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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931.

Enters the Automotive Field.

MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGES

July.

new

motor

and

The

landers who left London on Feb-

1

ruary 28 on the second half of

their tour round the world in an

on-

Denmark showed propeller shaft to the spiral-bavel, JOURNEY'S END. BRITISH RECOVERY, best customer. RUBBER LANGUAGE | tested on a special machine be- Cameron, of Sydney.

an increase in the number of its semi-floating back axle. The four- fore it is bolted in place. The Under this agreement certain

purchases of U.S. cars. With the wheel brakes are of Bendix-Porrat Austin Seven Encircles mountings will stand a tensile units of Rover cars will be ship-

present rates of exchange, Great self energising duo-servo pattern, train of more than 250 pounds ped to one centre in Australis, Future Opportunities. Britain has an opportunity to com- operated through cables housed in the Globe.

where they will be assembled to- per square Inch.

pete successfully with its rivals in Qexible armoured casings: In the plastometer test a steel gether with other units manu-

both these European markets. steering is of Marles type and is Hector MacQuarrie and Dick axceedingly light and positive in Matthews the two New Zea- A new language has establish ball is pressed against the rub-fuctured in Australia. This will

The publication by the Ministry

Free-Wheeling.

action. ed itself in automobile testing ber by a fixed weight and the be the first effort of its kind to Jaboratories the language of degree of hardness read on a dial. reverse the percentage of car of Transport of ten months' regis-

America seems to have adopted sharp sales in Australia, at present in tration figures of rubber. With the increasing use The clustometer has a

NEW SPORTS MODELS. of rubber in motor cara, such needle, operated by a spring, favour of America to the extent vehicles in the United Kingdom is some means of giving free-wheel- very opportune on the eve of the ing in the cars which they propose terms as plastometer, elastome-with dial attachment. If the rub of 85 per cent.

"It is reasonable to assume," annual Motor Exhibition at Olym- offering to the public during 1932. The younger goneration' of Austin Seven successfully ter, durometer and accelerated ber has the right stuff 'în it, the nging, applied to rubber testing, needle will show a high degree of said Mr. Cameron, "that the re-pia; the document makes pleasant Already It is a standard equipment motorists is for a "sports" car, and completed their long trek when are part of the regular speech recovery when the pressure is re-version will take place as soon as reading in these days of wailing foon Auburn, Hupmobile, Lincoln, the outstanding feature of the

of Armstrong-they reached Auckland, New of automobile engineers to-day. leased. With the durometer, a trade conditions in Australia al business circles, anys the London Pierce-Arrow, Plymouth, Peerless 1952 season's cars

and Studebaker, and is optional for Siddeley Motors, Ltd., is the new Zealand, their starting point on Special apparatus for conduct blint needle, also spring operat-low. I am convinced that Aus-Morning Post.

small extra payment on the 20 h.p. six-cylindor sports model. September 7. Notwithstanding all the disad Ing these tests is maintained ind, is applied to the surface and tralia is now on the up grade, or resistance to and that in the very ucar future! the laboratories of the Buick the hardness,

Although their, car, "Emily there will be a move to reduce vantages of inclement weather dur Chrysler Six, De Soto, Dodge, which made its public debut at Motor Company at Flint, Michi-penetration is indicated.

American production), Essex, aliame motoring journalist, not a II," in circling the earth In accelerated aging, the lest the tariffs in favour of British Ing many months, 129,544 new cars Duesenberg, De Vaux (the now Olympia. This is a new car, writes gan. Buick has set up its own

were registered during the ten months of the motor year, ending Graham, Hudson, Marmon, Nash, remodelled one. The engine is a countered every kind of weather standards for the various types piece is compressed and placed products.

"The reason why American!

Willys fresh design, the chassis has aand climates, traversed deserts of rubber required for different in an oven for 48 hours. After

This is only 4.4 per cent. Willys-Overland, this fiery trial, it is measured manufacturers have held the:

longer wheelbase, and the steering down on the 1930 registrations for. Knight.

and mountain ranges, crossed parts of the car.

These tests squeeze, punch for thickness as compared to its; Australian market to such the same period. Further, the re One of the last mentioned six- control is especially sensitive to

rivers and muddy large extent is accounted for Dygistration of goods-carrying new cylinder saloons will be exhibited skilful driving at high speed. The flooded

front poke, stretch and roast the ruboriginal state.

