THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
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30 C.W.T. MÖRRIS ́15,9 H.P. II' 6" W.B. Chassis Z. 5 with 32 x 41" tyres, dual rear, F.W.B.. Chassis Z. 6 complete with 32 x 6. tyres and F.W.B.... Type Z. 5 Standard Lorry complete with Cab
SELFISH "DAWDLER"
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928.
ROADS PROTEST.
Easter Complaint at "Grave Riska" Involved
by £26,000,000 Raid,
Home.
The diversion of more than Every public holiday provides £20,000,000 during recent yeara its own object-leason for the from the Road Fund to general re- student of motoring emphasising venue is severely criticised in the the prevalence or insidious spread annual report of the Ronda Im of this or tint bad habit, or illus-provement. Association, issued trating the results of some popular recently
form of "driving-as-it-ought-to-be- The result was that "Instead of done." And traffic on the Easter the present highway system being roads this year demonstrated, extended-existing roads widened above everything else, the selfish-out and new roads appearing ness of dawdling, says a Home abreast with traffic growth-8 writer.
I saw indance after instance of cars jogging along busy ronds in deliberato "we-have-all-the-day- before-us" fashion, blocking the way for impatient bunches of less leisurely vehicles, to which they either could not or would not give way, and the congestion and delay to which they gave rise was simply
enormous.
Now, I do not wish to disparage caution, or to suggest that we should all drive persistently at high speeds; nor would I like to maintain that the peculiar joy of dawdling in aimless fashion must never he indulged in; there are miny roads and many occasions on which it is not only permissible but
was contemplated when motorists agreed to contributo to the Rond Fund-road work has dwindled. main- merely to week-to-week
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tenance."
"If all vehicles to-day were utilised up to say. 50 per cent, of their capacity road congestion would be Intolerable," the report adda.
"Unless action is taken there is
a grave risk of the ever-increasing traffic overtaking road facilities with disastrous consequences."
THE TWO-SEATER COMING BACK.
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desirable. But we live in awiftly Examples of Popular
moving times, and even though wo may like to get along quietly, none of us has any right to impose his tastes for slow motion on other people who may quite legitimately be in greater husto and while we are driving with the throng, it is our duty to drive reasonably smartly-unless, of course, the road is broad enough to permit of our dawdling by the kerb without hindrance to anyone else,
Cars.
At the moment there is un- doubtedly a revival of interest in while enclosed two-seaters," and types predominate there are not incking examples of open cars of a sporting character. In America also the two-seater, or roadster as it is commonly called, scems to have taken a new lease of life, saya The Malor.
The road hog is certainly a
Exactly why this should be so it horror,, but the dawdler is products rather difficult to say, but the tive of much irritation and in-reason may be partly a psychologi convenience to others, particularly cal one.. Many people who de much when he adds to his aggravating of their driving alone, or with only slowness by keeping to the crown of the road. And, whether he is bunching up the heavy traffic on a busy highwa or holding up one car in a winding country lane, his conduct is selfish.
HIDDEN VALUES.
Paying Attention to
Quality.
one companion, have an instinctive dislike of a saloon body when the rear compartment is empty: The unoccupied seats seem in some way to convey a feeling of loneliness, In the same way, some people dis- like driving an open tourer with only one or two up, and their dis- ke is not due to any difference there may be in the way the cur handles or holds the road owing to the lighter load.'
car, yet a
Whatever the reason, there is ample evidence that coachwork with only one main seat still finds a de- finite demand, which in by no means small car class. "People are buying cars on more restricted to the than appearance in spite of the im-The 17-50 hp, Arrol-Aater, for portance now placed on styles and example, is certainly not a small striking coupe body beauty," says a well-known Slade of somewhat sporting appearance baker dealer. "The majority of on one of these chassis was recent the motorists in the market forly ordered from Arthur Beatie, Ltd., now cars this year have already Manchaster. This has a slightly owned one or more cars. As a raked V screen which follows the result, they are paying more atten-curvature of the seattle, and the tion than ever before to quality doors are hinged at their rear edges and what might be called the hid-nd conform to the angle of the
windscreen pillar. den values in a car.
