Model 30 Serles E Model 30 Series E Model 30 Series E Model 30 Series E Model 30

5-senter Standard Touring 5-senter Do-Luxe Touring 5-senter Standard "Conch 5-seater Standard Sedan 5-senter De Luxe Sedan

Our first shipment of these 1928 Model Oldsmobile Touring Cars is due to arrive on September 18, This shipment has all been sold. Our second shipment of the Touring Cars is due to arrive on October 2nd. Most of the second shipment has also been sold. Orders will be filled strictly in rotation.

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SECRET R.A.F. RACE PLANS.

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300 Miles an Hour Seaplanes.

THE GRAND PRIX D'ENDURANCE.

Bentley Wins Sensational Race..

(Special Report.)

Grand Prix D'endurance-A

Thrilling Race.

Under conditions of the "deopest secrecy the Royal Air Force is making, elaborate preparations for ite Brat attempt to 'win for Grenti Britain the Schneider. Trophy Race

past Duller took a flying leap, clear- for senplanos the most important

ed his car, and landed in the field international air race of the year-

on the right-hand side of the road. The Grand Prix d'Endurance run which is to be flown off the Lido, at Le Mans (France) in June. this lug rapidity, Davis.on No. 3 Bent- Events were moving with light- Venice, at the end of next month. year resulted in a signal triumphey was bearing down on the mass for Great Britain. The only Bri- of wreckage. Loose stones on the This race, in which the aeroplanes

tish firm to compete on this occn- road just before the bend gave him will probably reach the staggering sion was the Bentley Motors, Ltd, speed of 300 miles an hour, will, who entered a team of three, and it is expected, be contested only by won the race with their No. 3 car, the British team and a team enter after it had been badly damaged in ed by the Italian Royal Air Force, collision which knocked out, and will be remarkable for the fact among others, the other two mem- that it will be a sporting event iners of the British team.

The track at Le Mans is about which two Governments are taking 10% miles round, and No. 1 Bent-ap the right front mudguard, and part. The United States have en-ey, driven by Clement and Calling tered machines, but it is thought him, had been going so well that that they will not compete.

in the first 50 miles it had lapped There is the most intense rivalry 11 out of the 22 starters. between Italy and Britain, and the first two hours this car had covered 1-10.9 miles, thus beating last year's tivo Governments are making every record by nearly 9 miles; while it effort to keep their plans secret traversed one of the early rounds from each other. The race was won last year by Italy at a speed of at the rate of over 73 m.p.h. 246 miles an hour.

In the

vague warning that something was anise, and flimsy as was this indication he instinctively stood on dis brakes and went into the turn at reduced speed, without, however, being able to avoid striking the tail of No. 1 Bentley car. In the im- pact he smashed a wheel, doubled reduced the right-hand headlight to a mass of crumpled metal."

Pandemonium reigned. Davis and Duller rushed around convinced that Callingham was ander the wreckage of No. 1 Bentley, but Cal- lingham had rushed down the road with the idea of giving warning to those who were immediately be

The accident which was respon-hind. sible for putting several machines This rapid and dramatic in- The British seaplane bases are at out of the race is so vividly describ-cident had deprived the Bentley Calshot, in Southampton Water, ed by the "Autocar" (a member of team of two of its cars and had and Felixstowe, Suffolk, where the the staff of which journal was one left No. 3 with a broken wheel, a tests have been carried out. The of two drivers of the winning car) flattened headlight, and a mud- seaplanes have been designed by that we make no apologies for quot-guard pointing skywards. As soon the best aircraft designers of this ing passages from that account.

as he had realised that his compan- country. Five of the best seaplane. It should be noted, in reading the ions were safe, Davis moved off, and pilots of the Royal Air Force have following, that the Schneider which after the reports had been present- been selected to fly the machines was the first car to come to grief,ed the jury ruled that he should be and are already in training for the was not Bentleys; and as we under-allowed to take another wheel to stand the account had in fact, been replace the one lost in the crash. twice lapped by the No. 1 Bentley.

event.

Three types of aircraft have been built to the order of the Air Minis-

Marvellous to relate, the only per- sonal injury was that which befel Tabourin, who was taken to the hospital with a dislocated shoulder and two broken ribs.

The Race Vividly Described. try-the Supermarine Napier S. 6. Night settled on the scene; the the Gloster-Napier IV, and the long line of pits became gaily illu- Short-Britol "Crusader." Six minated; the restaurant was No, 4 Aries was in no way involv- machines are being sent to the peopled with hungry and animated ed in this sensational incident, and Lido, but they will be of these guests, when the rumour sprend when, near midnight, Davis turned three types only.

that there had been a terrible coli- the Bentley over to Dr. Benjañeld The pilots are: Squadron-Leadersion between two of the Bentleys. it was with the serious handicap of L. H. Slatter, D.S.C., D.F.C., Flight Dame Rumour was not quite unreli- half-a-dozen taps lost, a bent front Lieut. S. M. Kinkead, D.5.0.,able, for there had occurred at 9.30 axle which made it difficult to know

on that Saturday evening one of whether the car would steer wor D.S.C., D.F.C., Flight-Lieut. S. N. Webster, A.F.C, Flight-Lieut. O. the most sensational accidents ever mally or would have to be hauled E. Worsley, and Flying-Officer H.recorded in connexion with the his round the bends by main force, and {M. Schofield.

tory of road racing. Even those a lighting system reduced by half. most closely connected with the in-

The British Car Wears Down Its" The distance is 188.86 sea miles,cident are somewhat at variance in

Rival. and the course is a triangular one their reports, but so far as enn be with two extremely sharp turns. gathered the melte happened as An aircraft carrier and four des follows. troyers of the British Navy will be present at the ruce.

