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Owing to unavoidable circumstances the HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION RALLY
previously announced for Sunday, 13th, February, is POSTPONED.
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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
Automobile Association Rally Postponed
Those motorista and mam- bars, who were looking for- ward to the Hong Kong Automobile Association's" first post-war rally at Kam Tin next Bunday, February 13, will be disappointed to learn that this most suitabja sita has in the past few weake baen tilfod over for paddy field.
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culty in finding a multablo *pato and now this in no Longer available, tho pre- posed rally will have to be postponed.
An area of #t least 200x300 yarda La needed And if any motorist during his trayals over the Island or New Territories, has seen a prospectiva site, it would be appreciated if this fact could be passed on to the Editor.
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For the first time in history, a standard production model Saloon oar covers 100 miles an hour. The car, the new Healey, had it's engine sealed by R.A.C. officials in England ze standard unit. At the and of its hour run at Montihery, the French Brooklande, the car had covered 101.7 miles from a standing start, and 103.76 miles from a flying start. It wa officialy timed by timekeepers of the Automobile Club de France. Driver of the New Bri tish Healey Roadster was 'W/C de T. H. Wisdom.
Talking Traffic Signal
The frat talking traffic light signal, has been denton- strated at Hayes, England by the Electrical and Musical industries of Hayes, Middlesex.
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This apparatus, a Bristish development, an auto- matic dovico, operating independently or in conjuction with traffle lights, which gives spoken warnings to pedes- trians at road crossings.
One typical message given at the demonstration was: "Before crossing look right, look left, look right again. Thank you."
The apparatus is compact, waterproof, weighs appro ximately 30 pounds and is contained in a box fixed to the tup of a signal post. It can operate elther alone, with tim- Ing device, or in synchronous working with normal traffic signals.
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The new signal does not shout its Instructions. quietly coaxes people across the road or warns them of the need for looking left and right before stepping off the kerb. The spoken messages are repreduced by a magnetle tape less than two yards long, and the compact mechanism Is Incorporated for automatic repetition.
Automatic Control Of A Car
of
governor
and engine idling speed: ~
MOTOR SHOW REVELATIONS
More than half-a-million people paid a visit to Bri-
·tain's first post-war Motor show hold in Lon don.
This attendance of 562,954 was a record one, for the pre-war record only reached the figure of 315,000.
put, The Morris wha
coma
While 3,000 buyers from of Perspex panels. Even the overseas visited the Show, re- window winding mechanism could presentation on the exhibition clearly be seen." side by European countries was duced for export only, the S.M. Another new car has been pro- disappointing. Only half-a-
1,500 medel Singer with an ever. dozen French and Italian com-head camshaft engine,
a four- panies exhibited, and even cylinder developing nearly 60 h.p. their cars had already been Here again the mechanical dotalis shown to the public at previous wer exposed by a chassis which European shows. Ten differ- enabled pho visitor to neo the ent United States firms put clever Independent. suspension which particular care their cars on display, but these, system in too, with the exception of the had been take to provide steadiness under the action of the brakes, new Ford-Mercury-Lincoln mo- and the complete carn have body- dels, were familiar types, which, work of modern styling.
The
stiso made its It is obvious that most en- In other words the increase of apart from minor changes in
Ene gineers, are, working to make engine speed as the throttle opens the styling, have been in pro- Brat Show appearance in
land, although it has previously the control of a car more auto- through the governor and the servo
automatically engages the clutch duction for many years.
By contrast, the United King become well known at Continental matic in order to relieve the motor. The clutch is held out by duced no fewer than 10 brand new valve engine develops nearly 20 dom automobile industry pro- exhibitions. The. 2-litre overhand driver of all possible work. a strong cell spring which over-
The Laystail Engineering Com-rides the engagement spring of the Yes Minor, listed at £280 to outstanding appearance, with first
'and this is from the 1-litre an sa car of altogether pany have evolved what is termed clutch until its pressure le balancon the 130 b.h.p. 2-litre Frazer Nash, class road holding and sold at s
Morris Autoclutch, which
makes and then overcome by the action.
low a prica In competition
that it has already bo- clutch control automatic, leaving of the servo motor. If the engine which, was der £2,000
firm favourite with over- the driver to operate the brake switched off and stationary, form at just
a sensational seas buyers. and throttle pedals while the therefore, the clutch is always clutch itself is controlled by a in which position it remains at success, deservedly so, for it com- The Jowett Javelin was one of bines a clever body design offering the most original designa of--tha combination hydraulic mechanism.
and low Show, the engine having. Your
and governor
with auch ad opposed cylindere is there solely wind resistance
being The governor, which is driven od to the govornom connect the latest appearance
as mounted in front of the wheels. by the belt used normally for the to control the engagement of the vanced mechanical features
clutch, after he manner of
and chassis con- This makes it possible to utilise fan and dynamo, is connected to a
dash-one-piece body thin-wall cylinder and causes this pot. Oll is supplied from the oil struction, torsion bar suspension every inch of the chaanly spaco
for cylinder to move axially,
and rack and pinion steering.
carrying passengers, and tor- First pump of the engine.
