12
TYRE INFLATION.
THE HEAVY PENALTIES OF
bent.
NEGLECT.
BACKING LOSSES.
WEATHER-PROOF.
NEW STEARNS-KNIGHT VENTILATOR.
INSECT SCREEN,
fabric, bermuse of greater tough-conditions
58,500 TIMES.
the
no
longer determine CCRS
In the conventional type ́ ́ cowl)
NOW NO. 4.
PROGRESS OF WILLYS-
THE CHINA MAIL,
OVERSEAS DEMAND.
FOR WILLYS-OVERLAND CARS.
OVERLAND.
2,000,000TH CAR,
DOMESTIC SALES:
tributora.
A NEW ENGINE.
FOR THE ROYAL AIR - FORCE.
NAPIER MAKE.,
ail parts of the world.
power obtained. With a compres aion ratio of 6 to 1 this engine. at 2,350 r.p.m., develops. 530 h.p.. whilst its power at maximum speed, viz., 2.586 r.p.m., is 570.h.p., giving a weight per horse-power of under
It has successfully passed the Air
ench at 2350 r.p.m. at an average
The cure of tyres is simple and The development of coach-work
A striking illustration of the Since news of the great reduction A new typo naro engine hsa, just means the care of the money in and fittings on fine cars has deve- remarkable advance of the auto-in Whippet prices and the Introduc-been produced and tested by the your pocketbook. People are the loped to such a high degree that mobile industry is the 2,000,000th tion of a new low-priced Willys- Napier Company. This engine is most careless in driving their many fine car manufacturers in the car which was built by Willys- Knight double-sleeve reached over a development of the Series V. cars with the tyres anderinflated. United States have turned their at Overland on July 2. This car waa sens dealers, the John N. Willys Ex-Napier, which has been so exccess- If you wanted to break a wire tention to the refinement of minor 4 Willys-Knight Model "56," port Corporation has been busy ful not only with the Royal Air and had no tools with which to details, and developing little de- the first Willys-Knight model to cabled by enthusiastic overseas die-with the Air Forces of countries in model introduced this year, and night and day taking care of orders Force and imperial Airways, but to it, how would you proceed? vices that contribute to the passen-be priced below $1,000 (f.o.b. You would bend the wire, thenger's safety, comfort and conveni- straighten it and again bend and fence..
[factory). '
The 2,000,000th car comes st Stocks of cars in several countries The engine embodies many im- straighten it until at least it
Banly engineers of the Stearns the close of the greatest six were sold out within two weeks provements which are a result of broke at the place where it was Knight Company, Cleveland, Ohio, months' production record in the after the 1928 announcement of Mr. the famous Racing Napier engine. What did you really do? U.S.A., builders of Stearns-Knight history of the company, a six Willys, and the Export Corporation For example, among the differences Why, at the first bend you tore six and eight-eylinder motor cars, months' period which has exceeds shipping care to seaboard by in the Series Xt engine is the fitting. asunder a few of the fibres of the have incorporated a distinctly new ed total production for any pre-train-loads instead of caryloads. of the carburetters at the roar wire, at the second a few
more feature in the enclosed models of vious twelve-month period in the A 60-car train carrying 227 of the engine, where they are more and so gradually weakened it the new Stearna-Knight De Luxe annals of the organisation with Whippets and Willys-Knights left or less masked by the cylinders. until the wire broke completely. eight-in-line.
but two exceptions, and which the Toledo factory, on February 4, This improves the streamlining of Suppose you had a plece of stiff
This is the new-type ventilating exceeded the total for the entire for New York, all these motor cars the engine and facilitates its instal- fabric and wanted to break it, how cowl. While the control of this 12 months of 1927 by a wide being for shipment to Norway and tation in aircraft. would you proceed? If you had no ventilator is still operated from thejmargin. Willys-Overland pro-Sweden.
The main improvement in the en- shears you would proceed just as instrument board within convent-duction for this year, up to the Another 30-car train-load left the you did with the wire, but with the ent reach of the driver, weather end of June, was slightly in ex-factory a few days ago for the West
gine, however, is the increase in of 200,000 units, with all Const carrying a rush order of -ness, it would take a much longer) whether the ventilators may be previous monthly production re-Whippets for Japan.
In time, however, it would opened or must be kept eloxed. time.
cords being broken in March,?
