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THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1928,

THE CHINA MAIL,

CAMEL & CADILLAC THE NEW MORRIS.

WILLYS-KNIGHT SIX.

"BABY" CAR.

RIVALS TRAIN AND BUS.

LONDON TO BAGDAD BY CAR.

OFFERED IN LOW PRICE FIELD.

A NEW MODEL,

THE 3RD CLASS TRAVELLER.

EAST AND WEST.

Harold Churchill writing for the New York press has just completed a trip from London to Bagdad and his story makes interesting reading. He says:

MOTOR TRADE TAKEN BY SURPRISE.

SMALL CAR BID.

The decision The announcement of the new

of the Morris The Southern Railway has lost Knight engined car in the lowest about £500,000 a year for the

Company to make a bold bid for price class ever reached by a past three years through road

the small car market with an ens Willys-Knight six, opens an en-competition. - Sir Herbert

tirely new 7 h.p. car has created something of a stir in motoring tirely new sales field since this car Walker, manager of the Southern is priced at approximately 20 Railway. We are losing passen. Kipling was right in one sense, of and motor trade circles. The an- per cent. lower than any other gers as heavily as the railways. course. The East and West may

nouncement took most people by Willys-Knight six over built.

eople are going in more and never meet in full mental and moral surprise, because this development

had been kept very quiet. Company officials declare that more for the small private car understanding. But they cer- with a decided trend on the part Ir. Sydney Garcke, a bus com-tainly meet physically in the streets in fact, there were whispers about Several months ago, last qutumn. of motor car buyers toward cars panies' chief.

of Bagdud. And one of the reasons n Morris "eight," but no one seem-; powered by a Knight sleeve valve The assertion that omnibus

The centuries-old camel route

Was an 8 h.p. car or an eight-

engine, an unusual sales volume services are the principal com.they intermingle is the automobile.ed to know definitely whether it is anticipated for the Willys-petitors to the railways was do-across the desert had been virtually Knight Standard Six, which is nied by Mr. Sydney Garcke, a now brought within the price director and chairman of well- abandoned since European ships range of thousands of buyers known bus companies, when he discovered the way to the apice from owning this type of car be-mittee on the Railway Company's who formerly were prevented gave evidence at the Select Com-markets of the East. cause of price consideration. Road Transport Bills.

It is utated by John N. Willys, It was not buscs but small pri- president of Willys-Overland,vate curs that the railways that this move has been under should blame, he said. consideration since the company. started building six cylindered Knight motored cars three years

zgo.

The Great Six. The start in the six cylinder eld was made with the Willys-.) night Great Six which has been e of the outstanding successes the field of luxury vehicles. This model was followed by the Willys-Knight Six "70" which is now known as the Willys-Knight Special Six and which has been

The class of passenger who used habitually to go 3rd class on the railways and also used the omnibus services is going in more and more for the small private car," he declared.

Earl Russell: Then you are not an admirer of the Baby Austin? (Laughter),

Mr. Gareke: I am not sure that we are not losing passengers an heavily as the railways.

Another member of the Com- mittee: And now there is a rival

en stream began to spout from Then something happened. A gold- the land of Perafa and Irak-a pre- clous flow of oil to feed the throb- bing gasoline engine of the world.

Esca were turned on Persia. Strange faces were seon on the twisting streets of Bagdad. Men spent thirty days reaching Bogdad, going by the Red Sea, all the way to Bombay, India, and then doubling back by the scorching Peratan Gul£ Then a new ship of the desert ap peared. It was stronger and speedier than the fleetest camel, more awe-inspiring to the Bedouin

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cylinder car that was referred to and when Mr. Morris's allied com- pany, the Welseley firm, came out with A "straight-eight" nearly model which had been talked about. everybody decided that this was the

And so the story of a small 8 h.p. Morris was gradually forgotten.

A week or two ago, however, one or two of the Morris agents got to know that there was "something`in | the wind," as they put it, but none of them seemed to know exactly what to expect.

At the Cowley Works, near Ox-| ford, they have a'staff who can keep | secrets. Generally speaking, new developments of motor manufac turers are shouted abroad in trade circles long before they are made with any Morris changes, whether of prices models.

than the Tabled monsters of old. public. Not ao when it passes, the shepherd boy Etures and his flocks scatter, It is

one of the largest sellers in its to the Baby Austin coming the automobile that has come to fol-

clasa since its inception.

The introduction of the Willys- Knight Standard Six now brings this well-known product into the three price ranges of six cylinder cars above $1,100 and completes the programme which was start- ed with the Great Six.

along?

Mr. Garcke: Yes; the Morris Seven, and there are others,

Mr. Garcke said that a census taken by his association of the passenger traffic passing a chosen point near Brighton showed that on a certain Wednesday 9.7 per Developments in Knight Motor cent. of the passengers were car construction during the past ried by omnibus, 71.2 per cent. by three years have been conspicu-private car and motor cycle, and ous both in this country and, in 14.4 per cent. by char-a-banc. Europe and the new Willys- Knight Standard Six is anid to include all the most recent and advanced features of sleeve valve design..

