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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY,

A MASTER IN MINIATURE!

The Eight-70-the smallest straight eigin built by Nash

offers all the advantages of multiple cylinder engine performance at minimum cost. It is one of the lowest.

priced eights ever produced in America!

Among the year's new cars, the Nash Eight-70) has

quickly gained recognition because of its sparkling

beauty, powerful performance and low cost. From the

75 horsepower, high compression, 9-bearing crank-

shaft engine to the hydraulic shock absorbers the new

Nash eight is a substantially better value and a greater

car than any of its rivals-yet it is appreciably lower in price! The Kight-70 Special Sedan is pictured above.

WONG SIU WOON,

Soie Agents for Hnngkrang and South Chen, Telephone 21474,

21, Pottinger Street. Service Station: 76, Des Voeux Road Central,

Telephone 20644,

THE NEW

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THE PARIS SHOW.

Wide Variety of Cars on Show.

LUXURY AND PRICE.

Paris, Oct. 12,

With siriking contrasts In luxury and price, evolution, rather than revolution, marked the twenty-fourth Automobile Salon held in the Grand Palais on the Champs Elysees. Greater com. fort for both featured in the new models.

Beauty of line, with the utmost efficiency, is the 1931 Meal

Of 96 different makes exhibited, 50 were French, 222 American, eight German, six British. xix Italian, two Austrian and one Czecho-Slovakian. Motors of Gen- eraf Motors were notably absent, jowing to a dispute with the

rectors over space allotinent and in protect of recently increased

taxatlun.

The majority of bir manufae-- turers had mide few changes in their models, but these proved great Improvements, while the; smaller makers showed greater! boldness, probably in their desire) to compete with the world-wide : demand for cheaper

Preater utility.

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For touring and light commer- vind cure. four-cylinder motors strongly hold their position, but in cars al

alx- higher power cylinders seem to be losing jeround in favour of the eights. Battery Ignition is generally displacing

the old magnety inition anct Transmissions with silencing paratus are becoming mor erat.

Front-Drive Sixteen!

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There are several front-wheel

DECEMBER 6, 1930.

BLAZING NEW ROAD THROUGH MEXICO.

GUADALAJARA

MEXICO CITY

Oxen had to be used to pull the ears of the American ro-rd-mapping party in Mexico up rough hills like that in centre photo. Rocks, like those at right, cluttered the way, while

rivers hnd to be crossed as shown at top. Mup a hows the route.

| drive cars, one of the most inter-

esting being the Bugatti, A cylinder front-drive sports model. This consists of two elghts, comh-

trails strewn with huge boulders ping the proposed highway. A plete with carburetor and coil and rocks, barred by rivers and road chartman sat before these nition, places side by side, their steep grades, sometimes composed instruments and noted every mile respective Prankshafts being weared to a lay-shaft that carries the drive to the gear DON ahead for the engine,

trip of 2,280 miles, over roads and Instruments necessary for map by oxen.

Los Angeles, Oct. 27-An nuto special milenge recorder and other high-wheeled wagons were hauled

Sixteen Miles in Three Days. "The two cars that undertook

of axle-deep mud, at an average of the road in a chartbook, show the passage progressed but three qed of hardly 12 miles an hour, in bridges crossed, with the direc-miles from sunup to sundown the is no pleasure trip.

tion of the flow of the water, first day. The grade out of the but it formed one of the most topography of the mountains and first canyon was 43 per cent., and With the now developments, thrilling adventures ever taken by adjacent land, isolated churches block and tackle were uned for the driver should Mad Things an auto cavalcade when nine men or other structures for identifien-400 yards, with oxen holding the Leanter. Several d the cheaper in five automobiles sont by the tion to the future tourist, ronds ear on the road so that it would mass-production cars, including Automobile Club of Southern crossing or branching off with not disappear with its driver inte the Citroen and the Renault, are California set ant to blaze part of mileages between them, per cent, oblivion in the abyss beneath. equipped with the now type of the 12,000-mile Pacific Highway of grade, and the altitudes of all Three days were required for the four-speed gear box.

which is to run from Fairbanks, cfties entered with milenges passage of 16 miles. The party The trend for design, however, Aluska, to Santiago, Chile, and between these..

ran out of water and food and, is towards larger engines und | Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Notes were made of gasoline) WI

when Magdalena was reached,. bigger cars, despite the pop- To date, the roule has been and other helpful stations. In were unable to talk." larity of the smaller cars. In-apped from Hazelton, B.C., to fact a complete record of use both ereased robustness, higher speed Mexico City, a distance of 4,549 to engineer and tourist was and ease of handling are winning miles, and perhaps

most brought back." the buyers.

hazardous section, that from Nogales to Mexico City, was chart-|

Interest in l. S. Cars,

Let Road Dry First.

Rivers offered considerable trouble to the expedition, Sand- ham saya. The equipment had to be furried across or "panges" or lashed pole boats of the Yaqui Streams were forded

the

ears and in such event a cablo

jed by the auto club expedition. A heavy rain forced the caravan Indians. The American exhibits drew a From the time the party entered to lay ovir in Nogales for several with water up to the doors of the large share of attention. They Mexico, they travelled 1,600 miles days in order to permit the dirtur. Quicksand often entrapped are especially marked for their to Mexico City in 36 days, road to dry up somewhat. Going completeness of equipment and Between the two cities 21 major wasn't bad even on these roads.hoist had to be employed to rescue staunch power range offered in rivers were crossed <321 crude however, until the party got to the them.

fameux Mexican "barrancas" or Sandham continues, "we had to "On other stretches of road." the different price classes. They ferries, poled by Yaqai Indians. compare well with the specialized.

canyons, at Jalisco. Party Carries Radio.

traverse solid masses of boulders hand-ronde...produels of several

"Crossing the barrancas, better for scores of miles. European companies."

