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OBSTRUCTIONS.
SPEED NOT DANGEROUS IN ITSELF.
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INADEQUATE ROADS.
A very brief experience of the
THE ENGINEERS.
FAN, WIND TUNNEL AND RESEARCH.
MUCH EQUIPMENT.
FAIR SEX.
SHOWS DRIVING SKILL.
FEWER ACCIDENTS.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SINGER'S.
BIRMINGHAM WORKS ACTIVITIES.
BRITISH ENERGY.
The old proverb has it that "a
Are women drivers involved in One often hears tales of American busincas methods and roads will show that speed itself straw will show which way the more accidents than men?
This question has caused much "hustle" but the new Singer is not dangerous. Danger is im- wind blows." Perhaps it will. ported only when speed is asso. But a atraw would be hardly re- argument and to a certain extent works at Birmingham provide an ciated with other factors-for in-liable enough for an indicator in has resulted in.ibose arguing reach example of British energy and stance, corners, live stock, child-air current studica made by Genting or definite decision. However, business acumen which would be ren and the, like, Perhaps the oral Motors research engineers, according to A. R, McCullough of hard to beat. -factor which most often renders They study air currents to de-the Benson-McCullough Motor Com- It was only on June 11 last fan and radiator pany, it is now in a fair way to be year that these huge factories speed perilous is an obstruction termine
of some kind. A double stream efficiency, The apparatus they decided by checks being made in were acquired by the company. of traile hurtles along an 18-ft. use-ingenious in design and un-various parts of the United States A vast amount of old machinery, etc, had to be removed and the road at quite high speeds-usual in appearance consists of by automobiles.
The fan, run by an electric
tified.
In a
thirty-five or even forty-five a large cylinder, shaped not un- "In the absence, of complete fig-layout of the works had, of miles an hour-and no peril arises like the wind tunnels for testingjures the fair sex seem to have the course, to be altered entirely. until one of the lines is checked aeroplane modele. One end is en- best of it," McCullough asserted. Yet it is confidently expected that or bent outward by some petty larged, resembling a huge tele- "For instance, in the District of an output of 140 cars a day will little obstruction. Alongside this phone mouth-piece or bell. The Columbia it was found that of 122,- be reached shortly. obstruction the chances of a other end is adapted to fit snugly 200 persons operating automobiles The Birmingham works are in two parts; there is a six-storey smash becomes almost continu- round the different radiators 15 per cent. were women.
The obstruction may be a which, together with different check of 88 fatal accidents only 2.4 building which measures 320 by
Frener cent. women
drivers were in- 220 ft., and a single-floor assem- labourer trundling a barrow, a fans, are undergoing test. nursemaid wheeling a perambula-quently the whole front end of a volved, while 91.6 per cent. were bly shop 700 ft. in length and 200 tor, a couple of lovers arming each ear or truck is nosed into the men. Six per cent. were uniden-ft. in width, which is supposed to be the longest covered building in other, a cyclist, or worse still, atunnel. small clump of cyclists, a horsed
"Here in San Francisco a study England. In all, the floor space nearly half-a-mil- vehicle, or, most perilous of all a motor, pulls air through an auto-of 1,000 fatal motor vehicle accid-measures wide and tall tradesman's van mobile radiator and, in this eflents indicated that women drivers lion square feet-approximately temporarily parked outside a cot-eiency test, it pulls air also comprising 20 por cent. of the total equal to that of the seven Singer tage or a farm gate for the legi- through the tunnel, in order that participated in less than 15 per cent are 17 acres of freehold land. A factories at Coventry-and there timate delivery of goods. Take engineers may measure the quan- of the fatalities. the very common 18-ft. road as tity involved. Furthermore, for!
"These checks of course dealt test track, half-a-mile in length an example. Very few cars ex-accurate measurements, the air only with persons actually at the and including several sharp bends surrounds the and gradients ceed an overall width of 5th. It must flow through the tunnel wheel of the motor vehicles and no would be safe to say that two very smoothly. This is the rea- mention is made of back seat driv- buildings.
