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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928.
FAMOUS FAMILY.
FILM ABOUT GENERAL MOTORS.
FOR ALL TASTES.
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BETTER SERVICE.
THE CHINA MAIL,
CARS WITH CARE.
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NEW LEYLAND.
AND MORE TYRE MILEAGE,
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COLONIAL SIX-WHEEL
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IT PAYS TO TREAT THEM WELL
CHANGING WHEELS.
FOR WAR OFFICE.
"'SHORT BURSTS.” -
As far behind the times as the Changing tyres around from
Leyland Motors, Ltd., has re- A great many new cars are to on the roads just now. horse and buggy is the slow, in time to time will result in longer cently supplied to the War Office be seen
tyre life and better all 'round the first of "Terrier" models, the Stand at any busy cross-roads accurate, unsafe testing of cars service, according to C. Lauritsen latest Leyland three-axied goods and count them as they pass, for and trucks on the public high-of the Dragon Motor Car Com-lorrics. This model is expressly it is generally possible to tell, the pany, Ltd., Firestone, dealers in built for War Office and Colonial even at a glance, a new or com- way. General Motors was
Hong Kong.
work where rough country has to paratively new car from .one first to build a private outdoor
"When a motorist buys a new be traversed. It is designed to which has seen a considerable testing laboratory for automotive spare, we recommend that he put carry a useful load of four tons amount of service. advancement, where work is ear-It on the left rear and give that on roads, and three tons across These new cars make up a sur- ried on quickly and accurately, tyre a rest for a while," he stated. country.
prisingly large proportion of the and without danger to humanThe other tyres should be chang. Its outstanding feature is its total, Jife.
ed, too, left tront to left rear, flexibility in negotiating uneven To watch carefully how they Then, realising that people all etc. Each wheel puts certain surfaces and loose sandy ground. are handled is always interesting. the world would wish to strains on a tre different from Where excessive gradient sare The knowing driver, the man with know about this great scientific that of the other wheels, and by encountered an auxiliary gearbox a lot of motoring experience can development, we sought to ac- using the tyre on each in turn the may be brought into action by generally be detected. He is con- quaint them with it in several wear is evenly distributed and Where excessive gradients are ing along slowly, driving with re- figuratively the tyre lasts longer and gives level situated in the centre of the straint, keeping the speedometer ways. We have
at a steady 20 m.ph. brought the Proving Ground to
"It is also important to have A four-cylinder overhead valve millions of persons through
When he has to change down motion picture, booklet, poster, tyres looked over frequently for engine is fitted; 4-9/16 Ins. bore he does not at once atamp on the relief map, and advertisements in minor cuts and bruises, etc., and 5% inst. stroke, rated 33.3-h accelerator and "rev" the engine
have small repairs made and developing 75 b.h.p. Ito national magazines here and
promptly. Tyres should be inflat-erank-shaft is of nickel steel with realises how important it is that up to its highest speed, for he abroad.
ed to the correct pressure as five main bearings of 24 ns. new engine should be treated Film Loaned Free.
under-inflation of a few pounds diameter. The cylinders, being with more than the usual amount Already, hundreds of thou-will often result in the loss of monoblock cast, materially assist of respect and consideration. sands have endorsed the film indreds of miles of useful ser- the rigidity of the heavily-webbed
I do not mean to infer that which was made recently and vice. Valve caps, screwed down deep section aluminium crank-motor car engines can
at any which shows every important ac-tightly by hand, should always be case.
time be treated as if they were tivity and facility at the Proving used to prevent air leaks.
The Carburettor and Magneto mangies or lawn-mowers, but I Ground. Included in the scenes. "If motorists will give their are of approved makes, the for-am fully aware that the normal are some taken from aeroplanes, tyres ordinary care and attention mer being fitted with an from test cars, and from other they will have less trouble and cleaner and hot-spot heated in- enormous amount of abuse with- air engine when run in will stand an cars. The scenes take you over enjoy greater tyre satisfaction." duction system. Forced lubrica-out complaining.
all kinds of roads, up and, down hills, around the speed loop, through the garage, the audi- torium, and into the chart room, where the records are kept. The tests themselves are shown with the unusual ́and · special instru- ments that are used.
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MOTOR BOATING.
PREPARATIONS FOR BRITISH SEASON.
are
driver's cab...
The
tion is employed for all bearings When a man or a woman buys and connecting rods, the oil pres-a new car the temptation "to see sure being automatically controll-what it will do" is well nigh irre- jed by the position of the throttle. sistible. Despite all the warnings, The oll sump has a capacity of and pleadings of the agent from 2 gallons. The water circula-whom the purchase has been Motor Boating in Great Britain is tion, thermostat controlled, is by made, the new car in nine cases receiving a considerable amount of centrifugal pump; the radiator is out of ten is taken out to some. The film is non-techuical in public attention of late, and there mounted directly on the engine nice quiet road where an oppor- that it is intended for the public, is little doubt that more and more at three points and is thus in- tunity will be afforded of trying but it has been seen to good ad- enthusiasts finding on the dependent of chassis frame dis-its pacess vantage by engineers and stud-water that enjoyment which it is tortion.
