THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, “ MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
OLDSMOBILE SIX
RODUCT OF GENERAL MOTO
111-Inch Wheelbase-19.84 H.P. (R.A.C. Rating) 185 cubic. inches piston displacement-1928 models.
Dickey-sent Rondster
.4-seater
Touring Car
.5-Heater
Sedan (2-door)
5-seater
Sedan (4-door)
..5-senter
G.$1,175 1,175 1,200. 1,360
All prices subject to change without notice. Keen appreciation has greeted Oldsmobile's smart bew beauty. Naturally such modish lines and striking colours would win the lion's share of admiration from those who know it only by sight. But every day' Oldsmobile perform- ance seizes the attention of those who never knew it before- This you drive the car. because you can't know. thrilling, smoother performance is the crowning' feature of Oldsmobile-the overflowing measure of vajue now yours at prices lower than ever before.
SELLING INFERIOR
PETROL.
"Shell" Mixed with
"Cracked" Spirit.
A HOME CASE.
A case of considerable Interest
"KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD.".
Foundation of New Order at Home.
'BADGES FOR GOOD
DRIVERS.
to motorists at Home who buy A new "Round Table" and patrol from rondside filling Knightly Order for motorists, atations was decided at Surrey which will be known as "The Order Quarter Sessions, held at Kingston, of the Road," was Instituted re- recently.
cently at Home with the object of Messrs. F. W. Deats and Co., encouraging skilful driving, thus |Ltd., proprietors of a petrol filling making the roade of the country
station in Brighton-road, Burgh safer for all users. Heath, were summoned under the
The executive committee of the Merchanise Marks Act with apply-Order consists of the Earl of Cot- ing a false trade description to two gallons of petrol, and altorna- tively with selling the petrol t which a false trade description had been applied.
They were fined £20 and ordered to pay £20 towards the costs of the prosecutiou.
The case was originally before the Epsom Magistrates and was sent to the Sessions, as the defen- dants elected to be tried by a jury. A plea of not guilty was entered.
Public at Retailers' Mercy. Mr. G. D. Roberts, prosecuting, said that the gist of the case was
tenham (Chairman), Sir Arthur Stanley, Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. C. loore-Burabazon, M. P., Professor A. M. Low, and Mr. Lee Guinness, and it is proposed to issue badges o deserving motorists who for three years have not had any.con- victions against them for dan- gerous driving nor had any serious accidents.
At a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel a message Lord Cottenham read from the Home Secretary, welcom- ing the movement and wishing them every success.
The qualifications are that no that Messrs. Deats sold as Shell driver can become a member of the petrol spirit which was not Shell, | order unless he can produce but a brand of petrol which had evidence which will satisfy the been wrongfully substituted for executive committee that he has; Shell.
driven a motor vehicle on the roads
The motoring public, he said, for at least ten thousand miles was largely at the mercy of petrol during the three years prior to the retailers, on whose honesty they date of his application for mem- had to rely, and if a retaller sub-bership; that he has not been con- stituted one kind of petrol for victed for driving to the danger
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD. another with the object of making of the public during the same
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
HAPPY VALLEY.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, -
No Car 525
Compares With Chrysler in MONEY-VALUE
80
Five body styles
Sin body stylez
72
62
Seven body sizz
Stern body
styles.
Chrysler Standardised Quality, by. ploncering and developing count- less improvements and making them available to all Chrysler cars, has set up new standards of value and has given new meaning to "price" and "price classes."
Chrysler cars-"52," "62," "mys and Imperial "80"-can be com pared only with others far above them in price in every field,
CHRYSLER
A. LUNG Ở CO.
&
19, Queen's Road Central.
ADVERTISERS
IN THIS
MOTORING,
SUPPLEMENT
ARE REQUESTED.
TO SEND
CHANGE
OF "COPY"
NOT LATER
THAN WEDNESDAY
OF EACH WEEK.
For lates and Suggestions
apply to
The Manager
*The Hongkong Telegraph
Tel. C. No. 1.
OVERCHARGING.
over
an unlawful profit, his offence period, and lastly that he has not could be discovered only if the been responsible for causing an petrol were analysed.
necident on the public highway during that time.
Code of Chivalry.
The Shell spirit at the defen- dants' petrol station was contain- ed in a sealed tank locked with a padlock and chain, but by some un- The annual subscription will be lawful means which he was unable 108. (for paid drivers and for to prove the tank was opened and motor cyclists. 5s.), while the foreign spirit was introduced. badge can ofther be affixed to the Vivian Charles Varcoe, an em-ear or worn in the button-hole. A ployee of Shell-Mex, Limited, gave member also undertakes to inform evidence of the purchase, on July the committee of any accidents he 23, of two gallons of Shell petrol may be in, and any convictions he from a pump at Deats' station may receive. The committee will bearing the word. "Shell."
investigate all doubtful cases Mrs. Gertrude Stanley, pro-their merits and will, in fact, con- prietress of a tea house near the stitute. a jury for maintaining a garage, said that about 6.30 a.m. high standard of driving, one day last July she looked out of the top window of her house and anw a long tube connecting the Power pump with the Shell
iank.
