NEW ROYAL CARS. LABORATORY TESTS
FOR DRIVERS:
THREE FOR THE KING:- TWO FOR QUEEN.
The five new Daimler care for the King and Queen have now been delivered at Windsor Castle; all the cars are fitted with Double-six
engines and the new. Daimler
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flywheel and self-changing fluid box, is employed.
There are two limousines and brougham for the King and a lim- ousing and a brougham for the Queen, the conchwork in all cases boing by Hooper. Four of the cafs are painted in the Royal colours of scarlet and maroon, while the Queen's private "car is painted, green: The limousines are fitted with armchair seats and Triplex safety glass is employed through
HONG KONG ĐAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931.
PIZONTENT93
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
ASIA AND THE MOTOR-CAR.
REACTIONS ELECTRICALLY JUST ON 170,000 PETROL-
DRIVEN VEHICLES.
RECORDED.
Briefly (writes an Evening Standard representative, to whom the apparatus was demonstrated) the main principle of the inven-ly hauls both passengers tion is this:
NOTES FROM EVERYWHERE.
Kings Who Buy British and Why.
景。
THE MOTORIST MUST TELE.
WHEN HE HAS AN ACCIDENT,
Included among the customers of one British motor Arm Rols
A little-known obligation under A new invention för. toating Asia, land of camel, jinrikisha, Royce are at least half a dozen the Road Traihe Act was emphasis. : would-be drivers of big road trans-coolie, has during the last ave kinga. It is a striking tribute to od at Lambeth when Mrs. Mary port. undertakings and private mo years multiplied its registration of British workmanship that person Atkinson, of Focis Cray-road, tranermission, incorporating fluid torista with Jittle experience is re-automobiles between three and ages who have the whole range of New Eltham, was summoned for: civing the attention of insurance four times; even during 1930, year the world's products from which
Failing, after a motor accident company exports in Britain,
of keen economic depression, the to choom buy the products of the
to report it. at a police station Dr. G. H. Milos, of the National total number of vehicles in opere famous. Derby works. In this list
Not giving her name and ad- Institute of Industrial Psychology tion in Asiatiq countries increased are to be found the Kings of
dross to a person having reason some 7 per cent. More than any Sweden, Egypt, Irak Siam, Yugo-: has worked, with others, on the in
ablo grounds for requiring it. vention for a year.
other part of the world, however, slavia, and Abyssinia.
Hor car knocked down a child. Asia as clung to its old modes of
It was admitted the child was only A Leyland Helps the Prince, transportation handed down from.
slightly hurt and that Mrs. Atkin An interesting sidelight on the antiquity; the coolie still laborious-
and freight British Empire
Exhibition aton remained on the spot for some alongside and in competition with
Buenos Aires and the way in which minutes. A man who saw the no- the automobile and, in a few locali overy detail of the Princes toureident asked her for her name and
address was carefully watched, with a view ties, is even able to underbid the machine transportation through the to giving the "greatest possible extremely low cost of his labour.boost to British products, is n With road improvement and with stanced by a locally-owned Leyland a continued use of the incompar-5-ton lorry being commissioned to be was, and he replied: "I am ably more efficient and, except in a transport the heavier baggage, no-nobody." I said: "Thon you can't Everything is exactly ne it looks few cases, more economical machine cessary for the tour, from the Avia- have my name and address." I on the open rond, "
transportation, the automobile of, tion Camp at El Palomar to the did not repeat the accident to the police as I was not aware that I course will eventually supersede this. British Embassy,
had to. The child. was not hurt. antiquated, if historical and pic. turesque, raade of locomotion.
out.
WHERE GRAVITY FAILS.
IN BONNIE SCOTLAND.
One sits in a dummy car in the laboratory, takes the steering wheel, puts one
the accelerator foot on pedal and, looking through the windscreen, seek a normal looking road sweeping towards the radia.... tor.
The road bonds left and one steera For a strange sensation A visit should he made to the Ayrshire left. Churches, hedges, ponds, ccws enast for the purpose of experien- in fields-all glide past as if one
·cing the inexplicable fest of travel: 3 was:
in a car.
