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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd,
1927.
MOTORING NOTES
POPULARITY
OF
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Motor Notes-Too Many Danger Signals-General Motors and Ford-Advantages of High Power-
Striving for Motor Refinements-Motor Car Competitions."
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MOTOR NOTES.
RECENT RECORD FLIGHTS
AID TO MOTOR SALES.. While many schools of aviation are reporting a large influx of students since the triumph of the trans-oceanie fliers, Mr. F. B. Walker, General Sales Manager of the Franklin Automobile Company of Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A., reports a similar impetus in sales of the
TOO MANY DANGER SIGNALS.
WHY NOT A "ONE LANGUAGE"?
BY JOHN PRTOLEAT.)
GENERAL MOTORS
AND FORD.
NO FIGHT BETWEEN THE TWO CONCERNS.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
WILLYS-KNIGHT.
MODEL "70" & CYL. DOUBLE SLEEVE VÄLVE. TOURING CAR-G.$1,600.
THE CAR THAT NEVER WEARS OUT.
An Owner writes My Willy Knight has gone *140,000 Miles and has never given one minale's
trouble,
This Car has had very #bard, wage and every Mile has been a hard At 135,000 miles I became anxione to *ses just how it was wearing inside, so I had "the pan taken off the leaves Were perfect as was every ofler part of the engine, "which showed no wear at all."
ube.
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STRIVING FOR. MOTOR REFINEMENTS.
of maintenance is still an expense that may be lowered considerably, Mr. Nichols added. Working to- ward lower maintenance cost, the In commenting on the future Engineering Department of the trend of the automobile, industry,deavoured to produce a motor that Falcon Motors Corporation has en- Mr. John A. Nichols, jr., Presi will give many thousands of miles dent of Falcon Maters Corpora of satisfactory service with n tion, expressed the opinion that minimum of mechanical attention. motor car manufacturers will de Our Engineering and Service. De- vote much attention during the partments are now very much in- next few years to refining motor terested in watching the endurance and chassis, in an effort to reduce records which are being made by maintenance cost to the minimum eight standard Falcon-Knight cars and to extend by several years, the that have been in constant road active life of the car itself."
test work in all parts of the United States for over six months. These ly becoming essential for every per- is necessary to stop them for mand. The time when son to have a motor car at his con mechanical repair of the engine, served the whole family is rapidly show five years of average motor one car By constant driving, these cars will passing. Social and business couse in less than one year of road motor age and the average person cars which are standard in every ditions now are adjusted to the test work. We believe that these finds a motor car a necessary part respect, will show, a new record of of his personal property. maintenance cost and long life of without mechanical attention, of Low long life and motor performance
important to every family head. the car are becoming increasingly
"Although the initial cost of ed in the past few years, the cost motor cars has been greatly reduc
Franklin air-cooled motor car since for making some kind of a start a strange thing is recorded to have Mr. Nichols said: "It is rapid-1 cars. will continue to run until it
the first epoch making flights Mr. Walker points to the recent records in aviation as final proof of a cooled engine efficiency.
THE AIR COOLED PRINCIPLE.
a somewhat
Following up the article which
While every newspaper in the we published last week in our world has been speculating on the Motoring Page Mr.John Prioleau coming titanic writes in the Evening Standard:
struggle
for supremacy between Henry Ford Last week I stressed the necessity and General Motors Corporation,
sensible and simple rule of the towards the building up of a real happened at Milford, Michigan." road. by means of these Anshing of editors of motoring publications Recently, it is stated, a number lighthouses, which should alone visited the General Motors plant, take the place of every other form and upon the occasion they were of danger signal.
