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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1931.

FORD PLANES.

Era in Aviation in

Spain.

The route of the Ford transport

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was in constant communication with, the Spanish military base at Cabo Juby, during the flights.

AN ANOMALY.

Cyclist Taxed More

.

Than. Car Owner.

are

may

MISS EUROPE.

Selects Car in America.

IN AUSTRALIA.

New Morris-Commercial

on Trial.

MOTOR INSURANCE.

Certificates

Warning.

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MARINE AUTOGIRO.

Britiish Firm Building. New Type.

Upon his return to Madrid Pilot Ansaldo reported that in the round trip flight between Madrid and the

The motor cycling season

From the Innd of Pegasus, The new Morris-Commercial 30- Oversea air mail service between Canary Islands and the lights over

A good deal of misunderstanding A new type of marine autogiro has in search of the lost

now fairly be said to have com- Aphrodite and Vents, as goodwill evt. truck has emerged from its seems to exist in connection with been ordered from a British firm of Madrid, the capital of Spain, and the desert

Next week-end will see ambassador of the Greek Govern- preliminary trials at Sydney with carrying insurance certificates, the Canary Islands, Spanish posses-aviators the plane had Rown 8,000 menced.

flying-boat manufacturers. 5,000us safely into March, and Easter meni, Miss Aliki Diplarakos, crown- dying colours.

writes "Focus" in The Light Car

It will sions in the South Atlantic, hus kilometres, approximately

in only five weeka hence. "Becausejed Misa Europe of 1930 arrived in Loaded to the extent of 32 cwt., and Cyclecar. Many people I know! be the first machine of ita type. just been successfully inaugurated ndles, with perfect performance.

be motor cyclists, Detroit recently to select her por- the truck was put through its keep them locked up in a desk Experiments. are in progress to with a Ford tri-motor transport The inaugural light in the Ford we happen to

say's land plane, according to reports re-pinne, which the Classa line had however," Motor Cycling sonal car 100 horsepower Free paces on several steep, winding home and intend, if they are stop-devise a suitable starting device for

in leading

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article in

hills mail Wheeling Hupmobile Eight Sedan.

Randwick-Coogee ped and asked to show the certif- the lifting rotor. In land-going au- in the ceived by the Ford Motor Company operated in regular service between

The advent

to of the new

week," we service Madrid, Seville, and Barcelona, was

expected Miss Burope's visit to the Happ, locality. In spite of the fact that it cate, to give the constable the ad- was hailed by Spanish newspapera preliminary to the

wait until regular opera-

quarter-day (March Motor Car Corporation's plant here had undergono no previous "run-dreas of a police station near home togiros the rotor is started by a 24) before registering our was her first insight into the indus- ning in," the vehicle nover once where it will be produced within deflector Incorporated in the tall as an outstanding event in Spanien ton of the service between Spain machines, or pay a full quarter's try which has brought fame and faltered in its work, making climb five days in accordance with the plane. aviation, reducing as it does the and the Canaries with amphibian

to the Motor City. And after climb with guato and exhibit- requirements of the Act. This, of travel time between the Spanish planes. The service at first will be tax for only three weeks' usage of fortune

Advantages claimed for the auto- them. peninsula and the Canary Islands by, weekly but later it is planned to put

gasping her amazement as the ing formidable braking power on cource, is perfectly in order, but it "A man who owns many hours and closely linking the it on a daily basis.

a baby car miraculous operations in assembly the most awkward descents. is necessary to remember that the giro are that it can land with a run can tax it from now until quarter and testing of Hupp cars, she eager- Salient features of this model in-¦Act requires that the island possessions to the kingdom.

production of less than its own length after A gathering of distinguished day for 14s. 8d., but the owner of ly followed every word of her guide clude hill-climbing capacity with of the certificate at the selected descending almost vertically, that on ito ilight to and from the islands Spanish rivil officials, including a motorcycle must pay the full through the factories. Particularly full load to the extent of 1 in 2, police station must be made "In it cannot stall and that it can take Carried the plane" over the broiling Minister of the Interior Matos, quarterly rate. Thus the absurd was she impressed with Hupmo- speed of over 45 m.p.h., low emer-person." Spanish Sahara, with a long jump, participated in the ceremonies, in position arises that whilst a four bile's new transmission, for she geney gear, generous equipment. over water to Las Palmas and Santa cident to the inauguration of the wheeled four-seater car costs only said:

engine driven tyre pump, small were away in Scotland, it would Cruz de Tenerife. The outbound service when the plane departed 148. 8d. to license for the remain-

"Oh, so this is the Free Wheeling turning circle, oilgun chassis flight with stops for fuel at Casa- from Madrid. Large crowds greeting part of this quarter, the owner have heard so much about. Why lubrication, and front axle and home and ask them to take the cer- blanca and Cabo Juby, required 14ed the plane and its party at both of a motor-cycle combination, pay it's as simple anyone can drive differential clearance of 12 inches tificate round to the police station.

Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de ing only half the annual tax paid with this marvellously easy shift- and 91⁄2 inches respectively.

He would have to return home and The plane carried in by the car, has to pay £1 28. ing of gears." On its return light, the party of Tenerife.

says do it in person, or, alternatively, officials who inaugurated the ser- addition to the pilots and the official "At the moment vigorous and Miss Diplarakos was firat crown- The British Motor in Australia, to nominate Scottish police vice, including Cesar Gomez, direc-party two mechanics, a radio opera-praiseworthy offorts beinged beauty queen of Athens, her "of a record wheat crop, a heavy station and to wire home for the tor of Clasan Air Lines, which tur, farge consignments of mail and made in the trade to shorten the home city. Later she Won the wool clip and a large increase in certificate to be forwarded to him

some national pulchritude crown and was dairy produce for operates

the bundles of the Madrid newspaper dead season and avoid, in

the coming

so that he could show it to the Canuries as well as between Madrid, La Vanguardia.

measure, the Easter rush by en-sent to Paris where last fall she season, the new Morris truck seems Scottish superintendent. couraging riders to buy early. The was victorious over the beauties of to have timed its arrival well," movement is one with which we all Europe. The Greek Government It is claimed that the chassis have the fullest sympathy; early decided that a young woman of such price is the lowest of any British buying allows the trade to operate talent and beauty would make an vehicle in the truck line that has more economically and thus offer excellent unofficial ambassador of ever been offered in Australia. us still keener prices, and to goodwill, so she was sent to tour There is every ilkelihood of this buyers of new and second-hand the United States. She appears Morris-Commercial model becom- machines alike it affords the op-locally under the auspices of Greek, portunity to become thoroughly organisations. conversant with their motor cycles before the Easter holiday."

hours.

the services

to

HORSE-SHOES FOR LUCK.

was

Seville and Barcelona, and Ernesto Navarro, technical adviser of the National Aeronautical Bureau, par- ticipated for three days in the search of the Sahara for the

A car with a horse-shoe firmly Spanish military pilota Burguete wedged in the wind-screen and Nunez, who had been forced, driven for days before the owner down in the desert. During this even troubled to remove his search, the party in the Ford planej "lucky" souvenir. combed the Sahara from the air over a strip of territory 300 kilo- metres inland from the Coast. The search ended when the lost fiers found their way to an outpost, and.. reported themselves safe.

The shoe was flung on ita edge straight into the middle of the Triplex anfety glass of which the screen, but so strong was the screen was made that except where it was actually struck it remained almost undamaged.

Throughout the difficult flights over the desert and in spite of the terrife heat the plane's three The horee-shee in this case did Wright 3-6 motora functioned per- not bring luck to the owner of the fectly, the pilots Ansaldo and ear, but its presence in the wind- Soriano, reported following the re- screen was eloquent testimony to turn of the parly to Madrid. The an extremely lucky escape from plane, being equipped with radio, serious injury.

arc

modern

"With every indication,"

ing a strong rival of the various trucks of foreign manufacture. al- ready established in the country.

A word of praise is due to the impressive manner in which Messrs, Morris (New South Wales) Ltd. are exhibiting the truck in their showrooms.

If a man living in the south

not be in order for him to write

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PUNCTUALITY AS SERVICE.

Rule Of Success In Haulage Contracting.

Service is indeed the first essen- tial to the successful prosecution of a haulage contracting business, and efficient service in that respect is--punctuality.

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Therein lies the aalvation of those members of the industry, and particularly those who are operat- ing in a small way, who are at the MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT PLEAD moment embarrassed by the opera-

GUILTY!

tions of the rate cutter, says The Commercial Motor.