Along with the

the party was Ber- described as several grand can of the cars were twisted into such. The frames tram Sundham, radio operator. Iyons scrambled in all directions," was his duty to operate a short was indeed a task," reports Sand-fender would become imbedded so

shapes that the tip of a front.

Comforts and conveniences are) featured with wider bodies and better

cushion equipment, but wave set and keep the party in ham; "lut two cars were risked deep in the mire thát progress was

tant touch the for at some points on the route car and supply cars being loaded from its

predicament.

sacrifice of benuty and smonth lines. Holy construction, includ- ing hooda, reflect ideas of modern industrial art.

ear

the expedition was hundreds of on the railroad and sent through. "Occasionally a tie rod would miles from the nearest town..

"The road we were taking bend double and the front wheels The radio outfit was carried in through the barrancas was one turn out in opposite directions. A The biggest car attracted much one of the cars having a truck used 500 years ago to haul Spunish) rope fastened to the car ahead

Another body. attention. It was a veritable pull: motion picture equipment, rites Atlantic coast for shipment again.

carried treasure from San Blas to the would pull the rod out straight man built by Bernard with nine and ammunition, tobacco, food palleons to Spain.

Muny of tho shock Its condition absorbers had to be removed, as large, deep seats, arranged three and water.

to-day could be well imagined. the abnormal twisting would pul and three, and a sliding roof. It

A third car, in addition to Storms over succeeding centuries the arm down and throw it back was of the limousine type. Ahaggage. had mounted on it two have left but a vestige of a road. on the other side, thus reversing handle in the tonneau siid the roof compasses, altimeter, grademeter. Even in those days their great the action."

Into the rear of the coachwork, where it disappeared entirely. The hood of this car came up to the average' shoulder.

IN ENGLAND.

FREE Wheeling with positive gear control, hitherto obtainable only in the Stude- baker President and Commander, is now offered in a new Dictator Eight at a new low price. With greater: power and ex- .quisite new beauty, the new Dictator is more than ever first of all eights at its price. Free Wheeling saves you 12% to 20% on

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petrol and oil Engine and chassis strain is reduced and tyre lifa lengthened. You can change gears from top to second at 40-50 miles an hour without touching the clutch Drive this now Free Wheeling Dic- lator Eight now and experience the thrill of the first eight at its price to give you' full benefit of momentum automatically.

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25, Queen's Road Contrai

and at STUBB'S RD...

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. (Incorporated in Hongkong)

From Czecho-Slovakia. The Cezcho-Slovakia exhibit caused much comment. It showed powerful 121eylinder chassis. which was a revolutionary de-i purture In design.

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The V-shape motor drives the front wheels, but there is chassis frame connecting the front and rear units. These are joined and supported by a huge steel tube from just behind the motor to the centre of the rear axle.

Wooden wheels were even more rare than last year, being found on only two or three ears in the salon. Everything was discs, con-. vex or double-turned, or wire wheels. Hub caps were generally much larger and far more ornate, į in some cases measuring 10 or 12 Inches in diameter, with the crust of the manufacturer in highly. decorative embellishments.

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Bumpers were more ornate and sturdier than last year, with luclination toward the German type of great rectangular or round bars ofton nished at the enda with great blocks of solid rubber,

1,000 MILES A YEAR.

Louislauf has started off on a road building campaign which will see 3,000 miles of paved high- way constructed within the state by the end of 1933, it is estimated. Present plans call for a yearly construction of 1,000 miles.

MAKING MOTORING EASIER,

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Now it's not even necessary for a motorist to get out of ble car to do his shopping. The "Driver Seat Shop," a now idea being tested in Colorado, is a steel cabinet that can be placed near the gasoline pump at Alling stations.

This cabinet displays necensories and other wares in nutcha way that the driver has only to reach out and take what he wants.

ALL-CANADA ROAD.

necessary to go over into the

Motoring on the Increase.

One may judge of the popularity of British motor touring from the fact that the British Automobile Association, during August, re celved some 26 letters for each working minute, and that ap proximately 1,872,000 miles of pre- pared intineraries were posted every day.

analysis of output indicatos that motor touring increased about 16 per cent. over 1929, while the Influx of foreign visitors rose by on even higher percentage. Ameri- can visitors-despite the slump on Wall Street-were more numerous than ever, and the cross-channel trafle to and from the Continent has never buon heavier.

NEW QUEBEC ROADS,

Quebec, is to spend about $11,000,000 this year on the com pletion of 5 highways into the northern section of the Canadian province. These roads will open virgin land to tourists.

DEALERS INCREASE.

United Stated to escape the tracts In 1910, there were only 8,402 from coast to coast is practically spalt disaster to motorists miring States.

An all-Canadian motor road of treacherous gumbo" which automobile dealers in the United

On January 1,

1980, completed. When It is, It won't be their wheels in it.

there were more than 64,000.