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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 1928.
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A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Motor Notes-Huge Contracts for British Motors--Scross America in Motor-Coach-
THE DANGER OF FIRE.
This story comes
When open cars were the prevail. burgh, and is told in The fotoring fashion the personal danger policeman a suburban arising from a car catching fire thoroughfare pulled up a moterist either, when running normally, or in order to examine his licence. As the result of a minor accident The car was a tourer and in the was, for obvious reasons, disregard- rear compartment were two in ed. In these days, however, when dividuals who, imediately the saloons are the vogue the case is vehicle stopped and on observing different. the policeman, clambered hurried- ly from the car and made off down, the road A hurried consultation twixt the driver and the arm f the law, then the latter gave chase
HUGE CONTRACTS FOR BRITISH MOTORS.
BUSINESS BOOKED BEFORE
THE SHOW.
The opening of the annual motor. show at Olympia, London, has been Fortunately accidents are rare, already reported by cable, and re but they serve to stress the inference was made in that message portance of guarding agninat, and
sing, ready to fight, confingra to the business booked prior to the Some further details of So far as the former is enn-opening. Lin, and the men were detained: lucerned, says The Light Car and huge contracts made appear below the bottom of the ear was found aelem, motorists can de little and make interesting reading :-- Collection of jewels. It was ascer tained that the motorist had been asked by the men to give them a life," which he obligingly did. The men, of course, were inken in- to custody..
CO-OPERATION OF FRENCH MANUFACTUPERS,
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more than make sure that there is no leakage in the pêtrel tank and- delivery system. For fighting fire, the main poins to remember is that water is absolutely valueless if the conflagration is freding on petrol and that the most effective measure is the use of reliable chemical fire extinguishers. These can be obtain ed in all sizes and they can be in fixed to the vehicle so that they are instantly accessible should fire
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Except for unforeseen contingen cies such as a period of general trade depression, which is consider ed highly, improbable, there will be a substantial increase in the output of the British motor-car industry for 1920.
Some propheta, owing to the enormous increase in the sales of cars this year, predicted that we
the demand. But saturation point has not yet been attained by any means.
Hour little time ago the we SECOND-HAND CAR VALUES. should quickly reach the limit of Lawn companies Delahaye, Chen- ard-Walcker and Artes came to al
The newcomer to motoring may arrangement by which they ex change facilities to their mutual think that a second-hand car is advantage... Thus, when one of the just a second-hand car; hut, when trio contemplates a new model the the time comes to sell one and buy designing staffs of all three are another, says The Light Car and consulted. Each manufactures cer-Cefering it will be found that the variona apples in the motoring or tain parts for the others, while te- sources are pooled in buying parts,chard vary very considerably in sometimes standardized on all their their market value after a year or
J 15 rumoured that the union will be completed by a finan- eat deal,
Cars.
THE DISTINCTION.
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two's use.
The experienced motorjat knows
this well. and he is also aware that to the trade the purchase price is often no criterion of what a used Fear will. fetch. Thus of two makes
How many times which when new sell at about the
same figure one may be worth' much as fifteen dr twenty per cent. Never in my life: more than the other after year's for some work, simply because. reason or other, it is a good seller second-hand.
but I've been before you several times.-The Motor,
DIESEL ENGINES FOR MOTOR
· LORRIES.
MOTORCYCLE CONTROLS,
More and still more motor-cars will be born in 1929. To End space for them on already congested roads will be a problem for traffic authorities. They should take note of the warning in the manufactur- era programmes for the 'coming
year.
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There is rea! romance 'in, the
figures relating to the industry and its continued expansion."
over-seas
Mr. Morris's £20,000,000. During the year a keen struggle for home and
markets has developed between bir Herbert Austin and Mr. W. R. Morria. Their careers have run on paralle! lines. Both started making cara ja teas. Now both are making them in tens of thousands.
Morris Motors, Ltd., completed pre motor show contracts with their agenta for 1929 for 100,000 motor. cars, the value of which will be about £20,000,000...
This means that the factory will have to work to a programme of more than 300 cars a day through- out the year. This beats a re- cords for the British industry. The estimated output of the Morris Company this year was $2,000 cars, The Austin Motor Company, Ltd, has also arranged for a largely in- creased production. Their gramme for 1929 is 60,000 cars.
Not only in this country and in An improvement much needed in Germany are the possibilities of motorcycle construction, says fator the Diesel engine being consideredgling, is the standardization of for commercial vehicle work, but control systems. The controls in Franer and Switzerland the sub- should be similarly arranged, and jeet is being very closely studied. work in the same direction, on One British maker, says The Com- every machine on the road. The mermal Mater, is well advanced in motorist, taking over a new car for the first time, will almost in- the study of the Diesel system, and considerable attention 19 being variably find the controls disposed paid to the question of the injec exactly as they were on his last tion of the minute quantities of oil vehicle; the motorcyclist, on the required when the engine has to be
contrary, may discover that on his throttled down for low running new mount the throttle works in The ideal condition from the point the reverse way to that to which of view of the engine alone would," he is accustomed; that "the rear- of course, be running at constant brake pedal is located on the other speed, but that is not possible, and side of the machine and that the so the, dificulty is created of get-positions of the front brake and ting small enough charge for exhaust-valve lifter levers, have Thus two British firms alone will ticking over or for slow running heen transposed. Once the Cartura out a total of 100,000 vehicles. in traffic. The Commercial Vehicle owner has learned" to drive he can Exhibition in Paris and the Motor handle almost any four-wheeler, Exhibition at Berlin will certainly without difficulty: the motorcyclist, see suine important contributions however, may have to learn his to the subject of Diesel engine de-lessons afresh every time he invests sigu.
in a new make of machine.
