MOTOR NOTES.
THE "EL PIRATA.”
NEW FRANKLIN DESIGN,
An entirely new design in auto mobile bodies as brought out in the Franklin custom built "El Pirata," is seen by some as an indication of
what the public may expect in the future. This striking model design. ed by Dietrich for the Franklin Automobile Company of Syracuse, builders of the air-cooled Franklin motor-cars has won unusual acclaim wherever it has been exhibited.
"El Pirata" is of outstanding design, this being admirably set off with a finish of silver and gold. The car is entirely devoid of run- aing beards or vances below the doors, this adding considerably to etream-like design. A rear apron, made integral with the body, covers both the luggage compart ment and the fuel tank. The rear
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"CRIMES" OF THE MOTORIST.
HOME OFFICE RETURN OF
MOTORING OFFENCES.
Dealing with the Home Office re- turn" of motoring offences in Eng. land and Wales recently issued, The Motor publishes the following interesting analysis:→
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21,
TWO BROTHERS KILL MECHANISED ARMY'S
ONE ANOTHER.
HEAD-ON MOTOR-CYCLE
CRASH.
CORNER TRAGEDY.
Two brothers, who came in colli- sion head-on on their motor-cycles at Lowestoft, were unwittingly the cause of each other's death.
The tragedy occurred late at night. The brothers were Alphonso Cracknell, aged twenty, and John John Cracknell was "returning to Cracknell, aged twenty-three, his home on his motorcycle after trip to Yarmouth, when, in "Taking the hearest comparable negotiating a bend in the road near return of vehicles licensed, we find the fish market, his machine came the total to be 2,012,004, but that in collision with a motor-sycle driven does not represent the number of by his brother. Both riders were owners of driving licences, which thrown violently from their seats. must be approximately 3,000,000, They were taken to hospital, where
on examination, it was found they and that is the number we have to deal with as a basis in analysing had fractured their skulls. Alphon these figures representing motoringo died shortly after admission, and offences. For the period stated the John died the next day.
Mr. John Cracknell, the father, number of the deals with totalled 133,941, and the sum paid in fines had himself met with an accident a was 97,603. The return shows week ago, when he had his foot
"STABLES."
THAT HIRES OUT STEEL STEEDS.
TERRITORIAL TRAINING.
A novel stud farm "for, the supply of" iron horses" to Terri- torial units is an interesting result of the steady mechanisation of the Army. Lively young two-seater. Cars can be seen bucking and bounc ing over ditches, boulders, and hillocks, while massive "draught horses
of iron and steel haul 18 pounder guns up hill and down date on a diet of petrol and oil.
The farm" is run by the Artil- lery Transport Company near York, who hire out to the Territori al units the six-wheeled lorries and tractors which are now taking the place of horses for hauling gun- enrriages.
A Regular Business,"
wheels are hooded to a point below! that of the total of 135,241 offences crushed in a machine at the silk the traction for the Territoriali
the hub, this design also being a distinct departure from present practices. The spare wheels are Atted snugly into the forward fenders in wells.
The car is a close-coupled affair with extraordinary wide seats and has a decidedly chummy as well as a luxury atmosphere,
The Pirata" is equipped with an aviation compass and also has an inclinometer which shows at all times the percentage of the grade which the car is passing. The power plant is a six-cylinder the air-cooled Franklin engine, same design which has shattered most of the major open records of the United States during the past
year.
DEATH. DRAMA OF A MOTORIST.
SEQUEL TO A ROAD TRAGEDY.
Ross-on-Wye-A drama of few hours after a woman friend had been killed in a motoring ae cident was revealed at a double in quest held here.
"
The motorist, Mr. Gordon Clarke, of Manchester-road, Bolton, was driving Miss Gladys Lambert, of
keen motor-
108,857 were merely breaches of re-factory where he is employed.
Father's Statement. gulations quite minor in character.
