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LITTLE BRITISH CAR THAT DOES 130 M.P.H.

THE BIG SECRET OF OLYMPIA MOTOR SHOW

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

givo a touch to the clutch pedal and CHRYSLER the car changes its own gears

Three Carburettors:

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The engine of this little ear will Lurn over at no fewer that 6,000 revolutions a minute, and appar endly enjoy it. This alone in an has been detuned to do a nusdest sorgineering achievement. It is fed

by three carburotters of a new. m.p.h. maximum. -

semi-downright type, each CAT:

Nine motter-ears capable of speeds, touring or sporting model, which over 100 m.p.h., writes the Tify Express Motoring correspondent,

A dozen or so capable of 90 m.p.b., including one that is being mass produced at under £300

Hosts of standard. touring cars in the medium-priced market that will do an honest 50 m.p.h.

These are among the remarkable fentures of the most interesting Motor Show ever beld which opens at Olympia.

RICHMOND SIX

NEW NOTE IN DESIGN.

The Chrysler Richmond Six, with ite floating engine, power-controlled or automatic clutch, synchro-mesh

The idea is original and round. burettor feeding two cylinders of Bears with quiet-second, selective

the six-cylinder unit,

Brakes, metals, valves, clutch. gears, and so forth are all good

A neat arrow direction indicator enough to stand the strain and stresses of racing. But its maxi-is fitted into the hack of the car, mum speed in ife utility form has operated by two simple push but been curbed by about 30 mp.h.

Instead of being “hotted up" it has been toned down. The result is that it can laugh at any task

to the Jashbonus).

freewheel, hydraulic brakes with

airder truss frame, strikes `n centrifute druids, mid double-drop new and harmonious note in motor de- sign.

bas oncloscil metallic joints, and the half-floating spiral bevel-driven back. axle has a banjo case. The springs aro half-elliptical and have hydraulic shock absorbers. The back springs have eamber, but the front are flut and held out of centre, while there is a steering damper incorporated at the forward end of the offside front spring.

The four-wheel brakes work an

the Lockheed hydraulic principle, which is simple and effective. The centrifuse drums are made of steel and cast-iron spun at intense heat into an outer steel drum, the two

The 6-cylinder engine has alumi metals being fuse by centrifugal The main feature of the utilityum alloy steel strut pistons, a fores. The aim is to give good cool saloon model is its extraordinary four bearing crankshaft, with a vibing properties which is proper strength and its road-holding

ration damper, the valves are at qualities, with perfectly .nmaring And now for the big set of the jimit. The supercharged racing!

Iimposed on it within its so m.p.b-acceleration considering the tide of

modil is to be sold at £005, and it

show.

I have had in my possession duris anticipated that this little car ing the week-end Olympia's most will continue to uphold British racing prestige during the ecuning year.

Kotusational exhibit.

It is a little British car of only 12h.p., one special model of which! Some Continental racing cars will be capable of a speed of 130 capable of 130 m.p.h, cost as much m.p.h.

It has been known for some time' that the M.G. Company, one of the cancers owned. by Sir William Morris, had up its sleeve a Motor Show secret, mid I am now able

to divulge it.

Toned Down.

The new M.G. Magon of the

type to be shown at Olympin is an astonishing little motor-ent. In its racing form it has been built to do

F

ite power unit.

of the fact that it was designed foe This is understandable, in view considerably grenter speede than it is allowed to go..

When Trouble May Arise,

HOW THE TANK DEVELOPED

GEN. SWINTON'S GREAT

ACHIEVEMENT

Eye-witness By Mayor-Dozeral Sir Ernest Swinton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 288.) ·

An alias is often a claim to notoriety. In Sir Ernest Swinton's caso it has bren a just claim to celebrity not once, hut several

times.

Ho might well be called "the military man of many aliases," and under each mask he has won

fame.

"Duffer's Drift." He kept it under dieulties, abuned by journalists for bis monopoly and his reticenco when actually hedged round by restric tions. But it het was sterile in news he was fertile in ideas,

But these anecdotes are trimmings to what is, above all, the story of the tanks in its appalling naked- ness?

was an onlooker

* Eye-witness who saw most of the game in the sense of being early impressed with the chief obstacle that was to render all our attacks futile-the machine-gun. And pondering the problem of how to overcome it his mind reverted to an agricultural machine, the Holt enterpillar trae-

trenches!

with a lot of free wheeling-and As "Eye-witness," he became the durability. The bore and stroke of most read of all war correspondtor, that he had known of before the engine are 73 and 114 mm., and ents.

the war. Why not armour such a But all his achievements pale beebine and adapt it is a machine-, the capacity 2,872c.c.

fore the glowing fact of his respon. Bun destroyer capable of crossing sibility for the advent of the tank, j a beacon in the history of the war, It lighted the path of our troops out of the slough of despond and the stagnation of trench war, and proved the decisive military weapon of the world, conflict.

He dropped the first seed with Sir Maurice Hankey, who proved fertile soil. But it was slow to grow because of the strong resist ance shown by Kitchener and the War Office.

the offside, and the engine is in clined and assembled with the clutch and gearbox. There is a steadying or resting mipport by the flywheel in the top centre of the instru- ease afforded by a cross-member ment board there is a knob which In order to prevent excessivd when pulled out allows the car to lateral movement there is a half- be driven it the orthodox way, and cantilever spring connecting one with the transmission locked, when side at the engine with the frame the car is normal to handle, with on that side. The tappets have good clutch and change speed no- two cover plates. To adjust clear tions. With the knob pushed home ance the carburettor and control-and it can be pressed in at any The story of its development has rode must be dropped. The three time with the accelerator slightly been told by many lips, often with.