Another car which can hardly be I mean "By hidden values
classed as small is the Chrysler features of design, construction and materials that are readily ap-80" with a drop-head coupe by the Carlton Carriage Co., Ltd. Finish- parent when one car is compared to represent grained woodwork, with another. Put two cars in the it has just been supplied by the aume price class side by side. Cheltenham and Gloucester Unleas the buyer is an engineer Murt, Lid, to the well-known joc, and can make comparative tests, key, Gordon Richards, the mascot, he cannot tell from loking at the
and jockey, ears, or even by riding a short dis-appropriately enough, being a horse tance in them, which contains more A history attaches to the 12-18
value for the money,
Car
h.p. Minerva drop-head coupe,. by this
Ructioned was "Consider springs for instance, as Studebaker uses Chrome Vana- Davy Burnaby at midnight on Feb- ditm steel for the springs in all ruary 29 at the London Hippo- Studebaker dad Erskine models. drome, in aid of the Middlesex It looks just like any other spring Hospital, and purchased by the Governor of the hospital. The steel, but it costs Studebaker ap- proximately tiventy-five per cent. coachwork is by Vanden Plas of Belgium, and an unusual feature is more per car to use Chrome Vana-the sloping of the head pillars. diam than the cheaper alloy found The hood irons are in this case not in some other cars. That is just dummies, but serve a useful pur- one item of hidden value."
pose. Wings of very 'deep dome
"The same is true of dozens of scetion should effectually protect other parts of the motor and chas- the body from mud thrown up by sis. Studebaker uses more high the large section tyres.
As a contrast to the enclosed two- grade alloy steel in its car than any other manufacturer with pos- seaters is a 19-100 h.p. Austro sibly one exception. But the Daimler short chassis with a sports average motorist does not realise hody by Vanden Plas (England), this in a visual comparison of the Ltd. The lines of the body are car he is considering. It is only quite in keeping with the speedy.
of after he has driven the Studebaker character of the chassis, and
interest thousands of miles that he points
its side realises the enduring quality of pronounced rake of the screen of running absence everything used in its construe-with
the tion.
boards, and the neatly folding hood. "Precision manufacture is an-The head lamps are set rather low other factor of hidden values. down between the wings.
£320
355
390
Type Z. 6 Standard Lorry complete with Cab
420
Type Z. 5 Chur-a-bane for 18 passengers
620
Type Z. 6 Char-a-bane for 18 passengers
650
Type Z. 5 Special Saloon Bus
870
More than seven hundred inspec- Lora muke 19,000 inspections to up-
Type Z. 6 Special Saloon Bus
700
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hold Studebaker standards of manufacture. The annual.cost of
30 C.W.T. 6-WHEELER 15.9 H.P. II 8o W.B.
Chassis only, equipped with 32" x 44" tyres Chassis with War Dept, type Body.
£588
026
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and month. Think it
over.
extentions, ALEX. ROSS & Co., (China) Ltd.
Want Safer Brakes.
more than In a plan for safer brakes at a these Inspections is £160,000. The factory could re-meeting of the Society of Auto- duce the number of exactitude of motive Engineers in San Fran these inspections, cut production cinco, figures were cited that a car with two-wheel cost and increnge its profit per showed car-but that is not Studebaker brakes cannot be stopped from, a palicy. No other manufacturer in Speed of 20 miles an hour. In less the industry acts higher Inspec- than 87 feet, and that four wheel brakes reduce the theoretrical dis- tion standards than Studebaker.
tance of 22 and one-fifth feet. "Tho investment of. over, $400,000 in providing ground and research facilities means mafor value in Studebaker and Erskine linye meant less value in Stude cara. Experimental cars operated baker and Erskine care. by the research engineering and "Hidden values are no longer in- providing ground staff piled up, a tangible features in a motor car, total of 1,575,000 miles last year and motor-wige buyers are begin In the search for facts and parning, to realise it. That is one of formance by which to improve the the reasons, is my opinion, for the product. Much of that expenssl new sales record set by Studebaker could have been saved but it would care in World, märkets.”
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