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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1929.

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U.S. PROGRESS

BUYERS' DEMANDS

Production And Export Car Designed For Smooth

This Year

J

Riding

Into

MOTOR TRADE

Attacking A U.S. Preserve

London, Nov. 5. Leaders of the motor industry

The production and export figures Numerous factors of considera- of the U.S. automobile industry (Intion enter the average car cluding Canadian output) are sup-owner's mind when planning a were rather disappointed at the motor tour. Chief among these, cautiousness of Mr. J. H. Thomas's plied to this paper as follow:

especially where a long journey is references to that subject in his 4,448,050 motor vehicles, io. planned, is the riding qualities of speech on unemployment, and the 3,331,045 passenger cara

and this car.

implication that the only stimulus to Experts point out that comfort-the export of British motor vehicles 612,305 trucks have been produced able riding qualities do not neces- which the Government could furnish by the United States Automobilesarity depend on the type of road was in the form of a change in the Industry during the first eight travelled. They state that the de-basis of taxation. months of the present year, while sign and constructional features of 3,236,364 motor vehicles, or the ear are major factors in pro-and the manufacturers, however, 2,847,630 passenger Cars

andyiding maximum comfort for driver have not come to an end. It is under. 378,734 trucks were turned out in and passengers under all road and stood that there will be another the same period of 1928, showing traffic conditions.

Increase in production of

Willys-Overland engineers de- when a number of concrete sugges- meeting in about a fortnight's time, 1,206,986 motor vehicles for Janu-clare that in the design of the tiens will be submitted to him. nry to August, 1929.

Whippet lines of fours and six

"

"EQUAL RIGHTS ’

Lord Cecil's Claims For Pedestrians

front and

The talks between the Minister

Manufacturers

Canadian Market

and

Mr.

Foreign sales during the first cylinder cars, marked attention was While it is true that the Society seven months of 1929 figured centered in providing a car that of Motor 715,134 motor vehicles (488,175would bring to the owner a new} Fraders has pressed the view that passenger cars and 226,956 trucks), sense of comfort regardless of the motor transport bears more than its or 18.2 per cent. of the production. length of the journey. Exhaustive fair share of taxation, and that, say, In the same period of last year tests were conducted over every a 26 per cent. reduction in the horse- 482,732 motor vehicles (380,548 type of highway, these tests finally power tax would help them to com passenger cars and 102,279 trucks), resulting in the perfection of the pets in the Overseas markets, that or 17.6 per cent, of the production, current Whippet lines which, among is by no means the only way in were exported.

other things, have won an outstand-which they believe that the Govern- jing reputation for their superior ment could legitimately assist the

industry. riding qualities.

Increase in the Whippet wheel. base, longer spring longth both At the next conference

rear, oversize balloon Thomas will probably be invited to tyres and shock absorbers have consider whether the better trade been contributing factors in the relations with Canada, which bo comfortable riding qualities of the hopes to ace established, cannot in. icar. These features, combined clude motora na well as cotton, coal, "The deaths and injuries received with full on the road are an evil comparable silent timing chain, invar-strut

force feed lubrication, and steel.

Canada, as a market for cars, is to any of the evils which human ao piston, large four-wheel brakes, now an American preserve, although elety was struggling against," de and the added convenience of many Canadians would choose Bri- clared Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Finger-Tip Control," have placed tish cars if prices were at all com- He was presiding at the inaugural the Whippet in a distinctive posi-parable. We cannot expect Canada meeting of the Pedestrians' Association in the low priced field of four to allow British cars in duty-free tion at Eseex Hall, Strand, when jand six cylinder care.

safety for all legitimate users ol Thousands of owners of these the highways" was called for. Įstriking models, many of whom had Mr. Herbert Morrison, M.P., the previously owned higher priced Minister of Transport, sent a letter fears, state that the high standard stating that the representations of performance of the Whippet fours There is also the question of the the association in regard to certain and sixes are comparable with cara export of what are really American recommendations contained in the that sell in the high price classi- cars by way of Canada. These fest report of the Royal Commission fications.

vehicles have only to prove them- on Transport would receive careful Not alone have the Superior selves 25 per cent. Canadian in order consideration, in connection with Whippet Cars won a wide accep- to enjoy the benefits of Imperial any legislative proposals which he tance on the part of the male Preference here and in the Domin- might introduce relative to the re-drivers but women owners declare ions. It will be suggested to gulation of motor traffic.

that the case with which the Whip-r. Thomus that the standard of 50 "What we want," said Lord Cenil, pets are handled in heavy elty per cent. British in labour and "is fair play and equal rights on the trafle, parking and over the wide material, which Canada now applies highway. We have no hostility to open highways make them ideal for to the cotton goods of Lancashire, other users of the roads. When we all purposes. look at the terrible figures of accid- ents more than 6,000 people were BOY MOTOR-CYCLISTS killed and 200,000 were injured last

year we are struck by the fact

that 20 per cent. of the victims were pedestrians, but the innocent driver of a motor vehicle should also be protected.

