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Mr. H. Thornton Rutter writes In the "Daily Telegraph", London, on 'December 1:-
TURBULENCE.
HOW IT INCREASES ENGINE EFFICIENCY.
radiators or lamps. At first Bri- In an article on the Held Diesel tish motorists considered these engine, which appeared a few weeks fenders somewhat disfiguring to ago, I mentioned the fact that the Motorists who are, thinking of the artistic appearance of their cylinder head was designed to take taking their cars to the Riviera carriages. Now practical com- should give due consideration to mon-sense is telling them that full advantage of the turbulence theory, and it has since occurred to the accessories, especially if they "safety first" is by no means a
me that perhaps turbulence as are going to drive themselves, as bad motto, and that the cost of the little gadgets on the car do Atting bumpers is kaved ten times applied to internal combustion en- much for the comfort of those who over by the consequent protection gines may not be familiar to every travel in it. It is extraordinary from minor disfigurements of the one. In this article I am going to how few cars are "well-found," as | coschwork and wings. A large describe what it is and how it the soaman expresses it.
One variety of bumpers or fenders is increases engine efficiency. First seldom sees foot-muffs for the available to the motoring public; of all let us take the meaning of passengers in cold weather, yet some of these are good, some bad, the word. It means violent stirring with all the vogue of the closed and some indifferent in their de- or agitation. When we stir or car feet do get cold, especially, of sign and construction, but all course, during very long journeys. afford more or less protection agitate our cup of tea our object Recently rear trunk cases have from minor Injuries. Those who is to dissolve the sugar more quick- become more fashionable, and are thinking of fitting these excel- ly. Here we have an overyday these are in their way "foot-muffs lent accessories may well be re-example of turbulence. In this in- for the luggage, as they protect the minded that what is required is stance turbulence produces results ault-cases which are housed inside something that will provide the in a short space of time that would them from the effects of the road same protection as a fender does otherwise require considerable time. and weather. Quite a number of to a steamboat or motor-launch----
In the internal combustion en- cars shown at the recent Olympia something that will bend but not gine combustion of the charge in Motor Show had rear tranka break and, at the same time, will dependent on the proper mixing of shaped to fit the back of the car, yield to the shock and not be so the fuel vapour and air, and, on the instead of the plain square boxes stifly supported on the chassis fuck being held in suspension in the covered with an inferior kind of members as to strain them. The
of the American cloth which were the coat of mending a bumper is small mixture up to the time
this original types. As the cabriolet is compared to that of mending ignition. In order to do the particular type of vehicle dumb-irons or the chassis frame. efficiently the cylinder head of the which is most favoured at the Some of these bumpers work on engine has to be so designed that moment, there is no solid roof to pneumatle or hydraulle cushions to the gases are agitated, and kept zo carry luggage, for the roof le now aid the spring faces to receive the until the charge is fired. made of leather material, soft and shock of impact; others depend on lined, so as to absorb and hush the the spring of the metal to give noises which may be developed by sufficiently to absorb the losser the mechanism. The result is that blows, and when a too severe one nl the luggage which has to be occurs let the fender itself be carried must either be accommo- broken in place of more important dated on the rear luggage-grid or parts of the vehicle. It is well, else on the running boards, in or- therefore, to avoid the bumper der not to incommode the passen- which is too strong. gers inside the carriage. The ex- panding luggage guard is conse- quently being more commonly fitted to the running-boards as a luggage holder.
Headlamps.
Flame. Propagation. Turbulenco also presents another advantage, in that it tends to accelerate the rate,
of flame pro- pagation. Since the rapid mixing is by rapid circulation during the explosion, it mechanically carries the flame at a speed much higher than its unaided rate of progress. In other words by throwing the masses of burning gas. throughout the charge it creates a number of new points of combustion, so that the rapidity of combustion is far greater than would ordinarily hap- pen, and more power results.
