HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1931.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
BRITISH DOUBLE-TWELVE.
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
Sograve's famous car, which he sent on tour round the world. The car created tremendous interest, and the result was an increase for the sales of British ears wherever it went. Lord Wakefield has now sent the Golden Arrow to Buenos Aires, where it is carrying on ita good work us silent salesman for Great
Britain.
Nominatious for drivers are now coming in rapidly for the Double Twelve. Chaplin's four Austing have now all their drivers allotted to them. The supercharged car will be handled by W. N. T. Glosl- ing and W. E. Harker, while the there unsupercharged Ulster ino driven by D'Arcy dels will be Browne, Chaplin, Randall, Ben-MORE PARIS-NICE RESULTS. con, Marriage and Searle, Ripley
The Paris to Nico reliability lus resigned from position of
trial, which comprised regularity "director of mechanical repairs”
of running and variona competi-.| and B. S. Allon, of Henlys vin
tions auch as speed on the level, tion department, has taken over. Gardner's team of Midgets, runn-hillelimbing, braking, turning, ac- aged by J. Woodhouse, will be celeration, was won by Zehender handled by Murton Neale, Rt. It. Jackson, Samuelson, Horton, and another at present undecided, in addition to the entrant himself.
of
C. J, Randall's Midgets will be driven by Roberts, Montgomery, Gibson, Fell and Hendy, but, there in still a racaney for the sixth driver.
Earl Finally, the March's team of three care, also M.G. Midgets, will be handled by Staniland and March in the first ear, Parker and G. K, Cox in No. 2, Black and Fiennes in No. 3.
The 70 ce, class of the Double Twelve looks like being a classic race in itself if the size of the entry and the enthusiasm of the drivers are anything to go by.
LORD WAKEFIELD.
Few men have done more to en- courage speed contests than Lord WakeGeld of Hythe, whose doma tion of £1,300 to provide the prizes for the R.A.C. Lister T.T. race has recently been announced,
He co-operated in Sir Alan Cob ham's flights to Australia and round Afrien. The Wakefield Gold Trophy for the maximum speed of moturing was donated by him, of "Miss England" 11" has
course.
Lost him: £30,000,
Lord Wakefield has done all this ugrudgingly because he believes that the wning of the speed re- corda in air, on land, and in the water has national value to Bri- tain in increasing our prestige in the eyes of the world.
For example, Lord Wakefield de- monstrated his faith in the value of speed victories by his purchase of the Golden Arrow, Sir Henry
Romeo.
ONE CAR TO EVERY THE LIGHTER SIDE.
FIVE PEOPLE.
HUGE U.S. TOTAL.
In 1929 Americn hnd one motor
THE SUDDENNESS OF ACCIDENTS.
A PERSONAL RECORD.
involves peril, or is in formed by and charged helplessly into my the misconduct of his engine that stationary radiator. Har lapso ho had better select the ground for | cest, her fourteen works in hospital, forced landing. But on the road On another occasion my car was emergencies seem to develop with bowling merrily along at perhaps, the speed of light.
thirty miles an hour when a motor-; eyele overtook me, carrying a 20-
Some Narrow Escapes,
A young man with more enthu 'siana than knowledge sot
garage and had just completed one. of his first big repair jobs.
When the owner called, the young man surveyed the gar with pride. There," he exclaimed, you'd These facts are revealed in Parthever think she was second hand or other, though he hopes that his accidents through a long motoring happened next neither he nor. I
vehicle for overy 3.3 inhabitants and the United Kingdom one for every. 45.7 inhabitants.
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The novice in motoring is well aware that his new hobby implies the chance of an accident some day
skill, readiness, and foresight will
.
The writer has been exceptional-cond youth on the pillion. He took y fortunate in needing serious station some twenty yards ahoad,
career
covering many thous
and slowed down a little. What
know, but the machine suddenly
The owner cast his eyes over the prevent his persqual accidents ands of miles; and it may interest swerved vilently, and after a few:
II. of the statistical tables relating † now, would you 77
British and Foreign Trade and Industry "(1924-1930), issued by the Board of Trade.
While America hends the list, the Cnited Kingdom is henten by New Zealand. Canada, Australia, and
car and then said quietly: "No, it's more like something you made
yourself."
