THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1928.
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[By L. H. Cadel The eve of the great Shows, in their magnificence, did no more than justice to the twin industries. British cars and British motor- eyeles have proved themselves to be pre-eminent, and each year the latest products of the manufacturers are displayed at Olympia.
LADY MOTORISTS
MISTAKES MADE ON THE ROAD
DRIVING BOLT-UPRIGHT
that
George Meredith declared "woman will be the last thing civilised by man."
When I motor bahind some women drivers on our roads I am inclined to believe him, writes Lady Lawford, ・
The average woman, has no love
for machinery. Watch her prod at the shuttle of her sewing-machine! with a screw-driver or over-wind the child's last clockwork engine, There was a display of cars which and you will readily be convinced of showed great improvements, even this. Of course, there are the ex- on the Aae crop of present-day ceptions, and I have met women vehicles. There were cheaper and motorists more careful and capable smaller cars, which were better than the average man driver-but finished and safer.
not many.
New methods of spraying body- work that the outer coat of: enamel in preserved and protected have been discovered. As to safety, many cars were equipped with safe ty glass as standard. I think that ail of them should be so equipped.
Press Button Gear Change
Two Great Faults The great fault that nearly ali women drivers auffer from-and write with a good deal of experience
is that they cannot leave the middle of the road, for the reason, no doubt, that it is easier to drive there.
Another factor I have often noted drivers "get
women
A little to one side, and the car It is good to hear that the
the driver must Armstrong Siddeley people have pro- "heels" a bit, so duced in practical and practicable keep a fairly firm grip of the wheel. form the "press button" system of which, one grants, is fatiguing on long-distance runs; hence the line Kear changing. The average motorist is more concerned about of least resistance. goar changing than any other con- trol, and the majority of inexperi- is that few enced drivers dread the necessity of down" to it. They nearly always (changing down because they find it sit in a bolt-upright, uncomfortable
ao difficult to make a clean change. position.
The introduction of
ก gear- changing ayatem which will elimin- ate "crashing" and which can be produced commercially without put ting up the cost of the car too much represents the most important ad- vance in the development of the motor-car since the introduction of the self-starter.
Now, in a long-distance ran a man lies back comfortably in his seat, his body rather sideways in the car-a thoroughly
easy, natural attitude that does not tire, while giving him complete control of the machine.
During the eighteen years in which I have driven a motor-car and done all my own repairs I have come across extremely few women who knew anything worth while about the inside of the machine they were driving. I remember, in this con-
Attractive "Babies" The elimination of lever changing is not new. It was tried out two or three years ago, but its employment nection, one woman who started off entailed such an increase in weight one day with her car making a noise that it was not really a practicable like an eighteen-pounder gun. In
between the loud explosions she ex-i proposition.
plained that it always did that when it was t'red.
The infinitely variable gear which is secured with friction drive repre- sents another method of cutting out "crushing." but friction drive has
**arfully Intrimmed And I met another woman wi
drawbacks. The great point is that!. was "fearfully intrigued" when 11
the display of a car of this type at showed her the inside of the car- Olympia inserts the thin end of the buretter: she had always beieved wedge whose thick end is the final it was solid, and simply could not overthrow of the present means of understand why the float had a hole changing gear,
in it.
There were some very attractive baby saloons with an available selec tion of about half a dozen miniatures and it is to be expected that there will be a big demand for this typo
next year.
· Just watch the average woman driver being overtaken in traffic by another car or other vehicle-she hardly ever relies on her mirror, but will nearly always turn her head-a- dangerous practice likely to lead to complications if not to accidents, The Motor-Cycle Show
The fact that Euclid, and The Cycle and Metor-cycle Exhibi- tion, which took place at Olympia geometry do not figure among the during the week beginning Novem-usual subjects taught in the average ber 5, has been a particularly inter-girls' school is the probable cause of
women drivers taking almost impos esting one.
The fact that the small car is 'sible corners at hair-raising speeds, becoming extremely popular does as they frequently do, and this with not affect the motor-cycle movement an airy disregard for the white lines so much as might be supposed., Painted on the road.
The pity of it is that, la my Motor-cycles are going down in capacity and price, so that the two opinion, women would make very good motorists if only they would movements keep to parallel lines.
ultra light take the trouble. Too many trust There were many One important development of the weight machines at Olympia, and to, men drivers "giving way" at all survey 1920 car is the increased use of the there was a general tendency toward times, and to male courtesy gener reveals, is an interesting study. It internal gear. One V-type eight the reduction of weight and power.ally, while others, I fear, believe
result, women drivers are not so! ly deplets a different trend in design laying great stress on its import-average machine is much too heavy popular on our roads as they could presents many new things and clear-has adopted this system and is There is no doubt at all that the imply in luck all the time.
