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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7; 1929.

A GREAT “EIGHT.”

The Latest Hillman.

MODERATE PRICE.

For sheer, value, the Hillman Straight-Eight saloon is perhaps Cuban Central Highway. length of 692 miles of which prae- the most outstanding of the range Cuba is building a 700-miletically all the grading is finished, from the Coventry factory. This Go to 70 per cent. of the culverts is now made in both Safety and highway that will cost

and bridges built, and 30 to 40 standard types. The latter, a $100,000,000, the forerunner of

per cent of the pavement lald. British-built eight-cylinder car, many more modern roads that will More than 11,000 men are now at with a six-light saloon body, in be built in that country, Central, and South America in the near work on the gigantic road build-listed at £446 only. At this figure ing project. It is a delightful it is far and away. the cheapest Buture.

road to travel, all sections being British Straight-Eight, yet from The read is now more than fifty smooth and without heavy grades the viewpoints of appearance, per per cent. finished and will be or sharp curves. Speed laws are formance and comfort, it might Completed the latter part of 1980, strictly enforced within the town well be far more "costly. The The first section betwees Havana | limits but in the country there will Safety saloon is listed at £485, and its specification includes Dewandre and Matanzas was opened recently, be practically no limits.

brakes, unsplinterable glass all round, wire wheels and furniture hide upholstery, these refinements applying to all Safety and Segrave

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It extends sixty-five miles, The International signs, agreed upon Cuban Central Highway will be the linest modern typo of per-at the Paris Conference, will be warn of approaches to manent road construction, without used to

curves, bridges and towns. models. grade crossings, either above or Distances fre being marked below the road and there will be by kilometer posts, and gas no speed limits outside the towns. line stations have already The highway will extend from been erecteil along completed ser- the city of Pinar del Rio, in the lona. province of the same name, on the The Cuban Central Highway west, to Santiago de Cuba on the wild eventually form tart of the It passes through the capi-proposed Inter-American Highway tals of the six provinces of Cuba, that will link all the countries of including Havana and Matanzas, the American Continents.

Canada to Chile,

Enst,

Construction of seondury "roads to connect the Cuban Central Highway with all important porta at the Island, and to develop all- important agricultural zones has already begun, When these feeder rouds are bullt, toCal construction costs will be in the neighhmarhon at $300,000,000.

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Eight range are the Tourer (£430) Other models of the Straight- and Safety Tourer (5445), the Weymann saloon (£485) and the Drop Head (£610). The body- work of the latter car is particular ly fine; the head in casy to fold, yel when raised draught-proof. The front seat ne- commodates three persons com- fortably, whilst there is room for two more in the dickey. The id of this, incidentally, is "controlled by a lever on the driver's right hand, so that it is unnecessary to get out of the car to open it.

it is rattle and

Melbourne Parking,

RACY CARS AT LONDON SHOW.

One of the snappiest body designs seen at the Olympia Auto Show in London recently was this one on n Hillman chassis. Speed is the goal not only of the engine but of the lines from

front to rear..

RICARDO HEAD.

NEW YORK SHOW.

Prevents Shock and Opening in January.

Roughness.

INTERESTING DESIGN.

240 MODELS. The 80th Annual Automobile The name of Mr. H. R. Ricardo. Show will be held at Grand Cen- F.R.S.. la well known to all teal Palace, New York, from motorists us belonging to one of January 4-11. There will be dis- the foremost of British automobile plays of 240 models, representing engineers and scientists who was 46 makers of cars. i.e. 42 makers

initiating responsible for

the

From Java to Belgium. The managing director of N. v. General Motors Java, located at Batavia, was at his deck recently when he was naked questions which could be answered most satisfactory by the managing of automobiles in the country is extensive research work into the of domestic cars. 2 domestic cabs,

well as the showing mysteries of detonation which hunas

of director of General Molara Con-more thon 200,000.