There is also a compression the fact that they have built a

Armstrong-swamps, every obstacle was sur- her in the effort to find out how

as compared with at the forthcoming Olympia Motor Siddeley radiator is retained. But mounted, and the little car made well it will stand up in Buickest, the rubber being compress-car which suited local conditions, motor vehicles for the same period, by Willys-Overland Crossley, Ltd., familiar. V ears. Rubber for engine mounted 50 per cent., released, and one having, plenty of. power, and he-

45,366 in 1930, a fall of only it per Show, fitted with a selettive free it is fitted with thermostatically- tings, bumper mountings, body uinute later measured for per-ing sold at a lower price than the

British light car.

cent. on the total for the same ten wheel and selling complete with controlled shutters in order to con- trouble-free run.

trol more accurately the tempera- The successful" completion of months of last year.

this addition at £355. shims and other parts is careful-manent ser.

ture of the cooling water to obtain the venture' is a tribute to the "However, models produced by British manufacturers, during New hackiey motor carriages re- In many of these American cars the highest efficiency from the six-reliability of the Austin Seven, the past twelve months are the gistered for the ten months were the free-wheel arrangement-an cylinder engine. The latter has a for apart from the weight of the first that have been constructed 7,745, compared with 8,653 in 1930, enlarged form of the bicycle coaster longer stroke, as although the bore passengers, it carried a heavy for the performance and specia reduction of 9.5 per cent. This hubs ited behind the gear-box of the six cylinders is retained at load of camping equipment, kit, fications suitable for the Austra-loss in sales can be attributed to and operated by a short control 73 m.m., to avoid an increase in photographic apparatus, etc. lian market. Another big fac- the bad summer, yet it is partly lever placed directly behind the annual road tax, the stroke of the Mr. Hector MacQuarrie, in ad- It piston and the length of the cylin-vising the Austin Motor Co. of An agreement of importance tor in this new move of directing counter-balanced by the actual in- standard gear-changing lever.

cars crease in vehicles sold exempt from is cinimed for this arrangement der has been increased by 7 m.m. their safe arrival, said: “Emily While most of these tests are to the British motor industry and distributing

the total cubic II has stood up to the gruelling completed between | throughout Australia is that it the Rond Tax, such as fire engines, that the driver can thus throw the By this means conducted in the Buick labora- has been' tories, in the case of engine Colonel Frank Searle, managing will mean a great deal more em- etc. These increased from 2,424 free-wheeling out of gear and so capacity of the combustion cham- task magnificently and is still in mountings a final test is made at director of the Rover Company, ployment for Australian work-new vehicles registered in the ten use the engine as a brake if so bers is enlarged to 3,190 c.c. in excellent condition, notwithstand- place of the former 2,872 c.c. of ing the terrific ordeal to which the assembly line. There the and Mr. W. H. Cameron, managmen, and also reflect in a similar months of 1930 to 2,574 new motors required.

of this class registered in this

1931 models.

she has been subjected." rubber in every mounting ising director of Williams, Hill, and manner at the British works."

period of this year.

ly tested. The plastometer and durometer tests are for hard- ness, the elastometer test for

clasticity, and the aging test for durability. Other Lests are for tensile strength and the ability to come back after severe com- pression.

"CAR ASSEMBLY.

Rover Company's Bid for New Market.

Rover

FREE WHEELING EASY, ECONOMICAL DRIVING

#11

In the low-price field, the new Chrysler-Plymouth gives you Free Wheeling that epochal de- velopment in smooth, easy driving and economy, With Chrysler-Plymouth Free Wheeling you can shift geara between all forward speeds with- out using the clutch, With Chrysler-Plymouth Free Wheeling you can save 12 to 20% on fuel and oil and 20 to 40% in engine wear.

FLOATING POWER

By

EAST-SHIFT TRANSMISSION

56-HORSEPOWER ENGIKOH HYDRAULIC INTERNAL- EXPANDING WEAtherproof BRAKES

DOUBLE-DROP FRAME SAFETY-STEEL BODIES

HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBERS

CEYYCLOR

THE SMOOTHNESS OF AN EIGHT, THE ECONOMY OF A FOUR

CARS ARE NOW ON DISPLAY

THE NATIONAL MOTOR CAR CO.

Tel. 25644.

(SOUTH CHINA MOTOR CAR CO. Proprietors).

33, DES VOEUX ROAD C.

Tel. 25644.

was 44,596,

Northern Ireland also helped to lessen the loss of sales in the: United Kingdom, as 2,605 new cars,:

GOOD DRIVERS.

"Good

drivers are seldom

taken by surprise.”—-

Sir Malcolma Campbell.

Home Industry's Fent.

motor The British

J

NEW HILLMAN.

Designed for Use All

Over the World.

It is not correct to term the now Hillman Minx either a light car or a small car because to do so is to create an entirely wrong impres sion of its construction and capa- city. The Minx is certainly small in first cost and light in running' coat, but it is neither small in senting accommodation nor light in, į build.