By an odd coincidence. about the Jan., president of the corporation. |
addressed by Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, same time, the news came that the In the course of his marks.be in Telegrams from all Franklin German Government has decided timated that General Motors had dealers show a strong tide setting that all forms of road warnings decided not to fight Mr. Ford's new in for the air-cooled principle. throughout the various States. vade the higher-priced motorcar should be of uniform pattern motorene if Mr. Ford does not in Many sales have been traced direct-think that we should go several field. ly to the record fights, customers
better than the practical German
This strikes us na stating that they had been influene that if the lighthouse scheme were remembered that Mr. Ford's chief in this matter, and I feel confident remarkable statement wher it is ed to a large extent by the aviators' adopted, other countries would fol- competitor has been the General choice of air-cooled engines in their pared to international road signs and also when it is borac in mind low suit, and the way comfortably Motors' product, the Chevrolet car, A reader, commenting on my pro that Mr. Ford is already in the posals, writes to me: I imagine higher priced motorcar field with that your lighthouse scheme could, the Lincoln. It, cost "Mr. "M, W. McClure of not be put into effect all at once Dallas Texas (U.S.A.), just three and that experiments would have be made mile by mile, or, if you cents per mile to drive his Frank-like, district by district, or county lin touring car 8,020 miles in a 30 by county, so you will still for a day trip recently made over Texas long time fall very short of your ideal af standardisation. Your and Louisiana. In his detailed ex- lighthouses would be the only wara- pense record, Mr. McClure includinga in Kent, but would be con ed washing, storage, all service charges, tire depreciation and re pair, and insurance.
planes.
3 CENTS A MILL
spicuous hy their absence in Ox fordshire.!!
That is certainly so, but I see no reason to be discouraged. Altre forms have to have a beginning, WORLD MOTOR CONGRESS. and the condition of our road
Statements have also appeared in the American papers to the elect that General Motors were laying plans to meet Mr. Ford's new chal- lenge with a new Chevrolet.
cabled messager, if the past is any Mr. Sloan now days, according to
indication of the future, the new Ford motorear will appeal to the great mass of the people. It must basic idea is likely to be the same. meet present conditions, but the
ance. Hitherto there has been no This is a somewhat cryptic atter- suggestion of the "basic idea" be- traffic to-day is such that I reallying the same as the old Ford; on believe it is capable only of in the contrary, all the has been pub- Eshed has related to a new model which was to be entirely redesign- ed, model T being scrapped.
Lighthouses" Alone,
The Prince of Wales has consent-provement. ed to become president of the World Motor Transport Congress which will take place at the Savoy those lighthouses, which I take as There are now only about 30 of Hotel under the organisation of
-attend-
Among the subjects to be discuss ed are: "
Another statement of Mr. Sloan's that has to be considered is that General Motors is in a position
the Society of Motor Manufac- an example of the kind of thing turers and Traders on November most Ekely to solve the problem 14th, 15th, and "18th. Delegates of the rule of the road, and to quite different from Ford. Its iden from all parts of the world will diminish the number of cross-road is to make a motorcar of greater and blind corner accidents, beng luxury than the Ford, properly be- tried by the, authorities in the longing to the next higher priced whole of the country. Most of class. them are in the neighbourhood of Landon. I quite agree with my critic's objection, but the experi- ments have to be meds, and I should like to see 'cae made at once on a big scale.)
Road construction and improve ment in reintion to the develop ment, efficiency and cconomy of rond transport.
Motor; transport as
an instr ment of development of world re-
sources.
What has happened during the long, delay in producing the new Ford? ̈ American papers dated round about September 13th state that the Ford announcement is still six weeks or two months away. If I should like to see a good that be true, it would bring the The necessity for co-operation bg-stretch of really important high- date of the appearance of the new fween road and rail transport. way signalled "Throughout by Ford in Amerien near to the time "The development of motor.ghthouses,
and by lighthouses announced for the introduction of vehicles suitable for service on bad alone. Any, rond will do which the car to the British market. rends and for cross-country use. carries heavy traffe and has plenty Has something occurred in the The improvement of facilities for of side roads turnice into it. The meantime to bring about a rappro international travel by road.
