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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

Trust A Thornycroft WITH Your Transport

DEAL DIRECT.

THORNYCROFT

SIX-CYLINDERED

COACHES & OMNIBUSES

MOTOR VEHICLES

Pioneer 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.

TRUST A THORNYCROFT WITH Your Transport

BEAUTY-PERFORMANCE-LEADERSHIP COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE.

Motorists the world over have long looked to Buick for the new and better thing in motor cars. And Buick has repald this confidence year after year. But never quite so drama. tically and decisively as in the 1932 Buicks. Four Brilliant Eights in twenty-six models- Newly-styled, Beautifled bodies by Fisher- The Wizard Control, resulting from the Auto- matic Clutch, Advanced Free Wheeling an Silent Second Syncro-Mesh Transmission---- New Valve-in-Head Straight-Eight Engine- New Ride Regulator-and many important improvements.

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MONTE CARLO

RALLY.

How the Australian

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1932,

DIESEL BUSES.

been further teatod out a three-tonmilca. truck chassis under non-exgino stop conditions.

A striking feature of the test was that the truck ran 10,000 miles without refuelling. Consfilering Remarkable Run.

On the Indianapolis Speedway the weight of the vehicle and the Another record has been achieved the truck was driven 14.425 miles high speed average maintained for by the nix-cylinder Diesel typo in 18 days 20 hours without the close on a fortnight, the achieve- Commins engine in U.S.A. This engine once stopping. The averagement is a romarkabla one, aud a Parikulars to hand of the world's engine, which has a speed record npect was 43.44 m.p.h. Owing to a further indication of the rapid most strenuous motor-car reliability at Daytona of 100.7 m.p.h. and stop to tighten a loose wheel shortly strides being made in the develop

Team Fared.

contest, the international Monte

Carlo rally, only serve to emphasise 86.1 m.p.. for 500 miles in the after the start of the run the non-meut of the heavy oll compression-

race, has now stop vehicle mileage was 13,512 Ignition automobile engine. the severe weather and road condi- last Tadlanspoils tions the contestants had to battle with. Australin was particularly interested in this year's rally on Account of three cars having been driven from Victorin nerona hal the world to take part in the event. The party included four woinen,

This year's contest was marked by heavy snow, ice-bound ronds and tracks, frozen waterways and heavy fogs, and although the adventures In travelling day and night from various outlying parts of Europe to Monto Carlo were in instances hazardous and heart- breaking, a surprisingly large mum- of contestants succeeded in getting through.

ber

The Australian competitors, who sacrificed many valuable points by starting from Palermo (Steily). only 1,110 miles from Monte Carlo, finished as follows:-Miss J. Rich- mond. 17th, with 214.9 points; Mr. P. Morice, 18th, 214.4 points; and Miss Joan Robertson, 19th with 212.7 points.

In the circumstances, and con- sidering that their Dunlop-shod cars had been driven from Mel- bourne, the Australians did exceedingly well to finish only 27 points behind the winner, the shorter route followed alone being responsible for a loss of 19 points.

Miss Joan Robertson (Aus- tralia), who had as co-driver Miss K. Howell, finished fourth in the contest for the Indics' cup.

THE “SHAKE TEST.”

Rough Treatment for Bodies.

ENSURING SILENCE.

Few motorists realise to what extent automobile manufacturers carry out tests and research work, so that their products will stand up to the astresses incidental to present-day motoring.

For instance, the largest motor- car manufacturer in England sub-i mits the various types of bodies made to what is known as a "ahnke test." Periodically, one of the pressed steel bollen is taken at random from the production line, and in its finished state, up- holstered, and fitted with safety glass windows. It is mounted on a chassis frame and conveyed to the "shaker," an instrument capable of imparting 100 earthquake" shocks per minute.

Diagonal corners of the body are fixed solid, and the other. diagouala. are twisted different amounts nt. varying speeds. Thus one corner will be lifted three inches very quickly, and the other four inches more slowly. Bodies are: so tor- tured for 12 hours or more before they are released. One body was submitted to a million shakes and then fitted to a work's changis. Since then it has covered 30,000 miles without semblance of body squeak. Thus is ensured the eilence that is a feature of the madern motorear,

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THE NEW Ó CYLINDER

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...Speed over 62 miles per hour ...Low slung frame

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

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