THE B.M. W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE

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WHICH WON THE ITALIAN TARGA-FLORID RACE, 1927

12 B.U.P. MODEL R42.500 c.c.

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 or balloon tyres..

All gearing effectively enclosed in oil-tight casings.

The universally recognised advantages of shaft-drive. Bosch bead 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.

REDUCED PRICE H.K. $830.00

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At eleven o'clock on Sunday morning it was considered that the On the grand stand stretch soon race was won, for the Aries had a after the Arnage turn, No. 11. The lead of four laps, or about 43 miles, Schneider, driven by Tabourin, in over the Bentley, and the next near- taking an easy loft-hand bendest cars were the Simsons, almost struck and earried away a wall on twenty laps behind. But at two the left-hand side of the road, over o'clock, only two hours before the a length of about twenty yards, and end, excitement became intense, came to stop across the road at

as the Bentley closed up to 3 min. the beinning of the bend. Before 47 seconds of the Aries. the people in the little farm had time to rush out, Callingham roar- ed down the road at 85 to 90 m.p.h., suddenly to find the wall gone on the left-hand side and a disabled car right across his track,

Chassagne's Last Effor.

The danger signal was hung from the Aries stand, and in response Chassagne gained 27 seconds in one In a flash Callingham decided lap on the Bentley. Little by little that safety lay in the ditch on the the French car drew away from its right-hand side of the road. Miss-British rival until it had the ad- ing the Th. Schneider, No. 1 Bent- vantage of 7 min. 19 sec., and had ley crashed violently into the mud-covered a distance of over 1,300 dy ditch, throwing Callingham, into miles in twenty hours. Then the the middle of the highway, where he Aries slowed down, No. 3 Bentley suffered superficial injuries to his took the lead for the first time dur- leg. Right behind came No. 9 ing the twenty-third hour, and Fasto, driven by Thelusson who, after another round the squat, flat, after violent braking and much blue French car failed to reappear. skidding, managed to get past, the wrecked Th. Schneider and came to a stop on the left-hand side of the road, beyond No. 1 Bentley, and facing in the wrong direction.

"Before I had time to realise what had happened to me," said Thelusson, "I heard a tremendous crash." No. 2 Bentley, driven by George Duller, had come round the bend to find the road blocked. Safe- ty appeared to lie in the ditch, but this position was occupied by No. 1 Bentley and Duller's car struck the disabled machine with such violence that it threw it out of the ditch on to the road and buried itself in its place. At the moment of im-

OPENING IN ENGLAND.

Goodyear Tyre Plant.

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According to a statement made j by the Aries people, the fast driv- ing necessary to get away from the Bentley had caused a breakage of the vertical shaft driving the over- head camshaft. Thus a very pluckily sustained effort came to an end and victory became assured to England.

For the last hour the Bentley had the race in its own hands, for after the Aries had gone the remaining seven were really negligible quan- tities. A quarter of an hour before the. end Benjafield pulled in and turned the car over to Davis; who brought the Bentley across the line with a total distance of 1,472.66 miles to its credit.

the factory will be in production by the end of the year. A number of Akron engineers and production men will supervise installations of machinery and start operations.

Several officials of the company have for several months been mak- Another evidence of leader- ing a survey of sales, financial, and ship in the tyre industry is the an industrial conditions in England. nouncement of the Goodyear Tyre They spent the greater part of June and Rubber Company that it will in the. British Isles checking over open a new tyre manufacturing various factory propositions and plant in Wolverhampton, England, financial arrangements, and Good- Announcement of the new Eng-year directors authorized going lish plant has been made by Pre- ahead with the project the latter sident P..W. Litchfield, who expart of June. · plained that the duty imposed on American tyres imported into Eng-. land is largely responsible for the decision to manufacture tyres in that country.

The factory is a strictly modern one-story structure, more than 1,000 feet long, with widths varying from 75 to 800 feet, and is well designed

The plant will be the sixth tyra production unit of Goodyear. The company has two plants at Akron, one in Los Angeles, one in Canada, and another under construction in Australia, to be completed by Oc- tober 1,

In addition, Goodyear manufac- for adaptation as a tyro factory.tures a major portion of Its tyre Wolverhampton has a population of fabric at five of Its own mills lo- 130,000, and is 100 miles from Bir-cated at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec; mingham, the centre of the English New Bedford, Mass; Clearwater, Industrial district. "a

Ga; Goodyear, Conn; and Los An geles. A part of its fabric cotton comes from the company's own 40,000 acre planation near Phoenix Arizona.

Tyre building machinery and equipment will be shipped promptly from the parent plant at Akron, and

17, 1927.

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