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MOTORING SECTION

FORD 5-DAY WEEK.

VOGUE OF CHEAP CAR WANING.

Mr. Henry Ford's plan for a fiyo- day week for his 125,000 employees has not received the enthusiastic

approval of those whom it chiefly concerns, according to despatches from Detroit, Michigan, and it is w fact that apparently a considerable number of the men are working even less than Ave days, with a propor tionate decrease in wages.

The apparent explanation is that the wave of prosperity which help ed so many industries in the United low- States has been a blow to priced motor-cars. The public are: willing to pay more to secure a motor, as distinct from "vver The Ford sales two years ago total- led nearly 2:000,000 in twalvo- months, against about 1,300,000 cars sold by all the other motor-car com- panies. The Ford sales for the irst six months of 1926 were about

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A contract to supply more than 10:000 cars and lorries, valued at | approximately £3,000,000, has been placed with Morris Motors (1916) by a distributing firm at Melbourne, Mr. Morrig said: 4

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The world-wide acceptance of the motor car is evidenced by the serial number plate attached to the chassis frame of every Studebaker car.. This plate shows that the Stude- "This is by far the biggest single baker Wheel trademark has been re-contract ever received from over. gistered in 101 different countries suas by a British manufacturer, and aid in 23. different languages,

it is an interesting and encouraging fact that more than half the busi- ness represente by it went last year to America.

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Reading this plate, is like running down the index of à geography, for Ion It appears the notice of registra-T

tion in England, France, Germany, Greece, Egypt, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Japan, Borneo, lower and upper Egypt, Haiti, Finland and other countries, many of which are fast becoming motorized like the United States and Britain.

"We are "supplying all the cars daring the coming year. They will consist partly of the new "Colonia!”. model which was exhibited at the Motor Show. This is expressly de- signed for use in rough country. There will also be the standard Morris for ordinary city use and b considerable proportion of commer, cial vans,"

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Sir Alan and Lady Cobham are shown in their baby plane.

MOTOR LAWS.

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Preparations are being made at the Ministry of Transport for the introduction next session of a Rond Vehicles Bill, which, it approved by the Cabinet, will deal in a compre hensive manner with the motor traffic problem..

So far as public vehicles are con- corned, the recommendations of a Departmental Committee, framed with the object of ensuring the greater safety of passengers are ex- pected to be fairly closely followed.. These recommendations relate main- ly to constructional requirements, conditions governing the granting of licences to drivers, and so on.

With respect to private cars, it is proposed that the speed limit for the open road should be abolished, and that the remedy against excessive speed should be a police prosecu- tion in cases where a motorist was held to be driving dangerously..

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| 850,000; while the remainder of the

industry sold nearly 1,500,000.

Despite officia! denials, reports persist in New York that. Mr. Ford intends soon to launch into a new Held of production, with six or even eight-cylinder cars.

TESTING A MOTORIST.

When a charge of being drunk in charge of a motor-car against William Henderson Leighton, was heard at Newcastle-on-Tyne, both police officers who stopped the de- fendant, said he was zig-zagging

about the road; but both admitted they had got into the car and`al- lowed him to drive to the police

station.

Dr. Stephenson, the police sur geon admitted that he and a police officer allowed the defendant to drive them round the streets near the police station.

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Mr. T. Smirk, (defending): If you were satisfied that the man was drunk why did you take a drunken man out in the middle of the night? Dr. Stephenson said, although he realised the man had a drink, he thought he might have been capable↑ of driving his car.

The case was dismissed.

A BLESSING.

A motoring friend told me the fol- lowing actual experience he had in Scotland this year, where he had rented for a month a stretch of famous salmon-fishing river for 4150. Histotal bag was three small off his

The necessity of this plate has been brought about primarily by the extensive foreign trade of the Stude- baker Corporation.

The serial number plate, of course, was made necessary by such extension of the motor car. In order that notice of registration may be known to every mian, regard- less of his native tongue, the ic- formation on the plate' has been translated into Spanish,Eun. garian, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Scandinavian, Swedish, Finnish and so forth. Even the queer hieroglyphics of the Jap- anese, Chinese, Turkish and Arabic languages are present..!

A striking example of the Stude- baker export aggressiveness may be seen in the introduction of the Erskine Six, 2.1/8 litre six-cylin der automobile, at the recent auto- mobile Salon in Paris: The Erskine Six is a car designed on the Euro pean, light car plan, yet it is pos- sessed of traditional Studebaker stamina and endurance.

ENTHUSIASM.

MOTOR-COACH SAFETY.

Riding Beside Driver to be Illegal?

Under the new regulations for „motor-coaches" which will be in- corporated in the Motor Bill to come before Parliament in the New Year, it is stated that conversation be tween passenger and the man at the wheel will be prohibited.

In his report on the Naworth rail way level-crossing crash, in which a motor-coach was involved, Colonol Mount, who conducted the Inquiry on behalf of the Minister of Trans- port, stated that, although it had no immediate bearing on the ac- eldent, he wished to call attention. to the objectionable" arrangement which allowed a passenger to sit on the right-hand side of the driver.

Regulations will also be intro- duced making the inspection of all public service vehicles by local au- thorities compulsory.

MORE TYRE PRICE CUTS..

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The Pirelli Tyre Company 43- nounce reductions in the prices of'; their motor-car tyres by an average "of 20 per cent., thus bringing them into line with the now reduced

pany.

Have you ever heard a dyspeptic give three rousing cheers for any-prices of the 'Michelin Tyre, Com- thing? Is the man with a torpid liver ever an optimist? If your brain is sluggish because of a clog- ged system how do you expect to take a real live interest in daily affairs?

A dainty. laxative, certain in

fish, and, when, and I like action yet mild; a gentle liver

"gillie," be said: your country, but your fishing is most expensive. Do you know, my three salmon have cost me. £60 apiece" "Is that a fac', sir? Weel, it's a God's mercy ye didna catch ony mair!""Contact" in "The Motor.

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It was ridiculous, Mr. H. C. A. Bingley, the Marylebone magistrate, declared, that the police, the magis- trates, and the public should have their time, wasted over so many summonses against motorista for merely "piffling offences. As far as he could see, no discretion was used in the passing of summonses some of which were too utterly absurd.

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