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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAP

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928.

Buich

MOTOR CARE

Fair Treatment of USED CAR buyers

your Buick

Dealer's

Policy.

The used car that serves you most satisfactorily-that gives you the most transportation for your money........ naturally offers the greatest used car value.

Go to the Buick dealer. He offers a wide selection of makes and models in his used car stock.

His prices are fair-based on the actual resale worth of the car in question. And he will tell you the true condition of any car he offers for sale. He is always careful to guard his high reputation in the community. When you buy a used car from your Buick dealer you know that it will perform as promised-you know that you are getting your money's worth.

Gold Seal Buicks Are Guaranteed Used Buicks

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 ...

Telephone Central 3500 ...

...

WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT

The Club Sedan

... 33, Wong Nei Chung Road,

33, Des Voeux Road Central.

BUICK WILL BUILD THEM

Studebaker builds costly car characteristics into this low-priced ERSKINE SIX

PORTY MILES an hour even when NEW! More than'sixty miles an hour later! Here is convincing proof of the advanced en-- gineering, fine quality materials and precision workmanship, embodied in this low-priced Erskine Six built by Studebaker.. Compare this beautiful new Erskine Six Club Sedan. See a bigger, roomier five-seater-doors almost a yard wide, rear seat four feet wide,'

adjustable front seats, generous leg and head room, arm tests and other comforts. See this sedan which gives you championship six-cylinder performance at four-cylinder cost, In official tests Studebaker's Irskine Six sedan traveled 24 consecutive hours or better than 54 miles per hour average. Come in today-see and drive this luxurious, yet low-priced, Erskine Six Club Sedan.

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central

Tel. Central 4759. :

STUDEBAKER'S

ERSKINE SIX

BRITISH CAR

| PRODUCTION.

COMFORT IN MOTORING.

Don't be Disappointed!

Steady Rise Since 1922. Some Necessary Items. RALEIGH, ROYAL ENFIELD,

Between 1922 and 1927 British car makers increased and multi- plied their annual production by four and a half..

"There were definite signs of fumes in the driving compartment after the engine had been speeded up for any longth of time." Such The start was slow and lowly, as was the criticism recently levelled factory after factory rose from the

ashes of Its scrapped munition and at a modern motor carriage, which armament plant, and strove to re-costs the best part of £700. Is it cover the losses of the years of not surprising? While to-day diverted effort..

motoring can be indulged in at a

It la interesting to conjecture most moderate cost, there seems how the motor car history of the world would have been written had the war not intervened at a period when cars had scarcely become de pandable vehicles of transport.

to be a great Jack of knowledge of the items which are necessary to produce real comfort in motoring.

In the first place, fumes of petrol and of carbon dioxide gasos from the exhaust are both unplea- sant and unhealthy. So, whether

Great Britain was not only the birth-place of engineering-it was the nursery as well. From its fae- tories experts were flung all over the world when the call came for guns and shells, ships and bombs, one buys the lowest priced saloon planes and motor transport. They or the most costly closed carriage the market, built, organised, and nursed into now available on elliciency plants in neutral coun- neither can give comfort to its tries who could and would produce users, unless its floor-boards are and sell munitions, and the lessonshermetically sealed, and a close- they taught were well absorbed in Rited rubber mat covers the open- the lands of their adoption.

ing slots of the front compart- ment, so that no gas fumes can penetrate the interior through the flooring. Having thus stopped the usual channel of inlet of such fumes, it is also necessary to see that the exhaust pipe is carried well to the rear of the carriage and that the silencer and pipe connex- fons are sound and do not leak gas at the joints. Yet, few motorists seem to look for such points to sco that they are protected from dis- comfort from this source.

Again the “if” rises, but without the war they may have had a chance of writing motor history in their home land.

Fighting Debt.

As it is, those who were left have dug very well through the vast mountain of national debt which al nost mothered industry beneath the, incidence of its taxation, and in five years have emerged from the struggle with a record of accom- plishment which makes the future more promising.

"Oh, I am so tired after a motor journey," murmured a lady récent- The manner in which the averagely to the writer, who asked how price per vehicle has fallen during she could expect otherwise, when the years of increasing production in place of being comfortable

is shown by these statistics- during the whole trip, her head Year. Cars produced. Value.

had been nodding like a Chinese £20,500,000 mandarin ornament. She had roll-

24,000,000

¡ed from one side of the seat to the 36,500,000

other on every corner which was 41,506,000 43,161,945 turned, to say nothing of nearly 43,500,561 Alipping off the cushions because of the absence of a foot-stool

1022

1923

38,000 67,000

1924

107,000

1926

133,500

1026

152,699

1927

'161,920

So that while production in-agnirist which to press her feet, creased 4% times the average when the driver checked the speed price por car fell from £40 in of the car with the brakes. No 1922 to £268 in 1927.

Improved production methode, greater division of overhead expense and price reductions caused some of this fall in averages; but its main reason was the rise to favour of the small, economical car with a high efficiency engine.

Sought Economy,

&

NEW HUDSON 1928

MOTORCYCLES ARE IN STOCK

AT

A. LUNG E CÓ

19, Queen's ROAD C. Tel. C. 1219.*

For IMMEDIATE DELIVERY

Catalogue send on request. TERMS OR CASH

NASH

To-day presents a

New and Finer Motor Car

New Twin Ignition Motor. New Salon Bodies,

passenger should feel tired after a journey of many miles to-day, If "The three new Nash Series, which (7-bearing crankshaft with hollow- the car do properly equipped. In the first place, every car should be are being introduced everywhere ed crankpins, Bljur centralized

manufacturing career.

