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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1048..

THE

1948 CHEVROLET

Newer! Smarter! Finer! Here's the one to see!

Come and see it!

The new Chevrolet for 1948 brings you new smartness of design, new color harmonies, new interior luxury--an even greater medsure of BIG-CAR QUALITY AT LOWEST COST. And with all its greater value, Chevrolet's the lowest-price line in its field... the only car in its price class combining such Big-Car features Body by Fisher, Valve-in-Head Engine. Unitized Knee-Action Ride and Positive-Action Hydraulic Brakes. No wonder more people drive Chevrolets and

people want Chevrolet than any other make, according

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morc

to official nation wide registrations and seven independent notions-wide surveys.

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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS MODERN TRENDS IN CAR

Although technically the most interesting features ure engines ant gearboxes, frame design in ane of the most important features

modern.

motorcars. . English constructors maintain the

of

classic

system having pressed-sleet alde- numbers and closed-box sections.

On the Austin A-40

DESIGN

By GRANDE VITESSE

This brings in its train the cost, leaving a

*

the garage for

Pressed Steel

Re-

The satin Fraschini engine is the only eight-cylinder engine at 00 degrees with inclined overhead valves and with forked connect- Ing rods. For this engine also the compression ratio is about 1: but the maximum r.p.m. is not more city than 4,200. In the medium capa- models. Claveau bulldo

engines we see various eight- V cylinder engine with

overhead valven. Typical of this engine is

With

frame steadily widens end follows of manufacture and the dimculty the winter months and anding it the external body line and is fit-of modifying the body at any changed to a pile of magnesia ted with very strong cross-mem the assembled car,

time, as it in completely tied to powder in the spring! bers to resist torsion, Amongst

The design Itollan constructors this type

may have been of

adopted in the

a system of valve drive realised frame stens to be disappearing.ght of the great quantities of Museen relles entirely upon tubugnesium alloy that are surplus

with tappets hydraulle trans- Another French car, the far welded members, and I be- from war-time

mission. The aeronautic

tappet pushes the lieve that this method is prob-straction, but I do not believe than nault, is clearly designed with oil in a little pipe

economical production the

and the ol driving the little piston connected in deal for ents thly the

view scheme is O built in

very attractive and is entirely frumeless with a

with a It is utilised no i bered that such alloyя are open also to be seen a frame bullt with [of pressure in numbers. It is

UJIO, it must always be remem-body at pressed steel. There was valve. In the resting periods the a valve stem moves the by Chitalia, but in Dris case it

in the engine fills up of Warren girder Construction

to attack by the atmosphere, estour tubes welded around a door the various pipes, thus eliminating using small-diameter tubes, which pecially near the sen. An anodle of corrugated sheet. confers great suflness with little provided and makes a technicians, as among the painters, 108

the possible results of Hille oil weight and is an example of nero-

good means

losses. This system allows auto- of protection, but there were a school of primitives,

matic plane technique carried into the

What happens if it be removed? such a frame would certainly be set silence, as with the Ameri

adjustment and thus per- automobile field.

There Is always, the chance of a good example of it.

can system "Zerolash." The Cla- veau system is, however, suitable only with overhead-camshaft ca gines. Our 2-litre Maserati has a six-cylinder engine for the model and for the

sports model. The British Healey of 2,- competition c.c. has

Isotta Fraschini also use a frame which derives, from aeronautics, bul this case it is formest by Box elements fabricated from very thin steel sheets, with local atiff- tess provided by tolded sheet) wektet into place. The frame can- stitutes the under part of the body. fand the Cemsa car also uns con-

struction along these lines,

Light-Alloy Frames

An interesting feature of French emistruction is the use of cast tight-alloy frames. Gregoire uses an Alpax Silicon alloy with good casting qualities, and the frame incorporates

part of the body in- cluding the entire dashboard and screen assembly. Another French constructor, Irat, also uses cost- Ings, but in this

ense they are bolted together with nuts form part of the artital body structure. This involves the pro- duction of many different mem- bers, the alloy used is magnes- jum,

