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WHERE ARE BRITAIN'S RACERS?

By Courtenay Edwards

There were moments during recently 300-mile road race at Silverstone, near Towcester, when it looked na if a British driver would at long last roas into first place in a Grand Prix event in this country.

Driving one of the sleek Italian Maseratis, Reg Parnell at one tting seemed to have a very good chusce of being first man home, but later ho

had rear axle trouble and retired.

Then

there

was George Abe- cassis,

In his four-cylinder rub- bersprung Alta, which Was to many spectators, the best-looking car in the race. It is also Britain's one and only racing car of post- war design.

Although dogged by carburet-

tor trouble, Abecassis floished

seventh and averaged 74.07 m.p.h. He kept Arth

piace for nearly a third of the

the mce. And

there

was alwayn Bob Gerard to be reckoned with. 37-year-old Leicester This

certainly

of racing drivers.

ful

one

who drove

man

our

best

the low-slung Maseratis an

The

10

1K

He performed magnificently on Saturday to get into second place, unly 05 seconds after the colour-

Baron Emmanuel de In

one of to gain his first big racing average

speed of 77.31 mph. If Gerard had pulled it

off- and there was always a chance that

the high-reviving Masert! might pack up, as many of its type had done earlier-It would have been a double British vic- tory.

Ageing Models

For the Leicester man's ERA is as British as they moke 'em Twelve years old, it is true, but still a superb piece of mechanism to date with a genius that literally left a number of the 1040 Maseratis standing.

brought

up

NEWS AND VIEW'S

In appearance the Humber Super Snipe la impresalva,"with a modern frontal treatment

but restrained use of chromium.

NEW DEVELOPMENT OF

HUMBER SUPER SNIPE

positive

stop guards against unintentional engagement of ro- VOTES.

Synchromesh

performed. fine work during the and very in every aspect of the Protest on second gear.

war in a variety of vehicles

and where power

reliability were paramount needs.

all-size six-seater of inpres Briefly the current Super Snips sive and handsome appearance, completely equipped, and offering

parkling performance.

very largely a top gear car,

running on though racing cars. It is an engineer ratio of

a Anal-drive miracle that the ageing ERA's

exactly 4 to 1, it effortions continue to put up sich

a dne which gives

cruising. show.

in the 70 m.p.h-plus region.

There is little,

Increase

Yet Silverstone once again em phasised Britain's lack of modern

No one is certain that at next;

and

the

distinct

In engine and overall size the Humber Super Snipe is the largest British car

today at a homo market list price below £1,000. basic features this model is well proved, for it has been developed through the years; in its 1949 form it has undergone front-end styling changes, as well as becoming wider in the track for increased roominess of the body and re- ceiving mechanical improvements.

Synchromesh is applied to all Particularly well tried is the with variable ratio on full lock, is four gears on the Super Snipe, but the occasions for needing first robust 4-litre six-cylinder side- particularly free from friction. valve engine, a design which The engine is smooth and quiet would be very rare, and the car starts from rest without the least definitely has power, as is obvious

of the synchromesh road performance. Front as low

excellent kind incorporating baulk ม speed an X m.p.h, achieved

and gears gathered strongly yet amicothly the lover is moved in changing. smoothly on top gear, apcod is ing ring mechanism,

cannot be clashed howover quickly and with practically no pinking.

The driving position, is good, The Humbor

sweeps over the

with

well-raked steering column ordinary surt of gradient, treating

large-diameter thin-rim it as an acceleration test, or where wheel. There is comfortable sup-

slow climb

limb in necessary it will port from both back

rest and #ill hold comfortably on to top

iPhon

and

from an average- gear without

distrose.

height driver's point of view no A 1-in. 04 hill. regularly in-disadvantago attached to the seat cluded the test route was taken being of single-piece host half-way on top gear and from a separate type.

including the

It moven particularly easily sounding of a sharp corner at the when adjustment is required. Also and summit, with consummate case on ts sufficiently wide to render

gour of the four-speed box. the

the car a

a comfortabla six-seater Very fine average spoed por-if need be, or

to allow throe formances can be achieved without people to travel in front if they told

the driver feeling that he la nak are the only occupants. me at Silverstone that he is

Ease of confident the BRM-British Rac-l representing approximately 85

special effort and without getting in and out is equally easy Ing Motor-will be ready by m.ph. true spoed. then. But new racing cars usual- There is an appeal about the Ang distances.

