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MOTORING SECTION
USE OF MOTORS.
IN MODERN. STREET CLEANSING,
marked improvement in the quality of the pavements existing in most towns has simplified the work
GIRL MOTORIST.
PROJECTED TOUR ROUND THE WORLD.
14,000 MILES, 17 COUNTRIES,
London, Feb. 12:
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Monthery.
The 14,000-mile tour, according to her, plans, would traverse live continents and seventeen countries.
A SPEED MODEL.
THE NEW TWO.PORT O.H.V. TRIUMPH.
Ever since Dame Rumour set the news going the round of motoring circles that the Triumph Company
The power unit is obviously a Triumph in more ways than one.
The combustion chamber With Friend and Mechanie. The girl driver's schedule calls hemispherical, and the cylinder for climbing the Rocky Mountains, head is detachable. The overhead the Western Himalayas and the valve rocks are mounted in roller permit the Alps. Miss Cordery placed her bearings drilled to plane before the Automobile Club free passage of the oll rush, which with the request that an official obscends, the tubes housing the push| server should be appointed to aerods.
Lubrication is provided by the company her on the trip.
of street cleansing. The tendency
An English girt motorist will were definitely going into produc is to use a mechanical vehicle for start a world tour in an open car on tion with their new speed model, the sweeping and collecting opera-February 16 if the Royal Automos inquiries have reached them from: tions, and in districts where thebile Club approves. She is Violet the seven seas, and the Interest traffe is large there are advantages Cordery, twenty-four-year-old hold-which has boun created has been in the use of such machines.er of the Dewar Trophy and the well-nigh overwhelming. As is Ministry of Health Annual Report, only woman to have gained this well known, its prototype, is a machine of countless records and 1926-1926.
Jhonour.e
Ruccess at Brooklands and other The Karrier R.S.C. type Rond Miss Cordery became famous
The Sweeper and Collector la acknow because of her long distance driv important speed meetings.
bore and stroke of this speedy and ledged by all concerned to be the ing achievements on
imposing machine are respectively street Monza, Italy, and: most advanced type of
8Q ram, and. 09 mm., giving a cylin eleansing machine at present pro-France. duced. It is being used by increas
der capacity of 498 e.c. ling number of our leading,, muniel palities with unqualified success, a view that is further confirmed by the Cleansing Superintendent of Nelson Lanc.), Mr. J. Nutter, AR.S., M.IO.S... who read a paper entitled "The Evolution of Street Cleansing" before the annual con- ference of Cleansing Superfnton dents at Birmingham in June last.
In this admirable paper Mr. Nut-
A girl friend and a trained Triump mechanical oil pump, which ter traces the development of street cleansing from the time of mechanic also would accompany in addition to the auxiliary, hand 489, when a decree required that Miss Cordery. The total load pump. An exhaust valve lifter and "every householder must cleanse carried by the automobile would be fuiso a decompressor are incorporat that portion of the street before he limited to half a ton. The automo-ed while above the chain-driven own door under penalty of 12d.bile would be fitted for sleeping in magneto an Amae racing type ear- NEW SEASON GINGERhrough the reign of Edward III, the open if it were necessary and burettor is fitted to a long induc-
when twelve carts each with two also would contain a kitchen. horses were kept at the expense of the City of London for the remova of sewage and refuse, to the pre- sent aly. when the different methods employed for street cleans ag are enumerated and discussed
Mr. Nutter then proceeds:
The method to which Ipin my
He covered 100 kilométres (about faith Js that whereby streets are swept with a minimum of traffic 02% miles in 29mh. 22sec., and interference, the material being 100 miles in 47min. Basc, beating collected at the same time without Artmans world records. He also any possibility of its being scatterbroke Parry Thomas's hour record, ed about or left for any period on covering 208.725 kilometroa (about
127 miles). the street surface.
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The gate kear-change makea. it an impossibility to go beyond the required position when changing
E. A. D. Eldridge, the racing up or down, as only one step can motorist, who broke several world be taken at a time. Gears cannot records on the Monthery trackbe missed, which is an important" later smashed others on the same feature for consideration when the
machine is used for racing, parti track.
cularly over uneven patches.
The gear-box ts of the constant- mesh type with a special selected: mechanism incorporating a locking year,
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mounted in ball-and-roller bearings.
