MORRIS CARS 1931
HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES.
MORRIS MINOR (42 " Track.)
R.A.C. Hors-Power Rating 8.1.
Brake Horse Power 18 at 3,200 Revolutions, Piston Displacement 61.7 Cubic Inches. Wheel-Bare 78 Inches,
Speed 46 M.P.11.
Model
Side Valve
Roadster
Nelt Tiright
... Parking Well Bash Valory Whipplug Hong Kong Peler Bellveer Price
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....
£100
130
Tourer
-pack.
113
10
£110
123
Saloon (Fabrio)
*.4-2.
114
14
128
Saloon (Cool Built)
110
133
Overhead Valve
Roadster
Толгог
Saloon (Fabric)
Entoon (Metal)
...2-pass. -1,250-lbs, £125 £10
1,278-lbs. ovd-paas.
130 10 1,266-lbs. .136 14 ...4-pasi.
1,378-lbs, ...pasa.
£135"
140 149
-140
14.
154
Hong Kg Prico includes Triplex Glass, Spare Wheel.. Tire and Tube, and Bumpera.
MORRIS COWLEY (48* Track).
R.A.C. Horse-Power Hating 13,9
Brake Horse Power 34 at 3,200 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 1094 Cubic Inches. Wheel-Base 105 Inches. Speed 50 M.P.II.
Hondster
Tourer
Coupo
Baloon
...4-раев.
...4.panu.
2,083-1. 2148-lbs, 2,183-lbs. 180 17
2100 170
£18
£176
18
180 197
4-788.
2,250-lbs. 135 2,250-lbs.
18
4
190
18
203 208
Saloon (Folding Head)...4-pass.
Hong Kong Price includes Triplex Glass, Spare Wheel, Tire and Tube, and Bumpers. Optional Equipment at Additional Price..
6 Small Hab Wire Wheel
... £3. 10, 0
MORRIS-MAJOR (48′′ Track)
R.A.C. Horac-Power Rating 15,
Brake Horse-Power 30 at 5,200 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 1193 Cubic Inches. Wheel-Base itd Inches,
Salonotte...
Coupu
Saloon
Speed 6 M.P.11,
...5.paze.
... Sepse,
2,278 lbs. £215 227
220 2,978-1bs.
29
2,900-lbs. 225 20
£212
248
254
Hong Kong Prien includes Triplex Glass, Spare Wheel, Tire and Tube, and Bumpers..
MORRIS-OXFORD SIX.
R.A.C. Horab-Power Rating 16.
Brake Horse-Power 30 at 3,200 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 118.3. Cubic Inches. Wheel-Base 111 inches,
Tourer
Speed 60, M.PH.
***5*]\x88.
2,637.Ibe.
Saloon Fabric
... pass.
Coupe (8liding Head)....pasa,
Saloon (Fired Head)....d-pubs/"
£250 £31
205 2,694-lbs.
29
2,898-lbs. 286 2,770-lbs. 975
294
28
313
29 ...
304
Hong Kong Price includes Triplex Glass, Leather Upholstery, Spare Wheel, Tire and Tube, Bumpers. Optional Equipment at Additional Price. Extra Spare Wheel
... £7, 0.0
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MORRIS ISIS SIX.
R.AC. Horse-Power Rating 18,
Brake Horse-Power 40 at 3,200 Revolutions,
Piston Displacement 150,6 Cubic Inches, Wheel-Base 114 Inches.
Tourer.
Saloon
Coupe
Speed 65 M.P.IT.
5-pass.. 9,782-lbs. £330 Ext ...5-pass. 9,078-lbs. 340 30 350* 28 ...pass 3,200-lbs.
£351
870 378
'Hong Kong Price includes Triplex Glass, Leather Upholstery, Spare Wheel, Tire and Tube, Bumpers.
Optional Equipment at Additional Price.
Extra Spare Wheel
Magan Type Wire Wheel
0 Magna Type Wire Wheel
414
149
£ D. 30 0 5. 10. 0
... 16, 0, 0
Equipment and Price subject to change without notice.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931.
GEAR-CHANGING.
THE WILSON BOX.
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
the corner or gradient looms up. he will always have both hands free for other controls at critien! moments of his always perilous journey.
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An obvious criticism is that such mechanism might conceivably quive rather dainty adjustment, and 80 prove something of n nuimme to un-technical users in prolonged wear. The facts rule this out. I have examined the ser
largo 30 h.p. car, which is normally maintained by chauffeur. The first year's working was so free from trouble that they extended the other option to smaller models. Finally, having proved to their satisfaction "that the gearbox was actually more reliable and durable than the standard typo,
they installed it
"all
their their cars, down to the little 12-h.p., which is invariably owner. driven and owner maintained; and they find no reasons to regret their decision.
