THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1957.
Wife Likes
SHOW If Your
Drive Fast... GLENTON
AT THE MOTOR BY ROBERT
HERE'S A HUSTLER WITHOUT FUSS
THE roads were as lonely as a summer Theron atenen. As silent as the. dance of a butterfly over a hayfield, They were an invitation to travel fast.
176
One hundred and forty-nhie miles
minutes....on itt average et 5 miles an hour.me have all the vigour of an was to a car with a juzie Ciderly call with a hangover, bellow that I was testing, Just a little really saloon in which the win goes to hejnes, the wife do her shopping, and the family join the wicketal traille jams.
A Ford Ficfect de luxe. Tatove this car far and I drove it fast, Without din end fus the reducier acete would slip beyond the 80 miles could an or int. The meter only exister. That is why this is an for road test.
The makers never designed ther for stick handling. An few owners would drive 11, that why.
Det M. It is nice to know will exactly what your car
stand up to,
The Prefect. ↑ 400.
happy to siy, faces adversity
with : 11
Sevond....is the intermediate keur in the three-speed box, 皇 fact there is something wrong
a car in whleb one ennnot Changs down with dignity at inteh above 10 miles an hour.
Le
Phone are the bad things..
back to the virtues at opke the Protect a car to very seriously considered. The luggage foot is caurmous. The Anush does not proiend to be what 1's not. It is good,
painstaking, elta.
atlaying.
tone-headed the
THE PREFECT into the unmarked
eightin
above
its
al
for that behaved normal expectations.
Now for performance.
GEAR BFEEDS: Top. miles an hour (78. miles) hour with gulle); second, 18 miles an hour; first, 24 mBest an hour..
ACCELERATION: 0-30 miles hour, 7acc2; 0-30 miles on heur, 10,950es/
FOR THE TECHNICAL:
four* cylinder, Engine,
Blde valve: capacity, 1,172 0.0.
You
OU have often taken part in my road tests. It is among the truffle that I find out how a car will handle. How it will overtake, crawl, and brake.
Uncle Joe plugging steadily along the crown of the road is a certain guide to the calibro of thy test car.
So I set out on the week-end frall to the
sta. The wind was a bli nippy, but the sun was hot,
To WOMEN PLAY BIG PART IN SHAPING 1957 CARS
Magnette
X7OMEN · motorista and foreign drivers have largely fashioned the British cars at the Earls Court Motor
Show.
So said Mr Alick Dick, "The days of recession president of the Society of are past. Export sales are Motor Manufacturera who reaching new heights. Our organised the exhibition. industry has recovered its position from Western Ger- He said more than 30 many as leader in exporting Counting all these things I went into the show cars to America and to the The autumn sea had still Π B.M.C. have increased the didn't lie I am
all left and more than 30 of the rest of the world. summer glint, the rumble of power of this car. It has made, with the certainly that if I had British cara would be avail- breakers over the pebbles was a lot of difference. Seventy-five someone close to foc who
The latest a holiday sound.
Agures show On my road miles an hour becomes a reason- insisted on thriving fust, then table with overdrive and test journey as lonely as alable cruising speed.
would be very happy if he or the bigger cars were mov. Br car exports kad Ger camel train across the Sahara 1
many's by 2,000, and if you take But if you like driving slower she were in the security of the ing towards fully nuto. found other things to delight in. then
cars and lorries combined thei the stifish suspension Magnetle:
matic gears,
Britain's lead is 18,000. A last village cricket match still gives a very happy ride.
The luggage boot is farge and of the year. Button mushrooms, free from obstruction,
makers Ho said British
There Were startlingly white in a meadow.
were going into the show record number on the stands.
A fair number of these were in "militant either brand-new this
models or mood."
cars recently introduced.
You miss n let drowsing in an armchair, now that the year is ending.
Hard, Fast .......
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nk
UT as the roads ware
empty as a pauper's pocket I had to revise my test, I was trying out the M.G. Magnette,
I drove it. fast and I drove it hard. I found greasy patches and stretches as straight as a crow's fight,
1 can tell you now I have
sear
But the best thing of all
this
car is the about charge It is mounted on the noor and is delightful to handle, You couldn't nake R horrid change if you wanted to.
