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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1949.

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NOTICE JOHNNY BULL) WILL SWIM THEG ATLANTIC THERE AND BACK)

TO DAY

WHEELS & WINGS comes today from America

No gears, no clutch-

amazing!

T

it's

By BASIL CARDEW

mental,"

F

the

on the accelerator and car climbed smoothly and quietly up to full speed.

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reverse while it was going forward at 40 miles an hour.

Sir Stafford Devalues His Own Reputation

By W.

THAT was devalued-

W

that Sunviny was

moro than the

pound sterling. It was the reputation of the most respected figure in tho Cabinet; it was public faith In the Integrity of Govern. ment.

Only a couple of months ago in my hearing in the House, Sir Stafford Cripps denied with great emphasis that the Government In- tended to devalue tho pound. Before he went to

Brown, MP

CRIPPS

..by LOW:

So what it comes to is

America It was denied that that we are all to suffer a ho was going there to de- reduction in the standard of value the pound. While he life in order to avoid un- was there it was denied that employment.

ho was devaluing the pound. But the whole argumont Now he has devalued the rests on the assumption pound.

that nothing will push up qur costs as fast as devalua No wonder Sir Stafford tion brings them down. has been sick. Such a Docs Sir Stafford feel any divorco between public pro- certainty about that? fession and privato... inten-7- tion could upset a stronger' Tho signs

stomach than Sir Stafford's.

Since the Government de

As for the effect on the creed wage-freezing in the It stripped the tyres and public mind of his astonish famous White Paper, and gave the driver a backache, ing broadcast, it was com ed by the Trades Union since that polley was accept- but the Dynaflow suffered parable to the effect pro- no harm.

duced on n plous churchgoer Congress, no fewer than You do not have to take out by finding the vicar com cleven million workers, have a mortgage to buy this luxury pletely pickled in a pub.

had wage increases at a cost 'car equipped with Dynaflow. A

of about £110 million a year" two-door saloon with gearless

the policy was: calorried by

the

TUC at Bridlington recenity, wage- claims in respect of three and ship-

Alongside the D. on my drive costs £528, a little more "gear lever" was an L. This 100 above the lowest

Since Up and down

As I listened to it

my

is the low gear, much lower baisy.

American price of a British mind went back to 1931 million cugintering

with

85

rrjeeled by tho

rt-

Arbitration

NEW YORK. TODAY I drove a new American car that does not have any gears. This car makes the left foot obsolete. There is no clutch pedal. The only controls I used either in a traffic than any first in a conven This car is not a baby, or even Then, too, we had a Socialist building workers, and a hundred crawl or in a 70-mile-an-hour dash were the ac- needed, even for a climb up three men of 18st, in the front too, our expenditure was out put in: and half a millon rail

tional car

It is hardly ever on American divver. It will seat Government in office. Then, thousand stenchers, fave been celerator and the foot brake.

the side of a mountain. Bat, their wives in the back. Its of scale with our earnings. waymen are direussing how to This-system-the first aller lever with a pointer You do not have to overall length is 17t-It han Then, too, we sought help enforce n-claim-which-has-been-

elchtervlied engine of 301 complete brenk from the on the steering wheel change down any more. All hp. witch will do up to

from America. And then, court. first-second-third system of column.. I turned the it is there for is to provide miles an hour.

also, America said, sho 'Since wages must come out of driving since great-grand- pointer to N. "You can start a safe brake for going down- Detroit is producing this car would help if we cut our prices, if wages father's day is not experl- the engine now," and the hill in ice,

do up, prices. or travelling cheaply enough for it to compete coat according to our cloth. follow. Sir Stafford's se fails demonstrator,

through soft snow.

makes which used to be known as the poor man's cars, The pound went off gold, unless wage-freezing CALL be It is optional equipment,

All the signa At the extreme right the It has been done by cutting and was allowed to find its math of t costing only £58 extra, in As soon as the engine pointer goes to R. which, of down on chromium, gingerbread, ¡own level.

are that it caurst be, Detroit's answer to the re- had warmed up he told "ma course, is reverso.

Since 1040 the cost of living and gadgets. And I turn of the buyer's mar- to take my foot off those moved backwards with com- gineering job that you can "run were marked by a

It is still such

But the Inter-war years has gone up by 20 percent great Devaluation, estimates Sir Star- ket-the bargain basement celerator. Turn the pointer plete smoothness at less 121 luxury car.

to D now," he advised, and than walking speed.

the engine at 50 mics on deal of unemployment: Sir ford, will add another I percent. Dynaflow, as it is called, then just step on the gas. The Dynaflow is so fault-

Stafford is determined to And I am afraid-it is one avoid

Wago claims:/ I stepped down so hard less and so foolproof that in ears are

that this time. important reason why Erith So he does not propose to a spate of wage cums which What i ce quis coarly in war. It was produced to dis- that in a normal car I would tests the

not selling well in car was put in America any longer.

go the 1931 road. Instead, may quite easily nullify the pense with gear-changing in have gone forward with 'a American tanks,

jolt or, stalled the engine,

he devalues the pound. That effect un pfice levels of our will make British

goods abroad of the devalua- goods But this car slid smoothly

tion. the American cheaper on ahead.

What then? Then the not-to- market, and so enable us to bo-repeated operation will have acquire more dollars of to be repeated or the unemploy which we are short. The ment Bir Stafford

avold will follow.

