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Rio de Janeiro to New York
THE DRIVERS OF THE VETERAN STUDEBAKER ALSO MADE A NEW RECORD ON THE SECOND LEG OF THEIR “HEMISPHERE TO HEMISPHERE" JOURNEY WHEN THEY ROLLED INTO LA PAZ, THE CAPITAL OF BOLIVIA, 18 DAYS OUT OF BUENOS AIRES. TO REACH LA PAZ THE DRIVERS HAD TO CROSS THE BOLIVIAN BORDER AT "TRES CRUCES," A LOPTY MOUNTAIN PASB COVERED WITH SNOW.
IN LA PAZ THEY CAUGHT UP WITH ANOTHER CAR, WITH NEW YORK CITY ALSO AS ITS OBJECTIVE, AND LEARNED THÁT ITS DRIVERS HAD TAKEN FIVE MONTHS TO COVER THE DISTANCE BETWEEN BUENOS AIRES AND LA PAZ,
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NEVER BEFORE HAS A VETERAN CAR BEEN AUR-
JECTED TO SUCH A GRUELLING TEST OF ITB, RUGGED,
DURABLE CONSTRUCTION,
COUNTRIES TRAVERSED INCLUDE NEARLY EVERY TOPOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTIC KNOWN TO THE GEOLOGIST. PLAINS, FORESTS, SWOLLEN AND DRIED-UP RIVERS, MOUNTAIN ZONES, SNOWY REGIONS — EVEN SECTIONS UNKNOWN TO THE TREAD OF AN "AUTOMO- BILE WHEEL-WERE COVERED BY THE STUDEBAKER.
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HONGKONG DELIVERED PRICES.
ERSKINE
H.P. 18.54 R.A.C.-107" WHEEL BASE
Tourer
Sports Roadster
Buns Coupu
Custom Coupn
Custoan Bedan
5 Seater
+4 Sunter
2 Seater
0.$1,150 1,200 1,200
4 Senter
& Bouter
1,250 1,250
All Brakines with wire wheels.
DIRECTOR
H.P. 27.34 R.A.C.-113" WHEEL BASE
Custom Tourer
Sports inter
Duplex Phaeton
"1.
Custom Tourer' Custom Compe
J
5 Heater
G.$1,450
4 Beuter
1,405
5 Seater
1,400
7 Seater
1,530
+
2 Seater
1,676
Custom Sedan Plush
+1
5 Seater
Custern Compe
4 Seater
1,575 .1,675
Contura Victoria, ...
4 Seater
***
1,676
Custom Sedan 'Mobair
6 Heater,
1,675
THE MORRIS SPORTS MODEL
For the Youth in a
Hurry,
The Hon. Maynard Groville writes to the Morning Post
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Young men and women of to-day are always in a hurry, and it is probable that the next few years will ace the desire for speed stil further developed. It is also eat afying to the inferiority complex of the youngest member of the family to be able to show a clean pair of heels, or rather wheels, to his father's more sedate car.
To the Morris Garages belongs the credit of having realised that. there was a market for a "hotted up" type of the Morris factory's own famous production, and they accordingly set to work to produce a car with a special performance, and sporting appearance, simply by modifying the ordinary Morris
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
quire thought and foresight to ge the best out of it, and in this Hos It's charm.'
As to performance! From 'a standing start going right through the gears Iroached fifty miles n hour in 28 seconds on a slight up- hill gradient.. On top gear 7 seconds were occupied in getting from 10 to 20 miles an hour, 13 seconds from 10 to 30 miles por hour; 22 seconds from 10 to 40 miles per hour, and 30 seconds from 10 to 50 miles per hour.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.
MOTOR CYCLING ROUND THE WORLD.
Britons Ordeal in
Desert Ride.
In a race against time round the world, two 'London motor-cyclists Mr. S. T. Glanfield and Flight Sergeant S: W Sparkes, of the R.A.F., have had many remarkable experiences,
ing to complete the tour in 120 They left London on July 3, hop.
and the car, could be driven at five Top gear flexibility was gel. miles an hour without snatch in the transmission, tho get away bdays, ing satisfactory, though if the gear box was used this could, of cours
Crossing to Boulogne they bead- be much improved. Ou second gear, ed for Strasbourg and on through hour took 9 seconds, and 10 to 40, British machines running well. for instance, 10 to 30 miles per the Balkans to Constantinople, the 15 seconds. The absolute maxi- mum speed of my hardworked az much-used car was about 66 miles and quickly. an hour, and 60 was reached easily The brakes were good and stopped the car on a wet surface well inside the 100 feet from 40 miles an hour.
Positive Steering.
