Overland "Whippet" Cars."
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The comments upon the lethargy of British manufacturers that ap- peared in this page a short time ago have brought a letter of ap proval from "a well-known Hong Kong motorist now in the interior, of China. He has soule typical experiences of the treatment often met with by owners of British cars in this Colony and elsewhere. The folowing are a few extracts from the letter: ... Loace borrowed a very nice little Wolseley; and requiring some repair turned into a Hong Kong garage managed by an Englishman. His assistant lock. ed my car up and down, then said contemptuously and without any valid reason. Poor little English car)'
Two years ago, I bought a very fine British-built car from a Britishi firm in Hong Kong. Not being very familiar with the engine, I turned up one afternoon at the office to to ask a questionam puzzled to know what to do,' I said, to the assistant manager; to which he instantly replied
Buy
4 ľ mentioning an American car that this British firm is always boosting "Before I knew much of driving I got stuck on Stubba Road just when I bad an important engage ment in town. A passing stranger, an Englishman, stopped and did his best for me. While strewing the contents of my engine on the on the improved the occasion by boasting 1 up American engines, and urging me to have nothing to do with British cars." ...
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210
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'ROADSTER
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This gentleman goes on to say that in French Indo-China the re- spect of the Chinese residents is gained by the strong belief of the Freach in their own manufactures. All foreign cars are made to pay such a heavy tax that only a few are to be seen, and the Chinese, forced to buy French cars, learn to value them.
That tax idea is sound enough, but it is not the British way: Our motto is "Let 'em all comes We love the satisfaction of beating our competitors in the open, or even with the odds heavily against us. The manufacturere at home trust to the natural excellence of the British product to effect their sales in the "Colonies. That is not the way to get trade; they must suit the market and find salesmen for their products.
Competition in trade stimulates maufacturers to exert their beat efforts. But the motor men forget the Colonies. They sell a fair num- ber of cars out in the four quarters. of the glove and think they are doing well. They must de better.
THE BEAN.
BALDWIN?
HUMOURS OF FIRST CAR TREK ACROSS AFRICA".
BRITISH CAR
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WINS
THE GRAND PRIX,
24-HOUR RACE IN FRANCE
Amusing reminiscences of his trek across Africa from the West Coast to the Red Sea, the first to be made by motor-car, were related by Mr. Frank Gray at a Londen dents in the history of motor rac luncheon, given in his honour by Siring. Mr. S. Davies and Dr. J. D. George Beharrell on behalf of the Benjafield, alternately driving a British 3-litre Bentley moter-car, Dunlop organisation.
After their car had been involved! in one of the most remarkable acci-
came A
"There were two things which won the 24-hours Grand Prix race.
The victory represents a great were important to our journey-the human factor and mechanical ap | British triumph. The car was built pliances," said Mr. Gray. In no at Cricklewood, London. The e- part of our journey did the latter cuit is a hazardous one, and the Le give anxiety. The gallant little Jowett carried through to the end. Mans race is recognised as the most With regard to the former we had two black boys, Bismarck and gruelling test of all the great inter-
national events for motor-cais. Joseph, our interpreter.
The two drivers covered 1,450 Bismarck so seriously that he be-miles, their average speed being 61
"Unfortunately, Joseph scalded
passenger for 21 days 2-3 miles an hour. This distance Joseph, however, was wonderful ix providing us with food and water, is a record for the race. This he did by stating that
I was During the race just before dark- (a) Mr. Baldwin, Prime Minister of ness had set in six cars, including England, or (b) His Royal High-the winning one, crashed and piled Bess the Prince of Wales. We did up on each other. this: journey from Lagos to Mas sawa without dumps in advance, Schneider car driven by a French
It was a 10 p.m. when a French and I have come back with an imman crashed into a wall at one of mense belief in the trading pos the "bends and turned over, sibilities of West and Central Bellingham, an Englishman in a Africa,"
Bentley, was travelling at speed close to the tail of the Schneider, and in trying to avoid it crashed badly.
Sir George Bebarrell, who pre- seated Mr. Gray with a silver model of the car in which he made his trip, explained that the two cars
used for the adventure were not
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Drivers were hurriedly trying to disentangle themselves from the serum when two more French cars rounded the bend and before the drivers could pull up crashed into
Then came Mr, George Duller, and lock us as motor race driver jockey also in a Bentley. There was a abriek of brakes, but he could straddled half across the road. He the other four. not avoid the tow cars now too crashed.
