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MOTOR NEWS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
Public Service and Commercial Vehicles.
(By "R. A. C." for The Hongkong Telegraph.)
Trolley Buses.
SATURDAY,
JULY 29, 1927.
THE MOTOR AGE IN features of the continent were ENGINE VOLUME TAX. the same as in the days of the Pharaohs; the peoples too-the Barbers, negroes, Bantus-and
E. AFRICA.
Sir M. Barlow on Unification.
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the disease and ignorance and Now a tax is designed on the even savagery, were much as they basis of engine volume, rather had been for centuries. But the than horsepower. It is proposed motor age had dawned in Africa, by Gorman auto, manufacturers. olsewhere, and grout ronds It would be more equitable, they Sir Montague Barlow, locturing were being driven, all too slowly, at the Royal Colonial Institute on through forests and ever plains, say, and yet the income from it "Developments in East and Central and the automobile had definitely would not be decreased. Africa," said that he had recently started to supplement the steam enjoyed the experience of a rapid engine. but amazingly interesting-he might, ear almost romantic-fo struck the traveller was the formed with the others a political Another great feature which the key of the urch, and unless it. Central Africa, and had visited in paucity of the population. After unit they were mohths tour through East and the course of it all the Colonies visits to India in the two previous
hopalocaly dis- and Dependencies of the Empire the emptiness of Africa, Infant closer co-operation
connected. Commercially, too,
Kenya and Zanzibar, Tanganyika, owing to disease and partly to Customs must all look to extension mortality there was terrible, partly desirable. Railways, roads, and Nyasaland, and Southern and Northern Rhodesia, returning ignorance. There must be at once through the Belgian Katanga, more doctors, hospitals, maternity and control on co-operative and down the Cango, across Uganda, centres, and dispensaries, with not on competitive lines. and home by the Nile, altogether instruction in hygiene and mother- a trip by river, land, and sea of about 20,000 milles.
The six-wheeled principle is now being applied also to clectric trolley buses. The first example of a six- wheeled pneumatic-tyred double-
winters he was frankly startled at Motor Show will be open deck trolley bus was a Guy vehicle
bullt for the Corporation Wolverhampton. It has given auch satisfaction that a repeat order for ten moro Guy buses of the same type has recently been placed.
. of
signs of ousting the tram in many The electric trolley bus shows quarters, Mesars. Ransomes Sims und Jefferies, who have been pro- minent in the development, of the
in that great aren. He visited
that in the last half-century there What we had to remember was was a new Africa. The physical
speed capabliltics for hourly all
duties.
craft.
Need of Railway, Extension.
Was most
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Forthcoming Events: - All sċetjons of the motoring community of the world will find much to interest them in London this autumn. The an nual at Olympia from October 13th to October 22nd. This will be follow- ed by the Cycle and Motor Cycle Exhibition from October 31st to November 5th. Earlier in the autumn, those who are interested in motor boating will find an im-
Kenya was undoubtedly in a portant section of the Shipping and
more advanced state politically, Engineering Exhibition at Olym- pla devoted to marine motore and
commercially, and from the point motor boats. Last in point of
The line linking up the Kenya- of view of white settlement than time, but not of interest, comes the trolley bus, are now filling a large
Uganda railway system with the the rest of the area, and both now Commercial Motor Transport Ex-order for a fleet of these vehicles
Central Tanganyika line should and in the future Kenya could hibition which will be staged at for the Municipality of George-
be constructed with the least and would provide elements of . town, Penang. These have glant Olympia from. November 17th to
possible delay, and there was also on all four
the need of railway extension in leadership for the whole. It the November 20th. Just prior to pneumatic tyrea
and specially long this last mentioned event, the World wheels
Nyasaland, coupled with the scut of the High Commissioner Motor Transport Congress will be "prings, giving easy riding whe
Scotland Yard have recently project of the bridge over the was to be at Nairobi and held in London for the first time, her the vehicle is light or fully taken the very wise precaution of Zambezi, so as to secure a stendy governor of Kenya the first High
loaded. The floor level is only 28 specifying the fitting of Triplex outlet for the three previous Congresses
Nyasaland's trade Commissioner, there should be a under this title having all taken inches above the ground, the safety glass on their cars, thus Closer, co-operation generally was place in the United States
