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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ·MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929.

A SIX-WHEELER IN ROUGH COUNTRY.

Get behind the

and Get the facts ! »|

Buy your car on

a business basis-- check power, getaway, swift- ness, hill-climbing --in actual tests---that's all that's needed to prove Buick

Superiority

A kind and degree of performance so "new-so indescribably superior-induced more than twice as many people to purchase Buicks during the past year as any other automobile listing above $1200. Here is ample reason for discarding old buying habits. Take a Buick. Drive it in traffic. Try it on the hills and on the straightaway. Test it in your own way and at your own pace. Measure carefully every element of performance.

Get behind the wheel and get the facts... then you'll get a Buick! Buick Motor Company, Flint, Michigan, Division of General Motors Corporation

Buick

WITH MASTERPIECE BODING BY FISHIN

"The New Buick-The New Style

Buick Motor Cars are available on very attractive Hirc Purches: Terms.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or. 1247.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT | BUICK WILL DUILD THEM.

STUDEBAKER Delivery Cars

$675

to $3275–1⁄2, 1, 21⁄2, 31⁄2 tons 1-tain Punel(Illustrated)81450

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Lemember way back when-windshields were held in place by brass rods and self-starters were just coming in? More than 16 years ago Studebaker was building delivery cars- some of them are still running. Though styles have changed, the en- during quality of Studebakers is still their strongest characteristic. 1. Studebaker engineering genius and precision manufacturing have produced a line of fine delivery cars which perpetuates Studebaker's 77-year-old reputation for quality transportation.

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central

Tel. Central 4769.

The above picture shows a Thornycroft six-wheeler making light work of exceptionally hard going. These excellent vehicles are proving ideal in opening up rough country where ronds are as yet unknown,

| TRAFFIC PROBLEMS,

A Railway Leader's Suggestion.

THE CRUSH OF MOTORS.

GIANT FORGE FOR camshafts, brake leavers, control levers, genvs, universal joints, BUICK.

knuckles, steering arms and 100 other sturdy parta.

For Silver Anniversary Buicks.

SPARE YOUR CAR.

All-out Driving is Bad.

GOOD ADVICE.

The "butterfly on the wheel” schema is always useful to the ob- server of any moving part of a ear, for it enables him to visualizo the relative effects of bearing frie- tion on vibration, while it also teaches him to hnye patience with a piece of machinery which main- tains accuracy under conditions of gross misuse, writes Professor A. M. Low in The Motor." I sup pose thero la no other kind of engineering practice in which n dellento product la so badly used; neglected and thrown from pillar to post in circumstances which the owner-driver regards as entirelyTM normal.

There is a great deal in "hands and feet" in tr driving. Cars that are sympathetically ` handled, chsed round corners and on hill- lops, last far longer in a condition of trencly smoothness. It is well known that if an engine is given an occasional breather on the throttle it helps Inbrlention to be renewed and prevents bearing wear. This is very noticeable under conditions which permit of the throttle to be maintained in one position, conditions, by the way, which seldom occur upon the road.

Most racing men will say that there are very few cars in the world that 'will stand up to 20 miles "alout" driving. I believe this is quite a useful point about the general type accelerator pedal, upon which it is virtually im possible to maintain the foot in Giant cranes bring the steel one even position. bars to the cutting machine where A driver should always remen-. they are chopped like wood inte ber that the slightest vibration in the desired lengths. Heated to a one part of a car may be trana- temperature of 2,300 degreen,mitted throughout the chassis. A Fahr, in huge ovens, the steel Useful example is the case of an Giving evidence before the Royal

then is ready for the dies where engine subjected to crankshaft vibration and rendered vastly Commission on Transport recently

drop hammers, weighing from smooth by the slight frictional Mr. J. Bromley, M.P., general sex

1,000 to 12,000-lb. convert it into drag of a belt-driven fan. - retary of the Associated Society Michigan, produces 116 separate the desired shape.. of Locomative Engineers and Fire

After the flash is trimmed, the men, said that private motor-cars

newly formed part is heat-treated should not be allowed within'n cer-i

at a proper temperature to im- tain radius of the busy streets of Hore the raw steel, delivered to prove the quality and then pickled great cities and business towns. the factory is heated, treated and to remove the scale before inspec

into crankshafts, tors fest it for hardness and for

connecting rods, accuracy.

PICKLING STEEL.

The huge drop forge plant of the Buick Motor Co. at Flint,

and distinct steel parts for the Silver Anniversary Buick,

Thia, he said, would eliminate, transformed more especially in the morning front axles, and late afternoon periods, the large number of motor-cars now cccupying busy streets contain- ing ether the owner or lil, chnaf four or the owner alone, and would leave the busy streets more free for public passenger-carrying]: vehicles and for trade lorries and:

Vans.

"Any observant eye can see, in? London any day," said Mr. Brom- ley, "long chains of motors taking their owners to their offices. IL: may be hard to say to a car owner- that he shall not use his car when ever he wishes, but after all, the majority of people do not own motors, and they have to get to business. Public vehicles are pro- vided, and the atroots are blocked by a large number of vehicles, some of them nearly as big as the public, vehicles, and containing only one person."

In answer to Mr. W. R. Smith Mr. Bromley said he knew the view was held that the speed of trains could be accelerated, but except in one or two cases, he did not think that it could be greatly increased. "Generally," he said, "to-day you have the aeme of speed. I think that the grouping of the rallways has tended to give better speeds, better fiteilities, and better com fort."

Nationalization of Railways, Mr. Bromeley also advocated na Bonalization of railways, and the Earl of Clarendon asked him how he would select the management.

Mr. Bromley We should visualize a central executive. “ofi men drawn from three sources:; First, educated men such as some of our present directors, who would introduce the spirit of kind- liness apart from the business spirit; second, a section of harili business men who would try to balance the ledger; and third, u section of practical men, who would say what was the best! method of dealing with any parti cular problem.

The workers would he represent- ed on the board, where they could give experienced asulatance, but not merely for the purpose of say- ing that the unions were repré-| sented.

Mr. A. G. Walkden, general soc- retary of the Railway Clerks' Asso- clation, advocated the abolition of the first-class accommodation on the railways. The comparative emptiness of those carriages had been accentuated in recont Limos by the increased use of motør-cars, and there must be a' serious loss) to the companies over the prov!-] sion of first-class carriages which wore in use.

The brightening of railway stations was another proposal by Mr. Walkden. Most of them, hej said, were badly out of date and. needed complete.. reconstruction. Shops, fats, and cinemas should be built on the spare land at alations, and a great deal of the capital in- volved in the reconstructed station could be recovered from the rents] of those places.

STILL ROOM FOR MORE,

At the beginning of 1929, Swe- den had more bhan 126,000 motor vehicles in operation.

For the man who must

trust his car

WITH

a full five-seater touring body or as an all-enclosed saloon, this big, powerful 14/28 h.p. Morris - Cowley is built specially for overseas service

to stand the strain of rough roads, steep gradients, heavy loads, and extremes. of climate. Notice the high road clearance, the robust suspension, the deep springing, 56 in. wheeltrack, the numerous other telling details of design. It is a car thought out, designed and con- structed by the biggest car manu facturers in Europe..

MORRIS AFTER SALES

·SERVICE IS WORLD- FAMED AND PRICES OF SPARE PARTS ARE FIXED BY THE FACTORY

MORRIS

MORRIS MOTORS (1926) LTD., COWLEY OXFORD, ENGLAND

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25 Queen's Road Central-

Tel. Central 4759.