1932-06-16 — Page 11

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

AND THE MOTORISTS' PAGE WE

Most Outstanding of New Cars

Twelve-Six: A Saloon

FOUR-SPEED GEARBOX WITH CENTRAL CONTROL.

D

SLIDING ROOF

Luvax Hydraulic.

are

REAL ECONOMY IN

NEW CARS.

Better Engines and

Brakes.

IMPROVEMENTS IN 1932.

Automobile prices are not greatly

now.

THE SUCCESS OF DUNLOP RUBBER.

Products of World-Wide Corporation.

PNEUMATIC TIRES FOR RICSHAS.

| FORD PLANT NEARS COMPLETION.

•

200,000 Cars Per.

Year.

LARGEST IN EUROPE.

The new Ford plant beside the

thousand

Beds of

15,000

The Coming of Age of the Self-Starter

A Diffident Reception In 1911

BROKEN ARMS LEAD TO ITS INTRODUCTION.

LIGHTNING BOGEY SURMOUNTED

the

lower this year, but value is certain- In every branch of industry Thames at Dagenham, England, is ly greater than ever before, with the are to be found concerns that nearing completion and much of it) inclusion of safety glass all round, from modest beginnings have is already operating. the sliding roof, real leather for up developed into enormous corpora.

Work was started early in 1929 holstery, arm-rests, bumpers and tions with world-wide activities. in what W&9 then marshland. many other Items formerly classed Of these, perhaps none has been Fourteen

piles were as extras. Whether present value more amazing than the growth driven into the earth. can be maintained is another mat- of the Dunlop Rubber Company concrete began to grow up on top there was an One of the most outstanding of model of the Singer range, the ter, and the doubt provides another with great factories in all five of them and soon

car continents.

expanse of conerate floor space the new cars is the Twelve-Six, new Eighteen-Six has a four-speed argument for buying a new

Dunlop owns which is listed a saloon gear-box with a "Hi-Lo" alternative

over 200,000 stretching away as far as the eye Cars will never be better BS respindles engaged tiny and night could see. Where cattle had for- The time was 1911. The place that lightning was likely to strike only. The engine

this top. of

concrete The new Silent Six his, the same gards quality for price, the old car in producing their famous cable merly grazed, a 28-acre cor is

The action a car with one of those new electric six-cylinder side

was a country road. is always depreciating and by keep-twist cord fabric, employed in floor was shaped. the Eighteen-Six (and, ing an old car an

Hadn't was a man driving a Cadillac, the self-starters? valve, with dimensions of 59 x 90 bore as

he heard owner is always the manufacture of their tyres.

The factory, when completed, will first automobile equipped with a about some man being electrocuted m.m.. and cubic capacity of therefore, the same tax), but its

depriving himself of all the con- Dunlop consumes 40,000 tons be the largest single automobile self-starter. The Treasury rating is longer stroke of 95 mm. provides Aveniences, economies and pleasures of rubber a year, owns and plant in Europe and will have 1,476 c.c.

while driving? Of course he had, 12.95 h.p. Ignition is by coll and total cubic capacity of 2,180 cc.offered by the car of 1932...

The man's expression was not also he perched himself on a rail fence operates 100,000 acres of rubber capacity of 200,000 cars a year happy one. He showed no trace of several yards distant and sat there distributor, and cooling by thermo- The engine is of the overhead volve

The owner of an old-type 12 h.P. plantations in the tropics, em- with the possibility of giving type, push rod operated, and a model may find it a real economy as ploying approximately 15,000 gular employment to syphon, fan assisted.

re the pride that comes with new car in the rain until the storm was A four-speed gearbox with central seven bearing crankshaft fitted with well as a pleasure to own one

men. ownership. He was worried. The over. control is employed and has a silent a vibration damper is employed the new 9 h.p. or 10 h.p. cars, while Dunlop has 60,000 dealers all has already been moved down, to held up perfectly.

of people in this work alone.

