2
WHIPPET
FOURS & SIXES
INCREASED POWER
LONGER WHEEL BASE
CHROMIUM PLATED RADIATORS
LONGER SPRINGS
GREATER BEAUTY
And LOWEST PRICES in their respective classes
SHOWROOM
SERVICE STATION.
"DURO" MOTOR CO., LTD. NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
DISTRIBUTORS :-GILMAN & CO., LTD.
THE PRINCIPLE OF AMALGAMATION.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.
30,000,000 AUTO-
MOBILES!
MOTOR NOTES
MOTOR RACER'S PERIL.
ITALIAN VICTORY IN 24-HOUR
Taze.
CONTEST.
the
ITALIAN ROYAL TRAIN.
-་་་
BIG ARGENTINE RACE.
VICTORY FOR STUDEBAKER,
That automobile racing in Argen tina is vieing in popularity with football, the country's national the wide. game, is apparent by spread interest attendant on the many races that have been planned for this year. In past years custom in this South American republic has decreed that the driver winning the various mees receive wide recogni while the automobile itself was tion for his skill in piloting his ear, secondary.
WILLYS
KNIGHT
CARS & TRUCKS.
SHOWROOM “DURO" MOTOR CO., LTD. SERVICE STATION NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
DISTRIBUTORS;-GILMAN & CO., LTD.
SOME SPEEDSTERS!
120 M.P.H. ROADSTERS.
MOTORING FINE ON A
GIRL OF 15.
FINE PIECE OF WORK." The railway section of the Fiat The excited crowds which watch Company recently delivered to the ed Signor Ramponi win
the Italian State railway a new royal "Double Twelve motor-car race, train, the greater portion of which with an Alfa Romeo at Brooklands had been built by them. This is after a desperate struggle for hours the first royal train to be construct- on end with the British Benty, ed entirely in Italy by Italian driven by Davis, and Sir R. Gunter labour and is a fine piece of work
doing justice to the artistic reputa little realised that
gallant Italian had narrowly escaped dentation of the country, at the most critical stage of the the train, three have been built in Of the four coaches comprising Both motor cars were dend leve; the Fiat railway department. They
With The increased number of at the twenty-third hour, and it comprise a coach for the King. a was a moment or two before, just each for the Quren, and the din American Automobiles ia Argen as Ramponi was approaching the ing saloon. Externally, there is tina each year, public laudation is ateep banking at the end of the little beyond the royal boat of arms rapidly turning to the merits. of
on the panels to indicate that this cars that are capable of standing} straight," that stone flew up from the track and shattered his anything more than an ordinary up under the strenuous tests that WORLD'S DAILY TRAFFIC. windscreen to fragments, some et international train. The steel panel are necessary to successfully finish
which struck and broke his goggles. coaches are 9 feet long and these events,
feet wide 212
fitted with One of the most prominent races New York.-Standard built plea Temporarily blinded and cut by several kinds of braking systems teld so far this year
was the
sure cars which will run at a speed glass, the driver momentarily lost
and lighting equipment so that they Grand Premio Standard. The run of 120 miles an hour on the public control and skidded perilously to can be ran over any European rail. was a round-trip between Buenos highways will be a commonplace wards another motor.car, their run-
Aires and Mar Del Plata, a fashion thing in the United States within ning boards grazing each other, but
The interior of each compart- able seaside resort, Only strictly the next ten or fifteen years, Be by a masterful effort Ramponi was able to steer clear, and forged ment has been lavishly and autis- stock model cars were permitted to cording to Dr. John A. Harriss, Egham Hill, the owner of the car tically decroated, all the tapestry, participate in the 540-mile run, president of the Broadway of was aned 10 5s. "for siding and ahead with greater determination
abetting her. Britain's
followed. carpets and leather panelling being Miguel Viggiano, driving a Stude- America association, speaking be Davis, ranging neck and neck with eating colours are blue, yellowed first place in this popular event.
misfortune
The pre-haker President Eight, was award fore a group giving a luncheon in Miss Medina, when entirely hand worked.
honour of Major H. 0. D.. Sea the Italian, was suddenly signalled and ivory. Each coach contains, a Studebaker cars first attracted grave, British sportsman. the most important motoring deve- other motor vehicles run nearly cial, because his bonnet strap washed room, toilet compartment and Buenos Aires and Mar Del Plata, trafic. will have to
to return to the pits hy an offi-mall vestibule, a sitting room, a attention over the route between
Roada segregating slow and fast loves. That delay probably cost us
ITS EFFECT ON THE
MOTORIST.
