THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1929.
MOTOR NOTES
RAINBOW SPECTACLE OF 1,000 MOTOR-CARS..
FIGHT FOR EUROPE'S MARKETS.
An interesting exhibit is the new Duesenberg, the fastest Uaited States built touring car with a guaranteed maximum speed of 110 miles an hour, and a second speed gear of ninety miles an hour. The car bristles with gadgets.
All sorts of warning lights are arranged on the dashboard, a red ...Paris. Motor-ears to the number | Means of carrying the fumes light appears to warn you that the of 1,000, the latest mechanical through the exhaust have been oil in the sump is becoming low and creations of every manufacturing adopted by certain French Ger requires replenishing, another to re- nation, made a dazzling spectacle man, and United States manufac-mind you that it is necessary to top to-night as they were being massed turers. The principles differ, but the batteries, and another if in the Grand Palais for the open-beneficial results should be the same, there is any fault in the lubrication
newspaper.
ing of the French Motor Show, Some manufacturers hate also writes's correspondent to a London adopted the two top gears principle -one for high speed and the other The first impression was one of of a slightly lower ratio for traffic considerable surprise. Locking driving and hill climbing-but what the mechanical feast spread out unis of considerable importance, the der the dazzling lights of the great lower gear is, as silent as the top hall, I felt instinctively that some gear. This type of gear may be thing was missing. Then it became sen on the British Humber and elear; the fabric type of body which German Wanderer, a new product; was such a vogue at last year' show the Graham Paige, the first firm to has died a sudden death, at least as introduce it; and some others. far as the motoring mode on the
Germany, it is clear, is getting Continent is concerned. True, therena her industrial fect, and is about were fabric cars here and there; but to make a bid for European car) steel bodies and coach-built bodies markets. "She must not be discount- have suddenly come into favoured in the coming struggle, which, as again, and they formed by far the
I have already indicated, is about majority. Motor fashions are be
to begin between the United States coming almost as fickle as dress and European manufacturers. fashions.
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Fabric Heads. While coach-buils bodies have come back, they are in a new form. Fabric is used extensively for the teps or heads and in most cases is of a different colour to the main body, The effect looked charming to Right, the harmonising of the colours giving a distinct rainbow effect. Black, loo, has gone out of": favour as a colour. The new rain- how cars should appeal greatly to feminine tasten.
Silent. Kill-Climbing,
At least eight German firms are exhibiting at the Paris show-inore, alas! than the exhibits of British manufacturers. What is more, she has already the body lines of ber ears to suit the tastes of other coun- tries, and her prices are now on an economic basis.
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of French engineers round the As usual, there was a large crowd Rolls-Royce stand; this is accepted here as representing the higher branches of motor engineering, and I heard one Frenchman remark after examining the new Phantom, "C'est magnifique-pleasant words for British cars.
UNIT CONSTRUCTION.
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Teacher: Joh my, if I buy a pair of shoes for 84.87 and sell them for 89.50, do I make any money!" Johnny: Well, you make on the dollars but you lose on the cents.”
Friend: Say, Bill, why do yoù. always slap your horse on one side??
Teamster: "I figuro if I get one side going, the other is pretty sure
to follow.'
Fire: "How much to make the journey to Veraillent
Driver: Forty francs" Fare That's far too much. Get the cab and I will drive you there myself for twenty."
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Actor: "I would like an advance on my salary.
Manager:"What for 1" ActorTo buy a collar." Manager: You don't need one- we are giving Hamlet' to-day."
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The Dramatist: night."
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Mistress: Why didn't you put the watermelon in the icebox as I told you? "
Maid: "I did, ma'am." MistressBut it isn't cold.'!" Maid: "Well, how could it be 11 had to take out the ice to get it in."
The candidate was encountering unlooked-for opposition. In ព wordy and equally stormy warfare he had come off second best against a resourceful, determined band of witty hecklers.
ed in loud voice, and paused "Who brayed then 1" he demand-
triumphantly in the silence which greeted this
Wile:Aren't you satisfied, now With the Continental firms pro- that the shop people are willing to ducing more machines every curlet you pay for the furniture by it behoves the British manufactur er, says Motor Cycling, closely to installments?".
Husband: "I would be if they'd watch the trend of design of his European rivals. At this Paris let ne pay the instalments by in- As he was about to resume his i Show several well-defined character atalments" istics of modern French machines were apparent, the most noticeable being an immense vogue for manuproached somewhat cockily by a The stately old geatleman was ap- facturing gear-boxes and engines in rich and valgar, young man, who unit construction.
announced:-
Closely allied to a school of thought which eliminates not only the primary chain but also in cer tain cases those driving the magneto The Wanderer, for example is aand dynamo, is that which utilizes 20 h.p, car which in appearance is a shaft for the final drive. very similar to the best United States type, and priced in Germany at £350,
These two features are in them, selves good, and it is strange that neither is incorporated on an ap
Both ideas
On the mechanical side there is much that is new, and the manu A representative of the firm told preciable number of machines on facturers of the various nations me that the car had been express-the British "market. must, I should imagine, have exly built to meet the United States have been tried but have seldom cellent systems of liaison so many
been developed to any extent. One entirely new motoring ideas are in-
might think it was because our corporated on so many cars of dif-
large concerns consider that these ferent countries of origin.
refinements are not worth the extra expense involved. On the other band, it might be reasoned that no firm is anxious to take the lend until somebody else has proved how these modifications will be received. In France, at any rate, the trade appears to consider them the first essentials of a modern innehine, no matter what its class or size of Lengine.
challenge in Germany. This car has a six-speed gear-box, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say a reduction genr which enables the Morris Motors in England were three orthodox speeds to be convert- the first firm to announce the adoped into six. There are two top tion of an anti-headache derive gears, two second and two bottors that is, a method of preventing the grars, and two reverse gears. fumes from the engines reaching passengers inside the cars. The fumes are generally accepted to be responsible for headaches on long journeys. They escape through the breather on the engine oil filler.
The alternative gearing is slightly lower than the normal gear, and it in claimed that this enables any gradient to be taken in silence, be cause it is, never necessary to speed up the engine revolutions.
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speech, a voice "eried:" Pers haps it was an echo, guv'nor !!!
A ferocious-looking woman strode. into the outfitter's shop and made for the neckwear counter.
The assistant found himself be- ginning to shake as the approached him.
"I want a collar," she thunder- ed. It's for my husband."
The assistant gave a nervous nod. "Yes, madam. W-what size does he take?"
wandering profession, had seldom An actor, who, because of his
"Size" she repeated. "I don't paid income-tax, was a last disknow. But just wait a minute and promptly sent him a return to com- covered by the authorities, who we can find out."
She proceeded to fear off her plete.
gloves, then, she held out two large hands
The actor kept it for a few days and sent it back with a little note: don't wish to join this affair."
Thank you very much, but I
"Measure these," she said. "You see, I can just manage to get them. round bis throat.”
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