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B.F.Goodrich

FIRST IN RUBBER

TYRES

&

INDUSTRIAL RUBBER GOODS

BETTER THAN PRE -WAR QUALITY

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SOLE DISTRIBUTORS

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Hongkong & Shanghgd Bank Budding

Tel. 2802).

MOTOR CAR

COMPREHENSIVE and THIRD PARTY

INSURANCE

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Agents

Loudon & Lancashire Insurance Co. Lið,

Royal Exchange Assurance

Guardian Assurance Co. Ltd.

Representation in Principal China

ensures continuity of insurance including

facilities for the Insurance of Leave Cars,

Ports

STAR

TAXI PHONE

23456

TAXIS

DIAL

33333

For

SHANGHAI TAXIS

ATLAS

Tires

DISTRIBUTED BY

Tubes

STANDARD-VACUUM OIL CO.

Through

YING FAT CO-

122 Connaught Road C. Tel. 20232

ORIENTAL TRADERS - 20 Des Voeux Rd., C.

Tel. 22704

INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SUPPLY. COMPANY

203 Hennessy Road Tel. 23822

25 Connaught Road West Tel. 21651

WING HUN & CO --

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STANDARD-VACUUM SERVICE STATIONS

"THE CHINA” MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1947.

MOTORING NEWS AND

What Has Happened

To

The H.K. Automobile

Association?

There is a lot to be sold for In South Africa heavy de. your benefit, and it is up to you adjustable steering wheels. Amonds are being made for post. to resputed.

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survey in Britain shows that 00 war transport. The prices of new per cent of motorists are "odd care are controlled there

und Facts about London's Under. sizes." Although the average dealers may charge not more than ground Hallway show that height of the adult male 'popula. 33 per cent on the landed cost trains an hour are enabled to use tion is ft. 18 Ins. It is a surpris- of each car. It is somewhat sur- single track. Ing fact that there are actually prising to learn that

Altogether there the Conore 220 signahmen in cabins be- only 14 per cent of 5 ft. 10 ins.tinental makes of Fiat, Peugeot,hind the scenes. In addition there nen. The realbing 80 per cent Renault and French-built Citroens is a signal staff of 750 who main. vary considerably. Average height are already available there contain 2,020 automatic and 2,000 of women drivers is 5 ft. 4 in.

sidering conditions In Europe. semi-automatic signals, as well as Many of the newly arrived British 1,330 pairs of points, along 350 cers in South Afrien are 1939 milles of Underground track, models with minor modifications and improvements,

Synthetic, for tyres, has certain disadvantages. America in the greatest producer of synthetic rubber. Britain has plentiful na. tural resources.

It would be interesting to know who has produced the smallest That petrol rationing in Britain oil engine. One recently con. likely to continue was indicat-structed in Italy is of size sult. America shows ed recently by Mr. Shinwell in a able for a model aeroplane with u signs of wishing to keep up her Parlamentary answer when he wing span of only 2 ft. & ins, Fynthes Industry, Instead of gave details of the printing of and it propels this at 50 m.p.h. paying dollars for Straits "na coupon books, which Is going Research will such models often tural." Britain wants to sell her ahead for the months up to Febru. brings more practicable results. "natural" tyres. All these are rub.ty, 1048. iber facts which bear uns the sltra- tior fody. What happens If America develops a synthetic rub. ber that is better than "natural" for tyres?

A car which is sure to cause umisual Interest is the Tucker new American make unlikely to be seen before 1948. Technically this car is a very bold concepliott. The engine is mounted at the rear of the 10 ft. #ins, chassis and drive through a form of hydrale torque converter. Thus, conventional transmission, clutch and even differential are eliminat ed. The built is so tow that part of the ruut opens with the doors,

Originator of the car is Preston Tucker and it will he manufac- tured in the ex-Dodge plant near Chicago, where considerable war. Line engine production facilitles ure still available.

New M.G. Now In Hong Kong

A new type of engine starter. Figures for cars sent out of which should be of interest to Britam during March this year cmnmercial vehicle users, is n reflect the fuel and weather in production In France. The crisis at home, the tatal being chief advantages claimed for it lower than the already low total are a big saving in weight over for February, 6,348 against 7,681. the normal electele starting cyulp. Value of the exports, of course, ment and also declined, being lower than speed imparted to the egine crank. the Tilgh rotational

£2,000,000 for the Orst time in shaft. some months.

We wonder when the Auto. mobile Association will be start. ing up again in Hong Kong. Be. fore the war its functions, among others were to maintain the car. parks, regulate the servicing of ears in the parks, patrolling the runs to aid distressed motorists, and make suggestions to the Com. missioner of Pollee regarding the placing of traille signs and danger! notices.

