THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES
gained the following awards in the recent English
INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS TRIAL
SPECIAL EXHIBITION
MEDAL
To B. S. A team on 3.49 h. p. models completed the course "without losing a single mark and were the only team to complete the Trial with absolutely clean sheets.
ALSO MANUFACTURERS' TEAM PRIZE CLASS "B"
Riders of B.S.A. Motor Bicycles also gained the following awards:
10 GOLD MEDALS
1 SILVER MEDAL
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926.
·MOTORS OF THE FUTURE.
· MOTORCYCLE TRIAL,
SINGAPORE RIDERS COMPETE.
Lows than one year ago in
The third motor oycle voliability London a series of lectures was trial to be held by the Singapore given portraying the changing Automobile Club will take place. oharacter of traffic in the metro-to-morrow October 17. polis. To the casual onlooker it
The previous events have prov- would have appeared, that the ed extremely enjoyable, and have strange costumos and still
avoked keen competition. Sing- stranger vehicles belonged to
apore motor cyclists have proved some historical era. They rothemselves woll able to hold thoir ferred, as it happens, to motor own with riders who have had cars of the year 1910.
oxperience of competitivo events It is impossible for any en-in Europe, and it is to be hoped gineer to neglect the fact that that there, will be a good rally at motor cars aro rapidly altering in the starting point. all their characteristics. The now roads, which now form the main artorios in and out of London, are wide and straight, high speeds uro possible with parfoot safety, and the motorist regards 50 miles per hour as moderate.
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Some competitors expressed the view on the last occasion that the rough sections were rather too long and too exacting, and the organisers will hear that in mind in mapping out the course this timo, and also the Progress will continue along natural unwillingness of motor the lines of increasing speed, foroyalists to risk damaging their it is becoming vitally important that time should never be wasted. Quickness of communication is the dividing factor between the old world and the new.
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Taking off places could be pro- vided in specified areas along the
A glance at the modern carnew roads. Until the day of shows that
factor of electric capacity storage or radio economy has made itself folt distribution, the supercharged, in the mood for smaller 'engines, heavy oil turbina, engine will and to-day all.motor cars have hold the day. It is unlikely that relatively small engines and are | mechanical methods of gear re- capable of speeds greatly in ex-duction will be superseded in the cess of the roaring 40 horsepower near future, although the difficul vehiclos of the past.
ties of electric transmission have; never been fully explored.
Owing to the demand for physical luxury, and thanks to the influence of the "feminine upon automobile design, the car must be luxurious; it must be weatherproof, and it must be fitted with every possible comfort, not always excepting the means for wireless reception, and even radiators for warmth.
The drawing-room fittings of the finest cars do not appear out of place, but hand mirrors and flower vases upon the unprotect- ed atrocity of 1906, when chains and gear-boxes flung oil to the winds, would have been ludicrous, It can be stated with confidenge that the car of the future must be enclosed, and if the necessity for greater and greater spoed con- tinues, it can only result in the use of a vehicle of stream-lined form.
The petrol engine is one of the most inefficient traction motors imaginable. It wastes over 80 per cent. of its costly fuel, which has steadily increased in value owing to the demand for power in a small, compact, and easily distributed form. The modern car engine converts chemical into mechanical energy in a very short space of time, it occupies less space each year, and with the advent of the supercharger, the servo-operated front wheel brake, and even hydraulic steer- ing, it will become more simple to control and moro tractable every day,
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It is not only in output that power units have advanced; they are less liable to break down, and if a series of curves be plotted showing size of engines to accom- plish 60 miles an hour with a de- finite lond, and time, or between time and number of averago breakdowns per 100 miles, it will be seen that the diminution in totul capacity has been accom- panied by an extraordinary im- provement in reliability.
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ENGINE TO BE MORE COMPACT.
As soon as the motor unit bo- comes a more service item and when the car itself is no more than a means of travel, there is no further reason for placing the engine in an accessible position. It will be so small, so reliable and so negligible that it can be safely stowed away under the floor boards or in the rear of the vehicle, where, its noise and slight smell will be loss objectionable.
Given stream-lining, a micros- copic reliable motor, and the necessity for bigh spoeds, how is it possible to design a motorcar other than ag an elongated saus- age in which all working parts are enclosed? High power and low weight are the objectives of designors. They are utilizing independently sprung wheels in ordor that greater comfort may he obtained, and they are stream- lining the wings in order that mud splashes may not ocour, until they most closely resemble an embryo aeroplane,
ENGLISH ROADS NOW JAMMED.
It should not be forgotten that the motor car is increasing in popularity, to the public rank and file. Many of England's main roads, in good weather are so crowded as to be almost impass- able, but the man of the future. will not ba content to travel across 400 odd miles of England alone. It will become necessary for him to travel abroad and what 1s more logical than that he should combino his motor car |with the necessary means for
flight.
The far distant time when dir- éctional energy can be truns- mitted, nothing can prevent the picking up of inductive power from cables or from stations which will be planted at intervals along our main routes.
When radio enables us to talk. to our offices as we fly to India for the week-ond, the business man will expect to travel the world in comfort and to remain in visual and audible touch with his headquarters. It is but 30 years since the sum of £20,000 was offered for a fight from London to Manchester.
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If we doubt the probabilities of progress we should consider what would have been the attitude of our great-grandfathers if we had informed them after dinner that in 1926 it would prove a relativo- ly simple matter to fly across the Atlantic and to remain in full communication with our homes all the time!
ESSEX COACH
Prices in Hongkong Currency delivered at your
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Special Essex Touring
..$2,100
Special Essex Coach...
$2,300
Special Hudson Touring...
$3,000
Special Hudson. Coach
.$3,200
Special Hudson Brougham
$3,600
Special Hudson Sedan
..$4,000
These cars may be purchased for a low first-
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For any closed car—even a “Four”—you pay almost as much as the Essex Coach costs.
Yet what a difference in everything that counts--Performance, Quality, Comfort, Good
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