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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS FOUR-WHEEL SPEEDWAY FROM HOLLYWOOD
Midget-car racing thrills, spills, and records at 80 m.ph
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has returned, bowed in by "Sweater Girl"
Turner, who broke into ber newest honeymoon to reintroduce Britain to the sport which is Hollywood's infest rave.
Mounted on à canary-coloured Cadillac Himousine, blowdle Miss Turner (Mrs, Hob Topping) drove round the Chelsen footbali ground before the first evening's racing began.
Six A Week
Husband Bob Topping WAN there, too, to see how the crowds greet his wife and the sport.
Topping and a few associates have sunk £73,000 to bring mid-
get-car racing to Britain,
By JOHN HALL
Unlit the end of July London drivers put up the more people, against each will have six midget-ent meetings they draw and the bigger
other in
ricet to meet); 12 mechanics and half a dozen track omeinis; 8,000 gallons of special racing fuel, 800 gallons of oil, 500 tyres, 17,000ft. of hardwood timber (10 build barricades), 2,000ft. of wire net- ting, kegs of nails and screws,
Their Fan Hail
CONTINUING 16 YEARS OF LEADERSHIP”.
THE
Magnificent Minx
Costly transport of the person- nel and equipment from Cali- fornia, plus deposits demanded by British Customs, plus publicity, WITH hove raised the promoters' bill to
£75,000.
ad-for-
Tagging along, too, is a com- plote glossary used by American midget-cor fans-"Take him" (to lagging driver), urge a
"lead- foot" (for a driver who always keeps his foot hard down on the accelerator),
of internn- verse
und U.S., "binders" (brakes). France, and Belgium, Captain of In August, by which time, they the British team is New Zea- hope, all 21 drivers will have be- lander Frank Brewer.
come houshold names in Britain, Almost everything except the the whole "circus" will pack up cinders has been brought from and return to the U.S., havinit After the stars there will be Besides racing us individuals the U.S.-- poo! of 21 drivers made a decision on whether lo two hours' racing. varying from the drivers will also compete and 21 cars (they all go from come back to Brllain next year.
laps to 20 laps, with two,
In week-two euch of the Chelsea prizes.
THE 1948
the tional teams Britain,
and Charlton Athietle grounits In the U.S., where "gates", lost 1+2+; Walthamstow Stadium-and year totalled £11,000,000, the top more Bim stars to make trium- drivers make up to £15,000 a phal drives,
tour,
srid as
many as 10 cers
competing nt once.
floring, plunging over the top
11
of a rival who has somersaulted. "locking wheels" to ride a rival
out of the way, and making fat- out skida round the bends are in- tegral parts of this sport.
If this trial season is a success, Topping and bis associates will return next year to establish the sport permanently. They back to outpace speedway rucing→ "It's faster, more thrilling," they elaim und emphasise: "It's iniles ahead racing that was tried out before the war.
The cars,
year.
The Motor
Recovery Of
Industry In Britain
S.MM.T. Answers Mr. Wilmo!
before
that it is necessary to absorb, assion that is unprecedented, and President Describes Proposals as they also reveal
how absolute it must be broken. When that Compromise Between Sound power over the motor industry is happens, events are copable
now concentrated in his hands:-swinging round in a much more Buisness Practice and Idealism
Events, proposals, Government "..while iron and steal and favourable way towards Britain.
The S.M.M.I. rists, White Papers and suchilke other raw material suppiles for
reply, therefore of the midget-car wilow one
Bnother these days export will have to be increased remains interesting. It is coin- like
the editions of an evening to match the export targets of sidered and fairly critical. One newspaper. With the motor in the engineering Industries, there wonders why Mr. Wilmot did in dazzling right dustry, the late night final of is no possibility of any substan- not consult the experts colours and chromlun, are sleek, bir, Wilmot in the form of alal increase in total deliveries of making his proposals, and if he top-drawer cousins to the midget statement tu the Engineering steel to the engineering indus-based them on the recommenda cars you see ut some fun fairs. Advisory Council
appeared on trica,"
sions of the Motor Industry Ad They are ari, long, have their the streets before the S.M.M.T.'s This may be immortalized by visory Council, оп which pro- wheels 8ft, apart, weigh 0501.
."bricks without minent manufacturers sut. In and have 22h.p. vagines.
Teh edition, Report on Propos-events as the
Inks Made to the Motor Car Manu- straw" statement, and it serves the spate of iterature un rar to emphasize the "you've had it" manufacture, the Council's re- unbanked at the corners. Corner
sald Sir aspect of this further quote:-- port is conspicuously and repre- ing is a mixture of nerve, skill, Miles Thomas,
"If we are to get through athensibly lacking for study. and skidding-mostly nerve. The Society, at a Press conference this critical juncture manufacture On rationalization the report drivers are each insured for £1,-introducing the report, represent for the home market of goods of quotes figures:--
a complete reversal of pre-war. this type (cars, etc.) can be jus. The drivers get a basic £12 in those days the export Pars tified only as an adjunct to ex- 10s, weekly (in sterling), plus were the overflow from the home port. We shall place a celling→→→ such prize-money, which is based on market; in these days the home and a fairly low one-on the "gute" receipts, Briefly, the cars are the overflow from ex- manufacture for the home mar better, more during the show the part.
ket and distribute the quotu 1948-9 (estimated) 42 What is plain is that the re- among manufacturers in propor- (17 out of 30 ananufacturers covery of motoring wIH keep tion to their export performance. make only one model) !
recovery' of We shall do so by adjustment of pace only with the Britum us a Whole, and therefore, our steer allocations to individual official pronouncements have a firmis".
race on narrow, cinder trucks,facturers.
