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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931.

CARS TOO CHEAP TO MARKET

thirst for such very clioup ATN may have to wait a little longer till it is gratified. Making a càr to a figure is one thing; selling it.

INADEQUATE - PROFIT: TO remuneratively cat that figure

through agents is another. "

RETAILER.

Rather a Ciluartiau situation is developing in the small and very cheap car market,

Ous of the oldest and best known car manufacturers in the Midlands proposes to cffer a full- "four-seator light car, with uncom ventional features, such as a year

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

In this connection if: Is "not with- at point to remember that a cer itain fainous car nitroduced at #100

speedily came on offer at higher, prices with more elaborato coach. werk, thus offering the retailer a more attractive return for his lab our and investment.

Part Exchange Problem,

News from Everywhere

BRITISH CARS. PREFERRED,

NEW CONTRIBUTION TO

MOTORING SAFETY,

The now

Panoram anloon

Willington (NZ). Although the half-yearly imports of motor cara and chassis were the lowest for nine mirror produced by Joseph Lucas. years, British makes actually show Ltd., is a remarkable contribution. an increase, claiming over half to motoring safety and comfort fer

of the total of 2,028 (value £388,032).it gives an undistorted panoramic

Canadian 72 and American 327.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.

GIVES SATISFACTION ÎN BECHUANALAND.

The Resident Commissioner in.. Bechuanaland in a Report to the Crown Agents to the Colonies makes appreciative observations on the 20/30 six-cylinder Armstrong Siddeley car with which he was

supplied last year. He states:----

I have delayed doing so until the car had been thoroughly tested in every conceivable way. Now,

the route we had to travel during the spring season, our summer; when the hent added to our difficul- ties and the bush was of course at its densest.

"MOTOR, DRIVEN BY CHARCOAL

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT

MADE IN RUSSIAN

I really did not know which to Endmire the most, the power of the engine which in spite of the heat

Moscow, September 10.-A new enabled us to get through the worst sand where others stuck the type of automobile, working on gas strength of the springs and conubtained from charcoal in a special atruction which resisted the worst gaso-generator, and designed by shocks without danger though Professor Nnymov, made a success others broke axles; the quality of

engine, with air-cooled cylinders,clear that however anxioua manu British." imports numbered 1,457, view through an angle of approx however, I am happy to be able heating against it for miles came miles. An ordinary automobile,

for £85.

Now, it would appear, there may be, a snag in this niluring offer. A disccunt of oven, 20 per cent, to the selling agenta amounts to a mere 17 per ear. When the ngents heavy overhead charges in the way of expensive show rooms, staff salaries, advertising, litera ture, service-much of it free, or nearly so are taken into consi- deration, it is felt by many menu- bers of the retailing side of the industry that this gross profit per car is inadequate, and that hand ling a car at such à lo guro is not a paring proposition.

What the outcome will be it is too early yet to prophesy, but it is not impossible that the public |

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Whatever happens, it is pretty facturers may be to place these tempting baits before the public and thus attract more and more motorists to the fold, many agents are not so keen to handle, this class of business, t

What complientes matters is that in so many cases buyers want a second-hand car taken in part, ex- change With a comparatively high friced car being sold, this can be easily arranged, but mest second-hand cars of fairly recent date are worth £9 in themselves How then can dents be arranged; ask the agents.

la_the meantime rumour is busy in Coventry that 285 is not the last word in low price for 1932 cars.

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BUICK 1980 Model Touring.

Condition and appearance 28-

...$3,600.

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DE SOTO 1981 Model Roads- ter (2-seater). Boon on the road for only three months. Conur-Cream-six red wire wheels. Mileage under 2,000. As good as new in every respect...

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1931 MARMON Sedan (Sir windows). Complete in every respecteix wire wheels and other expensive "equipment. Just done 1,500 miles. Better

...$4.500.

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NEW SMALL LUXURY CAR..

mately 100 degrees--an amazing raugo, of vision.

In this mirror the driver cans are not only behind the car through the A new small car of the luxury rear window, but through the side type will be shortly put into pro-windows as well, oven on

on a level duction at Coventry..

with his shoulders. The effect is It will not be down to the price thus the same as if three ordinary level of the cheapest "ears, but will mirrors were used, one in the centre appeal to motorists to whom first of the windscreen, and one on each cost is not an all-important conside of the ear in addition. sideration..

Close secrecy is being maintained with regard to the design, but the f.p. engine will be of an unusual type.

to say that after running nearly 10,000 miles over every species of in- credibly difficult country, including thick bush and deep soft sand, the car has given complete satisfaction, in every way and we are more time pleased with it.

