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WHIPPET

FOURS & SIXES

INCREASED POWER

•LONGER WHEEL BASE

CHROMIUM FLATED RADIATORS

LONGER SPRINGS

GREATER BEAUTY'

And LOWEST PRICES in their respective classes

SHOWROOM

"DURO" MOTOR CO., LTD. SERVICE STATION NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

DISTRIBUTORS -GILMAN & CO., LTD.

NEW WHIPPET MODELS.

LARGER AND MORE ATTRACTIVE DESIGN..

Re-designed Whippets in both feur and six cylinder models, as recently announced by Willys-Over- land, are featured by new beauty of body line and quality of con- alruction that sets a new standard for light cars. The lowness of price on both lines completes the achieve- meat.

In presenting the new Whippet Fours and Sixes, Mr. Willys says: "When the original Whippet was introduced, designed on lines that entirely revolutionizerd the light car feld, it was predicted that within two years, makers of all light cars in the Whippet classifica tion would be forced to adopt the the mechanical features first, set by the Whippet or be relegated to the obsolete group. This applied parti- cularly to four wheel brakes.

Following the Lead.

With the increase in wheelbase,

the chassis of both Four and Six have been changed to incorporate material improvements over pre- rious practice. Heavier material is used with additional cross mem bers and an improved method of attaching them to the side rails to provide greater ruggedness, stabi lity and rigidity.

Stoering Made Easier. The steering mechanism has been redesigned to provide marked esse of steering in the new Whippet. This has been accomplished through the use of worm and gear redac tion of 11 to 1 as against 8 to 1 in the former models.

The design of the steering wheel itself makes for more comfort in driving since the oval section of the rim is inclined and not parallel to the steering post, so that the hands rest in a "natural position on the wheel.

The lubrication system follows Bo successful in previous models the same practice which has been that of a full force feed system which assures positive fabrication to every part of the engine requir ing oil. The transmission and clutch are unchanged. The gener ally satisfactory operation of gear 'In less than two years, automo-shifting in the original Whipper bile manufacturers in both the low transmission has therefore been and higher priced fields are follow. retained. ing the trend set by the Whippet.

And now we present the com- letely redesigned Whippet Fours and Sixes, bringing to the low price class for the first time in automobile history the beauty of high priced cars, in addition to proved mechani. cal superiority.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20th, 1929.

MOTOR NOTES

THE SPEED LIMIT.

WHOSE OPINION SHOULD

PREVAIL?

PRESENT ANOMALIES.

SEEING ENGLAND BY CAR.

ENGINE "WATCH- DOGS."

A HINT FOR HOME, LEAVE, FILTER, VENTILATOR, AND

He who would see Britain, aright must take the highways, binding Mr Mervyn O'Gorman, vice-himself to no rigid route or fixed chairman of the Royal Automobile time-table, and visiting town and Club, gave evidence recently before liage, lake and river, hamlets the Select Committee of the House castle, cathedral, valley, hill, moor. of Lords which is considering the land and forest, in his own way, by Road Vehicles Regulation Bill, road or track. He is free from all promoted by Viscount Cecil of eares, calculations and time tables, Chelwood, who is a member of the making him master of his lei. committee The Bill's main object sure and of his road, bringing is to diminish the number of rond him, easily and fully, into closer accidenta.

acquaintanceship with his homeland Nr. O'Gorman said he was op- and heritage, and with a mind cou- posed to tests for motorists in the tent in the knowledge that at the form suggested in the Bill He end of the holiday a fixed re-pur- argued that warnings ought to bechase price eliminates all anxiety placed where accidents could be avoided. They must educate the pedestrian in the use of the road.

Earl Russell: You argue that 50 out of every 100 ̊ accidents will not be cured whatever you do to the motorist 1

Mr. O'Gorman: I'm afraid that is so.

and worry about the disposal of his Leave Car

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THERMOSTAT.

Few motorista recognize the im. Portance of three engineering de velopments which play a major role in adding thousands of miles to the life of their motors, accord- ing to Mr. White, of the Houg Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rd. They are the oil alter, the crank- case ventilator, and the thermostat which control the circulation of water through the cooling system of all Studebaker cars.

"These three trusty watchdog's of engine performance assumie new importance in cold weather." de cares Mr. White, for then the conditions of engine operation are more severe, and the value of these increasingly safeguards becomes important.

