THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.
TWO DRIVERS
THE STORY OF FITZJONES & MACHUGH.
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cars
THE CHINA
TOURIST TROPHY.
This Year's Race to Be Run in Ireland..
London, Dec. 4.
For the last two years the Manx authorities have been
working tooth and nail to get the race transferred to their island! (where it was held before the
I have just completed two long should an emergency arise; but journeys made as a passenger that if you have the engine work. with two different owners at the ing easily within itself. you can to transfer the contest to the In spite of strong temptations wheel; and the contrast in my accelerate
very Isle of Man, the Royal Auto- experience inspires many reflec- rapidly and so clear some awk. tions. Both Fitzjones and ward imbroglio. n my above mobile Club has decided to hold the annual Tourist Trophy race Machugh are experienced drivers mentioned journeys both enough. They are both of pre- had to round a sharp corner and in Ulster again next August. war vintage, have covered many climb quite a stiff little pitch on thousands of miles at home and which a blind crossing was locat- abroad, and will never have an ed. Fitzjones steered us gently accident unless they meet a fool round the sharp corner on top in some emergency which simply and breasted the rise on top
war) as an additional attraction: admits of no solution at all. The slowly and smoothly. In the for their Summer visitors. A difference betwen them, put in very second in which Machugh suitably sporting course had nutshell, is that if each of deciphered the signpost he effect been mapped out, and a very sub- them in turn drove me from ed a jerky and lightning change stantial prize fund was offered. London to Edinburgh by night, down to second gear — not to The Club had no wish to leave I could sleep solidly with Fitz-third, mind you! He rushed up the Ards circuit outside Belfast, jones at the wheel, whereas if to the corner, crashed on his where the race has been held Machugh were my pilot I should brakes, and wrenched the car since 1928. But the course, fine be waked up at quite brief inter-round. The instant its bows were as it is, has the drawback that vals. Fitzjones takes a car over headed up the slope he stamped it is full of natural grandstands. any journey in one long smooth on the accelerator, and the vehi Ireland patronises the race to slide. Machugh's driving is a cle leapt forward like a hungry the extent of half a million per- series of jerks, but his methods leopard. Sighting the crossing sons, but very few of them pay do not gain him any appreciable he jammed his finger
a penny towards the expenses of minutes on a long trip. He Klaxon and kept it there. Sud-organising it. This year, 1 be takes far more out of his car, denly without a second's warn lieve, there was a deficit on the and especially out of his tyres ing a driver who might have race of over £1,000. and brakes, than Fitzjones; and been Machugh's twin brother ap- To-day's announcement is the incidentally he punishes his pas-peared out of the blind road to sequel to discussions with repre- sengers, who are jolted and our left, crossing our bows to sentatives of the Northern Ire swung about and almost thrown descend the slope; and he appearland Government. It means that with their noses against the ed fast, and just as we entered a satisfactory agreement has windscreen when he stops. the crossing. If Fitzjones had been reached whereby the Club
1932 BUICKS.
on the
The firm of Anderson and Ferroggiaro, Shanghai agents for Buicks, Cadillacs and La Salle motor cars, a well as other General Motors products, has done some ex- pert body-construction work during the last two years. Fifteen armoured cars, mounted on regular G.M.C. trucks, have been built for military men at Chungking, Ichang, Hangehow, Han- kow, Nanking and other cities. This work was un- der the supervision of Mr. L. R. Ferroggiaro and was done at the company's work- shop in Shanghai on Avenue Haig.
EARLY MOTORING DAYS.
What is known in the motor- ing world as Emancipation Day, 1896, was honoured even more appropriately than usual by the appearance in a recent run of veteran cars of a car which com- pleted the original London- Brighton Emancipation Day run on November 14, 1896. This was Captain E. de W. S. Colver's Benz, which, having been rusting in a shed for many years, has now been restored to its original condition.
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To descend to details, the been driving he might conceivis safeguarded against any great super-driver does not use, his ably have stopped in creditable loas, and the prize fund will be brakes at all, except in minor or time, but he could have done no as substantial as in the past. major emergencies. If he in-thing else. The gentleman whom tends to stop outside a house or I have fantastically identified as a shop he shuts his throttle at a nicely judged distance away, so that the car is practically station- ary when it reaches the door, and all he has to do is to apply the parking brake imperceptibly, having previously run off his impetus. The fool, by contrast, speeds up to the door, crashes on his brakes, grinds a fraction of wire and asbestos off the brake linings, and scours a micro- scopic film of rubber off all four tyres in the form of invisible rub- ber dust. When Fitzjones moves away from a stopping place he
Another landmark in the his- stars on the second gear of his
tory of motor cars for which the six-cylinder car, and is confront-
year 1896 is notable is not so ed by three separate accelera-
well known ад Emancipation tions and three separate gear-
Day. The first motor show took changes before he gets the car on
place in that year at the Im- to its cruising speed with fourth
perial Institute. "The cars," gear engaged. If he had a deaf
says a contemporary account, man on board his passenger
"were driven about the grounds would not normally be conscious
at ten miles an hour with ease. of these complicated motions by
It is averred that there is no which the speed is hoisted from
horse-drawn vehicle which can
Shanghai, Dec. 24. 0 to 40. The deaf man's graph
be controlled with the nicety and
Elaborate preperations are1 of this complex acceleration would be a straight line.
precision of these, cars, or within being made at the showrooms of Machugh must frequent Brook-
an equally limited space. They China Motors, Inc., 702, Bubbling careered among the spectators Well Road, in expectation of the lands overmuch, I fancy. His
and climbed a rather steep in arrival here this month of three! car leaps away from rest with a roar: there is a check as he Machugh's twin brother made no steered, changed speed from fast shipments totalling more than
cline with perfect ease, and were changes up to third gear; an- attempt to stop - probably it other roar -- another check- was just as well, for he was go to slow, and were brought to a 80 Standard 1982 cars, according another roar.