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SKIDDING CAR ADVENTURE.
ENTANGLED IN WIRES.
Mr. Carvor, of East Langdon, near Deal, had a remarkable escape when motoring home from St. Margaret'e Bay at midnight.
When descending a steep hill with a dangerous curve at the bottom his car a dded and ran up a bank. It next swerved across the road, and, mounting the bank on that side, strack a telegraph post, anap ping it off at the bottom.
Still out of control, the car con- tinued ang the bank for abou; 18 yards, then dropped into the road and came to a standstill up- side down, throwing the driver against the wooden fence of a cot- tage.
Most motorists are by this time familiar with the name of Major Wilson na the laventor of à patent gearbox, which is incorporated on 1931 Armstrong Siddeley cars, an tho Da'mler cars, and on eer- tain vehicles employed by the Tankvice record hunks of the motor-car firm which has done must to popu Corps, not to spunk of other com. larigo this gear. The Armstrong morcini applications, But up to Siddeley people began by eatalogn. the present only a small percentageing the gear as an option on their of us have actually handled o of these-boxes, or figured as pas sangers on cars equipped with it In the opinion of the present wri- ter it is the outstanding invention of the postwar period in the motor ing sphere, and deserves to be standarised on all motor vehicles, if est considerations interpose no That is high serious obstacle, praise, and such praise requires solid justifientions. Wherefore the noting of the box must be described, There is no gear lever or gate in the ordinary Bense of the ward. The hub of the steering wheel car
There, is of course, a somewhat rian the usual hooter button and
rare type of motorist who regards lamp control lever. Combined with
the driving of a motor-car as a high. this hub is a selector dial, whichly skilled neience, and who delights will display six notches in the case
in gonr-changing as Abe Mitchell of a four-speed gearbox, the not delights in cutting a spoon shot up thes will be marked high, 'normal, to a green 200 yards away across medium, low, neutral, and revers
Such intervening tiger country. respectively. A small lever, pro jecting some two and a half inches radially from the hub, can be set by light finger pressure in any of these six notches. When the fever is moved into muy natch-for exed relief any invention which auto-ment of wires from the broken tele ample, the notch marked "low-matically elevates ns into the class nothing happens until the driver of expert drivers, especially when depresses and rolenses his clutch
the promotion carries with it an pedal: But whenever the clutch increased anfoty factor, much any ing of our faces, and appreciable pedal is thus operated the preselect- ed gear automatically engages it- financial attractions. The driver self as the clutch pedal rises. There who has never sampled the delights
shock. An absolute is no Bound
of a preselector gearbox should re- pair his omission at the earliest opportunity.
ly perfect genr-change is mechanic. ally excented in the minimum possible time. Thus an elderly man, am ignorant woman, or an ar- dent youth is miraculously elevated to the level of a Don or à Segrave in the most difficult department of driving skill. All the four gehrs are abnormally quiet and the sys tem involves no unusual friction; the usual ratio of the available en Kins power is transmitted to the driving wheels of the car.
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At first sight the main value of such an invention might appear to be that it ministers to be pride and indolence of an indifferent driver. Actually the merits are much grea- ter than this. Since the transmis sion is relieved of the shocks in- Aicted by an average motorist, the the me- ainst expensive item, in chanism of a car becomes.execption. ally durable, is relieved of many potential derangements, and re tains its silence and efficiency over au abnormally prolonged period of It should therefore pay the rummereis! transport concerns and the private motorist alike to spend rathor more money on their trans mission, sinee even if its first cost had to be increased its life and maintenance costs would be siderably reduced. In aetual fact it is doubtful whether the first cost need to higher than that of a stand. ard gearbox. Naturally, a switch. over to the Wilson type of gear would involve most existing plants in expense, since new pattorns and possibly new machine tools would be required. But a factory enter- ing the industry for the first time could probably adopt the Wilson gear as economically as it could manufacture the conventional Pani hard type of box.
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An Emergency Braking System. Further than this, the gearbox confers an emergency braking sys- tem of great simplicity and power on any vehicle which is equipped with it. Imagine, for example, that a heavily laden motor-coach suffers an almost complete brake failure whilst descending a dangerous hill- on top gear. If the conch wero fitted with the Wilson gear the driver would suffer no qualms what Boever. He would preselect third Koar, tap his clutch pedal in and out, and ruore quickly than one can write the simple sequence of muscular actions his coach would he on bottom gear, be restored to complete control, and could be stopped dead on any imaginable gradient by switching off the igni tion and leaving bottom gear engag- ed. It is conceivable that the ma- chinery would stand the strain of engaging reverse gear with the coach still moving forward down the hill, but in practice it would not be necessary to go as far as that.
