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THE CHINA MAIL.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1980.
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"Unapproachable" as the machines have proved in the past, 1930 witnesses an even finer production in NORTON. Маду Important improvements are embodied in the new NORTON de- elgus, including enclosed valve gear mechanism and push rods, detachable cover for Rocker Box, improved arrangement of cylinder head layout, efficient allences, and Chromium plating.
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REPAIR PARTS
Steady Decline on Sales
TIGER SHOOTING
Luxurious Vehicles for the East
The achievement of the automo- Thousands of pounds are spent bile industry in offering cars which every year in Britain by Indian not only provide a constantly higher Princes and Rajaks on luxuriously. standard of performance, but which fitted apecial hunting motor-cars in cost their owners less and less to which the occupants can take meals maintain is emphasized in recently and even sleep. compiled figures showing the steady decline in the sale of repair part per automobilè in use.
A concrete example of this pro- gress is the statement that sales of Studebaker repair parts have shrunk from $12.41 per car in operation in 1-1922 to $7.49 last year.
Research laboratory and proving ground have contributed much to this decline in repair parts sales through the development of 6er design, the discovery and use of bet ter materials, and improvements in manufacturing methods.
Two of these hunting cars have just been shipped to the Jam Sahib, of Nawanagar, better known as Prince Ranjitsinhji, the famous cricketer, and another has just been sent to the King of Uganda.
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Britain's reputation for mechani- cal reliability and for special coachwork designs caused one two wealthy sportsmen of the East to order cars suitable for travelling in the jungle. This was found to be such an improvement on the dis- comfort of the Safari that nearly every potentate Prince and Maharajah owns his hunting car. But another and equally interest-which is almost 38 A matter ing phase of the industry's constant course ordered from Britain. scarch for improvement is revealed
Wonderful Colours
DOW
in a recent article in "Automobile The personal tastes of the owner Topics," which goes behind the are always embodied in the design scenes in Studebaker's great South and wonderful colour schemes are Bend plants to disclose the ingent-ordered, such as sta green and ous system by which this manufac-cream, scarlet, silver and lemon turer uses the whole world as a yellow. Sometimes all the interior second line of laboratory defence fittings, including the steering against imperfections in its cars. wheel and gear lever, are made of | ivory, sometimes of fine inlaid An Invaluable Ald
wood Studebaker's system is an invalu-
Probably the most striking ex able aid to the skilled research and torior feature of a hunting car la design engineers and technicians the number of lampa. who are striving to achieve the im In the jungle the car is a mobile possible task of building an automo-blaze of light. Very powerful bile so soundly designed, so ac-lamps are fitted at each side of the curately manufactured and As-body and in the centre is a search- sembled that its parts will light, which can be raised or lower. never need repair or replacement. Led on a sliding pillar. The science and skill of these These three lamps can be direct might well designed to any desired point by a the perfect automobile. But swivelling action. Special clips on they can never eliminate that one the back of the front seats hold human quality which makes a skilled rifles ready to hand whenever a workman, supervised though he may wild animal is picked out by the be by the most diligent and exact-blinding glare from the lights. ing type of inspection, perform his task a thousand times perfectly, and once imperfectly,
engineers
Ice Chests
An hunting trip often means a lengthy journey and, perhaps, Hence the existence of thousands several camps en route.
The car of automobile service stations and has therefore to be fitted with com repair shops-and Studebaker's gen. partments on each side of the body eral service department. But if holding two sliding drawers for these engineers and technicians baggage and on the luggage grili learn that in widely separated sec-at the rear is a trunk holding two
tions
DON'T LET SUPERLATIVES FOOL YOU /
Now-a-days more highfalutin stuff is being written about products of all description than the average human being can absorb with any degree of understanding bom- bastic stuff that disgusts nearly all, who read it. Such stuff as "This great Value Could Come from No Other Source," "Perpetual Youth for Bearings," "When you rode on Air," "Far Surpassing All Fine Car Creations," etc. etc.
No wonder the reading public says "Bah."
etc.
Plain, simple statements about products are; if they are true, appreciated. We know this. And because we do we keep away from superlatives. "Best," "Finest.” "Greatest,” etc., etc. are some of the superlatives worked to death by those who have something to sell.
We tell the motoring public that Gargoyle Mobiloil in a good motorcar engine lubricant, and so it is. We have been told that Gargoyle Mobiloil is preferred by those who understand something about motorcar engines. There must be something out of the ordinary about Gargoyle Mobilcil— especially the New Gargoyle Mobiloil because the demand keeps on increasing despite the frantic efforts of competitors to take the business.
Some day, when you are in an inquisitive mood, you. might try the New Gargoyle Mobiloil. Maybe you will like it, and maybe you won't. A trial certainly will do no harm, and it might be the means of saving quite a nice little 'sum of money.
