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AMERICA CUTS CAR PRICES

Four-Cylinders For £55

MOTORISTS' FILM

SHOW

NOVEL 24-HOUR PRO- GRAMME

HONG KONG DAILY PREMSA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

Engine,

Cars of To-day

THE NEW 15 H.P. DAIMLER

Coventry

A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER

New Blue Bird'

Completed

WEIGHT, POWER AND GRACE

A COAL GAS CAR

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT

IN LONDON

THE SCIENCE OF THE ROAD

MEASURING SKIDS ··

In a lecture to the Liverpool En- gineering Society this week Mr. B.

In London, to-day, I had demon- strated to me a motor car of which the motive power is coal gas that is manufactured while the car is in motion, writes a Home motoring export. The idea is one which has . Batson, of the engineering de been perfected by a Kenya man partment of the National Physical now in Britain, and he assured me Laboratory, Teddington, gars so that, with one filling of 280lb. of account of researches on behalf of anthracite coal, the car was cap the Roads Department of the Min- able of travelling, 300 miles. In- istry of Transport. Descriptions stalled in a special compartment were given of the special apparatus at the rear of the car there is a which had been designed and con coal-burner connected by a pipe to is ignited gas is manufactured, dencies were related to the charac the engine. Immediately the fuel sidered for these investigations.

To discover how skidding ten- and it passes along the pipe in

oycle sidecar combination, with gine and keep it running steadily wheel which could be adjusted at until the coal is exhausted. What happens then should there be no any angle to the direction of tra supply of coal available at the end sel, had been used. This vehinle of the 300 miles is a matter which contained apparatus which record- was not explained to me, but per ed automatically the sideway for- haps the inventor envisages the ces and enabled these to be corre time when every garage will store lated with the slipperiness” of

Other factors are the knowledge day. again to-day, and there will and stroke 63.5mm: by mm.,apa worms and the pressure falls this The existing record of 253.9 miles sufficient volume to start the on-teristics of road surfaces, a motor-

that

20 per cent of the 20,000,000 cars in operation in the United States. have outlived their average of seven

· years'' usefulness;

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Six cylinders, overhead valves Special Features. A novel film show, of special ap-operated by push-rods, special Feature of this new and smaller New York. Three years of trade peal to motorists, is being given in silent cams, four-bearing cranks Daimler aro of course the fluid By

haft, six-boaring camshaft with wheel and preselective gearbox, depression found Americau nutar London this week. It deals thain drive, heat-treated alloy pis- but the car is also notabla for the car manufacturers undaunted at general with the progress of one the opening of the 33rd Annual of the most thriving of British in- tous with fully floating gudgeon fact, that it has a poppet-valve pin, big-ends directly lined with engine, a type which has not been

Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue National Automobile Show in New dustries, and in particular with the white metal, full-pressure lubricated Daimler car for many; Bird, longer, heavier and vastly York. Thousands of men and we achievements of Morris cara.

tion extending to gudgeon pins, ex-years. Its bore and stroke is the more powerful than before, bas men admired the thirty-six models

The programine, of two and eternal oil filter, splash lubrication displayed.

The fact that the state of the half hours duration, consists of when starting from cold, coil igni- same as that of the fourcylinder now been fitted with her new and

Lanchester, the general lines of beautiful stream-lined body. motor-car industry here last year Morris' 1033 Sound Films, and in tion with automatic advance, cool | which it follows in many respects..

She is now at Daytons, and as Stewart and ing by fan and pump, S.U. car- wis so bad is they will be better. Ardern's showrooms at The Vale, turotter with hot-spot rump fed vision of splash abrication when Sir Malcolm will set out to create

chicily responsible for givanat Messrs.

The engine is notable for the pin soon as the beach is in a fit state Acton, W. It was shown yester from 12 gallon rear tank. Bore starting from cold, and as the oil a new world's land speed record.

city 1800 cc. R.A.C. rating 15 h... ceases to function. An interesting per hour was set up by him at be final display to-morrow.

