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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, 1933.
Overland China "Mail.
A WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE.
George Bernard Shaw, scoffer of conventions, master of -- literary style and recognised as the world's outstanding critle of the present age, arrived in Hong Kong on February 11, on the Empress of Britain in the course of a world tour with Mrs. Shaw. England's literary giant, who is consider ed by many persons the world over as the most eminent living man of letters, is one of 363 tourists on the huge 42,848 ton liner of the Canadian Pacific Steamship. Break- ing his resolution not to give a public address while on his present tour, Bernard Shaw spoke to students in the Great Hall of the Hong Kong University on February 13.
A full story of Mr. Shaw's visit, together with an inter« view, is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
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A strong appeal for more Scout Officers to cope with the increase in membership in the movement, was made by His Excellency Sir William Peel; K.C.M.G., K.BE., Chief Scout of the Colony, when he presided over the annual meeting of the Hong Kong Branch of the Boy Scouts Association held at Sandilands' Hut on February 7. His Excellency remark- ed the Scout movement was the finest of the modern day and it was a movement which had contributed enormously to the training of youth,
The meeting is reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
Taking the chair at the 35th ordinary yearly meeting of the "Star" Ferry Company, Limited, held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., ou February 9, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson explained that It had been said the Company was not anxious to operate the vehicular ferries.
A report of the meeting, together with reports on the annual meetings of Messrs. Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd, and the Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., is published in, the OVERLAND CHINA MAÏL.
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Two Britons, Mr. Walker and Mr. Foster, of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Limited, sustained slight barns about the face when a drum of kerosene exploded and ignited an oil filter tank at the A.P.C. Installation at North Point on February 11. The injured men were treated at the Govern- ment Civil Hospital and their condition, happily, is not con. sidered to be serious.
A story is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
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THE MOTORISTS' PAGE
EXHAUST IMPROVED
IN NEW BUICK.
Pistons Coated With
Metal Bearing.
THERMOSTAT HEAT CONTROL.
The basic construction of the New Buick's engine remains the same as in last year's line but for 1033 many important improvements have been added to increase its efficiency, life and control.
Pistons are plated with a light coating of bearing metal, eliminat- ing the tiresome operation of breaking in a new car. With the the coating of bearing metal on platons, new cars can be driven et general driving speeds without fear of scoring pistons. This does not mican, of course, that should be driven at the highest but speeds for indefinite periods they can be driver up to sixty miles the per hour without damage to engine.
A new
THE NEW CHEVROLET CONVERTIBLE CABRIOLET
The 1933 style as decreed by the world's largest builder of automobiles
car
Four rings are used on the new Bulck's pistons instead of three- two compression rings and two oil control rings. The 'second oil con- trol ring has been added below the piston pin. With this type of oil control the oli economy is very: much improved: in fact, at high speeds the Improvement runs as much as 100 per cent.
Exhaust Improved.
Both the exhaust manifold and the muffler have been improved to eliminate breakage and reduce back pressure. The manifold hus ex- pansion and contraction, due to extreme temperature changes, will not cause breakage.
A SMALL CAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
British Saloon's Fine Performance.
Cape Colony motorists who are keen to earn long distance driving honours have a favourite test run of some 4,000 miles which takes them up to the Victoria Falle and | back through the famous Sabie Game Reserve. Every degree "of going is encountered, from One roads to none at all, so that driving skill and mechanical reliability are thoroughly proved when the run is accomplished without mishap.
Two light car enthusiasts of East Londen, observing... that the usual practice, was to tackle the run in a high-powered of ample weight, recently decided to see what a medium-powered light saloon would make of itace They chose a Wolseley Hornet, and ex- perienced a go-trouble voyage, a fact which made p very favourable impression in the locality, where this class of car'TM has génerally been regarded as only suitable for town work. Considering that the "roads" in Southern Rhodesia are, often only the wagon tracks. left by pioneer settlers," "and" so "éleeply The "greatest show.on earth" of hump-backed that cars frequently its kind, will be staged in Convengo aground on the ridges, the per- tion Hall in this city, December 5
formance of the. Jittle British
50,000 Chevrolets Turned Out
In Tuo Months.
Longer Wheel Base Among Important Changes
RADICALLY DIFFERENT
Detroit.
On 107-Inch Wheel Base.
to 12, inclusive. The Motor and saloon certainly deserves cóm- ABIO-ment.
Equipment Manufacturers' ciation and the National Standard Parts Association and more than 300 leading manufacturers are to display their products for the bene- fit of wholesalers who are coming to the Motor City from every corn.
er of the United States and Canada. Marked Improvement.
SIDE CAR SAFETY AND COMFORT.
