THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1958,
Britain's Pride: Today These Cars Go On Display At Earl's Court
A bigger and better Rover -it really has THE LOT!
BY BASIL CARDEW
A LONGER, wider,
and very handsome
new Rover comes out today. And it has more engine power.
The 1950 catei,
Nover
3 Litre, which whi be shown t
he Motor Show today nde its debut in Iantion to 200
new papermen regentig. Although I have
yet
delvent, I would say the ear un butstanding addition to the fonas quality models four the Rover plant in Solihull, Birm- ingla.
Helt points me these:- Au entirely new ENGINE with a zeven beering
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ers nkshaft develop-
lng 115 bruke horse power;
A broader
but
gracefully lined
how BODY styled
3-Bire
MY FORECAST: THIS WILL LEAVE
THOSE FOREIGN CARS BEHIND
by at Hove master Maurlee Wilks. This allows room for
three people in the back, now lo
h's make of car;
It gives much meste Ance 100 to the delver
passengers.
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And with the extra engine. power. the Borg Warner mulle
auto- transmission, which is
optional, is used 10 baiter advantage.
11 151 6148. makes the all height) Hover 3 ir 4in, longer than sleeker.
the other successful models it Luj-plements.
WIDER LOWER
SLEEKER
Its ft. 10in. wider.
make it 4in. And at 5ft tall (over
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It is 2in. lower cnd
Internally. I found the spice 5 in. wider while the best for luggage has been increased by more than a third.
This all utda up t a new
ONE GENTLE
~CRITICISM -
For the Rover 3 Litre is only basically £1,175,
£508 plus 17. P., total £1,763 179. With the automatic transmission R £ 3. rats £1,280, plus total £1,921 75.
My criticism (a small point): It may have a little too much
loads of chrome
British Cur with delightful chrome, but the pity of it is that
people ke lines and tremendous emphasis these days, en comfort with engine urge.
It has a six-cylinder engine FOR THE MAN of 2.995 cc. and with it seems
to have the lot in the way of luxury:-
Safety pad, walnut trimming,
WITH THE
deep armchair seats, large parcel TECHNICAL
shelves, map pockets, face-level
ventilation, and a normal four-
speed manual gear change with MIND...
overdrive or automatic trans- mission.
It has 10 variations of body two-tone, colours, single
dove-white
ranging black.
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Rovers say has high-pred cruising, is an entirely new car -new bady, new engine. now [ suspension, new Interior.
They always make a brst-class car. This one is even better.
I forecast it will lower over German, Frich, and Hallan competitors in shape, quality, and cost.
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The new 'Farina-line' Austin... I've tested it and it's praise, praise all the way
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The new "baby" Austin A40-the amenities of an estate car, the glamour of a luxury saloon.
THEY spent three years road-testing the prototype..... They drove the car (heavily disguised) for. 60,000 miles in Britain alone..... And when it was right I drove it,
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This A40 is a glamour picca superimposed on most of the working paris of the famous Austin A35 saloon, but with д wheelbase 4in, longer and track 24in wider.
Economy
For more than a week I have been road-testing this car, whose makers-British Motor Corporation-suy that it brings to our roads an excitingly new concept of motoring. I think they are right. CLOSE-UP: 6 cyl. a.h, inlet,
a "baby" bringing the Ferina luxury side exhaust; 27,8 x 103 | Austin A40, the first of the note to the cars of the mun.: 2,095 c.c.: 115 b... Italian-line modela 8.75 to comp.; coll fgn.; B.U. carb.: 4-speed, 14.5, 8.78, 5.92, lyr. Laycock $.3 10 1; cen. Nus. f. Ind. torsion bar, r, half overdrive ar aute. trans. opt. elliptie: 4-door, 5-5 seat; hyd. servo brks.: max. 100 m.p.k.:
It was styled by the cruise. speed 80; m.p.g. 18-23; wht, base, Drt. 2.; track f. genius Penin Farina of 4ft. Tim.; r. ft. Bin; gth. Turin, helped by his 32- roofline back to enclose the when you are taking your wife used the throttle,
The styling sweeps the
which, everyday motorist,
So the first gimmick is in time, will be features of the entire Austin, Morria, the A40's super-Continent. Austin-Healey ranges. M.G.. Woleeley, Riley, and al lines. But that is not all.
15f, Cin. width, 5ft 10in.: year-old son Sergio. Then hf. Sft. ... 74; turng eir,
Glamour
cuble feet, with four aboard, or 184 cuble feet with two.
Ingeniously this provides the amenities of the estate car with the glamour of a luxury saloon.
On a 1,000-mile test I found that the slight" elongation gives the 440 better rond-holding even than its famous half-sister, the Morris Minor 1000 (still very much to be continued).
I found the car touched on easy 70 and cruised effortlessly at 60. Petrol consumption ranged
In fact it is the first car that between 35 and 45 miles to the
is 'n saloon which looks good gallon according to the way
I
boot.
to the theatre and can give you Now there is much more head- estate-cair service when you Lo
Ashing or shooting.
37t.; kerb wt., 30% ewt.; lank, the vast resources of the 11 gal.: 12-volt.
B.M.C. were focussed on room for back-seat passengers.
The man
who milked the Nile
has a poetic name, this little village of sun-blackened straw huts from whose newly- installed medical centre
BY SEFTON DELMER
In all my time as a reporter I've
never seen the equal of this
I am sending you this te despatch.
bring him to heel, Khalil carrying on the work.
and
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I liked the car's new hydraulie clutch, which means no wear- judder. I liked its bigger brakes. i liked the feeling of красо when, reversing. I looked over the back seat.