Big Increase. | April and May. break, as every bend means
With 14 major 1928 automobile Cowl Opening.
Competitive Price. Learing, of some of the fibres.
shows passed into history, the Strides towards the 2,000,000 Willys-Overland domestic sales de-1 b. ventilator employed heretofore and total production figure and to partment report the greatest selling Now, this is exactly what a man still used on many cars, the ventile ward the present record-breaking sensim for this period of the year, Ministry 100-hour type test. This dous to the fabric of his tyres tor simply opens directly into the six months' production, started when he runs his car with the tyres forward compartment of the cny.on January 4 last, when a sens-/in the entire history of the organis strenuous test included ten non- underinflated. Have you ever The new Stearns-Knight type fol-tional price reduction was sation, the volume of Whippet
RN- noticed the fat or belly of an under- lows in principle and design the nounced on the Whippet Four, and Willys-Knight sales discio-stop periods of '10 hours' duration inflated tyre just below the hub? "shaft air system" used in supply bringing one model of this car again of 86.4 per cent, at these B.H.P. of 477. The engine was then Have you ever considered what tng fresh air in school rooms, anti- down to the lowest price ever shows as compared with the sales opened up to 2,716 r.putt, und Was happens to such a tyre when the toriums and theatres. The opening reached by any manufacturer in registered at the same shows in run for one hour at this speed. A wheel is made to revolve? Why, in the cowl is enclosed in a case or a car of its type, and placing the 1927.
further hour at 2,585 r.p.m. was run These notable gains over previous at full throttle, the engine develop every time the wheel revolves once shaft which carries the inrushing entire Whippet line of four cylin- every inch of the tyre will have air forward and downward and ad-ider quality cars on a competitive years are comparable with the un- been Buttened or bent and then mits it into the car just in front of price level with the lowest priced usual Increases shown at all other in approximately 573 H. H. P..
show points and dealer pointsed, and showed marked progressive
This engine has also been install have straightened again. In other the dash and above the floor boards. cars on the market. words, the fabric of the tyre will Even though it may be raining ex- A few days later the Willys-throughout the nation.
results, in large numbers of air- have Leen bent and straightened tremely hard and the ventilator is Knight Model "66" was announc The first great influx of orders just as you lent the wire to break open no water car get into the cared, at the lowest prices in Willys-ehme following the Whippet pricecraft in the British Air Force. It was a Series XI. Napier. engine for the "shaft" is equipped with a | Knight history.
reductions a month ago, an added This was followed a few weeks mpetus being given with the intro-II.F. aircraft which flew from which was installed in the Fairey overy water trap and two one and a quar-later by the announcement of the duction of the new Willys-Knight Cairo to Capa Town and back this 100 ter inch water duets which carry Whippet Six, a powerful, fast six Standard Six, the lowest priced year, whilst the De Havilland the fabric has the water directly down and under cylinder car with a motor having Knight-engined six ever built by "Hound machine which set up been bent 58,500 times. One the car as fast as it can enter (a seven-bearing crankshaft and hundred miles is about a day's run. through the cowl opening.
car, three world's records was fitted other advanced features of (lesign Willys-Overland. This new Do you wonder, then, that a tyre The cow! opening is also screen and construction, at the lowest company officials declare, reaches a with an engine of this type. The se used will eventually not be able ed. preventing insects, bugs and for-price ever placed upon any six new field of buyers in a price class Handley Page "Harrow." Black- to hold the air which has beenleign matter from being drawn into cylinder car in the entire record never before touched by a Willys-burn "Hipon," Vickers "Vivid" and pumped into it? Unfortunately for the ventilator and carried into the of the industry. the manufacturer, the tyre which fear. This sureen also acts as a has been, run underinflated · for a "break" if the ear is being driven long time, will probably blow out with the ventilator open during, a models, a Whippet Six and the the Willys-Overland plants when, it is finally blown up to its rain storm.