At Deurtyal, in Turkey, they were arrested because they had changed their plans and their tinorary, but at last they crossed the frontier into Syria,
Across The Dest
Sparkes was taken ili, but in spite of this they headed away across the Syrian Desert,
This has been done with such
From Alexandretta t crossed success that already the Ma
the Euphrates Valley, itretch of Sports is well known, and the little factory where it is produced, not The Marles steering, like all ¡desert never before traversed by far from the larger works at Marles steering, was light and motor-cyclists. Cowley, now turns out from 15 to positive, though in a sports car I 20 of these cars a week. When I should have liked it a little higher visited this factory recently to col- geared. The half eliptic springs leet one of their cars I was immediat both front and rear are designed ately struck by its cfficient lay-out.to be dead fist whon loaded, and An ordinary "Oxford" chassis is have, Hartford shock absorbers on led meekly in through one door, the rear, with Smith on the front and after passing through a re- For a sports car I should have liked Vitalising process emerges at the them a little harder for high other end of the works as a roar-speeds, but this could probably ing lion, with an engine capable of got by shock absorber adjustment. some four thousand revolutions per] The car, however, sat on the rout minute. In addition, there is an magnificently, with the exception ingenious series of testing machi- of one short period from 60 to 61 nes, on the final of which the car miles an hour: is required to show over 60 miles) per hour.
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After a terrible ordeal in the desert, with Sparkes too weak to hold up his machine, they found an Arab outpost of police, who re- fused to let them continue until morning.
At Tel-e-For, Sparkes charged straight, through the town, but Glanfield stopped and was sur rounded by a flerce crowd of Bed- ouins.
In this narrow speed range there was considerable wheel patter, not in the least affecting the steering
He threw them cigarettes, and but shaking the front axle straight while they scrambled for them up and down; it disappeared constarted his engine and dashed for pletely beyond 61 miles an hour, safety... loon tyres being insufficiently in- and was probably due to the bal fate, though I had no time lo test this properly.
Many Delays.
This process consists in polish ing the combustion chambers und] the valve parla, fitting new pistons and stronger valve springs. new magneto and carburettor are also employed, while the steering and brakes are altered for the
At Mosul they were told that higher speeds. New wheel and al
the last motorists to visit the town ditorent back axle, gear ratio giv-
Altogether the M.G, sports is n were the crew of an armoured car, ing a top of 4442 to 1 are incor- car of which any young man or wall of whom were killed. porated, while shock absorbers and man could be justifiably proud. new that springs take care of the There are four body types, a tour suspension. The only thing that £340 a two-seater at £335, is not altered in the factory is the salonette ut £446, and a fabric body, as the bare chassia is sent up saloon at £445. The tax is £14. to Coventry, where this is fitten.
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Proof of Experience.
On the road I found the car was ["thoroughly competent to perform the work for which it is adapted, The bodywork is perfectly sound and well conceived when it re- membered that it is intended for young and active people,. It has an attractive and sporting appeaz- ance and supplies quite suficient comfort for those with supple limbs.
The car that I tested had cover- ed some 15,000 miles in its time, but did not show any signs of weariness and was full of snap and vigour. The specially extended and bent over central gear lever makes changing a delight, and 451 miles an hour could be reached comfortably on the second gear, while changing up or down could be done at high speeds if the, orli- nary decencies of the gearbox were? observed. Not that it was' car which anyone could drive ami get really good results. A sports car is essentially one which should re-
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The Human Car-
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TWO BIG ONES FROM THE NEW
From Basra, the machines were shipped to Bombay. By now the riders were well behind with their programme, owing to the Custom delays in Anatolia and Turkey, and us Sparkes leave was running short, he took the southerly route through India to Ceylon, and so to Australia, while Glenfold carried on across India to Calcutta.
Glanfeld covered the 1,800 miles between Bombay and Calcutta in six days and on one occasion being dragged out of bed at midnight and requested to kill a tiger, which had appeared in a village."
From Calcutta be shipped to the Straits Settlementa.
Meanwhile Sparkes made for Bangalore, and so on to the coast where he shipped for Ceylon..
At Colombo Sparkes caught the boat to Adelaide und, covering 1,500 miles to Sydney, shipped for. San Francisco, and no to South- ampton, where he arrived recent ily.
Mr. Glanfield, who is determined to put in a much greater land mil- enge than originally arranged, is now halfway across Australia with the machine going well.
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H.P. 36.04 R.A.G.—120' WHEEL BASE
Sports Roadster
Custont Coupo
Custom Victorin
Custom Sedan
Regal Compo ...
Regal Victoria
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4 Brator
2 Beater
G.$1,835 1,078
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S Benter.
-1,275
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1,005,
4 Seater
1,005
5 Seater
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Chalam Sedim
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1
7 Seater
7 Seater
7 Beater
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2,435
2,700
1928 INDIAN PRINCE
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Paria, Jan. 6-Paris at the Warsaw, Jan. 6. The "Kurjer
present moment is suffering from
Poranny" reports that about six a light epidemic of typhoid fever. o'clock this morning the Lithu In one big department store anlun frontier guards began pull. twenty cases have been reported, ing down Polish frontier posts in one of which has proved fatal. the neighbourhood of Nowoswlen- There is no cause for alarm, but ciany. When Polish soldiers ap- people are advised to take pre-peared on the scene the Lithu cautions, such as not drinking anians opened fire, and the Poles water straight from the tap, and to replied. One Lithuaniah was kill-. get inoculated.
Jed, and the rest retired,
Two of 1928's Automotive autocrats, photographed at the New York automobile show, are here pictured. They typify the greater day which motor car makers say is dawning for motoring. The upper of these closed models is a Hudson, the lower, a Nash
ANOTHER SHIPMENT HAS ARRIVED of the Famous 1928
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