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NEW MODEL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

hanood by the doming of the roof

and roar panelling, the contours of which conform to all that is

The Long Eighteen latest and bast in high-class Armstrong Siddeley.

A now 6-cylinder motor carri- ago specially designed for those who appreciate a high degree of quality refinement and comfort has been introduced recently by Armstrong-Siddeley Motors, Ltd., of Coventry, under the name of "The Long Eighteen, "

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carriago work.

The trans-

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SATURDAY, MARCH 5 1927.

AMERICAN ENGINEER DESIGNS SUPER HIGHWAY.

6 3 8 &

A & 28.

252

200 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY,

PARKING

AND TRUER DELIVERY

TRUCK TRAFFIC

MEDIUM SPEED

FAST

TAST

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TRAFFIC KITC

TRAFFIC

FAST: TRAFFIC TRAFFIC

MSDUM SFFED TRAFFIC

HALF SECTION

BUSINESS DISTRICTS

TRUCKPARALEL PUNTING „TRAFFIC, PARKIKO STRIP

HALF SECTION OUTLY UP RESIDENCE DISTRICTS

This is a diagram of a new typo super-highway, designed by Mr. R. E. Toms of Montgomery, Ala., and providing for its con- struction and development in a 200-foot right-of-way, by the addition of 20-foot strips.

The chassis incorporates the Isame 6-cylinder overhoad valve that is used on the engine Eightoon (Short) model, a car that has made a great name for itself this sonson, mission employs unit construc- tion for the 3-speed, centrally controlled gour-box, torque tube and spiral bevel driven axle, while the suspension relics on gaitored somi-olliptics in front While the design generally and gaitered, adjustable can follows Armstrong-Siddeley prac- tics, the carrying capacity of this tilevers at the roar. The brak- new model has been materially in system is now, and should increased by the enlargement of prove to be one of the most the track to 4 ft. 8 in.,

powerful and durable designs that increase of the whool base to 10 has been produced up to the pre ft. 9 in.. when compared with the sont, owing to the fact that the drums moasure over 17 in. in old Standard Eightoon.

diameter, and that altogether six The result is that the closed pairs of shoes are employed, models accommodate six or seven podal controlling the brakes on people in comfort. There is ample all four wheels, and a contrally head, leg and elbow room in the placed hand lover, a separate pair

The right-of-way, is to be 200 foot wide, leaving room not only rear compartment, quse of accuss of shoes within the rear drums. to any seat through four wide

for a double car track, but for From these romarks it will be Engineers attending the Am-four 20-foot units, two on either doors, and splendid wide angle sean that this enterprising con-erican Road Builders' Associa- side of tho tracks, and additional view through extensive win-cern covers the 18 h.p. market tion sessions in Chicago made widths for parking, trucking and

fairly completely with

its that promise. As proof of their

deliveries. Long faith in the future they paid a The appearance of the closed Eighteen (Short) and carriages has been greatly en-Eighteen models.

$1,000 prize to R. E. Toms of Montgomery, Ala., for submitting the best super-highway plan in a recont contest they conducted.

Toms' plans aim at con stuction of a single traffic unit of

dows.

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MOTOR! OILS

CENTRAL FILLING STATION OUTSIDE CITY HALL, HONGKONG.

The Asiatic Petroleum Co., (South China) Ltd. Hongkong.

grow with the increase of auto- Super-highways, which will mobiles and of population, are the promised answers to the harried. motorist's prayers.

20 feet on one sido of the centre of a contemplated right-of-way,

SIX-WHEELERS.

if need be for an interurban or leaving room onough at the contro street car track.

FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT,

sides, contemplate two stages of The super-highway plans, be- development, giving thom consid- erable elasticity. One stage is for closely built up sections. The other is for thinly populated dis.

tricts.

Probably the first enactment of

within the next year in the imme. the super-highway idea will come

diato environs connecting Du Page, Kano and Cook counties, Illinois, in the latter of which Chicago is situated. necessary to convert present type Some $25,000,000 is considered roadways into the wonderfully accommodating super-highway type as traffic conditions demand

original units. without halting passage over the

SPACE FOR PARKING.

