THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929.
ACCESSORIES
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etc., etc
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CAR EVOLUTION
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The whole world is indebted to Grent Britain for finst producing the pneumalle tyre. But for this invention, little progress could have been made in motor road transport as the solid rubber tyre could not fully absorb the road shocks caused by uneven surfaces travelled over by
the vehicles.
The pneumatic tyre gave comfort- able travelling as well as swifter moving vehicles.
Motorists to-day are apt to forget
the debt they owe on this account to
British invention.
the pioneer tyre makers for this
The experience gained in solving the various troubles in the early tyre production has placed Great Britain foremost in this important part of the equipment of the road motor.
One has only to refer to the existing world speed records, all made on British tyres, to realise their quality must be the highest grade to withstand such strains,
Improving the Vehicle
In the years from 1900 to 1912 the passengers and drivers of motor vehicles were none too well shelter- ed from inclement weather condi- tions in open cars, the then prevail. ing type of private carriage or in
open "cabs" or the driver's front
acats of commercial vehicles.
The windscreen was an "extra" in
those days, and the motorist had also to buy such accessories as horns, clocks, speedometers, etc., and pay to have them fitted, instead of such equipment being included in the list price of the complete vehlele:
The "spare wheel" was another development in this period after many experiments had proved that the detachable. rim was not na ac- ceptable to the public as changing the complete wheel when a puncture of an Inner tube or a cut tyre cover. compelled the driver to provide a new wheel covering to continue the Journey.
Changing tyres on the roadside. was a longer and more irksome job than changing the complete wheel.
To-day every motor vehiclo car- rics one or two spare wheels, "while comfort and full protection is given to the drivers as well as the pas sengers in carriages and commercial vehicles alike by adequate hoods
and side windows.
Electric Accessories, etc., etc.
SLOW DRIVER
Big Menace To Traffic
to
THE CHINA MAIL,
FEMININE TOUCH
Studebaker's Style Committee
SEVERE TESTS
Pioneer Hunt For Diamonds
The feminine influence, ever a The severe tests to which the factor in the purchase of a motor modern automobile is often subject. car, has become so strong in recent led and the strange roles It is fre- years that some of the more pro-quently called upon to play, are minent among motor manufactur- illustrated by the achievement of a ers are now retaining the services Studebaker motor ear which re- of feminine artists and designers cently carried a party of American wafat in specifying colours, mining engineers on a pioneer hunt falsh and appointments, Con- for diamonds among the cannibal apicuous in this trend toward tribes of Central Africa. The car utilizing the "feminine touch" is was Instrumental in saving the lives Studebaker whose engineering ad- of its occupants and in contributing visory staff now includes a style to the subsequent success of the committee made up of six women venture. whose word in art is accepted as authority.
This unique committee Includes: Helen Dryden, Mrs. Lee Simonson, Marjorie Oelrichs, Neysa McMein, Rose O'Neill and Marlon C. Taylor. women whose talents for true har mony in colours, in textures, la lines, curvoa and planes are world recognized.
It was into a section of "darkest Africa" that the American engineers working South of the Luembo river wore ordered to pro- spect for new diamond concessiona, In making preparations for their invasion of the Bakete country, the Americans encountered great dif- culty in persuading any natives to accompany them. They feared they would be the main course of a Bakete jungle feast."
Highest Paid Woman Helen Dryden is the highest paid women artist in America. Firat
Warnings Unheeded to originate decorative magazine
An old Studebaker car which had covers, she is considered a ploneer already covered 30,000 miles on trips in modern art. She is also a suc-around the workings was used. In With authorities endeavouring to aigner of stage costumes.
cassful interior decorator and despite of dire warnings that penetra- Miration of the Bakete country was the relieve the growing traffic conges- Simonson, sated artist and de- height of folly, the expedition start tion in every town and city, experta corator, enjoys a unique positioned out. There were no roads and generally are emphasizing the im-as an arbiter of good taste, sharing the character of the country varied portance of quick pick-up and get the genius of her husband who is from dense jungle along the rivera away in automobiles as a factor in a director of New
York's famous to open hilly stretches covered by
lush growth of grass and shruba. Marjorie Oelrichs was one of the The first fifty miles took the party frat society women to enter buat-to the end of even a semblance of The second day, the Baketo fashionable A
clearing traffic.
