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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

MORRIS Cars

HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES.

MORRIS MINOR

A.C. Horse Power Rating 8,7

Brake Horse-Power $4 at 3200 Revolutions.

Puton Displacement 116.9 Cubic Inch. WArch-lane 18 Incher,

Modal

Tourer Saloon

Speed 50 MPH.

Weight

F.O.B.

Packing Factory Extras Shipping Hongkong . Price

Delivery Price 4-pass. 1,200 lbs. £125 £3 £17 £145 4-pass. 1,450 lbs. 185 8 32 175 Hongkong Prico includos Triplex Glass, Sparó Wire Wheel, Tiro and Tube, Bumpara and Extra Hand Horn. ¡

MORRIS-COWLEY (48" Track)

RAC. Horse-Power Nating H.D

Brake Horse-12ures 25 et 3200 Revolution**

„Piston Pixplicemeng 242,40 Cubic Park. Wheel-Bare 105 Inches, Speed 55 MPH Roadster

..... 4-pass 1,085 lbs. Tourer .......

4-pass. 2,010 lbs. Light Van

8.cwt. 2,015 lbs. Traveller's Car 2-pass. 2,085 lbs.

Coupe

4-pass, 2,040 lbs. 4-pass. 2,180 lbs. 4-pass. 2,036 lbs.

Saloon

£160 £3 £27 £190 175 6 30 210 175 3 32 210 180 5 30 216 180 7 38 226 100 10 40 240 190 10 40 240 Hongkong Prics includes Triplex Glass, Spare Wiro' Whool, Tire and Tube, Bumpors and Extra Hand Horn. MORRIS-COWLEY (58′′ Track)

Fabric Saloon

RAC, House-Power Rating 13.9

Bruke Harar Power 28 at 32mm RevolutionM

Piston Dispherment 282 Cubic Inch, Wheel-Ban Hua Inches. Speed 60 M.PAL. G-pass. 2,320 lbs. £186 -pass. 2,440 lbs. 205

Tourer Saloon

£5 £35 £225 10 45 200 Hongkong Prico includos Triplex Glass, Spare Wire Wheel, Tire and Tubo, Bumpara and Extra Hand Horn.

MORRIS-OXFORD - 14/28

2.A.0. Hone Power Rating 13.5 Brake Hose Paver 28 at 1200 Revolutions,

Piston Displacement 282 Cabic Inch. Wheer-use 106) Inchri,

Speed & MPA,

Roadster

Tourer

Coupe

4-pass. 2,210 lbs. £200 £7 £33 £240 5-pass. 2,390 lbs. 216 7 3B 255 4-pass. 2,130 lbs. 226 .20 45 290 Saloon

6-pass. 2,630 lbs. 240 26

310 Saloon de Luxe.. 5-pass. 2,635 lbs. 205 25 45 33r Fabric Saloon... -pass.. 2,410 lbs. 255 15 45 315 Traveller's

Brougham 5-pass. 2,685 lbs. 250 10 45 305 Hongkong Price includes Triplex Glass, Loather Uphols tory, Spare Wire Wheel, Tire and Tube, Bumpors, Extre Hand Horn.

MORRIS-OXFORD ~~

16/40

R.A.C. Hurre-Power Rating 15,9 Brake Burne-Power Riot 3gan Herulations.

Pieton Diapluærment 393.77 Cubic Inch. Speed on M.P.II.

Wheel-Hace 114 Incles,

Tourer...... 5-pass. 3,050 lbs. $295 27 £43 £345 Saloon

..... 5-pass. 3,190 lbs.

310 16 66 380 Fabric Saloon .. 6-pass. 3,065 lbs. 320 10 55 385 Hongkong Price includes Triplex Glass, Leather Uphols- tory, Spare-Wire Wheel, Tire and Tube, Bumpers, Extra Hand Horn.

MORRIS SIX

R.A.0. Hurac-Power Rating 17.9

Brake Borse-Power 40 at Sena Revolutions.

Pleton Displacement #86.25 Uulic Inch. Wheel-Bune 117 Inches.

Coupe

Saloon

Speed 65 MPH.

Tourer ..........

