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The Motor Cycle Trial.

1929 THE MOTOR INDUSTRY'S

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GREAT YEAR.

More Eights.

Ford's Return: Record Production:

[Special to the Hongkong Telegraph by Israel Klofn.] [

It was most gratifying to the organisers of this week's Motor:

Outstanding among the Cycle Trinks to receive such a complishments of 1929 in the large number of entries, and it is automotive industry are the fol-

lowing: to be hoped that other motor: veling events will be arranged in he future. As this Supplement went to press on the eve of the zvent, comment in witheld until next week...

H.K.A.A. Badges,

1. Return of Henry Ford to leadership in the industry.

uc-fcompression head, with its result-1thanks to the use of new and ant increase in efficiency and lighter, though even stronger, steel economy, came as a logical sue- and other metals and their com cessor to the final vindication of pounds in these cars. anti-knock compound as a safe and Thus the weight per horsepower effective means of avoiding detona- has been considerably reduced, tion in the combustion chambers, until to-day automobiles weigh as Practically all cara aro now low ax 37 pounds to the home- designed for use of such compound power, or other high test gas in their Of equal importance to the engi- high compression motors.

ncoring progress in motordom is Equally as important an accom-the practical side of the industry's

2. Record breaking production of 5,600,000 automobiles.

3. Record export of 1,000,000 automobiles.

4. Introduction of more new eights, so that the number of eight- The Hongkong Association has cylinder automobiles in the market received another shipment of bad-in the US. for the first time ges, and it is hoped that all mem-exceeds the number of sixeK. hers who do not display the em-f 5. Increase in the number of blem, will secure one. from the cars having four-speed transmis-

stone. Hon. Secretary, Marning Post Building.

The Latest Nuisance,

Prompt action by the Sussex

| police recently resulted in the detention of a number of London men who were charged with steal- ing radiator caps from parked cars. Apparently one of them was ob

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meat of two old- timers.

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7. Production plishment us these features in the

of eights in the 1929 automobile, has been the as less than $1,000 cendancy of the eight-cylinder price class.

development-the mergers that have been arranged, the increased production and export of cars, and

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engine. At the beginning of 1925, the expansion into other fields, BUY A CAR FOR

8. Beginning thore were 22 eights and 30 sixes. of an upward Now there are 29 eights and 29

such as aviation and radio,

trend in automo- sixes, and with the opening of the Of the mergers of 1929, purely in tive prices:

New York auto show on January the automotive industry, the out-

9. Introduction 4, the automotive world will be in-standing one was that. between

| and it is rather to be regretted that | motiye mergers.

the offender received only a Ben- 11. Entry of General Motors into tence of a month's imprisonment, fields of aviation and radio:

one

whd immediately went and taxed him with the theft, whereupon he handed the cap back to her. The fact that one of the apprehended men was found to be the ringleader of the gung seems to indicate of the front drive passenger car.troduced to at least four additional Chrysler and Dodge. This effect- organised activity in this direction, 10. Completion of more auto-cights, while at least two of the ed a combination of a $258,000,000

29 existing sixes will have gone firm with

whose asnets to their final reward.

amounted to $174,000,000, making Most striking among the new a $432,000,000 combination and the eights of 1029 were the Viking and third largest passenger

car firm two of his associates being bound Although other nutomotive the Roosevelt, the former for its in the industry. It also makes over, and others discharged. leaders would be loathe to admit Introduction of the costly and com- possible a combined annual produc-

When a member of a very large it, the return of Henry Ford toplex V-type motor in the medium tion of 3,000,000 automobiles. gang of thieves transacting busi-leadership in the Industry with his price field, the latter for its injec- neas with a stock-in-trade of other new Model A car has more radition of so large a car into the $1000 people's spare wheels was sentenced cally influenced the entire bus-price class. With the coming of in twelve months' imprisonmentness both commercially and in an the new eights lately, the detective officer in engineering way than any other this year, there charge of the case explained to the event in automotive history. This will be another bench that the modus, operandi of effect did not confine itself to V-type motor in the gang was to lodge the various Ford's immediata competitors, but the former field, stolen articles in railway cloakroma seems to have been widespread and another until there was a sufficient accumu- over the industry, for it in general-straight eight In lation to be collected in a vehicle.ly conceded that what. Ford does the latter. They were then distributed to re-finmediately concerns the rest of

·ceivers in different parts of London, the manufacturera,

A Feathered, Pedestrian.

