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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

NYX 2971

The Ford Anglia

Two New Light Cars

The prototype of a 40-mile-a-gallon 75 miles-an- hour light car is nearing completion at the work of James Fairley and Sons, Sheffield. One early model of the Fairley has been tested on the roads, and reached speeds up to 75 miles an hour with an average petrol con- sumption of 40 miles a gallon.

New Ford Anglia A Good Car At Very Low Cost

To anyone who feels that modern car design has gone off the rails, that independent suspension just means more parts to wear out and that streamlining is little more than an alibi for in- adequate headroom, the Ford Anglia must como as a brooth of fresh air.

It is a car which stands alone as being designed with very limited regard to transient fashions, de- signed to be à real car at the lowest possible cost and to do almost any job without protest.

regards performance,

the

In abandoring the #h.p, engine the tyre pressures were quickly for all export models, and offering | altered. their 10 by, engine in two-door Anglia or four-door Prefect curs, As the Ford Motor Company

have whol taken a stop which will assist them to back up their cars with typleally Ford service in all parts of the world,

They have, in addition, endowed the Anglia with a most desirable power-to-weight iratio which is reflected in lively performance on the rond.

emphasis on what the ear wit du in top gear-which in

great dral.

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The engine pulls hard and rea- sonably smoothly from just about 10 mph. in this ratio, and will necelerate the ear straight up to

50 m.p

m.p.b. in under 30 genuine seconds. a performance which few small earn indeed can equal

·without requiring smart use of the gear lever.

The Anglia model, which we

This sort of neccleration. goen runs true to Ford tradition, in with willing hill-elimbing which weight vet is duse Tiet deteriorate markedly that it is light in

when passengers and luggage a In the ear.

The car now nearing comple: { A similar car with a 12 horse-recently tested in its export form, Con incorporates anny im-power high-performance engine pruvement. It has balloon tyrms of the latest design is also plan with chromium-plated wheel dises, | next.

a large space for higguge, nosi The Standard Motor Company, In order to make access to the Coventry, has completed the de

thes engine easy.

the bodywork

with one hand.

NORTONS IMPRESS

IN AMERICA

London.

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apparently elmost unbreakable.

to the Anglia is one

anyone Bel encourago

car

(14

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"The

which does to treat

rest through the gears-on

alr

The Ford engineers have con- The three peei gearbox fitted centrated on simplicity and the whole front of sin of

amall Triumph. ex- Can 1 riused tremity light and cheap, which use of good materials as means

will be produced in quantity

of combining these two charac-this generously powered small car for

and have evolved a

sports mudel, but which teristles, export concurrently with the

of

ordinary should sult the stelking individuality.

buyer firm's Vanguard now being pre-

memories of two days With the duvel

well. nt rate of

very of 30 a a day. New

in an

an 8 h.p. Anglia during

widely spaced ratios and In the range of electrical spent

mude by Simmaric trackways of the

last winter, exploring the prehis generally leisurely character of [ear equipment Motor Units Limited. Ook downs, two days red torture recorded for acceleration from Wessex the gearbox, however, prevented London, N., England, is a

during which

figures being flush

any very striking far-from-new car end fitting headlamp, known as type I. 91. It is designed to fit fully without the least protest. fronted

As cabs on

a vehicle for Use of the passenger and commercial vehicles, and features beaten track, the Angle has atch he is encouraged to change The UK motor cycle world inple beam adjus

to commend it. A short wheelbase quite early after starting and accelera- mer.!.

Juse the amplú tap genr recently celebrated one of the This is obtained by swivalling with modent front and rear over

{tion. industry's

differs from most spectacular the lamp body assembly in a hanga, 84-in, ground clearance, The Hively engine

de- and compact turning circle are similar units which are familiar Successes: the remarkable universal movement up to

flange very valuable pointa,

Jonly m having an ollbath achievement of Norton Motors grees between the fixing

chuner Atted to the carburettor of Birmingham, England in the and a clamping ring, so that the

beam may be adjusted Daytona Races.

nir intake.

