1928-03-28 — Page 9

"WHIPPET

As a result of more economical. packing methods, we are able to announce still further price reductions, as from March 19th, 1928.

The “WHIPPET” Model "98* stands alone in car "value for .1928.

GILMAN & 00., LTD. (DÜBO MOTOR (0,LTD.

Hord Koso.

KOWLOON.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28th, 1928.

MOTORING NOTES

A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.

Motor Notes Taxi cab Venture for Shanghai-Plan to regulate Honking in Manila-Easier Motor Driving-Rubber Replaces Springs on Auto-U.S. Auto Production Decreasing Light Lorry Costs-One Hand Driving at 220 H.P.

MOTOR NOTES. TAXI-CAB VENTURE FOR

testimony to the

Superiority of the BRITISH

MORRIS

"With regard to the Cowley,

I can assure you that I never want to drive anything better, and it is my intention immedi- ately I arrive in Bonbay to purchase another one.

I might mention I have had a lot of experience, on the other side with American cars, but I am certainly going to swear by Mr. Morris's machine.

facsimile of letter

exciter

THE above letter addressed to a Morris Dealer by a gentleman who has had wide motoring experience on

on both sides of the Atlantic provides

a very vainable hint to everyone about to buy a car.

THE PACKARD PLANE MOTOR.

NEW YORK.

"SHANGHAI.

FLEET OF FIFTY CABS,

"

A bulletin inued by the National | PROMISED IN NEAR FUTURE. Aeronautical Association shows

that the Packard 600-horsepower Within the next two wouth the airpinne motor ranks Art. 53 Shanghai public will have opportu- border of wor'd's recod

nty of utilizing the services al 80 It is credited with nine world's tax-cabe with meters. Three years records, and the same motor used ago a Hong Kong corporation at as a marine power plant holds a tempted to introduce taxi-cabe into world record for boats of any size Shanghai, but failed. Now the Yel or description for 150 mies. This low Taxi Co, Fedoral ine, pro engine is seo oficially credited | posse to place into service 50 with twenty American records.

vehicles, each absolutely new, and to provide means of transportation, PARKING BRAKE FOR FORD cheaper and more efficient than

CARS.

ever before has been offered the Shanghal public. The care will be the modern Citroëne, :

DETROIT.

The Ford Motor Company issued the following announcement as

Dearborn:

"To meet the technical require ments of a few States, the Ford Motor Company is planning to equip all new Ford cars and trucks with a separate parking brake. The brake is on the transmission chaft and is of the two-shoe con tacting self-energising type oper- nted by a band Jever, which will be Located in the centre of the car Eightly forward of the gear shift.

Provision also is being made to install in care and trucks not so equipped which already have been delivered to dealers, company em ployees and a few outsidere,"

MORE CONVENIENT.

Disgusted Motorist: Lend me a shoulder, will you!!!

Gosh, aint gonna try to push it clean to a garadge, be ye 1.

"No, if I can get it just as far as that cliff, that's all I ask "--| The Motor..

TAKING THE HEAVY BURDEN FROM THE HORSE.

One still hear Tumours in some quarters of a contemplated return to the employment of horsed trans- port in England for short distance hauls and where the effects of traflo congestion are making themselves felt to s severe degree, but it is well-nigh impossible to discover authentic cases of returns us made; in fact, all figures relating to the employment of horses. appear to show that their number is steadily decreasing.

“WHIPPET ”

REDUCED PRICES FROM MARCH 19TH, 1923.

CHASSIS TOURER

ROADSTER

Солсн

COUPE

SEDAN

CABRIOLET COUPE

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

Hono Kosa.

H.K. $1,325.00

1,550.00

1,720.00

1,850.00

1,850.00

1,950.00

1,750.00

DURO MOTOR CO., LTD. KOWLOON.

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EASIER MOTOR RUBBER REPLACES This device has one steel dae

DRIVING.

STANDARD CONTROLS.

MOVE BY MOTOR TRADERS.

SPRINGS ON AUTO.