The entire plant from Manchester engine purred sweetly. The tyren This attitude did not last long. third speed, or, as the manufac-The pistons are

The car rode This man and other motorista learn- of special alumi- turers term it, a "Hi-Lo" alterna- nium alloy, and the connecting rods the owner of a 7 h.p. or 8 h.p. small over the world selling Dunlop gether with a large percentage of well, considering the roads. Stilled quickly from experience that the

car will find many advantages in the Tyres and giving service to Dun-workers employed there. tive top.

the man was worried. Suspension, la by long of duralumin.

reports about lightning's affinity alightly larger car, at very little lop users in every continent of Has Own Blast Furnaces. semi-elliptic springs encased in

He kept glancing, upward. His for the new starting equipment were The long semi-elliptic springs are babies represent motoring in its

more cost, although the British the globe. leather galters, the rear springs

It is the only plant in the south face scowled even as the sky. The false. heing underslung, shock, absorbers encased in gaitere, the rear springs

Based on an

of England to have its own blast clouds kept gathering. They con- average of two

Injuries, however, caused by auto- farnaces. The tank being understung, and, as in the most economical form, and a won-years' life, it is estimated that

The company plans to tinued to grow darker. There was mobile cranks, did lead to are supplied all round.

derfully satisfactory form, too. is mounted at the rear of the case of the Eighteen-Six,

there are approximately 30,000,- produce pig iron at the rate of 500 a blinding flash, and a streak of adoption of the self-starter. Dur- Points for Decision..

tons a day. In its coke ovens 800 lightning shot its freakish fingers ing 000 Dunlop tyres of all types ac- chassis, and

fitted with damper by Lavax hydraulle double

one month five Cadillac ém- is

The 1932 car in all sizes is de- tually running on the highways tons of coal will be turned into through the blackness. The man ployees suffered broken arms from 2 two-way tap

a acting shock absorbers front and controlling

finitely better braked as well as bet of the world. It is an actual fact coke every 24 hours. Everything jumped from the car and ran. reserve supply. The specifica- rear.

unruly starting cranks, A man The most luxurious of the Singerter engined, and the standard of that every 2 seconds some-factured.

needed for Ford cars will be manu- tion includes chromium. plat-

The Lightning Scare. {suffered a broken jaw while helping ing to all bright fitting, Triplex range is the Kaye Don Baloon, braking is now generally satisfac- where in the world someone buys

And why not? Hadn't he heard). (Continued at foot of Column 5.) This item can be disregard-a Dunlop Tyre.

Each of the enormous sheds has screen leather upholstery, adjustable This has a chassis similar to that tory front seats,

been laid with wood block flooring.) trip

For Everything. speedo- of the Silent-Six, but bodywork of ed, but the accessibility of brake

divided by railroad sidings. Some meter, windscreen wiper. ven- extremely handsome and advanced adjustmente as well as of lubricat-

The Dunlop Rubber Company tilators, etc. Following the design, for which Mr. Kaye Don, ing points may be given some con- are manufacturers of tyree for end in the buildings; others carry

sideration. usual Singer practice, the body, working in conjunction with the

Even if the car is to be serviced, every kind of vehicle, from then around the opposite side of the which gives ample accommoda- company's engineers, has been res-it will be the better looked after

enormous tyres used on the large main line system.

building, and link up tion in both compartments, isponsible.

bombing and passenger, Bero- The plant has its are planes to the diminutive rubber frontage and jetty, approachable of the six-light genuine coachbuilt A sloping "V" shaped screen is all point requiring attention type, highly finished in cellulose. used, and the visor peak is rounded convenient of access.

As regards the number of cylin-boast that "If it runs on rubber, tide.

perambulator type. it is their by vessels at all stages of the off neatly. The game sweep is

Ocean-going models carried out on the radiator nose, the ders, when it comes to over 12 h.P-there is a Dunlop Tyre for it." have direct access for loading 'and}

the general preference is for six cylindera, and very naturally 30. motor tyre, it is fitting that the ment will have its

As pioneers of the pneumatic unloading. The customs depart- Below 12 h.p.. there are some

own office ex Dunlop Rubber Company should the Turning to the smaller Singers, cellent little sixes whose running have been the first to introduce vicinity and special offers will works in the immediate of the Twelve-Six, side-by-side the famous Junior is continued for amply justifies the greater number the pneumatic ricsha tyre in bed

of parts, but the novice is perhaps China, where it has practically. The tops of the workshops are valves are employed. The body is 1932 with many Improvements. particularly luxurious, and is stan- Much increased power has been the better advised to start with a dardised with a patent sliding roof obtained from the engine, which, as good four, which lends itself a little entirely superseded the old solid mostly of glass, to lot in neare

rubber tyre.

daylight as possible. Pressure of and Triplex glass all round. Like in the past, is of the everhead cam-more to owner maintenance.