"Ahead Again" deals with the tax £15."

point ala is the use of cams and Daytona on Feb. 24 last year. An full Morris programme for 1933. Transmission.

valve Daimler fluid dywheel, pre-selec-ces without nois:

gear permitting lange clearan-American attack on the record was shows avery make of the firm's, car

or Loss

of rumoured last autumn, but no four-speed gearbox, oper in action, and illustrates the new tive direction-indicating system which propeller shaft with metal univerficiency. The normal clearance is rival to the "Blue Bird" will be is a standard fitting for nearly all sals, final drive by underslung 19/1000, so that adjustment need be seen this season.

The great feature of the new worm. Gear control below steer very seldom, the new modela

The "Morris' Sound Gazette" ing wheel; gear ratios 6.14, 7.00 in a compartment on the dash benounced ip The Daily Telegraph, anthracite coal as well as patrol,

The battery is sensibly mounted speed monster is, as already an-

Experiments connected with the 11.11, and 10,75 to 1.

12-cylinder super-charged

construction of conurete roads bad Hydraulically operated four-wheel Beath the bonnet, where it is readi- her new engine, the famous Rolls-

shown the need for careful control brakes, with vacuum servo actualy reached. Like the Lanchester, Royce

TRIUMPHS IN EGYPT in the mixing, laying, and matur tion between pedal and hydraulie this car has Lockheed brakes, assist. Schneider Trophy sero engine of

winning, of the concrete. A certain master cylinder. Hand brake of by Vacuum-servo, giving power. 30 litres capacity and nearly 2,000

ful and perfectly compensated brake horse-power mush on type on right acting on rear

The Egyptian Government have road for which the concrete had Double Steering. brakes, requiring very little effort.

This is 1,000 h.p. more than the ecently placed orders for twenty been mixed in a more or less hap wheels.

The model tested, was the standard General.

saloon at £450, which represents the car has aver had hitherto, and the Triumph motor cycles and for hazard manner had failed com-

total number lavent priced car yet produced by designers have for once had to con- Triumph motor cycle combinations. paratively quickly, whereas an ex- of perimental by-pass rood which lad the Dounler firm. Its finish, of sider, not saving weight, as in bringing the course, is in keeping with the name most racing cars, but adding it in Triumphs ordered by them this been constructed under carefully controlled conditions; and which it beats, and in these days when order to make it possible to trans- year to sixty-one.

These machines are being widely had carried over 8,000,000 vehicles many cannot afford to spend somit this enormous power without

wheel spin, which would destroyed by the Egyptian Mobile Police per annum (with an estimated ton- inch on their cars, but still ap

for dealing with traffic and particu- nage of 4,500,000), was still in ex- prociate quality sad a famous name the tyres "instantly.

ceptionally good condition after on their radiator, & model such as; this Daimler is assured of a large

having been, open to traffic for three years. market.

That only 1,100,000 now passenger cars were sold Inat year;

That bigger and better motots for the lowest prices on record." should attract buyer,

At the height of the boom there 23,000,000 cars in the United Stutes, and producers saw a great field of expansion through general adoption of the proposal of "Two Cars in Every Garage."

were

Tu-day до one expects the 23,000,000 mark to be equailed for many years, but motor-ear manu facturers claim that American fami lies are unwilling to curtail the use of their motorcars, and therefore the replacement market is steadily improving. Already, they declare, a perceptible increase in motor-car operation has taken place. Few Mechanical changes.

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shows, among other pictures, each successive stage in the making of a car. "Marvels, of Modern Ma chinery" will interest the technical- ly-minded; while another film de picts the adventures of a party who, with a "ten" saloon and a coupe, conquered the stiffest gradi. ents in the country.

All the films are the work of Morris' employees.

aerodynamic lines.