My boys were To give an example; the highest figure relating to any breach is cyclists," he said to a Press repre and motor-cycling was 26.074 for lighting offences, a con- sentative,
which one of their chief pastinies. John siderable proportion of would be in all probability acei had taken a trip to Yarmouth with dental, and many unknown to the a friend, who was also riding a offender until apprehended. The motor cycle. The boys returned next highest number is 17,350 for about a quarter past nine. They effences in connection with driving stopped, and John said he would licences, the majority of which take the bicycle home. Alphocso had been busy during the afternoon would be due to forgetfulness.
repairing his own motor-cycle, and later he said he would take it for a trial rua.
"So we have the major offences, which are in reality breaches of the law, such as manslaughter (30 only), causing bodily harm (18 only), drunk is charge, driving recklessly and exceeding the speed limit reduced to 28,384. Of thin to tal 11,022 were cases of exceeding the speed limit, which, in these days, is not so much an offence as a matter of chance and bad luck in being caught.
"The conclusion is, therefore, that we have 28.384 motor drivers breaking the law out of 3,000,000 drivers during six months. Out of the same total number of drivers 109,857 commit quite minor offences against regulations in the same period.
"The summary of this 'eximinal' record is of particular interest on a percentage basis., So far as the actual lawbreakers' are concerned
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He had hardly left the house a few minutes when I was told that his machine bad crashed into an other motor-cycle. I then heard that the other motorist was my son Alphonse."
BUS TURNS TURTLE... There were remarkable escapes
from serious injury when an omni- bus dashed into a hedge at Flim- well, near Tunbridge Wells, overs turned, and threw the thirty occup- ants into a field.
It was feared at first that were seriously injured, but it was discovered that all had escaped with the exception of one.
We supply about 03 per cent. Forces, said Capt. T. S. Riley, the originator of the scheme and managing-director of the Salisbury Plain.
We supply instructors to the are coached, both in the theory of Territorial units, and the drivers construction and in practical driv ing. Lectures are delivered by ex- perts on brakes, engine-design, and tyres.
,
"Our feet consists of 21 B2x- wheeled 45 h.p. lorries, 5 chain- track tractors fitted with 40 hp. engines, and 12 light cars for re- connaissance work.
Eight Ohange Gears!
The whole fleet, of course, is of entirely British manufacture and design. This year we are in- creasing it by 20 more six-wheelers, 18 tractors, and 12 light cara.
With the present transport the company car completely mechanise a brigade of medium artillery-four GO-pounders
twelve 6-inch howitzers.
and
"Previously a foreign make of tractor was used, but the British designs have proved to be so much more efficient that they are now. used exclusively.
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1929.
THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR
WHEN, EVERYONE LOOKING ACCUSINGLY AT EVERYONE ELSE. YOU REALIZE THAT NO ONE HAS BROUGHT ALONG
·ANYTHING TO OPEN THE
BOTTLES WITH
GIRL'S COCKTAIL CAR.
LEADER IN BRIGHTON
RALLY.
A girl aged seventeen, the youngest competitor in the Brigb- ton motor relay races led the pro- cession of ears along the Madeira- drive, pulled up, and smiled.
She smiled at her father, who had accompanied her all the way from John of Groat's. She smiled & Brighton generally, and she smiled at the Pressmen. She is Miss Kitty Brunell, and to quote her own words, All British.'
Thirteen of the competing cars started from Joha o' Groat's, but Are one--the superstition apparently new motorist to master. The six- Other cars came from Newcastle, wheeled lorries the Territorials Birmingham, and Manchester, and have to drive after they have gone others started from London. There
have eight change-speed motor-boats on trailers.
