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MOTORING NOTES
SOME BRITISH AND FOREIGN MODELS.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 1928.
jone of £200, the former type being now £340, and the coachbuilt, four and sia light fabric saloons, each being £550.
held at three
medium-pressure tires are sin, for tin, rims. This model is supplied na n chassis only and the price is £1,075. The additional charge for fitting safety glass to any of the Wolseley cars is very moderate, ranging as it does from £5 for a touring car windscreen to £15 for a six-light saloon,"
DEVICE.
lever to work in order to effect a
FLAG SIGNALS FOR
MOTORISTS.
USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL.
CIL-BURNING 'PLANE ENGINE.
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3 Wireless communication with
y cutting out the interference due by the present electric ignition sys- tem in petrol engines.
It is also asserted that the new engine weighs less than 3 lbs. per horse-power.
and the three-speed gear-box in SIMPLER GEAR CHANGING. mounted as a unit with the engine. On this model both hand brake lever and pedal operate the four-wheel NEW ARMSTRONG-SIDDELEY·
GREATER POWER FOR The new 21/60 six-cylinder is brakes A vacuum servo motori
WEIGHT CLAIMED. NEW CARS FOR 1929.and walnut cappings while the
The two bigger models lutch and propeller shaft have built on lines similar to those of supplied.
All the 18/45. The engine has over have the six-brake system.
The Packard Motor Company an been improved and ignition is by head valves and camshaft, and the three types of engine have tix
A signal system for motorista Of the various Armstrong Sid- which would warn other drivers of
nounce that successful test fights magneto. Dewandre vacuum servo crankshaft runs in seven bearings. cylinders and sleeve valves. braking and Marles rateering, have The bore and stroke are 75mm. and
aeroplane The Fiat range for next season deley models, with one notable ex-
what to expect of any other car have been made by an been retained. The Senior saloon
is suggested by a writer in London with an oil-burning engine. This at 60-taxable at £19 annually 101min. Single-plate clutch passes includes the 9, the 19, the 26.8, and ception, improvements for the new
Upinion. It has always been the is the first time that a Diesel type -should prove popular. The other the drive to a four-speed gearbox the 17/50 hp. models. The Srst 56ABOR have largely been confined to
details On the 30hp., and the habit of ships on
the crowded engine has been used for heavier-
than-air machines Singer car for next year will models range from £930 to £270, which has central control. The en-two hare four-cylinder engines, the long and short 20 h.p. chassis, bow nighways of the sea, he writes, to ever, new type of gear-box can advertise their needs and circum-
The demonstration was witnessed comprise the three models of chassis The engine of the Singer Six has sine clutch and gear-box unit are less two six-cylinder. A model
points of the Nine is the four-seated tourer be had for £50 and £35 respective stances to one another by means by score of army, navy, and air been, redesigned. The bore has flexibly
The suspension of this chassis at £185. The two-door and four- which have already proved popu-been increased from 83 to 65 mm..
The tourer door Weymann salodas cos; £993 extra. The object of the new of jolly little Bags of various officials. The engine of "the costs £410 and the three types of and £140 respectively, while the lar, the Junior, the Senior, and two of the four crankshaft is half elliptical
design is to simplify gear chang colours and shapes. This is radial, air-cooled type, developing bearings being split into three,
ing and to reduce noise. It is corativa habit, and it has always 200 horsepower. It has fewer parts and the Singer Six. The policy seven-bearing-support is given in saloon £425. The new 32/80 Straight Sxed head coupé is £33. An over- hardly correct to call a machine so seemed to me a pity that a wider than the lightest of petrol engines, of the manufacturers has been effect. The clutch has been made Eight is of modern Wolseley con head camshaft is used to work the fitted a self-changing gear car
and the designer, claim for it the rather to improve the breed than siead of the former metal shaft. The cylinder dimensions are ignition is by magneto, and the this that the gears or their equiya arrived the crowded highways of
lighter, and fabric disc joints are struction and has overhead cam-valves of this 990
c. since anybody would imagine from use is not made of it ashore.