6-paas. 3,150 lbs. £845 £10 £45 £400 ....... 4-pass. 8,216 lbs. 365 16 GO 430 5-pass. 3,280 lbs. 376 20 60 455 Hongkong Price includes Triplex Glass, Leather Uphols- tery, Sparo Wire Wheel, Tiro and Tubo, Bumpers, Extra Hand Horn.

Equipment and Price subject to change without notice.

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A CHASSIS COSTING £18,000.

Some Details of the New Car with which Major Segrave will Attempt to Regain Speed

Record for Britain.

IRVING SPECIAL OR THE “GOLDEN ARROW.”

Hervo

,

SATURDAY.

FEBRUARY

radiator is not in front and thero is no opening in the body, but such air as Ands its way in can escape through numerous louves cut all along the underpan... The bulkhead also serves as a definite protection in case of fire. Similarly, the tail has a forward bulkhead, so that it |,cannot fill with air while the car

is running,

23, 1929.

A Fascinating. Job.

From the driver's point of view the possibilities of handling a car for this record are fascinating, as always in some new and exciting feat. It is true to say that a vast amount depends upon the man, but it is equally true that a vast amount depends upon the car itself, for at the terrific speed in question the chances of the driver being abloj to avert a disaster due to some strange and unexpected instability are very small Indeed. It is the car which, in the main, has to keep itself straight, though it is the man who can, provided he has fron nerves, deal with what can only be called minor deviations, though at the moment they seem, in all con- science, serious enough.

NOTICE

то

ADVERTISERS

All advertising, to be inserted in this Motor Supplement, must be delivered not later than 2 p.m. on the Wednesday of the "week of publication.

HOW

Sinco starting the engine is a considerable problem, for it would be difficult to push the car in gear, partly because the vacuum serve motor for the clutch is inoperativa when the engine is not running. and partly because the car weighs over three tons, the engine is start od by forcing fuel into the cylinders, and when these have been filled exploding the gas with a spark from a hand magneto.

Moreover, the great difficulty lies Practically everything depends in the fact that there can bo-no upon the tyres, which have been test other than the actual record will be accompanied by a manufactured with special care by attempt, since at over 200 m.p.h. Napier-engined racing boat, with Dunlops, who are also responsible the behaviou of the car may be which Segrave le also to attempt for the wheel. The tyres have very different from that noticeable the capture of the speed record on extraordinarily little troad, and are,

at 100 m.p.h.. in theory, supposed to possess a life

the sea, recently put up to 92.83. When the car goes to Daytona it! m.pix by an American boat. of 16 seconds. These tyres have been tested at over 2,000 r.p.m., to make sure that they will not burst under the stress of centrifugal force. It goes without saying that the tyres, wheels, propeller-shafts, gear box shaft, and everything running at high speed has to be balanced spinning, the ordinary method of putting a wheel, for ex- ample, on knife edges, or on a special hub and balancing it with lead weights statically, not being

sufficient,

The body, which was constructed by Thrupp and Maberly, has an armoured, or boiler plater "centre section" as some protection for the driver. Part of the body and o great deal of the other work was carried out with the utmost enthus- nem by the John Thompson Motor Pressings Company, of Bilston, the whole car being assembled, and most of the machining work being

ing Works, Ltd.

There is the whole story of Ad-free to slide at each end, the axle venture underlying the fact that being located by two steel radius a group of sportsmen has made it rods from a tube between the dumb possible for England to contruct irons. This axle also has enormous some £18,000 worth of motor car shock absorbers. to journey half across the world Four degrees of castor angle are for some 30 seconds furious action intended to give the car a sense of on the long stretch of beach at direction, while to dump the steor Daytons, in Florida writes the ing gear, there is at the bottom of "Autocar." Surely this is Roinance caci pivot a big fibre pad carrying In its highest form. The giant car, the whole weight of the machine in If it be successful, has in effect afront. Each stub axle has a steer useful life of just those fewing arm, a fore and aft rod running seconds; all to attain the one great from these arms on each side of the end of regaining for this country car to a swinging link connected to the prestige of holding the coveted another rod travelling inside the world's record for speed on land. body to a drop arm. The steering

And this is no light task, since, wear is arranged so that the stear the present record held by the ing wheel shaft turns a bevel gear, White Special, driven by Ray Keech while a shaft on the bevel gear has for America, stands at 207.65 m.p.h. at each end a specially constructed over a mile, this being the average Marles gear attached to a drop of two runs in opposite directions. arm. Thus ench front wheel is

To build a car capable of such controlled independently, the steer font is in itself a gigantic task.Tng ratio at present boing such na The man responsible is dealing to require three turns of the wheel with the unknown, the car-les to from lock to lock. travel faster than any car before.