been proceeding steadily ever Mercedes-Benz and Voisin, foreign important economic and social linental, at Antwerp, Belgium. It

since the Armistice. One of the automobiles. There will also be results are expected to follow the takes thirty days for mail to go

results of this research was the shown for the first time the new Completion of the road which will from Batavia to Antwerp. A Automobile owners in Mel development of the Ricardo head. penetrate spelions where one cable could be sent and a reply tourne, Australin, must pay for which, by its special form, made Cord, the Marquette, the Roosevelt suldom **

vehicles but received in four hours, but the the privilege of parking their enra, possible the use of much higher and the Viking. heavy ox carta. About two-thirds difference in time made the use of The City Council, in an attemp|compression ratios in sidevolve In addition to these exhibita, of the road is being bullt up from cables at that moment unsatisfacto restrict parking. has adopted engines than were previously con- there will be more than 200 dis- the foundations of existing rowdstory. So, * transoceanic and new by-laws permitting parkingsidered permissible.

plays by accessory manufacturera' and trails but part is through radio hookup was arranged and, aenly on certain streets throughout are, with the application and makers of shop equipment.

A difficulty which has arisen in primeval forests and jungles. conversation carried on by two the day. The revenue derived of this head is that if the engine

any

The cost of the Cuban Central automoblie executives 8,449 miles therefore goes into the municipal is not very rigid, i̟,c., if there is

apart. It Was probably the treasury arking fees are A longest distance ever spanned by shilling a telephone conversation.

Highway was originally estimated at $75,680,000. Extensions have since brought this sum up to ap- proximately, $100,000,000, Ineludi ing drainage, grading and bridges, The highway has a measured

Rain Shine

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motorcle ċelivery service down to the lowest cost-per-fachofe is largely an after of getur gale night tyres Goodyear 1yres-ch your cut- fit...

For Goodyear Motorcle Tyres give cxactly the things that pale such service, eccrobicu); eatra "long mile- age; 21otection of load from jar er „breakage", "safety and comfort for river; freedom from trouble, izturing. On-time schedules.

“And because delivery ervice must le reliable, in cri] ne,i] (A}}-{W cefler Tread the tyre før con m'eitia) work. They're real motorcle tyre real ballicns. Ask for them as equipment on new machines.

GOOD YEAR

3-28-22

Distributors:

Alex. Ross & Co., (China), Ltd.

PRINCE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.

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a month, five week, one pound.

ten shillings for six rounds, months, and ten pounds a year.

Around the World.

Moter At General

any possibility of "spring in the crankshaft or connecting rods, the extremely rapid ring of pressure in the combustion chamber which China Branch.

follows the spark is apt to give Operations of General Motor

rise to a vibration of high fre- in China are to be handled in pari

quency which, to the driver, gives by a new subsidiary known na

Proving an impression of rough running. General Motors China, Inc., which Ground, during 1928, approximite. Recognizing this difficulty, Mr. has just beer organised with head-ly eight and a half million milestienro has now developed what quarters in Shanghai,

were driven by 180 test-drivers. ¦ may be called a "shock absorber" Formation of the new Chinese Based upon these figures, the work head, so designed that smooth company marks an important ex-of each driver for one year, has raming is obtained even with a The smooth- pansion of the overseas interests necessitated his driving a total high compression. of Geneful Motora,

distance of almost fifty thousand ness is due to a peculiar two- A miles, twice the earth's eircum-phase combustion process. stance.

small proportion, of the charge in isolated in a shallow pocket and Ared first, burning relatively

application of pressure. The

flame reaches the open mouth of

Czecho-Slovakin.

YOURCAR

SHOULD CARRY AN AUTO-TOTAL THE BEST MOTOR CAR FIRE EXTIN-

GUISHER IN THE WORLD

Prices from the Sole & gents,

Chevrolet slowly and producing a graduat KELLER, KERN & Co., Ltd.

