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I notice (writes Professor A. M. Low in the English "Motor"") that a writer inquires in another Juurnal as to the reason why no one has bothered to make cycle reflectors on the principle
Enoringus savings are made at the plants of the Ford Motor Company of Studebaker's famous Président materials that without careful manage Eight to-day holda one-fourth of all ment might go largely to waste. official world records, in addition to The sale of scrap of all kinds netted holding more international and world the company $3,573,877.60 during records combined than any other make 1928. That figure represents only the of stock automobile, according to Mr.scrap that was sold; vast quantities in of the cat's eye, which seeme to take H. S. Welch, President of the Stude-addition were salvaged and converted care of our front wheels by its skill. baker Pierce-Arrow Export Corpora- back into use by the company. This at self-discovery. The cat's eye is in- kind of saving, it is pointed out, is me deed very similarly constructed to the "Proof of this statement may be of the important reasons why the Ford red reflector, although not as an ex- found in the tabulation of official re-automobiles may be sold at its low ample of the type of total reflection cords in the April 15 issue of Revue price.
which we see when looking at the un- Internationale de l'Automobile, official
Next to the sale of coke, the largest derside of a glass of water. The organ of the International Automobile single item in revenue-producing by human eye has not the shape of lens Association of Recognised Automobile printucts is. scrap metal. Daily, an which produces this particular-degree Clubs (Paris), by which authority all average of twenty-eight freight cars of reflection of light falling upon it, official world and international records pull out of the plants loaded with but it is an extraordinary collection of must be confirmed," he said.
metal shavings and trimmings-about physiological peculiarities and bad "Since this issue of the publication, 900 tons a day.
optics. Even the lenses with which it two new world records have supplant Of that vast volume, fifteen car loads, is fitted are seldom accurate, and their ed the old ones, but these in no way for about 500 tons,
represent trim-faults are corrected by our minds or affect the status of the President. Themings from machine shops. Ten cars, by the connecting links to the eye. new records are those established by or more than 200 tons, are filled with I suppose most people appreciata Major H. O. D. Segrave when he drove trimmings fran sheet metal stamm- that dintly illuminated objects can be his "Golden Arrow" to new kilometre lags. And three cars, or 125 tons, are seen best in a room that is almost clark and mile records at Daytona Beach.
loaded with drop forge flashings obtain by observing them indirectly. Look "The listing of official records reveals from the manufacture of such parts straight at the clock in a dim light and much interesting data. When fully as the camshaft.
you will find that the blind spot where equipped, officially certified stock Pre- The 500 tons of trimmings from the the nerves join the eye prevents clear sident Roadster flashes 30,000 miles in sanchine shops are sold to outside mills vision. I think this fault is often 26,326 consecutive-minutes al aver-for conversion into new steel. The used in spiritualistic seances, where a age speed of 68.37 miles per hour forest of the metal scrap is of the type dull red light appears to illuminate ob- the entire distance on the Atlantic City worked entirely in open hearth fur-jects in the room and thereby gives a Speedway last year, it established thence and a considerable volume of false impression of the amount of light greatest mark for endurance and speed such waste never leaves the Ford plant, really permitted. The hand can geldem in all automobile history.
heing converted to further uses in its be seen when moved in front of one's "Four Presidents shared in this out-own open hearth, furnaces.
nose, although self luminous points standing feat. Each covered the 30,000 - Some most unusual items find their can be seen when observed indirectly miles in less than that number of way into the revenue-producing scrap by the unfortunate sitters. minutes. The President's feat, quot hoap. There is a carload of blotting ing the report of the LA.R.A.C., was paper each week, which has served in the greatest record "for any dess of the Triplex shatter-proof glass depart car for all time,"
ment in the glass plant as a cushion for the glass, but has lost none of its value as blotting paper.
"Only three other standard makes of automobiles have a share in the world records, the report shows. Facts con- cerning them reflect additional credit
on the President.
"One of the three is a Panhard, a French make. Panhard is credited with holding the 50-mile world record. The car which established this mark, it is reported, was specially rebuilt for the purpose, light moving parts being fitted, special carburettor and other im portant features.
"All maining world recorde have heen set by specially built racing cars, some costing tremendous sums and built especially to maintain excessive speeds over comparatively short dis-
Lances.
Silver is recovered from the salts need in the photographic department; diamonds are salvaged from the hard cutting tools. And not the least, are the left-overs from the wool upholstery luth department in the Lincoln plast. This waste is sold to an optical firm to be made into polishers for eye-glasses.
7,000 TOURISTS
TAKING THEIR CARS TO EUROPE
The extraordinary connection which seems to exist between visible rays and the temperamental feelings of an ob server who looks at different colours, or who is submitted to sunlight after a seat in a dark room, often causes me to wondor as to the ultimate discovery which must one day be made to tell us how wireless affects our health. I am not referring to the weather or to the programmes. We all know already what happens in these casos!
