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SMOOTH RUNNING.
PROBLEMS OF RUNNING AND ADJUSTMENT
SELECTION OF FUEL
Sir H. Lowellyn Smith presided It frequently happens that the over a munting of the Standing Com owner of a car which has given good| mittece of the Board of Trade service decides to change it for an hear an application for an order other of the same minke, but with; requiring that an indication of a new type of body or some other. crigin, should be placed upon geralteration at us come along in tain classes of tools and implemente. the meantime, and who has after
The application was made by the wands complained that the engine of Associations of Edge Toul Manufat-the new car is not nearly so smooth turors, File Manufacturers, Send sweet rming as, was that of Manufacturers, And the Hack the old one. At first sight it may Saw Make's' Association, It appear that the difference is either was also supported by wum inunghary or is due to tightness of individual firmos who the bearings and pistous, or int. make tools. Mr. R. II. C. Ward, correct curburation-things tint will secretary of the National Union of naturally wear off with running in Manufacturer, presented the RRC and adjustment. But beyond these for the applicants, and no one ap- possibilities there is another more peared in opposition.
(important one.
ber
of
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Mr. II. O. Cooper, of Cooper mul Bach year after first appearance Sons, tool-inkers, said he had as a new model every ent goes known case of foreign tools make through forms of evolution and in i look so like British tools that provement. It often grows either they had been returned to British larger or heavier. Sooner of later. manufacture with scathing re-rises the need to put up the power Taurks about their quality. Many of the engine, and eventually the of the tools sold with British motor-cumpression is raised.
As it gous mara were foreign.
p, so does the tendency of the Sir H. Llewellyn Sraith: Do yo engine to thump at stow speeds also really tell the committee that great ingroase. It is not uncommon for manufacturers of British motor-cams innkers to raise the compression of don't know what they are buying in the engine and to keep the fact to the way of teal outfits? There are themselves. But this higher com- sotne firms whose orders must be pression is often the cause of the roughness of which the owner com plains.
immense.
Mr. Cooper: I should say 90 per
cent of the makers of Britie motor-cars buy their taul-kits in a roll ready for dumping into the back of the car. There are factors who specialise in motorcar tool out- fits. As far as the car manufacturer is concerned, he places au order for so many tool outfits, and I believe in many cases the motor-car man facturer does not know that de factor is putting in German toulɛ. 1 luve just bought a new British car, and I was mighty diegusted to find the first tool. I picked up was
There is no remedy for it, but much can be done to make the car: more pleasant by being careful over] the selection of fuel. It is worth while to experiment with different! brands of petrol until one has been found that really suits the engine.
good spirit, with a small per entage of benzole added, is usually very satisfactory.
Headlight, Glare
The problem of headlight glare is act confined to the winter months,
a German turnscrew, when I rankeny of us who have been tempt.
a million and a half tumgerews per
d by the warm weather to delay ne homeward, run until after dark tave found to our discomfort.
Well dirented publicity will do
Mr. W. 1. Wynne, of William Timmins
Co., Birmingham, said he agreed that panlor-eur, fred
to cure the evil than any outfits, contrind fenign tools out of legislation ever can, no; There is only one fizin," he said, uatter how "inspired. Headlight which buys from me, and voit van hare is a universal problems, but its guess who blut is. The others busolution is definitely up to the the very cheapest tool outfits they adividual car owner. The careful, f
onsiderate motorist inspects his an get. They are not interesford in where the lets come true. **
sethod gauge regularly He keeps onstant miste of whether the supply oj in the prankense is adequate He in fox gruntily' and condition.
hecks the water in the battery cells. at judging by the blinding glare It is to be noted on almost any oad in any part of the country, en irely too few pay regular attention
The inquiry was clowl, and the chair onu intimated that the pean mittee would report to the Hound of Trisle.
CAR PAINTING
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929.
