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MOTORING SECTION
JUDGING A CAR.
FIRST LIMOUSINE
Twenty-Five Years Ago
now
WHERE CARS ARE USED.
There has been received from London, with the compliments of. the Society of Motor Manufactur ers and Traders, Ltd., a booklet of about 160 pages dealing with "The Motor Industry of Great Britain." It contains many very interesting items.
The Introduction states that 'the dis- need for the collection and
regard to the somination with motor industry of this, country is evident."
Some of the facts: collected re encouraging for those of us who wish to see machine power replace: man power in China:
Although there is no place like the road for testing the way in which a motor vehicle handles, it
the In November 1901, is possible to form a pretty good! idon of its "drivability" in the familiar term "imousine" was ap. garage or anywhere that the car plied to a car forr the first time. may be standing. The quality Oddly enough, it was used by the which a car possesses to a greator De Dion Co. to describe a car which or lesser degree of being handled die not possess even a screen or with ease and comfort in widely hood. The vehicle was in fact, a differing circumstances, is called double phaeton, with no doors to controllability: It includes such the front cockprit, and no more points as ease of steering, safety than nie-inch doors to the rear was offered, as in tornering and when driving compartment. It fast op any kind of road surface, an alternative to the standard tan- while the questions of, braking and nean with longitudinal sterrn seat- gear changing are closely involved ins new 8 h.p. De Dion models
In 1921 there were 47,000 In a word, a car which is really con
in use in Great Britain. In trollable, is absolutely safe to drive were probably the first really satis-
there were 580,000 cars. In in all circumstances. A car with factory cars over marketed at a aliff or heavy steering is unplea- low price in England, and heralded The figures for commercial vehi sant to handle for not only does the dawn of efficient motoring.cles are, for those years, 26,000 driving become fatiguing, but there They were, moreover, specially at- and 232,000 respectively. is generally a dificulty in correct tractive to the novice as all controls ing skids on greasy roads, while wore concentrated ready to hand: Its otcasionally, when one hand is re- the two-speed gear, with moved from the wheel for the pur-separate, clutch for high and low pose of signalling to overtaking years was operated by a large true, the car may tend to follow radial lever under the steering its own sweet will, with possibly, wheel, and engine speed was main unfortunate results. Therefore, ly controlled by decelerator the steering must, first and fore pellat, which Farted the lift of the most. be light and lecurate.
exhaust valve.
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Stiff steering can be due alther inadequate lubrication or to bad Btting, generally to the former. Therefore, every driver should eurefully grease all the joints and connections in the steering mechun ism; Stoering that heavy be
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The bodywork was of excellent gaility. A single-cylinder engine seems a trifle crude in these day, but it was neither so rough or so noisy as might be imagine, for the flywheel was large and the revolu- tien range was smill In fact, it
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comes quite light as soon the front axle is jacked up so that both wheels are clear of the ground, but stal steering is still difficult to handle in these conditions. If by the jacking up just mentioned the steering is found to be free and easy, no further greasing ia necus- OC- sary. although it sometimes
the curs that under load part of mechanism is strained or may rub
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was exceptional t ohear complaints, except in two" respects; puneturės were 'tiresome, as tyres were none too good, and the power developed by the engine depended on precise adjustment of the trembler of the coil ignition.
MOTOR-CAR LIMIT.
the
cars 1325
480.
Up to May 31 1926 early, a million cars and metor vehicles had been registered
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Incidentally it may be mentioned that the population of Great Britain has been steadily rising from a total of 89,348,000 in 1908 to: 43,767,000 in 1926. Has the motor industry dene something to sup- port the increased, population?
In 1908 there were 6007 persons. in Great Britain for every motor vehicle registered. In 1926 there were 468 persons per vehicle. The Shanghal following table makes us wonder where Hong Kong or would figure in a list of towns and cities of Asia, in which motor cars are used.
Country.
No. of Parsons per Vehicles. Vehicles.
United States 19,848.000
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Australia
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710,718
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99.203. 12:5
297,911
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£60,000 46.67 763,499 5143
252,308 247.9.
