1928-02-11 — Page 12

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

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STUDEBAKER

World Wide Records

Atlantic City Speedway

ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 2ND. A COMMANDER SEDAN, WHILE TRAVELLING AT A SPEED OF 65 MILES, AN HOUR, SKIDDED ON THE ICY TRACK AND TURNED COMPLETELY OVER. THE CAR WAS RIGHTED, HURRIED. LY REPAIRED, ÅND SENT ON ITS WAY AGAIN BOARIND DESPITE THE FACT AROUND THE WOODEN OVAL. THAT PRACTICALLY TWO HOURS WERE LOST IN GET- TING THE SEDAN BACK ON THE TRACK. THIS CAR FINISHED THE 25,000 MILES WITH FLYING COLORS AND SET AN AVERAGE OF 61. 93 MILES PER HOUR FOR THE. DISTANCE

A CAR TRAVELLING 25,000 MILES IN 23,000 MINUTES 18 A PEAT THAT CAN HARDLY BE GRASPED BY EVENT THE MOST ACTIVE İMAGINATION. HAD IT BEEN POSSI- BLE FOR THESE THREE COMMANDERS, INSTEAD OF CIR- CLING THE SPEEDWAY, TO START DUE EAST OF ATLAŃ- TIC CITY, THEY WOULD HAVE GONE AROUND THE WORLD ONCE AND THEN CONTINUED ON A SECOND CIRCUMNAVIGATION, WINDING UP THER TRIP SOME- ; WHERE IN TURKEY.

IN ALL AUTOMOBILE HISTORY, THIS IS THE MOST UNIQUE TESTIMONIAL TO STAMINA AND PERFORMANCE.. WHY NOT TRY A STUDEBAKERIF FOR ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTES IT'S WORTH YOUR TIME. WE WILL GLADLY GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY.

HONGKONG DELIVERED PRICES.

ERSKINE

H P. 16.54 R.A.C,-107 WHEEL BASE

Tourar

Hparts Nondater

Business Compan

Custom Coupe

Custom Berlus

5 Beater

4 Seater

2 Seater

G.$1,150 1,207 1,200

4 Bester

1,260

& Seater

1,250

All Erskines with wire wheels.

DIRECTOR

H.P. 27.34 R.AC-113 WHEEL BASE

Custom Tourer

Aports Roadster..

*

5 Beater

G.$1,453

4 Seater

Duplex Plan

5 Seater

144

1.436 1,420

Custom Tower,

7 Seater

---

1,630

Custom Coupe

2 Seater

***

1,075

Doston San Pluch

$ Seatin

1,075

Onetom Compe

4 Seater

1,675

Custom Victoria

4 Seater

1.675

**

Custom Sedan Mohair

5 Seater

1,675

COMMANDER

H.P. 36.04.R.A.C.-120" WHEEL BASE

Sports Roadster Custom Coupo

..

Custom Victoria Custom Sedan Regal Coupl.....

Regal Victoria

Regal Sedan

4 Sealer

(1.81,835

2 Seater

1,875

4 Seater

+1

1,876

5 Scoter

1,875

4 Senter

1,905

4 Seater

1,905

& Boater

1,905

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.

Made and Broken by Motorists.

Now will we search the volume of

our living.

And find our faults

One quick look

-written.

We'll take, then close it, troubled,

self-forgiving.

Discarding a now leaf for

book,

专

a new

Though these books too, will

the ancient race, These, for the 13-leaves, are

out of, place.

For a Pedestrian.

By every means I can contrive

run

not

I struggle to remain alive; I' even watch my step, and flee Whene'er n motor's aimed at me, And ne'er in mid-most street I'll

stop,

Nor gaily round a tram I'll hop; If drivers curse me, I'll not fight

'em,"

I'll merely raise my nose-and

slight em.

For a Traffic Cop. From January to December" I try to make the traffic faster, And strive my ulmost to remember I'm public'a servant, well as master;

No more with scowls mock souls

I'll freeze,

W

1' even speak that strange" word

"Please."

WOMEN AND GEARBOXES.

A. Popular Dread.

For a Mechanic.

This pile of soap upon the shelf, This kerosene within the tin

Means that I'll try to make myself Like the renowned, well-known,

new pin.

I'll not spray oil upon the guard · Nor on the sent that should be

ensy.

1 even might (but this is hard), Not leave the steering wheel so

greasy.

For Any One of Us.

I never bohst about the speed I've never done. Nor ever do it. Just 30 will fulfil my need in any huate. I'll never rue it. I'll never have a glaring light, I'll always see my brakes are tight, I'll never, ever, want to bite, The man who throws me dust.

chew it.

*

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928.

BRITISH CARS FOR

THE EMPIRE.

