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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

HOME ON WHEELS LOW-PRICED COMFORT AND MOBILITY

By Charles Lynch

A possible solution to long! Kong's housing problem--the caravan-Is gaining wide- spread popularity in Australia, where manufacturers are stantly improving on designs and innovations to meet the public's increasing critical de-

EUROPE'S SPORTS CARS

INTEREST AMERICA

There are signs that interest rosserie, or bodywork - of n In the sports car is reawakening standard corresponding to that of the United States, fostered the "haute couture" in the world by bodies like the Veteran Motor of women's fashions, Car Club and the Sports Club of Amerien, although no specialised sporting vehicles have been tho

manufactured there since demise of the Duesenberg Cord in the 1930s.

Layman Approach

By contrast with Fortune, the and magazine. Esquire, adopts a la- mentably layman approach, sum- marised in a sub-heading which atara The American Press has carried reads: "Millionaires, dim

Joes are quite illustrating

of matter

Just plain lately, and

fars thusinstic

of, fast, European

Hardy cars of type, and trying to analyse their cars from British, French, Italian appeal. To quote the February factories."

Factories.

Haiph

A lot

An ice chest, insulated with cork, is incluciet, Crockery is stored a small cabinet over the kitetini range.

Caravan types most favoured by Australlins are 13 ft. long Designs by ft. Blos. wide. generally are smaller than those Juanufactured in Great Britain and the United States, and this is due possibly to the fact that the purchaser who is prepared to speed LA300 or £400 on a number of Fortune. "If America It quotes the cartoonist caravan more often requires it dominates the automobile bus-Stein as saying: "By comparison are produced in large numbers, for a long journey. Australia'sness of the globe, it is the Old American cars are soft, unwieldy,

European | (with

sports cars) World that has kept alive the

takes romantle conception of the motor uninteresting"--but car, the aesthetic of the automo-sting out of his words with

disclaimer that It i bile, the conception of the work patriotic of art.

Impractical of Stain and not Esquire speaking.

American A third

mogazine course. But who ever raised that objection, with validity, article figures in a paper called

"Hunting and Fishing.” Concerning works of drt?"

mands for this combination of housing and transport.

Fourth-berth, two-berth, single berth types

caravanettes

Holiday on Wheels

itt

THE HOLIDAY TRAILER carayan la popular in Aus traila, where scenic attractions are readily accessible to the main cities. Feildes being an ideal means of transport, the caravan is alas one way of beating the world-wide post-war housing" shortige. Top picture shows a plents-party on the. upper reaches of the River Yarra, near Melbourne, while the lower picture shows that there is ample cupboard space

the modern caravan's kitchen.

and when materials are mor vast areas offer inducements to readily available the developing the tourist to use his caravan for trade is expected to ocrupy un

extended t01158. important place in Australian in- dustry.

Average price for a four-berth vehicle is £A429 from the man facturer. Finished in contrast ing tones, the Interiors of Austro- lian caravans are invariably bright and attractive.

They were formerly matched with line, but as this is to shart supply, manufacturers have found a substitute in a type of bitumised bourd painted in at- This material tractive colours.

Is difficult to distinguish from

ino

Stove And Sink

nre

at

Most of the manufacturers are located in Sydney and Melbourne, capitals of the States of New South Wales and Victoria respectively,

Ideal For Trips

In stammer the beach resorts

"Blubbery"

The writer deplores "blubbery inflation of body lines (what Detroit itself calls the jella school of design)," and quotes perform ance Agures from "The Motor" which he speaks of os & Journal whose lliernie addiction to automotive aport is unparalleled In this country,

Mr. Wilder Hobson, author

the

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"European sports 'cars," saya the writer, are not alt "gigantic Alta Romeos. Mercedes Bugattia, costly playthings for auch princes as may have been Tho left when the war ended. majority are amall two-seaterk such as the M.G, the Morgan, the Fiat. the Alvis, the Riley. Their average horse-power

40 to

to 80. In such machines the paper aces possibilities of amuse- ment for the fresh-air American. and applauds the British types of

appl

raily, and driving test, as the story in Fortune, speaks of affording a lot of run in their the "sleek British dignity" of the own right, as well as encourag Bentley and the "fluency" of a ing people to drive safely and Phin-Farina body. He is firmly well. It is rather stimulating attached to the theory that there that articles like these should be is such a thing as "haute car- printed during the "export drive."

FAST AND FOREMOST

LIS

20

minutes

war over

It cost Donald Healey. the 50-year (but oldcacing_motorist and eat und six places in the final result, designer, who has lifted British which was a pity,“

The prestige, high

1,000

is in international

miles course motor racing, was recently. inter-covered non-stop except for re-

The route viewed in the Eritish Broadcast-fuelling. Ing Corporn lon's programme "In ordinary roads which were not Town Tonight" He had just re- closed to traffic and crossed the turned from Italy where he and Appenines twice. As Healey was his son had taken part in the driving an open car he was plac- and di longest and inost dangerous cared in the sports category race in the world, the thousand- not start unti for hours after xaid "was mile Mille Miglia. One of his the first car, whien; he said

a bit dangerous because

after watching the race for 50 many hours, some of the spectators got wander restless and began to about the roads." They left in the dark and finished in

dark- morning to What put

from four in the nine-twenty at night.

the

them out before the accident of the dog, according to Healey, was the rain which began soon after

when

were they left Rome

they lying second. I made the polish- ed tur roads tricky and was the cause of putting the Italian ace Nuvolari out of the race; he hit a wall on the bend and had to re-

tire. "On the short autostrada BBC between Leghor and Florence

the rain was 20 heavy that at speeds of over 100 the wiper

wiper would not cope with the combined pressure and the rain" said Healey. "Bat" he went on "there's one point I want to inake clear.

