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“HORNET" FAMILY
SALOON.
[Special "Daily Mail" News ]
Morris Motors, Limited, Oxford, Sir William Morris, the head of and Wolseley Motors, Limited, Birmingham, has sprung a big surprise on the motoring world.
Members of the H.K.A.A. will learn with much interest that the Association is making special ar- rangements to issue books, of tickets which will be accepted on the mator car lighters, enabling cars and motor cycle combinations to be transported across the har bour at $1.00 per journey. Such a
He has introduced a four. facility will undoubtedly be great-seater "family" saloon car for ly appreciated by members, as it £176-an entirely new model- has the effect of cutting down the named the "Wolseley Hornet." It charge by one half. It must be is considerably larger in size than distinctly understood that this the average "baby," and the over- special privilege will apply only all dimensions have been planned to members of the H.K.A.A., and to ensure ease of manoeuvring in the one stipulation will be that traffic and safety on crowded. vehicles must display the badge of roads. the Association in order to qualify. Further particulars will be given In due course. Bus Stops.
THE WONDERFUL
THROUGH AUSTRALIA BY BUICK.
M
1930 “HARLEY
The car is by far the lowest priced 6-cylinder model on the Touring the vast areas of ment, so he was got entirely un- European market. The specifica- Australia is not like the usual prepared for the obstacles he was tion includes an overhead-valve motor trip one takes in most other to meet enroute. He made the engine, hydraulically operated countries. In this huge and hazardous journey without any We have frequently drawn at four-wheel brakes, hydraulic rugged continent the motorist can trouble. tention to the unsuitability of shock absorbers, automatic regula- travel for miles and miles without Commenting on his trip, Con- some of the bus stopping places, tion of radiator and engine heat, encountering even the remotest stable Heathcock spoke of the and it was with interest therefore and chromium finish for all sign of habitation. All sorts of prevalence of Chevrolet cars and that The Hon. Secretary of the external bright parts.
conditions from trackless areas, trucks on sheep and cattle stations Sir William Morris designed boulder-strewn country, deep sand, where motor transport is rapidly H.K.A.A., Mr. Parsons of the Hongkong Hotel Motor Dept., and the chassis. More than 100 caral rough timber tracts and the thick, replacing older and slower methods Inspector Alexander of the Traffic have already been built and test-black soil country which is always of transportation. Department were noticed on a cer-ed, and they are now in the hands difficult, and almost impassable tain afternoon last week, evidently of the dealers. making a tour of the city, and dis- cussing the position of bus stops. We anticipate various changes in consequence.
Kowloon Fire Brigade.
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after a rainfall are encountered. There are, of course, also many splendid roads but most of these are near the sea-coast and large
He said that practically all the It is claimed that the "Hornet"
wool enroute to the rallheads wAS accelerates from 10 to 40 miles an
being carried by motor truck and hour in 12sec., and yet does over
in many miles of travel he say only one horse team hauling wool. 30 miles to a gallon of patrol.cities. The tax on a pre-Budget basis of An interesting trip was made The fact that roads are being made £1 per horse-power is £12.` recently by E. J. Heathcock of the and tracks improved over a large When the Fire Brigade has to
Sir William Morris said to a Northern Australia Mounted Con- section of the country will tend turn out in the early hours of the Daily Mail reporter recently: stabulary. Starting from the to further increase the spread of the efficient motor transport for all morning, as happened recently at It may interest you to know Roper River territory in 3 a.m., wè do suggest that there that the cars the Prince of Wales northernmost part of 'Australia, he purposes in north Australia...... is little need to clang the fire bells has been using on his, hunting drove his Buick some 4,000 miles every second or so. The large ap-expedition in Kenya were made by by way of Darwin, Katherine and pliances do not gather a particu- the same selected group.
of south by the Western Queensiand larly high speed passing, or turn mechanics that has since been route, to Melbourne. ing round by the Peninsula Hotel, building secretly the first batch of and we do suggest that there "Hornets." should be no need to create such a din as to arouse all residents sleeping nearby.
CARS THAT PASS ON THE ROAD.
Suggested Competition for Peakites,
A reader who motors daily two and from the Peak, and who says he is fed up with the cars that pass him on the way up and down, gaining about one or two TRT- lengths in the process, contributes
The native spears shown on the car in the accompanying picture are a direct link with the camps of Aborigines in northern Australia. Constable Heathcock's territory Made of some particularly tough in northern Australia covers a vast wood, they carry a great distance The cara gave every satisfaction stretch, part of it touching some when thrown by the skilled native in Africa, not a single mechanical of the great plains where cattle hand. These spears are adorned mishap being recorded among a travel the long stock routes to with strange designs carried out fleet of seven.
market, railhead or point of ship- 'in bright colours.
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BRITISH
NOMENCLATURE.
American As an
Sees It.
Now on Display.
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Demand for Trucks.
CAR SHIPMENTS FALL.
