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THE CHINA MAIL,
MOTORING SECTION
SMOOTH PERFORMER RELINING BRAKES. SPRINGING OF CARS.
DODGE BROTHERS & DRAWS
. WARM PRAISE.
OWNERS' RESPONSIBILITY AND DUTY.
LAISNE SUSPENSION
SYSTEM.
It has been fully demonstrated, One of the lateat improvements as the result of a special inquiry, in motor car suspension does away in the United States, that motor with the orthodox eliptic system. accidents are chiefly due, either to It comes from France and the an all too, common desire to oper- fertile brain of an engiucer named ate automotive vehicles at a Leon Laisne. maximum speed at all times and main of a separate suspension for It consists in the without proper care, or to a faulty each wheel, the movement of which brake control. When the crisis is controlled by three very strong comes, the driver finds his brakes spiral aprings working in a tubular are faulty, but it is too late to side member of the chassis. avert a serious or fatal accident in│
The suspension of motor vehicles. which the guilty or innocent, has probably received more atten- victims pay the penalty.
tion in France during recent years) "What is the proper and only than in any other car manufactur- situations?" was a question put to very bad condition that prevailed remedy to apply to control such ing country, due, no doubt, to the an automotive expert.
on their roads after the war. fact, the roads there were so bad that for quite a long period the ordinary method of suspension, as used on cars, proved almost uselesa from a comfort point of view, and it was in an endeavour to combat this condition that the Laisne Bus- pension came into being, Like so many other important inventions, it is exceedingly simple, and this simplicity extends Itself to the whole of the chassis layout of the car in which it is installed, a short description of which is as follows:
The arrival of Dodge Brothers' keenly anticipated Six has swung the spot light of interest in the direction of the salesrooms where, tradition tells us, the word "depend able" was given popular coinage. Thero it remains focused, for the new Six, the Senior, reveals much that absorbs the attention and much also that creates surprise.
New cars and new models are constantly rolling over the horizon, but a Six arriving from the Dodge laboratories carries its own peculiar news value. There are, of course, certain pre-conceived ideas as to high quality in structure and "Where such a multitude and mechanies, due to the past history variety of excuses or reasons may of the makers covering a period of be given in every case to avoid twelve successful years during responsibility-the only real which nearly two million cars were remedy, from a practical view built and marketed. But how does point, le for the owner and driver of the vehicles causing such ac- this new member of the family per-cidents to be held responsible for form? And- hero la
where It, and then severely punished in curiosity is perhaps uppermost all cases.. how does it look? Is there a note of conservatiam in its appearance? Or does it look as though its de- signers were appealing to flaming youth?..
In
are
"If such legal methods were ap- plied unanimoualy everywhere, we would soon command a wholesome respect from careless offenders be- cause of fear of the consequences. The frame is built of heavy It may be said at once that with established where brake relining bers consisting of straight tubes "There are brake service stations gauge steel tubing, the side mem- out being extreme In any sense
can be done 'while you wait.' The about in. in diameter, and Dodge Brothers Six has plenty of new lining will be properly adjust- joined by three cross members each snap in its appearance as well as ined at the same time. Then the about 2iu. In diameter. The road its performance. Niran Bates Pope, motorist is conscious of having wheels are articulated to the one of the foremost technical editors done his whole duty to ensure the chassis by means of tubular forged in the country, hits it off well when safety and control of his own car leverd. From the end of these he says in Automobile Topics: or truck on the public highways. levers a small arm extends down- "State Governments could great-wards through a slot into the cor- "Dodge Brothers Senfor is a dia- tinctive embodiment of the spirit of assist in this safety work by responding tubular side member of
making it a requirement for the the frame, where it actuates Issuance of State licences that arrangement of three powerful motorists show actual proofs that steel coil springs, working within they have had their brakes inspect the tube. ed and adjusted regularly during "Its size le rendered indefinite by the preceding year, and failure en the gently rounded contours of the the part of the applicant to pro- roof line which is crowned and duce such proofs to the State to moulded over the sides to produce be a just cause for refusing a zafeguard the general public should the effect of length and lowneas licence to such applicants until without unpleasant accentuation these requirements anywhere. Actually it standa a the sworn proof produced. fraction over 71 inches from the ground, but it looks considerably
the times." Mr. Pope, who made an intensive study of the new product and wrote exhaustively on the sub- ject, continues:
lower.
