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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAYĮ NOVEMBER 12, 1927.

B.S.A. Motor Cycles

Won a Team Prize Again.

IN

THE INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS' TRIAL

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Aug. 15 to 20, 1927.-Lake District, England

Gold Medals

Awarded to the team of three riders using B.4.A. 4.93 h.p. O.H.V. models, all having completed the course without losing a single mark. Another B.S.A. ridor of the Dutch team, mounted on a 4.93 h.p. Sporting aide valve machine was also award- ed a Gold Medal

Gold Medals"

Also awarded to a rider of B.S.A. 3.49 h.p. O.H.V. motor cycle combination -the smallest powered odsicar to win a premier award as well as to a rider of 980 motor cycle combination.

Lead the Way on a B.S.A.

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

SÓLE AGENTS.

THE

MOTOR UNION

INSURANCE CO U

Incorporated in England

Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)

SPECIALISES

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THE BEAUTY OF THE MODERN CAR.

Horizontal lines are accentuated and vertical lines obscured in these two model designe

of the modern type ear. Note the long windows, the wide molding, the sweeping fenders and other lines which cause the eye to travel from front to rear.

[By Israel Klein.]

The automobile body these days.

is getting as much attention, if not more, as the power plant itself:

For while the engine has reach ed the point of efficiency where it is practically taken for granted, the entire car itself still has to meet the appraising eye and exact- ing tastes of the buyer.

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comfort and disclosed the ways in which these are accomplished.

Built for Passengers. "Experience has shown," he said, that passenger comfort demands that the body be built around the passenger. Too often the job is started in the reverse attractive order by making an design and then

passengers into it squeezing the

something they aren't actually getting. In this case, the cheat lines make us believe we are get- ting a long, low, sleek and attrac- tive car, while it is no longer than the stubby automobile on the seme chassis without such lines.

Cheat lines, generally, run hori- zontally to effect this lengthy appearance. The windows are made longer than they are hikes.

Panelling is widened and run in "Milady muy endure discoma long line across the length of fort to wear a small stylish shoe. the body, the fenders are made but being squeezed into an auto-ong and sweeping and window mobile body by shoe-horn methods reveals are widened to accentuate

their length. is entirely different."

These tastes, the manufacturer has discovered, have tirned their attention not only toward the appearance of the car, but to its arrangements for the comfort of

And the passengers.

so, the

How to make room for the pas- manufacturer has called in the body designer, and the body senger and still hot reveal a large, machine is the designer: has called upon his cumbersome

the body designer. best resources to furnish a bady problem" of that would be both highly attrac- He solves it sometimes by availing tive and corifortable.

himself of a long chassis. Then The ends to which the designer he may make the car low, the are no better brought driver and passengers may sink Northrup, prominent body legs comfortably, while doors are designer, at the recent semi-widened to let the occupants to annual meeting of the Society of in or out with ease.

In It he Automotive Engineers. emphasized .the important relationship of appearance and

MOTOR INSURANCEn in the talk or A. E. into their seats and stretch their

LOCAL AGENTS,

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York Building.

THE

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B.M. W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE

WHICH WON THE ITALIAN TARGA FLORID RACE, 1927

12 B.H.P. MODEL R42 500 cc.

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Short Chassis, Long Lines, But now comes the demand for shorter bodies, and therefore the necessity of aborter chassis. Here, forced to adapt an attractive yet comfortable body to a short chassis, the designer has revealed his genius.

This is apparent by the use of cheat lines. Chent lines de just what the word implies-they make people believe they are getting

CARS TO GLIDE LIKE SHIPS.

All Shocks Absorbed by

Wheel-springs. '

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NEW SUSPENSION..

"[By, the Daily Mail Motoring Correspondent.]

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Paris, Oct. 6. Visions of motor-cars riding the| roughest roads with the smooth- ness of n ship on the serenest sea were saggested to-day at the open- Ing of the French Motor Show at the Grand Palais in the Champs- Elysees.

