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NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Packard stars.

Directors of the Packard Motor Conjuny, have placed capital stock of the company' on 30 Antal dividend basis of 60 cents (gold).

They declared a quarterly divid- end of 15 cents in starting the new!

chedule.

A Practical Test.

Sonu time ago comparative tests

were carried out at Kidderpore Docks, Calcutta, between a Harford and Perkins 4-Loù motor roller, type BK," and a 10-ton steam roller. The class of work was the Fame with both rollers, namely, con- solidating a 2-inch trap metal road: Burface.

The figures showed that the light motor roller did 50 per cent, more work in the same tinio and the cost per 100 g, vds was lest than half. Mcdern Trafilo Requires Stronger

Bridges, Subject to the approval of the Ministries of Health and Transport, Mesars. Dorman, Long & Co., Ltd, of Middlesbrough and London, bave srcured the contract for the strengthening of the Scotswood Bridge over the Tyne, about three miles upsteam from Newcastle. This bridge, owned by the New castle-upon-Tyne Corporation, is a suspension bridge carrying a road

wny

and footway, and thu strengthening work will take ap- proximately 36 weeks, and will re- quire 360 tons of steel.

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The Car Beautiful,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES.

The motor-car is becoming more and more an object of beauty. In Italy and in other countries, "Concours d'élégance" and ex-

POWER IN AGRICUL CAR THAT WHISTLES is seldom, of course, that such at-

TURE.

THE WORLD TRACTOR

FOR ITS OWNER'S AID!

Manufacturers have not yet been

hibitions of practicalness and com- TRIALS AND THE FARMER. able to produce n ear which will

fort in ears are more frequent to- day than sporting events. Almost every day Fists receives news of successes won in different coun tries:-

give audible indication when it is Power farming at a fraction of time to fill up with petrol and oil, the present cost is now an accoun-but some new cars which are the plished fact, and agriculture owes In Portugal:-Setubal regional this to the enterprise. of British Fair, Concours d'élégance and agricultural engineers, in develop comfort for motor-cara: a Fait 525ing the high-speed Diesel engine.

Landau-Saloon and a Fint 521 two- first prizes in two hotly contested senter, standard models, took the classes. Concours d'élégance" at Carin: a 521 Fint two-sender took first prize.

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In France:-At the "Concours d'élégance" held at Lille, n 521 Fiat was awarded the first prize in the class for foreign buill standard In Italy: Concours délégance" at Sorrento: First prizes for a two-seater Coupé and 521 Fint two- seater and many others. Flying Oycle Car.

A successful fight of about 60 miles in a tiny new aerial runabout which may one day be as eitenply

The contract price is £20,242 12s.produced and sold as a modern light muter-car-was made from Angou- leme to Poitiers, Paris, recently, Claiming that be hus safred the by its inventor, Y. Jean Joubert, secret of perpetual motion. Mr. Í a French engineer.

-Car Without Engine.

John Goodwin, of Southport, anys, M. Joubert's machine is prae- that within a year he will be driv. ing a motor-ear without using an ically a flying cycle-car. With the engine motor spirit.

Mr. Goulwis's invention consists! Pikt's wright and the farl and oil supplice 'included, the whole nero- of a eircular changler containing a spiral guide track. Into this hej Plane turned the senle at only a pinces steel balls which revolve until they reach the bottom of the cham her. They are then returned on a short outside runway to the centre. The operation is continuous, and as the bulls piss down the chamber revolves and rotates the shaft or spindle.

The apparatas can be coupled to a dyname, and Mr. Goodwin de elares that it immediately places the spring motor and electrienily driven grampton out of date. Alt kinds of other appertus, he claims, will work at practically no cost be yond that of installation.

quarter of a ton.

It carries a 2 h.p. engine and its cruising speed is between 09 and 70 miles per hour. It is left. long. ensures soft. from wing tip to wing tip and stands 41ft, from the The wings fold back, giving omgeetness for garaging purposes.

ground.

Grent stability is given by the comparatively large wing aprend, and the flight, undertaken in a rainstorm with a high wind, has proved its airworthiness to its in- ventor's entire satisfaction.

tention is required, but the fact thint this whistle is fitted ahows the lengths to which manufacturers of high-grade ears to-day will go to ensure economical and trouble-free running.

show there will be other innova

In the motor-couch section of the

tiona.,

cars than ever at the show.

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By incorporating a simple type of clutch it has been found possible to conceal the screen wiper me product of the Rover Company-chanism. The small engine which ean and de whistle when the mix drives the binde is built into the roof itself, and is, therefore, well ture is likely to b-conie rich.

out of the way. The phenomenon is easily explain- The remarkable success of thed. The air to the carburetter is tractors driven by these new power fiftered, through "steel wool," and units has been the outstanding fca- when this fecomes chocked with im ture of the recent World Agrien purities-impurities which the very tural Tractor Trials held in Eng- existence of the filter have prevent- land under the auspices of the Royal cu from reaching the interior of Agricultural Society in conjunction the engine the mixture becomes with the Institute of Agricultural rich.