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violent plunges lay flat on its sida ahead of me whilst its two "pas-" sengers wore flang d'fferent ways and blocked other portions of tho road ahead, which was not too wide. By some miracle I steered clear of all three obstructions, pul- let up, and returned to vendor
Sometimes the origin of an
this seldom occurs nowadays. I emergency is mechanical, though can recall 'n car built, just before the war, which had not covered
less rond-worn owners to hear some from being anything more than n
Buraping of wings. When of the narrow escapes in his record, this game novice has survived his For the saddest of them he was firat accident, ask him what fun. in no sense responsible, The car
was purring comfortably up a mo ture of it impressed him most. You "This car," said the seller of a will invariably find that by hesiderately steep hill against a stiff Recond hand model, is its own fates. He is divided between his head wind, and an asy bed lay some seventy yards ahead. A It proclaims itairholly unexpected difficulty in get advertisement. own merits." 1020.
ting the memory of the erash cut cycling club suddenly swung down-first-aid. "Yes," said the dubious custom of his mind and the amazing swift-bill round the bend, coasting Inst er, “it certainly squeaks for itself."ness with which a pleasant drive with the wind astern. They filled the road from gutter to gutter, | culminated in fantastically sudden
and consternation scended on catastrophe. At sen the mariner normally, receives tolerable warn.
on a 1.56% ex supercharged Alfa-Argentina. The increase since 1024 Lord do Clifford's supercharged is shown in the following tables;
Persons per vehicle, Lagonda was placed fourteenth gut of thirty-nine, D. M. Henicy's 1,089 c.c. Riley finishod sixteenth, but secured first prize in the 1,109
Madame Lang on ec. class. Rosengart won first place in the 750 e.. division. Of the nine wo- men drivers to seeuro awards, the first was Mile, Hence Friedrich, on
Bugatti.
THE CLEANING WORRY ;
SOLVED.
A long felt need in the matter of having our motor-cars properly. cleaned and serviced is at last. solved. The International Auto- mobile Cleaning Company has any announced that they are prepared to wash, polish and service the motorists car while he is in his office and without moving the car from the parking space. Trained men are sent to do the work white the owner is otherwise engaged. The prices are very reasonable and the service oxcellent. Many prominent business and profession- al men of the colony have already taken advantage of the company's offer.
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Willingdon, Viceroy Desigante, Ins honoured Messrs.. Rooles. Limited, with an order for two Humber Pullman cars and a Hill- uan Car for his use in India.
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From 1924 to 1020 the total num- her of vehicles in the world increns. ed by 13,067,400-from 21,244.800 to 34,032,900. The countries with the greatest number were:
United States United Kingdom France Qanada
1020. 1924. 17,502,000 23,501,500 809,200 1,428,800
375,000 1,203,200
638,600 1,125,500 The United Kingdom, however. hnd in 1020 nearly seven times as as America, many motor-cycles where the total has shrink sines 1924 The figures are:
United Kingdom Germany, France
1924... 1029. 477.500 741,700
20,600 · 450,000 102,000 405,500 United States 130,700 110,400 The biggest producers of motor vehicles and pedal eyeles in 1920
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Motor Vehicles, .
United States Canada
France
United Kingdom.
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Germany Japan
France
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215,000
238,900
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THE £100 CAR IN HOLLAND. While the exhibits of Morris Motors Ltd., Morris Commercial Cars Ltd. and the M.G. Car Co... Ltd. created a most favourable in. pression at the Amsterdam Motor Show, held from January 20 TO February 1, the car that of all types and makes' enjoyed, literal- ly, a furore, was the "100" Morris Minor S.V, two-seater.
A cinematograph film was takea of the first model coming up the River Mans by steamer to Rutter- dam, nad of its transforener by erane from boat to quay, together with the ensuing Customs formali- ties. Further shots were taken of the car procreding through the main strects of Rotterdam, passing the combined depot at Delft, of Morris Motors Ltd.: an Morris Commercial Cars Ltd. (N.V. Mor ris' Automobielfabricken), arriv- ing at Amsterdam, and, finally, on exhibition at the Show Itself sur- rounded by an admiring crowd. For its nows interest alaie the com plete film was booked for exhibi tion at no fewer than thirty-five cinematograph theatre, throughout. the country. Aa, in addition to this, oight models were sold off the stund in the first seven days of the Show, and a song has been composed in its houour, the £100 car" may be said to have made a by no means unsatisfactory over- soas debut,
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market. For the price there is nothing to be compared with it,"
ing of impending danger; he can
foresee the storm, he recognises the conditione under, which ica is on- countered, and fog conveys its own warning. Even in the air a pilot "Just a minute, vir, T'll ask the as often as not perceives in ad- vance that a particular manœuvre, manager."
ALBION FOR A SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY. An interesting shipment has just left the Works of the Albion Mo ior Car Co. Ltd., Glasgow, for South Africa. This is 20/42 b.p. two-ton chassis which is being pre- sented to the Mechanical Engineer. ing Department of the liniversity of the Witwatersrand. The Albion Company have, of course, always taken a keen interest in the deve lopment of Motor Engineering and there is little doubt that this gift will do much to show the Engineer- ing Students in South Africa the high standard of design and ma terial carried out by British Manu..... facturers and encourage the buying |- of British vehicles in Bouth Africa
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pod like a carrot, and 1 was faced
with the delicate task of stopping it as hard as possible, and yet stopping it so daintily that the brakes would not modify its ten- dency to exhaust its impetus in n Worse, stil!
proaching car filled half the rond. I could do nothing but stop dend, close in to the ner side, and leave them to do the rest. With the swift ingenuity of clever cye-straight line ahead.
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