For
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30,000 Babies.
pro-
The turnover figure of the Aus tin Company on the above basis will be about £15,000,000. A few years ago the British car manu facturer thought only in thousands,
Just over half of the Austin out put will be made up of the larger models the 12-h. p. 4-cylinder, the 16-b.p. 6-cylinder, and 20-hp. 6 cylinder models. Nearly 30,000 baby Austins will be created dur ing the coming year,"
The percentage of baby Morris cara to the total of 100,000 vehicles is not available. But presumably its advent as a rival to the baby Austin is responsible in some de gree for the largely increased Mor ris contract.
These little cars, which are one. of the features of the Motor Show, will also be responsible to a large extent for an increase in motoring in 1929, for with their reduced prices they bring the pastime with- in reach of thousanda of new buyers.
An increased over-scas demand for British cars is responsible for a share of the huge Morria, con- tracts and the increased Austin programme.
The
Hillman Motor Company has entered into contracts valued at about £3,000,000. This means a production four times greater than was the care two years ago.
One might well ask who under takes to sell these immense quanti- ties of moter-cata. The growth of the sales side of the motor indus. try is as romantic, as that "of the manufacturing side.
For instance, two young men, both under 40 years of age, have
Flag Signals for Motorists.
-New Cars for 1929-
Rootes, "on account of the stability of the British motor industry. Prices to a large extent have been stabilised.
during the past few days entered into agreements to dispose of 23,000 care in 1920, involving a turnover of more than £6,000,000. They are Mr. W. E. Rootes and Mr.. k. C. Those announced for 1999 by Rootes, joint managing directors of makers will in all probability be in Rootes, Ltd:
force throughout the season. The their father in 1886, when he sold
atarted by wild fluctuations of a few years ago are a thing of the past and selling motor-cars is In 1914 the
no longer a lottery.
The business
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his first motor.car. firm disposed of several hundred, and it was considered it had made giant strides.
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Business stagnated during the war. After the war the two sons were placed in charge of affairs hy their father. It was a happy com- bigation-the elder son full of im agination and ideas, the younger a brilliant business man, acting as a brake on the elder when necessary, but not curbing his inspiration,
Between them they have built up one of the greatest selling organisa tions in the country."
"We are able to contract for a year ahead," said Mr. W. E.
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ACROSS AMERICA BY MOTOR-COACH.
3.433 MILES IN LESS THAN
SIX DAYS.
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four having made the entire trip, and the others having been picked up during the journey.
Mrs. C. A. Jondro, of Los Angeles, one of the through passen- gers, said the omuibus was more comfortable than the train and more chummy with a portable radio and perfect service.
The coach is equipped with twenty-six individual seats, which can be changed to a reclining posi tion. "Each seat is equipped with a reading lamp.
The possibility of serious rivalry on Transcontinental journeys be tween railways and motor-coaches Mr. John N. Willys, president ofis suggested by the arrival in New the Willys, Kaight and Overland Motor Corporation, who reached York of the first omnitus to make Southampton the Cunarder the journey from California to the Agaitania, from New York, said he Atlantic seaboard. was making arrangements for an increased number of cars to be Los Angeles was the starting manufactured in the firm's factory point, and the motor-coach took at Manchester.
"We have been turning out five days fourteen hours to cover York and Los Angeles in opposite about 20 cars a day there he the distance of 3,433 miles--two directions daily. said, "but after Christmas we shall days longer than the "railway. increase our daily output by Ave Twelve passengers were times. We shall requiré about 2,000
in the more British workmen."
vehicle when it renched New York,
NEW
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Three Transcontinental omni- buses will henceforth leave. New
It is expected that the coaches will do a large tourist business, taking considerable trafic of this kind from railways.
HIS great new Director Sedan is one of thirty new Studebaker and Erskine Six models that have given the world a new mode in motoring. In these smart new cars Studebaker presents rare beauty of line and colour, new form-fitting lounge upholstery, tailored in rich new fabrics, plus thrilling speed and endurance.
Today Studebaker offers the greatest improvement in riding comfort since balloon tyres-exclusive new ball bearing spring shackles. With this advanced feature 172 steel balls, sealed in sufficient lubricant for 20,000 milès, "float" this Studebaker over the roughest roads. You will like this new Studebaker Director even more when you learn its modest price,
A Car for Every Purse and Every Taste
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