The car has been through the most difficult parts of the Territory; it negotiated the sand dunea and mopane forests of N'gamilnad in the north last year, while our most recent trip was through a section of the Kalahari in the South-west,

The advantages of such a biting are "obvious; apart from the extra driving confidence and sense of arcurity engendered, it is most use ful when reversing, parking or country popularity but erroneous manœuvring into or out of a con-ly described as a desert, really a MORRIS SIX WHEELER FOR fined pace, such de a garage. Still magnificent grazing country "cover" another point, lies in the fact that ed for the most part with long the double-curvature type mirror grass and thick bush. While the advantages of six reduces dazile from the headlights wheeled chassis have long made of following cars which are shown themselves felt in commercial work, as two small orbs with the main it has been left to the War Office light diffused instead of exaggerated

WAR OFFICE.

Here the cn had to plough through deep, thick, soft sand (a terror to many cars) push through and over thick bush (thorn and

to set the lead in using six-wheeled ns in many ordinary mirrors. other); which sometimes renched to saloons of ear-type for passengers.

The question of car nomenclatura | has come to the fore particularly in the last two

Jenis

or so, during which time many

zoological"

above the top of the hood, and Over appallingly rough ground." "Owing to lack of water on

The War Office have intely taken THE IMPORTANCE OF NAMES.bump delivery of a number of such cara, builtby, Morris-Commercial Cara L18. which

particularly Rre suitable for cross-country work in districts where roads either do not exist or are very primitive.

The six-clinder engine stred de-tilles have been adopted by various, |velops over 70 hp, and allows a speed of more than a mile a minute to be reached.

makes.

Most aptly some of the most im posing species of birds, suggesting spend and power, have lent their

FORD FACTORY IN COLOGNE mes to the rangs of Rolls-Royce

TO CLOSE.

nero apgines, as, for instance, Eagle, Falcon, Condor and Hawk, It is interesting to learn that this prae."] Decline in the demand for its pro- tice has earned official approval for, ducts in Germany has compelled the by Air Ministry request, the well- German Ford Company temporarily known "T" and "H" type on- to close down its new factory at gines made by the Derby firm have Cologue. The factory, which has been named Kestrel and Bux an output capacity of shout, two zard," as being less confusing und hundred vehicles a day, was only easier to remember than the mere started last May.

Lack of orders has also affected the Opel Motor Company's. (General Motors) works at Rüsselsheim, near Frankfort. The works are *110* (only kept running three days a week with a restricted number of men." There has been a tendency recently amang German users vehicles to place their orders with purely German firms.

of motor

letters.

THE BRISTOL CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE.

As alrendy announced, a Concours d'Elegance for Bristol and the West of England is to be held un-. der the auspices of

of the Bristol Evening Times, on Saturday, Octo- ber 3, on the Portway, which is a wonderful promenade forming one side of the Avon estuary, in the shadow of the Clifton suspension |bridge. Considerable interest has Excessive oil consumption and already been aroused in the event,

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motoring troubles of the past if the ed to become patrons are the Duke claims made for a new piston ring | of Beaufort and Lord Aplsey, form- described in The Light Car ander Parliamentary Private Secretary Cyclecar are fulfilled. The now to the Minister of Transpor ring is a German invention, and

Many offers of help have already may be seen on the British market.

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It differs from ordinary piston committeo, and it is anticipated rings in that it is of V-section, and that a large number of entries will fits into a wedge-shaped, groove in bo secured for the various classes, the piston, the ring being slotted in in which many valuable prizes are such a manner

that it always its offered. tightly in the groove, and at the The time which has been fixed for same time exerts a steady přes the meeting of the competing cars. sure on the cylinder walls. Owing | is 7p.m., and judging will then | to this arrangement, it is olaimed immediately, take place. A prize to that even in an old engine axcess the valus of five guineas has been SIVE bir ComKumption in cured, whilst offered by The Autocar to be alloted, There is no pinion slap even when to the winner of ons of the small"| etarting up from cold.

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the enamel which though scratched ful test run from Leningrad to in every direction by thick bushes Petrozavodsk, a distance of 830

out in wonderful condition after a starting at the amo time as the few days polishing when we got home; or the tyres (Dunlop Roin. new car, made the run at the mame forced Balloon Fort 31 by 3.23) time, using 105 gallons of gasoline, which came through without a single while the puncture. Altogether a great tri-gallons as fuel, in addition to 350 e the new type used only eight

bute to British workmanship and Ibs of charcoal. designi

The variety of the going may be guessed from the facts that where-

The importance of the test, it is pointed out in the official announce ment, lies in the fact that in future

as our average mileage on somenutomobile transport and even in- days was only six per hour, on one dustries in the north can work on day wo were doing nearly 60 miles local fuel, there being abundant an hour across one of the great

supplies of cheresal na by-product

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such paos" that are

a distinctive.

of the Jumber industry, which were feature of the country.

hitherto completely wasted.

I have no hesitation in saying that I regard this car as admirably suited for this country and with one or two minor adjustments to. suit the climate and other peculari ties of South Africa and its roads, it need fear no competitor.

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