THE CHINA MAIL, SATUR DAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1943.
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Colonial Motorists YOUR
YOUR CAR FLIES Amongst Chief Offenders
Association
The Hong-Kong Automobile The Automobile Association has recently receiv-have issued a warning to all aff ed a warning through the Alliacre listed motoring organisations that Internationale de Tourisme re- they can accept nu responsibility garding reprisats which may be whatsoever for the irregular im- taken against persons uniparting portation of motor vehicles into
motor vehicles into the United Kingdom under Toptiques
411 International Motor Vehicle Per- Hells and then not exporting then within the pertixis required by the regulations.
Resulting from a debate in the libuse of Commons, It was brought to light that many vehicles had been irregularly imported into the Volted Kingdom and that the amajority of these had come in under fryntiques or other Inter national Vehicle Permits. In con- sequence, the Gigemment havi zule an eter by which velueles thus retained in Britain after the.
pend of validity of the temporary
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the United Kingdom n that they have no alternative but 10, conform to the the new regulations as passet by requirements of Parliament, Needless to say, as in the past, all bona fide cases of visit by an overseas motorist will unavoidable prolongation of be sympathetically considered by eircumstances warrant such 11. M. Customs and, whenever the
course, the period of the validity Motor Vehicle Permit will be ex- of the Triptyque or International tended...
For full details as to all the re-
irements in connection with the importation dokuments
Importation of anotor vehicle will be confiscated, while the Association tending
into the United Kingdom any in- guarantieoing, the
motorist visitor Triptyque conult the Hong-Kong Automo- shoul! peruit, that is, in the case of the bite Association United King the Automobile Messrs, Peat, Marwick, Mitelial
Secretaries, Association or the Roval Autem & Co., Exchange Building,
le Club, will be called upon by H.M. Customs and Excise to pay the duty and purchase tax on the vehicle in question. Accordingly, even though the vehicle is con- fiscated, the guarantor Association, will not be relieved of its obliga- ttons vis a vis the authorities an ergard to Customs dues etc.
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nuto-
Above, Valtao Aircraft Corporation of San Diego, Call- fornia, give you flying car with a four cyclindar, engine. The
body le of glass plastic.
Attention has recently been drawn to experiments with fying automobiles made in America since the war.
However, perhaps the most ambitious project, and certain- ly, the only one which so far has allowed what appears to be a car of normal characteristics to be driven on the road, is that made by the Consolidated Vullee Aircraft Corporation, of San Diego, California, USA.
The busts of this design is an extremely neat on modern- looking automobile atted with the four-cylinder engine used in Amerleon Crosley cars, which is mounted at the rear. The body is believed in be fabricated of a glass plastic, and this must obvi- ously be mounted on very robust frame, with a wheel suspension system having special characteristics to take the stress- ex of landing from the air.
rudder and 190 s.p. Lycoming engine and three-binded airscrew. Above the ear are fitted the aircraft main wing, tail plane and Experiments have continued for nearly two years and the first machine to fly crashed and was damaged, when it ran but of fuel,
inents.
Another similar machine is now #ying. Convnir's consider that they will be occupied for several years with further experi- The idea of a flying automobile is very old. As long ago as 1809 a sister journal, The Motor Cycle published an imaginative drawing by F. Gorton Crosby of n flying motor cycle of uncer- tain aerodynpmle qualities. Early putents for similar sort of project were oner taken out by the late Lord Austin: but little success has so far been achieved in building a practical machine for sale on the open market, the Automobile
More new American mabile, companies have, been Wor IN
сете.
At a recent al display at Gatwick nerotrom an American visitor, Mr. Robert Fulton; flew his Airphibian aircraft-car, land- ed, detached the wings, tail assembly und aircrew, and then drove the remaining two-seater car around the airport.
NEW GM MASERATI
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in
has already
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Of inte there has been a grow. ing tendency in the part of performed since World sens lpporting thele ears into the than at any time since 1921, United Kingdom under cover of according to Triptyques International Per- Manufacturers Assn. A total mils to pay title regard to the of 23 new firms have announc conditions and regulations under
plans for which these documents are issued
entering the maturing organisatius by
passenger car field. Trades available for Brituin, Dur Three of the new companies ing the debute it was said that plan "fying cars"-vehicles said the principal offenders were pee, to be equally at home in the air con cuning from tite British or on the highway, Danintens and Colonies and from One company, formed by three In the Maserati factory al joining the side members of The Americas, although those from, Chinese - American -enginéaru, į Modena a new line of Grand the frame about 6in fore and European countries cannot be ena
plane motorized rickshaws to sell Prix cars, lower. sleeker and {
aft of it. Grely excluded.
