THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931.
FORD PLANES.
New Branch Assembly Plant.
noon
MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGES
The formal dedicatory cere-
visitors
GOOD DRIVERS.
"Whatever happens always keep cool."
Sir Malcolm Campbell.
FRENCH CAR EXPORTS.
SMARTEST CAR?
BRITISH RALLY.
New Year Rival to Monte Carlo.
Scheme Now Taking
Definite Shape.
"Arrangements are proceeding
London, Nov. 24. space in connection with the fort.i A great motor rally, with valu- coming Motor Rally which is to be able trophies and cash prizer organised by the Singapore Auto- for the winners, is to be held in mobile Club and run on January 3 in this country early in the New in conjunction with the Singapore Year. Manufacturers' Exhibition.
The sub-committee of the Auto mobile Club is busy considering the details and it is expected that the completed outline of the scheme wil be available."
MALAYAN RALLY.
Added Attraction to the Singapore Exhibition.
A STONE'S HAVOC, Following the tour at Main on September 1 Street and City Line and Seneca) were invited to see a sound mo- Street and City Line and paraded tion picture which depicted ac-
Windscreen, Goggles, to the plant to take part in the tivities at the Rouge plant of the
and Spectacles Smashed openin
Ford company at Dearborn, as Leading officials participated well as those in the Ford coal Among und iron mines, forests and other
A stone which came up from A meeting of the Singapore A party of officials of the Ford in these ceremonies,
were Mayor Charles E. sources of raw materials.
high-speed Automobile Club, held a few the track during a
trial at Brooklands days ago under the chairman- Motor Company, flying from them
reliability Ford Airport, Deaborn, Mich., Koesch. Prank C. Perkins, pre-
shattered the windscreen of the manship of Mr. F. J. L Mayger, in a Ford de luxe trimotor plane, sident of the City Council; State
car driven by Mr. H. J. Alding- decided to adopt the proposal arrived at Buffalo Municipal Air Comptroller Morris S. Tremaine,
ton, the famous British racing made by the Straits Times to port to take part in the formal Representatives James M. Mead!
hia goggles, bold a Malayan Motor Rally, on The conditions will follow driver, smashed dedication of the company's new and W. G. Andrews, Mr. Seil..
heimer, and, Horace Andrews brunch assembly plant..
closely those of the famous caused a piece of glass to break the same lines as the Monte Concours d'Elegance, on Monte Carlo rally, but the arena his spectacles, and another to en-Carlo
one of the days of the forthcom- Members of the party includ-president of the Chamber of Samuel Botsford,
and finishing point, though not ter the corner of his eye.
Manufacturers' ed Charles E. Sorensen, W. C. Commerce.
In spite of obvious pain, Mr. ing Singapore the entries, will be confined to Cowling, P. E. Martin, D. J. representing the Chamber, pre-
the British Isles.
Aldington manoeuvred his car Exhibition. Hutchins, E. H. Martin, and J. R. sided at the luncheon which pre-
In all probability the rally will It should be explained that a Following a discussion at the through other competitors, who Davis. The plane was piloted eded the opening. by Lorgy S:S Manning. Ford
Motor Rally is in no way a race or Scottish Motor Show, a rough were together near the edge of be held on Sunday, January 3, in The following figures show in a
scheme was planned out by The the track and pulled up, avoiding order to allow motorists in all chief pilot. The party was wel monies took place on a platform striking manner how France has a trial.
All the competitors will be asked Autocar and submitted to the what might have been a serious parts of Malaya to compete. comed at the airport by W. 1. cutside the main entrance, where been affected by the world crisis
The final details have been Yule, manager of the Buffalo Attorney General Bennett spoke, during the present year, from the to do is to polish up their care and Royal Automobile Club as the crash.
left to a sub-committee, on which His address was broadcasted by automobile standpoint. During the drive them to the appointed place controlling body of motor sport.
the Straits Times' Motoring Cor- Early on the morning of Sep-adio station WBEN. Follow-frat nine months of 1931, 15,629 of assembly on the day of the Rally. The scheme was warmly welcom-
respondent has been asked to At the present moment it is the ed. tember 1 the plane, carrying ing this Mr. Bennett pressed a
The first formal meeting to
serve, and the rules governing Henry Seilheimer, director of the gold button which set in motion touring ears and 4,626 industrial
the rally, together with an entry vehicles were exported, as against intention of the committee to have
The latest return of the Ministry form will appear in our motor Buffalo office of the State Motor the machinery.