The gear-changing is so perfect
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE that it must necessarily be used in
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Tel. 24759.
Tol. 27778.
racing before very long. Even the crack racing driver occasionally makes a bad change, or even misses a change, and split seconds are often vital to bim But with this gear- box he will never waste a second over a change, and since it demands no effort and the finger-work can be done in advance, long before
Mr. and Mrs. Greon, who liv in the ecttage, wero awakened by a crash beneath their bedroom win- dow.
"When I got outside," Mr. Groen
Motor-cycling Rector Huri, While motor-cycling, near Ply mouth the Rev. James Sharpe, rector ni Bere Ferrers, Doven, came into collision with a motor car and received injuries to his hend and chest, and a broken arm. Two fata road nevidents occurred within an hour at the village of Croxdale, near Spennymoor, Coun. ty Durhani
Ronald Bennington (36), insur ane agout. of Sunderland Bridge, who was recently married, was knocked down by a car and died soon afterwards, and Denis Burn, Barmoor Cottager, aged thice, Croxdale, was knocked down and killed by a lorry whim crossing the road.
DEATH OF ANDRE
MICHELIN.
THE CAREER OF A FAMOUS TYRE MANUFACTURER,
This business being in a very weak condition; the two brothers decidud, in 1889, to janve Paris. and endeavour to raise it to pros perity. Taking up the manufac ture of solid-rubbor bicycle tyres. they extended to pneumatic tyres, and in 1801 they equiped the Hum- her bicyc.e which won the Paris ta Brost race in competition with French machine fited with Dun-
lopa.
In the early days these promatic tyre manufacturers had to ment with serious opposition from car. builders who would not believe that a iyre filted with air could be used on a motor vehicle. The first tyres were used on borse-drawn enbs, in order to gain experience. So oppos ed were onginisers in general to theso ty, that the, Michelin bro-" thers had to build their own cars, one of which took part in the Paris to Bordeaux and return race in 1895. Twenty-two tubes were chang oil batween Paris and Bordeaux, but the enr returned to Paris in While the early minth position.
results were somewhat dishearten. ing, the two brothers persisted,
Racing naturally interested the Michelin brothers enormously, and The death occurred in Paris. until immediately before the Wa last month of M. Andro Michelin, there was not a speed test of any head of the famous firm of tyra importance in which they did no manufacturera. M. Michelin, who play a prominent phr. Later, tho was 78 years of age, is survived by campaign in favour of pneumatics
more commercia was turned to daughter.
channels Only a few years ago his wife and by two sons and a
The two Michelin brothers, Andrea strong effort was made to in and Edouard, passed their student duce the authorities to adopt pneu. number one in 100,000; and the rest "Befor could get to him I had days in Paris, the Intter studying matics on the Paris buses, An illus of us would welcome with unfeign to struggle through an entangle, painting and the former devoting trated poster of that period, with: himself tr architecture. Abandon the leading "Pigs are carried on
pneumatics, you are shaken graph pole which were not only ing the idea of becoming an archi stretched across the road but entfect, M. Andre Michelin entered the solids," was typical of the brothers, angled the car.
but shocked the sensibilities of cor tain sensitive-minded persons,
men would thank nobody for simp-hid, "I saw a car upside down and a man was leaning against my lifying their art. But this breed
fonce. of motorist is scarce; he does not
Agents:
"Mr. Carver's chief concern was for his dog, but the terriled ani- mal had bolted. Mr. Carver was take to hr spital in a taxi-cab, and after receiving treatment cano back to sto what had really hap pened."
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W. R. LOXLEY & Co..
YORK BUILDING.
Telephone: 22285.
Government map dopartment, and later transferred to the Depar- ment of Public Works. The grand paronts of the two youths owned a sugar factory at Clermont-For- rand, which was destroyed by fire, and later rebuilt, and-converted to the manufacture of rubber halls.
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Mr. Andre Michelin took a clow. interest in the physical and mora woll-being of the workers at his fac- try in Clermont-Ferrand, and. with his brothers, expended con siderabio sums towards this end.
MILES...
THE FINAL TEST
When all is said and done the tyre that the discerning motorist eventually chooses is the one that answers his demand for yet more mileage.
The best answer to this demand to-day is supplied by India Super Tyres.
You want super-mileage. We offer you the tyre that gives it. Its service is guaranteed on a generous scale, but in actual practice India Super Tyres outlive their guarantee many times over.
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