road from London to Birmingham, chement between the two Fuels and fuel supplies for road for example, would be an excellent ponents1 It would appear to be one, or from London to Folkstone possible, in reading between the The congress will be held on the or Southampton; or an inter-urban lines, to find reason for supposing of the Commercial Motor road, like Bristol to Birmingham, that something of the kind is on Transport Exhibition which will be or Manchester to Sheffield, or any the tapis, if it has not already hap held at Olympia from November other artery between heavily popu pened-North China Daily News. 17th to 26th, ..
lated manufacturing centres.
motor vehicles.
eve
MOTOR CAR COMPETI- TIONS.
WILL THEY REVIVEL
I would have all other warnings removed--red triangles, notice boards, signs, reflectors, and all the complicated and variegated para- phernalia which are now stuck up by local authorities, most of them without reference to the plans of their neighbours.
...
I am quite certain that if such an experiment could be made-and Motorists are hoping that the re- the cost would be light compared cent appointment of Sir George with the majority of other experi- Beharvell, D.S.O., of the Dunlopments connected with traffic-im- Rubber Co., Ltd., as president of mediate interest would be taken by the Society of Motor Manufac all local bodies, and the most im tucers and Traders will lead to a portant result of such an experi revival of interest on the part of ment would be that those local au this body in motor-car competi-thorities, persuaded of the success tions."
of the scheme, would themselves set It will be remembered that last about making their own roads as year the association placed a bna safe,
any rate, they need sympathy and practical help far more than criticism..
The Englishman's Way,
It is for this reason that when a scheme is set foot for the stan-. dardisation of danger signals, it jä of the first importance that these responsigle for it should take par ticular pains to "enlist the active sympathies of local councils As I pointed out in my last article, your average. Englishman is an extraor dinarily sensible fellow when it comes to the making and keeping of regulations. Many of clauses, of the existing traffic Inays are of a sort which would long ago have caused other nations to rebel, but, the common-sensible English-
tar
on various important competitions I feel convinced that this light man," while grumbling incessantly,
As far as the trade was concerned. This policy, was severely criticised by the more up-to-date firms who consider that competitive work is essential to progress.
Sir George would be the first to confer that his own company owes a great deal to motor trials and
races,
A. special experimental depart nent is kept at Fort Dunlop to look after the interests of motor- racing drivers."
*
house scheme would make a very can always be trusted to make the wide appeal to those who are best of the worst, and to realise responsible for the proper conduct that it is his own interest which is of local traffic, and that they would at stuke. All he wants is clear be only too glad to come together evidence that this or that innova and agree, apion the standardisation is going to make him more tion of better signals. They would, comfortable as he travels about his I feel sure, receive every sympathy lawful purposes. Once he is, 'con- from the Ministry of Transport, vinced of that, he will peaceably and the Ministry could not but set to work to have that innovation look with a sympathetic eye upon put into force."
any scheme which would be likely Let us have a real working modél to straighten out the tangle in road, the signals on which are pro which trafic on our roads has now perly standardised. Let us have become involved.
nothing but those lighthouses with
The staff is kept continuously basy making tyres which will stand the strain of ever-increasing The Ministry of Transport has their green and orange messages speeds, and with a large measure probably got one of the worst jobs (and their very rare red ones for of success.
of any Ministry in any Govern specially dangerous warnings), and Most of the world's speed recorda i ment, and that job, unless some let there be only one language writ- and great races in recent years thing is done on there lines, wil ten and understood on the King's have been won by cars shod at Fort get much worse very soon. They Highway. At the worst it would Dunlop. In these circumstances have come in for a good deal of not-it could not possibly be Sir George is likely to sympathise abuse during the past few years, worse than it is now. At only a with any endeavour to re-establish some of which has no doubt been little better,' it would be the safest competitive motoring in Great deserved, but on this question, at road in England, if not in the }- Britain.
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