Bussing Sound.
ling against gravity without any forts of motive power. The sophis "ticated or credulous will remark in I took the driving seat, and, on a superior manner of optical illu allowing the near side of the car aion, but this is not a case of a to touch the curb, was startled by marble apparently running up a a loud buzzing sound. I then ran table in a house where the walls ate out of the perpendicular owing to subsidences. The experiment is made on an open road, close to the sen shore and away from high banks
Of course, it is an illusion. Tho or surrounding undulations which might tend to form a means of do-place of the windscreen is taken by caption.
on to a common, and pulled up within two feet of a cow, backed away, and bumped--the car actual ly jolted under me-on to the read again.
in screen, on which, from behind, the image is projected by an in genious device which makes use of light and shadow in a remarkable manner.
When the final model, new being constructed, is finished, the senen-
Travelling from Ayr, along the const road to Turnberry, passing the picturesque Brig o' Doon, whieu in itself repays any length of journey for a visit, the car should br stopped and the engine switched off. fifty yards past the ninth tion to the novice will be extreme milestone from Ayr. On releasing | ly realistic. the brakes, which will have been used to arrest the progress of the the driver is to be arranged, the car will tip sideways if corners
A wind current into the face of
car, the driver will find he je pro-are taken too fast, fog-driving will ceeding backwards up hill without be provided for, and cars (on the any apparent reason, and with image) appear suddenly from side
turnings. alightly increasing speed, until the milestone is again reached.
the
The feat of ten, men who all suc ceeded in piling themselves on a 1923 Triumph and riding it round the ground was a popular item, in the programine,, and brought forth great applause. Not so bad for an old machine.
India Enjoys Motor Cycle Baces. Though Asis still posesses an
Motor cycle races and "stunting": almost negligible share of the voro a feature at a recent sports world's registration of automobiles meeting held by the Signal Train- -less than 3 per cent.-its progressing Centre at Jubbulpore. (India.) in motorization during the past decade has been so consistent that the considerable expansion of that percentage within the next few years can be easily predicted. The number of trucks and buses oper ating in Asiatic countries, accord- ing to the world census of January 1, 1930, was 157,735 (35,530 buses and 101,905 trucks). In 1922 the combined total of trucks and buscs, according to the best available estimates at that time, was he tween 13,000 and 14,000; m. 1928 it bad reached about 44,000; from this paint the increase was steady until on January 1, 1931, the registration reached 188,005.
A NEW BENTLEY CAR,
NOTABLE ADVANCE IN
·ENGINE DESIGN.
"A complete record," said an official of the institute, "of the The local drivers say the extra-driver's reaction will be electrical.
ly recorded. ordinary non-observance of laws of gravity is due to ground will be traced. His apcod will be magnetic or electrical disturbances, measured. The number of times he and such a vague reason will per-cut & corner or touched a curbed their Intest design-a four litro
hapa satify the astonished tourist who is curious enough to verify the uncanny phenomenon.
[Reprinted from the C.S.M.A. Gazette, the Journal of the Service Motoring Association.] -
~PRINCE'S "BUS RIDE.
BRITISH VEHICLES FOR PERD.
The line ha took over the road
A new high-class motor car made its first appearance last month when Bentley Motors, Ltd, display
La Plus Belle Voiture..
At the Cannes Concours d'Elegance this year, the judges found it so difficult to award the prize for the "Grand Prix d'Hon- near a la plus belle voiture du Concours" in favour of one Rolls Royce that they took the unusual course of bracketting "two cars of that make as joint winners of the suprome prize
A Rolls-Royce car was also de- clared the winner of the Grand Prix at the Monte Carlo Concours d'Elegance
Bir Malcolm Campbell-Motor.
Oyclist. Malcolm Campbell, upon whom HM, King Goolge recently con ferred the honour of Knighthood in recognition of his wonderful performance at Daytons in creat
Why did you not give it to him" inquired the magistrate,
Mrs. Atkinson: I asked him who
The magistrate said he did not think she intended to avoid her responsibilities, but it was ber business to know the law. He fined her £3 and 108, Od, costa::
The Largest Single-Decker in Sydney.
In Australia and other countries overseas, where the busca are operat ing over routes les congested than those in Britain, regulations res preting over-all length do not have to be considered in the ordinary
At Paramatta, Sydney, N.S.W.; 40-seater single decker bus is hi sorvio. This has been built on a special 228 in. long wheel baso Commer "Avenger chassis, and is the largest single-deckor in that part of the world.
Doubtless it will be recollected that a Commner bas also the dis tinction of being the largest bus in the Calcutta district..
