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B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES

FOR

THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928.

THE MOTORISTS' PAGE MA

EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE.

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AUSTRALIAN T. T. RACE.

AGAINST MACHINES OF ALL POWERS.

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SCALE MODEL OF CAR USED by Major H.O. D. Seagrave on March 29th, 1927, when speed of 203.7928 miles per hour was ON VIEW at HOTEL attained. SAVOY, Ice House Street,

Distributors for GILMAN & Co., LTD.

South China:

BUYERS' GUIDE

MOTOR CARS. ·

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. C.4769.

BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd, 83 Wong Nei Chung

Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C4769. CHEVROLET.-Hougkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHRYSLER-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219. HANOMAG.--Wai On Teeung, Ltd., 243 Des Voeux Road, C.

Tel. 0. 711.

MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C:4759. OAKLAND. Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

THE TRIUMPH 7.

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NEW MIDGET.

RIVAL TO AUSTIN SEVEN.

LATEST SMALL. CAR.

6 HORSE-POWER TO BE SOLD AT 100 GUINEAS.

THIS "BABY" RAGE.

There are certain romarks which The "Evening Standard" learne cannot be made in polite society, that Mr. S. F. Edge is planning the as a famous Savoy farce suficiently production of a light family car of demonstrated. When your pot 5 h..!

"I am hopeful the car will be on the road by next spring he said.

Ho added:

"There will be nothing "freakish about the design, which will follow orthodox lines. It will have four cylinders and side-by-side valves.

averalon introduces you to his The design and specifications are bride, you may not ask outright ready, and have been tested at Mr. what she saw in him. Similarly, Edge's Kingston works. Tafel when the Triumph Sevon, la mon- tioned, every knowledgeable motor- lat wants to ask, "How does it com- pare with the Austin Seven?' But it is supposed to be extremely in decent to attempt such à compar- taon. The alleged fadecency would not daunt me in the least, but I

Four-wheel brakes will be stan- atill Inck the data for a valid dard, and the bonnet, radiator and estimate. I have driven Austin general build will follow A.C. lines. Sevons for many thousands of The car will be an inch

or two miles, and seen thom stripped down longer than the present Austin 7, for overhaul after a to which and the price will be 100 guineas. would reduce most cars to senility. "I may be able to reduce it to! But the Triumph Seven is still a the £100 mark-but I am not cer- newborn Infant; I have not driven tain on that point yet.

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It five hundred miles; and nobody' 46-50 Miles Per Gallon. has yet seen it stripped after "The top speed will be at least five figure mileage, unless the 35 m.p.h. The engine will develop works staff have rendered this at-22 h.p. It will get at least 45-50 tention to the No. 1 experimental miles to the gallon." chassis. If they have done so, Mr. John Prioleau writes:- - what they found was good-in It has generally been considered which case nobody would believe that the number of baby cars on their report; or else it was bad-the market selling at between £136 in which case they will remain ob-land £150 was enough to meet the atinately silent. So this enticing demand for what up to now most and indecent comparison between people have regarded as a rather two open and avowed rivala must special sort of car designed for a wait until full data are accessible.imited section of the people. At the moment it cannot be carried Evidently in the eyes of the beyond two or three trifles of mild leading manufacturers it is quite interest, and even these are mere a wrong view. With the personal opinions. The Triumph .p. A.C. joining the existing minia- springing le, I think, the better; tures it is obvious that the market| the Triumph body is more spacious: exists for an almost indefinite the Austin engine, runs a little quantity of really cheap motor- faster, and thus confers & Httle cara. extra speed. Very possibly the Triumph designer decided that no sane person would wish to flog so tiny a car too hard and deliberately

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Exit the World "Motorist." This may well mean that within reasonable time the proportion of cars, to the population in the

slowed his car. In two years' time British Isles will approach that ob-

it will be possible to odious.

TINY CARS.

be more taining in the United States. It will mean a great change in the We conditions of British life. Before dealing intimately with a shall become a nation which will tiny car, опе or two popular drop the word "moterist" from its It will cease to have fallacies need tapping on the head. vocabulary. These little sevens are not weaker any special meaning. climbers than other care, or ever An interesting consideration is, slower climbers. Unless they are What will happen should the pre- abominably neglected and misused, sent method of taxation by horse they will climb any main road hillpower be abolished and some other that in Britain....Bwlch-y-Groes, for substituted? Will It mean example....just as confidently as the public will ask for larger, any other car, and about as fast slower-running engines?

