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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947,

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1947

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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

The Outlook For British

Motor Vehicles

A Critical Period. Ahead

The New Hudson

complete.

The Hudson Motor Car Com- рапу han An- nounced that it will close its final

embly lines t

a changeover to

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new model described by A. E. Barit. President, as "entirely different from any, automobile ever muss

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The British motor manufacturing industry is entering a critical period in its

history. It was the first to be told of the Government's wishes in the new economic situation. The changes to be made were described as "serious and far-reaching" by the Minister of Supply at the initial meeting with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. After the announcement of the abolition of the |

basic petrol ration, the SMMT was told that of 2,535 cc. capacity, and maximum permitted car output for the home of conventionni. British

in produced." market would be based on cars required for pearance. When it was introduc-model were disclosed. Mr. Barit "essential purposes," and thereafter alloca-edit was announced as being said the new car will have a lower tion of materials would be on the basic of primarily for the home market center of gravity than any other export only. Some manufacturers have al- The goodwill of the Laganda American automobile and that t

car has been acquired by

will be only five feet from the ready expressed the doubt whether the export Chi Bon guised engineer ground to its top.

He added: "I in a car which, markets will absorb the existing productive ing companies, capacities of all the car factories in Great took over the Aston Martin car; not up it added that in the new upon entering, you step down into,

on."

the

which earller

Hudson, rear seat passengers are "really cradled between the axles."

Britain, apart from the fact there Is, even the Staines factory has been Mr. Barlt

Associated British | now, insufficient shipping available to take sold to the away present production.

in Engineering group, which tends to use it primarily for the manufacture of a new range of oil engines,

Com-

Service And Spares

Mr. Wilmot emphasized that exceeding 13,800 units, there would have to be a much{mercial vehicle exports were greater degree of standardiza little over 5,400 units. tion and a speeding up of the process of reducing the number of models. The number of firms continuing to make passenger cars must (he said) be limited to those whose products most readily saleable overacns.

were

Sir Miles Thomas, President

mands.

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volume

a

the

Tractors

The

and

He said that not only is the reat ahead of the rear axle but that it I actually completely ahead of the

wheel.

The new car will be produced with a redesigned super six engine and also with an improved super! eight engine.

Mr. Barit Bald a large part of the preliminary work incident to switching over to the new model already has been disposed of. He was unable to say, however, how long the plants would be down excepting that it probably would be "a few weeks" before the new car would be rolling off the lines. Cost $16,000,000

Leyland Motors is to enter tear the marine and industrini ]] engine markets with an engine whh has been developed from The main the Leyland 74-il re oll engine. tenance

The first 8-foot wide buses to of the desired go into service in Britain have

of been purchased by Oldham Cor Britishporation, The bodywork, which vehicle CX- is of composite construction, is of the SMTT, has gone so far porta may well depend upon built on Leyland chassis. na to characterize a reduction of

an efficient servicing and dis- the number of models and

а tribution organisation in the dif cutting down of home market production as the way to "indua-ferent territories to keep

The switching over to the new care sold in running order. An

Food trial suicide"; real quantity

model, he said, was costing Hud- Agricul- son $16,000,000. The factory and production, he believes, can only adequate and substantial flow of replacements and spare parla

ture Commit-facility rearrangements necessary be effectively achieved by com-

the

teg of the Sixto produce the automobile, he said, bining the home and export de should be the concern of

British manufacturers as much

teen Nation were the most extensive

aver undertak the export of the complaté

by the company in its Protesting against the aboll vehicle, and many manufacturers, Marshall Plan estimated the conaldering the

38-year history. tion of the basic. petrol ration, recognise this.

for Mr. Barit referred to the new tractor output in Europe the SMTT Atated that the dis- continuance of the ration may The first Austin cars of 1,200 1947 as 182,000, which should car as "Hudson's Car of Tomor put export aules of cars

further detalls of its styling at | Ince capacity built specially for rise to 380,000 annually by 1950 row" but declined to give any jeopardy, ainee prices of

present. These will be disclosed. cars the overseas market are being if needs are to be met.

