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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930,
NEW GM.C. MODEL.
THE CHINA MAIL.
GLARING LIGHTS.
JAPAN'S LATEST. “
German Factory Product.
The Dip-and-Switch Device Explained.
Attempt to Develop a Motor Industry.
News from overseas
Detroit, Mich.
conveys the
Perhaps may be considered premature, but certainly it seems to
me
Tokyo, June 16.
TRAFFIC EVILS.
Dangers to Life and Business.
information that General Motors that the chler, problem of prevailing shipbuilding depression, tary of Commerce, calls attention
touch him
Washington June 9. As a counter measure for the Dr. Jullus Klein, Assistant Secre- Corporation has produced from lamps is
eliminating dazzle, from head the Ministers of Finance, and Com-to-day, to the "robots on wheels,"
as good 28 its Opel plant at Russelsheim, Ger-ed-and the dip-and-switch de- that the manufacturing of motor-injury, and to the menaco confront- solv-merce have expressed their opinions with their terrifle toll of life and many, the new small car model that | 1200] has - donio it. 1 say ears is the best means to meet the ing trade by reason of the enormous G.M.C. will market in Europe.
"as good as solyed" because situation." This is the car the general speci-perer will be entirely solved so
congestion on the roads and in the This has been taken as tho. Gov-cities, which were never construct. long as the fications of which were forecast by into the matter writes a contribua
human element enters ernment's plan, and has caused noted, to bear such traffic. James D. Mooney, president of the tor in the Autocar"). But if all building circles.
little sensation among ship- He referred to "stripped for General Motors Export Company, self-propelled road vehicles had facturing by shipbuilding works, and thundering, elephantine buses. Motor-car manu- action fifteen-foot speed roadsters in a paper read before the society steering wheel controlled dip-and-though desired by the Government, with other features of American of Automotive Engineers two years less than a certain
switch head lampa of not more or cannot be easily carried out at once automobile, traffic. 13 "merciless igo. In it Mr. Mooney pointed out fiance, then the experience of each believed.
runge of bril-on account of Jack, of funds, it is Frankenstein monsters and Molocha that economic and living conditions individual would soon
which may finally crust us" unless The only shipbuilding firm which public opinion and the Govern- in Europe demanded individual that the troubles of dazzle can be has been working on the manufac- mental authorities
solve the transportation scaled down from eliminated by commonsense be-ture of cars
up- is the Ishikawajima palling problem by giving constant the order on which it is used in haviour.
Dock.
Other firms, if they under-thought to the necessity of building America.
Although the dip-and-switch sys-take this work, have to begin with bigger and better highways and also The Opet car is the result. It tem is being increasingly made a the training of the workers and improving the present traffic rules. had been built on the plan which standard part of the equipment of this nécessitates a considerable sum In the United States last year European makers have designed British cars, there are still more of money, If they could be sup- there were about 28,000 rond the "baby" curs used abroad. The cars on the road which are with-plied with adequate subsidies by fatalities-a situation, said experimentul models are said to out it, and therefore many driv- the Government, the starting of the Klein, black with tragedy and have been tested ut the Generalers have never had actuel experi-work would be comparatively easy, shameful in Home Motors proving ground at Milford, ence of it.
respects ta they suggest.
civilisation, because it denotes at Mich, management of I. J. Reuter, Before enlarging upon the sub- The same is true of the works for least a measure of incompetence. president of the Olds motor works ject I had better just explain the aeroplane construction. Although Apart from the intensely human at Lansing, who assumed the over-arrangement for the benefit of those future, lack of funds prevents the ing inflicted on the vital commercial This industry has a promising problem. Increasing damage is be- sens post some months ago.
who are still unfamiliar with it. In design, the new car is said to On the right of the ear is a normal works, from favourable development. intereats of the United States by the be a makeover of a former Opel head lump, but on the left the The Mitsubishi and Kawasaki dock-impairment of valuable property in model to which certain Americah mirror' inside the lamp is mounted Vards are now carrying on aeroplane chicles, wastage of millions of churateristics have been given. non a horizontal swivel, and at the manufacture on a small scale.
transportation hours, and lessened appearance it suggests Buck body back of it is
a pneumatic or elec-]
profits of business houses whose activities are affected by the fits i which the meter-vehicle congestion brings in its wake.
