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THE

Every Young

Man Should

have a Motor-

cycle.

EASY PAYMENT PLAN

HONGKONG” TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JUNE

· SHIPPING CARS UNCRATED.

How the American A.A. Helps Tourists.

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TRUCKS

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A.J.S. MOTORCYCLES From £61:0:0 up.

INDIAN MOTORCYCLES From G$245.00 up.

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Unerated, automobiles are hoisted aboard the ocean liner like this and stored for tho trip abroad. At the port of entry an agent of the American A. A. hands the tourist his.

necessary papers, as in inset

2:

But

Passport and Vise First.

Obtaining the necessary papers

for touring abroad is a more com- plicated task.

Paper for Car Owners.

The papers include:

1-A "triptyque" or customs pass for the temporary importa- 'Lion of a cur into one country

2-A "carnet de

Washington, April 30.-Once all preparations are made it is onay for an American to tour Europe in his own automobile.

The preparations are quite numerous and complicated. even these have been reduced to a minimum through a special ser- vice for this purpose maintained by the American Automobile Ax-district court at a cost of $10. sociation.

Applicants must present two; small, unretouched photographs of themselves, one signed, but it is advisable to keep a dozen more; for these are frequently demanded during a European, journey.

First comes the passport. This, only.. is needed whether a car is taken along or not. It is obtainable from the clerk of the local U.S.

In a valuable booklet, "Motor- ing Abroad," the A.A.A. details complete information as to how an American tourist may ship his car abroad and tour the European countries without difficulty or fear of being molested.

Nowadays automobiles are ship ped unerated, and the steamship companies have gone so far as to take the entire responsibility for this job out of the hands of the car owner, All a motorist need do is ride up to the ship, leave his car here and forget about it until he lands at the European part.

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At the other end, an agent of the A.A.A, sees that the car is sup- plied with fuel and oil and is pass ed through customs for the owner.

CARS AND THEIR EQUIPMENT.

After the passport comós a vise for each country to be visited, These are obtainable in New York at the various consular offices.

passage en

douanes" or international customs Pass for passage into 12 of the most important countries in Eu-

rope, thus taking the place of 12 triptyques.

pass" or driver's license for ench 3-An "international travelling person intending to drive in Eu- rope. This document requires fivo photographs of each driver, pase- port size, with a photostat copy of the home state driving license or, where there is no such license, a certificate from the local chief of police certifying the driver's abi- lity to opérate a car,

That is the regular requirement for all tourists. Those taking The A.A.A. has all this ready their automobiles, in addition, for the motorist when he arrives have to have three additional docu- at the port of entry. All the mo- ments, besides going through other torist does is fill out a forni pro- forms of red tape. All this is vided by the association and send made easy for the tourist if he will it in with a deposit of $50 toward merely write to the foreign tour expenses for the various papers ing department of the AAA. in and licenses to be obinined Washington, and have it" prepare Whatever additional sum is due ia the resessary papers and forball-collected by the' A.A.A. after the Ities.

trip

The Hydraulic Jack.

operating rod with the cross-piece is not the handiest, of instruments, ) and by the time the jack really The lowering or de-jacking pro- begins to take up the weight of cess is equally simple and easy, the car the work of turning the and the device is of real help The Inadequacy of a handle becomes hard. All this either when changing a wheel or Jack and its Remedy, leads to that little snag in the taking off the wheel to give work of jacking up which many thorough attention to the under Power, quality, and price all of us have discovered. a snag works. As a practical illustration taken into consideration, "the small which is more than ordinarily an-jof its valug I may instance the tur has been brought to a very noying. This anag arises when, pecasion when, having a puncture, high pitch of efficiency, and it ía jacking

3 wheel the two of us jacked up, changed the

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possible now to use the machine tyre of which las punc-wheel, placed the punctured one on for months on end without doing tured, You get Jif enough the carrying bracket, and inflated more to it than add petrol, oil, and to take off the wheel, but find that the spare une now brought into water, and attend to the greasing. the spare wheel, because of its use, and from stopping to starting It may be added, too, that we have fully inflated tyre, will not go on; again took no more than five much to thank the manufacturers the lift has not been enough. minutes... The device is one that for in all this, because it is due You take a few more turns at the should command the attention of chiefly to them that the car has handle, to find that the jack is apicar manufacturers. Its cost in reached this well-nigh foolproof to its uttermost, and that you still not heavy, and it is cheaper to fit stage. Yet with all the improve-need half an inch or so more lift to the chassis than to the complete ment of the past few yours there

car at a later stage, for obvious reasons.

is much left undone, and where the car falls short of what we, as owner-drivers would like, is in

A Way Out, You can't get it because of the

In this matter of jack equipment we are apparently to go much

each wheel, has been invented!

