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MOTORING SECTION
£20,000 SPEED CAR
The Last Word in Power And Size
"This is probably the last speed car of its kind I shall ever build. a more powerful machine were ever constructed which I doubt yary much, it would never stay on the earth"
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“DAZZLE” OR DARKNESS?
Relative Risks on the Road.
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ALL OVER THE ROAD?
Coroner and Dangerous Walking.
Whether the switching off of its
hope that soon it will be an headlights by an oncoming car in- Iftrensed, dr diminshed the danger to offence to walk to the common dan- other drivers, of pedestrians, on a gor as well as to drive to the com- dark road was a question left un mon, dangor. It seems in this case leoided, after an animated debate, that if the people had not been the London Safety First Council, walking all over the road instead of This statement was made to watch buld a mosting at the Middle-or the path the accident would not suld the West "Morning Post representative by sex Chidhall, Westminster. Mr. A have happened," Mr. Louis H. Coutalen, who is con- Hume Nicholl, shairman of the Middlesex coroner, at an inquest at sidered Europe's foremost racing council, presided. The discussion Ashford, Middlesex, on Mim Oliva car designer. He was speaking of arose out of a recommendation in Lee, 76, of Ashford, who was knock- car when retiring the extraordinary two-engined mathe 'report of the Street Safety Comed down by chine which was completed at Wol-mittee, which was presented by Mr. from church on November 14 and verhampton for Mor Segrave.O. Cattlin, that the London Council died subsequently.
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The coroner returned a verdict of death from syncope and sendte de- ay following shock from injuries received, and excnerated the drivert from blame
The curlously shaped monster, was should propose to the National Min Berkley of Ashfordraald
• placed In the Aquitania on Safety First Association the dels that she was driving along Ford February 16 to be transferred at tion from future editions of Ita Bridge Road, Ashford, and on ap- turning in the New York for its journey to Florida. handbook, "Road Sense of the adproaching the where the speed record attempt willvice that "on dark roads it is gen Clarendon Road sounded hes born; be made on twenty miles of sand ferally "safer to keep headlight or but as he turned the corner she suddenly saw people walking all as hardens concrete.
when meeting other traille."
Licut-ColoneA. Pickard said over the road. Her speed was not "Some little time ago, Mr. Contulen added, "bullt the Hush that, in taking a step, the coun- more than six or seven miles, my Itush car. This machine was my at-el would be gang against the hour, and in trying to avoid them tempt to beat the world's record views of the Ministry of Transport the car ran on to the footput and with a very small engine. Major and of all the motering associations: hit the old lady Segrave effectively broke the record Statistics showed that the number at Southport, and this record was fatal accidents due to lack of subsequently taken from us by Mr. illumination on a car was double Par Thomas with a machine hayat due to ever-illumination. The ing a large engine. I therefore problem was a real one, but the determined to build the unsolved: Sabit of switching off headlights on dark road was the greater of two- problem
The car has engines, of the thou-evils, Adequate lighting without sund horse-power, and this means dazzle was the ideal aimed at by that there are many hundred horse- the council e power in excess of what is really necessary to attain a speed of 200 miles an hour. What will happen over the 200 miles an hour? I do not pretend to be able to answer that question. The car may rise from the ground or it may do some thing quite different. an only certain of one thing that it is the Jagt word in power and size, and that anything powerful will never be made, be- cause such a car would never stay on the groun1"
Freater or more
MOTORS IN RHODESIĄ.
Preference For British,
The Rhodesian Intelligence Ser
MJ Sutcliffe claimed that while dimming of the 'switching-off or headlights was an act of courtesy. on the part of certain motoriste, the majority acted thus from motives | of caution. and it was the experi-vice, London, received the following epce of many users of the road that merge, dated December 2:- the criter of lorries and heavy commercial vehicles showed resent ment, when confronted by "dazzle."
By assement the recommenda tion was referred back, as was also proposal to communicate with the authorities pointing out the perf which existing traffic arrangements in Piccadilly Cirens entailed to the
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Two walls of the factory where the speed car has been bait had to be knocked down to enable the ma-pedestrian. Telephone C. 989
chine to be brought out. Men have been working night and day to finish the machine in time, and the cost has exceeded £20,000. The ratio of safety usually stipulated by the designers for their racing curs has had to be considerably cut down in the Mystery S., as the new car has been called, to keep the weight within a certain margin, and Major- Segrave will be faced in Florida with the most difficult and danger- ous feat in his life.