L
How It Is Fitted
lines. The chassis weighs only trient device, controlled either by a 925 punds and the complete car plunger on the steering column or between 1,417 and 1,600 pounds, ac dash, or by a switch on the wheel, CAR UPHOLSTERY. cording to body type.
which can cause the mirror to The engine is the L-head type and tilt downward and thus dip the has four cylinders. Bore of 2ight team from the lamp down- Inches and stroke of 3 9-16 inches wards on to the road. Actually the place it in the one-litre class with movable mirror does not swing upon displacement approximating 62 a truly horizontal axis, but is sei cubic inches. Neither wheelbase
30 that the light beam swings nor tread dimensions are given, but slightly over to the left as well as it is assumed that the tread is aar-downwards; in addition, when the rower than the 54 inches common dipping control is worked the right-
hand
in this country.
lamp is Maximum engine speed is 3,000 switched out.
"'. revolutions. On high rear ratio
of 5.56 to 1. the shaft turns at 2,930 revolutions. No claims of speed or gasoline consumption are made but
transmission.
simultaneously
an on-
one
Not every motorlat realises how suspended upholstery is made up, says an article in the Autocar propos, the Moseley Float-on-air
cushion.
Dr.
MOTOR CAR BODIES. Grow Before Your Eyes.
There is a romance in seeing anything grow from rough materials into the finished product -"a thing of beauty."
cut-
10 το
60
11.
IN 31 SECONDS
Marquette
No other car in the world in the mod. erate-price class can match such thrill Ing performance-10 to 60 miles par hour in 31 seconds, In high. Buick alone could achieve such qualities of speed, power and stom ina in a car so moderate in cash
In every phase of performance, Marquette is entirely unmatched in its fold! Amarvelous Row of power sends you flying up the steepest grades in high gear. You can ride of 60 or 70 with a wonderful-feeling of pleasure
and security. And a host of other fac tures wins your admiration. Fisher bodies expressing the best modern taste. An exclusive non-glare windshield. Exclusive new upholstery, proof against water, dust and wear. Four Lovejoy hydraulle shock enclosed, brakes. absorbers and big Duo-Servo
Marquette 1. complete with all the fine car characteristics. Yet the liberal G. M. A. C. terms make owning a Marquette very convenient and economical Sos ft. Drive it today
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD
Telephone 30228.
33 WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT...BUICK WILL BUILD THEM.
The leather or fabric seat cushion; In the body building plant of the has a flap at the back into the de Graham Paige Company at Wayne, No Fumbling.
Asted rubber sections are inserted. Michigan, this transition takes When the driver meets
East section (there are four in place before the observer's eyes... coming car ho works the control-this case) has a concealed tyre
First the trim and upholstery, the car is believed capable of and the absolute essence of the valve, which is pulled out of its re- bales of material, automatic least 40 miles on one gallon of fuel whole system is that
the control cess for inflation
When the right ting machines, sewing machines Other features incorporated in the should be easy to reach without pressure is reached, which is tested that are big brothers of the sew- car are a thermo-syphon, cooling blind fumbling. It is for this by resistance to the hand do the ring machine in our homes, and system, battery ignition, two-bear; reason that most people prefer the centre of the section, the flap is orderly activity. The magnetized ing crankshaft, pressure feed electric switch in the centre of the closed by its suap fasteners and the tack hammer, simple though it is, lubrication, single dry-pinte clutch steering wheel. tubular propeller shaft with double stead of both headlamps sending.
Thereupon, in-cut is ready for the car.
always attracts attention. Imagine body it has ita first priming coat,, It will be apparent that, apart a man with a mouth full of tacks. We only see it an instant before it universal, four-wheel brakes, semi-out a spread of blinding light, the trom the Float-on-Air principle of Every time the tack hammer goea goes into another oven, consider elliptic springs in front and quarter left-hand lamp just throws "pneumatically stuffed" upholstery, to his lips, it comes away with the ably hotter, which bakes the prim elliptics In rear. and three-speed modest beant of downeast light on to there are additional advantages in tack held to the head of the ham- ing coat into the metal.
the left side road gutter. This that the Beats can be cleaned in- mer, allowing him full use of both Two priming. coats, two lacquer The equipment includes one spare beam hits the road surface about ternaky and externally at any time. hands.
