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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929,

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Batteries designed for your car-Stocks Carried for your convenience.

AMP. HOUR

នមចិត្តធីគីមិនឌនE | CAPACITY,

AT-6

AMPS.

Piest Olite

TYPE

CASE

63 MR RUBBER

DO DO

The

Brest Olie

Battery For your car DIMENSIONS IN INCHES

W. B.

442 312

DO

10 N 61% 01

PRICE

EACH

GROUP

OYO

61 Rak"

05 A-613 JF.

A-611 BIL

RUBBER

100

A.616 J

DO

A-613 8

6

130

616 JKH

6

160 A-617 NI

A-127 AII

1211 94K

DO WOOD RUBBER DO WOOD DO

10X 7X HINTIN

·CAD

13 X 7 X 0

6 136 A-615 BJI

Group No.

A

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Studebaker Light & Std Bixos, Gardner, de, 2 Studebaker Big & épre. Sixes, Chrysler, & 7 Osan, Cole, Cunningham. Oldimobile, ko. 4 Buick St., Chervrolet Esox, Ford, &c.

8 Buick M. Chandler, Hadean, Oaldand. Re 6 Hupmobile, Packard 8. Wilya Knight, &o. 7 Dodge, Gardner 8, Graham Bros. Truch, &t.

12 Leemale. Mack Truck, Rolla & White. Cad Special Cadilne Battery.

Cye Motor Cycle Battery-Harley, Indian, ko.

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COLOUR AND LINE IN CARS.

Beauty and Considerations of Utility.

[By the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce.]

Motor car bodies have always | passengers must first of all be given bean subjects for compromise, and the necessary width and depth, not I suppose they always will be. The to mention height, of seating which Arst "autocars," naturally, followed la their right; and those on the rear slavishly upon the general plan of, scat must not be too far out over the horse drawn vehicles which they the back axle, or the engine will replaced, and, although wo havo at want to paw the air like its pre- Inst escaped from the thrall of the decessor in this transport business! consotvative coachbuilder, it la 1 will not attempt to go into the only recently that the motor car purely engineering considerations, has bocomo generally recognized such as equal distribution of weight as a vehicle in a class by itself, and so forth; and we all know that and not a modified horse carriage. the, problem of securing a low Whether an up-to-date car is as centre of gravity for the car na a much a thing of beauty as the whole, while yet providing for the wonderfully finished and thought different necessary clearances, is fully designed landau, victoria, dog- not easily solved. There, is, how- cart, or whatever it was that just ever, the further problem of keep- a few of us would have used a score Ing the general line of the car low or so of years ago, is purely and long, while allowing sufficient a matter of taste. And, as our head room; too little is misory, and Lastes have developed to produce too much gives a top-henry, anti- that up-to-date ear, it is to be pre-quated appearance. Sufficient leg aumed that its lines meet the wishes room within the given, and Inclastic, of the majority of us.

wheelbase, also, in not so chelly

But there is an onsential differ-arranged as might be supposed. enco' between the carriage and the → Seating Accommodation. car, so'far as design from tho,ap- By no means ovory cor meots all pearance point of view is concern-these varying, and often conflicting, |ed. The old-time coachbuilder, when requirements, and most of us find once he had provided a given that the car of our choice, while amount of seating accommodation, being mainly what we want, is could be as nethetic as the funds a compromise sa to several different available for the particular carriage points. The obvious retort by. allowed. Since his "engino" was those who consider that ono is way out in front, between shafts, hypercritical is: "Why didn't you he had nothing to consider but buy a larger car?”. Sometimes this elegance. With the motor car we might meet the difficulty-in the have to harness our “borso” within case of cramped rear seating ac- the space outlined by the four commodation, for instance—but the| wheels, and there exists to boflarger the car the larger becomes satisfied a whole host of considera- everything mechanical connected tions of greater basic importance

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE.than elegance.

(THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.)

25, Queen's Road Contral.

AMERICAN TRADE.

Tel. Central 4750;

WRONGLY ESTIMATED.

with it while the designer may have endeavoured to secure a hold and impressive appearance, and it does not invariably follow that the ac tual body space is greater than that of the smaller model of the same make.

