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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1940.`

Firestone De Luxe CHAMPION

THE SAFEST, LONGEST WEARING TIRE CEVER BUILT-

THE ONLY TIRE THAT 15 SAFETY PROVED ON THE SPEEDWAY FOR YOUR PRO- TECTION ON THE HIGHWAY

For 25 consecutive years, Firestone tires have been on the winning cars in the in- dianapolis Sweepstakes. This grueling 500-miles race, where average speeds are 121 miles per hour, grounds for

the proving tires. Firestone

finished the

Every car that

race last year was equipped De Luxe Firestone wilts

Champions,

Made a ENGLAND, GAA and CANADA

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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

You Should Know This!

Safe Driving

One of the sale factors In operating

know your car I in how far will it travel before you can bring it to a complete stop after the brakes have been up- plied.

Having full knowledge of this Rafe operation of the car will help you in bringing it under control in case of emergency,

On a good dry road, the dis- tances required to stop a en: surprising, especially when, at high speed and this may necount far the majority of accidents and collisions that occur.

If a car is travelling nt the speed of 20 m.p.b. it takes at

least 40 to 45 feet before it comes to a standstill by the time you apply the brakes. At 40 m.p.h. a distance of 120 to 130 feet is required and at 60 m.p.h., 225 to 256 feet are required.

Naturally the brakes are not applied from the moment you re- ceive the signal to alop. There is a perkut after

the you realise danger and before you suddenly "step on the brakes. This Inter- vol is called the Re-netion time and it is approximately 34 second. This means that at 20 m.pat. you w travel the distance of 22 feet before you apply the brakes. The

higher the speed the greater the distances before the brakes are set. At 40 m.p.h. the car will reach 44 feet and at 60 m.p.h. a distance of 60 feet will be covered before the brakes are applied.

These Aguros apply to good conditluned dry road. Under wet or slippery road, greater care and allowances should be made to bring the ear to a slop,

Another factor in safe driving is the recognition of all road signs giving Important directions. Such signs should be observed

the very

carefully. Knowing shape and mork of these signs means help and you will be pre- pared to act before you are near enough to read the letting.

Get fully aquainted with the road code, (Behind the Wheel) the Traffic Signals given by Police constables, and signals to be given by you must be clear and correct-

ly.

Dangerous Driving

If you can afford a car, which is a luxury to 90 per cent of the public, you need not lear along the road at 80 m.p.h. scattering and strewing death all around

you.

Remember, a car at 60 m.p.h... means 100 feet a second. Are your reflexes good, if so, how good are your brakes?

Safety Glass nowadays is by no means a prevention of getting cut up when an accident occurs. So every time you speed around a concealed bend, hit upon a slip- pery road, step on the gas harder than you should, drive with your reaction slowed down by a drink, or two, or follow other cars ahead too close, you're taking one of the most dangerous chances of in- tense agony and sudden death. (From The Hong Kong)

Motorists' Guide

To Be Continued

GD18

The Singer "BM 1600," which has made its appearance fatHong Kong, seats six persónu.com - fortably and features several advantages over the pre-war designed model.

Fuel Economy, Interior

With Singer Roominess With

By Our Motoring Editor

The Singer "SM 1500," latest British post-war designed car to arrive in Hong Kong, was tested recently by the "China Mail" and found to be an ex- cellent all-round car with fuel economy and interior roominess its chief features. Its price 'here is HK$9,800,

One of the most pleasing features of the "SM 1500," for which China Motors are the local agents, is the fact that the complete car has been de- signed as an entity, and that it does not contain any modifications of pre-war designs or units. The engine is of 1,500 e.r. and voupled with long

multi-leaved

comfor

Compression, Hydra-Matic

In Hudsons

News is sprouting.out of the auto industry these days like crops in the field under the hot sun. Developments are coming und in sales, manufacturing engineering spheres with equal impartiality.

in itself new, employing. how-rear springs, ensures a ever, the already well-established table ride and, as we mentioned over-head

design, before, first-class road holding. camshaft

Gear change und the other which has been л prominent

more normal controls are mounted feature of Singer engines.

The unit, developing 12 horse on the steering column, and

parking brake power, is fairly powerful and lever-type although of four cylinders, very mounted under the scattle, leav- smooth. The can possESICH fquring the driving compartment free forward geors and one reverse. of obstructions.

rev

many

thus

the

three

One of the most significant de- curred late in June when Hudson Motor Car Co. let it be known

"SM the

synchromesh with

gears on Bench-type senting in front, as

compared

bucket-typo second, third and top.