Whippet Four, which immediate. Toledo, Elmire and Pontiac are een- rated expacity, as, while it is still This distinctly new improvement,ly stepped into record breaking tered on stepping into capacity strong enough to evatain the while far more costly to incorporate demand, sales volume reached production as rapidly as possible. pressure of underinflation, it hus in a closed,car than the conven- ahead of production capacity to a Already the Toledo plant is produc been weakened so much as not to tional type ventilator, is in line with point where the company has ng more than 1.000 finisheri Whip be able to contain standard pressure. the Stearns-Knight policy of build-seldom since been writhin 20,000 pets and Willys-Knights a
day Many owners, in their ignorance of ing only to the highest standards units of cathing up with orders Craplayment likewise is reaching two at 60 deg. the harm done by running under-in-and maintaining the Stearns-Knight on hand. Starting with a total high-tide with 15,60 workers a flated, will rethember only that the leadership for those who acck the production for the month of ready on the payroll. tyre blew out while fully inflated, finest in the present day matar car. figures were increased with great dealer contracts have been received January of 13,674 units factory More than 4,005 applications for and so insist that the blowout was This improvement is also in line rapidity to a May total of 45,696, at the Willys-Overlaid executive 530 3.11.1% at 2,350 e.pm. Power at due in a defect and not their own with the many others which. are Commenting on their achieve-fices in the negligence.
found in the new Stearns-Knight Dement of the 2,000,000
recent Whippet "peed: 570 B. H. P. at 2,585 Luxe chassis and Stearns-Knight volume, Mr. John N. Willys, pre-applicatione coming from dealers in
price reduction, hundred of these rip.m. with which these cars are powered. eight-in-line sleeve-vaive motor aident of Willys-Overland said,-
Weight of Engine-Approximate- fly 995 lb. complete with airserew "We are in the middle of the competitive lines.
In keeping with the company's boss, reduction gear, hand-starting |most successful year in the his-
tory of the Wily's Overland Com- plan to step into the highest pro- gear less magneto.
Weight per pany. Present indications, from duction in the history of the organ
Horse-power On nt isation, orders on hand and from general
carliest
pos-rated power, 1.679 lb. On average conditions existing among
sible date, work is being rushed power at maximum speed, 1,745 lb. dealers in all parts of the world, night and day to complete the
Length Overall to Centre Air- Standard tests for brake linings are that the organisation will go $1,000,000 addition to the body screw-5 ft. 1 in. approx. now used by manufacturers, has through the remaining six building plant-an addition neces- Width Overall 3 ft. 6 in. ap- sulting in what is known as a rim resulted in the life of the average months at a pace comparable with stated by the unexpected volume of The orders for Whippets mid Willyn- Never run for even the shortest with a saving to the
lining being increased four times the first half of this year.
nation of Whippet has justified every ex-Knight motor curs. distance on a flat tire or you will Surely ruin the shoe and possibly
$15,000,000 a year, according to pectation which we had when it was introduced in June, 1926,
it,
It
can be figured that time a 34-inch tyre is driven miles underintiated
NEVER RUN FLAT.
The smallest cat in the rubber of the show should be plugged up. If this is not done wand will get in and tear the rubber from the fabric and water will then rot the fabric.
The edges of the rims should ! be kept tree from rust and dirt or they will cut into the tyre, re-
cut.
bend the rim.
Suppose you were trying to breuk a board with A hummer. You could strike it hundreds of light blows without breaking it but one
hard blow would break it
ly subjecteu should the wheel. hit a large stone
BRAKE LININGS.
tion.
MONEY SAVED BY LONGEVITY,
An Achievement.
Knight Six.
4,000 Applications,
af
Avro "Buffalo" are other types of reraft in which the Series XI. Napier is the power unit.
SPECIFICATION.
With three Willys-Knight To meet this demand all efforis at
total
our
the
SERVICE.
The following is a brief specifica- tion of this intest Nupier:
Number of Cylinders. Twelve. Arrangement-Three blocks of four cylinders each, one vertical,
Bore.--5 in. Stroke-5% in. Horse-power.----Normal
prox.
rating;
•
Height Overall 3 ft. 3 in. ap-
jirox.
O Consumption.--Average oil consumption, .6235-lb. per B. H. P.
