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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1928.

Studebaker

HONGKONG DELIVERED PRICES.

ERSKINE SIX

N.A.C.C. Harsa Power Rating 18.15 Piston Displacement 160.37 Cu. In.

Tourer

Club Sedan

Brake 1.P. 43 at 3000 Revolution. Wheel Base 107 inches. Speed 62 M.P.11.

G81,150 Nett Weight 2252.

**

& passenger

S'jmakenger

4 passenger

17

+

2 zmazenger

Rondater...

Cabriolet..

Bedan Royale 5posenger

15

اگر

2437

1,150

2207...

1200

$100,

1,200

1,250

2537. All prices include Wire Whools, Leather Tipholstery, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tire and Tube, Exten Bulb Horn, Shock Absorbers.

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DIRECTOR SIX

N.A.1.C. Horse Pwer Rating 27.34 Platon Displacement 241.6 Cu. In.

Tourer Royal... Rendster...

Salamonger

Brake 1.1. TÓ „é 30 Revolutions. Wheel Base 113 inches, Speed G5° M.P.H. Nett Weight 3070 1. ($1,450

P.L

4 phasenger

2000

1,500

Tourer Royal ...

7 mmsonger

3080..

5psssenger

Kodun Royal

3156 325 ..

1,550 .1,600 1,700

Club End

5 plssenger

All prices include Dise Wheels,

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rather Upholstery, Front and

Rear Bumpers, Extra Tice and Tube, Extra Bulb Horn, Shock Absorbera,

COMMANDER SIX

N.A.CC. Horse Power Rating 36.04 Piston-Diadaermint 354.5 Cu. In. Romister Regal ApasAmper Chh Seula.... 5 passenger Cabriolet Regal 4 passenger

Hedan Regal 5 passenger

Brake H.P, 85 at 3000 Revolutious. W bed Base 120 inches. Sport 77 M.J',1]. Nett Weight 118 Mas, C$1,900

1450

3438

1,960 4.000 2,000

ان بجاران

'All Praves inelule Dise Whrels; Leather Egholstery, Frout and Rear Humpers, Extra Tice and Tale, Extra Holh Horn, Shock Absorbers,

PRESIDENT EIGHT.

7, pasquenzer

N.A.C,C, Horus Power Itating 36,45 Pistan Displacement 313 Cu. In.

„Touree State ...

Heale HP: 100 at 3000 Revolutions, Wheel Base 131 mches, Sprød Su M‚ÏLJ'

Nott Weight 3760 the,

$1,500

Sedan Stato

7 passenger

4034

4,650

Berline Stute....

7 passager

4065

4,700

44

Limousine State 7 passenger

4096

2,960

All prices include 6 Wire Wheels, Choice,sed Upholstery, Front, and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tires and Tubes, Extra Bulk Horn, Shuck' Almurbers, Luggage Grid..

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THE HONG KONG HOTEL, GARAGE

95 Queen's Road Contrat

Toh Contest W

BY THE WAY

By Israel Klciu.]

One of the features of & Car that seems to be taken for granted is the headlighting.

When we buy a car, and have it demonstrated, it is usually during the day, so we miss an important | phase to be considered in the pur- car at chase. Try out the new night, and you might change your mind about it.

darit.

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HINTS

FOR THE

MOTORIST

ALBERT L. CLOUGH

last

THE MODERATE DRIVER'S RIGHTS.

MORRIS

COMMERCIAL CARS

LIST OF LOCAL OWNERS.

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Asiatic Petroleum Co. ...... 1-Type 25-30 owt. Tank Truck Canton Government .... 10-Six Whoelor 30 cwt Transport Choung Mei Bus Co........ I-Six Whooler 18 pas, Bus Cheung Moi Bus Co....... 4-Type Z5 16 pas. Buses China Motor Bus Co. 2-Type 25 16 pas, Buses 'Dodwoll & Co., Ltd.