In the prize-winning supor- highway plan the entire width between the curb and gutter will bo paved and the sidewalks will be extended to 15 feet. This will

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MARINE ENGINES. "V" TYPE ENGINES.

Paraffin Motor.

feat for diagonal parking and for provide a paved width of 17

truck delivory.

BRITISH CARS OVERSEAS.

Official Delegation's Tour of Investigation. By Capt. E. de Normanville

in The Daily Chronicle.

A further stap in the develop- ment of the overseas market for British motor products has boon decided upon. An official dologa. tion is going to visit Australasia and South Africa.

It will leave early in March and return about the end of August. The members are Major Sir A.' Boyd Carpontor, the M.P. for Coventry, Mr. Alan R. Fenn, and Lieut.-Col. A. Hacking, D.S. O., the secretary of the Society of erg, Ltd. Motor Manufacturers and Trad-

The idea was put forward by Highway grade separation will the representatives of the Domin be accomplished at points where inns and Colonies during their the volume of orose traffic would visit for the Imperial Trade Con- highway or materially reduce its an opportunity for frank discus- ondanger the traffic on the eupar- ference recently, which afforded carrying load.

sions upon questions involved in Exports differ in regard to the the devolopment of our export carrying capacity of the two motor trade. separated roadways which will

The British motor industry form the super-highway. But feels that the ovil influence of the practically all opinion is unani-war and postwar period is now mous in agrooment that two removed, and that the time is op- separate units for opposite bound Portune for exploring the possibil- traffic are better than a singly ties of further developmeni. traffic path equal to the width of tho two lanes.

TOURISTS ARE LIBERAL.

The Transport Problem The Smallest 6-Cylinder History Repeats Itself.

United States'auto tourists to in Africa.

The old saying that there is, Canada last your left nearly "Economie considerations have nothing quito new under the sun $200,000,000 in that country, ac- There is no doubt that a now over directed the efforte of on- applies perhaps more forcibly to cording to a garafal estimate and most important field is open-gineers towards the necessity of the mechanical sido of engineer made by A. W. Campbell, do ing out to British manufacturers utilising the cheaper forms of ing than to any other form of minion commissioner of high- in the production of vehicles suit-fuol. Constant experiment and activity. Apropos of the wonder ways. able for transportation over primi- the surmounting of almost in ful 12-cylinder Daimler ongine tive tracks.

INCREASED EXPORTS.

A few atatistics will show how real has been the progress of the export trada during the past three- years. In 1923 we exported 6,259 cars or thassis. In 1926 the num- bor had increased five-fold, to 33,237,

The dologation is to visit every stato in Australia, and will thoroughly investigate the condi- tions in Now Zealand and South- Africo.

Any communication affecting the delegation should be address ed to the Secretary, British Manufacturers' Section. The 8. M. M. and T., 83, Pali-mall Lon- don, S.W.1. "

HORN BLOWING MENACE.

suporable Rifficulties ' have exhibited at tho lust Olympia the ownor's intention thoroaftor This vast land is in great need brought about wondrous changes Motor Show, it is remarkable how to have it fitted in a motor car. of more transport facilities, for at in the past twenty-five years, as history has repeated itself. Away As a matter of fact, the engine the present time there is on an instanced by the remarkable ad-, back in 1903 at the old Putney was sunt out to Hongkong in average only one mile of railway vance of the motor engine. The Motor Warke, that well-know 1907, where it was put in a launch for every 350 square miles of problem is not only the mero firm of marine engineers, the which was eventually.comman- country.

utilisation of cheaper fuel, which Ailsa Craig Motor Co., Ltd., of doerad by the Admiralty in 1914 In the building of roads and means inferior fuel, but also that Chiswick, London, built a motor and used throughout the war for railways Iarge capital resources thero must be no loss of efficiency of 150 h.p., which it is believed naval purpose Pioneers always, are required, and the requisito in consequence. One of the most was not only one of the very first the Ailsa Craig Motor Co. are labour is not always available. notable achievements recently 12-cylinder motor engines to be responsible in present times for The alternative is in some form recorded is the application of made, but the first with the cylin-the introduction of the modern of transport which requires the fcheap paraffin (kerosene) fuel for dere arranged in V-design with overhead valve marine motor for horn-blowing and whistle-tootign least possible proliminary work, uso in a modern high efficiency six cylinders per aide. This engine ordinary everyday use in pleasure which will haul as well as carry, 6-cylinder marine motor by the created at the time as much stir and commercial craft. It is the and which will improve rather Ailsa Craig Motor Co Ltd., of in the Press as its modern ex-accumulated experience of over than damage the surfaces travel- Chiswick, London. The engine, amplo, and it is recorded in the thirty-five years embodied in led over.

