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ECONOMICAL

RACING AT LAST.

Quantity of Fuel

Limited.

Racing has during the past few years stoadily become more ex- ponsive. By this we do not mean that the cost of participating in speed ovents has appreciably in- creased, but rather that the actual Frunning cost of racing care have increased out of all proportion to touring cars of the same engine kizo. For example round about 30 m.p.g. is the average consump- tion obtained, oven when averag ing high speeds on a normal 1,500 o.c. car and using puro petrol as fuel, In the big international Grand Prix races that have been run during the past year, the fact consumption of racers has soldora been baller than about 8 m.p.g. In addition, freak fuols have been utilized containing a large pro- portion of alcohol and other in- gredients, which bring the cost of the fuel to something like 15s. por gallon, if not considerably more.

If a road race is run,ovor a dis- tance of 300 mile and the cars engaged are only averaging 8) m.p.g. on special fuci at 15%, a gallon, the amount spont on fuel alone on each car that completes the race works out at (28 23. Comparing this with the cost of running a touring car over the same circuit at'ün average speed that we'd be possibla on ordinary public roads, we find that 10 gal.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTOR VEHICLE MADE FROM “JUNK”,

These two students of an American. University havo byili a motor vehicle from discarded parts purchased from söcond-hand dealers. "It is said to possess quite a good turn of speed.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

THE BRITISH TYRE SITUATION.

One That Calls for Discretion.

"TYRE PRICE WAR.”

Motorists will be rogarding the existing tyro situation with some degree of interest, if not with a

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927.

CHOICE OF EQUIP-

MENT.

Accessories Included With New Motor

Cycles.

By Capt. E. do Normanville

in The Daily Chronicle.

UJ

AUTOS MAY KILL 25,000. than the manufacturer of the mo- more about suitablo dedossoles,

tor-ayola,

If the automobile toll this year:

Happily for the good of the continues to rise at the same rate enthusiast is still with usin far eport and the industry, the koon that it increased during 1926, it is greater proportion than in any possible that 25,000 men, women other branch of motoring and children will be killed by motor vehicles in 1927, according to an estimate of the Now York National Safety Council.

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BOUGHT FOR UTILITY. Thore ura othors-and their numbor le increasing. Those are the people who buy a motor-uyole purely for its utility value; à spoody and economical means of transport from place to place.

Thoy know little or nothing: similar accessory equipment, and profer to leave it all to the manu-"

certain amount of anxiety. Much motor-oyolo should be sold com- CARS ON U.S. FARMS. about the respective values of

28 ayerything that makes for cheaper motoring is desirablo, there are considerations that should be weighed very carefully n connection with a lowering of tyro prices by British makors which has behind it any element of compulsion.

M

It cannot be said with absolute truth that prosent market con- ditions altogether justify the cuts which have recently followed one another in rapid succession. At the outrot they suggested some- thing desperato in the way of casting the dice rather than a sorind commercial policy which present circumstances actually warrant of which future condi- tions may possibly justify. The move was initiated y foreign manufacturers, with certain fact. ors in their favour, and the loading British makers have found themselves forced to follow. although not all of them have as the foreigners. Two are selling Henry Ford has opened the on equal terms, and one announ- dours of his museum at Dearborn, ces a wholesale price reduction It is sometimes useful to state Mich., his automobile factories, which is 5 per cent. below the an important fact in the simplest and his-airplane plant and has figure for foreign-made tyras. possible words. May I, then says sent to New York City, for dis-

lons of ordinary petrol would be STREET CROSSING. used, bringing the cost to 14s, 78. If teams of four cars were run the

cast of running racing cars would

bo 112 8. for fuel alone, as against c2 18s. 4d, for the normal vehicles.

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FORD EXHIBIT.

Pedestrians to Take the Chariots and Airplanes, reduced their prices by so much

Offensive?

