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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929.

NOW FRANCE BEWAILS TRAFFIC CONGESTION.

SERVICE

OBLIGATION

Hongkong Price: Hk. $1,790.00

(Including apare tyre and bumpera.)

THE service obligation of the Ford Motor Company and its dealer organization is now growing at the rate of over 6,000 cars a day. It is to these new car owners that this mess age is addressed.

THE new Ford is a remarkably flue car for one that costs so little. It is simple in design, constructed of the finest materials, and built to unusually close measurement.

THESE are the reasons it performs so wonderfully. These are also the reasons its service

requirements are so few and the upkeep cost so low.

WHEN you receive your new car, the dealer will explain the simple little things that

should be attended to at regular intervals to insure the best performance. He will also tell you something of his own facilities for doing this work promptly and at small cost. Wi

ITH, the purchase of your car, you are entitled to Free Inspection Service by your dealer, at 500, 1,000 and 1,500 miles. This service is due you and we urge you to take full advantage of it. Proper care during this breaking-in period means a great deal to the life of your car.

INCLUDED in the Free Inspection Service is a check-up of the battery, the generator charg ing rate, the distributor, the carburetor adjustment, lights, brakes, shock absorbers, tire inflation and steering gear. The engine oil is also changed and chassis lubricated.

No charge whatever is made for labor or materials incidental to this inspection service,

except where repairs are necessary because of accident, neglect, or misuse.

THE

HE labor of changing the engine oil and lubricating the chassis is also free, although'a charge is made for the new oil.

We believe that when you see the good effects of this inspection you will continue to have it done regularly throughout the life of your car.

Do not rely on your chauffeur only to look after your car.

You will find the Ford dealer

with his skilled mechanics very helpful in keeping your car in good running order for many thousands of miles at a minimum of trouble and expense.

HE operates under close

factory supervision and

has been

trained and

Ford

AUTHORIZED DEALERS:

equipped to do this work promptly, thoroughly and economically..

WALLACE HARPER & CO., LTD., 745, Nathan Road, Mongkok,

Ford

KOWLOON, HONGKONG.

Tel. K.566

Motor Company Exports Inc.

SHANGHAL.

This is a sample of congested traffic in Paris which, say, Fronch editors, will increase soon Judging by the small cars of low price shown at the recent auto salon thore. Paris, Dec. 4-Funeral pro- neighbouring the Grand Palais was jand freed from the necessity of cessions and pretty girls trip- occupied by dealers demonstrating leaving their posts to take a cul- ning across the streets are listed new and second-hand care for sale. prit to jail. among approaching traffle troubles from

a study of the annual French equivalent of the sigh of lowed to halt forty automobiles on. automobile show which has just the automobile, editor of 'In- the Rue de la Paix to let across closed in the Grand Palais.

transigent when he reflected tho street a pretty girl who smiled about the automobile show.

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Better and cheaper cars have meant slower and more congested traffic.

"It won't be long now," was the

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"No policeman should be al-

at him.

"We are progressing rapidly to "Motorists must be disciplined. got nowhere," he said. "Pro-After all, some of us still have to ducers are building botter and walk,

This show, with over 1200 auto- mobile exhibitors from practically selling cheaper cars, but what are "Horaes no longer have a place all of the producing countries of we going to do with them? Our on the streets of a city. Trolley the world, has been the greatest boulevards are already jammed cars must also go.

in history here, but it has made and our traffic policemen helpless. "Funeral processions should be..

Paris wonder what it is coming to.-1

"Makers of enrs talk much of prohibited in jammed streets. The speed and efficiency, and they are living ahould be given a chance." With traffic in the heart of the only driving us to a complete Another observer has published eity an congested during busy blockade. We must either destroy figures to show that Americn hours that the fastest way to get four city or suppress makers of aus leads the world in the ownership anywhere is to, walk, the automo- ftomobiles."

of automobiles in ratio to popu- bile show featured small cars at For immediate relief this news-lation and adds that "anyond rid- low prices ready to be released at paper offers a list of suggestions, moderato terms into cirulation. including the following: All available space in the streets "Police must be more respected

THE STANDARD “NINE.”

A Well Designed Little Car

AMPLE FOR FOUR.

BRING BUSINESS.

Free Parking Space.

STORE'S DISCOVERY.

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ing in a taxicab along the grand boulevarde will not envy America for this distinction of superiority.***

ACROSS U. S.

Motor Coach Trip.

3,433 IN 6 DAYS.

"Take cars of the shopper in a dar" is the slogan of one of the

The possibility of serious rivalry biggest stores in Akron U.S.A.), tween railways and motor-coaches Jon Transcontinental journeys bc- and the result of this policy ban is suggested by the arrival in New cen a huge increase in business. York of the first omnibus to make To fulfil the slogan, the owner the journey from California to the built a 400-car garage beside the Atlantic seaboard. store, and shoppers are allowed Los Angeles was the starting three hours' free parking.

