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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
BACK-TO-THE-ROAD IN
BRITAIN
By Courtenay Edwards
The first day o' June brought to an end the first peace-ilme ban on private motoring since the earliest cars chugged along the roads of Britain.
For half
year 600,000 curs and 375,000 motor-cycles have been immobilised by an ecums embargo which hit Britain like
blight. Go-us-you-please motoring re- turns on a limited seale to 4403 Alter-in-Wanderland world of finey-coloured petrol; a world in still which second-hand values noar above even the tax-matexi prices of new cars.
Worse For Wear It is A topsy-turvy
notoring work of
a shabby, ageing ene population in which motorists. Saved with a delay of years la the delivery uf long-ordered roadsters, look enviously at pro-
of News
Babelled "For export only" streaming to- wards the ports.
cessions
vars
The soudard ration gives prl- vate motorists freedom to travel where they will during the next six months up to a total of 540 miles or as much more as they can coax out of their ears on mengre ration based on 90 miles a month and only one-third of the old "basic."
furl that our tankers, whore capacity ranges from 1,200 to 3,- 000 gallons, have separate com- partments. This means we can lake red and white petrol in the same wagon:"
The commerciel petrol is tint- ed and chemically treated under rigid supervision at the board's distribution depots.
Thousands of RA.C. and A.A. patrols on June were out for their first Sunday duty la alx months
The Jimps were out in their thousands 100.
These are te prenilins of mo- toring, newly discovered by the Ministry of Transport as the cause of all bad driving. They sit on your rear bumper urging you to overtake when it in't safe, and things like that.
This Bristol Two-Litre, road-‡hour under its streamlined bon- lested by the Daily Mail Motor-not, and the acceleration of its ing. Correspondent. Is one of the six-cylinder overhead-valve en- new British cars which motorists eine is something which startles will find flashing post them in in the drivers of other cars in traffic crearing numbers,
light set-aways,
First car bull by the Bristol On dry roads you get up to 70° Aeroplane Company (at theirm.p.h. In under 30 seconds, and Filton Aerodrome alongside the the Bristol's rond-holding and new 127-ton Brabazon airliner), cornering virtues match its per- the Bristol saloon is one of the formance and good looks.
smartest, smoothest, and fastest cars now rolling off Britain's es- sembly lines.
The Bristol Aeroplane Com- pany's "sideline" is upholding British car prestige In a dozen It has a genuine 05 miles an countries. The price is £1,525.
The Brussels Motor
Despite some Important ab- stentions.
Bentley. notably Daimler and Rolls-Royce from England, the Ford and General Motors. Groups from the US.A.,. Bugatti - from France and Isoltu Fraschini from Italy, and some- what meagre pubilicity, the Brus- sels Motor Show was a resound- ing sticcess,
one of the
Fuel Minister Hugh Gaskell hns estimated that the standard ration will cost the country 38,- 000,000 gallons of petrol a year.
Where
{t coming from?
The main. Exhibition Ifall Thirty million gallons, they say,
certainly be will be diverted from the Black tues! in the world, and a sub- Market-in which an estimated dued
but extremely effective of 47,000,000 gallons was
was decor, which included an uld last year-and the
other feial cetllag made from eight 0.000.000 gallons from ruts in neres of fabric, aid much to set existing supplementary allow- out the exhibits to the best ad-
vantage.
cars themselves
unfal
ances.
The
arli
Hudson Sets New Fashion
should quite obviously result in very large sales for this model, the car exhibited being one of the Arst tu emerge from the pro- duction line.
pearance.
have
Show
which the side members at the rear Bre carried Outside the wheels, and not as hitherto unl- versally the ease, inside them. The result is that not only the body, but also the frame is de- veloped to the full width of the cur, and the floor is based, not on the top of the site members, but on the bottom thereof.
This leads to a pronounced step down on entering the cur, coupled with marked reduction in overall height.
ght. The latter is a little un-
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First Appearances Jowett and Rover shared with der 60 ins. That is, between 3 ids. and Ins. -less than normal the Vanguard the distinction of
for this size of car. The side making their first Exhibition up-
windows are somewhat shollow Although both
and visibility through the curved The Petroleum Board's deet of were completely representative entirely new chassis, it was in- 4,000 roud tank wagons, pyrat-
of current world trends, a na-
teresting to observe that they are glass screen (which is placed at some distance from the driver) ing from 1,000 depots up
of entirely different layout, and fuck tural reflex of the fact thal Bel- down the country, will see to it glum is an international buyer whereas the Jowett styling in- may present some problems in 1hot
with und wayside Alling garage
cludes many modern features, in countries with narrow ronds few currency restrictions, stations get enough petrol to
and those commonly thought to screen, Rover have deliberately toned, the side surface of the particular the curved-front wind-high traffle density. The car is, however, generally well propor- clothed "There hus
a car representative of been no rush as ofteful of the board told
very advanced engineering prac-body being selieved by a slight raising of the рапея towards tice with entirely traditional "Garage owners can't order
their base and by, painting this coachwork.
area a slightly different shade to that given, to the rest of the ear.
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Largely Denuded The German occupation and extra petrol until they start get-requisitioning, the notorious There were, however, three
standard coupons roughness of Belgian roads and
cars not only new to the Belgian "But thistle prospect of
the high speeds maintained by public, but almost entirely un- many Belgian drivers, have; to- known in Great Britain. pumps running dry. In most
trade ether, largely denuded the coun- these, the American Hudson set enses the new standard'
A 6- and 8-cylinder engine of The a fashion, which will almost cer- 4.3 and 4.2 litres, respectively, is will be only a small fraction of try of pre-war motorcars.
result is a large satisfied des fainly be widely copled Jna available the latter-giving—123– -a-garage's-petrol-turnover."