-coats, and the body passes into -disc wheel, lamps, horn, speedometer 20 yards or less in front of the car unlike spring and hairstuffed up-
A few minutes and the materials view again. This time we can and hand-operated windshield and will pick up any cyclist. So holstery. The weight and height have taken new form, and are now watch deft hands "touching up" wiper.
much for the theory of the thing.
of the cushions are alap materially upholstered seats and seat backe, spots that seem to have been There are five models, in the: In practice other points arise, reduced. Tight air pressure is not travelling on a conveyor destined neglected, and those spots "are not range. The types and prices follow: or so I have found after six months act; indeed, the inflation re- to meet and become part of the discernible to the uninitiated. eye. chassis $440: roadster. $490; use of Lucas Biflex lamps with quires to be so slight that the body, when the body is ready to We see steady hands put the thin
car $570; two-passenger pneumatic dip-and-switch control. cushion should be quite flabby when receive them.
lines on mouldings and window re- collapsible coupe with rumble seat Everybody knows that, with our not supporting a person and, if the Then downstairs into the mill. veals,, and marvel at the delicacy $610; four-passenger sedan $650. natural human selfishness, we are cushion is pressed locally, as by the
of touch possessed by the skilled more concerned about the other hand in testing its pressure, the
men. fellow dazzling us than we knuckles should practically "go about dazzling the other fellow through" to the baseboard of the So. If we meet another car, with seat. really vile lights, brilliant and pos- sibly adjusted, driven by a man with absolutely no consideration
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Here lumber that seems to bear no relation to anything in motor body building passes from machine to machine, and under skilful hands is combined into shapes and frames that are recognized as some part of the body.
By this time the body is ready for the upholstering. Wizardry again appears, and velour, mohair, leather seem to go into their ap- pointed places as if of their own will, and the Body is ready for the
From the mill conveyors take the for other road users, or perchance.
email parts to the master magician chassis. unequipped with any dinumlug
among machines, "the Big Jig". It "We have been in the body plant Mr. Hall Caine, presenting is hard to tear oneself away from thirty minutes, we have, seen the device, we are temporarily blinded, prizes to women motor cyclists at this almost human thing. A weird wonderful Graham-Page body grow especially if there be rain-drops on rally at Croydon, suggested akeleton having metal bones that under our eyes.
that a women's T.T. race in the seem to follow no anatomical rule, Isle of Man should be instituted. clamps that seem to grow on the "I feel," continued his "authority, bones for no reason. old days. II
The "BigTHE BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY. fellow 'did not dim that the dare-devilness of the Jig" stands with its attendant neither did we; we just could ladies would easily rival the dare- "Doctora.". Into the skeleton are not see it we dimmed. And devilness of the men."
put the wooden parts we have ad- financial position were outstanding A successful year and a strong this is where I think that the Anyone who has the slightest mired in the mill. Each part dip-and-switch helps in rather an knowledge of T.T. racing or of the exactly Bts its "bones", the clamps Points stressed at the recent annual unexpected -fashion. I find that course over which it is run will re- hold it in place. The sides, enda general meeting of the Society of when I am dazzled like this I can cognise that the suggestion is and roof of the "Big Jig" mystert Motor Manufacturers and Traders.. actually see better if I dip-and ridiculous TT. racing is a job qualy close up. Humans like ants under the presidency of Mr. J. switch, and, therefore, I now dip which takes the best nerve and the swarm over it, pneumatic screw Mangbing. The exhibitions last and-switch, for my sake, whenever highest skill of the pick of our drivers buzz, a few hand hammers year had, said Mr. Maughfling, been I mest other headlamps. It is be young drivers. It is no child's strike, a minute, and the "Doctors" completely successful, a feature coming a habit because it helps me game, and the injury and accident stand back from the "skeleton." being the rapidly increasing attrac and if the dip-and-switch Induces list ought to be a warning that The "Big Jig", disintegrates into tion of the Commercial Vehicle this habit in everyone we are tell there are some things which separate sides, ends, and top,, and Show; for this the total paying at on the way to curing the dazzle women should not attempt to do. there stands the framework of the tendances in 1925, 1927 and 1929 difficulty.
