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MOTOR NEWS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
Forthcoming Events Women Drivers.
LUXURY MOTOR COACHING.
(By R. A. C.)
Foreign Trade in British Goods. of experienced shorthand typists
The writer has recently bean making extensive enquiries among
British manufacturers in the
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927.
MORE WHEELS.
Registrations in Britain.
There are tow about five times as many motor vehicles in Great Britain as there were before the
war,
In 1914 registrations of private cars totalled, 132,015, and hackney vehicles 51,167.
1920 1927
2,568 2,959
Latest available figures show la at their disposal without the present number and the in- for trunk as well as local calls; charge, as also is the telephone crease over 1926:-
motor and motor cycle industries while the Club managers will Private cars...... 498,188 672,444 with a view to ascertaining the assist in planning tours and giv- Commercial vehicles 232,482 268,036 Hockney vehicles.. 77,424 73,580 trend of foreign, as well as Over-ing any introductions that are Tractors sons British trade. The informa-required to facilitate business. Visitors of British nationality will tion collected is highly encourag- ing. Many firms find that Euro-also be put up, at no expense to pean markets are opening up in themselves, for fellowship of the girl driver which many male mo- the most satisfactory way. This Royal Colonial Institute, with thetorists, would be glad to equal. fact is no doubt due largely to premises of which the Club rooms She has been driving her 14/80! successes of British vehicles on are in direct communication.
h.p. Armstrong-Siddeley about ten the spot. The latest Morris suc- The Institute offers all the advant-- ress in this direction consisted of ages of a good West End club at thousand miles per annum for the obtaining the first prize at a re-very moderate prices. It is hoped last two years, and the milenges of cent Concours at Scheveningen, that Overseas traders will take hor tyres have been respectively, Holland, which went to a standard full advantage of the provision 17,200, 10,000, 19,987 and nearly 14/23 h.p. Morris-Oxford open made in their interests, and justify. touring car and marked a big its continuance and expansion. 21,000. The figures, of course, achievement for British automo-
spenk well for the car itself, but bile coachbuilding.
could not have ben obtained on any such car by a driver who is not thoroughly efficient and con- siderate.
It would seem that the United
Forthcoming Events,
...
Luxury Motor Coaching..
This autumn will be a very States is awakening to the great busy one for the British Industry. merits of the British steam wag- The car Show opens at Olympia gon, particularly on the grounds on October 13th and will draw of its utility in connexion with the usual crowds until October the mining industry. Investiga- 22nd. The Cycle and Motor Cycle tors are surprised at its compact- Exhibition fills Olympia from ness and handiness, and in parti- October 31st, to November 6th, cular appear to be interested in and the Commercial Motor Trans- the Super-Sentinel model,port Exhibition will occupy the would certainly be an additional building from November 17th to achievement for the Sentinel if it 26th. Just prior to the last could establish itself a strongly named event, the World Motor of inspecting. Thus, at the Royal in the States
as it has already Transport Congress will be held in done in many European
Cour London under the presidency of tries.
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.
Fising Car Prices.
The luxurious 'conditions under which motor coaching can now be conducted are well illustrated by variety of vehicles which I have recently had an opportunity
Agricultural Society's Show, Messra. Dennis Bros, showed a new type of bus remarkably equipped and finished. The seats Turning to marine motoring,
have pneumatic upholstery, cover- the Swedish Cruising Club award-
ed with chrome leather, and the ed the first prize in their 1927
Many British meter manufac-back rest of each, houses a neit designing competition to a British turers are, for this Show period little polished table, rigid yet designer, who incorporated in his and for the forthcoming season. positioned by a design a British engine, namely adopting a policy which is very finger.
touch of the the Ailsa Craig 20/24 h.p. 4-welcome to motorists, that is to cylinder unit this being employed say, they are definitely fixing the
There is a separate electric as an auxiliary on the cruising
prices of their models and fitting over each seat, all of which yacht Venturer.
guaranteeing not to alter those face forward except those at the The well known electrical firm, prices during the 1927-8 season, rear, the occupants of which share C.A. Vandervell; reports sub-Among the first firms to announce a large electric bell communicating stantial orders from several coun-this policy is Wolseley Motors. with the driver; there is an ample tries, naming in particular Nor-The Wolseley 2-litre Six intro-supply of match strikers and ash way, which country appears to be duced inst year is meeting with trays, and the equipment even in- very favourably impressed with an ever-growing demand, and pre- cludes an a automatic cigarette the new C. A.V. "all moulded" sent prices will definitely remain machine.
unchanged over the 1928 season.
battery.