Maximum Enjoyment. You can purchase your leave cat for use in England, either for cash

Dust in the Crankcase. or on deferred payments before you

"All three devices combine to sail, or from the boat, or on ar

serve one purpose, that of guard- rival fa England, where you have the biggest stock to select from. ing the oil which is the bloodstream The first of the motor's life. "We don't consider accidenta to If it costs £100 or over, the be a disease," Mr. O'Gorman told paralleled Henly Service and Guar. watchdog is the oil filter. Often small specks of carbon, tiny metal the Committee. "They are only antee Policy covers it.

Before you commit yourself Hen-scrapings too small to be caught the symptoms of a disease: We consider the disease is mismanages guarantee to buy your car back by the ordinary oil screen, or other at the end of your holiday-and fix impurities get into the crankesse. ment of the whole of the road traffic industry." "The Minister of re-purchase price before you pay a Through the action of the filter many of these impurities are re- Transport had no control whatever penny.

moved from the oil Bow and never over the 1,700 committees who were

"The oil filter thus cleanses the permitted to reach the vital parts. labricant maintaining a steady flow of pure oil to cylinders, bearings, and the pipes through which it is pumped.. But it cannot prevent the development of another source of trouble which used to raise havoc With the engine, namely, oil dilu tion.

This is a brief résumé of the most car service comprehensive leave ever evolved.

If you wish to take the car back really misusing their powers of with you. Henlys will have it ship- rend management.

Among these ped to say port in the world at the uthorities there was no co-ordina- lowest possible rate. tion. The Automobile Club thought it was necessary to seek out a cade of customs and give it publicity and authoritative support. only ask for a code of customs and not for a mandate," he said. They considered it necessary to avoid all

"We

Guaranteed Used Cars. In Henlys various extensive show rooms one of which alone is prob. ably the largest in Europe-are cars

The crankcase ventilator is the

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BUDGET THREAT TO THE

MOTOR INDUSTRY.

PETROL-TAX RISKS.

Taxing By Mileage. In theory, of course, the only just way to tax motoring is by mileage. One suggestion is 50 per cent. more on petrol, making the tax 6d. a gallon, and 158. per horse-power In a few weeks from now Mr. instead of E1. On this the average Winston Churchill will be rising private motorist would save be- in his place in the House of Com- tween twenty and thirty shillings mons to make his annual Budget a year! Others want the b.p. tax statement; and in the interval a lowered a great deal more. In fact, the motor traders are considering, good deal of his time will be oc cupied in Estening to demand if they have not actually adopted. appeals and prayers by all the a plan under which it would dis victims of direct taxation for the appear in favour of an annual re lightening of their particular gistration fee of 5 per h.p. for burdens.

private vehicles and 5s per cwt, Well in the forefront of the i for commercial vehicles, petrol and throng that will besiege Mr. Chur higher import duties to furnish the chill's doorstep will be the Treasury'e-or, rather, the Road relief but for fair play. Maybe motorists, crying not merely for Fund's needs. they will be less eager to offer the Chancellor advice. Last year's ex- perience, when he adopted their anggested petrol tax, but as an addition instead of as a substitute, was not encouraging. Mr. Chur chill is plainly as capable as any grandmother of sucking eggs.

A Real Grievance. j

At first sight the abolition of the attractive to the private, motorist. hp. tax would appear decidedly Petrol can be economised in several ways, and extra pennies paid at the pump don't seem so much of a tax as having to produce a respectable number of pounds all in a hump..

A Momentous Change. But the consequences of this. But the motorist has a very real seemingly harmless change might grievance. Times may be hard, but be tremendous. The horse-power they do not justify the way tax may or may not have helped he is treated. Motorists are the British motor industry-that now contributing in special taxes can be argued both ways-but it has £40,000,000 a year. Of this total, beyond question forced it to con centrate very largely on a partic- the combined proceeds of licences and petrol bax, £91,000,000 ular type of car. Will the small to general purposes, and only popularity if Treasury rating £12,000,000 to the Road Fund, now censes to be a consideration to the nearly bankrupt, to which, fund it purchaser? was originally promised that all the money levied from motorists should be devoted.

car

The tow-board is now covered by rules that had not got a moral for every requirement. Two, three, remedy for that. One of the inevit goes to help de-rating, £7,000,000 high-efficiency engine retain its

A moulded. rubber mat having a steel insert which its closely around the brake and clutch pedals and shuts out all cold and moisture at these points, The very adequate braking system of the Whippet Four has been retained..in the new

By combining a definite type of models, while the Whippet Six beauty, antirely new to the light braking systef has been modified car held, with the proved mecbaai- with the adoption of the Dus Servo, cal superiority of the previous two shoe brake, which is declared Whippet Models, Willys-Overland to be the latest development in has reached new position of outstanding braking equipment.