The cause for anxiety on the

contemplation of the possibilities

It will thus be seen that as races have been run in the past few years the motor industry has not benefited on whit in the dir- the London correspondent of the play a remarkable exhibit of part of motorists may lie in the action of ascertaining anything Manchester Guardian state quite vehicles, ranging from the most

of makers being prompted by which may lean towards the at- simply that in London it is hard to primitive to the most modern.

The exhibit, is given the title conomic forces to make changes taining of a good performance, cross the road? To illustrate the together with a low fuel consuing general by the particular, I once of The Evolution of Transport-in production, methode. To-day tion. The oil consumption also saw Mr. Winston Churchill (be-ation." It includes every sort of motor tyres-and in particular. has been unlimited, but it may be fore he was Chancellor of the Ex-vehicle from replicas of two those of British manufacture- taken as being anything from 10 choquar) walk in a dignified way Egyptian chariote from the tomb have reached a high degree of to 20 times as great as that of a little more than half way across of King Tutankhamen, who excellence, making for durability Whitehall. Then he noticed reigned 1358-1330 B. C, to the End dependability, which canhot ordinary-touring car having the

things, fairly took to his heels latest Ford development, the little and must not be sacrificed by any same-sized engine.

deterioration in quality. Money The regulations for the Coupe and ran like a rabbit. I stood on single-passenger airplane.

apent on good motor tyras is Included in the collection of money well spent, because the de la Commission Sportive have the "island" in the middle of the come to hand together with those road breathlessly watching for a for the 22nd Grand Prix of the scoop. Mr. Churchill won by a old vehicles is a primitive ox-cart tyre is one of the greatest safety Automobile Club de France. The coat tail and I lost the scoop. It like the one in which Joseph car-factors in motoring to-day.

For this reason a "tyro price first-mentioned race is due to is the poor (including the now ried his father into Canaan, the

which, for economic take place on July 2nd, ie, the poor) who suffer, as always. Aold Conestoga wagon, the Soci-

"Adam War,

may result in the day before the French Grand rich man can afford to take a able, the buckboard, the

and Eve" wagon, the doctor's reasons, Priz. No restrictions as regards taxi to cross the road.

A correspondent who has high buggy, the stage coach, the slightest diminution in quality engine size or woight will be im-

written, ta me tin-peddler's wagon, and even the can well be regarded as a benefit posed for this raco, the only limit formerly

It is sincerely to be hoped that ing factor being that a total pationally on this and cognate old-time wheel bicycle and four of very doubtful value to the user. British tyre manufacturers will weight of 44 gallons (97 lb of subjects now sende me & augges-passenger tandem.

with the fuel and oil will be allowed for tion. It has often been pro- The transition of transport-weigh the situation the engine, and gearbox On this posed, he writes, "that pedes-ation from the horse-drawn ve-minutest caro, bringing con- quantity competitors will have to trians should be compelled to hicles to motor cars is illustrated sideration to bear upon every cover 32 laps of the Monthory carry & light or their backs in the exhibit by a number of aspect of it before permitting These include the themselves to bo stampeded into road-racing circuit, equivalent to make a counter-suggestion. It is Ford Cars.

that every pedestrian in town or first Ford car, the two-cylinder any policy that might react to country should be compelled by car which Honry Ford completed their disadvantage. law to carry a motor born. If in a little brick shed in Detroit

At the same time motorists possible, it should be one of those back in 1892.

should regard the quality tyre as There also is the first Model T. the "lifeline" of motoring, and motor horns that make a noiso

248.50 miles.

What sort of car shall we see competing in this avont? The result of this race should be far. reaching and should do more than

curred to stimulate research' to

of running costs.

like a giant being violently

anything which has recently oc-sensick. This horn he should be car, the model upon which the they, too, should use their judg- present vast organization of the ment with discretion, bearing in wards the one vital factor to most compelled to sound whenever he Ford Motor Company was built, mind that to be panny wise is motor-Gar owners--the question means to cross the road, whether and of which more than 14,000,- to be pound foolish."

