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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

THE BRITISH MOTOR CARS ON THE DIRT SCRAP METAL FROM PETER PAN OF THE phenomental performances, besides

INDUSTRY.

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PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1931.

The present year has seen the British Motor Industry virtually maintaining, and in soms respects, extending its successes. The British Motor Industry has held the pasi tion in the home and exports mar- kota which, in its particular case, has only been secured by persistent and determined. "efforts against difficulties which, but a few years ago, appeared to be almost insuper

able.

The figures of British Motor Ex ports reflect, naturally, the world. wide economic position, but it is gratifying, nevertheless, to be able to report, that they also show that the export position is becoming more stable, and that conditions in one or two important markets cau no longer so materially affect the general position. Entry is lowly but surely being made in markets which were formerly almost, if not entirely, closed to British vehicles.

TRACK.

FOUR-WHEELERS PERFORM AT WEMBLEY STADIUM.

tos cars..

At Wombley Stadium F vety popular note of novelty was in troduced recently into the program by the inclusion of an event Three cars, all Frazer Nashes, had been selected to set up a lap record for future drivers to aim at The drivers were Mrs. T. Hr Wisdom, who handled

OLD MOTOR-CARS.

FORD CO.'S HYDRAULIC

BALING PRESS...

moter-

MOTOR WORLD.

MODERN SMALL CAR THAT

winning many great races over long distances.

Speeds They Attala,

As in generally known, the Aus- sin Seven has a side-valva engine, yet with a supercharger fitted" it' has attained a speed of 108.13 miles an hour for firo kilometres. The

IMPROVED COOLING ON GRAHAM CARS.

MORE COMPLETE JACKETING-

OF THE CYLINDERS.

It is not until recent limes that a combination of high compression

THE FUTURE OF THE BENTLEY.

The assets of Bentley Motors, Ltd., have been taken oyer from the British Equitable Central. Trust, Ltd. by Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and the latter company have under con- sideration the formation of a sub. sidiary company.

The Rolls-Royco board has not vot

WILL NOT GROW UP."

Ask any dozen people, well in Equipment has been installed by formed in the history of the auto- the Ford Motor Company at their mobile, to trace the birth of the M.". Midget, a later design, which ratios, high power output and con- decided the future policy of the Rouge plant to increase the cap will be at least half a dozen differ has, incidentally, reached 114.77 oil overheating a serious problem the benefit of Bentley owners, and in email car. In all probability there has an overhead camshaft engine, sequent high revolutions has made Bentley Compnay, but it is intended to continue services and repairs for neity of the open-hearth departent roplim. Some will say that them.p.h, for the same distance (both for the designer. The designers of the meantime tlicy may communi- mont by 000 tons to a total of 2,000 amhl? CAT was born before the these records were made at Montl- the Graham car have attacked the ente with the company on repair tohe per 24 hours. A baling press Emancipation Act; that the history hery); while the side-valve Morris problem at the rook, that is, in und service matters at the Bentley capable of scrapping old

of the automobile is, in fact, the Minor, with aar engine about 10 per place of ocoling the oil once it has NW.8.

Works, Kingsbury Lane, London,

the black vehicles at the rate of approximate earliest cars

history of the small car, aince the cant larger, has also run super- become overheated, they have nt. It is expected that a further state- supercharged car with which shely one every minute. a 400-ton will say that the small car was

were small. Others charged at over 100 mp.h.

tempted to overcome the overhout ment.of the policy to be pursued by has done so well at Shelsley; H.

Truly remarkable infants, theseing itself. This is accomplished by the Bentley cars will be made in a Rolls-Royce, Ltd., with regard to little cars of 750 cc. It is to be. surrounding the entire cylinder short time. hoped that they will not grow, for from top to bottom by the water there are cars a little larger-and jacket instead, as is usual. of Bo always only a very little larger cooling only the upper part of the so that to-day the buyers does not cylinder. have to purchase a car of 1,000 de.. if he requires one a little more powerful than 750 cc. He can go up in easy stages: 747 cc, 532 c.c., 847 0.c., 907 c.c., 872 c.a., 1,005 c...' 1,019 6.c., 1,089 c.a., 1,184 cc., and Bo on up to 6,000 6.5. Thero is no necessity for the Poter Pans to grow up at all. (Phe Autocar),

