1929-03-09 — Page 7

MOTORING

USED CARS

FIVE SPECIAL OFFERS

STUDEBAKER Standari

6 Tour- ing Car 1928 Model, 7-seater

Driven 27.34 hp. Owner

H.K. $2,500

Trams v. Buses.

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, 9th MARCH, 1929.

Baing. The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

DEA DIN Gen min Pean tun GVIN

CURRENT.

COMMENT

lay. It is interesting to note that Sincere's sold eight B.S.A.'s · lost week, and in addition, cleared out a shipment of Norton motor cycles, for which excellent and speedly little mounts, they have recentiv been appointed sole agents.

CAR-BUSES. -

Sydney's New Transport.

SUBURBAN SERVICES.

In competition with trains, trams, and buses a new form of motor transportation has developed in Sydney.

daily

Considerable interent has been created Jucally na the result of state; ments made at the General Annunt

It has evolved from the generos Meeting of the Hongkong Tramways,

ity of the "Want a lift, friend?" Lid, and once again the subject of

motorlat. Now, owners of passen-) trams vermis buses has come to the

ger cars are anying "Want to pay front. As a matter of fact, the ad-Rear Lights,

for a lift?" and are finding willing vantages of the motor bus have been

Motoring down the Peak the other passengers. thoroughly substantiated as far B

main evening, no less than three cars Services of this kind are running Burgkong in concerned, the

from Ryde, Randwick point at the moooting being the air-were noticed with the rear number ing of the Tramway Company's displate not illuminated. While such and Daceyvile, and from other too, probably. The given proferential treatment in the cidental, there appears to be a grow fare is

or tram matter of placing motor buses on the ing tendency among some drivers penny more than train roads in opposition to, the trams, to adopt the "maskeo" spirit with fares, and the passengers are re- From the Tram Company's point of regard to lighting. The sooner this gulara who have been collected as a

clientele. view, tho uses are probably con is stopped, the botter. sidered as an adjunct service to the trams, and as such, it is logical that Record Shipment. the concorn which operates the main

MORRIS OXFORD appointment at not having been a state of affairs may be quite ac-suburbs, the Bame, or one

Touring Car 1924 Modol, 5- seator 13.9 h.p. Owner Driven,

| Mileage 18,000... H.K. $1,000.00

What is believed to constitute a

1

Cannot Use Placards. Care capable of seating 8 or 10

PETROL & BEAUTY.

Boycott on Ugliness.

At a conference called to help preserve the beauties of the coun tryside at Leicester (Eng.), it was suggested that motorists should pledge themselves never to buy potrol from any disfigured or dis;; figuring garage.

Speakers declared that a boy- cott of this nature would result in an improvement of the types of i buildings used as filling stations. -

sell them to passengers-If tickota are required in a building before the journey commences.

Rogular time-tables are being run by these enterprising apostles of fast transport. Usually they manage to find clients whose needs are to come to or leave the city at different hours.

As at present constituted the Traffic Act contains no provision to prevent car owners from selling transportation in this manner. The attitude of the drivers is "offer you a lift and you can offer me six- MORRIS COWLEY sorvig should desire the right to record shipment of carn to Hong- are being used, and the elty termin- pence for the favour. I will of control any ancillary service. The kong arrived recently when al is Market-street. So long as the course, expect the sixpence and ac- main fact is that oven the Tran Mesure. Wallace Harper & Co., cara do not display a placard or cept It"

It is considered likely that amend Company, although pointing to the success and superiority of trams in Ltd, took delivery of 62 Ford cars sign, or verbally ply for hire, they other parts of the world, desires to and trucks. Although some peo- cannot be classified as taxis or om- ments to the Traffic Act will be reap the benefit to be derived from ple predicted that the day of the nibuses. The proprietors cannot introduced to rank this form of

especially sell tickets in the airs, but they can transport with taxis and buses, operating what its chairman describ-"livver" had passed,

Touring Car 1925 Model 6- water 11.9 bp. Owner Driven Mileage 10,127 ...H K. $800.00

STUDEBAKER Light 6

Touring

Car 1922 Modol, 5-senter ‘25 h.p. Ownor Driven, Mileage 23,000.....

