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BRITAIN'S STRENGTH.

Can Supply World's

Motor Cycles.

It has recently been estimated that the present world's motor eyele requirements annually are in the region of 260,000 machines..

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

FINE INSURANCE IN

AUSTRALIA.

An insurance company of this city gives motorists immunity. from appearing in court, fines and costs, it violation of parking or police regulations. The yearly cost of this insurance is one pound five shillings.

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and an investigation has been expansion of production necessary made of the capacity of Brition would be relatively small. factories to supply this number British manufacturers, however, The result indicates that equipare resolute in their polley to ment

and organisation exists maintain quality na well na com which can be expanded with ease petition in prices. Increase of to supply these requirements pro-production is an important but vided arrangements could be made secondary consideration.. for an equality of distribution; In 1926 the total value of throughout the year.

British eyele and motor cycle pro- The estimated production or duels amounted to £5,627,502, as British motor cycles to-day is in compared with 16,529,770 in 1925. the region of 130,000 whilst As the number of motor cycles ex- British component manufacturers ported was 48,391 in 1926 as com- export supplies to Continental pared with 46,642 in 1925, and the of complete bycles in manufacturers, which represent number nearly 30,000 additional machines., 1926 was 280,051, as compared Of the balance of the world's with 276.528 in 1926, the decrease requirements about 42,000 in total value of business is due machines are available from to price reductions made in the American Sources, so that the interests of the buying public.

STUDEBAKER

World Wide Records

TWO STUDEBAKER COMMANDER ROADSTERS AND A COMMANDER SEDAN ESTABLISHED NEW WOULD RECORDS FOR SPEED AND ENDURANCE BETWEEN OCTOBER EIGHTEENTH AND NOVEMBER FOURTH AT ATLANTIC. CÍTY SPEEDWAY. THE ROADSTERS COM- PLETED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MILES IN LESS THAN TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND MINUTES, ESTABLISHUNG 65,31 MILES PER HOUR, THE SEDAN COMPLETED ESTABLISHING TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND 61.98 MILES PER HOUR, ALL STOPS INCLEDED. RECORDS WERE SUPERVISED AND CHECKED BY THE

CONTEST BOARD OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION... THIS RUN, TOGETHER WITH PREVIOUS

·RECORDS, PROVES BEYOND ALL DOUBT THE SUPERIOR

WORKMANSHIP AND TOUR DETREE OF STAMINA IN STUDEBAKER CARS.

MINUTES

CONSULT THIS LIST ...

FOR A WISE INVESTMENT."

HONGKONG DELIVERED PRICES.

ERSKINE

H.P. 16.54 R.A.0.-107" WHEEL BASE

Tourer

Sports Roadster

Barnes Coupe

Custom, Coup

Custom Sedan

THE

5 Senter

G.$1,150.

4 Souter

1.200

2 Seater

1.300

4 Senter

1,250

5 Santer

1,250

All Erskines with wire wheels.

DIRECTOR

H.P. 27134 R.AC-113" WHEEL BASE Custom Tourer

Suurta Roadster Duplex-Phaeton Custom Tourer

5 Septer

G.S1450

4 Seater

1,485

5 Seater

1,400

-7 Seater

1,530

Chaton: Compr

2 Seater

1,575

Custom Sedan Plush

5 Seater

1,576

Custom Coupe

A Seater.

1,675

Custom Victorin

4 Seater

1,075

Custom Sedan Mohair,

5 Sater

1,677

COMMANDER

H.P. 36.04 R.A.G.-120-WHEEL BASE

Sports Roadstex

Custom Coupe

4 Seater

6.$1,835

.2 Seater

· 1,075.

4 Seater

1,875

3 Scaler

4 Seater

4 Seater

1,875 1,905 1,905

& Seater

1,905

Custom Victorin

Custom Beden Regal Coupe..

