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She: "You naughty boy, you're scratching the paint." John: "Don't worry, Mother, its Cellulose."

The Bodies on

the 18-59 h.p. Six-Cylinder

Armstrong Siddeley

may be obtained in a variety of beautiful wear-and-weather re- sisting Cellulose shades.

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DO

YOU-

CAN YOU REALISE

that the owner of

Austin

Seven

is paying less for transport than the hirer of rickshaws and chairs?

45 miles to one gallon of petrol 1,500 miles to one gallon of oil Anything up to 13,000 miles to a set of tyres.

BUY AN AUSTIN AND YOU BUY COMFORT AND SAVE MONEY.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY,

MOTORING NOTES

(CONTD.)

THE SECOND VALUE £100 MOTOR-CAR

OF CARS.

WITHIN SIGHT.

SOME ODD DISCREPANCIES, NEW MORRIS SEVEN ***

[BY JOHN PRIOLEAU.]

THAT WILL BE CHEAP

TO RUN.

JUNE 20th, 1928.

"THE CAR OF TO MORROW."

FUTURE OF THE SIX- CYLINDER ENGINE.

WHAT BROCKLEBANK AND RICHARDS, LTD., "ARE DOING..

Thousands of people have been "If I were asked to give my idea I have been trying second-hand' cars, with a view to fading one asking whether the £100 motor-car of the Car of the Future I having all the necessary virtues, will shortly be a reality since it should venture & forecast that in and for part payment of which the became known that Mr. W. the near future the 4-door saloon, denter is prepared to allow a reason Morris, head of the famous car with 6-cylinder engine of medium able sum for an old car. It is not manufacturing firm, had designed horse power, and with hydraulic for myself that I have been con- and would soon put on the market wheel brakes, will rise to great ducting these. researches, or Is now 7 hp model.

popularity," says a well known ex should hardly be in a position yet to discuss the matter. I am lucky enough to have the ear I have always wanted, and even if the gods take her from me now they can only do just that-they cannot take

The new car will be approximate- ly two-thirds of the size of a stand-pert. ard model Morris-Cowley, and an official of the company said that, although the price had not yet been decideil, it could be taken that a

The stunts and experiments of yesterday have led to the mature consensus of opinion that comfort, the reliability and economy

Arc

THE OILING SYSTEM.

HOW IT HAS BEEN IMPROVED.

THE STEARNS KNIGHT EIGHT,

ARRANGEMENTS..

In the development of the present types of motor cars, no part of the ear shows моге progres than does the lubrication systems of engines.

HEDGE. ROSES AND CHARABANCS.

MOTOR-COACH RIDERS LOVE THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE.

BUT IS THE COMPLIMENT RETURNED?

The white and wandering English ane has been straightened. And widened. It has been coated with funereal black tar, and its cornere remarkably ugly. It in dotted with have been made extremely safe and small, swift, evil-amailing cars, in- terspersed with huge charabance and motor-coaches. It is bet, much more countried than it an under. ground railway.

Honeysuckle, hedge-roses, spread- ing ancestral oaks, triling larks hovering over lush green meadowe the picture of the typical English countryside, has been the same for many a hundred years. But now In the earlier cars problems of Rural England is passing as quick- motor lubrication were not so iurly as is Japanese Japan, and the portant as they are to-day. En-tairer the view the larger the num gines then were of the slow-speed, ber of petrol pumps and bungled heavy duty type and the flywheel bungalows, the greater the stream. and connecting rods dipping in the of motor traffic. oil pan provided ample lubrication for the satisfactory operation of such motors. In the days of that splash" system of lubrication, the car owner didn't mind having to look at the engine every time The first improvements in the he took the car out. matter of oiling came with the in- troduction of" force feed and splash " arrangements. In this the greater number of cars now on

plemented by an oil pump, driven standard the road necessitate brakes that by the engine, which took some of Wight, in pre-war days a Heaven the oil from the crankcase and de- of country sights and scents and can be relied upon on every occaivered it into the troughs below sounds. "To-day it is given ovar Ono entirely to motor-coaches. the connecting rods. As the conlands on sands blackened by refuse aion.

The Six-Cylinder engine is supnecting rods revolved, scoops on planting the "Four." Manfacturer after manufacturer is bringing out Ho said the new car would be a "Six," but one of the first British approximately two-thirds of the firms who had the foresight to size of an ordinary Morris Cowley anticipate the demands of not only in the early stage of designing the new model the greatest secrecy had the British but of Colonial markets been observed. Then rumous began as well, was Messrs. Brocklebank to get about the country among & Richards, Ltd., of Hirmingham, people in the motor trade. On the who started seriously to work in strength of these rumours agents

the production of the began placing orders for the new car, and as they did not deny that Brocklebank car.