Messrs. Gilman & Co., are the leadership in quality of light care.

Outstanding among the features local agents.

which place the Whippet in its dis

tinetive position is the new "Ein-

可

ger-Tip Control" By means of this ingenious device, all functions of CRUDE OIL AERO ENGINE.

starting the motor, "controlling the

starter.

lighting system and sounding the SUCCESSFUL GERMÁN TESTS? horn are operated from a single button conveniently located in the

BERLIN (UP)Tests that are centre of the steering wheel. This claimed to have heen eutirely satis system has beet subjected to ex factory have just been made in faustive tests and characterized by flights with an airplane fitted with experts as the greatest driving con- a new Junker's 600 barse-power en. venience since the electric self-gine that operates on crude oil. This is the first time an airplane Increased wheelbase results in has been flown in Germany with a Larger and roomier bodies, with crude oil motor and, due to the newly designed interiors that are fact that crude oil is not readily more spacious for driver and pas ignited, this makes for safety from

Seats are scientifically fre in a crash. sengers, designed

On account of this safety factor with perfect contours for maximum comfort and with mark coupled with the low cost of crade ed increase in both width and oil, it is claimed the invention of a depth. Increased space also pro- reliable crude oil rector will do vides utmost freedom for operation much to popularise flying, of the brake and clutch pedals. The new motor which is the re- Comfortable riding quality is fur- ault of many years of research was ther enhanced by the use of longer texted in a motor-car before being The an airplane. font and rear springs in both the installed in Four and Six.

makers have so far refused to re- The windshield is quickly and yeal details of the teat or specifica. easily opened or closed with one tions of the motor other than to hand by the new worm and wheel

say it generated 600 horse-power. mono-control.

Engine is Improved.

The bore of the Whippet Four engine is unchanged, but the stroke has been increased by : Coupled

DANGEROUS DRIVING.

with this increase in stroke is a CAR, PERAMBULATOR, BABY

AND TWO PEDESTRIANS IN ACCIDENT.

sanction. There were times when

an offence in itself. exceeding the speed limit was pet

If the Speed Limit Were Put to the Vote.

Viscount Cecil: Who is to judge the morality of that point? If you polled the country I should any would find a very large you innjority in favour of a speed limit, but motorists would be against it."

This vapour" and others which develop as a consequence of the extremely high temperatures of engine operation have a tendency to condense.

four, five, six, seven-sentera openable conditions of engine operation and closed; cars in a bewildering

is the presence in the crankcase of array from which you will find no difficulty, with our unbiased guida certain amount of petrol vapour to take you which escapes down past the pis- ance, to select one where and when you will during tons. the whole time you are in the country. The value of a used car depends on the kind of treatment it has been subjected to, ita mile age, and other factors; quite irre- spective of it year of manufacture. Henlys guarantee their used cars Mr. O'Gorman: Since the im- because wherever necessary they position of this duty is upon a have been overhauled and recondi. certain number of people, it is tioned. There are also shop-soiled those people whose view should be and demonstration cars available, taken as to the morality of the all of which are published in their weekly list, which will gladly be question.

Viscount Cecil: Would you ex-forwarded on request. tend that to burglars? (Laughter.). Mr. O,Gorman: No, because hur glary in itself is a crime.

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Earl Russell asked Mr. O'Gorman if he had seen taxi cabs and motor- cars racing along Pall Mall after the theatres had closed at night. "Would you venture into that maelstrom and cross the road by merely holding out your hand? he inquired.

Mr. O'Gorman admitted that he would not, but added that the whole, trouble was that there was no canon of custom. He suggested that blind corners should be round ed off, and contended that if the authorities did what they had the power to do a great deal of the trouble, would be overcome. An authoritative statement as to what was the best custom was necessary in regard to the dimming of head lights on motor-cars at night.

"If this occurs to any great ex- tent the lubricating quality of the oil is affected, and water and sul- phur compounds may form in the crankcase and exercises corroding. effect on the bearings and other parts of the motor.

