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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930.

SMALL CAR DOOMED?|

Increasing Popularity of the "Medium"

COACHWORK

The Influence of Conservatism

of

THE

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Choose Your Accessories Wisely

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SHOCK FOR LADIES

Where Are the Car Victim's Trousers ?

To the student automobile For many years now Great Bri-

Certain accessories, if wisely

Singapore, Feb. 15. It was the peculiar experience of 13in has been a nation of small technique, who naturally makes it chosen, greatly add to the comfort motor-curs. By small ears I menn his hobby or his business to watch of the driver and passengers. One three young ladies in Collyer Quay notices cars fitted with luggage recently to be arguing vigorously in vehicles of about 12 h.p. When the the cause and effect of the leading trunks from which it is difficult to a motor-car and the next moment last census was taken it showed that tendencles, that grouped together remove the suit-cases, owing to the to hear a crash and see an elderly minus his there were in use no fewer than are the material proof of progress, position of the apare wheel. This Chinese in the road

nothing should have been more in- difficulty can easily be avoided, as trousers. 229,897 vehicles of this type.

there is a fiting that permits the Where the trousers went to is still Of 14 h.p. cars there were 111,917, teresting than to mark the way in

spare wheel to awing out of the way one of Singapore's unsolved my of 16 h.p. cars 14,802 and of 20 h.p. | which daring recent years appear when it is necessary to open theateries. The police searched for

thom ance has become an increasingly Im-trunk. 13,402.

in the road, on the young Passengers seated in the rear ladies' car, and The 12 hp. family vehicle was portant element in motor car design,

In the hospital mainly the outcome of the horse-In point of fact, there never was a compartment usually require head ambulance, but they were nowhere power tax. Manufacturers exer time when good looks were a negli-cushions and foot-stools if they are to be found.

ched their Ingenuity to cheat the tax and produced small units giving

forth almost Incredible power in relation to their size.

powered car?

gible quantity. The pioneer de signers were well aware of the value that the public would attach to them, and clearly showed this fact in a great many instances by con- structing their vehicles, in external matters, so that they conformed as user. nearly as possible to

esse on long runs. to be truly at

There was a sequel to the incident Narrow foot-rails are not sufficient before the Criminal District Judge, support, yet one sees these in many Mr. C. H. G. Clarke, yesterday. vehicles. Head cushions should be when the Malay driver of the car This year there has been a marked

hung by loops in the cornera of a was charged with causing grievous change in the position. Small cars

saloon and adjusted to support the hurt by a rash and negligent act, are still selling. But the vogue is

nape of the neck and head of the Ho pleaded not guilty. The Chinese Loose cushions are not much suffered a fractured leg and minor definitely for larger eara of higher

horse-drawn i use, 18 every time the traveller injuries. power. The medium-powered car has come into its own with a rush. traditions. Unhappily, their ideals shifts position the support drops The complainant, a coolle living Factories are hard put to it to never came within reach of realisa-out of place. In opening touring at the 9th mile, Bukit Timah Road, keep up deliveries. Some, in fact, tion. Engines were refractory in cars an alr cushion form of bolster said that on the evening of Decem have been so deluged with orders for those early days, and transmission may be hung by straps on the rear her 10 last he was going along ears of from 15 to 20 h.p. that they systems far from reliable; hence it squab in a suitable position to sup- Collyer Quay when he was knocked have had to start night shifts, and caine about that appearance often port the neck. This not only gives down by a motor-car. He heard no even then are behind with deliveries, had to be sacrificed, to accessibility. added comfort, but is also an anti-horn sounded and saw no cars and he was about to cross the road when I prophesy that within two years This in course of time became a dote to back draught.

With all the progress made to he was hit. He was then removed the Medium-powered cars in use tradition in itself. Thus even to-

road touring easy, it is to hospital in an ambulance. Had will easily out-number the 12 h.p, or day car designers put their engines render

how uncomfortable he heard a horn he would never have small family type.

under a bonnet, the main purpose of extraordinary What is the reason for the pre-which fa to allow the machinery to passengers can be made for want attempted to cross the road.

