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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEME

The 6-Cylinder

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929.

WHY BUICK CALLED ITS NEW CAR “MARQUETTE."

New 12 Horse Power

ARMSTRONG "SIDDELEY, CAR must draw your attention!!

SMOUTH RUNNING, EASE OF CONTROL, GREAT POWER RESERVE, AND RAPID ACCELERATION ARE THE OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICE OF THE 6-CYLINDER 12 HORSE POWER MODELS, PERFECTLY SPRUŊg, they HOLD THE ROAD FIRMLY AT ALL SPEEDS.

THE IMPROVED DESIGN AND CAREFUL MANUFACTURE OF THESE MODELS GIVE THEM A DEGREE OF RELIABILITY AND EFFICIENCY. THAT 19 UNSURPASSED.

THE WIDE RANGE OF MAGNIRIGENT DESIGNS AVAILABLE COVERS ALL NEEDS.

HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES

TOURER

ROADSTER

FABRIC SALOON

£289

£289

£319

Comple with Triplex Glass, Spare wheel, Tyre and Tube and One Extra Hand Horn

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central.

Marquette

Tel. Central 4759.

"As a matter of historie interest readers of your newsper may want to know how the name of this new car was selected," said Mr. M. B, King of the Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., local agents for Buick motor curs, to a representative of this paper. "The name of Marquelle was carefully chosen by the Ruick Motor Company, manufacturers of IL is name "Marquette." famous in Michigan, the state whose inventive genius and indus- trial hardihood gave birth to Buick in a decade, when any auto- viewed motive venture WAR

Marquette askanco by eapital.

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SAFETY 'PLANE. Sheds Its Engine. GLIDER IN EMER GENCY.

A new plane which can drop ita engine and fuel tank is the latest development in aviation in the

U.S.A.

For years the inventor, J. B. Abren, of San Francisco, has been working on the idea of eliminating the risks of fire in the air, and forged landings through an engine going out of action. The engine and fuel tank are so fitted in the fuselage that they enn be released In the air, leaving the plane as a slider.

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Freed from the weight, the 'plane can then glide over much greater distances in search of a landing place, and its landing speed is only twenty miles an hour.

The ability to drop the fuel tank greatly reduces the risk of tatal destruction by Are.

NOW ON DISPLAY

Marquette-product of General Motors and companion car to Bulck is now on display.

Come In and examine it. Take

It out where the hills are steep

and the open road invites you to speed along. We're confident that you'll agree with everyone who has driven it that if more than measures up to Bulck's reputation for comfort, dependability, per- formance and value.

was one of the great travellers of chronicled. his accomplishments, his day, a French pioneer, braving low natural and how Atting that the then North American wilder, when Buick creates a new produci, new to make new discoveries. destined to become a pioneer of Marquette explored 2,500 miles of the Buick namo in now fields, a the new price class and size, that territory, travelling down

and Marquette's name should be Ohio, nois, Wisconsin Mississippi rivers through terri- chosen. tory peopled with hostile savages.

"The background of Buick pro-i For protection he relied upon the vides for Marquette the qualifica- fragile vessel which carried them tions of endurance and perform-

hardy determination' and upon

auce which are compatible with to win through.

"Cilles have been named for the name."

The A great railroad in:

-frst slifpment Marquette, U.S.A, bears' his name. In several "Marquette" ears will arrive next

many books languages

have week.

WORLD'S LARGEST.

Ford Plant at Dearborn,

HUGE FIGURES.

With production of the Ford: Motor Company in full swing, the lg Range Plant at Dearborn, the Kargest manufacturing establish. ment in the world, has become the cene of the greatest activity in its history.

Reports covering #k month's operations show the receipt of 9,000 carloads of material and the shipment of 8,707 carloads of products from the plant.

Incoming shipments consist largely of coal, ironore, the latter buing unloaded from like vessels

of

CHRYSLER

-above all others.

DUTY FREE.

Cars as Baggage. Amendments to the U.S. Custom regulations permit the importation of motor cars by visitors for a period of 90 days free of duty.

The United States Shipping Line SOLE AGENTS. - havo followed suit, and will now carry cars as passengers' baggage,

SINGAPORE TO. ENGLAND..

Morris's Long Trip.

M. Two Indian motorists, Canagasaly and G. Pillary, have recently driven from Singapore (FMS) to Birmingham (Eng.)

Using a second-hand Morris

at the Ford docks on the Rouge Cowley, which had already done River, limestone, and sand, with 15,000 miles, they drove across;

consiguments of India,, Afghanistan, Persia, Irak, numerous materials used in emaller Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, quaitities, while the Rouge Plant Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, sends out for sale not only au- Germany and France to England, tomobiles and automobile parts, The whole

The Republic

Motor Co.

of China.

(Successors A. LUNG & Co. Auto Dont,)

30 32, Des Voeux Rond

AND STILL INCREASING.

The number of automobile tyre distance-11,000 casings increased in the United but alsa coke, cement, serap and miles-was covered without a Stutes from 6,600,000 in 1913 to various other by-products saved serious breakdown and on one 77,500,000 in 1928, the Rubber Association re. through manufacturing efficiency.net of tyres. Seventeen and a half Manufacturers

Within the Rouge factory enclosure are 92 miles of railway, on which an average of 2,000 cars are handled daily, including those used for intra-factory movementa. Approximately 350 freight cars carry products from this factory each day. The bulk of thesa ship- ments is composed of automobile parts consigned to 32 other as- sembly plants in the United States and to foreign plants. Model A Ford automobiles assembled at the Rouge Plant are delivered to dealers under their own power, us the plant assembles automobiles only for the Detroit area.

For the Rouge and Highland Park plants combined, 11,234 car- loads of material were received in the month and 11,199 carloads of products went out from these factories.

gallons of oil were used..

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THE

MOTOR UNION

INSURANCE C? I??

Incorporated in England

(Under the auspless of the Automobile Association)

BEFORE INSURING CONSULT US ON OUR COMPREHENSIVE. POLICY

For full particulars apply to:— THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd.

York Building,

Phone 0.587.

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MARQUETTE

BUILT BY BUICK

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246′ or 1247.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

THE

TRUSTY

"TRIUMPH"

Is a Triumph of the British Motor Industry!

TRIUMPH SUPER SEVEN (FOUR SEATER) THE FINEST SMALL CAR IN THE WORLD.

TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES- LATEST MODELS C.S.D., C.N., C.O.

Inspection Invited.

Sole Agents in Hongkong & South China:—

THE GLOBE AUTOMOBILE CO., LTD.

1, Canton Road, Kowloon.