1928-08-25 — Page 14

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928.

THE MORRIS WORKS VISITED.

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

This picture shores me of the assembling Halla...

SPEED THRILLS.

Captain Campbell's

Experiences.

NOT A DETERRENT.

Police Trapping Condemned.

Captain Malcolm Campbell, the in the course of an editorial famous English racing motorist, pointing out the futility of police In a lecturo recently given to the trapping The Motor comments as motor trade, at Manchester, Eng-follows:

land, took for his subject, "My In 1928, 30 years after the ad- motor racing experiencee,"

vent of the motor car, and at a

He set out to show (a) how time when, against all odds, the racing improves the motor in-geulus of our designers and en- dustry, and (b) how it improves ginoora has brought the motor the breed. Ho referred to his vehicle by gradual stages to its twenty-two years of interest in present state of safely and relia- speed work, and to the progress bility, we are hampered by a law of the records from 126 m.p.h. on which makes 20 miles per hour the a Benz ear in 1914 and the post-statutory limit of speed! A pal- war figures from K. Lee Guinness pable and admitted absurdity l up to the latest achievements. Up And at this stage we come facs to 1924, he remarked, nobo could to face with the stark fact that the tell whether beaded-edge or police trap, which was the outcome straight-side tyres word better. of the Act of 1903, la to-day an Both crept round the rim on utter futility. If a law is a defer- acceleration. Deciding on the rent it is, to the degree to which! former tyres with an ample num- it deters, a good law. If a judge ber of security Bolts ho did 145 of the High Court transgresses it, m.p.h. in Denmark, and two back as well as nearly every other user tyres came off. The car swayed, of a motor vehicle, it is a bud but we managed to control it." law and stands in need of reform. Therefore, straight-side tyros with Equally, if the means of detec security bolts were fitted on the tion is not a deterrent it is bad, rear and beaded-edge on the front.

One of the latter came off and and it is high time to abolish it. killed a boy. The lesson of it all The police trap is not a deterrent. It has developed into a specialized was that beaded-edge tyres were a thing of the past, uncless for the method of extorting money from high speeds. "It shows racing the hapless individuale (already does help to bring improvements, heavily taxed for using the roads), said Capiain" Campbell. After who chance to fall victims to its describing various other record-operations.

Dir

breaking raus, the speaker said: Considering the situation as it "I never seem to hold the record is to-day, it is bad in law, in logic, for very long." The lecturer de- and in practice. The police are scribed his record attempt in misapplying their energies Crime Although the remarkable rise to To paint a chassis takes two men ] Morris vehicles leave the premises. Amerien. At 180 m.p.. he met ais rampant throughout the land, Just across the real from the bump on the sand, causing the caraided largely by the motor car. popularity of Morris Cara is-en-two minutes, the system of “spray-| erally known, probably but few peopainting" being employed. The main manufacturing premises is to leap and jump 30 feet. "It was The police are not detecting real ple appreciate the gigantic strides chassis then passes into a huge siteated the firm's Printing Works, lucky the car did not break in criminals to the extent that they which this factory has made within drying oven, and the process is re- and here also, one is impressed with half and that the springs held; but should he doing if their duties ware

the springs soggy.

and proportionately. a relatively short space of time. pented, two 'enats being required. the thoroughness of the Morris it made

are 50,000 We broke all

shock-properly

directed. They are still concen Hy way of illustration it may be The same method is used for bady- concern. Not only

and crack-

trading as they have done for mentioned that whereas a humble painting, but the final varnishing copies of the Morris Owner," an absorber brackets

But I have a years-on trapping motorista with- output of one car per week was again two counts) is a longer opera- interesting moloring magazine of ed the body. recorded pre-war, a car is turned on, being done by hand. " Lote 150 pages, printed every wonderful act out to-day every two minutes of the

The varnishing is given scientific month, but every item of the firm's On Sunday, February 19, we got out proving that they do harm or factory's working hours! Seven drying in order to ensure per- stationery, rice-lista etc, produced. the record,"

As to the sensations even teen hundred cars leave the huge manency and good wearing quality

The cheeriness of the many work-at. high speed, he declared:ublic. They are spending an works at Cowley Village, Oxford in any climate, and in order to ef- ers is another noticeable and "There is no exhilaration. The together inordinate amount of feet this result, a huge oven con- happy feature, and although actual feeling of speed at 220 their time in bringing about

Organisation taining two hundred cars is in the Morris

can m.p.h. is not as you sitting here charges against motorists of in- a Welfare Department may visualise it." He declared fringing mere regulations which conglant operation as these masses boast of vehicles nre being drawn second to none, a policy of the big job was to keep the car have grown out of, a superabun-

evory week!

Such an achievement is without doubt the greatest record in the British motor-ca Industry to-date,

onalling, as it has, British motor cars to compete with those of other countries: Where the system of "mass production" has long, been in Vogue,

"Mass Production" is, of course, the explanation of the success of Morris cars, but only a vislí to the eighty acres of workshops, and a study of the 400 workman employed therein cun convey the true int pression of the magnitude of the undertaking...

Perhaps, the outstanding feature of the Morris eślablishment is the most mechanical regularity of the human element: Every trek in connexion with the building of a Morris eur is set to time, and one seen long lines of chassis passing down the shop fram workinan to workman, ench move showing the addition of two or three nuts, n bracket, wheel or spring, until the engine itself is placed in posi- Lion, and the chassis rendy for a ten minute test drive before" passing into the adjoining build- ing where the body will be fitted.

of mechanics.