POSITIONS OF THE NATIONS.
[United Press,]
Paris-Over the six million odd miles. of roadways of the world about 30,000,000 automobiles, and
every day. This may be deducted from the figures published here by
*
way system.
bre
United Fress.}
be built to
"HIGHLY INTERESTED IN. CARS."
Miss Valerie Nedina, aged fifteen. Court for driving a motor car when was' fined 40s, at Chertsey Police ander age, and her father. Mr. Joseph Medina, of The Mount,
Police Constable Laws said that motor-car, knocked a man down on driving a
the causeway at Egham.
Miss Medina explained to him that three men were riding cycles said, bat expressed confidence by tors. She struck the one on the that time, the highways of the United States would be of the kind to allow such speed.
the race, for when the result was cabins for members of the King's when an Erskine Six established a fallow such high-speed driving, heabreast, two having no red reflec-
If the British motorist had the sturdy commonsense with which he is generally credited, together with the ability to perceive what is gen- uinely to his own interest, he would not hesitate to agree that one of
lopments of the year 1995 was that which was announced last Decem ber, namely, the amalgamation of
the International Chamber of Com-announced, it was learned that the the Hillman, Humber, and Commer merce showing that there are
Italian had won by only two and concerns. Alusion between the two 40,047,756 motor vehicles in regular latter had been already in exist-use in forty-one countries....
Away at the top of the list is the ence for some years.
nited States with 23.231.674 such Now, as a matter of fact (or so vehicles, Britain being second it seems to me from conversations though far in the rear with 1,617,732. that I have had) n considerable see In the United States there are ap tion of the motoring public fails to proximately 3,000,000 miles of roads, appreciate what euch a co-galina- in the United Kingdom nearly tion of interests means to them-200,000 miles, according to the selves, und regards this sort of figures. development from, quite the wrong! angle..
Uc-Ordination of Effort. One man suggested to me that "if other groups of firms followed the Hillman, Humber Commer example, the time would come when he would only have about six gif ferent cars to choose from, and then later nil the amalgamated groups would get together, put up their prices, and duly hold him up to ran-
Som
My answer to that extraordinarily nonsensical outburst was to recom- mend him to take a brief glance at what has been happening daring the last few years in the motor manufacturing industry of the United States. Here, he would quickly see, amalgamation schemes of the most gigantic arder have been carried ous, with two very con- spiruous results: (1) There have been just as many, if not more, cars for the public to choose from: (2) prices have gone down and quality has gone up.
Thus we
are instantly brought face to face with the proposition that, if co-ordination of effort and control can lead to this result, it must without delay be adopted as their guiding policy by those British ear constructors who mean to ex ploit the Dominion and Foreign marketa.
That was undoubtedly, one of the reasons which impelled the three great British firms I have named to form themselves into a single, united, entity.
Employment.
And it is something of which the British motorist ought to be glad. If more British cars can be sold abroad the cars which the British motorist buys for his own use will be progressively bettur and cheaper. His countrymen will have more em- ployment, and the demand which rates and taxes have upon him will be influenced in the right direction. There is another point too. Re cent experience has shown that the British firms which design their cars with an eye to Overseas demand, make the best cars for use at home. But of that point I will write an other time, for it deserves, na essay 'to itself.
Now the question arises, why should amalgamation, improve the cars concerned ?
re.
Progressive Austraila.
The motorista ol, France come third in the list, far outstripping her nearest rivals Canada and Ger-
many.
machines,
compared with the Dominion's 257,108 and Germany's 707.000. At one time Germany led France with Autos, but recently the French have become motor mad and money which the head of the family once franetically saved for the "dot" for his daughter's marriage ow often goes to satisfy the family's craving for a car.
Progressive Australia comes sixth in the list with a total of 507,104, then comes the Argentine, easily the most motor-minded of the South American Republic. She outstrips ever Italy, since she owns 209,047 vehicles against 233,149 in Italy. Then comes Spain, which though far from being 3 motorist's paradise from the point of view of reads boasts 194.200 auto, making her the ninth country in the world in order of motor-mindedness. New Zealand has 169,288 vehicles while other figures are:-
The French have 1,208,817
South Africa Holland
"Denmark
Belgium
Brazil Sweden Switzerland
133,900,
110,000
105.900
139,000
136,800
144.562
85,976
Buela's Position. Soviet Russia has only £5,833 autos spread over its many millions of square miles of territory, which rely indientes that traffic blocks in the Soviet Union must be un- known.
