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A SUCCESSFUL BRITISH MODEL.
whose crankshaft is carried on only criticism I have to make on seven bearings, has no vibration-the design- of the engine. period at any speed up to about 58 Mechanically speaking, it is per- miles an hour, the maximum fectly sound, but a tap is what is reached on the trial. The car I wanted for convenience. drove was brand new and this
The dynamo and magneto are Those who delight in giving pressed me a good deal. One ex-side of the engine, driven in tan- complete absence of period im-mounted on a platform on the off- names to the progressive periods cellent obvious advantage this dem by chain from the half-time of motor design will probably label quality has is that the extremely gear. This platform is hinged so 1927 an the two-litre year. It is low top speed gear ratio does not that by swinging it inwards or intrude itself upon your notice. outwards, the slack in the driving not so much because this particu- The Mercedes picks up remark-chain may be conveniently taken lar size engine has yet become a ably well, and considering that it up. An excellent idea. Some- really popular type-for the 11 was fitted with a four-seated
thing in the nature of a "hot spot" fabric saloon, gathered way in a is available in that the carburettor litre must still be counted as, very satisfactory manner. It is a is placed up against the exhaust numerically, at all events, the decidedly lively car, and although manifold. which overhangs the most popular-but the examples I should not be inclined to call it inlet. The exhaust pipe is led of it on the market are generally really fast one, it is certainly a down forward, immediately be The whole so successful that most people re- car in which excellent average hind the radiator."
speeds can be maintained over the engine is plain but workmanlike gard them as the car of the im-roads of this country. I was not and of a type decidedly attractive mediate future. If 1928 is the favourably impressed with the to the owner driver. A large real two-litre year, the credit of gear change, which, owing to the locker in the dashboard under the it will be due to 1927. The fash-action of the clutch, was not par- bonnet carries the tools and ion for the moment is for a six-ticularly easy to handle noiseless-affords room enough for a spare ly. This was certainly an un-tin of oll. This is quite the best cylinder two-litre but it is just be- expected discovery in a Mer-place for a tool outfit I have cause there is a select number of cedes. The gears themselves, seen. four-cylinder two-litre machines however, run with pleasant ab-
A particularly light plate clutch which are thoroughly successful Hence of noise, and to master the
trick of noiseless changing is Caries the power from the engine and desirable that I am inclined after all, only a matter of prac- to a four-speed gear box, whose to believe that the 2,000 cc. en- tice The speed indicator dial ratios are: top. 4.7 to 1: 3rd 7.5 gine is on the point of heading the shows the driver at what speeds to 1; second, 12 to 1; and bottom, the different gears should be 17 to 1. The gear lever, is on the poil. It is not a question of num-changed. The steering is light, right-hand side of the driver. in bers of cylinders, but of dimen- and on the whole, steady, but I particularly accessible position. sions; not of fad, but of sense. noticed a slight tendency towards An open propeller shaft with flexible joints at either end car. For it is a truism that the larger snatch over portholes.
The four-wheel brake set is res the drive to the helical gear most genuinely economical your have ever used, an absolute mini- supplemented by shock absorbers. erous semi-elliptics to hoth axles, motoring should prove within rea-mum of pressure on the pedal The petrol tank, which holds 12 being necessary to bring the car gallons, is carried at the rear of I choose, as examples of the instantly within complete control; the chassis and is fitted with an
The springing is very good, and absolutely correct gauge, latest two-litre classes, the new has not got that stiffness which supply to the carburettor is main- 6-cylinder Mercedes and the new is generally found in the suspen-tained by an autovac. 4-cylinder British Hillman. The 'sion of Continental-built cars.
A powerful set of four-wheel Mercedes engine has a boré and find really very little indeed to stroke of 65 by 100, a ratio which criticise in this car, beyond, as I brakes is operated by the pedal, is almost universal in this type of have pointed out, the trickiness and the usual extra pair in the engine. It is in every practical of gear change. I do not care for drums controlled by side lever. feature of absolutely orthodox de- the automatic advance and re- The Hillman brakes are particu- sign. The valves are lateral, the tard of the ignition, but I am well larly good, especially in regard to head is detachable and, beyond aware
that large numbers of the means of adjustment. Each the expected neatness and cleanli- drivers prefer it to the more
brake is adjustable independently ness of finish, there is nothing to scientific and efficient hand-con- by means of a really accessible which attention need be called, trolled arrangement. The car,
| star comfortably turned by hand.. except possibly, the ignition. This with the four-seated fabric saloon, while in addition another star is by battery and distributor, a costs £710, at which price you get situated by the gear box, takes system which is rapidly growing a first-class car, which, if not an up the slack simultaneously in the outstandingly brilliant perform-four-wheel set. Cables are used In the transmission a departureer, is obviously a thoroughly throughout and the compensation from common Mercedes practice sound machine, with many years
I found to be faultless. The side will be found in the three-speed of hard work at the disposal of its brake, the lever of which is in a
engine you can afford to use, the certainly one of the very best 1/box axle. Suspension is by gen-
sonable limits..
in favour on the Continent.
not an arrangement I care for my- self, but for those still numer- ous people who are too indolent
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SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928.
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.)
