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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1932
SPARKS FROM THE PLUGS
News from Everywhere
Mr. Boatley Joins Rolls-Royce.
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It is understood that arrALIMU+ ments have been completed for Ma, W. O. Bentley to enter the service of Mesars. Rolls-Royce. Limited,
their subsidiary Comany Bentley Maters (1991), Limited..
It has alrealy Bean manned that Bentley Miitors (1981), Limit. ed, are developing a new Bentley sporting ype of car, Mr. Poutley will be taking a special interest in this sphere of the company'anno, Livizion
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Thornycroft Honours at Olympia.
Ainbngst the half dozen or so Thornycroft omnibuses exhibited at the last Olympia Show, there were twn which caught the judge's eye. and gained awards offered by the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers.
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deck omnibuses was awarded to a 151-sented fow bridge type Thorny- croft bus with body work by Mesura. Structans, Ltd.
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Both these vehicles were on the types of Thornycroft bibus chassis, introduced for the frat time at the Olympia Show, which que transport authority calogised as an important contribution to the Regress of passenger chassis de sign.
Second Hand Care in 1.8.9. Motor denlers in the Irish Free Stato propose to FLAk Mr. do Valera's Government to restrict the importation of second-hand!" enra from Northern Ireland. England, and Scotland. Members of the Society of frish Motor Tradets rom- phin of the number of used carp poured into the Free State. The
ther to refuse to accept cars bent- ing English or foreign registration rumbors in part payment for new
KILPH,
Plain-Clothes Police.
In reply to a question in the "House of Commons by Mr. Strauss whether only uniformed police were employed to control motor traffic, Sir H. Samuel said he was glad to have the opportunity of removing misapprehension which appeared
EUROPE'S LARGEST
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AUTO PLANT.
DETAILS OF NEW FORD PLANT.
The new Ford plant side the Thanus at Dagenham. England," is neuring complation and mich of it is already operating,
Work was started early in 1929 in Four- what was then marshland. teers Awusand piles were driven in- to the earth. Brda of concrete be gan to grow up on top of them
and soon there was an expanse of Concrete floor space stretching away as far as the eye could see. "Where cattle had formerly grazed, a 28- nere concrate floor was shaped.
The factory when completed, to exist in some quarters that pinin-will be the largest single automo- clothes police warb used to stop fbile plant in Europe and will have mator vehicles. The police employ with the possibility of giving re- a capacity of 200,000 cara a year td for this purpose in the Metro-
gular employment to 13.000 man. politan Police District were alwaysThe entire plans from Manchester in uniform, and Ee understood that has already been moved down, to- the same practice obtained in the gether with a large percentage of County and Borough Forces, workers employed there,
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Motor Show in Portugal. on is thei the second-hand After an interval of four yours, The Silver Cap in the section for value of most елия inales in Portugal is once again holding a shgle-deck "omnibuses, wort to a¦ England and Scotland than it motor show. The forthcoming ex- 119 sented Thornveroft ommibus with is in the Free State, and dealers | bibition is the eighth of its kind, body work by Mears, J. C. Bendle, enu profitably buy cars in England and considerable importance at Lid, of Darsford, and the Bronze and fogel in the Irish Free State, tanker to it, as reports state that Medil in "the section for double. † Irish tindern are considering whethe prospects of business are dis tinctly favourable. British ears are represented. among them being pro inets of the Humber-Hillman-Com-
For Economical Transportation
CHEVROLET
FREE-WHERLING SYNCHRO-MESH 6-CYL. CARS
HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES
SERIES "BA" PASSENGER
B.AC. Horse Power Rating 26.59., ~ Muximum Horse-Power 10.al $2,000 Revolutions. . · Piston Displacement 194 Cubic Inches ¡Pheel-Base 109 Inchos.
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Noth Weight
Frico
Spoed 60 MPH.
V. 8, B. Factory Price
Packing
Shipping
Deilrecat
Atsomoly
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Bellvery Hongkong
Roadster Roadster Sports ...4-pana. Coupe (& Window)... 2-paus. Tourer
....pen.
...2.pass.
2,265 Iba.
G$145
G$175 $620
2,330 lbs.
