1928-03-10 — Page 12

ROADSTER

f.o.b. Factory

G$540 DELIVERED Hongkong G$770

COUPE

f.o.b. Factory

G$630 DELIVERED Hongkong

G$910

IMPERIAL

f.o.b. Factory G$700

DELIVERED Hongkong G$985

LANDAU f.o.b. Factory G$750

DELIVERED

Hongkong

G$1050

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omical Transportation

CHEVROLET

from Towapperation

TOURER

f.o.b. Factory

G$540 DELIVERED Hongkong G$770

COACH

f.o.b. Factory G$620

DELIVERED Hongkong G$900

SEDAN f.o.b. Factory?

G$710 DELIVERED Hongkong G$1000

All cars have Bumpers, Spare tire & tube.

HALF TON TRUCK CHASSIS F.o.. Factory U.S. G$430 Delivered Hongkong G$610

CHEVROLET/

for Brompton ONE TON. TRUCK CHASSIS

CHEVROLET/ F.oh. Factory U.S. G$585 Delivered Hongkong G$720 All trucks have spare tire & tube

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HELD THE BRITISH RECORD.

Like a huge sea-monster, this grim-looking racer was taken from England to participate in the international speed trials, along the Ormond-Daytona bench on the east coast of Florida. It is the special car of Cuptain Malcolm Campbell, powered by a secret Napier-Lion uero molor and weighing four tons. The front of the car, at top, and the rear, at bottom, show clearly how no detail was overlooked to offset wind resistance. The black rectangle on the rear end is one of the two radiators. The car established a new world record.

INNOVATIONS IN AEROPLANES.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928.

ALL-STEEL BODIES. ;

Some Advantages Explained.

In the early days of motoring, whon chassis were notoriously unreliable, coachwork was of secondary, consideration. The ear manufacturer was far morò con- cerned in producing some sort of a vehicle that would "go" than he was th providing comfort, and pro- tection on the road for ita bodios occupants. The early fitted to motorcars were made by craftsmen who had been accustom- ed to building bodies for horse-. drawn coaches, and it is a well- recognised fact that up to com- paratively recent years all motor. car coachwork was made on the same oldfashioned lines-the same processes as were used in the construction of stage coaches, my ladye's brougham, rubber-tyred and other vehicles that nowadays have been relegated into the Hmbo of things forgotten.

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The chassis perfected, the motorcar engineer began to turn, his attention to the bodywork, and his natural line of argument was whether it was possible to utilise a better substance for, its struction than wood, which, how- over easily workable it may be, is inherently subjected to climatic conditions is unstable, and, bulk for bulk, has nothing like the strength of metal. Investigation on this line of thought has result- ed in the development of the modern all-steel body.

Brietly, the framework of an all- steel body, as fitted to Morris Cars, consists of steel pressings which are rigid, durable and are unaffected by heat or cold, dry or damp. The shell or outer visible portions of the body ore electrically welded or fused to this framework so that no rattles or gine in the nose and put a low-in-Atting joints can possibly powered engine out under each develop, and the resultant product is a motorcar body that is strong,. The Larry-Brown monoplane, light, silent and overlasting. built in Los Angeles, is the first light, three-engined plane ever con- It is a fact that a single body of structed. This plane has all the this type would' cost many reliability of the big three-engined thousands of pounds to produce, Forker or Ford planes and yet is (and it is only on cars that have in the comparatively lowpriced sufficient appeal to the public to class. The development of this enable their manufacturers to craft points the way for three-en-embark on a large production pro- As the year 1927 closes, follow-gined reliability in all planes of the gramme that an all-steel body can The pur ing a summer of the most spectacu-future from the livver to the air economically be fitted.

chinaer then obtains for a com- lar feats in the field of aviation, we liner.

"The new Prudden plane, built paratively reasonable sum a body find every section of the country claiming to be the centre of de-in San Diego and recently flown to that is in every respect a develop- velopment, the Detroit of the Air, Los Angeles, was designed by men ment of the normal coachbuilt for this vast new industry of aero-who helped design the original body,

Ford plane.

Many Appear in America.

[By Charles F. MeReynolds.]

nautics,

The general public is still un- aware of the great developmenta that have been made in the design of aircraft and particularly of the marvellous things ROW being accomplished by aeronautical experimental engineers:

Progress Facts.

.

These following are the fundamental and very real adván-

Struts Gone, The first full cantilever biplane tages of the all-steel body. It is the world is now under con- immensely strong. Under shock, struction at the Warren School of steel is very much stronger than Aeronautics by Mr. R. F. Hardin, wood. It gives full vision which prominent aeronautical engineer. means safety on crowded roads. This plane will be conventional init is practically everlasting.be- appearance except that there will cause the welded all-metal con- be au struts between the wingstruction is unaffected by elimatic Bul to those who have the facts und no external wire bracing what-conditions. It is the only type of at hand has. been more than ever. All struts and bracing will body that takes cellulose that can little interesting to observe how be carried within the wings which be intensely heat-treated during Los Angeles has forged ahead in are slightly thicker in construc-application and is, therefore, of. the field of experiment and new tion to give the necessary rugged-the hardest and best kind. It is developments. At the present timeness. This plane is to be in the light. Being made of welded Southern California is unquestion low-price class and will soon be joints it is also silent. It has ably the experimental laboratory placed in production by a $230,000 detachable upholstery, allowing of the aircraft industry and there corporation according to present the interior of the car to be clean- are more new projects of a radical plans.