23. Briefly, the present plans Vehicle Bureau and H. Hazen, of Following the ceremonies, the 18,381 touring cars and 6,684 in-classes for eight or nine actions consider details was held on Nov.
dustrial vehicles, during the cor. comprising the following:--
of feature page next Thursday.
The the Ford branch, took off for nests began a tour of the plant, responding period of last year. (1) Six-cylinder touring cars, over are for a thousand miles rally to of Transport of the number
event will probably be one year and under 18 month be held in February. Torquay is licences current on Aug. 31, 1931,
the end of the period between Dec.open to all motorists irrespec- There Attorney Gen- Upon reaching the end of the
its Mayor proposed as the goal eral John J. Bennett, Jr., board-sembly line the first car ed the plane for the return be completed was purchased on
Sixylinder saloon car, over and Corporation have already 1 and the former date shows that tive of whether they are mem- one year and under 18 months promised hearty support and there were 1,076,128 private cara, bers of the Singapore Automobile Aight to Buffalo where he was 'ehalf of the city by M. C
a number of alternative starting as against 1,042,258 for the corres-Club or not, and the entrance fee One or the principal speaker at the open- Soreckman ing,
Six-cylinder two-seater care, noints will be allowed, such as ponding period of 1980, an increase will be a nominal one.
more classes will also be allotted Buxton, Southport. of 33,870. over one year and under 18 Harrogate,
The taxation yield from all for trade entries. months old.
Inverness, and Llandrindo Wells.
Cups and other trophies have touring care,
Wherever they start from, classes of vehicles was £26,530,760, competitors will have to follow against £25,221,380, for the same already been offered by different
Motor vehicles local firma. a specified route and cover ap- period last year.
miles in a (excluding tramcara) show a de- proximately 1,000
branch.
Albany.
to
t
(Over 30,000 touring cars were ex-
ported in 1929).
Imports have dropped, however, (2) to a very much greater degree. director of pur- chases, and driven away by May-During the first nine months of
1930, 6,372 touring cars were im- (3) When the plane returned or Roesch,
Buffalo airport,
Visitors were admitted to the ported into France (mostly of Attorney-
This year only General Bennett was rushed to plant immediately thereafter. American origin. the Ford plant to attend a lun- The "Open house" continued 1,069 cars have been imported dur- (4)
It should be cheon given by the company to through September 5. Begining the same period. 1,000 business men and public, ning September 1 the plant was noted that Ford cars do not figure officials of Buffalo and western in oreration and open for in-In this total, as components are im- New York, preliminary to the spection daily between 1 and 6 ported and assembled in France. formal opening which was net and 6 and 10 p.m. during that The Ford works at Asnieres is now for P.M.
period. In addition to the tour turning out about 70 cars per day. How could the budget of any guests were invited to inspect the Ford barge "Lake Sapor" civilised country be balanced with- which was moored at the dock out the aid of the automobile7 A Ford French motor taxation produced adjoining the plant.
The dedication attracted 20.000 to 25,000 persons from Buffalo, western New York and northern Pennsylvania. Many of them came in a series of motor cara
merged at VITIS. These were
trimotor scaphe was also on 6,066,236,944 francs during the past
financial year. display in the slip.
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CARS ARE NOW ON DISPLAY
THE NATIONAL MOTOR CAR CO.
71, 73 & 75, Hennessy Road, Wanchai. Telephone 27914.
old.
old
old,
one year and under 18 months Four-cylinder
18 Four-cylinder two-seater cars, over one year and under months old.. (6) Trade van or lorry.
(5)
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BRITAIN'S CARS,
given time. The rally will in no crease this year compared with 1930 categories 'showing decreases are sense be a race; competitors will of 69,432, the figures being: 1930, motor-cyclés 95,150, and hackneys
The 12,658. Jose as many marks for exceed-2,217,609; 1981, 2,158,177. (7) The best conditioned car of any ing their scheduled speed as for make or horas-power which has being late. Points will be award- travelled the greatest distanced for distance covered to sche- to the Rally, within 24 hours of dule and the condition of the car Hill-climbing on the official Ume for the com- on arrival.
Dartmoor and other tests to de- mencement of the judging. (8) Motor-cycle of any make, bo- termine the prize-winners
tween one year and 18 months so probable.
old.
4
are
The Monte Carlo Rally has at- The prizes will be awarded to tracted increasingly large num- those competitors whose cars or bets of British entrants in re- motor-cycles are, in the oplaton of cent years. This year, in view of the judges, in the best condition, the call for economy, the lower mechanically, and from the point of value of the pound in France and the general desire not to spend | view of appearance.