And now the price: the A40 costs a little more than the A35 or Morris Minor. The basto model sells for £450-£226 78. purchase tax £076 75.
The de luxe version, which has hinged windows, will cost £450 10s.+£230 123. purchaso
tax 4680 25.
Winner
My forecast: It will be a best seller in every world market. For it is a Continental Queen in looks yet has the stamina and ruggedness deriving from British engineering skill.
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Irrigation of the now ara
Close-up: O.h.v.; 4-cyl., 42,9 the remaining 1,000,000 x 76.2 mm; 948 c. 34 b.h.p.; acres of Gezira will almost 8.3 10 1 compression ratio; coll certainly have to be stopped an igo.. Zenith carb., 4-speed, January 31 instead of March 31 centre-lever control;
Ind. because of this shortage of stor-| front suspension, half-elliptic waler, as to continue rear; two-door, 4-str, body; hyd. pumping unstored water would brks.:
70 m.p.h. plus; Berlously lessen water available m.p.g. 34-15; whi. busc, art. for Egypl.
111⁄2 in.; front track, 3ft. 11 in.; rear, 3f1. 1.; overall Igth. Only the' raising of the|12ft. 0 in. wdth., 4ft. 11%in; Sennar Is cotton promising them proût and
Dam aur the construc-ht., 4f1, 87%în.; ground clearance, This fresh water and the new
0 tion of new reservoirs further in; turng. circle, 35ft; kerb prosperity: flelds of a green crop washing places should have callet luble providing splendid revolutionary effect on the up the Nile will meet this.
expacity, wt.. 141⁄2ewt, tank fodder for their cattle,
health of the population ravaged Everything on the Sudanese gal.; 12-volt electrical gear, for generations by disease side is ready for the buliding of carried by affected water. British-designed Roscires dim An Austin spokesman said: additional to which would meet the require- "The A40 is ments. Everything that but the existing Austin and B.M.C. money.
runge."
"Finish Your Sleep" is what Kamel Nomak means in English.
In all my years as a reporter But I doubt whether thinking
I've never seen a more stirring of Kumel Nomek will bring sight than the fruits of Prime ensier slumber these nights to Minister Abdullah Khalil's de- dictator Nasser, troubled as he nance, In these no longer dead ulready is by stirring in Syria and barréa lunds around Kumel and rumblings even among hia Nomuk. own paladins in Cairo.
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the new resistance springing up
to challenge him.
Here in Kamel Nomak I find
myself right in the centre of
What a humiliating indict ment too for this Cairo braggart
In among it all toil the new
farmers tenant
and their families, their bent, black backs glistening in the grilling glare of the sun.
They hoe and hack away with who never slops boasting how real enthusiasm.
Prosperity
One snag
Most encouraging too is the sight of fresh canals and water
cosiller
Condition
Bank und
the
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which involves submerging vast
he will improve the standard of The Gezira Board (storted ditches newly dug and still dry. living of his countrymen but by the British, of whose vast They are ready to receive the The World For tiny Kamel Nomak (pop. who, in fact, has reduced fertile Gezira land Irrigation all this water when the Nile is linked British and American Govern- 000) Is a symbol of what for Egypt's productivity by three is the magnificent extension)
ready to contribute Nuster must be the most dis-
largely to the estimated per cent per head of population has provided the machinery to the next section of the irriga- ments are turbing and dangerous of all since he took over,
for ridging and preparing the gation plan next year.
£30,000,000 cost of the scheme, felds, sold farmers carefully Make no mistake, they are
But they are holding back selected seeds specially impreg⚫ going ahead with this scheme insisting on prior fulfilment of nated against destructive disease, year after 'year until it is com the same condition they made In villages, enrefully sited to pleted no matter what Nasser to Nasser for financing hly for hitherto dry and arid steppe For miles and miles I have be near the fields, schools and has to say about it.
and less-practical land into which Sudan's doughly been motoring along freshly- bath houses have been set up. Prime Minister Abdullah Khalit excavated conals, drains and And medical centres like this In all this magnificent work Aswan Dam scheme a scheme channelling hundreds of ditches, past newly-bulit locks, one here where as I am writing and these fine prospects, I see tracts of valuable Sudan "terri- cubic feet of surplus Nile water pumping stations and alulces.. young doctors are just examin-
But order 10 carry on irrigation tory and making thousands -Nile water transforming 200,- Through them brown eddying, ing a boy for malaria.
schemes and extend them to Sudanese homelcas. 000 acres of hitherto unproduc- waters flow inland from the Nile perhaps the most important of
What is this condition? That into tive land
mare and more of Sudan's sull the modern gluing water to close on a hun all, they have installed water- equivalent of a Garden of Eden, dred thousand acres of land. bores providing a constant arid and potentially-fertile areas, before any loan is granted there new damas and new storage should be agreement on shiring. He is doing so in spite of a Land which up to the end of supply of fresh drinking and
of the Nila waters. bolween. reservoirs are needed. furious veto from Nasser who June yes, just think of it washing water,
Sudan and Egypt. claims the Sudanese may do no Junel was still nothing but Filterbags of copper sulphate
Frankly I can think of: no auch work without his consent. the same parched steppe lands have been fitted in at locks and For the fullest exploitation
for helping our Desplic threats and black it has been since history began. sluices to kill water malis even the present schemes require auror device mail both political and economie Now I find here happy green carrying the dread disease of more stored water than a cow declared enemy Nasser and
available.
burting the friendly Sudanese, with which Naast is trying to fields of the most long staple bilharzia.
one big snng. This is that in
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