That there is a type of woman motor body on its own wheeled were respectively £35,802, £51,864,-
and, £64,802. On the other hand, switch helps in the fact of on having a go at such a task as this tainly. coming dazzle. Properly adjusted cannot be denied, but it is not Apparently from thin air, the private car exhibitions for 1927 headlamps of good make throw a necessary fust on that account metal grows on the frame, and 1928 and 1929 show a steady de- food of even light with no ultra-that they should be encouraged., still it moves inexorably on to.cline, the figures for the three years bright or ultra-black spots. They For the attitude that women wards its destinya Graham Paige in question being respectively Illuminate the foreground smoothly can manage and have a right to body.
£275,222, 263,267 and $227,474, '~ And without apparent brilliance, try every branch of male acti Inspectors Waiting.
It is not without interest to note But the Instant such a lamp ivity, there can be no defence. Down the line the body goes that the S.M.M.T. will be freer dipped the intense beam strikes the The sooner this is realised the Inspectors are waiting to detect after 1981 than it has been of left of the road close to the 'car better.
any unevenness in the metal of the late to consider an altoration in its and a restricted field of extra-
bodywork. It seems unbelievable exhibitions policy. So far as this bright illumination is created. In
that an unevenness in the surface year and next year are concerned, apite of oncoming dazzle, the eye
than with the bare hand, but it is Olympia Co. a tonarey of the now la easier to detect through a glove the Society has negotiated with the can see comparatively clearly ever this field because it is the most
true. Each inspector wears a Empire Hall for the periods of the brightly Bluminated spot in range. Italy, Varzl come arst in the gen- piece of chalk. An almost caress the Motor Show this autumn will be In the Circuit d'Alessandria, glove on one hand, in the other awo car exhibitions. A feature of Of course, if the oncoming dazzler eral classification, driving an Alfa ing movement of his gloved hand he inclusion of a motor boat bus dió-and-switch, too, and uses It. Romeo on Dunlop tyres. The same finds an uneven or rough place section both drivers can een perfectly, well, driver was first in the 'Over 1500 chalk mark, and as the body and there is nothing more to worry eme Class, and Zanell, in a Bugatti moves on, men administer a tap at Olympia resulted in a profit for Last year's private car exhibition about. In the past many of the on Dunlops, was second in the 1100 here with a hammer, a rub there the Society of 441,282, while the non-dazzling devices helped the eme Class, anch of them in a Saim with a file, and the chalk mark is commercial motor exhibition "dazzes and did not help the son un Dunlops with which 24 of no longer needed. brought in 7.467. The 3.M.M.T.'s dazzler, so there was little incen- the 27 starters were equipped On to the acid bath. This cleans proportions of the profits of the tive for a driver to fit one, since it The distance run is 256 kms, and all dies and grease from the metal sero and Scottish motor exhibitions quly beneated other people. But the winner covered the course, Then an oven of moderate heat; were respectively £6,233 and 4128, the dip-and-switch arrangement, in without chance of tyres, in hours, and through the brushes that take they total exhibition revenue ac my opinfoir fts both alike, 21 minutes, 42 seconds, an average sway the seld, now powder,cruing to the Society In. 1929 re moreover, the driving light speed of 108,895 kms: (67.74 miles) On again, into the spraying presenting a net profit of £56,302
per hour.
booths. Next time we see the 63° 11d., &
This is the reason why dip-and-Who would.not think twice about] platform. Magic and Romance cer: the paying attendances at the
is not curtailed
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BUYERS GUIDE
MOTOR
CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage; Queen's
Road. Tel. 24759.
BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei Chung.
Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228.
CADILLAC-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24769. CHEVROLET. --- Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
94759,
MARQUETTE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 23, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 39228. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel 24759. OLDSMOBILE.-The, Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Net
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759, STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS.-Gilman & Co.,
Ltd., da, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 28011,
*
Tel.
.
Tel:
OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf Wolf & Kew, 54 Queen's Road
C. Tel, 22173.
-MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
24759.
G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.. 39, Wong Nel Chung
Chung Rond, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228,
DODGE. South China Motor Car Co., 38, Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. 25844.
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
Tel. 24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gliman & Co., Ltd.,
dá, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.
MOTOR CYCLES.
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MOTOR OILS,
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TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road, Tel
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Tel. 66228,
FISK TYRES-Gliman & Co., Ltd. da, Des Voeux Rd. O. TOL INDIA TYRES W. R. Loxley C., York Bidge. Tel. 22285, PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24759.
WILLARD BATTERIES, GIlman & Co., Ltd., dn, Des Voeux Rd.
CTel: 28011.