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THE CHINA MAIL,
MOTORING SECTION
FOUR SPEED GEARS. SYNTHETIC FUEL.
AUSTRALIAN DRIVERS
CRITICISED.
Remarkable Reductions city the swing of the pendulum
in all Departments.
GERMAN TRUSTS PROPOSAL
No countenance is given by the "Deutsche Borgwerks, Zeitung" (the organ of the mining industry) or by the "Frankfurter Zeitung" to the story circulated by a financial newspaper that the Dye Trust is to flood the market with cheap artificial petrol (says the Berlin correspondent of the Londen "Daily Chronicle.")
"GIVE AND TAKE.”
STOCK MOTOR CYCLE TESTS.
The suggestion is mude in the following article from the "Motor," signed "A.Q.B.," that Australian motorista are not a careful in driving as they might be. It is claimed that an alteration in the gear ratios of English cars might tend towards the greater use of four-speed gear boxes in Australia. "In almost every phase of human
Both papers refuse to accept the plays an important part.. Automo- statement that the Dye Trust has bile construction and design are no contracted to deliver 120,000 tons exceptions to this rule and, al-of artificial petrol during the cur- though in the enthusiasm of the rent year, and sound reasons are moment new models are constantly given for the refusal. being hailed as the ultimate and the perfection of engineering art, Anality never soems to get much nearer. It is not so very long ago that American manufacturers took- ed upon four-point suspension as the relic of a creed which wag distribution will be the German The trial consists of a serice of thoroughly outworn, yet the pendu-Gasolene Company. It would ap-tests, including many hill climbs, lum has started to swing again and pear that customers of the company brake teats, tests for acceleration the discredited method of early days are not to be informed whether the and rigid mechanical examinations has found an unexpected return to oil supplied is natural or artificial, at the completion. Practically favour.
and the first operation will be to every British manufacturer enters machines. This year there were 62 "A similar reversal of opinion test the market. has for some time been manifesting It was, of course, clear that when starters (representing 20 different itself in the direction of the four-the representatives of the Rocko- factories), 55 of whom completed speed gearbox: here in this coun-feller interests some months ago the course, 36 of these obtained try the pendulum is still on the for- came to an agreement with the Dye clean sheets, and 52 received gold ward swing towards the three-Trust, the terms of which have not medals. Eighteen teams entered, speed principle, which now claims been revealed, they convinced them four of whom received clean sheets, a following equivalent to about 40 selves that the experiment of make and 11 received some award. Only per cent. of British models, but fning artificial petrol on a large scale four competitors did not receive an America it is already moving in the had shown that it could be done award, apart from six, who re- Six A.J.S. motor cycles SEASON GINGER opposite direction towards a recon-at an economic price.
were entered, and were ridden by C. W. Hough, G. E. Rowley and
A great deal of interest was mani- fest recently in the proposal to organise a stock motor cycle trial In Victoria, with the object of em- phasising to the public that the average motor cycle of to-day is capable of covering "give and take" ronds under the average conditiona in a satisfactory manner. The six days stock motor cycle trial ia organised by the A.C.U., and the conditions are very strict, particu larly in regard to the machines which are entered; these are actually selected by the officials of the A.C.U. from either the fac The Dye Trust is a very secretive tory or the agent's premises, and body. The two papers agree that the competitors are given an hour its original plan was to put artificial in which to make adjustments on patrol on the market little by little, the day prior to the trial. Adjust- or one might almost say by stealth.ments are made under official ob
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sideration of the older principle.
The Four-Speed Underdrive.
tired.
STANDARDISATION. W. Giles. Each of these riders
IN MOTOR VEHICLE CONSTRUCTION.
obtained a clean sheet and a gold medal.
The
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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"There is, for example, the design known as the four-speed under- drive, operating by direct in top
An event of this kind would no and internal drive in third gear.
doubt create a lot of interest in Another model has the usual three-
any State in Australia, and it is to speed design but four gear changes, The Standards Department of the be hoped that a properly organised third being by internal gears in Society of Motor Manufacturera, event will be promoted by the motor 1.4 and 1 gearbox ratio. The pur- through the medium of the In-cycle clubs or controlling bodies in pose of such experimentation is, of stitution of Automobile Engineers, one or more of the States. course, to provide two high gears in has been distributing its standards event would undoubtedly receive close relation, and this necessity is aa data sheets for the last three support from those distributors in turn dictated by the demand for or four years, and without imped- who have sufficient confidence in higher speeds which is associated ing the operations of designers has their goods to send a brand new with the present trend of American succeeded in making considerable machine out over a selected. course, design. The high top-gear per-reductions in the number of without special preparation. formance, of which the Jatest separate designs for what might American multi-cylinder engines with equal advantage be represent BRITISH INDUSTRY. are capable has naturally reacted ed by a much smaller number of upon the question of ratios, reviv- components. In one instance, for ing the demand for an additional example, several hundred sizes
MANUFACTURERS COMING gear, but differing from that of current before the issue of the first
INTO THEIR OWN. earlier practice in its closer rela- of their data sheets on the subject tion to top gear.
have been reduced successively to When an industry is thoroughly "A recent suggestion for an ideal 82, 11, and at the present time 6. established its growth or decline THE LATE PARRY THOMAS. gear-box for American models pro- A number of materials and other will tend to follow the general posed the ratios 4, 6%, 9 and 15% components have also, after con- course of trade more closely than to 1, and it can hardly be doubted sultation with the Society,' been that the advantages resulting from standardised by the British Enment. Engineering, the parent of when it is still in course of develop- the additional gear under Ameri-xineering Standards Association. can conditions would fully com- Incidentally, the diaposition to pensate for the expense,
specialise is shown also in the out- put of motor parts and accessories, including engines, the value of
production of the industry, En- times as fast as that of the entire gineering.
