THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948.
G
HILLMAN MINX
Plus the new Basic Petrol
Allowance for Overseas Visitors,
will give you many miles
pleasant motoring while
home leave.
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Motor Department
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MERCURY
Ford LINCOLN
MOTORING
NEWS AND VIEWS
MINISTRY DENY STEEL CUT
Commenting on the statement i made by Sir Reginald Routes, the Ministry of Supply state that the steel to be allocated to the malor industry for both the first ond secpnt quarters of 1948 is larger than the allocation for the last quarter of 1947, when production has been running ot
rate of 310,000 cars a year,
No forcenst of allocation for the remainder of 1048 has been given, but there is no ground for assum- ing that when the allocations are matte they will not show an in- Frense, For motor cars the export target is the rate of 315,000 per year at the end of 1940, which, with an allowance for home re quiroments, Involves product n reaching approximately a rate of 400,000.
It is quite wrong, the Ministry Fadds, to suggest that the require- ments of the motor industry have In theen given due consideration.
A Tractor Takes The Floor
BUICK
FOUR-DOOR SEDAN
The lean, swift classle
distinctive smarturNS.
Is equally prized for
performance.
lives of the BUICK give it a roomy carrier of six persons. It Its ght handung and sparkling
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ANNOUNCING THE
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NEW
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TAXIMETER
one of His tractors Spectators watched as bir. Harry Ferguson, the inventor. drove around the flour of the ballroom of Clarktges Hotel, London. January 22.
Harry Ferguson Limited, of Conventry, recently received a £5,000,000 American order for his tractors.
Direction
Indicator
Trouble
Evolution Of The Hillman Minx
Few popular models can trace has been carried a stage further. such a long history of continuous (The combined body-cum-chassty Regarding the direction indica-{evolution as the Hillman Minx.construction (which marked tors on current cars, we have had The type first appeared at the important stage in that evolution an idea with which you may r Motor Show in October, 1931, and just prior to the beginning of the may not agree. The main trouble during the ensuing sixteen years war) is retained and so is the with "flippers"-even the so it has remained in continuous pro- main outline the body, bul cailed self-concelling sort—is that duction
(apart from the war frontal styling has been brought
they tend to go on sticking out period, although even then large into line with post-war idens and when they should have Rooped numbers were produced for Ser-new treatment of facin board and back, thus misleading the traffic, viers_use), the design being controls introduced. On the pure-|
Isteadily modified and improved in ty mechanical side, the well-tried
| behind.
SEDANS
In
ASSORTED COLOURS
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
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On one car the trafficator switch the light of new experience and 1,185 c.e. side-valve engine is con. IMPERIAL
is mounted on an arm jutting out | news needs. from the steering column in such
of
tinued with few minor modiflea- That this has been possible is a tina and the general layout a way that one can filp the switch tribute to sound design as well assurings and axles tagain with also re- with one's right forefinger without yound manufacturing policy. Only detail improvement) is taking the hand from the wheel. a model which wins, and retains, turned, but the transmission in- The switch itself is spring-loaded, wide public approval is a ft sub- fchudes an entirely new geurbox so as to return to the neutral ject for such treatment.
with "Synchromatic" Anger-tip position unless moved all the way Now the evolution of the Minx control Just below the steering wheel and the braking system (now by Lockheed) is dydraulic and includes the two-leading-shoc design on the front,
ints the right-or-left-hand notch. Now, therefore, we have taken to using the same technique with my "flippers" as one does with a hand -in other words, we press the bulton, lightly before making a
DON'T TRY TO STOP-STEER! Taxed once with the poorness of
In addition to all this, various
turn, and then, having made alis brakes on the early models, detail modifications have been in- sigual, we let the arm flep back. the Inte Eltore Bugatti (and who troduced in the conchwork, equip. than Great ment and mechanical design, all In this way there is no risk of it should know better sticking up 100 long.
Having Hector himself?) remarked drily which line up with post-war betn misled by non-cancelling that he made cars "to go, not to ideas in car construction.. direction indicutors an ether cars stop!" There is much in that re- several times in the past week, mark. Vintagents as a class are we suggest that it might be a good not prone to hang around; but idea in future to make only posi-they are not ones to have acel-!
either. It 18 ones dents,
cyce, not tive signal switches, L., which work only while a button brakes, that make for safe driving is pressed.
or, as a friend remarked, in Ume of emergency: "Don't by
sults were most happy for all in-
FROST DAMAGE and stop....Steer!” And the r GARAGE LIABILITYvolved, because, as it turned out,
In an action described as a test no one was involved. case, at Bristol County Court,
Judge Wethered ruled that | OIL PUMPED INTO garage was Hlable for damage to a customer's car and that' warning notices disclaiming liability are
WELLS
It was disclosed recently by Mr.
nct sufficient. An appeal against Gaitskell, Minister of Fuel and this decision is being considered Power, that owing to shortage of by garage proprietors in the West tankers and alorage, about 1,000,- to be Country and the advice of the 000 tons of oil had had Molor Agents' Association is being pumped back into the Anglo- sought.
Iranian wells in Persia,
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