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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927.

MOTOR INDUSTRY. There are two body types, which gives the company an Intermedlate line between its Essex and Hudson superaixca.

To Go at Top Speed for Three now cars, are announced

1928.

SOME NEW MODELS,

Detroit Oct. 1. The automobile industry is all set to go in fact It has alrendy started, and every indication points to greatly Increased activi- tlen. All the larger plants are stepping up production as new models are being announced, employment figures in the Detroit district are showing a steady up ward trend of several thousand nach week, and parts and acces sories manufacturers are at near eapacity activities in an effort to supply the urgent demands for new equipment...

Dealers, too. are ready and anxious to go, and are determined to make up for inactivities of the

They will be by Studebaker. known as the Commander, the Dictator and the Braking six sports roadster. Following the Stude baker established policy, the cara are, fully equipped with all neces sities and many luxuries. The new sports rondster is equipped with wire wheels.

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New Dolgo Models.

Initial production of the new Dodge line of four cylinder cars embraces three body types--a sedan, cabriolet roadster and coupe. The sedan is the only model available for immediate de- livery, but the roadster and coupe will soon be in the dealers' hands.

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BRITAIN BUILDING WONDER CAR.

250 Miles Per Hour Expected.

TO RACE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Ja the air, nad on sen and land the mechanical genius of man is overcoming the obstacles of time and distance. Now comes the news of a now wonder car which is hoped will

reach a speed of 250 miles per hour.

This is estimated to be 30 miles an hour faster than the speed of a crack racer being built in the United States. When *completed, the two cars will meet, in America to battle for

supremacy.

As a notable addition to its recently announced line of sixes

London, Oct. 16, and eights, Moon" announces "the, M. Contalen, the designer of five-passenger Moon "66" custon Major Segrave's record-holding built four-door sedan.

thousand horse-power car has Chandler-Cleveland has an- completed plans. for the construc- nounced its new 1928 line, made tion of a Sunbeam with two en past several months when sales up of twenty-five body types ongines, probably of 600 horse-power fell below normal. New mer-two chaasis lengths. At the same ench, chandise will undoubtedly stimu- time price reductions ranging Inte ables. The change-over from $100 to $200 are effective. period has passed and the indus- Additions to the line are the six try ds now chout to proceed at top five-passenger sedan, a special six speed.

coupe, and 1 five-passenger sportster."

Employment offices have been working overtime in their booking) of skilled mechanics, and during the last week a total of 4,889 added to the rolls in Detroit alone. This brought the total close to the 200,000 mark. One year ago. however, the total employed was 229,841, but this gap will be close within a month, and fast year's Sgures greatly exceeded..

New Buick Line.

Trucks Booming.

The truck division of the auto motive industry is booming along at a pace that bids fair to go over the production top to a greater extent than was anticipated during the early months of the year. New trucks are being added by all the leading manufacturers, and the demand is showing a steady in create, especially for heavy ser- vice.

Buick is out with its new line for 1928, consisting of no less Reports being received from all than sixteen different styles-sections of the country are to the

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The car will be capable of doing 250 miles an hour, eclipsing by 30 miles the estimated speed of the crack American.car, which will be ready in December. and which will be challenged in the United States by Lee Guinness, a fore- most speedster.

ACCIDENT CAUSES. Few Motorists Responsible.

Traffic accidents have increased at a high rato. In the last ten years, yet only five per cent. of the motor ists of America are responsible for them.

Yet blame for most of these acci- dent dents may be placed on the shoulders of only five per cent of the motoring public, he adds.

MORE RUBBER,

INCREASING YIELD..

