The Vauxhall Twelve Saloon
PERFORMANCE ... with Economy
A Medium-sized Car of Low Cost
which offers a Lively Performance and Outstanding Fuel Economy.
CHINA INTERNATIONAL MOTORS LTD.
Sales:
703, Bank of East Asha Bldg..
Tel. 31440
Service Station: 350. Hennessy Rond
Tel. 28489
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947.
It Pays To Play Safe
MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
Buses With De Soto "Suburban"
Temperature Control
A North England firm is now
| building dauble deck buses which will be warm in winter and cool In summer.
Temperature control is ensured by a combined ventilating and
element, which operates from system, is mounted outside the the engine water circulation
bus under the part of the roof of the lower saloon that extends alongside the driver's cab. It lower saloons of the bus by is connected to both upper and short ducts.
One way to make al-heating system. The heater most sure of an accident is to pass another car on a corner or bend -- there's almost bound to be another coming from the opposite direction when you take a chance like that! You'll only 'save a few seconds by forcing your way past the slower vehicle at what profit, If you lose your life?
Bennett & Wood Pty Ltd, of Sydney, Australia, and Coven- try. England, recently opened a large and modern spare-paris department in their head office In Sydney They are the largest distriinitors of automotive parts, neerssories and gurage equlp ment in New South Wales.
Tires are now being tested by Mage at Furt Dunlop, it be ing possible, after much - rc- search, to obtain a complete plc- ture of the cover's contruction.
Hot water, controlled by a cock in the driver's cab, cir- cultes around the cloment and
the heat radiating from it is swept through the ducts by a large electric fan, If the water is shut off, the electric fan can be left
circulate running to fresh air at atmospheric tem. perature, through the ducts to the interior of the bus.
volume.
In the lower saloon, the ducts. emerge at the front bulkhead into two "anemostats" which, whilst diffusing the air, reduce its velocity to prevent draughts and yet meintaln ItЯ The duet for the upper saloon leads to an expansion chamber floor level under the passengera' which discharges air at the
front seats.
The builders aro Leyland Motors Ltd., Leyland, Lancashiro,
THE NEW DeSoto NINE PASSENGER
"SUBURBAN”
America's Most
Beautiful
Multi-Purpose Car!
HUA NAN MOTORS
CHÚNG TIN BLUG, SRO FL. TEL. 28818
The new DE SOTO "SUBURBAN can seat nine persons as shown right. Or, by folding the rear seat down flush with the moving, the middle seat forward or back, varying
space can be secured. Additional Luggage space
floor
the guard rail on the roof:
e roof.
(4 Gainsborough Picture)
A multi-purpose car which "expands" internally from a three-seater with a fantastic amount of luggage-space into a nine-seater which still has more room for baggage than the average ear.... that, in a nutshell, is the new De Soto "Suburban." To the outward eye, there is little to distinguish the "Suburban" from any large American car, yet its 1391 inch wheel- base carries a body which leaves even the average Station Wagon in the shade for com- fort and space.
Soto combinca maximum
An Early
Breaker Of Records
with
the
Some Interesting Information Called "The bags and other odds and ends-about "999," the car. Most Beauti-plus, as always, the long lug which. Henry Ford broke ful Multi-
gage rack on the roof!
land speed record at Рагродс
91.37. The "Suburban" Is thus flex- mph in 1903, are given in a re- Ible enough to meet a wide cent issue of the "Ford Works
The four-cylinder 80
bhp
call a high-efficiency power unit.
in Americar
the few.De.
luxury with variety of demands-from the News." utility. About large Hong Kong family on the 14 feet longer
than the one hand, say, to a feeder ser-engine was not what one might stantlard "Custom" model, vice from hotel to aerodrome. It fact, it seems to have borne a which it resembles, it is chiefly It is ideal for xolf noticeable in its exterior for a steamships
club, striking resemblance to a large company service, stationary gas engine the mas rugged luggage rack on the hotel transport or roof (specially reinforced for company executives.
for sive crankshaft was not heavy duty) and a glistening arrangement
The re-closed in a crankcase but revolv of the two-tone finish in metallic to
Heatsed in plain view of all the no their various enamels of the polychromatic to provide the desired. passen-spectators.
positions doubt considerably Impressed
type which provide a hard finish of unusual brilliance,
3,600
on-
one
ger or luggage capacity is sin-
Pressure for the petrol feed ple and quick.
