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

"GREATEST

RECORD

for any class of car for all time!”

TUDEBAKER'S new President Eight recently raced 30,000 miles

hand built model, stripped. for speed, but four strictly stock models-ench traveled this distance at better than a mile a minute average speed. The cars were selected at random by officials of the American Automobile, Association who supervised and certified the great- est record if the history of transporta-

...International Association

of Recognized Automobile Clubs

(PARIS)

tion. The two Studebaker roadsters averaged more than 68 miles per hour,

hour for 19 days and 18 nights! With such phenomenal performance, with the unequaled riding comfort of Studebaker's new ball bearing spring shackles, small wonder this great new President Eight is outselling every other eight cylinder car in the world!".

'Studebaker's Four New Lines Sandeļaker builds four great liner of com—The President Eight (30,000 miles in 26,126 minuten); The Commander 121,000 miles in 22,968 minutes); The Ditemur, 13 000 miles in 4731 minutes); The Esskine #1040 miles in 984 minutes!, Eich is backed by Studebaker's 12-month guarantee.

Prices range from $2,320 to $6,140)

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

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Tel. Central 4759.

STUDEBAKER

THE GREAT INDEPENDENT

ESTABLISHED IN 1852

PROPER TREATMENT FOR A PEST.

Bring me the zinilets glowing red That burn a hole in shrinking

skin;

Prepare the spiky-mattressed

bed;

The lead-filled boot and daggers

thin.

The rack, the thumbscrew and

the chair,

And any, tortures you can find That promise vengeance rich and

rare.

For, I have need to soothe my

mind.

By driving to some dungeon

dim

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At point of a thin, ticklish

Road

And there wreak my ripe hale on

him

Who owns the centre of the road.

Too long on joy he's been a scar This slowest of the slow, slow-

pokes

Who drives with zealous pride a

car

Empowered by two feeble mokes. And so that none may bar his

path,

NEXT CASE

WASTE TIME -

-

He gives himself the right to

stray

Despite the hoots of righteous

wrath

Along the central right of way.

"A careful driver," he is called Bot I could call him names that

Benld

The least of which is "Super-

hog."

While traffic waves around him

foam,

And fingers for his throat have

itched,

He ploda his fifteen out and home, Disdaining drivers he has ditched.

And yet the police all smile on

him

As law-abiding, safe and sane; While they pursue the vlango

grim

A speedster who's not half the

banc.

To get him to my torture hall I'll build a wide road to the doors Down which he centrally will

drawl;

And them--what gléc—I'll pay

old scores.

SPEEDING.

(Sydney Sun).

COME ON - DON'T. WOT SA CHARGE ? - SPEEDING.? $25 'N' coars - You

FELLOWS 'HAVE GOT TO BE STOPPED- WORLD'S GOING TOO FAST EVERYBODY IN A HURRY - NEXT! - MOVE ALONG: GOT TO HEAR LOTSA CASES TODAY-

NOTICE

то

ADVERTISERS

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TOO MANY MAKERS. William Letts in supporting saturation point in regard to çar

),

British Builders Lacking.

Co-operation.

the suggestion for better sales, yet conservative estimates co-operation was Colonel Hack. place that point at about 300,000 -

tho Secretary of the cars per annum. How soon wo British manufacturers! section shall reach that figure la Idlo of the Society of Motor Manafue speculation, although at present turers and Traders. Roughly, the there is a steady increase in the total output of the British matar] registration of meters of about 12 AMERICA'S EXAMPLE. industry was 200,000 per annum, per cent. por annum.

In an

range

he sald, yet how could individual | At the present time there are two Sir William Letts, managing makers each having only a percen-classes of car manufacturers in the director of Crossley Motors Ltd.,tage of this total expect to compete United Kingdan, those that cator has just returned to England from in price with organizations that for a limited sale of about 1,000 to America, where he was impressed produced in a month as many cars 2,000 cars per annum, and those the whole British Industry that endeavour to make arid sell by the various mergers that have

30,000 to 50,000 cars each year, taken place hetween United States turned out in a year?

TE is the latter class that must have motor manufacturing concerns In

It is agreed on all sides that the an export business in order to keep order to meet fierce competition. Austin Motor Company and Morrie their production figures up. Yet interview with me, Sir Motors, Ltd., can plough the field with all the disadvantages of mak William stated that the British of competition on their own, but ing care in hundrede as compared motor makers would have to ar- there is too much overlapping of with the thousands of American closer co-operation with models among the bulk of the rivals, some British manufacturers each other by means of a round industry to produce vehicles that have made reasonable profits this table conference if they wished to can compete successfully with your. The accounts of Singer and survive the competition for orders foreign rivals in the export busi- Co., Ltd., published recently, show not only at home, but especially less, which is the real factor a profit of £140,000 of the previous abroad and in the various parts of making for the expansion of the year, despite the fact that the new the British Empire.

British motor industry. Although works at Birmingham have only This year the American motor no one suggests that England's been in full swing for the lant car industry has accomplished se-home

market has arrived at six monthe. veral mergers. Among these were the Dodge-Chrysler combination and the amalgamation of the Studebaker with Plorce Arrow, and It was reported in well-informed circles that the first-named interests contemplated joining up with the Studebaker-Pierce Arrow organizations virtually controlling the output of the motor vehicle Industry in the United States, the chief of these organizations being General Motor Corporation, Henry Ford, Dodge-Chrysler, and Stude- baker Pierce Arrow.

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Their combined output this year, suld Sir William Letts, would ap- |proach 1,000,000 vehicles, and the few Independent companies, such as the Packard and Nash Motor Corporation, would have to fight harder than ever in the field of competition. Yet in England and. Scotland some fifty odd motor manufacturing firms were fighting to hold their own, cutting prices disastrously, in place of co- operating and amalgamating to meet foreign competition.

Impossible Competition. No less emphatic than Biri

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