To-day it is regarded as among

five months of car bliss from me. I two-thirds scale would be near the qualities to be desired. Moreover, type the "splash" system was sup Take, for instance, the Isle of

have been helping a friend to find "this clusive bargain.

I say elusive with intention, for our pursuit has brought to light a number of curious facts.

9. The chief one is that there seems to be no standard of price or accepted value.

Foreign Oars

mark.

The

Morris Cowley model is priced at £145,

"The "new model will run from forty to fifty miles to the gallon,' said another member of the firm.

Mr. W. R. Morris explained his reasons for placing a new hp model n the market:

1921 on

Perhaps my friend's case is up usual, though I do not see why it should be. The car he wishes to dispose of in part exchange is a four-year-old, two-litre, four-cylin der of considerable reputation, and, at the end of her 40,000th mile, re markable value. She was second hand when he bought her-very second-hand and her official

new model was being designed second-hand market value modest, if it exists at all. Her the knowledge gradually spread

among agents. There was a grow the most successful Rated at 15 intrinsic value is quite anothering demand for the miniature type h.p., its engine has a cylinder bore matter. In spite of her age she is

of car, and the "Morris Seven a perfectly sound motor-car. She goes well and has done so, to our knowledge for eighteen months And she has particularly good body, which enst something like Esco, I believe. She has, as I say, no official price, but sums between £40 or £80 have been offered for her provided a new or even s second-hand car were ordered. The addest part is, to my mind, that these figures have been offered when the price of the new or next car was as low as £250.

the lower half of these rods dipped fuel-oil from passing steamers to in the oil in separate troughs and find the old and narrow town sent a direct supply of oil to the streets Bled with fleets of moneter Along the now connecting rod bearings. This ne palpitating vehicles, surrounded by tion of the connecting rods set up clouds of touts. a heavy mist inside the crankcase black and shiny leland thorough.. which was sufficient then to luhri- fares one hears at regular two parsuing charabancs, and climbs eate the ether internal moving minute intervale the thunder of into the thorny hedges for safety. parts.

The peaceful, flowery, unfilled It is now merely a Charabang Is and of other days has vanished. Round.

With the development of motor ears, engines have been made smal. ler and operated at much higher speeds under higher compression. Additional stress on all moving parts of the engine called for better lubrication, which resulted in the development pressure systems. In the pressure systems & pump in the crankcase delivered oil to

had been designed to meet this of 2.5 inches (83.5 m/m), with each of the main crankshaft bear demand. That was the sole reason stroke of 403 inches (108 m/m). for its manufacture. It was ridicu- The crankshaft is a beautiful piece lous to say that his intention in of work, remarkably stoutly con-

making the ear was to: compete with the "Austin Seven."

struoted, of Gaest and most suitable "Air Board material-Steel to

ings through separate oil lines. The dipping arrangement was still employed to lubricate the connect ing rods and other moving parts.

pump

Full Pressure Lubrication. "Full Pressure" labrication is Austin Company's Plans.

the system in most general use to "Sir Herbert Austin, chairman of Specification" 5. 23. It is carried day. As a development of the the Austin Motor Company, Ltd., in four main bearings,, which in "pressure" design, the said he deprecated any suggestion common with the big ends are no sends the oil to the main bearings and by means of holes drilled in of a fight between the Morris Com-" pany and the Austin, Company, be less than two inches in diameter the crankshaft, oil is led from the cause the companies were on very and is perfectly balanced up to a main bearings to the connecting rod bearings so that each revolving good terms and Mr. Morris and he very high rate of revolutions. were personal friends. To-day the

In the result the engine is extra-part receives pressure lubrication Morris and Austin firms together ordinarily smooth running and Additional oil lines are provided to manufactured more than half the powerful, and this through such a oil the camshaft and timing chaia cars produced in Great Britain, and wide range of speed that the lower from the pump. their outputs were increasing every gears have seldom to be resorted year. There was B world market to.

In both "

systems a Pressure" spring operated valve is employed

Ageless Stars.

The plague commenced with the introduction of a fees of Star charabanca some nine years ago. So profitable was the undertaking in bulk from the visitor, that, to...... ear the method of drawing cash day, though the original ageless Stars still plough their way around the land, they now operate in the

midst of a crowd of other motor- coaches. The blast of petrol Eas struck and destroyed.

Save for the remoter districts of Scotland and Ireland, the same fell

work of beauty-destruction has been carried out throughout the whole of the British Isjes. It would, indeed," be a hardy poet who would to-day sing of the aspect of the British countryside without mentioning the charabanc and ramshackle bunga- low. His word picture would bard- ly be recognicable.

for small ears, and at, the present The power is transmitted through to control the amount of oil de FRONT WHEEL DRIVE CAR. time he considered the British a single plate clutch to a gearbox livered. Weakening of the spring, manufacturers had got the market

giving three speeds forward and or any foreign matter interfering CAPT CAMPBELL TO USE IT a reverse gear, and controlled by with perfect operation of the valve,

IN GREAT ROAD RACE.