13. LATEST INVENTION OF LAWSON ADAMS.

LONDON, March 17th."

mounted on the frame of the auto- mobile. Another disc similar to the first je connected to the end of the arle by a heavy steel arm. Both diu are toothed, the teeth meching to similar teeth on a soft rubber cushion which it in between the twa discs when they are bolted together.ne

A pleasure trip over the roughest

As the car pamen over ruts or country fond, chuck holes at every For some time motorists have been six feet, minature mountains and irregularities in the road, this rub- wondering when car manufacturer-valleya and nary a bounce or jolt, bar cushion absorbe the impact

son Adams, British engineer, a sat in an auto without springa!

from the teeth of the two steef:

of two steel discs enclosing a rub-holed road, eene equipped with

The latest invention of W. Law. disos.

her cushion, it is claimed will make these springs travelled 40 mues an such a trio possibly.

hour in comparative ense

ers in England would decide on a standard position for the controls, particularly with regard to the accelerator pedal, and now a lead has been given by the Society of Motor Hanufacturers and Traders who represent the intereats of the trade in England.

employed.

Mesers. H. S. Honigsberg & Co., agents for the Citroen, cat in commendation that the accelerator This body has just issued a re Shanghai, realizing the need for first class cars, which will not break pedal should be place on the right- down with tyre trouble and axle hand side of the clutch and beake damage, and ears which will not redals, that is to say, on the off- rattle and jump is providing side of the car. They also recom vehicles of first quality with A guaranteed service. It has obtain-end standard positions for "the od permission to establish a standard when a right-hand change is on the Bund and proposes to main-f tain other cara at the French Club so that a passenger may step from

It has long been a source of com- the club to the taxi. It is hoped plaint, and it is also asserted that to establish a service to and from it is a cause of danger, that the other dubs and theatres.

various foot pedals which control & Time The Charge Basin, The service will differ from the car are not always placed in exactly ural conception of a taxi service the same order. As far as the brake. in that cabs will not be available and clutch are concerned, the posi everywhere as in Western and Contion of these has been standardised tinental cities, but, owing to the

traffic problem. in Shanghai, will by many years' custom, but the have to be obtained by telephone, accelerator pedal, as it is really an excepting at prescribed placer.

teh a system of fares, registering wandered from one place to another The company proposes to estab-interloper on the floor boards, has on the meter, not on a mileage without ever finding a permanent brasie, bat on a time basis, with a resting home. minha of $1 for 20 minutes. The lare for one hour will be lower than existing fares, it is announced. paratively modern invention, for Other features, inchading the chit not so many years ago car engines system and coupon books with a discount, have been favourably were controlled by hand throttle agreed upon.

aupan alone, which was usually mounted

The accelerator pedal is a com

When the service is fully estal on the steering wheel. When the shed, the company proposes to pay little pedal appeared it was mount particular attention to ships, and passengers may wireless from Woo-ed in any convenient position on the sung and order as many cars at floor boards, and to the present day desired.

makers are divided into two main schools, one of which places- the pedal between the brake and clutch control, and the other in a line with them on the right-hand side.

A Comfortable Car. An inspection of one of the cars showed that they have a roomy and comfortable rear seat, seating in an emergency three persons." AD) cuis will be closed limousines, A

The Wrong Pedal, novel feature is the arrangement for luggage. The door on the off-fusion. A motorist who has to drive

This practice often causes con side from the chauffeur, may be more than one car hooked to the front fender and bag changed his model, may find the or who has gage may be puded in the space transposition of the pedal from one between chauffeur and door, a position to the other source of chain.balding the parcels in place. danger. For instance, the driver Balloon tyres and stop lights are who has been used to his accelerator on each.

in the middle, between the bruke and the clutch, when he changer cars might, in an emergency, atamp on the accelerator pedal in mistake for the brake with disas trous results.

MOTORCYCLES FOR EVERYBODY.

A return to the use of horses for heavy haulage would be a retrograde step, one which, instead of relieving congestion, would merely serve to augment it into a condition of chaos almost impossible to conceive. It is the horse, noble animal though it is, which does so much to impede other and faster traffic and which because of its limitations should be banned from our busy thorough farea and dock areas. In that event congestion would really be relieved to a considerable degree,

On the question of cost, says The Commercial Motor, we have yet to Le convinced that the horse can compete with the power-propelled We believe," says Motor Cycling, vehicle or tractor, even for con- that the future before the motor waiting is not unreasonably long, possibilitice have only just begun to and this applice particularly in thebe realized. Motorcycling will not case of the small petrol tractor be at its zenith in 1928; it is only either hauling a trailer or equipped on the verge of becoming truly as a trailer-tractor mix-wheeler.popular. We look to the day when Such outfits can be operated at an the motorcycle will be as universal extraordinarily low cost, particna the bicycle in the homes of the larly where one tractor is employed people..... in conjunction with a number of trailers, so that one or two are always loading or unloading while the tractor is dealing with the transport side. This is known as the shuttle system and is being em- ployed extensively.

