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JUNIOR-SENIOR SIX Car for every Pass and Purpose
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th, 1928.
WILLYS KNIGHT STANDARD. SIX
HOLZCE
H.K. 81,750.
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
KBKGCH
MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Motor Notes The Tramway Company's 'Buses-The Six-wheeler-British Motor Industry-The Pacific Coast..... The New Coaching Days-Speed of Heavy Motor-cars-New British Car--100,000 Cars-Motoring at 143deg.
A LETTER FROM HOME ·
The
about.
Austin Seven
10,000 Miles in 7 months; Average 47 miles per gallon"; 13,000 miles to a set of tyres...
Why Ride in Rickshaws
when you can keep an Austin "7" 7
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Please call in to-day and get full particulars of this wonderful little car
and its bigger brothers.
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
Prince's Building and ix, Chater Road.
Telephones: C. 27 and C. 2487.
[4.2.2.8]
35 Passenger Guy Motor-bus.
Built specially for Shanghai.
Recently delivered.
A. LUNG &
LOCAL AGENTS.
CO.
MOTOR NOTES.
THE TRAMWAY COMPANY'S
'BUSES."
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THE FIRST INSPECTED BY THE C.S.P.
The first of the Tramway Co.'s Guy" Motor Buses was driven to the Central Police Station yes terday afternoon to be inspected by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, | C.M.G., Captain Superintendent of Police. The 'bus has only just been assembled and still retained smudges of eil anl grease on the
Bloor.
The interior is most comfortable. and there is plenty of leg room between each seat. Incidentally the seats are all spring cushioned and
the upholstery is most impressive.
The engine ticked over in a most pleasant manner which showed that the 'bue should be equal to its long day's task.
A continuous voltage generator, and flexible extension for the air cleaner were features which at once
caught. the eye, while the unusual position of the "over" type valves is a distinct departure from the "side by side" position.
Exceptional performances are credited to this setting of the valves. These 'buses should win favour with the public who are in need of further facilities for com- fortable and speedy transportation.
"UNSUSPECTED ”· COUNTRY.
contributor to fator Cycling, one Not infrequently, saya a regular heare people complaining that the country in which they live is almost completely unattractive and devoid of interest; they bemoan the fact that fate has placed them in a less exciting neighbourhood than," say, the Lakes, or wherever their parti cular fancy, happens to lie. I have but little sympathy with such grousers. Of course, some parts of the country are better than others, but I deny that any county is bad- if one has a motor-cycle with which to explore it to the full..
NEXT YEAR'S MOTOR- CYCLES.
Already motor-cycle manufactur ars are doing some hard thinking about their next year's models, says Antor Cycling, and their plans are, in many cases, fairly fully ad- vanced. Many motorcyclists, parti- cularly amongst "the most recent recruits, do not realize, probably, that months' of effort and experi- ment go to the preparation of a new model; even detail changes of a minor character involve far more trauble and time in
"getting right" that is popularly supposed. Hence, design and experimental departments throughout the in- dustry are now busily occupied with the machines that will grace the Olympia Show this autume, and, na usual, we can be sure that the trade is sparing no effort to give
THE SIX-WHEELER.
THROUGH BRAZILIAN
FOREST.
SUCCESS IN UNDEVELOPED
AREAS.
petrol vehicles has met with im The introduction of six-wheeled inediate success in many of the un- developed parts of the world by reason of the fact that the ease with which these vehicles can negotiate cross-country, and particularly sur mount the difficulties of virgin territory, make it possible for theta means of transport was by animals. to penetrate where before the only Indeed, instances are coming con- statis under notice where these vehicles have successfully negotiat- ed tracts of country through which was formerly impossible even to take animals.
"SEDAN "
HONG KONG $3,300.
Distributore:
Service:
GILMAN & CO., LTD. | DURO MOTOR CO., LTD.
HỌNG KONG.
NEW BRITISH CAR,
"HADFIELD" THE NEW NAME IN THE AUTO WORLD.
(FROM A LONDON. CORRESSPONDENT.]
The name of Hadheld, of Shet- field steel fame, has been given to 75-mile-an-hour sports model
遇
KOWLOON.
THE NEW COACHING: DAYS.
