1930-11-05 — Page 3

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES

BRITISH MOTOR

INDUSTRY.

Price Reduction to Come.

Factories Working Overtime. Advance announcements of new In preparation for the 1971 dis inndels by leading manufacturersplay, many factories are working show that the British public will overtinue to be ready with their, NEW MODELS APPEARING. have no lifliculty in finding variety: new models. The Marris Company And prica reductions will range from £20 down to 25.

GENERAL, PRICE REDUCTIONS.

RACING ON SOUTHPORT SANDS.

GOOD SPEED RECORDED.

The Southport Motor Club's championship and race meeting was helt at Ainedale last month, and the course was a mile nearer South. part than on the last occasion. And Thus, after getting nearer

is increasing its number of nicn nearer Liverpool, the Southport from 3,000 to 7,000 by Christmas,; † Club's meetings are beginning tô the Austin Company is putting on return home, the.sen having un- extra help; and similar prepara covered fresh stretches of sand.

There is a dofinite tendency to an increase in vngine power, chlof General "reducting in price couptly due to a larger and comparation is being made at the Rover, tively low speed engine. The pre-Singor, Humbur, Hillmann, Riley, jadice against more cylinders is Triumph and Talbot factories, Desáre, and with a good wind blow.

gradually dying out. Both sises and eights are gaining although fours are still holding their popularity,

ginuing, January 1, 1931, the now. Ford plant at Dagenhaun will be gia' production of the British-mads Ford, employing from 15,000 to

The receding tide and heavy rain of the night before left the sands

ing down the course from the start- ing-point high speeds were attain- | ed. In the 50 miles solo race for motor-cycles C.-J.-P. Dodson, the popular. Manchester rider, o0 & Sunbeam, secured * a good win.. There were over 10. starters, but so hot was the pace set that only fire. crossed the finishing line.

The Alvis company is returning to production of its four-cylinder, 40,000 men. 12-30 H.P. machine. Tlu: Rover The Rolls Royce will receive a four has been improved and reduschallonge in its home territory from ed in prices. Morris is still offer the Mercedez-Benz, a seven-seater, ing the Morris Minor, a four, at supper-charged "straight-eight" £125. Morris is also bringing out limousing with a maximum speed new, la H.P. light six, an im- of 120 miles an hour. The "whino" proved "hig brother? to the four, is said to have a eliminated, making the supercharger absolute The four-speed gear i, rótainingly silent. The price will be around its popularity, although usually in £2,300. conjunction with a close-raise third which really serves as # sreond

pred. The goar huu been made at the October show. An additioning for ears, 103.52 m.p.h. The much quieter this year. Much at- al 100,000 square feet of floor apnee solo motor-cycles also put up some tention, has been paid to braking will be available, and will: bo de- good performances, 106,39 pm.p.h.

ut £295.

Every competitor, who exceeded 100 miles per hour in the flying kilometre events, which were offi- cially timed, was awarded a special badge. Jack Field, of Ainsdale, driving a Talbot formerly belong. ing to the late Sir Henry Segrave, inade the fastest time of, the meet-

ed with the offering of additional values and improved · design were confidently expected by motor deal. erg to stimulate the motor indus try from the slump into which it ins fallen, at the annual British Motor show which was bed in London recently.

Demand for British models in the foreign market, which the American Austin is receiving a large share, is also look forward 10 s an important factor in the coming year. The latest reports from the American Austin company are that on July 1 the com- pany bad on hand unfilled orders for 181,117 cars, instead of a nor

al expected demand of 20,000 and that the company was putting on extra shifts to meet the demand.

in answer to the demand following † voted to sido exhibitions. One being reached by J. H. Carr, di Economic operation costs, low gas abolition of the speed limit Janu-

new wetion will be devoted to gar-Skipton, on his Brough Superior. nsumption, coupled with widery 1. Several improvements, in Pension of good roada system, in body design are to be introduced,age display and equipment, includOthers to pass the 100 mark were but the closed model, due to clima ing model private and commercial | M. E. Davenport, Macclesfield, on ¿merica are given as the principal tie demands, probably will continuerage apparatus. Another will Zenith, 108.52 m.p.k.: J. O. Cun-

uses for this popularity.

To be the most popular,

liffe, Manchester (Brough Superior), 108.32 m.pl.: and L A.J.S., driven by R. F. Parkinson, which elocked 100.78 m.p.h.

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Improvements and enlargements will be made in several branches

include an historic exhibit, trac- ing the development of motor cors from the early days, through a dis- play of old models.

A "STABLE" CAR.

INVENTION TO SECURE SMOOTH RUNNING.

A Cologne motorist claims to have invented on apparatus which, when fitted to the chassis of motor. car, preserves the equilibrium of the car under any reasonable con- ditions. Its design is said to be simple, and tests made with it seem to confirm the invetitor's claims.

This invention will enable a rock less driver to swing his car round a enrage with an agle of 90 degrees at forty miles per hour without any- thing untoward happening. That is to say, although some of the wheela may temporarily leave the road the ear itself will maintain such a posi- tion that it will still be capable of containing the reckless driver. He may drive fast and furiously over the wettest asphalt and again nothing will happen. He may jam an the brakes more suddenly than he has ever done before; there will will be no skid, no somersault, daims the inventor,

But the greatest advantage claim- ed for the invention is that it eliminates the discomfort caused by roads which are in a state that my be described as "very holey."- A road may be a veritable wartime no-man's land, yet the occupants of even the cheapest type of car, it it is fitted with the new apparatus, will have no knowledge of the fact. They will continue to glide along unshaker,

"BABY" CAR WINS 500-MILE

RACE.

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BROOKLAND THRILLS.

S. C., Davit (Austin Seven), with the Earl of March as second [driver won the British Racing Drivers Club five hundred miles handicap med at Brooklands re. |-cently,-at-an-average-spced-of-91-11--

muiles an hour in shr. Omin.

Dr. J.. D. Benjafield, driving a Bentley, was accoud, at 11212 miles àn bour, Il. W. Purdy (Sunbeam) was third al 104.74 miles an hour, and Earl-Howe (Talbot) fourth at 107.26 miles an hour,

acc.

Thirty-six cars started, and no car was allowed to enter unless it had been timed to have travelled ni

ony covered 191 laps. The Austins led in the early part of the race, (Continued on next Oolumn)

Benjafeld

challenged

but Dr. strongly, covering lap after lap al 192 miles an hour.

There were two exciting incidents -when D. Froy's ear hurst into Bams as he was coming off the Byfleet hanking, and when the rear wheels and axle of Dunfee's Sun- ram came off and one of the wirels rolled across the track in the path of the leading Austin Daris verr. ing and missing it by inches.

Towards the end of the race excitement rose to fever pitch as Dr. Benjafield, travelling faster and faster, tore round the track in pur suit of the little Austin. The

baby "

ear, bowever. kept ahead till the end, and won by a matter

of minutes.

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