496
173
800
9,450 lbs.
490
180
070
£2360 lbs.
435
195
€80.
2,575 lbs.
495
185
830
2,600 lbs.
810
190
700
2,820 lbs.
615
705
710
2,386 lb.
$35
195
730
...4.pass.
2,555 lbs.
635
195
730
2,490 lbs.
675
196
770
.. 5-pas.
2,670 lb.
590
200
790
. Cabriolet.
Convertible...paus. 2,675 lbs."
$95
905.
800
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Sedan Special
....5-paas. 4,715 be.
015
205
620
Landau.
Convertible...5-paas.
2,735 15a.
205
830
Coach (Doora) ...5-pas Coupe De Luxe ...8-pass. Couch Do Leza E-pras. Coupa (3 Window)....pass. Coups Sports
Coupe (5 Window)...5-pass. Sedan
Optional Equipment at Additional price:-
Bapers $16, Spare Tire and Tabe $12.00 each, Radiator Screen and Cowl Lamps 35, Sixth Wire Wheal and Well Fenders $10, Well Fonder Tire Locks per pair $2.40, Chromis Tire Covers per pair $15, Trank Rack $7.50, Tourists Trunk 330."
SERIES "N
UTILITY
R.A.C. Horse-Power Rating 26,38,
Mazimum Horss-Power 80 af13,000- Revolutions,
Piston Displacement 194 Cubio Inches. Wheel Base 131′′ and 177. Speed 40 M.P.1.
1 Ton Chassis 131 W.B. SE. NA...2,700-16.
G$520
G$140
63380
11 Ton Chassis 131.3. DR. NB...2,820-lbe.
645
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650
2 Ton Chassi■ 167 w.z. SR. NC2,840-¡b.
580
155
725
2 Ton Chassis 157 w... DR.ND...2,980-lbs.
576
155
730
Optional Equipment at Additional price
Spare Tire and Tube 33 x 6-6 ply $22, 32 x 6-9 ply $40, 32 x. B-10 ply $60.
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All Prices and Specifications Subject to Change without Notice.
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
Stubbs Road.
Happy Valley.
Telephone: 27778, 27779 and 23134.
mer group.
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Unauthorised Use of Garaged' Dar.
A Cleethorpes gurige proprietor, WILH summoned at Grimsby for driving away a CAT without the permission of the owner. The car was garaged by a Leicester motorist on Easter Monday, and when want. ed it. was missing.
It is the only plant in the south of England to have its own blast fur- nacrs. The company plans to pro- dace pig fron at the rate of 500 tons a day. In its roke ovena 800 tons of con! will be turned into coke avery 24 hours. Everything needed for Ford cars will be manu- facture.
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Each of the enormous sheds has ben laid with wood block voring, divided by railroad sidings. Some end in the buildings; others carry Con around the opposite side of the building, and link up with the
main line system.
The plant has its own water frontage and jetty approachable by vessois at all stages of the tide. Occan-going vessels will have direct acers for Toading and unloading. The customs department will have its own office on the works in the immediate vicinity and special off- cers will be on duty.
Allison said that five booked seats in one of his moter-coaches The tops of the workshops are for Market Rasen were left vacant, mostly of glass, to let in as much After the couch had left five people daylight as possible. Pressure of arrived and stormed, and to ap-buttons allows six miles of roof pease them he allowed the use of windows to glide open, operated by the garaged car.
electricity,
He was fined £20 and £5 Ss. Costs for taking the car and £30 for send- ing out an uninsured car,
Eric Matthews, motor driver, of A. HAZARDOUS TRIP.
Cambridge-street, Cleethorpes, had also been summoned for talking tho car, but he said he acted on "All- son instructions and the case was dismissed.
Hospitals Road Accidents BIL The difficulty experienced by Eng hah hospitals, in spite of compul, sory motor insurance, in securing payment for the treatment of victims of roud accidents was em- phasised in a question in the House of Commons.
Sir John Haslam (C., Bolton) asked the Minister of Transport whether he was aware that accord- leg to the British Medical As- sociation 7,328 motor necident cases were treated in 135 hospitals last rear, a total cost of £4, 132, and that the claims to be paid under the Road Traffic Act amounted to £8,675, or about 10 per cent.