THE 1929 CARS GREATER POWER, YET MORE SILENT
NEW BODY DESIGNS
The 1929 automobile, a
and in this manner the crankcase of the motor is utilised as a rigid cross member of the frame. However, the three-point suspension plan still is evidenced on many cára.
New Internal Gear
and construction. Increased engine ance.
With this internal gear the Dirt-track racing may assist the designers to reduce this, and most, power, silence and greater amooth-relative speeds of the meshing gears ness of operation, improved trans-arc synchronised to an extent that decidedly the influence of the speed-
ways will be made manifest. mission, lower chassis and new allows absolute silence in shifting A dozen firms exhibited special styles in body designs are the out-as well as instant shifting without dirt-track models designed for the standing features of the car for the necessity of hesitating in
specific purpose of Speedway Racing. 1929,
neutral. In this respect it has a These have tiny petrol tanks, low valuable braking power.
improvements
and as
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A Huge Fleet for Milk Collection
built and sans such unnecessary impedimenta as mudguards.
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A "CAR ON TWO WHEELS"
NEW CYCLE
As a
A new motor-cycle, possessing,
Competition at Height Automotive executives agree that never before in the history of the motor car has competition been so
The transport system of United most popular machine on the speed-several novel features, was shown to keen and engineers are continually Dairies, Ltd., who are probably one, ways, but it will have many rivale a company of interested experts and searching for something-both as of the best organised milk com- next season. The industry is still others at the Savoy Hotel, Strand, selling bines in the world, is looked after opposed to the new sport on the score at the invitation of the directors of feature to lure the prospective by a subsidiary company, Messrs. that it is more harmful than bene the Ascot Motor and Manufacturing buyer.
Mickleover Transport Co., Ltd., ficial to the general movement, but Co., Ltd. and Mr. Syrll G. Puliin, Higher compression is one feature who own one of the largest fleets of this has not prevented the manu- designer and patentes.
The new cyde is a breakaway of engine design, as is increased motor vehicles In Great Britain. facturers from catering for the piston displacement and improved This firm have, from time to time, growing army of riders who are from the present machines, which valve action. Combustion chambers purchased well over 200 vehicles nesailing the one-time Impregnable are adaptations of the pedal bicycle, and is built on car lines, pressed have undergone a change for the from the Albion Motor Car Co., position of the Australian exports. purpose of enabling owners to Ltd., of Glasgow, and as far as the utilise the ordinary type of fuel,higher load capacities are con-
The Price Question
steel being used Instead of tubos. It claims to be a "cár on two wheels," |
with the higher compression. Along aorned, they have always shown There were not any appreciable and has its dashboard, with clock with improved cylinder design comes R preference for the overtypo price reductions at either of the and speedometer, etc. The petrol the widespread use of the Invar models. In view of the modern Olympia Shows. Cars and motor tank holds 44 gallons, sufficient for strut or Nelson type of piston and design of the overtype models, cycles were very near to rock bottom a journey of 500 miles. The low! is claimed, many manufacturers are using them.which form part of the Albion on list figures, and the manufac-contre of gravity, i However, there is the pro and con Company's range, it is not surpri- turers have not been able to make makes the machine very steady in in this respect and it is more or sing to hear that the latest orders any material, concessions to the traffic. A sidecar on springs, built very low, can be attached to the less a matter of personal preference.from the United Dairies include buyers.
Increased Bore
two overtype 4-tonners, and one, The backbone of the Motor-cycle cycle. Increased piston displacement is overtype. -tonner. These ma- Show was, I thought, the', 250 c.c. found on a few of the engines, the chines are all fitted with 85/55 touring mount. Several firms which Increase being obtained by increas-hip, engines, 4-speed gearbox and heretofore have devoted their atten ing the, engine bore. The average worm' drive, while in the case of the tion to bigger mounts, are accept- piston displacement of the American 5-tonner, Dewandre Vacuum Servo ing the "two-fifty" as a satisfactory four-cylinder engine is 288 cubic Brake Gear is a standard fitting, and economical all-purpose mount, inches, of the six about 268 cuble
There were sensational exhibits inches and of the eight approximate A Chinese, residing in the house in the form of a British four
ly 800 cubic inches. This reveals of Lieutenant Prasong of the cylinder, exhibited by Brough that the 1929 car has more power Special branch of the Siamese Superior and another make. Both than last year, brought about by police,, was enticed by another attracted a great deal of attention. public demand.
Chinese to, gamble, at some place. And so the great Shows have With this increase of power a While he was on his way there in ended with splendid exhibits of the greater rigidity of construction Phakad-lane (Pomprab district of latest Improvement from respective turally follows. In some cars the Bangkok), he was stabbed in the factorles, and each day the Shows four-point engine suspension is used back;
were attended by huge crowds,::
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