They were requested by the buttons allow six miles of roof the Twelve-Six, and indeed, every (Continued at foot of next Column.) things being equal, the six general late Sir Henry Segrave to develop windows to glide open, operated by

ly costs a little extra to buy and the tyres on which he made his electricity. run, but the buyer must decide for thrilling speed record of 203.8 himself if he sufficiently appreciates miles per hour at Daytona Beach The first bus was a' Mack, and

on his 1,000 Horse-Power Sun-the first Mack was a bus. It was YOU ARE CORDIALLY IN- beam Racer on March 29, 1927, built in 1900 and. has travelled:

il

New Models. Next amongst the new comes the Eighteen-Six. This has filler cap being found beneath the dimensions of 69.5 x 90 m.m, and a bonnet. capacity of 2,050 c.c. The Treasury rating is 17.3 h.p. As in the case

Smaller Singers.

YOUR NEW

NEW CAR

SHOULD HAVE THESE:

FLOATING POWER.. FULLY AUTOMATIC CLUTCH. FREE WHEELING EASY SHIFT TRANSMISSION SILENT GEAR SELECTOR... FOUR WHEEL HYDRAULIC BRAKES. CENTRIFUSE BRAKE DRUMS MONO-PIECE ALL-STEEL BODIES

DISTINCTIVE BEAUTY.

You Want Them All in the

Car You Buy

You Have Them All in the New DODGE CARS.

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if

But

the difference between the small fours and sizes.

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with the

own water

vessels will

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and Dunlop made the tyres on nearly a million miles during its VITED TO TELEPHONE (Continued from previous Column.) which Sir Malcolm Campbell life of service. It is an ungainly 30228 OR TO CALL FOR A NEI CHUNG ROAD HAPPY shaft type. Full forced feed lubrica- reached nearly 260 miles per looking vehicle, and has four sets tion is provided, and the four-hour in 1981.

of seats one behind the other, but A DEMONSTRATION.

speed gearbox has ROW & silent Sporting Equipment. It's still going strong, and evident- third gear. The brake mechanism After tyres, the Dunlop Rub-ly was built for service. has been re-designed and improved, ber Company are best known as and a new type radiator has been the producers of the famous Dun-

There are oddities in every walk fitted: A sturdier frame gives lop Golf Ball which has been, of life-Ripley and Hix have cusİ- lower body mounting, with a cor- played by the winners of praced in pretty heavily on that evi-{[1] responding lower centre of gravity,tically all the most important dent fact-here for instance, are Although the Junior may well be Championships and Tournaments some automotive oddities that have said to be a full-sized car, its engine in the British Isles.

been collected from hither and lis rated at 7.78 h.p.

iyon, Junior "Special.”

car of

(Continued from last: Column).

a woman to start her car.: This

It is interesting to know that the Open Golf Championship of. An altogether, new

ex-China was recently won with the tremely striking lines is the Junior Dunlop Eall;*** "Special" In the main, this has The Dunlop Sports Company the same chassis specification were pioneers of chemical gas in- the standard model, but the engine flation of tennis bals which series of accidents convinced Cadli dimensions are increased 60 x 88 method involves a very much lac it was time to use the starter. m.m, Treasury rating, 8.98 h.p. smaller loss than was experi A day was set for the demonstra- This bodywork is very attractive enced by the old methods. But tion of the starter's practicability. Indeed, being a replica of the larger the Dunlop Company decided to There were bankers who were in Kaye Don saloon. With its power- take still further precautions. Adoubt. There were electricians who ful engine and very advanced lines, system of pressure packing has said it couldn't be done. The this new model will undoubtedly been introduced by which the moment was one of the most drama- prove very popular.

balls are packing under air pres- tie the industry has ever seen. The last of the four-cylinder sure in cylindrical tins. The

An Effective Reply. Singers is the now well-known 10 result is that wherever a Dunlop A foot was pressed on a button h.p. car which was introduced for ball is purchased it can be relled and an engine responded. That was the first time at the Olympia Show upon to have the correct infla Cadillac's simple but effective last year. It has been improved in tion pressure.

answer. That was 20 years ago.

many respects chief amongst which In 1881 the Dunlop Ball was Soon thereafter, the entire motor. may be mentioned the Inclusion of adopted by 25 countries for their ing world was clamoring for caza a silent third wear, and very much National Championships and in with self-starters. Drivers long more powerful engine.

the Davis Cup matches, 22 out had tired of cranking obstinate parts of 29 nations used Dunlop Balls, engines. They were weary of the

In Atlantic City, several months, including the Finals. ago, a man called H. H. Thomas lost control of als car and was. thrown through a grocer's window into a barrel of pickles." (Should. one presume that he got 50 days for being pickled?)

The first pneumatio tyra. ever ing

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broken arm era. At first, they were shy because of the lightning, rumours. But, the rumours · were rapidly dissipated. Other care were quick to adopt the self-starter, and the door to mass production began

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