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A short time ago three motor cyclists I know were discussing
The adoption of the four-ring piston is a very important feature, as it adds many thousands of miles) to the life of the engine. The life
Members of the association are what vehicle they would prefer for of an engine is usually judged from
confident that a marked improve-running daily to and from their the amount of oil consumed and, after fifteen to twenty thousand
¿now on display in all Chrysler show-ment in their particular lines of office in the City of London, that miles of hard driving it was necca- Prominent leaders in the automo-rooms throughout the country. The business, will begin not later than is assuming they could have their and four Bary some times
on previous bile industry, commenting on the car is new from bumper to bumper the first of the approaching new choice of two, threa
The aggregate experience models to replace the rings. With results of the recent election, see and, of course, takes place in the year. It is estimated that 10,000 wheels. the new construction the life will the result as a long step in the low price field where competition fa buyers of parts and accessories will of the trio must amount to fully a million miles on all types of bo doubled.
direction of normalcy. They were increasing daily. The price rango visit the show.. free in expressing their individual is between $595 and $495, which ro-
Convinced that business in gen-mounté, from amali lightweight mo- opinions that improvement, and not presents a price decrease of 360 eral and the automotive division in tor cycles to snappy sports cars. disturbance, will follow. They be- under prices of the former four-particular has at last turned the One and all said that, from the lieve, too, that the same condition cylinder line.
corner" and is now on its way to safety standpoint, they would plonk would have resulted had President
speedy recovery, virtually every for a side-car. Be" would. I, for Hoover been successful at the polls. Before election day there was a tre-
The new six is mounted on a 107. company in the Detroit area is pre- there la no vehicle so gloriously That leone attribute of the side- mendous wave of unrest and uncer inch wheel base chassis, bodles are paring for better times. All pre-stable on skiddy roads.
liminary indications are that the tainty, but with this now out of the of the safety steel type, doating motor-car offerings for 1983 will car. There are many more. To The muller is of the resonance way the road is believed cleared for power engine, developing 70 brake present many new features in both day you can buy an outfit that or straight-through type, which an immediate upturn in the motor horsepower, whose mountings dif- means that there is a 2 inch open-industry.
fer slightly in design but not in body design and mechanical im- gives the passenger true comfort ing directly thru the muffler
Closely following the election principle from the present models.provement—an annual habit made and perfect protection in the worst It is all very, well "driving" a which reduces the hack pressure two of the giants of the industry/The fres-wheeling unit is of the possible by automotive engineers: varieties of weather.
in pouring rain-the from approximately five pounds to announced their plans for 1933, cam and roller type developed by Price appeal, particularly in the
driver has something upon which to one and one-half pounds, increas-and others will soon follow. Chev-1 Chrysler Motors' engineers. Stand. low-priced field, is to be alressed as side-car-
concentrate, but the passenger has ing the power of the engine at rolet, a General Motors unit, an-ard equipment includes 17-inch never before.
nothing. He or she deserves pro- silencing chambers which reduce Hon for the year just ahead, which mountable woad wheels of the same ARGENTINE TRUCK DEMAND. tection, and to-day the passenger,
The muller has nounced a programme in prepara-wire wheels with tires, with de-
even in a sports sidecar, can have exhaust noise to a minimum. This calls for the expenditure of 220,-size obtainable at no increase in type of muffier also has a great 000,000 within the next two months. cost
it-"Nitor," in "The Motor Cycle:" An upward trend in truck sales deal longer life than the baffle type The schedule also calls for the pro-
Officials at the Nash plant in used on previous models.
duction of 50,000 cars, radically Kenosha, decline to comment on during the first eight months of as-different from current modele.
their 1988 plans, but indications are 1982 is reported by Argentine UTILISING EXHAUST FUMES. that the new line is about ready for dealers, according to information announcement and production is just given out by the automo- A new commercial use for car- Tire new Chevrolets will have well under way. It is rumoured tive division of the U.S. Depart-bon monoxide the poisonous conTM atituent of exhaust gases—bus been longer wheel base and include many that the prices to To with the cars ment of State, important changes. Prices are not will be considerably reduced,” and Sales of high-priced cars in found. By an American process, yet available, but it is officially correspond with present incomes. this period held practically even the gas is used for the extraction stated that they will be "at a price No statement is forthcoming with those in the same period of of pure nickel from nickel ore, or. which takes into account to-day's from the Ford company on plans | 1931. These sales, however, from any other base in which incomes."
next year. No official inkling has are reflected in lowered stocks nickel is found, and also for the
high speeds.
The automatic heat control sures proper engine operation at all temperatures without attention from the driver. With the manual |(Continued at foot of next Column.)
On TOP
of the
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Chevrolet's New Models
Washington.
It was intimated by President W. been given on what the programme and did not appreciably influence extraction of icon from its ore. 8. Knudsen that final announcements in the face of the greatest com- imports.
"The Motor Cycle."
of price, combined with the intro-petition in the low-price field that duction of all models, will silence ever developed. It is likely how- rumours that the new Une would ever, that the V8 will be continued, be "stripped" models designed to either in the present form, or some- meet the bare needs of transporta- what changed. tion.
W. R. Angell, president of Con- The new series will be the fifth tinental Motors Corporation, cham annual model to employ a six-cylin- announced a change in the corpor- der engine. The company has pro-sto name of the company's automo- duced and sold more than 8,000,000 bile division. To replace the name sixes.
Continental De Vaux Company, the new Plymouth six, recently name Continental Automobile Com- Konounced in the world's first in-pany has been selected. This com ternational radio conference, ispany will be in the 1988 market with a new line of care in the low.. |price field,
device formerly furnished on the instrument board, it was left to the
·Buick Resumes Operations driver to set the heat control, to
Operations have resumed at the meet the various temperature con-Flint factories of the Balck Motor ditions. This was often neglected Company, following a temporary at the expense of poor performance shutdown due to changes made on. and economy, body knob s Bg7 bodies of 1988 models. The change has added a distinctive body feature to the newmodels.CUMEN
All General Motors-ma Auto- mobiles, equipped
Heat Control,
The heat is controlled by a valve operated by a thermostat, with outside directed to the ther
ist the mix kept at the pro
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