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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1948.

CONTINUING 16 YEARS OF LEADERSHIP .. THE

Magnificent new Minx!

WITH SYNCHROMATIC FINGER-TIP `Gearchange` in conjunction with now fully proved, 4-speed smooth action crash-proof Synchromesh Gearbox

Quick action positive location, 4 cœrper jacking system

1540

Distinguished new appear- ' Attractive strong vee. section bumpers at front Lockheed hydraulic 2 trad- and rear ing shoe beskre

Everything-bonnet, Interior, luggage-under lock and kry -Exceptional enclosed

Juggage accommodation Long beam sealed reflector headlamps Powered by the lumens fully proved Hillanen Mina engine

Exal-clear diar wheels

Highly attractive Interior draign with stylish Esrin panel in jewellescent grey New A-spoke upring strering wheel provides clear view of Instrument panel

Essi-lift anfety bonnet fucked frota inside car Wide are safety vision dual screen wipers with single master control

PLUS, the reliability, performance, economy and com fort resulting from 16 yuora' continuous development

Driving seas fully adjust. able for height and leg room

HILLMAN, MINX

A car with a great past.

and a great future

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

AN ITALIAN RACING CAR OF UNUSUAL DESIGN

Although changes in the or layout allows the steering gear to ganization of the Maserati con-operate the tle-rod direct, the tie- cern led to doubts as to their rod being placed in front of the business future, it seems that the axle instead of behind. As will new 12-litre announced at the be seen from the drawing, the Geneva Show early last year will frame is very narrow, so that be produced for sale as a sports there is no need for a sub-frame car. This model was illustrated to carry the power unit as a with an elegant Farina body last whole, while the steering gear, March and the same chassis in 2-being on the left side of the en- titre form ran in the Mille Miglia gine, is wholly within the frame. and inter races, Further details are now given which emphasize again the current Italian Interest

Suspension

In tubular frames with independ- At the rear the axle is normal, ent suspension.

but

consists the suspension

of

First, the engine is a single two coll springs, and the assem- block of six cylinders and has ably swings on levers carried for- hore of 06 mm and a stroke of 72.6 mm; the power claimed at 4,700 r.p.m. is 03 b.h.p. which is not unreasonable for that type of engine. Compression is 7.8 to 1, which is high, and presupposes the use of a good fuel, There in effect two carburettors, though actually the instrument used has two bodies and a single float chamber. Water la cir- culated by

pump driven

are

through the dynamo armature shaft, nnd coil ignition is used with 12-volt system. The cylinder head is

yun

very simple. with no attempt to design the;

GILMAN & COMPANY LTD. combustion space purely from the

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and

anti-detonation point of view. The valves are overhead.

Behind

the engine are the isual single-plate"

clutch then a four-speed gear box with synchromesh mechanism for third and top only. The drive is taken by a propeller-shaft with two universal joints to a bevel-driven rear axle.

New Chassis

British

rear

almost pa as a racing car,

ward from the side tubes to an In fact, the car has anchorage on the frame. Both much bonnet front and

dampers are and, following the modern sys- hydraulic, it will be noticed that tem, wings form part of the alde the levers which locate the axle of the body and blend with the are not at the same angle, but

but bonnot, give the axle almost a perpend-

the lines generally being typically Italian and the style icular movement as the springs very good indeed. Quite what fox. The four brakes operated price will be placed on the new chanism, supplemented by me- various countries is, by the pedal have hydraulic me- machine when it is offered in the

of chanical operation for the lever,

course, impossible to say, but as an en- The whole car in very much of gineering job and especially in sports type, appealing chiefly to the dimcult circumstances of the cothusiast. No effort has post-war manufacture, the been made to extend the accom- | Maserati ranks very highly in- modation. by reducing the size of deed; as one would expect from the bonnet, which is enormous. so fainous a factory.

A drawing indicating part of the design of the Maserati A-6.

Designers

For Stopping

On Their Mettle Radiator

London, Apr. 5.

British automobile manufactur- So far there is little that is un- era are busy pepping up their de- usun in the orign, but the signs and trying to lower their chassis is altogether new, the side costs in an effort to' out-sell US members and, indeed, the whole and continental competitors. frame being constructed of tubes The automobile producers are

welded in position as

As requisite,

uisite, spearheading the Government

the Inyout including what sponsored export drive. But they amounts to a stiffening cruciform complain that restrictions on in- girder in the centre, supported by vestment polices, aimed at check- a number of cross-members be- ing Inflation, Jeopardize their chances of cutting costs through

hind the gear box. This is not the first Italian chassis to have tubes Instead of pressings for the frame, and the idea is obviously becoming popular.

better machinery and manufac- turing methods.

some

Leaks

them are Nufeld, Fridge pouring from the fliler cop,

look askance, though, at Basic Petrol

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The motor industry already has

gained footholds in foreign markets that were con- sidered almost United States pre- serves before the war. However, industry amcials have finally

Recipes for stopping radiator como to the conclusion that con- leaks have been current since servative British modals could motoring begun, and long before bring only a limited number of the proprietary compounds came customers abroad.

on to the market. One of these While jobs like the Rolls Royce continue to cater to clients simple cures was mustard; another, with a taste for sedate luxury driving up to a Park Lane hotel was pea-flour. I remember once other manufacturers are

taking "Americanised"

with oceans of mud-coloured por- up

designs. Among Standard and Austin. They still and my passenger laughing

what helplessly that she couldn't dis- they call the "chromium-plated embark....Perhaps I used too exttberance" of US models.