was supplied by Spider' Huff, It is when one opens & door Suburban" is a sort of
In other respects,. the the mechanic, who blew into a and looks within that the fea- Brother to the "Custom" model. petrol tank. Ford arranged a Big large rubber tube lending to the tures which make this a unique Its six-cylinder side-valva en-ende of algnals whereby car hit the eye. The "Subur glue, with a nominal-horse-klek meant "blow harder" and ban" combines luxurious rom- fort for passengers with a
power of 28,36, develops 100 two kicks meant "ccase fire". brake horsepower at variety of arrangements for
Unfortunately, Huff got the their seating and their lug- rpm.
signals mixed. In spite of a guge.
perfect shower of kicks, there was so much huffing and puff- .The
Ing that the Beast shot through mission is the the measured mile in 96.seconds new De Soto and its flight was brought to a
full stop only, by Henry Tip-Toc"
Ford Shift, which steering it into a convenlènt gives remark-snowbank. driving сляе; one
This flexibility is achieved by a 3-position rear seat and ad-
justable front and centre seats,
The seats themselves are full
width (for, three passengers),] extremely comfortable and able
Fluid Drive
trans-
covered with a newly developed can drive practically all day
fabric: this ingeniously em- without touching either gearshift June Export
ploys plastic to provide for clutch-"step on the necelera- smart appearance with a num.
Figures--
drive, engine Excellent'
ber of outstanding characteris. tor to go, step on the brake to
stop." tick-It has extreme resistance
With the improved, Ume-tested to wear, cold cracking and flex-"yrol" ing, is waterproof, and is easily power is transmitted to the rear
fluid cleaned with a damp cloth.
wheels through a fluid coup- Passenger comfort is enhanced ling. The engine is completely by a sponge-rubber pad in 'each cushioned against starting and
reat.
Four "Plans"
There
stopping shocks,
flat
The floor of the car is kept
and low, thanks to the semi-oating hypoid rear axle. ban
Export figures of Bri- tish
cars in June wore ex-
cellent, in spito of the
on importa of cara
many countries aro
are Smooth riding is provided by which actually four Independent front-wheel spring now applying owing to paralled main seating-ing (coil springs of Amola exchange difficulties with Bri- luggage plans. atcel) and grooved 8-leaf, semi-tain's.
With all seats elliptic rear springs, Acro-
occupied, the plane-type shock absorbers are ed well with the May figure of The total of 10,302".comput. nino
passen fitted to both front and rear.10,070 and the value was cor- of whom is
Quick, responsive brakes are respondingly cach
of whom has plenty of elbow
an essential in a car of this size, £2,826,810. room and
Soo has
car
carries gers, none
'cramped,
and leg-room.
At the
tho De
la still larger than that pro-brakes, utilizing vided in conventional cars.
high, totalling
1
time, the luggage compartment wheel,
dame the improved type hydraulic cars of from 8. to 12 hp. Ied In the assembled category, internal expamling the field, with a total of 4,037, invalued at £1,088,261. Thesa dividual cylinder for With six passchgers, the shoe in the front brakes; they 8 hp, (2,928 cars, valued at:"
éach were followed by cars of up to centre seat is pushed back aro. self-equalized and weather c080,000) and from 12 to 16 against the rear scat, to allow proof.
hp. (1,221 cars, valued at
maximum leg room; the lug Interior features contribute518,076),
gage compartment remains the ing to passenger comfort in- In the unassembled category, samo sizo. If, however, theee clude attractive. and practical 1,874 cars, valued at £855,387, six have, a lot of luggago, the assist handics" mounted were exported in the "up to 12 centro seat remains as it is, the directly under rear seat folds down to be-side-lights on the centre posts, at £76,727, in the "over 12 hp."
the internal hp. category and 280, valued: come part of the floor, and the Ave: conveniently placed ash close. luggage compartment, practi- trays, chrome garnish mould-
cally doubled, extends to the Ing Inserts, and panols fipished JW. Shillan, who did rear of the centre sent
in natural wood graining much to popularize the outboard Finally, with three pansen Hun Nan Motors, Fed. Inc., motor boat engine in Britain, gors in front, and the empty USA, whose offices are on the has resigned, from his position" centre seat pushed forward 3rd floor of the Chubg Tin as managing director of the Bri against the back of the front building, 6 Des Voeux Road C.,tah Motor Boat Mfg. Co. Ltd. sost, more than six feet of lug- are sole distributors for the inving disposed of the whole gago space faavajiablo-wida Suburban," as well as the two of his interests in that company onough and long enough to standard modola in tho De and in Shillan's Engineering Co. make a full bod for two, if de Soto rango--the "Custom" And Ltd, to J. Brockhouse & Co. Ltd. sired Thore is plenty of room the Special De Luxe, and the Mr. Shillan is to make a tour of "on the pushed-forward centre full line of De Soto trucks and the West Indies to investigate seat for hats, chate, week-end buses. 70
businesa possibilities there.