Mr. Pybus, the Minister, said that while he sympathised with the hospitals, he could not introduce Jurther legislation.
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28 Years Ago.
ACROSS AFRICA FROM.
WEST TO EAST,
A British motorist and his wife- Mr. and Mrs. R. Nichols, of Acura, Gold Coast Colony-are at present endeeyouring to cross the African continent from West to Eust. This is the first time that the journey has been attempted by motor-car. although a motor cyclist recently aucconded in getting part-way across
Mr. Nichols, who is Chief Gov. ernment Transport Officer of the Gold Const Colony, is driving a
hp. Riley with a van body, whilst his wife is using a three-year-old touring ear of the same type. For many thousands of miles water and petrol will be unobtainable, und ample supplies are therefore being carried in the trailers attached to both cara,
The first stage of the journey bas already been completed, and Mr. Nichols has cabled from Lake Chud, that bo and, his wife have" covered A letter in The Autour of De
1,700 miles of bush and desert ember 10, 1904, states:-
tracks in 12 days;.there has been After being accustomed to the
no trouble from overheating, he advantages of a self-starter and says, as had been anticipated in is most inconvenient to be without
view of heavy loads and a tem one on a four-cylinder Darracq Iperature of 100 in the shade. recently purchased. I am told, one cannot be fitted in connection with a non-tremblor boil, but do not credit the statement.
By means of four pushes, which when pressed connect up the accu- mulator through the engine to the coil. I am able, on the pushes being released and the connection broken, quickly to cause 1 spark at sach plug, but try as I may I cannot get the engine to start, though I can get backą Bres. Can you or any render help me?
After using a self-starter it is like going back a century to be. compelled to turn the starting handle after a short step, On my ald car I have dozens of times start od without the use of handle after twelve hours" stoppage.
VIATOR.
A NEW PLUG TESTER.
From Acera, the two explorers passed through the Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti to Salage, the City of the Thousand Wells, onco the biggest slave centre in West Afrion, and the city from which the Queen of Sheba is supposed to have purchased her slaves. They then traverand, the Northern Ter fritories te Upper Volta, crossed the Niger River into Nigeria, and pass. od through Sokoto and Kano (two of the oldest cities in the British Empire), arriving soon after at Maiduguri, near. Lake Chad.
The most difficult and dangerous part of the trip is still ahead of them, for from Lake Chad they, have to strike northwarda through the Tourag territory of Tibesti; they will then be flood with the bazardous crossing of the Libyan desert before they reach, the Egyp- tion frontier, and follow the rela tivaly safe and easy route to Cairo, After a rest here they will con- tinue, overland as far as possible, to London, which they expect to reach about the end of June
It may not be generally realised that compressed air offers resistance | to an electric spark, and that for this reason it is not really satis can be carried out not only of factory to test a demounted spark plugs, but also of the high-tension ing plug ander atmospheric pressystem itself.
sure, or even with the engine run- The method employed for testing ning idle. In view of that a new plug is as follows: the plug is type of plug texter known as the removed from the engine and HF, and produced by Harvey Frost screwed into the taster with its & Co., Ltd., 148-150, Great Port-high-tension lead attached, after Innd Street, W.1, is interesting, as which the instrument itself is in- ir permits plugs to be tested while serted into the vacant orifice. The under loed, having a pressure pressure pump is then operated chamber connected to a pump by until the required pressure is re- maan of which the pressure gistered on the gauge the recom can be raised to the required igüre,mended working pressure for a This instrument is easy to use and touring engine is given as 80 lb is suitable for either horizontally. or and for a sporta unit 110 lb. The vertically mounted plugs, and taste engine is then started and allowed, Wontinued at foot of next column.) to idle
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THE NEW 1932
FIATS
FIAT GARAGE: 850, Hennessy Road.
TXL. 24821.
21c 6 cylinder 22c
6 cylinder
It's a splendid car for the money as you'll find on the road-a car to be proud of. Built on lithe, graceful lines with a motor that has "guts" its a wonderful buy ut the price.
PRICED FROM $2,850.00..
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