3. Aldington at the wheel of a furnace, and hot metal mixers ens-born, when it was made a practical machine specially, and hurriedly,stitute the new installation, which concocted for the event, of which is expected to lower the cost of the basis was his "Round the Mountain Car" of last year; while the third driver was R. G. J. Nash, on the single-seater Terror," too familiar to frequenters of hill- climbs to need further introduc tion.

operation by reducing the difficul- ties attendant upon handling wrap on the present smaller spate,

Proposition by the introduction of xuch cars as the Singer, Standard, Calcott, Morris-Oxford, Stellite, and others produced, in 1912 or thereabouts, at a time when many thought that the cycle car with its motor cycle engine and transmis For some time past old motorsion had a definite place in the gen: "cura, 'purchased" and delivered by eral scheme of motoring, dealers have been utilized as

The Genuine Small Car, source of scrap. After the removal of all materials having a solvage

Some, perhaps, will give the cro- dit to Sir Herbert Austin with his value, such as glass, leather, and Aldingten followed, but though

Austin Seven, which, introduced in he was apparently faster and certires, the chassis were crushed and 1928, has, with only a few modif- The following table is an indica-tainly noisier, his time was the the resulting wreckage cut to sizes eations, endured until to-day, when suitable for charging openhearth it is sold in its thousands in most

countries of the world. Undoubt expected to leave the rest well be furnaces. With the new equipmentedly, the Austin Seven has brought hind, as in practice he had lapped the chassis are compressed into into being genuine small cars, and at 20 sec. But, unfortunately, on bales by a powerful hydraulic pres. it has been the means of introduc

Facts and Figures.

tion of the progress „inades—

*Export Estimated Exports to

Produc- Im tor rest of sion parts Empire World 19203,000 £2,332 2,20 K35

146,000 23,746 13,608 2,051

1024

1006

198,000 21,343 28,051 3,437

1928.

3090

211,000 32.133. 26,833 5,675 238,000·11,978 23,740 4,118

For the seves months, January to July, 1831, the exports of British Motor Vehicles have runounted in number to 13,003.

Despite conditions, there is in al- most every direction Overseas an increasing desire to satisfy their transport needs by the use of Motor Vehicles manufactured in Great Britain. Undoubtedly the most forceful example "of this was given by the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, P.C., Prime Minister of New Zealand, who recently said: "In the past, in the motor industry, we have had difficulties in obtaining, precisaly the cars and trucks we requipe from- Hore, but from my dwu experience I can say that there has been a re-

markable shauge recently, and to day there is a range of ears and trucks of all sizes and prices to suit New Zealand condition. To those about to buy I would nak you to give full consideration to Britain's motor products."

Mra. Wisdom" opened the pro ceedings. After two preliminary laps to warm, she way clocked at

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Nash enina Jast, and his ear was

The illustration pictures. one of the new Donnis tipping lorries recently purchased by the Public Works Department in action at Sookunpoo.

his first lap the engine gave trouble, pinstead of being crushed and cut the supercharger drive having ap into small pieces, and a conveyor parently seized, "Not to disappoint

the enormous crowd, Nash transdeposits the bales in charging boxes for emptying into the new furnace, ferred himself to Mrs. Wisdom':

For England.

car, but entering the curve too fast which is of the tilting type, using the car went into an uncontrollable gas, oil, or tar as fuel. broadside and turned over, thus putting paid to any further at tempts that. evening.

Spectacular, There is no doubt that car racing recorda, commencing with Sir Mal- can be made a spectacular show

List of Records. British cars have,, throughout the year, been giving the most convinė- ing proof of their ability to create

ing thousands of people to the joys

.of

motoring. Designed by Sir Herbert Austin in his billiards room, it was regarded by many 46 a joke With an engine noÎnrger' than the family sidecar outfit it seemed absurd to offer it as a scri- ous proposition, yet it was not long- before it appeared with a alpon „body" and became more popular than any single type of small pas- scriger vehicles,"

The small cars of the nineties.

like all lusty infants, quickly grew up and became larger, and ther really large, cars. The popular lit

tle cars of 1912 and 1913. followed n

similar course of evolution until at the time when the Austin Seven was placed on the market there were practically no small ones-at least, few under 1,200 cc, capacity The majority had grown up and. become medium-size can of 1,500 c.c. and over.

