BRITAIN'S MOST EXCLUSIVE LIGHT CARS
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1940.
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PERFORMANCE
AND
BEAUTY
These new sports cars of great beauty are powered by 0.1,V engines of - proved rehability, going vivid acceleration and are capable of maintaining high causing speeds with absolute safety and comfort Features include Synchromatic finger-tip geat contreš, 1,ockheed hydranke brakes, Opticurve windscreen, attractive interior stybag and generous huggage accommodation There are two body styles, Sporty Saloon and Sports Convertible Coupe
The New
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FOR
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Cadillac
1949
PRESENTS ITS GREATEST ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT IN 45 YEARS
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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
WIDE VARIETY OF MOTOR CYCLES
Designers Are Slaves
Of Fashion?
Now that the excilement of the recent Show at Earls Court has cooled down, second thoughts for some of us, at any rate, appears to boil down to this: the most obvious feature of the display of new models was akin to a fashion stow, with the accent en "stream- lining," mouth-organ radiator grilles, sunk head lights, bench- lype front seats and steering- column-mounted gear levers.
Quite good fun really, but no inore essentially advances in the art than longer skirts and bustles In feminine attire could claim to represent anything beyond being diferent Irgin what tailoring houses offered previously,
All Sizes, Designs Shown In London
Visitors to the Bicycle and Motor Cyclo Show, which was held in London recently, were impressed by the wide range of machines designed to suit all purses and all tastes.
Between the tiny Corgi folding model on the one
hand and the 150 m.p.h. H. R. D. Black Light- ning racing machine on the other, there were motor cycles of all sizes and designs.
a sports machine. example
Lanchester Cars
China Motor Agencies & Bale Co. local agents for Lanchester · cars, ragret to
have to increase the pride in by £30 from Hona -Kong March 1, "The now prica therefore be HK$11.- 360. The increase has been due to circumstances beyond their control
will
Rust-Proof Cars
London, January 20.
Many factories in Britain H.R.D., a very compact V-twin have decided to cater for those which, with its dual carburetors, who would not normally ride the fastest machine available anything
Shown in approximating to any country today,
The best three models, the "Black Shadow"
In a big dipper, 300 feet long. version attracts attention by ita
at Birmingham, England, the shown WDS the ebony-finished power unit, Also
Standard Motor Company is pro entirely new 150 cc. Velocette, listed is a replica of the machineducing the world's first rust-proof which, with its spring figure, which recently put the American
curs. This is a development in the shuft drive, water cooled en-speed record up to 150 m.p.h. gine, leg shields, pannier bags
Generally speaking, ql engines production of automobiles, which and even a glove compartment below 200 e.c. (except the little has not yet been achieved in any other country. At present, only Velocette) were air-cooled, single- in the top of the pressed-steel cylinder two-strokes, and above bodies for the Standard Vanguard, Consider streamlining: As easily cleaned frame, has been that size were 0.1.V. four-strokes, and frames, are being treated by together with complete chassta pointed out in "The Motor? for designed from stem to stern to mostly single-cylinder, but with Fisher and Ludlow Limited in August 18 lost, in the article on
provide comfortable quiet the side-by-side twin more widely
their 45-acre factory at Castle wind-tunnel tests with u model
Several new examples transport for thousands of miles adopted.
Bromwich, biggest
Birmingham, Mercedes-Benz car,
where even in the hands of the most of the but one maker hnd reSpitfiren
intter arrangement were
and Lancasters were single gain in power was obtained when the engine and running geur unmechanically minded.
500 made during the war. It is now single-cylinder 500 n were enclosed by a bottom under- tray. As far as 1 could ascertuin,
.c. model Into his range. There the largest press plant in Europe, The rust-proofing plant is cap- were two four-cylinder engines, ale of treating 18 bodies an hour, hol a single car incorporated this
the 500 cc. Wooler and 1.000 c.c. the treatment taking 107 minutes. Feature. Doubtless a great relief
Ariel, and one-litre V-twin.
bodies are impaled on a to service stations and the repair shop.
look for
the
No Crowding
bucket seats would
1
both of
Women riders have been studied too. There is a hand starter lever and hand gear change. which are casier on delicate foot- wear than a foot starter and gear perial.
