TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934.
THE CHINA M
·Motoring and Aviation
BRITISH MOTOR
VEHICLES
Home Market Assured.
ASTONISHING GROWTH OF INDUSTRY IN TEN YEARS
An interesting illustration of the manner in which the Home market for motor vehicles has become vir! tually assured to the British manu- facturer is provided in a compari- of import and registration! statistics,
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It has been shown that Imports have fallen by well over 20,000 units) over a period of 10 years. During the same period the number of vehicles in use in the United King- dom has risen from 680,156 in 1923 to 1,642,575 in 1932.
For the first six months of 1933 registrations of new care in Great Britain exceeded 100,000, the first occasion that this has happened in the history of the industry. Pre vious to that the peak had been in 1929, but the record then was 490) units less than the figure for 1933. Production
-
1934 Buick
PEDESTRIANS AS ROAD DANGERS.
Adding To The Worries
Of The Driver.
Accidents would be avoided and moments of Acute anxiety for drivers would be reduced in fre quency if pedestrians would
Independent Front Wheel Suspension.
EMPIRE
POSITION OF THE ENGINE
Why It Has Been In
Front Hitherto.
PROPER PLACE IS AT REAR OF CAR
As indicating the growth of the industry, the figures of production of British motor vehicles make in- teresting reading. in 1907 only 12,000 vehicles were produced in Great Britain. In 1923 the total.
The notion of putting the engine) was 95,000 in 1930 it had risen, to frain from careless actions.
under a bonnet is intimately con 236,528, und Inst year it had drop- Their duty when about the nected with the fact that thirty- ped slightly back, the total being streets, urban or rural, is childish-[years ago engines were so un-
232,719.
re-
ly facile compared with the obli-reliable that accessibility was an gation of the man at the wheel of essential.
a motor vehicle, and ought to have full sympathy for him.
It is anticipated that 1933 private car production will show a substan-
The average motorist to-day tial increase over 1932, even if it
rarely sees his engine. Yet he should be found that restrictive Some pedestrians seem wilfully remains the victim of a conven- legislation may have affected the to endanger their own lives and tinnal idea. It gives up space in production of commercial vehicles. those of others.
the chassis to a power-plant which,
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Pigeons, Canton
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Bullock's Brains
Tongue, frosh
Head
earned
AIRWAYS
TRAVEL
More Business Men
Now Flying.
CONTINUED GROWTH IN PASSENGER TRAFFIC
No development is more re- markable, in the progress now being made by aerial trans- port, than that of the growth in passenger traffic on the Empire air-lines.
During six months recently, by reason of its extraordinary re-[from July to December, 1933, and
liability, might well be hidden as compared with a similar period away in some unobtrusive place. in the previous year, there was an There are conches in which the increase of 36 per cent in passen- driver sits over his engine. There,
Feb, 24, Feb.
are buses in which it is put at the xer traffic on the India and Africa 1934 1918
Ctr. Cts side.
But in the private motor-jroutes of Imperial Airways.
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car it still presumes, in all but a "That business men are making negligible number of cases, to take a growing, use of these long dia the best place.
It is good to see that in many tanec air-lines is one of the chief instances our enterprising design-facts which our figures now re
ers are doing their best to put the veal", said an official of Imperial passengers well within the wheel-
Bo base, but they will not be entirely
Airways. "Business travellers
80 2A Guccessful until they take their find it a boon to fly by our Empire
10courage in their hands and give us routes not only for the time say- |
"short" radin! motors, or put the ed, but also for the comfort which motors at the back of the
car.
20where, in the opinion of many far-uir travel ensures."
20sighted engineers,
Feb. 24, Frb. |
1934 1918
Cts. Cta
BUTCHER
MEAT.
POULTRY.
Chicken 'Capone, Small
ib.
30
Beet Sirloin
Prime Cut
Ib. 34
24
90 28
A
28
Corned
43 28
Large...
26
++
Raast
34 24
Breast
Duck
++
Soup
28 29
Doves
cach
22
Steak
34 24
Eggs, Ken (cocking) per dog. 38 Eggs, Hen (fresh)
13
Steak Siriols
50 30
25
Sausages ....
