1961-07-08 — Page 12

THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1961.

BREAKTHROUGH

AVERY so often a car

EVER

is produced by the British motor industry that is so advanced, so revolutionary that it can only be described as-Way Out!

Just Buch

a car is the new

Ford Classic-and it's right at the top of the list of curs most likely to succeed in 1901.

We have walled breath- lessly since the ear was first Introduced over i wu inoniles ago. for manufacturers lo decide on

retull prices the Grat

of the various marks of Classic. I can New

reveal these prices. Without question the Consul in going to be the best value for motoring money that has hit the market for at lenst n decade.

The two-door standard model is to cost only 1625 and with

C210 179. 6d. purchase tax its total will be only £744 17. Ext.

Wonderful

With the zame wonderful *Q}} the four-door

dard indel wBl enst only £545, and with purchase tix a total of £773 49° 34: The two- door de luxe model will also cost £773 49. 2, and the four- door de luxe mudel £565 plus 10. purchase tax, £230 10.

asking a total of only 280L 10. 100.

I know this car well. I have driven it un road and Face truck, Hence

regard thesu

final announcements in Britain today as events of intense news value in motoring.

What has the Consul Classic 315 got that makes soul standing?

bright

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First in a series to keep you abreast of all that's modern in motoring

Why

I regard

the CLASSIC as a big news

the

event of the

First, it is n

By BASIL CARDEW

entirely new car, designed for a new market.

the potential gives

OWHET mare luxury and more choice similarly prited nudel. It styling is undeniably advanced and elegant, and lis performance easily makes it a clons leder.

thum

uny

Super-sports

There had been tolk of n new Ford for many months- in pubs, in clubs, in railway carriages, everywhere, motoring won discussed, in foot.

Summe

ICED

COFFEE

'NO CAR HAS EVER BEEN KNOWN TO SUFFER SUCH PUNISHING TESTS'

Authoritatively

model

WIS

the described

new

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super-sports car, a rear-engined replacement for the Popular, and a four-door Anglia. Nune of these guessen WAH correct. But instead there ene this brillant new car with so inny new points.

For instance, La the first medium-priced eur to incor- porate twin headlamps.

The headlamps are of a new design"scaled bear," The complete sealing means that the inflectors .cannot deteriorate and that focusing can be per- imanently set.

Dipper

At night I found that when I pruned the dipper on the door the outer headlamps dipped and the inner Headlamps wend

out.

Then the Consul Classic is the first British car of its class to be offered with disc brakes

as alundard equipment. I found

when driving at the maximum

80 milles of over tipeed

ari

our the clse brakes on the front wheels and Din. drums on the rear stopped the ear with per perfect balance.

There was no sign of Judder or snatching the best braking for near of this size I have known.

Design

In fact, safety is the keynote of the Classle.

I cruised for hours on the M1 at 10 miles un hour with little sense of speed and no drum- ming or wind noise,

I found the Cinssfe's com- pletely new 1,340 e.c.. 50 brake horse power engine the smoothest and qufetest clas.

in it

n

Into its design went Ford only innovations, including three-bearing, hollow cast crank-shaft, fully machined combustion chunibera, separate inlet and exhaust ports to each

year

cylinder, and three-points rub- The

ber suspension Ecar-box.

and

of engine

tho These are

same well- thought-out features that have made the Angia's smaller but similar engine the world's most successful racing.

In Formula

Junior

A further point was that the Classic's Arst-class performance stemmed trom the sparkling

new

magic of the Cardew

engine, achieved by the name

ise of a "longer throw" crank. shaft and shorter connecting rods than those of the 997 c.. Anglia engine.

The power plant remains very much over-square the bore being 00.96. m.m., while the is increased to 06.07 stroke m.m.

With the standard compres- rion ratio of 8.5 to 1 the Classic's engine. produced 68 b.h.p. but there iso lower compression. (7.5 to 1) cylinder head for people living in places fuels are not where premier avaliable..

Outstanding

found On my long tests I that the new car, which weighs only 184 ewt-an outstanding power to weight ratio able to touch a maximum of 83 miles an hour in top gear un a straight road.

was

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Touring consumption of petrol averaged 32 to 35 miles gallon, which gave me a range of 300 miles with a nine-gallon fuel tank.

IF YOU conjuro with the magic hame *m o to

racing

Моль,

ham, Ireland

of

r -

Brab-

that 11. tho amagination of

the public. But wbare motoring

the business. of tho family the Cardew.

firal name that springs to mind is Basil

ALWAYS It is Cardew who enjoys' the confidences from Inside the Industry that keep, you in touch with the long- distance' probing.

ALWAYS Rs Cardew, interpreting and absorbing the lessons that turn a 2-1ltre racing "bomb" into the well-bred family car or temOITOW.

ALWAYS, when the news in motoring is BIG, 10% Cardow who 19

that's there. And

what makes difference....

cavered well over 1,000,000 punishing test miles.

tho

one-minute intervals for wooks. So the car was brought up the hard way.

The outclue thape of the Clasele a clean, simple flow to it which the Ford stylista esl weet and low."

It retains the revolutionary raked buck window which has proved such a success with the Anglia. This has many advan tages. It eliminates reflectionn

and alays clear of show and rafndrons. It solves the problem of combining Q good-looking rear roof-line with abundant headroom for the back-seat passenger.