(The solution of the nonve cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
After the death of Mr. J. G. P. driver, a fund was collected in Bri- Thomas, the famous British racing so many industries, has had many tain to endow in perpetuity a cot examples of both classes, and has at the Great Ormond Street Hos- Insistent Top-gear Performers.
found before now that the attracpital, London, to his memory. The "The question of the fourth
tions offered by a new class of in- cot, which has been named Babs, speed under motoring conditions in which has increased nearly three vention, if they are presented withed by a tablet, which was recently |
after his famous car, is surmount-
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M.P. FINED £10.
It was alleged that he had been motoring at 52 miles an hour, Major Cohen declared that he had driven 82,000 miles in 16 years.
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XTRACT from an address given by Mr. Arthur Chadwick (Managing Director of the Amalgamated Publicity Services, Ltd.) at the recent Advertising Con- vention at Olympia, London.
"No business man says that he is too busy to read
this country is perhaps more one
by a service convenient to the user, Thomas, mother of the motoriat. A a sufficient energy and accompanied formally unveiled by Mrs. Parry of taste than of mechanical impor- tanec, but in relation to overseas
may sometimes overcome the in-brief and impressive service dedi- motoring and particularly to our
fluence of general industrial de-cated the cot, which will remain greatest market, actual and poten-
pression. Not only the nature of as a memorial to a fine sportsman. lial, it has, on the contrary,
the industry, but also the methods first-class significance. Australia is the home of the happy-go-lucky
Major Cohen, MP, the leglesssible for it contribute to this re- adopted by those who are respon- top-gear performer; having got member of the House of Commons, into top, he will stay there all day was fined £10 for dangerous driv sult, and when the attempt is suc- if he can, often making demands ing.
cessful, both the extent of its pro- upon his clutch and transmission
greas and the methods by which it which would strike horror into any
has made it are of peculiar interest well-bred British motorist. The
to those who are concerned in allied life of a clutch facing in Australia
manufactures. An Instance of such may not infrequently be measured
an industry is the motor trade. in months instead of years, and the
Like the electrical industry, its de- disproportionate wear which is often to be noticed in the engine that by equipping him with a third velopment in this country was im- and transmission especially of gear much closer to top gear ratio peded for a long time by the high-speed models, it seems fair to than has been the practice hitherto, paternal attentions of the Legisla attribute to habitual overdriving in he might by degrees be educated to ture, which succeeded in giving top gear.
A more sympathetic attitude to other countries a long start in de- "The argument for discarding wards his gears, with great bene-veloping the manufacture. Of late the fourth speed under British fit to his engine and transmission. years, however; British manufac- motoring conditions is easy enoughIt is undoubtedly the case that turers of motor vehicles have begun to take their proper place in their own market and that of the world, and during the last half of the post- war period have distinguished them. that, as the Australian Motorist will "The high cost of road construc-selves in particular by being con- not use his gears except under tion in Australia makes it certain spicuously prosperous at a time some compulsion, it was superfluous that improvement can be only a when most other branches of engin- to provide him with
than gradual process, and conditions eering manufacture bave been three; but there are reasons for his will continue for an indeterminate suffering from deep depression.-- reluctance which possibly did not number of years to demand either receive consideration. In the first an engine of extreme flexibility or place, the versatility of American else the frequent use of the gears, sixes in top gear has inculcated the Of these two considerations the AN ANTISEPTIC LINIMENT. habit of ignoring the others. An- first is probably receiving all the
There is no danger whatever from other and perhaps more relevant, attention, it warrants from British lockinw or blood poison resulting from reason is the steep drop from top manufacturers in its relation to a wound whan Chamberlain's Pain to third gear which has been a880- their export trade. There is rea- Balm is promptly applied. It is anti- ciated with most British models in son to think that similar concen- septic and destroys the germs which the past; the overseas motorist has tration on the problem of Bear cause these diseases. It also causes no time, either literally, or meta- ratios, with special reference to the and in one-third the time required by wounds to heal without maturation phorically, for the necessary pause, Australian market, would not be the uszal treatment. For sale every- but it seems reasonable to argue labour lost.”.
to follow, but, except for considera-Australian motorists in general are tion of economy, the reasons which much freer in their use of the gears prompted its application to export when there is really useful third models as well are not so clear. speed available. Probably the argument was used
more
Problem of Gear Railos,
"Engineering."
...where.
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