Mr. Morris Starts on a Trade Tour.

Mr. W. R. Morris, head of the Morris Motors (1920), Ltd., sailed from Southampton on board the Aquitania recently for a trade tour of the Dominions, in the course of which he will study particularly the prospects there of the British motor-car trade, both light and heavy.

He will visit Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

"The success of the British light ear industry in Australia," he said in an interview before sailing, "is a striking example of how British Industry and skill can, by organisa tion and enterprise, overtake the handicaps placed on them by the War.

#British light cars hava triumph- Fed in Australia, because of their

Thus, while the new year's coming

from the shades.

Provide new paving, for the road

to Indes.

---ANN O, DOMINY,

economy in operation, their dur ability, ense of handling, and high quality workmanship. American manufacturers, because of the low cost of petrol in the United States, have developed big, slow speed, and

extravagantly-powered engines, and

because their road conditiona were similar to those in the British Dominions their cars, built with full track and ample clearance, made rapid headway in our Colonica.

driver can run the car on direct.

"With the great road improve. speed for very long periods with-ments that have taken place in the hout any recognition of the gearbox] Dominious since the War, it was as an casential item in the use of inevitable that the British light the chassis.

car should come Into its own."

To take the latest British model (as an example, one can practically drive the new 6-cylinder 18/50 h.5. To a woman, the gearbox of a Star all day on direct speed. The car is often a box of fearful nossf writer has handled the new Star to. Starting, steering and for half-an-hour in the narrow, braking some fairly easily to her,traffic-burdened streets and lanes but after she has obtained a grind of an English manufacturing fawn ing crash, fust onee out of her without ever "coming off top.' gears she regards that sortion of One slowed and stopped on top gear, the worka with dislike and dread, and started away ain on top in To her, a ens represents glory, numerable times, smoothly, with beauty and the thrill of speedant jerking and without even pink- were it not for the detestable iny. Too much of the practice neessity of changing gears,

Jeannot be recommended, for there Much, of course, depends non must be a certain strain on the The amount of trainige received transmission, but no sign what and upon the ago at which this lover of strain was apparent in this training is imparted. In which instance. Again, on a hill, the connexion it may be remarked that car could be slowed down and the an impetuous and plastic flanner ignition lever advanced, but a learns to drive, much more easily slight pressure of the accelerator than does a grown woman with pedal would send her charging nerves. But, in any case, a allently, up the grade on top, again woman driver regards a car which without pinking or gagging. demands but little in the way of In the way of speed, the car gear-changing with an inordinate could put up 73 m.p.h. as silently amount of relief.

and smoothly as if it were running This fact undoubtedly accounts at 20 m.h.p.Indeed, if the passen to some extent for the present ger shut his or her eyes it would rage for six-cylinder models, for be quite impossible to state at the six-cylinder engine relleves what speed the car was gliding, the gear-lever of much of its duty. And with her 4-ft. 8-in. track and she clearance Provided that the light six of 9-in. ground to-day is good on hills and can appeared capable of going any- drop to under 20 m.ph. without where and doing anything-all on Truly a car for a the necessity of changing gears to top gear. get away arain (which is not woman who dislikes gear-chang-] always the case, by the way), the Jing.

Personal Contact.

"The past year in Australia," he proceeded, "has not been an easy one from the business standpoint, because sheep and dairy farmers have been hard hit by droughts. We have, of course, done well, but we do not regard 1927 as a true indication of the progress we ex- peet to make in the future. There are great opportunities ahead for 1928, both for the light and for the heavy car industries.

"British motor-car manufac- turers have successfully fought for and consolidated their position in the home market, which to-day is sounder than it has ever been, and We have now breathing space to look overseas. It is only by per- sonal contact and personal experi- ence of getual conditions, that our manufacturers can continue to com pete successfully in the Dominions."

Speaking of the potential new American competition at home and in the Dominions, Mr. Morris said that in response to the demand in the United States for European ap- pearance and style, American manu- facturers were now building cura on British lines,

"But," he added, "we have two years' lead over the Americans la respect of design, and in light and heavy cars we shall do our utmost to maintain that lead and enhance our national prestige as a great motor-car manufacturing country."

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

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Custom Bedun

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6.82,200

7 Seater

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7 Boater

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During the dense fog which pre-lities, and had received full in- valled in the Komo Counties onal formation from A.A, rond patrols, "day recently, over 200 A.A. mom-through its well-known system of bers called upon the Automobile roadside telephones. The A.A. Association for information con- fog flares, which were introduced last winter, were freely used at a cerning the presence of fog on number of points within the area various routes. The A. Als covered by the fog, and were greatly appreciated by all road always equipped for such aventua-users:

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