Even when the tank was pro- branch circular inlet manifold is depressed-the clutch need not be rather confusing effect, although the duced, and hand shown what it could bolted round centrally, for heat, to' used at all and free-wheeling is ob- outlines have in recent years bear do in trials over an obstacle course ber of motorists drive the very fast the six-branch round exhaust mani tained whenever the accelerator is firmly trhoed and the credit duly Hatfield Park, Kitchner was This type of gear in its improved new cars that are coming into their Told, which has a forward pipe. † eased off. Thus, with first engaged, ?-apportioned. Now General Swinton form (it will be seen on several care possession at their inaximum speeds The Farburettor is immediately the cur can be started from rest by comes to tell his own story in full. at Olympia) is a definite safety instead of using the extra power above the light connections at the merely releasing the brake' and j factor in motoring, as I proved to

as £3,000. The sports four-seater is priced at £595, mud the four-door saloon at £443.

The safest type of car on the road to-day is one that has a large Te- serve of power in band, which can be relied on to get you out of an It is interesting to note that energency. The woolly motorcar i which takes a long time to puss an self-changing genr-box (Wilsedi patent) is incorporated in the tour-stacle is a definite danger.

Trouble will arise, if large Hum- ing models.

my satisfaction during the weekly as a safeguard in emergencies, foot of the steering column, but

̈ìnd.'

a speed of 130 m.p.h. when super- charged.

You place a pointer to the mm. But, obviously, such a speed is ber of the gear you wish to engage, not everyone's desire, Henre the and then when you are ready you

It is a situation that will have to be closely watched. We way yet return to a maximum speed limit predibly in the neighbourhood of sixty miles an hour,

NOW IS MOTORING TIME!

The light clear-air cool-the going dry

NOW IS THE TIME TO PURCHASE

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MORRIS owners are well looked after in Hongkong. There are service stations at 876, Lockbart Road and 787, Nathan Road. Kowloon, where spare parts and technical advice and assistance may be obtained. Come and see the Morris models our Ice House Street showroom, or telephone

a demonstration. Liberal discounts for cash salent go interest charged on instal-

ment-plan payments.

there is a small metal shield over them. A long cylindrical nir silencer, with a cleaner in front, is above the detachable cylinder head on the offside of the engine A pump draws the petrol from the back 12-gallon tank. “

Timing is by chain-without ad justment-but the chain is short and there are direct oil leads for the lubrication. The drain plug in the hand is towards the offside. Near the front end of the incretion pipe there is the dual valve, trom which this servo for the automatic elutch withdrawal and release is worked. The upper of the two valves is connected to the dash- board control for the freewheel and the lower one is coupled with the throttle. From these valves two pipes are taken round the engine to the servo.

Stearing..

Steering is by worm and sector, with the box held to the side of the frame. With the girder truss frame construction two extra steel members parallel to the side chah-

IN Hong Kong now, ready for sore, te stelsels at either end of the engine

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give extra stiffness, while they are cross-membered diagonally and meet the opposite side channels át the back. Thore is a breather pipe which takes fumes towards the ground. Tho honeycomb radiator is in a shell which has a duminy read-shuttered front, there is ther mostatic control of the water cir culation, and 'n' thermometer with the other instruments. The fan and impeller are combined, and their belt drive is shared by the dynamo On the dearside. The impeller gland is regulable and there is enough clearance. The oil filler tube fa handy and has conse gauze at the bottom, while the relief valvó and the dip-rod her near. The mako-and-break and dis- tributor, with wholly automatic morement, are at ani angle to, the vertical and faco the operator. Au outside › and renewable púrolenter. for the oil is held to the engine. The starter is built in, high, and the servo for the clutch is equally Accossible. The clutch is of the single dry-plato type, and his a now patent Orlite bush for the spigot. The pedal-shaft bearings must be oiled by band,

Gearbox and Brakes.

The gearbox has three forward- speeds with synchro mësh fundar quiet second: The apntra) chango- speed lever works flexibly. There lu no cates for reversed; Thio gar- boy bàs but a small level liler on the offalds. At the back of the Vox there is a parking, hinke, Worked by hand. This fromwheel is incor Borated in the back of the gear- box. The propeller shall isomers

Machine-Gun's Toll,

Rently pressing the accelerator, while it can be stopped, with any gear in, by the reverse actions. Changes can be made with simple movements and quite silently at any time after the accelerator has been for its entertaining sidelights on cased off and the engine allowed men and events. Most amusing of momentarily to die down-all with out touching the clutch pedal. To all are those relating to his tenure obtain the engine as a brake the of the precarious and prevaricating freewheel knob must he pulled out Normally one drives the whole time with the automatic clutch control and freewhe:L

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Kitchener's Contempt,

entirely sceptical," and dubbed it

"a pretty mechanical toy."-

He was not alone in his scop-

tion for their lack of vision all

It well deserves to be read for ticism. The second soed was wither-

anco. It will certainly be read also June, 1915, when the oft-baffled Chief's scornful blast. Even in its historical interest and imported the G.H.Q. by the Engineer-in- General Staff lent their ear to Swinton's proposal, as compensi these months, the Engineer-in-Chief advised them that "before consider ice of Eyewitness. He got the ing this proposal we should descend job by Churchill reminding Kit- from the realms of imagination to solid facts." Happily they were chener that he was the author of not deterred by his advice.

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