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through. Ench vehicle is actually! non-interference with the men's straight for 5 miles, and told dance of bureaucratic control. but in generous terms he referred trade, and, incidentally, developed

Spray-painting a chcesia, The revolving chamber ensures

effective distribution of the paint.

in the oven for a period of four leisure hours has always been ad-

houra for each coat of varnish.

hered to. Mr. W. R. Morris's con-

Each of these assembling tasks takes but two minutes, so expert in every man, in his allotted job. and thus it is that by the time the end of the many "lines" has been

The above comments refer to the tention being that if a man re- reached; a new car has been built

remarkably efficient assembling sya-ceives good wages and works in two minutes.

Some operations naturally take tem, which is undoubtedly the most under hygienic conditions, he will longer, hat in such instances,interesting and instructive aspect not require to be taught how

The foundries to spend his leisure moments. duplication of the work in ques- of the works.

fi conclusion, mention must be tion allows for the present where the many parts are either standard output being easily main cast or "turned the machine made of the "Morris Minor," a shops, and body-building depart thoroughly reliable miniature Mor- tained.

One of the interesting examples ments literally hum with activity, ris with an astounding performi of rapid construction is the assem-and prove a revelation to the ance, ample comfort for four per-

Bons, which has recently been deve bling of the back axle. Although visitor.

The Despatch Departmentne loped, and which is already nasured the minimum time is allowed here also, the collective effort, of sixtycommodates six hundred cars, and of as excellent a reputation in the men assures the completion of every here a final inspection is made by future as the other Morrie models

specially trained experts before enjoy at present. axle within the specified time.

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EMPIRE MARKETS. g the conclusion of the war, the for Colonial work.

British Motors Overseas.

In considering the progress made

Even the standard productions of lot of the British commercial vehicle manufacturer was even more un-manufacturers give excellent ac enviable, for not only did be find count of themselves, even when en- that his competitors had obtained a countering conditions for which strong hold in his overseas markets, they were not specially designed, as but the absence of any protection is evidenced by the recent journey at home had resulted in the virtunt of a double-deck 'bus, one of the loss of the home market, further products of a well-known manufac- by manufacturers of British mo- complicated by the liquidation of turer, from Cape Town to Johannes- burg fa total distance of 968 miles), tors in the markets of the Empire war disposal stock.

Against such a combination of in the rainy season, a performance remarkable there is possibly a tendency to res- trict the survey to the private car circumstances the manufacturers that is all the more

of these types of vehicles mule when one appreciates the fact that and to overlook the fact that com-strenuous efforts, but it was not the journey is a formidable one for mercial goods and passenger-carry-antil the safeguard enjoyed by Bri-a touring car even in the dry sea- ing vehicles are also securing for tish car manufacturers was extend-son. This is but an isolated illus- the British manufacturera of auch ed to them that they were really tration of the performances of Bri- yehicles increasing trade and win-able to do justice to themselves and tish-made commercial vehicles, and small to the British Industry In general. manufacturers are receiving num-

alng, for themselves 110

account of Since that time, however, the out-bers of expressions of appreciation

amount of praise on

put of British commercial factories of the services which their vehicles their sterling quality and high de-haa continued to increase to cope are rendering wherever they are

with growing business in the home employed. gree of service,

Another British product which is Just as the public at home are market and in the markets of the

giving excellent account of itself coming to rely more and more on Empire..

The requirements of the overacas overseas is the marine engine, for the lorry and passenger vehicle for the means of transport of them-markets have engaged the special the. growing intercat which is selves and the necessities of life, attention of manufacturers of these shown in motor boating in Great so are their kinsmen overseas find-vehicles, one of the tangible results Britain is extending to other parts ing the British commercial vehicle being the evolution of the six- of the world, and it is satisfactory is the most economical and satie-wheeled type of vehicle, which, by to recall that British manufacturers factory form of transportation. the nature of its speciál construc-of this type of engine, as well as While the British ear manufaction, will transport a useful lond those who manufacture boats, are turer had to contend with tremend-on ordinary roads, or across coun- finding a ready outlet at home and ous obstacles in his efforts to make try, and, being designed for rough overseas for the output of their up leeway in the early days succeed-country usage, is admirably sulted factories.

how his wrist's ached on the return

the sportsmanship of his international good-fellowship. He run after a bump on the outward ward, or an average of 206.95. to stretch. "I had an awful job to He described White's six-ton, car American rivala, and told how the spoke highly of modern tyres as which now late lamented Lockhart just lived being now in front of the speed, get into second; I had to take my (the American car foot off the accelerator twice on holds the world's speed record of for his job. Racing improved the whereas formerly it was the re- the return run," Hence the speed 207.55 m.p.h.) as a means of try-industry, he declared, helping verse. He believed Dunlop's were then was 199 against 214.7 out-ing to get records by brute force; British goods to grip foreign prepated to guarantee 250 m.p.h.

Why Changed Motoring Conditions Demand The

Oil. Use of Quality

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First announcement in an important series.

25% to 100% more

piston strokes.

To-day, more than ever, you must use a high quality oil in your

motorcar,

In recent years there has been a decided trend towards higher apced engines. The pistons in the average engine of today make 25% more strokes per mile than in the corresponding models of a few years ago.

More piston strokes per mile-- more chance for friction. The greater the friction-the greater the wear. This has a distinct effect on your lubrication problem. Unless you are using a high quality oil, tough enough to withstand the terrific pressures and withering heat of these additional piston strokes, higher working speeds mean more. Trouble in your motor- car engine just as surely as higher working speeds mean trouble in the human machine,

These higher engine speeds are numerous made possible by

and improvements in design manufacture. But it is your part to provide the better lubricating oil.

And engine speeds are only a part of the problem. Better roads, balloon tires, improved springs, and a lowered chassis, all say, "Faster, Faster, FASTER."

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The average car owner's yearly mileage has mounted up rapidly. Increased mileage means piston strokes per year. Again, every piston stroko is a friction stroke, No piston strokes-no wear more piston strokes-more

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