TIIURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1931.
Ù.S. TRADERS.
Big 1931 Demand for Tyres Expected.
FORD PLANES.
Order from the Chilean Government.
THE CHINA MAIL.
NO MANSLAUGHTER | TRIPLE BLUE FINED.
| Motorist Emerges With Licence Suspended After
Flying Colours.
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a Zig-Zag Drive.
motor-car.
Rubber business in London, suya Sales of new type 5 AT high- Capt. Dosmond, Charles Methuen Harold Edward Westery Prest, the Statist, continues to be on a speed Ford trimotor transport (1), of the Royal Artillery, of Shalford, near Guildford, a very small scale and prices for both planes to the Chilean Government Woolwich, who was charged with Cambridge triple blue and holder spot and forward positions are and to the United States Navy the manslaughter of Miss Dorothy of the Croix de Guerre with palm, virtually unchanged. While some were announced recently by Mr. Ethel Bunning, a school-mistress, was fined £25 and had his licence light Improvement in reported in W. B. Mayo, head of the Air- was acquitted at the Old Balloy.suspended for twelve months at the American situation, information plane Division of the Ford Motor] There were also charges of causing Guildford recently for having boen actually available is not sufficiently Company.
Miss Bunning bodily harm by wan-under the influence of drink to precise or extensive enough for the The contract for the planes ton, driving and with being drunk such an extent as to be incapable value of the reports of better con-ordered by the Government of in charge of a motor-car, and Cap-of having proper control of a ditlans to be closely ascertained. Chile was signed by Ambassador tzin Methuen was found not guilty
What news is to hand seems to Davila in Washington. The great on all the counts.
Evidence was given that on a be of a somewhat conflicting nature transport will be the first com. The case for the Crown was that foggy night Mr. Leslie Cockburn, and rather to indicate on balance pletely equipped ambulance plane after Miss Bunning had been knock-who was driving a car towards that alterations in the outlook of turned out by the Ford Motored down at Blackheath by a motor. London, saw Prest zig-zagging those industries which consume Company factory. Fittings will cycle and alde-car, Captain across the road. Cockburn's rubber is not materially different include an
car emergency operating Methuen's drove through a manager, Mr. Hobbs, had previous. from what it was before the open-table to puable surgeons to per group of ambulance men and others ly offered Prest a lift at Godal- ing of the New Year.
form operations while in flight; and carried the woman along for ming, and he repeated the offer. Thus, while the Chevrolet, Hud-a complete sterilising unit, an several yards. She died two hours Prest said that if they would not son, Cadilne and a number of minor equipment of instruments and later. Captain Methuen has stated let him drive his car he would American automobile companies two litters for the transport of that he pulled up as soon as possible walk, as he had a flash lamp and have added to their pay-rolls, the wounded or passengers. The and had no idea he had struck Miss, if be fell in the ditch he could position with regard to several of contract specified delivery within Bunning. He denied that he was swim. the leading American motor 'manu- jone month.
under the influence of drink. facturing concerns remains critical. The new high-speed transport
Captain Methuen, replying to Mr. Both the President of the Good-plane ordered by the Navy De McClure (prosecuting), said that if your Tyre and Rubber Co. and the parlment is to be delivered in two people were standing in the road President of the B. F. Goodrich Co. weeks. Its equipment includes they might get knocked down by a have made comparatively optimistic wheel "pants" and streamline car. forecasts with regard to the demand landing_gear. Both planes are Mr. Justice Charles: Do you think for tyres during 1931 and have powered with three Wasp motors people have no right to be on the stated that the rate of production and equipped with electric roads. Here was a big bunch of af their companies was increased starters.
people standing still. Do you think from January 1:
you were entitled to drive through
On the other hand a number of important tyre manufacturers, in-
which
DUNLOP SALES.
of the Company,
Preat pleaded not guilty, and said that he was under the Impres-) sion that Cockburn and Hobbs were trying to rab him, as they had previously pressed him to let them take him home during conversa. tions in an hotel at Godalming.
A.A. TAKE ACTION.
them and let them take their Many Charges Against
chance?---No, I do, not think I had any right to drive through them.
They why did you 7-Because 1 had to pull over or hit the back of the ambulance.
Sir Henry Curtia Bennett, K.C. "The company has just finished (defending): If you had thought a record sales year in its his you were bound to run into some- tory," said Mr. G. L. Kenward, one, would you have gone on?-No. sales director of the Dunlop Rub-I would have crashed into the am- ber Co., recently to a party of bulance.
Motorists.
The Automobile Association state that they have in hand the case of a motorist who for one incident has been warned that he is to receive summonses accusing him of:
Driving in a manner dangerous to the public;
and
Driving without due care
Ulster motor traders. "Later in Dr. John Montgomery, of Charl-attention;
tinued, "Sir Eric Gerdes,
normal
Did
cluding the Goodrich Company A Record in the History have made further drastic cuts In prices. It looks very much ng though some American tyre manu- facturers have increased their out- put in anticipation of the demand which they expect to come about through lower prices--a procedure is a little puzzling to the British business man, but which is characteristic of American business methods where the capitalisation of the year," Mr. Kenward con- ton, said that he saw Captain Driving without reasonable con- optimism plays a prominent part.
Our Methuen in the early hours on sideration for other persons using The Bureau of Census of Manu- chairman, will show the public November 20, Captain Methuen the road; and Driving recklessly. inctures has issued particulars of what the company has done, and was calm, collected, and
Under the new Road Traffic Act the United States' output of motor the public will be pleasantly sur-when he questioned him.
he might also receive a Afth sum- The figures prised. cars during 1929.