a 16-20 h p. unit, is not only the Morning Post, of Friday, May these engines that has male thom emallest 6-cylinder marine motor, 24th, 1904, that it was designed so, universally popular and has This problem--the solution of at any rate of British origin, but for one of the boats to compete in done so much for the advance- which will make the economic for the number of cylinderethe-International Cross Channel ment of the motor ongino for development of the Dark Conspecified it is the smallest of its Race of that year and that it was marine purposes. tinent practicable is being solved

type designed to run on paraffin -

in a most successful manner by or potrol, as may by desired. The the latest type of commercial advantage of being able to employ motor vehicle built the Rigid 6- the cheaper fuel will be randily Wheeler.

appreciated, especially in those Karrier Motors Ltd., of Hud-countries where paraffin is a com- dersfold, who are the accepted mon domestic cammodity. There British pioneers of this mode of is, however, an enhanced value transport, have on the market, a when, as in the case of the Ailsa commercial model which is do-Craig Kid Six, this cheap fuel signed to carry a load of 50 cwt. will give results which are equal- over the most impossible tracks. ly officient as when the most, re- The Karrier rigid 6-wheeler is fined petrol is used. It is the #1 machine of extraordinary opinion of those bost competent charactor, which climba ovor to judge that this frosh step for- rough and broken country with ward not only opens up numerous every arlo at a different angle, opportunities for the employment runs on acutely sloping banks, of low-powored 6-cylinder units, climbs and descends hills with with all the advantages of smooth, gradients as stiff as 1 in 4, and vibrationless running and im- travels along the level at a good proved flexibility, but is also a touring speed.

credit to the enterprise of British ongineering.

ASSAULT ON MOTORIST.

This model, known as the 'CY6" has a distinct advantage over the ordinary roadlear or somi-chain track machino in as much as it is suitable for rough cross country work and aqually for the maintenance of quite con-i siderable spoode on ordinary roads. The mechanism is such that its three axles have each great relative freedom of move- ment, the four driving whools continuing to do their share of At Long Eaton the Automobile. the work howover bad the condi-Association has just successfully tions of road surface are.. prosecuted an omnibus passenger |

Hard Labour For Assailant.

A powerful 30-48 h.p. engine is who assaulted the driver of a fitted which gives extremely motor car which had collided with steady running, and the eight the omnibus. forward and two rovorso .gears The evidonce showed that the fitted provide a rango of spooda | collision occurred at a road junc- suited to every condition.

tion near Sawloy, and that subse-

The vehicle is equipped with quently the defondant got out of single pneumatic tyres all round, the omnibus, and without any and the four driving wheels are provocation, struck the car driver oach fitted with pneumatic pras in the face, causing sorious in-

juries. sure brakes.

The name of the assailant was Already & number, of theso not known at the time, and al- commercial 6-whealers have boon though the Birmingham C.I.D. supplied to the British War had only the man's nickname ae Offee, the Sudan Government, a club, hoy succeeded in tracing the South African Railways, In- him.

dian' Transport Co., Turkish Tha Automobile Association Potroleum Co., and their undoubt then instructed its Nottingham od merit deserves the utmost nt-Solicitors to prosecuto, and the tention from all concerned with Bench sentenced the defendant the full development of Africa's to two months hard labour with- resources,

out the option of a fine.

The Automobile Club of Phil- adelphia is at the back of a move- ment to suppress unneceRELTY.

both by day and at night, and ne the rosult of their offorts, signs appear upon the rear windows of cars in big black latters bearing this blunt command: "Shut-Up." It is directed to the fool drivers who, when held up, momentarily in traffic, raiso a terrific chorus of discordant brays,

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