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MOTORING

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY 24th DECEMBER, 1932.-

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2 OR 4 WHEELS?

thing, the wind playing a melody of apech over cars and checks, that make the motor-cyclist think of change only when the blood is

Rivalry of the "Baby running cold with the years.

Car,"

It happens annually before car show, and this year is unlike others.

Then there the question of experst. It is bury từ chinh thật is four-wheelers will come down to not motor-cycle prices, but they never will. Initial cost will always be motor-cyclist who turna to greater. On top of that the wheels finds running costs im- four

Trefer to the rumour that we are going to have a shoal of cars

of five or six horse-power at measurably greater. It is not price comparable with that of the motor-cycle, and that motor-only a matter of fuel consumption, cycles will die.

but Insurance, garage, tax, re- many ways, are not equal to that pairs, and reliability, which, in so of the two-wheeler.

I may be wrong, but I do not think the motor cycle will over dic, nor do I think that the baby car will ever strongly appeal to the young people who motor-cycle.

Running Costs

The car no matter how "nip-on rellability, but experience has Some may question this remark py" it may be--is a lifeless, slow taught many a sad lesson through thing to the motor-eyclist. He feels confined by the mass around

the pocket.

him and restricted to the high-your small-car friends who have Timt is not all. Compare, with ways. With the motor-cycle 3 rider is part and parcel of his been on a tour, the prices charged 2nount with car he feels he is for refreshment food and accom- Just the man stearing. The aport have been very careful in their modation. Unless the friends thrill is what he misses.

selection of atopping places they will tell you that they had to pay travelling with those extra two jan appreciable amount more for

wheels,

For and Against

It is still necessary on a foul day for a rider to wear special clothing, but the motor-cyclist pinces against this the hundreds of fine days and evenings in aum mer and winter when the fast, exhilarating spin, a ride without a destination in view, is the main thing.

It la daya and evenings such as these, with the fuel tap turned up, the maching going like a living

+ * +

Thore may come a time when cars of small horse-power will be nearly as cheap as motor-cycles, but the only competitor mechani- cally that I can foresee killing the motor-cycle is a light acroplane at a cheap initial coat, and that la, not likely to happen for a long. time yet.

BRITISH CAR ORDERS FROM HOME AND OVERSEAS.

Striking Figures...

EXAMPLE OF RHODESIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

Three reports which we publish

British Cars' Great Lead.

Bulawayo. cars are booming In result of that

to-day writes a motoring corres- pondent to a Home paper, showi British that the British motor-car is Rhodesia, ne

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making great headway overseas, country's departure from the gold

achieved.

re-

SPEEDERS

WORK OUT FINE.

Youthful speeders in Piedmont, Calif., are on the de- cline. The reason is that they are serving their fines at the business end a pick and shovel, and behind a heavily lond ed wheel-barrow, Loath to imprison the youths after they repeatedly told of inability to pay flnes due to the lack of employment, officials have sentenced them to week-end labour.

Above you see a Police Official directing the toil of three speeders.

BUYING BOOM.

taking with it fumea esenped from the sump.

Following Motor Show improvement in steering. Hero

at Olympia.

FACTORIES BUSY.

A remarkable revival in buying has resulted from Olympia Motor Show.

I would have liked to see greater

again it is in the Wolseley, Morris and M.G. cars that a good depar- ture has taken place. The new M.G. Magnette--the 80 mph. car has a split track rod which gives greater stability and belter corner- caring than the single one-piece track thell rod.

A number of accessory factories are so flooded with orders that they have been forced to work 24 hours a day, and this will continue for six or eight weeks.

Some firms are turning "sets" for cara a week. car makers have had to production to the peak figures of last March.

Austin Tan.

I give 4. good mark to .tld: Triumph for leading the way among small cara by fitting per- manent jacks, readily dropped into position..

Anti-Dazzle.

As regards dazzle, one of the out 7,500 neatest antis" Was on

a Rolls, Several The screen is of double glass, and increase

nonth space between is filled or emptied | by turning a knob on the dash the

at will with a blue fluid varied in intensity.

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The motor show at Olympia has standard. resulted in large orders baing Not a single American car has placed by buyers at home and been sold in Sallebury in the last abroad; from Rhodesia comes three months. news of the growing demand for During the period September to British cars; and to-day a record December of last year, the first consigament le leaving Londoa three monthe following the. for New Zealand.

Colony's adoption of sterling In the floating power method of Some general estimate may now currency, the number of cars mounting engines-practically In the economy class the saloons be made of the resulta of the Imported from the United Kingdom standard now the now 10 h.p. which attracted me for good looks Motor Show which has been was 91, valued at £1,681; from Citroen has an unusually large and layout were the Austin Ten, running for six days at Olympia, from Canada 82, valued at £9,868; amount of free movement and the Citroen Ten, Lanchester Ton, and there can be no doubt that from the Union 67, valued at car runs at all speeds and londa Morris Ten, Riley Nine and notablo successes have been £9,454, and from the United States without vibration being felt. Other Twelve, and the Wolseley Twelve advanced cars in this way are the (Hornet), Outstanding in the A tour of the stands yesterday (69, valued at £8,524. gave still further evidence of the January to August of this year,

During the eight months from Hillman Minx, Singer Nine and bigger classes were the Daimler farge numbers of orders that have however, the figures show a

Fifteen, the new Morris 25-h.p.. been secured from buyera both at markable change.

