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CONTINUING 16 YEARS OF LEADERSHIP
THE
''THE' CHINA 'MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1948.
Magnificent Minx
WITH SYNCHROMATIC' FINGER - TIP
GEARCHANGE
in conjunction with new fully proved, 4-speed smooth action crash-proof Synchromesh Gearbox
Distinguished nese appentaser Lockheed hydraulic 2 leading shoe
brakes
Everything -bonnet, interior, luggage- undre lock and key Exceptional enclosed lugengr Keramitandeler
Long bram sealed sellectos hend. Jumpa Powered by the famous fully praved Hillman Minu engine
Attractive strong ret-scstiva
bumpers at front and rear
Ex-clean disc wheels
Highly attractive Interior design with stylish faola panel in jewellescent ging
New 3-spoke spring streeing wheel provides clear view of instrument panct
Easi-lift safety' bonnet locked from Inside ear
Wide are safety tlalon dust screen wipers with single master rontrak Quick action” positive location, $ corner jacking systems Driving rat (milly adjustable for height and leg roun
PLUS the reliability, performance, egonomy and enm- fart resulting from 16 yeard continuous development
HILLMAN MINX
A car with a great past, and a great future
GILMAN & COMPANY LTD. MOTOR DEPARTMENT
132 Nathan Road Telephone 56789-58800
PACEPRODUCTORABILI ROOTE SONG HD113094
New Beauty for your car
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S.C.JOHNSON & SON PTY LTD. WORLD'S LARGEST MAKERS OF POLISHES,
MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS CALM, QUICK, COMFORTABLE IS THE NEW MORRIS OXFORD
The Nuffield Organisation claims to have dipped
doop into its rasources with skill, with experi- onco, for performance, comfort and looks to produce the now Morris Oxford.
Proved under exacting overseas conditions, the Ox- ford is now being produced in Britain in quantity. Up-to-the minute design joins with great economic and technical resources to en- able the Organisation to claim utter reliability with a safe sure performance for their new model.
Wind-cheating lines comblar |
car
Morris Minor
with inter-axle seating, torsion Providing ribow room insido bar Suspension and a lively the body to an extent unparalle- power unit to give passengers led in the small car field, the new calm, quick, comfortable eight h.p. Morris Minor offers less ride. It is a roomy
with resistance to the air, is lighter three place seats front
and than its predecessor, in faster and reur. There is no chassis--nono-even more economical.
Improved methods of packing construction how eliminated the engine have made it possible separation of body and chassis, to provide inter-axlo seating, yet With all this there is nothing the Minor gives five to six inches untried, nothing which is not the more leg room front and rear than sinnily recognisable as the best in the Morris 8. three inches more in British automoblie engineering. usuable width, and four inches from the luxury finish and Bings greater width over the rear sent, to the clean lines: from engine without Appreciably increasing Recensibility to steering-column the length over that of the old Tear shift.
The exceptional body width of the Minor means the adop tion of unusual proportions of track to wheelbase (80 5/16) "and 86" respectively).
Economical
*8*.
THE NEW MORRIS. OXFORD, as with other British cars of, the present, la a radical departure, both in design and per- formance from the car of the anme name we onda knew. Graceful and powerful at the same time, la an up-to-the- minute example of Britain's progress,
HIGH PRICES ARE A SNAG
Low petrol consumption and
ANTI-THEFT
DEVICE
A feature of the anti-theft de-
The quiet-running low-strygend 13.4 hp. side-valve engine of the Oxford ng been made as ecomu- mical as possible over the whole speed range. Such is the power- Rack and pinion steering gives compact size are two of the vice produced by Automatic weight rado of the car that, ron- perfect steering geometry, reduc-features which are helping to Ignition Locke 160, Newbridge bined with the streamiine quai-Ing tyre, wear since the front sell British cars in the United; fond, Bath, Somerset, is that the tlou of the aerodynamie bull, wheels are not artifically steered States, according to a report on car owner cannot forget to sel the American market for Bri- it as it automaticilly comes into
Bench-type seats front and rear in the Merrie Oxford at- low five or six people to be carried in comfort. And the 13.4 h.p. engine will not balk at the load" alther."