My only complaint with it Ja thn a hurried, heavy-handed diver
might put himself in reverse by mistake.
vibrating
Other foultr? A rear mirror That trembled like an orphan in the snow, old- fashioned semaphore ar troff- alors, some body drumming. at certain speeds,
So Secure
penny wise iden
suspension, front, independent, o su pro rent, semi-cliptical. never driven a car with less vice AND why the pool year of nat
The steering very light.
positive and
Incredible
gullimtey of a boy on a burn- NORMALLY I give a
ing deel.
No alarm
Price, £438. Total (with pur-than the Magnette. Nor one having a vanity mirror on the
chase lax). £658 7s.
WILL IT FIT YOUR GARAGE? Length, 12ft, 511⁄2ins; width, fi helight, 4, 100s.
more surefooted. On sharpost corner there was no hesitancy, no sliding, not even ja Bttle wiggle.
The steering was light and positive, and I did like the wheel set at such an angle that Lone bus nci got to clutch it to Jone's chest,
Performance:- ACCELERATION: 0-30 miles an hour, bsccr; 0-60 miles on hour, 18.2:een.
QEAR SPEEDS: top, 80 iniles An hour; third, 70 miles an hove urcond, 44 miles an hour.
FUEL CONSUMPTION: 25 miles per sallon driven hard,
The speedometer wàs 2.1 miles on hour fast at 60.
FOR THE TECHNICAL:
C.0.4
Enring, four cylinder, overhead valves; capacity, 1,409 Suspension, front, Independent, coil spring rear, semi-elliptical. Price £714. Total (including tax) £1,072 15.
WILL IT FIT YOUR GARAGE? Length, 14ft. lin; width, 5tt. 3in.; height, 4ft. 10in.
year
310 cars♫
Three-cylinder 'baby' does 60 to a gallon.
the
passenger's sun visor?
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figure petrol consumption. This me I am not giving 14.
with will present you problem that baffles me.
Max. ሀብ ክ
Remarka
Wen,
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A
Engine
10
try to blan
It up.
over- I drove 140 miles and O the fast roads it handled flowing
well. The amount of roll, stopped to refuel. The funk lock
back.... Exnetly three gallons. the lightnes at the these things are not niarraing
That and always quille manageable.
Are there no Chults, then, in Of course there this Prefect? aret Bad ones, in my view,
works out at 43 miles
per galion,
It is a remarkably low con- smption. Much less than any- one else has ever claimed, ま to the First long way first-come cun only put it down the windscreen wipers.
fact that because of the low second
It sounds trivial complaint, in top must have been
but try driving at 60 miles an
Brakes?
whole time..
hour and find your wipers Prefext for a stopping system
If you appreciate
precision as well
With a tank fill to
(only hali
The brakes were Good and Ught to operate, although I dla And some fide after a long and beetle journey.
Engine
Stecrior
+Pts.
10)
10
Remarks
|| (Max. Remarks
10)
Much imi
proved.
Cornering
D
Flattering
Comfort
Positively
0
Tight.
Finish
No horizon
Acceleration
。
is far.
Steering
Accelerallon
"
ogate.
affected it.
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Firm as t should be.
Goerbox
Suspension
Cornering
$
road bump.
8
Very little
More pleas
Comfort
8
I must praise the
Finish
Gearbox
That seconzi:
fear,
Bothered
Lilife by
ant in the front.
Unpret en tlousty good Noisy except,
in top.
Hidden Knobs genion
¡NE of the many good things
ON
about this car is its seating. For the driver it is ident. For the passengers there could bo no compaint
for the
ERVO
passenger sitting behind a long- legged driver. He might find his movements a bit restricted.
are
The instruments on a pollshed wooden-faced dashboard good, but the control jobs hide themselves all over the place.
Well, Why
Perfect in
front,
Only the
smallest
things an
noy.
A Joy for
any trap eller
Not
Pamper The Driver?
Humber
THE BERKELEY
RITAIN is re-entering the small-car field in a big
speeds, has a fuel rate of around 60 miles to the gallon, was one of the last-minute announcements for the Motor Show.
It is the two-seater Berkley, three-cyclinder engine of 492 to cost £573 (purchase tax c.c. is on the front wheels, a paid), for the standard car, system which alds safe corner- Among three dearer models is ing. Acceleration is claimed to the coupe with a glass-fibre produce 50 m.n.b. In under root (£597, tax paid).
15 seconds. All wheels have The drive from the unusual separate suspension,
-And these two Friskys
can reach 65 m.p.h.
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Do you know how to drive is quite capable of traveling I
a long way and climb found lightness at the back out of the car ready for a That is the pill. What of swim no headache, no the sugar? stiff neck, no tired arms?