The multi-storey factory is de drivers of such calibre as Camp-on for the bell shaped end, de
ing. bel and Segrave could pass each signed to accelerate very grad-
"We have found that the major-voted to the manufacture of other, meeting or overtaking, inually the air being drawn in. 10-ft. road at fifty miles an hour. Hanging in the centre of the belly of women are careful drivers, front and back axles, for all McCullough continued. Moreover, models, and of Junior and Senior an anemometer, or air flow Being wise men, they would not is
it has been our experience that they bodies, whilst in the huge single- actually do it, unless they measuring instrument, knew who was driving the other
are assembled. As might be ex-i All this equipment enables the are not tempted to break the speed floor shop Junior and Senior cars "Scores of Moon 6-72 models that pected with the Singer concern, car. But neither of these super-engineer to find out just how laws as much as men are. men really asks for more than much air the fan pulls through a 2 in. clearance outside each car or truck radiator, how effi- we have delivered in San Francisco only the latest machinery is used such that wastage of time and In fact many of them have, ex- wing. The ordinary duffer is far cient the radiator is, and how are being handled by fair motorists. and the layout of the works is
This in- more exacting. He never quite satisfactory the fan
The plant of the paint shop is knows where his nearside wheels formation has contributed much plained to us that the case with labour is reduced to a minimum. are; watch him draw his car up to the present high development which these ears handle have made entirely new, and the cost of in-
them favourites with milady. by the kerb, and you will usually of these important units on Gen-
"For instance, the Moon 6-72 is falling it was, incidentally, no see about 2 ft. of wasted space, eral Motors cars. So if you estimate the width of In fact, because they seldom famous for its parking qualities less than £25,000, but that it is fact that, although the his car at 5ft., and allow him 2 ft. give any trouble, a driver often On account of traffic congestion in paying for itself is shown by the process lasts 30 hours, ก of freeboard on either side of it, does not realise how essential the downtown districts it is.some-
body is finished he wants 9 ft. in nil; and the car and excellent the fan and radia- times quite at the curb. But wo- Singer which is advancing towards him tors are on General Motors' cars men have told us that if there is on the average every five minutes wants as much, making 18 ft. in and trucks. This is a tribute to a little more than a car length va- of the working day. all for a double stream of traffic. the engineers who designed and cancy it is simple enough to park So if you place a single cyclist on tested them. Yet for these men the car." the road, even if that cyclist hugs "to-day's best is not good enough the gutter and rides dead straight, for to-morrow," and the future an 18-ft. road becomes too narrow will see many chapters added to for the traffic.
the story of the fan, the wind
A cyclist is really a very pretty tunnel, and the research engineer. "invader of the road. He is usuaÏ-
ly expert, as duffers are scared of
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The bodies come up in lifts from the third floor and at once receive a deoxidine or methylated spirit clean, according to whether! they are panelled in steel or aluminium. They are then wash- ed with boiling water and pass through a short drying oven to Further news of Mr. Birtles is the primary spray booth. Here the road nowadays, not without RADIO CHEVROLETS. to hand by the mail. Mr. Birtles they receive the first base coat be- reason. His presence narrows
on arrival in Singapore confessed fore travelling for five hours the road by very little over 2 ft.
himself beaten in the attempt to through an oven containing three Nevertheless, the car drivers
motor from Burma to Siam and separate tracks. The application want se much room that where he
thence to Bangkok, He had to of the base, filler and ground intends on the double stream
"turn back as the floods were too couts entails nearly 20 operations. Next, three double coula of there is a kink; and if the stream Fifty years ago when Henry M. heavy to allow him to proceed." is not continuous you may see Stanley was sent into the wilds of On the return journey he got as cellulose are applied. The finish- cars in both streams.check and Africa by the "New York Herald" far as Tavoy. What happened ed surface is then lined and hesitate, for fear of arriving level to search for the long missing then the story doesn't say. But sprayed with solvent which has with him simultaneously. As the Livingstone, messages were re probably he came on by the more the effect of softening the cellu- lose and giving a perfectly smooth cyclist nears a bend or corner (ceived from him at long intervals prosaic coasting steamer. things get worse, for in spite of until the final one when he stood Just there luck seems to have finish. In all there are 42 distinct the high educational value of on the jungle's edge. Then he left him completely, Turning operations, and when these are white lines painted on the road, and his expedition were plunged aside from the jungle and the completed the bodies are very few drivers can yet corner into the silent sea of tropical mountain pass, forsaking the ferred to the fourth floor for perfectly unless the corner is vegetation and were swallowed flooded fields, he missed a great trimming and for the fitment of open, and they can visualise its up as completely as if it had been opportunity. The hero of the windscreens, windows, and in- whorl before they tackle it. In the ocean. at its deepest spot. amazing feat of taking his motor terior decorations; they then re- calling a cyclist an "obstruction" Months, passed, weary months of overland from Calcutta to Ran-ceive a final polish by hand before I am not hinting that he is not speculation and worry before goon, would, had he proceeded to being sent to the ground floor for entitled to be there, but am Stanley emerged from the jungle warda Kanburi have met MM. mounting. merely studying his effects on with his thrilling story.