I'm not interested in the

cars, the 16-horze power Healey purely racing car, and I race only driven by Count Lurani, a friend because { want to show that are thronged with caruvans. In of the Healey family, won the British cars con motor swiftly,

winter-time a large bustness is

do un

an

an

minutes. The

Exports Car Too High?

race against 2200 of the safely and rellably. Races of done in hiring to travellers whe world's fastest sports cars, and this kind are invaluable for learn- journey

north to the tropical with

average. speed of 85 ing lessons of design." State of Queensland to enjoy the winter sun.

hour, smashed all This east cost miles per route.

perfect motor road, is touring car records for the course

by 30

Heuleys, always popular with tourists.

There is usually plenty of cup-|14th

father and son, finished ninth on

Df 63 bourd

space In Australian

average

miles the signs.

A main wall lamp proper hour. They lost ground on vides illumination through the a fast stretch near Alessandria Caravan, There is a spacious when a dog ran in front of them. wardrobe, and, completely hid- As Healey said in his broadcast den from view a small wash- "I daren't swerve at 110 The Motor Agents' Association busin with all tallet Attings. miles per hour, and the has expressed concern at the in- Ventilation is obtained through a results were drastic. The wing adequacy of the allocation of new large fap in the roof. The was forced into the tyre which | goods vehicles for the home mar- general tendency is to bulk why burst. I thought it was the end of ket this year as it considers that (10ws ha large possible in the race for us, but that was the present, allowance of 80,000 most Australien constructions.

Two angle bunks are located. Where my son Geoffrey earned his goods vehicles Is. so 'amall, as to place in the, car, We changed place strain on the motor- the wheel and got going again, vehicle repairing trade which it

Kitchen stoves thermal, double-hatner type, and fumes are carried away by n A large canopy over the stove, stainless steel sluk disposes of waste water, and fresh water is availablo from the 25 gallon tank.

If you want convenience...

Compare... and 'you will choose PLYMOUTH

Just compare modern sonrami İnames and you will soon discover why Plavách ie the aboloi!

Eyon d'oklīd'son, Eift Flymouth's emunterbespeed trunk lid. Yŵ wike the full-widte degre, des .... automatie Interior lighting » en

and push-button startér,

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at the front of the vehirie' and can be folded into a scat ar- rangement, while the tivo. op- porito sants around the folding table of the dinette are merged Into a double berth.

Australian designers have in troduced, many ingenious ideas to save space in the placement of the built-in furniture. A fold. ing step at the entrance is to be patented by leading manufac- As bulding materials are in aurer in Melbourne. The step limited supply,

feels 13 becoming too great to bear. The vow has also been and New South Wales it is not expressed that the proportion of necessary. to register it on A bus and coach output which is vehicle. It is probable that as greater numbers appear on the

exported is too high to enable roads registration will be made operators to receive enough new compulsory:

buses to ensure the maintenance of services without which pro- duction in other industries can- not be sustained; Moreover, Australian uneconomic use is having to be

Materials Short.

is folded underneath the body of į manufacturers cannot produce made of labour and materials in the trailer when it is not in use. anything like the number of keeping over-ago vehicles on the

Manufacturers have solved the caravans called for by present rond. problem of dust formerly the demands bugbear of caraven owners, by Demand everywhere is ex- •Rolls-Royce is to enter the vellele fleld, with the use of sponge rubber fitted to ceeding the supply, particularly commercial all openings, and the covering of as the caravan is being used ex- three types of engines of four, which all outside foints with hard, stick- tensively as temporary homes by six, and eight cylinder, Ing, tape.

people who are building, or are will be marketed without chassis. In construction the trailer uniti waiting to build and are part of Morris Commercial Care has pro- are built of oregon; with 11⁄2 in. a world wide fraternity plagued duced a new 75 h.p. oil engine by 7/0th-in. framos, and the by a housing shortage.

commercial vehicle, which wWHE bodies are usually of bonded Australian caravanist, are, or shown for the first time at the plywood. Although there are ganised into clubs amulated with Amsterdam Motor Exhibition. It many metal bodies on the road, motorists organisations like the hás, a carrying capacity of five aluminium is stated by manu- Royal Automobile Club in Vic tons and the ull cagine

built facturers to be unsuited to the torlo, the National Road and under licence from the generally hot climate in Austra Motorisis" Association in New Company of Swizerland. lla.

Bouth Wales and the Royal Insulation: frequently-used dia a Automobile Association in-South Present the vehiclo la being pro-

duged for the standard rock fibre which la Australia. They pay a mall

Introduced a liberally dispersed, between the membership fee Fand

conduct Leyland Motosport market only- walk and in the ceiling. The driving competitions and leats of modified 9.0 litre engine for un-

der-door mounting wheek

fat. the assembly Costa about ability to handle caravans.among £A33 apart from legs. The themselves. The clubs' services Amsterdam Show, designed to Continental backyard builder can constructs are also, Rvailable in: overma meet the needs of caravan without having to obtain members of clubs samillated, with chassis manufacturers for a building permit, and a pre- the respective organisations who horizontal engine racunted below ment in the States, vody Victoria & may be winding, Austalike win. Nie door on passenger. vehicles,

Saurer

At

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