Inventions such as those are prob- ably held back by Fate until the time arrives when letters and meals arrive in tubes from communal kitchens; when sleep is artificially administered with a splash of health and education, and when the hero of the hour is the first man who flew non-stop round the world.
Hydraulic Jacks
represents Cen- frem ita alu-
"The Bentley car, holding the 200 kilometre and 200 mile records, was a standard chassis, the current list price of which in England, where it is manu- factured, is almost three times that of The President Roadster! The body is
I saw in the paper some time ago- extra. The AC car, alse of English
It is estimated that more than I therefore know it to be true-that the make, with which Mr. and Mrs. Bruce $50,000,000 will be spent in European great monolith at Stonehenge had been hold the 4,000 mile, 5,000 mile, 10,000 countries this year by at least 7,000 raised to its vertical position by means kilometre, and 15,000 kilometre records, American automobile tourists who will of a hydraulic jack. It is interesting to was a standard chassis, listing at ap- lake their cars abroad to travel. The find how pressure is distributed over proximately the same price as the Pre-Foreign Trave! division of the Ameri- water and how loads can be multiplied sident Roadster complete with body. an Automobile. Association further by a mans which is now familiar to This car was fitted with a special states that those who take their cars
es through the medium of the ofl- streamline body, however, when it cap-abroad will comprise but a small por operated brake. tured its records.
tion of the American tourists who will Is it not wonderful to obɛerve an tour Europe in automobiles. To meet aeroplane flying over Stonehenge and to this influx of guests and afford then think that the people who erected those every convenience, overaas custom stones probably had little other authorities are making every attempt thought beyond hunger, fear and sex? to simplify customs and regulations. The zeroplane
Steamship companies have made spe- turies of development "All these significant facts when cial arrangements for the accommoda-rubber-shed wheels, the taken into account, make the Pretion of automobiles. Several new ships miniam and the magneto, which sident's feat, a really memorable one, will be placed in operation this year, owes its being originally to a man who especially when it is remembered that which have been designed to carry a discovered that certain metals placed the cars which won the record were maximum number of automobiles. in aeids caused a frog's legs to jump strictly stock models, exactly like those
As American driving licences are electrically when the muscles were con sold by Studebaker dealers all over not accepted in
all the countries of nected to the plates of that early bat- the world," he concluded.
Europe, an international travelling tery. "Studebaker is justly proud of the pass which is a general licence for car
The Theory of Relativity world beating achievement of its Pre- and driver is issued. This document is Relativity is a subject which seems to sident, for by this fest, Studebaker won available in most Europain countries infuriate everybody, We hate being 11 world, 23 international and 118
for twelve months from date of issue.
told we are never happy until we have official American stock car records. Its
been miserable, and we will not world records are as follows:-10,000
adopt a man-in-the-moon attitude, or, miles at 68.81 m.p.h; 15,000 miles at
as Sir Sefton Braneker always says, €8.59
m.p.b.; 20,000 miles
"take the view of Venus, because it is at 68.54 .p.h.; 25,000 miles at 68.47 m.p.h.;
far more pleasant than that of Mars | 80,000 miles
or the Moon." at 68.36 m.p.h.; 20,000
One can juggle with kilometres at, 110.412 Ep.h.; 25,000
tinte conveniently by means of a syn- kilometres at 100.424 k.p.h.; 30,000 A. Glass (Upper Holloway C.C.chronous cinematograph, as I was re- kilometres at 110.399 kp.h.; 35,000 kilo- lowered the one mile unpaced minded when sitting-not in the back metres at 110.425 kph.; 40,000 kilo British amateur (standing start) at a film demonstration. When metres at 100.190 kph.: 40,000 kilo-trieycling record at lerne Hill from a car travelling at 90 mph., and I had seen the hero clutch the heroing metres at 100.180 k.p.h.; and 45,000 London. Glass covered 22 miles conversing with her the while, I was in 1,385. yards, agains. previous re-terested to notice that the wheels of cord, held by A. Houghton (Belle the car, the blinking of my eyelids Vue C.C.), of 21 miles 1,004 yards, and, later, the twist of an aeroplane propeller, were all comparable "with the speed with which the pictures were being exposed.
kilometres at 109.394 k.p.b.”
