1958-10-18 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958,

MIKE HAWTHORN, named two days ago Driver of the Year, reports on Britain's newest cars

1

I had the right answer for

the policeman...

I HAVE discovered a very strange fact about human nature. A man whom you can normally hardly bother to say "Good morning" to becomes inordinately near and dear when he is standing 10 feet away talking to a pretty girl,

•

I notice this especially at Grand Prix circuits, where, in all the sunshine and the glitter, pretty girls look even prettier.

I have discovered something else too. Whenever I return from Invesilgating this phenomenon I have usually cst my car. I invariably find it under a warming mass of specta- tore talking learnedly about suspension and gearboxes. It is one of the hazards of the trade.

But one doesn't expect to and a similar intense interest in one's private Transport. came is a shock to me the other day to come out of a restaurant and find I had lost my car again. It was the new Austin A40 and it was being mobbed by a pack of earnest business men,

And they have succeeded better than any other uttempt Tal that has yet been made.

facing car been problem has buyers for a long time. That is why the shooting-brake fashion has come into being.

down gap

WOV 704

BLISS IN

THE SIXTIES

ARE YOU FIT TO DRIVE?

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY By CEDRIC CARNE

You may be a skilful and experienced motorist but are you fit to drive? Physically fit, that is. Most people would vehemently deny that because of their health they are a danger in a ear. But consider a moment. Do you, for example, suffer from migraine? Or have you ever gone driving after taking some medicine?

Mrs Coleman was just goling "Ot course, some motorista to take lessons af a driving find driving no worry at nil, school, but sensibly she fast even with lorries to the left of came to me for B medical them, buses to the right of check-up.

them, taxis in front, and ambu- langes behind," I said. "For "Yes, I do suffer from head- these motorists it is a different aches,” she admitted.

matter."

Sometimes migrainous head- eches are associated with bright zigzag lines appearing before the cycs, Lines which are not in the Highway Code.

WHAT TO DO

One way to find out whothor you suffer from undue anxiety At other times, migrainous when driving is to take your vision is affected more subtly. pulse before you get into the As, for instance, where there is car and after you leave it. If Jus; a feeling of visual strange- your pulse rate has revved up ness. Indeed, of

festing the considerably, then it is kely eyes under such circumstances that driving is more of, a steali certain "blind spots" are dis- on you thân you think. covered of which the patient is not aware.

should know "Moro peoplo the facts," Mrs Coleman sald angrily.

to plan this car. If he planned ACCELERATION: 0-30 m.ph., the ash tray then he was worth 7,1sec.; 0-50 m.p.h., 21,2ace. . THEY CAN TELL every penny. It is the first The speedometer was slightly have ever seen on a popular cover 3 m.p.h. fast at 60 m.p.h.migraine occasionally I must because I suffer from would make pipe-smoker's

It can and yet uggare. be economic, cheap,

bo reuched cope with a family and all that through the boot. Unfortu-

fold So it monstrous mountain of luggage nately it doesn't

completely and leaves a

from any nasty Uttio tricks. The It refuses to be parted front.

between itself And the front engine is small and sounds as busy as a kee working on piece- seats.

But it is quite healthy, work, 1 can well imagine that if one were driving with

A mare verve and you can cruise blissfully in then caution a sudden braking the sixties.

For myself and I would give you a nasty head-

am not nche from all the luggage writing as a racing driver. I tumbling about your cars,

could have done with a slightly larger engine. The boot itself is reasonable, although the spare wheel is on

I can't see And the floor,

where

I

SO SKILFUL There was also a policeman, Solemnly he approached me. smiled nervously, and he lower- od his voice and said with dig- ity: "Tell me, sir, has it really got enough leg room?"

It has. For what is, after all a small car, four people could sit in it for hours with- out feeling that rheumatics

have set in.

But the brake is a compromise that doesn't really come off. An the unladen estate car is not

ideal vehicle for using to the office during the week. Lume look so ugly that it is no surprise that more

than one unsuspecting owner had been assailed by a strange and Indignant housewife för taking

long

arrive with the to

i found out a lot more as well groceries. about als brand-new car.

