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SERIES

115

SERIES

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

128

SERIES

120

Three figures which mean extra motor car value

Buick motor cars are now designated by their wheel base lengths. Series One Fif teen has 1141⁄2 inches of wheelbase....Series One.. Twenty is 120 inches from axle to axle, and Series One Twenty- eight measures 128 inches,

These designations direct atten- tion to the fact that size is the only variation in the different Buick chassis.

Another purpose is to point to

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the extra comfort and value which results from Buick's extra wheelbase lengths. Everyone knows that long cars ride easier than short ones. But it costs more to build them. Great volume is the reason for the extra value of Buick's extra wheelbase. Many cars, inches shorter than Buick and without advantages offered by Buick design, are priced considerably higher.

THE GREATEST BUICK

EVER BUILT

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1248 ...

Telephone,Central 3500

CHEVROLET,

Longer Lower Roomier

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

for Economical Transportation

CHEVROLET,

HONGKONG

B.A.E. Hore Power Rating 21.7 PISTON Displacement

* CHAS316 TON

•

ROADSTER 2 Pussonger

TOURER

5 Passenger.

5. Passenger

* COAOH

2 Passonger

* COUPE

* CABRIOLET 4 Passenger

* SEDAN 5 Passenger

*. LANDAU 5. Passenger

Higher Narrower Radiator

DELIVERED PRICES. SERIES A. B. "NATIONAL"

Brako Horse Power 35 at 2200 Revolutions

PACKING 107.9 Cu. In Whoolbaso 107 inches

SHIPMENT NETT CASH NETT

EXTRA. FO-B. WEIGHT FACT: NETT DELIVERY HONGKONG

1765 lb. G$375. 01621

G$ 580 0*184

770

2100,

495

.56

219

2160 +1

:495

56

219

770

2430.

585

45

270

900

15

2305 2340 ·91 2505 2475

595

270

910

"F

665

270

980

675

270

900

715

270

1020

27

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**** Hongkong Prios includes spate rim Tyro & Tube, Right Hand Drive.

• Mongkong Pries includes spare rim,Tyra, &, Tube, Bumper, Bulb Born, Drak Deck Top, Right Hand Drive. Hongkong Price includes spare rim Type Tube Bumper Epilafora, Right Hand Drive,

SERIES L. 0. "CAPITOL”

8.AE. Horus Power Rating 21.7 Brake Horse Power 35 at 2200 Revolutions Piston Displacement 170.9 Cu. In.

Chassis 1 Ton

Chassis 1 Ton with Cab

Wheelbase 124 inches.

G$40 2130 lbs. 2500 lbs.

40

0$495 610

G$185 185

G$ 720

Hongkong Prios includes aparo rim, Tyre and Tube and 4 fenders.

860

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central

Tel. Central 4759.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

WHAT OF THE FUTURE?

Possibilities of Car

Development.

When you come to think of it

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928.

WATERPROOF

STUDEBAKER.

Adoption of a New Device.

Adoption of a new device which the future is the only really in makes the famous Studebaker Com- teresting thing in life. History, mander motor completely water. which dosla with things that hu-proof is one of the latest automo- man beings have done in the past, live improvements developed by: and the exact sciences, which

annlyse what they are doing at the Studebaker'e engineering staff. present time, are only of import-Every molorist who has and his ance because they enable nome pre engine die during a severe rain after having driven diction of the future to be made storm or

through a stream will appreciate with fair accuracy.

wilder In their

and more the value of this new development. romantic dreams people have often It consists of a rubber hood over Imagined themselves as furnished the distributor heal, which not with the gift of seeing ahead. only protects the distributor but But it la pleasant to think that we completely covers the Ignition shall never have it in reality.eubles leading to the spark plugs. The entire wiring system on It would certainly enable us

are

to make any sort of fortune The Commander is now thorough- we wanted, upon the Stock Ex-ly protected against molature. change, but as the same faculty The spark plugs have nubber caps, would also mercilessly show us that and the spark plug cables we were going to be run over by protected by a metal conduit on a motor bus on Tuesday fortnight the cylinder head. All other It would not be quite so beneficial wiring is enclosed in metal con-

sheathing.

as it might at first sight neem, dults or protected by rubber;

In mechanical affairs, however, the ability to ace some little dla

In some acctions of the country tance ahead is not only much caster, but it is at least essential such elaborate protection is hardly that some peopic should have it. necessary. But Studebaker cara The designer of a motor car, for are in service in the most remote example, must ever have an eye to countries in the world, and in the future. It is no good hia alt- many places they must continue to ting down to work in 1928 upon a give unfaltering service in spite vehicle intended to meet 1928 con-of flooded ronda and torrential ditions. These last, so far as he is rains. concerned, are already past and done with.. What he has to con- sider are the conditions of 1981, by which time, the product of bin brain will have assumed material shape, and, if it is lucky, may also have got through its slages of initial testing..

ECONOMICAL HOTEL ACCOMMODATION.

