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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT. BUICK WILL BUILD THEM

Touch the Starter

[MMEDIATELY, the Buick engine starts. The weather may be bitterly cold, but Buick has a high speed start- ing motor, Automatic Heat Control and Thermostatic Circulation Control. These three Buick features mean easier starting and smoother perform- ance 365 days a year.

Buy a Buick. You will enjoy driving it!

EVER BUILT

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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246

Telephone Central 3500

· 33, Wong Nei Chung Road. 33, Des Voeux Road Central.

WHEN- BETTER AUTÓMOBILES ARE BUILT: BUICK WILL

NEW

BUILD THEM

CHRYSLER 52

In Money-Value, in Performance in Comfortable Size-Without Rival

The smart New Chrysler "52" at phenomenal low prices-with quality un changed-is more than ever the greatest value in the low-priced field.

Full-sized bodies of excep tional fineness, roomier by far than any other car of comparable price. Long, flexible carsprings and extra- farge balloon tyres, giving you all the comfort of a large, high-priced car,

It has power, speed and accel cration characteristic of all

Chryslers. And, above every. thing, it gives you a smooth- ness of operation and ease of handling and riding, that enables you to use its fleet- ness and dash' with feal comfort.

The smart New Chrysler "52" is everything that Chry éler quality has come to mean: among motor cars. Study it' in intimate detail. Ride in it. Drive it. Then see how its low prices put it far bes yond comparison with any other car in this group.

A. LUNG

Seven Body Types

Tourer Two-Seater Coupe

Coupe Two Door Saloon Four-Door Saloon' DeLuxe Saloon

Two-Seater and Deluxe. Coupe›ave equipped

Rich dickey sch

& CO. &

Sole Agents

19, Queen's Road, C.

Phone C.1219.

PROVEOHRYSEI

-MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928.

NEW LIGHT. SIX.

A New "Whippet" Model.

hood to furnish extra leg room for. the occupants of the front sent, :

In the design of the power plant and construction of the chassis, Mr. Willys says that they have. endeavoured to incorporate all the featurea usually associated only The Willys-Overland Company with the higher priced cars Tho of Toledo, Ohio, (U.S.A.), have motor has a bore of 3-4 Inches just made an announcement which and a stroke of 3-% and develops may prove to be as significant in 43 horsepower. The use of alumi Its influence on the market forinium alloy pistons with an invar- light, six-cylinder cars as was the steel strut prevents piston distor dramatic price development in the tion and gives greater power, light four-cylinder field earlier in efficiency and smoothness. The the current year. They have an-use of long connecting rods, 9 nounced a now car, the "Walppet inches, adds to the smoothness of Six" at a price range which makes operation by greatly reducing side it the lowest priced six-cylinder thrust at high motor spoeds. car ever offered.

An outstanding mechanical fea-

At the announced prices, the ture of the Whippet Six is the Whippet Six Coach is G.$50 below employment of a 7-bearing crank- the nearest six-cylinder car now on shaft, marking the catablishment of a new standard quality among the market.

This new car, unlike any other low priced sites. Mr. Willys de- six within 3150 of its price, clares that the use of a 7-bearing equipped with a 7-bearing crank-crankshaft in every type of six- cylinder car will probably become shaft, setting a new trend among light six-cylinder cars. Other im general within the next two years. The lubrication system is full portant, mechanical features in- clude full pressure ofling system, pressure type, regulated to pre over-lubrication at high extra long connecting rods, invarvent strut pistons, silent timing chain, speeds. The oil pump is driven and a single plece, pressed steel, by a spiral gear on the camshaft. banjo-type rear axle.

