1930-10-02 — Page 11

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930.

VISCOUNTESS FINED.

Drives Without Lights and Licence.

:

Viscountess Adare, of the Gate louse, Arlington Street, 'Piccadil

I. was found guilty at Maryle-

without a licence.

£100 AND £60.

Demand Exists Will

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It Be Met?

The £100 car has often been

the car when new the lower the

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FIGHT FOR MARKET.

U.S.A. Firm's Factory in London.

pro- With the utmost secrecy parations are being made by the immensely wealthy Dodge-Chrysler motor-car combine of America to

fight, in the European markets, its world trade rivala, the Ford and General Motors Corporation, with a big factory at Park Royal, London

bone recently of driving negligent-talked about in this country, but ly, and without lights, in the

still have not got it, says Edgware Road, whilst returning" home after the Empire Ball at the "Fingermark" in The Motor. The Albert Hall at 3.25 a.m. She was demand is there all right, which Ained £6 10a. with figs costs. She I think is indicated by the relative-writes the News Chronicle motor-

ing correspondent), was also fined 10, for drivingly high prices obtained for second Production chiefs from the com- hand "baby" cars, showing that bine's, foctories in Amorica have Mr N Gillett for the Commis- sloner of Police said that the de-there is a very good demand in-spent weeks in London and Europe deed for cars which cost, under studying the market and settling fendant drove out of Upper Barke- ley Street into the Edgware Road 100. The lower the first cost of plans. at a fast pace without giving warning of her approach, and Ás a without lights on her car. result a Mr. Manser, of Hampton Road, Leyton Stone, who was going along the main road at a moderate

My point of view is that. if and accelerate and speed, had to swerve to avoid collision with the when the 4100 car-a really prae- In doing so hetical, completely equipped vehicle defendant's car.

selling as a tourer, with aide collided with a refuge.

Defendant did not stop, although screens, for that sum-bocomes a constable shouted and flashed his not a probability but an actuality In this country, an enormous im- toreh. Both Mr. Manser and his passenger were injured, and Mr.petus will be given to the motor

industry as a whole. Manser had to be removed to hos pital.

Taking It Calmly.

that

percentage of depreciation and the easier it is to sell it, especially when the running costs of the car are in proportion to its first cost. This is very important.

The annual sale of cars up to 8 h.p. is 43,580 (March, 1929, to February, 1930). I put the sale A station-sergeant said when he saw the defendant she of the £100 car at three times that said that the other car came along figure for the first year it is intro at a very fast pace, and she heardduced, providing that it is a satis- a slight crash, but as she thought factory vehicle, of decent appear- ance, economical to run, low in it had nothing to do with her she did not stop. "I think," she added, cost of insurance and tax and "I had lights, and the suggestion there are available adequate sup of dangerous driving is ridiculous. plies during the best selling You are all short of a job." Asked months of the year. to produce her driving licence, the defendant said, 'I don't know where it is, and if I found it I am sure it is out of date."

The Viscountess, giving evid ence, said that she had recently returned from South Africa, and had driven the car only twice since. That was why she forgot She had to renew her licence. been driving since she was 10 years old. She thought Mr. Man ser lost his head.

I believe that ultimately such a vehicle will be produced and I, should look more to the motorcycle than to the motor industry to pro- duce it.

Let us go a stage farther and imagine that a car not so nicely finished, nor so well equipped, as the £100 vehicle I have in mind, were produced at £60, with pos- sibly a two-cylinder engine and a of transmission-a simple type vehicle which I hold to be perfect

Mr. Bingley, the magistrate, saldly practicable. Is. it net conceiv that the evidence against defend-, able that hundreds of thousands

ant was overwhelming. As to her failing to stop it was possible that she did not know that her car was

concerned in the collision.

of new motorists would be created many of whom in time would want the £100 car or something higher up the scale?

The latest conveyor assembly plant from America has been re- ceived in London, and it is hoped] shortly to have it working on a pro- gressive scale. Contracts, I under- stand, are being negotiated with British firms for the supply of ani much British material as it is pos- sible to use, and these contracta with sample goods are now under- going rigid scrutiny by the heads of the combine in America.

Everything possible in body and chassis that can be made or assem bled by British labour, or be sup- plied by a British firm, will be Bri tish in the forthcoming models of the two makes, the scheme being eventually to supply the whole of the Eroupean markets with these British-built cars.

No Politics.

of

The new scheme, which may have a revolutionary effect on the home markes in a number of direc tions has. I am told, nothing what- ever to do with Tariff Reform, Em- pire Free Trade, the Safeguarding Duties, or any political move any kind, but is simply a trading project brought about solely by the success of the Ford and General Motors plan of marketing. British-built private and commer- cial motors in Europe.

