Having received reports from various, quarters -that a complete motor car could be purchased, in parts from here and there" in [Shanghai's famous street of secondhand shops—Peking Road—a_ representative of "The North-China Daily News" paid a visit, on. July 17, to that quarter (o investigate the grounds for'such statements.
Six or seven motor tyres, the worse for wear, outside a shop Were 100 worn to have had any' con:
pelled attention.
But they
nection with being stripped from a Stolen car, soa further inspection fof the miscellaneous collection of articles stored in the narrow premises was made. Two Klaxons, Sandwiched in between an electric fan and a copper Kettle, newly burnished but with dents" showing its years of service, instantly brought to mind the calico stream hung across the street approaches to the Military Hospital in Kiukiang Road, bearing the now familiar characters, "Hospital, please don't tool." However, on loser inspection, one's thoughts of feontcience-stricken chauffeurs ing ridden themselves of such instruments. of noire, and torture, were dispelled, for' the Klaxons appeared as if they verily had come' from the terap-heap.
Tm a case of miscellaneous articles was seen a" few ball-bearing', evidently from the diferentiale, gether with a fairly attract Spcedomcter. But then, one notices quite good cars with speedometers Sut of order, and who' knows but that an angry motorist decided rid the. car of such an useless—t0 far ax Shanghai is concerned—ornament that just seems to. taunt its telltale reading to an exasperated speed "hog" who, dreams of the 50 and 60 "per" that he when he was Home on vacation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.