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THE PRINCE "MORRISES.”

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STILL LOWER CITROEN PRICES.

[By H. Massac Buist in the

Observer.]

lowe:

in home-built motor enterprise, £198.

as Rolls-Royce and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

The Charm of Unstressed Performance.

The

TYRE DUTY.

Automobilo Association

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

【PULAR BUS.

The Associated Daimler Low Loading Type.

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SATURDAY,

MOTORING IN PERSIA.

JULY G 1927.

by metal thrown down for future. caravans to flatten; and there it mountain track sloping

is

dizzily to alarming precipices. And the traffle on the Tohoran

world..

Worst Roads in the route must be the worst in the

World.

the foregoing, is the announcement TOURISTS AND THE of yet another reduction in the prices of Citroen cars. It is made possible by savings effected through production methods exploited at the ivorks at Slough, where the person- Visit To Cowley Works. nel to entirely British, and the fac draws attention to one effect of the tory equipment and methods are newly imposed Customa duty on The most modern. The saving is tyres, that motorists taking their

Long strings of camels amble. The most popular type of single tre passed on to the public. cars abroad from Great Britain, deck passenger vehicle marketod

along at two miles an hour, and Thus all the entirely new 12/24 h.p. and subsequently returning, will be by The Associated Daimler Com- turous occupations left in the motor-horn

There are still a fow adven- when alarmed by the hoot of a four-wheel brake, fully equipped liable to pay duty on the tyres un-

straggle with in- models are reduced in price as fol-less they can produce proof that pany of Walthamstow, England, is world for those who care to seek credible clumsiness to the wrong 2-senter with dickey and they formed part of the equipment. the new "Model 416 Cast, low them. Carrying the Persian mail side, and then, still, mors clumsily, FW.B. ($100) reduced to £178; of the ear when the car left Britain, loading 32 senter omnibus...

is one, for Perala has no railways back again. Processions of carts 4-benter F.W.B. (£195), reduced to The Automobile Association "wl This is one of the useful range and only one or two open ports. fill the whole rond, carta drawn by £186, and 4-door FW.D. Saloonsafeguard the position of tourists of five vehicles developed sinco Teheran, the capital, is 500 miles two horses and large covered The by seeing that they obtain a Cer-The Associated Daimler Company, from the Iraq frontier, and once wagons drawn by four horses. The Prince of Wales, who is a. (£240), reduced to £220. apur to British industry-who does vacuum serve brake system is extra. tificate of Temporary Exportation Ltd., was formed by the amal week: the Consular mail leaves abreast, with an extra pair led be not remember his inspiriting slow The 11.4-h.p. 4-door saloon with declaring the make and size of all gamation of the Associated Equip Bagdad for Khaniqin, on the hind to assist in uphill work... gan: "Adept, Adapt, Improve": front-wheel brakes and full equip tyres on the vehicle at the time of ment Co., Ltd., and The Daimler Iraq-Persian border, and is there From Khaniqin to Teheran the Co., Ltd., in July last year. So transferred to motor transport. road crosses three high passes- and who is especially interested ment is reduced £12 in price to departare.

The other 12/24 h.p. and 11.4-h.p. models are reduced in pro-cretion. On that occasion the popular is this Model becoming, In three days, with luck, it will the Faltak, the Assadebad, and the being himself

speedometer registered 53 m.p.hed buses from the Factory has

Avez. "The first is only six thou- that, although delivery of complet-rench Teheran.

Nowadays the Persian roads sand feet or so, but the other Crossley owner, gave yet another portion.

and the engine was working quite unt been made during the last are "safe." That is, they are two are both over nine thousand.. proof of his regard for productive

smoothly. Nor is this designed few weeks, orders for large fleet affort by visiting the Morris motor

normally free from brigands, for As the roads are narrow, full of for a speedy car. works at Cowley, near Oxford, on

of omnibuses of this type have Reza Shah has instituted several sharp corners, and for many Wednesday. It's way

The long and the short of it already been received from muny reforms in connexion with the miles dizzily situated no formal affair. Naturally, these cars are

that we overload the operating maintain

Companies in the communications. But safety has hand and equally sheer precipice the vehicles ho uses, and he was Devonshire and Cornwall, of the 1,500 e.c. engine if we provide full keenly interested in the processes two-sont £200, £11 tax, 1,160 scale accommodation-in this case

side-valve

to motoring in Persia, for a heavy car to schedule, time re- four-cylinder exploited for achieving quantity 12-.. production. He expressed himself engined Fint car with 4 ft. 71% in the upholstery is to be described