Frame with deep side members passing under rear axle, stiffened by mruciform central member and by steel apron at rear. Semi-ellip tic-springs outside frame, and roar, bydraulic shock absorbers, Marles camateering, 12 volt electrical system with 51-amp hour battery on front

Automatic features introduced in the last two or three years, in-Inf dash. cluding freewheeling, nutomatic Dimensions, The cars on display at the show clutch, and synchromesh transmis Wheelbase, eft. 1in.; track, 4ft. are quite changed in appearancesion have gained in popularity, and Shin.: overall length, 12ft. 11km.. The detail finish of engine and hut practically the same as instare incorporated in more of the overall width, ift. fin.: body chassis is in pleasing contrast to year's models underneath the hood. 1933 models.

annee from dash to rear axle, eft. the average, modern car, while the In the hodies there is noticeable_a

olin,; turning circle, 39ft.

body is on good lines and of such cautions though distinct step in the

Models and Prices

proportions that the impression is of direction of complete streamlining

Saloon, £450; sports saloon, 2430'; considerably larger car. Both rear One car exhibited

xnorela coupe. £465.

and front seats, offer ample, ugcom- Makers.

modation despite the moderate Company, Ltd., wheel-bass, and the doors are wide, providing ......... easy, entry and exit: Morever, the over-all height is moderate, yet there is amplo head and leg room without recourse to foot-wells.

The prices ranged from £65 for a four-cylinder car to £2,000 for 12-cylinder ultra-modern creation. да an experi Popular cylinder models are offer: mant is designed along radicale at the record low prices of 200

(Vontinued on next Column) to £100.

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Lively Performance.

The 1800c.c. engine is claimed to develop about 50h.p., so that the power height ratio is excellent, And the performance consideraly superior to what might be expected from so roomy body and so modestly dimensioned an engine.

Yet although the fluid flywheel. is sometimes said to affect accelera tion, it certainly does not do so to any extent in this case, for the car will attain 10 miles per hour from a standing start in 141 seconds and 55 miles in 243 seconds. From & steady 10 miles per hour on top gear it only requires 12. seconds to rotch 30 miles per hour and only 16.7 seconds to reach 40 miles per our. On the third speed, the cor responding figures are 8.3 and 18.5 seconds. These figures will com pare with any for engines of similar capacity with conventional transmission.)

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The side-members of the frame larly along agricultural roads, ers have been added to stiffen it are now gigantic; big cross-mem- in front, and huge blocks of lead have been placed round the back axle to help keep the driving

wheels down.

the road surface,

incarnation is more impressive than Apparatus had also been devised ever. The chief features of her to measure the impact forces on the construction, such as the great off-road given by different classes of set three-speed gear-box and the vehicles. A trailer which could be The new body is much more double steering.

" fitted with tyres of various diame slapely, than it was, and with her To give some idea of the car's ters, and containing recording in- immense tail-fin and smooth con- size and strength it may be menstruments, had been constructed tours, the Blus Bird in her latest tioned that each wheel, a solid steel and towed ut varying speeds over

(Continued on text Columns dise, needs two men to lift it, A typical" [road surfaces.

On third speed from 45 to 48 mp.h. can be attained without any fuss, while tho maximum speed at tained on top was 67 m.ph. The engine is entirely. flexible, but the driver is encouraged to make fug use of the gears by their simple control. The result the ability to maintain an excellent average: without any feeling of driving hard. The steering is light and cer tain and the springing good, and these, together with an excellent. weight distribution provide a car which imparts a high degree of con- fidence. There is freedom from swing or away on corners, and the " car sits the road in excellent. fashion.

Ofnising Speed.

On hills the origine pulls well and the ratios are well obreen. First speed is really da emergency ratio, and most of North Gardner Etreet was taken on third speed. A stop 14 made on this gradient, how ever and the ear held, stationery by the fluid flywheel without the use of the brakes, so that it was only necessary to depress the ac polerator further to move off. To many, the ability to hold the var and move away from rest on the

dient by means of accelerator alone will no doi

peal.

Anything frota 40 to 60.

an excellent cruising spee

the car in steady and

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