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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

NOW IS MOTORING TIME! The light clear-air cool-the going dry

NOW IS THE TIME TO PURCHASE

YOUR

MORRIS

MORRIS owners are woll looked aftor

in Hongkong. There are service. stations at 376, Lockhart Road and 737, Nathan Road, Kowloon, where spare parts and bo technical advice and assistanco may obtained.....

Come and sea the Morris modola at our Ice House Strect showroom, or telephono 28021 for a demonstration.

Liboral discounts for cash salos; ̧

no interest charged on instalment-plan payments.

N Hongkong now, ready for the road, are IN

stocks of Morris Minor saloons, Cowloy two seaters, saloon and coupes. Major tourers and Isis saloons and special coupes- all available at usual prices. . . When you buy a Morris you get a car manufactured In England by a company 100 per cent. British. And it doesn't cost any more to buy British! What with the fine weather wo are enjoying-and the Imperial Preference tax operating in our favour- NOW is certainly, Morris Motoring Time!

BUY YOUR

MORRIS now!

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

A.P.3. 18.

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. 56762.

TRUST A THONYCROFT WITH YOUR TransPORT

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1932,

MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

Special Report to the Hongkong Telegraph By "R. A. C.”

TAX CARS BY WEIGHT.

Case for Private Motorists.

By Chiller

In the "Nowa-Chronicle" Coming as it did in the midst of

the Conference on road and

rall

exemplified by the records of The Value of Racing

Aeveral voteran Triumphs. A Among other motor

racing Birmingham man of Ingenious events, the Ulster T. T. has been turn of mind, for instance, is attacked in a certain section of using a 20-year vid engine for During the Press as waste of time and working a circular anw.

the last few months alone, this monoy, and one criile stated that has provided the motive power for the holiday season, the report of the lessons learned are of no cutting up some 60 tons of transport and its possibilities "re- value to the vast majority of tremely hard wood, without agarding the use of the private car motorists. "It te significant," single breakdown.

has been largely lost sight of by continued this critic, 'that firms

In another case, a Yorkshiroman average car owners. Ike, Rolls-Royco maintain their

has rigged up Бл old Triumph Since its publication, there has supremacy without ever being re-motor cycle combination with an grown a bellef that the recom

concerning presented on the track. In pre-apparatus for sharpening lawn mendations-though War days, however, Rolls-Royce mowers at people's doors. The commercial vehicles only-will af-

competed in regularly

motor power for the grinding is provid-fect private cars, and it is curious races, and, besides having beened by the engine, which still does how parsistent is this belief, for the equivalent of 1,000 miles a there is nothing to substantiate it. closly identified with the world's week, grinding and road work, speed record on water, are still although of ancient date. directly interested in air racing. "The experience gained in these attempts, states Mr. A. F. Sid- greaves, Managing Director of Rolls-Royce Ltd., "has taught more in a few months than would have been learned with ordinary aircraft in 10 years".

Among the "Commercials"

The Road and Rail Report held that the only fair principle in motor taxation is to distribute the annual cost to roads according to a just In the goods vehicle field an estimate of the uso enjoyed by the interest is that for a fleet of Ley-the wear and tear caused by them. and Beavers for the Irak Petro-No privato car user can and fault luum Co. for the transport of with that. Our complaint is that supplies on this collossal pipe- the "just estimate" has been for- Inying scheme.

gotten in relation to privato cars by every succeeding Chancellor.

Overseas order of particular various categories of motors and

£60,000,000 Burden The Conference had before them three taxation proposals, and de- based equally on ten milenge and on petrol consumption. It is rash to think, as some fow undoubtedly do, that this may be translated into law in the Finance Act of next year with respect to cars, and it is equally rash to assert, as some are doing, that because the Conference

there will be no. change in private car taxation for several years.

Firestone

We'll keep

Your Old BATTERY

Going LONGER

Many batteries lose morę of their life through neglect than because of hard us Save yourself money and Ins convenience. We'll see that your battery is fully charged) clamped down firmly, cons nections tight and water at proper level at all timón, Drive in.

Longer Life-

WITH

Firestone

BATTERIES»

Batteries - Brakų Livin

THE DRAGON MOTOR

CAR CO., LTD.

Two 6-cylinder Beaver models Mr. Ceell Kimber, of the M. G. have recently been introduced, Co., holds almilar viewa andrated to carry a gross load of 120 claims that the uccess achieved ewis. The engine is nominally by the British light car through-138.4 h.p. and develops 66 b.b.p. atcided on a system of allocation out the world can be attributed to 1,000 r.p.m.; a Still tube type records obtained on the track, radiator is fitted on both the normal and alde type, as well as What South Afrien Is Buying

on the 4-cylinder models. The light car movement is gain-

Leyland Motors, by the way, are ing considerable ground in South to build the chassis and bodies of Africa. At first, drivers. un the 14 double deck trolley buses doubtedly turned to small British recently ordered for Llanelly. cars because they were cheaper to The whole of the electrical equip-fixed £60,000,000 as the burden to buy and to run-not because they ment will be of G.E.C. manufac-be carried jointly by all motore, liked them. Now, however, num-ture. bers of motorists in the Union

