1932-07-19 — Page 2

DETAILS OF THE NEW PLYMOUTH.

FULL AUTOMATIC CLUTCH

OPTIONAL.

A full automatic clutch-ts-optional on the now Plymouth at slight extra cost. When in operation, it is not necessary to depress the clutch pedal when shifting gears, whether the car is standing still or in motion. Automatic release of the clutch disconnects the engine from the transmission. The free wheeling unit disconnects the rear wheels from the transmission.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

price range. The Rigid-X Trama offers many times the resistance to torsional strains with a very slight increase in weight. An "X" mem- ber between the 6 in, side channel

MORRIS FACTORY TO HOOT OR NOT

FIGURES.

TWO THOUSAND CARS A

WEEK.

sections is so located that attcages due to road conditions or other causes have little effect on the ride- channels, Body silla and pillars no A short while ago we published longer act as frame stiffeners, somo figures showing the immense Centre running board brackets ex-quantities of components required; tend to the "X" member tying to meet the Morris factory's pro. the side channels section at still duction capacity of 2,000 cars a another point and adding strength week (or 100,000 in a year). Here to the running board assemblies.

are further interesting details con cerning the nearly 82-acre Cowley Absolute Freedom of Movement: Works

The thoroughfares inside the After assembly, there is absolute Works between shops," are over Therefore sinco no power is applied freedom of movement. Side thrust two miles in total length.

cannot develop because of the pitch'

The Works find employment for of the threads. Lubricant is forced upwards of 4,000 people, the weekly through the thrends by an ordinary pay-roll averaging over £9,000. zerk nipple forming a cushion at

The Morria, Engines Branch at

to the transmission from engine or car, selection of genre may be made noiselessly as any speed.

When shifting into reverse, free

i

TO HOOT?

WHEN TO SOUND THE

HORN

When overtaking, for instance, he

gives ono short, sharp sound when ; fifty to a hundred yards in the rear the distance depends upon the re- [lative speeds of the two cars — HU'? that the man in front is aware of his presence and his desire to pass. The driver of the overtakon car

OPEL'S ECONOMY

· TEST IN DENMARK.

FACTS FOR "ABER-

DONIANS."

The cars started each morning with intervals of several hours, and were run at speeds of 18, 24" amel 31 miles per hour in order to bring out the effect of driving speed on fuel economy. In 37 towns the cars had to report for checking of speedometers and measuring of fuel consumption.

Every motor car must by law be should acknowledge the warning Car operating economy, which equipped with some kind of instru-by sounding his born, while ne hae perhaps always been a greater

A Fine Performance. ment so that the driver may give should also pull over to the hearselling point in Europe than in audible warning of his approach side of the road. When a podes the United States, has in the past

Not only did the economy run This fact is, of course, known to trian is crossing the road and is few months of drastic economy be bear out the claim to low fuel con- every motorist. But the question not likely to get out of the way in comic a

sales argument of even sumption, but at the same time it which every driver should consider time the motorist should slow down., greater value than before.,

I was a magnificent proof of how carefully is how and when the horn Bounding the horn may prove dan - ¡

Right from the start, the Opel this standard car, with standard should be used. The hooter is the gerous under such conditione, bo was introduced to International's adjustments and standard equip most misused and overworked com cause if the pedestrian be nervous market as the Economical Car.ment throughout,

!

would per- ponent or fitment on the car. Exit may cause panic and then there The 4-cylinder Opel especially was form. A timetable had been made cessive use of the electric or bulb is no saying in which direction he introduced on this basis. horn not only causes a great amount will more. The only time when the of bad feeling between pedestrians

ont, and during the entire run the cars arrived punctually to the minute at the various control stations. Elaborate advance pub-

Denmark, however, contains a "Aberdonians" and and motorists, as it does among horn is necessary is in the case of great many motorists themselves, but in many a "jay walker," someone who is with the growing scarcity of rendy licity had secured big crowds await

wheeling ceases until the gear shife the base of the threads. Therefore, Coventry possesses a floor space. of cases is the direct cause of accident. wool-gathering and must have ni. cash, the more "Aberdonian" theying the arrival of the cars in each lever is returned to neutral or for the shackle is permanently adjust 430,000 sq. ft., a personnel of 2,750 ¡A driver who uses his horn exces, attention called so the risk ho and in order to establish facts and town. It was a interesting fact

ed, noiseless and free in operation at all times.

are apt to become. For this renseit,

and a payroll of £11,000 a week.