A similar census taken on a Sunday showed that 83.7 per cent. of the, passengers travelled by private car or motor cyele, 3,2 per cent, by omnibus, and 6,9 per cent. by char-a-bane.

In comparison with other types of motors the gains made by the Similar checks which he had Knight motor in its general use subsequently had taken showed throughout the world have been that this great predominance of inarkedly greater than those set the private motor vehicle existed by any other type of motor con-all over the country.' struction since 1925.

low the footsteps of the camel cara- vans that plodded their way from Damascus on eastward to Babylon, to Ur of Chalden, and Ctesiphon in ancient times,

Startling Trip.

Travel has been resumed over the

ancient land route to the East, but the caravans of to-day hum the powerful victory song of the auto- mobiles that have conquered the de- sert wastes.

On the whole it is rather a start- g performance. Deep wadies or dried up water courses packed with jugged boulders lie in wait for the unwary automobile. These stones are from six inches to three feet In diameter.

"Until I saw it done," one pas- Renger reintes, "I would never. have thought a car could go through such stof (wadies) at the rate of even half a mile an hour, but they went through that stony wilderness at about eight miles an hour, and

The Dover-Folkestone journey The Advantages.

was exceptional, Conspicuous advantages claim- "There has been excessive ed for this type of power plant competition and price cutting be- include

on this smpother operation, tween bus proprietors greater silence ut all motor route with the result that for only turned aside for rocks over peeds and a length of service some time they have been carry-eighteen inches high." which has not been equalled bying passengers for threepence on ny other form of power plauta seven-miles, journey, which sed for motor driven vehicles, practically amounts to mountain

The Knight sleeve valve con-climbing.** truction eliminates all of the isual valve mechanism and the

One may

now board a motor car in Beirut or the Mediterranean, and in less than thirty hours be set down in Bagdad. The Syrian Desert has again become a highway of the world.

Now the cars of the trias-desert mall leave with railroad-like regu- larity, transporting missionaries, rug buyers from New York depart- ment stores, wives of British officers, and tourists, to and from Beirut, Damascus, Bagdad, and on to Teheran in Persin.

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Lebanon Mountains.

or

Very few people can claim, to

know anything of the plans of Mr. Morris, and I think it is in no small measure due to the fact that he

interest in and control of the fac takes auch an active and personal

tory where his cars are produced:

Inexpensive to Run,

This new small Morris must be regarded as the first reply to the new petrol tax. because I believe that the idea has been to produce a car which will be inexpensive to buy in the first instance, and—even more important inexpensive to run.

Rated at 7 h.p., with a petrol consumption of, say, 40 miles per newcomer will appeal gallon, this definitely to the man who can only just afford to own'n car.

At the time of writing, the price | of the 7 h.p. Morris has not been announced, but I feel sure that it will not be marketed at a cut price,

a car worthy of the Bay £100. The aim will rather be to produce Morris tradition and name, n' good- class job where quality has not been sacrificed.

Competition In the small car market is now very keen, and if all stories are true it will soon be

keener still

Let us look at the cars which will be competitors of this latest Morris product. Here is the list:-

7 h.p. Austin touring car, £135; saloon, £150.

9 h.p. Clyno touring car, £145; saloon, £160.

7 h.p. Jowett touring car, £142; Baloon, £170.

"Junior" Singer touring car. £140; saloon, £150.

9 h.p. Standard touring car, £190; saloon, £185.

.7 h.p. Triumph touring car, £149, 108.; saloon, £187, 10s.

7 h.p. Peugeot touring car, £139, 10s.; saloon, £139, 108.

ntake of fresh gases and exhaust is employed. The cylinder group of burned gases is positively con- cast en bloc is bolted to the cast rolled by the motion of two iron upper half of the crankcase sleeves sliding smoothly and with the oil pan formed of press- silently up and down, one inside ed steel. the other, between the cylinder The eccentric shaft supported wall and the pistons, opening and in seven bearings is operated by closing the intake and exhausta silent drive timing chain of parts.

1 in. width and equipped with

Leaving Beirut and the colourful These sleeves are actuated by an automatic tightener. connecting rods driven by an Sevent bronze back babbitt lined seacoast behind, the cars climb some eccentric shaft. This type of bearings of 2 in, diameter sup- fteen hundred feet over the Le power plant has been used by the port the balanced crankshaft. banon Mountains. On the road one ending_manufacturers of luxuryThe connecting rods having a cen- passes Bedouins and Syrians driv- rs in Europe for many years.tre to centre length of 9 in. arcing strings of gaily decorated and Sleeve Valve Motor. aquipped with centrifugally cast heavily laden camels, and quaint

All these CATS come into the Unusually exact standards of babbitt bearings of 1% in dia- high hooded carts drawn by teams

amall, economy class, and with the fit and finish are maintained in meter at the lower end while the of mules.

