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New Beauty for your car

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1948. ?

JOHNSON'S MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

SPECIAL

Automobile WAX

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THIS AIRLIFT MAKES FAST WORK OF CHANNEL CROSSING

Flying with your car between England and France is a logical sequence to air lifts of mechanical transport carried about of nécessity during tho

wor,

Brought into operation recently, it means, in terms of time, that, allowing for a 30`m.p.h. road average over the 77 miles betwen Hyde Park Corner and Lympne airport, one can be motor- ing in France within four hours of leaving Lon don.

on a

In

The sponsors of

the new

On arrival at Le Touquet tra ferry are Silver Cities Airways, vellers ure mel by an English- with head offices at 1. Great speaking representative of the Cumberland Street, London, company, who aces them through WI: these people, incidentally, brief procedure, while the car is the customs-1 commendably are specialists in V.I.P. travel. being unloaded and clearest. and, among other things, flew the event of the passengers_be- Mr. Churchill to and

from ing ready before the car, there Marakeesh during, his . recent is jan excellent club at the air- visit there. For the present, port where one can eat and drink they are running the cross in truly French style before lok- Channel ferry

charter ing the road. basis, but it is expected that

Cars,

Incidentally, con be the service will prove

auf- carried with up to three-quar- ficiently popular to justify a ters of a tonk full of petrol, and

landing in France regular service next year.

petrol We were able to go to Le Tou- coupons for the equivalent of 40 quet on the Inauguration run, and gallons are issued from the cak were impressed by the smooth toms office at the airport as at ness with which the whole ar-

any other

thor port of

of entry. raft used for the ser The aircraft rangement worked.

Bristol Having booked the aircraft for vice are twin-engined a 'speelfled day and time, one

freighters, eminently stable mn- loads one's car with up to the chines which fly quite well on one full complement of luggage and engine, and have a garage space passengers anci sets off for of 81ft. 0 in. by 8. fi., which Lymphe, timing one's arrival for provides accommodation for two one hour before the time schedul- ed for take-off. In our case, the car was an Armstrong Siddeley "Langoster" saloon with four puRsengers,

Car Is Met

On arrival at 'Lympne, repre- sentatives of the company meet the car, clear it through customs

load it into the and

alrcraft while the passengers and their Juggage are also undergoing cus-: toms examination. By the time they are through, the car la prac- tically loaded, shackled down and the aircraft

I ready for take-off. On an

an average, the crossing of 42 miles, from take-off to touch down, takes 20 min., slight variations

elther way being occasioned by weather condition, but these do not amount to more than a minuto

or no.

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A fine car needs" careful attention, to keep it ready for any call, and one

as good as an denerves, regular: inspection even if it is stabled.. Your, dealer is ready with works-trained* servico,

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Cars Pouring -Into S Africa

With the arrival by ssa ré- Dantly of 495 cara from Britain, Amerion, Italy and the Port Elizabeth assembly planie, a new record figure. for car landings, as Durban was set up, for the escond time in three weeks.

A shipment of 240 care from London has buen land- ad there by a ship outbound for Australia, the first ven- ad with an all-car cargo to call at Oveban since the war. Nearly 6,000 cars already have reached

the port this year.

Although there has been a big Increase in Bouth African production, there is no in dication yet of output cetch-

Ing up with the huge de-

mand. With the

completion

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of the Nash assembly plant at East London and the Studebaker plant In Viten. hage, every important manu. facturer In Amerios will have hl assembly works in opera. tion or under construction in Bouth Africa.

Nearly two million pounds Is being

General apent by Motors South Africa, Ltd.,

and the Ford Motor Com pany, Ltd., of South Africa, on increased plant facilities.

A SNACK FOR A BRISTOL ·

A

Like a snake with Its tongue hanging out the Bristol freighter alrecaft site ready to receive car to be flown across the English Channel. The tongue is a special ramp which ensures that the oars, even with considerable overhang, do not ground at the rear, and that they enter the aircraft

nearly

Javel.

average-sized' 'cara-a Mark VI Bentley and an Armstrong Sid-|· ́deley, for example. The cars are driven into the aircraft un- der their own power up a specially constructed ramp, and the wheels are securely fastened down and chocked so that there is no possibility of any, frea movement during the trip.