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sation for the convenience of the Another opportunity for standardi. motoriss is that of the gear lever position in the gate for engaging the various gears. For example, in the first gear position on the inside a right-hand change some cars have forwards with the second straight back, the third through the gate forwards, and the fourth back on the outside. Others reverse the sequence, and any number of com binations are adopted, which result in confusing the driver.

only

Broken Frames and forks, bursters and Traders, in addition to re- The Society of Motor Manufacur tyres, locked wheels and so forthcommending fixed position of the at one time caused many motor accelerator pedal, have cycle accidents. To-day scientific recommended in the case of right therefore construction and general com hand changes for three-speed trollability "make their number

gear, box, that the first should be Similarly, such risks as log, thun ward outside through the gate, and deratorms and gales against which the third back outside. With a airmen are ill-equipped to compete four-speed box the first should be had their counterpart in the early imide forward, the second inside days of matoregeling in narrow, back, the third forward through the steeply cambered, dusty and greasy gate, and top back on the outside. roads in unguarded cross-roads, It must be remembered that these i numerous blind 'corners and soare only recommendations for the forth which have now been made guidance of the trade and cannot in safe.

m any way be enforced. Then, under the bonnet, is the In consequence, a man on There will be, of course, many engine with its tendency to warm motorcycle to-day has his well-being disscatients, as motordom is about the interior of the car, and gases in his own hands. If there are equally divided an regarils its posi which creep into the body. As a readers who remain unconvinced lettion of the accelerator. Speaking consequence, the atmosphere, even then go (or read about it if they personally, I may say that I prefer if it does not become overpowering cannot) to Brooklands, to the lale an outside pedal for an ordinary ty odorous, as highly vitisted, The At Bian or to any other place where touring car, but for racing purposes results on children may be, far-motorcycles aro den really fast, the central position has many nd. reaching, daying then open to the where 60 m.p.h is aasil's pace vantages. With regard to the gear many juvenile complaints, such as and yet where nocidents are exposition, outside is best in my mumpe and measles, which are coptionally rare occurrences. Let opinion for the top gear as this is more or less endemiese bem, furthermore, study the his the notch in which the lever is Moreover, the sudden emergence tory of the big reliability trials, placed most of the time and the from the artificially warmed and nearly all of which for upwards of lever then as far away as pos polluted interior of a car into the 20 years have been regularly held sible from the driver's leg cold atmosphere is not good for over terribly rough roads and The 8.M.MT have made no re anyone. This is not to rsim u tracks, and yet which have seldom commendatibus with regard to cen scare, but only to state facts that witnessed a more serious accident tral gear changes-London Morn to any medical man can eccroborate, then a cut finger.

The air space in a small four-insignificant, says Motor Cycling, back on the inside, the second for-

seater saloon is none too great when all the seats are occupied; indeed, says The Light Car and Cyclecar, it is far less then would bo tolerated by public authorities for any sort of inhabited building The exhalations from the Lings and skin are not healthful and should not be confined too long in the sur- rounding atmosphere.

Ming Post Motoring Corresponde

In a test over a water-worn, pat

THE POPULARITY

OF

DUNLOP

is due to the fact that the tyres have done and are doing all that is claimed for them. On the track or on the road they give complete satisfaction and will continue to do so. You can rely on what we say about Dunlop in our public announcements and prove it for yourself, if they are on the car you buy.

DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED, FORT DUNLOP, BIRMINGHAM.

LOCAL BRANCH:

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A LETTER FROM HOME

abost

Austin Seven

10,000 Miles in 7 months; Average 47 miles per gallon; 13,000 miles to a set of tyres.

Why Ride in" Rickshaws

when you can keep an Austin “7”.

Please call in to-day and get fall particuları

of this wonderful little

and its bidger brothers.

ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.

Prince's Buliding and 1a, Chater Road,

Telephones: C2-27 and C 247.