By the Han. Maynard Greville.] A feature of motor-car progress during the last few years has been the rise and perfection of the baby

Freed from the necessity of hav-point and the motor coach took ear. It is only a few years ageing to conform to street parking days 14hr. to cover the distanco that cars with engines but le limitations, shoppers now spand of 3,433 miles-two days longer bigger than those fitted to motor more time and money in the stere, than the rallway. Twelve pansen- cycles were looked upon as freaks, and sales records constantly are vers were in the vehicle when it but now there are many little being broken.

reached New York, four having made the entire trip, and the others having been picked up during the journey. Mrs. C. A.

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power units boasting. four cylind-. ers, of little over one litre in capacity. Improvements in the balancing and power output of the top gear. On the second gear at Jondro, of Los Angeles, one of the modern petrol engine have made it 20 m.p.h. the maximum pull was through passengers, said the possible to produce an engine shown to be 230 per ton, of omnibus was more confortable which, while it is taxed, at under equivalent to a gradient of 1 in than the train and more chummy" £10, is able to put up the same 2, while on the bottom ratio it with a portable radio and perfect performance as the former 12 or could maintain some five miles an

would acem that the little car service. even 14 h.p. vehicles,

The conch is equipped with 26 One of the most successful and hour on a gradient steeper than individual seats, which can be popular of these little curs has in four. The frictional resin- felanged to a reclining position. been "The Standard Nine," and re-aned in the transmission was Ench scal is equipped with a rend-

rather high, as it was as much as ling lamp. cently I had an opportunity of

Three Transcontinental omni- testing one of the "Teignmouth" 40. per ton. fabric saloons fitted with a "Stan-

The four-wheel brakes were buses will henceforth leave New lite" sliding roof. One of the smooth and powerful, and my York and Los Angeles in opposite features of this car is the extre-brake meter gave a reading of 53 directions daily. mely clever way in which the de- Pr cent. of the weight of the signer of the bodywork has taken vellele, equivalent to stopping in a

distance of 25ft; from 20 m.p.h. advantage of every inch on the little chassis, with the result that

Light but Rigid. - there is really plenty of room for The steering is of the screw und four adult persons in the car. The nut type, and exceptionally good, long wheelbase chassis on which being really light but very rigid, the body is mounted in Bft. 3in. It makes the little car a delight to long, the overall length of the drive. paloon with the luggage grid up being 12ft., while the width of the bodywork is 4ft. 9in., and I found that there was ample leg-room in any one of the four seata.

Smooth and Powerful.

The three-speed gear-box was easy to operate, and the lever con- veniently placed, but the cluth was not so successful, as it was inclin- fed to be force. It was of the single plate. type, and this may The engine is a four-cylinder have been due to faulty, adjust- unit of 63.5 m.m. bore, and 102 ment. m.m. stroke, giving a capacity of The engine has side valves, with 1,287 c.c. and a tax of £10. I found a two-bearing crankshaft, and, ft quite smooth in operation and though naturally it has to turn att powerful enough for the work for high speeds, there is little evidence which it is intended. The car will of vibration. The cylinder head cruise almost indefinitely at from is detachable. The accessibility 30 to 35 m.p.h., and over 45 m.p.h. jof the car and power unit are very be reached, while on the good. All grease nipples are plac- second of the three gears 30 m.p.h. fed in convenient positions, while can be obtained, and this ratio is such important points as carburet- most useful for adding to the ac- tor, magneto, clutch, and engine [celeration.

can be inspected easily, and there

can

My performance meter showed is plenty of room to work on them. that the little engine was quito. Another good point was the su capable of dealing with the weight pension. On short vehicles of this of the car. On the top gear at 10 description one expects a certain m.p.h. the pull was 30lb. per ton, amount of pitching on rough roads, representing a gradient of one in but on the Standard I found it to 25, which could be climbed steadily be totally absent, and the car at this speed. At 20 m.p.h, it had would hold the road well at any gone up to 110lb, per ton, which speed.

It is expected that the coaches will do a large tourist business, taking considerable trafic of this kind from railways.

Spring is the time when a man welcomes a miss. in his motor.

UNIFIES TRAFFIC.

The traffic regulations in sixty-

was the maximum for this gear, Altogether at £215 "The Teign- and represents a gradient of 1 în mouth" 0 hp, Standard saloon is a 20, while at 30 mph. It was down most attractive little vehicle which once more to 90lb. per ton. At 40 jehould be really economical to six of California's principal cities m.p.h., however, there was still a operate. I found the petrol con-aro ruled by the uniform traffic. pull-of 80 b. per ton, so that a sumption to be over 35 miles to the code of California. The city of gradient of one in 40 could be gallon. Other fabric saloon types Oakland is the latest to adopt the [climbed steadily at that speed on can be obtained at £185.

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