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CARE OF ENGINES.
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THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF LUBRICATION.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1927.
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The importee of engine lubri.lunger with a chain drive to the
An announcement was made to- cation in paint that the modern back axle for the top gear the automotive idustry is stressing epicyclic gearing for low night by Carl G. Fisher and James heavily. Every manufacturer of speeds hinged tiller steering, a hit A. Allison, owners of the Indiana- passenger cars, motor trucks and hand-miss engine governor and no polis motor speedway, Indiana- buses gives defalte information clutch pedal, that ran from London polls, that in addition to the an about changing oli off leval; etc.. to Glasgow in May, 22 years ago, nual international 600-mile and tremendous, damage is done only cracking the porcelain in-held each May, there will be in for to engines when such instructions sulation of the sparkling plug, and September a 24-hour contest are not followed.
which jugged-jugged along the $15,000, for vehicles powered with streats of London in the Lord oil burning motors,
The antire ladianapolis racing Mayor's Show this week," said a
plant will be illuminated. for the H. Massac Buist in the London night contest and an exposition of "Morning Post of November 19), all of burning appliances will be
"I held in the infeld of the track. in the, R.A.C. smoking room,
This object, the owners announc- could not make up my mind wheed, is to effect progressive deve- evolu-lopment by competition of the oll ther the most remarkable 'tion of motoring illustrated in that burning motor which, if perfected, parade was the Daimler 'Double-will revolutionize all types-
rails, on water or in the air. It Six" or the Austin Seven' of to moter-propelled vehicles on roads, will be the first event of its kind day"
another, and is to be an annual fixture
Oil" in an automotive vehicle of any kind has a very' active life. It is pumped to outlying moving parts; in the crankcase, every- where, it has to form an infinitely thin and Infinitely strong buffor, between two metal surfaces. In the cylinders; for example, without the oil alm between the pistons and the cyitnder walls, the metal moulds soon wear away and leave enough space to allow the force
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"STREAMLINES" IN MOTOR-BOAT RACE.
A record-amashing"motor-boat race at San Diego, California, where the world's record fur five miles was recently broken and where such contests are very popular..
of the explosions in the cylinders to be wasted.
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5.4 in 1922, in which year in America it was 12.5.
the We have merely to turn to The unusual feature of the evo-registered in this country for the
statistics possessed by the in- fution of automobile engineering is ladt 15 years are as follow:-
Commercial Hackney
surance companies concerning first Cars Vehicles Carriage year's premiums, however, to dis- that it does not unfold entirely in the direction of bigger scale, am-
25.000 28;918 cover that the number of motor 31,000 31,200 accidents in this country could: bitious achievement, such as the
37,000 34,212 be reduced enormously perhaps development of the liner, the steam
37,000 46,122 bringing down the above quoted 1915
49,000 88,951 figure of 6.4 per 100,000. to, say 25 engine, and the skyscraper. Con- 1914
49,000 45,170 per 100,000 drivers were more tinual chasing after car perfection 1916
$9,000 41,759 careful during the Brst your of does not end in the creation of 1917
29,000 36,399 their experiences. New Phantoms. The biggest de 1918
38,000 38,619 mand will always be for the little 1919
'uns."
Progress in the commercialisa-
Years
1911. 1912 1913
47,000 57,000 68,000 86,000 90,000 92,000, 21,000
1920 1921
50,000 71,000 122,000 66,000 65,894 Efforts are being made to extend 250,000 185,000 70,000, the use of automobiles in Poland, $15,000 159,000 78,000 and as a preliminary the roads are 384,000 181,000 86,000 receiving attention, so that in due 474,000 210,000 94,000 course a fresh opening is 680,000 232,000 99,000 cipated for British cars. Care in Driving,
If of becomes dirty and sluggy in cperation it is not usually the fault of the oil. Grit, dust, water and petrol get into the ofl.unless it is carefully protected. To this end aircleaners are much used nowadays to clean the air on ita way to the cylinders. Oil purifiers are also coming into use to remove foreign matter from the ofl actual ly in use in the motor. Dirt in the oil clogs up the small holes throughout the lubricating system and prevents the oil from reach-tion of motoring is really illus-, 1922: trated most effectively in the small 1923 ing the bearing surfaces.