This car
two bigger alon bar suspension When changing gear the driver
mado la movement of the cylinder expels releases the throttle pedal, then brothers, one a six-cylinder with appearance again on this model. oli therein through a small port in operates and
In overhead. camshaft engine,
vivid contrast with the much the same way as oil is ex-
overriding control by an pelled as the piston or paddle of a mes
means of button or trigger on which also has the same suspon latest popular types designed for the gear lever which switches cur- alon system, and two close romass production were the mimost Further movement closes the rent to a solenoid. The solenold lations, a four and a six-cylinder, hand-made aristocrats designed port so that the cylinder
on-controls a valve in the servo motor produced in the allied Wolseley particularly for the highest affiel- deavours to
the oil and rolenses the serve motor pls- factory, both of which also have ency in running or the extreme compress against the head of
ton, whereupon the clutch is dis- O.H. camshaft engines and the performance which makes them + piston. Consequently the piston begins to engaged. The gear change is same clever layout. for locating suitable for competition use. movo and does so until a ball valve then effected in the ordinary way, the front wheels. hold in it contacts a stationary rod, and when the lever is home the
Designed For Exporter exhibited some magnificent As a result the ball valve is forced trigger or button on it is released
and the clutoh from its scat whereupon ell flows
automatically
Austin offer a rather more concars in the first category, and, in freely, allowing a lever
engages. There is an adjustment servative style in engineering with conjunction with specialised coach governor casing to move a silde which controls the moment at four-cylinder engines developing builders, offer body styles to ault valve which is
is part of the hydrau-which the clutch is engaged,
between 40 and 00 b.h.p, the every taste. These range from 7- With this mechanism all At that point, ail under pressure in the earvo driver has to do is to control the vertible car of dramatic appear traditional lines to four-senter. with entirely latter powering a four-seater con- seator limousines motor moves a large piston end-car with the throttle and brake. art
ance. This is specifically design-two-door waloons with built-in wise in its cylinder, which move when the machine comes to rated for export with left-hand drive handlamps and wings moulded into ment engages the clutch through it no longer necessary hear and a very high top gear so that the body in true 1949 fashion a normal lever and rod connection. has to restart, opening the throttle fast ran when road speeds of Bristol 2-litre represented.
the clutch pedal. When the car the angine never turns excessively The Lagonda 2-litre and the
lic servo
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To rostart on a gradient the car in held by the brakes, the throttle pedal is pushed forward, the brakes are released and the ear moves away at once. It is pos sible to double-declutch by suitably forward with entirely now four-light, but very strong v manipulating the control trigger man with a 85 hp, engine of 12 by agreement on
cylinder side-valve cars, a Hill-designed and built by on the gear lever.
a well-known Variation in the viscosity of the tres capacity and a Humber with Kaliau system invented by Legrers oll owing to temperature changes of these have coll springs for the alon bar springs at the back, and 2-litro 56 Bhp engine. Both Touring. Both these cans use tor> dose not appear `to` vàry Tho |
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EO and 00 m.ph. are medium-sized edition of the larger sustained. The top rises or falls on voiture de grande luxe. In both pressure of a button, and the car casos they have six-cylinder en- was displayed on a largo diameter ginos developing
about 100
h.p. turntable which attracted an ad- with facilned overhead valvos; the thiring throng....
Lagonda offering an exceptionally The Rootes Group also came roomy body, and the Bristol, a
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Frazer Nash Hoaloy, Aston
moment when the clutch engages, independently suspended front and the Lagonda was the only but it is necessary to remorset wheels, and very happy styling in model exhibited with independent that the ear lover must be moved which the modern one-piece form, wurpenalon on all four wheel, 1o neutral before the engine is which embraces both started as the engine may have mudguarde is married body and
and Jaguar all abowed to run at a speed higher than that what roduced scala. The Hillman developing between 100 and 160 tional radiator cowl on a some two-seater care with engines for slow running for a sufflelent.. period to warm up: There is a Company showed, this car bit.p.and theso offered a fundard elight increase in the load on the cutaway, model, in which pract of performance comparable with clutch withdrawal, mechanila,, Ically, every part was sectioned, the highest speed models made, by
Normally, the Layetall device in solidity being restored by the use European countries.
fitted to the car leaving all con-
trols as they were so that the
clutch pedal can be used iz really
required. A point in favour of the The Automotive Directory--1949
Autoclutch in the engine
not stall the brakes are applied suddenly and the car brought to standstill. A second point is kla |‚valùs, to disabled driver
The "device" sinelf::conia",
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