First of all it has charm, IL has not the grace of elegance. But it has the attraction of superbly skiitul example of functional design. It is a little revolution on its own.

LESS EXCUSE

TODAY'S ROAD TEST IS ON

The four-speed gear change la good. As it was a new car there was some stiftness and an extra

THE AUSTIN A40

else It would go but it does take

up a lot of room.

a

The A40 dues

coine oft. looks like a car, handles

a car, and yet has nearly space of a small van,

IL

like

the

1 got inside and I looked

is ulte are neat

eyes sparkle,

U50

She seemed really annoyed. very thought et unfit

The give up the idea of driving motorists, made her go rod in FUEL CONSUMPTION: Mrs Coleman cald sadly.

the taco. In short, she looked liko an experienced motorist

I also climbed out with an (driven thoughtfully), Almost acuto depression. My car 40 m.p.. leaked! After a rainstorm there was enough water in the lug- gage shelf, under the dash- board to keep a family of gold- fish in comfort for days.

"No." I said. "It doesn't mat- already. ter; provided you, lako certain FOR THE TECHNICAL: Precautions Engine, 4 cylinder, overhead

Fortunately most people can valves, capacity. 838 c.c...h.p. tell when a migraine attack it 34 at 4,750 r.p.m. Suspension, about to occur. Obviously it's front Independent, call springs; better to leave the car, in the rear, semi-elliptical, Price £450. garage when migraine is in the Total including tax £670 78.

offing. If a person is driving YOUR during an attack it is best to IT FIT 74 GARAGET Length, 12ft 0in; pull up as soon as possible.

4(1 m.p.h.; width.

119gin; height, Common Benao? Of 4ft 8in.

[but people silll drive after drinking too much, and where's the sense in that?

THE FIGURES

Now for performancez- GEAR SPEEDS: Top,

third. 58

inch on the floor-mounted geur m.p.h lever would be a blessing for second 35 m.p.h. I drove the A.40 far and the driver who appreciates a quite fast. It behaved well, minimum of physical exerelse. with one proviso. This cur Is designed to perform a multitude 1 found the visiblilty superb. of jobs. With cuch alteration of And, exceptional for u

distribution

the horn car British The finish around. good, the instruments

will behave differently. I don't healthily raucous, and attractive, there is as much the many drivers realise this fact. The variations are slight

THE ANSWER For far too long mall-car owners have had a thy, scaled- down version of a limousine. room This is about as allly and La expect, impractical es you would feel if you had had the full course of 12 treatments from a head-

B.M.C. have

very wisely planned a car entirely fresh for a very complicated Lask, To

shrinker.

one is entitled คร

tu

weight

the

but marked.

Sometimes it felt a The car has two doors which

titula some people regard As

light and sklitish A

at the back, blessing, No Intant can fall out, the body is stronger, and there is less excuse for raitles.

The back seat folds down to make a platform for stowing

at others, with the weight in the rear, the steering was some- what airy.

WILL

Remarks

SCORE CARD

car,

small Was

Polat

(Max.

femarks.

10.)

Polats (MAX. 10.)

Small but

nounced. A.40 will forgotten.

Every new car is a small sensation when it is first an-,

I predict that

the

be a sensation long

after many

of its rivals

Engine

Steering

Suspension

Cornering

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big-hearted Comfort

8

Traty.s fjour-seater.

Depends a

lot on the lood

What's

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Flutab

*

drop

מנס

I climbed out of it with one

But under a conditions the great impression. B.M.C. ca A.40 is stable, steady, and free ployed a famous Italian designer

A happy compromise Charitable to the bad driver,

Gearbox

*

rain water!

tempt you to show of

MR. ONASSIS OFFERS ARGENTINE

PARIS.