And, in addition, I protects the rear passengers from the nun and makes room for the fabulously large bout to be fitted with a long, wide-opening

Jick.

flow big is this boot space? Another fucredible feature of the ear it has 21

feet of cubic luggage space which is more then most six-sealers can boast. Another Arst-for-Fords feature Is the

varlablo-speed electric wiper which you can adjust to swish peros9 your windscreen at any rate you choose.

Inside, "the comfort Includes split bench front seats with ʼn total of Bin.. of fore-and-aft adjustment; and even in the back position there is a lot ut leg room for rear passengers,

So far as accommodation is concerned the 4-5-seater Classic

fills the gap between the 4- seater Anglii and the 0-seater Zephyr and Zodiac.

Brilliant

North America. Other tests All round the world the news included encasing a gearbox in is spreading of this brilliant of carbon dloxide, new conception of a family sized

which subjected. 11 to 82degs, of motor ear, cheap to buy, cheap frost, to test the durability of to run and wonderfully preco- gearbox oli seats in cold cious in its five big "points- climates. Weeks of starling looks, confort, sturdiness, under these conditions followed, performance and safety.

In Africa one of the prole- block Ypes was driven through 23,000 miles of desert and bush at an average speed of 52 miles an bour in temperatures often pu- proaching 100 degs. Fahrenlit, In Sweden, severe testa were carried out in temperatures of 42dege. of frest.

And the car, for its size, Is on Hvely as any I have driven.

For instance, from a standing start and loaded I reached miles an hour through the gears in 21 seconds and is sprightl

An engine, gearbox, and gear- In fact, the Classic has a god- ess accelerated it from 30 to

shift assembly

The Ford were mounted mother everywhere. 50 miles an hour in top gear in

extensive with

on special equipment which, is ear which you can get serviced fron Mexico to Maure- fraction under 13 seconds. As a prelude to

the engine running. tania from South America to mountain changed the geara mechanically Sweden. And like all products from trials over. rugged the Fard stable

In Central Europe, the Consul country

many thousands of fknes a day. Classic 315 had to win its spurs heavily disguised models were This was carried on continu-

for. thousands of, cualy for months on end: against the world's toughest hanmered

the terrain, long before it was al- miles at top speed on

German autobahns. lowed on the production imes.

Húndbrake cables were R A further 20,000 miles was ranged on tust. rig. which clocked up in various parts of operated them automatically at

In the two years preceding Its public appearance this car

From the Model "T"

2

MY VERDICT: This is prob- ably the toughest car Fords have ever produced, the best value, and the most reasonably priced. It is bound to win world success.

==fLondon Express Service),

to today's new car Design matters so much!

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by RAYMOND HAWKEY

Perfect Coffee Instantly

Chase & Sanborn

INSTANT COFFEE

STAGE 2

STAGE 3

this

How I would rate

IF

shape of the car is a reflection of the changing

works and roads underneath.

For instance, the first cars had big wheels because big wheels roll better over rough ronds, The works were exposed because anything was liable to go wrong at any time and the driver had to be able to get out and get under fast,

Important

But an important change was

down as mass production

best (Blare 3).

Fot

gang-pes were curing under way.

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STAGE 5

leap forward.

Catching up

tu

Car

[F it were not for the fact that each has four with the body fitted round But with a smaller engine and end

mudguard chould Bu There was now enough power wheels, who would think that they were

lt,

rising speeds, wind-cheating be- -separate at all,

for, the new engines to go os came important.

No reason, either, for, the aid fust as Britain's roads allowed. related-the first car and the last? The changing

So the Fords of the Jate heavy chassis frame. The 'thirties had rounded-off noses body could now be made to carry and smoothed-out falls, geiting the lood chassia had pre- somewhere near to the raindrop viously taken. shape which cheats the wind

But today roads are catching The result was the slab-sided cara anall box in front for up with cars; motorways have the engine, a big box for the the designers,

put the challengu back In the late forties and early passengers, a small box behind outline is smoothing out again

So the 'fifties (designers, still trying to for the luggage (Stage 1). By the thirties Fords were moke motoring more ecnifort-

(Stage,5), os on the new Classic. boasting of the £100 car able, adopted Independent front Fashion and ease of pro-

The shape of the car to (Singe 2). And to provide springing cheaper motering the engineers

duction combined to give come in the shape of the bad to think in terms of smaller By the Model T stage, how right down to rarth and the car engines, using less petrol,

In most systems this demand- these wide cars # blunt motorway cruiser; the car. ed springs, swing suns or other nose and tail us well. Not where 80 In silence la n ever, the works were reliable and settled bettween the wheels,

up 'between gadgole high enough to bo boxed In and instead of riding on lep..

Moreover,

the so good for streamlining, necessity; where there just when customers wheel and the bönnet. wheels were belag made amal- it was stil the same were wealthy and engines

But for most drivers it didn't gusta't be any wind noise, ler because betior springs, tyres, basic structure under the were big, nobody minded Mudguards grew

becauso wind noise means arut roads were. Avallable. By the 1920's and early Thieltes the steel shin-, u ulg, thirsty had too much wind reaxtance so high and wide, in fact, that ideal for very high-speed motor wasted.

that the high, DUATE

car wider to make room for them... fronts and backa were not lost; speed and petrol engineers had brought motorists engine bolted to

a frame, and used too much petrol.

higher and, maiter unduly that the square

there was no reason why bennet, ing"

(London. Express Service),