Nearly all the cars on the road as favourably impressed with the track and four-wheel brakes. In sumptuous-merely lack ex- Bristol, Chelmsford, Dublin, Car-Persian road is different from all quires both skill and courage.

perience of what can be done with diff, Leeds, Leicester, Buenos Here and there it is bare earth jure American, but the drivers equipment and the workmanship, my opinion, it is memorable, be that size power unit by, automobile Aires, Monte Video and Melbourne complimenting Mr. W. R. Morris cause the point of this agreeable engineers of international long will shortly have these Intest type worn level by the passage of come from many parts. The twe

Daimler Afterwards test is that it proved to my satis-distance road racing and aircraft Associated

omnibuses countless caravans on the Golden regular mail drivers aroor were Mr. Morris drove him to London faction that, with a properly experience. The secret is that operating on their streets. The Road; here it is roughly fortified recently--Scots in a Morris-Oxford car. So it may designed four-speed gearbox, a Flat knows how to make, the best illustration below gives a general be paid that His Royal Highness is 16-litre engine of quality can use of power, therefore it does not idea of the vehicle: now thoroughly acquainted with propel n full-scale vehicle of

require a very highly stressed our most popular car.

rational design anywhere in un engine to propel so comfortable, Incidentally, why will at Increas-stressed. fashion. With careful commodious, and refined function- ing number of sub-editors, re- driving, according to the districting but moderate priced a carriage. porters and writers of captions in and therefore the visibility and with it you can attain relatively The Press refer to Mr. W. R. Morris the traffic, you can average any high average speed, economically as "the inventor of the Morris car,"

and when driving with when, the essence of the proposition: is that it exploits convention, not

tuency, consideration, and caution which spell safety. invention. Mr. Morris began life In the garage business, next he as sembled cars, and now he builds them. For the rest, he is neither a designer nor anventor.

I had an experience under

botween

built on very different lines from owner-driver conditions, chiefly in appears to be that those whe Municipal 'Bug undertakings and surveillance and improvement of sheer mountain side on the 'one

on his achievement.

Progress in Birmingham,

thing, even in hilly country, from legal limit to 34 miles an hour without stressing the driving on the brakes.”

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Even when crossing Dartmoor

that

now

British Isles and oversens. a restricted meaning when applied on the other, the task of driving a

To mention a few eities, Belfast,

"The Crosley Six." Crossley introduced the 2,702 The 'Buses can be supplied with you can do nearly everything on fee. 6-cylinder engined car to the driver's position on the oTside of top and third gean. without forcing public at the Olympia show engine, right forward, or, in the orthodox position behind the dash- the engine or travelling fast unless eighteen months ago, and you wish to do so. For instance, that it is in full production some board. A choice of two types of From a standing start at Dartmeet 1,800 machines of this type will engines is open to the purchaser, As for Mr. W. R. Morris's other

there was no aced to keep the be built this year at Manchester. either the Associated Daimler enterprise, since his acquisition this Year of Vickers motor-manufac-second speed engaged after the Examples have been supplied to 35/40 11.P. poppet valve type, or turing concern, the Wolseley Com- cottages had been passed at the members of the Royal family for the Daimler 40/70 II.P. 6-cylinder pany, it has gone ahead so rapidly turn on the westward course. Im- service, both at home and abroad. sleeve valve engine can be fitted. that 5,000 men are now employed millately thereafter Lengaged the There have been developments in A handsome pattern, radiator alording ample cooling is provide and new machinery is already being aird speed forward. Obviously, performance since my first trial.

severe climbs the year ago. These concern alike ed, a four speed and reverse gear installed with a view to facilitating much more

of carburation and box. Brakes are of the latest and cheapening production. The any to be found in this country problems Adderley Park works are being used could have been taken by this car, eonchwork. It is now a eat which, approved safety type, and at a for foundry, machine shop, and as for I rarely used second speed with covered body, can easily ex-small extra charge four wheel sembly operations, and the Ward even in and out of Cornish villages, reed a mile a minute. The raspen-brakes can be supplied. Spring.is End factory is devoted to body and that for not more than a sion permits of faster speeds an efficient and affords extreme com- mounting. All retail depots, such couple of hundred yards at a spell. average drivers are prepared to art. A 30 gallon capacity Petrol as the London branch, have been!

undertake on ordinary cars when Tank is provided, and Dunlop pneumatic tyred wheels are fitted, roads, negotiating pot-hole wither sed down or used as whole-¦

double acting Houdaille shock tyre sizes being a 6in. by Gin. sale distributing centres. There!