This filler should ensure road illumination These races, for the. National the maxigum

The distribution of a substantial engine fe in sandy countries, at Championship of America, aro The reflector, glass and bezel amount of weight ever the driv-perhaps the cost of a fractional

with the exception | visting the possibility of reflector wet grass are not very serious |

form complete

♫

Doing wheels meant that mud and reduction in maximum speed. assembly,

The willing acceleration of of the mat Trophy Races in

damage by moisture or dust. obstacles. Above all, the suspen-export Anglia is matched by very sion system, while not giving the effective Girling brakes, which nost level of rides, quite un-made the best of available road

by rough going. worried

prip in emergencles without ron- A rather extreme proof of the dering the car unstable.

came in the course An interesting effect of the big car's toughness whose steep-engine, and at the relatively low of exploring s ness called for a brisk approach. final drive ratio which suffices for A rather bad step" threw the tan car's 50-56 mph, cruising loaded cur a full foot in the air.

driving ordinary In speed, is that

nocded very and although the landing trump the brakes are not

of its much, there being quite consider- sprang the front sent aul guides the car made an easy climb able retardation when the throttle of the hill and was

way is closed.

clutch, axle and transmission. And the new Dodge Truck' many improvements give you Jower maintenance costa,

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regarded as the most important in the

the Lake of Man.

In the Pro

Professional Rave, the Norton machines were placed first, second and third; in the Amateur Race, first and second. In both cuses, 20 competition against all comers,

86 SURE....... GET A'DODGE!

Ninety-five American machines! and riders out of a total of 135 competed

in the Professional Race and 91 out of 123 in the Amateur. The real were made up of British

Continental

to the cab contour,

to

Speed-Up In Delivery Of Cars At Home

KIVU

and

An immediate speed-up in delivery of new cars is expect

machines and riders.

In

Reparated

KINULIRAO

the more since the won on

the first ed as a result of a concession

type used for normal exports.

out

Weight Distribution

in no

long

this

Body arrangements have been harmed. the Prefexxumal. Rare only

The simple suspension system, left almost to the last in this test 21 seconds

rigid axlest and report, although they in fact give three riders,

all of them beating fonnounced by Mr. George comprising the previous record average speed. Strauss, Minister of Supply. hydraulically damped transverse The number of muchlaes finishing

It may also incrisise from 75,000 leaf springs with its excellent, the car much of its merit.

characteristics.

Seats Four the course was surprisingly sinall 10 100,000 the number of cars;

CHORA-C O & N LTY frankly does not

in compare -an indication of the gruelling for the home market this year.

First and foremost, the two- ordinary road performance with nature of botn races.

Manufacturers will no longer modern IFS designs,

doar body is comfortably able to These successes are expected to

have to export 75 per cent of

are Individual result in a considerable increase

ironted seat four G-ft. men without cramp- This every quarter's production.

but very

the ing them, headroom at front and In Norton's

vales, all quota is to be calculated on à

12 amount of up-and-down motion on rear being

even if generous, races were longer

-probably

more than standard machines the months-instead of three months, normally Imperfect road surfaces elbow room to mou

Makers can

in future send is very much greater than is er- adequate. more than 25 per

Further, there is a cent of new parienced in most modern cara-

luzengo cars to the home market when care, it must be admitted, which locker of very useful dimensions, wheel and tools export trade temporarily declines, obtain smooth riding by much in which spare

jare housed below the flat floor. greater mochanical complexity. But they will have to make it Handling characteristics are also The hinges downwards and up later in the year to maintain influenced by the design of the may be held by adjustable straps the 75 per cent quota.

ruspension, and by the optional either partially open or flat to Mr. Gresham Cooke, director of overnize tyres Atted to the test support huge overloads. the Society of Motor Manufac~| car.

Internal furnishings are simple turers, sald recently: "We wel- As handed over to the tester and adequate without being ex- come the scrapping of the arbitr- the car had tyros mflated to travagant. nry allocation of only 25,000 cars equal pressures front and rear in

no interior light, but to the home market in 1949.

manufac- the

speedometer lamp also ili- "Last year we bullt 335,000 turer's recommendations, and when uminates spacious parcel shelf.

Twin cars. If we increase production to fully laden it was found that

windscreen wipers are of 360,000 It would mean 10,000 cara

followed

an intolerably erratic suetion pattern, working with a for home users. It we turned out course. It la the usual practice to vacuum reservoir tank, and even 400,000 cars there would be 100,- test cars in the condition in which in hard driving seldom stop work- 000 for home use."

they are submitted but in this caseling.—The Autocar.

MORE PAYLOAD. Front asia has been moved back

and engtos forward. Rear

EXIS CAITÉOS More payload.

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