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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931.

TRUST A THORNYCROFT With Your TransPORT

DEAL : DIRECT.

THORNYCROFT

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MOTOR VEHICLES

Pionier Manufacturers of Commercial Motor Vehicles

4 or 6 Wheels

4 or 6 Cylinders

30 Cwt. to 10 Ton Loads

20 to 70 Passengers

JOHN I. THORNYCROFT & CO., LIMITED

Pioneer Building, Nathan Road, Kowloon. TEL. 56752.

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MEN

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MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

[Special Report to the Hongkong Telegraph by R.A.C.]

· Stream-Lining..

Washing Simplified.

The subject of stream-lining has Then there is the matter of cur for long been a favourite tople of washing and this, too, has been discussion among motor enthusiasts vnatly simplified by the latest in many countries and when the equipment. Take, for example, the unconventional Burney car made its Universal Minor car wnahing plant appearance last year, a fresh fillip introduced by Newtons of Taunton was given to the matter In England, and intended for the emall garags Just lately, a leading bodywork or private owner. This consists of designer has made some interesting a 14 h.p. inotor with "built-in remarks, which are worth careful pump, complote with flexible cable, consideration. Mr. Stanley Riley, hose and Newton-Tripos gun. This who is responsible for the chassis equipment consumes less than and body design of the '9 h.p. car kw. per hour and yet ensures per- bearing his name, believes that so feet washing without the risk of A solid far as the ordinary motorist in damage to bodywork. concerned, the only merit of stream-water Jet enables wheels, wings and lining is found in its appear chassis to be cleaned quickly and ance. Ilo maintain's that it thoroughly, while a soft spray or can be of no practical value mint clean the bodywork. until Go per cunt. of our cruising speeds exceed 70 m.p.h. Up to this speed, according to Mr. Itley, the ideal theoretical shape Ltd. received an order from an Some time ago, Scammell Lorries varles with every mile per hour Edinburgh firm of brewers for one and attempts at stream-lining of their articulated frameless tank whilst they may be attractive, are wagons for the conveyance of valuciess.

He contends that for normal road use the most practical beer, the capacity of the tank being shape is a smooth-sided square or

gallons. Scammells were the 2.000 pioneer manufacturers of road oblong with, of course, as small tanks for the bulk conveyance of all

frontal aren as possible.

Organisation.

Liquids in Bulk.

classes of liquid in large quantities. and have supplied tankers of 2-3,000 nilon capacity for carrying milk. The Importance of being pre-beer, accids, tar petrol, molaanea pared when a new model is brought mud ruchlike. In the case of cor- out was well exemplified in the caserosive fluids, special linings for of the new Hillman Wizard. On the tanks are provided. the day the car was publicly an-

MIDGET, BUT IT WORKS.

This tiny automobile, shown with its owner and designer, L. F. Angevine, of Toledy, O., is modelled after an up-to-date speed- way racer, and was three and a half years in the making. It weighs only 15 pounds, has a complete elchi-cylinder motor, four-speed trasmission, four-wheel brakes, crankshaft, pistons and rods, eam shafts and valves, clutch, differential, universat Joint, magneto, battery and other parts which are all workable. Inset is closeup of the engine of the car.

rents; reur quartor reading lamps, atractivo amoking sols with removable cigar lighter, tufted broadcloth or mohair up holstery and massive, single- bar bumpers are additional ten. tares of fine ear appeal.

nounced, models were on view in The construction of these arti-j denters' showrooma throughout the culated vehicles Gables the tank NEW NASH MODELS.mally rich interior appoint- country and over 400 cars left the unit to be uncoupled easily from the Coventry factory during the pre- tractor of motive unit, leaving this ecting day. So henry has been the free to operate with an alternative A List of Outstanding crop of orders that it has been carrier. Thus, in the case of the necessary to start over 600 men tu brewers referred to, a carrier with cope with them and there is suffia platform body has been ordered cient work in hand to keep the and this will be used for such factory working continuously for work as cask transport. weeks.

Showing the World.

Still Greater Loads.

The largest And Intest of the Thornycroft

range of freight

terest.

Features.

STRAIGHT EIGHTS.

