1928-12-22 — Page 16

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

100. M.P.H. GUARANTEED.

Alvis Front Wheel Drive Car.

The new Buick is the new Style

Heet.symmetrical.

low to the ground. unique & unrivaled

from an artistic standpoint -----and the most comfortable

make it the most comfortable automobila motorists have ever known.

New adjustable front seats in the closed models-full width tear seats providing plenty of room for three adult passengers deep, soft upholstery-the lounging

automobile motorists spaciousness of the interiors--all com-

have ever

known-

Not only beautiful, not only symmetrical, not only luxurious-but an entirely new style-an alluring new mode of car design-

a mode so true and sound and beautiful that it forecasts the trend of smart body- design for years to come-

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The same artistry, the same craftsman- ship which make this new Buick the most beautiful automobile of the day als

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with Buick's famous cantilever springs and Lovejoy Hydraulic shock absorbers to produce the highest degree of riding luxury ever attained. ̧

See this,new Bulck-drive it-compare it point by point with any other automobila -provo to yourself it's the Buick of Buicks and the car of carst

The Silver Anniversary

BUICK

WITH MASTERPIECE PODIES DY FISHER

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33, WONG NÊI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT!!! BUICK WILL

'LESS BOUGHT ON TIME.

The proportion of automobilés) bought on the instalment plan has roduced from 76 per cent to 60 per cent, it is reported. This has boen accomplished by the elimina- tlon of doubtful,credit risks,

ARMLESS MAN DRIVES.

Hooks for Hands.. Though minus both hands, Mr. Luke Dunn, of Montana (U.S.A.)

BUILD THEM.

Hill drives a car and takes long

trips.

la choice is a fivver model Ford, and he has fixed inside the steering wheel a stiff leather plate, in which holes are punched to pro- vide grips for the hooks which re- place his hands.

After years of experimenting on the race track the front wheel drive Alvis is now in production and is available to speed lover.

pany,

Front-wheel drive has been talk- od about in spasms for quite a long time, but it has been left to the Alvis Company to lead the way with a car that strikes an entirely new noto in automobile design and con- struction--a car embodying not one or two, but a host of revolutionary features.

the braking-torque reaction is taken through the frame and not through the aprings.

The motor world for some time past has keenly watched the develop ments of the front-wheel drive cars, being experimented on by the The chassis is of particular in- Alvis Car and Engineering Com-terest, as it is of immense strength but light in weight. The springs are all attached to the main frame, quarter elliptics being used all round. At the front, four trans- verae springs on, each side are built into a box-like formation, the outer, extremitica being attached by pin joints to spherical housings, Into which the swivel pins are built. The driving shafts pass straight The most obvious feature of the from the differentini through the car is its low build. Actually, the centre of the huba. At the back, floor is but 13 inches above the quarter elliptic springs are mount- ground, whilst the top of the seated on the rear extremity of the cushion is only about 10 inches chassis frame. higher than the floor. The clear- The ability of the new Alvia for anco between the ground and speedy cornering is surprising, bottom of the frame is In the Corners and sharp bends can be neighbourhood of nine inches and taken at phenomenally high speeds the centre of gravity is, therefore, without giving rise to that tenso very low indeed, a characteristic. feeling which suggests that a car which enables fast cornering to be is on the verge of becoming uncon-i indulged in with safety.

At the outset it would be as well trollable. It is possible to take a curva at 50 m.p.h. in the front- to explain that the different com-wheel drive car, where it would be ponents of the engine and trans- positively dangerous for other cars mission are reversed, ie, the clutch, to negotiate at 35 or 40 m.p.h. gearbox and differential are all This, of course, can be attributed placed in front of the power unit. to the extremely low centre of Consequently, this Alvis has an ex- gravity. ceptionally long bonnet, which adds

The dashboard is also of parti-

to its sporting appearance. Thecular interest, and Incorporates a engine, which is placed directly in clock, speedometer, petrol guage, re- front of the dashboard, ta of the volution counter, oll guage, am- 1% litre, four-cylinder type, and meter, and switches, siarter and is rated at 12/50 hp. It is fitted choke, whilst a special racing steer-

1928.

A FINE

X'MAS GIFT

FOR WIFE-DAUGHER

OR SWEETHEART.

AUSTIN SEVEN

Can be seen at our

KOWOON GARAGE SHOWROOM

with overhead valves, which are ing wheel is also fitted.-Sydney ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.

vertically disposed in a detachable Sun), cylinder head, and are operated by an overhead camshaft, Instead of push rods. The bore and stroke of the engine are 68 m.m. and 103 m.m. respectively, giving a capacity of 1406 c.ca.

The flywheel and single-plate clutch are housed directly in front of the engine and the four-speed gearbox and differential are placed directly in front of this. The dif- ferential is placed right underneath the radiator, which alants forward at, the bottom, covering the 'dif- ferential and giving the car an ex- ceptionally pleasing appearance.

The gear change control, is dis- tinelly interesting, and a ball-type right-hand gear lover in Bitted. The mechanism for transmitting the transverse oscillating and fore- and-aft motions from the lever to the selector gear is very simply earried out, and, in practice, the control operates in a manner quite indistinguishable from the normal ball type, where the lever le mount- ed above the gearbox.

The braking system is well plan- ued; ribbed drums are mounted on bearings which are housed in the differential casing and consequently

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NIGHT DRIVING.

Trees Help Cars. EFFICIENCY IS IMPROVED.

provision of restoring in the un- combined state the oxygen which goes to form the carbon dioxide, wo should perish from a lack of oxygen and an excess of carbon dioxide,

Nature has overcome this difficulty

the by constructing organs of all vegetation so that Every motorist has found that during the day they absorb carbon his car seems to pull better at dioxide through their follage, and night, and the reason of this has in the chemical action which ensues mystified many people. This is in the vegetation the carbon and particularly the case with those oxygen is divided. The plants usa who have tried out second hand the carbon, but at night they expel cars at night only to find that the oxygen into the air for our con- during the daytime there has been sumption. For this reason thoro

a falling off in pulling power. is moro oxygen in the air at night This phenomenon is really the than in the daytime. The more effect of one of nature's provisions oxygen there is the better the com- for the safety of all ilfe. Due to bustion of the gases in the cylinder the breathing arrangements of and the greater the power develop animals a large quantity of carboned. This is the reason why a car dioxide is introduced into the at- gives greater efficiency, at night mosphere. Unless there were some than during the daytime.

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MADE IN INGIANO

As British

as the Flag

DUNLOP

TYRES

are Pedigree Tyres

built by the founders of the Pneumatic Tyre Industry, and proved in service all over the world

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A Dunlop Tyre

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