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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1929.

CONTROL

LORD CECIL'S STERN MEASURE

THE CHINA MAIL,

AN THE MOTORISTS' PAGE WAS

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The motorist had a bad time of

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"SCHOOL TEACHER DRIVES TO HIS JOB

SPADE vs. AUTOMATIC

The feat performed by Mr. J. Williams the young Welsh school teacher attached to the Secondary School at Cairo, In driving an Austin Seven overland · through of Asia, and so, to Europe, par Willys-Cairo, bas created interest and ad-

miration for car and driver,

San Francisco-During the last

of the arrival of the 1929 Whippet rooms of the automobiles, show Northern California dealers, have been thronged, states R. H. Spear,

the zone manager of

it in the House of Lords to-day, yet meeting the standards of popu-week, since announcement was made writes the "Morning Post Parlia-lar taste, have a remarkable effect mentary Representative on Dec. on the sales of automobiles made by 12. Boorishness, reckicsaness, various manufacturers. and ignorance were freely imputed to him, and his doings were called a disgrace to civilisation and an outrage on humanity.

Equivalent strictures word pro- bably passed on inconsiderate chariot drivers along the Appian Way: On the other hand, it is notable that the Assembly respon sible for these latest censures itself uses moor-cars almost to a man. Viscount Cecil's Vehicles Re- gulation Bill, the purpose of which is to diminish accidents, struck the Peers as a mixture of freakish Bess and sound sense.

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Into the first-category went the suggestion to at every chassis with mechanical check on running speed, and to sink potholes near highway danger spots that would not only slacken traffic, but break its springs and axles.

But the provisions for examin- ing into the skill and health of in bending drivers, for compulsory third party risks, and for frequently suspend- ing the licences of the dangerous and incompetent, gained a good

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come

300,000 Accidents

into

This dominating effect of model

first came on salca styles prominence four years ago. It was at that time that the Auburn Automobile Company of Auburn, Indiana, produced a complete line of new models, sensational in design For the and general construction. next four years, by introducing models entirely new in their parti- cular price class, Auburn has found it necessary to double its production facilities each successive year to take care of the increased demand.

This year the Phaetoni Sedan, 115 model first planned for the chassis only, resulted in such a flood of business that the entire year's production of this particular was sold before the first four months of the year had passed. The Auburn found It Automobile Company necessary to utilise the 88 chassis for a similar type of Phaeton Sedan to supply this demand. This No. 88 model Phaeton is meeting the same favourable reception by motorists throughout the world. The motor of the No. 88 model is a straight 8 type with a horse power rating of

To prove that motoring had be90. The wheelbase is 126 inches.

a problem of "almost in- credible seriousness," Lord Cecil recalled that each year brought 300.000 road accidents, that ten in day were killed $ daylight hours, and that every succeeding minute BAW some mishap to person or property.

persons

"So," he added grimly, "several accidents have already occurred during my speech."

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The Phaeton Sedan was originally patterned after the European "all weather" model but with many im- provements and it has proved to be so popular that manufacturers in Amerien have added a similar model to their lines. It can be used either as a regular tourer, with the top and side glasses down, or a sport tourer, with the side glasses up and the top down, and also as a Sedan His phrase about "children with the top and side glasses up, cowering in ditches" invoked aand can, when necessary be used in swift picture of the roads which he the same way as a regular Sedan. insisted are barred to many of the King's subjects. "I heard," he sald, with that high-pitched break which comes in the volcea of each of the three Occils when indigna- tion visits them, "of a car that can go 120 miles an hour. It is ab outrage."

With the authority of the A.A.,

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Thousands visited these places daily, eager to inspect the new cars and learn about their mechanical features, he stated, and many orders were taken for both the four and six cylinder models.

"These visitors were first im- pressed by the improved appearance of the Whippet bodies," explained Spear. "The bodies are larger, more beautifully finished and most attractively appointed. They contain a maximum of room and offer a new type of comfort. The designers used every inch of space to the best advantage which is appreciated by drivers and passengers." both Spaar continued:

**The cars

are larger in every way and look larger. The radiator is higher and wider giving the front a more massive appearance. Frames

дге much heavier and longer, making the cars extremely aturdy. The engines have been given much more power. They have been made smoother and more silent in operation, also given improved performance which was a feature of the former models.

"This year more attention is being given to the mechanical fea tures by shoppers than in the past. owner is "motor The average car wise" and wants to know just how the car is built, its power, perform ance, economy and comfort. He can see how it looks but he asks a lot of questions about what is under the hood and beneath the body."