Nash announces four new luxurious series of motor cars to- Tunition. day.

groups

to

Replacing the four motor car groupe which won world-wide ap- proval for Nash through such Some interesting orders have!

and mechanical advantages, ns Twin- been placed recently. Colonel 1. P.

win de Villiers, Commissioner of Police

Carburetion, aine seven-bearing crankshafts, at Pretorin, has one m order. vehicles is the 102 h.p. 6-cylinder Synchro-Safely-Shift transmisht reciprocating parts, 'auto- while another is destined for 6-wheeler for 12-ton loads. This

matic chassis lubrication systems gears, Athens, for Captain I. E. Holland, was the biggest individual exhibit, with spiral accond

Bound engineering R.N. it may be remembered, ton of the British motor industry at which make second speed operand other

tlon

features, the new Nash as silent as high that Lord Willingdon took a touring the recent Buenos Aires Exhibition. | travel

speed and completely, Round-retain these individual superiori- model to India with him.

where it created considerable in-proof insulated bodies and chasala, ties and add quiet operation

a direct result of the new Nash their proved attributes. methods "engineering for During a recent test run through

Ta the existiur execllence of the Naturally, the cars which distin- the notoriously hilly districts of silence"-lead the host of me-powerful, 110-horsepower Nash advance Twin-ignition Eight, the nei 300 chanical and comfort Kulshed personages use Overseas attract a great deal of attention and Dorset and Devon, this huge vehiclements, which combine to establish brings the refinement of the possess a considerable propaganda with its load negotiated successfully value for the makes concerned. The the climb out of Lyme Rigis by the new standards of Juxurious mator-transmission, which silences power

old road, which is well known to ing without price increases in the few m

an unusual degree and new Viceroy, for instance

after

new models. motorists in the West of England.

affords a new conception of driv- using Sanbeums

a great deal in Despite the difficulties of the road

All four of the new Nash groups ease. Also, live rubber is Canada, has placed an order for a 25 h.. model with a specially built with its hairpin bends and 1 in 5-designated as the 090, 980, 976 used at every possible point to Lody which will be shipped to India. 19 tons completed the climb with-transmission with its Synchro duty hydraulic shock absorbers; Kardient, the Thornycroft scaling and 900 Series--feature the Safety absorb road shocks and cushion every driving action. Now, heavy- out a bitch..

Astan over-size 4-wheel braking this system with 16-inch brake drums,

and and

to

condult

cablo-and- newly refined

operation; finest cam-and- steering; nine-bearing, inte-

counterweighted

at all; aluminum alloy pistons

His successor in Canada, Lerd

Shift principle and spiral, con- Bessborough has a 25 h.p. Sunbeam

stantly meshed second gears. with a 7-seater Imousine body

An impressive test held by applied to all of the care, among his fleet,

"Modern Transport" Intely proved Supbeams are, of course, no conclusively the advantages of the advanced unit is a signal contri- slagle anchor shoe adjustment strangers to Canada; indeed, there optional front wheel drive as embution to smooth, noiseless is a 1913 model still in active use ployed in the Hardy Monarch, the effortless shifting of gears and which has covered, over 250.000 joint production of Hardy Mutors postive driving, control

It combines the synchro- and the A.F.C. In the course of miles. --

grating of gear teeth in shifting, tish Enibary. Madrid, has taken was tackled. Its condition was so

ไมเ his Humber Snipe back with him for a wheeled vehicle was the crown driver the vital advantage of car cooling system and other Nash that the only possible track with helically cut second speed force feed lubrication to piston

paars. In

the pins and cylinder walls-refined addition, it gives which he purchased through Ruotes of two ridges, separated by gulleys control at all times by naine the mechanical features distinguish Ltd. when on leave in London, while over a foot deep. As the driver braking power of motor compres the great 900 chassis. other gew

Humber owners are Sir

Spruceeded, he found it impossiblesion in traffle emergencies, од Clive Vigram, Private Secretary to

New standarda to keep all four wheels on the ridge slippers streets and steep down-travel in the 980 series are set by 11.M. the King: Commander R, Gand gradually Campbell, Equerry to the Duke of wheels slithered into

The Military Attoche at the Bri- the test an old disused chalk lane shift.principle, which, obviates the rods the latter rifle bored for full

car grades.

one of the .rcar the gulley,

of luxurious

the new Safety transmission; twi

ailence"

force

with

York and Sir Malcolm Robertson, which, with sormal transmission Other essentials of driving carburetion which advances the who was lately British Ambassador would have brought the test to an luxury in all of the new Nash motor's power to 94 horse-power: to Argentina

abrupt conclusion. In the case of cars include the complete inaula-bodies and chassis "engineered for this vehicle, however, the front tion of the new bodies against en and anch proven me-

28 full wheels could be seen biting firmly rumbling, squeaks, heat, cold and chanical features

engine lubrication nn oll into the chalk and, inch by inch, dust and the sound-proofing of the rear wheels regained the ridge. chassis with live rubber insula temperature regulator to keep the

tion and cushioning.

engine lubricant constantly at its The outstanding feature of Hardy

highest efficiency point; aluminum Interior metal panels of the alloy stons and connexion roda; vehicles, which are provided with eight forward speeds, is that they Nash Ladies are covered with a noiseless, permanently lubricated drive on all wheels when road con- new, odorless chemical solution to springs and heavy-duty hydraulic

Service as It Should Be Modern methods of service for the motorist have, at their best, reached such a high degree of use- fulness that every owner should know something of the means by which his car be kept in the most efficient running order.