.H.K. $500.00

CHEVROLET Sedan 1928

Model, 5- seater 21.7 h.p Owner Driven. --H.K. $1,400,00

The Hong Kong Hotel Garage

25, Queen's Road Central.

Tel. Central 4750.

ACCESSORIES

A Big display' al "Ösidits" 'and' Lena torage batteris suitable for all motor care and radio. Also acessorios of all kinds for motorosza and sycles such as,

Electric horns. Hand jacke Bumpers. Foot pumps Spark plugs. Wrenches Tyre patches. Lamp bulbs Brakellning. Body polish

ko., &c. &c., &e.

All al exceptionally low prices. Call HONGKONG and inspect THE

MOTOR "ACCESSORY CO., Bank of Canton Building. Tal. C. 577.

SHE'S A GREAT CAR UNDIA THE HOOD BUT WHO WOULD KNOW IT BY HER LOOKS? GIVE HER A COAT OF

Effecto

AUTO

FINISHES

ALL COLOURS KEPT IN STOCK

AS WELL AS TUR NEW FORD SHADES.

Arabian Sand, Dawn Grey, Niagara Blur and Gun Metal Blue,

N. 8. MOSES & CO. LTD.,

Sole Agenta.

ed an unfair and unnecessary comwhen Chevrolet took the lead in petition 1. We are not even sure that it sales figures, the new Ford has in unfair-but it cannot be said that created huge business all over the it in unneccessary, otherwise; why world, recent reports Indicating bother about it!

Other Examples

to

It is quite customary for tramway companies all over the world to point

other trunway

ByнLOMB A ovidsace of the superiority of trame over buses, but the qualification of that superiority is largely hased on

that the various Ford factories are working at high pressure in order to cope with orders. South China is certainly taking its quota of these vehicles, thanks to the energetic local representation. Failures Analysed.

Every year the Royal Automo- the prosperity of the system, rather bile Club publishes an analysis of than on the modern or comfortable aspect. It in quite obvious that the car breakdowns handled under Its "Get You Home" service, and tramways must pay in sickly popu- lated districts, and it in equally clear the figures for 1928 are that the vast sums tied up in tracks, available. standards, rolling stock, generating

now

The service in question pro- stations etc. make it imperative that vides the use of a free relief car every effort should be made by those for members whose own vehicles financially interested to continue to break down or become involved in raa trams in preference to buses an accident, In spite of all the argumente for trams, it is illuminating that very Tow Tan Companies extend their existing system, preferring to aequits flects of motor lupea insload. Competition Healthy.

ΣΙ

on the In spite of what may be said virtue of monopoly, there is no deny-

The poor old ignition system is still labelled as the bad boy of the family, being discredited with 22.7 per cent. of the total failures. Unwise Economy.

The second biggest item on the black list is axle shafts, which ing that competition is of the ut have a total of 13.8 per cent. of mont benefit to the public. It is the failures scheduled. This la quite true that many tramway really incomprehensible in these kystems are protected by Act of days of perfected design and be but Parliament, but it must be remen-metallurgy. There can bored that in the majority of such two possible explanations. Either cases, the trams are the property, of some manufacturers still econo- ratepayers, and that all profits go to mise unduly in the quality or size! rolioving the local rates. Similarly, of of the axle shafts; or some drivers couras, whare modern, municipalities let the clutch in so fiercely as to have instituted motor bus services upset all calculations for a rea- Of the privately operated services sonable margin of safety. running throughout the British Isles,

there is the keenest competition, Less Accidents,

the result being an extremely high

that

It is gratifying to see standard of comfort and efficiency; "accidents," with 13.6 per cent. As far as Hongkong in concerned, it might even be advisable to grant the allotted, show, a slight decline by necoceanry franchise on this tender comparison with the previous system. This would give all com-year.