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Both main and lay shafts are The clutch is of the multi-disc In- "To prevent, as far as possible,
type exclusive to this model. any risk of danger from contamina-
ternal expanding brakes are fitted. tion of foodstuffs by street dust it as the 'R.S.C. typu. To those not front and rear wheels; the latter behoves us to set about and inconversant with this latest type, is operated by a pedal conveniently stitute the best system whereby the and I do not think there will be situated in relation to the foot rest. desired effect can be produced many, I might briefly explain the An exceptionally strong frame is have tried the horse broom, and design and working. A diagonal used incorporating Triumph new horse collection, motor broom and read brush is set to sweep the re-pattern front forks, into which is motor collection, and motor sweep fuse from the channel or curb to introduced a single-tension spring. links, Independent directlybridge-top and collection combined, and per- the centre of the road;
fabric. friction disea sonally contend the latter system, opposite to the then prevailing girders, by means of the Karrier RSC practice, At the rear end of this being Atted to both pairs of links, type venicle, is the most satisfac broom there is a casing having an providing large bearing surfaces tory, both from a cleanliness and opening through which the sweep and a ready means of adjustment
London, Jan. 13. from an economic point of view.ings are thrown. This casing con- for side play. Press steel silencers,
The motoring industry offered The work done by this machine is,tains a series of revolving rotors which have stiffening ribs to pre- la my opinion, the nearest approach for transfer brushes, which Hft the vent drumming, are fitted to bach great possibilities. if the British. to the perfection at which we all refuse and deposit it through an- of the two straight-through, exhaust with their unrivalled Workmanship alm that have yet encountered. other opening at the top end of the pipes. Over 2 gallons of fuel in and reputation, adapted themselves
"One often hears the remark that casing into a receptacle or hopper addition to 2 pints of oil can be our leading motor vehicle manu- in the centre of the chassis, capable accommodated in the new patters to foreign requirements, said Sir facturers are missing a great opuf holding about three tons of re- Triump tank, and this model is Kingsley Wood, addressing the portunity through their apparent fuse and of being tipped,
shod with 26 by 3.25 in.. Dunlop Woolwich Motor Club to-day. road The reason for the alteration in cord tyres, neglect of this question of
Altogether it is an was a matter of regret and re- sweeping and collection combined, the direction of sweep ia that the but when we come to consider that greatest proportion of street refuse intriguing specification which is proach, he said, that the American the outcome of endless experiments, car predominated in Australia, In-
VAST eX- only one vehicle of this type is re- is found in or near the channel or
and incorporates the
dia, and South Africa, but there quired in most towns, and two or gutter, and by, sweeping this first perience gained both on road and were many more hopeful signs in- three at most in the larger cities any surplus not immediately re-track during the exhaustive tests to cluding the fact that an Australian, and towns, it will be evident that moved by the rotary brooms is left which this new Triumph model has frm had ordered British cars ex- even if every authority adopted this for the next traverse, when the been submitted."
ceeding, the whole of last year's method, the number of vehicles amount of material will be con--
(output. would not necessitate a "Morris aiderably reduced and the rotors works to produce them, and the will be able to deal with it in an cost of experimenting proves Bo exefficient manner. As the depth of cessive as to deter any but a well the channels varies considerably, established and wealthy firm from even in the same town, it is essen-
London, Jan. 15. embarking on the project. A peru: tial that the utmost freedom' should sal of the British Patent Records be allowed the road brush near the
Motor tyre manufacturers believe will show that this question has curb, and the designers of been by no means neglected.
machine have met the condition by they have at last succeeded in "It is very interesting to clean fixing the operation of collection manufacturing a tyre capable of sing superintendents to follow the on the off side aa being least sub. enabling Major Segrave to altaín Never have tyre. development of this product of one ject to variations in the road sur-the world's motoring record of 200 At of our leading commercial motor faces We sometimes hear objec-miles an hour.
makers faced a harder task. rajeed regarding the manufacturers, and a perusal of the tions
left by this machine 200 miles an hour any point on the Patent Office Records since 1915 trail
ground thirty the tyre hits the certain weather con- brings to light go fewer than twelve under patenta granted to Messrs. Karrier ditions, but personally I think it is times every second, thus generat- Similarly every Motors, Ltd. in the development of very small moment, and in the ing a heat which rubber has not and perfecting of this type of majority of cases can be ignored. Yet withstood. vehicle, and though several of these I find in actual practice that, even square-inch of the tread experiences a force of four tons, tending to are relating to mechanical con- though the trail or line seems to be struction, others reveal a knowledge very pronounced immediately after burst the tyre. Should a plece de come detached it could fly through of the difficulties experienced the machine, has passed, if we were
the air half a mile; and yesterday's street cleansing that could only to visit the street an hour or
very little trial necessitated a barricade to The tyre was have been acquired by painstaking later we should find effort, and show a determination evidence of it, the street appearing protect spectators..
subjected to the same strain as on. not only to overcome the same, but to be perfectly clean.
"Several street cleansing the track, and the experiment was to make an attempt to satisfy the demande of superintendents and machines have been tried in the most successful. their committees, even though they United States of America, but ap are not always of a reasonable fax as I can ascertain have been nature, and. I think it is very credi confined to that country. Not one of these vehicles' has been tried in table to the firm concerned.
"In February, 1923, they brought England; therefore I do not intend out another patent by which their to make further reference to them, have at previous system of rotary conveyors being satisfied that we was combined with the usual form least one better proposition in the fof diagonal road bruah; now known Old Country."
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Mr. Edward Wild, father of Sir Ernest Wild, the Recorder of Lon- don, has celebrated his 95th birth- day in Norwich. His is looking forward eagerly to some motor trips in his new car.
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