Abadle and Vairat, who were The general assembly shop is the bulk of road users.
At the present moment an ex-struggling from Kanburi to yet another example of scientific
The cars Now substitute for the cyclist a pedition is making its way from Tavoy, They were able to do works lay-out. Ford van, or other light delivery Capetown to Caire traversing what no one else wants to do, ie, erected on two tracks, one for the It is much of the territory in which drive their car under power from Junior and one for the Senior, and much wider than the cyclist; if Stanley was cut off from the Aranya to Bangkok, and they stores of material are placed in we park it up, hubs against the world for so many months. This have now got it to Tavoy, carried the neighbourhood of these tracks hedge, it will for all practical pur present day expedition, instead of by coolies for some distance. just where they are wanted. The poses absorb about 7 ft. of the the traditional African sa fari What an opportunity missed! cars travel slowly down the inta? 18 ft. available for traffic. of native portere, depends for its The meeting of Livingstons and 700-ft. shop until at the far end vo good drivers of standard cars transportation on a Chevrolet Stanley in darkest Africa would they are ready for test and finai can pass it and each other in the truck and sedan. On the truck is have been nothing to the surprise delivery. A special line from the remaining 11 ft., but the average a portable wireless get.
of these motorists meeting on the Great Western Railway runa into Siam-Burma border--and mak- this shop and facilitates the des- MOTORIST'S PROTEST ing the discovery that they were patch of cars for the export mar- both out boosting Dunlop Tyres, ket
vehicle of similar size.
driver wisely dislikes such close
shaving as this space suggests.
So the effect of a parked van on
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That this vast organisation, but a few details of which have
been mentioned, should have been
MOTOR CYCLES IN NEW
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SIR C. ALLOM AND POLICE SIGNAL.
There was a "breeze" at the
tion-road.
the double traffic stream is in-my bread was delivered for a year"Bangkok Times." finitely worse than that of the by a well-grown lad of fifteen cyclist, even
in terms of pure summers, complete with Ford). NEW USES FOR EX-NAVAL
got into full swing in so short a Marylebone Police-court when Sir space. But there is a more evil If he is not a youngster, he may
time is indeed a tribute to the Charles Allom, of Fairlawn. effect, for the van is in silhouette well be a soured, elderly baker, about 8 ft. high by 5 ft. wide, who rose at 4 a.m., and spent the
Since the War hundreds of the basins and energy of the Manag- Totteridge, Herts, was summoned and blankets, the view of one cream of his waking hours in the smaller types of craft have been ing Director, Mr. W. E. Bullock, before Mr. Bingley for driving ‘a traffic stream to that extent. So bakehouse. Hence these vans are discarded by the Navy and now and everyone connected with the the drivers on the side of the far too often parked in wildly un- can often be purchased at cour company, a spirit of enthusias car negligently in the Grand Junc road where the van stands swing suitable places, close up to. aparatively low cost. Many of tic work has been responsible It was stated by a constable and out a little to see whether any nasty corner, or just where they these little vessels; such as the for it, and it is this spirit which thing is coming, and hesitate screen a road junction.