Driven on the Colony's roads, sculs in earlier models, provires that it is ready to build high com

pas- pression engines whenever sult- the Singer revealed excellent occommodation for road-holding qualities, while the sengers if necessary, while the abla petrol might become avail- steep rear offers comfortable room for able and is ready to do so with identical block it is now engine negotiated

the thus making gradients in third without

any three.

using. 1500 a six-seater. signs of pinking.

Only on aluminium head, with Other Items The steering proved itself en-

combustion chambers revamped, tirely positive with n good self-

Other imNIS of miscellaneous will be required to bring ratios centring nction. Matching the

equipment worth mentioning in up to as high as 9.3 to 1, the level steering,

the brakes have been clude a mirror which gives an generally spoken of. for use with planned for moderate pedal excellent view through the wide 100 octane petrol, which is the pressures, and the car tested by rear window, ventilating panels best grade being considered today the "China Mail" was found to on the leading. edges of the doors for volume output by the petrol- have very reliable brakes,

(of the type which can be swung

eum refiners. Considerable Advance through an angle greater than 90 An aluminium head is already degrees so us to deflert air into an optional feature for Hudson, So far as the engine on le car in very hot weather), a providing 7.12 to 1 ratio on the cerned, there is no doubt

thatoare.

recessed petrol filler cap covered Super Six engine, 7 to 1 on the the SM 1500 unit, although fol-E

a lockable panel and head-Eight. The standard head for lowing previous Singer practice temps entirely adequate for

1. the both series provides 6.5 to lamps many respects, represents a

A fascinating side of the Hud- considerable advance en former peed of the cr

The Smiths interior heater. Is

announcement is that in types.

very

sensibly mounted under the making it, company engineers Compared with the earlier bonnet so that the noise of its took definite issue with others in 14-litre engine it has a large motor is virtually inaudible to the industry who have said, that bore and a shorter stroke,

the occupants of the саг. The only overhead valves were ap- reducing the piston speed con-arrangement of ducting, too, is plicable in the higher compres-

good, fresh air being drawn in sion ranked. Another notable alteration is

from

Hudson's point "high up (out of the

powerplant is that

is no separate external dust) behind the front there

radiator L-head arrangement. Special inlet manifold, distribution being i

heads have been fitted to it, as is. within the head casting. As be Motion of the car alone is suf- which make possible 9.3' to 1 ratio fore, the inlet valves are on the clent to provide a considerable and numerous stages In between near side, with the exhausts on volume of fresh air without use and at the same time display alacrity of the off side, the sparking plugs of the motor, but the supply is a most remarkable being arranged so that combus-controlled both by a "throttle" performance. tion shall start from the hottest on the actual air intake and by

that performance part of the chamber,

means of sliding panels under the might well be sacrificed in actual The suspension of the "SM facia board.

production, said the Hudsonites, 1500" leaves little to bo desired, The Usual demisting aper- They pointed out that if the full employing a specially developed tures are provided adjacent to economy values Inherent in the cailspring-wishbone lype Inde- the screen.

high compression engine-high pendent System in, front which, At the rear of the body is an octane gas combination are to be exceptionally large luggage bool,

realised, rear axle ration must access to which is obtained by be adjusted to lessen some of the swinging the tail panel upwards. performance qualities. "But," sald Stuart G. Balts, company vice-president, "the American public seems to lean toward per- formance rather than economy. That would likely be the way we'd go today if we started into production, although it may be The Renault 49, France's different tomorrow!"The Motor. economy car. is soon to make

siderably.

THE S.M. 1500 SINGER.

SM1500

Built with skill-Offered with pride.

The S.M. Fifteen Hundred contributes to distinguished motoring all over the world.

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(For Hongkong & China)

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New Renault Coming Soon

Some

its appearance in Hong Kong. It possible to place all seats be

Possessing a Tour-cylinder en-tween the wheels for cushioned gine situated in the rear, the new riding comfort Renault is capable of doing 50 The roomy Interior of this intles per gallon. Quiet, both in light car is as much a feat of motor and body, the car is easy engineering design as is the good to look at and easy to drive. performance of the car,

which Individual wheel. suspension, The Renault 148, for combined with the concentration China Motor Agencies 'and' Sales of weight in the rear, add to the Company are the local agents, is riding comfort of the Rennult expected to arrive in the Colony 49. The motor-in-the-rear makes shortly.

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