MOTOR DEVELOPMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1928, Page 6

MOTOR DEVELOPMENTS

MANY

(Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, October 11.

The annual motor show at Olympia opened to-day. It is considered that more changes and developments in motor engineering are being exhibited at this show than at any other period during the past ten years. Among the features are the following: The first change, “straight eight” cylinder car; a wonderful improvement in the “baby car” of: seven horse-power, the market for which England holds alone, including a “baby” from a famous Birmingham firm which is super-charged, and lias a speed of 70 miles an hour; much more comfortable body work, particularly with the “sunshine sa-. loon,” namely, an enclosed, car, the roof of which slides back for fine weather; better springing; more speed and high efficiency brakes, which need just a light touch of the foot to stop the car in a safety distance; a British touring chr which will accelerate from 10 miles an hour to 95 miles an hour in 25 seconds; varied colouring of the motor bodies, which will mean multihued roads in the near future. It is stated that already orders from overseas, are pouring' into the offices of British makers on the strength of the preliminary notices of the new models, particularly suited to work in the Dominions. More than £40,000,000 worth of British cars have been sold to agents, and a third of that output is for Empire destinations.