those details of equipment which combination of the full lift of the further, and, on paper at least, on i jack and the camber of the road, have to be bought by the car There is but one way out of the much improved lines. A jack, or manufacturer. There is scarcely difficulty: you replace the punctura full complement of them, one to a small car but the equipment of ed wheel temporarily, de-jack the which is of the hydraulic type, which can be improved by the pur-ear, seek for a brick, a stone, or and each and any jack can be chase of som gadget or some essential by the owner, but the piece of wood for a foundation for brought into use simply by work- articles so bought might just as Jack, and begin the work all over ing a small handle attached to the well be provided by the maker as again. And thereafter you, carry hydraulic part of the mechanism, part and parcel of the standard a small, block of wood about with This mechanism is mounted under equipment. Experience gained by you for such purposes.

A Common Experience.

BACK SEAT 'DRIVING.

1

the floorboards, in the front seat many an owner leads to the con- The 'whole business is wrongly To Jack any wheel you simply set clusion that in some matters of conceived, firstly because the jack a pointer, bring the handle into equipment the makers buy to a ought to be good enough and big play, and the appropriate wheel is price and not because of the real enough of lift to meet all road easily and almost instantly lifted. usefulness of the article so bought camber conditions, and fundamen-Thus the description of it, in brict; tally wrong because jacking ought it is a device with which one hopes not to be a manual task. We have to make further acquaintances. How many cars, for example, many women drivers, and ears are. have really adequate jacks; jacks advertised as being well suited for that can easily be brought into women drivers; I have not yet position for use, and that will lift come across one that is offered for the wheel clear from the road sale as a car that can be easily Kanans City,When to scream whatever the camber? This is a jacked up and in other ways at "look out" at their husbands and fault not confined to small ears, tended to by a woman. The best when to remain silent, are one of

of the best and most thing I have yet ween in the way the things taught women luxurious are not so well equipped of an easily handled and efficient Kangas City in a new motor car in this particular as an owner jack is one which is permanently driving school. The women alas might expect. The general trouble attached, one to each side of the are being trained to handle the with the standard type of jack isļear. All that is then carried is a wheel and, In addition, to make that it requires some effort to loose handle, and with this handle, minor repairs and supervise those place it in position; the driver basag I have seen demonstrated, a being made by mechanics. The to get down on to his hands and woman driver can lift a car or school is operated by the Kansas knees, if indeed he has not to lie one side of a car, for each fack]City Safety Council and a group of prone, before he can place it exactlifts the whole of its own aide clean [club-women interested in proving ly where it ought to go when from the road-in under a that women are more skilled as brought into use. Then the long minute.

[motor car drivers than are men.

some

of

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Great Series.

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Six Cylinder Engine

Chania Price

One Ton.

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Telephone Central 1248 Telephone Centrál 3500

33, Wong Nei Chung Road,

33, Des Voeux Road Central,

A TRUCK FOR EVERY PURSE AND PURPOSE

CHEVROLET/

CHEVRDLE) A

Bigger

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Better

HONGKONG DELIVERED PRICES. SERIES A. B. "NATIONAL"

R.A.C. Horse Power Rating 21.7 PISTON Displacement 170.9 Cu. In.

HETT

CHASSIS TON .... ROADSTER 2 Passenger *.* TOURER

* COACH

* COUPE

5 Passenger

Brake Horse Power 35 at 2200 Revolutions Wheelbase 107 inches

PAOKING SHIPMENT NETT. CASH DELIVERY HONGKONG

WEIGHT

1765 lb.

F.O.B. EXTRA FACT: NETT

G$375

G$21

G$184

G$ 580

2100 ..

495.

56

219

770

2160

.495

56

219

770

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5 Passenger

2430

585

270

900

2 Passenger

2305

595

270

910

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270

980

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5 Passenger

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5 Passenger

2505 2475

675

45

270

990

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715

45

270

1080

* CABRIOLET 4 Passenger

* SEDAN

LANDAU

*** Hongkong Price includes puro rita Tira & Tube, Eight Hand Detva,

⚫ Longkong Price includes spara rim Tire & Tube, Bauper, Bull Horn, Drab Deck Top, Right Hand Drive,

* Hongkong Price meludes spare rim Tire & Tube, Bumpar, Bulb Horn, Right Hand Drive,

SERIES L. 6. "CAPITOL"

...

R.A.C. Horse Power Rating 21.7 Piston Displacement 170:9 Ch. In. Chassis 1 Ton nett weight 2180 15m. Chassis L.Ton with Cab weight 2500 lbs.

Hongkong Price includes apare rim, Tire and Tube and 4 fenders.

Brake Horse Power 35 at 2200 Revolutions Wheelbase 124 inches.

$495 G$40

610

40

G#185

185

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