Mr. Deats was holding the tube over the Shell tank and his father in-law was operating the Power
pump.
on
A member on joining is required to promise that his first object shall always bo consideration for all drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, and other road users whenever he is driving on a public highway.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.
PACKARD
CUSTOM EIGHT MOTOR CARRIAGES.
30 20 H.P. R.A.C. Rating block test actually develops more than 105 · H.P. - 384.80 cubic inches piston displacement.
Effective immediately we announce the following
VERY SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS in our delivered prices of Packard Custom Eight Motor Carriages.
The details of these
STARTLING PRICE SLASHES
are as follows, all prices being in U. S., Currency and for delivery in this territory.
Model:
2-seater Runabout 5-seater Phaton
Old Price:
G$4,460
Reduction:
G$ 95
New Price:
G$4,365
G$4,460
G$ 95
G$4,305
7-seater Touring
G$4,535
G$ 70
G$4,465
2-seater Coupe...
G$5,270
*G$500
G$4,770
2-seater Convertible Coupe
G$5,370
G$500
G$4,870
4-seater Coupe...
G$5,575
G$500
G$5,075
G$5,575
G$500
Q$5,075
..G$5,780.
G-$705
G$5,075.
$5,880,
G$705
G$5,175
5-seater Club Sedan
7-seater Sedan... 7-seater Sedan Limousine
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These price reductions were announced by the Packard Motor Car Company immediately following their quarterly statement for the period ended December 31st, 1927, which shows that the Company is now enjoying the greatest volume of business in its entire history. The cars remain, the 'identical same PACKARD CUSTOM EIGHTS that the factory has been building in the past.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247. 33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,
London
way streets and other traffic re- gulations.
HAPPY VALLEY.
car
Now, of course, it is quite im- MOTORISTS IN
possible for everyone to go through a 'bus driver's course, and Scotland TRAFFIC.
Improving a Bad Driver.
Yard would be overwhelmed fi The London 'bus driver sets a everyone had to pass the test that He also agrees to give clear!
standard of driving which we can- the 'bus driver is given there. But signals; never to overtake another
not all be expected to attain, but I believe that something will have vehicle unless he can do so without Problem of Mrs. Stanley admitled in cross-
at anyrate I think it may be to be done in the near future to Delays.
possible to take a few hints from raise the standard of driving in examination that she had had an inconveniencing any other road unpleasant different with Mr. user; never willingly to stop any
vehicle in any position on a public What is going to happen to Lon him. I have a certain young man central London and make it com Deats, but denied that she was highway where its presence would don traffic in a few years' time?
in mind, who a year ago was one pulsory for everyone who takes the prejudiced..
coustitute a danger to other traffic; This question crops up again and of the most naturally inellicicnt car responsibility of piloting a Samuel Pleeth, an analyst em-to give ample space to other traffic, again in the mind of everyone who drivers I knew. He was thorough there to know the pitfalls and It is not the private car drivor ployed by the Shell-Mex Company, and to keep to the left-hand side of has to priot a car through the Lon-ly bad in every sense of the word, intricacies of our streets. said that the petrol he analysed he road under all conditions the don streets, says a writer in abut during the course of his work was not Shell, but was a mixture might lead to danger; to drive with London Journal. Almost daily we with the L.G.O.C. he went through who is alone to blame; many lorry a driving course and drove a 'bus and van drivers would have difficul of Shell and a "cracked" spirit of caution at all road crossings and are deluged with new round-about on the streets for about a fortnight. ty in passing any sort of test, while RN inferior grade. The petrol anctions, and to keep the Order traffic systems, and regulations He is now one of the best drivers quite a number of taxis are driven contained only 40 per cent. of nformed of any accidents
pour out of the Ministry of Trans- one could meet anywhere, and his on the principle that if you keep Shell spirit. There was no trace which he may be involved in which port. All the time the grim whole mathod has been revolu- going other people will generally of water in it.
amage is done..
spectre of traffic stagnation is tionised to everybody's advantage. get out of your way. Again, the creeping up and up, and it takes When I came to drive with him difculty of parking cars now put longer and longer to get from point recently I was astonished at the in the way of the private motorist to point, while the dangers of the change that had been brought about in central London is so great that, streets are steadily increasing. ip a few short weeks. I never generally speaking, it le usually bad very much better to be driven than I am not for a moment decrying believed it possible that a the things that have been done to driver could be taught to drive tell. to drive oneself. improve. this state, of affairs. The roundabout, systems have their critics, and undoubtedly the changes make the lot of the unfortunate pedestrain harder, but, generally speaking, they have helped to speed up the traffic.
