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MOTORIST AS PROSECUTOR
AND DEPENDANT.
100 PC DIVIDEND.
A dividend of 100 per cent, hak A young Tottenham motorist been declared on the bs. Ordinary figured in the role of prosecutor shares of the Austin Motor Com and defendant at a suburban police pany, Ltd, compared with co per ceat for the seven months to July
1830.***
court.
The police witness was hont, and, the motorist, to save an adjourn
The company, has had a record. ment, said that he would conduct year, and the car sales in the home market have exceeded those of the previous year by 20 per cent..
the police cosa and his own.
Ho did so in these words-on ex ample of brevity in a police-court: I
My ent silencer was noisy. That | MOTOR RACES FOR 1932, is the polies ense. I admit it. That is mine"
STAR-GAZING.
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Our Star Galaxy.
Millions of Millions of Millions.
Besides atars the 'nky contains, number of nebulo. Some of these, like the one in Orion, consist of gay in an extremely tenuous condition, Others, like the nebula in Andro meda, consist of multitudes of stars —island universes-soparated from 16 is impossible in this short artioun Milky Way group by great dis cle to bxplain how the results are tances The nonrest, that in Andro obtained, and 1-can but states them mods, is distant 300,000 parsecs. 1 The galactic satem to which we contains millions of stars and its belong, contains probably 100,000 diameter is 5,000 païsées. We may take it as a smaller model of our
million stars....
They are spread out in the shapë
of a watch in the plane of the Milky Way, and a long diameter is tomething like 60,000 pzárcs.
Speaking roughly we may say 10 per cent of these stars are more luminous than the Sun, and a small
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galactic system,
There are many nobules in the sky which are undoubtedly collections of very distant stars The dietan- pea of the nearer ones have been determined with an nocuracy of
s
The B.AC. announce the follow-proportion of these are more than out 10 per cent, and it hus been possible to conjecture tho distances He was fined 10s, and was thanking dates for the principal motor 1,000 times as luminous.
of those further away on reasonable ed by the magistrate for his recus in 1932:
They vary to a great extent in grounds of their size and bright- "sportiness.".
May 9 or June 5.-Gran Premio size and in density. Some of the
Recently the velocities of a num- vory largest have a density thou-bar of them have been determined, of Italy.
Buce.
May 30-Indianapolis 500 Miles sands of times less than atmos pheria air, while many have densi- ties like the Sun, a little more than d water, and one at lenat in believed to have a density of 20,000 times that of platinum.
"BABY" CAR BOOM. France, Germany and Italy are all developing the "baby" car, and many examples wero seen at the Paris Show which opened on Oct. 1. Italy is experimenting with four new models of 8 and 9 hp, three with four-cylinder engines and one with six.
July 3-French Grand Prix, July 10-Belgian Grand Prix July 17-Grosser Preis of Ger- many.
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and it is found that all are moving from us with immense velocities, and the more distant, they are. the faster they are moving. The most distant one whose velocity has been determined is 60 million paraces away and moving ot the rate of 12,000 miles a second.
Things We Have to Learn.
AN ENGLISH MOTORIST "ATTACKED IN SPAIN.
BECAUSE HIS CAR HAD A OROWN ON ITS BADGE
MADRID-Objecting to the crown, Royal Automobile Club, a mob of which is shown on the badge of the youths attacked a car outside restaurant in San Sebastian, where the owner of the car, an English Epanish friends. iman, was dining with aristocratio
Rushing out, the owner and an other Englishman found themselves in a froe Gght. The police made overal arresta, including the Eng lishmen, who were released after being fued.
Before paying the fine they point the Royal arms and portrait of ed out, though to no purpose, that King Alfonso still figure boldly one Spanish banknotes. The youths who had attacked the car. were not. punished.
know more exactly the extent of the. Probably in a few days we shall Milky Way and our relation to it.
The nature of the sub-atomie pro- cesses by which the heat of the Sun and stars is maintained is still un- known, and we may expect some further light on this subjeck,
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Apparently the Universe is runn ing down. We know it has been in existenco for 2,000 million years. For earlier dates thinn this results. are contradictory and we know very little.
But in spite of this the masses of stars do not vary groutiy. Most of These will not make their appear-
August 20-RA.C. Tourist Tre. them are not far from the Sun in 1858, some are only one tonth as anco until next year, but Germany
phy Race.
massive; and a few hayo béen found | and France both displayed new September 25-Gran Premia of with masses 50 or 100 times as great. Thin extraordinary phenomenon "babies" at the Paris show. Spain...