From the top of the Anti-Lebanon | exception of the Peugeot they are the construction of the Knight piston pin bears in a bronze bush- sleeve valve motor and notable ing at the upper end.

range the road drops gradually to all British products. The Clyno records of efficiency, power and Bohnalite aluminium alloy pis-the oasis around Damascus. Steer and Triumph are only now being speed have been established by tons embodying the Invar non-ing due cast from Damascus, the produced in any quantity, although this engine.

expansive strut employ four oasis is left with startling sudden they were shown at Olympia and autumn. The In virtually every respect the rings of in. width, three ofurss and travellers find themselves Kelvin Hall last

been in production new Willys-Knight Standard Six these ringa being of the compres for the first time in the real desert. Standard has retains the same characteristicssion type and one of the oil con-: For some five hundred miles then, for a slightly longer period, and of design, performance and ap-trol type-all being mounted there is not a human habitation, the others are what one might call pearance да featured by the above the pin. The pin is locked Luckily for the automobile the old-stagers.

in the piston bosses by the con- Syrian Desert la not the expected

It is interesting Special Six and the Great Six.

to note that, A range of colourful body ventional set screw.

tremendous atretch. of sand and according to Sir Herbert Austin, models comprising a Coach, 4-door

The Lubrication.

dunes. With the exception of the nearly 100,000 7 h.p. Austin cars pressure lubrication in ast forty miles into Ramadi, there have been sold. This car is now will form the Standard Six body which oil is forced to the main is virtually no sand.

For more made In Germany, and I am told ne. An exceptionally complete bearings, connecting rods, cam-than two-thirds of the route the cars that It will soon be made in France, Ine of equipment, numerous in shaft bearings, and timing chain roll over a hard soil, covered in Denmark, and even America: Over- ovations in interior appoint is employed in conjunction with a places with gravel, shingle, or shale, sene it has made a lot of headway

ats. together with striking Skinner rectifier.

lines in body design are pre-formed integral with the exhaust at which one can travel is limited will be able to show as good a re-

The surface is such that the speed during the past year or two.

I wonder whether Its new rival hted.

manifold clarifies the oil, sending only by the power of the engine, by cord in as short a time. If anyone Powered with a 2-15/16 by the gasoline content in the oil the need of keeping the ears of the can do it I am convinced it is Mr. 7/8 in. bore and stroke the en-back to the intake manifold and convoy in sight of one another, and W. R. Morris. gine gives a maximum horse the refined oil back onto the by the physical endurance of the power of 45 at 3,000 r.p.m. The

Sedan, Coupe and the Touring Full

The latter

crankcase,

power plant employs a seven-bear-

drivers.

The cooling system employing

Ong of the chief dangers is that

ing crankshaft, an oil rectifier, the pump type of circulation is

and Bohnalite aluminium pistons. Atted with a thermostat in the of being bogged. If there has been Conventional clutch, transmis

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cylinder head water outlet to con- rain ahead of you it turns the old The towns of Tripoli and Beng- sion and axle units are of special trol the engine temperature so river beds into sticky clay. For has, in Lybia, were united for design while the chassis of that the most satisfactory operat distances of half a mile or so they the first time by motor vehicles 109-1/2 in. wheel-base carrying ing range is obtained under all are impassable.

when three Fiat 508 models made 29.5.50 in. halloon tyres is conditions. The pump is bolted The other danger is that the hot, a three-day journey bacross the equipped with four-wheel brakes, to the front of the cylinder block level and over which the driver is desert, a few days ago. It had

Unit Power Plant.

and formed in unit with the fan, rushing becomes so monotonous ad previously been considered" that The new car employs a unit the entire assembly being driven to be hypnotic, and it is only by con- this region was impracticable to type power plant which is secur by a "V". belt from the crank- stant effort that the drivers keep motor cars. ed to the frame at four points, shaft pulley. The radiator is of from falling asleep at the wheel and the rear engine supports being the cellular type with the shell pitching the whole outât Into a Inclifted to the rear at an angle of having the same characteristic fully from three to twenty feet--at An degrees and attached to a cor- contour as employed on the other 65 or 70 miles an hour. The con- responding pressed steel member Willys-Knight modele.

quest or the, desert is a monumental and within 48 hours of Fort Sáld. riveted to the frame. This de Fuel is drawn from the rear tribute to the stout hearts of the At Bagdad connections are made sign tends to reduce englue gasoline tank by a Stewart Nairn brothers and their associates with the railway to Banks, on the vibration and make for smoother vacuura, tank which delivers the running at all speeds gasoline through a filter to the Who Ploneered the trail, nsing Persian Gulf, and also to the Per stan border, bringing Persia and The conventional Knight en-plain-tube, pump well Tillotson Cadillac cars. gine practice of employing two carburetter. the latter being The present service brings Bag Northern India closer to Europe and

dad within nine days of London, America. cast iron sleeves for each cylinder equipped with an air clean.or.

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