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the condition of their headlights. ted in the systera, by means of There is the crux of the present which an extra supply of oil is fed AN EXTRA OUNCE MAY COST | problem. Headlight adjustment the cylinders, sleeves and pistons
MUCH MONEY
annst be made a weekly, monthly, or whenever the starter pedal is de sem-annual habit, depending upon pressed, and the engine is then given When calculating the weight of he car and the service it is called brief but virtually safeguarding vehicle, the amount of paint used on to render. Headlight worry is
flushing with oil, which quite pre- could hardly seem to be a matter prevalent to-day. It takes the form any damage, no matter how A much importance. It will posfrage at the other fellow whose many times the engine be started sibly surprise some people, however, lights annoy.
from cold with no time to get waria. Headlight conscious o learn that on an ordinary motor mess must be developed so that the elivery vun the paint alone weighs river will be more concerned over from 25 to 30 Hus. or sometimes the condition of his own lights than the information on which this those on some other car. It can be provement is based to his experi- nce with one of the largest oakers The last ont, in faut, like the leveloped with about the same de- roverbial lass straw while it will gree of effectiveness as habitual Trouble with seizures in cold engines aluminium pistons in the U.S.A. at break the chassis' back, may obedience to the rules of the road.
break the inan who buys it by
were at first lail to the charge of Headlight, equipment is subject to the pistons, bat investigation reveal nvolving him in a heavy addition great improvement, and neither pred that after two or three starts the text of expense nor heedlessness on
more.
Cold Engine Trouble Mr. 1. H. Pomeroy owes much
rust, the affect of which was most
mit be lusty. A small aniouns of are will often prevent an unsightly scar on a fender.
Motors in U.S. According to statistics published by the United States Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agri- culture, the number of motor velticles registered in the United States during 1928 was 24,498,124 as compared with 23,189,241 during 1027. Of the 1928 total, 21,379,125 were passenger motor cars, taxi- meter cabs and omtibuses, and 3.113,099 motor lorries and mad included 148,160 trailers and tractors. Other registered vehicles
motor cycles.
THE NEW WHIPPET
POPULARITY OF THE NEW MODELS
The high sales volume that has been continuous stuce the introduc Fours and Sises, is cited by. well in- biom of the new Superior Whippet formed automobile men as evidence of the public's real familiarity with car performance and value.
Thi
of bringing programme
117,946unched by the Toledo
Bousun performance and value low priced cars' which was
to
manu-
facturer
June 1926, with the introduction of the 'criginal Whippet Four, finds its climax in the presentation of the new Whippet Fours and Sixes, which bring high- priced car values to the low priced field in addition to proved mechani- en excellence.
first
The Closed Car Motorists who suffer from head- aches after driving a closed ear should have all the gaskets and con- nections checked between the motor und the rear-end to determine if there are Lay exhaust leaks. If there are none, it should be remem bered that a vacuum is created by Whippet brought outstanding me.
The introduction of the the speed of the car. This vacuan draws the exhaust gases up underformance, which, in less than two chanical features, design and per the body of the car, and through years revolutionisel the low priced ervices or racks. If such is the held.
Other comprinies adopted
o the annual tax on the vehicle.
Tu the sny way the gauge of the the part of the manufactmer should cylinder walk-of the poppet valve imbering and the non work used on ve pretuited to interfere with the gine--were enated with a film of he body lans to be most carefully march of progress. But the import-langing in the aggregate and even MOTOR CYCLE PERILS CHRYSLER BRAKES
onsidered with a view to the tax. ant thing is to lubituate the users immediately if the engine were not
The importance of his matter of existing equipment to maintain t REPLY TO WORD BRENTFORD | WEATHER DOES NOT AFFECT chile ago, at the Luton works of to employ its regulatory features
ras strikingly demonstrated a short in the best possible adjustment, and long enough to get thomughly BY A.A.C.
hot before being stopped. HYDRAULIC SYSTEM
Commer Cars, Ltd., where a tilt with discretion.