Theatre Gulld.
ness.
She
rung
r
Engineers of the Willys-Overland Company, who have studied the traße problem and andeavoured to bulld automobiles to meet it, declare interior decorating shop on Madi- that the case of handling the son Avenue, New York, besides en- Whippet four and six-cylindered joying a national reputation for cars in heavy traffic is due largely her paintings and sketches. to the quick getaway of those cars
Neyan McMein is a sought-after from a standing start. These cars also can be brought to an instant covers for various popular Ameri
magazine cover designer. She does stop due to the powerful braking can magazines. system on four wheels, they added.
road.
country was reached. A cautious advance failed to disclose any
Bakeles. In this torritory, where others had been massacred by can- nibals, there was not the slightest Indication of human habitation.
A Steel Monster The strange sight of a steel mon-. Her work has Facilty and comfort in the hand-ademy of Design, New York,
been exhibited at the National Aeater had utterly demoralized the
natives, who, accustomed to meet the: ling of either Whippet mode! In
eneiny with dash and courage, were Few American women have trafic also is aided by ease of steer achieved more widespread artistic at a loss to know what to make of ing. This has been made possible success than Rose O'Neill.
this new invader. They apparently She is by the use of an entirely new steer also an
feared that some dreadful beast had author. Marion Taylor, ing gear which
was designed for formerly merchandise editor for
descended upon them to take tall of this car and which gives a much Vogue, Vanity Fair and House and
their misdeeds. In a couple of greater reduction between the worm Garden, is a style counsellor for a cautiously and surrounded the car. hours, the Baketes crept forward wheel and thus reduces the effort number of large concerns. required to steer it.
She la They watched the native servant fill Along with
considered an outstanding authority the radiator and add gasoline. these features, the Whippet has a
on fashions in America and Europe aged inhabitant crept forward and of gravity for greater road stability and riding comfort,
Importance of Colours
touched the car... His finger pressed and is of such a compact construc- Erskine, President of the
recent statement by A. the horn and the "beast" let out a tion that it assurca parking in the baker Corporation, emphasizes the back to his companions.
roar, sending the savage scurrying smallest possible space, although the importance of beautiful colours and entire camp was around the Stude- Soon the roominess of the interior is genappointments in the motor car. erous throughout, the engineers say,
baker clapping their hands, trying But speed and power to take the
in every conceivable way to impress steepest hills along with economy
it with their friendliness. of operation are pointed out as outstanding features.
low centre
This year, however, Willys-Over- land engineera have emphasized style of design and distinctiveness of appearance to an unusual degree' Whippet an appeal to the eye as well and have incorporated in the
as its proven mechanical advant- ages.
stronger
L
connecting roda
mission gears.
A
Stude,
"Onc.of the most happy and far roaching developments which has characterised American social life since the war has been the insist ent demand for beauty in our in. dustrial arts. That quality
or com. bination of qualities which
was
An
What might have been gained only at the expense of much bloodshed won in an hour by an auto- mobile with a flair for impressing the pye or ear, or which delights cannibala with the proper amount of the intellect or moral senso by its respect. Under such excellent grace, that thing called beauty, has auspices, negotiations with the always characterised the fine arts natives were soon under way and and it also lies at the root of all the diamond hunting venture was style in those useful arts which have endured through the con carried to a successful conclusion.
turies.""
Smart New Hues
The recommendations of these pistons, chassis frames and trace the selection of colours and appoint and artists played an important part in
ments for the new Studebakers. The result was that British motor Noteworthy among the smart new vehicles of all types to-day are made colours is a combination of silver of materials produced and finished pine with slate green window
'BUS AND LORRY
Features Of British Manufacture
It may be said with some con fidence that the Commercial
The standard equipment of the car and, economy of upkeep thus given maroon with gleaming black run.gineering standpoint than the re- of to-day does not however stop at to British motors. spare wheels and hoods.