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35
36
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HORIZONTAL
A child's plaything
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE..
| HORIZONTAL (Cont)
44-A pacullar feature
5-Payment for service 48-A high explosive
rendered
7-Personal pronoun
9-Cooking utenall
10-A
familiar friend'
12-A anare of a trap 14-Pale
15-More Blustrious 17-A tong period of
tima 10-Famous English
poet
CD-Change the
direction of 23-Same
Same degree with
another
24-Pronoun
36~One
One engaged in
mining 20-Composition for two!
performers
30-To harai
32-To lay with stones
33-That is (abbr)
34-An
-An expanse of salt
water 35-Direct
36-Bachelor of Arts
(abbi.)
37-A small chamber 40-Briat cassation of
hostilitas
42-To tire **
(abbr.) |47-Quadruped with
hump
VERTICAL (Cont.)
13-Word af daniai 16-Liquid measure
(abbr.)
18-Distilled from julca
of sugar cane
148-Daprived of hearing 19-Rodent
50-incapable of speech 21-Tear Bl-Wet earth
22-Proclamation
63-Great scential of 23-Strange
France Frage
56-Louse
24-Vital
organ
25-TO perform again
58-To unite with needle 27-Etude
and thread 60-Move along
Enoothly
61-Tease
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62-Fragment of cloth 63-Opposed to no
64-Young goat
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1-Ta maka a
memorandum
2-A flowar (pl.) 3-Of great bulk 4-Clapper of a belt
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title (It) 6--Finish B-Orange-yellow
S-Keystone State
(abbr.)
10-Shed tears {11-However
28-Klee
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authority
30-Wager
31-Knot
38-Used for climbing 39-Falschood
41-Harmonies 42-Block up by.
crowding 43-Moved with a
pecullor pace 6-Light blow 47-A
mongrel dog 45-Grow weary 10-Proper
52-Uncle Sam (abbr.) 64-Crafty
55-tloads of
newspapers (abbr) 67-Cutting tool 69-Route
63-Rival
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gear box. The ratios of the gears owner. The body-work is un-particularly happy position, has are low, 6 to 1 on top, and this, as usually low, but there is, never-an additional means of taking up might be expected, makes the car theless, plenty of head-room for wear through a star placed on the particularly eaay to drive in traffic the seated passenger. The gen- top of the lever, which may be
is in £320, the weather protection of and on ordinary main roads with eral appearance of the car is ex-screwed up while the car very little gear-changing. It is cellent.
motion.
which is so ingenious and simple The Hillman has delightful and efficient that the car is trans- manners on the rond. I should not formed in a couple of minutes to call it a particularly fast car, 55 what really amounts to a coupe- or, if you prefer it, too practical The two-litre Hillman is a car miles an hour being the absolute with this advantage over the real to wish to drive a car as it should of a comparatively new type, maximum I have been able to coupe, that the windows be driven, it is, of course, perfect- which has had an instantaneous reach with the open models, but extend behind the line of the ly suitable.
success. It was introduced to the the pick up and acceleration and driver's shoulder. The dashboard Everything about this chassis public early in 1926, if my recol- the hill-climbing possibilities are fittings are very neatly carried is remarkably robust, as is gen-lection is correct, and it has re- so good that it is possible to keep out and there is no suggestion of erally the case in first-class Con- ceived a really flattering amount up really high average speeds cheapness in any of the models. tinental makes. The wheel base of praise by everyone who is hour after hour, without any This is a very interesting_exam- is 9 ft. 4 ins., which implies an knowledgeable in such matters. sense of effort. Its easy cruis-ple of thoroughly sound British overall length of 13 ft. 6 ins.. and The main thing which has ating speed is as high as 45 miles an engineering. John Prioleau in the weight of the chassis is in the tracted the greatest attention is hour. The gear box is one of the the "Review of Reviews." neighbourhood of 15 cwts. A the remarkably simple and com- best I know, and changing speed rather special design of four-monsense design of the entire as it should be, is a pleasure. The wheel brakes is fitted. of what is chassis. I have had extended opgears themselves make very little known as the self-energisingportunities of studying this car, noise, passengers situated in the type, while the usual hand-con-both in the 1926 and 1927 series, back of the five-seater being only No. 12, D'Aguilar Street,
distingush the (opposite Queen's Theatre)trolled pair operate on the rear and there is no doubt in my mind just able to
drums. The suspension is by that the designers have succeeded difference between top and third, semi-elliptics all round, the rear in achieving a degree of simplicity at moderate speeds. springs being particularly flat. and convenience of maintenance
The steering in the 1927 model The feature which is undoubtedly which it is very rare to find in has been considerably improved, the mast interesting throughout cars costing as little as this. and is now as good as modern the car is the centralised chassis The bore and stroke of the steering can be made. The car lubrication, which differs from four-cylinder engine, ure 72 by may be driven at its highest any other system of which I have 120, which implies a £13 annual speeds in perfect safety with had any experience in being truly tax. Side by side valves are used, three fingers of one hand on the automatic. That is to say that and fan-assisted thermo-syphon rim of the wheel, and it is nearly the oil is pumped from the gear cooling. Lubrication is by pres- as light on bends at slow speeds box to a general distributor and sure and an excellent feature is as on the straight. This has been thence to every lubrication point, that no internal pipes are used, achieved, of course, by giving it a On the road the Mercedes is the oil being driven to its work very low gear, but in practice this certainly comfortable and plea-through ducts cast in the engine seems to have no disadvantages sant to drive. The engine is, I casing. The risks of a choked at all. The springing for 1927 is suppose, almost as noiseless as it lend are therefore practically also better than that in the first is possible for one of its design to negligible. The oil pump is series.
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