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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928.

The new Buick is the New Style

Graceful contours instead of straight lines the gleam and sparkle of brilliant colors and chrome plat- ing instead of drab effects most beautiful bodies ever built... Buick's masterpiece bodies by Fisher

At a time when motor car brauly was practically standardized-when imitation was the vogue-when there was a glaring lack of originality in body design-Buick has swept far beyond the commonpider and achieved n style which the entire country is acclaiming as the most distinc tive and beautiful ever shown!

Fisher, the world's foremost builder of automobile bodies, has cooperated with Buick, the world's foremost builder of fine cars, to create a new mode-a new fashion -and so luminous is the result and so eagerly is the public welcoming it that Buick's great fac tories have reached new,

the

production levels in an effort to keep pace with an ever increasing demand!

Inside and out, the pew Buick bodies by Fisher are. Ale must beautiful ever built, - Together with the wonderful new standards of performance introduced by the Silver Anniversary Buick, they are winning the greatest demand and the greatest prefer ence ever enjoyed by any fiue car!

The new Buick is the new style! And by that is meant, not merely a new type of

THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY

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Christmas Greetings

GERMAN CAR TRIALS.

Ford Wins 'Gold Medal.

wheels crossed the line at the top of the hill. The four Fords came respectively first, second, third and fourth in the trial, their best time being 58 seconds.

country runs of 11, 31% and 016

There wore three separate cross-

The rules of the German Adac kilometres respectively, The tests Utility and Economy Run make took the form of cross-country races good reading since the trial appearal over boulder-strewn paths, gorso to have included all the severity of covered commons, water splashes, a motorcycle "Six Days" trial mounds and ditches. The Ford plus some scientifle tests that only teams obtained the highest marks the Teuton brain could have in their class and one made the evolved The Germans set out to fastest time of the day.

In the minimum speed test, in discover which was the best car for the ordinary owner which the Fords put up the best thorough-performance of their class, cars had driver, and with a

to proceed at lowest ров- that la characteristic they catalogued the virtues of the sible speed in top gear with fully engaged, Ideal car, placed them in logland the clutch.

Immediately follow- order, awarded marks for them and and then then decided on a series of teata to ing accelerated to a speed of 40% find out how near each of the com- miles per hour without gear chang- peting automobiles came to the ing. This test was severe, for the risk of stalling or choking an engine] ideal,

Of the fifty-three cars that were that is being accelerated from entered, four were Fords. The minimum speed is a great one.

There were two brake tests, onej makers allowed to run them either

ness

in standard form ar modified in a at the commencement of the trial few unimportant details, so long na and the other at the end of it. The the alterations were' declared, but car had to be driven at a speed of GO kilometres per hour and then! the Fords were stock cars,

The German authorities rightly brought to reet. On the second oc- considered that the prime virtue of casion the Ford beat all comers by A motor stopping in a distance of 20 metres any car is reliability, cur, they said, irrespective of its (under 22 yards), a remarkable ef- price or size must be able to run fort when it is remembered that the day in and day out over indifferent car had just undergone ten days roads, at touring speeds, without strenuous test and travelled over 1,600 miles under extremely arduous attention.

The first section of the trial was conditions,

The fuel consumption test, too, the 126 kilometres from Berlin to Cottbus. This included starting, was avere, for the distance over brake and acceleration tests. In which it was taken was no less than the easy starting test, which was 700 klimetres (4344 miles). In repeated every morning, the cars this test one Ford showed a con- had to be started and driven away sumption of 9.8, litres per 100 under their own power within 60 kilometres (31.1 miles per gallon). seconds of the time that the driver, This exceptionally good figure was had first touched the car. As the easily the best obtained by a car cars were left outdoors, and snow using an engine of this size. In was experienced during some of the the speed test one of the Fords was nights, the severity of the test needs first in its class, while another Ford

came second, no emphasizing,

There wore two rough road hill The second day's run was from Cottbus to Hirchberg, a distance of climbs, one in the Neue Schlesische 172 kilometres, commencing with Baude in the Giant Mountains, and the inevitable easy starting test. the other in the Nurburgring. There On the third day, in which the dia- was also an ordinary speed hill climb tance covered was 211 kilometra, over the steep but well-surfaced #mountain climbing test was In- test hill of the Nurburgring. On cluded.

The four day's wander the first the four Fords came ings terminated at Ilmenau, 271 respectivaly 1st, 2nd, 3rd and kilometres distance; and on the £fth 4th, and on the second the Fords day a 501 kilometre rough-road came 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The test circuit was made in the Ilmenau hill climb resulted in the record be- more ing broken by one of the Fords district. 491 kilometres

the ascent In 64 brought the competitors to Adenau which mado and the Nurburgring, the greatest second. "road" race track in the world.

It is not surprising, therefore, to The easy-starting test, in which learn that one of the Ford team the Fords obtained highest marka won "Die hochete Auszeichnung,

Clubes 1 and 2, has alcently been die grosse Goldene Medaille," (thej. described, Towards the and of the highest award, the Great Gold trial of cold engine, or as the or- Medal) and that the remarkable re ganizers termed it, "a starting with cord of Ford successes has created performance test," was held to de- widespread interest in Germany. termine how quickly the cars could get away from rest with stone-cold engines. On the night prior to the test snow fell, and after the engines had been started the cars were to be driven 200 metres (218, yards) up a 15 per cent, grade. The win ner was the driver who took the least time from the instant that he touched the ear to that when its

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BUSES DOUBLE.

WONT REPLACE AUTO.

The number of motor buses In discussing airplanes recently, Motor buses in Sweden, of used in U.S.A. at present hus Henry Ford made the remark that are around G000, doubled over the amount used five they "never will replace the auto- which there cover three times as much terri- years ago. Last year's registra-mobile." Ford, however, predict- tory as the entire railway system tion of motor buses numbered fed a composite nirplane, combin- The buses run 85,636. Five years before there fing the balloon bag, wings, motor, of that nation.

helicopter and water landing gear. were only 40,000 in use. daily over 1600 routes,

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