"
per set 20
Fowls, Hainan
85
each 85
50
Canton
1.05 1.80
80
Geese
23
F
Heart
1b. 29
ench 34
HO
Hump, Salt
Holhew
23
Fect
12
10
19
H
Turkeys, Cock
Ib.
Kidneys
15
10 belong.
20
Hea
61
Snipe
each
Liver
Ib. 29
13
1.80
6
Pheasant
pair 2.00 2.20
Quali
each
Partridgen
FRUITS
Almonds
lb.
Apples (California)
Carambola
Lemons, China
Lichees, Dried
Oranges
Bananes (bride')
each
lb.
each
Ib. 1.2
each
ib.
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Coconuts
Lemoss, American
Orange (Canton)
Pears (Canton)
Peanuts
Persimmons, Large
Pumalo, Siam
Walnuts Grapes
VEGETABLES, ETC..
Artichokes "Beans, Sprout
Long.
Beet Root Brinjals, Green
Red
Cabbage, Chinese Cauliflower
Carrota
1b.
(Shanghai) each
(Medium) (Small)
Celery, Chinese Chillies, Dried
Red
#
Green
и
Curry Stuff, English Cucumbere
Garlic
Ginger, Young
018
Horseradish, 8'bal.
Indian Corn).
Lettuce
Okroes ****** Onions, Bombay
Greet
Л Shingha) Puraley Potato, Swort
Japanese
·American
Pamplo
Fhubarb (Fresh)
Spinach
Turnips, Punt!
(Long)
Verstable
"Water «Cress
Water Lily; Boot
Radlih
""Tomatoes
Mnah Room
1b.
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#
Tail
Tripe Calves Head & Feet ant $1.50 $1.00
Mution Chip
+
Ib. 45
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Jan. 6, Jan.
they properly
ROAD SENSE IS ACQUIRED.
Lon-
"Though one can ñy from ¡don to Calcutta in 7 days, to Ran- goun in 8 days, or to Singapore or Cape Town in 10 days, such Each speed entalls no fatigue. evening you alight at some con- venient halting-point and apend the night there, finding everything you need for your comfort until | the time comes to ascend again next morning, all food and accom modation being, included in the Normal people have five senses, fares. And when they are In
Becomes Natural In Course Of Time.
A SIXTH SENSE
"
Leg
H
Shoulder Saddle
И
Pig's Chittings
27
Brainu
per set
Feet
Ib,
15
28
H
cach ix 10
14
83
The sixth
84
60
21
Fry
Read
Hoart Kidneys
Liver
Pork Chop.
Lion か
#
Leg
Fat or Lard
Sheep's Head & Feet per set 90
Heart
Kidney Liver
Pigs,
Bucking
order Suet, Beef
Enet, Boef
Mutton
Bausages
No.
Yea!
Barbel
Bream Canton Fr
Water Fish
Codfish
FISH.
each
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10 all of which, in the sound person, actual flight, what business 'travel-{ 80 function automatically and, to the lers appreciate particularly is the 25 ordinary Individual, sub-consciously-catering service now available in
16
10
80
Carp
10
19
Crabs
Cattle Fish
Dace
Bals, Conger
Yellow
.88
10
* Frogs
54
Caroupa
20 Gudgeon
Herrings
Halibut
Lobster
bunch.8.
Mackerel Mullet stor
60
Place
Pomfret, Whits Pomfret, Black Prawns Roach
Salmon
Shark
Skate
Drimps
Turtles,
water
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sense which every our big air-liners, meals being motorist should acquire is road provided in the air which are in sense. It should be as natural in every way the equal of those in} functioning as the other senses. first-class restaurants or hotel.
Loog experience in road work and "Another important point, noWa-
in the use of various vehicles has days, is that fares by the Empire.
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SPECIAL, MATINEE ON THURSDAY,
brought this faculty of road sense air services are very little higher, London and back would have taken to a high degree of development in and in some cases actually lower him 28 days. By air-mail be ac some people; in others, without than the first-class fares charged complished the return trip in 20 experience, it barely exists. by steamship companies; while it!
days.
