THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1950.
Hints on how to
by
BASIL CARDEW
buy a second-hand car
L
YOU CAN'T DO IT Without GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY
IL
the
OOK at the news flashes 1-tting doors; ranging of the
of the last month -
to drive enough would-be motorist off his head.
"Fewer new cars for the home year I won't turke; this
car for a bit. vet my no "More petrol for pleasure"-new I must get that rar. "Petrol up 9d, a gallon"--10 blazes with mujoring! And now "Fores must
י
why at
If neither is working properly then there will be trouble with the electrical system.
You can make only half-
'No, thank you!" hearted test of the brakes
HERE are one or two other by delving at 30 miles an hour
worn.
C1
Any more play shows undur whale body; the bannet won't ya on the transmission. shut down properly; the whole car appears to have a pot-belly. POINT THREE Body ent- roded body panels, Indications; signs you should note be- ud putting your foot on the The panels must
your pocket. For instance: eft or right the brake luings edges where they join the wings fere taking your money out of pedal. If the ear pulls to the and the Rude of the door open there are more than three or and even the brake drums may Outwardly pitted or feur inches play on the steering be worn. # you have to put in-
down on the bltered palatwork is 'n warn wheel, then the front axle and your foot hard ing.
with corroded Shering pear are bound to be pedal before anything happens, Main danner
If you
turn the fer the brakes are fully. Transport Com- body panels is when the fate wheel half-way round without Pay
Take off Wheels front arul body are made in one. Then
feeling the
pull of the cerrosion can cause the breaths, then the ear is dangerous. JOHN Kinery, chief engineer of
the springs and axles. Look at
a notoring organisation which the tyres. Uneura up of
tyres is an examines cars, told me that he Soch a rar enn fall to pieces at war in the front any time.
Indication that the front axle is wouldn't buy a secondhand car for out of true, and the car may without removing di wheels to by have buil Did crash. Say "No, examine the brake drums and
Thank you!
Jinings to make quite sure. When the battery is heavily
Mo second- Let's face it. with a whitish-green hand cars
the road today ulidae substance you can take have run their allotted spin, Sa it that it mord. to be renewed. be enreful how you buy. Or in Ty the lights and foods to the cl it may be cheaper and that the dynamo is changingt on The ammeter judges
mission."
That was yesterday's new
thousands of homes the Ti 44 P-or-nu-ray debate opens again in time for Whitsun. If it can't be a new car just yet. what about a zecond-hand fab?
POINT FOUR: Watch engine wear, usually shown
SIX BANGLE SPOIN: 4 Blue "moke from the exhaust ↑ 2. Damaged rear axle 2★ J, Badly erraded body panels T 1. Fractured chassis frante? 5. Broken springs? and 6, Cracked
The SOLAR ONE'S
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of renown.
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Private Utopia
Utopia of a man
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PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS,
BUT
By Richard Aldington. Heinemann. 158. 367 pages.
II. LAWRENCE was
D. an English Disgenting
working man, with a great den of the Puritanism and prejudice of his kind. No- body would pretend that he was a typient product of the Congregational chapel and the mining village.
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THEODORA BENSON
lightful stories. For instance, The Lion and the Prey, with its Veronica, who, one feels, is a nice girl, even when drunk, and William. madly in love with even when sober.
With what a ripple of wit this end little modern fable Bows on! Miss Benton is assured, almost reckless, in her dexterity.
THEODORA DENSON, the daughter
of Lord Charnwood, was born in Lichfield, the birth place of Dr Johnson and of Gar- rick, Since her childhood she has been living in London in small Regency house with a gar- den. Has travelled in the East Indica the Balkans, Central Europe, Canada and America, Italy and France.
PRAIRIAL. By Laura Talbot. Macmillan, 98.
6d. 236 pages.
FAMILY, 12 highly strung
about the house and helping in of aleaks to an end-liberty, itseir,
the
belief
that
This idea was
wunna, nered to William, He could Lady Chatterley's Lover Fad a brilliant eye.
from landowner suffering convey that there was more In a a carried with him through life.
commits adultery than the neuralgin, He hated women who painted scene or a situation
one of her bus- their faces, kateri
pro- most brilliant eye could perceive. With Hayton,
Mic. Fund's tenants, the acrid einann- mb cuity, bated
bull-ghing. He was a magician and a
that the mail tions from whose strong, healthy hated foreigners and denounced believed the Faulish), he loved pottering var had brought n whole world body are pungent as the autumn borrowed by the kitchen. He looked English, GUTANS", ft English, and like all the human beings wanted peace and Lawrence from Wells, by Wells Hugh, wanted to remake the love And what was to replace from Strindberg, and by Strlud-
to berg fram-but
return to world to a new pattern of his there lead ideals?
wwwn devismut
The answer was confused. Emily. She has
a. daughter How typical that he, with often reif contradictory, In by Hayton, which is a bitter Detranel Rurrell, was intent fi malhat it, Lawrence ran into a blow to William who was willing 1913 on a complete social recon- forint was denounced for im te verlook her lapse it sho deintion of the
I hurt, The maalify.
