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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

OLDSMOBILE SIX

ODUCT OF GENERAL MOTOR

111-inch Wheelbase÷19,84 H.P. (R.A.C. 'Rating) — 185 cubic Inches pistón displacement-1928 models.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, MARCH - 31, 1928.

THE HENRY FORD OF ENGLAND.

An American Appreciation of Mr. W. R. Morris.

GENERAL MOTORS (G.M.C.) TRUCKS

(POWDERED WITH BUICH 6-CYLINDER ENGINES).

'This entirely new line of General Motors (G.M.C.) Trucki la powered with the famous. Buick 6-cylinder Valve-in-head engine. This is in every sense of the word a modern truck-designed for modern traffic. These trucks are avail able in the following chassis types:-

Dickey-seat Roadster

4-seater

Q.$1,176

Touring Car

..D-seater

1,176

Sedan (2-door)

5-seater

1,260

Sedan (4-door)

.5-seator...

1,350

All prices subject to change without notice.

Kaen appreciation has greeted Oldsmobile's smart_new beauty, Naturally such modish Hines and striking colours would win the llon's share of admiration from those who know it only by sight. But every day Oldsmobile perform ance scizes the attention of those who never know it before- because you can't know It till you drive the car.. This" thrilling, smoother performance is the crowning feature of Oldsmobile the overflowing measure of valus now yours at prices lower than ever before.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

HAPPY VALLEY.-

88 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,

W. R. Morris, the Henry Ford of England, and two of his famous product--the Morris- Cowley coupe, above, and face view of the Morris-Oxford roadster, below. London, Feb. 24-By introduc-fbetter grades of his automobile gine production plant at, Coventry, ing American mass-production products are turned out.

not far from Birmingham," which methods W. R. Morris has won) Small as his first profits were, is the centre of the. British auto- general recognition as the Henry they started Morris on his present mobile industry. These three Ford of England.

plants represent an investment of By 1912 Morris was manufac-$16,000,000, Ing as youthful as many half his buring about 400 cars a year. age, he is conceded the leader When the war came ho had to sus-4 ship.in England's automotive field.pend operations and turn his en- Yet Morris hasn't been content There are 62 automobile manufac-tire plant over to production of with this. He has spread out to turers in this country, yet Morris war materials.

related fields, and so has major

Only in his early forties, look-

Jundertaking.

Has Many Interests.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD. alone last year produced almost as But no sooner was the war over interest in a steel body firm or- many cars as all the rest of them when he resumed operations on a ganized by an American body com: together.

larger scale than before. In 1920 pany, in a large garage construc- This le the vast undertaking of a he produced 357 automobiles, stilltion company, in a lacquer factory, single man, unscientific as college- quite a small showing. But the in a commercial car plant, in a bred engineers 'go, untutored ex-very next year he jumped to French branch, and in the reor cept in the work-a-day experiences production 2027 cars and since ganized Wolsely Motor Company, of his life, unaided in his rise to then he has been increasing his which he had bought for $3,000,- fame and fortune.

production by enormous leaps. Q00.

THE

M-U

MOTOR UNION

INSURANCE C T.

Incorporated in England

(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)

SPECIALISES IN MOTOR INSURANCE

LOCAL AGENTS,

THE UNION TRADING 'Co., Ltd

YorkBuilding,

Phone C. 587.

CHRYSLER

(52)

A Price and Type for Every

Need 62

Haven Body

Six body styles

Seven body styles

"HE whole world knows how the Chry Taler has won public preference in the four great price fields by initiating vital Improvements in appearance, comfort, performance, dependability and long life.

80

Bina badly solas

Because of Chrysler's invet- erate habit of stepping faster thanthe procession, the world today expects and receives extra quality and extra value" In every Chrysler.

A. LUNG 8 CO.,

19, Queen's Road, Central

MOTORISTS

VICTIMISED.

Fainting Woman Fraud.

Telephone C. .1219

Produces 60,000 Cars,

At the beginning of this century, shortly after the automobile 'had been introduced, Morris found Last year, as a result, Morris' himself working as a mechanic and production was 60,000 cars, almost repair man for a bicycle dealer. half the total production of all Ife hadn't had much schooling, England. especially in tho technical

The garage, company that in- terests Morris furnishes a little insight into the man's methods and compares him favourably with Henry Ford. It builds portable garages especially to fit Morris Success for Morris is founded ing and highly serviceable.

cars! They are cheap, good-look- mysteries of automotive or gaso-on the same ground as that for; line engines. Yet he early reallz Henry Ford., Ile too has built a helped the sale of his cars with Besides this "atunt," Morris has ed the great significance of this low-priced automobile by cultivat-his own system of financing instal new mode of transportation. ing American practices and stan-Iment purchases on an easy pay:

dards.

ment plan and with the additional

Bullda First Engine.

At the large plant in Cowley, inducement of free insurance for So young Morris studied the about 50 miles from London, one year.. construction of this new form of Morris' lowest priced car is pro- power and soon had an entire duced. At Oxford, his medium methods even to the advertising Morris has adopted American motorcycle engine built with his and highest-priced products are and sale of his cars, He is a great own hands. Tinkering around made.

bellever in national advertising] with this frat engine, Morris There are still some American on a large scale and all the news wasn't long in deciding what his cars in England that are next step should be. He opened fcheaper than the Morris-Cowley, adds. He has gone strongly into even papers and magazines with hit up a garage In his home town of but no British car can compete the export business and already Oxford...

with it in price,

sends out 10 per cent. of his pro- That garage has grown into a Bealdes his 'plants at Cowley duction, mostly to Europe and the tremendous plant where the two and Oxford, Morris has a large en-British dominions,

ETHYL SPIRIT.