The stars are all in motion. For of an expanding universe is in con Finally, 50 years ago astronomers. The two most striking models At a meeting of the International example our Sun is moving with a formity with Einstein's theory of thought that most of the stars had were 10 h.p. German Mercedes Competitions Committee held in velocity of 12 miles a second relathe curvature of spago and was pre-planets circulating round them. six-cylinder, and approximately a 0, Paris it was decided that as the Lively to the stars in its neighbour. dicted by de Bitter
Now the general view is taken that h.p. edition of the French Rosen- competition for the Hill Climbing moving in the plane of the Milky diction of what astronomers will and some think it not improbable hood. The stars all appear to be I am naked to venture on a pro- planets are very rare execptions, gart The Mercedes model embod-Championship of Europe had net Way Our Sun and the stars near discover in the next 100 years, but that our Earth is the only abode of ics all the up-to-date features of the proved bigger cara,
ratisfactory in 1931, it should be suspended for 1932. it take about 250 million years to they have in truth, not yet digested thinking beings. Perhaps in al In future the time permitted be- make a complete revolution and are the wonders of the last ten years, hundred years-though I hardly ex BRITISH MOTOR-BOAT WIN.tween two runs during attempts on about 30,000 parrees from the centre
(Continued on next Column.), pect it we shall be more certain records in both directions on П
The British Power Boat Comitenightaway track is to be extend- pany, of Hythe, Southampton. based to one hour. Another decision been informed that the Panther wna that records canot be estab III., driven by Mr. Scott-Payne,lished during ratek. has won first place in the 0-litre The Committee also recommended class race at the Venice motor-boat that the gold medal of the A.I.A. meeting
C.R. should be given to Sir Mal- The boat won after a very excital Campbell for his world's te ing race, during which one of the cords made in America this year, Italian craft had a very narrow escape from sinking. The King of Italy was a spectator. "
IMPROVED MORRIS. COMMERCIAL.
Heralded by 10,000 telegrams to traders all over Britain, a new 30 ewt Morris Commercial was intro- duced recently,
NEW MOTOR VEHICLES.
A return has been issued by the Ministry of Transport showing the number of motor vehicles registered for the first time under the Rands Act, 1920, during July Inat.
Compared with July of last year there was a decrease of 2,220 vehi÷ èles of all : clasacs. Motor-cycles were down by 2,074, but goods vehi eles increased.. The classified
The vehicle has a larger and more powerful engine than its predeces sors, the wheelbase is increased to 11ft gin, and it has improved figures ardi apringing, and a four-speed gear- box.
The ebassin with generously in- ercased equipment, which includes spare wheel and tyre, costs 2108 The pride of the fully-equippul lorry is £220, and the van £94.
MOTOR "PROSPERITY..
Cars taxed on horse
power' ...
Cycles Hackney vehicles Goods vehicles... Other vehicles va
July, July, 1931 1930...
13,070 .13;448 7,356 9,429 $22 1,111 4,352 4,555 593 475
26,708 29,016 Sir William Morris, addretsing a gathering of agents and dealers who NEW "STAR" MODEL: visited Birmingham to inspect a new Wolseley, model, expressed the Like many other motor manufio- opinion that "the position of the turers the Star Company are build- country is better today than it has ing for next year a smaller model. been for years."
At a meeting at Wolverhampton the "I am glad to be able to announ- new season's programme, was An- es," he continued, "that sales of nounced, with the "Comet 34," our cara during the year just con- light 16 h. six-cylinderwith 4ft. eludod were over 27 per cent, great track, this chassis weighing only er than thoan of any other year in 14ewt, as the chief festure, our history. I am confident that
It has a four-speed gear-box, with they will be grander than ever in the now fashionable silent third, 1932 with resulting benefit to Brit and the extremely complete equip ish labour and to our national pros-avent for which Star cate perity."
known. Either the four-door salcon.
are
The new lear is a six-cylinder or close-coupled coupé will cont Hornet, with a four-door saloon £345 An hydraulic jacking system body, providing ample accommoda- is built into the chassis. tion for four persons The wheel-The other models are the "Comet bass is only 7ft olin., but the der 18" and "Comet 21 and the signers have placed the engine and "Planet 24." For each model there radiator much further forward than is a fixed price applicable to all usund, nad the resulting extra space body types. For the 18h.p. car the has allowed a full-sized saloon body, price is £405, for the 21 h.p.- £525, to be mounted on a relatively small and for the 24 h. p. 2005. chassis
The British motor industry, is pro- tected by the McKenna duties.
FIAT CARS FOR POLAND.
GAOL FOR DRIVER NOT INSURED.
Describing the offence on the most
An agreement has been signed humerious of tho kiad he had had be- tween the Polish State-owned en-fore him the East Ham maxistrate gineering works and the Fia Motor recently sentenced John Frederick Company arranging for Fint cara Hooten, of Rivenhall, Essex, to a to be manufactured locally, with a month's" "imprisonment and fined view to unifying the type of car him £25 for driving a motor.cor produced and supplying cars to not insured
third party the army. It is intended to grant risks.' far-reaching protection to the new Hooton was also disqualified production, which will be consideṛ- from driving for 12 months. Lod national
Importers of foreign cars are of opinion" that the agreement will be highly detrimental to their hits ness, which includes imports from England, Francs, America, and Czechoslovakinja
The case arose out of an sccident. at Manor-park in which"n woman was killed. →→
Rooton told the magistrate that he thought he was covered by thr policy of his father, whose-car he was driving,
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