The judges will make their deci- money abroad, a well-organised sion as to which car in a particular competition on similar lines over class the best mechanically by our own hills and moors should
be well supported. hearing the engine run sand, by making such other examination ns they desire. Straits Times.
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THE OTHER FELLOW.
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' ROLLS-ROYCES.”
London, Nov. 24. London's omnibuses steadily acquire more and more of the comfort and luxury of the high. grade private motor-car. Dur-
Many motorists are forgetful of little things which would make motoring very much more pleasanti for all of us, writes Jack Frost in ing the past twelve monthe six- cylinder engines, with four. the Daily Mail.
speed gearboxes and "silent There is the fellow with the an-thirds," have been gradually oust cient car with rusty broken winga ing the old noisy four-cylinder whose jagged edges jut out to the engined 'buses.
danger of one's clothes. There is Next year we shall be carried the touring car with the hood so for our pennies in, vehicles fitted insecurely strapped down that parts with the most advanced devices are flying in the breeze, and giving of motor engineering fluid a following driver the Impression flywheels and Belf-changing that the man in front is making gear-boxes.
some vague signal.
women are
Three experimental 'buses Other examples of thoughtless were thus equipped in the early stopping come to my mind. There Spring, and since then 23 more! is the shopper-and I am afraid have been introduced on routes the worst offenders 18 and 53. The 1932 programme who drives up to a shop, pulle up of the L.G.O.C. includes about a yard away from the kerb, new vehicles, of which 50 will sometimes leaves the engine run-have the fluid flywheel and self- ning, and nearly always leaves the changing gear-box.
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door open. In this category, too, The passenger benefits from are the motorists who pull up to these devices by the climination admire a view, or to chat with of noise-and vibration; ho scar- friends on the corner of a road, sorely hears or feels the engine at that following traffic сап see The driver gains by having nothing.
his gear-changing done for laini.
Lights That Fail.
It is in London traffic the nost It is the same thoughtless person tiring part of the job, and, skilled who, seeing a friend passing in though 'bus-drivers are, they do another ear, or on foot, turns ta not always change gear without wave, nearly crashes into a proced- grinding and・・ gnashing of ing vehicle, dodges it just in time, teeth.
but thoroughly, alarms the drivers In one of these new tehicles it behind.
vil be difficult to realise that less How often do we follow behind thun 30 years ago Londoners cars at night that have their rear traveled in buses with hard. Highta obscured by the dirt of ages, wooden Seats, a candle atˇ each lorries with tall lights hidden by snd_for_illumination at night, the overhang of their load, and and straw on the floor. vehicles so badly lighted in front
that they have to crawl and there ment.
fore hold up all following traffi Take cutting-in. The majority of You may
think these are isolated motorists who do this have confid cases, hat I assure you that they are ence that they can execute th's not The Highway Coda has done almanceuvre successfully, and get great deal to teach us motorists toľaboad · inˆà queue of slow-moving!! be thoughtful, to think more about vehicles. But do they ever stop to the other fellow," but there is still think of the driver in front of whom a' great deal of room for Improve they pull int
BUYERS GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garago, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24759. BUICK The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83, Wong Nel Chung
Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228..
CADILLAC-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET. - Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
21759. FIAT MOTOR CAR-A Goeke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.
Tel. 22221.
MARQUETTE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Net
Chun Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24769. OLDSMOBILE. The Dragon Motor Car Co. Ltd., 38, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228, ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
21769.
STUDEBAKER Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road,
Tel.
Tel.
24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS-Gilman & Co.,
Ltd., 4a, Des Voeux Rd. G... Tel. 28011,
QUTBOARD MOTORS-Rudolf Wolff & 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.. 33. Wong Nei Chung
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. DODGE-South China Motor Car Co., 33, Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. 25644.
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen'a Road. Tel. 24769," STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
Tel.
24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPEI TRUCKS,-Gilman & Co., Ltd.,
48, 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 Oil Company, King's Bldg. SHELL-Asintie Petroleum Co., (9.C.), Ltd., Asintle Bldg.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES, ACCESSORIES.-Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road.
21759. ACCESSORIE-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Tel. 66253,
Tel.
FISK TYRES-Gilman & Co., Ltd.. da, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel.
28011.
INDIA TYRES.-W. R. Loxley Co., York Bidra. Tel. 22285. MICHELIN TYRES,-A. Goeke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.
Tel. 22221.
PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24789. --
WILLARD BATTELIES,-Gliman & Co., Ltd., 4s, Des Voeux Rd.
0. Tel. 28011.