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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

THE GREATEST STUDEBAKERS TRAVEL VISION OF

OF ALL TIME,

STUDEBAKER

S·P·A·

PIERCE ARROW

HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES

STUDEBAKER SIX

B.4.C. Hores Power Rating 264 A

Braks Hores Power 80 at 3:200 Kavolutions.

Piston Displacement 230 Qubio Inchas, Wheel-Bass 117, Inches,

*

Model

Coups Regular Roadster Regular

Speed 50 M.P.H

Nett

Wheels Upholstery A Weight ...5 Wire Bedford 1 2,010]be, Wire Leather 43,000

& Wire Bedford 4 8,080

Coupe dporter... Pira. Bodford 8 3,145

Brougham

Sedas Reguler ...b Wire Bedford, 5 2198 Coupé Regal ... Sto 1 Bedford z 3000.

Convertible Regula...5 Wire Leather 5 3,135

Roadster Begal

103 Packing H'Kong Price, Dalltag Price G# 140, CÍTÍU 615,000 890120 · 11to

890 990

920

225

Coupe Begal

stail Leather + 3.150 ...Staal Bedford • 8,180

100

Brongham Begal

Stoel Bedford 5 3,226

·ODL

295

Bedan Rogat

0 Steel Bedford 5 8,975...

DAR

1,060 930

Convertible Begal 1.6 Stral Leather 5 8,916

OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT—NO CHARGE

6 Wire Wheels instead of 6 Steel Spoke Wheels, Mohair Upholstery instead of Bedford, Regolar Models choice of 2 Colours, Begal 4 Colours.

OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT-DXTEA CHARGE/ Spare Tire and Tubo 18 ± 8:50-4 Fly, $14. Leather Upholstery #20, & Etadl Spoke. Wheels instead of 3. Wire Wheels $26, Tourists Trunk without cases #30, Chase for Trunk #20, Philco Transitone Radio 485, Special Colour $80. Price of other Approved Accessories on Application,

DICTATOR EIGHT

BAG. Hors-Power Rating 30,

Brake Horas-Power 81 al 3,200 Revolutions.

Patan Displacement 201′ Ovbic Inches Wheel Bano 127 Inches.

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Coupe Regular

Bosdster Regula

Coupe Sport

Sedan Regular

Coupe Regal

Boadator Begal

Coupe Regal"

Brougham Begal

Sedan Regel

Speed of M.P.

3 Wie Bedford 5° 3,980

...Steal Bedford 2 3,900

...Wire Bedford 2, 3,12018. GS 980

$210

Wire Lanther 3,840

5 Wire Bedford, 4 3,190

$1,210 1,030 230 · 1,260 1,030 230 1.280 1,030 230 1,280 1,080 235

Lago

935

1,330

1,370 235

1.370 1.370 1,370. 1,440

Convertible Regular. 5 Wire Leather 6 3.196

...6 Steel Leather 4 3930

.. Steel Bedford $ 3,370 8Btoel Bedford & 3 290 20% tee! Bedford 5 3:340- Convertible Regál ...tel Leather 3 3,275

4

1,095 1,133 1,135 1,136 235 1,135 235- 1,20

240

„OPTIONAL. EQUIPMENT~NO CHARGE Wire Wheel instead of 6 Steel Spoke, Wheels, Mohair Upholstery instead of Bedford, Regular Models choice of 2 Colours, Regal Modela choice of 4 Colpurs. „

OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT —EXTRA OHARGE Spare Tire and Tube 18 x 5.50 Ply. $14, Leather Upholstery $20, 5 Stoel Spoke Wheals instead of 5 Wire Wheels $85, Tuuriala Trunk without cases $81, Cases for Trunk $20, Phileo Transitone Radio 18. Spacial Colour $60, Prices of other Approved Accessories on Application. COMMANDER EIGHT

R.A.C. Horu Power Rating 30.. Brake Horn Puwer 301 at 3,200 Resolutions Pixton Displacement 250 Cubio fucher.Wheel Bass: 125 Inches,

Speed 70 M.P.H.

