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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1930...

Marquette

114" Wheelbass Marquette Models

118*

124'

1397

Buick Models

Buick Models

H.K. $3,900 to. H.K. $4,250-

H.K. 84.750 to H.K. $5,130 H.K.. $5,931 to H K. $6,015

H.K. $5 635 to H.K. $7,640

Buick Models

66 FINE-CAR FEATURES

COMBINED ONLY IN MARQUETTE IN

THE $1000 CLASS

it's pretty hard to catalogue a car like the Marquette-and give anything like a true idea of what you get in this car in the $1000 class. This new six is such a revolutionary value that you've actually got to see and drive it to realize what a great car it is! *

Just as an indication of the value, rare value in this splendid new six- here are a few of more than 66 fine-car features that it embodies-fea- tunes combined for the first time on a car in the $1000 field.

Wheelbase 114 inches. Closed Bodies by Fisher. Non-glare Fisher VV type ventilating windshield, ` New type mohair upholstery. Spacious rear seat. Adjustable front seat. Remarkable power plant- 67.5 brake horsepower. Rubber engine mountings. Thermostatically-controlled water cooling.

Full-crown one-piece fenders Chrome-plated cowl lights and cowl moulding. Built-in bumper brackets integral with frame.

Running board fully bound, with no exposed screws. Completely sealed engine. Forced lubrication. Lovejoy hydraulic shock ab sorbers, both front and rear. Four-wheel internal- expanding brakes. Adjustable steering wheel. Hyrostatic gasoline gauge on dash,

Guide tilt-ray lamps.

A host of other extraordinary features that combine to make the Marquette Amer« · ica's most complete car in the $1000 field.

BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN

Canadian Factories

Division of General Motors

McLoughlin-Buick, Oshawa, Ont. Corporation

Builders of

Buick and Marquette Molor Cora

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LIMITED.

Telephone 30228.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT... BUICK WILL BUILD THEM

AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE.

Fifty Tourist Trophy Races on One Machine.

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BANDIT-PROOF.

Armoured Truck.

CASTLES ON WHEELS.

Machine Gun Carried.

The armouring and arming of 2 trucks used in this hazardous class of business makes them castles on wheels. Each truck is fitted with a safe rivetted to a bomb-proof steel floor. The bodies and windows are entirely bullet-proof. The glass in the windows is 14in. The audacity of bandits and thick. The truck is manned by a recorded in the Island for over gunmen in the II.S.A. has called 38-calibre police revolvers. An crew of three men, all armed with years. For several days the road for drastic precautions to be taken important part of the equipment is over Snaefell, which rises to ato safeguard the transport. of a riot gun, which is similar to a height of over 1,600 ft. above seal specie, payrolls, security, cash,small machine-gun. As an extra level, was covered in snow and at and other valuables.

precaution, police accompany, the other times fog and rain were

trucks.

The famous Isle of Man Tourist Trophy course has recently been the scene of what is undoubtedly one of the most strenuous tests of a motor cycle that has ever been attempted.

Under the observation of the encountered. In fact, the variu-| Armour-protected, motor trucks The trucks are painted a brill- Auto Cycle Union, 500 cc. tions were such that sometimes it are being used in this work of ant red, and their bodies are. Dunelt machine fitted with was raining in the valleys while defeating. the bandits. The covered with 15-gauge chrome- Sturmey Archer engine and gear there was severe frest on the Brinks Express Company, of New nickel steel, which will resist a box and built up from standard | mountain, "

York, one of the largest carriers steel jacketed bullet from a 45- parts selected by an A.C.U. re-! "Speeding" was, of course, for- of valuables, operates 176 Inter-calibre revolver, discharged at 10 presentative, was Aet the bidden as the roads were not national trucks," fitted with feet distance. The panels of this tremendous task of encircling the closed to ordinary traffic, the armoured bodies.. T.T. course no less than 350 times greatest care had to be taken by this company delivered more than to deflect bullets, and spread the In one year outside plating are given a bulge at high speed, the equivalent dis- the riders in negotiating the many £1,400,000,000 in cash, and more strain when they strike. tance of 50 T.T. Races. Despite villages and nearly half the riding than £8,000,000,000 in bank clear further precaution, the inside of appalling weather conditions and was done in the hours of darkness. ing securities, and other valu- the truck is lined with 18-gauge narrow Escape from

In the 339th lap the Dunelt ables. Another firm specialising sheet aluminium. complete disaster by collision in the 339th came into collision with a car in the transport of valuables is windows are fitted with bullet- lap, the distance of 13,200 miles which turned out of a side road the Armoured Service Corporation proof glass, and can be removed was covered in under 16 days and and the rider was thrown heavily of New York, which also operates only from inside. Each body is nights riding time at an average but was not injured.

Unfor-la, large fleet of International 9ft, 6in. long behind the driver's speed of 34.8 m.p.h. including all tunately, however, the machine trucks, stops.

was damaged severely and new

seat, 76in wide, and 72in. high. forks, steering head, exhaust pipes and silencers were necessary in order to complete the test., "

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To appreciate the true merit of this outstanding performance, it is well to remember that no previous] observed test on the road hash Following upon the magnificent: exceeded 20 m.p.h. or, alternative- achievement of the 25,000 miles

test ly, been held over a greater dis- continuous running. tance than 10,000 miles. Further. Montlhery last year for which the such a distance on the T.T. course Maudes Trophy was awarded, the: involves a total climb of over manufacturers of the Dunelt have

in 700,000 ft.. equivalent to 132 miles succeeded

achieving yet vertically into the air or 24 times another outstanding performance the height of Mount Everest. As which will redound to the credit already stated, the weather was of British motor cycles all over the atrocious; one day was the culdest world.

DROVE AT A CAR, always did so when people refused to dim their headlights, his object being to teach them a lesson.

Because Driver Would Not Dim.

ABSURD EXCUSE.

A motorist who drove at an api proaching car to "teach the driver to dim his headlights" was suri. moned at Wimbledon recently for driving in a dangerous manner.

Mr. Thomas Wesley Thorpe, of Heath drive, Raynes Park, S.W., who was driving the other, car, Eaid Mills swerved across the road 20 yards in front of him. He had to zwerve to his off-side to avoid. a collision, and as a result his car turned round, backed into a fence and was seriously, damaged.

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Mills said that he signalled to Thorpe to turn off his headlights, which were blinding him.. by It was alleged that William switching is lights quickly off and Mille, of The Grove, Wandsworth, med he drove his car to the

As the lights were S.W., deliberately drove on to the crown of the road. That was hi off-side of the road, causing a practice when headlights troubled smash. When asked why he had in. done it. Mills replied that he Mills whs fined £2.

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