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ci should be merged into the incor- pornted National Safety First Asso- ciation, with the safeguard that funds should be made available by the association to enable the council to maintain its special activities, was agreed to.
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MOTOR LORRIES IN TRAWLER'S 10 mA MENET
It was stated in the course of the debate that during 1926 cars to the value of £131,000 came into. South- ern Rhodesia from Canada and the
The apper and crew of a fishing United States, and to the value of The U.S. automobile industry' set a new record during 1926 for the Originality is expressed in the only £13,000 from the United King- trawler" in the North Sea had a affenuous time recently, when they twenty-ninth time in its history, arrangement of its four-cylinder dom. It might prove that by en- according to figures issued by the narrow "" type engine with over-couraging the introduction of Bri-landed an unusually heavy caten fr National Automobile Chamber of head camshaft the springing of its tich cars more tars might be the shape of two motor lori CA Commerce simultaneously with the front axle, which gives maximum imported, with the result, not an-The vehicles had evidently been with some commodities, on board' a 'ship 'Bunk during the opening of the New York Automo- atability on the road and the form common bile Show.
of frame construction, which pro- that a reduction in the tariff could war, as they were barnacled in An butput of 4,480,000
motor vides
a stiffness handy to be ob actually yield increased revenue. corroded an effects of their 15 y vehicles, having a wholesale value tained with any normal. kind of The mover of the resolution and a so:ourn out of their natural ele number of subsequent speakers ment. Buton fürther exam in- of $3,066,950,000, was revealed: franic. This was a slight increase over 1925
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totalled larged in esparity, and now yields fellitate imports of cars manu-or one of the chassis, in Ab production 4,336,754 vehicles with
even higher performance factured in Great Britain or North-were entirely, unaffected, owing to value of $2,977,804,839.
than formerly, so that aern Ireland, and not those merely the watertight gear-box" of this Sixty-four per cent. of the motor standard, Lancia is to be nutn-assembled there. British makers, rainous" muke of heavy commercial! ears bought in the United States are bored amongst the really fast it was remarked, were now coming vehicle chassis purchased on the instalment plan, cars of accepted touring type. The into line with transatlantic motor-sty
adapting the statistics declare. The auto-principal modification, however, is car manufacturers in mobile time paper outstanding it a change in the design of the frame, their models to the condition e-k estimated to be worth $1,378,000 by which is such as to enable the valling in overseas markets such as the Chamber,The average first chassis to be suitable for the mount-, Rhodesia. payment on a new machine is $596, Ing of both open and closed: bodies, while that on a used car is $277. The peculiar features of design of The average retail price of a new
this make are in general adopted with a view to promoting that low can, is $286.MP4
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The popularity of closed. cars continued. This type representedence 1 motoria: who is habituated 2:026,000) 74 per cent. of the tstuf to speed knows to be so valuable.
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A three per cent increase.... waal) shown in the exports of motor vehi- cles over the preceding year. The "total exported wan '150,000, repro- senting 12 per cent, of the output. The Automobile Chamber of Com- nere ektimates that "there are 22,330,000 registered meter vehicles in the United States, a new figure Of this number 19.420,000 are motor
bárs and the balance tracks.
ROYAL CARS IN NEW ZEALAND.
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For US. Air Mail Service.
In an endeavour to improve upon What is reid to be the largest the pillion, sidecar and teaser aeroplane order ever placed by a methods of carrying a secondo pas single departmany of the Govern-songor and motorcycle, a British ment with the cxception the themanfacturer has produced a “duo," wartime orders by the Army and which is a modern way of saying Navy has been made by the US, tandem.
Of course, there is only one th Post Ofice Department for fifty air mail planes for use in trans-contin- tine, and one set of controls, but etter ettol air mail service.
the outfit has dual seats. handle bars, and foot-rests, removing the xperse of a sidecar, and giving greater comfort than the pilltop.
The new plates are equipped to carry a pilot and parachute 130 gallons of petrol, 12 gallons of oil, And a mail load of 800 pounds During their visit to New Zealand Each plane is to be equipped with the Government of this Dominion Glodyear 85 by 6 straightside aero-. placed at the dispose of the Duke plane tyres With the standard and Duchess of York two "Long night. flying equipment each aerg Eighteen Armatrong Siddeley en-ane can maintain a maximum closed limousines.
peat of 135 miles per hour,
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