braking is highly efficient, and the following the example set by the urgeatly needed, and a develop Lieutenant-Governor for Kenya, in connexion with this Congress, acceleration very quick, but at the Royal Family, and also by the ment na rapid as possible of so as to place the High Oom-
same time smooth, the Society of Motor Manufac-
Army, Navy and Air Force, The common ties in connexion with missioner in more impartial Despite the development of the fitting, of this glass represents an allways, roads, Customs and atmosphere above. tho local turers and Traders is receiving the nctive support of the Imperial ralley bus and of the six-wheeler, expense that is thoroughly well tariffs, and, to a limited extent, political issues alike of Kenya and Motor Transport Council, which the standard type of petrel driven justified in the case of the in
government. Politically the the other four or five areas, was responsible for the imperial four wheeled omnibus silli fills the ordinary motorist, and all the more Interests alike of the four or five Such advances along the line of Motor Transport Conferences of bill best in many quarters. Thus, so if the use of the car is such Bittish territories and also of the co-operation should be treated as 1913 and 1920. With the aid of the Associated Daimler Co. havens to render its occupante occa-Mandated territory of Tangonylien tentative and come into force for this Council the Society is assured recently been dealing with an sionally able to a risk of inten- demanded it. Tanganyika was a period of, say, ten years.-Ex. of very full and suitable represen- order for no less than seventy of tional injury by the throwing tation of the whole British Empire their low-loading twenty-eight of missiles. at the Congress. The Imperial senter buses for the Argentine: Government will be represented, the bodies are to be built locally, through nemirees of many depart but it is significant to notice that ments, including the War Ofice, the chassis employed is the same the Dominions and Colonial Office, as that which forms the basis of the India Office, the Board of the greater part of the enormous Trade, the Post Office, and the bus fleet in London. Ministry of Transport. All the
Orders for low-level four- self-governing Dominions will be wheeled buses of the Albion 30/60 officially represented, and the same h.p. model have recently come to applies to the individual Provinces hand from many quarters, includ- and States of Canada and Ausra-ing the Cape Electric Tramways, lia. It is anticipated that foreign the Scottish Motor Traction Co., representation will be equally
Turning from the south to the extreme north of England, New- castle-on-Tyne have for a long time past been using a fleet of 5 h.p. N.U.T. motor cycles, a make the export of which is in the safe hands of Messrs. Rootes of Devon- shire House. It has been found
that these machines have repre- has been found possible to close a sented a positive economy, as it number of police stations in the city area without increasing in any
will be held on November 14th to and the Devon Motor Transport wean & call for police aid and strong and that the meeting, which the Scottish General Omnibus Coway the slight time elapsing be 16th, will be very well attended Co. The last named operates ser- the arrival of the necessary. force | and will be productive of substan-vices in what is admittedly one of
tial results to the advantage of the most difficult and hilly dis-at the scene of action. users of all classes of Motor vehi-tricts in Great Britain. cles in all parts of the world.
Some Financial Results.
The experience of Newcastle in this respect is similar to that of London in the matter of the fire Visiting motorists arriving with their cars at Southampton should As the Sentinel Waggon Works brigade. Some years ago when" make a note of the fact that the are the largest makers of steam the horsed fire engine began to Automobile Association has estab- wagons, the results socured by become a thing of the past" and lished an office at 11 The, Avenue, this firm afford a fair gauge to large orders were placed for Southampton, at which information the popularity of this class of Dennis engines, it was similarly as regards touring, the state of the vehicle. Statements made at the found possible to close a number roads, etc. can be obtained. The recent annual general meeting of depots and yet to ensure the
extremely A.A. also announces that cars land- were
satisfactory, brigade reaching the scene of a
ed at the southern ports without showing good improvement in fire more promptly than under the registration or licences are now al-trade and in profits, which is parti- old arrangements. lowed to proceed to the nearest re-cularly interesting in view of the gistration authority before com fact, that the Home market last plying with the requiremente a the Britsh law. Southampton has its own registration office; thase coming by Newhaven will find an office in Lowes, and those landing at Folkestone or Dover may drive on to Canterbury or Maidstone.
customers.