Three-speed gear-boxes
Springfield-terraes, Lancaster, on they are 0.8 per cent. of the whole on the way from Sidcup to Hastings, generally more than enough for the cannot be denied had to fall out.
the Ross to Gloucester road, when
the notar-car skidded.
less if we have underestimated the
The passengers, a church party, were accompanied by Canon and motor driving community-possibly Mrs. Singin, who received injuries It mounted the bank, crashed in- number of, driving licence holdere, to the back and neck. She was con to a tree and overturned, ninaing which is possible. When we come toveyed to a neighbouring house and through the company's training were also four towing outboard was later taken home. The other reitted minor breaches of regula-members of party escaped with tions only, they represent 30 per shock and bruises, and proceeded to cent, and if we take the full total another motor-conch. of offenders in all categories the figure is only 4.5 per cent."
Miss Lambert and Mr. Clarke un- derneath.
Miss Lambert was terribly, in jured, and died almost immediate ly. Mr. Clarke, who was extremely upset, was taken to Ross. Ilis in juries were only slight, and he went to an hotel with the intention of remaining in Ross for the in- quest.
He went to his room, and nothing further was heard or seer of him until a servant knocked at the door but received ao reply.
(Continued on next Column.)
the motor drivers who have com-
The police were, suismoned, the door was forced, and Mr. Clarke was found dead, kneeling against a chair, with his throat cat.
It is believed that Miss Lambert
was a nur84,"
Basil Eyston, driving a Bugatti, one of the heavy cars entered for the motor races at Phoenix Park, collid. ed the previous day with a trader's cart at King's Bridge, which spans the Liffey. One of the two occup ants was thrown out of the cart. The other, Bartley Riley, nged fourteen, was flung over the parapet into the river, where he was drown- ed.
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LONG
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ECONOMICAL
LIF
course
gears"
Marvellous Cars,
Anyone who can change gear on these lorries can change gear of anything," said one of the Terri
It has been a re- torial drivers. velation to me during my, training to see what these lorries and cars can stand.
These 7 h.p. British light cars, for instance, costing less than 4000, we drive up and down steep banks, over, marahy ground, and through thick mud covered with water, and they actually "seem to like it.
Motorist From Birth." Misa Brunell, who began her motoring enreer at the age of five ecks, and bas motored ever since, provides an example of what a woman, can do in the way of mak ing mctoring comfortable when she sets her mind on it.
"I'll tell you something about the seat now," said Miss Brunell.
In the first place, the back of it comes right up to my shoulders, thus giving me the most complete support, and in the second place it is designed to tilt back to three "I don't know why people any positions. There are cupboards in British ears are no good for over the back of the seat, and each con- sens use. I am sure average contains what looks like a small a ditions there can't be much rougher taché case, in green, to match the than they are during Territorial ear. artillery manœuvres.
There is a cocktail bar in one, attaché case, and a ten-set in cream," black and green in the other. Every tool is in a separate "green baize nest in a sliding drawer un- der the front seat.'
The guns the tractors have to pull across country weigh 7 tons." In capital charges it costs £8,000 to mechanise a battery. In work- ing costs mechanical transport is almost equal to horse transport, while the efficiency is naturally | to London was just under twenty- very much higher.
THE 8-CYLINDER AUTO.
REPLACING THE "SIX" IN THE STATES.
That the eight-cylinder automo- hile is replacing the six in popu
arity in the United States in shows
Her time from John O'Groat's
six hours for 707 miles. She is con- cerntrating on the Concours d'Elégance, and has even gone so far as to have a dress specially made in the colour scheme of her
car,
HINTS FOR THE SUMMER MOTORIST.
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This is the time of year when all
in a recent compilation made by goes weli with the car. It is also Studebaker. Eighteen leading cities the season, as far as the careless" were selected, and registrations of driver is concerned, when trouble eight and six-cylinder cars, which for the future is laid up.
list above $1,000 in the U.S., were She starts up well these warm compiled for a period of four mornings. Just a finger-or a heel, months in 1929 and compared with as the case may be on the self- registrations during the same starter, and away she goes. period in 1228, Eight cylinder re- Don't forget that you are taking gistrations increased 62 per cent. it out of the battery, and too much while six-cylinder registrations re- of the self-starter, when the engine gistered a loss of 8 per cent. is cold, means more handle turning Registrations of eight-cylinder when the autumnal morning chili cars in this particular price group tome along presently. were 17,239 for the first four months of 1920 against 9,492 during the corresponding period in 1028. In the same price class. six-cylinder models registered 49,105 in 1920 at against 53,170 in 1928.