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FAR EAST MOTORS LIMITED
20 Nathan Road Bas
Tel. Nost 66840 & 57250-
Post-war. copresident of the]
Date
1939
+ 1947+
BRITAIN
Basic Body models variations:
130 200
02
85
40
AMERICA
1 60 60-907-
(22 manufacturers) Regarding the clomont
Hong
more than academic interest. Twoi But there is a silver lining 1 quotations from the Minister of this cloud of depression. The model demand, the S.M.M.T. Supply's statement contain all world is in a state of trade ten-emphasizes cost resullant disloca-
Britain's Export Prospects
co-05
tion.
To change a programme and put-in-a-new-model-takes-a minimum of two and a half-to three years, necessitates an ex- penditure of well over a million pounds on new equipment and tools, and needs highly dinated Leam wirk in the factory.
Similarly, to drop all. models except one means costly scrapping of existing tools and loss Optimism is praiseworthy, but before. Sir William emphasized of
Such of output.
rationalization it is difficult wholeheartedly to that there could be no prosperity need to bo long-term to avoid agree with the views expressed with the continued-upward spiral this, especially as raw material recently by Mr. R. Gresham of prices and pleaded with the commitments are entered into a Cooke, director of the S.M.M.T., Government to ease all those res-year in- advance under today's and Mr. G. R. Strauss, Minister trictions which
are hampering condillo is the close relation
of Supply, with regard to the efficiency and thus forcing prices prospects of British" "car sales up.
overseas.
Mr. Gresham Cooke was
A point that is also
between many cars and commer- elal vehicles from the some factory. Withdrawal of the cat cars are already "piling up in Britain produced a desirable over-model would
a stronger, ground in stressing that
serve to increase Britain; the Geneva tariff agree seas product. That is accepted, vehicle, with corresponding in- over-heads on the commercial ments strike a blow at car ex- and in a world oil shortage which
Reports are widespread that
stimuluted
from
ports,
devaluation of the franc can
competition France, and behind all looms the Colossus ΟΙ
over the
B
rectified for a number case in selling price. When it cannot be
exparts, the years the operational economy goes on to discuss
report mentions another relevant the of the Birtish car cannot be over-point. There is no car in axis-
tence that natistics avery motor-] which may be given additional emphasized.
But however good the selling ing requirement power by the conditions likely to
salesmanship] world.. "Sorne Individuallsm continued. be attached to Marshal aid.
In points,
excellent fact, it would be no surprise it is vital in order to sell British therefore cars, in view of their necessity to cars in the face of strong com-feature. the structure of modern civiliza petition-salesmanship, tion, formed a legitmate part of after sales, and low prices. Any the European Recovery Program thing that suggests these features to be less than indispensable is to
me.
We point out these features in be deprecated.
order to dispel any air of com- placency that the S.M.M.T. and MoS-views-may-inspire
In doing so, it is pertinent: to recall the remarks of Sir William Rootes, made at the introduction of the new and original Commer commercial vehicle a
service
High Taxes On
Large Engines
A recent Editorial in "The few days Motor" pointed out how silly it is to put the' maximum tax on
Britain Making Progress
large engines, thus
penalizing
those machines which precisely contain the finest workmanship. Now the matter goes much deep- than that. Cuble copa-
er oven
city taxation does not only turn An indication of the immense good cars into taxis before their popularity of British motorcars ime, although that is sad enough overseas is given in a report nor can earnest left-wing folk "published this week that the defend it as a democratic (and Rootes group alone is now ox- hence
It respectable), impost. porting at the rate of £15,000,- probably matters very little to 000 annually.
The group is shipping abroad whether the annual tax is spending £3,000 on a new man over 70 per cent, of its total pro-25 or £45. But as the machine duction of care and trucks one gets older and passes from hand of the highest percentages of any to hand, it makes more and more British motor manufacturer. Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam difference to successive owners Talbot cars and Cormer and until it. Anally renders a first-class Karrier commercial vehicles are, car unsaleable
A high tax, therefore, makes
In fact, being bought by no less hith, depreciation, the know- than 100 different countries. for
Although the value of British ledge that depreciation will be exports are breaking all becords, high deters people from buying the Roots group
have, during large cars in the first place:out the last two months, been res put is, therefore, lower than parable for Akanut of every would otherwise be; this in turn,
100 worth of boda abipped driaces the~~price~up,
Vicious out of the county nejak
selling
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