Motor Boating in France. Keenly alive to the value of the tourist business, the French au- thorities are doing their utmost to attract more visitors to their coun try this year, and the Motor Boat tourist has not been forgotten, Most of the tedious and irritating
will be laid before him. Even the six-cylinder 27 hp, model-in their ing a new world car speed record formalities at present attached to
time, in thousandths of second, in which his foot moved from ac celerator to brake pedal: will be forgotten."
not
SOME OF THE STUNTS.
ON A VERTICAL ROAD:
The Wall of Death" in which daring/motor cyclists ride round
od. In this a car is driven round
showrooms in Cork-street, Ward
The
of 245.7 m.p.b.," was a keen motor The new model--a smaller edition cyclist before he took up car rac of the eight litre Bentely-has an ing. exceptionally high road per He was a member of the M.C.C. formance (over 60 miles an hour), an enthusiastic "speed merchant" a flexible engine and a carriage free and in 1921 was racing a Triumph from vibration. Its silent running with success on Brooklands Track is remarkable, even in these days of quiet motora.
A robable advance in engine de
Bound the World by "" Bloper.":" Por Magnifieur, with A great reorption awaited the
crowd of Ariel enthusiasts turood Cut to greet them;
the vertical sides of a huge cylinder sign deserves special notice. The two intrepid British motor cyclists, has been quite a well known side- show for some time past, but its form of the combustion chambers Mesars Farrell and Johnson, wher latest development has now appear is such that 30 brake horsepower they reached Sofia recently on the It was in an A.E.. vahicle in the inside of the cylinder and the per litre capacity yielded in first part of their world tour, and Peru that the Prince of Wales took impression of speed given to the power consequently, the driver his first-ride in a public service spectators is terrific. notully has 120 brake hp. to all A Triumph Gnist chassis with 'a upon from the taxed rating of 27 bus. The vehicle was one oper single, sent is used for this perp This power developed may be ated by the Metropolitan Bus Colformance, the driver employing of Lima and the occasion was when second gear and driving flat out." regarded as almost-unprecedented. On the subject of stunts," at a having regard to silence of opere the Prince was on his way to open recent sports meeting held by the the British Empiré Trade Exhibi| Bignal Training Centre in India. aten, men succeeded in piling them tion at Buenos Aires
selves on to a 1923 Triumph motor "H:R,H questioned the manager cycle and rode it round the ground: of the company concerning the By the way, that persistent valves and endo adaptability of the British bus to Earth-girdler," Lieut. Kralichak the fou
Boboleff had travelled 43,000 miles the traffic of Lima and it was satis and crossed 20 countries when he factory to learn that it had shown reached Calcutta recently with his
600 c.. Ariel,
tion,
the Sahara, South Africa, India, Their itinerary includes Turkoy, Australia and America, and their machine is an Ariol sido valve
Sloper" model..
Provided with two special, type
overhead inlet A Humber " Bulpe for the R.A.T. valvesfor An order has been received from ils for its the Air Ministry for a Humber
possesses "Snips" for use in Palatine,
The car will be a standard model, Pxcept for the body colour, which will be in Royal Air Fores Blue,
ignitio
itself well adapted to the peculine started his tour from Shang- ties of the local strests and hahai and has since traversed India, created an excellent impression by Persia, Egypt, Europe and North a)
and South America in the course
its appearance, smoothness of run
ning and the strength and simpli city of its mechanical features:
of, which he has crossed thousands
of miles of desert and rough virgin
Country
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bringing a boat into the country are to be eliminated. A good start, has been made with the Seine and Oise rivers, where the "permis de pasings" for locks has already been Büpressed. +372
Summer Warning to Motorists.
as writon for England but [This was may be useful to local enthusiasts, }; to summer time, says The Light Once again, we have changed over. Car and Cyclecar, and the moment opportuns to pass on a few hints concerning-summer-motoring, just to refresh the memories of old hands joying their first summer season on and to warn those who will be en- the road. It would, scarcely bo ex- weeks will witness at least domal aggerating to say that the next fow the amount of traffe that is normal in winter months, and that during any fine week-end in May and onwards, main-road congestion must be expected.al je sk
Extra vigiance will, therefore, be imperativo. Do not forget that following a fine spell a shower of rain may, in summer time, temporarily turn a normal road surface into cuo presenting very real danger from skidding. Do not assume that because the elec trical system of the car has a far easier time, the battory needs lenn
with exterior bright parts such as frequent attention. Owing to the headlamps, etc., black enameled to higher, temperature, the
KUNG 4 auto infact, the case
reduco sun glare,
(Continued on nezi Golumu,)
should be itoppeth arĉatdezstrones 群 sight.
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