THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928.
WILLYS-OVERLAND. impetus being givch with the in-
Lors,
PRICE REDUCTIONS.'"
|troduction of the new Willys- Knight Standard Six, the lowest
This
POLICE TRAPS.
A MENACE TO MOTORISTS.
[By John Prioleau.]
THE CHINA MAIL,
A WORLD TOUR.
MOTOR-CYCLE WORLD TOUR.
86 PER CENT INCREASE IN priced Knight-engined six ever
DOMESTIC SALES. built by Willys-Overland.
NOW car, company officlals de- claro, reaches a new field of buy- ers in a price class never before ›
SUPRREMACY OF BRITISH CYCLES touched by a Willys-Knight Six. Since news of the great redue-j To meet this demand all efforts
The As spring grows older and its
Minister tion in Whippet prices and the at the Willys-Overland plants at days longer and the ronds
of Transport, more Colonel WIlfrid Ashley, M.P., was introduction of a new low- Toledo, Elmira and Pontiac are priced Willys-Knight double-centred on stepping into capacity
und more crowded, that unpleasant present at a luncheon given at the sleeved reached overseas dealers, production as rapidly as possible. nachronism, the police trap, be Savoy Hotel by the directors of the the John N. Willys Export Cor Aiready the Toledo plant is pro-
gins again, like some fungoid Birminghamn Small Arms Co., Ltd., Haration has been busy night and ducing more than 1,000 finished growth, to spring up and introduce to Meeurs, J. P. Castley and B, H. day taking care of orders cabled Whippets and Willys-Knights itself unpleasantly to drivers who Cathrick, the two British motor- by enthusiastic overseus distribu- day. Employment likewise are taking the road for the first cyclists who have recently conclud- ed a tour of the world on B.S.A. reaching high-tide with 15,500 time.
!machines. Stocks of ears in several coun-workers already on the payroll. There is a type of driver, a for-
In the course of their great tour, tries were sold out within two More than 4,000 applications tunfte being,, who does not seem weeks after the 1928 announce for dealer contracts have been re-to mind being fined in this pecu rond, and accomplished two feats they covered 20,400 miles each by ment of Mr. Willys, and the Ex-lectron at the Willys-Overland lar manner. 1 'do not mean the Inever hitherto attempted by motor- Fort Corporation is shipping cars restive offices since the recent road hog or the ignorant or care to seaboard by train-loads instead! Whippet price reduction, hundreds less driver, but the quite ordinary sert from Jerusalem to Suez, and of car-louds.
of these applientions coming from decent man who drives well and they rode from Valparaiso to A 60-car train carrying 227, dealers in competitive lines. has a large, experience behind him. Buenos Aires, crossing the Andres Whippets and Willys-Knight left In keeping with the company's know numbers of these, and their fat an altitude of 10,600 ft. the Toledo factory, February 4 plan to step into the highest pro-calm in fulling into trap after trap for. New York, all these motor duction in the history of the and the stoicism with which they gathered to do honour to two young Colonel Ashley said they were Ears being for shipment to Nor-organisation. at the earliest pos pay fine after fine commands my sporting Englishmen of fine phy- way and Sweden,
sible date, work is being rushed admiration and envy. I have been sique who had done credit to the night and day to complete the lucky in the matter of police traps, Old Country. $1,000,000 addition to the body but on the very few occasions on "people would follow the example "If," he added, building plant-an addition neces-which I have fallen a victim to this of the B.S.A. Company und And sitated by the unexpected volunic
crude business I have not found it young fellows to carry out these of orders for Whippets and
possible to imitate my friends' projects I am confident that the Willys-Knight motor cars.
philosophical demeanour.
commercial future of this country
Another 30-car train-load left the factory few days ago for the West Coast carrying a rush, order of Whippets for Japan.
Big Increase.
With 14 major 1928 automobile shows passed into history, the Willys-Overland domestic sales department report the greatest selling season for this period of the year, in the entire history of the organisation, the volume of Whippet and Willys-Knight sales disclosing a gain of 86.4 per cent. at these shows as compared with the sales registered at the same shows in 1927.
MANY PLANTS
cycle. They crossed the Sinal de-
Things To Remember. is assured, in spite of the tempor- There are certain valuable facts ary set-back we are experiencing." for the man to remember who is
Sir Edward Manville, deputy- charged with exceeding the speed chairman of the B.S.A. Co., who limit, and all but the experienced presided in the absence through Although only four years in pro-would do well to make a note of illness of the chairman, Sir Halle- duction. the Chrysler's manufac- them. The first is, upon being the grit and endurance of the two well Rogers, also paid a tribute to turing facilities are among the stopped, to ask exactly what the riders, and claimed that the tour most extensive of any company in charge is against you; the second, had proved the supremacy of Bri- the industry. They now number to ask the policeman what evidence tish motor-cycles under all condi- 12. units in the United States and of your crime he is going to pro- tions and on roads of any descrip- These notable gains over pre- Canada, devoted
to production,duce in court; and the third is, tion. The supremacy of British vious years are comparable with sales and service of Chrysler cars, while remaining as calm the unusual increases shown at including large plants in Detroit,sible under the circumstances, not the exports in 1926 from the Unit- as pos- makes was shown by the fact that all other show points and dealer Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind., and Lo admit. anything. All this ed Kingdom were 48.391, from the points throughout the nation. Windsor and Walkerville, Ontario.