Three Points of Polley

"I ask three things:

"That some test should be in- posed upon drivers before they are allowed to drive.

Danger To Themselves

And The Public"

"Lads of this age ought not to be riding motor-cycles; they are a danger to themselves and to the public," said the coroner (Mr. Thomas Wilson) at an inquest at Burnt Ash, Suffolk, on Stanley Bennett, aged 15, of Shipsea Hill, "That we should make some Cambridgeshire, who crashed Into "closer definition of what is describa lorry while riding his motor-

ed as 'dangerous driving.

"That any person guilty of

It was stated that Bennett dangerous driving should have his broke his neck, and a companion licence suspended normally with-riding on the pillion suffered con out any further discussion..

cussion.

cycle.

"A person who drives dangerous A juryman said: "I think it is

ly should not he allowed to drive at a pity that licences are issued to

His licence should be suspend-people under 18"

all.

ed without any further discussion." The Coroner: I agree with you.

He would regret, he went on, the There are a great many of these unqualified abolition of speed lads riding about.

limits, and he opposed those who A yerdiet of accidental death aald that speed in itself was not a was 'returned.

danger. In a crowded country like

ours it was absurd to say that driv- NEW YORK AUTOMOBILE, SHOW Ing fast was less dangerous than driving slowly.

The 30th annual

Automobile

It was a monstrous shame that Show will be held at Grand Central the unhappy users of the highways Palace, New York, from January were left no means of going safely. 4-11. There will be displays of 240 In his own village children walked models, representing 40 makers of through country lanes to school, bay-cara,, Le., 42 makers of domestic ing been cautioned by their parents, cars, 2 domestic cabs, as well as "Poor wretches, they all crowd into the showing of Mercedes-Benz and the ditch to avoid passing cars." Voisin, foreign automobiles. There Mr. F. Llewellyn Jones, coroner will also be shown for the first and MP. for Flintshire, wrote time the now Cord, the Marquette, urging that first and second-class the Roosevelt, and the Viking. roach should have a footway. wide In addition to these exhibits, enough for two pedestrians and kept there will be more than 200 dis in as good a condition as the road-plays by accessory: manufacturers way.

and makers of shop equipment.

Dr. A. Salter, M.P., said that If the speed-Ifmit was abolished the present death-rate would go up by leaps and bounds. "It will bara “murderous incitement bill. We must protect the ordinary pedestrian lasers of the road against excesive speed."

"Many little villages, he said "have been turned Into Hittle halls on earth by the reckless motorials; and I can see the elements of first- class war between the motoriste and the people because I have wit nessed some ugly scenes on the road," (A Voice: "There will be 'a civil war.")

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As regards taxation at home, (says the London "Dally Tele- graph's" motoring correspondent)

One outstanding feature of our present mode of living is speed. This is an age of rapid motion. It will become more and more rapid, rather than less so. People will leam to relax in motion and to live more deeply, but there will be no turning back to less rapid days. All progress has been marked by an increase in speed the cOB- quering of space and time. The trend is a fundamental one not

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I am able to state that what the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders asked for was a lower horse- power tax and the financing of new road construction by issues of bonds. They hayo neither suggest ed nor approved any increase of the petrol tax.

DRIVER ACQUITTED

No Evidence Offered By Prosecution

At Nottingham Araizes Edward Henry Coughtrey, 32, a Nottingham crisp potato merchant, was indicted on a coroner's warrant for the man- Blaughter of William Ayres Astle, a fireman who was employed by the London and North-Eastern

Railway Company.

In the proceedings before the ma. gistrates it Was alleged that the accused drove his motor-car negligently on a wet night and knocked down Astle, who was fatal- ly injured.

The magistrates held that there was no evidence to warrant his com- mittal for trial, but the coroner's jury had returned a verdict of man- slaughter.

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Dr. Tinsley Landley, for the prose- cution, said that after com- municating with the public prose- eutor and having regard to the ma- gisterial decision, he did not pro- pose to offer any evidence.

Mr. Justice MacKinnon, express-. ing his agreement with this course, directed the jury to return a ver- dict of not guilty.

Coughtrey, who had been on bail, was discharged

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