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'THE CHINA MAIL, BATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947.

a Lagos Motoring News And Views: Continued from Page Eight

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Letter

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One of the more interesting en. quiries received at Nuffield Ex. ported from Lagos reads, ma

"Sir,

I am very glad when 1. get your address from

one of any

friends in our schoot at Lagon. Kindly Sir I will be mure plad If you will be able to send me Catalogne,

NJ, 1. Catalòque, 2. Success The Engineering. 3, Ring for quot hieku. 4. Holy Bible. Rilla 1 totti le plail when you send ane these four #inga,

I have nothing to any titl get there things from you,

May be fortunate rough to

obtale these things.

} ferve the Just fo be

• efecter."

Leaves

Hudson Bring Out From My

New Models Log-Book

Durnit. Od. 14,

The Hudson Motor Company, which doerd dogu iti plante un September 19 for a US$16,onu.ctti model

changeover programme, expert to start its raz madete, railing down the assembly lines un Monday,

Audron will thus became the spenned car manufacturer in bring

Brat modde Packard was the first to photo As mich-funciare Pros.

و گا توبه ام را

Apparently with lock and fatty fed that the Murrla catalogue map. Pil enquirei boga a fù lærentne a piled will help hàn in that dire zuvvenntuð eruimen, and a i. top Exton.

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Running-In

I wonder how many motorists in Hong Kong are as careful over the Canning in of their new cars as one owner who gave me a lift in his [I "Eight" this week? Although he fives near the top of the Peak Tram

What Sort Of Trouble Do You Prefer? (No. 2)

ONE LIGHT AT NIGHT ?...

shade" for the driver (fitted ir 1 somewhat similar fashion to the nr. dinary sun visor). A friend of mine who has been experimenting reparts. that the results are meanny.

JUJ

Whent one looks through the fe strives bome vie Stubb polarised-gla ་་

headlamps Rund, and But up Garden Road, which are also fined with polarised This route is considerably langer but glass, there is absolutely no glare. the Kradifors: Arc not nearly ro Indeed, all one sees are two small steep; he is, théerfore, "able in usej brightish circles in the middle of the the higher gears most of the time other car's headlamps. At the same and thus keep the engine revs down time, one gets the full benefit of one's

own headlamps, which not only illu tomisate the road an usual but even light up the interlor of the onemming ear. One is nut tempararily running in the dark, ur half-light, as is the

Mary

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mites.

The advantages a place like

You're an 'u? - usual motorist 571 Your answer Isn't "None!! Why not do something about it cow, instead

of leaving it l too late? Sum. mer has been tough сп your ear, you know. Go to your re. gular Service Station and get ihum to cheek over the regular trouble spots.

Car Models

To Be Cut

70 Per Cent

A reduction of 70 per cent. In the number of models is to be made by British car, manu- facturers within the next 18 months. This is disclosed in the industry's report sent to Mr. Wilmot, Minister of Sup- ply, following his request for. proposals to help the Govern- during 1948. ment rench its export target;

the

motorist tenda locat borgar that it is not enough just to keep the speedometer needle below the ph mark, Keeping the ess rine news dawn in the lower gears каче with normal dp-ne-lim pro- is even more important—for itcedure, excessive engine trys that dors the damage in the first 1,000 While the rev-maximum varies with Hong Kong would be enormous, Bar Jifferent ears, the average owner of winding subuchas a "comtry" oal 4 ZICK var will not go far wrong are not illuminated.

On many if he limits his maximum speeds in difficult bend one is frequenly blind

Mr. Wilmot suggested that Larious catius between bottomed by the headlights of a car coming should be one model per firm The

matar industry's im and top từ 7, 15, 25 and. 30 to 35 from the other direction. With

zaplı,

is neither blinded, or factory, but it is asserted polarisation, one

or farced to grope along with In the report that such a dras- tlook

average British spot of Guess and Good Luck. The the plan. if adopted, would Bitoris especially une who has con of fitting polarisation equipment cause chaos in factories and drive at Home, is fairly ran is quite love, I believe; less that

break up the production flow. scientious about running his new, ca: $100, 1 understand. What a chance Ein properly, à doubt if the average | for Hong Kong to lead the world, | Chinese "choollent, however, i just for once, by making it a cont

careful, I was in a taxi the other pulsory fitting for every car on the day that had done less than 400 road| tiles, and the way the driver rey- ved her up through the gears-it)