-One ton Open Body Truck Kowloon Motor Bus Co. 2-Type Z5 16 pás. Buses Nam Hing Motor Bus Co.... 2-Type 25 16 pan. Busen Nam Hing Motor Bus Co.... I-One ton 12 pas. Bus "Nestle Chocolato ". 1-One ton Fanol Truck Ruitonjen & Son, Ltd....... 1-Type Z5 30 cwt. Opon Body Truck Sincero Co.

2-Type Z5 30 wt. Trucks

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I TON MORRIS 13,9^H.P. 10′ 2′′ W.B.

I have just received the follow-doubled its stopping distance is ing letter: "A recent newspaper quadrupled, no matter what its article, by the vice-president of brakes may be and that doubling. one of the great motor-car com-the speed quadruples its destruc- No panies, inspires me to write to live effect in a collision.

This gentleman states that motorist should let these absolute- The trend in headlighting to-day the only dangers attending highly irrefutable facts be obscured by is toward a wider, more evenly speed on the highways are reck-the self-seeking claims of interest- distributed beam of light over alessness and the hazards createdjet propagandists. We have no lig distance. At the same time, by drivers who will not drive fast, fear that this correspondent will a modern bo "pulled off" any common high- we are getting away from the dim Now, I cannot afford ming feature and are making use high-speed ear, the one I own way, if he drives at 25 mph. and of the double-beam type of head-riding uncomfortably at more thon keeps close to the proper curb. lamps.

a 30 mph. speed, but I and m

Lamp Bulbs Burn Out. By the double-beam. system; friends get a tremendous amount; Question:-The "bright" bulls light over a considerable distance of pleasure out of it, at our 25 in Lae headlights of my car is effected by switching the lamp m.ph speed with a feeling of have blown out seven or eight LU the upper beam. Glare is security in having it under per-times this winter. Experts have avoided, when a driver approaches, fect control at all times. Re-gone over the wiring and claim hy switching the light to the lower peatedly,

sunimer, other that all connexions are tight. Are beam. In both cases, however, the drivers seemed to be irritated at light" hiba affected by cold strength or the beam is the same. my 25-mile speed and what I want weather? This trouble does not The advantage of this is that to ask you is whether, under the occur, in the summer. What is a driver now may drive safely and circumstances, 1 should attempt to the cause of this burning out of see onough of the road ahead, drive faster. Is 25 m.p.is too slow bulba? even with the beam lowered to speed for present day trafic con-

Answer: It is plain that the make night driving less irritating.ditions? I understand that there voltare runs abnormally high. Wilk dimmed headlights the are highways on which motorists While the wiring may be all right, driver ropes his way through the who do not travel at high speeds there is probably a High resistance are pulled off the road. Is this contact somewhere, which raises But it is essential that the lights/69** One advice to this eorres- the voltage at the lights.

is that he should be- lamps adjusted. This is quite empt to drive faster than he tween the ground strap from the is accustomed to or indeed fastor įsimple and takes little time.

To facis the lights, back away the gibes of the speeders. Howest that you, detach this, tile the than he wants to, irrespective of battery to the frame and we sug from the cloan garage doors or

Sometimes, oven attach a wall about 25 feet and turn on ever, he should de his atmest not contact surfaces bright and re- Un fights. At this distance both interfere with delvers who though this contact is good enough headlights should throw an even choose to travel faster, by keep elliptic shape of light against the ing just as close to the proper side to allow the starter to work, there wall, with the long axis of the of the road as possible. On high-is still resistance enough there to ways m which there are special raise the generator voltage to a ellipse horizontal. :

in back of the head-sections set apart for high and point that gives short lamp life. A perew lamp is there for focusing the low speed traffic, he should travel This condition may be aggravated The rule of the if your charging rate is high, more light. By turning the screw on the latter. slightly, to left or right, the bulb common highway is that It may be than about 12 amperes. Tempera- is brought back or forward until used for all reasonable purposesture has no effect on bulb life, but the beam on the wall is concen- of travel, but that there shall be if you use a higher elarging rate trated into the horizontal elliptical no wanton or anreasonable inter-in winter, this may partly account

your aggravated ference with the rights of others.for shape required.

