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Buses, Not Trams.

After a long debate Exeter City Council have decided to substitute buses for the "present tramway sys tem. The transfer will take place by degrets ne various sections of the tram track get out of repair.

Still More Cars on the Road. 20

The Show!

year."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES.

of

BALANCED 4-WHEEL TRACING STRANGE

BRAKING.

SYSTEM FEATURE OF WILLYS SIX.

In a return issued by the Minis- try of Transport a considerable increase is shown in the number of cars licensed during the first half

From the preliminary list of the present year. The STOM amount received from licences is standholders at the Olympia Motor sued during the six months ended Shoy to be held from October 16 May 31, 1930, was £21,340,938, com

to 26, it is understood that 546 pared with £20,312018 in the same period of the perious year, while stands have been allotted, as com- the number of motor vehicles licene-pared with the total of 495 last ed and in use on May 31 was ap poximately 2,130,000, as against 2,027,000 a year before. The num- ber of new cars registered for the

In order to prevent and relievo first time, however, in May, 1930,

what is congestion in Bradford indiented a decline, as, compared described as the "Inner Ring Road" with 10,984 registered during that trafic scheme has been introudced. month last year only 17,688 aplicat is suggested that drivers ap-after by the motoring public than 'tions for licence, were made

proaching the central area of the year.

town, and whose destination is be- yond, should utilise the Inner Ring Road to the fullest extent. They will be able to travel with greater

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The modern automobile possess many admirable and desir able specificstions, but there are few features which are more sought

a well-balanced braking system, according to the engineering staff of the Willys-Overinad Company, which has just issued an especially

CAR NOISES.

PROFESSOR A. M. LOW'S

SUGGESTION.

With every increase in luxury to which the closed car is subjected, (writes Professor Low in the Motor), sounds that cannot be located become more irritating. I have sometimes gone to the length of testing a car by means of noise photographs, but have been con fused by some slight type of squeak

I could only hear the noise when my ear was in one exact position, "I could absorb it entirely by pad- ding the inside of the bonnet, with honeycel asbestos, a substance which absorbs with regularity over wide range of frequencies. Sub- stituting three-ply boarding, the sound at once appeared more noisily and was less dependent upon the place at which absorption was cons ducted,

Chinese Torture, **

If a car is taken into a tunnel all kinds of noises crop up, and the silence enthusiast can adopt this

AN EMBARRASSING. ERROR.

STRANGER'S MACHINE TAKEN TO PIECES.

Carbon, the veteran contribu-

YOU CAN'T TRUSTtor to Motor Cycling, velates a good

THE CAMERA.

story in a recent issue of that journal. It is about a man who found himself not long ago in m

PHOTOGRAPHS USELESS AS group of motorcyclists, all strangers

EVIDENCE.

to one another, who had assembled by the side of the road for tobacco»-- and discussion.”“..

Naturally, they all talked about It has been suggested in Great cameras should obtain pictorial which was leaning up against the Britain that police equipped with their machines, and a Panther, evidence of motoring crime. Contbank, became the centre of the can- menting upon this The Light Carversation. An argument ensued and Cyclerar say: Motorists as about the proper piston clearance body will probably recept in good for these machines, and in the end, police or "speed cops," but even take the engine down on the spot grace the appearance of mobile somebody suggested that they should

case, and will at the same time prepared bulletin on the braking which seemed to recur at irregular principle upon a small scale" with the most indifferent will protest and have a look. Which was duly assist in improving. traffic cond equipment used in the new Willys intervals but which, during those great succeas. The idea is to con- against the use of the camera as a

tions. Signa wil, be provided to identify the ronte in question.

Captains of Industry.

Six.

intervals, sounded mechanical and repetitive.

Reflection of Noises.

ene of the B.B.C. stations varied ear.

is possible to locate and then to ther than the long-distance "shots" sure some of the tiny rattles which taken at cricket matches and other ran lie, and its evidence in a police- become comparable with Chinese sporting events to supply proof of worth remembering that even an "inaudible" naise can produce court would be akin to that of the barture on a long journey. It is his. Most emphatically the camera

witness who commits perjury. physical exhaustion..

When the job was almost complet careless driving

The danger lies not so much in fed another. rider appeared on the struct a series of varnished card means of evidence of dangerous or done. board tubes varying from, say, 2 ins. to 10 ina in length and with the unskilled use of a camera-for "A great deal of careful plan-

a diameter of about 1 in. Each this would merely result in the kind scene and, taking in the situation, of these tubes will have a different of thing familiar to most amateur became almost frantic. It was his What had happened was that Sir Edward Manville, chairinan aing and consideration went into Gf the Daimler Company, and Sir the braking equipment of the new William Morris entered the motor willys Six, this bulletin points out. I noticed quite recently that incatufal period of resonance of the photographers and would be value mode!!

