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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS 'ONE WORLD' MORE OBVIOUS SHOW THAN IN CHAILLOT
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(By VOTNEY D. HURD)
The newest automobiles from all over the world met
in assembly in Paris carly in October and show- - ed perhaps moro progress in arriving at a com- mon viewpoint than the United Nations moot- ing at the Palais de Chaillot.
Like the nations represented at Chaillot, the cars at the Paris Auto Salon were true exponents of their nationalism, a constructive nationalism in this case, but one seeking dollar markets, never- theless.
But this very fuetur of seek- | To Europo with its ng a common market has hud streets and high-crowned
rrow ronds
he same effect up the United wide American cars have
proved a problem. Vations, seeking a conamon vorki understanding.
The French-made Ford
ap- pears to have arrived at a mass The Amurients had yielded on production compromise.
It has ter post f Juster centres of a lower chasis than either Ford The French hind vielfest for Mercury, but hna modified 20 the excessive Ston-from of the front Krill, since so match
year The Stullans chrome in not popular in Europe. 201 simplfied Their rendy The result is a wide, but not for
lines a bit mure in the wide and low rar, whleb imple
goca wkleesided Amorlem direction. ns far as possible in this direc- į
Hon for Europenu” work.
British Yield Most
The Bitish hal yielded most sa the marked change from their previoit Mos which rigidly followed deges of the 1930's
* The name of the new French Ford is Vedatte, to set apart from the American Ford.
The French, for the first time since the war, have several cars
A fixed head coupe in two shades of blue.by Saoutchik
On the Lego Record Talbot. Interior Attinge are gold-plated.
and in a quiet British way had especially designed for the times. moved toward the Ide.
run-Citroen has come out with a l ning-bourless models of the Americans.,
To put it another way, you,
He four-senter front wheel drive ear with a two-cylinder air cool- el motor.
can buy and drive almost any It has not even a starter, but by hand front the of the cars you find and takes started
them to neighbouring coun- driver's seat. Independent tur- tries without feeling you are slon sprung wheels give it a very and it is aranzingly departing too far from the nor easy ride.
economical. The сог sells for nial trend, wherever you land
around US$500. It can be mass such a low price as to bring motoring to the com. noti тап,
Teardrop Version
But reports of increasing in-produced at |surance rates and higher repair costs now coming from the Unit- ed Stater,
the result of ellminating fenders and running boards, only backs up the curs mont European fooling that Amerii nu CAN In seeking the while ling have gone only
half way,
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Peugeot has a genuinely new car, the 203, which 18 model- the American CHTS after of the "prowide-side" period. has been thoroughly designe! for ride, for nølte suppression, thue made themselves much less and is probably as near like a attractivo to foreign markets. small American car as could be
Further they had for the first
It has been, in fact, only the tre- found, outside the Vedette. mendous shortage cars by a war-wrecked Europe that has lven American cars such pro- minence.
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Outstanding coachwork exhibit at the Paris Auto Salon was the Bentley Mark VI two door coupe by Pinin Farina (black, with blue interior) shown on the Bentley stand.
MARATHON POSTPONED
CARS FOR THE DISABLED
The Arst four of the first order, for 1,000 Furd Anglia B h.p cars specially
the ndapted to needs of disabled ex-serviremon and ordered for the Ministry of Pensions, left the Ford Works, Dagenham, recently.
To greet the King if he had visited Australia next year, an 8,000-mile Marathon of motor- ials, motorcyclists and cyclists across the Australian continent was proposed to the Prime Minis- ler. Mr. Chifley, by the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., of Australia,i who organised a similar event arrangements so that the front In 1912.
The cars have special seating
seats can be slid right back to enable entry and exit where the A drivers have artificial limbs. large number of the cars will be filled with special clutch, Be- celerntor And broke controls
Ninety-six Motorists in 48 cars, 150 motorcyclists, and 140 cyclists would have taken part in a relay contest, setting out for Canberra From Darwin in the North, Perth in the West and placed beneath the steering Cairns in the North East.
wheel.