Reverting to the provision of year must have been badly dis-motors for the police, Messrs. lurked by the prolonged stoppage Collier, the makers of the Match- of the coal mines. Quite a large less moter cycles, tell me that they bercentage of the business done in now expert over a quarter of their Sentinels is represented by export. number the Persian police force whole output and that they
Of all commercial vehiclè manu- facturers, the one holding the among their recant substantial On arrival in London there is most astonishing financial record liable to be some difficulty as re's' unquestionably Dennis Bros. gards garage accommodation. En-This firm has recently returned quiry on this point may with ad half their capital "to its 'share- vantage be made of Messrs. Shaw holders. Even throughout the and Kilburn of Wardour Street, slami, profits were quite sub- who have large garages in various stantial and in 1926 they actually residential quarters. Similarly amounted to over two hundred and visitors who have not brought their ninely three thousand pounds, enra with them can buy a new or which is a good deal more than secondhand vehicle from this same half the capital of the Company. fr en reasonable terms, with the confidence of being able to sell it back to them at a very fair price when their stay is ended.
Public Service and Commercial Vehicles.
Turning, to other branches of the industry. Messrs. Joseph
ucas, the well known manufac
turers accessories and com- ponents, paid fifteen per cent,' on heir ordinary shares for their lost {nancial, year, together with a The Motor Transport Exhibition bonus of two shillings per share. should be a peculiarly interesting The confidence of this firm in its one, as many important develop own products is well evidenced by ments have taken place since the the fact that all Lucas magnetos last Show of the kind was held are now guaranteed for a period The most prominent of these is un- of two years against mechanical doubtedly the rigid six-wheeled and electrical breakdown, and also type of vehicle. The British the burning of contact breaker pioneers of this type were Karrier points and ordinary wear and tear. Motors, and their example has now The Standard Motor Co., despite been followed by nearly all the lead-the interruptions in trade due to ing manufacturers. At the same labour troubles last year, were .time, this does not mean that the still able to pay ten per cent, and four-wheeler is being superseded
their Chairman reported altogether. Thus, the Karrier immense development in export people market a range of passen- trude, This is no doubt due in ger-carrying vehicles varying in capacity from twenty six to sixty no small measure to the fact that passengers, only the largest models all Standard cars
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now have a
being six-wheeled. Similarly, they wheel track of 4 feet 8 inches, and market goods-carrying chassis of a ground clearance of not less than two, three and a half, four and 91⁄2 inches.
half, and six tong capacity, and á
short, Wheelbase tractor, intended
to form part of a combination vehi-!
Our Motoring Police.
Nowadays it is more usual than
cle for dealing with twelve tons not for the police forces of any loads by means of the flexible six- considerable cities throughout the wheeled principle.
Empire to be well provided in the The rigid type of six-wheeler is matter of motor vehicles. In very rently not in competition with the many cases, motor cycles are flexible type, the load-carrying principally employed; for example, capabilities of which are exception-a large number of B.S.A. al. Thus for example, the machines, both solo and with side- United Dairies have recently taken car, are employed in South Africa delivery of a large fleet of Scam- and elsewhere for police patrol mell six-wheelers for the bulk work. transport of bottled milk. Machines
of the sage thake and having a In London, the police authorl- carrying capacity of no less than ties have recently purchased a thirteen tons are now being adopt large number of the little Jowett ed by the new British Sugar Beet cars, which
presumably Industry and are used for carrying selected on the grounds of their molassas from the factories to the great dependability, coupled with 'distilleries.
their low cost and quito adequate
were
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