1932-01-07 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.

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"WIZARD-CONTROL"

BIGGEST FEATURE OF 1932 BUICK.

Flint, Mich., Nov. 25, First intimation of what the 1932 automobile will be like came on Saturday with the introduction of the new Bulcks.

speed and length in appearance, besides helping reduce wind re- sistance.

For greater comfort, Buick

has installed a "ride regulator" Most significant innovation in which regulates the shock ab-

this automobile is what the sorbers for the different types of manufacturer calls "wizard con-road encountered to make riding trol." This is a vacuum-operat- more easy for the passengers. ed automatic clutch, also afford-|

A further improvement is the ing a safe and positive form of vacuum pump operated wind- free wheeling.

shield wiper, which keeps the

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made to operate independently

FIRMS ACQUIRED.

Rolls-Royce and Willys As Buyers.

137 CARS.

Big D.

One of the largest deliveries of automobiles ever made to a It was officially announced on November 21 that the assets of municipality at one time

ed.

owners.

W&B

CAR ENGINES.

Must Be Properly

Lubricated.

FORD PLANE.

Passes King's Cup Winner.

TYRE BUSINESS.

Boom in 1932 Is Prophesied.

New York, Nov. 21. Confidence that 1932 would

the

pros-

Automobile engines to-day are Photographers and reporters the Bentley Motor Company made on October 27 when 137 designed and built to give long who covered the recent King's have been taken over from the new Ford automobiles were turn-service, but they must be pro- Cup Air Race over a circuit of prove a good year for busines British Equitable Central Trust, ed over to the City of Detroit, perly lubricated. The working the principal cities of England in general and that Limited, by Rolls-Royce, Limit: 108 of them for the Police De-surface must be protected by a travelled in a Ford trimotor perous tyres would return

film of oil, and only an oil of according to reports received to partment and 36 for other muni- quality and character can build by the Ford Motor Company.

tyre business by The latter company have un-

next July was expressed cipal departments.

The course was approximately by William O'Neil, president of der.consideration the formation

Twenty-one of the new Police and maintain this film. The of a subsidiary company to deal Department cars, equipped with enim has been made that cheap 1,000 miles long, the British General Tyre and Rubber Co., in

and inferior types of oils are aircraft entries with this matter.

being flown an address this week to a gather- The Board radio receivers, will immediately taking their daily toll of hun- through blinding rain and very ing of sales representatives of By slight pressure on a button wiper going no matter what the have not yet decided the future replace an equal number of Ford dreds of cars on the road to-day. poor visibilty. The contesting the company in Akron. President beside the regular clutch pedal, strain on the engine, since it is intended to continue service and withdrawn from service with Engines which should cover planes, entered by the principal O'Nell declared that tyre mer

policy of the company, but it is scouting car which are being and release of the accelerator,

repairs for the benefit of Bentley mileage records ranging from many thousands of miles with- British aircraft manufacturers, chants had suffered less than out a complete overhaul are were known in most cases by many other kinds of retailers the clutch is thrown out and the of the manifold.

78,434 miles to 148,728 miles саг put into free wheeling, Inside the appearance is en-

during the depression. Sir William Letts, chairman of aggregating a total of 2,288,097 worn out long before their time Royal Air Force pilots.

owing to defective lubrication On the last lap of the course Pressure on the accelerator, even hanced considerably with com- Willys Overland Crossley, Limit- miles in the last two years.

""There is caused by the unwitting use of-from Bristol to London the for aggressive merchandising to- a real opportunity with the button still depressed, fort and at the same time driv-ed, Manchester, states that they insurance, the actual cost of substituted oils. It is said these Ford plane,. G-ABHF, carrying a day," he said: "While the whole

Exclusive of depreciation and ing control is made easier by have purchased from A. J.

lubricants thin out excessively full complement of Press repre- Country is depressed, the stock setting all instruments directly Stevens and Co. (1914), Ltd., operating the 21 cars, including in front of the driver so he can Wolverhampton, all the goodwill all repairs, gas, oil and tyres, for under heat and become so thin sentatives as passengers, took off market is low, and the prices of when hot that the oil film is not four minutes after the winner of commodities are foolishly low, see them through an art of the and stock-in-trade of their motor- an average of slightly less than solid particles, gathered by the plane, and reached London con-agent who is not doing more the two years totalled $52,187.62, sufficient to prevent the minute the race, quickly passed this there is hardly a General Tyre three-spoked steering wheel. car business, and have taken