The spark le retarded for starting. by means of a control located on Mr. John N. Willys, President of the Instrument board. After the the company, states that the Whip motor has started this control is pet Six has been in preparation for pushed back and control of the the past year and that it has un-apark to automatic, accomplished dergone the most exhaustive tests by a centrifuga) governor located ever made on any new model put in the distributer. out by Willys-Overland. "For months we have had 150 experi-

A single plate, dry disclutch is mental Whippet Sixes in operation used, the clutch housing and trans- integral. mission case being in all parts of the United States," Transmission is of the conven- sald Mr. Willys, "subjecting tional type, with three forward them to every known severe test:

Jun

in a determined effort to make this speeds and one reverso. car mechanically perfect before we High quality is shown in ail offered it to the buying public." material specifications, the use of. Timken bearings, molybdenum "After the Whippet 'Six had been steci, in the drive shaft, chromo declared mechanically correct, we put it through a gruelling 24-vanadium steel in all springs and hour

invarstrut pistons, being indica- on the Indianapolis tive of the careful attention given Speedway, where it set a new re this phase of the work. cord for cars under $1,000. The

With the prices on the Whippet Whippet Six travelled 1,357-% miles in 1,440 minutes, including Six lower than for any other six, stops, averaging 56.52 miles an and with the Whippet Four pre hour. It has shown outstanding (senting one model at a lower price ability to climp steep grades in than that offered on any other caf high gear. During a special 50 of its type, Willys-Overland steps mile run, it averaged 68 milos Aninto a price leadership in the two hour. In second gear, it averaged mass volume groups of cars, with 35.73 miles an hour for 150 miles. distinctive models characterized

"Each of these teats was official by quality and beauty. ly observed by the Hoosier Motor Club of Indianapolis, a branch of the American Automobile Aaso ciation."

Production of the Whippet Six has been in progress for several: weeks and dealers now have de- monstrating models, while further The wheelbase of this new car shipments for prompt delivery to customers ATE well under way. ie 110 inches, and full balloon Production plana for the Whippet tyres, are standard equipment on:

the largest output Six call for all modela.

ever reached by Willys-Overland Equipment includes automatic in the six-cylinder field, which was windshield wiper on enclosed mo-made necessary by advance denler dels, rear view mirror, dome light orders and estimates. In the sedan and couch, combina-

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tion stop light and tail light," fuel Sales of the Whippet Four have tank at rear with vacuum feed, far exceeded any previous volume. motor driven horn, front snubbers, in the history of the company, and 80-miles speedometer, and the production in this group is now usual instrument board indicators, at the rate of 1,100 per day. Mr. There are 864 inches of springs Willys states that general sales on either side of the ear, the figures for the first three months springs. semi-elliptic in type, with of this year clearly indicate a lower seven leaves, Tryon spring strong trend toward the

Coupled shackles are used, these shackles priced fours and sixes. being self-lubricating and self- with the heavy demand for the adjusting,

Whippet Four, the new Whippet Braking equipment utilizes the Six therefore becomes an impor

Brass Tack Talks on Miller Tires

GEARED-TO-THE-ROAD

Ir we were buying tires instead of selling them we should seek out the tire that boasts the greatest improve- ments and when we found

found it, we

should put our money down and buy that tire. If you buy this way, you will buy Miller Scientifically Correct Bal- loons-built for new-day driving con- ditions.

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Á LUNG & CO.

Sole Agents;

19, Queen's Road, 0. Phone C. 1219.

You can't get the most out of life unless

your see something of it.

See it with

"Austin 7".

an

mechanical type of "four-wheel tant part of the Willys-Overland ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.

prakes, with 220 square inches of programme.

braking surface. The service brake operates on all four wheels,

while the hand brake operates on

the rear wheels,

NO TRAFFIC SIGNS.

Hancock, Mr., Apr. 26. Because city officials believe Bodies for the new Whippet Six that the absence of traffic signs on will be built in a new unit of the its streets will cause motorists to Willys-Overland factory, which stop and ask questions-and, In- will permit marked saving in body cidentally, spend

moncy--they costs. The new car is low in de- have refused permission to the sign, with the hood long and nar-state roads commission to ercet row, emphasizing the length of the auch signs within its limits. The car. Enclosed bodies are fitted city officials also argue that with cadet type sun visor. Re-under the increased Бреса mote door controls are used, in allowed by, law, motorists would accordance with the modern nole have to stop or slow down to read in body design, and the dash con- the signs. And, anyway, signs are struction is extended under the too expensive."

THE BEST, 25 YEARS AGO.

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