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THE AIRSHIP CAR.”

R100'S DESIGNER'S LATEST MODEL.

A remarkable motor-car, the crea tion of Sir Dennis Buracy, designer of the airship R.100, is about to be placed on the market. In appear anto it is rather like a miniature It.100.

Sir Dennis has applied the lessons Icarned in the building of the air ship, especially those relating to wind resistance, to the construction of the car, with the result that, se he claims, the car saves petrol con sumption by 50 per cent. and saves 60 per cent. of the horse-power re- quired to propel an ordinary car on a level road; at high speeds it sacrcely touches the ground, with a consequent saving in tyro wear.

Up In the Air I

If a speed of 180 miles per hour could be reached the car would actually rise in the air owing to its stream-lining.

The pointed front of the car noses its way through air resistance and sends streams of air acurrying over the top of the airshipliko body.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930,

MOTOR NOTES.

.5. Wages in England.

Arterial Road Lighting,

For the better lighting of arterial It is Mr. Henry Ford's desire to pay his employees in England and roads, which would, he believed, on the Continent a wage having a help to reduce the toll of accidents, purchasing power equal to the 288.a. plea was made at the London a day minimum wage paid to his workers in Detroit. To this end statistics of the cast of living have beca prepared which will be for- warded to the International Labourers. Offico in Geneva. New Port Office.

and Customs

An interesting question is "Who The engine, a straight eight-will win the Dowar Trophy in cylinder, water-cooled unit of 29 h.p., is carried at the back of the car, but the weight of the engine is distributed over a wide area and not on the back axle alone.

dently sprang.

Each wheel of the car is indepen- The wheel may drop into a pot-hole, but as it has its own springing, this is a personal matter for the wheel only!

An expert who tried the car on the road says there was absolutely no engine sense, and without the feel of the engine all sense of speed was also lost.

No Road Shocks.

It was rather like handling an airplane before it leaves the ground -one expected that it would rise in the air if a joystick were at

hand,

In the back seats it was rather like riding in a hammock. No read shocks whatever wore felt, and even when a humpbacked bridge was taken at seventy miles an hour the passengers were not abaken,

The few other drivers met with on this journey simply gaped when they saw the strange vehicle ap- proach. One woman driver took fright hurriedly jammed on her brakes, and pulled into the side of

the road.

FRENCH MOTOR-CAR

PROGRESS.

TARIFF AGAINST FOREIGN IMPORTS.

gained the trophy in two distinct years, namely, 1920 and 1920.

Coloured Highways, ' -

congress of the National "Safety First" Association by Mr. Robert Beveridge, a member of the Asso ciation of Public Lighting Engin-

Rabbish Parties.

Unusyal parties were held in the New Forest last month. They con. sisted of motorists who assembled on Lyndhurst Common in the even-

THE NICETIES OF CONTROL.

EFFICIENCY WITH ECONOMY

It is not realised by the vast ma jority of the motoring public what n difference to the general running and more particularly to the mile- Age per gallon obtained--is made

a sympathetic us of the throttle

jor acceleratör control.

bo

A port office has been opened at Fishguard Harbour by the A.A. and has been fully equipped to onable

When using the accelerator it in members to obtain every possibleing, when a huge bonfire of litter

was lit. The ides underlying the bettor toavoid jorks and suddon assistance in connection with the scheme is an attempt to counteract depression, as unless the car has shipment of carr

the thoughtlessness of people who particularly good carburation and formalities. The port in question leave rubbish about; it is pointed the carburetter is specially tuned is a popular gateway to the Irish

out that last year there were 170 for anap acceleration, no better ac- celeration, but only an increase of Free State; an A.A. officer has also free in the New Forest, many of been stationed at Rosslare to attend these caused by the sun shining Petrol consumption results, than when it in dopremed slowly. There to formalities at that end.

through broken bottles and igniting

are, however, exceptions to this, The Dewar Trophy,

grase or rubbish.

and one is in the case of cars fitted More Economical to Motor Slowly with "pump"-type carburetters,

The speed at which one travels when a sudden depression of the: 10301" Each year this trophy in awarded for the performance ad- makes an astonishing difference to accelerator causes petrol to judged the most meritorious among petrol consumption. There is many sprayed through a vjet, normally a car, writes "Focus" in The losed, to give increased getaway. the various officially observed R.A.C. trials for the twelve months. Light Car and Cyclecar, which will After depressing and holding down At least one make of car, the In- give an honest 30 m.p.g. at 25 for a second or so it is better to victa, has the distinction of having, but which cannot be coaxed cass the neoclerator a little and to yield more than 24 m.p.g. when let the car's speed, as it were, catch the speedometer is kept fairly coup with the normal opening of the stantly around the 40 mark. One throttle for that speed, when, if wonders na speeds continue to in another bout of accelorṛtion is de On a section of the Great North crease, whether we are not due for sired, you are still able to depress a streamlining yogue. It is the the accelerator. Incidentally, the Road above Newark-on-Trent the rond has ben surfaced, with some windage, of course, which is prin best petrol consumption is obtain reddish material which makes it cipally responsible for patrol coned by keeping a constant throtto most attractive. A similar surface sumption going up with the speed, has been laid in Leyton, and it is and windage could be cut down

