THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMEN
MODERNISM IN MOTOR VEHICLE
New
PASSAGE TO KABLE GENT
DESIGN.
Models Convey Idea of Speed and Power.
[By Israel Klein for the Hongkong Telegraph.)
ALTIMETER
COMPASS
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 15, 1930.
DYNAMIC ERSKINE car This muffler does away with are adjustable. The seats have all back-pressure and thereby byon given a now shape to Increase adds considerably to the total riding comfort, and ar horse power developed.holstered with mohair. More Power Per Pound.
Externally the new car presents The storage battery is awillard. a smart appearance. It is of larse, and the electrical system is Delco- NEW FEATURES. size, with 114-inch wheel-base and Remy. Roller bearings are Tim
The new Erakines may bé, a low, double-drop frame, and inkom, Increased power is the outstand equipped with full balloon tyres. driven 40 miles an hour, it i ing feature of the new Erskine, which is being displayed exterior brightwork.
1930 Chromium plating is used for all claimed, on the first day, of their Barvice without harmful mechani. at the Hongkong, Hotel
Garage
Comfort is served in the new car cal reactions:- “showroom. ****
by the use of Lovejoy, hydraulic C
The new car has been named shock absorbers, long springs, U.S. A. MAN INVENTS the Dynamic Erskine in view of deep cushions, ample leg-space the fact that, according to the and silk, lint headroom, Studebaker Corporation, it has
Brakes of the duo-servo. cable NEW PETROL SAVER mora power per pound than any controlled, four-wheel type, of car in the anme.price field. This Bendix design, aro a noteworthy power is achieved by a six-cylinder feature of the new Erskine, enging with 205 cubic inch dis placement and developing 70 horse power.
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Other makes repors amazing, inerantem
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An improved single plate dry disc clutch with a dampener which suppresses all vibration alde in The now Erskine possesses
smooth clutch engagement. The 14 hoore, number of features novel for care engine is mounted on rubber, He also wants Country In its price class, including a new which provides against vibration Agencies everywhere to menos: Kkkk tn 65,000 acoustic muffler which, it is said, of the frame. The front seat and m
Write him to-day, W. Cathchlow): 1989=D has never before been used on any Isteering column of the new models lat. Wheaton, Ill. U.RA.
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The Jordan prodster, upper left an airplane on the highway; the Cord, upper right—low, long and wide; the Hudson's skyscraper dash, lower left; and the Cadillac V-16 lower right-massive, speedy and powerful-all shown at the 1930 New York auto show.
find On the American cars, this mo-depend on for flying-altimeter, we an improved type of New York, Jan. 14th-Airplanen} and skyscrapera-symbols of modernistic idea is noticeable most-compaan, R. P. M. indicator, clock,speedometer with clock dial at-. dernism-have been adopted also in the dean of the instrument gas and oil gauges, ammeter, ther-tachable hydraulic packs operated board and the various hardware mometer, spark, gas and heat con- from the intake, elbow. or toggle a representative of the trend istments inside and out. It may be frols-making the front of this car lever windshield openers, three- automobilo de-
seen in the line that cuts along the veritable pilot's cockpit,
spoke stearing wheels to afford top from front to back and down The same car takes another for full view of the dash, and finally the middle of a popular au-ward stop in making the rumble trailer for touring that is al- tomobile, and it may be observed seat available through the front, most a little coltage in self. again in the spear-head louvers of rather than by climbing over the qne automobile and the pennant-rear fender. It is a thoughtful, shaped louvers of another.
quite swanky improvement. Where Hinus atop in bringing Although all these and other destructed that, at any stopping out this feeling of modernism and are such as to convey the point, the sides can be pulled out speed, the general size and shape idea of speed and power, these are to a total width of ten feet, and
sign. These,
more than any #ther sign of the times, AIN= marize the im pression convey- by a glance over the 1930 models on din play at the National Auto Show here..
