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Ancient and Modern.

The stranger within our "gates"

is invariably impressed with the striking contrasts to be scen in the Colony. Perhaps this state ment should be made of the East generally, but at the moment we comment to are confining the

Hongkong for the simple reason that some of the more glaring contrasts might be removed by the introduction of medera methods to the particular spheres concerned. Hand-drawn coolle trucks which obstruct the even flow of traffic along the busier routes, rickshas and chairs, come to mind in vivid contrast to the modern way. the automotive way. We have modern buses and ears, and yet we still. tolerate their forerunners of centuries ago.

ear

RUSSIAN COUNT DESIGNS PRIZE CAR.

1931 "Harley Davidson" Can be Cabled for Now.

The first All-American car to win the Monte Carlo Grand Prix is the Cord designed by

Count Alex de Sakhnoffsky, shown here. The designer is shown in inset.

Brussels.

When the "stranger" crosses the Grand Rapids, Mich., July 5th-for America. He has been in the the car has a nine-inch clearance. harbour, he either travels in an A mountain-mist blue body, entire employ of the Hayes Body Corpora- But with its 1374-inch wheelbase, up-to-date ferry or launch. They devoid of straight lines, mounted tion nearly two years. All his time its sweeping line, which seems to contrasting antiquity of service on a Cord front-drive chassis, this now is devoted to the creating of cling to the ground, and the 54-inch should he desire to take a spring brought to America for the artistic cars.

total height, Count de Sakhnoff- As art director of the Hayes con- sky's creation seems even lower over the water is again surprising. first time the Grand Prix of the

automobile (cern he designed the Marmon, new than it actually is. -REAL SERVICE! For years, pleas have been made annual Monte Carlo

style show, and added fame to its Peerless and Little Austin bodies. for a modern vehicular ferry, bat 28-year-old designer, Count Alex The count also has designed a 24- and a half feet, the interior offers In spite of the height of but four it scomingly appears that years de Sakhnoffsky, art director of passengers cabin plane by Sabca of 37 inches of headroom.

The de- will elapse before the Colony is the Hayes Body Corporation.

signer speaks of the car as the low- effectively linked together by a

Winning Grand Prix awards at Believing that engineers rapidly est in the world and also as the modern cross-harbour vehicle

Monte Carlo, however, is nothing are attaining perfection in the widest, the automobile having a 61- transportation system.

new for de Sakhnotky, despite mechanical parts of the car, Count inch tread, said to be two inches Numernu Benefits.

his youth and his comparatively de Sakhnoffsky asserts the car¡ wider than any car so far intro- As we have so frequently urized, brief experience in designing motor buyer is paying more attention to duced. the provision of vehicular ferries cars, The 1930 award was his the beautiful lines and coleur The upholstery and carpet are of would not only prove of the fifth, although it marked the first schemes. He pays little attention rich, soft materials, the scat greatest convenience to motorists victory for an all-American pro-jtu Pody construction but says his trimmed with old gold braid, generally, but would greatly as-duct.

part is purely artistic.

matching the astique bronze of the Interior hardware.

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sist in the transportaiton of cargo) Last year he took the highest

The Prize Winner. from one side of the harbour to honour with a Packard chassis and

The Grand Prix Cord has at- the other. Firma who are con- European body. An English stantly moving materials or mer-Rolls-Royce was presented with the tracted no little attention, not only A radio is concealed behin, the water are prize in HS, and Belgian Mineria America but in France where the seat with the loudspeaker in the either as were the class of the fielda indigner was freed to keep the floor. The radio controls are on conipelled

employ

windows raised end the launches or junks, and motor 1927 and 1926.

doare the dash, as is a specially designed The door frames are vehicles on either side. It is Count de Sakhnoffsky, who traces locked to save the masterpiece from ash receiver. surely perfectly clear that much his family back to the fourteenth the curious crowds. While in solid mahogany.

in Kieff, "the l'aris, the swarm was so great he The rear window is wide and el- time and expense would be saved century, was born were it possible to load on one mother of Russian cities." He left was forced four times to get new liptical, the glass lowering to per- mit conversation with those in the side, drive on to a ferry, and un-his native haunts in 1920, rather door handles.

The car, striped with gold, is very rumble seat. The sent itself is load at the other side. Of course, than face conscription by the Reds, there is not the slightest doubt going to Switzerland where he long, its overall length being 176 opened by the driver from the in-

But the sweep of its lines side. that such a system will be institut-studied engineering and drafting inches.

makes it seem even longer. The Spare tyres are mounted in fen- ed at some future date, but in the for three years.

