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MOTORING SECTION
THE DYNAMOTOR.
AN ELEMENTARY ARTICLE FOR THE BEGINNER
The term "dynamotor" to the entirely uninitiated may, possibly suggest a new discovery in medical science such as an obscure nervous complaint, but actually it is a very convenient and expressive term, meaning a type of machine capable of operating either as a dynamo or a motor-the latter, of course, be- ing the electric variety, Inciden- tally, the term must not be con- fused with "dynamometer," which is an entirely different machine, used for measuring the horse- power of engines. It is difficult to say, that the dynamotor is anyone's invention, but to-day It is a very valuable machine from a motorist's point of view, as it enables the lighting and starting to be provid- ed by one machine instead of by two separate ones. The last mentioned arrangement is still the most generally adopted, but the dynamotor is coming rapidly into favour, particularly for quantity production and moderately priced
cars,
The principle of a dynamotor is an easy one to understand, particu- larly if the simple theory of a dynamo be previously understood. A dynamo produces electrical energy by the rotation of a certain arrange- ment of loops of wire in a magnetic field of force, but if, instead of rotating this wire-loop arrange ment electrical energy be sent into it, rotation will be produced.
:
BRITISH CYCLES.
BIG CONTINENTAL DEMAND.
The busiest men at Olympia during the motor-cycle show have been the export managers. Record business has been done with the Continent and the Colonies...
Moderate powered sport models have been most in favour with for eign buyers. One export manager said that his sales to the Balkan States
And Southern Europe generally showed that there was a big boom on the Continent. had done business with every coun- He try in Europe, and the biggest de mands were from the Balkans and the Netherlands.
The sale of British machines, to Germany has been unprecedented, and most of the big firms have shared in the German business. This export trade is remarkable, sceing that rates of exchange and tariffs make the British machine costly in practically all European countries.
IDEAL CAR.
CHRYSLER'S POPULARITY AT
HOME.
The tremendous popularity of Chrysler cars in the British Isles. is indicated in the replies to a re- cent columnar: questionnaire con- ducted by "Motor" (London) for the ideal car to meet the definite driving conditions In Great Britain imposed by this magazine,
Avery high percentage of the replica single out the Chrysler "70" because its performance, as quoted by one writer, combined:
an hour, easy gear change, quiet "A speed range of 5 to 70 miles operation, minimum up-keep ex- pense, hill-climbing ability yet cap- able of operation, beauty of appear ance, good braking facilities, and substantial.comfort."
The concurrence of opinion of the majority of readers that an American-made car best suited British requirements is of striking significance. Especially is this unusual in view of the very deter- The expansion of export business mined stand taken by British manu- 18 shown by official figures publish- facturers and their supporters to ed by the Manufacturers' Union. popularize British-made cars ahead In the six years 1920-26 the import of all foreign'maken. British litera- of motor-cycles dropped from 4,277 |ture carries stamps requesting Bri- to 75, while exports grew from tons to "Buy British Goods," while 21,295 to 48,591.
newspapers and other means are
In the home market a feature has utilised in this determined effort to been the great increase in the sales stop the inroads of American-made to women, Gir! demonstratora re-products. That the Chrysler was port that they have sold scores of singled out from all others is proof machines to women who want not of its outstanding favour abroad. orly to tour but also to ride in com- Lieutenant Colonel A. F, Richard- petitions. The success of Britishson, an ardent British motorist, in- women in the international trial corporated the following in his which was held in the Lake Dia-description of his "Ideal Car": trict last August has fired the imagination of others.