In the Ransomes 4-wheel trolley have discovered the charm and

I do not think the average user wonderful capabilities of these busca supplied to the Tees-side amall but willing engines. It is Railless Traction Board; the brak of a car cares twopence whether be significant, for instance, that ing system is of special interest. pays a tax on the weight of a car, Hillman topped the list of all There are two sets of shoe fitted the bore of its cylinders, its tyres ito fuel, is lubricating oil or any- British cars sold in the Transvaal for each driving wheel, both sets thing else connected with it. All during August, for the Minx has being arranged to function within. he cares about is the total he pays already attained a high place in ne common drum. Foot oporat-for car ownership, and he wants a the affections of South African ed air pressure brakes, having reduction. The Government could separate operating pistons for scrap the horse-power tax and the each wheel, act on both front and petrol duty and put one on radiatore New Season's Programmes ToAr wheels. An Independent and, if that meant a sensible rodac- hand brako operates on the secondtion of the total amount of taxation, Nowadays, the opening of the set of shoes in the rear wheel only. It would be welcomed. Olympia Motor Show does not incorporated in this system is the usually reveal any great surprises, Ransome-Garrett patont cam- If there should be a change from as it is becoming more and more gear, in which, when the air the present car tax aystem by the general rule for new season's brake is in operation, both sets of horse power and patrol duty, a com- first of any month to the end of any programmes to be announced

shoes in each rear wheel are bination of weight and fuel.con-month? One reason I have soca Any time from July onwards. effective, but when the hand brake sumption offers the best solution given is the difficulty of a form Alrendy this year the 1983 pro-is applied only one set of shoes in Further, there would not be any and shape of licence. Surely grammes of the Standard, Morris, each wheel is in operation. menace to the British small bore, new shape and form could be do- Austin, Triumph, Riley and

high efficiency engined cars with a signed for monthly licences which Singer concerns have been made

fine measure of economy, which would indicate at a glance whether public.

while they may be not too suitable a driver was running a car with au for overseas are exceptionally out-of-date licence!

motorists.

at

Mobile Workshops

33, Wong Nel Chung Road. THE ASIATIC AMERICAN COMPANY,

70, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.

And at Canton and Wuchow.

Further, I cannot ace any great difficulty. In making licences valid from any date to any date. It is done with driving licences; why not with car licences?

NEW AUBURN

A large order for special It is already clear that next vehicles resulting from the pro-suitable for the home roads. year's models represent reallygressive electrification of Britain in has recently been executed by

Monthly Licences extraordinary value, not only comfort and efficiency, but in the Scammell Lorries for the New- remarkably complete and practical castle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply What makes it. "not practicable" order consisted of to lasuo licences available from the equipment which is now included Co. This

several mobile workshops, in the specifications.

4 h apecial machinery transporters As for the now Singer pre- and two cross-country type-rigid

the Junior has dia-6-wheelers. gramme; appenred, its place being taken by the Nine. In addition, there is a The workshops are for use on Twelve 4-cylinder, a Fourteen, factory sites, collieries etc. where Two-tre and Kays Don, the laat alterations In connexion with the three boing 6-cylinder models. electricity scheme necessitate the Not only has the power output of workshop being taken to the job. the engine in each case boen The machinery transportera con- materially increased by the use of sist of two with a useful load of a special combustian head, but the 25 tons and two of 10 tons. Both now models embody features have a very low loading line and which definitely make for lower have made possible the convey. running and maintenance costs. ance from works to site of heavy single pieces of machinery, which A new design of engine suspen-previously had to be dismantled alon known as the Vibro-damper or

transportation, and con- has been evolved; there is a new sequently were often manufactur- clutch of the single plate flexibly ed in sections. The resulting centred type, and what is known reduction. in manufacturing, no a "perm-mesh" 4-speed gear-labour and transport costs is box, in which the second and third

once apparent. ratios ure silent.

Singera, by the way, are well represented at the Copenhagen Indian banks in Calcutta now Exhibition, as vigorous efforts employ motor transport almost аге being made to develop entirely for the conveyance of European as well as Empire bullion from the head offices to markets.

their branches. The Imperial Bank of India, for instance, em- Showing Oversens

ploys a 80/85 cwt. Albion, which

The past year or 80

has seen posacraes a number of special

To protect the wind-: features. very considerable progress acbiov- ed in the export of British-made acreen from brickbata or other petrol pumpa and the opportunity missiles, wire netting is fitted in front of it; expanded metal afforded by the British Exhibition

Carrying Cash

at

at Copenhagen has been taken by guards are attached to the wide the Hammond Pump & Equipment doors of the driver's cab and those Co., whose works are at Acton, to have flaps to enable the driver to are signal, Armed guards show a range of their productă.

carried at the rear of the van in Some indication of the scope of a compartment, the doors of which this concern's export trade can be are made of expanded metal. gathered from the fact that the

This is the first bullion van in last few months have seen pumps and various plant leave the works Calcutta which has had the guards a somewhat for auch destinatione as India, 50 protected, but

Iceland, imilar vehicle is run by the East China, Japan, Egypt, Ecuador, Greece, and the Phil-Indian Railway for conveying cash ippine Islands, to montien but a between the banks, the Currency Office and the various offices of the railway.

few.

It is highly satisfactory to re- cord this development in an industry which up to a short time ago was regarded as the closu preserve of foreign manufactur

ora.

Versatile Engines

NOT NEAR CAPACITY

The United States and Canada have a capacity to produce 8,000,- 000 motor vehicles annually, it is

The many uses to which a motor cycle engine may be put are well said.

STRAIGHT EIGHTS

DUAL RATIO

Dual Ratio, exclusive with" Auburn, and special equipment in all Custom Models gives you the equivalent of two cars in one: the hills a most efficient hill climber; on the straight-away a smoother, quieter performance at high speeds with less wear On the and tear on the motor and running parts. boulavard or in the country with your car moving 20 to 60 M.P.H., tum the Dual Ratio lever on the Instrument panel from Low Ratlo to High Ratio and while your car continues at the same speed the motor speed drops down one-third of its former speed. Less vibration, quieter, and more economical.

ASIATIC MOTOR CAR CO.

SHOW-ROOM.

445, Hennessy Road.

Tel, 27452.