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-BRITISH CARS SELLING WELL
OVERSEAS
100 per cent. Increases
·LOCK IT UP!
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
MOVE BY SCOTLAND YARD TO PREVENT CAR THEFTS
A NEW CHRYSLER
Standard and “De
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Luxe Models
MOTOR DRIVERS'
SIGNALS
New Electric Light Device
are
A PRACTICAL MOTORING HINT
THE CUT-OUT AND FUSES
There are two items of the elec- quired on the road-after dark in trical equipment of cars that are all probability, the need being evt. usually lacated close together, if
not actually on the same base-plate, denced as a rule by failure of ora with the functions of which the or more of the lamps. On some cut-out and the fuse-box.
FENCED-OFF HIGHWAY
A Development of the Not-Distant Future
"!
A corner in south-west Lance- shire recently prophesied that high-
with
A new move was made by Scot land Yard recently to remind mo-
A new model, known as the 10.8 torists that in London parking The exports of British motor places thy locking of ear doors is h.p. Chrysler Kew Six, is announc card, greatly improved in recent now encouraged. All drivers leav- od by Chrysler Motors, Limited, of years, show still further encouraging their cars at the parks were Kew, Surrey. Tho standard 4-door of handed a slip by the attendants saloon is priced at £299. and the ing development. In point fact, recent statistics concerning on which the following was print de luxe saloon at £310. The maling is a subject which is much to driver should be familiar-viz., the cars, including all of those made ways of the future would be fenced
wise precaution chines are fully up to date in de exports of Humber and Hillman ed: "It is a
streamline effect.
bodies are cars, and of the Commer commer- against theft to lock your car in gn and in appearance, with their
The "shfety-steel " cial vehicle,
repeatedly are specially inter-parking places."
The Autocar has esting.
For example, exports to New pointed out the advisability of braced, ribbed, and welded into and are insulted for quietness, and Zealand for the six months ending locking cats on every possible occa- one complete unit to give strength been the double-dropped X-type chassis January 31st last show, an increase sion, and it is understood that re- of no less than 110 per cent. over presentations have lately those for the whole of the twelve made that manufacturers should hit frame gives a low centre of gravity
of ground clearance. months previously. Other increase more secure locking systems than without sacrifice of room inside or. Cars are bearing engine has an impulse nen- for the same period, and selected are usually provided to-day..
Unlike America, few at random, are as follows:-
stolen in England with the detalizer or the crankshaft, crank- China
and the finita intention of rendering the case ventilation with an air clean vehicle unrecognisable and reseler, fully forced lubrication, and the ling it; there is, nevertheless, a well-known consistent loss of rugs, parcels, fre power" rubber engine mountings. extinguishers, and so on, from un- The down-draught carburettor has locked care, and in their own in in addition to the air cleaner an tereats car owners should make intake silencer. The ignition is an every effort to assist the police in tomatically advanced or retarded, the protection of their property, and the starter works in sequence. There is no need to emphasise the damage that will very likely be caused to the car by "joy-riders."
... 100% improvement
Dutch East
Indies 100% improvement Australia... 80% improvement Bouth
America 80% improvement while in the casos of both India and Africa, similar encouraging
results have been obtained.
It is well to remeraber, further
more,
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increases that these born of proved sound performance in the countries concerned.
COMPULSORY EXTINGUISHERS
Chrysler
The four-
Automatism in Control.
is need to emphasise the vital im of all highways proper footpaths portance of providing by the side
for pedestrians. It is strange that those who wander all over the. traffic may be approaching would roads without looking to see what not venture on to a railway track
The extensive fencing-off of the without considerable trepidation.
road from the footpath on buey highways may not be nearly so far
The aim of every designer to-day driver of a car to indicate his in-again) when the engine speed in-ped in paper. If these essential distant as one might at first sup
Have Spares Available, No matter whether the individual wise driver will open the fuse-box car be a new or an old of, the at the first opportunity, and, be The cut-out, therefore, is an audes becoming familiar with its engine (or dynamo) speed falls bewire within. The wife may be tomatic switch that disconnects the intergals," will make sure that dynamo-battery circuit when the there are spare fuses or spare fuss low s predetermined value. It cuts found tucked away in some corner anor socket, either exposed or wrap in automatically (switches creases above that value-ie, when are lacking a supply should be ob the pressure of the current being tained from a service station with pose. Certain signs of this deve generated by the dynamo is higher out delay and carried in the plelopment are already appearing in
provided for them.
various parts of the country, and proposals have been made that, than that stored by the battery.