From first to last not a drop of absorber being employed on this straight sided type. A fore all retail sales of Wolseley earni are now done through authorised, ing water was replenished. 3-litre engined saloon, which sells wheel and tyre is supplied. Any- agents, and dealers. All existing The supply

at £720, and the power unit of De contemplating the operation of agency agreements are maintained. original level at the finish. The which functions silently. A five ommibus services where speed, re- lability and passenger comfort Komu future time it will be putrol consumption was extor Jet Smith carburetter is placed at must be assured, should obtain permissible to announce that one of dinarily economical. Even in the the rear end of the cylinder block, full particulars of the Associated

country traversed ia a somewhat anusual position, the Daimler new Passenger Models. the greatest manufacturers abroad billiest

fashion, 011 long is recruited to the Bat of those who spirited

being drawn through A #L worked out nt 27 -assemble their chassis with British runs

lu normal straight inlet pipe, from which labour at British works, and whof miles in the gallon.

By design and build bodies for their gulag it was considerably higher, there are branch feed pipes having

different internal diameters. curs in this country. I cannot. I doubt if I ever put the car to its

this means no cylinder is starved however, indicate more on this sub-maximumeed on the flat befand none receives an excess supply Ject at the moment.

chuse I only made one attempt, of gas. The result is a power Another interesting week-end and that was before it had done news item, quite dissociated from 200 miles. Therefore I used dis-unit, the functioning of which is

free from a flat spot.

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The Features of Success.

remained at the

Double

Tracti

This powerful Firestone Double-Traction Tyre is an example of how Firestone en- giacers co-operate with lorry- builders to provide exactly the right tyre for every haulage need and condition. Up grades, out of excava- tions, in mud and mire, the

massive, scientifically angled tread of this Double-Traction takes hold and keeps big lorries in action, cushioning the load and lorry and giving long, trouble-free mileage.

Operation costs can male- rially be reduced by consulting the Firestone Service Dealer.

Firestone

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1217.

33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

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ROAD SIGNS."

spare

A.A. Safety Posts.

The Automobile Association has recently erected in England some new road signs which will con- siderably increase the safety of rond users, and might with great advantage be adopted also sin other countries.

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All main roads cover long un- lighted stretches between towns and villages, where powerful head- lights are necessary to pick out the enrves, corners, cross-roads, junctions, and other dangers, and the introduction of these A.A. Safely Posts. will, if. generally adopted, reduce the necessity for using such powerful lights.

The Posts Incorporate the im- portant road principle that one r turally overtakes a red light by keeping to the right of it, and wheh meeting a white light keep- ing ing to its left. If the Posts are generally adopted, the Auto- mobile" Association will provide standard reflex lights in red and white, which can be easily clamp-; ed on te existing, tramway stan- dards, telegraph poles, lamp stan- dards, abutments of bridges) and any other situation where a guid- ing light would prevent motorists running inte trouble in the dark or during dense for.

The new A.A. Safely Posts are conktructed, of sheel, metal, are about # ft. 6 in. high, and are fit- ted with reflectors of high offici- ency, capable of catching the beams of mediam-powered head- lights at a distance of 200 yards. They are lightly constructed (in. the event of ears running inte them no serious damage would be' caused) and by the use of red and white reflectors, facing in both directions, enable drivers passing in either direction to keep a safe

course.

The Posts are marked on the "ro" side with black and white horizontal stripes which give, in fog or half-light, the equivalent of a red light warning; the other sides are plain white correspond- ing with the white reflectors, seen by drivers approaching from the opposite direction.

others.

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In the Divorce Court recently the President granted a decree nisi to Lady Curtis-Bennett on the ground of the misconduct of her husband, Sir Henry Honywood) Curtia-Bennett, at an hotel inf Paris The suit was undefended. Affidavit evidence by Lady Curtia- Bennett, who is now abroad, wasf real, as was also affidavit evidence of French detectives and of the re- ception clerk and a chambermaid at the Hotel Westminster, Paris.

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Now Packard has announced new › price levels-and added an impor- tant page to motor car history,

The Packard Six- introduced.

seven years ago --- is today priced lower than any Packard ever sold! Thus Packard quality is made avail- able to new thousands everywhere,

Recent refinements and improve- ments have added immeasurably to its brilliant performance until today's Packard Six" is interna. tionally recognized as the finest of America's smaller cars.

THE DRACON MOTOS CAR CO., LTD. Tolaphene Central 1246 cr 1247.

33. Wong Not Chung Rond. Happy Valley.

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You will find Parkard cars on all the important. highways of the quirld.

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