LIGHT CAR’S DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 11

LIGHT CAR’S DAY

INDUSTRY AT HOME CYCLE BEING REPLACED Indication that the light car is replacing the motor-cycle is given by the latest trade bulletin from Home, which states that, though the activities of British factories were necessarily affected adversely by the longcontinued coal stoppage, the number of machines produced is only slightly less than the output for the previous year, and reveals a strength en the industry which should lead 'to still further development. “The number of motor-cycles in use in Great Britain,” it says, “is now nearly half a million, and exceeds by far the number in use in any other country. Yet ’the registrations of motor-cycles do not show the same rate of increase as the registrations of motor-cars, and it would appear, to some extent at least, that the light car has become a formidable competitor of the motor-cycle. Three years ago the number of motor-cycles in use in Great Britain exceeded the number of motor-cars, while to-day there are nearly 150,000 more cars (643,000) than motor-cycles (498,000). “The number of machines exported during 1926, in spite of the coal stoppage, again shows an advance over the number for the preceding year, although there is a slight falling-off in the total value of machines and parts exported.”

SPEED CHALLENGE

CAMPBELL-SEGR AVE RACE ? There is a possibility of Captain Malcolm Campbell and Major Segrave meeting on Dayton Sands (U.S.A.). Campbell issued a challenge a month or so ago, feeling that given proper conditions his car, with its Napier Lion aero engine, will increase its Pendine Sands (Wales) speed. Campbell did 174 m.p.h. in Wales, and Segrave, with his 1,000 Sunbeam, did 203 at Dayton. Recently a message announced that Segrave was giving up car racing and going on a raid on speed boats’ records, and that his car was going to an English museum, so there appears to be little probability of the race with Campbell.