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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931.
THE NEW
MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGES
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PRINCIPLE TYRES
BY
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mileage
A SUPER-TYRE WITH
NO COMPETITORS.
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GILMAN & CO., LTD.
Telephone. 28011.
Hong Kong Bank Building.
ARRIVING
87 H.P.
New Willys-Knight Engine.
GRUELLING RACE.
Low Priced Six Beats
GOOD PROGRESS.
Auburn and Cord
Large Field.
3,217 MILE DASH. Harassed by Storms and Bad Roads.
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Auburn
Cars.
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CHRYSLER CARS.
World Market Position
Strengthened.
Motors
exports
The 1931 Willys-Knight engine
Pitted against a field comprising
Harassed by storms, bad roads | Chrysler Company takes front rank as the most all the most popular makes of cars, shipped 4,467 Auburn and Card and almost impassable_ detours, strengthened their hold on world powerful of any type ever de two standard low priced Willys front drive cars in the first 26 days R. C. Merry and E. V. Dynes of markets in 1930 with 14.28 per veloped by the Willys-Overland Sixes raced to first and second of March as compared with the Oakville, Ont., recently completed cent. of the total automotive ex- Company, the world's largest places in the annual thrilling 1,644 for the same period in 1930, a3217 mile dash from Toronto, port business against 12.01 per builder of Knight engined cars, mountain race from Mexico City to Mr. R. H. Faulkner, President, Ont., Vancouver, B.C., in a standard cent. in 1929.
Ford coupe in 954 hours elapsed This information was contain- Because of the highly satisfac Puebla. The winning Willys alx announced. tory performance of this engine covered the course of 75.8 miles in. Total number of cars shipped by time and 861⁄2 hours actual driving ed in a statement issued by W.
ver a period of more than a 75 minutes, 45 seconds.
company since January 1, is 10,475 time.
Ledyard Mitchell, chairman of year, it is unchanged except for The latest performance of power, or 78 per cent. of the entire total The coupe had 20,200 miles to the board, Chrysler 'Export Cor- a few improve.nents making it speed and stamina is a duplication of 13,093 shipped in 1980: Ship-its eredit before the gruelling poration.
That this marked increase in a smoother and quieter engine. of the Pikes Peak race in which ments will pass the 6,000 mark for trans-continental, trip was attempt-
ed but engineers at the East Wind- percentage of total automotive It has an output of 87 horse-two stock Willys Six roadsters the full month of March. power and
a top speed of 78 raced to first and second places up. Production, has steadily risensor, Ont., plant of the Ford Motor export business was made in the miles an hour.
the steep mountain side in the since the first of the year, Faulk-Company of Canada, Ltd., who face of great difficulties was The great resources of Willys-1930 hill climbing classic, and fol- ner said, with the company still examined, the car when Merry and pointed out in the statement. Overland, its complete manufac-lows closely on the record recently behind in order. January produc- Dynes returned, reported both its "World markets in 1980," said turing facilities and long ex established by a stock Willys Six tion and shipments were 2,041 as chassis and engine in excellent Mr. Mitchell, "showed an appre- perience have been major fac. which elipped 38.3/5 seconds off against 1,832 in the same month of condition in spite of the strains to ciable drop from 1929. This is
as which they were subjected.
true, not only in the automotive tors in developing such a highly the former record for climbing the 1930 with February at 4,052
Leaving Toronto at 11 p.m. line but in practically every efficient power plant to sell at steep Mount Baldy grade in Cali-compared with 1,768 in February the low prices.
fornia.
last year and 2,339 in February, September 4, Merry, a printing ink other channel of business,
"The position of Chrysler in The 1931 progress in the For years the mountain race be-1929 record production year of the salesman, and Dynes, and auto-
mobile salesman, accomplished the the export field has always been Willys-Knight field has not been tween Mexico City and Puebla has company. confined to the power plant, been accepted as one of the most All plants of the company are first leg of their trip, 1,615 miles strong and its increase in a year. however, Combined with the gruelling tests of a car's power, now operating at capacity, Faulk to Winnipeg, in less than 36 hours, of depression over, what is con- smartly designed and larger speed, safety, inbuilt quality and ner said, with most departments on maintaining an average of 40.3 sidered one of the greatest years The Auburn miles an hour in spite of fogs, bad ever enjoyed by American enter bodies, the company's current stamina, more than 50 per cent. of a ten-hour basis.
prises, 1929, is therefore all the offering represents the greatest the route being a steep climb over plant at Connersville is averaging roads and even a cloudburst. value ever offered in more than the mountains..
batter than 200 Auburn cars daily Pushing on, the two men passed more significant.