Norton Well In Forefront

and

As the 1848 racing season pro- gresses more and more Juurels in the most important Interna- tional events are being won by the famous race-bred Nortons, and against competition which hus never been keener.

at

Was

An mitstanding victory that of Artic Bell in the 200 miles Dutch T. T., which he won

an average speed of

02.75 m.p.b. from N. Pagani,

rking one of the new four-cyclinder Italian Glorax, claimed to be the (ustest

in world. Bell also made the fastest Inp, at 87.72 m.p.h.

motor-cycles

the

If among

The scene at the Victoria Docks London when the first consignment of British-bullt Ford cars wore loaded Into the *. Red Jacket for their journey across the Atlantic. This shipment of Ford Prefects, built at Dagenham, are the first of a consignment being exported from Great Britain to America.

An Interesting Opel Exhibition

Rather like o

400

Irintend A four-

Cail and

• Inspect.at Our Service

Station.

cylinder engine that, however, 703, derives from

cylinder Riley.

the famous

The

four

gine was one of the Paley en-

Diggest four-

cylinders on show. It in

a rather

h.p.

In

powerful engine which, at 4,300 rpm, gets about 100 smaller engines the four-cylinder the prevalle, and in the new models

the horizontally

opposed type.

For the big

cars

French and

of British. Italian construction

the straight six-cylinder engine still at

is

at a premium, Six-cylinder engines are, in fact, used for the 2,500 c.c. engines of the Talbot Record and the

Delahaye, and

the new Invicta 3-litre also has Bix cylinders. All have inclined overhead valves with hemispher- ical high-efficiency combustion

chambori.

Motor Show In October

The series of motor Industry exhibitions

organised by Society of Moter Manufacturers

the and Traders will be revived by the first postwar Internatlophi Commercial: Motor Exhibition to be held in London Transport from

October 1 to October 9 this year.

The last previous

exhibition

of this type was held in 1038.

The October exhibition will eclipse all its predecessors in respect of the number of hibitors and the rarigo varicly of exhibits. In all, the products of 420 manufacturers

ex. and

are to be displayed. Manufac

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WILL

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ANNOUNCE

DISPLAY

OF

1949 MODELS

LINCOLN Ford MERCURY

An elegant horseless carriage, Even more heavily brazen was turers represented in the acces- Dell is making u habit of befour horsepower led a little pro- the "powerful acetylene lamps are 51 producers of transpuit of one cylinder and a reputed she tourer of 1911, complete with

and component Ing the Arst man home, for he

section: number over 200 while there won a great victory in the Isle the streets of Hamburg recently. time. This was

cession of Opel products through heloved of the novelists of the servico equipment, and 14 tyre of Man Senior TT., when Nor-

a 16 h.p. This conveyance 100s

took first, second and third 1802 and was one of the first to rear seating in the tradition of tion

car manufacturers. bullt was

in built in the Grand Manner, with places. Hureld Daniell and Bell leave the factory of Adam Opel the Great Bed of Ware.

The organisers of the exhibi- between them shared the major at Russelsheim.

willing to special

provide bonours in the Swiss

facilities Grand

Bringing up the tail of the pro- visitors on simple request with for oversens Prix at Geneva, for in the 500

powered perambulator, it accom- cession e.v. class Danielt was first with modates four

was the post-war Opel name and full postal address his Narton team-mate

each other, with

the British Zone of Ger- Traders Ltd., 148 and Bell won the 350 e.c. class, wheel the size of a saucer, be started at Russelsheim last year.

steering column, surmounted by a many since production wax re-Piccadilly, In which Daniell was third.

tween them. Changes of direc-The Olympia sells to German Two other outstanding recent tion are actuated largely by two priority customers and foreign ANOTHER Norton victories in Important parallel chains, and on the steer

As far as Polanding wheel is

lever which selects yrs at £147 10s.

the British

The Austin Motor Company of there are two operated by pulley (ie, this figure does not include July 17 achieved yet another re- the appropriate gear.

concerned, of England during the week ended Prix, forward of the rear axle and the able in increasing quantities, it is tis factories.