Tom-Toms Bring. Buyers. At Delhi, India, dealer had the problem recently

The

The Minister of Finance of Czecho-Slovakia states that in 1927, 115 million crowns' worth of tyres were imported, an amount entirely out of proportion to the of finding some way to get thecond phase commences when the number of vehicles in use, due to story of the various qualities of the pocket and consists of a rapid the poor condition of the roads. Chevrolet before the people in the spread of combustion through the

outlying rural districts. Finally, turbulent main charge. Compared with, automobile he sent two big bearded Sikhs initial pressure rise Lakes up any traffic In France and Germany, armed with tom-tom drume into "spring" which may be present where the roads are in goud repair, the country towns and the beating in the working parts.

This new head is said to give Czecho-Slovakia uses three times of the drums soon brought a the number of tyres. All rubber crowd. After the crowd was almost no high a power output and products are imported and this is assembled, a talk was given on efficiency as the previous Ricardo one of the principal arguments the enduring qualities, riding hend, but with markedly smoother ted by the Department of Com comforts and economy of operarunning, the difference in smooth- new car. The in-ness being, of course, more notice- munications inserting at tion of the mey spent in the apkeep and teresting fact is that not only were able in some engines than in- understand that construction of roads would, the names of prospects. obtained others. We

arrangements have been made to among other advantages bring an but ears were netually sold.

market the head very shortly for economy in such huge imports,

Ploneering with Cars, fitting to Austin Sevens, this made neressary by the actual con-

ition of the road network

The most fundamental of all development being in the hands of modern social revolutions has been Kingsway House, London, W.C. 2. the licencee, Sydney W. Lewis, wrought by the automobiles.The Motor. After having subjected the au-

General Motors Corporation hus tomobile trucks of several lealing been the largest contributor to the benefits that are derived from Foreign manufacturers to. n BİX

automotive transportation, General months' test, fliè Post Office Desi partment of the Netherlands de. Motors last year introduced more cided to purchase thirty-two mail automobiles to overseas territories than all other manufacturers com- trucks from the Opel Works of

bined. thus blazed motor trails Russelsheim, Germany, a General into the least civilized outposts of Motors subsidiary. Sales made at the world. the recent automobile show in Amsterdam indiente that the future of automobile expansion

must Some of the lies among the more comfortable farmers outside the already highways in the world are on the motorized provinces of Nerth Hol- Island of Java. Trees, planted land, South Holland and Utrecht. along the roadsides, have a

For Holland,

Sahara Desert.

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two important automobile races are to be run next year from Algeria to the Sudan. The mora Important of the two will be known'

Highways in Java.

beautiful

charming effect on travel on the Island, more than 15,000 miles of road being shaded.

Another Company. '. General Motors Corporation has as the "Ground Prix du Sahara," required the Alison Engineering Those races will be a landmark in Company of Indianaolis, Indiana, the history of the great African in its entirety, according to an desert; they will show the world Bouncement made by Alfred P. how the actual means of communi- Sloan, Jr., president. Allison En- cutions across the sandy hills or rincering. Conpany has been through the stony wilderness, have engaged in various developnicits been made easy.. New tracks have of a mechanical nature but hus been created and the old camel been concentrating recently upon Caravan ones greatly improved the development The tracks over the Algerian Sahara now cover about 3,000 kila metres,

More French Cars,

France is now building 34 per cent of the European production of automobiles, the equal of Eng-

of aviation

engines, particularly of the Diesel ype. Gêneral Motore plans to expand this, company in its opera- tions, especially along the Hne of the Diesel type aircraft engine,

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States as a manufacturer of cars, collisions between automobiles and Last year. 200,000 motor cars were the older type of transportation made in France; this year the by elephant power, has passed, Lumber will be between 250,000 an order requiring elephants, and 280,000. The number of while travelling on the highways workers employed in manufacture at night, to wear tail lights,

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