The eights. also included

completed purchase of the Pierce- In the same year, Studebaker Arrow Motor Car Company, form ing a firm with $153,000,000 com- bined asset, while Hupmobile com- pleted purchase of the entire Chandler plant and name, combin- ing the assets of both firms to a value of $185,000,000,

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By far the greatest expansion in the, automotive Industry in 1929 has been that General Motors Into aviation and radio. Last year, General Motors bought a 25 per cent. Interest in. the newly formed Bendix Aviation Corpora- tion and a 40 per cent. share in the Fokker Aircraft Company. What this firm will do with all this is only to be surmised, but the belief is prevalent that soon General Motors will break forth sa

It win Ford's production of two new front- 1,500,000 automobiles in 1929 that drive automo- Whilst acting as a traffic control helped most decidedly to make that biles, the Cord at Magdalen Bridge, Oxford, re- the record year. It was Ford's in and the Ruxton, rently, an RA.C. guide was sud- troduction of the more powerful, while

third, denly confronted by a swan, which larger and better built small car in the Garnder, is expected for the had flown up from the river and 1028 that caused other manufac-first time at the New York show. was apparently making its way turers to bring out still better cars Viking, Roosevelt, Cord and Rux- into the town. The guide scized for the money in 1929. Again, it ton are four of the seven new the bird and dropped it back over was Ford's resolution to keep the automotive names Introduced in the parapet into the river before price of his car down, despite ita 1929. The other three are Stutz's an aircraft as well as an automo- it could interfere with the traffic or great improvement over the old Blackhawk, both Bix and eight, tive manufacturer. suffer any injury. Needless to Model T, that set the same trend selling for slightly over $2600; add, this service was carried out in the rest of the industry. under considerable protest from the swan.

Buick's Marquette, a six in the To fortify this belief is the fact Thus, reacting for the benefit of $1000 price field, and the Windsor that General Motors also bought the motorist, automobiles never and Windsor White Prince, the out the Allison Engineering Com- have been as low in cost and as former a six selling for about pany of Indiana, where Diesel mo- Lord Mayor's Procession,

high in value as they have the last $3000 and the latter an eight for tors have been experimented with In the 1929 procession of the year. Not a single automobile but slightly more.

for aviation. General Motors. Lord Mayor of London the latest has had some radical development The Windsor group of autos suc- also in the last year bought up the methods of transport were display- in ita production in 1929 to make ceeds the old Moon, one of the two North East Electrical Company of ed. The leaders of the transport it a much better product, at gen- names that have been abandoned. Rochester, N. Y makers of igni- section were Captain Campbell's erally lower cost, than its prede. The other decendent is the Chand-tion Instruments and parts, for Blue Bird, and Sir Henry Segrave's ceasor.

ler, which Hupmobile bought up.

$13,000,000. speed boat Mise: England, mounted Most singular of all these depansion of automotive engineering into actual participation in Euro- The new year will see the ex- General Motors also spread out on a lorry.

velopments, despite the lowering of into the luxurious, custom-built pean manufacturing with the pur-

Then followed one of the lates products of the motor cycling world 1930 Ariel motor cycle and sidecar with chromium plated ittings, followed by a good dis- play of "old crocks" including a ricam motor cycle which crented much amusement.

HIDING HOARDINGS.

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chase of the Adam Opel works, largest automotive manufacturers in Germany. And the same organ- ization has entered radio with acquisition of the Day-Fan Electric Company of Dayton, O.

In addition to these accomplish- ments, there is the world auto- motive #peod record made by Sir Henry Segrave of England to record for the year. Last March he drove his high- powered Golden

price, has been the increased use, 16-cylinder automobile, introduced of the four-speed transmission, for the first time by Cadillac, Is} Avenues of Trees.

and next to that has been the wide-an effort to give to those people spread adoption of the high com- who demand and can afford it an The State of Illinois (U.S.A.) [pression cylinder head.

automobile of much greater com has had enough of billboards and

fort and freedom from noise and tyesores. along the roads, and has At the beginning of the year vibration than even the best of started a scheme. to hide them. there were only six four-speed the eights can afford. Luxury and This calls for the planting of care for sale, divided ovenly among exclusiveness are its watchwords, trous and shrubs at all unsightly sixes and eights. To-day there are and of course the persons owning Arrow at Daytona Beach, Fla., at places...

14. Besides these, there were some it will pay for these in proportion, a speed of 281.86 miles an hour The Department of Public among the high priced automobiles

over a mile course, t Works is undertaking the work that brought out the allent mesh Throughout the entire array. of

To be remembered for 1929, also, and Inbour Is supplled by gear shift which enables a driver improvements of the year, one ca- is the effort of various itinerant State Institutions. Trees and to awing from third to second, just sential feature stands out the engineers to introduce a small car shrubs are, provided by. State as he would from the highest to effort to increase power, without so far without success. Not in nurseries, and will bo pro

next highest gear in the four-speed sacrificing economy. High comhis category, however, la Austin tected until they attain good jobs. It is an improvement that pression cylinder heads have made of England, which may be expec N, B. MOSES & CO., LTD the cost of the beautifestion what it really is me

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