These persons in China, the AMA reported.
more modern
At the point at which the Most of the rest aim at mak- either come to the United King.
conception
cross tubes join the main frame → dom to establish residence he to ing very small cars, which they than any of their predecessors, behind the oil tank there in setk work or sell their vehicles to announce will sell below $1,000.
has been developed under the further crass bracing tube of motor car dealers or individuals Seven firms in this group plan watchful eye of genial young large diameter, radtüsed
down. for the purpose of acquiring capil- three-wheel
Omar Orsi, the present ward, to clear the al. Brand hand ears have a very
propeller- Two designers racing care padrone
shaft, and from the centre of high vidue in Great Britain and nini al making full-size cars.
this two da ready market there,
The new
straight, tubes splay] engine Ong has u rçar engine design, mate its debut in the hands of outwards to join the rear ende Under the circumstances
the The other plans custom bullt Farinn, und, ut both Geneva and tubes are finally joined together of the side tubes. These side Allance Internationale de Touri cars at about $25.000. Sine bus requested
Monaco, where he was victorious, by a U The Hong-
In 1921 the nation saw a re- has proved! Its speed and reliabl; this at the same time adding to tube of muller diameter, Kong Automobile Association to curd of 89 makes of passenger ty. On July Villoresi unvestigate very earfully
cars produced, according to every
the Ascari handled
and the general stiffness and forming these cars al application from their members AMA.. Today there kro 20 Berne.
rear support for fuel tank and for the issue at foreign Jouring makes in U.S.-two of them The only difference
body. This
frame whole documents for the United King- manufactured for the first time; carner
iron the struction gives the impression of 1our-cylinder. om and to decline the issue of in 1040.
valve, two-stage-blower unit
strength and stillness. is Dopers where there is any risk of
The front suspension is a com- the general suttening and streng-plete departure from earlier Ma.. the motorist not conforming in
thening of such internals as have serati practice, consisting of coll every manner to the Temporary
given evidence of weakness and Importation Regulations.
unreliability. It was
springs in compression, felt
with a there was abundance of
means of adjustment on the The Society of British Aircraft to remain there until the waving allered
present if it could be persuaded upper arm of the suspension by which the-loading can be readily Constructors will hold its ninth of the chequered flag.
The upper suspension Flying Display and Exhibition in This engine has been mounted member is a T-shoped forging. September. The capabilities of the in a new frame, consisting of two euru
mochined all over, carrying Intest British civil and military longitudinally puratiet Lubes
curved projecting arm on An Interesting report, publish-
and engines aircraft
will be do- approximately din diameter, slop upper face of the T which bears the London monstrated in flight, and presenting downwards until opposite the whilst at the bottom end a much recently in
on the top of the coil spring, and Standard tells of aed for Inspection on the ground. rear engine bearer, Yard inspector
who
In addition to the Flying Discontinuing parallel to the ground ured. This, therefore, is a quito longer, triangulated wishbone is uses his own car to follow up in-play: a Static Exhibition on the to a point about in behind the different layout from formation sometimes telephoned aerodrome of
the coil tines, rear axic, under which the frame spring front independent suspen- Bircraft to him late at night. He finds aircraft
engines,
passes, materials and accessories, it better to drive in his, 8 parts, will she
sion of the 14-litre and 2-litre The side members are joined atf the latest de car, which is mere unobtrusivevelopments in British aeronauti-e front by straight trose tube sports Maseratis. than a police ear and he
has cal equipment, and will provide there is a smaller cross tube be-prings are slightly longer and the rear quarter-elliptic dimensions and springing is retained, made several arrests as a result, a complete survey The inspector applied for special ducts of the Aircraft and as-
of the pro-hind the engine, petrol; his application was buck- soclated Industries.
The usual Maxerat practice thun in the earlier models; Very ure splayed outward much more of using the oil tank as a bracer large hydraulic dampers are used for the central portion of the at front and rear. frame is adhered to, tubular cruciform member built into and through the tuba
eci
No Petrol For. Police Inspector
h.p.
Flying Display
show
ed by a high official at the Yard. The Display will be held during The application jars been turn-the second week in September, at ed down on the ground that the the Royal Aircraft Establishment, use for which he wants the car Farnborough, Hants.
is not essential!
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