"About 95 per cent of the motor- Bud Grafting Helps. ists of this country are reasonably safe," Mr. Hill believes. "Tho remain ing five per cont, however, represents a large army of more than a million reckless and incom- petent drivers fiting about the country without any regard for the safety of themselves or their fellow-

men

Such is the surplaing revelation made to members of the National Safety Council at. Its sixteen an- nual safety congress at Chicago. "They include drivers who are Mr. Charles E. Hil, vice presid-lenf, blind, of immature age."in en- ent of the organization, brought out feobled condition due to old age, the point that there was an increase those who are intoxicated and then of 283 per cent. in deaths from auto those who are analogous to the accidents in the ten years from farmer's mule." 1917 to 1926. The fatalities in 1927 were 6,000. Last year, ne says, there were 23,000.

"In other words," he points out, "during 1926 there were more peo- chronised engines will be side byple killed through automobile acci- side in the front of the chassis.

Propeller shaft transmission has been substituted for chains,

ordinarily long, placing the wheels The front axle will be extra- as far apart as possible, says the Daily News. The back axle will bo driving wheels close together.

very short, bringing the

American Rival,

The American machine, a Stutz, has a power unit of, roughly, 300 horse-power. This type has done In order to reduce the wind re- 178 miles an hour on a sank track.) sistance, the lines of the Sehnei- The body is being scientifically der Cup winning plane have been built in a Government laboratory, closely studied, and all parts of There is no radiator, and the car the car, including the springs, will be shaped like a raindrop, brakes, and wheels. will be with a bulbous front and a point- enclosed in a pear-shaped body, ed rear, which is the most per A steam-cooling system will re-fect know shape to counteract place the radiator. The syn-wind resistance.

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fwelve closed and four open de effect that the used car industry MOTOR BOATING. luxe cars. They are in three is improving. This condition fol series of 115, 120 and 128-inch lows in a wake of new car buying wheel bases. A five-passenger where a trade-in is involved. The

Only slight changes have been made in the lines of the ears, but there are now fenders, headlights, and a new type of steering wheel Bodies are Somewhat lower, with a yiriety of colours from which to -chanse.

NEW 7-12 H.P. MODEL.

CROSSING THE ROAD.

London's Six Months' Tolls of 228 Killed.

Four hundred und seventy-five people-317 of them pedestrians -- were killed in street accidents in London in the first six months of this year.

town brougham in the 120-inch call for open cars continues to Ailsa Craig Exhibited. series is a new addition to the deerense, while a steady. in- line. Prices are unchanged.

erea for clused models is re ported. Turnover of good used cars is rapid and dealers are satisfied with a low margin of Motor Boating to-day offers many profit with a result that their attractions, and thanks to the skill stoel at present is satisfactorily of the engineer and hull builders, low. They are anticipating con-it has been brought within the gestion in their used car depart-scope of comparatively wide Hudson has started, the shipment however, that will start with public. Boats ure now simple to Nearly half of these (228) were ment of its new line of cars the the increased buying of the new understand, easy to handle and Billed when crossing the road-117 gix on म. 118-inch wheel base, · 1928-line.

can be enjoyed to the full without through crossing without duc The necessity of possessing highlyĮrare; 50 through hesitating or technical knowledge. It is pos- faltering, and 36 through passing sible too, to obtain a very efficient between, behind, or in front of boat at moderate cost; in fact the stationary vehicle. initial expense may be said to be largely governed by the Individual taste of the purchaser, as British manufacturers to-day cater for all pockets..

Easily the best-

Small Car in the World!

AUSTIN FAMOUS "SEVEN"

Thousands of owners have travelled thousands of miles in their sturdy little Austins

at a cost of a penny per mile!

In Hongkong, an Austin "Seven" can' be op rated for less than $12.00 per month!

and

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

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

Prince's Buliding.

2 floor, Its Eouse St. Entrance.

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 CAR. it is to your advantage TO SEE US FIRST.

In addition to the development of pleasure craft, however, motor boats have a wide sphere of utility on the commercial side also. Thus, it is not surprising that very con siderable public interest was dis- played in the motor-boat section of

These figures are given in the Metropolitan Police "Summary of Street Fatalities."

Twenty-three deaths

to motor collisions.

·were duc.

