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THRILLS WITH THE FORD CAR'S MODERN WHERE

:

ROVER TEN

THE CAR FOR THE CONNOISSEUR

OVERSEAS ADVANTAGES

London.

I can drive the car with axed gear, No motorist buying a car or by a turn of the knob run on through 1938 who wants something the free-wheeling... In little different who can appre-

This gave a new experience in ciate the finer points of motoring luxurious road travel, one so fas- ahould make his final choice with-cinating that in a year or two all out fully testing on the road one manufacturers will have to follow of the new Rover models.

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the Rover lead,

ADVENTURE.

From China Frontier To Saigon.

which means "Gallant Warrior."

THE OLD

CARS GO

Blazing Plunge Into Pit.

NOT DISMANTLED,

London.

SKIDDY" SURFACES

Apparatus To Detect Being Devised.

Westber

When Hubert Carton de Wiart, secretary of the Belgian Legation at Nanking, China, returned to

It is very satisfactory to learn Belgium recently, he arranged to

that the National Physical Labora make the journey in a Ford Model

tory, Teddington, has been investi A roadster, thus enjoying a thrill A motorists' night-mare came apparatus whereby the "skiddy" gating the possibility of devising ing, modern motor adventure.

true at Feltham, Middlesex, re-characteristics of any road surface He followed a route from the cently. China frontier to Saigon; through

can be accurately ascertained. The Cambodia, where he visited the pounds when

Cara worth thousands of device employed for this purpose new plunged in takes the form of a motor cycle and temples of Anghor, Siam and Pen- flames down a steep bank into a sidecar with a wheel adjustable at ang; thence by military escort to disused gravel pit, which Bengal. In India he travelled flooded to a depth of more than This vehicle contains apparatus Was any angle to the direction of travel. from Bengal to Kashmir along the 30ft. Great Trunk Road of which Kip-

which records automatically the Saloons, coupes,, tourers, cars sideways thrust forces and enables ling makes mention. After being of a dozen different makes took them to be correlated with the slip- There is a wide range from No matter on which gear the entertained by the Viceroy and the fatal leap, yet not a single periness of the road surface. which to choose from the Ten to car is running and at any speed, Lady Willingdon, be continued to person was injured, not a fire ex- the Meteor Twenty, with prices immediately the driver takes his Peshawar and beyond the Kyber tinguisher was produced, not

No more valuable work could be ranging accordingly from £195 to foot off the accelerator pedal t Pass into Afghanistan.

undertaken by N. F. L. for a great hand was raised by any of the many accidents are caused by skids, £445.

car free-wheels. You just float

Visit to Emir,

hundred of spectators to check and it seems rather the exception This conviction became firmly over the road-that is the actual At Kabul ho visited the Emir their mad career!

than the rule for road surveyors to established during an exhaustive sensation.

and then drove on to cross the Ar-

This occurrence was not an lay surfaces that are reasonably week-end test of the Rover Ten Incorporated with this optional gandab River on

8 raft whose anarchists' beanfeast; it was not safe in practically any Special coachbuilt saloon priced at and controlled free-wheeling is a floats were made of goatskin bags even staged for a flim. It was condition. There ara certain special 4 speed gear box. Second On the Baluchistan border he took merely the method chosen by praiseworthy exceptions bat the Every month the Tens gain in and third gears being constantly part in an exciting wolf hunt, dur. Henlys, Ltd., the motor-car dis road surveyors concerned have pro- popularity. Very fast are they in mesh. They are as silent as top ing which his fox terrier mascot tributors, {overtaking in

for disposing of bably reached their present atale numbers of the gear.

showed such courage that it was their surplus stock. babies on the English roads. It Here is the last word in gear ferring the title of "Badadur," violent end were being owner trial and error method is unneces of knowledge by trial and error awarded a diploma in Persian con All the cars which came to this rather than by adherence to gen- is the economy car par excellence changing. It is so simple that a

erally accepted principles. The for the overseas motorist.

child of eight or nine can sit by

Teheran, the Caspian Sea, Meso-driven up to a few weeks ago. So confident in the 1933 Rover the driver's side and change into in one London dealer, Henly's, the any gear up and down. There is potamis, the Syrian Desert, Damas. Most of them had been turned Barily expensive, and what is nott firm with perhaps the biggest car no possibility or crashing either cas, Jerusalem all were visited. over in part exchange for new required is the compilation of re- sales of any in the country, that way. Finger-tip gear changing, From Jerusalem he completed the cars since the Olympia Motor liable statistics and data by some

trustworthy institution, such The is offering free to any prospec. sbsolutely fool proof and at any trip to Suez and Cairo and at the Show in October."

the N. P. L, which will be avail tive customer a three days trial of speed. The clutch pedal is not seilles. The last leg of the route

latter point embarked for Mar- Roaring To Its Doom.

able for all road engineers, The There was a 45 horse-power authorities have been apathetic for led across France to Belgium. Renault, which coat £1,700 not far too long as regards the slipperi- The week-end run by Reuter's in-Wonderland. But it is true.

