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■. THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1949, J.

VAUXHALL

OFFERS THE NEW

VELOX *

6-cyl. 2 litre

WYVERN 4-cyl. 11⁄2 litre

Two elegant products of Vauxhall

ingenuity and experience

VELOX

75 MPH, 25-28 MPG. Those are the figures ...see the Car: The

roomy Velox gives out- standing performance with unusual economy.

WYVERN

Gives you 33-35 M.P.G.,Į almost Identical inf amari appearance with, the Velox. Wyvern Is built for outstandingį economy with unusual performance,

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British Coachbuilders Making Good

The

Recovery

Old Curiosity Shop

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Shop

Something to be curious about. The new Morrie, featuring an all-steel body.

1. Hooper's

Straight Eight roadster.

7.

Hooper's ultra-modern

Delmler

If you are a Nobob or a company chairman and want something quite your own in the way of cars, you will still do best to go to the small and ax-Rolls-Royce saison. clusive British coachbuilding industry with your dosiros.

2. Park Ward's veralon of a

fasionable Rolls Royce,

4. H. J. Mulliner's up-to-date four-door Bentley saloon.

5. James Young's similarly

But you will have to take along a rather large bag of

gold or, even more welcome, a goodly pile of up-to-date two-door Bentley silver dollars, escudos or other pieces of hard moneys,

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saloon coupe.

VIEWS

Official Cars

спги Art

Though devoting most of her effort in an intensive drive to produce as fast as possible A huge number of motor vahlcies. principally large lorrion, Rumala iz turning out numerous

of them Hardly any obtainable by anyone but the Forces and State offiolate.

The Pabyeda ("Victory") light car to powered by four cylinder engina and about the size of most British 10 h.p. modeta, With J neatly streamlined body, it is sald

to be capable of 70

petrol m.n.hr aumption of 20-25 m.p.g. at normal speeds.

R

com.

A

The Moskovitch, Rusata's first very small tar, l A thred-seater model. It in softly sprung, for use on the bad roads.

The big 140 h.p. Zla car is a beautifully equipped model reservad for official and Forces personages. Trana. parent plastie is used in its rather exaggerated stream- body, with prees-button windows and Interior heaters. its cruising speed is claimed to be about 80 m.p.h. and Epecial attention has been

given to the springing.

raduce as far as possible the discomfort entalled by driv. Ing over rutty and alone.

littered roads.

use

Plans For Synthetic Tyres

The 30,000 tons of synthetic month is now made at a tempers rubber used in U.S. tyres overy

Results of experim sets in making

Your Tickford, it "cold"-at a temperature of E

Plus.

| degreen-have created considersble

interest at Akron, Oh,

U.S. FAMILY CAR NEARS LUXURY CLASS The family car-long a symbol of the American standard of living—is more nearly a luxury itom today than ever before. And prices aren't likely to drop soon.

The "little fellows," who form the bulk of pur

chasers, complain they haven't enough money to buy new or used cars. Even when they have the money, there aren't enough new cars to go around.

Economy In

New Morris

A United Press survey of 25 cities scattered over the coun- iry shows that inflation, the high cost of living and a war- time backing of demand means "no car this year—maybe not Economy in running costs is next year" for the average | the primary objective of the family. Auto dealers in a few new Morris Minor, a car which cities say dentand has increased ¦ is uniquely well attuned to the and business is brisk. In most needs of many motorists today." places. however, n seasonal Replacing the popular Serles slump in used cars and pinched E Morris Eight, it offers Im- pocketbooks have cut sales. proved fuel consumption yel also has increased body width,

Typical .comment from the enhanced performance,

City renter riding comfort.

are

car-hungry comer from Sam Liebowitz, a Philadelphia Holl

employee: "Prices ridiculously high. My eight years old but I'll just have 16 make it do." Sorne have no choice. Walt Emmons of Kansas City sold he smashed his en four years ago and hasn't been able to replace it.

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and

all-

The very substantial 1-round progress which this new- comer signals is the result of a long period of development work, a period during which many attractive schemes were tried and abandoned before the present model was evolved. In

Ex-servicemen who saved the ultimate form, a well-tried HK$2,000 to HK$3,200 during power unit continues in use, the war found the amount barely but becomes more economical would cover down payments, in a lighter, freer-running car with raised gear ratios. After more than a dozen years of ex- perlence with chanlsless con- struction, Morris Motors, Ltd., have retained it for 1949, and have effected a weight saving despite the new car being roomier than its predecessor.

Jor Franklin,

salesman, speaks for unother segment of the buying public. Things are getting Highler for him.