Some buyers of new cars, I ents of mechaníts. Many hun- becoming extremely difficult to ob A single-plate clutch, unit con-know, decide to treat them very dreds of our dealers find it In-tain from motoring on the road of and two tubular propellor shafts miles. They vow that nothing struction four-speed gear-box, carefully for the first 200 or 800 valuable for purposes of instruct-the country. ing their salesmen, and selling With the popularisation of the transmit the power to the back-will tempt them over 25 m.p.h. their prospects. It has been en low priced outboard craft, and the 7.33 to 1 on top, 11.8 to 1 on 3rd, out on the road they find them- axle bogey. The gear ratios are And the very first day they are thusiastically received by thea- tres, clubs, churches, and schools. speeding standardised Runabout 20.4 to 1 and 32.4 to 1 on first selves having a little scrap with craft equipped on car lines, the speed. These can be further re-the driver of another car who If you or any of your friends 1928 boating season will doubtless duced by 2.22 ta 1 by the auxiliary passes them in a swirl of dust. would like to see the film we shall be glad to loan it without any be the finest that has yet been gear-box mounted at the end of They fondly imagine that t charge except that of transporta-known. It would appear, too, that the main gear-box.
(short burst of speed will do no Each axle of the bogie is made harm. I believe I am right in tion Wensk also that an utten- greater portion of new work in
a one-piece nickel steel saying that short bursts of speed dance, report be sent us from our hand, in the British Boat Yards is from
overhead worm are liable to records. The film is available in for Overseas Shipment, and alto-forging with
do just about as one, two, or four-roet lengths.gether these Yards are busier than drive and 8 ins. diameter axle much damage to a new engine as Please make requests about ten they were at the same period last shafts. Torque rods with ball would driving it consistently at ends are fitted in order to trans-five miles an hour above the re- days in advance of your showing, year.
A Very Wise Move.
because the subject is so popular Particularly is the outboard type mit the driving and braking tor-commended speed. that, the demand for the film ex-of craft becoming extremely popu-que direct to the chassis frame ceeds the supply of more than 150 lar, and a venue has been secured and to ensure that the wheel pres-
When Mr. Morris started to fit copies we have in use.
in London, at the Welsh Harp, sure is even on cach axle under
cars with throttling! Booklet Given Away, Hendon, where races for boats fit-all conditions whether driving or his new
Axle slings of steel washers to prevent drivers abus- About a million copies of the ted with these engines will be held. braking. Proving Ground booklet, "Where The first such meetings took place hawsers are provided to limit the ing their new cars, I think he
rear axle when made a very sound move. Motor Car Fact's Are Da
He showed that he realised the Saturday, April 14th, and drop of each
negotiating deep ditch. Established," have been dis proved both successful and popu-
The maximum section of the temptation for a driver to "put tributed and titere #tre a lar.
frame is 7% in. x 41⁄2 in. x 8/10 his foot down," and I know that few thousand copies left. British Arms are preparing to ins. The wheel base between the since this washer device has been The booklet describes the Prov- meet this previously restricted centre of the front wheels to the fitted to Morris cars there have ing Ground and its tests and is of market. The "Watermotor" has centre of the bogie is 13 ft. and been fewer troubles which could keen interest to dealers, salesmen, been available for #oma time, the distance between the centre be traced to overdriving during car owners, and those who are in manufactured by Messrs. W. D. and rear axles is 8ft. 8ins.
the early stages of the car's life. the market for an automobile or Fair & Co., of Hampton Wick,
Drivers who carefully run their For cross-country work 36 ins. truck. Until our supply is ex- Middlesex. This firm has now been x 6 ins. s.s. pneumatic tyres are new cars are amply rewarded. hausted we shall send copies free joined in its fight against imported fitted, singles on the front and I recently acquired a small car engines by Messra. Roness, Ltd., twin on each of the four rear of less than 10 h.p. During the Free Poster for Framlag.. of Littlehampton, the power unit of wheels. For road work 34 in. xfirst 500 miles the speedometer The poster shows a highly co-whose output is being built by the 7 in. 8.8, tyres are fitted, singles never read more than 20 m.p.h. Joured map of the Proving J. A. P., of Motor Cycle fame. In-all round, Ground and in a general way descidentally the new engine is the cribes the tests. The 25 x 38" only British twin Outboard Motor.
The 1 litre International Class: size makes it ideal for dealers' showrooms. If you will let us Racing Motor Craft have, it will be know how many you want we recalled, competed for the Gold NEW RULES BY MINISTRY OF mine. Yet we have done about shall gladly send them in a tube Trophy presented by II.R.H, the without any charge.
upon request,
Duke of York. since 1924, and fur- ther Royal recognition of this form!
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VEHICLE LIGHTS.
TRANSPORT.
To-day the engine is smooth-run-2 Ining, quiet, and fast, and it has given no trouble. A friend of mine on my recommendation got
a similar car. To-day his engine is neither so fast nor so quiet as
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the same mileage. He has had one or two minor troubles also. Maps In Two Sizes For Sale.