Regal Victoria

Begal Sedan

PRESIDENT

H.P. 36.04 R.A.C.-127" WHEEL BASE

Custom Touret

Cualem Sedni

Custom Limousine

7 Septer

(1.53,200

7 Seater

7 Seater

2,435 2,700

All prices include 4 wheel brakes, spare wheel, tyre and tube, windshield wiper, hindview mirror, bumpers, extra horn, tools, etc., etc.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

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25, Queen's Road, Central (THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.)

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TO DRIVE ACROSS VIADUCT.

Kenneth Goodson, expert driver, is shorty to attempt to cruss the Florida East Coast Railroad's long cross-key. viaduct by automobile from Miami to Key West. Forty miles an hour in the speed he hopes to maintain so as to minimize:

bouncing on the ties.

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SOMETHING NEW IN SPRINGING.

Striving to Eliminate Rebound.

a ensiderable amount of attention

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21,

A WONDERFUL GARAGE.

An Adventure in Paris.

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At the present moment, whon every

woman tund child motore, it has become part of the general education of both girls und boys to learn to drive. In fact, in the up-to-date schools in Paris, motor driving forms part of the curriculum that can be taken by all who wish to do so.

With the French system of apart. ment houses-I should say, fints- it is impossible to own a private garage. This luxury is only per- missible in the rare private houses in the big cities. It Is, therefore, not surprising that a very modern garage, such as the Banville, under the management of M. Henri Terrisse, a well-known engineer from the Ecole "Polytechnique, 'should' have proved such a success

ful undertaking.

For 800 Cars.

In this garage there are nine dors, sloping from basement to celling, to accommodate 800 cars. These can drive up and stop where required.

Un each floor there are boxca. with flexible gratings that form the doors. These flexible casing are the invention of M- Henri Terrissa. Ench box 'contains three lumps for lighting purposes, a tap, för water for washing the car; a tap for compressed air for inflating tyres a table with carpenter's tools for all repairs: and a vacuum cleaner, All this for the mechanic's convenience,

On the top floor there are two tennis courts with swimming baths and every convenience alded. It is amusing to watch the ears 'mount this incline, which measures about 1,000 metres, to reach the tennis courts, which, I am told, are let from morning til night and 'are neve unoccupied.

Tennis to-day has become a sport as necessary as gymnasties to those who value their health. The old saying of health being first before wealth has never been more appre- ciuted than it is to-day. -

The white costumes of both men and women are dazzling un

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There is abundant evidence that Extremely Severe Test of Springs. this ninth floor, where the light suspension systems are receiving.

This system was tested as apall sides.

fulls from mullioned windows on In this country, on the Continent,plied to a 14-10 hp, Vauxhall, the

Above the tennis players, is a and also in America. That this oral half-elliptic frant and can-huge terrace where a magnificent should be so when reads all over tilever rear springs being much view of Paris, with the adjoining as they Meudon hills, is to be seen. For the world are being steadily im weaker than standard, proved gives rise to thought, and were supplemented by the pivoted an air cure and sunbath there is it may be that the limitations of ongitudinal springs, shock absor-nothing to rival it. present springing systems are be-es being fitted also to the front A Model for the Future. ing realized owing to the demand axle. The car was driven over a

We have, perhaps, not yet reach- for greater comfort and the in-rough and pot-holey road at speeds fed the American' standard of per-

up to 40 m.h.p., and although fection where garages are crease in car speeds...

Within the last few days we there was, naturally, considerable cerned, where the cars mount in- of three movement of the body, so that the terminable slopes and drive right have made brief tests systems designed on novel fines, occupants were thrown about on into the front door of the large and, while leaf springs are em the seats, they were not actually apartment houses. But we' ployed in

not far from this point; and there two of these, rubber thrown off them. So great was alone is utilized in the third. In the amplitude of movement of the is no doubt that the principle on the Armstrong system, designed front axle that the off-side shock which the Banville is built, with by Mr. Gordon Armstrong, of absorber was bent up so that it all its conveniences of tennis, bathe Armstrong's Patents Co., Beverley Couled the steering, but the springs and refreshment bars, is a model East Yorks, quarter-elliptic springs successfully withstood the great on which all future garages will are used, out are not attached to stresses which must have been be founded. the axles. The axle is connected imposed upon them. In normal member use the suspension proved very chussis by to the

bir be-Comfortable, pitching being entirely pivoted 013 F cross

absent. tween the dumbirons, while to

bracket

this

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member In the third system which was the butt end of the spring is bolt brought to our notice no springs ed, the other end being shackled were employed, the connexion be ordinary Lween frame and axle being made to the frame in the manner.