On many care this passes unnotic Engineering, Oxford Universityed for days, perhaps weeks or Not only do these engines run on months, and heavier petrol con- a liquid fuel that is a quarter the sumption results. But on these new cars a emali whistle is incorporat. cost of petrol and half that of

ed in the air cleaner, and the mo paraffin-they have no carburettor, ment there is the slightest restric magneto, or sparking plug, and aretion in the main supply the whistle

tumes into operation. consequently trouble-free.

Hidden Wiper Mechanism, It is now common knowledge that

The owner can then wash out the two British engineering firms Aveling & Porter, Ltd., of Roches-steel wool and the filter is good for ter, and Blackstone & Co., Ltd., of many more thounds of miles. It

conducting Stamford-have brea

exhaustive experiments with en gines of this type for several years, both on the test bench and in the field. A 4-cylinder engine, made by each of these frus, is fitted to the two tractors entered by Agricul tural & General Engineers, Ltd, which formed the main attraction to so many agriculturists and engi peers at the trials.

The 4-cylinder, high-speed Diese) engine is the ideal it for the farm tractor; its high speed of revolu tion and even torgite giving the steady even draught that farmers know to be so creatial to good. ploughing.

These are the first successful high-speed cold-starting Diesel on gines suitable for the ardnous work of nu agricultural tractor that have yet been made,

Thero will be more super-chargeil many people ask how a aup charger works that it is necesKary to give a non-technical explana tion.

A super-charger is fitted between erkureter and the engine and its funotion is to suck petrol from considerable force into the engine. It is estimated that when an en- gine is. fitted with the super- charger the horse-power is increased by 70 per cent.

the carburetter and to drive, it with

The super-charged production

ean roach and hold 70 miles an hour, using petrol at the rate of a galon for every 20 miles. A super charger.cannot be fitted on any and every car, as, obviously, the pistons, bearings and crankshaft have to be subjected to much greater strain when a car is super-charged.

MECHANISED POLICE.

EMERGENCY UNITS FOR LONDON.

A

flect of specially-protected. motor-lorries, designed for use in tines of national emergency, is to attached to the City of London Polics Reserve, the News-Chronicle learns.

ARE CARS TOO CHEAP?

"COMPETITIVE REDUCTION BECOMING ABSURD."

Mr. W, R. Sudbury, chairman of the Rover Co., Ltd., explained at the annual meeting of shareholdere nt Coventry inst' month, that düring the four months to January 1 the conditions looked most promising And orders showed an increase "of‚' per cent. on the previous year. From then anles fell away to such an extent that a considerable.re-· duction had to be faced in the com- pany's production programme.

He attributed the fall in sales to the political attitude towards Safe- guarding, resulting in the discharge of 1,300 of their workpeople, and also to the severe competition to the company's best selling model. Each division of the Reserve will This competition had been met by the introduction of new 20 h.. have one company of motor trans-model, which was a direct challenge By this means the to imported. American cats, and de- port units. Reserve force, which at present livery was started last April. Ap- proximately 1,000 of these ears had numbers 3,203, may be mobilised in been sold. a short space of time.

The directors had given careful attention to their overseas trade, and wore taking energetic steps to introduce their cars to countries where it was thought there was a prospect of sales.

Mr. J. W. Smith, of Leicester, expressed the opinion that some return might have been given the shareholders, seeing that the can..

The force is composed chiefly of young City clerks, artisans, and mon on the Stock Exchange, whose homes are 'round the Metropolis.

They distinguished themselves during the General Strike of 1926, giving valuable assistance in guard. ing London docks and wharves, and helping the regular City Police to

Sir Alfred Mays-Smith, a direc guard public buildings and maintain cern was, thoroughly sound.

tor, said the policy of the com- order in the streets.

Their numbers were increased in petitive reduction is the price of motor-ears in England was becom- that year to 6,343. They wear & uniform of dark blue, with penkeding an absurdity. What the end of

it would be he hesitated to any." сара.

STURDY

CAPABLE TRUCKS

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DESIGNED

TO SATISFY THE MOST ARDUOUS OF ALL TESTS

ARRANGE FOR A

TRAIL

RUN.

A well-known motoring writer said recently that FIAT started with know- ledge that other designers have still to acquire! It is true. The testing ground where FIAT engineers have perfected their cars has always been amongst the most notorious of hill-climbs, amid Alpine roads, which have necessitated supreme perfection in engine, clutch, gears, brakes, cooling and suspension.

To you the inference is obvious. A car which can do what FIAT does under most adverse conditions, is guaranteed to give you not only effortless, trouble-free and luxurious motoring-but reliability and long life that is without compare- and is essentially the car for negotiating the hills of Hong Kong.

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