Conpe Regular ... Wire Bedford 4 2:4481bx,

Sedia Regular ... Wire Belford 5 3,585

Convertible Hegalar...6 Wire Leather 5 3,50

Beadster Regel Coupe Regul Brougham Hegal Sedan Rega!

G$1,300 G8260 'G$1,610

1200

960 "1,415

268

6Sten Leather 48475 ...6 Steel Bedford 43,625 .6 Steel Bedford 6 3,615 ...8 Stoel Bedford & 3,65 Convertible Regal...6 Steel Leather 3 9,600

1,610 1.880 - 1,455

285

1,7201 1,400 261 1,720 1,400 365 1,720 1,455 285 1720 1,020 270 1.7907 OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT—NO CHARGE

@ Wire Wheels instead of à Steel Spoke Whecis, Mohair Upholstery instead of Bedford, Regular Models choise of 2 Colaus, Kegal Models Chrifce of 4 Colours

OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT-EXTRA CHARGE

Upholstery 825 Biel, Spoki Wheels Intend of 8 Why Wheels 140, Tourista Truck without oxark 88), ChRIN for Trunk $25 Phileo Transitons Radio 137, Apoca Colour $65. Prices of other Approved Accessories on Application.

PRESIDENT EIGHT

R.A.C. Hores Power Rating 88.2.

Brake Horse-Power 12% at 1,200 Revolutitsin: Pistol Displacement 887 Cubic Inches Wheel-Bass 135 Inches.

Speed 80 M.P.H.

Sedan Begalar

Beda Begular

Compe Btale

teel Bedford 44,140

085

1952.

SILENCE SPEED-SAFETY:

CONTROL BY LIGHTS AND

POLICE. " RAYS,"

ear

[BY CHILTERN.]

to the, Marble Arch, divided into

ways," with one of the tracks fur) fast passenger vehicles and another for gommercial motors, and Lon- don's working army was speeding *to business.

AN ARROW SPECIAL.

the employment of a continuous);

LORRY THAT CAN EVADE BOMBS.

10-TON LOADS OVER DESERT OR SWAMP.

VEHICLE, ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE.

vehicle can go. It can climb the Proghnet · elope and ford straminis- Ita commercial advantages in the roadless areas of the Empire need no emphasis.

HOW FAR AHEAD?

CLEAR VISION DISTANCE FOR CARS AT HIGH SPEEDS.

In the United States the Pennsyl.. vania Department of Highway's hai

But the ultimate significance of this new development would wom. to lie in the freedom which' it offers to an army's transport from the overhanging menace of the future. made teats to determine the distan Air experts have recently told us (cos required to bring a car, to a stọp that the fighting troope themselves for various speeds on road graqes are not a worth, while target. In varying from level to oight per

as

so far as cur bombare attack aircent, on a dry conerate surface. army, they will aim at its basog, A chart drafted from the results or its routes of supply. Roada, Bles) of thean tesis indiendes that, for a

One of the most attractive exam ples of special bodywork yat desig ed for the Austin Seven choseis 13. the Arrow Speciál streamline ras ing body produced by A. P. Compe ton and Co., Ltd., Boston Road, Hanwell W.7. It was produced jin response to the demand by a number of owners of standard A row Austins who desired something

A hoary lorry has been produced I have had a dream of the fun the nature of a racing car which for Army servies which avoids the could also be used for competition perils of air-bombing by its capa turo. It wae New Year's Days 1552, work and fast touring. In this city to go across open country. with a country peopled by 3,000,000 budy a shape as nearly streamline An army fights on its stomach,"

owners and 6,000,000 veli propelled cycles. I looked out of as possible has been obtained by and a modern army's stomach is railways, are fixed and easy targets. speed of 60 m.p.h, on a levei grada, in grave and growing danger ofte well-sized bomb, one wrecked a car equipped with four wheel my window along the main artery undershield and the fairing off of being emptied. That was one of vehicle, and the whole transport brakes requires at least 218ft, to be brought to a stop. Thus, if two all projecting chassis parts. The the outstanding lessons of last column is blocked. tank is at the rear of the body, August's mobilisation at Aldershot,