902 goods vehicles, and 101 hack- Indeed, it is astonishing what ney motors were registered for the roominess there is inside the body: frst time during these ten months, it seats four adults in complete! as compared with 2,499 cars, 838 comfort and without a suspicion ofị goods motors, and 121 hackney cramping, Rays & report. There is carriages in 1930, an increase in none of that huddling of the the total number of vehicles ac- shoulders which is common with tually sold of 165,

the average "baby" ear, and how such a commodious body has been mounted on a chassis of only 7 ft. industry, 8 in. wheelbase is a thing to won- therefore, sold for the ten monthe der at. ending July 188,081 vehicles of all Moreover, the engine is of Buff- types in the British Isles, exclud-cient size to endow the car with a outstanding road per- ing the frish Free State. The net really imports of motore into the United formance: acceleration, hill-climb-) Kingdom during that ten months ing and speed are all'on a par with were only 1,790 cara and chassis, much bigger cars. and 1,148 commercial motors,

Then the chassis has been plan- ned on lines which are sturdier Presuming that all these were than those, associated with some sold, and that they are included in light cars. One sees this in the the total sales of new vehicles re-depth of the chassis frame, in the gistered and running on the road, rigid cross-bracing: in the ab this leaves the British makers with normal length of the semi-elliptic a sale of 185,143 motors in England, road springs. Here, evidently, is a Scotland, Wales, and Northern' car which has been designed to Ireland, a remarkable recovery in stand up to the severest conditions business, experienced by few other whether at home or overseas—it is, trades in England. Comparisons indeed, a car intended for world may be odious, but it is only by use just as its larger brother the this means that a true appreciation Wizard. of the successful endeavour of our

+

Those

The Power Unit. British motor industry can be ex- The power unit is a workmanlike pressed.

four-cylinder monobloc engine of For that reason, let us see how 9.8 h.p. R.A.C. rating, with side-by- the American motor manufacturers 'side valves and detachable head, have been treated by their cus- thermo-syphon and fan cooling and tomers. According to the figures pressure lubrication. Moreover, it recently published by the National has the important advantage of a Automobile Chamber of Commerce, three-bearing crankshaft. USA, the eight months' produc- who have experienced the ineradi-| flon of motora for this year is 27 cable "thump" of a two-bearing per cent. under that of the 1980 crankshaft engine will appreciata a genuinely! corresponding period. The total that the Minx has given is. 2,054,781 vehicles for the sweet-running engine, moreover, it eight months of 1931, in 1980 the has remarkable' flexibility and, like relative production was 2,819,148, the Wizard, an extraordinary top- automobiles.

gear performance.

The clutch and gearbox are in For five consecutive months, unit with the engine, the former Belgium has occupied the first posi- being of the dry-plate type, smooth tion as a market for American in action and requiring no atten- passenger cars, impurting about 40 tion, while the gearbox provides 3 per cent more vehicles than the speeds and has central change. Union of South Africa, their next Transmission is by Hardy-Spicer

BUYERS'

GUIDE

'MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. — Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's'

Road. Tel. 24759.

BUICK.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38, Wong Nel Chung

Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.

CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

21759.

FIAT MOTOR CAR~A, Gocko & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor,

Tel. 22221,

MARQUETTE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nel

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24769. OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co. Ltd., 38, Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, Tel.

24759.

Tel.

STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.

24759, WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS. Gilman & Co.,

Ltd., 4. Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 28011.

OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 54 Qucon's Road

C. Tel. 22173.

MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

24759.

G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd. 33, Wong Nel Chung

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. .DODGE.-South China Motor Car Co., 38, Des Voeux Road. C.

Tel. 25044.

MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, Tel. 24759. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel:

24769.

WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.,

4a, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.

MOTOR CYCLES.

B.S.A. The Sincare Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road, Tel. 27767, NORTON The Sincere. Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road C. Tei

27767.

MOTOR OILS.

GARGOYLE MOBILOIL.-Vacuum Oil Company, King's Bldg. SHELL-Aslatic Petroleum Co., (8.C.), Ltd., Asiatic Bldg.,

Tel.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORES.-Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road.

24759, ACCESSORI The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Tel. 56223,

FISK TYRES-Gilman & Co., Ltd. 4a, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel.

28011,

INDIA TYRES.-W. R. Loxley Co., York Bldgs. Tel. 22285. MICHELIN TYRES.-A. Goeke & Co.. China Bidg., 7th floor.

Tel. 22221,

PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's`

Road. Tel. 24759. WILLARD BATTERIES-Gilman & Co., Ltd., 44, Des Voeux Rd.

C. Tel. 28011,