"I probably could nnnner new car this year I could gui one." he said. "With prices thr way they are, I may not be able

tenance

next one

Lo

though."

tion.

year,

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rom:

diameter

More Important than weight reduction, however, in the shapin of the new car to pass more freely For those who are waiting for through the nir. Streamliving. prices to drop, the automobile which, IL in stated, has produced Industry has some gloomy ob- approximately 2.p.h. mra servations. It says auto prices maximum speed with unchangeʻi merely follow the general infla-power output, is even. more, bing. Dietal in prividing more economil. cal minning

moderate Wholesale prices of passenger The United States rubber In-

cars have ellimbed 82 per vent in speed. An innovation which ha- dustry is making plans for the the past eight yeurs, according which nrn right both aorthotically assisted in the attainment of lines 6. Freestone and Webb's four-

of the newly discovered to the Automobile Manufac- door

Bentley estoon, with low-temperature synthetic rub-

turer's Association. But the and aerodynamically is the reduc been Chat

four wheels enclosed, The fact --upon examina-{ have

mintion of rond-wheel-vim sperini

of price of wholesale building ma- These six attempts are the must ber in the manufacture 1on of the Karls Court exhibitsj designers have been engaged dur.

motor tyres.

terials has jumped 114 per cen.to only 14 ins., tyre section being Courofeous in dealing with the

5.00 is, in the full appreciation of having the war years on more austure

In the same period, and food, up 166

The per cent.

All Stool averag ing closely studied Italian and objects, such as, for example, the dificult modern trend for full- line Flow of aircraft nurelles. urte, the same firms, and by all-enclosing bodies. Other

rise for all basic commodities. French coachwork during the they do not perhaps

The body, an has been said, have thu

including, cars, is 116 per cent. (serves also as ehnsais, and is of past year that the British opportunity to travel from coun- companion firms (such as Abbot, ture of 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The AMA Bays that on all-steel construction, An ́ Impor}- benachbuilder is now making as try to country absorbing and Barker, Gurney Nutting. Rippon.

retall basle, the 1940 farmor ant detall point is that the box. good a recovery as any equival-comparing world-wide ideas o Thrupp and

could salt about 1,630 bushels section side members incorporate ent industry. He probably has the subject, as do executives and University,

of corn and then pay

for an drillings which, apart from any- more chassis to choose from, designers from the development cents, and Windoversi carry on

average passonger car. But in ing weight, allow both Interior of departments and he can supply quite quickly

1048, he hav ear their deservedly high reputation

to all only 908 and exterior surfaces to receive for quality and comfort but in manufacturers.

Aport (six months

bushels to rate the total car rukt-proofing treatment. orthodox lines. Nor do they regard themselves general on more There is no gadas fashion houses, but

payment.

from the body frame lower mom- The spotlight Inevitably

shines

Auto makers have been point- bers, two box-section longerons et or fitting which he will mul interpreters of their

on the enorinqua best natural rubber treads by Ing out that they are practically get it a narrower, customers must brightly willingly incorporate. And, in Ideas-regular customers all te turquoise-coloured Daimler the tradition of

the the English often tending to be

Hooper's at £7,901

most con- ctr in the Show. That ailor, bootmaker

However, it expensive car in or cabinet servative in taste.

up of approxi- maker, he can advise you and is evident from the London Show higure is made

that they guide you in your individal] thi

cent Government 36 per cent abreast mately

vi are choice with the experience of

ax, 35 per cent coach- post-war developments and near-purchase tax,

work

and 29 price, ly all have

of such examples | probably 200 years. of crafts- trends as the full-width

manufacturer's chassis price. Body This car is designed is a rood works if the output of the new hourly earnings in all manufac manship behind him.

with its front seat for three: This Here index is a highly special mudguards which enclose

who rubber is to be increased. the ster for an owner-driver ised product which Amerles can-wheels and have easily detach-indulges in Continental

Louring. The new rubber can be made fint untilats at all and which in able covers; power operation for There is a broad front seat for for only * fraction a world of tottering values as door windows, and

ads: three, the squab of which coupe heads:

ordinary G-S wynthetic ruber, rather surprisingly risen again and press-button doors.

actually divided into three. Be- It now sells for 18.5 cents Tubout almost as hearty as before from I may be suggested that such hind are folding occasional seats, 11d.) per ib., the same as GR-S the ashes of two

world

wars,features are standard practice on

At present price levels, the coll Earls Court finds the cunch the more

expensive catalogued

rear seats are synthetic could compete with builders even optimistic.

American cars, and that must folded, the space is equivalent to best-quality natural rubber, which British special coachwork is not indeed be agreed, subject only to the carrying capacity of a small costs about 22 cents (about is. yet back in the lend in overall the appearance, but it may not be lone now, Among the reasons for this

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Here are Cars..

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how vastly they simply to list the you will

differ when you take the road many improvements would not impress find them in the performance, the smoothness, the comfort, the safety of these cars, and in their endurance.

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Tests so far Indicate that car tyre trends made of the new synthetic will autwear the

spacing ox ** much as 30 per cent, ways the only group selling new pro-tend forwards from the central

proaldent duels

below the prices of the cross-member of the car and pass

Mr. Herbert Smith, of the United Co.

Slates Rubber same items bolag sold second-on euch side of the power unit:

hand.

cent per

They blame their price in- Refrigeration machinery

creases on the general rise in cent fother new

muel equipment

labour and materiala. installed in the synthetic rubber For instance, they say avoyage

und

Ov

Cost of

but even these are armchaira. When the two

the qualification that these fit-vant are often optional equip-

$11

in the

o offered

membered,

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Pioneer Style

Foo

at an extra charge Additional luggage U.S.A.