"Our ability to increase our fifteen years' Willys-Knight his Leaving Mexico City the rise is and an additional G5 Auburn cars Lethbridge,. Alta, at 10.05
at the September 7, having travelled percentage of the total auto- tory. Compared with the cor- rather gradual for about twenty are being produced daily
2,263 miles. A few miles out of motive export business reflects responding car of last year, the miles and then the climb begins, plant in Auburn, Indiana. new model is more than
an great credit on our one the ascent being at a grade of Sales to nineteen of the com- Lethbridge they encountered
organisation Here a dealer third lower in price.........
about 7.22 per cent.. The highest pany's distributors by March 21 of exceptionally bad detour, No detail has been overlooked point reached is about 10,486 feet this year have been 87 per cent. of atop to replace two rear tyres was Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto Plymouth passenger cura to place this Willys-Knight in aabove sea level which means that the total for 1930, with 'eight of necessary. conspicuous position, both from because of the changing altitude these distributors having already Ten miles west of Macleod, Alta. Dodge trucks. In the face of an a viewpoint of appearance as the carburetion must be perfect. sold more. Auburn and Cord cars while they were driving 68 miles uncertain world-wide economic condition they intensified their well as performance and lower The remarkable mile-a-minute in the slightly less than three an hour to regain time lost on
rice range. The body lines are average maintained by the win- months' period than during the en- wrong road, a prairie chicken sales efforts and were successful long, sweeping and graceful pre- ning Willys Six over the race tire year of 1930:
crashed into the windshield. The in materially strengthening their senting an appearance of quality course is a tribute to its ability to Cities represented by these dis-Triplex shatterproof glass in the position.
"With our increased dealer. and smartness. The wider trend give outstanding performance tributars with deliveries for both windshield saved Merry and Dynes
from serious injury.
outlets in 1981 and the remark- and the longer wheelbase of 121 under the most severe conditions. periods are: (Continued at foot of next Column.) The matter of safety was another
Reaching Kushandok, B.C., at the able values offered by our various feature of the Willys Six per-
foot of the Kootenay Lakes at 7.25 divisions, this year should show formance. Although there were Chicago .... 1,000
p.m. September 7, 90 minutes were an even stronger nosition for many sharp curves on the course; New York. 1,578
lost waiting for a ferry to Nelson, Chrysler exports.' the low centre of gravity of the Los Angeles. car enabled it to hug the ground San Francisca 392
at high Milwaukee... and negotiate the turns speod and without danger.
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and
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cas, the Chrysler Straight Eights, the new Chrysler Six has a double-drop frame permitting a very low center of gravity......... which is an essential source of more attrain tive appearance, better balance, finer riding qualities and greater safety,
Chrysler has made this new Six as outstand.. ing in performance as it is in appearance. Your fist ride will quickly confirm this.
THE NATIONAL MOTOR CAR CO.
484-486, QUEEN'S ROAD, WEST TEL. 25674
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First 85 days 12 months
1331
1930
1,089
2,653
744
567
396
301
196
Philadelphia.
675
835
The latest Willys Six perform, Detroit ance, coupled with the Pikes Peak Cleveland. victory and the record-smashing Columbus elimb up Mount Baldy, place this Pittsburgh popular Willys-Overland product in Boston
217
180
323
528
166
71
486
269
514
708
a conspicuous position in the field Washington
priced sixce, nasuring Dayton of low buyers that they are receiving a Cincinnati car that has definitely proved ita St. Louis power, speed, safety and perforin-Kansas City ance under most trying conditions: Toronto
102
122
82
47
123
173
236
95
154
145
119.
130
142
196.
91
160
a.m.
E. C. Merry whiled away part of the time amazing and amusing tourists by standing a nickel coin on edge on the radiator cap. The Idling motor hummed so smoothly it failed to disturb the coin.
overscas'
handling
and and
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At 10.15 p.m. that night, Merry and Dynes resumed thelr westward dash at Nelson; arriving in Van- Three of the most important. couver at 5.15 p.m. September 8, motor manufacturing concerns in Returning the two men maintained Britain are carrying out private much the same speed average, teats of an entirely new type of covering, one lap of 814 miles from motor body made of asbestos, Winnipeg to Manitowoc, Wiscon-specially good for the tropics, be sin, in 19 hours.
cause these are heat realeting,
If these experiments prove suc- "Throughout the entire trip, the car performed excellently and no cessful-and they have now reach- mechanical trouble of any nature ed an advanced stage-they may was experienced," said Merry have far-reaching,effects on the THE OLDSMOBILE. "The return trip was made without design and manufacture of motor
Montreal Rotterdam
Breaks All Sales
Records.
any overhaul or repair work, other coachwork.
