THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MOTOR NEWS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
(Special Report to The Hongkong Telegraph.) ·
·BY #R. A. C."
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1926.
RUBBER:
its seventeenth year on the road, has only once been decarbonised Cooke, the Secretary of the Auto vehicles to carry useful leads of it covered well over 7,000 miles, and the valves ground in ence, mobile Association. It is based nine tons, equipped with pneu and the total cost of petrol. The brakes also have been once on the established fact that thematics throughout The tyres lubricants, repairs, tyres, licensos re-lined.
provision of white gloves for the used are of 40 by 8 inch section, and all sundries was less than £80, Quite a large fleet of cars is police and also for the A. A. road singles being employed on the consumption of rubber in the The following table shows, the for about twopence-halfpenny maintained by the Dunlop Rubber patrols when directing traffic in front and twins on the rear axles. United Stated compared with the mite. The figures, while not com- Company for the exhaustive read fading or uncertain light hus Engine-driven tyre pumps are parable to those of a modern light testing of wheels and tyres, proved a great boon to motorista mounted on
the gear car, are extraordinary as applied Amongst these, is 20/60 hp. generally.
boxes, rest of the world. The figures are This being 80, Mr. Hitherto five, tóns has been about taken from "Rickinson's World to a sevent en year old vehicle Sunbeam which, since the end of Stenson Cooke's suggestion is the limit of useful load which Rubber Position" for the years that has been kept in regular 1024, has covered the surprising that motorists themselves should pneumatic-tyred
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was
chassis have
Although many motorists, buy | he has covered round about 90,000 | service.
Turning to commercial vehicles, distance of 63,420 miles, the big-also wear white gloves to assist been asked to carry, and the big stated. mainly on the strength of the first miles, and his car has never yet
now recorded is, of This a gentleman from South Walcsost mileage in the year of any the clearness of their own signal- increase ccat of a car, those who appreciats had a complete overhaul. the fact that reliability, and he contemplates, shortly, after states that he bought a 7 cwt. of the Dunlop feet. During the ling to following traffic in bad course, largely due to the fact decur- light. Of course, the thing cuts that in the Scammell design the durability are often more impor- which he reckons that the vehicle Star van in 1908 and drove it re- period the engine tant as factors in general economy will have a further five years' life.gularly until the outbreak of war, bonised twice, one engine valve two ways, inasmuch as a warning land is distributed over three are steadily increasing in num- Up to the present replacements at which time it had covered at was replaced, and the brakes were signal, which is not observed but axles and also the unladen weight. is followed by the sudden slowing of the vehicle is exceptionally bora. Just lately numerous have been trifling, despite the fact least 100,000 miles. Just recent-re-lined once,
up of the car that gives the warn- Hght. authenticated instances have come that anything in the nature of re-ly he came across it still in the to hand which help to show whatgular maintenances has been service of Its present owner, who
ing may well lead to a collision an economical vehicle even a high badly neglected.
stated that it was continuing to
detrimental to both parties, priced motor car may be.
The last year's record of a go strong. Thus, for instance, the owner 14/20 h.p. Wolseley dated 1909 is
A few months ago a Thorny of a Vauxhall writes to say that very interesting. During 1925, craft lorry originally put into ser- vice in 1918 struck an obstruction
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PNEUMATIC TYRES UNDER
HEAVY LOAD.
POLAND RAISES DUTIES.
Poland has raised the import even in the lightest types of motor The use of pneumatic tyres tax duties on automóbiles and propelled machine is evidenced by under heavy load is increasing various on the road, causing it to swerve the fact that Mr. S. estwood, with great rapidity. It was only The increase ranges from 23 to and run down a steep bank where a veteran of sixty-four, recently in May of last year that the 80 per cent.
more service, has been withdrawn as being less economical than the firm's more recently acquired
it turned a complete somersault accomplished a ride of over 5,000 authorities first granted licenses before landing on its wheels. miles over the greater portion of to pneumatie-tyred 'buses to ply After being towed back to the Australia on a standard B. S. Afor hire in London. The fleet in road, it was able to continue the 349 h.p. two-speed motor bicycle question consists of twelve journey under its own power and Some of the country traversed in twenty-six seated saloon buses on only now, after several months Northern Queensland and Western the 15 foot wheelbase passenger New South Wales was almost imchassis manufactured by Dennis passable and he had to travel by Brothers, Ltd., of Guildford.A compass over unmade and un-report on the first six months defined roads. His confidence in work shows that in that periodf Thornycroft vehicles.
General reliability is intimately his mount is now such that he the 'buses ran altogether over connected with the reliability of proposes making a trip completely 370,000
miles without experi round Australia details, and interest therefore
on the same encing a single stoppage om machine.
mechanical causes. attaches to the report of another]
It is, of That reliability is not a proro- course, too early as yet to estimate. Wolseley car owner to the effect that he covered 60,000 miles before gative of petrol vehicles only is the degree to which the protection having to send the car to the ser-hown by figures just to hand. from afforded by the pneumatics may vice depot for camshaft adjust an official source relating to the have contributed to this admirable ment and chain fitting. This is tinel" steam wagon. During 1925 The use of pneumatics has now
performance of H "Super-Sen-result. # admirable testimony to the longe this vehicle carrying six tons of extended to both types of six- vity of the Renold chain as applied useful load covered 15,000 miles, wheeled vehicle. The pneumatic to auxiliary drives. Incidentally, The running expenses worked out while covering this mileage, his) brakes were re-lined once and the
at ninepence a mile and the total re is standard on the Karrier rigid six-wheeler, which seems fan belt once replaced, but other repair bill for the whole period likely to have a big effect on the
wise the total repair bill amount-
ed to just eight shillings and sevonpence.
was precisely £2.
'TRÅDE MOVEMENTS.
future of public service vehicle design. An opinion recently ex- Just recently two or three in-pressed
by the well-known teresting events have taken place authority "Motor Transport" on →→→→→→ AND RELIABILITY.
in the British Motor Trade. One this subject is to the effect that Reliability is closely allied to
is the reconstruction of Commer- "the six-wheeled coach is a durability and though, perhaps,cial Cars, Limited, of Luton, the vehicle the merits of which we not quite so important as a factor makers of the well-known Com- feel sure will one day break of economy, is of first importance mer Car vehicles. This Com- from the standpint of the motorist
through the fence of stagnation who wants comfort and ease of affliated to the famous firm of omnibus design.”
been definitely which is pany has now
now erected round mind. The owner of a 14/40 hp. Humber Limited, of Coventry
Vauxhall states that he has cover-The Luton Works, which cover Even heavier londe are now ed over 40,000 miles without any over six acres of ground, are
being regularly carried by trouble whatever.
The engine thoroughly modern in every sense pneumatic tyres on the flexible and will continue" to be devoted six-wheelers of the Scammell type. to the production of commercial This firm has. for instance, re- and public service vehicles, cently, supplied to the Venezuelan Commer Cars always had an Oil Concessions Limited and the admirable reputation, and the fact British Imperial Oil Co., Ltd., that comparatively little has been heard of them of late is due to purely financial difficulties. and not in the slightest degree to any Jack of reliability or quality in the machiges themselves. An extended manufacturing Dro- gramme has now been planned and a large number of chassis are being laid down.
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