The first great influx of orders Extensive facilities for assembling sounds simple and very familiar, United States 21,819, and from came following the Whippet price and service are also located at sev-Frum victims, these plementary our motor-cycles had risen from a but judging from the tales I hear other countries 13,340. Whereas reduction a month ago, an added i eral ventral points in Europe,
precautions are very seldom taken. [value of 2062,730 in 1921 to That they are absolutely necessary £1.807,119 in 1926, imports had is clearly proved by the circum-fallen from £66,613 in. 1921 to | slunces of a case which happened a £1,147 in 1926. (Hear, hear.)
short time ago.
Replying Dn behalf of Mr.
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A driver was just emerging from Castley and himself to the toasts
a ten mile limit when two police of their health, Mr. Cathrick men-
tioned that Britain has 76 per cent. of the motor-cycle trade overseas.
Among those present were: Lord Ashfield, Mr. W. L. Baylay, Sir George Beharrel, Sir William
men appeared from behind a tree where they had been biding and told him to stop. Ho followed the rules and he asked the senior offi- cer what he was charged with, and the senior officer replied, "With Berry, Mr. S. Bettmann, Mr. H. doing between 25 and 30 miles an Brig. General Sir H. C. L. Holden, Briggs, Commander G. Herbert, hour in a ten mile limit." The Senor Antonio Huneens (Chilean,
Minister),
driver asked to see the stop watches and to be shown the mea-Sir Jaraes Percy, Major-General Sir Dr. F. II. Lanchester,
sured distance, but to his con Granville Ryrie (High Commission- siderable surprise he was told that er for Australia), Sesostris
he had not been timed, and that Sidarouss Bey, Sir Charles Starmer. the speed with which he was
charged was merely "an estimate.";
What the Policeman Said.
re-
FORD WINS.
BIG TEST HILL CLIMB.
It struck him that this required looking into, and he politely asked the constable to show him how he had arrived at this estimate, and in so doing requested him to
Test run advertising is featur- peat the charge-the answer to iting the campaign of the E. J. Negy being, "Driving at between 25 and Motor Co., Throckmorton, Tex. 30 miles an hour in a ten mile Mr. Negy drove the new Ford Coupe 40 miles in 37 minutes over limit:" The policeman then led him to a spot by the trees behind dirt roads with many curves, hilla which he had been hiding, and the radiation was only warm. No and creeks. After this rigid test
pointed up the road to the bend
rattles developed, says the dealer, round which a car at that moment and the time was sworn to buy was coming towards them. He ex-notary. The new Ford pulled over plained that it was over that dis-the Blacksher Iill starting on the ance that he had estimated the hill in high and going over the apeed of the car.
erest at 15 miles an hour, also in
On being asked what the dis high. Buick, Dodge Chrysler 52 tance was he replied, "Between and 62, Oldsmobile, Willys-Knight sixty and seventy yards." Where-and Chevrolet, in a similar attempt upon. the driver, genuinely failed to do this and lost $250 com- astounded, asked him if he serious-petition money,
ly maintained the charge of 25 to 30 miles an hour based on an al- most head-on view of a care travel- ling over such a distance, and he said he did. I gather that at this
WIDE HEAT RANGE.
Tests by Chrysler engineers have
point the excellent officer became a proved that the temperature in an little embarrassed because he pro-utomobile cylinder changes from ceeded to give himself away with approximately 400 degrees to well over 3,000 degrees during every some generosity. "Come, sir, you
are a motorist and you know," To power stroke of the piston. which the driver replied, "Exactly!
It is because I am an experienced
motorist that I do know that no should have made a fight for it be- man living can possibly judge the cause, infinitesimal as my know- speed of a car in such circum-edge is of legal procedure, it docs
stances."
When the Summons Come.
The Letter Of The Law.
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not seem to me hat what a police- man thinks you have been doing The officer then said, "Well, sir, is evidence that you have done it. look at the way you pulled up-all Tho driver was fined, but had to quick and sudden-like." To which pay no costs. It struck me that the driver could find no adequate the whole affair was odd, and, to reply; it seemed to him that at any quote the old worn phrase, un- moment he might be charged with English. having his car too much under con- trol.
It is conceivable that in certain On the way, back to the car the districts and in certain cireum- charge was again repeated, but stances the police trap may lead to this time, it appeared to the driver, a slightly greater measure of with a rather less confident note, safety on certain short stretches and when, his licence examined, of the road. There is a certain and the business on the point of type of driver whose sense of filt- conclusion, he offered the namo ness can only be aroused through and address of his companion as his pocket. In any case there is no a witness, the officer said that his doubt that the popularity of the offence was "exceeding the speed trap has decreased perceptibly on of ten miles an hour." And when certain once notorious Benches. the summons arrived, lo and be. Yet the novice would be well: hold, that was the charge, and not advised to remember that there are the much graver one which had still districts in which the been repeated at least four times at venue arising from traps is held in the time of the alleged offence. high esteem, and If it is impossible The end of the matter was, of to avoid those districts he should course, that, the driver pleaded make a point of always keeping: súny, to vive trouble and possible Withne the state letter of the re- further expense. In my opinion he gulation."Evening Standard."
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