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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15):1927.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

Easily the best-

MOTORING MID TALL TREES. AND GLACIERS.

Small Car in the World!

at a cost of a penny per mile!

and

AUSTIN FAMOUS "SEVEN”

*

Thousands of owners have travelled thousands

of miles in their sturdy little Austins

In Hongkong, an Austin "Seren" can

be operated for less than $12.00 per month!

We shall be pleased to show you how easy it is for you to become another Austin enthusiast, on terms which can be arranged for your con.... venience.

ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.

Prince's Buliding.

2 floor, Ice House St. Entrance.

THE

MOTOR UNION

INSURANCE Co 1o

Incorporated in England

Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)

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BEFORE INSURING CONSULT US ON OUR COMPREHENSIVE POLICY.

For full particulars apply to:— THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd,

York Building.

Phone C. 587.

CHINA UNDERWRITER, LTD.

FOR

ALL CLASSES

FO

MOTOR INSURANCE

WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS

HEAD OFFICE :-

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.C.

TELEPHONE:

1121-2

BUICK for

··1928-

Our first shipment of the 1928 model Buick Motor Cars is due to arrive in Hongkong on October 16. The public is, cordially invited to make an early inspection of these cars promptly after arrival as the entire shipment has been sold. Our second shipment of these 1928 model Buick Motor Cars is due to arrive at an early date. Although orders ure being booked rapidly for this second shipment, a few cars are still available. Orders will have to be filled strictly in rotation.

These current model-Buicks are the product of General Motors of Canada, Ltd., being manufactured in Oshawa, Ontario. They bear both the "Maple Leaf" and the "Made in Canada" mark. Delivered prices will be the lowest at which Buick Motor Cars have ever been sold in this territory.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CO., LTD.

Telephones C. 1246 or 1247. 83, Wong Nel Chung Road

Happy Valley.

Many miles of road pierce such towering woods of fire and cedar is this.

OCEAN

PACIFIC

From Inspiration Point. the below, with a good motor road, ing high above Paradise Valley visitor may see Mt. Rainier ris- winding up the neighbouring mountainside.

Many motorista coming from the the National Park Inn, with its; are a score of delightful trips that east have a tendency to pass by tents and bungalows, affords se-reach into every nook and corner of one of America's most interesting commodation for a large number the vast park area. beauty spots. It is the. Pacifie of visitors. The park itself may marvellously northwest, where the tall firs and be reached from Tacoma or Seattle trails for hiking. cedars range over mountain and in half a day's drive. valley in a picturesque way that

is exclusive to this territory.

Great Variety of Colour,

There are wooded mountain

Good" Camping Facilities.

For beauty-seekers, there is an

Perhaps the outstanding attrac No less an authority than the ever-changing panorama of moun tion in the northwest is Mt. Rainier, great naturalist John Muir hastain scenery. There are splendid not far from Tacoma and Seattle. stated that the vast alpine mead- tennis courts, and there are in- Surrounded by a series of moun-ows of Rainier National Park form numerable mineral springs. tains, themselves no small peaka, the greatest wild flower fields in the Ruinier rises abruptly to a height world. As many as four hundred of nearly 15,000 feet, more than varieties of these glorious mountain

For the vacationist who wishes twice the height of any of its neigh-flowers of every colour and form

imaginable, are to be found in this to remain for an extended visit there is National Park Inn, a typi-

bours.

Radiating from Mount Rainier natural garden.

For those who like to "camp out" there are White Hiver Camp and Paradise Camp.

mire Springs. And in Paradiso Valley is Paradise Inn, the largest resort notel in the Pacific north-

is the largest glacial system in the Paradise Valley in Rainier Na-cal mountain resort hotel at Long- United States. Twenty-eight sep-tional Park has long been famous arate glaciers, great and small, as the place "where the flowers and clothe the mountain-ferty-five glaciers meat." Here, in midsum square miles of ice, moving through mer, the merriest of winter sports cast meadows of myriad coloured may be indulged in. Skink, to wild flowers.

bogganing and "nature sliding" have proved popular.

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west.

After the outing at Rainier the motorist may drive on to Seattle, there to prepare for the many in- teresting trips in the Puget Sound Besides the winter aports, there region, then northward over paved in this summer playground. Ac-are lots of other activities to hold highway and by ferry to Victoria commodations for the tourist have the interest of the visitors. For and Vancouver, B.C. been enlarged by the addition of the angler there are sparkling

There are 150 miles of trail and! 20 miles of good_automobile road

It is the land of tall trees, the 100 rooms at Paradise Inn in lakes and streams filled with scrap-rushing river, the snow-capped For those mountain, and 3 cool, soothing! Paradise Valley, 5557 feet above py mountain trout.

sea level. At Longmire Springs who love horseback riding there summer climate.

MOTORCYCLES

INCREASE.

Although the use

motor cycles in the U.S. is decreasing. their use throughout the world is increasing. The world census un- til January 1 was 1,726,241, with the United Kingdom ranking first, Germany second, France third

and the United States fourth.

ADVERTISERS

IN THIS

MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

ARE REQUESTED

TO SEND

CHANGE

OF "COPY"

NOT LATER

THAN WEDNESDAY

OF EACH WEEK.

For Rates and Suggestions

·apply to-

The Manager

The Dongkong Telegraph'

Tel. C. No. 1.

CAR CENSUS.

27,650,257 in Use.

INDIA STILL WALKS.

FUEL PUMP."

Racing Development.

ELIMINATES VACUUM

TANK.

Total number of cars in use in the world at the beginning of this Developed by the demands for year was 27,650,257, of which an unfailing supply of fuck made by 22,137,334 were registered in the super-charged racing cars, a small U.S.A., making an average of one fuel pump is now being marked in car for every five persons there." the U.S.A. ready for fitting to

Second comes Canada and Hawaii ordinary cars. with one for each 11 persons, New It has a magnetic principle, and Zealand follows with 1 for 12, Den- is run directly by battery current, mark and Australia tie with 1 for and controlled by the ignition 17, Great Britain has 1 for 43, switch. Argentine 1 for 45, and France 1 Fitted in the fuel line immediate- for 46.

ly in front of the carburettor, it' India comes a bad last with 1 for eliminates the vacuum tank and is every 3893 persons, its nearest suid to assist gravity and pressure pedestrian competitors being fuel systems as it pumps petrol at a Japan with 1 for each 1398 and the constant pressure from Dutch East Indies with 1 for 1085. carburettor.

for Economical Transportation

CHEVROLET

IS COMING!

tank to

Give your high gear

some

exercise

on the hills by using

the dasoline that brings

the mountains down to

the motorist

SOCONY

UTOR GASOLINE STANBARD OIL CA OF NEW YORK

SOCONY

„REOS LIÉ PAT, OFF,

Gasoline

Motor Oil

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK, 26 Frondway

Leb's

AUTO AGENCY

10, Queen's Road Central (Next to Lazarus) Telephone Central 4925

USED CARS

WE HAVE THEM IN GOOD CON- DITION AND OF ALL MAKES AND SIZES AT REAL BARGAIN PRICES

When you decide to SELL YOU CAB it is to your advantage TO SEE US

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