Home Secretary's Statement.

-Model: Wheelbare:

Payad capacity:

Delivered

T-20-A 152 chassis

3,000 pounds

C$1,345

T-20-C

150 chassis

3,000 pounds

G81,465

T-10-T

125 tractor

3,500 pounds.

682,335

T-10-A

136" chassis.

5,500 pounds

G82,275

·T-40-B

150" chassis

5,300 pounds

682,205

T-10-C

169 chassis

5,500 pounds

G$2,510

T-40-D

175". chassis

5,500 pounds

682,400

T-40-E

188" chassis

5,500 pounds

682,450

T-SO-T

1234 tractor.

4,000 pounds

G82,455

T-50-A

136" - chassis

6,000, pounds

€82,380

T-50-B

150* choosin

0,000 pounds

GS2,405

T-51-C

162" chassis

0,000 pounds

082,420

T-60-D 175 chassis T-50-E

4,000 pounds

682,500

188**chassis

1,000 pounds

682,550

These G.M.C. Trucks are supreme in flexibility and In endurance. Equally remarkable is the low price which is only. possible because of the tremendous volume of General Motors Production. General Motors (G.M.C.) Trucks and Tractors. and also available in heavy duty types, the capacities of which range from 2% to 15 tons. All prices and specifications sub- ject to change without notice.

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247. 33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,"

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HAPPY VALLEY,

MOTORING ON HOME LEAVE.

With a minimum of

WORRY AND EXPENSE.

We can supply you with any make of car on our BUY BACK GUARANTEE.

We relieve you of all trouble of obtaining Licences, Insurance, Registration, A. A. or R. A. ¤, membership, etc.,

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WITHOUT CHARGE.

Full particulars on application to :—

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P. &0. House, 14/15, Cockspur St., London, 8. W.

or by writing to our LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE C/o Box No. 333. ·.

"Hongkong Telegraph.

effect on workers engaged in The Home Secretary: I know of occupations in which there is any that warning. I have given a very likelihood of their being exposed to careful answer. This is a new risk from, the use of this substance substance and we are keeping it ls being, and will continue to be, under most careful consideration carefully watched. So far, no and investigation at present. If not also considering the effect of lop and that that was the danger case of lead poisoning has occur anything of that kind la discovered the use of this petrol on the City in this substance.. red,

Inced hardly day I will deal with population in the crush,

Mr. Wallhead (50c, Merikyr) A special investigation into the

It

The Home Scretary replied that suggested that the Government/ effects of tetra-ethyl lead in petrol |

Commander. Kenworthy then his Department dealt with health should request their Researche is likely to be ufidertaken by tho Commander Kenworthy also ask-asked the Home Secretary whether in factories and that the Minister Department to take the matter up. Government's Department of ed the Home Secretary whether he he was aware that in the United of Health dealt with general ques The Home Secretary: I can, 1

had seen a letter from Sir William States five deaths and thirty cases tions of public health,

think, quite reasonably do that Pope, the eminent chemist, re- of poisoning had occurred in a Col. Howard-Bury (C., Cholms will consult the Minister For This is the essence of answers cently, in which he gave a grave factory. Was he confining his at ford) asked whether the. Home Health and see if the Research: by the Home Secretary, Sir Wil-warning against the use of this tention to the dangers to factory Secretary knew that lead poisoning Department, can take thin matkas

workers, and was the Government took a considerable time, to deve more fully in hand. llam Joynson 'Hicks, in the House substance.

Scientific Research.

of Commons, recently,

Commander Kenworthy (CA Hull) asked the Home Secretary what steps he had taken to ascer- tain that no II-effects resulted from the use of such petrol, especially in large cities, and whether he was aware that strin-1 gent regulations had had to be] imposed on the use of this fuel in America.

No Injury in US Sir William Joynson-Hicks re- plied: The effect of the use of this substance on the public health is a matter outside the jurisdiction; of the Home Office, but in view of tho possibility that special woman lying by the roadside at measures might have to be taken Newport Pagnell. A man who was with her said she had fainted for the protection of factory for want of breakfast. They were workers, the Department has been given some money.

following closely the investigationą which have been carried out in

On the previous Monday ko saw the United States, and I, under- the same woman in a filnt on the stand that no evfilence has been same road, this time between Kib-discovered thero of Injury: being, worth and Market Harborough caused to the public. The same man was there, tolling the same story.

Home motorists were recently warned against a new fraud--the woman who faints by the roadside, A Daily Mail reader writing from Bunton-Basselt, Leicestershire, atated that, while driving from Leicester to London he sawal his expense.

It is not the case, so I am in- formed, that any regulation has A Daily Mail reporter has also been imposed in the United States reported that he saw a woman on the use of this substance, but 'faint beside his car. This was on instructions are issued by the the Leicester-London road at company supplying it, and the Dunstable. Her breakfast was at same thing le being done in this country. I may add that the

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