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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

This is the frame of the dissel truck made entirely by the South China Iron Works, Ltd. The truck, the first to have been constructed in the Colony, 'will be one of the entrants in Sunday's Car and Hill Climb Rally organised by the Hong Kong Automobile Association. It Is powered by four-cylinder diesel engine developing 65 horse-power.

APC official urges oil, car industry agreement

General J. H. Doolittle, Vice-President of Shell Oil, who is now visiting Hong

Kong, recently addressed the API Lubrication Committee and au tomotive engineers in Detroit on the subject of automobile oil chan- ges and gasoline octanes.

To the API General Doolittle recommended that both industries," the oil

industry and the automobile industry, adopt-an: arbitrary figure of 1,000 miles between crankcase drains. He said:

Popular convertible

coachwork

Although Switzerland does not produce a car chassis, nevertheless it possesses coachbuilding industry which continues to thrive.

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Moreover, at the recent Genova Salon, there are also usually to be found a number of Italian-bullt bodies, and this year is no ex- ception. The coachwork exhibits are, therefore, one of the attrac- tions of the Salon.

Before describing some of the more interesting coachwork ex- hibits.

It will not be but of place

of

to generalise to some extent. Thus the obvious popularity bodies such as the cabriolet, which forms an open tourer when the head and side windows are lowered or gives all the weather protection and comfort of saloon when It

closed,

can but be noticed.

The heads of these bodies are so made that, the fabric sits tight- ly over the framework without sagging when the head is erected, presenung a clean outline which does not apoll the general appearance,

When the head is lowered it folds neatly away, flush or prac tically so with the top line of the panels, and is covered by a well- tailored envelope which helps to preserve the good appearance.

the

In the vast majority of cases, bodies of this type have only a single wide door at each side, usually binged at the front edge so that there shall be no danger of a door insecurely latched fly. Ing open under wind pressure, to common danger of other traffle and of the occupants of the cor,

It is noticeable, tos, that saloons of two-door type shown by number of exhibitors, these being very similar in pro- portions to the cabriolets.

car.

are

"Although working toward they in miles or tune for all driving on through increase in com- same end in striving to give the conditions. Such a staklard would pression ratios obtained solely at

The specialist coachwork sec- public what it wants and demands admittedly be too severe for ideal the expense of increased octane in the economical trouble-free driving conditions, and too short numbee feels will not give operat- tion was not very extensive this operation of its cars, both indus- for cold weather, stop and go, os ing economies commensurate with year, but inspection of the tries aro at times guilty of con- for dusty driving

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fusing the pisblic. An example of "lü order, however, to establies the antleipated increases in furi hibits, coupled with the study of

conis.

the specialist coachwork on the this in the matter of oil change a starting point would like to "Until better fuels are econo-manufacturers' stands, revealed intervals about which the public recommend an arbitrary figure of inically: available and we must two interesting tendencies. are thoroughly confused. This 1,000 miles betwem drains which walt on technologieat progress for results from the endeavour of would be increased, or decreased, thom-Increased performance had both industries to over-simplify according to driving conditions best be obtained through further

very complex and dimcult and the results of a joint inver- engine refinement." problem.

tigation by both industries.

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GAS-TURBINE

"A quick glance at the manu- Regarding the problem of fuel- facturers recommended "changoing cars of the future....... In tho periods for 20 1960 cars shows 14 event there should be a .com-FUEL DEVELOPMENT different recommendations rangparatively wide usage of very Ing from 300 miles to 5,000 miles lgh compression, ralic engines between changes.

an extremely

requiring

high

Marked swing

First, there is a marked swing away from bulbous lines, enclosed wheals and wide, highly decorat- ed radiator grilles.

Ghia and Slata, two Italian protagonists of that school, have reverted to normal wheel open-

gs and conventional radiator grilles on their latest models, and other leading coachbuilders show- ed considerable restraint in the use of decoration.

Secondly, there seems to be a growing

demand for convertible

Appearance of the Rever "The petroleum, Industry's re- octane number fuel, General Company's gas-turbine-driven car emphasizes the importance commendations vary from 500 Doolittic declared that: miles for the initial drain to The problem of higher octane of a research campaign rated 1,000 miles, 2,000 miles and up to numbers is not one of having the top-priority at many of the oil twice a year for drains there- know-how to make them-the after.

problem is to be able to obtain industry's research stations coachwork, and new examples "If the motorist is not already sufficient quantities of higher evolution of improved gas- ore appearing at frequent in-

tervali.", sumclently confused, other agen-octane materials from the crude, turbine fuels.

Manufacturers who eles with no obligations for the without extreme and exorbitant

have adopted integral saloon con- performance of either, the car or waste, and at a cost which will

struction therefore take care to the motor oil have often reaped make the use of these fuels

make special chassis available to large uhounts of publicity from ccanomically feasible.

the coachbuilders: rather uniqye'toll change recom-

mendations, with which neither! *Industries concur,

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Difficult task

Development needed

Among the principal objects of this campaign is production of suitable inexpensive gas-turbine fuels from residual heavy oils re- maining after crude oil's distilla-

Both industries must continuation.

basic pressings of the integral These are sometimes formed of

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to devote themselves to the deve Major task is to reduce these saloon in heavier gauge material "For either industry arbitrarily probably much better fuels and their conversion into sufficiently reinforcements is an outstanding lopment of better producte jand oils viscosity, which complicates and with the addition of suitable

The spraying into to attempt to establish the proper performance than we know today fine droplets, for

example, and specialist conch- oll chango Interval for, a givenand, that they will be obtained the combustion chamber. engine and motor oil for the on a basis which will be econo- Although this problem is as yet work also appeared for the ârst average driver is a dificult mirally feasible to the average for from being completely solved, time on the Peugeotbuilders also

encouraging success has already not impossible, task. However, I motorist.

Continental 'seem to be uniting to eliminate "But, to my mind, the first logi- been obtained.. am confident that by working to

If at the same time, the fuel wings which enclose

the wheels gether by undertaking co-opera-cal step toward the achievement tive tusta representative of the of that goal, and one which will consumption of the gas-furbine by means of side valances, or actual driving habits and condi- make its attainment casier and car engine is reduced seems pats," as they have been term- tions of the average motorists in more practical, is for the petro-confidently expected by the Rover ed. This presents them with the the many varied totalities that eum and automobile industries Company-motorists should en-problem of trying to find the best

outstanding: performance) shape for the a reasonable salisfactory optimum to work together now to increase joy

lower edge of the 15 often a dificult solution with variables can be the efficiency of the conventional at reasonably low running costs. wing, which achleypdeur d

engine operating on today's pre-It only remains for the Rover matter because of the fact that tyre in I have pointed up the impos-mlum grade economical fuels. Company and the oil industry to the position of the

varles wing sibility, of selecting one defluits "At present, further improve achieve success at about the same relation to tho and invariable train period either ment in specife fuel consumptime.

What may, therefore, appear harmonious when the Car is empty may not look, so well when the body a lowered by its full complement of "passengers.

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In external shape there is no great change to record. The. full- width front is almost-de-rigueur." and front.wings lend to run right [back into the rear wings, which to extreme cases become hardly more than blisters along the Tower body sides, «

At the nose of the front wing. the head Jamp will be mounted, a variation being that it may be faired Into the wing valance be twash the crown of the wing and the radiator arillo

whose

coachbuilder work has on previous occasions bean) amatier: for appreciative comment la Graber, who, this year, steals the limelight with s beautthilly proportioned Bentley Mark VI cabriolet VATER (Thid fn/a two-door. tinIti. led in light sway with grey leather

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