The Austin Twelve aix-cylinder Singer 18-h.p., Sunbeam 16 and 20. home and abroad.. And there are

is unique in having the engine .p. (with synchromesh easy gear signs that something resembling a In this period 148 cars were im- auspended from the frame instead change system), and the Vauxhall "sprint" is to take place to-day, exted to the Colony from the of resting on it (to be taken out-it-17-h.p., also with a synchromesh TRADE OPTIMISM WORTH £500,000... to-morrow, and on Saturday.

United Kingdom, representing a has to he lowered, not raised) and slem..

Testing the "Tens." Despite the horse-power tax, value of £25,119, while 26 were the results are so good that it which often acts a severe bought from Canada for £4,032; 28 foreshadows big changes.

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I have been on a short teat in Motor Firm Planning for Coming Prosperity. handicap, British manufacturers from the Union for £3,701, and 27

A fault in many ears has been most of the "Tens." They have footing abroad from the United States for £4,748. cylinder and valve seat warping, engines with a reserve of power have obtained

At Jenat one British Industry is and Russia, not to mention India, and the merits of their cata are. All British for New Zealand

from tho doldruma of Australia and Now Zealand, whore mainly caused by storm pockets greater than most people would free being more widely recognised. A record consignment of 208 forming in the cooling system, think possible, with passenger depression. Many firins In, the Bedford trucks and. Vauxhall cars Big Increase in Balea, Britiali motor-car leaves London Progress has been made here in space, travel comfort, and road motor trade report good business have already established a very At the stands where cara, of to-day in the Rangitane, which is making the single outlet of large qualities so high that selection be- and most happy of all comes the secure place in these markets. high, horse power aro on sale, I[carrying Mr. Downoy Stewart,

It is indeed heartening nows that heard that actual buying, as apart leader of the New Zealand delet diameter, and, in other cars, incomes merely a matter of personal news from the ono old established

fitting a branched type water tastes.

concorn-Vauxhall Motors Ltd, demand from home and oversers from inquiries, had shown large tion to Ottaws, to his home manifold. Wolsaloy cars, from Further, although these cars which is confident of good times markets has exceeded the produs. increase on last year.

tion facilities of the Vauxha!! the 12 .p. Hornet up the scale, for the most part-ars below £200 ahead.

In price nothing essential is Their confidence is based upon works and, bo it noted, the demand pressed by one manufacturo at tho Albert Dock, the Ruahino is load. are outstanding in value, road permitted from thoir equipment, prosent business in the home mar is not due to dny sudden rush;

formance and looks.

Possibly the most remarkable ket and overseas, and so assured Vauxhall cars and Bedford trucks The Hornet now has standard range of family saloons Hes be are they that business la definitely have for a long time been building hardened cylinder Haers, thus on tweon the £250 and £300 marks; as on the upgrade that they are ex-up a steady proference for them- suring that the cylinder bores are examples, the Morrin-Oxford and pending half-a-million pounds on selves wherever they have been practically unwengablo. ̧

the Singer two-litre de luxe models erecting now buildings and Install- introduced and, representatives of offer more for the money than caning now plant. The work has al- the firm in nearly all parts of the Cooling Control.

be found in foreign rivals.

ready commencod and the Vaux- world to which those vehicles are

country.

In the homo market the view ox- Alongside the Rangitane at the

show, that the easy gear-phangosling another 70 British cars for would tap Jargo now market, has South Island, New Zealand, and bion found correct.

thousands of bales of British The car-buying public has been paper for use in packing next increased by those easy chango sousun'a New Zealand apples for geará at one stroke and the effects ¦ England.

are beginning to be clearly notice: "Exports to New Zealand have [able..

increased 50 per cent. In the past. There is not yet agreement In cars priced between $300 and hall factory at Luton, now pro-oxported, report that insistent de- Another thing that has helped four months by our steamers," among makers regarding ther: $400, I think we have the world ducing Vauxhall cars and Bedford mand is growing for British made in the foreign markets is the bald an official of the New Zealand mostats to control cooling water heater way impressed by the trucks, is being made capable of vehicles. willingness of British manu- Shipping Liao, British cars are temperature-though it is to be 26. Morris-the largest he greatly increased output. Em- The urgency of the building ex- facturers to adapt their products driving American cars off the found in the Austin Twelve six- produced by the Cowley work and ployment will be created for some tensions is evidenced by the fact for local conditions.

road. Last October the Rangitane cylinder

the Riley-but and The Singer Company, for ex-would have loaded 3,000 tons of thermostats will be standard bo- taxation, will be a popular pur trucks per month are sent over are working under a heavy penalty one which, despite the burden of hundreds of additional employees, that the work has been entrusted Approximately 1,000 cars and to several contractors, all of whom ample, fits left-hand drive to cars an

general cargo. To-morrow she fore long. The same may be chaso in Britain. For export to countries whore thosalla with 4,500 tons, including a said of air cleaners and carbara.

seas from the Vauxhall factory to should they, be-bahind" ndhedule, rale of the road is "keep to the large amount of. British argfcul- tion, In this respect the Morris right." In many similar details tural machinery. Our farm in Ten is a good example, with air money-value modela aro

Two others which are genuine points so widely apart as Africa, but will gain a substantial bonus Jamaica, China, Portugal, Tri-if they are before stipulated time, there has bean 'greater willingness plements are replacing the drawn into the carburettor passing Wolseley 10. and the Wolseley. 21. uidad," Canary Islands, Scandina-The work is being carried on zialitä to meat the customer's demands. -1 American ones.""

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