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as any standard touring car listed Yet it is not likely that such a at less than £359. They are not taxation change would adversely appreciably lower across country affect the sale of these little than any other car; capable of machines. 45-55 miles an hour, their average Besides their low tax rating and specd, like that of Rolls and economical running they have onc Bentley, is conditioned by the road advantage inestimable to the small rather than by the engine. The householder-their small bulk. sale penalties to which they sub- The car which can be put away ject their owner are those of com-for the night almost as easily as paratively cramped body space, and tho perambulator is the car

as the vehicle is so light-of be-which the minimum cash need be ing thrown about on rough roads a spent. In all probability; there-

OLDSMOBILE. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei little more than is inevitable with fore, it is here to stay.

Chung Road, Happy Valley, C.1247.

PACKARD.--The Dragon Moter Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel Chung

Read, Happy Valley. C.1247.

PONTIAC-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. SINGER-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Road Central. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

WHIPPET.-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Vœux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 4n, Des Voeux Road Central.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88 Wong Nel Chung Road,

Happy Valley. C.1247.

GUY.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C. 1219. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road,, C.4759. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759.

MOTOR CYCLES.

B. S. A The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. C.1067. ROYAL ENFIELD, The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88, Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. ACCESSORIES.-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.226. AUTO-TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS.-Keller, Kern & Co., Ltd.,

16-19, Connaught Road, Central.

COLUMBIA. BATTERIES The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88,

Wong Net Chung Road. Happy Valley C.1247. FIRESTONE TYRES. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88, Wong

Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.

MILLER ACCESSORIES A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Id, C.

Tel C1219,

MILLER TYRESA. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel. C.1219. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road C.4759.

a giant car. Their merits are that

the first cost and running expenses

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are extrmely low. Naturally, they has been done. A wide range of clamour for a good deal of gear- bodies at various prices are offered changing; ordinary traffic will com-by the makers. The fabric saloon pel much use of second gear; but has two very wide doors. The off- the gear-changing is extremely side door, is intended for the driver simple.

only, and his fauteuil can be set Turning now more definitely to at different distances from the the Triumph, which I know only in dash, though, not instantaneously. Ita fabric saloon phase, I should The nearsido door affords access to set its pleasant speed limits at 20 both rear seats pasta tilting front mp.h. on second gear and 40 mp.h. fauteuil. Incredible as it may on top; it will do considerably, more seem, this saloon was driven by -up to perhapa 86 mp.h. on (a) a 9 st girl of 5 ft. 4 in. and second: but is apt to be a little (b) a 16 st. man of 6 ft. 8 in. with- fussy if the named figures are ex-out any adjustment of the driving ceeded. The suspension is perfect seat. Neither made any complaints ly magnificent for so small a ma- about the reach or comfort; the chine; tested on every conceivable giant merely grumbled that his surface from the devastated areas feet were so hig that they were In new suburbs, blasted, heaths' inapt to cover all three pedals open. country, tarmac "waved" by simultaneously, but this was only bus traffic, "waves" spattering into his jest--he handled the car quite potholes, and the like, it surprised deftly from the outset. The two and satisfied under each test. The stern seats would cramp farge brakes are also excellent; this people on a long run, but are Lockheed hydraulic system is pos- quite adequate for average Bri- sibly one of the two most efficient tons, and are not designed for and least troublesome to maintain; children exclusively. *.. Upholstary it stops the saloon within thirty and silence are alike, good,

The yards at forty miles an hour; and only criticism which can be passed does it without swerve or abudder on the control of the car is that In a dead straight line. The fuel the tiny, clutch bites rather harder. 2 consumption in town work, with than most; but fagurger is not

numerous stoppages and restarts, is so great that a smooth ata better than forty miles to a gallon, elther difficult or imposs and in a long journey approaches driver accustomed to a larger and or alightly exceeds fifty miles, a gentler clutch will probably muft gallon; forty-five miles per gallon his first start of the Triumph, but should be about the average for will control it, easily as soon as he the year

realises that delicacy in essential VETTED AS BOUND Altogether the car is extremely at, When a small chassis can be tractive, and in It the Austin Seven vetted as sound, the problem of will meet a foeman fully worthy coachbuilding remains acute. In its steel R. E. Davidson in 1) this instance, everything possible New Statesman."

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Body lines that reveal a scientific understanding of proper proportion-interiors whose appointment express "exacting taste -things that you naturally expect of fine cars. Oldsmobile Six gives you all these-at a price within the range of millions.

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