Mexico has 37,687, Japan 72,265, while China and Chile are a close pair with 21,506 and 23,432 res- pectively.
Lithuania comes at the tail of the Chamber's list with 1,819 vehicles,
alter ranking
Bulgaria, 2,105, Esthonia, 2.183 and Lettonia 2.507. The list does not include Albanin, Abyssinia or Persis, which probably would tie for place in the western hemisphere as the country with the lenst number of autos. Turkey has
7,400.
In length of roads, Russia comes after the United States with 688,410 kilometres then Canada with 678,400 Australia with kilometres, then
Egypt has the smallest 676,000. The answer is road area with 5,344 kilometres, simple enough. Because amalgama maybe 3,000 miles, tion leads to the pooling of A third table given the amounts sources and to the free interchange paid in various forms of taxation of technical ideas and experience. each year by the various coun It is a case of two bends being wiser tries, giving a grand total of $1,255,515,674. Although the British Isles possesses less than a twentieth "Levelling-Up." Too true it is that when a staff off the number of automobiles owned in the United States, her population engineers work together for years pays annually an eighth of the on end they are apt to get into the amount paid by Americans in taxes. state in which they cannot see the Thus the United States motor wood for the trees.
than one.
a half minutes.
The last hour was a hectic one for Davis, who had heen warned that the tread of one of his tyres was badly worn, hat a change of tyre would have made defeat cer- tain, so he decided to and lapped at eighty--seven milee per hour for a long period with the risk of his tyre bursting at any
moment.
C&ITY, 01.
France won the thir place with 1 Salmson,
Alfa and another Romeo gave Italy the fourth place.
THE MONTE CARLO RALLY.
¡
Personal suite.
A
The dining saloon contains massive 20-foot table. The ceiling is decorated with the Royal coat of arms and the armorial bearings of the principal Italian Orders of Chivalry, intermingled with designs of fruit and grain, signifying abun dance and prosperity There is telephonic communication through out the train; as well as a "system of electric bell, calls.
TEAM PRIZE WOŃ.
new record for the course.
Al
though the run was not under of cial observation, wide attention was attracted when the Erskine deliver ed Buenos Aires morning papers in Mar Del Plata nine hours earlier that the scheduled time.
The Erskine's average speed of more than 37 miles per hour over the muddy roads, drenched with heavy rains, was heralded as a miraculous feat for both the driver and the automohile.
It is satisfactory to learn that a fleet of Morris-Commercial vans has been supplied to the Dutch Postal Authorities.
The contract was only sentired" after the authorities had experi- mented with several makes, Morris-Commercials being" finally selected because of their reliability; and low running and upkeep charges.
In the fourth annual reliability | HOLLAND BUYS BRITISH. test from Tunis to Tripoli, & dis tance of 472 miles, which had to be covered at high average speed, Fiat 500 driven by Mr. Cureure, of Tunis, won first prize in its ciasa The annual Monte Carlo Rallyhe covering the distance in 11 hours bas come to he regarded as a very 1 mins. 93 secs.. or at an aver: strenuous performance at the best age of just over 40 miles an hour. of times, but this year's event was The two other Fiats entered for marked by exceptionally severe the context finished third and road and weather conditions. From fourth, thus capturing the team whatever point the competitors prize as well. started on their long run to the Riviera, snow, ice and fog were common obstacles which made rapid travel exceedingly dangerous. Out of the original entry of 93 cars, only 24 were successful,
Talhots were conspicuous among this number. Miss Kitty Brunnell, i the youngest competitor, drove al standard 14/45 h.p. Talbos, fitted with a special Weymann Sunshine Coupé and, in addition to complet ing successfully the exacting jour- ney from John O'Groate, won the Originality Prize and took third place in the fire class in the Mont des Mules Hill Climb.
In order to Appreciate fully the. ruerits of the achievements it must to remembered" that the Talbot's Greylinder engine bas a capacity of only 1,600 c.c.
