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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930.
MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGES
"I wanted the truth
so I went to a Kiddie!
ALTHOUGH I do not believe in advertising my private
life in newspapers, I have been through such an amazing experience that I owe it to other cars to give them
the benefit. I am one of the best sedans on the market, but I suddenly went all to pieces. Everyone avoided me.
I could be pulled by a Ford faster than I could go myself,
I felt us weak as water. The last straw came when, after
I had passed a traffic signal a policeman overtook me
ON" FOOT! One day as I had reached the depths of despair, a little Whippet romped by me. And I asked the tiny tot to tell me the truth. The little darling answered
three words the New Mobiloll. Inside of an hour I felt
the difference. I felt that it would be easy to break all Speedway records. I can not urge my friends too strongly
to give the New Mobiloil a trial."
Mobiloil
A
RECORD-BREAKER
In Value.
and in Volume
From the very first day it appeared the De Soto Six hus enjoyed enthusi astic public preference. Admiring its smartness, impressed by its quality, thrilled by its performance, owners everywhere pronounce the De Soto
·Six a sensational motor car. On the
wings of this widespread prestige, De Soto Six sped to a top place In ite field. The mccess of this car indicates the wisdom of inspecting it and driy- ing it, for in no other way can you ap prociato Its anusual quality and value.
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OTO SIX
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BRITISH CARS.
"PETROL ENGINE.”
To-day, we see branches of
siderable number of protests, various foreign corporations con-
which do not all come from centrating their attention upon em-
motorists. Business firma, and par ploying more and more British More Markets in the material in their products--a ten-popular handbook.
A new and third edition of the ticularly the proprietors of fashion-
The Petrol
able tea shops, have discovered World:
dency, which we may well encour Engine," has been issued. It has that business has dropped of now age and applipd.
been fully revised and re-illustrat- that their clients are not allowed. We have begun to see, particular: ed. It covers the principles and to drive up in their cars. The at- Although the general' and world-ly in certain Empire markets, applications of the modern petrol titude of most motorists is that if wide fall in commodity prices has antural demand for our products. engine to cars, commercial vehicles, it is necessary to limit the length of necessity had its reaction on the Substantial agents, formerly immotor-cycles, inotor boats, aircraft of time during which their cars can Motor trade, there is room for possible to find, are beginning to and electric lighting sets, all these be left on the streets, a sufficient optimism for the future stability inquire for British lines. Such a sections being extensively illus number of parking stations should of the British Motor Industry, celerated by the direct and indirect
tendency has undoubtedly been no irated.
be provided, and that all these ahould be free. survey of which shows that it is expanding its markets throughout the Empire in particular and in the world generally.
The Home Market And Exports.
The Imports of Cars, Commercial, Vehicles and Chassis Into Great Britain during the Arst four months of 1930 continued to show
The book will be found useful to
results of the American financial the general reader who wishes to crisis, the overloading of certain keep in touch with all modern ap- distributors, and the serious fall plications of the petrol engine, and In stock values..
Whatever may be our difficulties student will find it equally useful.
the motor mechanic and engineering In the future, we as an industry,
The new and third edition of "The can say that with few exceptions Petrol Engine" is obtainable from here and abroad, stacks of British all principal booksellers and book- care and trucks are not compara-stalls. rice 38. 6d. net or 3s. 10d. a downward trend, being of a total tively excessive, our distributors by post from the publishers, Tem number of 5,828, value £933,925, as comparison with those of some ple Press Ltd., 5.15, Rosebery compared with, for the same period in 1929, 12,952, value £1,735,964, a decrease in number of 7.124 and in value of £802,039.
of our foreign competitors, have a greater confidence, and in spite of general economic conditions.we may see in certain Empire markets that the tide has definitely turned.
Of the future, Sir-Herbert said,
In view of trading conditions generally, and the period of finan- We can thus look to the future cial difficulty recently experienced with a growing appreciation that by an important market in particu- there is nothing fundamentally lar, the decrease In British Exports
understood. In this
Avenue, London, E.C.1.
PARKING IN PARIS.
Parisian
A contract has been signed be- tween the city and a private com pany whereby the latter has the right to charge a certain fee for taking care of motor vehicles on the public parking places. It is sought to justify this fee by the fact that the cars
are profected against theft, but this argument fails to convince Parisian motor- ists, who point out that their cars are usually insured against theft, and that for years they have been left without any guardian.
