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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 15, 1949.
GILMANS
ANNOUNCE THEIR
1949
MOTOR SHOW
displaying
HUMBER HILLMAN SUNBEAM TALBOT
CARS
JANUARY 21ST 28TH
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AT THEIR SHOWROOMS
132 NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON. TELEPHONES 58800 AND 56789,
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“75” SİX LIGHT SALOON
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ot
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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
MEETS
NEW MG TOURER AMERICAN EXPORT NEEDS
Of Americans it has baon said, that the mon pay for
their cars but the women buy thom. To the young American with a wife and small family, thon, the famous MG Midget may be highly dosirable but is, nevertheless, unattainable. He must have four scats.
This was confirmed by Mr. S. V. Smith and Mr. Donald Harrison, respectively Oxford Regional Director and Sale Director of the Nuffield-Or- ganisation, an a rēcēnt visit to the U.S.A. and. Canada.
On their return, the design, Bucket-type seats in "front, hinged and construction of on open at their forward ends, tip up and four-seater touring car on the give access, through the two wide- M.G. 1 litre chassis was put doors, to the rear seats. These are of ample width and, being in hand,
forward of the rear axle, it has been possible to make them deep and low.
The chawals Is similar in most respects to that used in the Series
% litre Saloon, with The exceptions that the engine is fitted with twin carburetters and the steering and controls are on theị left.
All-weather protection ir given by 20 Bally operated folding hood which, when down, disappears behind the rexe seat and le covered by a smat! detachable tonneau
rained, conjunction with able rigid side-curtains, com- plete protection from wind and rain is afforded whilst retain ing excellent vision,
cover.
When
neat
This view of the 11⁄4-litre MG Tourer shows the dashboard with large speedometer and revolution counter. The windscreen may be folded flat in fine weather, and di rectional Indicators of the flashing type ere provided in the rear winga, and by dual flamant bulbs In the front wing lamps.
New
in Bodies of the
Look Motorcars
new
British for the passengers, and assist in
VAUXHALL
OFFERS THE NEW
VELOX
6-cyl. 2-litro
WYVERN
4-cyl. 11⁄2 litró
Two elegant products of Vauxhall
ingenuity and experience-
VELOX
75 MPH, 25-28 MPG. Those are the figures, ....see the Car! Tho' roomy Velox gives out- standing performance, with unusual economy;
WYVERN
Gives you 33-35 M.P.G., almost Identical in smart appearance with the Velox. Wyvern
"Is built for outstanding
economy with unusual performance.
the detach motorcars inve the "New lo generel smooth-line design, CHINA INTERNATIONAL MOTORS LTD.
Unchanged is the exceptionally) Ught and stifft electrically welded steel chassis frame, underslung under the rear axle and terminat- ed, at its forward end, by a very rigid boxed cross-member which carries wishbone mountings of the independently suspended For fine-weather motoring, the front wheels. Here, the upper windscreen may be folded dot and, wishbones Bre themselves the when only two scats are in use,
For Fine-Weather Motoring
For fine-weather motoring, the windscreen of the new 14-litre MG Tourer 'may be folded flat. Should the sun be unbearably hot, the hood may be erected and the rear panel romoved by means of two zip fasteners to provide a free cir. culation of air.
sents rear
one
Disc-wheels. Rapid spreadi
SALES
of this type is logical. They are 103 Bank of East Asia Bldg., casier to clean, and look nenter.
Other exterior amenities. Thero
Look," but it is no fashion-one of whose nima is to reduce creating Dior who designed wind-roar while travelling. them. Even though specialist motor firm have ask- ed a West End woman couturier to assist them, the designs as a whole have a severely prac-is an increased number of twin- ⚫tical basis.
and more prominent-rear lamps, Today's new appearance is a making cars more recognisable natural result of evolution In when they are being overtaken at motorgar design, just as surely or night. there has been a steady change u Door handles are retiring into the design of cycles, aircraft, recesses and thus cannot catch sawing machines, electric irons, at frocks or tug ht sleeves, and, and furniture.
with disappearing door hinges, make a contribution to long wind noise.
are completely. covered by an additional tonnoau cover. Should the sun be unbear ably hot, the hood may be erected and the rear panel removed by means of two zip-fasteners provide a free circulation of alṛ.
ΠΙΠΕ of the hydraulic shock, the absorbers, while the tower ones carry the massive coli springs.
Steering is effected by univer- sally jointed extension from the end of a rack, which lies trans- versely in the frame and is uctuated by a pinion on the bottom of the steering column.
Alm of the car dealgner le still more room and comfort, with increasi
symmetry and
Interior changes. Of these the no Increase in weight. In short, marked adoption of under-the beauty and true utlilty as per steering wheel gear-change takes fectly combined as possible. top place, The benefits are said If there had not been a war- to be clearing of the floor of the time suspension of design, then obstructing gear lover, some of to-day's cam would have ability to perform tho change without lifting a hand from the
been less noticeable
to some
for
and the
motoriais, The modern note would steering wheel. One-piece front
more seats: approached
comeяicable proposition.
have
gradually. suspension of design; |
as it turned out, was not valueless,
The machinery in the car factories
that turned out the bodies and
trolled
passengers Bow
of thought has gone inlu improvements, fienters and are now popular: cara have radio .with
other parts. was used all through penkers in front and roar, and the war, mostly making for the some of the rear units can be con- Services. It wore out.
for
selectivity and tone; now machinery has taken radlo receivers are no longer add- design and entirely fresh ed to instrument panels, the carz Bre on exhibition 45 A aro designed for rapid radio fit-
ting: they are in effect bullt in. Wider Cars
its
result.