The

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large American car, at that!} -made me want to brain him with

a flour board,

Accidents

The latent San Francisco news. mpers nie. "splashing" traffic candi- tions in Van Ness Avenue, where for The harm door by over-driving trians have been knocked down at

the second time in 24 hours pedes HOW CHIN ilustrated by a hire: the "Autocar." The write accidents, an elderly woman was kill- recent the same cross-walk, In one of these purchased 4 popular "Ten", which ed.

har

ly done 6,650 miles, He says:]

tragedy, the Accident is

"Fustection preruled badly worn Cominenting dh "the hures, pis on rings warped, a con- Mayor said: "Thi silerable greave at the top of each horrible thing. It shows again the exfimler, as 1veil as mugh

and necessity for the Police to be more 'flaking big-etal bearings In my alert to stop this type of driving, upinion, the ear nerded Q rebore, talked with the Acting Chief of Police and, before further damage re- today and I ask

asked him to Instruct subred ... doult, in fact, if it his men to be on their toes and in wax run-i all".

tensify their efforts to halt this kind! of driving. There is no question m Second-hand car of comparatively what driving in San Francisco is get- small mileage are now comleg onting worse every day." the neal market in increasing num- bers and I can heartily endorse the "Attacar"

A sudden change in produc- tion programmce to enforce a reduction in models on auch a scale would involve loss of costly jigs, preasca and special toola, as well as the scrapping of materials under manufac ture:

In 1939 there were 136 dif- ferent models being built. In this country, To-day there are 62; this is to be cut down to 42 by 1940..

Home Market Needs →→

About 160.000 cars a year, it is estimated, will be required for the essential home market during the next three years. Order books show that at least 500,000 essential users need new cars. Manufacturers have more than 900,000 orders from the home market on

their books.

It is pointed out that the Trallic signal modernisation, among single model production plan, correspondent's advice other things, is now being demanded-enforced-by-the-Government-in- "that prospective buyers of second. There's a mural here somewhere far France, has rot been a success. hand cars have their engines clerk-Hong Kong.

ed for cylinder wear before pur. chase, aut not afterwards, as in my «a༨༧,"

Polarisation

One piece of legislation I would like to see enacted in Hong Kong would make it compulsory for all car headlamps to be fitted with polarised glass, with a corresponding "eye

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In the first six months of this -A. E. G.! year French makers built only 32.500 cars, ne against 138,000 produced in Britain,

from

car

Dlacrimination against Am- crican cars will result the ban on left-hand-drive regulations in Cape Province, South Africa, which comes into force (with a few exceptions) on January 1, 1948.

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Speciallet Arms which make high-grade cars in comparative- ly small numbers have accesa to valuable markets abroad where there is no effective competition from the American motor industry. It is important to Britain's prestige that they should not be forced out of business by the Government's decisions, it is assorted.

Bir Miles Thomas, president; of the Society of Motor Manu-] facturers and Traders, said in London that nine-tenths of the total number of cara manufac- tured in Britain come from six Arms. Between them they plan- ned to reduce the number of models from 30 to 21.

Lagondas Close Down

Lovers of "Ane' cars, whether they own them or merely ad- mire them, will be sorry to hear that production of that out- standing.car, -the 2%-litro Lagonda, has been suspended. It may not entirely disappear ECONOMICAL REPAIRS by from sight, howover, as nego- qualified automobila enginners.

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tiations are in progress. fer it to be taken, over by a leading firm.

It will no longer be a pro- duct, of the Staines factory, however, and the following two reasons are given as res- ponsible for the decision:-

Imposition of double pur- chase tax This; the company says, "must have an incalcul- ablo affect on bales."

Continued and - Increasing! difficulties in obtaining materi als in the face of existing con- |trols. The company thinks the position will` grow oven woFKO, *Lagonda Limited, however,

will continuisto` give present], ownern all the service required} for oxlating previous models at the Staines works,

THFT Pare 9

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