The discovery is now being realised Lord Brentford, the le Horne Changeable climate might affect timensions was to be seen mounted an body of exceptionally largo
nd put to practical account by Lubrication Difficulties Secretary, having refered in your habit of dress-but it has no
many progressive designers, but it That lubrication has a considerable is to the Daimler engineer that speech to the motor-cycle na being deet ou the new Chrysler hydrauliearing the total weight was kept of an engine is generally appreciated, overse in the working life of their ease the exhaust pipe con be length several features first brought out în
30-cart. eimssis. By careful bearing on the life and performance owner-drivers will owe general in- perhaps the
most dangerous brakes. vehicle in existence," Mr. F. P.
insyn 50 thut the annual tax was Armstrong, secretary of the Royal service mamger of the H. 0.reater by even a few pounds tatter which are not by any means have been taken out of engines' lives
In stating this, Sol Onorato, 25, whereas if the weight had been but there are several aspects of the agines. More years of useful miles and bent to forte the exhaust the orginal Whippot.
to the side of the road.
tributors and Plymouth deniers et €32. Harrison Company, Chrysler disual tax would have been over consider the ease of a pressure-fed fons than any imrd work under fair generally understood. For instance, the starting from cold complica- San
engine on being started up for cold.onditions, even though the fact Thus the oil will not flow so freely nay not have been generally known. as when hot through the ducts, and And now with this addition, the especially to the big-ends, is obvious, bug-accepted superiority of the but it is easily overlooked that when deeve valve engine as a long-liver uo oil is being flung from the big and consistert Iurd worker will be
Automobile Club, wrote to him drawing his attention to the fact that the accident record of motor cyclists in relation to pedestrians was not an unsatisfactory one.
Mr. Armstrong quoted official gures of accidents to support his contention that the record of the motor-cycle will stand elos investi gation.
Ju bis reply Lord Brentford
wrote:-
thel
hydraulic brakes were the most
Francisco, declared nearly perfee of any type yet de vised."
"We are partiendarly proud of
FIAT SUCCESS
MOTOR RALLY
Chrysler's braking system," Onorato TONOURS AT INTERNATIONAL ends there is no oil mist for lubrica further enhanced.
continued. The Chrysler internal expanding
lour-wheel, hydrauli brakes are what we consider the
sem to make & better shoving than | lie brakes
other large group of vehicles. asis
These in- elled four wheel brakes, compact Tyre Carriers
but powerful and speedy engine, low Auch damage can be done to the centre of gravity and marked body or chassis of a car by allow-economy in fuel, oil and mainten ing the spare tyre carrier to become unce. loose, particularly if two spare tyres For two and a half years the are carried.
When checking the Whippet was designed as the leader eur, examine this part and if the in the light four field because of its least amount of play is found, mechanical superiority. This recog- tighton or repair it.
'nised success "brought an apprecia bing the cylinder walls and other
Timing Racing Cars
tion on the part of buyers in this bearings which do not receive a
Public attention having been class who have looked forward to most efficient and serviccable brakally of the "Golden Eagles at
The recent interidional motor direct supply.
dimoted to the subject of motor-Willys-Overland's production as re- I have lunch an examinationing system in use to-day.
Because this absence of adequate THE CARBURETTOR
car racing by the recent remarkabl made of the accident figures for Chrysler Plymouth, also equipped and fashionable tourist centre of the seldom has serious rusults, or at
The Cortina d'Ampezzo, the charming lubrication
presenting outstanding value in the from th cold engine
achievements of Sir Honry Segrave Whippet classification. 1028, and some interesting points with this type of brake, is the only Dolomite region, was a distinct sue- least
at Daytona Beach, Florida, and of The company's more recent intro. enjerge.
METHODS TO PREVENT One is the comparative ur in the low-priced field se effi cess.
irumediate resuits, most
Captain Malcolm Campbell at duction of the now Whippet Fours freedom from sccidents erjoyed by ciently equipped.
owners are apt to regard it as of
LOADING-UP
Verneuk Pam, in South Africa, it and Sises with their wide approval motor-cycles with sidecan, which Chrysler four-wheeled, hydrau and colour, frau every corner of the of ignoring it altogether.
