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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1981.
MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGES
CHRYSLER
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All of Chrysler's popularity, prestige and success is due en- tirely to what Chrysler cars actually are and what they actually do. With Chrysler,
CHRYSLER
it's results, not promises; performance, not claims. Take your ride in a Chrysler and sense that very definite something which makes a Chrysler a Chrysler ... that something which is so different, so much more thrilling that something which inspires a pride of ownership all its own.
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THE NATIONAL MOTOR CAR CO.
484-486, QUEEN'S ROAD, WEST.
TEL. 25674.
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BRITISH CARS.
Reception to Australian
Representative.
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FOR AUSTRALIA.
Some Points for British Manufacturers.
309. CAR. Bargain Time in New South Wales.
Sydney, Feb. 7.
Yesterday at Parramatta an aue-
Practically all the members of the Saya a writer in a Home paper: West Australian branch of the Aus I recently received a letter from tralian Association of British Manu- friend in Australia who tells me Lionear sold a motor car for 30s. facturers (motor section) attended a that the increases in registration It was registered, but uninsured. luncheon at the Palace Hotel, Porth, fees and in the cost of oil and petrol Another car, slightly better in ap- Both to welcome the return from abroad of are, all to the benefit of British carpearance, was sold for 3. the vice-president of the Association sales out there. Fetrol prices range buyers drove their cars home.
Three months ago two young (Mr. A. E. Plant),
from 28. to 28. 3d, a gallon, oil is Replying to the toast of the Ss. 6d.,, and the petrol carries a men from Burwood purchased a chairman (Mr. E. A. George), Mr. 7d, per gallon tax. My friend car at a city auction room for £8. Plant described the work of the tells that British radiators appear They travelled 4,000 miles about British motor manufacturers. A to give some trouble over there, due the State in a search for work, the de- and then sold the car at Bathurst few years ago, he, sald, they were either to the mounting or diffident about pushing the sales of sign; he also thinks the cooling area for £20.
These car bargains can be had British cars in the Dominions, but is on the small side for 160 degrees: now, that foreign markets were be- in the sun. He suggests that the almost daily. Scores of ears are ing gradually closed owing to high pussible cause of radiator looks is advertised for sale at from £10 to which he considers £50, but the demand for them is tariffs they were becoming keenly the springs,
The high. prices for interested in the overseas Empire should be one leaf stronger for Aus- not great. markets. British manufacturers tralia than for Britain. It appears petrol, oila and tyres, together were concentrating on the scientific that extra leaves are fitted by taxi with the heavy registration fees aspect of the industry. There were owners and many private motorists, deter many buyera.
Eggs In Rolls-Royce. no hit-or-miss methode, nothing was and consist of a leaf curved at each
clear of, but
the Recently a Rolls-Royce which put into operation until it had been end around,
fitted next to the was bought for £2,500 in 1923 was thoroughly Investigated by the shackles and
sold for £60 in a elty auction research department. New models shackled leaf. were rigorously tested for many Another point he mentions for art. The purchaser was a Kelly. months before they were placed on the benefit of British manufactur-ville farmer who had just sold his are 1927 model Ford for £30. He said the market. Instead of keeping era fa that petrol filler-caps their new models for the annual generally too small for the petrol he wanted to "swank" It with a The Rolls now motor show at Olympia, the manu- pump pipe nozzles which are made really good car.
The result of earries his eggs and fruit to the facturers were holding early ex-for American cars. hibitions of their new products at this is that the garage attendant Parramatta marketa.
Many motor launch proprietors the factory, an innovation of great trics to force the nozzle into the value to the agents, At one tank and strains the neck. An buy old cars to use the motors for factory exhibition, attended by opening of about two and a half their launches. about 700 agents, he saw the chassis inches, one which does not provide of a 1981 model.
any leverage for the nozzle, would be a benefit,
Motor car factories in New York and Detroit were vialted by Mr. Plant,
Dealers in second-hand car parts are also on the alert for ears at from £1 to £10. Many make a fair living retailing the parts.
Along the bush roads around there are dozens of veterans of
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ELECTRIC BRAE,
They Are Here!
1931
BSA
Motor Cycles.
THE MACHINES OF
PROVED
POWER SPEED
SILENCE
SAFETY
ECONOMY
RELIABILITY
Hire Purchase Arranged.
SINCERE'S
Sole Agents
possessed of magical properties.. but it is nothing of the sort, of course, but merely an optical illu- gion. On a wet day it appears that the water is running uphill. Car owners who have visited the spot have tried releasing the brakes when standing still to discover that the vehicle starts, to ascend the hill of its own accord.
During the past two or three He anid that he considered years nearly all the new cars have that British manufacturers had no-been equipped with big-diameter Parramatta thing to learn from Balea, Mr. H. N. hubs. So completely has the big-abandoned oid cars, Sharples (Joseph Lucas. Aust. Pty.. hub iden come into vogue that cars the highways, which no one wants. Ltd.). Mr. G. David. (Metropolitan with amall hubs look old-fashioned, Omnibus Commany) Mr. G. Jenkins just as cars with small-section high- (Leyland Motors), and Mr. Jan pressure tyres now look curious In
In Scotland, between Dunure and Stewart (cretary of the motor these days of semi-balloon tyres.
for the the Maybole cross-road, there is
There are said to be other Elec- section of the A.A.R.M. and factory No doubt this accounts
the "Electrictric Braea in the country, but the representative of Leyland Motors). number of cars one sees fitted with what is known as
Broo. It is a bill supposed to be Scottish hill is the best known. Among those present at the Aco aluminium discs.
