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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929.

STYLED for BOULEVARDS

POWERED for TRAILS

Jou must make your own tests to fully ap preciate the 6 cylinder capabilities of Stude- baker's new Erskine Six Tourer. In official rests, sedans and coupes of this new Erskine Six averaged more than 54 miles per hour for 24 continuous hours!

The more powerful 6-cylinder engine in Stude baker's new Erskine Six laughs at bills and. heavy going. Abundant power permits smooth top gear performance in congested traffic-

eager acceleration, Advanced engineering en- ables Studebaker to offer greater economy of petrol and lubricant combined with greater ibility. Balloon tyres and shock absorbers give luxurious riding comfort.

See this lowswung five seaterbody, with its gay cellulose colours, hand polished to perfection, The more you know of automobiles, the more you will thrill to this new Erskine Six Tourer. Judge this Studebaker value here today.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE STUDEBAKER'S-

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ERSKINE SIX

AERIAL ROADS.

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BIG FOR EVIDENCE,

1929 PREDICTIONS.

Last Year Reviewed.

TO-DAY'S VALUE.

VALVES WILL BOUNCE.

"If Well Seated.

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Ovners who earnestly want to do a good job of servicing, their cars frequently do not know just when they can consider the work

Commenting on the motor car outlook for 1929, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President, General Motors Cor poration, says: "The beginning of being completely and gatis factory done. As one owner puts cach year appears to me to be an It, "Poor guessing often undoes

us to review opportune time for

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the year just closing and in that much of my efforts."

This is well illustrated in the way obtain a better prospective of

valve grinding. Many what our hopes and ambitions case of should be for the new year. The owners do not work long enough Annual Autombile Show coming as on the job for best results, while it docs at this, time of the year others grind too much. Lacking way to know when they alfords an excellent opportunity to some do this Trom the standpoint of the have struck a happy medium, they often do a poor job without menu- automotive industry.

"To my mind in 1928 the indus-ing to:

Valves try has carried still further for-

are properly ecated if ward the principle which has con- they will bounce back when drop. tributed eo much to its marvelous ped into their seats. If the valva achievements. It has served the drops with a thud, the indications public better through the develop are that the work cannot be call- ment of more outstanding values ed finished. than ever before. All this has been made possible through increased engincoring knowledge or a better understanding of the fundamentals, exert for us a greater influence. In capitalized by more effective manu-development good-will than millions of dollars spent in advertising. I facturing and

intensivo moro

mention this because I do not bo- merchandising. Added attractive-fore the industry as a whole has

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ness in appearance

intensified on thie most important of the greator appreciation

subject to the samo dogres that it artistic uide bas probably been the outstanding develop has on other phases of its activities.

"Indications point to 1929 44. ment of the year from the stand- point of the industry as a whole. likely to be the biggest year from With it, however, the technical or the standpoint of production that senso the industry has yet enjoyed. Our mechanical side hus in no been overlooked. There has been replacement demand will increase; a very general advance forward,wealth will be added to the country particularly in the relation of which will further increase our op- power to weight or increased per-portunities. The more intensive formance and acceleration made effort that is being put into over- desirable by road congestion and seas business, aided by a greater higher speeds, the latter particular-appreciation of the motor car and its use as an agent of transporta- ly in the lower price models.

"When one looks at the valueation, will result in still greater pos- that are being offered at this time, sibilities in that rapidly expanding It hardly seems bellevable, yot I field, will venture to predict that with

"General Motors enters the new the spirit of progresa that has pre-year with confidence that our vailed from the beginning and still dealers and we ourselves will obtain prevalle in the industry, the end our share of this prosperity. To has in no senso been reached. merit this we recognize that we

"Looking forward-to my mind the greatest problem that confronts the industry from within is more effective merchandising of the pro- duct. I mean by this, the build ing of a sounder foundation for the automotive dealer and with this the development of good-will to

must serve the public better than ever before. We shall strive to do that with the hope and belief that will turn out to be the most pros- perous year we have jet enjoyed.

"There are many problems con-

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LABOUR GETS HALF.

A steam shovel at Hartford,

fronting us all that are far from by the American Automobile As- Elevated highways, like huge There will be at least one and Buspension bridges running aeross roofs and open squaren, will soon próbably two oddities at the New Conn., has been busy digging forward the industry through more of-finished. There are many construcciation shown that it costs mo-.

jan old axlo and wheel which are fective service. The greatest ae-tive things that can be done that

An analysis of California rond be built in Paris to relieve trafle York automobile show next Janu-dostred as evidence in the Packard-set that any industry or business have not even been started and torists 10 cents por mile to operate

Among the new cars will be Ford litigation. The shovel han can possibly have is the good-will some not even thought of. A their cars. Last year the average costs recently disclosed that a Ift- conditions. Spiral roadways built [ary, around huge pillars will provide one or tave makes of front wheel turned up more than 500 tone of of the mublic toward it and its pro-realization of those facts together motorist spent $229 for operation the more than half the total cost coat of now Improved, ronda, gods for drive automobiles.

dirt with no results.

ducts. To my mind, effective ser-with the willingness to work makes and repair, Fuel

$101.

Iabour. access to the aerial highways.'

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