there is automatic thermostatic re-
CHANGE OF DIRECTION Motor vehicle indication signal
up to two or three years ago, the off like railway tracks, the fore at the present time and one in which advance and some
The out-out is the upper of the fuses are merely short lengths of clearly defined crossing places for form of standardization urgently required. The signaller two units; its casing is held in exposed wire attached to the ter- pedestrians. The ideal motor road which has just bean designed by position by a spring, which in turn minala they link together When cern in which one of the branches twisted wire and a lead seal affixed wire of the same type and thick view would, no doubt, be on these the Silvertown Company-a con is usually attached by a piece of one "blows," a length of spare when speed alone was the end is is an instrument-making depart by the electrical equipment makere. I ness must be fitted, care being taken lines, but in the meantime there ment for precision machinery for As the seal implies, the cut-out is to prevent the ends from touching the G.P.O. and so forth-bag the not a detail with which the driver any part other than the terminals merit of novelty, and the patent should meddle. Its function is to to which they are attached, other which has been secured constitutes, prevent current from the battery wise short-circuiting may occur. I believe, the first granted to flowing back to the dynamo when conjunction with direction indica- the pressure of current generated moving electric light device in the engine speed falls so low that tora on vehicles. The new traffic by the dyname is less than that signaller, the inventor of which already in the battery. derived bis idea from the familiar electric signs used for advertising
ed to the trade at the British In- purposes, will abortly be placed on the market, and will be introduc- dustries Fair next Monday.
The instrument will enable the ia towards increasing automatism tended change of driving diree in control, and on this Chrysler tion, both to vehicles behind and to traffic officers ahead A slender gulation of the manifold heat, shaft of light attracts the eye, path across a panel, and by the Mr. Hales M.P. recently asked while an improveu automatic clutch both by the manner of its flashing the Minister of Transport if he control ir also fitted. Another good way in which it finally comes to rying of fire extinguishers on all from the rapacity for free-wheel-pointing in the direction intended.
the gears, including motor vehicles in future, so as to
seconds it disappears, the opera and serious damage bs done. performance, to say the least.
Fuse Box Inspection. Round Australia,
is, with hilical cut teeth, and there tions being automatically repeated as long as the signal is necessary. Then there is the more recent in road accidents.
The fuss-box is, however, an item effort on the "Round-Australia.
Mr. Prbus said he was afraid is easy-change." The hand brake
The signald are controlled by a neat switch unit on the dash. The that may call for the driver's at be, the car lights go out and nobody this method of tackling the pro- part of Mr. William Hatfield, the that the carrying of fire extin-is independent of the pedal brakes,
movement of the switch into any tention at any time, and he will on the car has any idea where and blem is not likely to be enthusias well-known Australian author and guishers on all motor vehicles and these are hydraulic, with 10in. defied throughout the 10,000-mile Mr. Hales had in mind. Extin- The half-floating two pinion differ of the three positions Turn be well advised to remove its cover how to pat matters right. Where tic for, unless a new fence were traveller, who, also on a Mitx, would not effect the purpose which diameter centrifusa brake drums.
Steering is by warm down"-sets 'acsignal immediately arises. He will then know how to that every motorist ought to be there would be grave danger to
growing crops. journey the most appalling odds, guishers which were suitable for ential back axle has a ratio of left," "Tuth-right," or Slow and examine it before real need in our fuse-box 1" is a question erected between path and fold, the car, to quote the driver's own carrying on motor vehicles were 4.675 to 1. words, "grasping the opportunity useful for localising and putting and sector, and the half elliptical into automatic operation."Slow it's new fuss if one should be re- able to answer of hand. with all four wheels, power plant, out small fires, but they could not springs have rubber cared shackles down" is indicated by the slow con- and Oilite disks between the leaves, and repeated flickering of a sec gear box and differential, putting be expected to cope with a up a performance which would not flagration involving the main re- The infomatic clutch is vacuum tion of light in the centre of the operated. and an inertia compenan signal panels, of which there are have disgraced the most powerful eervoir of petrol.
tor automatically controls the rate two, for the front and rear of the of care, and coming through each
of engagement. There is a button car. The motive power is derived time with flying colours."
on the instrument board for the from a small electric motor, bat eam and roller pattern, allows free sumption is claimed to be small and well within the scope of the central, and the freewheel, of ttery driven, and the current con- ordinary car's storage battery. In movement in all forward speeds.
view of what the Ministry of Transport are considering, it is of interest to note that this device
or green. give a yellow light, and not red
Consider for a moment that epic. "London-to-Calcutta" trail-blazing drive by Captain T. Yates Ben- yon, on a Hillman Minx, driving sdlo up to the final 2,000 miles, which were then completed, with the assistance of a friend, non-
The mechanism should never be
interfered with by anyone other ment is wrongly set, the whole of
Important Point.
stop in exactly four days. A fine will take steps to enforce the car and up-to-date feature is that apart rest in the shape of an arrow, than a specialist, for if its adjusted within or behind the switch-insufficient to allow of a footpath,
As a third illustration, there is the truly phenomenal success earn ed by products of the Humber Hillman-Commer Group in the Capt Town R.A.C. Rally winning every possible award except one by gaining the "Graaf," "Sidde- ley," "British" and "Open Chal lenge" Caps, with the Team Prize and a Gold Medal. The Hillman team gained the highest number of marks for all Classes.