For the motorist who wishoe to tour in England and Wales, Incx- pensively and to obtain satisfactory I am not by any meara in love alternative accommodation, at a are when many hotels with the American car sa such, time

and prices fre but I am fully persuaded that mucli fully taxed

now booklat of its worldwide success has been maximum,

by The Automobile due to the fact that 11.080 answer fasued able for it have deliberately adopt Association should be most helpful. ed the policy of looking as far It contains a list of nearly eight possible. hundred small hotels, boarding and ahead as in humanly "Clairvoyance" In car design-if farm houses, restaurants, and cafes, one may use the expression-is no which offer accommodation at mo- monopoly of the folks upon only derate prices. All these places one side of the Atlantic. The point have been inspected by the A.A. is that, on either side, It is utterly and they are supplementary to the valueless unless it is acted upon; extensive list of fully appointed and made the basis of a construc- hotels included in the Handbook fa

sued annually to members. The tive programme,

booklet is also useful in regard to large towns and seaside and health rosorts, as it includes the names of additional hotels which provide sult able accommodation during the touring senson. Where possible prices have been quoted for each meal, en pension terms are stated, and the number of rooms is given. Copies may be had by A.A. mem- bers upon application to any of the A.A. Offices.

Not being a designer of motor cars much as I should like to be I am in no position to indicate: what the automobile of the near future will be, but as an ordinary motorist who tries to keep his own eyes open, and who incidentally en- joys the benefit of the views of many other motorists, I am able to form some idea of the sort of car that the motorist of the near future is going to want. It is, in fact, what some of the more pro- gressive already want to-day. The only reason they do not nak for it in specific terms is because they do not know that it could exist.

I propose to confine my little "prophceles" to those things which are already fait accomplis, though, as far as I know, they are not to be found either in whole or in part in any standard motor car.

none,

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only reason why it has so long been under a bonnet in front is because, about 1902, engines, were so unre- liable and called for so much atten- lion that they hnd to be given the the most accessible place on chassis. With the engine at the rear the ear of the future will be more commodious, comfortable, more quiet, and more roadworthy. (1) An absolutely vibrationless

(5), A rent differential. The engine. The term ""absolute" contrivance that does duty ls here used in its colloquial sense. differential and has done so for crude and is it' years, That is to say, there would be many certain amount of vibration, due to barbarous affair. Alko it does not unavoidable alight crears in work- differentiate at all. It does not manship and material, but it would prevent skidding--It definitely en- be too amall to be detected by the courages it. If one back wheel is human sensea, We have all heard on slippery ground and, another on and read-of "vibrationless' en- the solid, it is the latter that gets Hines, but we know perfectly well all the driving effort, whilst the This Is that there is no such thing. But former gets there both could be, and will be. ridiculous. We only suffer the con- Two Atraight "sixes" driving twin ventional "diff." because we have crankshafts geared together and got so horribly used to it. rotating in opposite directions (6). Independent springing of all would be so smooth that you could wheels. Well, if not all, at least of not tell whether the motor was run- the front wheels, A, girder front ning even when the clutch was let axle tying the road wheels together, in.

so that any shock applied to one li (2). Steam cooling. The days felt by the other, is a hopeless of ordinary water-cooling are anachroniam. It is standard prac those designers visibly numbered. Steam cooling tice only because means, first of all, an important who know it is wrong dare not get reduction of weight. It also means away from it just as, at one time, the maintenance of a much higher they dare not fit self-starters, and standard of efficiency. "Bailing" is front wheel brakes and balloon only objectionable because it im- tyres, and all sorts of other pro- plies wastage of water, which isgressive and desirable things. Hubsequently followed by over-heat- I could expand this list of ca- ing, that is local overheating. It wentials until it was four times as has already been abundantly de-long, but there is, I hope, enough monstrated that engines can be de-of it to suggest the right idea. The signed to run at a much higher than motorist of the future wants a boiling temperature, and that they better car, and he can only have it give definitely better results than by virtue of radical changes In de their water-cooled rivala. It is sign. There are verstrict limits only the prejudice against any new to the improvements that can be thing that keeps steum cooling from made by attention to detail, and it is upon this scheme that our car receiving world wide adoption.

(8). Automatic gear-changing. designers have been concentrating Some authorities say that the gear their attention too long.

Every new model that is intro- box has got to go altogether. The vogue of six, eight and twelve duced as the faults of its predeces cylinder engines. points in that sora tied to it like the tin can to the direction. But what is the matter | dog's jail. If automobile engineers with the gear box? It is cheaper could be rid-for a few months- thun adding to the number, af of the influence of commercial cylinders, and in many ways it is necessity, or even if they could be a great deal better. But it in driven to desperation by economic volves skill in control if full yd-pressure, they would have no vantage is to be taken of It. This option but to sit down and tackle, skill can be entirely eliminated, the great problem from a new angle and gear changing made as simple and without the least reference w Be sounding the electric horn. The what purported to be previous solu thing can be done, indeed has been long and gente ale pat done, by mechanical, hydraulle, and I feel it in my bones and not electric methods. How much altogether In Ignorance of the huge longer are we to wait for it to volume of experimental work that become standard practice?

is now going forward--that we are (4) The engine at the back. I on the brink of great developments. will not here enter into an argu- But you, patient reader, need not ment as to why the power plant of worry about your next car or two, a motor car should be at the back It will be stiil a few years before thereof. Suffice to say that the they burst upon us!

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"

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12,50

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Lucas "KING ROAD" Electric Horns

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6 V No. 3c..

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*

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12.00-

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Lucas "Safety" Observation Mirrors

...H.K, § 8.00.

91

8.00

5.00

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Incas Automatic and Hand-Operated

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The Lucas Inspection Lamp

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The Lucas Festoon Dash Lamp

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THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central

Tel, Centrál 4759.

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HOW TO REDUCE HIS PETROL Bill.

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ou too can enjoy motoring

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