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FROM THE PLUGS

News from Everywhere

"A TRIBUTE TO BRITISH✨

WORKMANSHIP.

From the owner of a 1028 18 hp.) Humber Saloon comes a moat inter- esting account of a 3,000 miles Transcontinental trip.

emerging from this expert's report

1-Steady cruising speed of 40

p.h. -Petrol consumption 20.5 m.p.g. despite imperfect adjustment of buretter and idling speed)

3.-Oil consumption 742 mp.g.

SPARE PÅRT RUSHED TO

DESERT

A spare part for a car that had broken down in the heart of the African desert has been rushed by aeroplane from London.

These little things may all have. been noted and improved. If not makers will be made to realise that they have got to keep owners proud of their cars by getting everything: right.

Brakes.

A good many owners of 1031 oars [ would have been better plenaed if brakes had been a little less in neod. of adjustment. Why any car should. be turned out to-day with brakes that are troublesome puzzles mo.

In these days of crowded road and high speed, there is nothing so vitally important as powerful, re- liable brakes, and while I admit that when in perfectly corrent ad- justment, the general braking sy temin on British cars are good, Tatill say they are as a class, far too ready to re out of adjustment. quially, and there is nothing more dangerous than a car driven at 30 and more miles an hour with brakes that would be inefficiens for a spred of 20.

Most makers would put this con- dition down solely to neglect of ordinary precautions in the upkeep of a vital part of equipment; but the responsibility should be shared by the maker for fitting a system which gets easily out of adjust- ment, and by most garages for reliable

While the journey may, or may not, be one that many cars of the days are capable of completing con- sidering that there were more than 30,000 miles already to the credit of the car in question, and that no preparations of any kind were made for this Coast-to-coast" hop (from Dieppe, across France and Spain, i Madrid, to Gibraltar; The British motorists, Captain back then by way of the East coast Filby Mr. Parker, and Dr. De of Spain, through Valencia and muralt aro driving from Cairo to Barcelona, to Dieppo), the perform Cape Town under the auspices of ance is specially worthy of com.the Overscan League, representing ment.

a number of British firms, with the "Despite heat, bad road surfaces, object of opening up now trade in indifferent petrols and very steep Africa gradients, particularly in the

Their car is a 20 years old Rollsneglecting to instal a Southern half of Spain,writes the Royce, carrying about two tone, machine on which customers could correspondent, "the car ran per and the first trouble was encounter have their brakes tested at intervals. feetly throughout. Both outwarded 60 miles from Juba, in the-In some cars, an overhauling of and homeward I. covered some 400 Budan. Owing to the heavy rain, would bring about an improvement. the design of the brake linkage. miles a day-with ban temperatures the Government had graded up in others, the fault rests in the up to and beyond 100 deg.-and both sides of the rond to form an extraordinary ease with which oil and grease has leaked on to the ridge to allow the water to brake has lon yet on not one single occasion was acute there the lezat sign of over-heating. drain off, so the car bad to be I do not think I am unfair to Moreover, the 1,800 miles from driven at

a considerable angemakers of brake linings, when I maker or owner, or too kind to Malaga to Dieppe-over the most After 280 miles the excessive strain say that good quality lining tortuous mountain roads I have resulted in the snapping of a rear | should, with the balance of the aver experienced-were covered in axle cardan sheft. braking force equal between the four wheels, and the brakes' used bdays running time, at an aver The car was towed, by

od by 30 tiatives with common sense, give 90,000 age speed throughout of well over to the village of Bornherd's tele- miles service. 40m.p.h.9%

gram, was sent to the Holla works at Derby, asking for a spare part to be sent immediately. The part was sent off at once to London, put on the African air mail, and delivered exnetly seven days after

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The owner, in stating that he con- siders the performance a very great tribute to the Humber Company, and to British workmanship, con- tinues:-

I may add that this opinion the despatch of the telegrarn, in is also held by several people in the village of Bor. Two hours.

the motor industry in Spain whom, later the car was able to resume ita

I met, and who were frankly amaz-] journey towards the South.

̈ed that a 16 h,p. car should put It revolutionises and shatters up such a performance on the really | all pre-conceived ideas of time and difficult and tortuous roads cover- disinate to be able to procure a ed, with no more care and atten- tion thao Alling with petrol and

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In view of this happy experi- enco I should not hesitate to take the ear over any roads in Europe. I am well acquainted with all parts of the continent, and I do not know of any area which wolld offer a severer best to the efficiency |of any "two-year-old' than the

South-Eastern corner of Spain."

A LONG PATROL,

vital spare part thousands of miles away from England in 7 days-and this for a pro-war ear!" Capt. Filby said in a message "received in | London subsequently.,,

TROUBLE-FREE GEAR.

ARMSTRONG-SIDDELEY'S NEW CAR'S

The plans of the Armstrong-Bid- deley, Company for next year in clude a 12 h.p. six-cylinder "eco- nomy" saloon five-seater, which in

The New South Wales Police De-fitted with the automatic self-chang partment recently "traded into ing gear-box.

the Morris Depot in Sydney, a This new type of gearbox has up: Morris-Cowley touring model, which'

had officially recorded 80,000 miles to now had four speeds, but with.

over two years running

this car there are only throe

The car remained in excellent con- All the other, cara of this, mako, dition- fact which was amply will have the four-spoed self-chang confirmed by an unbiassed autho

rity in the shape of the motoring ing gear box as standard. editor of the Sydney Sun, who im- The plans also include a luxury mediately took it for a week-end car, the price of which will esta run. The three salient points new standard in the 18 hp. class.

FAULTS OF THE 1931 CARS.

OWNERS ANNOYED, BY

"TRIFLES

It's the little things that count, and British motor-cars--makers" 2. would do well to realise the 100, writes Chiltern,'* in the Loudon News Chronicles.

These wore cars which had not done more than 2,000 miles p

Another car" with n 1,500 miles' life had a rattle and a sharp. "aqueak, which at the end of a drive

to Cambridge had my nerves. atingle, Twenty miles on the homeward journey both noises, dis- appsäred, to recur again on ✡ smooth, new arterial road.

When I returned the care the service" people politely heard me with a smile that plainly said

You are too fussy.

It is little things like these which hare a widespread effect on the re- During a storm in. Piccadilly the patation of a cor.: from an owner- other night my windscreen wiper, driver's view, and in the last year suddenly refused to work. I fuss auch trifles have baan going wrong ed with the rubber tube connection, with a frequency far from pleasant. but nothing happened, and later 1 I have not as yet had a prolong- |found that the suction tube had ed acquaintance with British cars split. Earlier in the week 1 ran ↑ of 1932, but I trust that, as a GİREN, driving another car with a speedo they will not be so prone as in-1031- moter which somatimes deigned to I to develop -odd-noises or “minor work and sometimes did not. defects, Wy

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