Dr. Benjafield is a specialist with & practice in Wimpole-street. the staff of a motoring newspaper.
Mr. S. Davies is a journalist ox- He drove magnificently in the re- 13 cent six-hours endurance race at
specially designed; they were ordi- nary stock models which had to face innumerable difficulties. the whole journey Mr. Gray and his companion, Mr. John Sawyer, averaged es miles a day through
The driver of the Arst car was Brooklands. complete, il expedition The undian hy. Mt.
Bound the bend came the third badly injured but the other mira-1 A Bentley car also won the test triumph for British industry as a bis car dashed into Devis and culously escaped with a bad shakin 1994: This was driven by Cle whole.
mix up. ing. There were now four ears entangled in the road
Only the Bentley driven by Mr. Davies could be repaired in time (Continued on next Column.)
to continue and ultimately to win.
MOTOR CYCLES. Although most readers of 'this' page are certainly car owners, a few notes on motor cycles will Burely not be out of place. The motor cycle is a kindred industry and one in which we have literally no competition, Our machined reign supreme. I mentioned a week or two ago that the 34 h.. Norton has just won ita fourth Tourist Trophy, but I remember 1900 TT was won by a huge twin- that one of those Trophies-the cylinder Norton, a machine now as remote as the Brontosaurum. Norton has just established another miles an hour at Montihery in the record. It has attained over 110 hands of that wonderful driver A. Denley. This is the fastest speed ever attained by a single cyclinder slower than the record set by machine, and only some 10 miles machine nearly three times its size.
The
The h.p. 330 cc. Humber is a handy little 'bus, good enough to meet any call that Hong Kong can make Speedy, too. Of three such machines taken from stock tach won
a gold medal in the A.C.U. Six Days Trial, one of the blas ribands of the motor cycle world. They took the team prize as well. Its price is £58--and
The Bean is a typical example of all that is best in British small cars. There are only two Bean owners in the Colony at present, worth it Like the Humber car, but both are exceedingly enthusias it is represented here by Mesers.
tie. The Bean would be more popu. Lane, Crawford
lar out here if its price were a little
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lower; still, if one will have the which I have great admiration, I The Douglas is a machine for best, one must pay for it. In Hong feel the call of the road every time: Kong the 14 h.p. short wheelbase I look at these racy, powerful flat model costs about $3,500 Mez. And twins in Alex Ross's show room. this is what it can do: climb the Peak easily in top gear first 500 cc. machine to attain 100 It can The Douglas, by the way, was the with six pasacogers up; for 600 m.p.h. There are very few of them miles a new car can average 24 about, despite the fact that they miles to the gallon over Hong Kong have for 20 years stood in the first mountains, These performances rank of motorcycles. have actually been made in Houg Kong by the two Bean cars here. One of them generally averages obtainable at a very low price in Willy Knight-a first-class car, ja to the gallon. The reliability and economy of these care is such that ong Kong. The car possesses the one has just been sold for public
Silent Knight doable aleeve-valve hire in the Colony. For this car gine, one of the plansers of its and for the Clyne and Humber, ful, a fine bill-climber, and above kind. This car is fast and power- Messrs. Lane, Crawford are the all, silent. A test has shown me agents.
Why are "bumpers so popular remarkably free from mechanical that it is delightful to handle and ia Hong Kong There is really no noise, probably due to the Bellfe need for them, and they cannot be shackles, an entirely new type." said to enhance the beauty of a These shackles dispease with the car-In-the-crowded streets of necessity for constant oiling, and America, where cars follow each give smooth, silent ranning, he other, in long lincs, packed as car sells in Hong Kong at the tightly together as a string of goods moderate prices of G.81,000 for the wagons, they are a necessity; a Touring: five-seater, and G. $1,900 much of a necessity as the co-for the four-door Sedan, Messrs. catchers upon trains that sweep Gilman & Company will be glad to across the great open spaces or the demonstrate the qualities-of-thir buffers upon wagons."
car or the Overland Whipper to (Continued on next Column.) - prorpective purchassers:
Cents for oil or
dollars for repairs
ment and Duff. Last year and in 1095 it was won by a French" Lør. raine-Dietrich. :
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