Although the number of passed-
To a reader of the British the word "accumulator and it ger cara exported from America
publications, which doesn't take long to discover that was lower last year than in pre- motoring the following amusing suggestion: parenthetically are extremely well this is the English term for storagevious years, the total export of
und informative, the battery. As a matter of fact, ne- To relieve the monotony of the edited daily drive up and down the Peak difference between American and cumulator is a more exact term motor vehicles increased to a it is proposed, if enough entries British automotive nomenclature for the source of electric current marked degree. This was brought are obtained, to institute the folis rather amusing. The American used on the motor car than our about by the enormously increased
perhaps will heave a sigh of own. The battery does accumulate demand for American trucks. lowing competition:
as he current rather than act aa The competition shall have been sentimental remembrance
In 1929, 537,201 cars and trucks deemed to have been won by the views so frequently the word "battery."
Of course our name for motor were shipped from the United competitor, if alive at the end."Saloon." Shadowy pictures of a who has scored the greatest num-long mahogany counter, a gleaming fuel, "gasoline," finds no currency States. This is an increase of brass rail and a tall one capped in the British Isles. They refer 30,091 over the number exported ber of points.
with snowy foam will arise from to the liquid as "petrol" when they
Competitors shall have a pro. minent red mark affixed between the rear mudguards.
lows:
To passing one Car (b) 1 Point.
To passing one Competitors Car (c)
2 Points.
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the shadows and perhaps he will ure not calling it motor spirit." in 1928, which was 507,110. also call up the memory of And it is interesting to note that Of the 1929 exports, 340,443 Points shall be awarded as fol- "Charlie" in his white coat shak- across the channel in France were passenger cars, and remain-
ing a tinkling tune from an gasoline becomes "essence."
ing 196,758 trucks. Compared The British do not care for the with the 1928 figures, this showa To passing one Lorry or Cammer-oblong silver one-shaped weapon.
But alas our British cousins when spelling of carburetor 38 com-a decrease of 27,885 care, and in clal (a) Point.
they speak of a saloon mean merely monly used in this country and Increase of 57,976 trucks. In this useful little instrument be- both years the export market what we call a sedan.
When a British magazine speaks comes a "carburetter" over there. absorbed 26.1 per cent of the of listening to the growl of a "Tyres" is the way the Britisher total output of trucks. Of the total racing car revving up, it means prefers to spell the casings that production of passenger cars, 9.6 that the driver is racing his engine cushion his car from road shocks.per cent. was shipped to overseas to get it up to racing speed. Not The hood which covers the au-markets, in 1928, but the decrease
bad 8
term that "revving,"tomobile engine is a "bonnet" to last year brought this percentage To successful defence of P. C. Sum-evidently borrowed from revolu- the Englishman.
Before we get through we shall down to 7:4 tions per minute.
When the American motor en- need a British-American dictionary thusiast is turning the leaves of a of motoring' terms to keep us British journal he frequently finds understanding each other.
To passing (a) over white line or
on a corner 1 Point.
To passing (b) over white line or
on a cornet 2 Points.
To passing (c) over white line or
on a corner 4 Points.
mons 10 Points.
To collision when passing another
car, disqualified.
Competitors shall not, under penalty of disqualification of both parties, be allowed to take action. against each other.
Competitor shall be responsible for all damage to, or funeral expenses for the
qualified observer.
HOW TAXES CAME IN.
PLAN ROAD NETWORK.
Hard-
Europe Took Lêng, Europe shows the biggest drop in imports for last year, as lesa than 26 per cent. of the cars shipped out of America went Ithere, as compared with more ship- than 30 per cent. of the 1928 ments
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MILLIONS SCRAPPED.
The Transcontinental. Of the total 1928 highway income of $1,566,946,000, 20 per Surface Highways Association is Nine countries imported more
The leading buyer of cara, than 10,000 American cars last The aggregate number of points
cent. was obtained to be multiplied by the
derived from motor trying to push a bill through Con-year, Canada being the heaviest Canada la tenth on the list of average number of minutes saved vehicle, fees, 18 per cent. from gress providing for the construc-buyer with a total of 42,048. Next truck buyers, as last year only
Dyring the decade ending 1929, per journey.
gasoline taxes, 5 per cent. from tion of almost 57,000 miles of is Argentina, with 39,158, while. 5694 commercial vehicles were Intending competitors please federal aid, 17 per cent. from hard-surfaced roads, with a mini- Australia comes third on the list imported. Australia heads the more than 15,195,000 old ears were Australia's quota l'et of truck buyers with 27,198, scrapped in the United States. N. S. MOSES & CO., LTD., forward names. to:-The Hon. bonds, 27 per cent. from general mum
width of 20 feet and with 88,802.
for last year shows a considerable There are only five countries. in The value of these cars new is Secretary, Hongong Automobile Passing Association, The Mor- taxes and 13 per cent. from mis involving an expenditure of more drop from that of 1928, when this market, which bought over estimated at more than $12,166,-
cellaneous funds.
Ithan $5,000,000,000.
10,000 trucks last year. tuary, Hongkong.
38,352 cars were imported.
Sole Agents.
000,000.