M.L.'s and Naval Pinnaces, have has placed the Singer company a motorist that the defendant whether to round it or not. There
To be constructive, it is obvious been converted into smart motor in its present enviable position passed the constable's signal, and may be a car approaching them, that 18 ft. is a grossly inadequate yachts. Now, with the coming of and has rendered possible the pro- nearly collided with other vehicles. Sir Charles Allom, giving bvið- and they may be uncertain whe width for any motor road; but it the speed boat, another type of duction of high-class cara at re-
ence, asked to be allowed ther they have time to squeeze will be expensive to widen most craft, the aeroplane: tender, is latively low prices. past the Ford; there may be no of our secondary roads to 20 or likely to be turned to peaceful
strate on a plan to demon- The magistrate said he knew the thing visible, but a hedge or a 24 ft., as the surveyors are al purposes when its service days
situation well, and Sir Charles must bend leave it possible for a fast ready taking in the turf and the are over. At a South Coast Yard
give his evidence, in the ordinary moving car to catch them abreast ditches at the sides to make up near Southampton one of these
way. He was not going to be treat of the Ford. Meanwhile oncom- 18 ft. Perhaps the chief practi-tenders is being converted Into a
According to recent statistics, ed different from anybody else. ing traffic is in rather a similar cal expedient of real value would Fast Day Cruiser for a well- dilemma.
Sir Charles I don't want to be. It will have supplied by the New Zealand Motor It has the right of be to edge all roads with a red known yachtsman. way; but will the traffic on the line painted on the surface one twin screws driven by a pair of Trade Association, Inc., showing I want to be treated properly. The van side of the road be aware of foot out from the edge along the 28/36 h.p. six cylinder marine the number of motor cycles by constable's statement is not trup, its right and yield it? Perhaps a whole length where parking is type motor engines, the makers makes and by districts, registered I began to move forward, but see bend and a hedge limit their view, prohibited, even for trade delivery of which are the Allsa Craig in New Zealand on January 81, ing a cab I stopped. Perhaps some vehicle is approach- purposes. The same purpose Motor Co., Ltd. of Chiswick, 1928, English manufacturers hold ing, and threatens to pass though could be served by painting a London. These are high creditable and encouraging peal- not a safe distance away. There broken white line wherever park efficiency units with overhead tion. Although the two favorite are all sorts of "ife" about such ing is to be allowed. No such valves. They are of monobloc makes are American, .e. Indlan a position, and wherever a hun temporary parking should be per construction designed on girder and Harley Davidson, with totals dred motorists have to weigh up mitted within 100 yards of a cor principles, and are notable for of 6,685 and 4,628 machines re- effances, somebody is pretty, aure ner, side entry, farm gate or other their high power output in com- spectively, English armis have sup- to weigh them up wrong. His source of danger. Tradesmen parison with their light weight, plied 21,320 machines out of a fellows may atone for his blun would have to put up with the For these reasons they are con grand total of 82,580. der by a deft recovery, but the slight deceleration of deliveries aldered by the most competent risk there. Finally, it must inflicted by their men having to judges to be a type of engine be added that the van driver is walk these short distance to which is ideal for Fast Cruising usually a youngster of seventeen each gates E. Davidson, in where top speed has to be main (or evær an untruthful-sixteen; the "New Statesman."
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The Magistrate: What right had you to move forward until the officer had given you the sigini?
Sir Charles: I had not seen the officer signal. I had not seen the oficer,
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Sir Charles: Why not? The magistrate appealed to do fendant's solicitor to keep Sir Charles in order.
Sir Charles: Is a man guilty be cause he cannot see a policeman through other carat
The Magistrate: You should have seen the palicoman,
Bir Charles suggested that the constable was bad tempered and rude.
The Magistrate: I don't believe Sir Charles: Then it is not the Blightest, use my giving further evidence,
The Magistrate said Sir Charles
Bir Charles: Can I appeal against this?;
The Magistrate! You can appeal to whom you like.
On hearing that Sir Charles bad twice bean convicted of exceeding. the speed limit, the magistrate fined him £3, with 10s, du, costs,
MORRIS RAILWAY STATION, worm S
In order to provide for the in- ereasing traffic as the result of the vant development of Meiris Motors, Ltd, at Cowley, Oxon, the Great Western Hallway Co. are now build÷ Ing a special station in the vichaty of the works. Bituated between
designated as Morris Cowley, **
The magistrate pointed out that The most other motorist behind him had ular English makes, with the seen the signal.
Charlez said he would like the of machines are given 20 report as follow Douglas, ceae adjourned to call witnes
mph 3,7813 ESA. The Magistrates,Oh, no. You had convicted himself out his Wheatley and Littlemana, it will ***
should have got them hare.
own mouth