The Ladies' Evidence sent popularity of the medium- be easily got at. The bonnet idea of a little thought. Badly adjusted

Evidence was given by Miss E. has become one of the fixed stars in sents, wrongly poised cushions, and It is mainly a question of price. the automobile Armament, and it a careless driver spoil many runs Tredgold, of Namazle Mansions, about 6.20 British medium-powered cars of will probably remain so until some which might otherwise have been a Stamford Road. At 1930 are sufficiently inexpensive to big car manufacturer, working on a pleasure. A driver who suddenly o'clock on the evening of December counteract the higher horse-power really handsome scale, elects to accelerates, takes corners too fast, 10, she was driving in a car along disadvantage. After all there is break away from convention

the brakes flercely, Collyer Quay with two other girls. and and puts on only £3 difference in tax between a entirely rearrange the organs and throws his passengers about to such She was seated in the front seat!

accommodation of 12 h.p. and 15 h.p. car, and this is seating

an extent that it is with difficulty beside the accused, while her two

friends not much spread over three years.

they retain their seats.

were seated behind. The vehicle as a whole.

The motor car comes into the

On such occasions the foot-stool car was a private one. She was Possibility Of Tax Reduction

same class with the ocean liner and is their anchor.of safety coupled talking to the girls in the rear and There is a strong possibility that the locomotive. This is to say, such with arm-slings, if such are pro- therefore could not say whether sho In the next Budget the horse-power beauty as it possesses is essentially vided. Every driver should take a noticed any other traffic on the road tax will be reduced, I do not intrinsic. It appeals to the eye by long tour as a rear seat passenger at the time; neither did she notice

at which the imagine there will be any general

reason of its lines. Everybody in order to learn what to avoid in the speed reduction in taxation. What we must have noted how in recent years his style of driving and the acces-travelling. gain on the swings will be lost on

a number of designers have raised sories necessary to provide his the roundabouts. But if the horse- the height of their bonnets and add-passengers with comfort. power tax is reduced, as anticipated. ed sloping luggage trunks to the the position of the medium-power rear of their

Τα care: ear will be strengthened.

great extent their 10- In many ways this is to the good.tions are utilitarian, but it can- British manufacturers have now

not be denied that they con- proved that they can make the stitute proof that the automobile medium-powered class of motor-car as cheaply as can their rivals.

New plant has been laid down for their development, and if, as there is reason to expect, a great new era of expansion in the Empire markets is coming, it is well that we should be prepared for events.

I do not think the small car will

disappear altogether. I have

greatest admiration for this

the type,

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I am receiving these jokes in

ery

the

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engineer, having disposed of most of his technical troubles, is now instinctively groping after intrinsic beauty.

Points for Owners to Remember

car was

His Honour: Did yoo have any sensation of speed?—No, we were engaged in an argument.

Continuing, Miss Tredgold asid that they were in front of the Asia-

WASHING THE CAR the Petroleum Company's offices when she suddenly heard a crash and the car pulled up in the middle of the road. It was then that sho noticed a Chinese who was trying to get up from the road. The man Washing cars nowadays is a had no trousers on and his right leg There are two main reasons why simple matter in garages where up was injured. She told the accused appearance in our road vehicles is to-date equipment is provided. A to drive her to the Teluk Ayer becoming of paramount importance. cellulose painted car can be washed One is that when we survey our by a pressure-fed plant and polished sessions we want them to please within forty minutes, whereas once he eye, and the other is because the job took two to three hours. when we are abroad in them we Touring motorists may often find it

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police station from where she tele- phoned for the ambulance.

Chief Court Inspector Meredith: If there was no other traffic on the road at the time it would have been

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RAGING. TRAFFIC

Determined Drive in

Tokio

Miles W. Vaughn, Special Corres- pondent,. United Press, writes:-

Police have started a determined

the troublé.

Henry Ford started an assembling plant near Yokohama some four years ago and soon was followed by General Motors, with a big plant near Osaka. The two organisations

and I should imagine it will still want them to please the eyes of difficult to get cars washed in time easy for the accused to avoid a man drive to control Tokio's amazing serve a useful purpose in this counther people. So much so indeed is for a reasonably early start in the who was in the middle of the road traffic situation.