Large numbers of trade associa- ' tions are protesting strongly against the parking fee as an addi- tional charge on the motorist, while one body is attacking the The liberty which
legality of the measure imposed. of Motor Vehicles can be readily wrong in British Motor design motorists have enjoyed for so many In two cases already the higher
that certain measure of stability years of leaving their cars ubat- courts have decided that munici connection, exists in our home market; that a tended for any length of time in palities have no legal right to exact the figures are 11,279, value £2,572,577, for the period January of our Empire markets, and that, been
real start has been made in some any of the city streets has now a fee from owners who leave their
withdrawn
order of by April, 1930, as against 14,074, value if we can reduce our export prices the
care unattended on the highway. Prefect. In £2,802,047, in 1929. The fact that to a minimum,
central If Paris succeeds in maintaining a market exists district around the the Export Trade can now be said, within our Empire alone at least the
Opera its paid parks, it is almost certain Gare St. Lazare, and
that every town and village to be on a firmer basis than pre- as large as that in our own coun- the Madeleine it is not permitted throughout the country, whether or viously, is proved by the excess of
to leave cars unattended between not it is faced with traffic con- Exports over Imports which, over
9 a.m. and noen from 2 to 7 p.m. gestion, will seize on this means the period mentioned this year,
An inadequate number of parking of adding to its revenue. reached 6,451, value £1,638,652, 18
stations, has been provided, some
compared with 1,122, value 21,066,083, in 1929.
try.
"The success of the Motor In dustry here depends more than any other on an increased spending power of our population. We can not, as a young Industry, afford to The Export Trade la, in fact, leave semi-political developments steadily improving and in many to take their own course. markets there is to-day apparent
"In the gradual evolution of Em- an increasing demand for British pire economic unity, I feel we agencies, and it can definitely be should play our part" said that the position is far more stable than at any time since the war.
The British victory in the recent Double-Twelve race at Brooklands is a further proof that British- bullt cara and their drivers Can hold their own against any com- petition. Out of a field of 65, in- cluding some of the most promin- ent foreign, speed cars and drivera, British cars finished in the first four places. A fine performance was also put up by the Austin Seven, which completed the twenty- four hours and finished first in its class. The team prize also went to the British "baby" class, the award being carried off by three midgets.
Överseas.
"
M.G.
In Australia enormous interest} is being shown in the Golden ́Ar- row," 75,000 people inspecting It at the Royal Easter Show at Sydney alone. This car will later proceed to New Zealand, and may in March, 1931, be exhibited at the British Trade Exhibition Buenos Aires.
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In South Africa far greater in- terest was shown than ever before in the British vehicles exhibited at the Cape Town and Johannesburg Motor Showo, resulting, it is be- Heved, in increasing business to British manufacturers. Distribu-{ tora who have not hitherto repre- sented British manufacturers were also inquiring as to possible British agencies.
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From New Zealand' comes the re- port of the successful tour of British motor vehicles from Wel-j lington, thirty vehicles taking part in the procession, which visited 40 towns before concluding with great public meeting, at Welling- i ton. Great things were expected of the tour but it appears to have been even more successful than had been hoped. The procesalon was publicly received by respec tive Mayors, public meetings were held, and concrete evidence of the Interest aroused is afforded by the | number, of serious requests, recely- ed for further information of the various vehicles which took part
Following upon this news comes Information that the City Council of Wanganui, in replacing their fleet of motor vehicles, has decided to purchase British Cars and lor- ries exclusively
The position wis summed up by, Bir . Austiny the Chairman of the Society of Motor, Manufacturers and Traders at the Annual Meet-] ing of that Section held recently, Speaking of the past, he said:
It was inevitable, after the Wár, that the efforts of the Motor In- dustry should have been conden- trated on the Home Market, Cer tainly no hope existed or any sound extension of our mar Loverseas until the output for 'consumption reached a suši Volumé.
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In the meantime it must be ad-
of these being free and others call~| mitted that trafic congestion has ing for a payment per hour, per somewhat decreased in the city of day, or per year, the matter being Paris, but this doubtless is due to left entirely to the choice of the the fact that motorists prefer to motorist.
leave their cars at home, rather Such a change has not been than to quarrel with the police.- effected without friction and a con- [W.F.B. in the Autocar,
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