But if such transport were.com-drivers are approaching each other in the same traffic lane at thin and the feed is by a hand-pressure

Air bombera might have played posed of powerful cross-country speed, they must be able to see each Pump on the facia board.

vehicles there could turn of the other from a distance of at leas

crash, through the bordering hedge, neither car can turn from the lane road, climb over ditch or bank, 33ft This is assuming that the an emergency, where and pursue their way across the

It is additionally assumed that Once fros of the road, the surface conditions of the road vehicles are a difficult air target. are good, that the braking equip ment of both cars is in good condi Towar Lorries Wooded.

tion, and it is of the utmost im to get off the road. Therein lies

That is not the only advantage ofportance that both drivers react the special military advantage of those new vehicles. Fower are re-

immediately to the emergency. the new cross-country lorry recently quired, because their load is no travels 88ft, per second, it has to Since a vehicle moving. at 80 m.p.b.. produced by Vickers-Armstrong. It

large and so the target becomes be concluded that provision must macets, and may help to forestall, smaller. Already this year we have be made to allow for the distance the danger of a army being seen the substitution of 3-tonners travelled at this speed during the paralysed by a sudden air attack for the former 36owt lorries as a means of reducing the number of vehicles. The process may go fur- thor.

not

The price of the body, complete havoc with the snake-like columns Not a car bigger than the pre-mounted on either the understung along the hedged roads. They look with all extras, is £85, and can be of transport vehicles that coiled

ment Austin Twelve was to

be supercharged or unsupercharged motorcycle more chassis, If desired it can also bui

ed like "prisoners of the road powerful than. 1 .p.

All were fitted to the standard Austin Seven awaiting execution. silcat for hooters had gone and chassis. Panelled aluminium on In face of such a menace the best wireless bad taken their place. ash frame is used, for the body, the shance of escape lies in the power Light had given place to sound upholstery is real leather and of and road courtesies were demanded pneumatic type, the hood is detach by a red dashing disc on the in abla, and the car can bo cellulosed strument board of the car or tra

any colour to choice. handlebar of the cycle ahead.

Steel Barriera.

engines using petrol, alcohol, atende or parafin oils as fuel had had to fit a purifier by regulation of the Minister of Transport,

Interference with the flow mainroad traffic was only possible at definite side crossings at timed intervals regulated by an automa Hie device with red and

green Flights, the red light with

dontrol by Light"

on its transport.

4

Kanace from the Air. " !!

This gross-country lorry, moving oron double half-tracks, has an ob

I left that day for Edinburgh. Not a police tradie controller, Au-

Scout, tomobile Association

| diamond-shaped lens and the green light with a circular, lene, so that colour-blind drivers could make no R.A.C. patrol was to 息せ mistake. At other turnings steel barriors;

cor.

weru

folda

This new lorry in the product of

secvious field of utility for ordinary experience with fighting tanks in Every crossing had it automatic civil purposes in the, Colonies, and its air-cooled engine, its gear-box, light controller, or circular or

diamond-shaped control" forcing undeveloped region. It can and its tracks-which have a life motor vehicles to slow down at carry of tons of goods, and haul of 2,000-3,000 miles. They can be rond junctions.

a loaded trailer with another 3 quickly fitted with special "swamp The signposts of 1932, with their

funny route numbers and illegitin tone, ores the desert sands or plates" to enable them to Boat lettering have been ousted by stand through swamps where no wheeled over abnormally swampy ground. ardised compulsory white and blue

I telephoned to the underground garage of the block of flats for my It was a garage of four doors with electric lifts to take the cars. from the ground level. I drove us way of Bayswater-road, Oxford street and Holborn to the City. Not a motor vehicle was seen illuminated signs visible 100 yarda standing in the streets. Under all ahead with just the name of the the great thoroughfares were "manext big town, mileage, and route tor stands like the taxi ranks of figure. At the boundary of each 1932, most West End and Cis country place was an illuminated squares having been excavated for name sign car parks without diminishing The 400 miles. highway from. Lan their surface beauty. Every greas don to Edinburgh was illuminated business house, hotel, restaurant (as indeed were all arterial roads) and theatro had ite under-ground with a system of flood-lighting from garage, all but their central es (the kerbs, of special pathi foy trances had turntables and lifts in walkers, and except in out-of-the visible to "shoppers and visitors, way country districts motor head

lamps were ornaments.