SCENES ON THAMES EMBANKMENT-
Blue, grey, green, yellow, choco-
produced by Bean Cars, Ltd., Tip- late, and fawn saloons, with neat:
ton, England, which is under the Robert Hadfield is head. control of the firm of which Sir curtains at the windows: the uniforms of the drivers in every ahsda from plum to khaki"with blue facings: such is the festive
The car has been built in res. pense to representations from over seas countries where the lively performance
cords.
The chassis weighs 15
cwt.;
of the 14/45 horse colour which the phenomenal growth pewer touring model led users to of the new "luxury" motor-coach believe that it would lend itself to traffe has brought to London, Fad "hotting up." "Speed is combined splinterless glase, Dewandre servo presents a stirring revival of the with safety equipment including especially the Embankment. It re four-wheel brakes and headlights old coaching days--but with what thate a 200-yard bea
a difference! Two types of bodywork are fitted
No leisurely clip. light fabric saloon and a smart clop of hoofs, no chatting between fabric open budy, both equipped tali-hatted coachmen and ostlars; with pneumatic upholstery. All but silent efficiency, precision, and The latest news is from Brazil, essential parts are made with Hadapted. Usually a quick glide to where a thornycroft type gfeld's steel and the tyres, on wice the curb, a quick loading or un as even better motorcycles for 1999. Six-wheeled Lorry recently com
wheek, аге reinforced Dunlop loading, and then away again. What improvements does the aver-pleted the run from Sao Paulo to
except, perhaps, for an awkward ago rider ask in his next season's
a place on the borders of Matto ground clearance is nine inches, and cars for a few seconds while reversing which holds up trame machine? In general we believe. 1,000 kilometres.
Grosso, a distance of approximate-with clean design underneath; and the leviathans veer round. that greater attention should be
the track foar feet, eight inches This feat is all the more note- paid by designers to the utility worthy as the route traversed bad
The chassis will be known as the "Hadfield" Bean 14/70 sports side of motorcycling. Increased never previously been negotiated by model. The 14/15 horse-power comfort and convenience and grea transport having been possible.
vehicle of any kind, only animal; model continues to be made. greator economy should be the key-Much of the journey was through notes of the next Motor Cycle Virgin forest, where a passage had Show; these, rather than greater to enable the vehicle to pass under to be cut or the ground excavated speed, are what nine riders out of trees which were too large to be ten are seeking..
felled. Innumerable abstacles were encountered, but after eight days strenuous efforts, more it should be mentioned on the part of the crew than the vehicle, the lorry reached ita destination carrying its full load of two and a half tons.
SUBTERRANEAN GARAGES FOR STOCKHOLM.
STOCKHOLM, August 8th. Stockholm, the central part of which is built on a high mountain
large subterranean garages in order ridge, contemplates the building of
to meet the demands of motor traffic. Through blasting it would be possible to construct garages.in the rocks for under the houses built upon them, and thus get suitable parking places in the heart of the city."
Basement garages are being erect ed in great numbers in Stockholm, declining. and garage rents are, therefore, Not so long ago car
To caioy the country it is neces-to-day the same space costs but es sary to know it; if the residents in the duller districts would take
seon
the trouble to find out what trea. sures lie at their doors they would cease to complain, Few people buy guide books to their own counties, but to do so is nearly always worth while.
OUR BETTER MOTOR- CYCLES.
owners were asked from three to four guincas a month for the storage of automobiles, whereas
10s. to £3 108. The number of auto- mobile drivers is growing in Sweden. To-day every twentieth person holds a driver's licence, while the total number of auto- mobiles is about 150,000. Stockholm alone bonets 16,400 cars.
WHY NOT GOOD
THROUGH!
ALL
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It is interesting to add, though not dificult to understand, that this successful demonstration of the
five similar vehicles, while, in capabilities of this vehicle, has re- sulted in orders being placed for addition, many promising inquiries have been received by Thornycroft dc Brasil, who are the represedta- tives of Messrs. John I. Thorny croft & Co., Ltd", in that country.
Beirut To Baghdad. Last year 4 Thornycroft rigid six-wheeled lorry Syrian Desert from Beirut to Baghdad, a distance of 580 miles, carrying a load of approximately
two and a half tons.
crossed
the
MOTORING AT 143 DEG. METAL PARTS OF CAR TOČ
HOT TO TOUCH.