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On some cars the fuses are locat where the space between hedges board. This variation in their strip wide enough for a path
lessen the risks of deaths by fire reverse, are of the quiet type, that After a period of two or three the electrical equipment may fail position on different cars is onehould be compulsorily taken in
nearly a ton. And only those who participated in that expedition can in any sense appreciate the true tanture of the going-barren wastes, desert; even previously un- trod expanses --ultimately to auc ceed According to schedule.”
Across North Africa. Lastly, there is that very atout effort by the Hillman Wizard 76' which, beside a crew of five and considerable luggage, towed across France, Northern Africa, to Cairo a 18 fet. 4-berth Caravan weighing plete with every "Service" detail
The Fittings.
New Trolly Omnibus,
The standard body has such use It is in this "first-hand" fa ful fittings as an adjustable sup of instifument abion, moreover, that British movisor, dipping headlamps, and an tor-cats are demonstrating again acroplane type and again their suitability to world panel, while the de luxe model has conditions-a truiam which is a mamber of extra accessories such
Next week it will be possible to clearly reflected in the fact that
2 chromium-plated wipers, and
give some particulars of a new vehicle which has just been brought the larger Overseas distributors 15 a sliding roof, two windscreen who previously have handled the cover for the spare wheel The au
out by the Associated Equipment. distribution of other makea of motomatic clutch can be locked out.
control on the Company, of Southall, and is like tor-cars only, are now going "One of operation by
prove of importance in COUL dash. This control has three posily to hundred per cent. British,'
When pulled fully out it speeding up certain forms of pub- tions. locks the transmission, and the lic passenger conveyance. The ma- method of driving and changing chine is a trolly omnibus, design- gcar is then the conventional one.ed with the object of replacing the tramcar.. Apart Pressed half-way home it puts the large-capacity free-wheel into operation, but not from special features connected the automatic clutch. Pressed fully with seating and quick loading, it hame it puts both automatic clutch is the first practical type of road motor to have a seating capacity and free-wheeling into operation.
of 74, apart from room for stand- ing passengers, and therefore to be able to take the place of the tramcar, which would have been superseded before now except-for- TO REPLACE LARGE TRAMS the number of passengers it can
THE NEW
CHOITIUN
PRINCIPLE TYRES
BY
FISK
MEANS MORE
mileage
A“ SUPER-TYRE WITH NO COMPETITORS.
Sole Distributors
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
Telephone 28011
Hong Bank Building.
BIGGER TROLLEY BUSES
contain and the capital it repre senta. With the trolly omnibus in The new trolley omnibus which use the supersession of the tramcar has just been brought out by the does not entail the scrapping af Associated Equipment Co., of machinery that has supplied the Southall, is designed to replace motive power
Toom
the large capacity tram. It is the The vehicle allows flexibility of first practical type of vehicle to traffic movement, and it loads and have a seating capacity of seventy- unloads in safety-namely, at tha for pavement. It employs a source gi four, in addition to atanding passengers. The weight power which is British and is it of the new vehicles will be under aslf British built. thirteen tons as a result of the special design of the electrical equipment and the age of duralu- min in the body. There will be, a central entrance without a step. There is no doubt that tramcare would have been superseded before now if it were not for their car, rying capacity and the capital they represent. The Krolley omnibuses
JAY-WALKERS
FINED ONE SHILLING IN RIGA!
do not involve the scrapping of the In Riga, Esthonia; everyone who machinery that supplies the macrosses the main streets crookedly, tive power for trams, yet they pro or who besitates in the road is fin vide the necessary flexibility ned the equivalent of a shilling. If newsengers can pick up their the fine is not paid immediately the offender is, arrested. Imagine.
traffic
from
any difficult Exist of comparativ carrying capacity.
gulation will have to come.
the meantime, the authoriti
busy cities should make
posed for Hong Kong! And yat it would certainly reduce very con- iderably the mber of accidents, tative in fines.. least içal
doubt
fort to ensure that ped read that part of the High Code, which refers to them,
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be one of the
reason why every driver should
know exactly where they are on the fielda skirting the, roads. The his own car before the time arises attitude of landowners towards when, on a cold and wet night may-
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