The device consists of a tele-
tish cars, prepared by the Ex- operation as soon as the ignition port Promotion Department of has been switched off. the Board of Trade.
Comparable models from other foreign countries do not enjoy the respect shown to British products, owing to their less attractive finish and qualities.
in
phone-type relay wired up to the soil. the contact breaker and the horn. If an unauthorised person attempts to start the car he will set the horn working as soon
the Ignition. he witches on Breaking the horn wiring circuit will not put the device out of action and even if a wire is con- nected direct from the bailery to the coll the car still cannot be started.
the
Price of the British product is itemised as a particular handicap to increased sales, although the small And cheaper American Crosley and Bantam are not re- garded as serious competitors.
Another source states that South Africa, where conditions and roads are very bad, post-war All that the rightful owner has American cars on the road "with their over-chromed and massive switch that trips the relay and to do is to press a concealed front enda, do not stand up to allows the car to be started in rough usuge.
"One sees on the road-today forkels to press the switch
normal the
way, If the owner ways the writer, "Americah cars) with their door handles at attending of the horn will remind angles and strips of chromium him. Both the lock and switch on the sides of their wings and can be mounted practically any where in the car so that the ob doors falling off for no ap. ject of the device would not parent reason. "Britain has a good market in! cessarily be defeated by anyone South Africa, but prices must
familiar with its working. petrol consumption at the de-over bumps and irregularities, come down. The new Standard Vanguard and Austin' A 40's are sighed maximum of 70 m.p.h, is no There wheels are also arranged higher than in nara 10 hp. car to swivel through a very wile the Lype of car we want-modern
BRIBES FOR NEW travelling at 63 m.p.h.
angle, giving a smaller turning in appearance, but not jammed The bench-type scat's en- circle and greater manoeuvrability, full of new-fangled devices-but
CAR DELIVERIES able 5/8 passengers to he accom.) All the steel metal front of the the prices are high. If prices: modated between the axles. A Minor except the wings forms the were brought down more people
The sales manager of a garage steering column grar chift and a turret of the ear and, when lift would buy British cars.
was recently nod handbrake lever mounted undered, discloses the entire power unit conditioning and radio are two in England. the instrument panel leave the and accessories, so that groping much-wanted features in cars for £50 and 10 guineas costs under front unencumbered, while
the Bribery and Corruption Acti the for the dipstick and similar "blind" South Africa."
(Price of the Vanguard in for accepting, bribes to influence hypold-type back axle perralls operations are finally abolished. the rear passengers to move their An additional refinement in the South Africa in £806, according the sales and deliveries of now feet freely. unrestricted by field oflow-priced
the to the magazine "Autocar".) awkward hollows and tunnels. A provision of automatic under-ban- though the whole car-is slung net illumination when the park- low-on-the-read for stability and ing lights are on. safety, there is still plenty of
ground clearance.
cars is
Morris "Six"
The first Morris six-cylinder: Four people can easily stow car to be produced for 10 years, thair, personal luggage in the is a fast, long distance touring 10 cubic fact of storage space | saloon with a 22 litre, flexibly provided in the rear boot which † mounted overhead- camshaft en-
automatically Huminated gine, of an almost "square" de when the parking lights are on sign with sturdy reciprocating and the cover raland.
parts and a low piston speed.
Excellent visibility is attained by keeping the bannet as short as posible, and by limiting the door frame widths to produce narrow body pillars.
Draught and dust excluders are fitted to the saloon, and a special coating sprayed on the Inalde of the all-stat body absorba road notie.
Scleatine distribution of the Driving comfort is assured by wolght hus resulted in increased good visibility, a steering column rond-holding ability allowing the gear shift, a tubular construction front brakes to play a greater front seat with tension springing, part in stopping the car, thus and an indirectly illuminated in- making for improved stability un-strument panel.
der all running conditions. Large Light; accurate steering is given area drums are fitted in the front by à cam gear steering system brakes, and double-leading-edge and a speclül. design of divided shoes are provided there.
track red linkages.
Air-
cark,
See the
NEW '49 FORD
MADE IN DRITAIN
ULA E D
DESIGNED FOR THE WORLD.
The STANDARD Vanguard
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