Besides these major improve over the car known as the A.J.S.2284 cents a mile. During the oil in use, from being ground aiderably in advance of it. ments, the Buick engineers have The sale includes all the jigs and least seven years the cost of between the pistons and cylin- added refinements to almost every tools which will allow the com- operating Ford cars in various ders, causing excessive important part of the car, to the many to continue immediately at city departments, has progres- and in many

cases scoring. syncro-mesh transmission, the Manchester the manufacture of sively declined, according to re- Though not immediately notice- cords of the municipal garage, able, this will surely be followed clutch, the oil cooler, the car- this car. burettor, the fuel line, the differ-

from an average of 7 cents a by piston slap, increased oil con- ential, the springs and the entire

mile in 1924 to an average of 3.06 cents a mile in 1930. In 1925 the average was 4.63 cents'

will immediately throw the

clutch in. The same action will

result from release of the button, even with the accelerator un-

touched.

So slight is the force needed |

to operate the "wizard control" button that the manufacturers belleve many drivers, especially women, will use this instead of the heavier clutch pedal for all their driving.

Next in importance to this in- novation is Buck's new appear-body itself.

ance, tending more toward redue- The engine is still the eight- Cion of wind resistance and in-line overhead valve type, but affording a sleekier, speedier- either a normal or a high com- will be afforded looking job. For this effect, the pression head radiator has been heightened and narrowed down at the bottom, while the outer sun-visor has been replaced by a sun-shield that can be manipulated to hide the sun from in front or at the side.

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The windshield, too, has smarter slope and its lines flow forward into the horizontal lines "of the body. The front fenders have a longer. fuller sweep, the headlights are streamlined and the rear of the body is finished off to give the entire car more

the new buyer for the same price. There are advantages in either type, although the engineers point to the greater power, high speed and quicker pick up of the high compression engine with the necessary pse of the more costly anti-knock gasoline and special type spark plugs.

There will be 26 models in four series, of which eight will be entirely new. The most ap- pealing innovation is the five- passenger coupe on the 118-inch and 114-inch wheel-bases.

PERFECTED

THE £89 CAR.

The £89 car has arrived. Official detalls. of Coven- try's "mystery_car." the Rover Scarab, were disclosed just before the opening of the Motor Show, It has a full four-seater body. The engine is an overhead valve twin, with a rating of 6.97 h.p. It is situated behind the rear axle, and is air- cooled with forced draught, g system which has proved satisfactory at all tempera- tures.

837

FREE WHEELING

NOW AVAILABLE IN DE SOTO

DE SOTO

SIX AND . EIGHT

MIN

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Perfected freewheeling is now offered as optional equipment on both the De Soto Six and Eight. The most exacting tests have proved the value of this device, as Improved by De Soto, in contri- buting to performisice, economy and driving case.

De Soto Free Wheeling is selective, controlled by a button on the instrument panel.“ Operating in Free Wheeling, De Soto gears may be shifted to all forward speeds without using the clutch. With Free Wheeling there is a distinct saving in fuel, oll, and engine wear.

Smooth, powerful engines — aft-steel welded bodies --- weather tproof internal-erpanding hydraulic brakes- smart, sweeping lines. and beautiful appointments these and many other features make De Soto great values and now Free Wheeling and Ehay-Shift-Trans- metalom make them even greater in performance, comfort, driving ease and economy.

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Let, as demonstrate to you the wonderful features of these

THE NATIONAL MOTOR CAR CO.

71, 73-75 Henness Road Wanchal Telephone 27914:

a mile: in 1926 4.77 cents a mile:

in 1927, 4 cents a mile: in 1928, | 3.55 cents a mile and in 1929,

3.42 cents a mile.

Three hundred Ford Cars in Police service during the fiscal year ended on November, 1930, travelled a total of 6,691,987 miles at a cost of $191,166.85, an average of approximately 2,9 cents a mile..

A DOCTOR ON MOTORISTS.

RUBBER SUSPENSION. paig

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A very interesting chas- sis is being built in New- castle-on-Tyne by a fritish company, the principal fea- ture of which is that rub. ber is employed in place of steel springs. Furthermore each of the four wheels is independently mounted, and the design as a whole is claimed to give exceptional- ly good road-bplding with a minimum of unsprung weight.

"With the 'holiday season at hand, no apology need be offer- ed for some notes from a doc- tor's diary about safety on the roads the science of keeping sumption, and excessive carbon alive as well as it," writes a formation. Medical Correspondent.

