1947-12-06 — Page 8

THE CHINA-MAIL,

DECEMBER 1947.

Mile Of

USED CARS Cars In

FOR SALE.

FORD ANGLIA

AUSTIN "g"

VAUXHALL "14"

MORRIS "gn

HILLMAN MINX

EVERY CAR guaranteeD FOR THREE MONTHS.

ECONOMICAL REPAIRS qualified automobile engineers

One Ship

of

The largest single shipment British vehicles-if they were placed bumper to bumper they would stretch for a milo- ever to leave the United King- dom for the American Con- tinent was loaded recantly on to the 10,000 ton refrigerator ship. "Rippingham Grange" at the Rogel Albert Docks, Lon. don.

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The cargo af 194, Eight and Ten h.p. Morris cars, 66 Mor- ris light vans, and 54 Morris Commercial truck chassis, com- pleted the last instalment of the first £1,000,000 of pur- of Nuffield products by chakes

made in the last 18 months by Mcaars. Agar Cross & Co. Ltd., of London and Buenos Aires.

Altogether, the 304 Nuffield given by experienced freight tons of hold space and vehicles occupied nearly 3,000

the freightage charges are ex- pected to be in the neighbour- hood of £15,000, a valuable) form of Invisible exports.

DRIVING SCHOOL: Driving texsons

Instructors at moderate' fees.

MAINLAND

MOTORS

THE USED CAR PEOPLE 3A, Tak Shing Str., Kowloon.

All the Numeld vehicles have been fitted with left-hand steer- ing to conform with Argentine requirements.

The "Rippingham Grange" made the crossing in about 19 days, and then turned round to take'on a cargo of over 7,000 tons of Argentine meat for Britain's Xmas dinners.

Before the end of December, Messrs. Agar Cross have sche- duled to ship a further 1,000 Nuffield vehicles-600 cars and 100 truck chosals.

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

It

introducing the

MD

A Radio-Controlled PAYS To One and a Quarter lite

Taxi Service

Play Safe

MG 1:25

Don't Cut In !

A hurry new member of the famous breed, the new One and

• Quarter Litre perpetuates the outstanding characteristics of its famous predecessors. Virta acceleration, supreme esta of handling. instans reporma to controls and superb braking are all there →→→pine higher standards of performance. Illustrated- Catalogue, detallad Specification, and Prict upon réqueet.

Safety

MD fast!

DODWELL MOTORS LTD.

Service Station 5-7 Russell St. Tel. 32303

Show Room

1. Queen's Building Tels. 32302-32322

Why not give your Motor

the BEST Oil obtainable in Hong-Kong

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made by

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available in 1 quart (American) cans

Obtainable at all leading Motor Accessories shops or

direct from the

Sole Distributors for Hong-kong

and South China

U. SPALINGER & CO., LTD.

Great Saving In "Dead Mileage"

The first radio-controlled Taxi Service in Britain has saved between 30 and 40 per cent in petrol consumption, tire wear and general running costs since it was started some six months ago. In addition, the efficiency and speed of service-operation has been enormously increased. “Dead Mile- age" the return of taxis to a base for orders--is the bug-bear of any hire-service fleet.

This has been practically cut mul j dince MS. I, Rose, af the "CAMTAX" feet in Cambridge |equipped his sixteen taxis with Pye two-way radio and installed a trans mitter in his head office.

The total cost was £2,000, bat un the results to date Mr. Rose calculates that the installation will have paid for itself in a year. Operating figures are interesting.

Allowing only 10 per cent for "dead, Inileage (it is actually very much higher) and allowing that each cab covers 20 average of 50 miles a day to very low estimate), the saving over a year of 100 days works out at 240,000 miles in petrol, zuh her and maintenance costs and 16. 000 man-hours in labour,

Having delivered his "fare," the driver takes the hand microphone from his dashboard and calls Head- quarters (see photo above). There, the controller glances through his orders phoned-in by customers. In large number of cases be can call the driver back and give him, orders to proceed direct to such-and-such place and pick up his next fare. This cuts down the dead mileage of

useless return to Irase.

in slack times, the controller can tell the driver to wait in case fresh orders come in from that district.

At Hqs.

