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MOTORING SECTION
BETTER DRIVE.
MOTOR-GENERATOR FOR CARS.
NEW IDEAS.
PRICES AND WAGES.
NEW OIL CONTROL RINGS,
''IN THE MOTOR VEHICLE TRADES.
Several years ago engineers in For the, motorist who is troubled The production of motors, cycles, nearly every country in the world with an olling engine, a new piston and aircraft was in 1907 something started experimenting with
an ring has been designed that is under $10,000,000 in value, and electrical drive for ships, it being claimed by the makers to complete-formed about 6 per cent. of the thought that this kind of drive would prove a little more econo-ly rectify the trouble. This ring value of the entire engineering in- dustry, including marine and mical and more simple of con- (the ventroil") is provided with electrical engineering. By 1924 it trol than the prevailing all-step joint, and vents or openings had become nearly ten times as steam method of propulsion. cut in a groove cut in the side. The large, and was over a fourth of the Tests were made on. several walls of the groove, which is on value of the entire industry. By small abips, and the drive the outside of the ring, and the 1926 its volume had increased fur- remodelled and
Both reconstructed venta or alots, are at an upward ther by about 86 per cent. until finally it grew to that state angle to the piston travel. The actually and relatively, however, of perfection which enabled its
has a these figures understate the extent fitment, with satisfactory results, upper side of the groove to very large ships. A notable scraping edge which collects the oil of progress. During the period in
question, as
well is painfully instance of this drive is the instal- when the piston moves downward, known, all costs have increased. Iation in the American battleship while the lower edge is bevelled and At the present time wholesale New Mexico, testa of which show serves to throw the oil against the prices are more than half as large that it is nearly twice as flexible cylinder wall as the piston moves again as they were in 1914, while, as the steam drive, and altogether upward. The surplus oil gathered as will be seen later, wages in the showed an increase of over 20 per in the groove is drained downwards. motor trade have increased still cent. in operating efficiency, with through the vents to the drain holes more. Yet the price of British
in cost a corresponding decrease
in the ring groove of the platon
cars has been reduced below the of running.
1914 level by over 10 per cent., and Unique Petrol Filter.
that of commercial vehicles has in- creased by less than 5 per cent., amounting in pre-war money reductions of nearly one- and more than one- half
The real in- third respectively.
motor vehicles is therefore sub- crease in volume of manufacture of stantially more than the increase in values, and contrasts with an in- crease in values of 50 per cent, to under 60 per cent. in marine and general engineering, with advances more in selling price that much
Even the than counterbalance it. electrical industry, which showed
has had a less increase in volume In 1924 five times the value of 1907, of manufactures by reason of in- crease ir, prices,
In the main the drive consists of a steam turbine geared to a gen-i A new and very efficient petrol erator, which in turn is electrical-filter has recently been designed and ly connected to, and furnishes the placed on the market by an Amer-to power for, an electric driving motor. Its chief advantages are ican inventor. The filter is unique in that the altering screens are that any desired speed can be obtained by a very simple control placed at an angle to the travel of of the driving motor, without any the petrol, and are so arranged that alteration in the speeds of either the fluid is treated four times be the turbine or the generator, thus Lore being passed on the carburet allowing these units to be almost tor. The screens used are: First constantly run at their most elof all a baffle plate, which causes the cient speeda. Another advantage is that any shocks or sudden varia-petrol to flow along the bottom wall tions of load in the final drive are of the filter, and deposit the larger eastly absorbed by the driving particles of foreign matter and motor without any detriment to it, water; then through a fine mesh the strain being actually absorbed gauze, which retains any large in the air cushion between the particles that may have escaped armature and the field magnets, from the baffle, and finally through This success in marine work has an auxiliary screen to a disc of spurred engineers to cast about chamois. The inventor claims that for other Aelds of application for this drive, and for some time ex by having the screens on an angle periments have been going forward much greater efficiency is obtain- in the development of the driveable, as there is actually a larger on a commercial basis for cars. A area of screen surface to treat the very serious set-back was met with petrol, and in addition the angle for quite a long time, owing to the prevents any clogging and corrosion fact that the orthodox type of of the screens. motors and generators, as used in the ship drive, was far too heavy for car use. This has at last been overcome by an engineer named Fraser, who has evolved a motor" and generator in one unit, and has made it so light that the total drive when placed in an experi-| mental Cadillac chassis was only 100lb. heavier than when fitted with the stock motor, and clutch and gear drive.
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It is not surprising to find that the course of employment has been similar. Where in 1907 the indus- try employed 34,000 persons, it is now employing over 250,000. annual increment since 1922 has been of the order of 16,000, which the coal strike reduced to 6,000, though the difference has been re- gained during the present year. It will be seen, however, that the ex ient of increase in employees is much less than proportionate to that in the volume of pro- duction. The explanation of the discrepancy is necessarily that each person employed has produced more. Between, 1907 and 1924, in fact, the value produced per person
The latest addition to the many increased by about 110 per cent.,
devices which have reduced motor-in spite of the decrease in selling
巋 ing trouble to minimum is prices and the correspondingly
Instead of the usual heavy struc- Galacite, which, it is claimed, tures of laminated iron the arma- makes tyres puncture-proof. It is tures of the motor and generator the invention of a British chemist consist of thin hollow cylinders, in Chicago and has been placed on and the conductors or wiring on the market after 16 years' experi- these are embedded in bakelite. mental work.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927.