Throttle Control, understood to minimise skidding, enormously on almost every car

Regarding the mixture control, while the colour provents the glare by making the storn less blunt, this does not requiro much altering so often encountered from the suneconomizing in the frontal area, when once the best position for nor shinning on an ordinary concrete and cutting down skin friction by mat running has been found, with, road. Coloured road surfaces might recessing fittings into the panels and of course, the exception of putting

generally employing the ideas which it to "rich" for starting and mov are so well known to aircraft doing it back of "weak" as soon an you can. It is as weli to make Bigners.

sure that it is at its weakest when the lever is in its (apparent) A conference was recently held at

weakest position, as in one слзо excessive petrol consumption was the Hull Guildhall of representa.

the fact that when the tives. of the surrounding borough, urban, and rural district councils to

evor was at "weak the carburet half way between "rich" consider what financial support they involved in an accident resulting inter end of the control rod, was only. are prepared to give the Hull Cor-injury to a domestic animal which "wenk." poration towards the proposed con was straying on the road. Not in- struction of a bridge over the River frequently claims have been made Humber, between East Yorkshire against motorists by the owners of and North Lincolnshire. The cost | such animals, in some cases of sub- of the proposed structure is said stantial sume. For the guidance to be in the neighbourhood of of motorists, the R.A.C. has obtain- £1,760,000.

be encouraged with no small silvan- tage..

How Much?

A Dee Crossing.

Animals on Franch Roads.

opening.

From time to time cases bavo been reported where British motor-traced ists touring in France have been

Bád Braking.

and

Braking presents no difficulty to the average driver. It is, however, surprising how many drivers who have been driving for years over- look the following small pointa:- It is a good plan momentarily to release the brakes just before the

Le from the International Associa-car comes to rest. This avoids a AL Fludin, the French Minister of

tion the following exposition of the pasty jar to the passengers, and, Commerce, speaking at the opening

To provide a quick route between French law regarding such matters: incidentally, saves the car.

Use the hand brake when it is of the annual automobile fair, em phasised the progress made by Lancashire and North Wales & pro-"Rural populations have habits the type intended for use. It French manufacturers, the number of motor cars manufactured being posal is being considered to erect which are a puisance; they freely will save wear on the linings of about 300,000, running. cars on a bridge and embankment across consider the road a pasturage or a the loof brakes, which ars usually French roads being 1,2,167, 1,000 the River Dee from the Point of fowl run. The law has fixed that the first to wear out. In the event of the band brako working on the times more than in 1900.

M, Flaudin recalled the serious Ayr. to. Hoylake, near Liverpool: no indemnity is payable to the transmission its use is not to be threat to French production by The embankment will carry a road owner of an animal which, wander-encouraged, except, of course, to foreign imports, which explains why and a double railway track side ing at liberty on the road, is killed hold the car on a hill, as if used violently it may strain the trans- the Government naked the Parlin by side. Should the scheme mate- or wounded by a vehicle. The mission and back axle. ment to modify and adopt the Cus toms tariff. In fact, the protective rialise, Liverpool will be brought duty has not been increased but 20 miles nearer to Prestatyn and candalous abuses in calculating West Kirby 10 miles instead of 36 taxes ad valorem have been sup. |

pressed.

miles away.

Code of the Road and the Penal Code maintain definitely this prin- cple of forbidding the wandering of animals on public highways."

These are just a few of the nice- ties of control, which are at ap-. parent. Practise them, and you will find that, sub-consciously, you will always execute them.

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70,000 CARS SOLD IN during the next twelve months..

The value of these contracts to amounted approximately AN HOUR.

£14,000,000.

This is the first of the many great deals fixed up by motor-ear manufacturers and dealers before the Motor Show at Olympia.

£14,000,000 ORDERS FOR ONE FIRM.

In little less than an hour one day last month British motor-cor agents entered into contracts for the purchase of no fewer than 70,000 British-made motor-cars for disposal

小 Gigantic Deals,

Ope dealer alone purchased 80,000 cars to the value of approximately £10,000,000 and paid a cheque for a deposit on this amount:

Substantial roductions in prices wore, announced, and dealers came to the conclusion that this new movo would lend to a revival in buying

They also acted on this assump. tion by placing orders wholesale." Largo orders were placed by agents. from the industrial centres in the north of England, a quarter from which they were least expected.

The Austin Motor Company, of Birmingham, in budgeting for ap- proximately 80,000 cars in the com-

ing year.

The value of theso will be in the neighbourhood of £18,000,000.

Presuming that the Marris pró

The occasion was the meeting boduction in on the same scale, which tween Sir William Morris and his appears likely from the orders re- The place where these ceived two firms alone will be pro- agents. gigantic deals were entered into ducing 100,000 cars for the coming was the staid city of Orford.

THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR

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year.

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

WHEN YOUR WIFE REMARKS BRIGHTLY THAT IF IT'S THE JACK YOU'RE LOOKING

FOR, SHE THINKS SHE SAW JUNIOR PLAYING WITH IT IN THE BACK-YARD AT HOME, SHE MEANT TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT

IT AT THE TIME

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syridicate, Inc.).

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