Now at last the opportunity has following important advadtages:- 1. Danger of fire from petrol is to cut prices...
entirely removed. couplings of the propeller shaft. Somm and 100men. Water circula-gear-box has three speeds, changed lent were altered automatically ac
the land are becoming even more In the cases of the Junior two The back axle is three-quarter tion is assisted by an impeller and by a central fever. There is a
2 Both fuel consumption and and that the driver had merely to Beater and saloon the prices have, Routing and the case is a banjo there is an automatically óperated brake on. each road wheel; and the cording to the speed of the engine,crowded than those of the sea.
So I suggest that in future all fuel costs are reduced. It is assert. shape. The springs are half-ellipi- shutter for controlling the tempera- forward brakes are of the self-steer, use bis accelerator, and sp
ed that the new engine will carry however, been reduced by £5, these tient and are assisted in action by ture built in to the radiator. The energizing type. With its wheel-ply the brakes. In the case under cars should be obliged to carry a
short mast, about six feet high, aeroplane 25 per cent. farther models now costing £105 and £165 Newton hydro-pneumatic shock ab- crankshaft runs in nine bearings, base of nearly 8ft, hins and truck review he has still a pedal and a
on the offside, where it could be with the same weight in oil fuel
than a petrol engine. respectively. The engine of the sorbers An outstanding feature is The gear-box has four forward just over 3ft. 11in, the chassis
the provision of a semi-automatic speeds. The wheelbase is 11ft, ein. cannot be called expensive at £160.change, but the ordinary procedure most conveniently manipulated by Junior chassis, which is of the over-
chassis lubrication. Triplex glass and the track 4ft. 8in., and the The Twelve has an engine capacity is certainly simplified by his gear the driver, and from this mast the aeroplane is rande more secure
"The
of 1,400 cc., and the crank-shaft is selection. hend en shaft type and of a capa is used throughout the cars.
lever being placed in signal hoists, roughly correspond- city of 545 es now has aluminium coupé and four-five senter cost £300
carried in three bearings,
afront of him on the top of the ing to those in "use a sea, should "piston. The one-piece, propeller, as before, while the saloon
against two in the Nine. There are steering column, while he cannot be down. four forward speeds, and these have well make a noise in effecting a shaft has fabric disc joints, and and Sunshine saloon are priced at
off-side" change. There are six change. half-elliptical springs are used at no.
Moreover, a driver can the rear. Newton shock absorbers
brakes. A wheelbase of just over select his gear in advance, and, are supplied front and back. These The new Wolseley programme
9ft, and a track of it. in, are owing to the use of constant mesh sars ure cable at ES a year. The consists of five models-namely, the
afforded, and prices run from £260 gears in particular form, the usual length of the wheelbase, which is 12732 hp. 4-cylinder, the well-
for the two-three-seater to £325 for gear hum on the indirect gears Tft. Bin., in a distinct asset. The known 15/45 h.p. ylinder, the
The Minerva car is a high-grade the four-door saloon built carry with an ordinary box is greatly tour-seater is priced at £140 and 21/60 h.p. Straight Eight, and two the Sunshine saloon at £175. A new types & 21/60 hp. d-cylinder Belgian production, which has for five persons. With a sunshine roof minimized.
The 26.8-h. p. short chassis costs form of Sunshine Baloon is and 39/40 h.p. 5-cylinder. The deany years established a good re this model is listed at £350.. fitted to all the three types of s and apecifications of the first putation for trustworthiness. All Singer chassis. The hood, or head, three are practically unaltered, but the three models are being made £95, and the long chassis with for 1920, and the 20/24 and the wheelbase of nearly 11., £375. runs in channels, and by turning the prices have been so much, re- a handle fast on the right of theduced that it is hardly an exag. 32/34 are not being changed as The general construction of the driver's seat can be raised or lower-eration to say, in view of the class taten the top. he deliber This model is well up to big loads,
to construction. The 12/13 is being chassis is characteristically neat. el even with the car in motion. of productions, that a
as it has an engine capacity of The mechanism includes chainsdard in motor-car values has been horsepower denominations are con with slippers and guides. There is set. The new prices should cerfusing to people and it is a pity 60 cc. The new 17/50-h.p. has a dil marked High, 3 Nor wide berth on the starboard side and the black pennant with a
a bore and stroke of 68 and 103mm. mal, Medium, Low, Neutral, when passing it. sports Juniortainly increase the demand, for that they are not brought more
and Reverse." This lever replaces two-seater Bew
there cars very considerably. To
which brings the capacity to just the ordinary central or off-side bear a skull and cross-bones which sells at £140. This has a
long hand lever, and selects the boatshaped body and wire wheels itke one or two typical price in
under 2 litres. The valves are at the side, the crankshaft runs in It is stated to be con- stances in the three former models, are used.
