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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,

THE B.M.W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE

ال

WHICH WON THE ITALIAN TARGA-FLORID RACE, 1927

12 B.H.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 teclinical 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, head 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 spierifications and particulars.

REDUCED PRICE H.K. $830.00

Sole Agents:-CHIEN HSIN ENGINEERING CO. First Floor, Asiatic Building.

for Economical Transportation

CHEVROLET

IS HERE!

Chevrolet One Ton Truck Chassis H.K. $1500.00.

Chevrolet E-pass. Touring Car H.K. $1600.00.

DISTRIBUTORS FOR SOUTH CHINA.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

25, Queen's Road Central.

Cable Address.

Tel. C. 4759.

"KREMOFFICE" HONGKONG.

CANTON DEALER. H:C. LEE,

Western Motor Car Company

Cable' Address.

Shakee Road.

“LEESHAMEEN" CANTON,

THE WORLD ON WHEELS.

A Septuagenarian's Growl.

[By Sir George Douglass, Bt.]

I've lived through days of

harsher change

k

Then Shenaone, White, or Scott! George Borrow still had roads

to range, What roads have I? God wot! The petrol-fend Is over all. With dust and stench and din:

Without there is no peace at all, And scarcely more within!

When Cowper roam'd

Anglian fields,

On contemplation bent,

East

To him the balm each hedgerow

yields

Might minister content-

His woeful moòd might calm and

rase

Deep wrinkles from his brow: What charm, 'mid this unend-

ing chaser

Is left our hedgerows now?

By Rydal, where One shann'd

'the crowd,

Aloof from touch of evil,

He saw God in the moving cloud, Where I

behold the devil!

Ay, very heaven 'is trespass'd on, Our loftiest once and purest, And, all its sanctity forgone, Lies open to the tourist!

Air vibrates to the hum of cars," Of motor-bikes and scooters, And shuddera at the thousand

jars

Of bursting tyres or hooters;

Till in my last secure retreat,

By sacred grove and hill,

Where virgin waters rise and

'meet,

stil!!

The discord haunts me stil!

"Tis but a phase-to be endured, And doom'd to last its time: Till thought and beauty, now

obscured,

Once more emerge sublime?*

But you and I. dear friend, wax

old,

And scares shall view ́·

#

the

morrow Hence these vain accents uucon-

troll'd

Of ire and bootless sorrow! *Merse profundo, pulchrior.

Prent.

NEWEST MORRIS.

High Clearance Design.

Exceptional ground clearance, a four-speed gearbox, totally on- closed transmission, a four-cylinder engine that is extremely flexible, economical fuel consumption, and four-wheel brakes-these are the outstanding features of the new 16 h.p. Morris-Oxford.

With a bore and stroke of 80 x 125 m.m., the four-cylinder engine follows "the accepted -Morris practice, inasmuch as the cylinder block and top half of the crank- case are cast integral. Side valves" are used. A detachable head is. fitted, and the, sturdy crankshaft is carried in three, bearings.

From the engine the drive la taken through a single-plate dry clutch to a four-speed centrally controlled gearbox, the prominent feature being the shortness and stiffness of the shafts, all of which ara mounted on ball-bearings. The whole of the transmission at the rear of the gearbox is totally enclosed, the propeller shaft being shrouded by a torque tube which terminates at its forward, end in a sliding ball joint. Overhead worm drive is used for the back axle.

Arrangement of the brake operat ing gear is interesting, as all rods: and levers are mounted above the axles instead of on a level with gr below them, as is more commonly the case. The result of this in genious design is that it possesses an extraordinary degree of clearance. The cruising pace of the car is high. It seems to settle down to its own speed on a bare throttle opening, with the speedo meter pointing to between 35 and 40 m.ph.

BIBLICAL AID.

Welsh Road Warnings.

An engineer in charge of road- widening operations in Wales orected movel warning signs to motorists while the work was in progress.

Searching his family Bible, för apt quotations, he found these, and had them painted on sign boards

"Be Wise in Time." Psalm vi; | 5."

"Pride Precedeth Perdition. Prov. xvi, 18.""

"Therefore, Travel Temperately. Phil, v., 6.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927.

MOTOR CAR HEAD-ban or country roads must ex-

TO BEAT RECORD. tinguish their headlights, but the Harry A. Miller, famous for his LIGHTS.. law is not always obeyed. M. rbeing cars, has designed an en- Gervalac argues that headlights gine" that, he says, will exceed, the are in practice searchlights-that record of 207 miles an hour estab- is to say, weapons of war. In shed by Major Segrave. time of pence only light-houses should be allowed to use them. In time of war, of course, warships and other organs of attack or de- fence must be allowed to make use of them as they think fit.

Novel Plea for Abolition.

Paris, October 13. The disastrous motor car accident at the Epernay Bridge moves

It is a fact, as most of us know Bernard Gervalse, in the Paris Soir, to remind those in authority from observation, that the head- over us that if the daily toll of fatal Rights of a powerful car on a coun- accidents on the roads is to be re-try road dazzle and terrify both duced, the roads, and especially the men and rabbits. The automobilist suburban roads, must be lit by the finds them useful, maintains M. locul administrations and not by the Gervaise: because he cannot afford head-lights of swift automobiles. to meet another car which is armed At Epernay, the unlucky car had with them unless he has them him- to pass another car with its head-self. Without weapons, one cannot lights full on, and the driver, blind- fight. In the general interest they ed by the glare, swerved violently should disappear. The automobilist into the plunge which landed the will probably reply that on the care in the river.

beautifully kept roads of France every driver speeds his car at a The present law of France is that pace which makes headlights in- cars passing each other on subur-dispensable.

BANDITS JUST ROBBED THE BANK AND

ESCAPED IN YOUR CAR

OH BOY- THEY'D HAVE TO

ROB A BANK TO GO FAR

IN MY AUTO

Everywhere, motorists have

come to realise that the many trouble-proof miles Goodyear Tyres deliver, greatly augment the real joy of motoring.

Next Time-Buy Goodyear,

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Prince's Building, 2nd. Floor,

Ice House Street-Entrance

HONGKONG.

Telephone Central 2487.

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