The pavement by the Embank meat Gardens at departure and ar- rival times was almost as busy as a main line terminas. Between 8 and 0.30 anything between 60 and, 80 saloons must have left for the coast resorts, Cambridge, South- ampton and even Bournemouth. There was £ queve of vehicles from Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo Bridge, which was con- tinually BULAWAYO, Rhodesia.
replenished from ap through a waterless Congo desert
A story of motoring, 800 miles proaches beyond. in a temperature of 143deg., when
Country Visitors. the metal parts of the car were meats, sitting on bags and attache- Passengers thronged the pave- untouchable, is told by three cases, and overflowed into the gar lieutenants of the Belgian Air dens to beguile the wait under Force, who have arrived at Bula- pleasant plane trees by the beds of wayo. They have been surveying massed dahlias. There was indeed air routes m the Belgian Congo. an emphatic call to the sea and It is the first time that the de- the country in the bustle about wheeled vehicle. Owing to the as many as 39, with the morning sert has been crossed in a four-thess coaches, the biggest" renting. heat the tyres had to be deflated sunshine playing on them! from a 30 to a 3. pressure.
Round about 11 the incoming The officers also negotiated the water-logged country round Lake vehicles from the resorts and the country began to arrive. Whole Camela were used to pull the to granfer, bent and bearded, in families alighted from most even carsat Iringa and a forest fires enveloped them
Feries of old black suit and bowler hat, and another point, destroying one of and district brought people from
very desf. the cars.
One coach from Rye
villagea remote from the one rail- already some hundreds of Thorny-bably not have come at all if they way branch line who would pro- eroft six-wheelers are running in the Dominions and Colonies.
had had to trek to distant station. The names on the roof-board were Albion Four-ton Rigid Six-wheeler.redolent of those remote old-
Chad.
at
success,
: Parts of this route are particu- larly severe, but it is interesting to note that in crossing the Desert the lorry averaged, 22 miles per The four-ton six-wheeler which world places which cluster about petrol per mile than the large tour the Albion Motor Car Co., Ltd., many others which the coaches are hour and actually consumed less was exhibited for the Brat time by Romney Marsh, typical of so- ing cars, which were travelling on of Glasgow, at the Commercial linking with a once inaccessible.
London. Motor Transport Exhibition, at this route at the same time.
One saw country sun. This vehicle was attached to | Olympia last year, has attained a burnt complexions, ruddy-cheeked the party of Lord Montagu of considerable measure of
children from the Weald, girls Deaulieu, who afterwards wrote, both at Home and Abroad. The from the villages, all in their Bua- Easier, faster and cheaper letry Albion Company were not among heard the burz of the good Kent day best for a day in town, one transport is needed in the un- the early manufacturers to place a developed areas of the world, and vehicle of this type on the market,
and Hampshire speech.. the trip across the Desert of this preferring to defer production un- **White Heather For Inak," Once again, says The Light Car six-wheeler shows the direction intil their design had been thoroughly And the inevitable hawkers were": Just as there is no bad bear there and Cyclear, we are tempted to ask which the solution of the problem tested on the road and across coun- there to meet them the old lady. Bucin to be no bad motorcycles why go-ahead small car manufac lies. I recommend all who doubt try, both at home and abroad. with her Scotch white heather for now-a-days, writes "Carbon" in turers do not embody in their pro- to try a six-wheeler of the Thorny. The thoroughness of their methods luck, the little man with that Motor Cycling. A year or two ductions all the individual good exoft type and they will fully agree may be judged from the fact that official sheet, the Daily Liar, ago it was quite a common thing
one of these machines was actually the match-seller for certain, makes to have a bad points that are to be found on with my conclusions."
who dispenses sent out to India so as to be tested time-table leaflets as a side-line. name. Every rider knew, for input this question soute years ago;
machines of other makes? We first Where The Six-wheeler Scores.
