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WIEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILI. BUILD THEM

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.

THE HUDSON VEHICULAR TUNNEL.

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1st 9

A 11-30

for

consecutive fears

For the ninth consecutive year Buick has won

⚫ first choice of space atthe National Automobile

Shows.

This is Leadership! For this honor goes annually to the member of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce with the year's largest volume of business.

Chance plays no part in this award. It is con- ferred upon the car which has found the most favor among the buyers of America-the car in which they have invested a plurality of their dollars.

It has gone to Buick every year since 1918 because Buick has built better motor cars, and continually put back the savings of increased volume and engineering development into still greater value.,

Nine continuous years of leadership! For any other car to equal this would mean retaining continuous leadership until 1936-almost another decade.

The industrial history of America records no more brilliant achievement than these nine successive years of Buick dominance.

A PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS

.THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1240 or 1247,

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD

HIGHWAY.

HAPPY VALLEY.

The picture above shows two Buick cars dear one of the toll houses of the Hudson Vehicular Tunnel in New York, which was officially opened on November 18th. On the opening day no less than 50,000 automobiles wont through this tunnel, and a steady flow of motor cars has followed over since. It is expected that during the first year 15,000,000 automobiles will pass through the tunnel which is one of the mightiest construction works in America.

BODY CONSTRUC- TION.

Modern British

Methods:

the coachwork is passed through fore are differently heated from the drying kline, and between the the enamelling stove.. two varnishings all the upholster- The air is filtered for Impuri- ing work is done so that the final ties, of course, as it is drawn in, varnish shall not be in any way but it is also washed. It passes damaged by the necessary hand-through a glass-sided tank In ling of the upholsterera..

which lets of water can be scon

At this stage the work has to continually playin. This satur. be done in conditions as aseptic ates the air with moisture before heater British cars have always enjoy-almost as those in a hospital. it passes through the ed a great reputation for quality Every precaution is taken to pre- Chented in this case by steam

too wet

In all parts of the world, and vent dust or impurities in the air, coils and not directly by furnace) to-day their prestige stands higher In the final varnishing rooms the and the air is brought up to a than ever. The standard of body-men work in rubber boots with temperature of 180 deg. F, at work le second to none and it is overalls. They are not allowed which it passes down into the kiln. interesting to examine the ita come in tweed or soft material

The heat is, however, not the methods by which this is achieved. suits that might "uff." The

Humber cars, for instance, have room is enclosed and the floor only thing to be checked in the damp; air currents moving con- kiln. The dew point, or humidity, for many years had a fine reputa- tinually outward from the room must also be watched.. This again tion for the quality, durability and prevent dust from being floated is done automatically, and if the finish of their bodywork. The Humber Works cover 27 acres and in, and the new air supplies pass air becomes too dry or employ between 2,000 and 3,000 through a filter of steel chips its condition is immediately cor-

steam controls.. workers."

The determination of heavily loaded with thick oil which rected by automatic damper and

catches all impurities.

These the firm to produce nothing but a

highly specialised The presence of timber in the quality car, the highest possible: value at the price which is coachwork makes it impossible to methods bring results which en- churged for it, is shown by a num-work at anything like the tempera- hance the reputation Humber ber of special fentures. Thus, in ture used in the wing enamelling Limited have enjoyed for wonder- And it is also vital that (ful bodywork finish since the the blacksmith's shep may be seen process. a selection of articles manufactured the heated air shall not be too earliest days of Motor Manufac

The paintroom kilns there-ture,

by the company, which are usually dry. obtained ready made by other firms.

In the foundry, too, all types of castings (iron and aluminium) are

including produced,

many In- Meantime, A.A. Headquarters tricate die castings. In the la HANDYMEN OF THE This was circulated to the Press,

were being called up by motorists boratories every scrap of material and broadcast,

"Out on the road the patrola were who had left their cars in farm used in Humber Cars is "vetted" by warning traffic of the dangerous or sherts "somewhere in Kent." Find-highly qualified men. Thus, in the impussable places, working out al- ing the right curs was no easy tasks, metallurgical laboratory, samples of ternative routes where fensible, and for more than fifty motors were dis- the aluminium, steel and iron to be giving aid to stranded vehicles. As covered in various sheds and barns issued the next day to the worke Iarge They had been run in during the are tested every day so that no flaw there was an unusually amount of traffic on the roads dur- blizzard, their ownere hurrying can go through and be embodied in ing and after the Christmas holi away on foot for the nearest village car of Ilumber contruction. BLIZZARDS & FLOODS, days, the danger, confusion, and through fear of being snowed up on

delay would have been very much the road. greater for travellers but for the. jassistance of the A.A.