It is easy to crank her over just now, Why not do it? Starting by
rich economy,
in hand means "juice."
Then, with oil running this, what delight to push the ear all she's worth. Especially the light car.
To test the reliability of this com. pilation, Studebaker made similar The poor 9's and 11.9's. They comparisons in eight lending states. are boosting along nowadays, their Every In this comparison eights increased drivers forcing the gas. 90 per cent during the first four ounce of speed is being realised. months of 1920 over the same This is all a mistake. Wear and period in 1928, while six-cylinder tear are going on all the time; car. registrations showed a 13 per cent. hon is forming. You are keeping loss.
up that extra five miles an hour.
?
As a final teat ten counties, sec-The car is doing its maximum, And tions of states, none of which con- you are storing trouble and losing tained a metropolitan city, were money.. selected by Studebaker and regis- After a few months of experience trations compared on the above any driver can tell for himsell the basis. Six-cylinder registrations in. hest speed at which to run his car. If thirty-five, or even thirty, is creased 13 per cent, while registra tions of eights increased 315 per the maximum non-wearing, nou-
straining speed, keep to it.
cent,
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS (Copyright, 197% by The Rel! SyruÏçare, Inc.)
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
The Heir-Is it true that Uncle Henry left two millions ?"
The Heiress-Yes, but not inten- tionally
Son (off to summer camp): "I'm write to you once a week.
Dad: "You'll have to make your money last longer than that."
!
Mrs. Newlywed: "Here are some worn stockings for you, but, of course, they need mending."
Beggar: "Oh, I can wait while you do it, ma'am."
"Yes, this little boat makes twenty knots" an hour! said the. motor-boat owner, as they ploughed through the waves.
Editor: Did these poems come by Arst-class mail?".
"Go on gasped his pretty com- Assistant:
panion: What a lot of rope you Yes," Editor: "Is there no law against must use! But tell me who untics
them all- misrepresentation
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
Horizontal.
1.-Toupe. 4.-Pronoun. U.Beside. 8.-Fish limb. 11.-Vexes.
13. To make courteous.
15. To look intently. 10. Also.
18-Poker stake, 19.-Pronoun. " 20.-European city. 22.-Prefix:.down...
3.-Close to.. 24-Relates again. Negative. 98.-Dignified. 30.-Herb dishes. 32.-Island. 33.-Large tub. 34-Fairy-tale hero.
37. To hate.
40.-Type measure. 41.--Act of rubbing out. 43. Behold. 44.-Comparative ending. 40-Heavenly bodies. 47.-First day of week (abbr.) 48.--Crisp conky. 50-Organ of head. 51. To discard. 53. Decrees,
55.-Trim and tidy. 57.-Married. 58-Latin for and. 50-Therefore,
60. Turn to right,
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Vertical.
1.-Part of to be,
2. To urge,
3.-Small flying insect.
4. Possessive pronoun.. 5-Property.
1.-Cooks over coala.
7-Old pronoun,
8. To discover.
0. To purpos 10.-Born. 12.-Upon. 14.-Musical note.
17.-Metal bearing rock. 20-Slang: love makers: 21-Ships in slave trade. 23.-Like. 24.-To lift up.
25.-Hard brittle rock. 27.Bode.
9.-Tribe of Israel,
31-Consumed.
34.-Pronoun. 35.-Reparation. 28.-Most recent, 37.-Compulsion. 38.-Flunie. 33-Part of infiuitive. 42.-To state. 45.-Incursion. 47.-Belf-satisfied. 48. To stitch. 49.-Per cent. (abbr.). 51.--Correlative of either. 82.-Golfer's mound. 64-Symbol for tellurium. 66.-Italian river.
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