The engine is placed just inbour and material become avail off the assembly lines of one of and purchase taxes. As

card with 2,320 vehicles rolling three

power is transferred to the rear hoped to build 300 Olymplas a wheels by chains.

passengers,

nagers, facing Olympia, which has been a rers turors and rotor Mat AUTOMOBILE SEAT COVERS

second,CIE

events were scored in And in Finland. Norton chines. were first, second third in the Polish Grand and also took the first places in the Finnish T.T.

Groomed to Retain Automotive Style Crown

Style londre in Studebaker's 1940 model offeriúft will be this ultra-smart convertible. Automatio top control,' all-weather upholstery, full-vision wimli 28sk vizit optional iridescent colors are some of the fortures Included with the chassis and body laprovadouts which the company announces for fla Latest æbrics. Cars are said to be roomler, safer and men confortable than automobiles of prewar daglan-

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of which

Anather interesting and beauti-

fully turned-out showpiece from the Opel Museum was the 1909 fourer. Built at time when the works were producing 3,000 curs

a year, and selling them at RM 4.000, this 8 h.p. model is almost modern In concept. It is a four- cylinder, with a geared oli pump In the sump, differential and con- ventional raked steering, motor-

month.

are

Getting Into Awkward Corners

Much invective is invoked and

ed smoothly and quietly, resplend-many hours lost when a parti- ent in an occasional three-seater cularly important nut or bolt falls body of brilliant scarlet and a into a position where it can be great deal

of highly polished retrieved only after considerabie brass.

dismantling. In such cases a new accessory produced by Turner Component Engineering Co., Ltd., 09-115, Clarence Road, Clapton, London, E., wil

will repay its initial outlay of 68. 6d. in Known as the Teco

Combination Steering Lock

single

use.

floxible Anger, the device comprises 'an Duter cover, which can be bent to ret

cable which

to get

duced with the object of thwart Tohe end of four " Attached at Many devices have been pro-round a corner, fitted with an in-

steering

ing the car thief and the latest of the other to a

and at these takes the form of a strong When the knob is

dikitob. spring-sedih combination lock. split bush is clamped Immovably most any small object. When the Afingers open and will grasp al- to the steering column, the secur-knob is released, the spring with ing screws of

Which

are concent- draws the "Angers" into the outer

ed beneath a sliding cover. This covering securely holding the ob cover is, in turn, locked in posi-Ject to be retrieved..

tion by the Insertion of the con-

necting rod to the stirrup which

encircles one of the spokes of the

steering wheel when in the lock-lock, slides down, leaving the ed position. The lock itself is steering free. The locking pin afive-fruto

uke combination type, should then be replaced to pre- which has been so constructed

to make "feeling

bination imposible.

of the vent loss,

uta com- The Stamford, Steering Lock,

To unlock which

the steering the combination

is finished in chrome, is

is obtainable from. Stamford En-

set to the determined figure and gineering Co.,Ltd." Nainsford the lock-pin withdrawn by means Road, Park

Royal, London,

of the knurled kngh The look is N.W.10 The price is £3, 194, (1 then opened by half-turn end and locks are available to suit

lift, and the stirrup, complete with most, cars," i

Specially tailored RECORD for all makes of American Cars

This is the highest number of Austin veliteles to come off the assembly lines In any week ́sinco the war and represents the great- est single postwar week's produc tion of cars and commercial vehicle of any fino in the British motor Industry.

WHITE WHEEL WALLS 15” & 16" wheel covers for

American Cars-

Available at

GILMAN MOTORS

Wanchai

If you want convenience..

Compare and you will choose

PLYMOUTH

Just sumparo`modern conven kness and you will soon discover: why Plywesth in the shalosi

Theon a'shild man tiết •Pfymouth's vinterbalanend trunk Ud, You will like the fall-width doors, she nay nitomačo interior lighting ....

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MOTOR DEPARTMENT

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