"I am not would produce a son whom he [collaboration took the form of vert much moved," he said, could make his heir.
teries of when a magistrate ordered his As things turn Lawrrive issuint a
out, there is orders to Russell--Let everybody.
nove The Rainbow to be nething for William to do but [FF well. destroyed, "I only curse them go on having neuralem and for ave Wages. Fick Tn there will be no fear of the all, body and soul, root, branch Emily who has been toying with welf #1 the door. Which red leaf, to eternal danimation." the fleas of madness, to get her-
whole The record of a self-tormented self certified.
Petromic problem DIN1."
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the life; of its loves and hates (almost synonymous); of a con- rumptive of genius who fretted and wandered to death: whore
value Tasting:
In literature arises from a simple creed;
for
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All through life Lawrence
trying
his
persuade
1
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in join with
"For
who adder founding a private Utopia to be to be a. the Vast marvel is
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11 stay! I discussed this theaterdon, The Bbranes dislike educated in the island.
them will only accept a luulted dialect is remarkably like the with Mr Desmond Flower wmber at 155. Their length Wei h. Even purely inent ex-we evlinder block 7
director of Cassells, who dirmay: hard-working reviewers prorrions Save a quaint Welsh Practically solves the consumption. buying burYS 1echnique
Book of the Month choosers. has Pications: Warm up the engine published at that price The They stand poor chance with favour.
here
Dear Life, short novel by freviewed fur letting it idle
a few Crusader
Mr Flower replied: (1) their chanted rompletely. Firm, it is by
(Michael Joseph. ave faith that the HF. Bates and ma uten at a slow speed, then recently) and R. €. jobs, Ja big mot
publisher: have
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justify the February 11!1151
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mile: (2) novels of outstand dollar-carner in America, "Minor in arious Castle. They have another
the macabre," friends in worth, such as they are pre- masterpiece of 158. novel in hand.
sumed to be, appeal to book as one reviewer,
RICHARD ALDINGTON. cylinder or piston wear.
twenty people ("about novels of over 250.006 Luyers rather than to borrowers. English are becoming more called Bananim, and inhabited For
Joveri who
him and novelist, poet, essayist, trans- Souls"). And prestige, of course counts: than wiept at the cool, frient
lator, red in the Guards in inted one another. a wire brush to clean the spring words, his answer was, Ye
terause at 125 64. puble hers Ile, even at risk of rendah which for so lon Reason:
10 Communist was reign the 1814-18 war. Since then he kaper.
worn, the them, he will
low clear-cut froplues pament general maximum prie, le « to be associated with novels wie exclusively American,"
• From they are either imposible or
Lams in June, over a group of coffoges, not less has spent his time in writing, a half apart chiefly in the South of France, will come The Letters of Williamthan a nulle and up fryant to buy the car among the lovers
MAN FROM THE Accent Of Wales
situated in THE Morris, POINT SIX: Check the tras-economic. The Crusader bath
collected for the first from one mother
TUNNEL By Theodora Bawdust is not now 65 pas, over 300,000 word; masivni,
Richard Llewellyn has be time, edited by Philip Hender-Cornwall, Italy, Fort Myers in
Benson. Gollancz. 4: we tell no more than that.
1. Michael
Much evidence, suppressed Florids, or the Andes, areording without to mankent faulty gearbesesret printing was 15,000 copies
biographer J. will
6d. 271 pages. bevouse for yeas they have been
Nineteen. chromeh. And tynchromesh we make only percent on ce qu
that Rananim NINETEEN stories. The # daply won't work in tawdiri, battus. Before the var, a similar desply.
was one or nearly nineteen, different connect it up temainder is said to throw
realisation exie i alberal world yield 20 to 33 1-3 Curry forward How Green Was Mochil, was destroyed, but the mat
My Valley and
ufce to light on problem.
That But the tel
perent return."
with the Welsh colony rarer
seven trouble with this book. tally chainfully arres
You can check wear in Elephant and Castle had 690 shed in Patagonia once Morris's married life, Mackail's night in the Cafe Royal when kinds of story.
Lafe of Morris, by the way, is i visited 1
1 is easy enough to say of it: the later bed
How clevert What an
expert Come up on the watcide of the a burkade in two ways. (a) By panes. 350,000 words, and tared about
to New Mexico.
What time! svein.; dumpruntings. The towel in cently during lecture tour in 1 ring added to the World's verts agreed to sail with him
He just Clairs.
of the dinner party touch! magine block; rud; general decay devie
Only on of the metalwork. Text: Scrape whether the axle nowy, ung hand, The Last Miracle, even Sath America.
we did tatt la lecture tour in Irmans al a
went to New Mexico. When she of technique! But it is harder to up one barter-712 pages.
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Bowen's thmetal with
Khrabeth at 12. 6d. and promed 50,000 CS A.
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the out of story you will like. tratte
Impressions (April), enshodying ife to defend herself. bacon to what extent your copies, mur capital intig would
Specking of Wel, he quite u £19.80), recisons £79.791 -- POINT TWO: Search for a Hn the jacked wheel
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the
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The importance of Lawrence
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"TRED! IT'S TIME FOR BED
AWIFE IS WHAT MAKES YOU DO AS YOU SHOULD AND
THEN GETS BAWLED
OUT FOR HER. TROUBLE.
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