Fuel Consumption.-Average fuel consumption at full lond, 50 lb, por short time ago the bureau of stan- The Willys-Knight models have River Police is an outstanding world which has so consistently
for several years, and a to their present specifications. The long life of engines in the B. H. P. hour.
patrol boats of the Thames There is no other engine in the dards made recommendations that steadily increased in popularity Consider the tyre for a moment, were incorporated in the standard and have responded to the widen-lesson in the soundness of British proved its high efficiency together As the car runs along its constant brake safety code published by the ing range of prices which have the fine average, which the Lion, and the success so far achiev- production. This is proved by with reliability as has the Napier to light blows, but Society of Automotive Engineers. been made possible through the Authorities place at 10 years.ed with the Series XI. engine Accident Prevention. development of our manufactur-There are engines in the fleet, augurs well for the future of this while the car is driven at a high In this connection the club sex-ing facilities." speed the tyre will be subjected to an vice department of the A. A. A. extremely severe blow, and very has issued a pamphlet on "Brake- often this blow is enough to break Testing Campaigns for A. A. A. or tear the fabric on the inside of Cluba," in line with a nation-wide the tyre, even though the outside policy of the 1.046 amliated A.A.A. still looks perfect. This tear will
motor clubs to prevent accidents now be a weak spot, which will and improve motoring conditions gradually become weaker, until at by eliminating faulty brakes. last the fabric is not strong enough
the American Automobile Associa- Present models are a duplicate of 14 YEARS IN POLICE BOAT hour.
The A.A.A. says that automo-minor improvements in body de- the original production with only
studied bile brake performance has been sign, and will continue to be bullti
to hold the pressure, and the tyre blows out.
BACKING.
COMPONENTS.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCESSORIES.
however, which far exceed this latest addition to the Napier family.
average as evidenced by the Ailsa Craig engine in the old launch "Alert" now being sold out of the
Service. This engine, a 4-cylin-
der 30 h.p. unit, made by the
HUSTLE.
La d
Ailsa Craig Motor Co., Ltd., of American Chiswick, London, has been on have confessed to seeing many motor magnates Various important races re- continuous police duty for 14 examples of British hustle which The national motoring body co-eently run have added to operated with
the years. Furthermore, the boat they admit could not be equalled the bureau standards in drafting the safety with the help of components and vice in private ownership before few of these achievements.stand of long list of successes achieved and engine had several years' aer-in their own country. Not a code for brakes and brake testing. accessories with which the firm being bought by the Thames to the credit of the energetic Mr. The writer has often seen a driver
The essentials of this code proof S. Smith & Sons (M.A.), Ltd., Police just before the war. Even w. E. Bullock, presiding genius of back up to the curb at railroad vide that "foot brakes on of Cricklewood, is intimately con-among engines where the aver- the Singer Co. Ltd. Just recent- stations and, instead of judging a dry, hard, level road, free nected.”
age life is so high this is a not-ly he bought up a when the car was far enough back, from loose material shall We Thus, for instance, K.L.G. plugs able instance. It is the sound-
huge determine this by letting the curb capable of stopping the vehicle were fitted to the winning ma-ness of such first rate British verted it to the manufacture of works in Birmingham, con- on the car. Where the tyres hit from a speed of twenty miles per chines in all three of 1928 Motor products as Ailan Craig Marine Singer cars and had it in full aquare corner of the curb they hour within a distance of Ifty Cycle Tourist Trophy Races in the Motors that commends them so production in little more than six old dent almost to the rim and feet, or at a rate which corres-Isle of Man, In the Senior race strongly to Public Authoritics. their clusticity would then push ponds to such performance.. they were on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
if you are
1:
months.
Spotting a works at Wembley. about to be vacated, he began a
the car forward again. Some time "Hand brakes on a dry, machines; in the Lightweight: when you are waiting for a train, hard, level roid,. free from tace on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th,
at a square where loose material shall be capable 9th, 10th machines, as well as the 24-hour Grand Prix d'Endurseries of brief but pithy negotia the cars are parked by hacking in, of stopping the vehicle from the one which achieved the recordance with a Bentley car driven by tiond-most of them over the ce how often this is done. You speed of twenty miles per hour lap. Again, in the Junior, K.L.G. Capt. Woolf Barnato and Mr. telephone and, to cut a long w" wonder why the tyre does not within a distance of seventy-five plugs were fitted on the 1st, 2nd, Rubins, products from the story short, secured the place,
"ediately blow out.
feet, or at a rate which corres-4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, and once more, Cricklewood factory, were well installed full equipment, and the machine which scored the re-represented. Smith's starting transferred the whole of the proper adjustment of the ponds to such performance."
cord lap.