under the very worst possible con- Bimilar scenes were being enacted stance, that the X,Y.Z burst its because we found that the poorest exceptionally bad, or even in dis was based on the experience gain points: Trafalgar-square, Victoria
Wherever road conditions are ditions, and the production model at other boarding and slighting. tank after a couple of hundred machines had their good points, tricts where there are no roads aged by this miles, and that'thể P.Q.R. did 50 miles to the gearbox. But in this list even the best were often aur all, the rigid six-wheeler type can searching tests. The design em those vast coaching stations, with and other equally the Aldwych, King's Cross, and prisingly disappointing in one or year of grace the customary
now be safely depended upon to bodies 30-43 hp. engine and a. two particular respects. For ex
accommodation for something up. rumours do not seem to be in circu-
give satisfactory service, ample, an otherwise excellent cur Boundless, opportunities for lation; chiefly, one supposes, be suffered from heavy steering, whilst commercial development of dis. The rear axles are of the overhead revolution in travel, if ever there with standard four-speed gearbox, giv to one hundred vehicles, by Yaux- the ing eight forward speeds in all, hall Bridge and Russell-square. A cause there is not the slightest
on another make of car the steering tricts which have hitherto been worm-drive type, suspended on each was one! was about the only good feature! We are not suggesting that design handicapped by lack of transport side by pairs of inverted semi-
And, in the evening, what s eliptic springs, the centres of which romantic leave-taking of London ers should embark upon a whole-
One of the first Thornycroft rigid are clamped to tranions mounted our coaching visitors enjoy on the sale policy of plagiarism; we are taking the common-sense view that six-wheeled vehicles shipped to Aus on the end of a dead izle.
The machine complies with the are the same groups perched on open Embankment Again there when a manufacturer knows that tralia was acquired by the Imperial his car is suffering from some, fault Company, and its use has en- British War Department specifica suitcases, especially in design he should immediately dificulties they had previously ex vehicles, but gives a considerably station. While they are waiting round the tirely overcome the insuperable tion for medium weight six-wheel coffee-stall by the Underground take steps to find out whether rival makes of car suffer from the same pericaced in maintaining efficient greater degree of flexibility in the they have before them the river, fault, and if they do not, then distribution of their supplies dar suspension that is demanded by the molted in a sunset light or lit with Evidence that death was due to exactly how the mistake into which ing the winter, when the roads in War Office, showing its ability & myriad lamps, the fretted tur the carbon monoxide from the he has fallen has been avoided. the outlying districts were impass to tackle extraordinarily uneven rets and pinnacles of Westminster engine of his car was given at an
This appears to be inquest at Preston on Mr. Jack natural course of action; it seema
a perfectly able, and it was
uncommon ground without frame distortion. behind them, the quiet Embsak occurrence for CATA to become The machine is designed to handle ment Garden with idlers strolling Peet, aged 35, a motor mechanic. the only sensible thing to do whed stranded in deep and.
londs of four tons on the road, or or sitting in the shadows, and per He was travelling from Glasgow to
a designer finds himself up against wheeler, when equipped with bon-fitted with Dewandre vacuum Serve illuminated stand. If it happens They found the Thornycroft six-three tons across country. It is haps the band playing in the Birmingham, and was found dead
a nag, but the very fact that prae-kid chains on the driving sheela, brake gear, and can be supplied to rain-but that, of course, s «tically “evóry make of small ear
ground for them. Even the very smallest of what cynice call "back yard assemblies appear to be really good jobs, and it is very doubtful
whether anyone could point out an inherent fault in'any British-made motorcycle to-day.
CLOSED GARAGE DANGER.
facilities.
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in the driving seat of the car at Euxton (between Wigan and Fresia distinguished by at least one fea was able to plough its way through either with single or twin paeums another matter. At least, there is ton), where he had stopped for ture which is very much better than mid axle deep, and even to pull tie tyres on rear wheels. When the arch by the station, the trama repairs The engine was running that of its neighbours proves that out s stranded touring car in twin tyres are fited, chain track and taxis shimmering along the and the garage doors closed.
either manufacturers refuse to be its stride," providing that the can be supplied.
gleaming road.
There is The coroner, returning a verdict convinced that their products are vehicle possesses a remarkable re- Albion, alx-wheelers' have lately the glamour of the Embankment by of Accidental Death, said that at fault in any way or that they serte of power. "
been supplied to the Indian Gov- night, and the exhilarating run fumes from a motor-car exhaust are too proud to examine rival
ernment, and the Maharajah of through the countryside in the were recognized as extremely dan- designs and discover how the men
Gwallory while an order has recent dark hours, especially on that last gerous, and the engine should not responsible for them have dealt with
ly been received from the British Bouthampton which leaves round Satzun with the garaga doncs alased the same problem.
War Office for eleven vehicles. about midnight-Londen. Observer.
There are immense possibilities for this type of vehicle in un developed districts Overseas, and
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