[sively, not only too frequently but! Including all materials, as well as for too long periods, proves con- running. But even in this case one figures obtained right in their midst that these crowds were to s great. proprietary fitments, over 200 out-clusively that he is either lacking blast is generally sufficient. If a under ordinary driving conditions, extent made up of the sporty young

International decided to

people. Thus the run sccomplished side concerna are engaged in the in driving skill or is extremely dis- car be stationary and it is seen them" and to capitalize on the in its secondary purpose, namely that brakes. The already efficient Ply. Bupply of components. fór Morris courteous. The expression is seldom that someone is tinkering with the crassed importance of operating of attracting especially this class

ward speed. A convenient control button on the instrument board

Plymouth continues as the only when pulled out, locks out free)

car in the low-price range with four- wheeling and the automatic clutch.

wheel, internal-expanding hydraulic The automatic clutch mechanism consists of a control valve assembly incunted on the front end of the mouth brakd has been improved

Including colour variations, there that the "road hog" is still with engine or changing an off-side, economy. by incorporating the industry's are nearly 100 different models us. Road hogs are encountered fre- wheel or performing some intake manifold and a

similar control!

cars.

used to-day, but there is no doubt

"show

cylinder with piston mounted at the most recent contribution to safety-going through the Works at thequently during the course of every duty a single hoot is advisable. Bu of big dimensions was started make it entirely competitive with same time in the current pro- day's run. One can, perhaps, for when a stationary tram is dischars

right rear lower side of the cylinder block. When the throttle is closed and the entitie is operating at

centrifuso brake drums.

Molten cast iron is ventrifugally,

gramme.

cast in a pressed steel drum in euch

British Empire publics will also give the novice driver using bis

To this end, an Opel economy test

Roadsters made the run throughout three Opel standard 4-cylinder

he interested to lean that the Mor-horn rather more often than ing passengers it is useless. It the country, criscrossing from east a manner that the steel and castria canteens dispose of large quanti necessary, but the novice soon be should be realised that the passeng to west and from north to south, idling speed equivalent to about six miles per hour, & high vacuum iniren are fused. A "y" shaped ties of Dominion produce, and that

the vast army of Morris employees comes more or less expert, so theers will get in the car's path, so | covering such a distance that the and other means, to buy British

mement the throttle is opened the high vacuum is dissipated by the inrush of air through the carburet

goods of every nature, from the period in the matering career of Empire, overseas no less than from each one.

circum together was more than 3,000 miles frighten—or as far as from Copenhagen to Constantinople and back!

of motorists to the little Opel- Kondater, which has been priced so low in the Danish market as to

sidecars, at least bigger motor-cycles with

The results of the run, as follows, were most gratifying:-

-Consump

tion por gallon Speed: 18 miles per hour 30.4 miles

created in the intake manifold. The depression in the inner diameter larg one and all urged, by posters excueo only holds good. for a short slowing down or stopping is essen- total runs of the three ears added

the pressed steel drum which as sists in forming a bond between the two metals provides a fin on the outer diameter for heat dissipation. Cast iron forms an ideal braking Burface without horshness or result. squeaks and since full advantage

tor.

One of the outstanding and dis. tinctive features of the new Ply mouth is the double-drop, Rigid-X frame. a feature, formerly found only on ears selling in a much higher

home sourceă.

is taken of the entire brake lining of the new finer Plymouth nie surface, soft acting brakes naturally wired for the immediate installation

-Onotiound amatra Culuma.) of radio without extra cost.

tial. Hooting in these Drivers Guilty?

stances only tends to Evon experienced drivers. are nervous people. guilty of certain mistakes in giv

As in the past, all closed modelsing warning of their approach

Many drivers when wishing to over- take slower-moving vehicle begin tootling their horn long before it is necessary, and by their persis tence in sounding it they annoy the skilled driver in front or up set the novice driver. Instead of doing good they often defeat their! own object, because the man in front is reluctant to ive way to such an impatient driver. Perhaps the greatest mistake is the manner

in which the horn is sounded when

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a pedestrian is on the road. "Dis- courteous" is a mild term to use

to describe the driver who sounds

his horn and makes a pedestrian jump out of his way. Foot travel- lora have an equal right to the road; they do not obstruct motor- | ing traffic more thar they can help, but they certainly, object to being forced to leap to safety. There are

somo drivers who sound their horn when in a trafic block, so that they can call attention to what they consider a grievance; but these ill. mannered persons are less common than they used to be. Then as re garde passing stationary vehicles

cars, trams, or carts,—continuous houting does no good whatever, and yet many drivers indulge in it. Although it is against the law many motoriste are inconsiderate enough to sound their horn when their car

is stationary. It may be done to call the attention of a shopkeeper For me friend-in-a-house-It-is- annoying enough to those in the neighbourhood during the day; it |_in_far_worse when it happens. late.

at night. The police are not nearly

so severe on this misdemeanour de they should be.

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The careful, considerate driver does not commit any of Wese faults.

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