Each of the three divisions would have carried a scroll for
mayoral greetings from all cities highway conditions of the routes and towns on the way,
The in 1012 the cyclists were 0 hrs couriers would have been handi- 18 mins. ahead of the motor. cupped according to their aver- cyclists and the first que arrives age speed capabilities and the 64 ani, istor,
At The Bicycle Show.
Most expensive motor cycle at the 24th Bleyale and Mo. tor Cycle Show in London recently was the 1,000 ce Black Lightning Racing Rapid shown above, an H.R.D. product.
The Renault
company ir concentrating on its litle "four passenger motor-in-rear job of
Among developņients noticed last year. Pashard, having at the recent International made the widest, largest, and Bicycle And Motor Cycle Show
riding most Fuxurlaus
of in London, was a new system French cars before the war of constructing bicycle frames now la making one of the
by joining the tubes electrically smallest, the “Dyna."
without lugs. This means thut the lug, which normally con- tains the end of the tube and supports the whole, can be dis- pensed with altogether.
In addition to its standard model Panhard builds a teardrop version, modelled after an alt- plane, which is too bizarre to be widely accepted, huf an Interest- Ing move from which modifies tion could be effectively devel aped.
The iquovation certainly makes for neatness in the
Oppearance
of the bicycle, and suves bath
alzed popular machines, thare are Also 1,000 c.. designs, one of which to ald to be "the world's fastest standard mo- tor-cycle,
Soma aldecars are exceptionally roomg: one сал take an adult and three chil-
dron, and another (for com marcial use) i as big as smail van.
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In 1938 manufacturers in Bri- tain produced 1,500,000 bicycles, of which about 500,000 went oversens. Now Britain Is making 2,750,000 bicycles year of steel and time in mamifacture, which 1,750,000 orc exported. Only one operation is needed The cycle and motor-cycle Indus- The Shineg five has become Instend.of five (as in the cast-lug tries of Britain are now holding the Simen slx, in a version with system) and this operation takes first place in world production. more American-type lines, This four-and-a-half minutes (compar- compared with second place in popular little two passenger cured with 25). The width of the 1938, has been the answer to many tubes cap also be reduced. French people's needs in the pounds of steel can be saved on postwar years when gasoline has ench bicycle and this means been at a premium in quantity two pounds less to push. and price. The new version is a nice dressing up of an "alder model.
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Prices Miss Market
The British have excellent models, particularly those de *Bigned to catch the dollar export märket. * But their prices, like those of the Kallan and larger French cars uro too high from the general American point of view,
Two
Light alloys are used no ex-) modals: tensively in the now that the only parts still ex- clusively of steel aro spokes and ball-bearings, Weights have tumbled down. A com- bination of all the tightest nt. tings soon at the show would prodliče A
sound bicycle
.-
weighing only soma 132
poundi. Even the standard machine is appreciably lighter tharf it used to be owing to the more extensive und of light al- loys,
inability of European na tional groups to concentrate, en
Britain's new blcyclea bru fawor makes so pa to get hat brighter in colour than they used ter mama production, is the chlaf to be: hlany more parts, too, are dimculty. Where the United pinted, Brakes are stronger and States, has soms 18- maken, the tyrps"; "faster. Dynamo scis British, with one third the po- have a much higher output.- pulation, have' 35.
Export demands, have resulted In the production of many dif- The Italians aro conceded to ferent types of cycle with Have about the best all-around specifle features. The Raleigh engineering and body, work com- group, for example, have to bined. Somo of their models make over 500 different types. bave become so low that they 90 kinds of frames, and 1.500 to are bizarre.. But they are an 2,000 different components: effective proof of how to build low cars.
· The : comfort of the rider' has. been given more 'attention by makes of both bleyeles....ond One of the lowest gains its c-motor-cycles. Lightweight motor- fects with a goodly amount of cycles of 08 cubic centimetres Interior room," and with little in capaclist, and one horvo powor dication that any compromiso are as simple to ride as a bicycle. was effected to gain the result. "Boelde a variety of medium
2"join, trekta i 'd. Dan Diw
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