For the convenience of intending Both cars were recently taken the Dominions and back to the factory and tested Our large relief map of the of sport has now been accorded in visitors from Proving Ground, five feet square, the presenting of a cup by H.R.II. Colonies it may be of interest to and examined by experts who de one engine was makes an attractive showroom the Duchess of York for Outboard call attention to the new Road cided that the display. It is hand painted in Motor Boats. The Race for this Transport Lighting Act; and the better than the other only because several coloura and has a substan-Cup will be organised by the Bri- Regulations made under it by the it had been treated better in its
youth. tial wooden frame. With legs it tish Motor Boat at the Welsh Ministry of Transport. costa $40, without. them, $37.60, Harp in July next, while the Race: Commencing with the advent of Now every car, of course, re- Some are fo.b. Chicago.
for the Duke of York's Trophy will Summer Time, Sunday, April 22, quires running in. We have just had made a small- take place at Southampton in this new Art requires, so far as guaranteed by the makers to be er relief map, three feet square, | August,
Care are concerned, that they shall ready for anything when they But these are coloured like the larger one, - and
carry at least two white lights to leave the works. with a frame. It is suitable for
the front and one red light at the expensive cars and in these days setting on a table or hanging on:
rear, those on the front of the vehi-of quantity production and cut the wall. Its price is $9.25, f.o.b..
cle to be affixed on opposite sides prices I am afraid it is too much to expect that a manufacturer of the vehicle and neither being should go to the expense of hav- Canton, Ohio.
more than twelve inches from the ing all new cars run in. It is suf extreme edge of the side on which ficient that they should be tested.
The General Motors car and truck divisions recommend the
AUSTIN MODELS.
NOW A VERY WIDE RANGE,
use of all of the dealer advertis- The Austin Motor Co.,Ltd., of they are placed. These lamps are And I wish some of them were ing helps which, have been men- Birmingham has recently intro-raquired to be of the same power tested and examined a great deal tioned, and we hope that we may duced two new models, namely, aand to be placed at the same height more carefully than they are, be have an opportunity to serve a 6-cylinder "Twenty" rated at from the ground.
cause the average owner-driver
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A Motoring Correspondent.
large number of our dealers by 23.6-h.p. developing 49-hp at, The rear light may now be either can hardly be expected to do skill- sending them any or all of this 2,000 and 6-cylinder. "Sixteen in the centre or on the offside of ed work of that kind. The most material. Requests should be ad-rated at 15.9-h.p. developing the rear of the vehicle but that can be expected of him is dressed to the Advertising De- 14 hp at 2,500, #2, and wherever placed it must be visible that he should treat his new car partment, General Motors' Cor With these additions the Aus- from practically any point on the with care. poration, Detroit.
tin range is now very complete, road at not less than 40 feet dis In the past we have published from the smallest type of car tance from the rear of the car. N in national magazines several which is supplied in both the Combined dipping and deffecting A Proving Ground advertisements, tourer and salcon models to the headlights are permitted but other other on the side-cer, as well as a but we have by no means exhaust- large 6-cylinder 7-seater limou swivelling or deflecting lights may red rear light. The rear number ed the subject. Because of its kine.
dot be ured whilst the vehicle is in plates of solo machines, or aide wide general'interest and because
Recent successes achieved by motion.
car combinations, need not be Illu
the Proving Ground is responsible cars of this manufacture include Red lights to the front are not minated it the front plate ls iliu- for so many of the good qualities two cups, two silver medals and in our products, we intend to ene bronze medal in the Working permitted but only red lights are minated. Whilst stationary lasue, from time to time, new in- Motor Club Winter Trial three permitted, in rear except where motor cycle, solo or otherwise, must formation about the Proving silver medals in the Colmore such other lights are for illuminat have its lamps alight. Ground, not only in publications Cup Trial: First Prize in the ing the interior of the vehicle; for The new conditions apply to the but in other advertising media as Beach Racing: 214 miles Eastern illuminating the Number Plate; hours of darkness, which are off- well. We shall do our best to Subs, M.C.C., Gerringong, or for traffic signals. cially described as from one hour make certain that every friend of Sydney, in January; and the Solo motor cycles must show a before sunrise In Summer time, the General Motors Family is "Wasdell" Tankard in the Victory white headlight and a rear redlight, and from half-an-hour after sunset kept in touch with what is going Cup Trial held in Worcestershire white light on the cycle and an- to balf-an-hour before sunrise at on at the Proving Ground.
In March.
Side-car combinations must show a other perioda.
CHRYSLER
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Dependability and long life that result from a precision of manufacture totally unknown in the building of any other low-priced car;
The inevitably superior results of that Chrysler Standardised Quality of engineering and man- ufacturing which produces the Chryslers of bigher price-"62,"72" and 100hp. Imperial "80"
There you have the smart new Chrysler "52.” At its sensational values, public preference acclaims it as more than ever the greatest car in the low-priced field. See this great car and auk for a demonstration,
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