Seating Difficulty. With the exception of one or two The brake pedal operates, trial spins the machine cannot be through another Dewandre vacuum tested beforehand, though

motor eight fabric-lined thorough tryout would seem es-shoes in the four wheel druma. In sential, since no one knows how cidentally, one of the most difficult this gigantic "projectile" will hold tasks encountered by the designer the sand, or whether it will be was. to find room for the driver, even possible to handle it at its since Major H. O. D.. Sergrave is designed speed of somewhere near somewhat wider across the shoul-done, by the Robinhood Engineer- 260 m.p.h. If ever there was aders than are many men, and quite gamble, and a really fine gamble, considerable "length." The seat is this is one, and it goes without placed between the two propeller saying that the driver must have shafts close to the rear axle, and high courage and exceptional skill. the streamline body curves close A Twelve Cylinder Engine. to the driver's shoulders on either For the moment all commercial side. consideration is set aside. There

In a way, the body in the most may, indeed there certainly will, be interesting part of the car, as there something learned if the car proves are three separate streamlike Huccessful, but that is a minor forms connected by a plane. The point. What counts above all else centre streamline casing is the is the sporting spirit underlying body proper, made up of a sharp the attempt, a spirit which came nose developing into a tri-foll sec into being when, in 1898, the tion to match the cylinder blocks Jestand and Jenatzy electric cars of the engine, then gradually merg- first fought their great battle for ing into a thin streamline body the honour of recording the highest tapering away to a long sharp tail, speed 'ever credited to a car. with a big rudder-like in ut fta ex- The new machine beare the name tremity. From the eldes of this of the Irving Special, and the nick-body project a horizontal streamline

ne, or rather pet name, of the plane rather resembling a Golden Arrow. It is one of the wide but extremely short aeroplano finest and fastest-looking cars that wing, the rear portion of the plano has ever been built. From begin being tilted at an angle so that ning to end the whole has been laid the pressure of the wind when the out by Captain J. S. Irving, and car is travelling assists to hold the only those who know what that im- muchine on the ground, plies can appreciate fully the work;

Then, on either side, the wheels he has accomplished, The engine are running in what amounts to a is a 12-cylinder broad-arrow type separate streamline. body, a rose, Napler Lion, with a bore and then the exposed wheel, then a long stroke of 5% X, 5in,, that is, a ensing, the other exposed wheel and power unit with a single crank a tail completing the whole on each case and a single crankshaft, but side. Along these casings run the having three blocks of cylinders, Gloster aircraft radintore, which one upright in the centre, the other are not made up of pipes but are two forming a V relative to each extremely thin corrugated tanks, other on either side of the central the corrugations being so deep as block. The connecting rod bear- to give the effect of a series of inga are plain, and three of them horizontal paralled pipes. Within are on the same crank pin, the cam the body, behind the engine, is a shaft and valves are on top of water tank, the head, the camshift cover being

Cooling.

very

shaped to conform with the stream- Provision has also been made for Hned shape of the body.. Extra-what is called eutectic. cooling, ordinary as it appears, the com- though this will not be used unless pression ratio is 12 to 1, which ex- absolutely necessary. This form of plains why the engine can only be cooling consists of a series of small run fast and on special fuel. -

metal chambers filled with a chem- Care in Engine Mounting. ical substance causing Intense cold. A group of Claudel-Hobson car-The metal chambers are, placed in buretters supplies the mixture a tank and the water is circulated without a supercharger, the air in-past them on its way from the takes being cunningly set in the engine back to the cylinder jackets. body so as to receive the full blast If used, the tank will be placed in of the external air while the car the nose of the car. It will be is running, and the exhaust pipes arranged that two special ther- are just sumciently long also to mostats put the special tank in protrude through the body. Oil is circuit If the engine becomes un- carried in two tanks, one between duly hot, the flangen of each frame side member taking the place of the