ed with the minimum of trouble." and vital nature, in so far as fly- Built by men who constructed Lastly, in the event of an accident ing is concerned, now under way Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, the it is much safer than the con- here than in any like area of the new monoplane now nearing comventional type of coachwork.. entire carth.

pletion at the hands of the Ryan Where wood will splinter and Mechanics Corporation, will be the pierce, steel construction is shock- first all-steel, tube job ever built, proof, and many lives have been in Southern California not one or It will be a full cantilever, high saved by it. two radically different aeroplanes, wing, cabin monoplane and every

There are now being developed

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£180

£ 5

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185 4 Seater

225

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168. 200

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MORRIS-OXFORD 11.9 H.P..

48" TRACK-106)" WHEELBASE. TOURING SALOON

4 Scater

.205 235

4 Seater

215

255

NORRIS-OXFORD 13.9 H.P.

48" TRACK_106) WHEELBASE.

ROADSTER

TOURING COUPE

4 Seater

-210

240

4 Seater

225 200

2 Boater

230

270

4 Boater

250

290

5 Seater

285

330

MORRIS-OXFORD 15.9 H.P.

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LANDAULETTE.

58 TRACK-114" WHEELBASE. (4-spood gear).

but many new types of planes, bit of construction from the main From the owner-driver's point many new engines, a dirigible wing spars to the delicate wing of view, perhaps the two main at- that may

revolutionize all ribs and the fuselage streamlining tractions are Its durability and air travel, air lines operatis of welded steel tubing.

SALOON This its infrequent call for cleaning. ing or project that are models plane will soon be flight tested and Upkeep charges on all-steel bodies for the world, technical develop; if it lives up to expectation a large are reduced to the practical ments in engines, propellers, and factory will be occupied and the minimum, for washing the car be- wheel brakes that are of import-plane turned out in quantities, comes a far less irksome process ance to the entire industry. Now The newest, cleanest, fastest than where paint and varnish are parachutes have been and are being sport plane equipped with OX-5 concerned. developed, automatic flight is being engine ever developed is now being perfected, the tailess aeroplane has produced in Glendale under the been proved practiced, gliders are supervision of George Irvin. This being flown and wind tunnel ex-plane, called the Thunderbird, his Improved lubrication systems for periments of great technical signi- astonished everyone who has ever the owner-driver were conspicuousficance are being carried out. And ridden in it or seen it fly. ut the recent motor show at Olym- finally, in 1928, two expeditions will pia. Two British cars appeared start from Los Angeles, both built by the Crawford Company at

IMPROVED LUBRICA-

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with local

Other sport planes are being

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5 Seater 315

355

5 Seater.

345

400

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320

360

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350

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planes Venice, which is producing tiny Twelve per cent., or 2,764,222 of

with the centralised reservoir or equipped "one-shot" system. This is a sim-or equipment, one) ple equipment by which every im the south pole by air and one to THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE portant chassis bearing receives a continue aerial explorations in the

few drops of oil when a plunger north polar area.

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to conquer bipland for pilot only that is very the motor vehicles in the US. are fast, and by the Kinner Company motor trucks, of which 90 per cent. in Glendale, which has succeeded are operated by the owners. At in making a plan that will carry the beginning of 1927, farmers three passengers with a very low-owned 20 per cent. of these trucks, powered engine.

New Types Here.

One of the most interesting and

the more modest lubrication, eys-promising planes here is the new tems there is evidence of a move Lockheed monoplane developed by to make grease-gun connexions the Inventor of the Lockheed four- more accessible. Rubber bushed wheel hydraulic brake. This plane! shackle bearings have also been le built of wood throughout and hậs| used on some cars to cut down the no brace wires anywhere and no number of lubrication points,

URGES CENTRAL SYSTEM.

A central traffic, system, estab- ished by a large city to control its own and suburban traffic, is aug gested as a remedy for traffic evils hy D. C. Fenner, chairman of the Motor Vehicles Conference Commit- tce.

DEATHS INCREASE..

FROWN ON DETOURS.

Deaths in the US, resulting from be external struts. It is the first plane automobile accidents during 1928 ever to be built which uses the prac. totalled 20,891, an increase of more near tical, minocoque typo fuselage on a than 5 per cent, over the death rate practical,

airplane. for 1926. With the most perfect streamlining

commercial

of any commercial plane this pro-

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duct will carry the same load ten GLARE-PROOF MIRROR. to fifteen miles per hour faster than

any other Wright Whirlwind equip. ped job.

A bill to abolish long dotours will

the presented to

state of legislature Texas tri the future.. If the law is passed, contractors will have to figure in the coat of a satisfactory detour with their bid for construċ- tion

A now rear-view mirror, said to TAX NETS MILLIONS. eliminate the glare from headlights

The Bach ten-passenger cabin of cars driving behind, is on the monoplane built at Santa Monica is market Instead of the regular Gas tax collections for the first the first three engined plane in reflecting surface of silver, this monthe of 1927 in Wisconsin the world to use a high-powered en-surface is of lead sulfide.

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