Another interesting point is that the old car is a foreigner, and it is an almost universal belief that foreign cars have little, if any, second-hand value, even when they are comparatively new. Yet & num- ber of perfectly intelligent dealers who have, presumably, no philan- thropic leanings in business, have made respectable offers for what one understands is an unsaleable article.

I always doubted this matter of the first-class foreign car being un- saleable, and now that I have had these seven days' fine comb work with my friend I doubt it all the more. Three foreign second-hand Cars, amongst others, have been taken out and tried by us, and none of them has been priced so low as to suggest that there is any truth in the statement that the foreign is a drug on the market.

The first one was a car of the addition, negotiations were in pio- front axle, steering gear, are all in the same manner as it would in racing motorist, at the opening of

same make as

the four-year-old. It was a year younger and had a more efficient engine, not pearly better such good steering, no brakes, better springs, an inferior body, and a noisier gear-box. The price asked for that was over £100 more than had been paid originally for the old car. Does not that strike you as "cúrious}

at their feet. The Austin firm had been building the 7 hip. car now for five years. They had sold nearly 100,000 of them and naturally they had learned a very great deal of what was necessary to make a successful small car. Their 7 hp. model was being sold in all parts of the world. They had just com pleted an agreement with a very powerful organization in Paris for the manufacture of the same car there for the French market. In

for

gress for similar arrangements manufacture in the United States.

MORE IRAQ OIL.

EXTRA 440.000 GALLONS 'DAILY.

TEHERAN.

This news of the additional sources is confirmed in authoritative quarters in London, says Reuter, but the yields are put respectively at 200,000 and 300,000 gallons a day A well was already in operation in the Iraq sector of the Naft Khaneh odlucide, and these addi- tions are the result of onlinary Discrepancies.

development operations.

An important extension of pro We have been particularly duction was also reported only & thorough, my friend and I, over the month ago in the Persian sector of business and we are still wholly at these fields, where a big well with

loss to account for what seem to an

a centrally placed lever; and thence would result in failure of the en- through a propellor, shaft, univer tire oiling system-with disastrous. sally jointed at either end, to spiral effect on the engine. bevel gears in the back axle, which give a reduction ratio of 5.1 to 1.

The same stoutness of construc- tion which characterises the engine

the

The latest oling system, which A British motor-car with front was recently embodied in the wheel drive and independent Stearns-Knight eight, is known as springing of each wheel was ex- Positive Lubrication: In this amined with keen interest by motor is manifest throughout the chassis design the entire oil supply from engineers from all parts of the country. The car, an Alvis, is now frame, no less than five inches in the pump is led directly to rear depth, and stoutly braced with end of the crankshaft, where it flows to be marketed. tabular cress members; rear axle through the shaft, lubricating all of "Banja" type in preased steel, the bearings attached to the shaft constructed to stand up to the most an oil line. After having passed And through the shaft, the surplus oil severe conditions of usage. is led to the minor parts of the Brakes: Hydraulically operated on

Lockheed principle, fabric engine for their lubrication. covered shock are expanded in 14-inch drums on all four wheels. For simplicity, ease, smoothness, andrer in action no finer méthod bus yet been devised. They are supplemented by a transmission brake, actuated by a centrally placed hand lever, for parking. Fundamentally the chassis remains

Unusually high praise from rail- as originally designed. Its overall nucasurements are: Track 4 ft. 8 ins; way officials has been paid to the wheel base 9 ft. 8 ins. ; with Diesel Electric Rail Cars introdue 30 x 5.23 tyres, the ground cleared on the Canadian National Rail: way some two or three years ago. The motive power in these cars

HIGH PRAISE FOR RAIL' CARS.

OPINION OF C.N.R OFFICIALS.

It was introduced to experts by Captain Malcolm Campbell, the the new show-rooms of Messrs. Henly in the Euston Road, N.W. Capt. Campbell is to drive a similar. model in the road race in Ulster this summer for the Daily Mail' £1,500 prizes and the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy. Details and advantages are: Flywheel clutch and four-speed gear box are incorporated with one unit in front of the engine. Forward of this are the spiral bevel.

final drive and the differential. To transmit power to the front wheels when they are turned for cornering they are coupled to the driving shafts by means of uni- . versal joints.