and cheap cars on the market-by 1924 In operating the
the their four water cooled cylinders 1926 should be taken 1.0, to use choke longer than necessary, be instead of one; reliable magneto
That the proportion of accidents petrol which enters the or battery instead of costly, in- cylinders and does not burn will effective, and wholly unreliable to the number of vehicles used was run down the cylinder walls and tube ignition; mechanical engine- not higher in the pioneer days, was starting instead of hand-cranking due entirely to the keenness and well As destroy the oil film, as
wind-screening with automatic diluting the oil in the crankcase.
motorists to-day are either ignor- Cylinder head gaskets must be window wiping, and complete all care of the drivers, a fact of which ant; or which they deliberately kept tightly in place to shut off weather equipment instead of abo any water that might otherwise lute exposure; four-wheel brakes leak through into the combustion instead of two iron straps and ignore. If as much care as was some wire; and by tyres that have exercised when roads were infre e' mbers.
quite 10 times the wearing life, but quently used, and badly designed And relatively belly-built vehicles" which do not puncture in the
plied them, were taken to-day the ORDER AGAINST SPLASHING. course of use. In fact everything number of current accidents would
about a car or a lorry to-day tells be halved.
cause
1.
or water. a warning. But a second will bring severe penalties,
"APPALLING" DRIVERS» »
that sort of tale.
Owing to the turn over of traffic One in Five an Owner, to motor transport it not unna- tural that the number of accidents "If America really has
due to motora should increase.. vehicle in use for every 5.8, head The great decrease in the number of population," said the first of accidents per
number of
one
No. of
M. Morain, the Prefect of Police, regulation Paris, has issued a ordering all motor-vehicles to be fitted and a driven that pedes trians will not be splashed by mud
First offenders will be let off with speaker. "I don't understand why motor vehicles: registered, how- we stick at 45.6, especially when ever, is scarcely realised, yet.
over- efence every one of the Dominions
I quote the official Sgures given in invaluable seas beats us. Yet we have the the above-mentioned most highly developed roads."
book for the post-war period, which "I think war and Socialistic alone concerns as. taxes account for a bit of it." suid". "The way in which some trades- the other. You see, the Domin- Year. men's carts are driven is appallona best every other European ling" said Mr. Hay Halkett, the country hoflow. Canada, with one Marylebone Police Court magis vehicle for 12 persons; New Zea- 1918 trato, "and the men who drive land with one for 2.5; and Aus- 1919 laundry vans are the terror of my tralia, with one for 19.5, against 1920 France's score of one for 51.2, 1921 Germany's one for 247.9,
and 1922- "A young Pretorian, Plet Lie Italy's one for: 866.2. I got those 1923 the figures out of The Motor Industry 1924. vaart, on December 16 won motor cycle long jump at the Auck of Great Britain, which the Society 1925.
of Motor Manufacturers with land Park motordrome jump of 30 ft. 6 in., says a mes sage from Johannesburg. He then gave an exhibition jump, in which
life.
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Vehi- Vehicle cles per Accents. Rgd. Accdnt. 22,746
114,000 5.01 34,057 148,000 4.30. 39,702 254,000 6.40 43,829. 481,000 10:50 49.642 552,000 11.10 60,74% 661,000. 10.60 78,065 778,000 10.60 88,969 911,008. 10.10 and. In the last year in which inter- Traders gave away at the show national atatistics are available for the purposes of comparison, the banquet.
At home. I referred to my copy mortality rate per 100,000 persons
he covered 52 feet, beating the and found that the number of living in England and Wales re World's record of 49 feet... motor vehicles of different types aulting from motor accidents waa
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