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One of the most sensational "ap- pliances is in connexion with the water supply, By some clever engineering it has been made practicable to establish huge reser- voirs top and bottom of

the establishment

Strangers in Paris are making

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a feature of a visit to this garage; By serrated rubber blocks in metal and the guides at the big hotels It is claimed for this system that housings. An idea of the con- are placing it on their programme. it gives an effective lengthening of atruction may

bé conveyed by Dancing will soon be one of the the wheelbase so far as riding likening it to that of a mangneto attractious here, as elsewhere; for comfort is concerned, and the coupling A serrated metal the Parisian has adopted this re- action of the spring when the member is attached to the frame, creation as a necessity in the daily wheel encounters an obstacle may and engaging with this is a serrat routine. be gathered from the diagram. ed rubber ring. With the other 31oreover, owing to the large size side of the rubber ring engages of the pivot bearing, wear at this another serrated metal member point is reduced to a minimum and from which extends an arm attach. any side-to-side movement of the ed w the axle at its cther end axie relative to the car is eliminat Movement of the axle results in ed, giving good.

road-holding sight rotary movement of the qualities and an absence of rulling. serrated metal member connected A brief trial showed that the to it, and this is resisted by the suspension was an improvement on rubber stretching that normally fitted to the de- sequence," in a circumferential monstration car, especially as re-direction.

gards the front springs, while on

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a bad surface there was no sense. When the load is removed, the

of rond shock, and the car gave rubber returns to its original posi- that easy oating sensation usual-tion, but, unlike a steel spring in

ly associated with a long wheelbase its behaviour, it does not pass be-

and considerable weight.

In the system patented by Major W. G. Wilson, C.M.G., B.A., M.L.CE. M.LA.E., leat springs are employ-

yond its normal position and,

therefore, there is no rebound.

This suspension system has boen

ed, but are supplemented by springs Patented by Mr. W. L. Adams, and arranged longitudinally under the has received considerable attention frame side members and connected in the United States. It possesses with the front and rear axles, and advantages from the manufactur- pivoted at their mid points to suit-ing point of view, for the housings able brackets on the frame mem-for the rubber blocks can bars. The object of the design simple steel pressings, and spring is to control the pitching move-shackles are eliminated, together with the necessity for lubricating

ments of the car.

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The ordinary quarter-elliptic them. springs are known as the secondary It might appear at rst sight support, while the leaf springs that the resiliency of the system which rest on their axles at their rises partly through the flexibility outer ends and are attached to the of the radial teeth in the rubber pivoted yoke at their inner ends ring, but this is not actually the are known as the primary support. cast, as the serrations are simply The action of the system is as fol- to hold the ring and prevent it lows: pitching movements in a pre turning. A short run in a light and aft direction are absorbed by car fitted, with the Adams system. the secondary support, and result was sufficient to prove that from in a slight movement around the the point of view of comfort the pivot of the primary support, while suspension gives excellent results. all vertical movements of the there being no rebound. It is chassis are absorbed by the springs stated also that experiments show of both supports, and by suitably that the life of the rubber blocks designing the springs a definite is not likely to be a difficulty, those. value can be provided for pitching, on the demonstration car having and a definite combined value al been in use, so we are informed, lowed for vertical movement.

for a very considerable time.

CLEAR.

BANK ENTRANCE

NO RANKING WITHIN IS FT

In Trenton, N.J., police are particularly clear in their instructions to motorists-a8. witness this sign. Ranking Is perpendicular parking. "Parking" appears to be too general a term.

1928.

"AUSTIN SEVEN

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1928

B.S. A.

2 floor,-Ice House St. Entrance.

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