At each roar our ing very fast. He saw that one standstill in a manner which to an announcement by Mr. Max bodies surge helplessly forward of us must ram the other broad secured the confidence of the
Friedman, general manager of as the car gathers itself like a side if both drivers held their spectators.* springing tiger; at each check course, so he turned inwards to Society people and members of the firm. The Standards will be our spines collide with the back slip inside us on our left — a Parliament who came to the displayed during the first week
taken round the of January, 1982. Four classES | cushion. Moreover, each stamp most risky and reprehensible show were on the accelerator abrades his manoeuvre which would have grounds (one at a time) in a car outraged tyres afresh, and the saddled him with almost full re- ablaze with electric lights. The Little Nine, Big Nine, Stan- future King Edward VII had his dard Sixteen and Standard, alternating loads are flung on the sponsibility if the cars had engine and transmission shafts touched though "touched" is first motor-car ride at this show. Twenty
will be shown. fiercely and without mercy, - Ia mild term for the crash which
Mr. Friedman announces that should be sorry to buy one of might so easily have occurred.
MOTOR-CYCLE SHOW.
as soon as the Standards are un- Machugh's cars second-hand. Machugh drives so fast that he
Even in Corner-Werk.
helm points hard over
But
The 1932 Buicks have re- cently arrived, the company has announced, and are on display at the showroom on Bubbling Well Road, Shang- hai.
Preparations For
British-Cars.
models.
is used to such imbroglios; he Mr. Walter Runciman, Pre- crated and placed in the newly- Even in corner-work the two wasn't using quite all his engine, sident of the Board of Trade, in decorated windows of the China personalities stand out in sil- so he just stamped with his left a message to the promoters of Motor showroom, a reception will houette. Fitzjones has light foot at its maximum pressure, the Cycle and Motor-cycle Show, hands and will make a good and as he was on second gear opening at Olympia on November be held at which time the public will have an opportunity to in- pilot if ever he takes to the air. the car accomplished what a fly 80, said:
"Although the Cycle and spect these four models of the Shut your
eyes in the stern- ing man might describe as a sheets of his saloon and you will "zoom." If it did not actually Motor-cycle Show is in theory new all-British motor cars. not be able to tell whether his quit mother earth and I sup- open to the products of all coun- They will be entirely new carS or pose it didn't it achieved the tries, I understand that the show to Shanghai as far as design is straight ahead. He is adept at most gigantic bound forward and about to open will be, like all its concerned. The Standard plant judging
the precise speed at the twin brother slid harmlessly predecessors, pre-eminently Bri in England has manufactured which a car will roll naturally past our nearside back wing with. Lish in character. This is due to automobiles that marked a com round a bend without scraping out even a scrape. It quite soft the enterprise and pertinacity
from former ita tyres or swaying its body on ened my heart towards Machugh, of United Kingdom manufactur- plete departure the springs.
Machugh is an for heartily as I detest his drivers who have made for them-
different ing methods he does at least selves an enviable reputation in been showing great interest in The motoring public here haa adept too, but in field. He can estimate to a hair understand the value of keeping all the world's markets for the the maximum speed at which any plenty of engine" at command. excellence and low cost of their the planned arrival of the new products. In the trying time of G. L. Harkess, of the China 1982 Standards, according to Mr. given corner can be taken with- The "Silent Third.” out a capsize. His tyres shriek In that respect the new "twin- trade depression through which Motors staff. on bends even when they are top," "traffic top," and other all countries are now passing it blown hard. The outraged body new gear-boxes should help to is very inspiring to see the way have been made, Mr. Harkess re- A number of sales already rocks bodily over, piling the pas convert the bad traffic driver into in which United Kingdom cycles ports, to Britons who inspected
and motor-cycles maintain their sengers shoulder to shoulder in a better man. By "plenty of en- place in competition with their the new Standards recently in a struggling jumble. I should gine" Sir Henry really meant foreign rivals; though necessari: Britain and now have returned Judge that his tyres average total acceleration aly on a lower level of trade than from Home have. The people about half a normal mileage. high fourth gear is
give enthusiastic descriptions of Oddly enough, there is just always slow; but drivers clung in times of prosperity. I have the new Standards, claiming they one point of driving in which in their high fourth in traffic be every confidence that when trade Machugh is the better man of Cause' it was quiet and the old revives the cycle and motorcycle the pair Sir Henry Segrave in fashioned third gears made so industry in this country will lead his book on motoring decrees much noise. The modern silent the way, and in this faith I wish that the pluperfect driver always third tall it what you will is your exhibition all success. has "plenty of engine" 'available mechanically as silent as the I shall urge him to acquire one He put the point, rather
fourth gear, If it allows the en-with his next car, and its
rather more audible; percentage of extra se session may make him as
aymentor in heavy traffer
but he meant that
gine is labourlig on you cannot instantan your car, to son
utrival other cars for beauty, speed and low operation costat
Sales of Standards In Britain
have broken all existing records;
dard's successed at the recent SA Mr, Friedman reports after listening to tales of the Star-
mótor show in Olymplazar P
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don is a mighty asset at 1 already considerate of his pas quarters. Fitzones does
senger a nerves andia
yet possess a silent thiru:A B. in Manchester
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