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Cars of Quality

PLYMOUTH

HUMBER

Jaguar

Chrialer

A strong demand and short supply render soms delay in delivery unavoidable. A period of waiting for cars of this calibre is more than justified in the satisfaction of ownership.

Gilmanor Caled

MOTOR CAR

COMPREHENSIVE and THIRD PARTY

INSURANCE

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

-Agents-

London & Lancasblee Insurance Co. Ltd.

Royal Exchange Assurance

Guardian Assurance Co. Ltd.

Representation in Principal. China Ports ensures continuity of insurance including facilities for the Insurance of Leave Cars.

Hercules

POPULAR

MODEL

The FINEST BICYCLE BUILT to-day

THE HERCULES CYCLE

• MOTOR CO. LTD/ BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND

World's largest *cycle output":{

REPRESENTATIVES

JARDINE, MATHESON

& CO. LTD.

1-18, PEODER ST, HONG KONG

SOLD BY ALL LEADING DEALERS®

TRE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1947.

Motoring News And Views

Police Insisting

Upon Garage

Accommodation

NEW TAXATION SYSTEM

IN BRITAIN

Highly beneficial repercus-A Motor Manufacturing ro- sions on Britain's motorcar ex- presentative, remarking on the port trade are expected from change in taxation said: "It the now taxation aystem an- will allow British motorear nounced in Parliament on June manufacturers to plan ahead 17.

with the object of reducing . models and formulating their I understand that new-oppil---The-new-Highway Code-book--as-in America, had caused any ponsible than our Hongkong

of motor lets which are to be issued short. confusion. To my surprise, counterparts. In spite of all of £10 sterling per new vehicle cortinty for holding and ax- Under this system-a flat rate plans with a greater degree of rants for Brences

ly by the Police Traffle authori. vehicles aro now required ta

tics here will include a seotion was told that it did not take the this, and in spite of the fact will from January 1 next re- panding. the export, trade. It furnish proof that they have dealing with road use for pedes population and the drivers of that major road repairs are be- place the former tax which was is a great move forward and will be of benefit to the masa garage Accommodation for their trians, and a list of the correct vehicles long to accustom them ing carried out simultaneously based on cuble capacity."

British motorcar manufac of future motorists particular- vehicles. Object of this,, it is signals which the public may et selves to the change, although 1 throughout the city, I was re-turers have for a long time past ly overseas."

pect to be given by point duty presumed, is to try and clear policemen. Also included will be will admit that while I was beably informed that accidents urged the abolition of this lat- the streets of the obstruction of general hints on driving, safetying driven around, seated be on the road are extremely few. ter method of taxation, for two parked cars. Action is being taken Orst rules, and correct methods of sides the driver's seat, I in

foot stinctively felt for tho nt the present moment particular.

brake on many, occasions when ly in the case of public commer- clal vehicles. The garage accom

until I realised that we wore on modation which is now required!

the right side of the road, in by the police authorities, does not

both senses, of the word. necessarily mean a bullding, but

By OUR

a parking, spice off the public MOTORING

ronds.

Accounts

Hong Kong motorists will be interested to know that the licens- Ing office has now been trans ferred to the Pulice Branch at Central Police Station, The actual Issuing of licences will be granted from the Police ac counts office but the Inspection of

vehicles for road worthiness will still be carried out by the Police

Traffic Branch.

CORRESPONDENT

using the Colony's roads for tor car drivers, motor vehicle drivers, and cyclists.

main reasons. First, high cost kept down production sinca in consequence selling prices were!

an accident seemed inevitable, Why is this? All things be- correspondingly high. Second, USED CARS

FOR SALE

STANDARD ‘8' SALOON

MORRIS EIGHT TOURER

HILMAN MINX VAUXHALL “10”

Ing equal, Canton's conditions due to the cramping effect on should mean morg road ac- chgine size the industry was eldento. I can only put it down forced to concentrate on ibo to the fact that drivers are production-of-small types............ Al- moro careful, and do not apeod. though these have proved po- I also noticed that drivers in pulur abroad, overseas custom- There are about three thou Canton do not sound their ers also want a more highly sand motor vehicles in Canton. horns so much. If I were powered and larger type of beside innumerable rickshaws, driving one of the busses in car, production of which has pedicabs, bicycles, and hand

Canton, I think I would be con previously been a costly

and propelled carts. The

streets tinually using the horn, espo relatively uneconomic proposi ioare in many instances in a bad cially if driving one of the pro- tion for the British manufac

state of repair, and some war trucks converted into a turers. streets are extremely narrow. bua. Some of these busses are The population of Canton must more than ten years old, some The new tax will remove buth. SUN BEAM TALBOT On a recent trip to Canton I be about the same na Hongkong, are Diesel busscs converted to shatacles to 'expansion in the

2 LITRE enquired whether the change and that part of the population use a gasoline engine, and some industry's export trade. As an over to left drive, i.e, driving that Indulges in jaywalking are gasoline engined buases official of the Society of Motor EVERY CAR GUARANTEED' on the right side of the road neems very much more irres- which used charcoal gas dur-Manufacturers and Traders

FOR THREE MONTHS. ing the war ind. are now re- stated recently "The British converted to gasoline. The sur motorcar industry will be able ECONOMICAL REPAIRS by prising fact is that they can to produce a higher powered qualified automobile engineers. ran at all, let alone carry a full car at a price which will be suit.

