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ERSKINE SIX.
16.54 H.P-107" W.B.
Duplex-Roadster
Duplex-Phaeton
1,200 1,300 1.800
6 senter
G.$1,200
2 seater.
4 sealer 5 Seater WITH WIRE WHEELS. STANDARD SIX. 27.34 H.P.-117" W.B.
Folding Top Phaeton
5 seater G.$1.450
» achter
1,455
Folding Top Sports-Roadster
8 sealer
1.165.
5 seater'
1,490
Folding Top Tourer
7 seater
1,580
Conch (2 Door)
3 seater
1,600
Country Club Coupe
3 seater
Custom Victoria
4 senter
Custom Sedan
Custom Berline
scater Gscuter
1,690 1,700 1:710 1,780
Duplex-Sports-Phucion
5 senter G.$1,786
Folding Top Spots Roadster Duplex- Roadster
3 seater.
3 seater
1.8:5 1,870
5 senter
1,965
6 scaler,
Custom Victoria Chancellor
4 seater
Custom Berline .....
5 seater
Fire Chief Duplex-Roadster
3 seater
2,030 2,050 2,065 2,090
Duplex-Phaeton
Folding Top, Phacton
"President" Sedan
BIG SIX 120" WHEELBASE: 36.04 .P.-126" W.D.
Club Coupa...
Custom Brougham
BIX SIX 127 WHEELBASE.
36.04 H.P.-127" W.B.
"President" Berline
"President" Limousine
7 seater G.$2,220
7 seater
7 seater
7 seater
7 seater
2,220 2,676 2,755
2.925
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SATURDAY, JUNE 11,
1927,
MOTOR NEWS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
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Interesting Developments-Wolseley's
Future.
[By R. A. C. for The Hongkong Telegraph.]
Industrial Developments.
her 70 hour drive from John-o'- Gronts to Monte Carlo
A number of interesting develop- British Motor Cycles and engines ments and changes have recently continue to sweep the board in raceR taken place in the British Industry.and trinis all over the world. In The business of A. C. Cars Ltd. has the Colmore Cup. Trial, B. S. A. been purchased lock, stock ridern
three secured
special and barrel by Mr. S. F.wards, 5 gold medals and
who has Edge,
for long 7 Bilver 'medals. In the time past been its Governing Victory Cup Trial the prize Director. Mr. Edge's policy is to for the best solo performance also maintain a relatively small busi- went to a B. S. A. rider. ness, turning out every car under As the Motor Cycle points out the most exneting supervision, and very many of the trials now held emphasizing low running costs as in Great Britain are calculated pri- against low first cost: In the marily to prove the capabilitice manufacture of A. C. Cars, there of motor cycles under what are will be no petty savings by the use called colonial conditions; that of cheap materials. Dend weight is to say, for cross country work is cut down to a minimum not by and over un-made roads and steep reducing strength, but by employ-hills. One of the stiffest of all in In this ing the most suitable materials, re- the Southern Scott Trial.. gardless of cost.
event five Triumphs were entered, Messrs. Arrol-Johnston Ltd., the and all completed the course; one makers of the well-known Arrol-rider winning the Northern Cup. The annual award of the Motor Johnston and Galloway cars, have purchased the business of the Cycle Union for the most meritori Astor Engineering Co., including ous observed perfomance of the sea- their 'sleeve valve' manufacturing son has recently been gained by rights. The Arrol-Johnston and Messrs. Norton Motors; the gerti- Galloway modals will continue as fied trial consisting of fifteen hun- before, but, in addition a six-cylindred chilus running, including a der sleeve-valve model will be intro-hundred continuous ascents and duced, having a 24-70 h.p. engine, lescents of a famous test hill in the Furthermore the electrical and Welsh mountain. The award re-. marine work hitherto conducted by fleets credit, not only on the makers the Aster Co. will be continued in for the machine, but also to a very special shops.
appreciable extent upon Messrs.