Power is applied to the wheels in the direction the car takes, which

and freedom from skidding. modation and head room can be. fitted. Very low bodies with ample accom

The centre of gravity is lowered

which

and brought forward, again increases stability and re- duces the danger of skidding.. Independent, springing of each wheel means that individual

wheels when they drop into a pot hole take the jolt, without trane- mitting it to the chassis and body

The second candidate was niso à high-class foreigner. Its perfor Another big addition to the mance throughout was far better world's oil output is reported from than that of No. 1. It had no in- the Iraq sector of the Naft Khaneh comparably better body, and was fields, where two further wells pro in every way a superior car. The ducing respectively 140,000 and price asked for it, although it was 300,000 gallons a day have been ance is 9 inches.

year younger than No. I and bad brought in by the Khanaqin Oil As will be clear from the fore- done 50 per cent, less mileage, was Co, Ltd., a subsidiary of the Anglo- going, Colonial requirements have is supplied by a moderately high- nearly 20 per cent. lower

Persian Oil Co. Both wells are unbeen meat carefully studied and pro- speed Diesel engine specially degives increased stability on earners No. 3 was a car of quite a dif-der control.--Neuter

vided for, and with an accompany. signed for the purpose by William ferent class comparatively, cheap

It is coupled to a generator which when hew. It had only done some

ing simplicity and accessibility Beardmore & Co., Ltd, of Glasgow. throughout which ensure success. 5,000 miles, and the price asked for

In a quiet way great strides have supplies electricity to drive the it represented a reduction of 25

been made lately in the production coach by the usual type of electric per cent, on the list price..

of this car. It was found possible motors. Thus the car is entirely

self-contained,arm Against the purchase price of all

to improve the engine and chassis During the last complete year for these three approximately the same

in detail. This done, the manufac- which figures are available the nine amount was to be allowed for the

turers have devoted the last few old four-year-old.

months to improving the efficiency cars introduced in 1925 earned 337,041 dol (£87,408) in revenue, of the production plant, practically whilst operating expenses, includ the whole of which has been moved ing repairs and an allowance for

South Worka, Adderley Park,

mechanical department supervision, Birmingham. These works are the amounted to 127,421 dol." (£26,484), embodiment of modern factory con leaving net

of 209,€20 dol. estimated output of 500,000 struction, built on the ground Boor (£41,024), P

BIG MOTOR DEAL. be discrepancies. Why, for example, gallons a day was reported to have principle with north-ight roofing It is said that on the service be is No. 1 so dear; why is No. 2 so been brought in

everything is conducive to the pro tween Edmonton, Alberta and

Arrangements have just been com cheap 1 No. 2, apart from being a

duction of "The Car of To-morrow.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on which much better motor-car, should, by

Manufacture, inspection and tests two of the cars were operated, the ricted, says a Homs paper, whereby reason of its age and one or two

are such as to ensure the perfection working costs as determined by Sir William Letts has sold to the of the car with regard to Reliability selected accounts averaged 23 cents Armstrong Siddeley Development in Service under the most arduous a train mile, as compared with Company the whole of the share .1.01 dol. a train mile for steam capital of AV Roe & Co., the conditions.

Sufficient cars are now in use in operation. The saving in operat acroplane manufacturers, of Man- of interest, we would very much I have no idea what moral, if any, the hands of private owners in all ing expense, as compared with the chester and Hamble. Over £270,000 on William Lette to Crossley Motors, like to know what factor, if any, can be drawn from our experiences, parts of the Empire to provide the steam train operation on the 120,087 in cash has been paid by Sir governs these conditions,

but it looks as if we may conclude manufacturers with valuable data miles per annum covered

shares, which show a profit of more It is sheer coincidence that the that, provided it is of a well-known concerning reliability and running this run is given as 98,677 Limited, for the acquisition of their cars we have tried and been more and high-class make there is a de- under the varying conditions to be dol. (£18,735).

Bo impressed Are the officials of than £200,000 on their original in particularly interested in have been finite market for the used car from met with both in England and the foreigners. My friend would have across the Channel. If it does no Colonien, and the reports are most the Canadian National Railways vestment in AV Roe, & Co. preferred a British machine, but thing else, this may bring comfort encouraging. The prices for 1028 with the performance of this new For the last eight years, Crosley naturally cannot afford to disregard to those who own French, Italian, remain practically unchanged type Diesel electric car that, in Motors have held the majority of obrious value in a foreigner, cape or Austrian cars of high degree, Chassis £285, coach built 4-door their own words they have no the shares in A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd., Letts has acted as managing direc cially as its purchase will put money and who may have been depressed salcon £445 Fabric light-weight hesitation in describing it as the sad during that period Sir William into English pockets. I am glad, by the tales of their unsaleableness, 4-door aloon £338, 46-seater tourermost economical power unit in use

£385, 7-seater with dicky £385 on any railway in the world."tor of the latter company. (Continued at foot of next columm.) Evening Standard,

other matters connected with aer- however, to have had the chance vice depots and so forth, command of going over these foreign cars and a noticeably better price. We are of getting a brief glimpse into the not complaining of the lowness of conditions of their second-hand the prices asked, but, as a matter market.