"Battery Troubles Solved.” Accumulators are so much of a mystery and, on occasion, so much
to
The Associated Daimler Co. The makers of the New Hudsen
have recently supplied some very luxurious" vehicles" for the Bri- motor cycles and cycles state that
stol-London route the foreign demand is beating all
Greyhound, Motors eighteen seats operated by records, the orders from the Con-
of a nuisance to motorists tinent of Europe being exception-
and the rear portion, which is a ally heavy, as also are those from fully to justify reference
a smoking saloon, having eight under the title seats. the Near East and from the Bri-Publication
Between the two is the of "Battery Troubles Solved," central section, on one tish Empire as a whole.
side of which any motorist may which is a lavatory and on the The makers of the Arrol Johns- obtain free of charge by applica- other side a small buffet. Each ton and now also of the Aster, astion to a St. Bride's House, Salis passenger has available on the well as the Galloway, report con-bury Square, London. The book back of the next seat an oval mir- siciorable houdway in Overseas contains over a hundred pages of ror, a pocket containing news markets hitherto dominated by useful matter and deals not only papers and the Jike and, when re- foreign manufacturers; and with the history of accumulators quired, a small folding table con- tribute the improvement largely to and their proper care but also venient for accomodating a lunch the provision of the overhead with the underlying principles of tray. By his side is a bell push valve and Aster patent sleeve their design from the earliest bat for summoning the steward and valve engines which they now em teries, designed by Faure and a switch for controlling the light ploy.
Plante, up to the latest develop-over his seat. The floor is cover- ments, incorporated in the British ed with pile carpet laid on felt, For Visiting Overseas Traders. Tungstone battery, in which the and the engine exhaust can be In order further to stimulate use of inactive material, anti-utilised when required to provide Overseas trade in all directions. mony, is practically eliminated. warmth for the interior. the British Motor Industry has es patented machinery in such a way The pure lead grids are pasted by tablished Club rooms in London for visiting Overseas motor tradhat the grid and the paste forms British motor coaches are not cap- ers. The Club address, which can are homogeneous whole in which able of sufficient speed would do be used by all such traders dur permanent sulphation is impossi-well to examine the Star "Flier..
blc. An extraordinarly ing their visit, is 2, Northumber-
high This vehicle has a 60 hp. six- land Avenue, Londen W.C. 2. Afficiency is obtained, and the bat- cylinder engine, beautifully ba- visiting traders may
tery is so constructed that it can linced, with the result that vibra- honorary members of the Club, amateur and any plate replaced sent in fact the driver can safe;y be readily taken to pieces by antion and noise are completely ab- and free service of many kinds singly. Plates are sent out par- take his hands off the wheel at is rendered them. The assistance tially charged, and can be kept fifty miles an hour. The home dry in that condition for any price of the chassis is remarkably length of time, which should make low, being rather less than £600. the battery ideal for the use of The loading line is, alad low, motorists situated in districts though the clearance is where expert assistance is not ample. With its capacity to han- immediately available,
dle a 3-ton load at speed and to travel almost anywhere on top gear, the vehicle, is peculiarly adapted for use in countries of big resistances and poor road sur
for Economical Transportation
CHEVROLET
IS COMING!
become
Women Drivers.
Those who have complained that
very
the
Somewhat impolite criticisms. are not infrequently made on the faces. capacity of the average woman ativer. Né one, I suppose, will I observe that, Motor Transport auggest that there are no excep- expects great thinga of tions to what he might believe to rigid six-wheeler in the sphere of be the rule. For instance there motor coaching, pointing out the must be very few male drivers advantages of increased com- who would be prepared to emulate fort, less liability to skid, the performance of the Hon. Mrs. greater safety also by reason of Victor Bruce who, after a nine- the additional number of brakes thousand mile lightning tour in available. Europe and Africa, promptly set
and
off in her six-cylinder A.C. fabrie The makers of the Karrier, saloon with the object of travell-which pioneered the six-wheeled ing across the Arctic circle and principle in Great Britain, are going as far north as is possible aupplying a large number of in a motor vehicle.
vehicles for service in Scotland over very hilly and sometimes. As regards drivers who are con- very rough routes. The first of tented with ordinary travelling the type to be put into service in conditions, a fairly good test of that country is a forty-seater run- efficiency and probably of safe- ning regularly on the twenty-mile. ty is to be found in the mileage route from Perth to Blairgowrie, secured by tyres. This is certain- and having a six-cylinder engine ly detrimentally affected when of 61/80 h.p. Orders for Kar- the car is in the hands of a rash rier six-wheelers have also been driver who corners at unduly high placed by the Edinburgh Corpora speeds and is constantly making tion Tramways and other imper- violent use of the brakes. I have tant concerns in Wishaw, Glas before me a record of an English gow and elsewhere.
Give your
high gear
some exercise on the hills by using Socony, the dasoline that brings the moumains down to
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