An entirely new interpretation of the moulding line is created by the use of recessed panels on the doors and swinging around the back from one rear quarter to that on the other side. The entire front of the car is distinctively new.. The radiator is deep, rather high and surrounded by barely more than a rim of the polished shell which is of uniform width, save where it widens out. The butterfly butter sweep of the guards is effective; the lines of the hood ragged and strong.
are met
an
The lever arrangement gives a reduction of four to one between the vertical movement of the wheel under road shocks and the small arm actuating the the springs have been made exceed- springs. To combat this leverage, ingly stiff; actually the main coil and is made of material with a sec-)
tional diameter of a third of an "Unless the various States join inch, and requires
thrust of! this 'national safety on the streets nearly three tons to compress it And highways" movement by solid. The return springs act as heartily co-operating with the Na- dampening devices, like the shock only from accidents can be guar-springs, and are adjustable from tional Government, small relief absorbers fitted to ordinary leaf anteed or secured for safety to the the outside by means of nuts at the general public.
ends of the tubular side members of the frame.
"A licensed motor car, bus, or truck places upon our streets and The rear suspension is exactly. highways a "trackless locomotive' similar to the front end, and the geared to equal the speeds of the engine power is transmitted to the fastest express trains, and turns driving wheels by means of uni- sands of grade crossings with the These shafts have been made much every street and highway into thou-versally jointed cardan shafts. consequent grade crossing danger.
"Our remedy is to demand fre- quent brake inspection of every motor vehicle by authorities for the protection of our families and for the general public."
"There is abundant room inside the car for comfortable riding and frequent change of posture during a long drill' in uncomfortable wea- ther. All the interior work is care- At Germar's Cross, Bucks, there fully tuned on the chromatic scale was until recently a dangerous road- to a soft and durable exterior of junction where
accidents were blues and greens in lacquer finish, notoriously frequent. One evening set off appropriately with ivory hair a motorist who was making his way Ilnes."
slowly through the town stopped a Mr. Pope goes
over the cor passer-by. "Do you know," he minutely from a mechanical stand. said, "where I can get some spare point and makes this interesting parts for my car?" "Oh, yes," summary of the power plant:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional "phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
1
2
1
10
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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122
23
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26
27
28
24
30
32
36
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410
12
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$45
146
48 49
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52 53
55
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47
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL
1-Ent 4-Agitates
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 43-Province of
Canada (abbr.)
-Past
12-Period
13-Court of Spanish
dwelling
-Black bird
15-Aiso
16 Retired
*17-Flower
18-Blood ingredient
20-Parent 21-Exist
23-Eastern Státo -
(abbr.)
24-Most certain
24-By 90-Niter
32-A sigh -34-High hill (England)
36-To utter wildly. 30-Done 39-Sheltered side 40-Followed
41-Exclamation to
44-One-fourth of an acre (abbr.) 45-Boar 47-Aclencos
80-Paln
61-Pat
·64-Note of a dove
55-Land measure (pl.) 66-Meadow 67-Golf term 18-Conveyances ¡59-Limb.
