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There's a Dunlop Tyre for every make of car or bus and for every standard rim.
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"The New Buick- The New Style"
- now prove to your own satisfaction that Buick out-performs any other car.
Before you
You want the finest-you want the best -you want your next car to meet your highest expectations... The only way to be sure is to drive before you decide... and driving will lead you to Buick as surely as this dynamic car incorporates an entirely new, a revolutionary, order of performance!
Take that drive today!-prove to your own satisfaction what scores of thou. sands of motorists in all parts of the country are daily confirming-
decide-Drive!
that this dashing car with Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher marks the new peak of performance as well as the new style the vivid new mode-of car design—
thit it delivers fullest measure of all the qualities that motorists desire... and that this is the vital reason why. more than twice as many people purchase Buicks as any other automobile listing over $1200!
Buick Motor Company, Flint, Michigan Division of General Motors Corporation
Buick 'Motor, Cara are available on very attractive Hire Purchase Terms,
Buick
WITH MASTERPIECE LODIES BY FISHER
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
83, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VÁLLEY. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT: BUICK WILL BUILD THEM,
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929.
SIMPLICITY. CHARACTER TEST.
The Manufacturing Drive Before Marriage.
. Aim.
TROUBLE FREE
SERVICE.
HOW TO PICK A HUSBAND..
"Before you marry him, girl, go riding in his car.”
“FAD” THAT STAYED.
Relic of 1907.
MOTOR" WAS “DYING BUSINESS."
There was a time when motor ve-
Tabloided, this is the advice of hicles were declared passing fast, Mr. H. C. Brokaw, technical ad- and motor manufacturers were ur
a motor school in Newged to get out a dying busincos."
One of the most noteworthy na pects of progress in automotive de- sign, which is reflected by the new models seen this season, is the in- viser to creasing trend toward simplicity. York, who believes that to watch the It is almost axiomatic with on-behaviour of a car driver is a quick gineers that the simplest mechanism and sure way to a knowledge of his is not only the best but the one disposition. most likely to give motorista the
Demeanour in breakdowns, traffic trouble free service they have accidents, and dangers should give learned to expect from their cars. a true indication of how a man will An outstanding example of this behave in the stresses of married trend toward simplification in the life, and his bearing under the bar mechanical fuel feed pump which rage of advice from a back-seat las for some time been standard driver should either consolidate the equipment on Studebaker care, re- lady's first opinion or cause her to placing the vacuum tank system of change.it. fuel supply which was formerly in
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Of course there is a catch in it," for a driver subjected to irritating The pump is extremely simple in if explorary-comments on his. dealgn. It is operated by a lever driving by the girl of his "choice actuated by the cam shaft of the might reflect; "Better single bilse motor, thus automatically supplying than a nagging wife," and risk the carburetor with petrol in strict breach of promise euit. proportion to the requirements of the motor.
In operation the pump draws fuel from the main petrol tank through
A yardage of all concrete rond-
a strainer built integral with the way, equivalent to 217 miles, was pump, and feeds it to the carburetor laid in the British Isles during 1928. ander very alight pressure. Tho action of the strainer eliminates all water and sediment in the fuel be fore it reaches the pump valve and passes into the carburetor, thus pre- venting sticking and freezing of the mechanism as well as carburetor trouble.
under all atmospherle and tempera- ture conditions.
Perhaps the most convincing testa it. has undergone have occurred since it became feature of stand- ard equipment. It was a part of The whole mechanism weighs less the equipment on The President than three pounds, requires no ad- Eights which recently set new off- justment, and assures a constant, clal world records for speed and en- even supply of fuel to the carbure-durance by covering 30,000 miles tor for austained high speed as well. In less than 30,000 minutes on the ns for steady power when climbing Atlantic City Speedway, main-
ал taining
average speed steep grades.
Like all other improvements in- of more than 68 miles
19 days and 18 corporated in Studebaker cars, the hour for fuel pump was put through exhaus- nights of continuous travel. It was Live tests in Studebaker's elaborate also called on to keep a stendy flow research laboratories and on the of fuel passing into the carburetors Studebaker Proving Ground before of the Studebaker Commander it was adopted. On tests for dura- motors which travelled 25,000 bility it was kept in continuous miles in less than 23,000 minutes operation for more than 200,000 on the name track. In both of miles. It was tested with every those severe tests the fuel pumps grade of commercial petrol, and performed perfectly.
per
That time was recalled recently in Paris, by the discovery of a clrcular promulgated in 1907 by the League Against Automobile Excessos.
denouncing After thoroughly motor vehicles from every angle, tho circular concludes by saying that the auto's wheels. are stained with blood and buyers will have no more of these engines of death and de- struction."
POLICE TEACH SAFETY.
As part of a "Safety First" campaign in Cardiff (Wales), the chief constable introduced a number of policemen as teachers in the day schools of the city.
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- SOLE AGENTS: WALLACE D. HAWKES (Hongkong) Ltd,
7, Queen's Road, Central. Retailera:-UNIVERSAL MOTOR & SUPPLY CO.
Road, Central,
38, Queen's
You'll see it
The
CHRYSLER
- above
all others.
SOLE AGENTS
The Republic Motor Co. of China.
(Stuccessors A. LUNG & %. Auto Dept,)
40, se, Des Voeux Road,
SOON
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[AVING passed the million mark in production Chevrolet has realized the dream of years—a Six cylinder Chevrolet with Fisher. Body style within the price range of the Four. Be sure to see it.
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
25 Queen's Road Central-
Tel. Central 4759.
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