On one occasion over

partment. ly suffer from teething troubles. masterful progress of a big car route 60

The hand-brake lever is on the The huge crowd of 120,000 or witch handles well that can bo

miles were covered in right extending from the floor, a more which went to Silverstone experienced with no other type of twenty-one minutes, representing movement. It operates powerfully one hour and 170. miles in one hour good, Arm control with a pleasing Interest in road

Jin Britain

an average speed of 55.6 The Super Snipe certainly comes

m.ph.

for holding the car on a hill, # very real thing.

into

It is particularly interesting and volves the category of big cars that

a alight reach forward At Silverstone and at Good handle well, and in this respect. handles well and retains pract of the way of the door opening,

Important that this Car зни

stiu when pulling it on, wood, in Sussex, Britain now sa well as in the riding qualities. fcally hns

two

excellent racing tracks the latest model strikes

Although the windscreen developed trom disused aero- being a distinct improvement over under which

with

In full quota of passengers, are not specially thin, no aw dromes.

conditions it whe Its predecessors. But the organisation of race-}

tried, as well as with light load interference with driving vision is The riding a soft and yet lovel

experienced and meetings at these circuits is not and almost unaffected by any detected in the cornering or steer- having a good view, of the right

No practical difference could be bor

vision over the bonnet satisfactory, the driver yet perfect.

normal road surface deterioration. ing characteristics with six people hand wing, while the left wing The Incident at Silverstone Rear seat comfort is highly com- in the car when

An Italian car ran off the mended by experienced passengers. track and into

Brakes ure safe not only in the can be seen by leaning over, and the crowd-in- Juring only a few people, as it by the vankeel single transverse available, but also in that braking t

Independent front suspension is sense that the required power is would be visible from the normal

seating position the

driving happened has caused the RAC leaf spring system, which on the is not easily applied too fiercely, of the windscreen instead of at mirror were mounted at the top no lile concern.

latest car has an increased number though the pedal pressure re-the bottom, where also it would Coming soon after the fatal of thinner leaves than previously. quired is at all times moderato, crash in the Jersey road race, it The road springs, front and rear, makes it imperative for the AC to examine closely their arrange- ments for protecting spectators.

year's Grand Prix we shall de- of mechanical effort right up to Anitely see the new BIM now the maximum speed, which can under construction in Lincoln-be and

a genuine 80 m.ph. on level ground, at a speedometer reading of 85-86 Raymond Mays, the ace British | of

the car tested. driver who is closely linked: On the "give" sections of a givo-

and-take

road the neodlo

on

was

with this co-operative project twles taken past the 00 mark becoming unusually tired over on either side of the front com

proves that the ore 21 public car.

is

NUFFIELD CARSTM HAVE HAPPY OWNERS

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Motors Ltd.

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Lateral stability for fast cor nering is extremely satisfactory and there is good sense of balance when cornering.

his

Д known

unimpaired performance

but

ja well ou

out

ano gaitored for protection against Group, the steering column gear

As on other cars from the Rootes more practical when a full load and and water and for retention change deserves high praise, and

is being carried

At other times it gives a com of lubricant.

is one of the very best of its kind prehensive view behind. A revers- in existence.

ing light operates when reverse The movements of the lever

gear is light and the driver does not find Aro

The instruments. which are himself in doubt as to which getcaring whool, include that valu- caally road through the Tapoked he is engaging, in spite of the absence of spring loading on the able provision, an engine thermo lever in the neutral position, Ametar, as well as an ammeter and

oil pressure gutirë.

Smooth Engino The steering, which is the latest Burman re-circulating ball pattern

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stadul

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Batteries

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12 Polder Bla Tal. 20001.

Clock Mounted

A clock of larger size than in now troal is mounted separately, but included in the illo ination

night

There is the appreciated touch of the British quality car in the

walnut veneering of the

facia

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panel and of the door cappings, as (Sales & Service Agents for BOVEB, LAND ROVER

also there is in a more important

direction in the quality of the fine leather upholstery and the soft sushions And back rents,

Dotall fittings have been studied,

and there is no muggestion

of

their having been akimped in number or quality in the interests of keeping the prios down,. a. r6- mark while applies, Indood, to the Super Snipe as a whole.

Ventilation is looked after efficiently by hinged panels in the forward door windows, addiijon

handlo-controlled

drop

to

the

Boctions, and by bingod quarter windows which met as extractors.

ther

2004 is fitted. A fur "point in that when any door is opened the roof lamp is switched

on.

In spite of its generode seating and leg room the overall length of the car is by no means excessive and It can i be housed within a com- paratively modest gazugo,

The hand

·boam in wuffl- elently long for speech in the 70% at night, and also 'bas a good width of éprend. Twin windtons horne give a panstrating and alsa pleasing" note the Autopak,

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