From Dresses to Cars, long hood overlaps the cowl seven der wella and the tyres covers are meanwhile, those who are eager From engineering he turned to Inches.. Hood louvres are hori-of special design, opening with zip- to see the employment of modern designing dresses in Paris where zontal, narrow and long of the peri so they may be removed from methods lose all patience on achis mother at present runs a dress trap-door type.

Even the door the tyres without soiling. The cov count of the unjustifiable procras salon. Ifis father is dead. Later handles are set in such a way as to ers are light tan matching the top. tination.

he became art director of Vanden-accentuate the sweep of the car's The wheels are of the wire spoke plas of Brussels, leading European lines.

type, but the wire is covered en- coach builders.

There are no running boards, for tirely with a convex plate which He remained with the Belgian the car is quite low and requires blends in colour and design with the company five years when he sailed only one step to the ground. Yet rest of the product.

A Narrow Bridge.

With the improvement which has been brought about by wideh ing the top of Garden Road, one is reminded of the narrow road past Seth's corner and especially the bridge at the top of Glenealy.

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Much traffic usea this road, and THE MOTOR TRUCK transportation requirements..

the narrowness of the bridge docs create a danger. Widening here would be greatly appreciated, and

it is to be hoped that the work will be carried out in the near. future.

Motor Cycles.

Castle Peak Road.

AND TRAILER.

Used by Large Corporations.

For

· LATEST FAD.

heavy loads dual wheels can be used

on a semi-trailer unit and the rear

of the truck. When time consumed Coloured Motor Tyres.

in loading and unloading is an im- portant factor two or more trailers

or semi-trailers can be used in the MATCHING CAR BODIES. -operation of each truck, and, while,

Detroit, June 19th.-In this day

But we're now to have coloured

here.

All motor cyclists should re-

one unit is being loaded, the truck of colour harmony in automobiles, member that it is now compulsory SEMI-TRAILERS ALSO. can proceed with another. Thus one where the upholstery must match to carry tail light, and we make this reminder in view of the fact A marked increase in the use of chassis, with the extra equipment, the woodwork and the paint job a perfect blending of that one or two cases have been light tracks in combination with a perform the work of two or must be

colours, the only eyesore detracting, brought against those who have

three trucks.

from the ensemble has been the trailers and semi-trailers is being not complied with the regulation. There can be no objection to carry-reflected in the sales of Model A4 In some fleets different kinds of tyre ing a light, it being common prac-truck chassis, according to officials trailer units are used with the same. tice in most parts of the world of the Ford Motor Company. This truck chassis. For instance, one tyres which will match car bodies, company uses a detachable tank according to a rubber manufacturer It is not only in the interest of is particularly true, they say semi-trailer and a stake body trail- other road users, but gives protec-among large fleet owners.

er alternately with a single power, tion to cyclists themselves

Rubber, manufacturers and dye from overtaking vehicles.

Economy of operation, ability to unit.

Ford trucks with trailer or semi- men have been working together manœuvre in tight places and time! saved by disconnecting the trailer trailers are being used extensively for years to find a suitable colour- Although a number of parking unit while it is being loaded or un- by gasoline and oil companies for ing for rubber which would not places have been made at the side loaded are factors influencing the the delivery of their products to pack and which would prove satis. of the Castle Peak Road, a num-new trend in commercial transpor- service stations: by dairies, which factory in all cases. Inorganic ber of motorists still prefer totation.

use either tank trailers or trailer colours have park on the roadway itself. This

By using a semi-trailer on al bodies to carry cans: moving and fully for years, but their use in practice should stop for in the light truck chassis, the major por storage concerns, which utilize de- rubber tyres is not practical.

The present method of colouring majority of cases, parking spaces on of the load can be balanced tachable traller cars requiring a are located within easy reach of over the trailer axle with only minimum of parking space, lumber has not been made public, but it most stretches of beach.

enough weight over the rear axle companies and meat packers. With is understood that the colours are Bad Surface.

of the truck to give good traction. the introduction of dry ice and the passed through a colloid mill While referring to the Castle Consequently, by taking advan- consequent reduction in load car- which reduces the particles to a

zied, ice cream manufacturers are minute size. Peak Road, mention must be made tage of the draw-bar pull of the making use of the truck and trail- of colour are treated with rubber These tiny particles

of the rough condition of the road truck, three or four tons can be surface between Castle Peak and hauled easily by a one-and-one er for deliveries to retailera. Many latex and subsequently milled in city governments are utilizing the euch a manner that the latex Fanling. Work is urgently need-half ton chassis.

light truck and trailer in street forms a protective film around ed in order to restore this par

Trailers and semi-trailers can be flushing, dumping operations and each particle, and so ticular route to its former good arranged to meet a wide range of garbage and trash collection. apottiness. condition,

been used success,

preventa

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