A tall and stately brunette with flashing black eyes, Miss Europe has A tremendous impetus would be quick and eager smile. She is a given to the "buy early" movement talented musician and is noted as an and if there were not that unfair and interpreter of both quite unnecessary taxation barrier classical Greek dances. A linguis in the way. Whatever his circum-tic student, she graduated from a stances, every rider resents paying seminary in Athens and continued three months' tax for one month's her studies in Greek mythology in usage, Mr. Snowden would find Paris. She expecte to study for at that it would pay him handsomely least two more years. In addition

her native

tongue Miss to recognize the fact, both in direct to

Those who cut prices are nearly taxation and in the petrol tax re- Diplarakos speaks English, German,

Under the old road laws always dependent upon that one ceipts.

Spanish and French. Her hobbics, motorist who was summoned for "qualification" for the business besides music, include outdoor exceeding the speed limit or for they obtain. They let all else go sports. She is particularly fond of dangerous driving-to quote two by the board. Their operationa tennis, swimming and riding. Ac- common charges-seldom thought are such as inevitably to lead them companying her on the trip is her it worth while to fight the case, to the frequent commission of the mother, also an accomplished whilst even if he were legally re-jone unforgivable sin-unpunc- linguist. Her father is an attorney presented he was often advised to tuality-for the narrow margin of for the National Bank of Greece. plead guilty.

immediate profit on which they Mias Europe is unusually modest

Police ovidence which showed work does not allow them to keep and

a brilliant conversationalist, that over a measured distance his their vehicles in proper repair. even though she has been in the

speed exceeded 20 m.p.h. was Breakdowns, however small and United States but a few months. enough to secure a conviction in unimportant in their nature or One of the surprising quirks in this the first case, whilst the

same cause, are a prolific source of un- nineteen year old winner of evidence could be brought to sup- punctuality. The haulier who Europe's beauty crown is her report a charge of dangerous driving. maintains his prices at a reason ticence toward publicity. She de- Now, however, it is different; the able level, refusing to cut, and who clares she will not enter the movies, abolition of the speed limit, says takes care that the service ho but expects to spend two months in The Light Car and Cyclecar, has renders is of the best, is bound to Hollywood and Los Angeles. Only removed A

The source of evidence win, and that very soon. recently ahe rejected an attractive which admitted of no

argument moral is, keep up your charges and offer from a lending motion picture and motorists charged with dan maintain your vehicles in good producer.

The New Hupmobile Eight which vised to see not only that they are

gerous or careless driving are ad- trim. Miss Diplarakos obtained for her legally represented but that # stay in the United States is finished vigorous defence is entered. in black duco trimmed with ivory.

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It must not be forgotten that Miss Europe's visit to the Hupmothe penalties under the new laws bile factory Included a trip through are heavy and that the extent of Hupmobile's new engineering in their infliction depends largely on boratories. Here she was intensely the whims and fancies of each par- interested in the cold

room and ticular Bench; to plead "guilty" as donned an aviator's fur-lined suit to of yore may, therefore, be to invita inspect an engine being tested in a heavy fine and possibly suspen-

elon of licence.

sub-zero weather.

Misa Diplarakos plane to sail for | Greece early this Summer.

FIT FOR A PRINCE,

The biggest order over placed in Britain by a single motorist £10,000 worth of care is that of the Maharajah Rana Babadur of Jhalawar, t

Among, the cars purchased by this Prince-all for use in India- was a Morris Isis, which he drove round the famous racing track at Brooklands, together with the many other cars from which his final selection was mido, a

In the case of five defendante at „Southampton--all · charged with dangerous driving along the West- ern Esplanade three were legally defended and were acquitted, the other two who were not repre sented by, a solicitor-were con- victed.

ISIS FLEET FOR INDIA.

A fleet of six specia! khaki- The Prince-in albo, taking back 'Unished Morris lais topring models with him one of the 8 hip. Fire has been commissioned by the Tenders manufactured by Morris India Store Department. These Motors Ltd, the many advantages; cars have just been completed at of which were at once apparent to the Cowlay Works, and are destin this discerning buyer.

ed for arduous work in India.

off after a run of about 30 yards. Its speed is slightly below that of an aeroplane of the same power.

A standard type of autogiro is now stationed at Hoston Aero- drome, where it is often flown by Captain Baker, the Chlef instruc- tor.

The US. Navy has bought a 300 h.p. autogiro in America.

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