MR ARISTOTLE

ONASSIS has been busy while playing host to Sir Winston Chur- chill' aboard his yacht The Christina. I under- stand he has opened negotiations

with the

HIS IDLE TANKERS

PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM WHITE

Argentine Government tag of convenience”

to lease 10 of his idle

tankers to them.

stret sense of the word,

Pay in peso8

-Professor Professor

In the deliveries for which he will He is 40-year-old accept payment in Argentine Vittering Veronese. pesos, which he promises to re- Veronese labours under the dis- invest in the Argentine.

advantage that he is an active From Onassis's point of view, member of Catholic Action, such deal would serve JAG This will ensure that the Rus- most of the

will countries

Mr Onassis, of course, started hly career

The lankers would be leased having the double advantage of alan bloc and the Argentine and

the nationalised Argentine providing work for his idle Eastern he holds an Argentine passport to

The offer would involve the petroleum industry. Mr Onassis lonkers and at the same time against him, tankers

under coming

the has also offered to undertake perally check-mating the grow. Argentine Bag, which is not wa

Delrol ing the Argentine

with

ROUND-UP

campaign by scamen's Lutons all over the world against the lower wage rates paid on ships under flags of con- venience,

£28,000 job

General Salan, who was the Agurehead for the May 13 revolt and whose military talents are not highly viewed by his co- Ingites, is certain to return to Paris.

New spirit

Most of the paratroop colonels vote who played a prominent part in the revolt are now in the process General of being dispersed. Mossu will leave Algiers for an active milltary zone,

Picasso's home

A new split will be infused into military operations and

I

Course,

"In the some way people who take sedatives should use public transport rather than risk their Ilves and others, by driving 'themselves," I said.

THE GREEN LIGHT

Many people, though, don't reallas that they are taking sedatives.

tablets, They take or a tablespoon of this or that without realising that one of the ingredients in the medicines prescribed may be a hypnotic or a sedative.

There are other drugs too, which may lead to changes in one's driving judgment without the driver being aware of St. After taking such drugs, un- willingly a Mike Hawthorn may become as bad a driver ng that short-sighted cartooni character Mister Magoo.

INDEMAN

The King of Whiskies

SANDEMAY

SCOTCH

foresee a major campaign in the

Therefore, any driver isking medicines should consult his Kapylic Mountains which many G.P. Such a precaution may nelive French soldiers belleve save e life, though most people Sole Agents; DODWAL & CO., LAV, will break the back of the get the green light from their bellion in a month,

doctors.

Meanwhile both militarily and politically-especially after the reforms promised by General sie frot time in many years seems n Gaulle the initiative for the to be firmly in French hands.

YVES

IT'S SO EASY

There's certainly no harm asking," Mry Coleman Igroed,

Other people I advise not to MONTAND 13 making his music-hall como-occasional "black-outs,"

drive are those who suffer from

back in Paris this week after

a four-year absence.

QUOTES.

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And even sleep can bo danger. Remember that with the windows closed and the

В

He is back with 10 new heater on it is very easy to nod

which he has

such boon off. In

circumstances onge working on during that time. heavy meal before driving can

lead to na much trouble as Although Montand does not jug of alcohol.

"So you believe in moderate compose his own songs, he

fresh air for usually supplies their themes enting and in

Mrs Coleman to his team of 20 or so com- motorists,"

nodded. I received an invitation to a

poscra.

Other people I have dis- party which, come hell on high

couraged from driving at least water, I do not intend to miss. It is a house-warming party to

a time, especially if they livo in cities-are those who. be held in the 16th-century

adfer from a duodenal ulcer. Chaleau de Vauvenargues, Aix-

Driving in heavy trafle, even There is a job going in Paria En-Provence, which Picasso has The Communist news Film actress Danielle

Darrieux: - paper L'Humanito on the worth £28,500 a year plus an- just bought,

"Same for an experienced driver, can It such motorists other £2,850 expenses, plus a Picasso bought it last week Cadilloc car shown at the bachelors are too old to be be a strain.

maffer from duodenal pain, the house, plus ali the advantages from a French industrialist who Paris Motor Show: "It is the considered eligible and extra worry of driving in plates could not afford to maintain it. Notre Domo of General othem ara too eligible to boilko London counteracts all the The job is that of Director- He paid £400,000 for it, and Motors."

considered old."

good that diets and medicines General of UNESCO, and so low will probably spend another

(London Express Servics). em, do, has the reputation of the body £500,000 in renovating it and fellen that it finds it extremely making all of its 30 rooms habit-- eble stature to take its top post.

