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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931.

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The New

PRIVATE "CROCK" MUSEUM.

AIR RACES TO THE EAST.

Deciding New Machines for the R.A.F.

SECRET TESTS OF HIGH-SPEED PLANES.

Extensive plans for the com-light of different types of flying- Iplete overhauling of the Royal Air|bonta has been essayed.

Force's machines are in course of The four flying-boata are:

rompletion.

A Saunders-Roc

Secret tests of several new types attod

are being made by the Air Minis

try to find successor to certain

flying-boat, with three Jupiter "g" engines.

acroplanes which-although only A Blackburn Sydney, with three two or three years old-are now Rolls-Royce "F" type engines; out of date.

A Vickers Supermarine South- Long-distance flights Lo the amption Mark 10, with three East, to be carried out in the New Jaguar "6" engines; and Year, have been arranged as final]

A Short Singapore II., with tests.

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four engines of the Rolls-Royce

The preliminary examinations "P" type.

have narrowed down the number

of possible successors to the

The Blackburn Sydney is a new.

famous "Southampton" flying-boat departure for the Air Force, being

to four, and in March next the monoplane;

rivals will take part in a competi- blplanes.

tive voyage to Basra (Irak).

the other aro

Two points which are being

This will be the first time, especially studied in connexion incidentally, that a long-distance with the machines are thefr range of dying and their capacity for maintenance by their crews with-

Another "prehistorie" car in Got-

In

travel muddy or sandy roads without the need for a repairing base. ut the least interference. and The Saunders-Rue, it is known, with perfect ease,”

can remain in the air for more than 14 hours, which is double tenburg's collection of relics is machine at present in use.

the time of the "Southampton" Brush, one which cut quite a swath practically every way, indeed, the early in this century. Its onerew machines have so far shown block has been frozen, immense improvements aver their cylinder cracked and weltied. Yet, with little coaxing, it can be made to predecessors, and it is intended that they shall be employed much run.

in the same way na is the cruiser It is one of the first curs to adopt arm of the Navy. the left-hand drive. One of Its fen- tures

"uxles Was

sturdy hickory."

of

How He Got the Craze.

"I was snooping around a barn

Another machine which is being carefully Losted is the Shortt Cal- cutta Army aeroplane, for troop carrying. A flight of these, it is understood, is also to set out early in the New Year for BASTR.

The flights will be manned by Experimental

Maynard L. Gottenburg of Silverton, Ore. (inset), and two of his relics-the old Schacht Auto-Runabout, at top, and one of the first Maxwell. Silverton. Ore., Dec. 00.-While has not had an up-to-date license ather men have such hobbies as pinte."

"“Runabout" of Early Days. collecting stamps, coins, jewels

One of the oldest cars Gotten and other Interesting things, May- aard L. Gottenburg oceuplés hisburg has in his collection in an oid spare time collecting old auto-Schacht Auto-Runnabout. It shows the first transition between the |mobiles.

In his yard here he has built sev-huggy and the automobile, Its only feral garages which house curs of distinction from a buggy in appear Gottenburg explains how he be

the vintage of 1995 and thereabouts,ance is the lack of a shaft and gan collecting old cars.

After considerable Ptspec- In these garages Gottenburg spends horse. much of his time keeping histion, a motor of the in-cylinder modela,

is found hidden under the are n-type most of which known to the present generation, in rear seat. condition. A few of the models will This was probably the first car looking for a stick to stir some pilots from the

to have a rumble seat, although it paint when I spied an old car," he Station at Felixstowe,

-It is expected_that by the end "Pour a little gasoline in their was not a luxurious as those of says, "It was in an empty stall

I made alof 1931 the R.A.F. will be far and tanka und, with some priming. Loday. It was a real rumble seat, party covered with hay. you'll have the lot wheezing along having the rumble of the motor di-close examination. There was some away the finest equipped force in like the laboured breathing of a rectly underneath it. It consisted thing about that old car that took the world, for tests of fighting and high-speed machines are being group of asthmatica." Gottburg of a cushion on the cover of the my fancy.

"I thought how nice it would be carried out in the same way. Isaya. "They don't seem to know wooden box that enclosed the motor [when they've travelled enough. and a tall-gate on which to rest the to have that old car. I sought out "A Maxwell in my collection hus feet. Yet, such a seat was a luxury, the farmer owning it and bought travelled about 283,000 miles and and $26 extra was charged for it. the car for a few dollars.

The first speed law in the The motor was cranked from the that time I have been adding to my United States is thought to be that still has all of its original part. It

collection.

passed by the Boston board of se- was one of the first 5000 Haxwells rear--like twisting a mule's tail. bail, and this is the first year it

What Performance!

"I'm not buying them for resale. fectmen in 1767, limiting traffle to think they'll be mighty interest- foot-pace on Sundays. It for enflection describes the ear.

ing to the generation of the next bade "coaches, sleighs, chairs and "Our car has 17 inches road clear. 60 or 100 years. When I die I'mother caringes" being driven at a fance, which will permit it to travel going to leave then to my two faster speed than n slow walk, anywhere an ordinary buggy will daughters, but with the restriction since Lu do so would interfere go," the pamphlet reads. "It will that they cannot be sold."

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