/

peling interests an equal opportunity Cylinders and pistons are not

of bidding for the right to maintain so reliable in the modern car as motor hus.services over certain in earlier types so far as these

figures may be taken ан routes

1. criterion. In 1924 the figure was;

Motor Cycling.

1

RECORD HILL CLIMB.

Chevrolet Truck Climbs Garth Mountain,

CATERPILLAR GEAR PRAISED.

6.8 per cent, but last year it was The hill-climbing capacity of a y-garth Hotel and ended at the 18 bad. Chevrolet 'commercial car was do- summit of Garth Mountain, An That motor cycling is increasing 106, or nearly twice

"Leaving the hotel, the ten road- vealed by the number of machines the braking system-credited with when a fully loaded 8,000 pound way rises at a steady gradient of In popularity in the Colony, is re- The most reliable unit on a car la monstrated in England recently excerpt from his report follows: licenced locally. For the younger only 1 per cent, of the failures; generation, the two-wheeled ma- and the steering and front axles truck climbed the Garth Mountain, one foot in 5.39 feet, until the chine offers an exhilarating mode of are reasonably satisfactory for near Cardiff. The achievement] hairpin turn is reached. Round transport at most economical out-such vital parts, with 3.3 per cent. was regarded as impossible and Ing the Hairpin turn at the left,

SUBTLE LESSONS.

WORLD DISTRIBUTION.

created so much interest in auto the roadway which at this point ia only about seven feet wide, motive circles that the quiet little rises sharply about one foot in English town at its base became 2.28 feet, Continuing up the a bustling centre for a day. Mountain Gate road there are Newspaper

men, photographera gradients of one in five. The road United States exports last year and men prominent in the auto- surface was of loose stone mace- dam, being particularly rough and by magistrates who do not know were: To Europe, 105,369 cars motive industry wore present to sort

in places. The distance

Smarting under penalties-inflict.

the difference between a spark plug

when safe.

and

a spare tyre, the Austrian and trucks; to South America, witness the attempt and were en- travelled was two and one-half Touring Club has evolved a subtle 81,606; to Australia and New Zen-thusiastic over the power display miles and the altitude climbed

was 775 Test" method of teaching magistrates land, 77,583; to Africa, 31,512; ed by this standard truck, when motoring is dangerous and to Asia, 31,405; and to Canada, Before the test was made a sur- The sponsors of the climb The club has placed cars at the 62,644. Exports for 1928 will veyer was employed to survey the attributed the accomplishment to disposal of the magistrates on every reach nearly £100,000,000, accord-road. He also acted as official the "caterpillar gear of the observer during the test and In Chevrolet-the small ratio gear occasion when they are engaged on ing to forecasts based on sales up his certified report described the that is a new feature of Chevrolet professional duties,

trip which began at the Gwaelod trucks,

Ito June 80.

Look out for

THE

500 c.c.

SINGLE CYLINDER

SIDE-BY-SIDE VALVE

HARLEY-DAVIDSON

DUE HERE SOON.

For further particulars apply:-

THE GASCON MOTOR CO.,

REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN ON ALL MAKES OF MACHINES.

Tel. K. 1242

2, Kwong Wah Road, Kowloen. (Opposite The Steam Laundry)

A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF SPARE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES IN STOCK,

QUALITY

Iubrication for your car -based upon proved engineering skill.

To get the best lubricating oil for your automobile engine you must (1) obtain oll of exceptional lubri- cating value, and (2) make sure through engineering. study that the body and character of that oil are scientifically correct for your angino.

As the world's oldest and largest specialists in lubrication, the Vacuum Oil Company points to one forward stop after another which has given motoris.s bettor lubrication.

In the eary years of the automobile we were first to specify a correct ail to meet the lubricating noods of each individual car.

In recent years we were first to provide an.added lubricating margin of safety against to-day's high speed, high compression, high temperature operating conditions.

And daring all the years, we have kept first lo Importance the quality standards that have mad Mohiloil the world's quality oil..

That is why Mobiloil Is the most asked-for oll among motorists everywhere. You, too, always be sure--with-

The World Quality Oil

Mobiloil

VACUUM OIL COMPANY.