much pea-flour, or, maybe, it Prices of British cars still 'ore should have been mustard. Any. high, but the postwar increases how, the experiment did not seem in US corts have given them an opening in the cheaper market. have not carried pea-flour in the a great success, and since then I In Switzerland, for instance, a To-

tool-kit. cent international show had the London, Apr. 8.

medium price Standard 18 horse- running down to the rear cross- member..

plea- a title over US$2,400. That in-wished I had had some, because Forward the suspension Is insure driving after June 1--but cluded Swiss duties and was dependent, each wheel assembly only for 90 miles a month, the US$400 less than they cheapest the water pump gland on my car being carried on one long and one Fuel Minister, Mr. Hugh Gait-American car there: 1345 f.o.b. emptied itself, subsequently get- jalacked off and the header-tank short set of wishbone levers skell, announced in Parliament London, are being sold in the US ting so hot that the solder melted

Austins, priced at which swing against a coil spring this afternoon. bedded on the lever at its lower

at the rate of 250 a week, This decision, following an in-

|from the bottom seam. Devold of tensive campaign by

In their campaign for motorists

per-pea flour, lacking Rnd - Weld, manent markets, the manufactur- Neverleak, or any other prepara since petrol for pleasure motor- ing was withdrawn last autumn,

are setting up service and tion for repairing the damage, I will mean that tens of thousands potential selling areas, including sourceful and Crusce-esque pas- spare parts facilities in their main tended to despair, until a re- of laid-up cars will again take the US. the roads this summer.

From the front the frame slopes steeply downwards, 80 that the horizontal portion of the side members is well below the level of the propeller-shaft and gear box, entailing a deep shaft tunnel running between the front. sents, At the rear the frame is carried upwards and curved over

Allowance Restored

Going down to Prescott for the

Ford

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FIRST SHIPMENT

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1948 MODEL FORD

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IMG 10-9

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much-Associated Press.

Increasing costs of gasoline and senger, producing a sandwich with All the petrol needed to restore its increasing scarcity throughout an air of "Eureka!", broke off a the "basic ration for pleasure the world are a boon for the Bri- bit of bread and chewed it into a motoring-it will be only one-tish automobile export drive. paste. This, we found, wo caulk- third of that issued before last Most of the United Kingdom led into the radiator seam, did the September when motorists could models get much greater mileage trick perfectly, baking into a hard drive their cars 270 miles than US month must come from saved by the suppression of the blackmarket, Mr. Gaitskell said. The Government, he disclosed, has decided to accept the recommendations of the commis sion of inquiry which last night proposed legislation to ban from the roads for one year motorists

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caught using blackimarket petrol. -Router.

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NUFFIELD EXPORTS

as crust with the heat of the engine,

We drove 150 miles on that emer gency repair, cruising at very high speed, and the bread seal lasted for a week, unul the car could be spared for treatment, King Pin in "The Motor,"

boing,

One car or truck is sent abroad every two and

half minutes of the working Morris

day by Nuffield Exports Ltd. This is the company's reply to the Government's appeal for

even more exports. Their re- action has been immediata, at

Purchase

the end of September, the num- bought the iron foundry of Morris Motors Ltd. have

A Swedish aircraft recently ber of vehicles shipped abroad Thomas Butlin & Co., Welling-| was 17 percent higher than borough (a branch of the best previous week. this record-breaking concern's. United Steel Companies, Ltd.),

set up a new long-distance re- cord for light aircraft cover Ing 3,750 miles in one hop

The time taken for this was 30th the Nuffield Organisation for tractor and similar types In nine months ending Sept. to provide potential capacity

vehiclesi of iron castings.

30 hours, 52 minutes. The air- craft was fitted with a De has exported more Havilland "Gipsy Major" en gine, the ultimate war-time de. valopment of the Major series. The aircraft required so much less than 62 percent over the manufacture of heavier types fuel for this record flight that corresponding period of last

than during the whole of 1940, The present mechanised which was their best exporting foundry and smaller jobbing year. This is an increase of no shops will be suitable for the

It weighed nearly two-and-a- year.

half times ad much as with

tanks empty.

Despite this New Materials

heavy load the aircraft made.s perfect take-off and the engine

Pan faultlessly throughout the For Road Surfaces whole fight

Experts Work

In Commons

of castings than those which can be produced in the highly | specialised Morris foundries at Coventry, which supply cylin dor, and light iron castings for the automobile engines of the Nuffield Organisation,

Trasphalte, a new road material, The newly acquired found- has been laid over the sett-paved ries, will be operated, as, a do- | main Manchester-Oldham road" me partment of Morris · Motore

Hollinwood, Oldham, Lanes, t Ltd. (Engines Branch), Coven

try, so that all the Morriss best results,

car radio aerial foundries will be under: one be mounted 'gað far

Away management.

For best

should from y

| metal" part "as possible. Engineers and radio experts are Probably the best type is that con- working on a project to improve cented in the roof lining and constat

the acoustics for the galleries of ing of some form of mesh or gaire. A ban on the registration of the House of Commons, Works This cannot, however; “ba: used's la Miniater Charles Key announced cars with all metal roofs, in which are with loft-hand drive in in the House of Commons. He the best form of aerial in the telos Cape Province (South Africa) was replying to a Labour Mem-oogle

Sakura comes into force witir * fum

ber, who, suggested), ang @yote"; miod combaplication..

exceptions on January 1st, Road 1949 A test for all road driv- sularly in the Pray Gallor, so Restarch Laboratory is to be set up the icense holders every fira that speechor would be recorded in Scotland" by the Dapart of years is proposed in the Linton accurately

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