Excepting on high-class sports luncheon were:-Mr. E. A. George
Beem to be fitting (All-British Care. Ltd.), Mr. F: cars. makers Cota, Mr. F; Anderson (Coventry small speedometers. One regrets Motora. Ltd.). Mr. J. A. this tendency as, even if the instru- Dimmitt. Mr. F. Davies, Mr.ment board is neater with tiny F. Fennell (Mortlock Bron dinis, ft is most desirable that the Ltd.). Mr. J. Wilkie (C. C. Wake- speedometer reading, as well as the field. Ltd.), Mr. R. Allingham (Shell mileage figure, should be readily O Commany), Mr. H. Whittaker discernible without more (Winterbottom Motor Co., Ltd.), glance at the. Instrument, Lt.-Com- the president of the motor section mander Glen Kidson, no doubt as of the A.A.B.M. (Mr. J. R. W. an outcome of his racing experi Gardam), Mr. H. C. Reid,
ence, has a huge speedometer and "rev" counter on ble Speed Six Bentley.
SILENCE QUEST: Novel Marine Muffler.
TARRED ROADS.
then a
At the French Automobile Club Silence, or more correctly, quiet in Paris, Dr. Guglielminetti, of running, is a problem which de Monaco, was recently awarded a signers of every type of internal medal in celebration of the 15th combustion motor, have had to at-anniversary of the invention of tack. Increased efficiency of tarred roads, with which he is In the accounts of the to have credited. operation always seems been accompanied by more noise, ceremony, reference was made to the the sound of the exhaust becom scepticism with which his attempts ing particularly pronounced and were received, and his persistence irritating to the general public. in securing the adoption of this It was a problem which caused reform. It does not appear to have much debate in the early days of been remarked that a full account of care, and it was during that the method and practice of tarring period that Mr. S. F. Edge made roads appears in the "Encyclopaedia of 1902-three years that Britannica" his famous declaration silence in cars was really continu- earlier than the date celebrated. ous noise, a fact which still seems to hold good when one hears cara ascending a long grade on a coun-
It is just as important to carry a try road, or passing through an onclosure Buch 28 a railway kit of spare bulbs for headlights bridge or a stone cutting when and tail lights as it is to have the everything else is quiet. It is re- car equipped with spare tyres. markable how much polac some of "One-eyed" care are dangerous on Occasionally a lamp the quictest cars make under these the highway.
falls when it is urgently needed, circumstances.
Molor cycle's also have been and a new one cannot be convenient- execrated far and wide for their ly, purchased. The kit of spare noise, but the latest models, it is bulbs then saves the day. claimed in Britain, will be famous
SPARE BULBS.
for their quietness. The motor caused by the exhausts of motor stationary internal cycle has been at a great dlead boats and
vantage in this way, as its engine combustion engines a London en- and operating parts, are practical-gineer has produced a novel type ly uncovered, such sound absorb- of muffler, which is claimed to Cooling water ent factors as the water jacket of be very effective. cars, body and engine bonnet be-from the engine is passed through ing absent. The engines also are a number of slots into the expan- awirling extraordinarily efficient, but Insion chamber, inducing
the majority of cases are single, action which causes the gas to or at the most twin-cylinders, and absorb the water fo the form of this tends towardɛ a more broken "rain." This forms a sound- deadening medium, while back exhaust sound.
ast tv During the past two or three pressure is eliminated, and the yeara residents of the foreshores gas is reduced in bulk to about of the harbour have voiced com-one-third the volume it decuples. plaints of the noise made by before cooling. One of these motor boats, directing attention silencers was tested on a Thames especially to outboard motors, tug with a 26 h.p. engine. It was which, like the engines of motor found by a representative of the cycles, have become efficient and Motor Boat, who tested it, to be powerful Exhaupt muffling with so affective that even by leaning marina engines presents its own over the side of the boat and Hs- problems, although the water tening within a few feet of the offers a convenient medium for exhaust outlet it was impossible to cooling the exhaust gas before its detect any noise beyond the final discharge into the air. With burble of the exhaust ""and"the
view to eliminating the nolae rhythmic beat of the engine.
BUYERS GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24769. BUICK. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38, Wong Nel Chung
Road, Happy Valley. Tol. 80228.
CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tol. 24759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
21750. FIAT MOTOR CAR.-A Goeke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.
Tel. 22221,
MARQUETTE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nol
Chung Road, Happy Valley, Tel. 30228. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. OLDSMOBILE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 93, Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228, ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759.
Tel.
STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759.
Tel.
WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS-Gilman & Co.,
Ltd.. 4a, Des Voeux Ed. C. Tel. 28011.
OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf Wolf & Kew, 54 Queen's Road
C. Tel. 22178.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
24759.
G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83, Wong Nei Chung
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228, DODGE.--South China Motor Car Co., 88, Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. 25644.
MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759,
Tel. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.
4a, Des Voeux Road C. Tel 28011
MOTOR CYCLES.
B.S.A. The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. Tel.- 27767. NORTON The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road C. Tel
27767.
MOTOR, OILS.
GARGOYLE MOBILOIL-Vacuum Oll Company, King's Bldg. SHELL Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.C.), Ltd, Astatic Bldg.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSOR ES--Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road.
24769 ACCESSORIE-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Tel. 56223,
Tel.
FISK TYRES-Gilman & Co., Ltd.. 48, Des Voeur Rd. C. Tel.
28011.
INDIA TYRES-W, R. Loxley Co., York Bldgs. Tel. 22285. MICHELIN · TYRES.-A. Geeke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.
Tel: 22221.
PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's - Road, Tel. 24759,
WILLARD BATTERIES. Gilman & Co., Ltd., 48. Des Voeux Rd
C. Tel. 28011,
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