Sir Henry Curtis Bennett: mons for "driving at a apeed dan- "There is no foundation for you test him with a number ofgerous to the public," come tamely after the lapse of twelve months, inasmuch as the out-umours of tyre price reductions," words beginning with British Con- put of motor cars for 1929, as re- he said, and added that the Bucstitution and including Royal Field
Aberystwyth, presented by the principal makers cess of the company was due to Artillery,
its stable policy. The annual Ayres, Pernambuco, and Ecclefe- llowever, the figures are the most meeting of the company, whose chan? comprehensive that have been issu-issued capital totals £12,251,046,
Dr. Montgomery said that Cap- ed and have the merit of being will probably be held about the tain Methuen pronounced all those
middle of May. official. Therefore, we
words correctly. He also pronounc- may note
In a statement accompanying ed. "anti-Gallician" when it was that, in round figures, the United States' output of passenger vehicles warrants for the interim divi-spelt to him.
October during 1929 amounted to 4,432,000 dend of 6 per cent. in
Mr. Justice Charles: Well I don't of $2,793,000,000 and last, it was announced that the think I could have pronounced it. commercial vehicles to 848,373 of a has been maintained in a
trading position of the company Dr. Montgomery said that he ap-1st had to pay. value of $544,000,000.
most plied other tests, including the plac- satisfactory manner during the ing of the point of a pencil in a first six months of the year, and small circle. He also asked general that the quality of the company's questions which Captain Methuen products had never been better.
has long been known.
of a value
Mr. Rae's Figures.
A paper read by Mr. George Rae, of Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfield before the Midland Section of the Institution of Rubber Manufactur- era gave the information that the total area under plantation rubber at the end of 1929 was between 6,600,000 and 7,200,000 acres.
These figures are considerably in excess of those published by the Rubber Growers' Association in
BRITISH BUSES.
Service to Be Started
in Cairo.
Buenos
angwored correctly. He said that Admiral Taylor won the last by election, but he could not say what the constituency was except that it was a Londen one. He also gave the month when General Smith Dorrien was sent home from the war. Dr. Montgomery added that in his opinion Captain Methuen was absolutely sober.
A British concern is about to be. November, 1929, which put the total gin operating a motor-omnibus nereage at 6,000,000, although it service concession in the city of
Mr. McClure: Do you always was added that the figures could Cairo. This privilege was obtain test a man who is drunk by asking not be considered as an estimate.ed from the Egyptian Government him these extraordinary questions? Mr. Rae's statistics of production by the Overseas Motor Transport put him through a simple test for 1929 showed that 36 per cent. Company, Limited, and Meaars. J.at first and then gave him a more of the output was directly under L. Thornycroft and Co., Limited. difficult one. British control, while Malayan na-jointly.
You would not say that because tive production equalled 23 per cent. Already a number of Thorny-a man could not state the month of the whole.
croft motor-omnibuses are on their when General Smith-Dorrien came" These figures boar out the popu❘ way
back he was drunk?—Not at all. to Egypt, and two of lar assertion that Great Britain these were inspected in Lin-
A Thorough Test. could control approximately two-coln's Inn Fields by many persons
Sir William Willcox, for many thirds of the world's output of rab- interested in passenger transport years medical adviser to the Home ber. Production directly controlled prior to their dispatch with others Office, said he thought Dr. Mont- by Dutch interest was alightly un-on board the Carnarvonshire for gomery's examination one of the der 7 per cent. of world production Egypt.
most thorough he had met with.
They Are Here!
1931
BSA
Motor Cycles.
THE MACHINES OF
PROVED
PO
SPER
EED SILENCE SAFET Y ECONOMY RELIABILITY
Hire Purchase Arranged.
SINCERE'S
In view of the general trade con- Mr. Justice Charles, summing up, ditions it is pleasant to note that said that the tests applied to Cap this concession has been gained by |
a British firm in the face of strong international competition.
for
Треве motor-omnibuses Cairo have coachwork with special arrangements to keep them cool! and well ventilated, constructed by: the Park Royal Coach Works.
and output by natives In Nether. lands East Indies nearly 18 per cent, so that approximately 36 per cent, of the world's production came from areas under the influence of the British and the Dutch Govern- ments.
It is interesting to observe that whereas the output of rubber by natives of the Netherlands East Indies has declined considerably during 1908, as a result, of low prices, the output of Malayan native rubber has not declined. It is known that the Dutch Government was not well-disposed toward any attempt to control the output of rubber and if Its sole objection were by reason of opposition to any [artificial restraint on trade, then it | might be fully justified in its atti- tudent
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But another reason semi-officially advanced was that the Government did not wish to interfere with na- tive producers. It would be inter- esting to know whether the Govern- ment satisfied with a trend of events wherein so far, the Malayan native" has been able to maintain production and the Dutch East In dian native has not.
"We are going to fight this pro- cedure for all we are worth, as, in
our view, it is most unfair to the motorist," a legal expert to the Automobile Association stated. "The police should not be permitted to take out a number of sum- monses and leave it to the Court to decide on which to conviet."
The issue of alternative sum- morses, it was added, also increas- ed the Court costs which the motor-
were the
most
tain Methuen thorough in his experience, and he had come out of them with flying colours. "I think, with regard to the spelling test," added his Lord- ship, "I should myself have failed miserably. We may therefore think he was not drunk in the car."
Jury and Ambulances. The jury found Captain Methuen not guilty on all charges. They added a rider, "We are of opinion was negligence on the that there part of the ambulance authorities in leaving the ambulance in the middia of the road, and that in- structions to obviate this abould be given in future for the protection of the public."
Mr. Justice Charles: I think that: is quite a reasonable rider to add to your verdict, and I should like to say myself that I think it is a wrong practice to bandage people in the of the road. An injured middle person should be removed to the sidewalk as quickly and gently as possible and then transferred to the ambulance.
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