The board's
sense, it
the follows lines biggest standard mand. Imports rose from 11,000 sense
popuh.p., as against 121 h.p., despite vehicles in 1915, up to 47,000 larized A year ago by Kaiser- somewhat petrol problem dres not concern
smaller swej voluing. the white patrol at all but
vehicles during 1947, but there is Fraser and Studebaker; that is to A detail point of interest on both the
only one car produced in Bel- say, there is no individual freat- models is the use of the newtype redtiated, chemically treated fuel
gium, which is the well-estab- ment of the wings, these being American
extra- which has to be used by all lor-
super-cushion lished
Prior Emperin.
to 1939 moulded into the general body low-pressure tyres, conches, ries, vans,
which have anci tractors.
this moke was based upon they
the form. This relatively novel out- For nearly two weeks
largely influenced by Euro- German Adler, paris
parts of which ward appearance la, In the case pean developments prior to the have been distributing this red
were constructed under licence, of the Hudson, married to a com-
These are fitted to 15-in... petrol to garages whose pumps
new lypo with engines and gearbox units pletely
of frame, in rims with 8.30 section. are now all neatly labelled "Pri-
imported completed. The post-
Both front and rear seats of vate" or "Commerelai," and they have had to do a lot of juggling
war car embodies the engine-
↑ the Hudson will comfortably seat with their
gearbox tankers when
was aggregate which
three persons, and the doors are Some
used before the war in the French garages in a given aren needed
recessed to provide extra elbow Hotelikiss-Amilcar. In post-war red petrol and others white.
room and provision, for overhend valve, push. an ove
sorles such as ashtrays. This rad cylinder head is fitted. The
recesting is partly derived by let- cylinder bore has, moreover, been
ting the window down at an enlarged from 63 mm. to 67.mm., the capacity raised to -1,340 c.c.. and the engine output to bh.p. at 4,200 r.p.m. This gives
Mixed Cargoes
They
"Roules have had to be very carefully planned," I was told. "We have been helped by the
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Φοιτη roc
45
Bogey Of Oil
acces-
angle in relation to the body side. and-this-doubtless is one of the reasons which has determined the Background to the reason why relatively shallow depth of the the car a power-weight ratio of all-motorists-tools-another-cut-in windows...themselves. The doors some 49 h.p. per ton, and the petrol ration is the behind-the-are opened by an ingenious pali maximum speed claimed by the scenes reshuffle of power in the handle, which is "activated" by makers is 75 m.p.h. The use of world of power,
`a` press-button. front-wheel drive makes it pose- Like everything else these days, The latest Packard is similar ible to have a
fat floor it's pegged to the dollar. But the in general outline to the Hudson, with
comfortable seating economic facts are thut very
USA-but utilizes a V screen and is and ample luggage space, the once thought to be self-sufficient sold in four forms, one with body being a composite type with in petroleum resources now has six-cylinder engine of 4.3 litres pillars fabricated from five-ply only 14 years' supply in its own capacity, and three with eight- wond metal
The territories, with the rate of new cylinder engines panelling.
of 4.81 ltres, the discoveries dwindling in a triah- 8.23 Iltres and 5.83 litres respect- front-end styling follows
modern trend, although there tening manner. may be legitimate division of opinion upon the treatment of the wings.
at the breathtaking wartime level. With consumption still holding America is being forced to Im part oli; to buy up reserves elso where.
Lockheed Brakes Negotiations don't generally hit The chassis design follows the the newspaper columns, but there lines of the Adler that is to say many foreign countries, with are big-time operations going on the independent front suspensión yankes dollars bually buying up is provided by a transveras leaf British and other nfl interests spring
at the top-and-a-single
wishbone at the bottom, whilst wherever they're for anic.
the rear wheels are individually Spring
The American interest in cer do on trailing arms
tain European and Asiatic springs themselves being rubber altruistic nor entirely ideological. mestle issues is neither entirely
the
in torsion. Lockheed brakes are, The big bogey of oil has a lot to however, filted in place of thedo with it.
previous mechanical type and a major change follows from the fact that the three-speed gear- box is now ahead of the wheel centres. As compared with the pre-war model this substantially Increases the passenger space and also brings the weight for-
The Queen's Progress
ward and improves the adhesion During the first six months
of the rear wheels, a particularly of last year, passongor___ships_ Important feature on front drive
of nine nations on the Europe-
cars since it determines the - New York run carried 200.110
ed
dient on which they can be start
ice.
people across the Atlantic. The under conditions of snow and world's largest ship, the "Queen In addition, to the manufacture Elizabeth, come into, service of their own cars, the Imperial last October. Company also sell the Standard This floating clty quickly be 'and "Triumph"range through Bel- came so popular among travel-| gium, and it is to exaggeration lors that for the first six to say that the Vanguard was the months of this year, she alone. success of, the Show on the score carried,49,202 passengers of public appeal. The combina
the Atlantic. This tion of a moderately priced car which Joins the British reputé figure is higher than the total tion for quality, power output, of passengers carried by all the and economy, with good spring air lines on the Europe-Ameri
thoroughly log and
modern ca service during the first six styling, both inferior and exterior, months of 1946.
across
fully.
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