and lighting equipment was fitted Singer Service Station there. kes is the cause of much tyre trouble and of dangerous skiding. silde along and in doing so leaveneseful in these races, being for an emergency or for inspection
M-L magnetos, too, were very to the winning car, which also, from Brewery Road, N.7. When Brakes are adjusted, both some of its rubber behind the ntte to the 1st and 4th ichines work, carried "Wootton" Portable wheels should be jacked up and the pavement be wet the ear will skid. in the Senior race, as well as the Electric Lanterns, K.L.G. plugs, bolding power tested by hand. The Have you ever noticed a brown winners of the Team Prize. In M-L magnetos, and Jaeger BRITISH CARS IN MELBOURNE. adjustment shouhi be such that each streak or line on an asphalt pave the lightweight this minke was fit speedometer, Revolution Indica-- wheel will give an equal resistance, ment ? The streak is the rubber ted to the machine gaining 2nd tor and clock were also fitted. In a parade of cars that were on If this is one when the brakes which was burned off the tyre of place, and in the Junior to the S. Smith & Sons (M.A.). Ltd., slow at the recent British Trade Ex- are applied lay one wheel whi same one's car who either oud-1st 2nd 4th, 5th and 6th are, of course, export distributors hibition in Malhourne, the largest Jack, but not having enough grip denly applied the braken or whose
At Le Mans, where Great Bri for both KLAG. eparking plugs, representation of one, type was a
feet of 12 Arm-Zrong Siddeleys
on the ground to sup the car, it will brakes were set properly adjusted tain scored a brilliant victory in and M-L magnetos.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928.
Studebaker
HONG KONG delivered PRICES.
ERSKINE SIX
年
N.A.C.C. Horse Fower Rating 18,15. Brake H.P. 43 at 3,000 Revolu tions. Piston Displacement 160,37 Cu. In. Wheel Base 107 ins. Speed 62 M.P.H
Tourer Club Sedan
passenger Nett Weight 2,292 lbs. passenger Rondatern -4 passenger Cabriolet
2,457
2,207
2,322
2,537,
passenger. Sedan Royal .....5 passenger..
.G$1,150
1,150 1,200
1,200 1,250
All prices Include Wire Wheels, Leather Upholstery, Front and Rear Bumurs, Extra Tyre and Tub, Extra Bulb Horn, Shock Ab- sorbers.
DIRECTOR SIX
N.A.C.C. Horse Power, Rating 27.04. Brake H.P, 70 at 2,000 Revolu Bians.
Piston Displacement 241.8 Cu. In. Wheel Base 113 ins. Spoed 85 M.P.H. Tourer Royal.....5 passenger ..Nett Weight 3.070 lbs....G$1,450 Roadster
Passenger
Tourer Royal
passenger
passenger
Sedan Royal ....6 passenger
Club Sedan
π
"
3,030 3,080 3,155 3.225
tr
11
1,500
1,550
1,600
1,700
All prices include Disc Whools, Leather Jinholstery, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tyre and Tube, Extra Bulb Horn, Shock Ab sorbers.
tions.
COMMANDER SIX
N.A.C.C. Horse Power Rating 30.04. Brake H.P. 85 at 3,000 Revolu- Piston Displacement 353.8 Cu. In. Wheel Base 120 ina. Speed 72 M.P.H. Roadster Regal. 4 passenger.Nett Weight 3,318 in....G$1,900 Club Sedan ...5 passenger Cabriolet Regal. 4 passenger
3,453
1,950
Sedan Regal......5 passen or ..
2,000 All prices include Disc Wheels, Leather Upholstery, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra Tyre and Tabe, Extra Bulb Horn, Shock Ab Norbera.
3,408 3,580
2,000
: PRESIDENT EIGHT N.A.C.C. Horse Power Rating 36.45, Brake H.P. 100 at 3,000 Revolu tions. l'iston Displacement 313 Cu. In. Wheel Base 131 ins. Speed 90 31.P.II. Tourer State ....7 passenger .Nett Weight 3,700 lbs. ...G$2,500 Sedan State
passenger Berline State
passenger .. Limousine State..7 passenger ..
4,030
11
2,650
4,065 4,096
2,700
2,900
All prices include & Wire Wheels, Choice of Upholstery, Front and Rear Bumpers, Extra TTC and Tubes, Extra Bulb Horn, Shock Absorbers, Luggage Grid.
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