The roadster carried tanks for many years ago; an Overland in nesa of surfaces, and closer con- motoring correspondent demon- When coming to very steep additional gasoline, tents, camp which a generous insurance com trol should be exercised as more strated clearly the fact that this hill and desiring to brake on the equipment, provisions, a self-tow-pany had recently installed a new knowledge offer was no stunt. It was good engine we just turned over to fixed ing device for impassible roads, engine; an extremely solid Arm-("The Autocar.") business. For no

discriminating gear until we traversed the dan-and other extra weight. Before strong Siddeley which was used as motorist could take on the road gerous gradient. Once again the long trip, it had seen service in a battering ram to push its more this new Rover without being en-turn and we were free-wheeling Outer Mongolia on a survey along obstinate fellow-victims over the chanted with ite many unique silently gliding down the remain- the edge of the Gobi Desert. brink. qualities.

der of the hill with the enging un- Four large doors which open heard just ticking over. wide give casiost access to the It is claimed that this, free- seats which are of real leather. wheeling device saves at least 15 The line of the saloon is both per cent in petrol consumption. graceful and efficient. Wire It would also eliminate a lot of wheels, bumpers fore and aft; engine wear and tear.

the Booded pit after being soused London, the number of Patent Ap double windscreen wiper so that On all models from the Rover As a sign of the progress which with petrol and beavy oil and, set plications faid in November last the passenger also has good Special Ten upwards the engine is British-built vehicles are making on fire.

totalied 1,259, bringing the total` so visibility. These are points which mounted in silent and flexible rub-in South America, it is Interesting The great Renault roared to its far filed this year to 88,947, shew- come quickly to notice.

ber joints. In these mountings the to note that at a Street Parade of doom like a racing-car on the track., ing a decrease compared with the The writer was handed the engine is free to move. In same about twenty vehicles held recent-It halted for a moment, with boom- preceding months. Ignition key. "Ab! that's good" American cars this has been called ly in Buenos Aires in connection ing exhaust, on the very edge, then, An invention of special interest came the thought, "No fear of floating power.

with the Sixth Annual Refrigera-turning over and over, plunged to motorists is one for which a Pa- car-thieves with this Rover,"

Rover's call it silent power and tion Congress, no fewer than seven bonnet-first into the water.

tent has recently been accepted and Fitting the key and turning on very definitely does this method of Leylands took part.

Not Worth Dismantling. the ignition there came the first mounting the engine damp out the surprise. The engine started up vibration to which one is

Mr. F. Hough, chairman on the instant-and automatically.] tomed when motoring.

Another refinement of outstand-

the Rover Ten.

board controls this luxury.

used. It sounds almost like Alice-

Accus-

A Sign Of

There were Austins, Singers, and cars of other well-known {makes, which were brand-new, the pride of their makera five to ten years ago,

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becomes available.—

PATEN RECORDS.

Invention Of Interest To Motorists.

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According to the, Patent Records all of Messrs. Hughes and Young, Pa-

The Times the same way-in fames into tont Agenta of 9, Warwick Court,

Was

has for its object to reduce the risk

of

of five when a car becomes involved in a collision or turns over.

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Which reminds one that a "Many of these cars are unsale- able in the present state of the traffic it re-starts automatically. steering. Beautifully light, ad-

Attention then went to the free mirably steady, it just gave one the nature of the country and the tax several of the high-powered Petrol consumption, according to market. But for the exorbitant

Wellington (NZ) wheeling. A knob on the deah-the impression that the car WAA

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pense of storage to-day. Oll consumption

car imports and 86 per cent of the m.p.g. ak soon as one had given the mat- negligible, approximately

"Some of the others would only commercial vehicles, during the ter a thought.

miles to the gallon.

be a danger on the road and are last ten months. Coupled with this was the won-

The engine is four cylinders, better out of the way. Most of derful suspension, Semi-elliptic 63 mm. bore by 95 m.m. stroke the cars are being destroyed exacted during this period were 2,200 springs with hydraulic shock ab- capacity 1,186 cc. R. A. C. ratingly as they came into our hands. It of which 1,872 were British cars. sorbers which almost entirely 9.8 h.p. The valves are overhead, has not been worth our while to the total number of commercial eliminated all consciousness of the operated by push rods from cam- dismantle them, even in the case of vehicles imported were 471, of road surface. One had the genuine shaft in crankcase, driven by chain the brand-new engine.” big car feeling and was conscious from crankshaft.

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Altogether delightful. For with overhead valve engine that the these luxuries went hand-made writer has experienced in this coach work that never talked or class.

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| volta lighting system, The head. Finally one maryelled at the lights were all that could be da- | braking power of the four-wheel|sired--so different from some of Lockhead hydraulics, "What are the cars on the road—and the dip- }your brakes like,” inquired the dis- ping system was the only efficient criminating passenger of one oc-one Le, the off-side lamp turns off casion.

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track 4ft. Bing,, ground clearance And the car came to a standstill 71⁄4 inches, overall length 121ť. almost within it's own length. 11ins., overall width 5ft. lin.

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not having to double de-clutch or Overhead is the easily operated aven to use the cluteb pedal at all sunshine roof.

one could in trafic get ahead of⠀⠀ To repeat what was said: None almost everything else on the should buy a new a car this year streeta." That naturally was 6 without trying out one of the } joyous experience.

Bover models, and The Ten Special Besching the open road we put can be recommended, with the the "apsedomater needle up to 65 greatest conadance. : mpihan The Acar, held that spesi "It faktha car for the connaisseur, asily without the slightest fussingBeuter."

The total number of cara import-

which 408 were British.-Reuter.

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