1932-01-16 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG

THE 1932 MORRIS RANGE.

Many New Features: Attractive Models.

provided

TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932.

New Starting Device. foot for the starter pedal or search-

SIMPLE MOTORING. this key and the engine begins to run without further ado. It has eliminated that fumbling with the

ing for the button on the dashboard. Ita Inventors claim that this new MERELY TURN KEY. automatic engine starting systems A new motif ta given to thetraveller's Maloon (singic-plece

ls also a safety device, as it is a whole Morris 1932 programme by [seat), and a silding hend coupe or By the "Morning Post" Mutoring protection ngainst the engine a handsomely re-designed radiator, sports coupe (adjustable bucket- Correspondent.

"stalling" in traffic or on dan- hromium finished on all models, type front seats),

A new device which eliminates gerous hills. Six-cylinder models are

Morris Major Six.

the engine starter pedal or push Actually the device is a small with automatic radiator shutters,

The sturdy chassis frame of the button is the latest method of metal box about three inches square also chromium finished. All saloon new "Major" in low and down-Rimplifying motor-car driving. Iind two inches deep carried under and

coupe bodies have a stream-swept, yet with improved clearance, was privileged recently to be one the bonnet attached to the dash- Hined or "Eddyfree' front, which is the track has been increased to 62 of the first English motorists to board. not only smart in appearance, but Inches, and a new wide body gives drive a car so fitted that the engine Motoring is, Indeed, becoming a also, by facilitating air flow over ample room for five adults. A started up automatically by simply very simple matter with turning a the roof, adds appreciably to silent, four-speext year-box with "twin-turning the ignition key.

key to start the engine, with auto- speedy, and economical running.

недга renders engine per- In the past the driver han al-matic controlled clutches, and self- 8.p. Morris Minor,

formance even more flexible, while ways had to turn such a key to changing gear boxea, now provid- The side-valve engine introduced instant check in provided by the switch on the electrical current ed on the new season's motor car- in February last and now standard power hydraulic brakes.

from the battery to the sparking ringes. Nothing is left for throughout the "Minor" range, re- This surprising value in light plugs. With the new electrient driver to do but to steer and put main unaltered for 1932, and is "sixes" is offered in the shape of Startix device, one amply turns on the brakes. absolutely identical na regards & tourer, a fixed or sliding bend cylinder block and pistons with a saloon (single piece front seats), car which has achieved over 100 and a four-seater sliding hend m.p.h. and 100 m.p.g. under Royal coupe or sports compt (adjustable Automobilo Clubs supervision. bucket-type front sonts).

Four models are offered--a two- weater, a tourer, a fixed head saloon, and a sliding hend

"Family Fun

This entirely new model has been introduced for the benefit of these

Morris-Oxford Six.

The six-cylinder Morris-Oxford| falsi ponsesser a new low frame with improved stearance, and with its streamlined body, chromium fuisbed

radiator. shutters and

welcoming all the economy of a low born, Ayres, tel

LAST YEAR'S OLYMPIA,

The Motor Transport Exhibitions in

Great Britain.

RAILWAY

TRANSPORT DECLINING.

the

wire wheels, Hix engine rating yet in need of rather window

attractive more space than is afforded by the range of duotone finishes, presents "Minor." The Murrie "Family an air of undeniable distinction. Eight" saloon represents a genuine The new gear-box is for the four- four-seater, four-door body on a speed "twin-ta variety, gear With the close of the year owed the improvement and expan 91in. wheelbase.

with

stidiig head, changing Fading

made remarkably interest he again centred in Olym- sion of its communciations. tail- winding windows, and adjustable easy by means 12 26 119-25

fargepia, and this year possibly more ways were constructed under the bucket-type Trent seats The 8 hp. Single-plate clutch. The track in en than ever before, for the Motor direction of the British Railway Kamina under every climate its 156 inebes, and the wide body must | Exhibition and the Commercial Engineer, Locomotives, rails, rall

overhend-valve unit ban

and only uphol-tered.

condition. Riding comfort is as. Three dels are listed, all with sured by deep upholstery and bag she heads spiere frant semiclliptic speigs, while hydrau sent saloon, ant ar adjustable the brakes and a rear petel tank, bucket-type front seat four-senter are other noteworthy features. A rompe or sports coupe, chromium Anished radiator with

-Elle

guards, a streamlined front and Magna wire wheels combine to make this a pleasantly conspicuous

mall car.

A "Family Eight" Pursenter sports coupe with sliding hend is ale listed.

The Morris-t'awley,

Morris Isis Six.

Motor Transport Exhibition which ing stock, were all produced in the allowed coincided with a period of workshops of Great Britain, and item and supar el continued to all quarters of the difliculty, shared by every country: in the world.

The age of railway transport has Indeed, this state of world trade, declined, but economic and rapid crupled with the political situation transport is even inore essential The wheelbare at the lais Sis at tome, gave rise to very serious to the prosperity of industry, in- has been increased to 120 inches consuleration as to the wisdom of dividual, and nation than it ever frack fiti fncheste its radiator continuing with the arrangements was, and it is to the road vehicle

the

annual Mator Car that the world now turns to provide

mercial Motor Transport Exhibi-

struction is vital to world

proTM tion at Olympia this Autumn, but sperity, and the role played by the it was felt that it was the duty of Railway expert of last century has

deepened, and its sonnet lines con- for hulitink the biennial Com-jits requirements, Highway

siderably lengthened. The well-Exhibition, known overhond-qalve engine has been fitted with fotorepord ("Twin-top" gear-box, and the frame

is downswept aut deep-sectioned. the Motor Industry to spere no How to

to be adopted by the Highway Two sliding head models are effort to keep the wheels of trade Engincer and the Vehicle Manu- offered a singh piece front seating, and that this could beat|facturer.

