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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1930.

BRITISH MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY.

Outstanding Personalities: Past and Present.

phrase indicating the highest de- gree

of efficiency, value and all-round performance.

That British motor cars should with which he has been associated finish first, second, third and to the world's vocabulary as fourth in the recent 24-hours race at Le Mans is a matter upon which the British Motor Industry has every reason to feel satisfied, for to cover 1,819 miles in 24 con- secutive hours, at an average speed of over 76 miles an hour, means not only brilliant and suc- cossful driving but a degree of design and workmanship in producing cars of standard pat tern which it is almost impossible to surpass

The former has unfortunately paid the supreme tribute In suc- ceeding in adding another notable triumph to British engineering, and the British Motor Industry is poorer by his loss.

Major Sir Henry Segrave was born in 1896 and after being educated at Eton and Sandhurst, served in the Great War, being It is perhaps fitting at such a wounded three times and men. time to remember two of the out- tioned in despatches. It was not con-until 1920 that he made his first standing personalities in nexion with the British Motor acquaintance with a racing car in Industry who have helped to a Great Britain, at Brooklands, but considerable extent In placing he quickly showed his skill as a British motor prestige in the pilot and rapidly added many suc- His position in which it stands to-day, cesses to his initial victory. Of these two, one has demonstrat driving, both in Great Britain and ed what British design, construc- on tho Continent soon became an tion and workmanship can outstanding feature, and when in accomplish when in the hands of 1925 he won, for the second time, a fearless and intrepid driver, the Grand Prix de Provence and while the other has succeeded in the 200-mile race, he succeeded in of the product speed trials at Boulogne in adding the name

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such events on the road, by cover

ing four miles at an average speed

of 110.146 mph on a 12-cylinder Fisk Tyre Production.

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The culminating stage of a wonderful racing career was in STRIKING FACTS. 1927, when at the wheel of the 1,000 h.p. Sunbeam he made his Four and one quarter million mark on the scroll of fame as the miles of high grade cord, or first man to travel at more than enough to encircle the globe one 200 m.p.h. on land When the hundred and seventy times at the World's speed record was subse- equator is produced annually in the. quently wrested from Capt. Fisk Tyre. Fabric Company to Malcolm Campbell he again step supply the cord necessary for the at All-Cord Process used in manu- ped into the breach and Daytona on March 11th, 1929, hefacturing Fisk Tyres, according to placed the record firmly in the some enquiring person in the Fisk hands of Great Britain by driving factory who is evidently a hound It was stated by hia Napier-Lion engined "Golden for figures. Arrow" at a speed of 231.36 m.p.h. M. E. Large, Manager of the Duro

Sir Henry had turned his atten- Garage, Fisk Tyre Dealers: tion to Motor Boat racing and it Fisk Cord totals 22,405,090,908 "Average yearly production of was his ambition to secure for his fect, or stated in terms of miles, country the world's speed record it amounts to 4,243,407 miles, on water, and it was in the full enough for a boy to fly a kite ment of this that he met with the eighteen times as high as the tragic accident that robbed Great moon, if such, a thing were pos- Britain of one of its most gallant sible."

BODS.

Few men have done so much to establish and maintain British pre-eminence in motor engineering as Sir Frederick Royce, one of the three new Baronets in the recent Birthday Honours. For as founder, director and Chief En- gineer of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., he has been responsible for the evolution of cars and aero engines that are world-famous.

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"This tremendous amount of cord," continued Mr. Large, "spun from carefully selected long fibre cotton, is used yearly in the famous Fisk All-Cord Process which has been developed by Fisk engineers, and is used in the con- struction of all that company's tyres. In the All-Cord Process, each cord' lies equidistant and in absolute parallel alignment, to its neighbour under equal tension, Indeed, honours are now crowd thoroughly surrounded by an even ing thick and fast

Sir insulation of scientifically com- rubber. No cross Frederick, as only recently the pounded Royal Aeronautical Society pre-threads bind the "cords together, sented him with its medal for the therefore, there is no chafing to weaken the long cords which are most meritorious work of the year the backbone of the tyre carcass. in recognition of his signal ser- Every cord being under equal ten- vices to British aviation in con- sion, and entirely surrounded by nexion with the доп famous

rubber, eliminates undue strain on Supermarine S.6 which won the individual cords, and cord chafing Schneider Trophy on the Solent when the carcass is flexed. The last September.

All-Cord Process eliminates The story of Sir Frederick's internal friction, reduces rolling career is really that of Rolls-resistance and increases gasoline Royce itself. For no man has 89 mileage.

PILOT'S PLIGHT.

Bees Swarm on Aeroplane.

recent During the

United

lived for his work, and few in any walk of life have displayed even a fraction of his enthusiasm and endurance. Indeed so wrapped up was he in his work that he was utterly careless of his health and obvious of proper meal times. Only the devoted attention of his friends prevented him from killing in himself with overwork and,

at fact, on one occasion the doctors States Air Corps exercises

Mather Field, Sacramento, Cal, S. gave him but a month to live.

Mr. Royce was born at Atival-J. Simonton was surprised to find ton, near Peterboro', in 1863. his pursuit plane covered with bees. Owing to the early death of his According to the Air Corps News father he had, while still very Letter, a lower wing tip was black with the insects and curtain of young, to leave school and earn

them hung nearly to the ground. his living as a newsboy. Within As he wished to take of, he found a year, however, his brilliant the presence of the bees & little promise enabled him to get more disconcerting. His commanding schooling. Subsequently he was officer, however, rapidly found a apprenticed to a locomotive works, solution of the difficulty, Taxing When he eventually established his plane up behind Lieut. Simon- A. GOEKE & CO. the firm of Royce, Ltd., it was for ton's and setting, the brakes, he

the manufacture of electrical ap gave the bees the benefit of a 150, 4th Floor,

paratus and it was not until 1903 mile-an-hour wind, blowing them China Building.

that Mr. Royce seriously thought all over Mather Field. of making motor cars. Ho WES already an owner-driver, but in characteristic fashion spent the greater part of the time taking the car to pleces to see how it could be improved.

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Towards the end of 1903 he decided to build three experi- mental two-cylinder. cars of. & nominal 10 h.p. From the very beginning, with those first three cars, he set the standard by which all Rolls-Royce work is judged. "Good enough" had no meaning for him.. Anything which was not perfect was at once rejected. He was never satisfied, but was always aiming at something better.

The first Royce car appeared early in 1904, but it was not until the end of that year that produc- tion began on a commercial scale. The then separate firm of Rolls, Ltd., undertook to handle the

After a flight of about three hours," Lieut. Simonton landed and taxied his plane into its park ing space. There on the ground was the whole swarm of bees. Within a few seconds they had at- tached themselves to the plane. After a caucus had been held, it was decided to send for a bee ex- pert who removed a queen.

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