Known as the Berger, this de vice in extremely simple in design | and has only three moving parts. I

Speeding

Up The

ExportDrive

And by the way, when riding; British engineers are now com

in one of the Colony's taxi cabs, centrating on home production of do you remember to take notice | large-scale manufacturing

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of the number, which is now print. chinery, with a view to speeding led above the windscreen inside our export drive.

the car as well as on the front A huge body press machine, and back of the cab outside? If with "punch" of 1,600 tons, you make a trental note of the capable in one blow of stamping somber and also the colour or out the entire side of or top of a the tax you may easily be able mulor cor body has just been to trace any article which you completed. Weighing over 450 aceblentally let: behind.

tons, it is the largest press ever. built in Britain. Before the war In painting their groups ofurt equipment had to be bought vehicles certain distinguishable from America or Germany. colours and printing the cab num- This mammoth press is capable. bers inside the taxi cab, firms are of stamping out the side, includ co-operating with the police who fint window apertures, or the The new M.G. Midget car, a would otherwise have a more dit. entire top of a car with one 1,500 nent low two-seater with cruis- ficult task in tracing lost articles. Lon thrust. It is triple aclion, ing speed of between 60 and 60 These two recent measures are for can mould steel sheets either from

ph marks another-niche Inf

above or below, Steel sheets can the history written by 100 pc.

be pressed as fast as they can be British M.G's on the seroll of

leaded into the machine up to the world's records.

maximum rate of four hun. dred an hour.

The M.Gs prewar style has been changed outwardly by the addition of an extra four inches in the width of the

body. Features of the coachwork are folling flat screen, luggage con- lainer behind seats, and folding hood.

American Traffic Problems

Yet reports state that it is so Anely poised that it can be ad justed to crack the shell of an egg without spilling the contents.

The electric motors operating | this press have a total power of only 140 horsepower. The colossal The U.S. postwar traille thrust comes from the impetus of Lavax-Girling hydraule dam-ituation is presenting authority wheels, some of which weigh) pers have been added to improve ties there with a national head-over five tons and revolvé at 365 suspension and wiring has been uche. In the main cities, traille revolutions a minute. It has push changed to a two-fuse system. jams are the order of the day push button controls, and сп Agents for the M.G. Midget from one side of the coast to gineering safeguards have been

Hong Kong are Messrs. the other.

incorporated to prevent injury to Dodwell Motors Ltd. Queen's,

workers. Building. (Tel, 32302),

At present there ara 30,000,- Sir Wm. Rootes, Chairman of the 000 cars and trucks on Ameri-Rootes Group, which has bought ca's rands, and this immense the press with a view to employ. The 1947 Buick cur, now run- figure in to be augmented by Ing it on producilon of car bodies, ning on the Colony's roads, dif- yet another 20,000,000 new or-sald: "Our purchase of this press fers from last year's model only dered vehicles which are now is part of a three million pound In the treatment of the grill de- listed on dealers' books. plan for the postwar production -sign.-Makers-inform-us-that-Conservative experts say that of cars and commercial vehicles."

ali radical changes are being the traffic volume in the US. kept for the 1948 Buick-which will be nearly doubled in we hear will be in production vext 15 years. towards the end of this year.

the

San Francisco's Golden Gatel

Little is known about this Bridge, which has, ten traffic USED CARS

Among measures which urej

FOR SALE

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1941 PLYMOUTH CONVERTIBLE COUPE Air conditioned and equipped with radio.

1948 Buick yet, but it is rum- lanes, fa alrendy crowded with | oured in engine circles that the a full capacity of 45,000 vehl-j Cadillac V-8 engine (or à slight cles a day. In certain streets modification) may be Installed in the centre of New York dur- in the series 70 Boadmaster Ing "rush periods" motorista type. So for the sedan styles are regularly held up in trafle only are shipped to Hong Kong blocks from between 20 to 30 but the convertible sedan, and minutes. sedanet styles will be seen later this year.

Concerning production, agents ever-increasing traffle

to be adopted to reduce the STANDARD '8' SALOON for this car in Hong Kong- are large underground parking snarls The China International Motor projects. beneath streets Company, Bank of East Asia-parks, speed zoning, no-left state that the mounting ache turns throughout whole dule in the factories will cor- areas, respondingly effect the quota of streets. cars for this territory.

and

or

MORRIS EIGHT TOURER HILMAN MINX

busy

more. one-way It is thought howover that the underground parking achemes, already under way in several cities, may prove of dis- four-speed transmission appolating value.. San Fran extra lugging cisco completed a four-floor, power for heavy starts is claimed 1700-car parking garage under

which

provides

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REPAIRS by

by the new Chevrolet truck model. Union Square in 1942, at a cost ECONOMICAL Provision has been made for mounting a power take-off device of 1,500,000 gold dollars. Bat qualified automoblie engineers. driven from the countershaft, and parking space in central parts DRIVING

SCHOOL: Driving

Instructors at moderato foes.

a front axle for extra-heavy of the city is again at a pre-lessons given by experienced luty truck work has been mium. installed.

One solution that has been The drop-forged, 1 beam con- found practical in a number of struction has a rated capacity of cities in America is called 45,000 lbs. Other features of this "ringe

parking." Atlanta,

truck include an all stool cab Georgia, has a big municipal with steel framing to strengthon parking lot a mito and a half door windows against breakage.

Agents in Hong Kong

from the business centre, with Messrs. Far East Motors, 20. & cheap "park ride" service (Tel that includes both parking

charges and round trip fare.

Nathan 150849).

Road, Kowloon

are

MAINLAND MOTORS

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VIEWS

By Our

Motoring

Correspondent

HUMBER

International Licences For Hong Kong

The "China Mail” learns' reliably that international driving licences will shortly be issued in Hong Kong. The Colony will, in fact, be the first place, in the Far East since the occupation to have them. These licences are issued in accordance with the Geneva Convention and allow the driver of à car use of the roads in many countries.

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