And Britain needed this ability, world with new-looking motorcars. wider and lower overall, with so soon after the war to sweep the It is clear cars are becoming
The world is Britain is
car-hungry, and every effort being made to pre- Join in happy union.
export-hungry. Both serve, and even improve, forward visibility. This is commendable; it Now Designs
reauita in better roadability, fasz noise while travelling, and more Naw, about the new
room inside. Nothing very Dlor Take:
about that is there?" Running-boards, These
Instruments are as used on the "TC" Midget, and Include a five- Inch speedometer and similar re- volution counter, a clock, on am- 13:2 meter, oil pressure gauge and
J
4
designs.
have
And the care of the 1960 Show
vanished. Now they are inside and is to take another
narrower. Soon
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For Export The engine is of typical MC fuel level gauge. Flashing direc- the doors, and
John dosign
Cobb's "Railton- with overhead volves tion indicators, in the American they may go altogether,
What
glance was their original func Special" land-speed record car. style, are provided by lights in operated by push-rods. The four housings in the rear wings, and lon? To allow women and the in- But for the long, streamlined tall, 26, Nathan Itoad. cylinders of bore 66.5 mm, and by dual bulbs in the front wing-firm to step into their high horse the stroke 30 mm. give a capacity of lamps.
carriages with all propriety and the general look is not far removed Both headlamps have 1.250 c.c. fed from twin SU semi-double Alaments to give vertical unaided. Horse-drawn carriages this, the first post-war Motor from that of many of the curs at downdraught carburetters as used dipping.
became lower-built, then came the Show. One casential difference in on the Series "TC" Midget. As
Horseless-carriage, or the motor that his driving position, of the car is designed primarily for
car. the export market, a large capacity
course, was forward of the en- This still had the "mounting oll-bath air cleaner and silencer
stop."
gines. Is this, then, the next are fitted.
big change to come in motorcar Next the ear designers divided design? their vehicles into two compart monts to allow four seats, and put they arrive-will certainly allow England's motor-roads--when a roof on. Two mounting stops, cruising speeds of 80-90 m.p.h. or running boards, мото then Forward visibility on such roads nebdad. So they joined them into will be vital to safety. one long step, And the Tsultant running-board held on for years.
Built to meet an American need, this car will undoubtedly appeal to many Britons, is an unfor- tunate but inevitable outcome of present conditions that they must On such a chasis is mounted a be content, for the time being at
four-seater open
body. all events, to view it at a distance.
full
New Beauty for your car.
JOHNSON'S
SPECIAL
Automobile WAX
S.C.JOHNSON & SON PTY. LTD. WORLD'S LARGEST MAKERS OF POLISHES
the
Monte Carlo
If all goes well, the claselo Monte Carlo Rally will begin.on January 24.
But now cars are a low, women are only in danger of knocking off 'thoir: hals as they: enter. Bo why should they 'not] tep straight on to the floor of
car?. Result: quito suddenly, modern car appears as a lowland This midwinter adventure has wide vehicle Advantage? It is been greatly changed. It will be two-fold. There is more, internat run under the regulations for the which in small-to-medium 1048 event, which was never hold site cars la highly important. (In Now the course. -(about 1,900
and finishes miles) starts small cate perch Monte Carlo and rune in a sort of `many. Dow
can now elt without touching other, formerly
circular tour through Switzerland, often an exclusive
Belgian feature of limousines) The other Luxembourg, Holland, advantage is that weight of the loaded car tends to spread over wider area, leading to more stab! lity in performance,
and France.
at
routes which join in at intervals, There are additional tangential starting from Glasgow, Prague, di Florence, Oslo, Stockholm and Recessed hoadlamps. Some Linbon, all routes being about the motorist-acatholes bellovo the bold same length and all carrying 1,000 ly attached, headlamp was beaut marks, Standard closed cars alone fal, and regret its passlag. But are eligible...
not many armendages' are beauti
Attached. headlamps were
ful
firent soful, you, but they did not]
a car.design.
add to the beauty.of
Big advantage of the recessed lamp that vibration cannot tilt
·TYRES DRIVEN
· OVER NAILS
Care fitted with the now Gond it and thus lead to other road rich tubeless tyres were driven. usors, being blinded at night, over in spike planted in the Small advantages-loss chromium rondway at a demonstration of to clean,, and the car's wind re- the new tyres in Akron, Ohio. It kistance Is Lowered
Bulit in wings. Ever since stated that they retained their | origirial-air prqasuro, although, the motorcarsware Invented their spikes pierced the tyresy Sujudgards" have soldom guarded The tubeless tyronara bolag against mud. Wat weather motor tel out on polled, cats, laxis, and ing whi no lodger plaster cars salocled private cars in Cincinnati with a thick film of mudagrass and Indianapolis, They will be Downwardloping bonnete. They sold in other parts of the United tvo, belles command of the rond States, pe sodio, any production
KOWLOON,
Tels. 50849 & 57250
CARS of DISTINCTION
Rolls Royce Sunbeam Talbot
Bentley Jaguar
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