No Movement

New CircuitTM

IMPROVED AUSTIN FINISH

cars

A new plant, installed at the Austin Motor Car Company's werks at Longbridge, near Bir- mingham, England, will consider- ably improve the paint finish to Austin motor cars. These were previously finished in cel- lulose paint with final polishing by power mops. The new plant usek #synthetic paint giving more protection and durability and an excellent Anish. The subsequent polishing is effected by the pastdge of the bodles through a gas-beated drying (un- nel 400 feet long, which reduces drying time to under an hour.

Twenty car bodies an hour can be dealt with and, In through the plant, each covers a distance of

nearly a-mille suspended from conveyor chains. The time taken for the the full Journey is approximately six hours. The bodies move at a rate of seven feet a minute and can be rotated by the sprayer in a cradle so that he can apply the spray at the best working post- tion and reach otherwise inneces- alble surfaces.

passing body half-

The final coats are sprayed in n tunnel 130 feet long, with shadowless Hghting of high. 1-| tensity given by four rows of fluorescent

tubing, To

ensure that only dust-free air enters the spraying chamber, it is filtered and washed by in elaborate pro- and heated to 80 degrees

After double fiter

COSA Fahrenheit, ing the air passes down through the chamber, picking up surplus paint spray. Before the air is allowed to disperse the paint

spray is washed out of it by wa- ier jets. The paint, mixed at a central mixing room, is pumped through

copper pipes lo the spraying positions.

At the final stage of the opera- Hon the bodies enter the 400-foot tunnel through the gos-drying

aven where a temperature of 250 degrees is maintained. Thermosta- tle temperature control and elec- tronie flame fallure equipment are incorporated. The new plant is capable of finishing 1,000 bo- dies a week. It is designed and made entirely in Britain and is the most advanced of its type in the world, being the first ever to use the rotary cradle system.

Loses No Power FORDS MADE IN

GERMANY AGAIN

A new electric traction cireuli for which a number of advani-' The Duesseldorf branch of the ages are claimed has been pro Joint Export-Import Agency an duced by Lansing Bagnall Limitnounced recently that the Ford ed, of Isleworth, Middlesex, Eng-Motor Works in Cologne will pro During taxi-ing one noticed a land. The manufacturers claim duce Its first post-war passenger little up and down movement of that in this circuit no power is car on October 1, 1048. the chassis on the springs, but lost in wasteful series resistance;

none in flight, even though we single accelerator gives the de. The cars will be available for ran into the edge of a full-blown sired speed, smooth starting a export against payment in dollars. thunderstorm on the way back ensured; and power in re-generat-German nationals who have carn- from France. Passengers do noted into the batteries when slow-ed bonus "A" foreign exchange ride in the car, but are accom-ing down, stopping, or descending will likewise be eligible to pur modated in a cabin at the rear of gradients.

chase the vehicles, the aircraft.

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Calais passenger service with tery is fully charged equivalent load, and £11/0/porate

porated. Four 12-volt batteries more than a similar journey on drive the machine, and these are an casy forward movement. Re the Dover-Dunkerque car ferry sufficient to enable it to run to a verse motion is obtained by means night service with two two-berth maximum of ten miles an hour of a pre-selective switch, When cabins.

for 50 miles, The battery can be travelling down hill, by raising charged during the night at low the accelerator pedal, ‚an, over-

drive braking effect is obtained; Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd.,

What justification is there for the additional outlay?

cost

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when this overdrive action.comès The vehicle, is fitted with a sin-into effect energy is regenerated In the first place, and probale accelerator pedal which gives and transmitted to the batteries. ably most important of all,

there

Is the tremendous saving in time. By needing to be at the, airport only an hour before time of take- off one saves an hour' at the "out- zat. On the petual cross-Channel trip pde saves an hour compared with the Dover-Calais service, or over three-liours' compared with the Dunkerque trip, although must be admitted, this service runs at-night when time`is of no great consequence,

̈‚Then, on arrival on the othof alda," thard" (m" an¦'eddlilona). saving of both time and temper

·boonusa” there are, at the most, only "eight, to go 'through', the Customa - Inalsad (of a "whole] boatload.

One cannot legislate for sea of air sickness same people ard prone to both. This much can be sald, however; on the day wa flow="over it" was straight and level the whole way with scarce-||| 17tremor a while, on the Channel, 1000-feet below, IT WAS obylous: from the behaviour of ́auche::vestels an- wo: zaw,?. tfint; they wer__no1,uh]pring,kimilar. tranquilli

Anyway,

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