Cars of every shape, size, power little significance, erou to the point
may be of interest to give some of the buying public, is attributed Such
Various methods are used to pre particulars of the apparatus used for directly to the success of the original and are not affected by water unning over the
ard entirely enclosed eninsula converged on Cortina, owners would be surprised to learn seat carburettors from loading up timing such events with the neces- Whippet over a long period, coupled You can . drive
most beautiful that actual experiment hes demon with unused gasoline when thesary degree of accuracy. through the hardest rain storm on the world. Their arrival aroused an ordinary pressure-lubricated en
your Chrysler ouds, from a touring point of view, strated it to bs possible to seize up agine illes or when the car is going method adopted is to place electri-standard of beauty and mechanical The with the incorporation of a new high cloudburst ant still the brakes will great enthusisism amongst the popu-gine by a series of starts from cold, Ons of these involves a suction tuba
down hill with the throttle closed. cal contacts on the track at en features of higher priced ears, in the continue to function perfectly.
accurately insured distance, apart, new nudels. "Clarysler brakes are perfectly
ation and the visitors.
and the series need not be so lengthy which retroves gasoline from the so that the e, in passing over each Even a quick survey of the new equalised, due to
In this great gathering of curs, the us may be imagined.
earburettor body.
of the contacts in Fuccession, closes Whippets the bydraulic argest numbes of any single make The ordinary poppet valve engine
disclose but Buant principle.
Taiture of this-function is indie cironits controlling the operation of similarity with this formier care of driver experience the odious extra part. It was not only were un such starts in quick succession, i..,he angie
Never doen's Chrysler vere Fiuts, over 150 of then taking will not stand more than half a dozenated in two general ways. Should pens under which a paper strip is the same mane.
The new Whippets "buck or pet, un- pull on one wheel or another when bers, however, that distinguished the without having had time to become sually slow when the accelerator is work. As the car passes over the design for radiator to rear, nors mored at a uniform speed by clock are longer, tuonnier, with new body stopping Even if one brake band Fiat; in the ghssification by teams, warm in the intervals, without un-pressed following slow driving, and contacts, the pens are momentarily spacious interiors, and exterior shosy that a high proportion of the is worn mor than other the Srst place was awarded to this make. dergoing some damage, such as when thoroughly warned up, trouble defected, so that kinks are pre colour schemes that round out scöldents attributable to motor brakes will continue to register an The classification was based on scoring of the cylinder walls, while with the suction tube can be ex-duced in the straight line drawn on striking ensembles, entirely new to cycles involve death or injury to the equal effort or each pair of wheels, the number of cars composing encli if the pistons should be of alumin-pected, riders themselves, or their passen-
Another indication is pro the paper sip. Another Because of greatly improved eain coming from the same start. m, definite and serious seizure is fuse dripping of gasoline from the marking on the sanie paper strip
pev, the low priced class. gets. The damage done by motor-fittings of brute shoc lining to the ng point, multiplied by the distance more probable. ciclists to pedestrians ie, I agree, contour of the wheel, rings last overed, in kilometres.
and operated by a chronometer, is lower than that done by any other much longer than on other types of ith a team of twenty ears arriving to this damage, but wlion-prossure is the surest test. The motor will by measuring the distances of the The Fiat, A sleeve-valve engine is less liable Loading of the engine, however, deflected every half-second, so that group of vehicles. In short, it brakes. No mechanical adjust- ogether from Turin, was awarded lubrication for the big ends was operate normally, but will give might be claimed that from the ments are necesary and practically 10.730 marks, while the tom classi adopted, the Daimler people were trouble every time the throttle is point of view of the pedestrun, the the only attention the brakes reed second immediately after the faced with the possibility, and aetpened following idling, slow driv nator-cycle's Lark in worse than its quire is a very infrequent filling of Fist, was awarded little more then to work to counter it. For this renug or down hill perforinance."
the braking fluid reservoir."
thousand.
son an oil booster has been incorpor When backing into the garage do
As regards solo motor-ycles, in suding those with pillion passen gere. I find that the total number d casualties attributed to them is higher in proportion than the aver age figure for all motor vehiles, and between 35 per cent. and 40 per et, higher in the figure for pri vete ears and taxicabs.
bite.
At the same time, the figures
carburettor
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half-seconds recorded on the strip, kiuks produced by the car cu enter the time occupied by the car in ing and leaving the measured dis passing over the toasured distance, Lauce from the nearest kinks pro and Lence its velocity, can be duced by the clarunoneter, and obtained with the necessary pre- counting the number of complete claiou.