Operating Overseas.

A

At Shaw & Kilburn's Super Ser-ditions are such that any of the Kurd it permanently against absorbers, and a motor aflencer vice Station in London, for instance, four lower gears have to be en-tropic rot and the attacks of and air cleaner, crankcase bree

Kaged, the front wheel drive being treatment effectively dendens road tect the engine.

weather. This insulation and ther and gasoline filter to pro- there is a machine over which a automatically disconnected when customer can drive his car and the gear change lever is engaging hum and vibration, guards pas- obtain an instant reading of the any of the four high gears,

And cold

The lower priced 970 series has Hengers against both heat. of the brakes on retarding power

and preserves, the

for alan been engineered for silence coachwork each of the wheels; another machine

throughout and includes the new and satisfactory service. Safety Transmission and long

other records the alignment of the front

new beauty of interior appoint. The popularity of the two A.E.C. wheels and detect faults in the

ment and of body lines mark all superior Nush mechanical fea-

which are

The designed tures.

now steering; then there is a rotary lift Ranger single-deck buses, operated or th

transmisalon

•сать, which raises the car several feet by the Montreal Tramways Co. of with attractive now V-type fronts with its quiet operation, helps to from the ground where each point Canada, has been obvious from the to accent their speed and low 960 Series. The big, roomy establish new peaks of value in and the is easily accessible and grease in Arst day they were placed in service.

charm. In both bodies HWORK The element of

engineers upplied to the working parts at a

have bodies and chassis are thoroughly the appearance on pressure of 3,000 lbs, per sq. inch.ed their frot novelty that attend-chassis Nash

achieved a silence and convenience insulated against sound in the streets has полу

And they

aive straight eight models. mobile ride. to visitors from Overseas by reason are retaining their place in the which provide a new kind of auto-same manner as the more.expon

affections of the travelling public of their various schemes for those because of their peculiarly Indivi-

All possible chabala points of The presentation of these throe who wish to use a car during their dual standards of smoothness when motal-to-motul contact are separat-new straight-eight proups and the stay in England.

accelerating, when running ated by a type of insulation best 900 series constitutes a fresh and The hydraulic cor lift and turn- | speed and when slowing down.

suited to the 'purpose. Spring powerful stimulant to the auto-

kangers table, manufactured by Tangyes |

mobile Lid, of Birmingham, is an up- The bodies give accommodation thoroughly insulated by large, time when renewed confidence, and pllance for the garage or service for 28-souted passengers and, for highly compressed and practically fundamental business building station which saves much time and heating purposes, a metal grid ex-indestructible live-rubber bush

official

The firm is, of course, well known

labour. By Its means cars can be i tends down the centre of the gang-ings, This rubber constructiontally needed, in the

motor car

opinion of

The

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is experienced Nash Motors run

on quite easily, lifted without way following the line of the ex-used on both front and rear They believe the new ears will add riak of damage and rotated, so that haust pipe.

springs of the 960 and 970 models materially to public,

• dear great advancou cleaning and grensing become qulto:

and on the rear springs of the 980 During the past few weeks the simple matters.

United Africa Co. Ltd., have placed and 990 cars, whose self-adjusting care represent. they declare, The runway track will take all

front spring shackles finest materials by automatic chassis lubrication. of

of the new neonomic age, and sara from the smallest to the largest model Albions, the Metropolitan

mbullt qualities matched to the saloon and the working load of the Supply Co. -A Turther repeat order In all of the models wheels are most rigid standard run is 3 tons. It is interesting to for a similar number, while a no- newly designed, with enlarged They are known to be no recall that it was as far back as table name, among now users is chromium-and-enamel plated hub built that their ability to stand 1886 that James Tangye invented Mr. Stewart, Public Works Contrac caph Attractive new hardward up and deliver satisfactory, service, the hydraulic jack which has since tor of Johannesburg, who purchased been developed until- to-day there the 30 wt. Albion chassis, which are types, capable of lifting 600 was displayed at the recent Johan tona.

nesburg Motor Show.

nowandards of

of chaste design; artistic instru: over a long period of time, is as mont panels with white lettering remarkabin as their attractive new. on dark backgrounds; three-spoke, lines and, unusually ! good. per... eloar vision.... steering wheels; farmance...