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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1930.

THREE NEW EIGHTS. AND A NEW

The New Nash Cars Have JUST ARRIVED!

SOMETHING entirely new and

different in motor cars is Gow on display in our showroom! Included among these new Nash cars are models of the recently an- nounced Eight-90, Eight-80 and Eight-70 Series and the new Nash Sis. Affording a wide variety of choice in price, size, body styles and horse- power, these three new Straight- Eight and new Nash Six models are the most remarkable motor cars, in point of appearance, engineering and performance ever offered by The Nash Motors Company. Yet each new model is priced substan-

tially under any comparable car previously built. And these new cars are the quality equals of far more expensive models offered by rival manufacturers.

Weare in a position to demonstrate the new Nash Six and certain types of the new Nash Straight-Eights. A ride in any of these cars will quickly reveal the luxury, comfort and ex- hilarating performance which Nash alone offers without the penalty of extravagant price.

No man who contemplates the pur- chase of any motor car today can affordtooverlook the new Nash line!

WONG SUI WOON

21. Pottinger St.

Hong KoDE

NASH

SIX

TRADE AND TRANSPORT.

Census of Road Traffic in England.

AIR TRANSPORT. was $30. It was reduced last year $24 and again early this your to Ford's Contribution tots appreciation by increasing its $18. Each time the public showed.

Progress.

A NEW RECORD.

patronage.

An indication of this increase in The Census of Road Traffic taken anfually by the Automobile

raffic is given by records of the Association is particularly interesting this year, in view of the Road

A new record in the development company showing operations dur- Prason- Traffic Act, and the co-ordination of transport facilities, coupled with |¦ of air transport was set when Stout ng the last six months.

rcra carried fr the Brat thres the general condition of industry.

For the Arst time there is a reduction in volume at certain Air Lines, operating scheduled months of 19:30 were 120 per cent. passenger services between De-gronter than in the last three pointa, which was foreshadowed by the fewer number of now motor trait, Cleveland and Chleago com-months of 1929, while milenge vehicles licensed as shown in the Ministry of Transport Returns for pleted Its one millionth mile of fly-flown increased 70 per cent over July this year.

The

without, Injury to a passenger.

reductions were put in effect, near

A.A. census points in a week of seventy-seven hours, from 1923,10 through the operation of Ford all-fire of this year.

Over the whole, country, the average number of vehicles' passing record was compiled entirely the same period. The latest fare 1030 inclusive, is na follows:~~~

metal transport planes. The opera ting company la a unit of United Aircraft and Transport Corpora- tion.

Your

Motor Cars

Average number of Motor Vehicles. passing A.A. Census Points. Motor Cycles

1923

3.960

1,149

Heavy Motors 1,601

1924

4,679

1,281

1,053

1926

8,190

2,529

2,200

1926

1027

10,860

3,062

2,845

13,668

3,921.

3.401

1028

16.283

3,535

3,933

17.133

17.084

3,686 3.489

1929

1930

4.613 5,167 An analysis of the complete Returns of this year's census by the A.A. shows reductions in traffic volume, as compared with previous years, in parts of Surrey, South Wales and Scotland.

Devonshire shows n consistent increase, due to the continued tendency of motorists to extend their tours to the West. The same Applies to some districts in the North,

Despite these indications of reduced road traffic, the Automobile Association reports increased membership and income, and enhanced prestige at home and abroad.

THE PETROL PUMP.

O engine, whose mysterious olla Nourish my car's internal colls. Don't flush too red, or look too)

blue:

Hearing the things they say of'

you

Nor take too bitterly to heart

The scoldinga of the higher art, Pouring the vials of Ita wrath Upon the "Vandal" and the

"Goth;"

Nor quail beneath the lusty cuff Of Mr. Williams-Ellis (Clough).;

For motor-cara will go the way

DIESEL UNITS.

i

In making this remarkable ac- hievement, Stout Air Service car- ried in excess of 107,000 passen-

Cleveland service on November 1.. Since the opening of the Detroit- 1927

and the Detroit-Chicago ser- vlee exactly a year later, the com- pany has also compiled a remark nbio

record of regularity and de-

Kers, some of them in special air pendability of operation. Ela out-

original Stout passenger air line policy in its ships dur-

was

one

safety record is the result trips and sightseeing tours, and of maintenance of its equipment in others in scheduled services. The

the best possible condition and its flown between Detroit anding unsafe

weather. The was Grand Rapids, Michigan, beginning staff of experienced transport in August, 1926. Since that time pilota operate the planes with ado. quate foreknowledge of weather now lines have been opened, sche-t

cut conditions along their routes. The dales extended and rates almost in half.

planes are equipped with Indicators When the original line was put which warm of Ice-forming condi- in operation a single Ford transport plane

flown, with

During the flights over the pic trip daily except Sunday be-turesque lake country between De- tween

Detrolt and Cleveland, troit and Cleveland and the rolling with stops nt Toledo,

and countryside between Detroit and three Ford planes dally except Sun-Chiengo, a stall of flight escorts sy operate between Detroit an1 look to the comfort of passengers. Successful Trial Be-ingo, with stops at Battle Creek and add zest to the flights by point- and Kalamazoo, Michigan. and lag out the scures of historical and tween Manchester & South Bend, Indiana. The demand other interesting spots on route.

of William B. Stout, builder the for passage on these routes in so grent that on one occasion, at lenat original Ford all-metal pianes, la it was accessary to eleven president of the Company. Stanley sections.