seven bearings and has a torsional Kear. There is a pedal which takes siderably faster than the standard the 19/39 touring car sells. at £265, two-seater, having higher com the all-steel saloon at £295 which
vibration damper in front, the the place of the ordinary clutch in the same figure as that of the
Knition is by coil and battery, and pedal, and when this is fully de- and other drivers would be saved have no gas
pressed and released it engages the pression ratio, higher gears, and
the trouble of trying to overtake iz both water and oil circulations are gear selected. By the arrangement four-doar ♫ drup-coupéer and forth. The two-seater
A red flag with a black ccatre saloon with either four or six lights
forced. A central lever governs the the selected gear is only put into At £300. The 16/43 tourer has been
four forward speeds and the reuse. when the control pedal is work would mean
My brakes one gear can if desired proved in appearance, and the reduced from £450 to £365, and the
verse. From the gearbox, which ised, and
wan't work. one with the engine, the drive is be chosen in advance while the car saloon has wider doors and other coach-huilt saloon from £495 to
another. CATS £375. The two fabric saloons are
taken through an open tubular pro-is running on refinements. All the Senior
The 21/60
peller-shaft to a spiral bevel rear have triplex glass windscreens, listed at £375 also. head lamps mounted on a cross Straight Eight touring car shows a
axle. The four wheel brakes are of the customary" Fiat design, and einer, Bluminated switchboard. reduction of £155, and the enlnon
the springs, front and back. are acceleration is increased. half-elliptical. Wheelbase and track partly depressed the pedal acts as are 9ft. Gin. and 4ft. 8in, while the a clutch pedal although there is no chassis price is £295. The five-seat-clutch in the ordinary way. The ed tourer is listed at £340, and the box was exhibited on Armstrong four-door salon at £423; A two- | Siddeley bears at the Olympin water and a coupé are also made. Metar Show
new
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No
head coupé Senior has a new body,
the four-seater tourer has been im
new tan-
into conformity with English ideas, at any rate as to the second figures, which are bere wisely used to in dicate maximuan or brake BOTRE power. On the 18 the, adiutor has been raised, and among various fahrie improvements it may be mentioned that a portion of the fas of the radiator is being employed for cool ing the oil. The temperature of the engine oil has too long been neglected by designers of motor en gines. A twin Zenith carburettor is now fitted to this chassis. The crankshaft runs in seven hearings
Such a regulation would not only make for brighter motoring, but it would enormously increase the fae- tor of safety. Let me give a few examples of the sort of signals which might figure in the motorist's code book.
For instance, a yellow pennant might mean In the new box, the gears are
This is my first ear, is less than with the old type as and Rown with a blue square above Concentris and the tooth pressure a greater number of teeth are in it, it would further indicate" more continuous engagement. On
This is my first the top of the steering wheel is an
time out alone. ordinary hand lever which works Then other motorists could give it!
An ag-
parent advantage of the system is that apart from troulle being saved, time is gained, and therefore When
On the other hand, ■ black Ang-
would signify
I race at Brooklands,
I down with a green one, with zigzag lines, it would mean
My steering is uncertain. The man who is liable at any
A
moment to stop in the middle of the road and get inadvertently into reverse could be, could be marked with a large red spot or a flain ground, whilst the habitual cutter Continued on next Calama).
Captain Woolton, the designer öf the engine, said that further tests would be made before it was pro-
duced for nie...
in might be indicated by a pennant of red, white and blue check.
The yellow flag of quarantine might stand for
I am slightly intoxicated,
low border for
I usually stall my engine when " I slow dow Signals of distress would be equally useful, ranging from "I to my back axle. kas dropped off"; mutiny in the back seats might also be suitably indicated.
There is no other signal I have not mentioned-a large square fing of a vivid red; this should certain- ly be reserved for
My wife is driving.
It is a nice idea. Our big arterial roads are drably monotonous at the present time, but I cach car were to carry its appropriate bunting they would look like Kew Gardens. in tulip time. It is well worth considering.
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