Bump.

are

The driver, sitting in the centre section, is protected by a very small windscreen raked backwarda at a The engine has to be mounted sharp angle, and his line of sight with the greatest care, provision lies along a black line painted on being made against the torque the top of the body and extending reaction due to something like 930 to what amounts to a foresight in h.p. Round the engine the car as front. In addition, an enlarged a whole is built, the body conformi- version of the Aldis ring backsight. ing to the shaps set by the groups may be used, in the hope that It of cylinders. Just behind the will give the driver, subconsciously power unit

the B.TH. as it were, a better sense of direc- magnetos, and then a Ferodolined tion at very high speed. multi-plate clutch controlled, not by It must be remembered that on the driver through the pedal unald- these record attempts the difficulty ed, but through that type of Dois to mark the course so plainly wandre vacuum servo motor which that no mistake can be "made. la usually applied to brake gear. Even if masts were used for the Astern of the clutch comes a three-purpose, with a white banner speed gear box, unusual because it stretched between them high up, drives not the propeller-shaft but a the masts being 100ft, or so apart, train of spur gears.

the space separating them, through Balanced Shaft Running. which the car must pass, would "The master gear is fixed to the look. Impossibly marrow to" the driven shaft, another gear meshing driver at distanco, Yet it is with it drives one propeller-shaft, almsolutely essential that the and. the other propeller-shaft is passos over the timing wires. driven through an intermediate

The Cockpit, gear, so that the shafta run in Since the blast of air through opposite directions and, as it were, the bonnet would make it quito im balance each other. Each shaft is possible for the driver to see, and an enormous tube, and has two, might carry stinging particles of Hardy-Spicer universal joints, and sand into his face, the forward end each drives a bevel and crown of the cockpit is closed by a stout wheel, both crown wheels being on bulkhead, and every control or the main rear axle, of which the pedal which works in whole or slot half-elliptic springs, or rather, four in this bulkhead is provided with a quarter-ellipties, are heavily damp leather, gland, making the cockpit, ed by specially designed Hartford us it were, airtight. Air does not shock absorbers of huge sibe. The pass the engine, by the way, as it front axle is also on huff-elliptics, does on a normal car, because the

car

In the attempt every enthusiast in the country will wish Segrave and the car the very best of luck, for it is safe to say that no record as ever attracted such world-wide interest as this, and Segrave was the first man to raise the record gurea to 200 m.pl To those who, out of sheer sportsmanship and with no hope of return, provid- ed the money for the car, and to those manufacturers who assisted willingly in its construction, the thanks of all sportsmen are due.

A mighty tough test of Goodrich Silvertowns

Public buses can show you' the facts about Goodrich Silvertowns. They give- -added mileage, yielding more deliveries from single sets of tires --continuous mileage,freed from trouble, which gets deliveries to customers on time

Goodrich Silvertowns little for rough going and

"Beat in the long Run"

-sturdy mileage, caring

heavy loads,

SOLE AGENTS:

UNIVERSAL MOTOR & SUPPLY CO.

22, Queen's Road, Central,

'Phone 0, 4915.

Áll sorts of Automotive Accessories also in stock.

Goodyears

for Rough Going

GOODYEA

If your van or lorry operations include any stretches of rough going, you cannot have better tyres on your vehicles than Goodyear Pnonmalio Tyres,“

They are big, buoyant, sturdy, tyres; and they have the invaluable advantage of the All-Weather Tread,

The All-Weather Troad in slipless, powerful, safe. Its thick, deep, sharp- edged blocks out through mud, snow," slime or sludge to solid footing. The wheels get traction, and the full power of your good engine is applied to the road.-

Fit with the pneumatic tyres that master the road-Goodyear Pneumatic Tyres.

GOOD YEAR

DISTRIBUTORS

ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd.

PRINCE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.