It must be re-vallabte in the long tail, but however,

the because of the mounting of the

Notable Cars

that

(two

more than

Id) per ib. Some lower grades of natural, however, used in bulk in tyre manufacture, coat less than synthetle rubber.

luring Industries have increased | more than 103 per cent.

Dealers across the country say their orders are backdogged for "year" to three-years. Harry Paul of Harrisburg, says his or ders jumped from 405 on Jan- uary 1, 1946, to 1.580 today.

The Philadelphin Auto Trade Association says more than 25,- 000 000 orders ar on denler lists there, but there is a trend to- ward purchasers to pass up their turn because of Inabilly to fi-

Used car dealers report on-

ance ears.

The four-cyclinder alde. valve engine is sot

very far forwarda in the car, so that track the two plece stooring rod

actually passen above the gearbox. It in a proven power. unit for which spares are uni- versally available, and is ao. commedated in an exceptional.

wide compartment with "large" opening" top panel,

arrangement which provides sutstanding accessibility to parts. At night the inbuilt side lampe lights up the whole In- terior of the engine compart- ment.

Independently sprung front wheels are now used, the layout being much more clever than a bare recitation of unequal trans- verse wishbones and hydraulically

member

British coachbulder ie still an spare wheel horizontally unrivalled Arst for the quality can be carried inside) is not deep tall designs such as the speedo- son dmp in business and sey damped torsion bar springs might and workmanship of his car's for such a large car and is tur- meter trip which can be switchederul say buyer resistance ap- suggest, Mechanically simple, ro- upholstery and cabinet work. in ther restricted

be calming the price quiring a minimum of servite electric walnut and

by the

to operate in miles or kilometres: Peto other woods, and motor fitted for the automatie the tool-kit which includes hand

spiral.

attention the design yet provides also for care and thought in the head winding. The styling of the cleaning equipment, and the costs and competitive buying in

Credit restrictions, high factory very desirable characteristics. inyout of equipment to give

bold

The lower transverse one for rangement of handles and levers this high demand period luxury, or rather superluxury, in Hooper's, tending towards tran- while lift the rear wheel covers. put many would-be motorists in two channel sections sot back to

cockpit

have on each ride of the car comprises satlantic tastes with its painted

of F. G. the position woodwork, facin And

The varying methods of fixing |

Kraft of form an I-beam, the front section grouped

Richmond.

being a steel pressing, the rear It is not cany to select, from instruments looking almost like and removing rear wheel covers

study in

"It's streetcars and buses for one

Lo a forging splined tio is becoming quite the collection of more than 50 plastic.

for a long, long time more,

torsion special cars made by more than.

What le

Instru self. Park Ward have a version the

mounted to longitudinally come," Kraft declared.

for- bar. Extending diagonally a dozen firms, the

ment panel follows the marked of this idea on their Rolls-Royce, highlights in

ward from the outer and of this of the this field; nor

curve of the wide-wind-screen. which in the is it altogether

parlance desirable. Yet at exhibitions there;

thus glving more knee room, 2 cars.

composite I-beam, and acting as * becomes one of the "new

tonalon bracing against braking are inevitably certain cars which

and successfully svolding the

This is finished in a crente excited attention and by

took of a tub, which l the cobalt blue and silver grey. It are conducting investigations into the chassis end of which is un- which that show is remembered.

danger of this latest fashion, has a full saloon body in which the effect of car radios en road Iversally mounted 5 rubber: In the 1948 London Show, a half-

which, so far as can be said, wider than the rear seat, a cur- safely. Addressing delegates to bushes. dozen of the most interesting couchwork exhibits were:

The took

me

The Road Research Laboratory stresses, is n circular-section rod,

has been pioneered by Hooper. rently popular arrangement, but the recent National Safety Con- The upper transversa mamber: There are also intriguing de- also one that binevitablo ongress. Dr. W. FT. Glanville, director of each wheel-locating linkaga. Îng

chassis in which the engine is of the Laboratory, said there were set very high, so that the loads not fitted over or ahead of the two views, one that radias re-imposed on it are minimized, and, front axle line and which have loved driving strain, the other forms the cranked actuating an orthodox frame.

that they were a distraction.

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of an Armstrong hydraulic shock absorber, Steering kingpins da such, do not exist, their duty | being divided between two threud- cd bearings at one above the other. In overy dotall the LFS system has been laid out \ now. merely to perform well when in new condition, but also to wear well and require a minimum of maintenance.

The steering

mechanism fr simple and well conceived, comprising rack and pinion gear behind the angine, linked * to the wheel

twob by the halves of a divided track rod. Stearing on the road in light; and steady, while there is a notably compact turning circle to make the Minor

most. convenient town can Rear susponsion is by orthodox somi-elliptic leaf springs, the axio being of semi-floating construction and Incorporating hypold gears to: lower the propellor shaxt. Fin unusual_point is that the Arm- strong shock absorbors are mount- ed on the axle casing, and not on the frame of the car an ts move usual, so that any noises produced will not be audible, to prison/rors.