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HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL MOTORING, SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932.

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CAMOUFLAGING MOTORCARS.

General Trend of Bodies on 1932 Models As Seen at Olympia.

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farther back thân was formerly thought possible.

Clover Designs for Seating, Rear Passengers.

FAIR MOTORISTS,

British Woman Creates World's Record. The supreme place which

a chasala British women occupy in motor

Wells Bunk on each side of the propeller shaft 'is another folder method of providing A favourite puzzle in children's of the 1932

for four people on books is a drawing of a street with radiators!.

have false originally conceived for a car racing was again demonstrat

Feator. Qa now examples this is ed some weeks ago, when Mrs. tapering lines in which are placed three men. The reader in "asked To all appearances, there is the done so cleverly that the seating Gwenda Stewart broke the world's which is the tallest, and immediate usinl type of honeycomb, suitably for the rear passengers la really record for 200 kilometros with an ly plumps for the one farthest surrounded by an ornamental chro- quite comfortable.

average speed of 121.75 m.p.h. She was driving a two-litre Derby away, only to discover

ralum-plated shell in which upon

A popular fenture this year is Miller motor-car. nicaaurement the amazing fact that central dividing. strip must be the rear petrol tank. Not so long me this récord she also broke the While break-

the

4

pur-

included to be in the fashion. all three figures are identical in height. The latest form of this This honeycomb, however, merely it was quite common to find world's 100-mile record for this

serves a more or lexa

imitation tanks which were usually class with an average speed of useful optical illusion is embodied in a

m.p.h. and the hour record, Ferodo puzzle, writes Fingermark, pose as a stone guard, for the employed as receptacles for tools. 121.64

nctual radiator with its header There are still some examples.

covering 121.73 milca. to the "Motor."

Mrs. tank is placed behind it. In some On at least one car there is a Stewart has held 28 world's ne of the deceptive effect of lines, cases there is also a dummy met dummy filer pipe to match the real motor-racing records. In August

The designers have made good based on this illusion in the 1932 slats of which are immovable.

of plated radiator shutters, the filler pipe at the other end of the 1930, she attained a speed of 189 tank, Why the manufacturers.p.h, the highest ever achieved cars. An example is the long hon- nét. Place two cars side by side, of the radiator, to provide a two fillers I cannot imagine-it

Ry thus dividing the functions could not go the whole hog and fit by a woman motorist, one with an unbroken line from

decorative appearance and to cool would often be convenient to all the radiutor to the windscreen mount the water the cost is actually tank at either end. ing, and the other with a division reduced, while the efficiency of the between the bounet and the scuttle cooling system is not impaired and the cars being otherwise identical. Only those in the know would ap-he actuni cove is protected from preciato that both curs arc of

others who them would say that the car with

On some cura one will find that ver, do not open! This is almost | Barily to drive at such a low the long bonnet was at least a foot has been faired with a neut guard, prising gentleman greater in length-and they would sometimes with horizontal stata,

So now you the object, of course, being to con be wrong, of course. Imow why the bonnet is often made evni the dumbirons. If, however,

one looks a little more closely i Lo enclose the scule.

wil be discovered that there are no đumbirona to conceal!

damage.

A form of camouflage that has been popular for many years, and still seen on a number of bodies,

A new law passed by the Wost Virginia The practice of finishing off the makea Alow driving illegal. The (U.S.A.) Legislature

now law says: "It shall be un- rear of the car with a suitcase con-ma tainer has actually led to the provi- lawful for any person unneces sion of built-in trunks, which, how,

of an economic and reasonable movement

except whore reduced cum of mind who used a Guinnea intel as a substitute for his rond tion, or because upon a grade, or

le necessary for safe opera dicenes!

when the vehicle Is truck or... truck and trailer, necessarily or in compliance with the law, pro ceeding at a reduced speed.”

The aluminium cover to enclose overhead valve gear, may be found in examination to be an air cleaner stuffed with horsehair of steel

havingat

"Faking the Speeds” on -

Speedometerk

I think the average motorist likes being "had" in this way. There is n subtle joy in owning a ear that looks fast and powerful, with a long tapering bonnet dis guising the "baby" car engineer is the dummy hood-irons, or landau encloses. Speedy-looking cars are farms which give to an ordinary becoming increasingly popular, and saloon the appearance of land- now that they are often provided aulet type of body with a folding We seem to live in an age of de- with engines capable of propelling rear quarter. Actually, thesc ception, for the practice of fitting them at over 60 m.p.h., their rakish hoodirons are purely ornamental, fast

Hpredemetors B growing lines are not altogether unjustified, It was not always no, however. Old motorists will recull the 8 h.p. Jackson, which appeared to be powerful racing car-until one ft er a huge bonnet nud discovered a single-cylinder engine tucked away in the cavernous space disclosed.

Hold Horizontal Lines Make for Bigger Bodies,

In designing the bodywork, boki horizontal lines will make a ear look much bigger than it is Getting rid of the valance, some- times by concealing it under the doors, is another modern camou

Jage. The effect is to give a very w appearance to the car withou n any way sucrificing headroom or reducing the ground clearance.

This year the fashion of making things look different from wha *hny

or has been extensively adopted in radiator design. Many

and in apite of the hinge in the pace, even cara of the most reput- centre of them they will not foldable makes being Atted with Many people like them because speedometers to indicate a speed of they break up what is sometimes 70 miles an hour before even the plain and unintereating design of 60 points has been touched! This

ear quarter.

Common Desire to Possess Distinctive-Looking Cars,

HOTTER Sparks BETTER Lighting-

with

Never was there such a period their previous performances and, Firestone

has the corresponding advantage. if the milometer is equally "fast" of enabling claimants to high average speeds to Improve upon when the deire to own distinctive perhaps, to write letters of ap Inreciation to the manufacturers on ooking cars was no strong as the the petrol economy of their cars.

resent. Hence, next year we shall| ze a further development of the I do not suppose that I have sports body, both in closed and touched upon all the little · decep. pen form. Only a year or twellona which those with keen eyes go there was a very small sale for will detect, nor do I Imagine that porta cara. To-day, this in one of we have reached the end of the the most popular types, sometimes ingenuity of the manufacturers, with sloping radiator (often shall expect to see more forms of :amouflage), long bonnet, low body camouflage. One I can suggest appearance and pointed tail with straight awny-an additional vele-type wingą, gans running dummy are wheel to balance the boards. There is an expensive na genuine one. In these days

of yell as a distinctive look about long tyre life there is less need he modern sports car which belies than a few years ago to carry more he moderate price and modest than one apare wheel, but you all ower available: Further, to give know the sense of superiority con the Bentley touch, dummy knock-veyed by the possession of two on hub caps, a la Rurgo-Whitworth,

ire often seen on wheels which are It really looks as if you intend t ecured by studs in the conven- over a vast milenge, while the ad ional manner!

ation of a G. B. plate (I shal see this standardized Another popular tendency is to except to nount what appears to be a really soon!) will proclaim to all the ir body on a very small chassis, world that you are probably taking riving the appearance of an impart in the Monte Carlo Rally

no intention boxing-looking car, although it has when you have

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a very modest (ax. Our taxation driving farther than from Londor

ystem to responsible for this to Margate.-FINGERMARK.

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