Thus it is important to pro- vide some means for carrying off these vapours before they condense and start their destructive work. Re-Purchase 'Guarantee.

The crankcase ventilator does just When desired, a writter guaran- bee is given to re-purchase any new this, sucking them out of the crank. case and passing them down under or used car sold by Henlys, ata

They the car through a metal pipe so definitely fixed percentage. are prepared to buy back all sp. that none of the objectionable odor Proved cars up to six months at gets into the interior of the car.

"Now we come to the water 66 per cent. of the list price cur For shorter periods, according to other important job. Starting a rant at the time of re-purchase. thermostat, which does still an the time of the year, they give cold motor often requires the use more advantageous terms. For of the choke. Sometimes it is longer periods they stipulate that accessary to use the choke for a the car be inspected one month time until the motor warms up.

Warm up the before re-purchase, when they fix The thermostat reduces this use of

It accomplishes this by the price according to condition, the choke by cutting down the time of the year and other factors, time required to giving you ample opportunity to motor: obtain a better offer elsewhere he-preventing the circulation of water fore committing yourself to their in the cooling system until a cer figure-which holde firm for the tain predetermined temperature has four weeks, provided of course you been reached. Then it opens auto- don't crash or seriously diminishmatically and helps to maintain a constant temperature for maximum its value.

operating efficiency.

Combined Hire Purchase and

Re-purchase.

By reducing the use of the This remarkable feature of Hen choke it also serves to cut down lys service to overseas customers the amount of petrol vapour which provides for their holiday in Eng gets past the pistons, and reduces land, a car with the very minimum oil dilution brought about by ex- capital outlay, and eliminates all tensive choke use."

The "watchdogs": worry as to its disposal at the end

Enquiries from overseas should addressed to Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London, W.1.

LTB among

MAGISTRATE AND POLICE

METHODS.

EXAMINATION OF MOTORISTS "ACCUSED OF DRUNKEN- NESS.

36 Miles an Hour Permitted. Mr. Suffeld Mylius, trafic ad viser and assistant secretary of the traffic department of the Metro- politan Police Office, said that it was highly desirable that there should be a test for persons who wanted a driving licence, but with so large a number it was difficult of their leave. By paying, say, 25 the outstanding features of the increase in compression ratio which,

to see how any satisfactory method down, on a 2100 car, the balance Studebaker and Erskine cars. with a new manifold and a larger

of examination could be devised. is then spread over six, twelve or. intake valve, produces an engine of

In many cases danger did not arise eighteen months At £1 128. per decidedly more horse-power and

from want of competence, but month, at the end of three months A remarkable accident, in which torque. With this change, Willys-

rather from want of consideration he would have only paid out £38 Overland engineers declare, the ena motor-car, a baby, a perambula-

and undue trust in the driver's 168., of which, on the return of the gine now produces 10 horse-power tor, and two pedestrians were in-

competence. As to the speed limit, car, Henlys would return 212 10%. which is 25 per cent. more than volved, had a sequel at Hendos

the Commissioner suggested that For the three months, the car the highest maximum should be would only have cost you 220 6. its predecessor, a claim which is Police-court recently, when Alexan-

thirty-five miles an hour.

you cannot get better terma any established by actual tests under der Rowan, described as of Bedford-

Viscount Cecil: Police traps have where ! all conditions of driving including road, Clapham, the driver, was -hill-climbing, speed under heavy fined £5, and ordered to pay £5

been a complete failure, have they load, etc. Another improvement in 2s. 6d. costa, for driving in a dan

not? The accident oc- this motor is the adoption of Invar-gerous manner, Strut pistons.

curred at Hendon-broadway, Edg- The Whippet Six is not capable ware-road...

It was stated by a police witness of spiced in excess of 60 miles an hour, as demonstrated in repeated that defendant's car collided with tests during which fuel consumpa perambulator, contaiding a baby, tion under normal driving condi- which was being pushed across the tions was better than 0 miles to rond by n young woman, who was the C.S. gallon. The carburetors accompanied by a man, the man of both the Whippet Four and Six being knocked down. have been entirely redesigned and add materially to the new high speed and power performance.