It is confidently anticipated that Hans Renold, who supplied the the troubles of the Wolseley concern chains responsible for the trans- have been terminated by its pur-mission of power throughout this chase by Mr. W. R. Morris. The very gruelling test. Wolseley business was practically; In the matter of high speeds," a put up for anction, and several big very sensational performance was interests were disposed to bid for recently put up at Brooklands by it. For a time it was in double Mr. Herbert Le Vack on his 496 cc. whether future control would not New Hudson, who won a race over be vested in the hands of an Ameri-a distance of about 9 miles, at ar can syndiente, and it is a matter average speed of nearly 95 m.p.h, for congratulation that the firm re- and actually completed one lap at mains, in all senses of the word, an average of over 100 m.p.h. British. The recent failure of the Wolseley Co. was due entirely to matters connected with finances and management, and had no connexion with the firm's products. In fact, the outstanding merit of the Wolse
ey Light Six. introduced at the last. Olympia Show was universally recognised.
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On the continent of Europe, a team of 1. S. A. motor greles secur led the team prize in the Paris- The three riders all Nice trial. secured gold medals and lost no marks GVET a very stiff course, which only about two-thirds of the entrants were able to complete at 3. 4
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MORRIS'S WAY.
Beat Oxford Council.
The civic fathers should be glad that Mr. Morris, of Oxford and Cowley fhme, does not reside here, says the Sydney Sur
In 1919, the Siddeley-Deasy Co. The Motor Cycle draws one's
In the city of Oxford the enuncil was amalgamated with the motor attention to the fact that, in this decided, in the face of technical department of Armstrong-Whit-trial, a large number of foreign
opposition, to lay tramway ser- worth. A company was formed, machines equipped with British vices in some of the main streets.
competed and pit known as the Armstrong-Whit-engines
Mr. Morris cbjected, and offered admirable performances. worth Development Co. and this up
a bug service. He met machines with 10 run owned the undertaking known as Fer example,
with a refusal, and was advised engines won five Armstrong-Siddeley Motors, Ltd., Villiers
Four of these that no one would be licensed to builders of ears and also of aero premier awards. enginca. It also owned the Arm-were little engines of 172 cc. fittedly for hire in buses. on the city strong-Whitworth Aircraft Busto machines which all secured gold streets.
The Bfth was ness, manufacturing aeroplanes. medals and cups. The name of the holding company a 350 cc. engine on a machine with
been
to side-car which won a gold medal, a changed the Armstrong-Siddeley De- challenge cup and the French Tour- velopment Co. The programme ing Club shield.
has
now
Next morning posters appeared
all over the city-"Watch Morris:" The Morris buses duly appeared,
but kept strictly within the letter
of the law. They did not ply for Every
will of course, remain un As regards long distance pioneer-hire in the technical sense. changed,, the undertaking having Fing journeys, two B. S. A riders tobacconist in the town had been sinec 1919 produced more 6 cylinder are in process of making a journey supplied with rolls of tickets world. The Motor which were accepted on the buses cars than any other European round the
Cycle states that two other couples in lieu of fares. manufacturer.
on other makes are also attempting a similar performance, but over. somewhat different routes.
The demand for Triplex Safety Glase has increased so considerably of late that the manufacturers, al though already possessing four fac tories in various parts of the world. are now putting up a fifth which will presently be completed. More and more private motorists are fel lowing the example of the services and of the police in specifying the use of Triplex Glass on their cars.
hour.
Trials and Races.
The council was helpless, and the tram project was dropped.
The owner of a Triumph motor
and -side-car recently pinee to another on my baronial es- cycle journeyed with his wife, from tate. Andy Kerr, the Coogee Bun- to the Cape, a yip, will put up the 'dough' on my Bulawayo
of
two over
thou say so." distance
miles. Fourteen days One enthusiastic owner of a 14-20 sand
Wolseley purchased, in 1909 were occupied in travelling, the h.p... average petrol consumption was has kept exact records of each nearly sixty to the gallon, and the year's work. He can still touch 44 only trouble to the motor cycle was a single puncture.