"I was looking for a car with the same requirements, so I bought a The number of motor-cycles re-six-cylinder Chrysler. gistered in Great Britnin last year every requirement and is the best;
It filled was 628,966, while the world totalI have owner in 16 years, regard- was 1,720,201.
less of price or nationality." This Army Officer indicated that no Bri- tish made car would provide the advantages which are to be secured in the Chrysler at anywhere near workman, seeing a pair of detached Hammersmith Broadway at 4
motor-car approaching its price in Britain. cables lying near a dynamo belted
Another British motorist pre-
A Chance Discovery. To electrical engineers a dynamo is known as a perfectly convertible machine; it can either generate electrical energy from mechanical power or produce mechanical power from electrical energy. In this connection there is an interesting historical fact, namely, that the convertibility of a-dynamo to a motor was a mere chance discovery. It was at the Paris Electrical Ex- hibition of 1878 that one day a
A
DIED AT THE WHEEL.
to a steam engine but not running,a.m. turned twice round a refuge,pared the following for his descrip- concluded that the cables belonged mounted the pavement and crash-ion of the ideal car:
to this dynamo, and he proceeded to, connect them up. To his great surprise, the dynamo started to run un its own and actually drove the steam engine with the steam shut off! Investigation proved that the loose cables were conveying cur- rent from another dynamo in motion and this had converted the stationary dynamo into a motor. From that day forward the use of the electric motor advanced rapidly. It should be made clear, however, that electric motors of an inefficient type were known many years before this chance discovery, but these machines were not made on dynamo principles and could not possibly have led up to the vast present-day applications of elec- trical power.
ed into the wall of a garage.
"I suggest the Chrysler two- The driver. Dan Gale, of Queen eater (Roadster) as it answers Street, Hammersmith, was found raised. The speed of 5 to 75 milea most exactly the requirements dead. with his hands on the steer-an hour in top (high gear)' is ing wheel.
questionably obtained, and the ac- celeration is the best I know. Springing is excellent, while the hydraulic four-wheel brakes very powerful. Steering case is ex- cellent and the car holds the road at any speed.
that death was
At the inquest, it was stated due to heart disease. A verdict of death from natural causes was recorded.
a very low gear reduction such as 16 to 1.
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are
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readors are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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ahlidren
B-Rost
10-A kind of tres 11-Sick
13-Related
18-Even (poetical) 17-Combustible matter 20-A cylinder painted
at ons and 21-Jutting rocke 23-Part of a boat 25-A roomar 27-Possessing delicats
bonuty 29-Part of the mouth 30-10th letter of Greek
alphabat
31-A ahotf 35-To
cancel.
38-An Italian province
39-A kind of rock
42-Metals In their
original state
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THE INTERNATIONAL, CHBICATE,
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 43-To make a loan 40-A feminine suffi
46-Hurried 47-Posse
40-A child's toy 61-A bar forming a
support
52-Before 53-Suffix denoting
superlative degras 54-To put away for
future use
VERTICAL 1-Girl's name
(familar) 2-Samp suds 3-Gard 4-To Balute. B-A frog
7-X-gkina
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successfully
19-Allo
VERTICAL (dent.) 14-Part of the body 16-Part of the head 10-Employ 10-Illuminated 20-A thick aluatur 21-Weeps
22-A sult in playing
Darde
24-8tringed Instrument
(pl.)
26-A. measure of length
(cbroteta)
28-Street (French) 32-To feel sick 38-A color 34-Pallid
38-To hang down 97-Boy's name (short) 40-A singing bird 41-To restrain
144-Lavish extravagant
fondness
48-A blemish
48-Conflicts
160-River in N. France
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES. Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the
"I am not, as a rule, an advocate of American cars, and I am entirely disinterested in the Chrysler, but I must admit it is an exception. It have had one now for a year and HONGKONG HEIGHTS has done 12,500 miles and I have not had to spend anything on re pairs; but for being decarbonised ance, it has never been touched, There is no question, I think, but and runs as smoothly as ever. that these cars are really good and will last for ever."
same issue of "Motor" declared:
Mr. J. R. L. McGildowny in the
consideration, I should say that the "Taking all the requirements into Chrysler would be the best choice, since it has those exceptionally good brakes and acceleration."