VESTICAL
-2-Valo
3-Fills out
4-Extra tires
B-Bat down in order B-Article
7-Drive out
8-Extremaly
9-Confusion
express impatience | 10—Auto fuel
VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-Bo indebted ¡17-Less common
19-Man's name (short) 20-Young dog 21-Rapidly
22-Fruit 24-Lengthened
25-Legal term: "and
others"
26-A number
+
27-Foreat growth' (pl.) - 29-Batiars
(81-Parcel of ground-
[83-Goads
37-Constellation
139-Farce
48-Musical riote 48-43560 square fast 46-Girl's toy 47-De 48-Fish egge 42-Digit
50-High card 52-8mall
53-Poster 158-Prefix. To
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably surs. 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 an uneti-ally or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
MASS OROP BORTH ROVELI SEAT. ATE-YEAS WHET FROGSPRIT HEN NOCPOSI
LIA F
GROAN
Island. Victoria Peak Signal Station Mt. Parker
Feat.
1823
1774
IWIGH
1734
SCENE
Mountain Lodge The Eyrie Peak Hotel
1725
1725
1305
ONPLUS DULLI
Talkoo Sanatorium
1000
877
Bowen Rd. (filterbeds)
207
Mainland.
Taimosnan Kowloon Park
3124
1971
longer than is the general practice, HONGKONG HEIGHTS and the inner enda have been brought as near as possible to the centre of the differential in order the following list of some of the For the information of visitors
to reduce the angle which the higliest points on the Island and shafts make from the horizontal | Mainland is published:- when the car is moving or bumping over a rough road. When the car is stationary on a level rand, the cardans are horizontal. The object the excessive wear that takes place of reducing this angle is to reduce
in all universala working under conditions where they are more or less constantly at big angle.
There are several very desirable! features about this new suspension, one of them being that the move- ment of the wheels, under the in- fluence of road shocks, is absolute- replied the native obligingly, "Goly vertical, thus practically elimin- The motor follows modern prac-along to the 'cross-roads and help ating any possibility of the tice in numerous ways, utilising yourself." also the many years experience of Dodge Brothers engineering depart- ment in producing a power plant that will run on and on with a
minimum of attention for years. It cross continental testa to have ́re- would be in the eyes of some demarkable endurance under the sert signers a little bigger in volume of punishment only cross contin- than the weight of the ear demands, ental drivers know how to inflict. but this means abundant power It handles as any car should. The under all circumstances. Though clutch pedal and the engagement are the major emphasis is not placed on smooth; the gears change easily and speed it will probably yield a great the standard shift will be a comfort | deal longer life and produce a great to many drivers.
deal less trouble for the consumer "As for speed, the car on smooth than any of the high speed motors." pavements picks up uniformly to But in the last analysis actual its 50, its 60 or more and no one performance is a vastly important doubts the speedometer. In second factor. The impressions of a season- it flashes to the smartest kind of ed observer like Mr. Pope are im- portant: "That the Senier will sell very largely on sight and on the strength of Dodge Brothers reputa tion is a foregone conclusion," he says, "for it is A clean-cut thoroughly modern car. Bat more than all that it will sell on demon- etration. It is a remarkably smooth performer under normal road con- ditions. It has been proved on
COME HERE YOU GREAT-
MORON!
un-
oven tyre wear that is sometimes experienced in cars having a sys- tem of radial anchorage for the wheels in relation to the chassis. Another strong point in favour of this method of suspension is the obtained (the whole of the trans- very low chassis level that is
level), and which makes for very mission is actually above the frame safe speed work over all conditions of roads.
The transmission itself is protected, from underneath, by a flat steel platform which extenda across the frame, and acts both as an undershield and as a body plat-
form.
On test the system has proved to be very efficient, and possesses in that result in comfortable riding an exceptional manner qualities get-away-26, 80, 35 or even 40- under even the most severe condi- without perceptible vibration, with- tions, both as regards bad roads out any of those groans and rumbl-surface and speed. The tests were ings that make so many drivers carried out on an open chassis, and afraid of second speed.”
it was particularly observed that even though the wheels were leap Mr. Pope summarises his impres- sions thus: "It is a car of arm-ing up and down a distance of sometimes 8in, the chassis remain- chair comfort, volvety control and a willingness to perform-about Chassis using this suspension are ed perfectly horizontal and rigid. which there can be no argument being built in France in large whatever.”
quantities at the present time.
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