1936-12-30 — Page 10

DESIGN

HASTENS SLOWLY

R

out

EVOLUTION in design is bad for the motor industry-that point came during an informal "free for all" dis- cussion on the car of the future this work during the Scottish Motor Show, Motor manu- facturers, journalists, a couple of racing motorists in the persons of Kaye Don and Norman Black, and @ Low "ordinary" motorists, pro- pounded their views.

It seems that there will always bo a car of the future. We are no -nonrer finality in design than wa

were 40 years ago.

The car of the future, as at pro- sent conceived, will have a stream- lined body-really streamlined; the engine will be a "Diesci " and It will be at the rear of the chasals; springing will be independent on all four wheels, and gear-changing will be entirely automatic.

But we must hasten slowly_to- warda this ideal-so the manufac- turera say. And the reason la you. They point out, and with truth, that the publie would not buy the ideal car oven if it wore produced to-day. Advancement must be gradual, for the motorist is a conservative creature, and while he will admire and taik about unorthodox cars, he will not buy them.

** You remember the rear- engined, streamlined Burney car-the King had one- the rear-engined Crossley—" cars of the futuro " that did not " caich on." The orthodox Chrysler models wore far more populer than the "Airflow." That really modern- looking car. the streamlined. front-wheel-drive Cord, attracts only the select few,

Manufacturers said, ai this chat wo had, that it was as bad to be in front of Umes na it was to be belilnd.

But progress is being made. Gently they are leading motorists away from the Iden that a car should have a little box in front and a big one behind. Streamlining is being introduced in small doses.

Manufacturers are busy already on models for the 1937 Earl's Court Show. On my way back from Bcotland I looked in at one or two Coventry

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER - 30,

Dozens of ultra modern motor-cars

are weaned by enthusiasts long before their time, but the steady trond of development moves as slowly as the conservative mind of the ordinary buyer.

Thomas H. Wisdom

factories to find the experimental shops very busy studying draught- men's blue-prints.

There are all sorts of rumours --one concerns a really small car. Further than that I cannot say.

No, our present "car of the future" will be here in four or Ave years' time. And by then we shall be arguing about another " car of the future.”

*

F change in motor de- sign is gradual, change

in road design and construction is Blower still, despite "Five Year" plans, trunk-road schemes and so

an.

In Scotland I went to see the new road bridge across the Firth- o' - Forth - the Kincardine - on- Forth bridge, a really wonderful engineering job that cost £350,000 and is at present the joke of Scots motorists.

They say the bridge is in the wrong place and that the north of

· Scotland will not be opened up until there is a bridge farther south. This wonderful bridge is not only in the wrong place, but the roads to it are winding country Iancal

Motorists going north ignore it and go the old way through Stir- ling. We in Great Britain seem to have a knack of building bridges in the wrong place—take the caso of that, recently built across the Thames at Lambeth. It is little used because it does not open up a

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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16

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ACROSS

1 One of a foreign Royal family who would be a toy peer here. 5 Desires and goes almost mad if

he loses his head.

9 Appearing in time,

10 Coin of past days

12 Severity that ought not to worry

our Scottish "monster" much.

14 Famous German engraver.

16 An intimation is not this.

18 Active.

10 Oxford Colleges

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26

130

11 Write in this river once here but

you will find it is repeated.

13 To be observed in a panorama, 17 It is extremely annoying, to pul it mildly, when one's enemies take this.

19 Deeply interested though per-

haps drunk.

20 If some great person gives you this, you have nothing to carry away that you did not have before.

22 Vessels that come from Sark.

21 A hoarty sort of headland 23 A round in 19 down,

apparently.

22 O Sally (anog.).

24 This is found in bears but not

In wolves.

27 A constellation.

!t,;

28 Motorists sometimes find tils

stops a skid

31 Motorists sometimes and this.

steals the car..

82 This may shelter an Amorlean

head.

93 Dredgerworking make the

• water this,'*.

34 An old English hero seems to

udvise a parry.

DOWN

·Electrifying announcement of a proud parent in two languages. "

2 A prisoner prefers the judge's sentences to do this.

3 Spirited sort of courage

4. A day of former days is a villain

to-day

from a Royal dune.

** d ́A little song from a

17. Røvere," TURM CONA 222

2/B Kind of feather that sounds like:

Ski mortification, Volta

25. A wine shop.

20 Past,

20 Cut up a bird and get a river.

-- .30 Kind of sword to cut bears up¦

with.

Yesterday's

Solution.

through way. That sort of thing sooms to be going on all the time, Motorists will pay some £400,000,000 in taxes during the naxt five years, yet congestion is so bad in towns and cities that still the retrograde plan of ban- ning private cars from certain streets is being discussed.

-Traffic blocks coat thousands of pourids every day in waste of time and petrol. That is why I like the idea put forward by the Cement and Concrete Association. It sug- gests overhead pavements built of concrete and glass, at first-floor level. Walkers would be safer, roads could be wider, and the cost would not be high.-

Concrete is strong, easy to erect and not very expensive), Overhead roads will have to come-why wait until existing roads become so

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The Steamship,

"CHIENONCEAUX"

(Top) The New Willys is the sensation of the New York Motor Show. It costs 100 dollars less than any other car on the US, market. (Above) This airworthy efort is a Bavarian inventor's ideal.

crowded that congestion is worse. than it is now.

The Scots motorist is lucky- roads in Scotland are good and; outside Glasgow, uncrowded.

Last week-end I made a memor- Able tour. From Glasgow wo made for Aberfoyle, with a brief call at the famous Rob Roy hostelry, the Ballic Nicol Jarvie, then across the Trossachs—a run made moro glorious because the sun came out then on to Lochearnhead for lunch. Afterwards a run in wild, lovely country to Crianlarlch, with snow on the road at the top of the pass, and back to Glasgow by Loch Lamond-side.

Winter motoring is so much more plenzant, Those folk who "lay up" their cars cannot know what they are missing.

Our tour introduced a number of new models to Scots motorists-in our

THE

1936.

convoy were the new " V-8 " Flying Standard, the "V-8" Autovia, and

· the, recently, introduced Flicy touring saloon, three most attractive cars.

OST of the motor manu-

Mracturers attended the

Scottish Show banquet, a real Boots affair, with haggis and pipers and all, at which dour Highlanders expressed themselves as very optimistío for the future of the motor industry.

Captain John Black, head of the highly successful Btandard Company, was there, and told me that scolá motorista would buy some £10,000,000 worth of cars during 1037, about 10 per cont. of the total sold in Great Britain. Caplain Black is the unusual type 'of manufacturer who is an enthusiastla motorist, and drove every one of his new models thousands of miles while they were in the experimental stage.

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