Reaction Time And

Putting On

The Brakes

One of the major fastors in

In the picture below, the control; ler at CAMTAX Hqs, is seen giving | orders to 3 distant taxi, aver

his safe driving is knowing how far transmiter. In the background is a car will travel, before coming! metal map of the district, Magnetic Lo a stop after the brakes have Added to this is the increase in buttons carrying the numbers of in- been applied. operation efficiency and the. (as dividual taxis are moved about the

of service to

Faster Service

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York Building,

Telephone:

greater promptitude

Chater Road,

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passengers.

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SUNBEAM-TALBOT

TEN AND TWO LITRE

This car has an air of innate good breeding that distinguishes only a chosen few: More than that it is very fast, supremely comfortable and a delight to handle.

Britain's Most Exclusive Light Car ̧

PRODUCT OF THE ROOTES GROUP

GILMAN & COMPANY LTD.

NES:"/80785.2 #5800.

Tho

to

distance required map according to each vehicle's des atop a car on a good, dry road

cination.

The Pye mobile radio installation At CAMTAX Hqs, the transmits surprising, especially at is built in each taxi over the spareter is a 10-valve 6-stage machine pre-higher speeds, and this may ne- wheel in the boot. The receiver ci see to work on a fixed frequency in count for many. of the cuit 11-valve, embodying a double the Very-High-Frequency band.nccidents that occur. diole noire eliminator stage which Standard equipment is available for For instance, at 20 MPH the cuts out interference from passing various bands between 27 and 100 average car in good condition vehicles, The 3 watts AF

bulput

megacycles per second. Twelve waits will come to a standstill after from the receiver is more than power output is delivered to the travelling 43 feet from enough to fill a vehicle travelling aerial. Send/Receive switching, per time the driver receives a formed by relays, is controlled either The transmitter delivers 12 watts from the panci or from a remote

signal to stop. RF at fixed frequency to the serial control unit.

speed,

and is a 6-valve in four stages. The receiver is a 17-valve

the

The algal may be a car dashing out from a side street;

The unit includes two rotary trans-with noise eliminator, also made by a child running out from be formers and operates either from Pye Ltd., Cambridge.

6 ur 12 volt car battery. "A publie address moving-coil foadspeaker can be operated from the installation au required,

(Photographs by courtesy of the Central Office of Information, London

Crown Copyright Reserved.)

SYNTHETIC RUBBER TIRES

|tween parked cars; or another vehicle on the wrong side of the road when rounding a blind| curvo.

The brakes, of course, are not applied immediately the driver receives the signal to stop. There is period-gon- erally called "reaction time" which is the interval required to act after a dřívor has re- ceived a warning to step on tho, brakes.

This reaction time varies with driver to driver, bat it is catimate; to be about three- quarters of a second. This means that at 20 MPH the car will have travelled 22 feet be fore the brake pedal is touch- ed. At higher spoeda, of couras, it will travel even greater distances.

Sot out in the form of a table, with the distance cover- ed during the driver's reaction time added to the actual brak- distance; this works out on normal dry roads, as follows:- 20 MPH: 22 plus 21— 48 feet, 30 MPH: 88 plus, 47- 80 feet, 40 MPH: 44.plus 84-128 foot. The American motorist is go, bey Company, is described as 60 MPH: 55 plus 181-186 feet. ing to get a certain amount of the greatest advance, in modern 00 MPH: 66 plus 185-251 feet. synthetic rubber in his tires tire design" IN PRAN H Under poor road and car for quite some time to come The new tire, which will be conditions, more allowance but he is going to like it available to any m:torist for should be made for stopping

"Already the tires turned out tunato, enough to get delivery, the car. by the rubber Industry—with of a new car paxt year, utilises varying amounts of synthetic aprinciple of Increased air The British Standards In- combined with natural rubber capacity, at low air pressure, atlution Year Book gives: A —are superior to those produc - „This acsults in greater riding subject indox and a synopsis óf cd before the war. Also, they | comfort due to the cushioning | cach of the 1,800 British Stan- are lower in price, as effect of the enlarged air cham dards, now; current, and much

But, in addition to there, ad- hard to other useful information,|| vantaged) („comes tan- «chtfrdly, ¡In "audition, the tire places Coplas may be obtained", from new tire, în aktra low pressure more, "working's rubber ons the the Publication Sales: Depart- typa ol, cising. Ond of these, Edaarahakingust... Freator, con- mìnt, Britäh, 3tandards® In. low prosaurs, craliga, branjati trollablilipeknd peanfatyzm Also, siltution, (285 Victoria'. Btreat,, out by the United States, Rubelated Press

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