One day recently, after being "Years of motoring have con- on the road for 18 months, an vinced the writer,' he adds, engine seized. On being taken "that by far the most fruitful down it was found, that all the cause of accident is inattention cylinders were badly scored. The to the driving. The inattentive pistons were darnaged to such an driver neither sees clearly nor extent that the aluminium had judges accurately. Worse still, melted and run over the rings. his faculties of imagination are Repairs to the engine cost blunted. He is thinking about $200. The of was examined and something else, and so is not found to be too light" in body. whole-hearted in his immediate thinning out excessively at high task.

temperatures, which caused the "This man makes miscalcula seizure. This oil had been sold tions as a matter of course-for as a well-known high-quality example, the miscalculation of heavy-bodied lubricant. In an- the speed of an on-coming vehi- other case the engine, only six cle which expresses itself in an months old, developed a severe attempt to pass. when there is knock, which was found to be in insufficient time and space in a big end bearing. The oil was which to carry out that opera- examined and proved to be far tion. Enlightenment comes too too heavy in body for this parti- late; either a narrow "squeak" cular engine, and had failed to or a crash is the penalty. reach the bearing in sufficient "The cultivation of attention quantities. It also lacked the is no easy matter. Every driver necessary character to give pro- knows how readily the mind goes tection under these partial lubri to sleep at the wheel, how strong cation conditions, with the result is the temptation to talk to pas that the bearing had become sengers, how seductive are the overheated and had melted. scenes to right and left of the This oil had been sold as road, and so on. Can steps he medium-bodied wil 'under a qual- taken in advance to discount ity manufacturer's brand. these various distractiona? Straits Times.

TO DRIVE OR NOT?

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"It should be an absolute rule never to drive a car when one has not had a good hight's sleep. The individual suffering from sleep-starvation is always in waged in 'Home motoring circles An acute controversy is being attentive. Again, nobody ought as to what the drivers of two to go on driving after the time vehicles should do when they at which he is accustomed to go meet on a public road at night to sleep. This is much more in time. One school has it that portant than the distance driven they should switch off their ata atretch, which will vary, headlights and the other that within the limits of safety, ac they should do nothing of the cording to the type of car and kind. It is mostly the young, the skill of the driver.

Inexperienced driver who is trou "These are negative safe bled with dazzling headlights. guards. It is a matter of experi- Older motorista turn, their ence that good drivers keep heads slightly away from an ap- their eyes fixed on a point ahead proaching bear, or close one eve Bo situated that they can pull until the dazzle point has pass up easily before reaching it. As ed soon as this point disappears

round the corner they become to alert. The question arises in nec their minds: What is happenthe ing round that corner? The learns, result is a reduction of speed and an increase of watchfulness,

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possible for anyone to the acquire this habit of anticipatou

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MOTORIST: FINED $440.

business than he was doing in 1927. They are making more gross profit, too but they have been operating on 1929 over- Boston (Mass.), Nov. 90. heads and some have not made Fines totalling $440 were im- as large net profits for that rea- posed on Mr. John A. Kelley, of son. Everything is too low to- Boston, because he had too little day except overhead. Let's work regard for the traffic lawg of his with optimistic thought and city.

and depress the over-

energy

The police proved that since head." the beginning of the year he had | --- parked his motorcar 44 times in the courts," was the description forbidden areas.

applied to Mr. Kelley by Judge

"A defiant and bold offender, Francis J. Good in imposing the who has ridiculed the police and fine. Mr. Kelley appealed.

BUYERS GUIDE

MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. - Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

Road. Tel. 24759.

BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car. Co., Ltd., 83, Wong Nei Chung

Road, Happy Valley, Tel. 30228. CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel 'Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET. Hongkong Hotel Garage; Queen's Road, Tel.

24759.

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FIAT MOTOR CAR.-A Goeke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.

Tel.: 22221. MARQUETTE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 28, Wong Nei

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759, OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88, Wong Nei.

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

24759.

24759,

STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tél.

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

Ltd., 4a, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tol 28011.

OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 64 Queen's Road

C. Tal. 22178.~*

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

24759

G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83, Wong. Nei Chung

Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.

DODGE South China Motor Car Co., 33, Des Voeux Boad. C.

Tel. 25644.

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

24759.

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

da, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 2801176

MOTOR CYCLES.

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

27767:

KER MOTOR OILS,

GARGOYLE MOBILOIL,Vacuum Off Company, King's: Bldg. SHELLAatic Petroleum Co. (8.C.), Ltd., Asiatic Bldg.

TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. *ACCESSORIES-Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road." Tel

ACCESSORIE...The Duro. Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. - Tel. 562651 207

FISK TYRES #Gliman & Co., Iád. 4a, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. EVA (28011MESGAMES

INDIA TYRES—W," R. Loxley, Co.)» York Bldgs. - Tel.: 222 MICHELIN TYRESA. Goeke & Co., Ching Bldg., 7th floor.

Tel: 22211) (gny.

ERIES-Hongkong Hotel: Garage, Queen's

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