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greater output required for a given It is true, indeed, that value. during the same period the horse. also doubled; but that this is no power employed per employee had sufficient explanation le evident from the fact that in, general and This cylindrical arrangement makes It is claimed for Galacite that it electrical engineering, though the It possible for the poles and fields does not dry up inside the tube and horse-power per employee had been to be placed inside the armature, one set being used for both the will lengthen the life of the tuba to increased in a still greater ratio,
This large increase in wages, motor and generator sections of 10,000 or 12,000 miles. It is on the the increase in value per employee made at the same time as selling the unit. To further reduce the Indian market at Rs. 15 per 82 cems to have been less than, or prices were reduced and cost of weight disc type commutators are ounce tin, this quantity being suf- not greatly different, from the materials had gone up. is a renew- used, instead of the usual cylin- ficient to fill the four tyres of a car. increase in selling prices. The ed prima facie example of the ad. true explanation seems to be, at vantage of high wages, when they drical type, there being a com- A satisfactory test was carried least in large part, that the em succeed and depend upon corres mutator for the generator part at out on the premises of the Auto-ployers were willing to give their ponding increase of production. the forward end and a motor com mobile Association of Bengal. A employees a fair on the figures it This, however, is not the only res teresting feature
to accept It and to
average
mutator at the rear ond. An in-
of the drive is tyre treated with the solution was may be said, indeed, a generouspect in which the policy of motor the very wide range of speed ratios driven over a board covered with share of the advantage of increased manufacturers illustrates in prac to even run the engine at a lower afterwards tested and showed little honest work in return. As a example, were given their full share which it affords., it being possible nails. The pressure of the tyre was production, and the men were free tice what often are not much more give than plous opinions. The men, for speed than the propeller shaft. or no reduction.
consequence (says Consequently when such a drive is
"Engineer-of the profits gained by facreased ing") the Installed the engine can be made
earnings production, hut the employers did of all men, skilled and unskilled, not pocket the balance, to operate for most of its time at
On the have increased from under 418. in contrary, they handed on the hulk Dearly
full throttle conditions. a great deal of magnetle leakage 1914 to over double that amount in of it to the consumer in the form which gives a marked economy in takes place from one pole to an- the present year, leaving them more petrol.
of the reductions of price. other, owing to the close proximity than 20 per cent. better off than in Like many other gears, the of the pole pieces. In Frazer's 1914, after allowing for the increase Frazer drive permits the car to drive the distance between ad in the cost of living.
RESOURCEFUL. over-run the engine, but this has jacent pole pieces is much greater. proved not to be a disadvantage on than usual, so that leakage is re- hilla, as the drive can be used to duced.
afford a very powerful and satia- The only control employed is a factory electrical brake. In order handle mounted on the steering
100% EFFICENCY. to understand one of the unique column, the use of which enables features of this drive, it is neces- a remarkably wide range of speeds is not possible unless all the sary to know that in the ordinary to be obtained at a touch. For organs of the body are acting mctor or generator a troublesome reverse the control is moved to an regularly, and properly. Used effect known as armature reaction extremo position, in which the con- when needed, Pinkettes Keep the occurs, which is due to a magnetic nections between the motor and liver and intestinal tract in good field being set up by the current generator are such that the motor] passing through the conductors armature reverses its direction of wound round the armature. This rotation...
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EFFORTS TO SOLVE GRAVE BASS PROBLEM, SANTA
An Automobile Association Boad Patrol saw a motor cyclist with a
Heavy from plates, as thick as pillion rider crossing a narrow those used to build battleship bridge. The driver apparently lost hulls, are now being laid down in control, and struck the side of the France as a test to see whether bridge. The rear of the machine iron will help to solve one of the tilted up and flung the pillion gravest internal problems the passenger over the bridge. keeping of paved roads in con- Knowing that there was a fall ofdition under the strain of the nearly 20 feet, and that the stream growing motor traffic. The plates below had a bed of rocks, the AA are riveted to a concrete base, Patrol rushed to the scene, jumped and the plan is favoured by the from the bridge, and went to the General Staff of the French Army, assistance of the passenger who because the plates would form a was lying at the bottom the valuable reserve of iron in case of stream, face downwards and sert war. Secondary roads could be ously injured.
stripped of their Iron, and the The AA Patrol called for a concrete base would still remain doctor and an ambulance, rendered to carry transporteron first aid, and assisted in making the roads are said to be as negr wear- the proof as possibly, but they have
|comfortably hot under the sun.
field distorts the field produced by Taking it all round, the drive is the electro-magnets. In the Frazer very simple, compact, and very drive the conductors of the strongly built, and will no doubt cylindrical generator and motor be a boon to those drivers that are armatures are close together not keen on manipulating ageur that the field produced by one aet handle; for the driving will merely is neutralised by the other set. consist of steering and moving the working order, thus eliminating This elimination of armature reac- control to regulate the speed. constipation, sick headaches, bilions tion enables more power to be Looking backwards over the im- attacks and keeping the system handled by the machine for a given provemente in cars during the last clean and healthy of chemists, or weight of copper and iron in its 20-years one is apt to speculate: post free, 60 cents the vial, from injured lady comfortable construction. Yet another point is What will the next score bring Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60, ambulance for the journey to the the dimdvantagy of growing un- that in the conventional machine forth?
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