A man who has ridden a bicycle should also be borne in mind that The speed of modern air travel at the time when everybody hated (air fares include meals, accomode is illustrated not only in journeys bicycles and has had a stick poked tion, and tips. There are no ex from one terminal station to an- through his front wheel when intras". motion is likely to have a better
other, but also in trips between! intermediate points. idea of road sense than one with
-Air Sleighs" For. Soviet Mails.
Bary Man's Boon'
+
$3.30
$1.10
Record-Breaking RUNNING IN NEW
Small Car
140 Miles Per Hour,
....
ENGINES
Short Bursts Of Speed Permissible.
BETTER LUBRICATION
Experts are divided as to the permissibility of Indulging in short bursts of spoed with a new engine.
Sometimes It in argued that the engine revolutions should be scrupu
The other CAPTAIN EYSTON OUT TO BEAT
FRENCH RECORD All this being so, it is hardly day a merchant wrote to us from 15 no road experience at all who has 15 just learnt to drive a baby car in surprising that we should find Baghdad, telling us of a business
pleasant surroundings.
as we do now that more and more night he had just accomplished. It One of the fastest small motor business men in this country are appears that he left Baghdad one cars in the world in being built at realising the value of the airway morning at 4 a.m. in our air-llner, Aþingdon, Berkshire, for an attack in enabling them to fly out along "Horsa”, having been called uron records, the Empire routes and establish gently to Basra. The machine. It is a modified 12-h.p. M.G.lously limited to the equivalent of those personal contacts which are reached Basra in, three hours, and Magna, to be known as the "Magic 25 or 80 m.p.h., corresponding Winter mail service is being esso essential in the development of this, traveller, says he then did Magna", and fitted with the special moderation being observed when 62 tablished between Khabarovsk and trade. And merchants overseas about seven hour business in streamlined single-seater body lower ratios are employed, but it has Sakhalin by "air sleigh" equipped who, formerly, could, only spare that city. Then he fumehed, and which was a feature of the Magic also been stated that brief periods 312 with airplane propellor and engine, time for a very rare visit to Eng-caught the west-bound air-liner Midget in which Captain G. E. T. of fast driving are not detrimental 18 ED which cover the distance between land, are now beginning to pay "Helens at 2.30 pm, arriving Eyston set up his world's baby-car and actually help the running-ing 16 Khabarovsk and Alexandrovikon much more frequent visita by air, back at Baghdad. at 6.17 p.m. that record of two miles, a minute process, as there is a better circula- Sakhalin-in three to four dayal A businessman any in Cape same evening, “Six Hundred miles, Early this year Capt, Eyston, with tign of the engine lubricant, ensur Town can fly through to London, and a day's work in 141⁄2 hours, at least two other drivers yet to being that the frictional parts retain epend 10 days in this country on seams pretty good going was his chopen, will start attacking records an ample protective film of oil, while any negotiations" he may have in own comment upon this schlove in the 12-hp class, many of which the minute particles of metal which 8The aeronautica branch of the hand, and then return to Cape ment
d are at present held by a French wear off during the ranning-in arq 10 United States Department of Com Town by sit-all within the space "Many similar examples could molar-car, with a top speed of 129 more thoroughly pushed away by
merce has been reorgan
so that of a month
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U.S. AVIATION PLAN
it now comprises tw
Meenaks slona instead of thres
12. The divisions are mir
and air
journeyn which used to m.ph. The Magic Magus should the lubricant,
Typ "Not long ago. A merchant in the lake, weeks now being accomplish have a top speed of about 140 m.p.h. There is generally, complete
More. Transvaal; found himselfl Pation Orrently to England. By
itravel the Jou
edfin days, and those which for
The Montlhery track, near Faris, agreement about the imprudence of ast merly occupied days shrinking to will probably be chosen for the at-driving a new car at high speed for
matter merely of a few hours tempt
any considerable distance,
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