They will each appear to ad perspective which might make everybody in the group had im- industry the same year-102-Sir

"We realized full well how importa certain room the tuning note of air colamm when placed against the less as evidence--but in the distort-

rd to one of the party, and where Edward as a director of the Daim-

ant good brakes are to an automo-tremendously in characteristics with amplify some different note, and objecta in the picture appear as agined that the Panther had belong-

We have no need to go ler concern and Sir William as a

cycle manufacturer. This bile to-day, especially so when the the position of the head of the with a set, or with one tube arrang they certainly were not any far it came to explaining to a perfect motor

fistener, and upon applying this ed telescopically inside another, it fact was mentioned at the Savoy automobile is capable of such great siniple to a car is soon became

stranger why they were taking his

However, everything was Hotel, when the head of the Morris organisation made & presentation speed as is this car. We determin-evident that the irregular reflection

motor to pieces by the side of the

duly smoothed over; the Panther" to Sir Edward Manville, on behalfed upon dua-servo four-wheel in and absorption of certain noises

road the atmosphere became a little

for the phenomenon, of a sound

man got a free "decoke," and all ended quite well. of the Motor Trade Association, as ternal expanding brakes, despite ander the bonnet were responsible

tense.

mark of appreciation for Services Sir Edward had rendered the fact that this feature is seldom which appeared to vanish cocasion- the Association as its president for found on cars in the price class of ally when listening. the last six years.

the Willys Six.

Soreens to Open?

How often does a motorist open of his car In the windscreen summer (says an English motor authority) my windscreen is gener- ally open for a fraction of an inch, But several of my colleagues confess that although their screens open practically to a vertical position if needed they always remain closed.

the

Impervious to Weather. However, we were fully cogniz ant of the fact that automobiles to-day are driven in all kinds of weather, and we wanted a braking system which operated as well; in wet weather as it did in dry. The internal expanding brakes are atter. Maurice Sampson tells me that hely impervious to had weather. The was talking to the managing direc-brakes cannot become wet, and

may enter them and have a bad effect on the brake lining and, consequently, on the operation of the brakes.

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The four-wheel brakes on the new Willys Six provide the most perfectly balanced braking system available to-day. They have a total braking area of 148 square inches, which compares favourably with the total braking area ou

The brakes higher priced cars. themselves are eleven inches. The advantages of the internal expand- ing brakes over the combination internal expanding front. and" ex ternal rear wheel brakes are many and obvious.

tor of an important glass company neither dust, rain, mud, nor dirt the other day when he learned that enquiries for 1931 revealed a dis- tinet trend on the part of car markers to fix their screens per manently. The only digument I tan see against this practice is the possibility of being fog-bound in cold weather., because a freezing feg undoubtedly makes an open screen the only possibility for pro- ceeding at all comfortably. Yet Riley cars have not been supplied with openable screens for some years, and I have yet to hear com plaints on this score. After all, with scuttle ventilators, sliding roofs, and opening windows it is perfectly easy to secure excellent ventilation with the screen closed, and if it is opened an inch or so ou a really hot day ten to one the immediate incursion of insects MODERN MOTOR SERVICE uses it to be closed again with

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Good brakes are a requisite o the modern high-powered, fast autc mobile, and the brakes on the Willys Six will stop the car in 19 feet, at twenty miles an hour, with pedal pressure of only 120 pounds, which is considerably less than the average pedal pressure applied by the ordinary motorist. This pedal. pressure, it might be pointed out, is but half that applied for an emergency stop.

"Probably the most pleasing feature of these brakes is the fact that a normal application of pres. sure stops, the car quickly bub amoothly. There is no jarring, no surging forward of the occupante. The braking movement is balanced, от less harmonious, and more velvet like These brakes are easy to use, no trouble to take care of, and the life of the brake lining is far in excess of that used in the external expanding brakes."

MOTOR INDUSTRY LOOKS AHEAD.

STANDARD COMPANY'S 191 "PROGRAMME.

British motor-car manufacturers, with every good reason, attach the highest degree of importance to the announcement of their forthcoming programmes, and many of them are deserting the traditional practice of withholding their plans until the Motor Show in October

Instead, they prefer to choose their own time and adopt their own methods for springing their Bur prises on the public, which now recognises the revelation of the design and prices of new motor-car models as news of primary interest.

Among the famous British makers who believe in the advisability of nunouncing their next season's plads well in advance is the Stan dard Motor Company, of Coventry, who have availed themselves of one of the most costly and valuable spaces in Press advertising to call attention to the official announce ment of their 1931 programme.."

The Standard Company, in adopt ing such a bold and striking form of advance publicity, show how con- fident they are that the disclosure of their new programme will be of senzational interest to the car owning public,""

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