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The "gearbox" consists of two finned turbines which I slowed down almost to never connect directly with a standstill to turn a corner. each other. The "gears" Just a little more petrol and connecting the turbine the car immediately picked which the engine turns, and up speed. the turbine turning the transmission shaft," consist We stopped on a bad hill only of a few pounds of because of a traffic light. "Don't bother to put on special oil.

your brakes," said my com- panion. "Just give .it: enough gas to keep the car from going backwards."

In place of the usual gear lever I found a much

It is not new either in the sense that one has never been

hour.

a good en-

THE SEAHORSE IS SEASICK

iwo

TWO senhorses arrived in Lon-

the first import licence, goanted don recently-shipped under since the war.

They are "the genuine tropi- al cort, net spurious ones from the Bay of Biscay," claims their owner, Mr :+

Charles Schiller:

They are four

did not need four feet and not very like horses. They When the light changed I The home town lachen one. six hands to get away with- most nearly resemble

chess

made before. It has in Britain. But now Americans can do what cannot be done in Britain-walk Into a showrooms and buy a stock out slipping downhill again, knights, with their curved necks model.

I just stepped a little harder and long, sad faces.

-and in

Britain they

make a safer tyre

non-skid

LIKE A CHESS KNIGHT -With a long, sad' jaco

wishes to

Is that in

operation is to ben once- The blunt truth for-all affair not to be re- dealing with our crisis we are peated.

dodging the issue all the time When a man's income is inade

or corn mere..

Now, there is

no doubt

So

that to lower the price of quate he must either spend less British goods on the doller Mr Attice rules out reduced market will enable us to sell wages. Mr Bevan rules out more of them. That is,

reduced health and other provided that something servers. The trade unions rule else does not push up their out increased hours and effort.

ell that is left for Sir price as fast as devaluation Stafford is to

play conjuring bringe it down-a point we tricks with the pound. will come to later.

For my part, I am all for letting the pound. go free, Any thing which m:inlains it at an artificially high figure diaguices reality. Anything which Azes It at

Reduced standard

If we were solely an ex- porting country, a strong ense could be made out for Sir Stafford's view.

damnifies us as importers,

at an artificially low figure

Let It And Its natural level And if that is too low, let us raise it by putting behind But we are not an export more goods, more value,

which ing country only. We are an we can perfectly well do if we importing one. We import want to.

We shall not solve our prob from the dollar area wheat, Jems by an elaborato game petrol, tobacco, specialised or let's pretend, machinery, and so on. It will need more pounds at

A test car, with the tread then more than 70 patents have / sick. Fish are very easily sen- 1031, when Sr Phillp Sassoon the devalued: rate than it

Learning sense

may do

Their admirers claim that they have much of a knight's quiet charm, Says Mr Schiller:-

"Seahorses have personality. They get to know you Whistle every time you feed them and they soon learn to come to your recently NTRODUCED in Britain

whisik. They are naturally very Suld the maker: "We don't docile." a new-style claim to have cut out kids tyre-tread with a por big step forward towards in-gen bubbled through to stop the altogether. But this is a reallyThe little seahorses sat in a

|heated tank of salt water. Oxy=; Lupine grip, whose makers erased safely on the roads." claim that it will bring

water polluting new safety on skiddy roads. Research on the

Sald Mr Schiller: "That 'onso trend dates back to 1812. Since is suking because he is silli sca-

The trade unions fitted to the tyres, pulled up been taken out,

sick. They polson the "water

chose him to make an aquariums did before to buy these their best to restrain the rush of

claims for moro in 68 feet and in 90 feet

and die. These two are all that he was giving to Princesses essentials.

- wages; but Elizabeth and Margaret.

their moral huthority is ex without them.

Melat studs were tried on taxi is left of 36.

So what it comes to is tremely low, The attraction of fish? Mc

and the Com tyres. But they had a habit of Too much food. Schiller explains:-

that we incur the certainty mun'ols will inspire rank-and- Secret is special coil of falling out. wire embedded in the tread

"The others were given the "Fish don't need looking after of paying more for what we alle indiscipline wherever they Treads treated" with

Hko animals, and they don't buy on the chance of being we shall and ourselves grit much to eat, I suspect, or else make a noise like birds. People able to market more of what spending in internal strife the loopwise. Each loop, after a worked well until the Erit they weren't given their fru** few hundred miles, wears worked through-and out, salts. Put a teaspoonful of fruit and the restful........ very restful we sell through to form thousands

Soluble salts not only pitted salts in ten gallons of water, and indeed.""

energy which properly directed of steel points.

treads they rotted them as leave your seahorses in for six Too restful for Princess Mar- our future selling capacity troubles. This will go on until There is some doubt about would ceous through our well,

minules. That does them good.""" The cost the new tyre Mr Schiller,, trained as an works out from 5 to 9 6d engineer, has been in Tropical ing on a chair by the aquarium, But there is no doubt at all stronger than this one knocks how she was once found stand in the American market. We learn sense from adversity-...

or unill some Government much more than the standard tread. Fish for 25 years, since, he was

18. He did not become a Name chasing up the fish with

stick, about the fact that the our stupid heads together, (London Express Service)" in the Tropical Fish world unti

price of bread is to go up.

London, Express Servloe)

These are normally, flush with the tread. They stick out when the tyre compitsses with the extra weight of braking

NANCY

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Petty (coat) Reaction

BYOUR SLIR

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YOUR SLIP

IS SHOWING

garot. Mr Schiller remembers-

(London Express Koroiče)"

By Ernie Bushmiller

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