Bridges for Pedestrians.

In the principle streets were grid-. ges for pedestrians, and so ons was allowed to cross such streets by the carriage-way.

Two-Colour Loads,

All the big motor highways were of light colour, with red and blue lines denoting the limit of spacs. Traflio was ñoiseless. The luxury on the crown of the road any vehick cars were all propelled by electric might take, and the driver of any vehicle on the wrong side of the ity. The cheap ones were operated red or blue line was, held solely by one lever, the accelerator, with responsible for any cocident. Tha all other controls, including the penalty wis a year's imprisonmens without the option of a fine or the clutch, automatically operated. All right of appeal. No individua! garages had a notion" recharging judge was allowed, to givo a deci. station "` alongside the fusi. and son on a motering case.

driver A had to be tried by a jury, oil pumps, which wero ali “penns

From Land's End to John in the alot and served from helt Grouss the country was sectioned a pint to gallons.

into 30-mile squares; "with" "police boxes on every main, second-class Batteries no larger than those and third-class rond fitted with 4. used in 1039 for lighting and igni- [Bay instrument, worked by tion were running a car for zoo Scotland Yard, which could, when 2,175

necessary; put out of action, tho 2,185

miles on one charge, and the nowa power unit of every motor vehicl 3,290-papers were praising the enterpriss trying to get out of the are This of the Central Electricity Board bad onded the car bandit erime

phase. for introducing Parliamentary

These reforms and now laws nad Bill for a system of electricity to brought about such cotopleto unfort be laid along all fost passinges to venicles and walkers that accid service ways radiating from London and 90 m.p.h, were common in po ente were exceptional, though 80 and other great cities for privat: pulous places and 140 mph, usul care to be run by electrical induc. the open road. tion.

...K Wire Bedford 5 4,320 lbs. G$1,600. G$280 G$1,970. Convertible Begalar... Wire Laibar 3 160 1,780

2,085 ...5 Wire Bedford 7%,430 me 1,790 286 2,078 Boadster tato ... Bleed othe

Lo

1,705. $85 2,080 1,793 29% 3.080 1,795

2,080 1,785 385

1,605

Brougham Stats

Sedan State

Steel Bedford 8 4.330.

Steel Bedford 44,280 Stool Leather 8 4,220

Convertible Stats

Bedan State

...8 Steel Bedford 7 4,480)

Limousine State...68teel Bedford 7.4.685

300

200

1,126 205

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OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT-EXTRA CHAROP Spare Tire & Tube 1× × 6.50-6 Ply, $22, Leather Upholstery 890; 5 Steel Spoke Wheels instead of 6. Wire Wheels 115, Tourists Trunk without craen 380, Cam for Trunk #20, Philco Transitone Radio $85, Special Colour 175. Prices of other Approved Accessories on Application.

•

On my way I saw that a pro mineno home. item in the "Nowe Chronicle" was the prosecution of

*This vision of the motor éra of 1952 may appear foolish to many. but farseeing traffic experta balieve that most of the visionary changes. mentioned" will com; in less than

a man for driving an internal com 20 years time, that neat year will bustion engined car which exhaust: 800 revolution in traffic signs, in adevil-smelling carbon monoxide traffic control by mbleemen, the e ginning of trancaws for walkers Bold 1847-1

traile ignals.

Hide tuncsphere

occasion is

time that the driver reacts to the emergency, and to allow for defec- tive braking equipment and for possible unfavourable road, condi- tions. It appears reasonable that an allowance of one second should be made for each driver. In forms of distance this amounts to 178ft... mum braking distance, gives 608it which, added to the actual mini Therefore, the minimum clear vision distance that should be used on ali highways, carrying a daily average the neighbourhood of 600ft. This of 1,000 ears or more should be in. should be applied both to horizon al and to vortical curves in road. construction.

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