it bo Piccadilly or the Brighton 000 have been produced and sent Ninety-seven pounds in weight road, anywhere in Surrey, or to all parts of the world. works out, roughly, at an allow. Sussex on a Saturday or Sunday. The exhibit will be presented ance of 13 gallons of fuel and oil; At present a sane man has to stand in the show rooms of the branch humiliatod, waiting liko the rustio that is to say, a driver can dotor. mine to run on 10 gallons of petrol in the classical fable for the river building and a feature will be afternoon and evening program- and 3 of oil, or he can decide to to run by. This costs him time mes of music by Henry Ford's use 12 gallons of petrol and 1 of and money, or, if he is unlucky old-fashioned dance orchestra. oil, and so on. The grbat point to his life. The motárist's horn is last year, the orchestra will boar in mind is that the cars have an instrument of insolence. I be on the air twice during the to be presented to the stewards only ask," concludes my corres-week, broadcasting a programme with fuel tanks and the engine should be allowed to share in the WEAT and its chain of stations. pendent, "that the pedestrian of old-fashioned dance music over eump and gearbox empty. Conse- quently, it may be assumed that insolence."

at least two gallons of oil will be

required for the engine and an

In addition to the transport- ation exhibit, there will bo many other displays, principal of which

extra quart, say, for the gearbox. FUEL TAX FAVOURED. will be that of a ninature thresh-

This loaves 10 gallons of fuel available, so that a fuel consump tion during the race of about 23

ing outfit, which will be, in Strong, opposition to the ox-operation daily, threshing grain, isting form of taxation by cylinder in the main floor show room. or more miles per gallon will be bore, and a distinct, preference essential.

for a fuel tax; were expressed ro- The fuel will be ordinary com-cently by the Derby Chamber of marcially `obtainable touring Commerce in a resolution which petrol, and will be provided by has

tho boen, forwarded to

the Competitions Committee of Ministarios.

the A.C.F, who will also supply

MANY PATENTEES.

Despite the industrial die- turbances which marked last

the oil asked for by the compoti-variety or typos, because no year, patentees were busy, over tors. The oil-used must be from the makes and qualities weight limit is imposed nor are 33,000 applications having boon there any regulationg regarding lodged in the Patent Office.

which are readily obtainable in the type of body or the number of Wireless inventors claim first ordinary circumstances.

place, and devicos xolating to vobicles are much in In 1913, when the French Grand motor

When we cómo to consider the

effects which such a rostriction

Bonts.

of fuel and oil will have on the Prix was run at Amiens on a fuel- evidenoc.

design of the cars competing, wa consumption basis, a 54-litre car

aro faced with a number of al- won the race at an average spoed

ternatives. It may be taken as of 12 mph., with a fuel consump-BOYS FOR MEN'S WORK. practically certain that the super- tion of about 14 m.p.g.

charged 1,500 o.c. cars which will

On the day following the Coupe

do la Commission Sportive the!

be used in the French Grand Prix Fronch Grand Prix will be held

In order to give boys some- on the following day will bo un- able to compete. It is hardly like-over a distance of 48 laps of the thing to do, and so keep them out same circuit, which works out at of mischief and trouble, Mr. ly that tho uac of a supercharger 378 milas. The regulations are Henry Ford is said to have can be reconciled with a ronson-the same as for the International decided to engage 5,000 botwoon ably low fuel consumption..

As regards the size of the com- Grands Prix held lets year, the the ages of 16 and 20. They will poting cars, wo may expect a wide maximum cylinder capacity al- do" men's work and be paid

Independence wages,

lowed boing 1,500 c.a.

OLD LEADS NEW.

The oldest mode of tran- sportation inaugurated the now, d'Iborvillo bridge at Biloxi, Mississippi, U.§.A. 'A bullock waggon led the pro- cossion of vehicles at the

oponing coromony...

The question as to whether a

pletely equipped or the purchase of the accessorios be loft to the choion of the individual buyer is hacoming more acute.

If one can read the signs of the timos correctly, there appears to be a change of policy coming along.

In the past the bulk of ma chints have bebu sold minus their dötall equipment. The reason for this was that nearly every buyer was an enthusiart, and know (or) thought he know!) a good deal

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