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Page from 'The Autocar' magazine, featuring various news snippets and a photograph from the motoring world.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 40\4\ Scan017 | |
| Date | 5th June 1920 | |
| 1058 THE AUTOCAR, June 5th, 1920. HERE and THERE A New Definition. QUITE a topic of the moment is the question as to what constitutes a light car. In the hill-climb at Handpost Hill to-morrow, June 5th, the Middlesex County A.C. is considering 2,410 c.c. as the dividing line between large cars and small cars. Production Once Again. WE are informed that the 6,000 work-people at the factory of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., at Derby, who, on May 15th, went on strike in consequence of the discharge of a man, returned to work on May 27th. The man has not been reinstated. A Sporting Monarch. WE learn that the King of the Belgians has been presented with a new Bristol aeroplane, fitted with a 275 h.p. Rolls-Royce engine, and that His Majesty has been pleased to accept this gift from Messrs. Handley Page, Ltd. King Albert, who takes a very keen interest in flying, personally tried this machine, and expressed his satisfaction with the way in which it flew. His Majesty proposes to keep it for his private use. The New Dorman Works. NEW workshops are in course of erection for Messrs. W. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Dorman and Co., Ltd., Stafford, on a recently acquired freehold site, and are expected to be ready in time to cope with the increased business expected next year. Owing to the long drawn out moulders' strike of last winter, the output of Dorman engines was considerably reduced in the early part of the year, but deliveries are now approaching the normal. The company has also secured the exclusive right to manufacture and sell to the motor and aeroplane industry a hydraulic clutch, for which there are many openings. Educating the Workers. AS an example of American enterprise, the new two-and-a-half million dollar recreational institution and industrial university of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co., of Akron, may be mentioned. There are 33,000 employees on the Goodyear pay roll, and of these 4,700 are already taking instruction in the Goodyear University. Professors to the number of 117 are employed on the teaching staff, and the university has sixty-five class rooms and four large laboratories, in addition to large assembly and lecture rooms. The factory works in three eight-hour shifts, and there are 600 university classes arranged to meet the convenience of employees at all hours of the day or night. Tuition to employees is free of charge. D30 Lighting-up Times. MONDAY, June 7th. Summer time. Aberdeen ... 10.30 Manchester... 10.8 Birmingham... 9.59 Newcastle ... 10.13 Cardiff ... 9.59 Norwich ... 9.42 Edinburgh ... 10.26 Plymouth ... 9.57 London... ... 9.46 Southampton... 9.48 Lost and Found. LAST week we recorded the loss of a Thornton-Pickard camera by Mr. F.{Mr Friese} Wolstenholme, during the course of the London-Edinburgh run. We have now heard from Mr. C. Maybury, of the H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} C. Motor Co., Ltd., 88, Great Portland Street, W.1., that he had picked up a camera during the course of the run. Thus we hope that The Autocar has been the means of restoring the lost property. Cars at Lewes Races. THOSE motorists who propose to attend Lewes races, on June 7th and 8th, will be interested to hear that a new motor road has been built between the main road and the stands. It is three-quarters of a mile long, and is wide enough for cars to pass one another. The surface throughout is of Tarmac, and for the moment chars-a-bancs will not be allowed to use it, since it is considered that the Tarmac may not have set sufficiently to resist the stresses imposed by very heavy vehicles. Immediately behind the stands there is room for parking at least 2,000 cars, and we are informed that there are no charges or tolls of any sort. Foreign Tourists in France. To enable a touring motorist to drive in France, he must be the holder of a grey coloured card, and, in order that visitors to France may obtain these cards without difficulty, the National Touring Office has installed special offices on all the Channel steamers, and at each frontier post, so that the motorist may obtain the card with as little delay as possible. Car Prices. WE are advised that the prices of Morris-Oxford and Morris-Cowley cars, as from May 26th, are increased as follows: Morris-Oxford : chassis £445, two-seater £550, four-seater £590, coupé £675. Morris-Cowley: two-seater £465. We are informed that, as from June 1st, the prices of all models of the G.N. cycle car have been increased 12½%. M.C.C. LONDON-EDINBURGH TWENTY-FOUR HOURS RUN. The competitors were led by the Motor Cycling Club Captain, Mr. W. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Wells, on a 29.5 h.p. Chandler. He is seen above chatting with Mr. F.{Mr Friese} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Hutchinson of the Edinburgh M.C., who checked the competitors at Moffat. The results appear on page 1051. | ||