Lines, Inside and out, dem
to emphasize the idea of speed, and where the lines fall the very alze of some cars com-
plete the im-
pression. Be-
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Trailer In Show Feature,
This little trailer is so con-
of the individual boily take it up. actually promised by the more the top pushed upward so that Such can be felt in looking over powerful engines under the hoods four persons can make their the two front-drive automobiles at more eights, bigger sixes, a six hone in it comfortably. It car- the show and the third new front teen higher compression, finer con-ries a kitchenelic with refrigera drive car on private display-long,struction, improvements in the
low, broad hodies on substantial various important gadgets of the tor, hus room for four berths and chassis. Such also can be felt by automobile, and altogether cleaner; is equipped even to a prolable a glance at the new 16-cylinder more complete jobs than those of radio receiver. Yet the standard automobile with its particularly last year.
Speedsters "Plane-lined."
trailer costs, only-$875,
Although all sorts of colour roomy body set on a wider und. In the close competition of the longer, frame.
industry, three familiar names combinations can be noted among falled to be noted at-the present the new automobiles, black seems auto show, The Stearms; the Moon, to prevail. The black body, how- Again comes the impression of the Locomobile-old standbys ever, finds ita relief in white pencil in an aparent effort to typify the airplane velocity in the peculiaremed to have breathed their last. And the competition has grown thought of to-day,
The American cars on display least two snappy roadsters, and cloner und kegner.
Another change comes in the l
yond this, more lines seem to rush upward, like those of skyscrapera,
bullet-riped headlights un
lines around the mouldings, pr around the windows, or even broaded stripes of a sedute colour. here we now about in this effort, the accompanying Jog fender name of the Graham-Paive to Gra-has been found a pleasing method This more general use of black In fact, the two European caries.
One of these speedsters, a $5500| Ham, thereby droppine a fourth old of compromising the outside speedy. shown the French Voisin and the Germina Mercedes-Benz-seem to roadster, even goes to the extent of familiar name in the automotive appearance of a car with tie in- surpass the American cars along transferring almost the entire dash industry, these Ines. The up-stretching (of an airplane to its own dash. For wings on the Voisin radiators cap there,
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terior comfort and homeliness.. Additional striking improve-There is more room in the aver reaching almost to the ment or innovations may be found age automobile to-day, and the in- and the sharp V-shaped radiator on driver's knees, are a collection of among the accessories at this terior is fitted more comfortably the German ear are good examples. instruments that any pilot could year's auto show. Among these fund pleasantly than ever,
1930 FORECAST. (Continued from last week) By Leonard P. Ayres. Vice President, Cleveland Trust Company"
The automotive business, sa "whole, will start alowly, but will grow better toward the end of 1930.
A great many of the cars sold in 1923, whten the industry crossed the 4,000,000 mark, are coming to the end of use- fulness and must be replaced.
About 7,000,000 model T. Forda must be replaced
in steadily in-
ereasing numbers.
Ayres
Manufacturers show every sign
of preparing to co-operate with dealers to a degree hitherto un- known...
» By Alvan Macauley President, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
In 1928 the value of cars and trucks was $3,163,000,000, and the exports of vehicles, parts and tyres exceeded $578,000,000. These figuros will be exceeded this Jcar, with the added · importante Aows that for the irst time since the Civil War, cotton takes second place- as the most valu able of our ex- ports, the latest figures showing that American products motor *xported exceeded
Macauley
in value that of any other item.
Taken generally the industry is in a most wholesome and health- ful condition.
PLAN MANY BRIDGES.
Now Jersey is planning the con- struction of 47 bridges as aids to traffic. These bridges will cost more than $6,000,000.
NEW AUTO TUNNEL.
Boston has had the approval of the War Department for the con- struction of a traffic tunnel under
Boston Harbour, between Boston and East Boston. It will be along the type of the Holland tunnel under New York harbour:
Lindbergh Views Ancient and Modern Masterpieces
When America'e "Loon Engle"" gathered exploration len. I grow shows Twin-Ignition power-the masterpie
reis to add to his sky conquesta during his honeymoon'
flights in 'Yucatan recently, he mada it posibila to com- bins in one picture examples of the finest handiwork of
ros são with that of today. This interesting pickic
modern engine building in Lindbergh's plan Nasis 400 car at the expedition base in Mer and the new Nash :"400" posed with the Itra ruini; the finest emuples of sżycient Ma
new.
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