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Large crowds watched the new! methods of independent springing on each motor-car wheel.

Vertical Lines Taboo. The colour design, too, helps, Every effort is made to, conceal vertical ines, for horizontal lines accentuate the idea of a long, low body.

Yet comfort isn't overlooked.

main thought when he builds up his model body. He must con- sider head room, leg room, seat

fact, it is part of the designer's

width and door width.

Even the interior trimmings of the body have to be considered not so much for appearance, as. for the comfort of the passenger. As Northrup put it!

"Ornate cloth patterns, heavily figured laces running hither and thither, or a preponderance of buttons, plaits and tassels, destroy the restfulness of the interior. Simple tailored design, on the con- trary, tends to encourage relaxa- tion and restfulness."

TO THE DOGS.

A message from England states that the Greyhound Racing As-

sociation has fitted a Morris com- mercial van with a apecial body for conveying dogs to the electric hare courses.

Racehorses are often con- Iveyed to and from the courses in specially designed vans, but so far the racing canines have not gone to "the dogs" in a specially fitted out motor conveyance..

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GERMANY BACK.

Shows at Olympia.

For the first time since the War German cars were shown at the which has just concluded. Olympia Motor Show, in London,

One exhibitor, by means of an automatic rocking apparatus, made should say that in a few years the wheels of his motor-car bounce motoring will be almost incredibly. up and down in imitation of travel comfortable. With an indepen- ling over rock-sown ground. While dently sprung wheel I do not sce all this was happening, the chassis why we should not reach the stage remained indifferent to the grote when a burst tyre at speed will be sque wheel-movements. Under this scarcely noticed except for the noise system the wheels take all the hard of the explosion."

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knocks, whereas in the orthodox In three cases at the exhibition a share of these is com-this form of suspension la incor- municated to the chassis. This is porated with front-wheel drive. the basis of the most remarkable Where the drive is carried through motoring development of recent the front wheels, Independent steering for each wheel is also the On the Farman stand not only practice.

years,

are the wheela independently Apart from these cars of the sprung but also the axle and pro-future, the exhibition is full of in- peller shaft.

terest. French makers, like our In another exhibit the wheels own, have decided that the small 6- are independently sprung by cylinder vehicle is the car of 1928, means of a hydraulic system. New models of this type are on During my tour of the exhibt nearly every stand. Americans tion I was accompanied by one of still favour the fat, slow-turning the greatest of our motor-car engine. There is no small Ameri- gineers and designers. I asked can car at the show. him what he thought of this now development. "It will be some! "The German cars look like good time," he said, "before this now engineering, but their appearance method of suspension can be pet is gross. Italy is following fected, but here. is unquestionably France'a lend.

the motor-car of the near futuro. There are only two British ex- "British makers realise this, hibitors, but we have our own show There are many forms of this next week. After a close Inspec suspension already on paper in the tion of the 1928 care of alx nations, drawing-offices of Coventry and I feel.certain that British makers Birmingham. Here you are see will more than hold their own dur- Ing some of the ploncor cara.1ing the next season.

WORLD'S SPEED RECORD.

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Challenge by Five Entrants.

NOVEMBER RACING.

It is probable that five cars will try, in November, to capture the world's speed record now held by Major Segrave's 1000 h.p. Sun-

beam.

Sole British entrant will be Mal- colm Campbell's Napier-Camp- bell. A Philadelphian millionaire has ordered the construction of a 1500 h.p. car with three engines; the Duesenberg brothers are at work on a four Iltre motor; Ralph de Palma is busy at the Chrysler factory building a racing car da- signed solely to break the record, and Frank Lockhart is supervis- ing a new Stutz for the same pur. pose.

There is a possibility that. a prize of 30,000 dollars will be of- fered for the successful car, and most of the attempts will be made in Florida. Lockhart is report- ed to favour the dry lake on which he achieved 170 m.p.h. with a tiny front wheel drive Miller.

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