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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MORE POWER-LESS COSŤ

DYNAMIC NEW

ERSKINE

ECST

CREATED AND BUILT BY STUDEBAKER

There is a fundamental reason for the championship performance of this Dynamic New Erskine-it hos more power to weight than any car of Its price.

At its low price, the Dynamic New Erskine offers a wealth of room and comfort. The wheelbase measures114 Inches--a BIG cor! Silent, smooth power flows affort- lassly from the 70-horsepower engine. New duo-servo 4-wheel braking means pasitive safety.

Studebaker's name for value giving-built on 78 years of success-assures you the souridest Investment in fine transportation at low cost.

Delivered prices from H.K. $3,270 to H.K. $3,990

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central ·

Tel. Central 4759.

TRUST A THORnycroft With Your TransPORT

DEAL DIRECT.

THORNYCROFT

SIX-CYLINDERED

COACHES & OMNIBUSES

MOTOR VEHICLES

Pioneer Manufacturers of Commercial Motor Vehicles

4 or 6 Wheels

4 or 6 Cylinders

30 Cwt. to 10 Ton Loads

20 to 70 Passengers

JOHN I. THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED UNION BUILDING............HONGKONG

FIFTH FLOOR.

Write us and our representative will call.

Telephone Central 4881.

TRUST A THORNYCROFT WITH YOUR TRANSPORT

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

PRESS REPRESENTA- TIVES TOUR WORKS.

Thornycroft 6-Wheelers

Demonstrated.

SEEING HOW THEY'RE BUILT.

Following the impressive display of Thornycroft motor vehicles at the Olympia Commercial Motor Show, John I. Thornycroft & Co., Limited, had the happy idea of in- riting a large party of Press re presentatives and leading users of motor transport to make a tour of their Basingstoke Works, and see for themselves their highly efficient organisation for the production of their vehicles.

The party travelled by special train on the Southern Railway and when joined at the Works by others who had gone by road, numbered about 150, and were then divided into small parties and taken through the Works by members of the staff, who explained to the vistors the many, technical processes and novel types of machinery em- ployed in the production of Thorny. croft vehicles.

Following this a series of demon- strations was given, in one of the fields adjoining the Works, by several types of Thornycroft six- wheelers.

The ground had been specially. prepared to resemble the roughest of colonial country with stretches | of thick mud, flooded ground, deep pot-holes and obstacles in the shape f baulks of timber and steep 1 in 2 gradients.

The vehicles of the Company's latest 3- and 5-ton types gave a aeries of remarkable performances taking all these various obstacles in their stride without the least hesitation or difficulty.

The whole company of visitors. were astonished at their per- formances and agreed that these latest productions of Thornycrofts were capable of supplying efficient transport in the most remote parts of the world where the absence of roads made any other form of mo- tor transport impracticable.

The guests were afterwards en- tertained to lunch, presided over by Sir John E. Thornycroft, Managing Director, whi in the course of his speech welcoming them to the Works, announced the most interest. ing fact that during the preceding year almost 60 per cent. of the Com- pany's productions had been export-

ed.

MORE 'BUS MILES.

Rail Figures Passed.

| AMERICA'S TRANSPORT. According to Official statistics, there were 92.400 motor-buses in the United States on January 1, 1929. Of these 42,000 are used for the transportation of school children; 35,300 are owned by independent companies for highway transport; 10,000 are used by electric railways and similar utilities; 100 are in in use by steam railways.. The remainder are operated by sight- seeing companies, hotels, and the like,

Hostility Gone.

The one-time hostility to the motor-bus on the part of the es tablished railroad systems has in almost every case given way to a strong co-ordination between rail. roads and motor transport, with the result that to-day the total mileage of motor-bus routes exceeds the the total railroad mileage by 39,800 miles (289,473 'bus miles as against 249,644 rail tiles).

The railroads are increasingly up- ing the motor-hus for the establish- ment of feeder lines, which open up undeveloped districts where rail service could not be carried on at a profit; and for the transfer of passengers from waiting rooms at the centre of large cities to railroad stations in the suburbs. Many rall operators have established a motor- bus service parallel to and in com petition with their own lines, as they find it an advantage to offer! their passengers a choice between motor and rail service.

No Rails to Use.

The future of the motor-bus in America's transport system is very promising. There are still some 45,000 communities in the country without railroad service. Within 75 miles of Indianapolis, for in- stance, there are 180,000 people in 612 towns and villages of 50 in- habitants or more, who have no ac- cess to any railway, Here is a non-competitive field for rapid deve lopment of 'bus service,

Urban 'bus transport is also in- creasing rapidly, with the extend- ed growth of the cities, which creates a need for additional tráns- port facilities. Railways can no longer limit themselves to ráfl ser- vice alone, but must adapt the motor-bus and even the seroplane to their needs.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930.

The New

"Be sure to see it”

BUICK

with New Non-Glare

Windshield

114′′ Wheelbase Marquette Models

118 Wheelbase Buick Models 124 Wheelbase Buick Models

132" Wheelbase Buick Models

G$1,470 to 081,600 G81,800 to 'G81,940 G$2,240 to 082,275

0$2,195 to G82,890

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LIMITED.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

FEDERAL TRUCKS DO

REDUCE HAULAGE COSTS

For nineteen years, Federal has built trucks-and only trucks-with every part a truck part. Federal is reducing haulage costs for business men in fields of activity where transportation is a fac Also, Federal's great line of motor, trucks-the greatest in the world--makes it possible to exactly fit the truck to the job. Forty-three chassis, one to 71⁄2 tons capacity, and more than 100 body-and- chassis combinations, offer every business man the right truck for the job.

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FULL PARTICULARS FROM-

The China Motor Supply Company.

28-28A, DES VEUX ROAD, CENTRAL.

Telephone C, 1558,

BRANCH OFFICE-486, YAT TAK ROAD CANTON.