Great Service, of the A.A. Road Patrols.

With its network of A.A. road patrols and rondside telephone

Strange, Experiences..

More than a hundred cars were found embedded in deep drifta on one of the main roads between Lon- few don and the coast. Despite warn- boxes, stretching from the south Many strange and not a coast of England to far north in humorous experiences are recorded inge, many drivers persisted in go- Scotland, Britain bus-through by the patrols. A Kentish farmering on, only to add to the number the Automobile Association-a road visiting his barn after the storm already imprisoned in the anow. intelligence service which is not to was amazed to find two motor cara Small cars wholly disappeared in

All this care costs money, but the result is a car of which the owner can be proud, not as he drives it the first hundred miles, but as he drives it into the 30,000th or 40,000th mile, a car of which "the quality is remembered "long after the price is forgotten."

Many factors combine towards

be found in any other part of the there, one a superb saloon and the same of the drifts, and it was

rather amusing on the following the maintenance of the high

world.

other a small car. He may be par day to see people probing the depths standard of bodywork. Thus, Throughout the blizzards, thaws, doned if he rubbed his eyes for 4 of snow with sticks in the endeav-with the timber used for the floods, frost, and fog this road acr- few moments, and had happy our to find their car. One motorist bodies, in the Stores will be found vice has done invaluable national visions of a belated Christmas pre chartered a team of men to dig for large quantities of the finest ash, work. Day and night the London sent from some munificent friend, his car, and after much toil an ex-mahogany, walnut, whitewood, headquarters of the Automobile As or he may have even thought that sociation have been linked up with the Government had at last decided plorer called out that he had struck &c., and a careful system of mark Further diging and dating each individual all its Arca Ileadquarters in vari- to do acmething handsome for the with his shovel. ous parts of the country. They, in poor farmer. But the vision was ing brought a milestone to light! piece of timber ensures only A farmer in the west country thoroughly seasoned wood being turn, have been in touch with their shattered when on proceeding to road patrola, so that from London another out-building he found two made money out of the snow by used. Further, the timber is sub it was possible to have all available more cara. It was beyond the charging hulf a crown toll for each jected to a laboratory test, to do, information of the latest road con- limit of a friendly act to load him car which drove across his field in termine correctly the amount of order to make a detour around an moisture it contains before being ditions from Penzance to Aberdeen, up with four cars!

Impassable drift in the road way. :- stacked.

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"THE CAR OF

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Lost And Found.

At the Saw Mill, the timber. Two motorists set out from Lon-is rough-cut and shaped by the don on Christmas Eve for a journey chinery, until it comprises com- most efficient and up-to-to-datë ma- through Wales. Their friends be came anxious when no news arrived plete sets of body parts of all after several days. The only In After inspection these parts are types, which only need assembly, formation given to the A.A. was the name of the car owner., As he thon transferred to the Body was a member his badge number Shop, where they are stored and and his car number were found for then built up into complete bodies, Identification purposes, and the as required, inspection taking patrols were notified. Eventually place during

operation. in a remote part of Wales the travellers were found stranded by a After a first coating of lead! patrol.

After losing their way paint on the framing the bodies many timaca in the storms they were now progress to the Panelling held up by tyre troubles.

Shop, where every care and 'akkama

and after each

An overturned and abandoned tion is paid to the preservation of car was discovered by a patrol on up-to-date and beautiful Hans, the Great North road after the The panels, after being shar blizzard had abated. The only clue undergo a rust-preventing pro- was its A.A. badge. The matter cese. was reported to headquarters, the

registered owner was found, ́ ́and In the Paint Shop, in the case communicated with. This was the of the open cara, the cellulose Arst news he had obtained of his finish is carried out. Exhaustivo car, which had been stolen in Lon-and prolonged experiment has re- don on Christmas Eve! The thief sulted in a method of wirkten had run into a drift, and probably this most difficult medium to a had to walk back to London,

degree of highest efficiency.

Red flags by day, and lights by night, were used to mark many dan- In the case of the closed cars, gorous drifts and floods. Fallen the painting is done in many telegraph and telephone wires lay stages. There is the primer coat- across the roads in places and forming, and lead coating, three filler fed a danger to traffic. They were coatings, two colour coatings, a moved back, and trees and other hard-drying varnish and a final obstructions were cleared by the aid varnish. Between each coating | of the patrols,

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