The Austin Seven, is the Poter

Pan of the movement-it refuses to

After being melted the stoel strap grow up. It is practically the can be transferred to any one of name to-day as it was when it left Herbert Austina billiards the nine 100-ten open-hearth furny Sir ces, where it is mixed with molten table eight years ago. Since then colm Campbell's success at Daytona, In this case none of the three pig iron from the Ford blastfurna-others have come into the field to and culminating, to date, with the chassis was designed for the job, AES. This iron is stored in two share the market it arented, but British successes in the fastest and their wheel track, being on the nar-

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This car was designed for the family man who wished to convey

most spectacular Tourist Trophy row side for safety, while probably barrel-typo mixers, each with they have all been-just a little lar Race on the Arde Circuit, near Bel-only the Terror had sufficient power capacity of 600 tons These mixerger, exconting those which for fast, when a British light car won to keep its wheels spinning on the replace the single mixer which was special purposes have been reduced at an average speed, for the 300 curves. This is essential, since formerly arranged at the end of in bors in order to bring them into miles, of 67.90. m.p..

otherwise the cinders "build up the furnace line, and was recently an international racing class. So Almost each mail brings from under the outside of the car, which dismantled and shipped to England Ovorsens further evidence of the eventually tends to roll over thon for installation at the Daganham the little Austin may justly claim increasing interest being shown in Another noticeable point was the plant of the Ford Motor Company to be the pioneer of a small car British Motor Vehicles, as the pub necessity for much stronger springs The ladles into which the molten movement. lic realises that the virtue of road to prevent roll. As it was the cars, metal is poured from the mixers transport must always ultimately he were twisted at 'n visible magle, for transfer to the open-heath a matter of economy of operation, while the racking strain on the furnaces are supported on double and the manufacturers at home are cbussis must be immense, Probably beamed scales so finely adjusted his wife and, say,, two diildren in- facing the future in a spirit of this was the cause of Aklington'a that they can weigh either a low to the country at a spoed of shout, optimism, determined that, with a car: slipping out of gear on one pounds or 100 tons.

35 m.p.h and undoubtedly this return to more normal world-trade curve. But the slow was well

The waste heat from the melling

WAX the car's most satisfactory conditions, the products of their worth watching, and, to judge from furnace is used to generate steam factories shall, through their merits, the onthusiasm of the crowds, there in a battery of boilers having speed. But tuned-up--and wome and with the support and co-opera is a futuro, for the sport, even combined capacity of 1,100 h.p. This times anparcharged--models have tion of Overseas Distributors and though only one can perform at a steam provides power for. & 1,000- dene over a hundred miles an hour public, secure

time. It will not be long botoru a position of pro-

4 crowd of Frazer Nash and G.Nton shear, or can be diverted to eminence in the Motor Markste of Specials" get going on there.

the main steam lines for general and other small cars reduced to the the world.

oord:

plant purposes

same empacity have put up similar

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COLOUR-BLIND DRIVERS.

Colour Blind motor drivers have Recently two cars, identical ex- copt for the water jacket design, in Saint Louis, Missouri. The high no excuse for passing traffic lights were put through a test in hot way authority wished to eliminate weather. In the Graham car road, and had the lenses modifed the danger of the signals being mis

maximum of 220 degrees was reach an fhat stead of the nnual three ed, while in the other engine the round lights there are now two ob oil attained a temperature of 280 long signals and one diamond-shap- degrees. The limit of heat undar; ed. Green, Go," at the top, is an which oil will function efficiently in oblong placed vertically; Orange, 250 degrere Other advantages are or Caution," is a diamond shape, also claimed for fulllength water and the Red Stop" light is a portion of the bore. It is al jackets. An evou temperature is oblong at Fight angles to the green. claimed that oil consumption is maintained over the full length of This alteration has affected a con- drenged; aines the greater visco. the cylinder, and thus no distore siderable reduction in the number of sity of ecol oil prevents its escaption can occur cwing to the grea accidents, and fias prevented a-grent ing past the rings into the comter temperature of the under-cooled deal of confusion caused by the one bustion chamber.

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