Incidentally, Madame Schell and! 3 Pommier each drove their Tal hots from Berlin and won high merit marks.
THE FASTEST YET.
There is no gainsaying the fact that by showing the world that Great Britain is capable in the and of hustle of travelling faster on, land than the product of any other nation can approach,
very de finite sea, has been set upon the ability of our engineers, the akili of our eraitsmen and the grit, and determination of our countrymmen.
Already it is common knowledge in the motor-car industry" that. Segrave's triumph has had a most satisfactory effect upon the prestige, of the British car overseas. Sini lar prestige surrounds the British motor-cycle when it succeeds where others have failed or when it per forms some singulariy spectaculai and praiseworthy feat such as the recent 23,000-mile endurance test.
At the moment Motor Cycling feels that there are more motor? gycle speed records held by foreign! made machinee than is altogether healthy, and it sincerely trusts that the coming season will witness the return of many of them to Britain.
TRIUMPH TANKS. Triumph enterprise now makes it
We will sup budget is 8860,373,652 and that of possible for every owner, to add a Pose that the A car has a distinctly Britain $180,000,000. France and touch of individuality, to his mount, stiff eteering-in fact, always has Germany rank next with respective- It will be recalled that the Triumph had. The A people do-not-notice ly $84,000,000 and $50,203,000. Company Coventry have for 1029
it, because, they have got used to.
it. Also they are largely unac quainted with the B car, which, hos
a beautifully light steering.
The B car has always had brutally difficult gear change, But the B people are now inured to it and will not admit ite faults They do not realise that the A gear- -change is a miracle of case,
- amalgamate. What is 2 is a friendly dutt the result? There is of criticism and counter-criticism.
standardised -black tanks with sweeping saxe-blue side panele
things of the past. Here is a sub-edged with gold lining, to which atantial betterment achieved with
It is out cost to either party, simply a sharing-out of valuable in formation,
In matters of administration, ser- vice organisation, and so forth, organisations can learn a lot from Cach Beach and combination means not a levelling-down in and very soon the stiff steering of efficiency but very certainly a level- A and the bad gear box of B are ling up." VICTON" in Modern (Continued at foot of next column). Motoring)
their new type of transfers add a Enishing touch. We now learn that this famous Company have intro- duecd no fewer than twelve alter native colour schemes which are available for all their models, with the exception of the lightweights- medalnewsli extra charge if supplied with a new machine. Thus, new life and colour will be added to Triumph motoring.
སྨཱ
THORNYCROFT'S KEEPING
BUSY...
mediately. extreme outside and pulled up im-
It was stated for the defence that Miss Medina could drive exceed- (ed in ears.
ingly well and was highly interest- She was familiar with the working of a car and, although unable to drive legally she was perfectly competent to do so. Mr. Medinn had been ill in bed, and. did not know his daughter was out with the car.
The regular influx of orders for different types of Thornycroft motor vehicles was boosted up to good purpose during one week recently, when contracts were placed for a fleet of 70 2-ton chassis by one large company already, running a feet of
SCRAPPING THE TRAMS. Thornycrofts, another for 30 omni- bus chassis by the Overseas Motor Some time sco Hasting Cor- Transport Co., Ltd., and one forporation, Susscz, decided to terap 11.30-cwt chassis by the L.N.E.R. their trams and to replace them
with Railway.
Guy six-wheeled trolley During the same week ordere ar- 'buses. Up to a few weeks ago rived from overseas calling for shipthey had 48 double and single-deck ments of various types of Thorny trolley buses in operation; they croft chassis to Singapore. Holland have "now sent to Guy Motors, and South Africa, the latter for, a Ltd.. a repeat order for 10 of these feet of ston rigid six-wheelers... trolley buses.
You'll admire the
BEAUTY
of the NEW
CHEVROLET
Four Door Sedan ...H.K.$1,960. Tourer Roadster
1,580.
1,580.
14 Ton Chassis
1,510.
CHEVROLET
The Outstanding Chevrolet of Chevrolet History,
When people who are accustom-
ed to the finer things of life see the New Chevrolet, they appraise its value much higher-because it seems almost unbelievable that such beauty could be provided at such low cost.
Have you seen the seven beauti ful models of the New Chevrolet ? We invite you to visit our showrooms.
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
25, Queen's Road Central,
Tel Central 4759.
The New Chevrolet Coach Upholstered in Blue Corduroy.