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WOMAN-AND HER CAR.

never

the Use

They

word #woman as Olympia. To the metor salesmar we are all "ladies." It behoves us to be chivalrous" and play up to him.

He would rather we prodded the upholstery than opened the bonnet. Ladies- salesman's Indica-do not open bonnets and pry into the

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1929.

MOTOR NOTES.

WOMEN'S NIGHT CAR TREK.

works. They stroke the nickel fit LONDON TO EXETER AND

tings and scheme.

cuo over the colour

The aim of the modern motor- | car, like that of the modern woman,. who inspires, it is to be fast, beau- tiful, and foolproof. The salesmen I talked to yesterday were insistent on the foolproof part of it. They told me how a indy could sit in comfort in the driving sent and

drive all the way there and back again without ever moving, with out even soiling her kid gives.

"You ladies. you know," said the salesman waggishly, like that. You like to be comfortable all the time. Ha ha!

And gentlemen?" I asked. His face felk No salesman's

BACK

Fifty motor cars crawled all through the night, along the Great West Road froin London to Exeter. Filty modern young women were having a night out.

DYING CONSTABLE LEFT ON ROAD.

الاعلان

"IT MAKES MY BLOOD

BOIL

The rildon of headlights thread. ing across England marked the Moorville, Grat London-Exeter-Londen recycling home from a visit to his atsility trial of the Women's sweetheart at Rockcliffe was held Automobils and Sports Association. "It is not a race, it is a re-

at the Cumberland Infirmary last month,

ability trial, just the same as the men's,' explained in ofheial. A more masculine lot of men than

PARIS SHOW.

PRESIDENT “EIGHT"

MODELS.

Paris-Two of the most interest- The adjourned inquest on Police ing displays at the Paris automo- bile salon in the Grand Palais arc Constable Walter Bell (20), of Car-cutaway engines of the world cham- lisle City Force, who was killed at pion Studebaker President Eight

near Carlisle, while and the Director Eight,

The working model of the Pre- sident Eight reveals in every de tail the design and operation of a power plant which holds more off- cial speed and endurance records than any other engine in the world, The President's list of record break- ing achievements includes eleven world records, twenty-three inter- national class records, and a total of 115 American stock car records Festablished by the President Eight's epoch making speed and endurance run of 30,000 miles in 26,325 con- secutive minutes.

Bell was found lying unconsei-

these young women it would be imous on the road, having received possible to imagine.

The more daring wore trousera

lady would have said that, solannels, pullovers, leather coats, added, "What a pretty handle !

and peaked forage caps. Two, and he beamed..

Salesmen expect women to make dressed alike in red and blue, look comments on the lampshade, theed like musical comedy motorists. Eleven "motor-cyclists, equipped as springing of the cushions, the up-i holstery, the picnic basket, and the|ted to the waists map cases, for a Polar expedition, carried colour of the motor-ear. They letric torches, watches, and con- SWIT the most trivial questions with smiling pleasure, and ask for s

The motorcars carried stores of C I have found out why.

food of the scientific nourishing pe and gramophones playing & 22 jog-trnt. Vacuum flasks of tea gave a false impression of femin- inity.. The ten was drunk by the

As a matter of fact," confessed salesman confidentially, get the wind up when a lady begins

looking as the works.

med.

I'

"Most of you do not bother about the mechanism, but when one of you does-ugh! She's terrible. She knows more about it than most

She's as keen as a razor. have known indies of this kind only one or two-stump ms with questions and make me look a foal about my own car. No man has ever done that."

That is just the sung about women in the motoring world (only. in the motoring world, "of curso). You can never be quite sure where you are with them. Women are responsible for the purchase of half) the motor-ears on the road"

men passengers.

The manufacturers knew this, and they built motor cars to tempt the woman. They painted them in beautiful bright colours. And now woman has turned round on them by preferring sober dark, blues and browns.

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Most of the smart women who were studying motorcars seriously were looking at the solid, "good looking, dark blue ones. They were leaving the bright colours to the

young men.

an extensive compound fracture of the skull. It is believed that he was knocked down by a motor car. A quantity of glass was found on the road for about 400 yards. Wit- nesses stated that after a crash had been "heard a motor-car disappear. ed.

the evidence showed that what took The Coroner, summing up, said place was confined to a very few feet from the kerb on the cyclist's left side of the road, so he thought the jury, would be satisfied that the cyclist was not to blame in any way.