Of 44 motor-cycling deaths, aix were pillion riders and six drivers carrying 4 pilion rider. Pedal cycles were responsible for 60

deaths

During April, May and June, the recent Shipping, Engineering there were 29.978 street accidents & Machinery Exhibition held In in London, in which 261 persons London, particularly as it coincides were killed.

Forty Years Experience.

with a rapid crowded state of the] The accidents during April, May roads of Great Britain at the pre-ind June are classified as follows, sent time.

the numbers given after the vehicle being those killed:

Private notor-cars, 82; trade The new 7-12 hp: 4-cylinder and commercial motor vehicles, 80; Ailsa Craig engines shown for the to, horse-drawn vehicles, 11; motor- first time will undoubtedly prove cycles, 42; omnibuses, 8 pedal, attractive to many prospective cycles, 8; taxicabs, 8; tram-cars, marine motorists, They have a

choice of two models of this type, one fitted with direct drivo for lighter boats and the other with~||~{m} reduction gear. The little "Silent- Seven," as the newcomer is culled; has the distinction of being the amallest. British built four- cylinder marine motor and is parti- eularly neat and compact. Like other engines in the Allen Craig- range, which includes units from 4h.p...to-100... h.p., it can be--ar- arranged to run on paraffin fuel by means of the Ailsa Craig paraffin Vaporiser which was specially developed for the Admirulty during the war.

The new 1927 10-16 h.p. model!

of the well known "Kid" came in for a considerable amount of .at- tention in view of its advanced features. It is fitted with a three bearing crankshaft, ball-bearing water pump and adjustable inlet pipe by which the carburettor can be set at an angle to suit the in- clination of the engine in the boat.

Of the larger engines shown by this firm, a 40-60 h.p..model is in- teresting by reason of its low wolght. This engine has an out- put of 40 h.p. when running at 800 rpm and yet the weight of the entire unit is 12'cwi. The hand starting gear is of the adjustable chain-driven type and is convenient- ly arranged at the top of the engine so that it can be worked from "either the forward.cr after end of

the set.

In contrast to this model, at the other end of the scale was an ex- ample of the sturdy little 4-6 h.p. Ailsa Craig "Pup" petrol motor, which works on the two-stroke principle..

START FREIGHT

SURVEY.

The most intensive freight rate research ever "undertaken by the 'automobile industry has been an- nounced at a meeting of traile managers of the U. S. National Automobile Chamber of Commerco.

dents than were killed at grade crossings during the entire ten-year period."

SOCONY MOTOR GASOLINE

Mr. Hill contrasts the qualifien- tions required of a motorlat and those of a locomotive engineer, to show how dangerous motoring is today in the hands of unpracticed drivers.

The immediate remedy," he thinks, "Ties in a constructive cam- paign of education."

BACK OF EVERY DROP OF

Dutch scientists in the East. Indies have developed a system of bud grafting, by which the yield of rubber tree may be increased fourfold..

The grafting is based on the fact Luther Burbank proved that the characteristics of the mother-tree- are grafted on to others.

Experiments have shown that trees which normally yield 3 or 4 ib. a year can be made to produce 70lb. The average yield per acre has been increased from 820lb. to 800 to 5,000 b

This should mean a big increase in the world supply of rubber, and may break the price set by British plantera.

STUBBS ROAD

SERVICE STATION

You can now obtain Socony Gasoline and Motor Oils at the New Socony Service Station.

LOCATED

at the

INTERSECTION

of

STUBBS ROAD AND REPULSE BAY ROAD.

SOCONY SOCONY

B, PAT. OFF.

STANDS THE

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK 26 Broadway

GOODYEAR

GASOLINE & MOTOR OILS

Uniform Quality

Wherever you buy Goodyear Tyres you are made to feel that the dealer's interest in you does not end with the sale itself but continues long afterward in giving your tyres all the care and attention due them.

BEST RESULTS.

GOOD YEAR

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ALEX. ROSS & CO.

Prince's Building, 2nd. Floor,

Ico House Street Entrance

HONGKONG..

(China), LTD.

Telephone Central Z487.

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