COMPANY
VACUUM OL COMPANY
of the world Studebaker large ice-cheats. In these food can automobile was alleged to be total- owners are having trouble with albe carried for almost any length of ly unsuited to overseas conditions certain unit, they can at once take time in the hottest climates. A by reason of inadequate clearance, action to correct the cause of the cabinet for small stores is fitted and although this contention has trouble and thus send future Stude at the back of the front seat on long since lost any semblance of baker cars to their ownera cured of which are attached folding glass veracity, it is still on occasion put
forward. this particular source of annoyance topped tables. and possible expense.
On a long trip a closed car some. There is little doubt that users times forms part of the expedition overseas are becoming increasingly Uniqué System
containing bath with water laid on aware of the fact that criticism In Studebaker's unique
follow-up from a tank and a dressing-room or regard to clearance la not substan system is based on service reports sleeping bunks.
tiated in actual practice and are
from its dealers all over the world.
Although ears are now regarded proving for themselves the fact From virtually every large Stude as almost indispensable for big that the general design of British baker service station and many of game hunting in India it is, how-vehicles is suitable for all road the smaller ones come reports of ever, still necessary to hunt on foot conditions. every service operation performed in the denser parts of the jungle.
on Studebaker ears.
By this system any alight me- chanical troubles which may appear in cara are checked back to their source at the factory and corrected in many cases within a few days after the cars were produced. Speed and simplicity mark this
MARLEY'S GHOST
Cars and Overseas Conditions
In point of fact British cars give
a clearance equal to, and in some cases actually exceding that pro vided by other makes, and the sureat answer to any query as to the suitability of such cars for overseas requirements is to bo found in the pioneering enterprises fact finding work, and it is the lightful "Christmas Carol," om- undeveloped
The immortal Dickens, in his de- of typical types of British care in arets in different claim of Studebaker's servico de phasised the supernatural happen- parts of the world. partment that this second line of ings that followed by making it Almost every mail brings fresh defence lage behind production only perfectly clear in his opening reproofs of the performance of marks that the former partner of British cars, and as an instance, Scrooge was undoubtedly dead" one of the latest from Australla dead as a door nail.”
may be quoted; In the annual This fact did not, however, pre- Sydney to Melbourne trial-which vent the ghost of Jacob Marleys of the scaled bonnet" type, no from returning to the habitation of adjustments being allowed en route Ebenezer Scrooge with, as the story without loss of marks--British cars. shows, most beneficial results on came through with flying colours. the later life and habits of Mr. 1,160 miles in length, the trial Scrooge.
is considered to be one of the most
a matter of about ten days.
ONLY ONE HOUR
Between East and West Coasts
An emergency call for; some ser- In these enlightened times there strenuous held in Australia, a con- vice parts for Model A cars by als apt to be a good deal of scep tinent where strenuous trials are Ford dealer on the Pacific Coast call-ticism where ghosts are concerned, the rule rather than the exemption. ed for fast work recently and poa. for it is generally accepted that In a large entry there were four sibly act a record in modern trans these supernatural visitors do not small British cars Super Seven portation from the Atlantic to the make a practice of intruding thei Triumphs. Whilst many other on- Pacific Conati
unwelcome presence among those tranta fell by the "road" side, theso The parts were rushed to the land who remain.
four completed the course without ing field of the field of the Fan Exceptions, we are told, prove the loss of any marks, and tled for American Airways Inc.,. In a Ford the rule, and British motor manu the best term performances of the ! Station waggon, transferred to a tri- facturors are
not infrequently day.
motor Ford place, and flown across brought face to face with one par In view of the road surfaces to the Pacific where another Ford ticular ghost that would appear to traversed, the high speed averaged car awaited the parta.
have completely disregarded the approximately 30 m.ph.-is The entire job was completed in etiquette of all respectable ghosts amazingly good and forms, a de- less than one hour's time.
Impossible? Incredible?
and which will persist in cropping finite proof of the quality of up when it should long since have British cars and small ones at that and of their ability to com
By way of explanation, it should sunk into oblivion,
be added this feat was actually ac-} In previous days the British peto en equal terms with large and
complished on the Isthmus of}". Panama, where the Ford branch Is at Cristobal, Canal Zone, on the Atlantic Bide, and the Ford doslor lives in Panama City, in the Repub- lic of Panama, on the Pacific side. The distance, soparating the two placoste, not quite 60 miles. When flying across the narrow neck of land, one can see both oceans at the same time
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It is generally recognised by the public both at home, and overseas that the natural sentiment to buy British transport, can also be com bined with, the material busineAu consideration that without question the British manufacturer, in his range of vehicles for every, purse and purpose, leads his competitors in overy other part of the world,
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