The American Petroleum In-ho sald, at a later date when the exported are linked with the introduced In

stitute has number sold at home, and any the Austin company proposes which show that there are now is brought be Detroit to view the published figures Hudson Distributor Organization sharp restriction of the home build up its own istributing

tractors in use on new model. market will increase export costs. organisation in the United States 2,700,000

Despite shoot ateel shortages and The quick reaction of the home and Canada. It has also bought United States farms, compared

These short supply situations in other market to new designs is also

a controlling interest in one of with 1,783,000 in 1941.

materials, Hudson has produced are either petrol valued for its simulus to the largest body-buliding contractorg

100,000 cars during the postwar Diesel fuelled; and the large

period. ла A member of the

manu- increase in their number is Other changes by ear Advisory Council for the motor facturers include the announce much a factor in accounting for manufactoring Industry has ment of two new designs from the present record demand in Because the council says that stated that the number of Car the Wolseley and Morris the United States for petrol as it interferes with food produc- of tion, council-house tenants at models has already been reduc-factories of the Nuffield Group, is the rise in the number Peterborough are to be banned ed from 98 before the war to and a new model by the Ford other motor vehicles.

To increase. its output of from parking their cars in their 31 in 1940, The Minister of Company, the

"Pilot" V-8

John Own gardens. Into agricultural tractors, Supply has promised to publish which has already gone the report of the first year's production. This car is powered Fowler & Co. (Leeds), which is working of the Counell, which with an 8-cylinder V-type engine Sons & Co., is to ecase produe

now nasaelated with Marshall. has been dealing with the ques-

tion of industrial engines. Under tion of the reduction in the num-

Associated ber of models and standardizn-

an agreement with tion of component.

British Engineering, the latter section of the business will be taken over by J. & W. McLaren, The Healy, recently illustrat- of Leeds.

Im- A year's association with

technical development,

New York, and

cerns in Australia.

National

Proposals which have been nggreed upon by the

operating

associations and the SMTT for

The Healey

the standardization of controts ed on this page, is doing even

in the

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drivers' cabs of motor better. A saloon model was plement manufacturers has re- buses are to be brought into ef- tested recently under the consulted in the Ford Molor Com- 20 fect as soon as possible.

trol of the Royal Automobile pany producing more than Club and the R.A.C. of Bel-specialised implements to work with the Fordson Major tractor. glum.

The now implements and thei

Export Target

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The export target for earsing start, 110,8 mph, and 107.8 to work as specialised

has been set inph. respectively.

Imple

ments for power forming, at £5,000,000 a

Combines Engine details were checked month imme- by the RAC beforehand -and A amall number of Oliver diately and the. Belgian club was responsi- tractor-drawn combines is being £6,400,000 at the end of 1948, ble for seeing that the fuel imported from America. Nearly comparing with a level the used was that normally sup5,000 combine harvesters have last quarter of 1946 of 42,600,- plied to any vehicle touring the been available for this year's 000. Commerelä) vehicle sales are country. Supervision and tim- harvest, compared with

8,800 planned to go up from £2.150,- ing were also carried out by last year. Most combines, includ- 000 to £3,125,000 and £4,000,- the Belgian club.

ing the Oliver, are tractor-drawn 000 a month..

but the self-propelled type la be With current car production Two million Tyresoles recoming increasingly important. in the develop- running at 25,000 units, the pro- treads have been made in Bri- A milestone gramme is to export 20,500. or|tain, not including the many ment of light two-wheeled trac- 82 per cent of this figure, by thousands of tires recondition tors was reached with the com- June, 1948. By December 1948 ed during the war by Service pletion, in July, of the 10.000th Tractors the export target is to rise to operated Tyresole plants both "Trusty tractor by 20,800 a month,

at Home and abroad.,

(London).

Increased supplies of materials will have to be allocated to the

| Industry, without taking any ac

count of the home

The

SMTT has expressed the view WHAT SORT OF TROUBLE

that the home market "will be

almost starved of replacements, DO YOU PREFER? (No.58)

oven on the basis of essential USO only. But.. production capacity of existing factories lu buffelent to produce at least 50 per cent more yehicles than at present.

The Government expect much from the motor manufacturing Industry, and the percentage increase over 1988 of 816 which has been wat for vehicles as a group' is practically double the overall average of 100 per cent Increase on 1988 exports by value

Car exports in July-before restrictions on British, cary. Im¬ porta had been Imposed by number of countries—ware

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