The greatest recent event in the
Evidence Of Durability. way of speed performance, is of course, the record established by
Some of these last named tests Major Segrave with his 1,000 h.n. Sunbeam racing car, with which he, are really of durability rather than for the first time, exceeded a speed of speed, and it is on the strength of 200 miles per hour, on one run of durability and economy that the actually reaching 207 miles per products of the British Motor In- A performance of this kind dustry appani most strongly and reets credit, not only on the most widely. Many British models but on are capable, without the aid of ex- makers of the car, those responsible for every detail ceptional circumstances, of a life and necessary. Thus, for instance, mileage of as much as two hundred It almost props without saying that thousand miles, coupled with low Major Segrave followed the example repair expenses throughout the of nearly all other record breakerslife of the vehicle. The question of on the ground or in the air, in tak- economy is not determined by irst ing their maker's advice to "fit and cost. For example, some people are forvet" K. I. G. sparking plugs, in the habit, of paying about £200 which are one of the many popular for a car and replacing it every two lines exported from Great Britain years, scrapping the old one.
intal expenditure in that care is by Messrs. 5. Smith and Sons.
.p.h., and cover nearly 35 miles to the gallon under favourable con- ditions. During last year his mil- cape was about seven thousand miles and the total cost per mile, including tyres, repairs, taxes and everything else was 2.8 pence.
Among commercial vehicles the team of Leylands which recently won the Commercial Motor Users Association's challenge cup have covered. respectively 247, 214 and 220 thousand miles,
A Somerset cider distiller tells me that his 21⁄2 ton Guy has now exceeded the two hundred thousand mile mark and appears to be equal. to several further years of excellent service. The petrol consumption is about 11 miles to the gallon and the quantity of oil used is negli The gible.
At times British manufacturers
in
A more normal type of Sunbeam£1,000 in ten years, whereas the receive complaints which have a
since! car, namely a 3 litre super-sports buyer of such a model as the Bri-humorous aspect, and are
sense complimentary,
indicate what some model, recently finished first in the tih "Star" car, to mention onen speed trials in Switzerland and well-known car famous for its dur- they
A mutter of made a new Swiss record of 129.3 ability, would have paid out about people expect as
£100 in the first instance for one course from a British vehicle. miles an hour,
car which would have lasted the For example, the owner of a Jowett For the 24 hour Endurance
whole period, and, In the wrote recently to the manufacturers Grand Prix 1927, three privately meanwhile would have had the asking them for an allowance on an owned 3 litre Bentley cars have additional pleasure of handling a outer cover of a tyre which had been entered. These are practically first class article. I have selected failed after covoring a mileage of identical with the Bentley "which this particular make for mention only thirty-five thousand miles! attempted the 24-hour record in because I have just seen a very Even this is surpassed by another France last year but, owing to an amusing testimonial from a place gentleman who has indicated what appalling thunder-storm, had to in Australia culled Woy Woy. It he expects of the products of tho give up after 171⁄2 hours, during which an average of over 101 miles refers to a car about 25 years old, Rover Co, by writing to say that which the owner says is still "a he won a Rover, bicycle in a raffle an hour had been maintained. monument to the unapproachable in 1908; now one of the pedals has The annual hill climb organised all and honesty of material used broken and what is the firm going by the Monaco Automobile Club by the British engineers." Among to do about it? He was evidently was this year won for the third other enthusiastic colloquialisras expecting a much longer life trouble The firm has met him with time in succession by a 6 cylinder this particular "Star" user writes free. A. C. in the 2 ltre class. The win-ns follows:-"I use her for hauling the generous suggestion that they nor was Mrs. Victor Bruce, who put wood, stone, colo and any old thing are prepared to refund the cost of up the fastest time, following upon that requires transporting from one his raffle ticket.
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Large new 'world' radiator giving 50% more cooling.
Reinforced chassis of finest British steel, combining rugged strength with rigid lightness. An all-stcel dash giving rigid forward anchorage.
New suspension. Extra supple springs and Dunlop low- pressure comfort' tyres. Complète interior equipment on enclosed models, including roof-light and smoker's-companion. Bigger side-doors, straight-lined body-giving handsamě appearance.
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