Run-About Utility Machine
introduced
whe
A notable feature of the Show The
centre of
Family-Type Side-Cars
are
Britain Leads In Exports
was the large number of special-spit" on which they revolve as Sunk head lights, while ensier
Ised racing and trials machines. they pass
and phosphating Besides the well-known "Manx" of the through the six tanks to keep clean, are more exposed
Nortons in 500 and 350 e.c. sizes, dried, painted with prinier, after which they Mection, to damage in case of a crumpled
and The Swallow Gadabout is an- there was the 350 cc. A.J.S. racer.
the fender, entailing heavier repair
baked. During the process bills and higher insurance pre-other uillity machine of the run- and the "Black Lightning" H.R.D.,
variety
are completely degreased, excellent the only one-litre racing machine bodies with
twice. rinsed available
with rust- covered mluma uralty. In vain did about
anywhere. B.S.A.. Hunk or otherwise, weather protection and
a open M.C., and Royal Enfield exhibit dipped in paint and dried.
resisting compound, rinsed again, that steered with the wheels; so frame for parcels, we shall continue to drive at The least expensive vehicles ed trials models, and
In all other runt-preventing pro- night, sometimes along unfamiliar shown were the familiar 98 cc. attraction on the A.J.S. Atand was
the 500 c.e. T.T. machine,
it has been impossible to roads, blind to what lies inme auto-cycles, which all have spring highly developed machine
very Ceaves,
not guarantee that every particle of diately ahead of the car when front forks. One Excelsior model rounding bends.
even has a two-speed gear in unit available, however, to the general the car in fully protected. A car
public.
treated
by the new process can with the
the engine.
be left in the open in any climate Then
en there were a number of
for any number of years and it ultra light-weight models with 125 Besides complete machines and will never rust. Even If the pro- Why crowd three people on the or 150 cc. two-stroke engines, sectionised power units, there were tective cont la broken at any apot front seat? Driving control moatly of Villiers manufacture a wide variety of sidecars. Besides of the car, the rust will attack impaired, while the passengers with either two volt Ignition, and the usual light-weight types and only the exposed metal, but it have to put up with the position alternating current lighting. comfortable touring models, most will not spread. that best sulis the driver. When; While the once popular 250.c.c.makers catalogued a family-type driving alone or with one passen-class was only thinly represented, body, capable of carrying an extra ger only, he or they will slide there were a number of 350's near-Juvenile passenger, and one side- from side to side, especially with ly all conventional push-rod O.H.V. car could even cope with an adult leather upholstery. Reverting to designs, familiar to despatch and three youngsters.
There was more riders during the war.
The family body made by V.P. give us comfort and stability, and also the overhead-camshaft Nor was quite an innovation, with the allow a return to the well-tried ton, which, with the Sunbeam, are wheel and chassis concealed by
Britain was last year the largest lever on the gearbox.
the only two machines now avail- gracefully curved panelwork and
motorcars in the rond use, with full weather protection for both exporters of Windscreens to-day are called this form of
The chassis is so world. Her overseas sales of cars, upon to contribute to the stiffness well as the that it can be fitted to commercial vehicles and agricul of the structure and are therefore with its horizontally-opposed, either side of a motor cycle to suit tural tractors totalled £140,000,000 fixed. Yet as long as the 10g transverse Bal-twin engine sup- overseas countries where side-cars or £00,000,000 more than in 1947. nuisance has not been overcome, plied in touring and sporta ver- are age who may prefer some exported in December
used on the right;
The number of motor vehicles the was having to peer through the screen, sions. even if demisted by another god-
weather highest since July. In that month Numerically, the medium-weight thing with rather more get, is worse then letting in the 500 or 600 cc. machines were the protection will be attracted to the 20,000 care, valued at more than and were shipped Morgan three-wheeler, cold.