118,000 366.2
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Once more the racing carnival- has drawn attention to the reub necessity for some means of dis- tinguishing cars without difficulty.. It was not unusual to sue persons wandering around the parking pad- docks looking for cars in which they had come to the races. It is easy enough to remember where a car has been parked, but when other vehicles have been placed in the paddock afterwards it is difficult to others. One of the English motor- recognise the car among so many ing periodicals has been calling for ideas for the identification of favouring the idea that ruling cars, but, although me of those prices of used cars should be pub received, have some merit, it does listed in the national newspapers, stocks and not appear that anything of any is, the same way as great value has been suggested, shares are now quoted, in order that Most of the suggestions were owners may be familiar with cur- two types. There were monograms, rent values of their cars.
of
Manufacturers in the USA, are
The automobila is eaving workers
in luminous paint, or illuminated signa for night, and wind-screen signs for the day. The drawback to these schemes is that when one an incalculable amount of time, and is close enough to see anything of is thereby adding to the national Mr. Guy E. Tripp, the sort, the registration number wealth, says
bright spots on the drag link or
Motor car ownership in the track rod, should be looked for.
United States can reach Heavy ateering may be due sim 40,000,000 mark without danger of excessive castor action, saturation in the industry, Mr. ply to which is often instantly betrayed H. F. Kinsley, of Chicago, declar is plainly visible, while luminous chairman of the Westinghouse by wheel wobble at high speeds. ed at the automotive equipment paint is only visible in almost total Electric and Manufacturing Co.. As a decentralising agency it is Turning corners when driving show in Chicago a few weeks ago. derlinese. It would seem, after an slowly will require considerable "Registration of cars has doubled analysis of the various suggestions,opening up an amazing number of effort, while when the steering in the last five years," said Mr. that the coat of arms is likely, to square miles of heretofore, waste wheel released it will instantly Kinsley. "yet, in 1921 experts talk-come into its own again. If some lands to habitation and industry.. By back to central position quite ed of the approaching saturation kind of device could be mounted automatically. If there is insuffi- point. Five years ago automobiles on the top of the hood, it might cient castor action, the car will in America numbered 10,500,000, be possible to avoid the confusion more than which nowadays la inseparablo have to be, as it were. Ateered the To-day they total
rate of in- from the parking of a number of whole time, and wheel wobble may 20,000,000. Future be perceptbile at low speeds. Other crease will not be so rapid because cars. together.. features, such as easy gear-chang- of growing replacement requiro- ing, easy carburetter adjustment. ments, but the 40,000,000-car mark and so on. ure, Courbe, always will be reached easily within the There, are more desirable, and the owner-driver next 15 years. should see to it that there are no prospective automobile owners in deficiencies in this respect,
the country at present than there The Wyoming State Highway are cara registered. More families Department is attempting to can afford two cars to-day than learn the value of its tourist were able to buy one car 10 years crop." The department is trying ago. National income is increas-
MOT-SPIRIT".
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ing at the rate of 2,000,000,000 to learn the number of tourists dollars a year, income tax statistics who visit the State and the they spend show Wages in the steel and iron amount of money industry have risen 140 per cent. while within the State borders, since 1914, while in the automo-
bile industry they have jumped 122
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The Home Office have issued, under Statutory Rules and Orders, Order No. 1,340 of 1926, dealing with the conveyance of per cent. Yet the actual selling A petrol consumption contest, petroleum spirit. It is divided price of cars la 20 per cent. lower the closing event of the 1926 sen- into three sections, in connection than it was 12 years ago. The in-son of the Queensland R.4.C., re- with the conveyance of spirit industry is approaching the point tank waggons, and in other vehi- where it will take nearly all the present factories to replace cars cles, the third section containing going out of service every year, provisions of general application. The requirements are, speaking generally, of interest only to the industry concerned, though pri- vate motorists should bear in mind that the conveyance by car: of more than fifteen full two gal- lon tins would seem to necessitate special adaptation of the vehicle in which the spirit is carried.
I WANT TO SEE THE PRESIDENT OF THE
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The annual toll of scrapping and junking will soon be 4,000,000 cars, close to the nation's present an nual output
Radiators and lamps which will remain bright whatever the wes- ther conditions, are promised as the next innovation of note.
sulted in a win for Mr. G. W. What mare (Fiat) in the small-car class.- After being paralised to the extent of 7.11 tons miles for not maintain- ing the set minimum Average speed, Whatmore achieved an aver age of 96.59 ton miles per gallon. The nearest of the other competi tors were Mr. H. Horstman (Sene- chal) 77.48. F. Holland (Flat) 75.38; Miss E.. L. Carter (Citroen), 69.18, and J. V. Giles (Citroen), 55.17. Giles was penalised, 18.04 ton. miles for not maintaining the, set minimum average speed.
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