"Twi-Lite system of lamps is another distinctive feature of these hew cara. These lamps, with tro mium plated doors, are equipped with double filament bulbs for fixed locus, the upper beam throwing a bright light far down the road for last driving, and the lower beam throwing the ray downward to a shorter distance for use in passing Fan oncoming car. These are con trolled by the "Finger-Tip" device described earlier.

"The pram was knocked over, he said, "and the baby was shot out a distance of 20 feet, just as though it had been thrown from a catapult. The car then mounted the pavement and ran along it for about 20 yards; and, swinging back into the road, completely over- turned.'

Defendant said he was overtaking a bus, and be sounded his horn, but the woman hesitated. He swang to the offside, to try to pass in front of her, but the ran forward into the car. The car, he said, did not run along the pavement..

The Witness: Oh, no. Surely you would not say that the law is observed, in any part of But I the country 3-Oh, yes.

it is disregarded. should say that in many instances Speaking generally, would you not say that 29 cases out of 100, to put it mildly, break the law - would not put it as high as that.

Have you ever been in which did not break the law1-I have once, but, it broke down. (Laughter.)

✡ car

Does that strike you as a Batis factory state of the law --I think it is reasonable.

Viscount Cecil: It is possibly reasonable in the circumstances, but it is not a good thing from the

point of view of the law. Is it a desirable state of the lays that when the local limit is twenty miles an hour every paper publishes nd- Earl Russell: I understand that vertisements of cars capable of the whole object of the Flying travelling at sixty miles an hour? Squad" is that they should brank-We cannot help the publication

of advertisementa the law. (Laughter.)

Mr. Mylius did not favour a Lord Sandhurst: Is it a fact that the police have instructions mechanical check on cars, as ite not to interfere with motorists presence might conduce to ac thirty and cidents, and it was impossible to travelling between thirty-five miles an hour-Rough get a device that could not be tam- pered with, while continual iapee- ly, that is so. (Continued at foot of next column.) tion would be necessary,

The methods of the police in regard to medical examination of motorists accused of being drunk while in charge of a car, were criticised by Mr. Mead, the magis trate, at Bow street recently.

During the evidence of Dr. Thomas Rose, a police surgeon, Mr. Mead said he thought it would be a good thing if doctors who were called in to examine alleged drunk- a motorists were not informed of the circumstances of the case.

Dr. Rose: You must know the circumstances when a collision ie bearly always raised. involved. The question of shock is

Mr. Mead: When you are naked about that, you can answer it. I don't think you ought to fearn the circumstances at all You ought to come here as an unbiased person, and simply say whether a person was drunk at not."

If there is no direct tax on "horses" will not the public be eager to have more of them, and That is the head and forefrons of is that event how will manufac the complaint as ear-owners, but terer, having at colosss! expense the Chancellor must expect in the re-designed their factories and re- coming weeks a very insistent de cast their plant, fare in direct com- mand also for a reduction in the petition with the Americans? The scale of taxation Those £40,000,000 latter. have not as yet "seriously attempted to capture this market, are being drawn from the owners of 1,638,000 vehicles (of which half but they could, and would, cut a million are motor-eyales), an, their prices over here by hundreds average contribution of over £es of pounds, if conditions promised

bigger sales. per vehicle.

Last, but not least, there is the It would undoubtedly enhance prospects of relief if motorists danger in abolishing the .p. tax could submit with their demand a now of the possibility-let us rate scheme of amended taxation that it at that that Mr. Churchill's would satisfy both the Treasury successor at the Treasury will be and the majority of motorists, Mr. Snowden, a stern Free Trader. private and commercial. Unhap When Mr. Churchill re-imposed the pily there seems no hope of an McKenna duties in 1995, Mr. Snow- agreed scheme. The varied motor- den announced that they would be ing interests seem incapable of re-repealed by the Labour Party if conciling their differences, and the they returned to office. No h.p. tax general inclination at present is to and no import duty on Americans leave it to Mr. Churchill-in fear would, for a time at least, spell

rain for the home industry. and trembling.

Thompson Silcrome

Valves

"WHY ARE THESE.

VALVES BETTER ?

1.-Because they are one piece forgings made of a new kind of steel (the result of a new process perfected to combine silicon with chromium steel) designed and fashioned by experts. They will not burn, warp or break in temperatures that quickly rain other valves.

--Because they will outwear ordinary valves four to one, and the average valve has to be reground 3 times as often.

8. Because this one piece, forged steel, non- burning valve is the latest and best type of valve known..

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