American manufacturers have that the trade slogan found

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Trade experts who have seen the production plant for the new fac-1 tory say there is nothing com-! parable with it in Britain as yet. The Dodge and Chrysler cars are two American makes which have always held a great reputation

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In a recent issue of a well-known British weekly a writer contributed an article with the avowed object of proving that the construction of ultra-high-speed cars, such as the "Golden Arrow" is undertaken solely for publicity, and affords no experimental information of any value to the designer of everyday motor cars, and that "nobody pre- tenda that the records are of any genuine technical value to any body.

course of designing and building the "Golden Arrow," which may briefly be summarised as follows:

Motor-Cyclist Lost in London,

After travelling 23,000 miles

Clutch: This carried six times the unit loading ordinarily permit round the world on a motor-cycle ted, and to secure light control a without serious mishap, Mr. 1. Dewandre servo cylinder was em Gill, a Bradford motor engineer, ployed; this method has since been lost his way when he returned to an official welcome. adopted by a large Continental Londen for

at Australia House, manufacturer for his big, powerful He arrived touring cara.

Strand, nearly an hour late. Steering: A complete solution to

Mr. Gill, who had motor-cycled problem was the wheel-wobble

to Australia across Europe, Persia, secured by novel methoda (applic- India, and Malaya, and had return- able to any car), such as the use of ed via Canada and the U.S.A... was reading rods, duplicated steering due to arrive at Australia House That this view is erroneous be controls, and friction pads under the at eleven a.m. to hand to Sir

comes apparent to any one who has steering heads.

ond extracte from the paper which Captain J. S. Irving, the designer of the world's speed record holder, the "Golden Arrow," recently read before the Institution of Autome-

benefit,

Types: A great deal of know ledge was acquired by the Dunlop Co. bearing upon cord construction for lyre covers, of which many motorista will eventually reap the bile Engineers, Britain. In a plain, Miscellaneous: Information, since straight-forward manner Captain Irving explains the construction of utilised for ordinary cars, was ob the "Golden Arrow in detall, and tained concerning the design of reveals the forces which act upon a brakes, running fits for working high-speed car. The following are parts, thermostats, and other Items some of the more Important facts of equipment. which emerge during the reading of the paper. First must be placed the world-wide effect upon British prestige produced by the achieve Commenting upon this, Motorment of securing the world's speed Cycling saya

In the 175 .c. class, however, it was a different story, for the cate gory Wis won by a German machine, with a British machine: necond

Granville Ryrie, the High Com- missioner, a letter entrusted to. him by Mr. Scullin, the Prime Minister of Australia.

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skirts of London, but was disap pointed, and had to travel on with- out a guide. He found London more bewildering than the Indian jungle, and quickly lost his way..

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Mr. Gill's trip began last May. "Perhaps the most thrilling part was when I encountered Bedouing One of the innovations which in desert of Irak," he stated. seems likely to materialize in con- "They wore armed and warlike, and nection with the Road Traffic Act tried to attack me, but I frighten engine until it made a noise like in the employment of motorcycle or ed them off by revving up the car-equipped police patrols.***

Whether the system will be of machine-gun fire. the value which is at present es-E timuted remains to be seen, atatea - The Commercial Motor. Much, of by drivers of slow-moving vehicles course, will depend upon the train- should largely be stamped ont, thus ing given to the officers in ques- removing, to a large extent, the tion, whilst the general character temptation to pass on the near

cause of many accidents, of the men will have a good deal to side a policy which can be the do with the amount of success

records on land and in the air dur "That the faces should have en- ing 1929. Secondly, the nerody. hanced once again the prestige of nemical or stream lining aspect of the British motorcycle, is, natural high-speed car design has become ly, a matter for congratulation on widely recognised through the work our part, and the fact provides ad done by Captain Irving, and this will ditional evidence (if any were undoubtedly react upon the shape needed) that the T.T. is fulfilling and construction of ordinary care. Its primary purpose of producing As highways improve, cruising machines and men--that will win spoeds will increase, and it will be- wherever they compete against the come Impossible to put up with the best that the rest of the world can inefficiency of current modes, from produce. It is a highly significant the viewpoint of wind resistance. fact that the only class in the A Summary European Grand Prix to fail to the The power needed to drive a car rider of a foreign machine was against this resistance depends, not that restricted to 176 cc. engines only upon the pressure of the air

Not only should the patrols at- and that, of course, is the only upon the ear, but is also propor- category, for which the fals of Stan tional to the rate at which the car achieved.

Is travelling After careful and The genuine road hog is, com tention be directed to the traffic meeting does not cater.ee

perfect stream-lining of the paratively epealdog, a rara avis stream along the roadways, but if Golden Arrow was in Britain, but instances of the officers be fully experienced Words of a Prophet.

the future calculated that at 250 m.p.h.thoughtless road usage can be seen men (as there seems little reason At some time?

about 80 per every day. In some cases these to doubt that they will be) com- motor manufacturers may operate it would

the 100 h.p. are due to lack of Imagination and mon sense will suggest the need for.

months In the year cent of the

wind resistance in others to thoughtlessness, and it for keeping a sharp lookout upon Mr. Hear engine to overe

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trade stream Improperly, whether

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