It seemed quite clear that

The advanced engineering design, fine quality materials, and preci to the championship performance sinn workmanship which contribute of Studebaker cars are characteris tie of every detail of the two mo tors

Inside Views.

bearings which contribute so large- ly to the exceptionally smooth operation of the two motors at

STEELS AND ALLOYS.

every speed. The light weight al- į STUDEBAKER' INNOVATIONS. Hoy-pistons and forged steel-con- necting rods are also revealed. As the pistons rise and fall in the po- lished cylinders, dashing lights show the action of the spark plugs in exploding the fuel mixture. At the same time observers can see the inlet and outlet valves open and close, first admitting the petrol vapour, then permitting the pistons to expel the burned gasses from the cylinders

The entire cooling and lubricat ing systems are revealed in every detail,-even to the drilled oil pas sages in the crankshaft, the genr driven oil pump, and the automatic valve in the cylinder head, known as the thermostat, which prevents water circulation until the motor has reached an efficient operating temperature. The built in oil Alter, which cleans the oil every time it passes through the engine, is shown as well as the crankcase ventilator which in combination to change oil in Studebaker motors with the filter, makes it necessary only at 2500 mile intervals.

Weeks of painstaking work by Studebaker craftsmen are repre sented by the two motors, which are the most elaborate ever prepar- ed for the At every possible point, sections

annual automobile salon. Each motor is valued at from the point where the impact of the two engines have been ent

over 83000. Inside and out the mo- took place Constable Bell was hurl-away to provide an inside view " ed a distance of twenty-seven feet. of their design and operation. tors are finished with the utmost This would help them in judging Sections of the crankcase and cylin-care, with all polished metal sur the speed of the motor-car.

der block have been removed to faces plated in glistening chro "show the massive crankshaft, the mium, or covered with gold or

black enamel. vibration damper, and the big main

They had also evidence that the cycle was carried 150 yards, round

corner and that a man was seen to stop and, presumably, take the bicycle from the car and place it alongside the hedge..

"It makes my blood boil," de. clared the Caroner, "to think the 1 a fellow-countryman should be sa callous and cruel as to leave a fel.

dition on the road and not make. any inquiry or give any assist-

"

It is Mrs. Smith who tells Mr. The free use of chirpinium plat-creature lying in a dying con- Smith how much more economicaling, which needs no cleaning, is 'n It would be if they bad a motorstar feature of this year's show, and is for, week-ends and golfing, and a sure bait for the woman buyer. Mrs, Jones who tells Mr. Jones And there are plenty of trim dat now the Smiths have a car,mings-nickel minienre sets, um- they simply have to buy one-ibrellas to match, lapse covers, blue they are hold their heads up and gold brocade upholstery, and sueinity.

luxurious carpets-to appeal to the (Cuntinued on next Column.) salesman's Ind.

The jury unanimously found that Police Constable Bell was killed by the grossly negligent driving of an

motorist, This, the unknown Coroner said, amounted to a ver- diet' of manslaughter.

The

Lightness and Hardness.

This special alloy combines light- - nes and extreme hardness with ex- withstand ceptional strength to shock. This last quality is most important in the case of the stéer- ing knuckle pin, where failure might involve a serious accident. As n Additional safety factor Studebaker gives steering knuckle pins a finish of chromium plate, " which proventa rust and wear,

Another example of, Studebaker's choice of fine quality steels is in the nickle steel transmission gears. Studebaker, metallurgists point out that chrome or chrome manganese steels would be cheaper than the 3-1/2 per cent nickel steel used, büt they insist on the finer steel na a guarantee against chipped or strip-

One of the most important fac- tors contributing to the dependabil- ity and performance of the modern motor car is the progress made in the development of new steels and steel alloys. To achieve maximum strength, long wear and light weight in automobile strels, metal-ped gears. lurgists of the industry have crent- ed many special alloys to meet the strict requirements imposed by to- day's advanced engineering and de- sign.

ma-

One of the most interesting tests in the Studebaker engineering laboratories is made with a chine which resembles the old fashioned guillotine, and which One pisca of steel. may look just drops a weight from a predetermin- like another as far as the laymaned height to test the shock resist is concerned, but it is probable that ing quality of any steel part. the motor car. contains more dif- ferent kinds of special steel alloys, each adapted to its special purpose than any other machine of similar

weight or price.

There are nickla steel, and van- adium steels, chrome molybdenum, chrome nickle and silico manganese, "chrome vanadium and nickle moly- bdenum to name only a few of the more important, alloys.

Engineers thero recently made some tests which clearly show "not. only the difference in ane steels, but the progress that has been made in metallurgy.

Steering arm balls,-which are connecting links between the steer- ing gear and the steering wheel, were taken from current produc tion and tested for strength with a similar part considered the last word in strength and safety several years ago.

Studebaker has always been one of the largest users of high quality alloy steels in its cars, and in fact, has not only pioneered the use of The 20 pound weight of the guil. many of the special new alloys, but lutine was raised to a height of has also developed and holds ex- 3 feet and dropped on one of the clusive patents on one of the most obsolete parts, which, broke at the important of the automotive steels. | first impact of what the engineers call a blow of 60 foot-pounds. The This is nickel molybdenum, now. widely used for such important new parts were then tested and parts as steering knuckle pins, pik- | found to stand up under from three ton pins, and transmission shafts. to five blows of 180 foot-pounds.

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