A dynamotor has usually a per- manent chain drive between it and the engine and consequent it cannot possibly have a very low gear, because the engine would then drive it at a terrific speed and soon smash it up. Accepting the fact that a dynamo speed of the dynamotor permissible The highest will run as a motor, the car owner would be round about 7,000 r.p.m., who has had experience of the and this means that the armature ordinary lighting dynamo may must give enough power with not quite reasonably ask if this type more than a 3-to-1 gear ration to of dynamo will run as a motor if assist it. As power is a direct pro- current from the battery be passed duct of the amount of current that into it? Certainly it will, and it can be sent through the dynamotor, is necessary to ensure that it can- the armature has to have specially not run, or tend to run, as a motor. heavy windings and there have also It is the purpose of the cut-qut de- to be special field windings. These vice invariably to open the battery-special windings are known as the Show, recently concluded in Lon- As evidenced at the Olympia dynamo circuit before current can "series" or power windings; whilst don, British manufacturers are at- flow back into the dynamo and tend the dynamo windings are known as tempting to stem the trend of popu- to run it as a motor. Owing to the the "shunt," these being of com lar favour toward American-made resistance caused by the drive, the paratively thin wire, whereas the cars with six new models displayed armature would in most cases not series windings are of a copper at the Show which are to compete be able rotate, with the result strip so as to carry a very power-directly with automobiles made in that the armature windings would ful current. overheat and be damaged.
the United States. Thie policy of A dynamotor is necessarily a urging British people to buy Bri much larger machine than either tish-made goods is being pressed the usual separate dynamo and through newspapers, magazines, starter, but although it combines and by the use of special stamps e to run as a motor temporarily; the two, it is as simple as a dynamo. on mailing pieces. In apite of this the armature had a free-wheel in The usual Bendix drive and fly propagande urging the use of Bri the pulley and when the engine wheel gear are dispensed with, and tish-made goods, Chrysler continues slowed down a small amount of there are only three brushes, in- to be the most popular American- current would flow back through the cluding the dynamo control brush. made car in Britain where it is dynamo; and the armature, run- The large, massively constructed said to represent the ideal concep- ning -free, made a clicking sound, armature on its stout shaft run-tion of quality, comfort, and fine and thereby called the attention of ning in ball bearings and the silent appearance at reasonable price. the driver to switch off the charg- chain drive is a thoroughly sound ing circuit. In this equipment a mechanical arrangement. cut-out was dispensed with.
It is interesting to recall that in an early design of a well-known equipment the dynamo was intend
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
REGISTRATIONS.
During July and August, 6,614 Western Australia, 186 taxicabs or motor cars were registered, in cars, 34 motor buses, 1.838 motor waggons, and 1,994 motor cycles.
The machine is similar to the Many Special Features. Whilst it is obviously true that ing,or free, according as the charg- ordinary dynamo, alther generat an ordinary dynamo will run as a ing switch is "on" or "off." If It motor, it would be of no use for the is at rest and it is required to start practical, purpose of car equip the engine, the pressing of the ment, and, in fact, a dynamotor is starting switch sends a strong cur- a machine embodying many special rent through the power winding features to enable it to generate and the machine drives the engine, an ample supply of current when On releasing the switch the engine running as a dynamo and also pro- drives the dynamotor as a dynamo.
CLOSE INSPECTION. duce ample power as a motor to There are no electrical complica- start the engine. A difficulty tions, the ordinary awitchbox being arises in that for starting the dynnused.
For the 19,000 inspections made "Altogether, the dynamotor on Studebaker cars during their motor cannot have the great ad- offers such important advantages manufacture, more than 700 in vantage of the ordinary starter of that its future is assured.
spectors are required.
NO-AS LONG AS YOU ĮARE NOT IN THE MOOD-I'LLİ GO ALONE- TO SEE YOU WITH A LONG FACE AT THESE AFFAIRS IS VERY
DISTRESSING TO ME-
RRINGING UP FATHER.
THAT WOZ NEAT- NOW FOR DUGAN'S CHOWDER PARTY- I THOUGHT I WUZ GOIN' TO
·MISS, IT
1927 BY INT'L Feature ServICE,
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WHERE'S DUGAN? WHERE IS THE CHOWÍDER · PARTY?,
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The Eyric Peak Hotel
Feet.
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LOCAL AND CHINESE SCENES.
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IT IS COIN TO BE-HE CALLED. IT OFF TONIGHT||
HE GOT AN INVITATION TOA GARDEN PARTY GIVEN BY MRS-VAN NEER AN' HE LEFT HERZ DRESSED UP LIKE A
CIRCUS WAGON