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PACKING CASE GARAGE

Naturally, when one is, "abroad" there is plenty of opportunity for comparison with the homeland, and Mr. Williams got on very comfort- ably through France and Germany, and describes his reception at the Austrian frontier as, exceptionally cordial. Budapest presented a particularly attractive appearance,

St. and he had opportunity for admir fng the famous St. Gellert. Gellert seems to have come to a hor rible end. For some mentioned he was put into a barrel, the sides of which were covered with sharp apikes, driven in from the outside, and then from the top of the hill which now bears his name, he was rolled down into the Danube.

reason not

Mr. Williams expected to find: a supply of petrol here. The petrol had arrived and he went to collect it. He then found (1) that it would take 24 hours before the Customa officials could be eased that it was "benzine;" (2) that the next day was a national holiday when no work was done; and (8) that the day after that was the usual weekly closing day. Mr. Williams became eloquent, dropping into his native tongue and took the petrol away with him.

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Outalde Belgrade he stayed the night at a village hotel where the only food procurable was sour bread, a cucumber and "dunkel bier." The room opened on a yard where there were dozens of pigs, and the poultry roosted in the car during the night.. Gypsles accompanied by fierce farge dogs 'that attacked the tyres--fron- tler guards who suspected him of all sorts of spying propensities, and who insisted on being conveyed con- siderable distances to receive in- structions from superiors before allowing Mr. Williams to proceed, were new and exciting incidents of the road.

He was forced to entrala the car

for fifteen miles outside Constan- tinople, and says that after he reach,

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A FINE CAR OF LOW PRICE

Everyone for years past has been familiar with the, joke about the baby car that can be palked up the front door steps and parked in the hall with the bicycle and the perambulator. Now at last this deems slmost possible. We are Motor transport, and the use of promised a small car, coating only the Society of Motor Manufacturers the internal combustion engine, has wo figures, which is to be import and many other organisations be- : hind him, Lord Denman, a Liberal, in many ways shown Its adaptabilityed in a strong packing case from asted the Peers to reject the Bill. to farm use, and by its aid the work America to our doors! It is readyed Stamboul, and got his car out, His remedy lay in stiffer penalties of the farmer has been considerably to go as soon as it gets petrol, after "At midnight I was eating the first

assisted. The

tractor has been a brief assembling of essential real meal for three days." He gut for bad driving.

Incidentally, Lord Denman gave considerably assisted. The tractor parts that can be effected by any into trouble as soon as he crossed

work of handy man in an hour. Its beauties the Bosphorus and was fined fifteen change. He crossed Jordan at the a free diploma to the London 'bus has revolutionised the

its scope as the however, do not stop there. The pounds, Türkish, bicaties he had

Bridge of the Daughters of Jacob, driver na the best on the roads, ploughing, while

mechanical packing case, it seems, is water- failed to "register with the police.” and assessed the taxíman means of providing

18 highly skilful, but rather rash. power for assisting in much of the proofed, and It can be used as ́à°

He now had a miserable expert- went along the shore of the Sea of ence. His funds were low and he Galilee and saw below him the ruins Buckmaster, another other work of the farmer has been garage!

Surely this la a step in the right felt it. When approaching the of Capernaum, and on the other side Liberal, had quite a different tone; shown to be extremely wide. he is ready to fry the motorist in The lorry particularly has proved direction. May we not soon hope Taurus route he had two unpleasant the steep place where the Gadarene his own petrol.

an inestimable boon, for by its for a system by which we can buy experiences. He engaged "guides" swine made their famous plunge.

Undulating country means he is able to concey his pro- on the hire purchase system to be who led him astray; in the second duce from his farm, either direct to delivered in a strong packing case, instance he seems to have finished in before coming to Nazareth and the

waterproofed and windowed, which the distributing centre, to the in-can be used as a bungalow:

a ravine which ended in a sheer wall sinuous road drops to the plain of Jezreel to ancient Shechem and dividual consumer, or to the railway

of rock, and from which he had the

Jacob's Well, with the elimination of many of the

greatest difficulty In escaping.

A delays which formerly existed,

Lord

The average car owner's notion

that pedestrians must scurry out of his way "like black beetles from a broom" the ex-Lord Chancellor de- nounced as a fantastic perversion of Common Law rights. "They eut ugly black scars, called motor- roads, through the face of the most beautiful country, and then," frowned Lord Buckmaster, "pre- vent others using them."

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SLIPPING FAN BELT

Slipping of the fan belt may be due to its being too loose, only or greasy; the fan may be tight on its bearings, possibly from lack of lubrication, or the pulley may be loose on the shaft.

