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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1948.

SUNBEAM-TALBOT

TEN AND TWO LITRE

Thin 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 handlo

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FRONT WHEEL DRIVE ON NEW CITROEN

BY OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT

Data

MAKE AND MODEL Citroen Light Fifteen, 4-door saloon.

ENGINE: Four oylinder OHV (pushrod) engine; 1,911 00., 15.08 HP, developing 67 BHP at 4,200 rpm; detachable

cylinder barrels 3-bouring counterweighted crankshaft; pressure-fed lubrication: 80- lax down.draught carburetter, with acceleration punto.

wheel drive; gearbox

The Citroen Light Fifteen is not only the first front-wheel drive car to be road-tested by the "China Mail" but also the first "two-country" car, for although the engine and transmission are French, the Citroen is assembled in England (at Slough, to be precise) and has all the little extra touches that make the standard British car compare favourably with the luxury imodels of other countries. The Citroen has the advantage of on engine and transmission system which has stood the test of over 10 years road experience, plus the comfort and luxury board gear lover; drive trans- interior of a good medium-class car.

Main Intereat centred at the "outset, of course, on the front- wheel-drive system, as this was the first car of this type-with the exception of Jeeps during the war-that we had driven., Our initial reaction was that except for a gear lever protrud ing from the centre of the dash board and a (false) impression of slightly heavier steering, the rear wheels

care), there was little apparent dif- ference between F.W.D. and the normal drive through the rear axle.

In

won, the circuit of Hong Kong) at 40 miles an hour and has a was accomplished at a far higher top speed of just over 70 miles average speed than we have over an hour. It will he seen that the been able to achieve in the past, maximum speed is not as high as

One reason for tila

s the on certain semi-sporting type of greater confidence One has In British cars in the 2-litre cate- rounding the innumerable benda, gory: on the other hand, on a In the ordinary course of events, point-to-point drive (especially thanks to the pull of the front Colony), the Citroen thanks to its skids are almost impossible, on roads such as abound in this wheels (as opposed to the "push" incredible road-holding and normal ability to corner at higher--and |

safer speeds, would more than Another advantage

front-hold its own. wheel-drive is, of course, the fact that with all the "works" out in Citroen themselves claim that front it is possible to

build

"How

curs are so safe and com- A run around the Island, how-really low body

and

ave fortable to drive," yet have

and anyone ever, soon showed the difference, plenty of headroom and complete who has been at the wheel for without any attempt to push visibility of both wings. Weight, one will agree with this modest the car and despite a

crawl of too, has been saved, for there statement. There is nothing now some five miles through heavy no propellor shaft and no live or untested in the latest modela

of un- The tag between Taltam and Shauki axle with its problems

front-wheel-drive system sprung avoirdupois. Finally, was first introduced in 1834. The Citroen have been atle to com-present body has remained un-1 bine torsion bar springs with changed since 1937-and it is a

The Bedford JC Van

Nominal Rating 1⁄2 ton

Engine 12 H.P.

of

SHANEMISSION: - Front- and differential in unit with on- gine: 3-speed gearbox, with synchromesh on

and second, ratios 4.3, 7.3 and -13.1 to 1, reverse 17.5 to dash-

100

mitted from differential to road wheels by universally. Jointed allding cardan ahafta SUSPENSION:-Front, In- dependant wheels and ad- justable torsion bars.

Rear, adjustable torsion bare. Trall- ing axle with beam of cruci- form section. Hydraullo shook absorbers, vertically mounted. STEERING MECHANISM; Rack and pinion, with spiral gear teeth operating direct on push-pull rods.

ny.

BRAKES:-Lockheed draulio. Handbrake cable- operated, working indepen dantly un rear wheels.

MAIN

5 TL

DIMENSIONS: --- Overall length, 14 FL Overall width, 51⁄2 ft. Overall height, Wheelbase, 91⁄2 11. Track, 4 ft. 6 in. Clearance, 7 in. Turning cirals, 40 TL

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stiffness of chassis and frame and tribute to the far-seeing designers build, snappy acceleration and absence of roll to make fast cor-[that it by no means looks out of freedom from roll make it almost nering not only à delight, but a date or behind the times.

the Ideal car for the Hong Kong, completely safe practice.

The stress is ON the word

motorist. The gearshift-a small levet "light," for a great deal of un- protruding from the centre of the necessary weight has been ell- wooden dashboard looks at first minated. This is partly due to sight as though it is going to be the method of body construction. difficult. It isn't, as one inds out Steel pressings, electrically wald- in few minutes

and changes ed together, make a rigid steel up and down can be accomplished box out of roof, sides, floor and swiftly and casily.

Personally, back pancis. Further strength is

we might have preferred a slight provided by the welding in of

ly longer lever, but it is probable the scuttle bulkhead. În other further Citroen werde

with awords, both body and chassis are this

opinion.

Pone.

Mention was made earlier of So far as bodywork is concern-

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steering." "This was prob-four-door saicon, with or without ably more a psychological reac-sliding rof. The scuts are leather- tion than anything, for after four covered, the front seats being or Ave miles one realises that separate but so close together that having the drive going to the three passengers can be accom- front wheels does not mean that modated in comfort when neces finger-light steering is impossible,

heav) impression of slightly ed, the Citroen is a five-senter,

meeting or does not General equipment includes a tend to jump all over the road-polished wood dashboard with but it goes exactly where one glove panel, trafficators worked wants it with only the gentlest from a switch under the steering of pressure and completo absence wheel, pile carpets, pockets on of wheel-tugging

doors for maps, etc., two conceal

the

The four-cylinder OHV ("valve-ed electric horns worked by a in-head

readers) button under the steering wheel, to American makes the modest claim a

Lengine

Batwing went panel

of some 87. brake-horse power at

A speedometer, am maxinium revs. It is very de-meter, petrol gauge and clock, finitely four, and somewhat ob- twin screen wipers, and all the trusive at low speeds, when en-normal fittings from ash-trays to

holson lusty, purring sound driving

mirror. makes itself somewhat obvious.

Το sund Up the Citroen Light

But it has plenty of power be- Fifteen is a fast, comfortable car, Eind it, whether on top or second, with all the speed and pulling and responds quickly to throttle powers of the beat In Its class, movements without hesitation or plus the added feature of front- доргелке.

wheel-drive to make cornering

The Citroen Light Fifteen, ac and manoeuvrability in traffic and cording to oficial tests at Home, on greasy roads a delight Instead dock some 20 miles to the galion of a headache. Its low-slung

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