Beult to recruit a man of sult- able.

A near neighbour of Pleasso's will be his old friend, the Aus- fugees from France in 1940. Skippering the Canterbury, his was of this organisation are largely Douglas Cooper.

Some previous high executives rallon-born critic and collector one of the first six ships to land troops in the D-Day landings. responsible for this state of While the Allies alowly pushed the Nazis beck, überating Europe | affairs, for they have spread the It Was Cooper Captain Walker was daily ferrying home hundreds of troops for word

WARTIME MEMORIES CAILOR who brought thousands of the Britishi Expeditionary

Furce from the beaches of Dunkirk on the Channel ́ship "Maki of Orleans" — Captah Gordon D. Walker, of Newington, Tolkestone is making his lust trip this month us Commodore of the British Railways' Cros-Channel fleet, Captain Walker, øged 06, is retiring after 49 years at nça. He joined the railway ships soon after World War I and has been ferrying millions of passengers across the Strult ever since, except for part of the war yours. As Master of the Shepperton Ferry he rescued 2,500 re-

of diplomatic status,

concerning

a few hours' leave. When the Channel car-ferry service started monumental futility. in 1952 he took over the ferry ship Lord Warden, Since then the Lord Warden has carried well over a quarter of a million cars and a million passengers.

CROSS FOR Church

UNESCO'

It is an embarrassing silun-

UNESCO' pretensions to find

candidate in alght after inten-

who fret showed Picasso the Chateau and PichasÓ carly last week, bought it on the spot.

tion for an organtantion of Cezanne country WHEN the re-bullt church of St Clement Dunes in the Strand, Itself in. With no other suitable

His new properly, which com- 3,500 acres,' will givo

his villa 10.

London, is; consberated - on October 19, Air Training Corps Rive canvassing in many prises Cadet Alan Lowe, 10, of No. 77 Squadron, Cornwall, will carry, countries, especially Britain, it Picasso the kind of seclusion le the processional cross which he himself designed. It took him might have been expected that cannot find at 18 months to'complete the cross. Before making · e model he the present Director-General, Candies, studied many Cornish crosses. Later he helped with the casting the Texan professor Dr Luther and machining of the finished cross which is made of an alloy Evans, might have been aluminium, used extensively in R.A.F., and of Comish in. The elected for a second term. "Öringen, and Lemons" church has been re-built as an RAF. memorial,

LOOKING THE WRONG WAY

new The Chatena is beautifully altusfed in the midst of wild But UNESCO's executive board hills and amidat comtryside refused to recommend his which was often painted by tomination to the Genoral CeRAKO. Council.

In the 10th century tho

HE Agures of Gog and Magog, the two legendary guardians of London, which haye adorned. Guidball for centuries, are sald

In desperation the executive Chateau WES tho property by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Sir Dennis Hi Truscott, to be the board has finally recommended of the famous French essayist wrong way round. He was speaking at the 800th anniversary a successor, but it is so uncer and philosopher, The Marquess dinner of the Worshipful Company of Basket Makers at Ghuid- tain of its choice that it refuses De Vauymterguna. hal's new Livery Hail. He recalled how the now statues of the to make the name public.

two glanta were replaced after the blitz on the City of London. In fact, ita choice has fallen ● FOLITICAL NOTE: I fore- "Before their destruction, Gog was on the left hand looking down on an obscure Italian Social pen major military changes in] the Guildhall and Magog, on the right hand. Today they are in 1 Belance professor at Theo- Algeria following Cloneral de

gevores,” he said.

"logicat Beminary in Rome, Gaulle's referendum triumph.

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