The streets of Japan's capital pro. try. But I think that the medium- there that to-day it is no morning. They should know gar-Yes, I think 80. powered car will soon be the chief exaggeration to say that many cars ages in the towns and villages they You don't know at what speed the bably are the most difficult in the motorcar drivers and type in use.

The small car must not be con-perfomance is almos

sell upon their appearance. Their may visit, where the latest facilities car was travelling? You were not world for

jaken foare provided. Otherwise they may arguing about the speed?-No, it traffic accidents have increased to fused In this respect with the granted. In presenting n attra-find washing more difficult to get was about a hockey match. We had an alarming extent. American auto- "baby" car, which is selling this tive line some manufacturers have. efficiently done than any other form been playing hockey that afternoon.mobiles largely are responsible for year in greater numbers than ever. of course, made full use of the of motor service. With chromium

It is being used extensively as a effects of colour schemes. If a car plating that requires wiping only Miss D. Foston of 7. Upper sort of "dingy" to the larger car, looks more pleasing in two colours and not polishing, a complete car Wilkie Road stated in her evidence and has introduced the two-car than in one, then certainly it should wash and rub down can be done in that she was one of the two who standard to thousands of families. have two colours. Ultimately this half an hour where up-to-date plant were seated in the rear of the car. Women love thom.

matter of appearance may take pre-is installed.

They were talking at the time and More than 50 per cent. of the cedence of all other items in the Some recent care have a rotary did not notice anything until she made pessible what many Japanese "Wayside Wit" jokes centre round specification of a car, and that in air-filter, worked by a knob felt a sudden bump. She then look consider the worst pest of modern the "baby."

these circumstances it will lead to handle on the dashboard, fitted as fed out and saw a Chinese fall on the life in their cities the "One Yen This is a sure sign of popularity, drastic changes in chassis design, as part of the carburetter. In order road. The car was not damaged. Taxi," or "Yentaku," as they are espectully in view of the fact that the conchbuilder will say to the to keep this working properly the The 'accused was her driver and the called by Japanese.

motor engineer. "This is how the internal disc must be turned round car which

was a Morris Minor The partial payment plan of the hundreds. When the old Ford complete vehicle is going to look, and occasionally, say, every 100 miles, belonged to her. Saharain was not American concerns encouraged thou- dominster British roads the

you must fit the components of the All such filters catch the duet by in her employ now as he left of his sands of young Japanese from the humorists got busy. Henry Ford,

chassis into it as best you can." At means of oil, When cleaning, drain own accord after the accident. Up country to emigrate to the cities to it is said, made a collection of these present the coachbuilder is given off the accumulated sludge through to that time he had been a good and enter the taxi business. With cheap jokea. Most of them were at the the chassis upon which he has got the plug provided, and waeh the satisfactory driver.

American cars scores of ́amall oper expense of his product; some of to do his best to mount something interior casing with petrol, rotating" Mr. Meredith: He was

notators set up one yen taxi concerns, them were very' rude. But he re-beautiful. There are distinct limits the disc quickly at the same time speed merchant? No, he was a loosening on the streets a flood of garded them as fine publicity. I to what he can achieve in this direc- Drain the dirty oll away, and let the careful driver. should advise Sir Herbert Austin tion, and the more enterprising of Alter dry before refilling.

Misa Fairhurst gave similar and Sir William Morris to get their his craft are beginning to see tha Air cleaners are still rather new evidence. scrap-books ready-Harold Pember-this is the case. Developments into motorists but the

The accused stated that the com- ton in Daily Express.

appearance are taking place more modern car is developed to satisfy plainant suddenly darted in front rapidly than they did owing to force the requirements of all parts of the of the car and was knocked down. of competition, but it is certain that world, the greater the use that will He immediately pulled up and lifted with bicycles-There are more than to some extent they will be held be made of such fittings. There him to

the side of the read. A half a million in Tokio alone-push back by prejudice or conservatism of fore, it is well to know how to look trolley bus was on the same side carta, hand carts, horse drawn many car owners who may think after them.

of the road and he was watching waggons, rikishes, and foot traffic. When automobiles were added to that a vehicle which savoura of

this when the man was hit. streamline form in its external

Mr. Meredith: On your own evid, the stream it became literally a shape, is a Bttle too closely related

ence you were not keeping a proper raging torrent. In addition both Tokio and Yokohama have been His Honour said that it did not widening and paving the majority of their streets as part of the re construction programme following the great earthquake. Streets are blocked in many places and they change their course from month to month with bewildering results.