Lovejoy shock absorbers, Bilicx- provided with head cushions by its to-day, nehdeve the ambition of my chassis lubrication, Houdaffe owner, so that there soft down"They represent an entirely new Nash humpers and bumperettes, Alled sacks costly fit in the

type of motor enr, priced moderate- chrome plating over nickel for all nape of the neck of, each

ly, but offering you all the beauty exterior metal ware, double-drop passenger and support tho

and quality and performance frame, one-piece Salon fenders and head the whole time. These affec heretofore exclusive to very longer wheelbase lengths. tually prevent that tiring jerking expensive automobiles. backwards and forwards of the To create such a car wo had to want to uso all the speed and "I don't think anyone' will over head to the movement of the car. develop an entirely new type of power the engine delivers.

Passengers in motor carriages design and Invest over G.$2,600,000 If my Judgment is worth any. always require to be packed up in in dies and machinery alone. thing you will find it well worth a soft lined case as it were, with "Naturally space precludes the while to-day to examine this new. every part of their anatomy sup- full Bating of all features but I automobile development with the ported in its natural sitting or ro- do want to draw your attention to greatest care." : elining position to get true com- number of the outstanding

'(Sgd.) C. W. NASH, President, The Nash Motors Company.

As coat of operation is as impor tint as price to the average man who buys a car, the British makers set out to broaden their market by building cars costing less to run, and with the increased demand and greater production were enabled to reduce prices so that the people who could afford to run these cars could also afford' to buy them.,

fort in motoring. Wise drivers attractions such as:- This may seem an inversion of and owners of cars sco that this is"-Twin-ignition, high compres

provide

sion, Bohnalite aluminum alloy methods, but it is really sound busi. done, and also

with Invar-struts, ness, for, over a number of years, for each passenger, in place pistons

asking them to sharo running cost--which includes, of of

WONG SIU WOON, A loose cushion course, depreciation-la a far big-wraps. ger sums than the original price of Atted between the two passengers in the rear seat is a real comfort when there is no dividing arm pro- Public acceptance of the princi-vided. It saves them colliding ple of the high efficiency motor is with, or tiring each other by in- shown by the fact that of last year's voluntarily resting one against British production of 161,920 cars the other, as the car careers along. the number rated at 14 h.p. and

a car,

Imports Grow.

ruge

under was 141,073. The produc- A most important point in com- lion of smaller, more economicalfortable road travel is the driver. cars has increased in every manu- No one can be comfortable if they facturing country in the world.

have not complete faith in the man or woman at the wheel.' Vlo Hent braking, cutting corners, and Since the period of re-organisa-narrow shaves from collisions are tion commenced in 1922, Austra [apt to shake the nerves of all pas lian imports of British cars have in- sengers, except those entirely creased about the same ratio ignorant of the possible danger of 段情 production. Commonwealth such proceedings. So in comfort statistics show importations to motoring, the driver must not en- have been-

deavour to puss' overy other car on the road or try to make anusally fast road-speed average for the trip. Plessuro journeys should be taken leisurely, with plenty of time available to see the scenery and inspect the notablo treasures of the district. -

1022-3

1923-1"

1924-5

1925-0

1926-7

£ 645,678

1,172,845 1,815,304 2,307,710 3,201,900.

The increase was continuous and, beenuse of the lower cost per car and the unassembled manner in the number of units is, correspond- ingly, much greater than the capital valne indicates.

en

Yet it does sometimes puzzle folks,, as the writer, why people who are ready and willing to ex- pend from £200 to £2,500 on Quantity production now seems carriage do not spend a further definitely established in British ear five poundnote to provide the factories, which are catering for vehicle with just a few comfort popular taste; labour troubles' seem to have vanished from their devices which are not generally in- horizon, so that the production cluded in the standard equipment. and Importations may be both Few motorists, as already noted, can affirm seriously that the floor- expected to grow this year.

boards of even the most expensive There should be very little doubt carriages are gas-proof. But they about the quality of the product, for can be made so by fitting linoleum these cars are produced by the in the rear compartment, and a same engineering methods and rubber matting in the front under skill which produced the British the ordinary floor-board covering. fleet, and that is admitted to be a Similarly, how many cars does one fairly good piece of work.

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aco with buttoned straps for hang- ing head cushions to fit individual passengers' heads and necks? Not CHANGE SYSTEM., many, yet they are an important feature for real comfort riding. It Is the little things which help Australia is planning a change in to make for real comfort in the her traffic systems. The traille will car today, and those no manu- reverse, keeping to the right of the facturer' can be expected to pro- road Instead of to the left as ut vide, because they auit individuals present. With an estimated cost of and not generalities. By provid- $2,000,000, the change is hoped to ing these, each car becomes a pur- be effected by 1980.

poso-made carriage for its owner.

BOLE AGENT FOR SOUTH CHINA

21, Pollinger Street, Phons C. 1474,, Sereien Station : 76, Des Vœux Road Central. 'Thons Ö, 644,

THE QUESTION WAS

HOW TO REDUCE HIS PETROL BILL.

Then he had a bright idea and bought an

AUSTIN

SEVEN.

You too can enjoy motoring at a Cent per mile.

ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.

Prince's Buliding. 2nd. fccr,-les. House St. Entrance. STOCKS CARRIED

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