He should carefully examine the trouble. motor laws of his 'district and see Engine Dies on Hills, if there is, any rule" defining a Question: When going up minimum legal speed. He is not grade the engine of my 1927-hot likely to find any such provision, ear dies down and misses, but on although must motor statutes de-level ground, when it is turning fine certain speeds above which it over lively it seems to have plenty is prima facie unlawful to drive. (of power and speed. What is the It is not at all strange that officials trouble?

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30 CWT. MORRIS 15.9 H.P. II′ 6′′ W.B.

£235

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310

325

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350

370

370

430

450

485

510

515

370

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Chassis Zã with 12" x 44" tyros, dùnl rear, R.W.13. ... .£320 Chassin 26 complete with 32′′ x 6′′ tyres and F.W.B. 355 Type Z1 Standard Lorry complete with Cab... Typo Z6 Standard Lorry complete with Cab Typo Z5 Charabane for 18 passengers...

300

420

620

Type 26 Charnbane for 18 passengers.

650

Type 25 Sperial Saloon Bus · Type 26 Special Saloon Bus

670

700

30 CWT. 6-WHEELER 15,9 H.P. II' 8" W.B.

Chassis only equipped with 32" × 41′ tyros Chassis with War Dept, type Body

£538 626

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Chassis only equipped with 32a × 4)* tyros Chassis with War Dept. type Body

... £555

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of auto manufacturing companies, Answer: Perhaps it does not which build high-speed cars and get gasoline enough for hard pull- advertise them by figures indicat-ing. Clean the strainer, in the ing the maximum speeds of which carburetor, if it needs it, and they are capable, should advocate otherwise make sure that the flow. high speeds and try to impress the of fuel-is free. If the pistons or public that the faster one drives valves are too leaky, an engine will the safer one is. This sort of hot properly at low speed and propaganda, like all others, has to open throttle. See that all cylin be considered in the light of com- ders have good compression. mon sense and treated like any sure that the spark-plug points are other kind of advertising. in con-not set tou far apart. The high- sidering the question of safety at speed adjustment of your cur high speed, it is only necessary buretor has not been set too lean, to remember two basie, unchange- has it? On the face of it, this able laws of mechanics: That trouble looks like a case of partly when the speed of a car is stopped up fuel-feed.

The headlamps then need ad-headlighting. * justing so u to keep the lights!

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from being thrown too far upwardi Sometimes, no matter how one and into the eyes of approaching may try to focus the lamps pro- drivers. This may be done by perly. one seems to be directed loosening the bolt holding the above the other, or at an angle. lamp to the tie-rod or support and The way to correct this is to apping it downward until the take out the bulb in the lamp beam is directed roperly along that seems out of true and merely the road.

turn it around in the socket.

To do this properly, in the eise Nine-tenths of auch difficulty cant of a big car, three passengers he corrected this way. The reason should be seated in the back while, is that the filaments of the small the adjustments are made. This bulls aren't exactly true, and the weight tilts the lights upward, as mere natter of turning the bulbs much as two degrees and should areund may bring them closer to- therefore be considered in proper ward the focal point.

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PRINCE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.

A doctor told Harry Nelson, an American war vete- ran, that his loss of a leg by mustard shell shrapnel would shortly end in death. So Nelson made, the best of it and decided to see America first He fitted up this "Noah's Ark," took along a dog, raccoon; monkey and badger, and. toured all the states, as the name plates show. Now Nel son says he's healthier than ever.

OLDEST CAR ON PENSION.

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NEW FUEL IN 1928.

New York, Mar. 25. | oldest.car, "Antoinette," has been A. new fuel, embodying a given a pension for faithful ser-Ichemical cracking, process and e vice and now lives the life of Riley new combustible compound, will at the museum of the Automobile be experimented with this year 1: Club of Picardy. "Antoinette" running automobles and other was purchased in 1895. Her gasolino driven engines, - Edward- owner, an abbe, towed it home be-F. Chandler, technical director of hind a horse, because she couldn't the company manufacturing, this got there undor: her own power. now product, anys that the fuel. Since then, the little engine has has been touted and can be adjunta: takeAntoinette over more thaned to the modern motor: success $175,000 miles of road.