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CONTINUING 16 YEARS OF LEADERSHIP·
THE
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1948.
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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
THE HERALDRY OF CARS
Unsuspected by many people, there is a wealth of interest be hind the badges and names of cars, and a. little knowledge this branch of motoring might not come amiss.
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engineer,
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A Survey By S.B.H. Davies
of "Autocar"
Many years ago, the badge of the Talbot car was taken direct from the crest of the Earl of Shrews. bury and Talbot, and consisted of n on on an heraldle cap. which bod been added
a crown
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4-speed smooth action crash-proof Synchromesh Gearbox toy out in fatul adventures in imagination. a pair of hub scythes, rather on badge for new radiators as the
Take Rolls-Royce Arst of all Then there has, been a great two wings mounted above a wheel and the word "Talbot." Only The name, of course, is a com- deal of controversy about
the and tyre, with a steering column the lion, of course, was the crest, bination of that of one of our origin of the name Lagonda. and steering wheel above. ti, becausa u creat was a thing you early racing ploneers, the Hon. Years agò n perfervid enthusiast was not always like that, for could wear on your helmet and C. S. Rolls, with that of the by name Wilbur Gunn war the when Sir Herbert Austin designed which showed, like the heraldle
tunity fernous
Sir creator of the three-wheel ma-[the budge, it consisted simply, markings on modern armoured Henry Rovec. The badge carried chine which he gave the name of and in a way more appropriately, vehicles, who was inside. The on the radiator cap was the Lagonda, and many years after of a wheel scen end on with two combination of a Hion and
discussion between wards It was found that Lagon-wings above and certain oma- crown would be impossible for Claude Johnson, who was manag; į da, in fact, was the name of a ment below. That was in 1906 | the purpose. ing director of Rolls-Royce, and ereck on the Chlo, where a very in 1907 the steering wheel was But that was nothing to the Charles Sykes, Roval Aca- small Wilbur Guen had wonder-added and what appeared to be efforts of those who cupled this
And so it came that one of the the lines of Boadicea's chariot years went by, until in course suitable for the car. There the intest British cars bears the name wer equipment. 1030 saw fur-of time the "lon" became matter rested unit Sykes, ira of a remote spot in the United ther revision of the badge, but feeble, anaemic, sawdust-stuffed velling with Lord Montagu of
States,
much on the same lines, the orna- animal, very sággy about the Beaulieu, was so impressed with
Then take the famed Austin fent below becoming a cloud of legs, standing on a block of ice the car's amooth running as to
As on many cars, wings are the dust, while the latest model of in a rough sea, and had above It suggest that a fairy could ride on
for all has become more rigid, more of the badge,
a most extraordinary object whlen her foundation tht bomet without losing balance, from which, suddenly, wings were adopted as giving mechanical, if one may use the nobody could recognize came the idea of the badge, to be the spirit of motoring long he phrase, though sulf showing its crown at all. There was quite A bit of fuss and bother before called "The Spirit of Extasy, fore aircraft became a practical origin,
accomplished fact, The
to" its That, by the way, is more than the badge was ลองห
restored completed in 1911.
some badges.original state, badge us it is today consists of can be said for
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Though most temple do not realize it, there were two forms of this little statuetle, the second with the gure kneeling, which, Wils proceed in 1934. There was also a much larger version,
la fact. made lu bronze, whleb has been displayed in various showroom alt over the world. The figure somehow pirit of express exactly the everything which gues lu make the Rolls-Royce car,
Only One Way
That is only one way in which the evolution of a badge.became complete. Take the Standard, for example. The reason why the car was called Standard is lost in the mists of time, but its name immediately suggested its badge, and therein lies a certain amount of trouble and misunder- standing. Correctly spending, a standard was the pole with bat- the honours surmounted by an eagle which was the most rever- rd pussession of the Roman 11 glon, In mediaeval times, was a pennant-like flag which, an far as British chivalry was con- cerned, had the cross of Saint George next to the pole, and the owner's armorini badges alon the penjant itself. But if you ak the average person what a standard is today, he woutht al most immediately reply that it was the flag which appears over Buckingham Palac or Windsor. or at any other place when the King is in residence or present. though a nutter of fact this, rightly speaking, is not a stap- dard at all, but is the King's banner. Furthermore, the iden or standard as a badge h lapsed with, time, and Standard cars of today (but not the new Vanguard beur the Union flug. commonly called the Union Jack, although the Juck merely u small version of the real flag.
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The Nuffield Foundation has
Fortunately, the fine is depict- made a grant to Glasgow Uni-
To Defeat Dazzle
Treatment For Icy Roads
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Slippery roads covered with ice of W Are A terror, not only to pedastrians, but also to local au ed the right way up, which re-versity, to allow the construc- An appeal ti drivers to co-thorities, who have to keep the ready minds one that some years ago tion of a 300,000,000-volt syn- operate in implementing the anti-in serviceable "condition, no-less-n body than the Achrotron for nuclear investigadazzle recommendations-contained Majesty's Stationery-Office-bas sast produced mast extraordinary tion. This generous donation in an interim report of the Rond published an Interesting brochure on fantasy at the back of their club
of "Chemical Treatment for ley Roads." budge which investigation reveal is only one of the many grant Research Board, Department
and Industrial Re-It gives many useful hints on keep- ed to be merely the centre por-ed by the Nuffield Foundation Scientifle tion of the Union flag portrayed towards cultura! and research carch, was made by the Ministry ing icy roads serviceable by the wee
of Transport this week.
of chemicals, in a dise and therefore so odd ns prbgress in Britain. Among The Ministry says that head The brochure gives detailed in- to be unrecognizable. For this the scientific problems receiv- lamps should be not so that the ructions as to the type of chemical reason it was hastily changed.
the which should be used for each type Hovers owe their name to the ing support from the Founda- beams do not rise above
tion is research on occupational horizontal. Pusa inmps should of surface, and states the combina. Viking described as a Sea River diseases connected with mining, be adjusted so that the maximum tim ar solution in which they are on this being told to Harry
intensity of the beam is dipped at the shipbuilding and agriculture kast three degrees below Saith, the Hover chief of
the The chemical ingredients recom which amounts to a on twelve-inch
the surface of the snow or ice, and
harmless.
ime, baite with the head of The Nuffield Foundation so far) horizontal dip at a distance of mended are poured or sprinkled on†
have
pass
arise
a Viking was promptly evolved has expended £1,182,250 for the car, and this in turn has scientific research, including 1910 from the lamp. Neither riven way to un idea of Dudley £299,430 during the last finan-head lumps nor past lumps should combine with the frozen surface to form solution, with a freezing- Noble's, so thint the modern badge shows the front view of a Viking cial year alone, April 1, 1946 point to the right.
Low-mounted
fog point below that of water. Pass and long ship, made up as a radiatif March 31, 1947.
lamps should point to the left, undge.
and fog lamps should be adjust from the ground except in fog,
and snow. as the same way Following the revised taxa-cd
These recommendations lamps lamps.. It tion announced for new cars, glasses with flutings intended to W, H. Glanville, D.S.I.B.'s direc
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