This new development will be than the usual greasing and minor adjustments which a car should watched with the keenest Interest receive every 1,000 miles.
by all car ownera, for bodywork has become of prime importance in
CHEVROLET SERVICE
Circles the Entire Globe.
A third of the circumference of the globe separates the world's
the buying and selling of motor-
vehicles.
One of them looked Hke any well-finished modern coachwork. The paintwork was, if anything, more smooth and glossy than that on the average car body.
The roof of a saloon' car lay on the floor. It was possible to lift
complete body looked substantial.
MOTOR CYCLES IN TRAFFIC.
"There has never been any doubt," Bays "Carbon" in
·Motor
"that Cycling,
the unrestricted vision one obtains from a moter-cycle makes driv- ing, especially in traffic, very much more easy than in cars,
The public's enthusiastic ac- when screen pillars and long, ceptance of the new 1931 Olds- high bonnets so often make blind mobile is definitely indicated by spots. Another point on which the fact that Oldsmobile sales, we score was brought home to during the New York Automobile me one Sunday evening recently, Show when the car was intro- when, to my sorrow, I was going duced, broke all records of the away from town against the in past four years. coming stream of traffic. I no-
Three times as many cara northernmost and southernmost ticed that when car drivers want were sold to visitors at the Olds- automobile dealers. Both, coin-this without the least effort. The ed to overtake they had to pull mobile exhibits during the week cidentally, are Chevrolet dealers. out quite a way towards their of the 1931 show. as were sold Up in the sub-Artic, 69 parallels wrong side before they could see during the same period at the of latitude remote from the if the road was clear.
1930 show. Before closing hour equator, where the Aurora is so "In a stream, when everyone on the fourth day of the show, vivid it seems to emit a hissing, thinks they can go a wee bit sales had exceeded the previous saddening sound of loneliness, and faster than the man in front, it year's mark; with a new record the reindeer is still the chief means means that half a dozen cars tra- for the week sysured.
of transportation, A/S Anco sells vel in echelon formation, the last Attendance at the Oldsmobile, Chevrolets, in Horstad, Norway, being hopelessly on his wrong exhibit likewise established a re- It is an outpost of civilization. side. "A motor cyclist has to cord, crowds thronging the pro- Fewer, than six hamlet are nearer need to do this a slight out-minently located Oldsmobile dis- than Horstad to the North Pole.
More than 8,500 miles to the ward movement of the body and play at all times. a little craning of the neck en Interest in the new models cen-south, practically at the tip of ables him to see around the tred in the numerous improve-South America, V. Camello southernmost auto- yehicle in front without pulling ments with which the 1931 Olds operates the
et of his proper place."
mobile was heralded as an out mobile dealership, at Porvenir," in atanding value-offering." The what has been called the bleakest 40 improvements in the new spot on the globe, the eternally Oldsmobile were favoured with ggle-lashed island of Tierra dol inches have given the designers wide interest by show visitors. Fuego. Porvenir reata on the 57th unusual freedom in developing The new body designs and equip parallel of latitude less than ton the style appeal of the exterior ment, the syncro-mesh trans- degrees from, the Antartic circle. and the roominess and comfort mission with quiet second gear, With a single exception it is the in the interiors,
and the new downdraft car-most southerly town in the world.
:
The wire, or the natural wood burettor were the outstanding There is also a Chevrolet dealer- wheels, the long, graceful, nar-factors in sales.ship across the stormy Straights row radiator, the large hub caps, "Value" appears to be the of Magellan, at. Magallenes, the all-steel running boards, watchword of the buyer this formerly Punta Arenas, famed In wider front fenders, port-type year. Prices and improvements maritime tales and history, and a hood louvres and garnish mould- are apparently being more care- veritable haven to sailors' navigat- Ings, all contribute to the fully, weighed than in any year ing the nearby seas, the stormalest quality appearance of the car within memory; and with Olds known anywhere.
Four body models comprise the mobile's numerous advancements Thus, the automobile has circled line, the Standard Sedan ond with which to meet the public de- the earth with a band more than Victoria and the De Luxe Sedan mand for increased value, to 8,500 miles wide. The automobile and Victoria. The standard gether with its successful debut in a generation; hes penetrated and models have natural wood at the shows, Oldsmobile officials gone beyond the regions of the wheels while the De Luxe modele state that enthusiasm and con- reindoor in the north and the llama are equipped with wire wheels.fidence In the prospecte for the in the south. While not a great
Like all other
1981 years to come, are being felt many cars are found in these re¬ wind throughout the organisation, an mote sec nevertheless. Auto- Willys line; safety glas
neral mobile ownership and hfeld and all windows is avail important, division of sblafatri alightra
Motoren
has reached virtually the bottom of the glo
and
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