A Test of Beauty. The motor car, when all is said and done, is an engineering job from start to finish-body and all But an engineering job may have pure beauty, part altogether from A friend of mine found this out its obvious telency and suitability.to her cost. Having had a year of Artists have been known to rave complete satisfaction on a popular over the Forth Bridge, for instance, 12 h.p. saloon she felt the ambition As a matter of fact I think that to control a more powerful and self-evident suitability for its pur-lively engine, and exchanged it for

American exports took rare af White common estimates place pose is a major factor in the beauty, an equally well-known 21 h.p. six- 21 per cent of the motor vehick the number of cars purchased on or otherwise, of any object, me-cylinder, saloon, The speed and sales in Masch, the National the installment plan in this U. Schanical or otherwise, intended for acceleration of the new car are all Automobile Chamber of Commerce around 75 to 80 per cerit., a survey, une rather than for ornament. that she desires; its Impressiveness reports. More than half of the taken by Professor E. R. A. Selig-1 That brings me, by the way to on the road in most gratifying; but trucks produced in that country man, Columbia University, shows the matter in which the car is, and the cannot take four friends besides during that month were sold in that only 55 or 60 per cent, are always must be, a subject for con- herself for a run in the same com- foreign countries.

promise. Your two, four or five fort as that provided by the MONDA

"twelve" of happy memories.

4

so purchased.

A Revelation in Transport

THE THORNYCROFT

SIX-WHEELER

THE VEHICLE WHICH CONQUERED THE DESERT FROM BEIRUT TO BAGDAD

THE GREATEST PROBLEM IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BACK AREAS IS TRANSPORT

THORNYCROFT

BUT-

VEHICLES ARE CONQUERING TRANSPORT PROBLEMS

IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD TO-DAY.

Particulars of our Lorries, Vans, eto, for 1 to 7 tons, and Coaches or Omnibuses for 20

to 45 passengers forwarded on request to :~~'

JOHN I THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED.

UNION BUILDING

HONGKONG

FIFTH

FLOOR

Write us and our representative will call.

Telephone Central 4831.

DEAL DIRECT.

Heavy Colour on Top,

We do not notico the gradual, change in car lines, mainly, I think,

Suiting the Tyre to the Service-

Choose your tyre equipment according to your particular service needs. There is a suitable commerical vehicle tyre for every requirement in the

DUNLOP

RANGE

Solids, Pneumatics, Cushi ns--and each built to an ideal of por fection that ensures the best possible service under any conditions.

DUNLOP

-the tyres that carry commerce

MADE IN

ENGLAND

DUNLOP RUBBER Co. (China), Ltd.

Pedder Building.

Tel. C. 4554.

because of our conservative tenden- tures of those "occentric cars," ara tion. But there are buffs and buffs, hound effect may be irrevocably eles. When the first of the French so common as not to excile com- groys and greys, And there are ruled by injudicious painting; if fabric-bodied cars made its appenr-ment. The British public, in fact, other colours which are equally (the dark tint or colour be below the ance in this country, some of us is not averse, I think, to the harm- serviceable, and may be even pretty, waist line the result is generally to wero apt to scoff at its eccentric less affectation of a Continental ap- But far be it from me to seem to destroy, all that the designer has appearance, and it was more than pearance,

dictate on matters of artistic dis- striven to gain. Top-heaviness of

a year before this design began to In the matter of colour, buffs and feernment; yet, if you choose one' of appearance is the worst effect, but make headway. Now wide and greys are perhaps predominant on the popular two-colour schemes, do even if matters are not so bad as comparatively shallow windows, the roads these days, and either is keep the heavier colour on top! A this the conflict of lines and colour body eldes descending right to the excellent in bearing the ravages of car, which la admirably designed in must rob the car of any individual- running boards, and the other fea-weather without obvious dilapida- 'every way to give that lithe, grey- lity it posscases.

IN CASE OF BREAKDOWN÷Phone C. 3193.

Tune Up Your Car

Our

Service Stations

are organised to give

PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL SERVICE

CARS COMPLETELY OVERHAULED AND TUNED TO PERFECTION

UNDER EXPERT EUROPEAN SUPERVISION. (A. J. ALLISON, Manager).

Large Stocks of Spare Parts Carried.

MAY WE TUNE UP YOUR CAR?

MAIN SERVICE STATION

10, CROSS LANE, WANCHAI,

2

Tel. C. 3193.

KOWLOON SERVICE STATION

CAMERON ROAD,

Tel K. 1624,

LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.