Now in order to consume the greatest amount of gaseous mix- ture in a given time it is obvious that the area of flame has to be at
its maximum. The most effectivo
way of consuming the greatest amount of mixture in the shortest time is to provide a dealgn of com- bustion chamber that will permit a rapid spread of flame aurface developing at each successive ad- vance an increasing area of con- Turbulence is the means of accom- tact with the unburnt mixture, plishing this, but readers will pro- bably wonder how the charge kept turbulent after it reaches the combustion chambers. Turbulence
Starting the Engine, Cold weather brings quite a number of difficulties to the novice motorist, and if he is not prepared with a little knowledge his task of Dipping and swivelling head- starting the engine in the morning lamps are being fitted as standard is difficult, and the car is likely to equipment on some of the lower- need more in fuel to keep it running priced motor-cars, but other makes during the day. Some of the more leave their owners to provide expensive cars are fitted with these accessories for themselves, thermostats, a form of water Now we have had a spell of fog valve which short-circuits the many garages are busy changing radiator from the cylinder jackets, the present headlamps, which are and so enables the heat of the en- only capable of maintaining a fix gine to warm up the water around ed position, for this anti-dazzle the cylinders to the right tempera- and better-fog-lighting method; but ture before it is permitted to cir one often wonders why these things culate and be cooled in the radia- are left until the last moment. tor system. The great majority of With the largely increased number vehicles, however, are unprovided of vehicles on the road at night with this device, and the motorist time, and at a season of the year is obliged to use more primitive when mist and fog are bound to methods, such as pasting up be prevalent, every purchaser of portion of the radiator with brown a a new car should realise that these paper, slipping off the fan belt (if accessories are necessary for the any) in order to put the fan out of safety of the driver, passengers, commission, or fitting radiator and the vehicle itself. Swivel
muts and radiator shutters. The headlamps, too, are a measure of Inst are the most effective form of courtesy towards other road users,, mechanical thermostat, as radiator can be produced by two methods. and as such are equally essential shutters can be controlled and First of all, by means of the intake at all times of the year. One of manipulated according to circum-gas velocity past the intake valve the clauses of the amended Vehl- stances. It fe true they cost a during the suction, stroke, and, cles Lighting Bill, which has paas- little more to it, but they are a secondly, by means of piston com- ed through the Standing Commit-permanent equipment when provid-pression. The latter method is tee of the House of Commons, ed, and are as useful in the sum claimed to be the most effective for provides that lights swivelling mer as they are necessary in the with the front wheels, or dipping, winter. All such devices help a given speed of the engine, and is should be permitted; so that towards economy, as every ounce accomplished by designing the although the existing law says of petrol consumed can only give combustion chamber so that it has that the headlamps must be fixed out so many thermal units, and the what may be termed a turbulent and throw the light only in the more heat is required for raising orifice. This is obtained from the direction in which the car is going, the temperature of the water when use of a high valve pocket and a no authority would think of inter the motor is running, the greater somewhat restricted fering with cars fitted with dipping the waste of fuel. Therefore it the piston chamber, so that, during headlights. In practice these pays to control the water-circula-
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space above
lamps have proved their efficiency tion temperatures, both by atting the compression, the greatest por- in that they avoid dazzling other a thermometer and by some device tion of the gases are compressed in oncoming drivers and are helpful to hasten the warming of the the valve pocket. In entering this In concentrating the light in front water in circulation when the pocket they are forced through the of the car on the nearside curb motor is started, and to keep it orifice created
by the reduced
during a fog.
If the dipping at its right temperature for the height of the cylinder head above head-lamp is further fitted either remainder of the time that the car the piston. By this means the with a yellow reflector or a screen is in use. In starting from cald, gases are kept in constant. motion in front of the glass (which trans the novice is apt to open the
forms the white rays into orange, throttle too wide when difficulty is at the instant ignition takes place. ones), the light is not reflected}
Swirling Of Gases. back by fog or mist, and gives to Are. Opening the throttle wide experienced in getting the engine hotter way-finding Illumination
An example of such design is in than a pure white light. As there lessens the suction power of the the Ricardo type of head, which is engine at low revolutions, and are some half a dozen or more what is required to vapourise the rapidly coming into favour with methods of transforming fixed petrol on cold days is a high suc-manufacturers of engines. The headlamps into dipping once, motortion velocity through a narrow compact form of the combustion carriage users should have little orifice, so as to produce a rich mix fresitation in adopting this safety ture in a gaseous form.
device.
Bumpers And Fenders. Bumpers or fenders are also
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chamber and the turbulence created
by the piston causes a rapid swirl- Ing of the gases, thus producing a rapid distribution of the flame
becoming a standard equipment on would otherwise be possible, the throughout the mixture. The low-priced imported cars, so that power of the engine is increased to charge, when compressed, is as com no doubt next year we shall see a very marked degree, and also pact as possible, and the run of the these added as standard equipment owing to the better mixing of the fame to the farthest end of the on British modela. Here again the gases and the consequent better combustion chamber is very short. congestion of traffic tends to: In-
Under these conditions, that is, when the flame travels faster than
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crease the number of minor colli combustion higher compression sions which are not dangerous to ratios are made possible, which still life, or limb, but are certainly apt further increase the power output to erumple wings, dent oll tanks and general efficiency of the unit and back panels, and fracture"Sparka" in "The Queenslander.”
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The "Overland Mail" this week contains the full story of the piratical attack in the Canton Delta on the steamer "San Nam Hoi." An eye-witness (the Chief Engineer) gives a vivid description of the battle that was waged on deck be tween the gallant skipper and himself on one side and thirty or more pirates, all armed, on the other, and he tells how, after a stubborn fight, the invaders were driven off, some being killed and others captured. A few escaped by jumping overboard. The Chief Officer of the ship, Mr. Conway, and two Indian guards were shot dead. A special report appears in the "Overland" describing in the words of the quartermaster how the Chief Officer met his death.
In regard to matters Chinese, comparative peace reigns. at Canton. The administrators of the Kwangri faction, headed by Gen. Li Chai-sum, appear to be settling down to construc- tive rule and efforts are being made to oust the always- troublesome labour element.
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