For a medium-powered cat the Hawk is as smooth as a
At this time of the year bedside manner. The engine is the answer is important as silent and there is never the the garage doors swing open least feeling of strain or over- on the biggest expedition of work. the 12 months....the holi- day run.
The cornering at normal speeds calls for no criticisın. Travelling fast the bends need
If father at the wheel the usual care for this type of
is going to keep the magic far.
of the early morning start It is the inside of the Hawle through the heat of the day that makes it one of the motor
then fidgeting is the industry's sensallons of 1957.
angwer.
Room to stretch
ara
UUK 42
Room for three in the aparts Frisky-65 m.ph, 53 m.p.s.. £484 tax pald,
Cramps and aches. usually due to tension. So relax and fiddle. If the There is more than enough i LSO announced are two other driving seat is forward, slide room is enough for six octopi verhampton engineering ärm
room for six people. The leg A baby ears made by a Wol- it back. After a while The driver can really stretch move it to a new position, himself without compressing Turn the radio on and the passenger behind him like a concerting. The Attings have been planned with care.
off.
Play around with the window openings.
They
are the Meadows' Frisky open sports and saloon cars, which, though powered
Every Instrument is where it should be. The hand brake is valve; capacity, 2,267 c.c.; aus- substantial, easy to use, and pension, front independent coll spring. Rear semi-elliptical, Fiddling and fidgeting. That ready to hand, Is the way to stop father's
Prico, £1,201 7s. including tax This is a car with its cyb on ‘ot £421 78. frome locking in that depressed-
Even the doors looking horseshoe shape he the rich life.
WILL IT FIT YOUR usually
by
thean often overlooked, point- journey's end. It misu kcepa are wide enough to admit par GARAGE? Length, 15ft 4in: tums with width, 5ft 9%; height, Sft. him wide awake and his dresses and portly
equal case. There is a snag. lin. When the front doors fire open there is a large rint of potential Anger-trapping metal gaping at
Dssumes
driving reactions sharp.
Hardly an ache the side. One must be heedful
Some cars need this proco dure much more than others.
One that has hardly an ache In hundreds of miles is the new Humber Hawk,
It has remarkable elegance, In fact its finish alighily Bur- passes its performance.
cons
of the unwary child.
Balance the
pros and and what have yout The best, Hawk Humbers have ever mado going to be a delight for the
certainly a car which
inotorist who wants a lot more. then mero. utility for his money.
and
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Beefy th out the bellow. ACOSTOLO but honey. Far from relaciant. Baller than the last
Engine
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tion
Suspensiert
Cornering. .7
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What did the figures tell me?
For the successful business GEAR SPEEDS: Top, 86.4 man who' Ulkos to travel miles an hour; third, 65 miles smoothly and at fair speed in cur; second, 38 miles an: is good. For the family, no hour. 0-30 miles Дв hour! matter how large,. It is 6.3sen. 0-60 miles an hour, blessing.
13.960. 8peedometer error, 2.6 miles an hour fast at: 00- rulles But for the critle there are an hour..
come snags.
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FUEL CONSUMPTION The steering was a shado around 24 miles a gallon heavy. Not bothersome but
noticeable. Ana ; driving the "rans5, TUE -
Fcylind Hawk at the sprode at which it Engine,"
TECHNICAL:
overhead
by a 326 e.c, engine, can reachi around 85 mph, and can cruise nt a petrol consumption rate of about $5 miles to the gallon. They are two-seaters which can take three people.
They are also among the cheapest cars labelled for Earls Court, the saloon version cort- Ing £449. purchase tax paid, and the sports model has u
£404 price tag.
An Important point about them is that the back suspen- sion is based on the design of the successful Brish 600 cc. racing cars. And the bodies are of fibre plass, which helps them
altain their economical performance.
to
The power unit, being a two- stroke, uses a petrol-oil mixture and it is in the back of the car.
Car with reverse
gear only ready'
A way, of dreigning, a cor without any forward - Geary 10 tendy for British car makers to adopt, says Mr Harry Ferguson, the 72-year-old tractor maker.
He says
that only a reverse dend is needed in thé, expori- 'mental vehicles he has develop
ed; and weight and ecst are. reduzed, "
fa Itala understood thaj, no big: Britlelif car hikers hak? yet appraushos Mr Fertison to who the device in. their lisileir