SCHOOL: Driviar load.

able for the British market and! DRIVING

Lessons will make that car ideal for ex-Instructors at moderate fees.

given by experienced port overacks,"

Around The World

Motoring

Of

to

annually to the home market,;

Taking all these facts in con-

For a long time to come, sideration, it is naddening to overseas markets will reap al see the record of traffic ac moat the entire benefit from cidents in Hongkong. Fatal ac the change, since heavy em

A liquid

Although the French motor cidents occur so frequently that phasta must still be laid on pro- measure counter,1 During this year Danish ex-

something should be done soon. duction for export. It was especially designed to

expected to industry planned produce Some while ago, an prevent ports of cars are

Excellent stated in Parliament that for unauthorised extraction, is being exceed the 1946 Egure of ap-85,000 care in 1946 only 30,000 article. 'AND SUDDEN ROveral years ahead it would made by an English manufac proximately 36 million kroner. were actually built owing DEATH,' appeared in the Rend- probably not be pornible to turing firm. The device will be The majority of factories are lack of coal and other raw era Digest. Whilst extremely allocate more than 50,000 cars used in Britain by garages and working to capacity with Ford materials. Of these 50 per cent gruesome, it did make one stop The new taxation system will!

30

dally, were exported and a proportion and think that while today we apply to only those care regis- service slations, or in any trade producing where a correct count of the General Motors 60, and Citroen of the remainder

may be reading of someonu volume of Ilquid delivered 20. Almost 100 per cent of public authorities, with the re- else's accident, tomorrow Ittered after January 1 next. by pump la required. The output is exported, with Sweden sull that no more than approxl- maybe someone else reading of Moreover, home buyers of the

followed mately 5,000 cars were dis one's own accident. mechanism has four wheels, as the chief market,

more expensive 'makes will have the by Norway, Iceland and Poland. tributed through the normal

to pay a heavy purchase tax: trade channels. As in Britain, Readers will perhaps wonder sixty alx and two thirde por used car prices hava in con why my views this week are so cent on models costing £1,000

to. fantastic gloomy. A short while ago aj or more. soared Bequence All hope of producing Д about 2 inches in height, the "people's car" by Grantham heights and there seems little student was killed in a bus de- steel shafts are rust proof and, Productions, Ltd. has now been likelihood of their falling to a cident. Before he enrolled in

one reading pints

and

others in gullons. A key-type rotating lever fitted to the pump supplies the drive. Measuring

thie counter chromium.

ja

finished

cars

saner

abandoned following # recent meeting of the committee of in-future, spection, who issued the follow-

level in the

allocated to

Immediate

The attention of British mo- Hongkong school, I had given torcar manufacturers will now him some private tuition. Hebe concentrated on the produc- was a bright boy, eager to learn tion of the larger, roomier and A large factory for the ing statement: "On May 2,

As part of Scotland Yard's and to progress, and yet, a little more highly powered type of car which is in domand over- assembly of Willys-Overland, the liquidators were

noted anti-car

theft drive, a leaflot carelessness, and he is killed... Studebaker and Standard cars, that the Maharaja of Nawana has

sena, and which It is expected! been prepared warning

Is it then too much to ask will fill the gap between the is being erected at Sydhavnen, ger had decided not to proceed motorista to take commonsense that all road-users exercise present smäll British car and. It is named Nordisk Dieselauto with his contemplated acquial-precautions against a form of little more and is a subsidiary of, Burmeis- tion of the assets of the com-

care? That tile the big American type. crime which is increasingly extra speed through a congest- 1er and Wain. When completed, pany.

It has now been decided prevalent in London. This leaf- ed area, that careless overtak- about 3,000 cars per year will not to pursue further negotia- let is being circulated by the ing on a bend, might perhaps le produced, but initially pro- tions for the production of the A-A. and the R.A.C. to mem- save you a few moments, it duction will be concentrated on Gregoire car in the Government-bers asking for routes, and by might also involve you in an Studebaker chassis into which owned works the Burwain Diesel engine will company in Grantham".

occupied by the the police in the districts most accident. Who knows?

affected. In 1946, 10,000 cars: -belted:

*were...” reported stolen-in-the

London area alone,

up.

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An increase in the prices of Some details of a sporta ver- petrol and fuel oil has recently alon of the German K.D.F. car! been announced in the United have recently been published. In San Francisco, the traffle | States, and it is possible that Built by Kubinsky, of Bratisla- authorities are having trouble this may result in a corres- vas this special car takes ad with downtown Market street, pohding increase

Britain vantage of the high gearing and as all streets in that area lead one of a series when present stocks are used generous capacity weight ratio into it and this is causing heavy Chevrolet vehicles, now available of the cratwhile "people's car" traffic problems.. Oficiale there in Hong Kong. The Town Sedan The hub reduction gears of an of subway systems in search of interior design and provides coat

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Nathan Road, Kowloon. (Tel, announcement of the Playboy,

150040). produced by the Midget Car Young people today have less Manufacturing Corporation of chance of owning a motorcar New York. Weighing 16 cwt,thor their predecessors of the and with a wheel base of 7 past 20 years. Prices of new feet, its proportions are almost cars are high and the second precisely those popular in post-hand value of elderly vehicles war Britain. In accordance is fantastic. In the days be with advanced transatlantic fore the war, the young men ideas, it hoa independent sua graduated from bicycles to pension for all wheels, by coll motorcycles, and from there to springs, a four-cylinder side. their first motorcar. It' valve Continental engine occupy quite possible to reach the ing rear position. Perfor status of an experienced owner manco claims seem not unrea- by the age of 21 and excellent, sonable at 60 m.p.h. and 35 f venerable machines could be 46 m.p.g. In average driving: bought for £10, or even less. this with a 51 inch wide seat Nowadays the prices of new capable of accommodating three and second hand vehicles are passengers.

prohibitive.

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