Possibly one of the most valuable services rendered by mechanical transport has been in the rapid and comfortable transport of horses, The former supreme head of the sheep and cattle, and recognising this the farmer and stock-breeder Judiciary has had the misfortune to be fined £1 for an inadequate as well as those whose business in Lord Buckmaster any way calls for the sending of contrasted his penalty with the animals from one locality to another ventilating system is incorporated, £2 fine on a drunken man who drove are relying more and more upon the while the effect of the road shocks down Edgware-road. The Peers motor vehicle. It is therefore only is lessened by the provision of shared his indignation.

natural that the manufacturers of special thick coir mats for the felt it monstrous that

lorries should pay special attention animals to stand on. Plywood is to the needs of this type of user, used in the construction of all with the result that many interest-partitions and doors, and the com- ing and special types of bodies have fort and safety of the horses has can be managed nowadays for only been evolved. No longer is it necas been studied in every way. By the

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Rolling down the Ratcliffe High-

way,

Drunk, and raising Cain,

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£2, if the rolling is done in a motor-sary for droves of animals to be removal of the special horae parti-

car.

vernment.

tions the body can be used for the conveyance of sheep.

was traversed

Government telegram at A Nasty Adventure

Jerusalém Instructed him not to. His funds had by this time boon proceed beyond Gaza, but to entrain reduced to the sum of 14a. Further to Kantara, and he had to do as along the road, which was a bad coe, he was bid. Consequently he spent Mr. Williams noticed a subsidence a "rutten night" riding in a truck, which he could not avoid, so most of the time holding the car, he got out and with the which was not "acctched." After use of 2 special spade he six and a half hours completing carried, eased the track a little. He Customs formalities, he left saw three youths approaching, but Kantara and drove into Cairo with took no heed of them, and drove on out further incident. There was no Suddenly he remembered that the mishap, no mechanical failure or spade had been left behind, and breakdown, and one puncture was That is what an Austin Seven wil stopping and looking back saw the the total damage. three youths making off with it He ran and overtook them, but they do in the hands of a good driver.-—-- not only refused to give up the "Overseas Bulletin."

pade, but demanded Mr. Willam's money. He remarks: "That started it It ended when the biggest tried to draw a big automatic which

"SOME BRAKES”.

driven along the highway. The Government Decision motor vehicle can be brought to the

A. somewhat similar motor horse- he carried underneath his cont :During recent holidays, whilst Lord Banbury, with regretful farmyard or stables, the animals memories of his coaching days, loaded thereon, and driven away to box has been built in Great Britain. To do this he released his hold a crowded 'bus was ascending the owned that he walked about London the rallway or to their ultimate for the use of an owner of race- upon the spade, and that was when steep incline of Crag Brow, at Bowness, the clutch slipped, and in hazard of his Ile-a hazard' destinations.

horses at Newmarket, and in this made a mistake, for it was # the heavy vehicle began to run which one-way traffic had aggravat- It may be Interesting here to instance accommodation is afforded very wieldy kind of spade." ed; and then the Marquess of Lon-refer to three specially interesting for four animals, the box being He had some nasty experiences in backwards. Mr. G.-N. Pattinson, donderry summed up for the Go examples of how the British Motor mounted on a chassis manufactured the desert beyond, Damascus, more: 4. local solicitor, was following He refused the Bill, not because Manufacturer is catering, for this by the Associated Equipment Com- than once the way, was lost on one the bus up the hill in his small Its ends do not command sympathy, and "Tiger" bus chamals a horsebox work are of ash and the double sides the track was begaine

new class of business. On a Ley pany. The ribs of the box frame occasion seven hours elapsed before Wolseley Saloon, with his family on board. He immediately On an-

jammed on his brakes and held his fell asleep car stationary. The bus which The Government, how was recently constructed and fitted are constructed of steel-armoured other Mr.

For dares

five-t iner with thirty pas ever, are "alive to the problem and Australia, capable of Rocom plywood.

ran back into the giving it attention," and tie.resmodating six racehorses. The body minded the House that a Royal 18 22 ft. In length, 7 It. 9 in. wide rear part of the valde Commission is sitting whose advice and 8 ft high. Each horse has a the direction of trave It will be best to wait for. Car separate stall, padded in leather, ing two being tainly nothing can be accomplished and one side of the body folds down front of the box fack In this final Session

on spring doors, forming ramps for In the loading and unloading the animals part The comfort of rooms is studied

but because its means are un- suitable.

The Peors decided to allow Lord. Cecil's Bill a second reading on the understanding that its drai by the provision of spécia clauses are examined by the Ró ments in barween the front and Commission or a Beldet, Chuniities, horse compartments “Safety Flint “ls the motto: pf the Mangere, for the Uppor House,

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