E. Knauss, an associate of Mr... the Siner the Inauguration of the Stout in the organization of Detroit-Cleveland-Chicago services Stout Metal Airplane Company, now two fare reductions have been made a division of the Ford Motor Com on each route. The original fare pany, is vice-president, treasurer The successful trials between between Detroit and Cleveland was and general manager. William B Manchester and Leeds of a 48-81%. This was cut in 1929 to $14 Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford

Leeds.

IMPROVED TRANS-

PORT.

ΓΙΩ

The patient horse weat yester-scaler bus using Diesel engines, and rurly this year to $10. On Motor Company, is vice-prouident

following on the experience gained the Chiengo route, the original fare and Donald G. Rogera, treasurer, day. While overhead the shining sky in Nottingham with the same type. Grows black with various things may well herald a minor revolution

that fly:

And you, who set the world in road transport. The principle

aghast.

Will be a Relic of the Past;

employed in the Diesel engine is one

of the simplest and most efficient Reply AS it engineering. does for its power upon the com. To pay their court in various bastion of heavy oil sprayed into neither magneto, coil, nor sparking plugs.

And mon will come in chara-in

bance

And Teяncerce will call you compressed air, it needs

twangs,

cute,

puto

And money-changera wit com-Moreover point of importance

Your worth in quantities of

gold;

where fire risks are considered-it zives off no inflammable nor ex-

And you will call yourself "Yo[plosive gases. The cost of the fuel

Olde."

"Why John---just look how easily and quickly we have left the traffic behind. We have a clear reed ahead.”

"Yes the new Buick Straight 8-in-a-line is cer- tainly the most thrilling car I ever owned, and I've pair thousands of dollars more for higher priced cars. It's just like Buick to build a car like this."

The reason for Buick's phenomenal performance is found in its new eight-in-a-lite save in tead ator-its new and improved synchro-mesh tra08- mission and 36 other outstanding new features and advantages.

But with all this power and speed-Buick is immediately responsive to the sligl test touch of its new steering mechanism and under the perfect and safe control of its big, powerful, smooth four- wheel internal expanding brakes..

May we give you a free demonstration rider

B-3

The New

BUICK 8

The Eights with Buicks Prestige

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.,

TELEPHONE 30228.

93, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,

HAPPY VALLEY.

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it uses is less than a third that of petrul, yet the power developed is twice what can be got from a similar volume of the refined spirit. The new 'bus-n product of two famouA Manchester firms-has shown that it can complete a 100-mile journey at a fuel cost of 23. 7d., as against the 16s. 6d. of n pelrol-driven. 'bus. and yet maintain satisfactory speed. These are suggestive figures, Appiled to such an undertaking a the London General Omnibus Com- pany, which uses Nome 80,000,000 gallons of petrol a-year, they wouki a remarkable economy". represent Why then has road transport not benefited earlier by the device? Ite chief handicap has lain in the fact that to withstand the atrain to

which it is

it is subjected, the Diesel type.

of engine lins had to be inconven- tently massive. That has not pro- vented its use for stationary en- gines and in ships, but has debarred it from road transport, In the new vehicles this difficulty seems to have been overcome, and an experiment has even been made in incorporat ing a heavy-oil engine in a private ear. There is at least evidence en-

uscle

the to suggest that for heavler type of road vehicle the day of the petrol engine may be limited.

*Other pbilities, however, are opened up by the coming visit of the Manchester Transport Commit- tee to Bradford to Investigate the trackless trans. The Committee will them, see trams that not only run without rails but on occasion folit

up their trolleys and carcer across country ke muter-buses. That in one of the secrets of Brad- {ford's success with her tramway ysten. Like many towns, she used to have a network of tram routes radiating from the centre but with the ends nev

Bubled.

lying

be tween or beyond tho exist. Ing tracks it would have been neces- ary, but for these trackless tramé, either to build new lines at great expense or else to force the pussen-

rer to change into motorony

But the trackless, tramcar not drives its motors from the overhead wires but charges a battery at the ame time, so that when the end of the tramway system is reached it has stored up enough energy to carry on under its own power. An- other point in favour of the track- less, system, 'na compared with motor-bunes,

that

It helps the electricity undertaking,

tanda to And reduces the coat of alectricity. As compared even up its load and with the tram confined to a single set of rafia, which alows up thu ather-traffic on the

road, the track- esy team can manoeuvre almost but not quite as freely as the motor-

manibus.

trams at pre- Tratklega ent are more cumbrous and slower han buses and they block the view to a great extent. Whether these disadvantages can be overcome re- mains to be seen.

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