It is sel dom Indeed that the purchaser of a car is called upon to outlay any ad ditional money on such accessories as can be regarded necessary for the comfort or officiency of the car as a unit.
Touring cara
in Britain better than in any other facings, darker coach green wire Part of the world. Purchasers of wheels, and orange coral striping. Motor Transport Exhibition, which motor vehicles should remember the Another combination, one of the opened at Olympia on November important factor towards long life smartest of the season, is a rich is of more interest from an en-
ning gear and gold striping. Har cont Motor Show. Thirty years ago the dealgner of monizing with these smart colours are decidedly more standardised the horse-drawn vehicles had ar-are beautiful mohair and broad- than commercial vehicles, and the average purchaser of the former rived at a very advanced stage in cloth upholstery fabrics.
attaches at least as much Im- both craftmanship and efficiency, whether the purpose of the coach-
portance to the body work as to the chassis. Commercial vehicles, work was to convey my Ladye Fayre to Court or goods from the factory
on the other hand, are largely purchased under the advice of en- to the railhead.
gineers with a wide experience of road work, who are usually quite capable of giving due weight to the relative merits of different chassis for particular require- Cargoments. As a consequence, the re-
"THE MOTOR SHIP"
More often is it to be found that refinemente amounting to luxuries are included in the fixed price of
The advent of the motor driven In the November issue of "The the car.
vehicle astonished and confounded Motor Ship," pubilaked by the -British automobile designers were the coachbuilder, as he was asked to Temple Press, Ltd., the following responsible for the practical con- abandon much of his preconceived subjects are dealt with: struction and adoption of worm Ideas and experience in order to pro- The Latest Blue Funnel rear-axle drive as an alternative to vide suitable superstructures for the Liner "Agamemnon." the bevel wheels drive and the longer stroke piston for the engine as well as the development of the more silent running motor.
chassis.
The Tanker Position Analysed. The Messageries Maritimes Liner
A New Waste Heat Boller.
"Eridan."" - (Fully Illustrated.) Nine Standard Motor Ships. Details of Last Month's Forty
The Growth In Output Nevertheless Instead of boldly denouncing the designer of the Development Of The Small Car chassis for not taking into consider From 1912 and onwards up to the ation the needs of elegance of line present day the more efficient high for body work, the carriage-designer The speed engine of small capacity was accepted the changing conditions by created by British englucers, and endeavouring to adopt dog-cert and the foundation fald for the small car landau styles of horse, drawn car A giving good and economical service riages as suitable designs for plac- to its owner whether for businessing on the mechanical chassis. The or general utility road transport. t. Very crude and uncomfortable were
In developing the high speed en- these early niotor carriages.--/ gine that is a motor which could The commercial motor vehicles at rapidly Increase its useful power that period were confined to a few by a greater number of revolutions | Chasula fitted with light covered van "of the branika and flywheel per or oper platform lorry bodies. Als50 minute more atta lon was given
Fuel
Tanker Orders.
Performance of the Richard. sons, Westgarth Double-acting Engined M.S. "Trania." Mediterranean Passenger Ship,
(Blustrated.)
Motor Cargo Vessel "ghear Holme
Pumps for Airless. Injection Engines
QUICK AND
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presentatives arms exhibiting at the Commer cial Exhibition are usually fully competent to discuss their pro- ducts from a technical aspect and
of the différent
further feature tending to in- crease the interest in this exhibi- tion is that a number of special- purpose vehicles are on show, Many new models of both the four and six-wheeled types are on view bat the difference between these and earlier models will frequently be found to be comparatively amall, and more the natur detail improvements than radic changes in design. At least“ of the firms exhibit howe have only recentl comm
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educe unduly the gosted that it would be in little the upper deck, demand in-Britain
that passengers wheeler has, however, almost be stoop when using come a common-place on our Another common roads, and its use is by no means the stairway in un confined to the heaviest loads, for ather, and which it was primarily introduc
nood Practically all the leading:
of commercial veileles now? Tune ar more models of the eled type, whether beam 17 driven, and it is safle #to;bàƐable,to-record-that bufacturers chaya béen
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