TRAFFIC CONTROL
REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION
CYCLING
NEW ONE HOUR UNPACED RECORD
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in the road in which are included many
accidents due to tramlines,
found that the light appeared to bend Then I looked up to the roof and
During the inquiry, a somewhat ab when passing through the hot air, as The Royal Commission on Transport surd attempt was made by certain wit indeed it would. I saw complemen appointed just year ago has now ncases to convince the Commission that tary colours and queer pictures under sued it first report This deals the roads were safer than the railways, the combined influence of music, light, almost exclusively with questions of notwithstanding that even the abnor darkness, smell and flicker, and I recol zafety; that f the co-ordination of mal record of last year shows that but lected how badly the eye was designed affic will form the subject of further 72 passengers were killed and 78 from the technical standpoint. It is inquiry. The statistical tables append-injured during the twelve months. disappointing to know that the points el to the report show that the accident The evidence taken as to the adyla which appear to come from stars are it has for the past eight years in- ability of speed limits was conflicting, often due to the inaccurate construc creased pari passu with the numbe of The Royal Automobile Club, the Royal tion of the lens of the eye, but if it motors licensed. In 1921, there were Scottish Automobile Clab, and the helps us eventually to heterodyne light 873,700 motor vehicles on our ruads, Society of Motor Manufacturers and or to broadcast pictures as a whole it and there were 62,621 accidents In Traders all advocated the abolition of will not be hard fer us to forgive. 1328, the former figure was 2,038,000, any limit for motor-cars and motorBesides, une fault in our eyes, which whilst the accidents due to motorcycles. This view was supported by enables us to appreciate cinematograph vehicles rose to 147,582. In the perind many of the county chiefs of police, pictures, is that light does not imme- covered, therefore, the increase in both by the secretary of the Nationat diately fade from the retina. figures has been about 135 per cent. Safely First Association and by the I am sorry, but I find I was writing Road accidents due to other causes and Cyclist Touring Club. On the other about acroplane propellers, flicker and predominantly to pedal cycles brought hand, the Commissioner of Police for times i
the total for 1928 to 170,978 of the Metropolitan District favoured a Most propellers, under the influenca which 6,138 were fatal. The date col-general speed limit of 35.mp.h
did of an engine which is not perfectly
seen to
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929.
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Des Voeux Road C.. Tel. C..1216 & 6252.
DE SOTO MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C.'1216 & 6252;
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30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6262. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
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Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C.1216 & 6252. PLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-82,
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icated for the Commission show that a majority of the city and borough balanced, revolve in a series of slight few of the accidents were attributable chief constables. On the Continent jerks, often causing them to flutter and to high speed, thus confirming the con- there are, save in special cases, waste power. This is one reason why usion reached by the London Traffic speed limits in Belgium, France, the old Gnome engine, although in- Advisory Committee, which reported Germany. Holland, Italy and Spain, eficient, worked rather well." Its ily
at in 57 per cent of the fatal acci- whilst a limit of 28 m.p.h, is prescribed wheel effect prevented trembling of the dents the speed was onder 10 miles an in Austria, Denmark, and Norway, and
which propeller,
can sometimes be hour. It is not, however, clear whether one of 25 mph in Switzerland. In eye of a synchronous cinematograph backwards under the spring by this fignte is meant the speed at the America, most of the State fix limits In lecamotive practice it is usual to Actual moment of impact, which in cf 20m.ph to 40 mph, but, we be balance the couples which cause Jerko most cases may be notably less than eve, these laws are for the most part to the carriages, with the result that
was some instants beforehand; as dead as the p
sexisting legal 20 mile there is a hammering action upon the Moreover, many of these estimates of it to Britain. The proposal to fit wheels. The weight of the coupling speed are made by interested partica. mechanical devices to control speed is roads is very important, but the run- Data collected with the assistance of pronounced to be not merely useless, ning or tuning up of a locomotive is Loaners by the Safety First Associa but likely to prove actually dangerous, still often conducted by listening to the ion show tha, the driver was held to since It might make impossible the ac exhaust. The reflection of sound spring can be seen in the marks which ed his anther why enginca always lame in than 40 per cent of the celeration necessary at critical me from tunnelt is a great guide to the show that the rolling rails are often scratched hemselves so fast! At the per cent. In our years,poration in the world. An aclimax to attributed to pedestrians, and cyclists. tion of any speed limit, the wildbuses the motorists if he bothered to listen to conveying of current. This is quits the inter-seting beat of two aeroplane fatal accidents, whilst 13 per cent, are menta Whilst advocating the abolt locomotive engineer, as it would be to more polished than those used for the moment I write. I am interrupted by In three years Chrysler has risen these achievements, from 37th in size to third in the entire Chrysler is building in New York City, driver was not necessarily responsible of mator cars urged the view that the that came his way.
Walter F. Defects in the vehicle, for which the reprosenting the owners and builders, every tree and railway bridge echo apart from the influence of the mater propellers. This only needs to be com
account for 7 per cent of the hal, laws on dangerous driving should be
composing the rails theme vesined with panel vibration and Thall Electrical locomotives are sometime. whilst 6 per cent were due to defects strengthened.
I am told that a child, ignorant of feel very il All vibration fa very im coupling rods on locomotives, once as portant.
The annual report of Chrysier Motors shewe figure interesting not only as the record of Chrysler achievement, but Indicative of the condition of the motor car industry in America as a whole. The working capital of the Chrysler organisation has fureased from $3,659,624 in 1922 to approximately $78,000,000 as of January 1, 1929, an increase of about 750 per cent, in f years. Car production has leaped from 21,429 cars in 1924 to 144,762 cars in 1928, a growth in output around 1,800
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