The big bridges there are hun-

INFANTRY AWHEEL

Motorisation of U.S. Army Under Test

more the

Motorisation of infantry is being to the racer to be entirely respect- SPARK RETARDING lookout?-(No reply) effected generally at this time in able. But that phase will pass in

the armies of the world and the course of time when it la realised A Driving Hint for Careem to in posed

United States Army is at present that the Low-built, good-looking, fish- conducting its first experiment shaped car is not only safer, but along this line at Camp Eustis, Les cheaper to run..

Hall, Va. It is the, 34th infantry

that no longer has to hike with the

slow military tread, riding instead

Owners

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a heavy penalty and imposed a fine of $25 or one month in default. The fine was ordered to be paid to the com- Small high-effelency engines are plainant who is still an inmats of very liable to knock if the driver the hospital-Straits Times. attempts to force their speed up

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smail machines which will haul a passenger anywhere within the city confines for one yen, or 50 cents gold.

The streets already were crowded

Já a fleet of fifty-six Chevrolet pas-tish troops are being moved by from a slow pace in top gear with weakened below normal and knock-dreds of bridges over the canals and senger cars and trucks. Extensive motor-cars. Through the British out using his spark lever. The ing is set up.

rivera of Tokio-present strange manoeuvrea which have been con- and American experiments it has reason for this becomes obvious If, however, the driver retards traffic streams which can hardly ducted since last August have prove been definitely learned that comwhen one considers the conditions the spark just before he pushes the be equalled, even by the traffic ed so successful that Indications pletely motorised units can transduring acceleration. As the engine accelerator pedal down, by provide streams through the great city Cárts and point to complete motorisation of port 800 men eight times more is running at low speed on a nearlying a late spark he counteracts the gates of Peking, the army within the next few years. swiftly than they can travel afoot closed throttle the cylinders are rapid burning tendencies of the waggons drawn by oxen and cows, Formerly an army on the march. Aside from the slow speed of only partially filled, and as the gas weakened fuel, and thus knock by horses and by men, compete with considered two miles an hour animals there is the added in a mixed by the slow-running jet Ing Is avoided. Immediate motorcycles, automobiles, motor good average. The Camp Eustis efficiency of mules and horses car it is richer and slower burning ly after the accelerator has trucks, tractors and cargo carriers. experiments with the Chevrolet rying heavy loads of food for than the normal supply. When the been pressed down the dry who carry burdens on their backs. caravan has shown that it is pos- the other animals and themselves, driver anddenly steps hard on theer should commence advanc- Big electric street cars and the elec sible to move a regiment with all One truck can carry 900 gallons accelerator the restriction is taken ing the spark, moving the lever gra tric Interurban trains at places ita necessary supplies at an average of gasoline, an adequate, reserve off the incoming gas and dually to the advance position to plough through the tangled mas speed of fifteen ralles an hour.. An-; supply for the entire motor forces, the cylinders recolve their fulf suff the rising speed of the

by great motor buses other advantage that has been die. Included in the present equipment | quota of fuel. Unfortunate- The secret of success in this.

which to and fro in all the dis covered is that cross country travel, of the Camp Bustle unit are 18 ly the mixture - In by... no nection is to make the movement

tries of the city and between many has been found practical anywhere Chevrolet touring cars. the ground is hard. A tractor in one and a half ton cluded in the equipment, carries a 14 Chevrolet trucks lead horse for emergency purposes. two sdditional whee)

¿Lo-day: Beveral regiment of Irland zine Chevrolet, plek

andard means homogeneous, and as the air the spark lever gyndarqnise commences to pour into the lh y with the demands of the ders before the comparativels: sand, if they contentSTE% heavy petrol vapour, has a chance handled the acceleration25 sks to ket under way) the mixture is hewest, and astonishingly rapid

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