largent group, many with single-
supplied in £6,500,000,
1,300 commercial vehicles, 7,300 cylinder engines of well-tried de-eports and touring forms, and the early
which, In the widespread adoption of sign, but there were several with
problem
nt nearly of suitable the value of providing 1... we really have a definite ad-side-by-side twin engines, of which transport for invalide or disabled £3.500.000, was a new record. vance is roudability. Three solu- the best known is probably the persons la solved by the Argon the Society of Motor Adanufactur- Mr. Gresham Cooke, Director of tions are in use: leaf spring, coll Triumph,
and
Invacar carriages, which are spring and torsion bar. All em-
Newcomers to this flold are
carlierers and traders, says that in 1948 vast improvements ever ploy steel as the elastic medium, and therefore perpetuate the cunt-
the Norton, A.4.8. Matchloss and designs, both mechanically and the motor industry as a whole bo- stant rate of deflection feature in.
Royal Enfield, the last thres
aspect of the driver's came Britain's greatest exporting from the herent to that material. It is ad-
being unusual because their twp comfort. The New Era Invacar Industry. The value of its exports mitted that the Ideal spring should
cylinders, instead of being cast is particularly cunning, an with its surpassed those of cotton mills by as a pair, are entirely separata.ald a permanently crippled person was the have a variable rate, being "soft" under light loading and growing progressively "stiffer" as the load Increases.
once
able for ordvalve operation, an passenge
The Enfield gearbox is bolted rigidly to the crankcass to form in effect a unit, an, idea also wand on the B.B.A. twins. In both
cases, primary chain ad. Justment is affected by a slipper tenaloner on the bottom rung of the chain.
A very interesting newcomer to
Those
can drive a house chair directly on
WILL
motor in- inking to what is in effect a motorised dustry's boat, customer, chassis which then provides the some 65,000 cars and commercial vehicles valued £17,000,000. The means of road transport.
purchases of cars totalled 600,000, South Africa's ap gium's £4,200,000. South Africa Was Britain's second best customer for commercial vehicles with im-
That condition may be fulfilled by either a pneumatie suspension system, or else by using rubber, sultably blended and cured. The former is admittedly expensive, bul rubber is cheap, plentiful and this capacity class was the Wooler, easy to apply. So far, however, which has an ingenious 4-cylinder beyond bushings, engine mount- engine, composed largely of
ely port system will shortly be riding Ings and other minor uses, rubber aluminium and with the four pis has not been tried in lieu of steel tons coupled by a rocking-beam for suspensions by a single pro-mechanism to A single-throw ducer of popularly priced cars. crankshaft lying fore and aft Presumably we shall have to walt The drive is taken to the back
Air Conditioned Coach
Travellers on. London's transports valued at £3,500,000.
in what is claimed to be the most the air is completely changed 17 advanced public road vehiclo in times overy hour..
to
the world. It is now being given It is equipped with pnoumatic into normal service soon. Its final trials trials and will go door controlled by a push button, There are 40 seats similar to again until the UB.-or Italy?-wheel through a four-speed gear- shows the way,
This is announced by the London those fitted in airliners. Comfort is box and final shaft so that, includ- Passenger Transport Board. The cushions on elastic springs. There assured with cellular rubber ing the Sunbeam,. there, ware As for wheel covorn, these have actually three makes with shaft decker type with a
coach will bo new
of the double
special air are both footrests and safe th merit provided they are well de drive represented at the Show, conditioning system
This signed and quickly detachable
will take a small suitcase beneath Last Word In Speed. without the use of a tool, Other-
keep the air inside the vehicle at seats. wise they impods wheel washing The rider who
An uninterrupted view of the desired a temperature of 80 degrees ovan and tyre Inflation, promete broke the last word In fast in the coldest weather, During the countryside is assured through. fade, and are in the way of lifting travel naturally turned to summor months the mechanism long, almost continuous windows tackle when shipping the vehicle the 1,000 e.c. machines, mainly can be reversed to cool the interior on each side. At night 18 fluores- for a tour abroad.
not cent strips give pleasant, restful represented at the Show by the of the coach. Smoking will T. L. REEPMAKER ·D'ORVILLE. ! 4-cylinder Arlel ør the Vincent contaminate the atmosphere since lighting:
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