Anthony Aylward, a chauffeur, stated that about 9 o'clock one; Every member will be supplied night last July he saw a man with separate certificates of mem-
the and working the Power pump at Deats' ership.
committee petrol station, and as there was no sincerely hope that in this way an will be motor car there he traced the pipe mportant contribution and found that it was connected made towards safer motoring. to the Shell pipe..
The address of the Order is Max Christopher Teale, a divisional well House, Arundel-street, W.C. 2. manager of Shell-Mex Limited;
A. Good Move. said that the defendant company
complained that water had ot In commenting on the above, the into their Shell tanks, and men Londen Morning Post says:- were sent to pump out the water..
"A new association-it might There was no complaint after almost be called a Crusade-was The real solution of the problem April 12. When told of the launched on the motoring public seems to lie in the professionalisa- alleged adulteration of petrol Mr. yesterday. It is called The Order tion of all drivers, that is to say, Deats said: "If there is anything of the Road, and aims on a lesser that driving a car in Central Lon- in the petrof it must be water."
model at some of the objects of an don will no longer be considered as This concluded the case for the order of chivalry. If, being the an amateur job, and will require driver of a motor-ear, one can fulfil special qualifications. I am not in prosecution.
certain tests as to clean licence, favour of driving oxaminations be "A Grudge Against Me”.
iramunity from accident, and good fore the granting of licences, but Frederick William Dents, giving reputation with, an insurance com- I think that the authorities will by the chief engineer of a well-evidence for the defence, said that pany; if, being the driver of a shortly have to place London in a is determined to category of its own, and insist that, known manufacturing who pointed out that overcharging he had never put any other kind motor-car,. one
The question whether charging does or does not injure a battery is one which closely con- cerns the owner-driver, who often wants to know whether he should always keep the battery on charge whatevor its condition. The question was recently dealt with
concern
per portion of the plates and in- He did not possess a pipe which existence and display of such a
1
4
tain batterica; in which tho, plates "I suggest," he said, "that Mrs
are not protocted by a complete diaphragm or separator, particles Stanley invented her story because of lead or lead sulphate carried up she has a grudge arainst me.”
dock hurm in several ways. The of petrol into the Shell tank, and observe not only the actual rules, at any rate during the busy parts lowering of the electrolyte level spirit taken from the Shell pump but the innate courtesies. of the of the day, inexperienced people by extensive decomposition will, was in exactly the same condition road, then the badge of this new who do not know their way about as when it was delivered to him Order will be available. It is im- shall not be allowed to impede the unless made good, uncover the by the Shell-Mex Company.
possible as yet to say how far the passage of other vehicles..
It is not so much safe driving crease the current density on the
the badge-owners, or have a as efficient driving that will have covered portion of the plates, re- would reach from the Power pump badge may prove of advantage to
and to the Shell tank, and he had not stimulating effect on the, as yet, to be considered. Take the case of Buiting in overheating abnormal
depreciation. In cer- a key which would open the Shell
badgeless, Moreover, it will, we a stranger who comes to London Lank.
think, be necessary to prevent the for the first time. He may be per display of unearned badges. But fectly capable of driving his car, the movement interests us, and, at but he cannot be expected to know first sight, wing our sympathy, all the intricacies of our "merry-go- A tremendoub motorista themselves to put their als own he causes
amount of delay. edges or on projecting ledges Mr. Roberts, replying to the own house in order,
These people should simply not and in time bridge across and Chairman (Mr. Cecil Whiteley,
"It seems vain to expect from be allowed to drive a car within a short circuit the plates. These K.C.) as to the inancial position also suffer material damage, the of the defendant company, said the Government that serious atradius of, say, three miles of Char
not tempeso to amend the law as to ing Cross. This may savour of active material of the negative that the prosecution, was plates contracting and the girds undertaken by the Shell-Mex Com- bring greater safety to the roads Prussianism, but it is really to the of the positives becoming oxidised pany in a vindictive spirit, and and a more just dealing for good interest of all concerned that any and, futhermore, the active materi- they did not press for a heavy and had motorists, which is, we one who really wants or has to al of the positive plates suffers penalty. They took the proceed think, overdue. Meanwhile, The drive in these districts will have to from mechanical and chemical logs because they felt it was their Order of the Road may prove its learn to drive up to a certain stand- use and value. at all events, it is ard, and, above all, know his one- effects. Overcharging, therefore, duty to do 50
a portent"
by the circulating electrolyte will The jury found the defendants because it is a definite attempt by rounds," and through no fault of form spongy lead on the upper guilty.
does cause increased depreciation. A fine was imposed as stated.
GOOD BRAKES BUT
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