The 1932 Morris-Cowley is an old friend in utterly new guise. The wonderfully reliable four-cylinder ngine now fitted with air filter and prehenter has been retained, tack in conjunction with a new J. wide body on a new low downwent frame, affording at the same time improved clearance.

doon and an adjustable bucket-he assisted by proceeding with the The products manufactureti in type Frant sent four-seater sports Exhibition arrangementa,

Great Britain must, by all pray- Olympia has become, in a very 'tical nations. be exchanged for the real sense, the motor market of the, raw

Morris Light Transport,

Two types of tradesmen's VR world, and the international charne material and foodstuffs

Bre offered for 19832 the Morris owl. Van and the Morris Light heall Vin, the latter accommodating a head | Colt load of 8 ext

Six models are offered is two seater. a fixed or sliding utet1, five-door fixed

VALUABLE AID.

re-

quired for the population at home. The fature development of the

ter of the Exhibitions organised by the Society of Motor Manu mpire and the world will demand facturers and Traders., Ltd., has her asingly it variety of me- proved of grent value to the British chanically propelled road vehicles Motor Industry, affording. as it for general utility purposes, whilst does, an opportunity of which transportation cost constitutes an it is worth enumerating the

British Manufacturers are glad to important items in the price of the tests which this tatul apparatus avail themselves, for displaying Anished product, whether it be for will carry out. It will indicate and their range of vehicles alongside home consumption or for export. Invention of an Elec-then locate faults in the wirings those of their compethiers in all In all these respects the motor

it trical Fault Finder. provides a ready means of dorat- the producing countries of the vehicle is destined to play an even

ing faults in the lamps, horns or work,

mare important part than hitherto, ather accessories at the car; it The Exhibitions this year have; for it provides a flexibility of move- will act as an besluten tester, fren held at time when the net and a servies of individua! readily tracing earths in wiring or British Motor Industry is, perhaps, transportation that in a com- any electrical components on th There has long been nerd of a

of the important exporting parathaiy

short

time. Cat. it will carry omplete yet simple testing out tests of dynamos on the car: it be the prevailing world traded, and in some

out complete industries of the world least affect- which will dent with the many

Įsuperseded, older forms. Alusive from din car lestrical provides an actual load for testing depression. and when it has within The direction in which motor The output, both amperes and volts, itsoff the determination and the transport can best prove its value of the dynamo on the car: it will means of cupping, with a return to the future prosperity of the act as it self-contained switchboard to more normal conditions, a posi- world opens up an interesting, if for testing the dy man with thetion of growing importance in the difficult, problem (some notes as-

world.

sociated with this problem accom-

SIMPLE OUTFIT.

101

equipment. This need is tart a far greater extent that has ever ixen inox possible with the troduction of the Newton Portable Car Wiring and Dynamn Tester.

one

ing or in the switchboard to be The world position is

supple- directions

| bittery, enabling Fauhs in the wir-motor markets of the unlike, pany this Bulletin), but there is no This apparatus is capable if in. traced; it provides a ready means that which followed upon the longdoubt that in the field of modern dicating anc actually locating of faults on car wiring, whatever thing the actual wiring, even when its recovery may again be brought gors and goods the factories of

identifying terminals and trac-period of the Napoleonic wars, and; and economite transport of pasuen voltage of the system, and whether the eirenit is unknown and the about largely by British initiative Great Britain are inspired by the. its circuit be known or unknown. polarity marks have been worn off. So carefully has the outfit boen Finally, it will trace wrong

and enterprise. Then it was to the spirit of initiative, enterprise, and con-British Railway Engineer that it courage. designed that the circuit tracer Inexions in the circuit. marries lights which not only surve

to trace the circuit on the car. It will thus be seen that a trader making it unnecessary to refer to who purchases one of these testers the tent set itself, bai these lights of Newton of Taunton does more also serve na an illumination when that provide his staff with useful working in awkward places.

apparatus. He introduces a new A special feature of the equip system under which his men will ment fa the number of tests which learn more of the underlying prin- may be made without interfering ciples of automobile electricity than with the nettial wiring of the they would learn from many text vehicle, and, in no case is it neces- books. This is an important feu- Kary to dismantle !! component ture of the Newton Tester--it from the car. The tenter is ab-points out the fault and suggests solutely self-contained.

the theory underlying the test.

A. D. THE

SWEDISH TRADING CO.,

China Building,

HONG KONG.

SKF

Service

The extensie range of 8.K.F. bearings onvers the majori

of types and alsee most usually

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of private es, bussm, and com-

mercial vehicles. The bearings

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MYSTERY CAR IN BERLIN.

Around a Berlin race-track whirled this "mystery car" at more than 80. miles an hour, And there wasn't a drop of gasolino nor any other fuel in iti · Inventor Erich Graichen, seen here in the cockpit, wouldn't divulge the secret of the car's operation, but admitted that it is based on an electro- pneumatic principia. The power is obtained from a pealed

cast two feat in diameter. -

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Alt new series Studebakers have Free Wheeling with one gear change lever-engineered as on integral part of the chassle.

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

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The Hong Kong ♬ Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

(Incorporated in Hongkong)

STUDEBAKER

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THE NEW 6 CYLINDER :

FIAT

HAS ARRIVED and is sellING AT A REMARKABLY

LOW PRICE.

Most brilliant on hills and in acceleration thanks to generous engine power and limited weight,

...Hydraulic brakes

...Silent third

...Speed over 62 miles per hour

...Low slung frame

...New body lines

Each car equipped as follows without extra charge-Wire wheels-two spare wheels and tyrea-leather upholstery-safety glass-special lights on mudguarda-stoplight, driving mirror and windscreen wiper.

ARRANGE

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A. GOEKE & Co.

For Service:

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