THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1930.
BOON TO DRIVÉRS,
Device That Eliminates a Clutch.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BATTERY CARE. PETROL COMPANIES.
..
Preserving Disused Cells.
Want More Motor
Vehicles.
May
ROAD MANNERS,
Eliminate the Loiterer.
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Last week-end, with its fine, warm
I enjoyed a novel motoring ex- Quite frequently one hears com-
There is probably no business in perience yesterday, writes Harold plaints from motorists that portions which reliable and economical trans-weather was the first on which many
cars have failed for nо Pemberton, Dally Express motor of their ing correspondent. I drove a apparent reason, and manufacturers port plays a more important part newcomers to the pastime ventured, motor-ear in the busiest traffic are blamed for faulty construction than in the marketing of petrol. far afield. It is no exaggeration to centre of London without once of their products (writes a corres. On low distribution costs dependa say that there were more cars on the success or failure of the Com-the road than ever before, and that changing gear even when brought pondent.) If, these complaints are to a dead stop, and, even more investigated, it will generally be pany, and it is, therefore, not in-
"bottle- that the surprising, without once operat-found
deterioration or significant that many of the larger congestion apart from ing the clutch pedal.
failure is due to some unconscious petrol Companies should have again necks" either natural or artificial- The car was controlled just like neglect on the part of the owner. turned to Leyland Motors Limited, created a record. a locomotive-that is, by the ac-I have just received a letter from for a large percentage of their now
There was, of course, a certain celerator only. To stop. It was the country, in which a motorist requirements.
amount of dangerous driving, pal- only necessary to decelerate and complains that, after a holiday of During the past few months this
petrated more often than not by apply the hand brake. No need to three months, during which his car well-known manufacturer of com- declutch and put the gear lever in was not used, his buttery is ruined. mercial vehicles has received very people who had not the least idea a neutral position.
This not due to any fault in the substantial orders from the Anglo- that they were doing wrong; but To restart, the brake was releas-construction of the battery, but is American Oil Company, Shell-Max, there was also the deliberately reek-
the British Petroleum less driver who took ed, and a gentle pressure on the the natural result of the battery Limited,
chances by accelerator set the car in motion being left out of use for such Company and several other Compassing on corners and at or close again.
period without attention.
panies. These orders include goods to crossings, and road junctions. An ordinary battery kept out of vehicles from 50-cwt. to 12-ton capa- He was not out in any real strength.. but a single example of the species Car was use longer than six weeks without cities. Considerable interest
attention would probably be serious-caused by the delivery of the first leaves a distinct impression that The car was a double-six 30-h.p. ly injured, if not completely spoiled. batch of 50-cwt. "Badgers" to the driving as a whole is bad, and this Daimler fitted' with a new Inven- It is important, therefore, that spe- Anglo-American Oil Company. Ten possibly accounts for the scare hoad- tion that nearly eliminates the cial treatment should be given to a of these were fitted with huge lines one so often sees on Monday necessity for changing gear, In battery if it is necessary to keep it boards bearing the wording "Still mornings, suggesting that the roads ather words, a device that comes out of action without any charging more British lorries to meet the during the preceding two days have near to solving a problem that has or discharging for a long period. overwhelming demand for Pratts been populated almost exclusively by taxed the brains of motor en There are two methods of treatment High Test" and headed by Mr. High juggernauts driven by criminal gineers the world over ever since the dry system and the liquid Test, a man over 6 ft. 8 in. high, motor-cars were first made.
system-the first being generally proceeded by a circuitous route considered the better. For the dry from Leyland to London. I say "near" because in certain system the procedure is to give the circumstances, such as when stop battery a thorough charge in order ing on a steep hill, or when to bring all the plates into good con- tackling 1 hill of exceptional dition. Then empty out the acid, severity, it is still necessary to fill up again with distilled water, change to a lower gear. For this discharge the battery for a few purpose a small auxillary clutch is hours until the voltage has fallen by provided.
10 per cent., and then immediately
All the time top gear was engag• ed, even when tho stationary.
Auxiliary Clutch.
A “TERRIER.”
Mishap in Fording a River.
W35
lunatics.
Two Cardinal Rules.
The tale of road accidents' wound be reduced almost to vanishing point were all motorists to adopt two simple rules: (1) Always drive on the left of the road crown, and in- stantly pull right over to the left when a horn la sounded indicating the approach from behind of a faster
Some weeks ago But for all normal purposes you empty out the water; let the cells Terrier" ran into serious trouble approaching a blind curve or corner. A Leyland car; and (2) never overtake on or just drive on the accelerator, for drain as much as possible, wash getting gears and clutch pedal al-away any traces of acid on the top near Nelson, New Zealand, and it far when a cross-road er road june- covers, put a little vaseline on the tribute to the efficiency of their on ties just ahead. It may be said terminal stems and all connections, Overseas service organisation that that a third rule should be: "Never and store in a place free from dust this machine was on the road again overtake and then cut in to avoid a The liquid system is to have the nine days after the accident, in vehicle approaching from in front." plates well covered with cord, but which the engine was badly damag-As a matter of fact, however, the
together.
The Daimler Company 18 the second British firm within the past two years to tackle seriously the gear changing problem.
xeur introduced two years
machine in question
timber
3 load of 5
and
was
Was
tong crossing
offence of cutting in is very often encouraged by the road space-waat- ing tactics of many drivers, who Insist upon keeping well out towards the middle of the carriageway,
thereby making it impossible for anyone to overtake.. without going right over to the off aide of a road of average, width. If, therefore. rule (1) were scrupulously observed there would be no need for a third
The new device is likely to cause below the lead connecting bare in- ed. in even greater sensation than the side the cells. Charge up the bat- The Armstrong Siddeley self-changing tery thoroughly, remove the term-carrying
aginal heads and vents, carefully of Other firms are busy working on clean the tops of cells, vaseline all ford in the Rai River the problem largely because of the metal parts, and store in the dark Flat Creek Road, Nelson, when the fact that women are now joining with protection from dust.
A river was flooding fairly rapidly. the ranks of car buyers in their periodical charge is beneficial, but The driver considered that he could thousands and they do not like not always necessary. This depends get through, but apparently the gear changing.
upon the condition of the battery bottom had been washed away in a How is it possible to keep the when stored, the type of plates and manner that he did not anticipate, engine running with the gear en- the amount of loose seillment there and, further, the river was rising at
the rate of a foot every 20 minutes. To revert to the state of affairs gaged and without the car moving?
may be in the cells. Fluid Flywheel.
The induction pipe was submerg-last week-end: While the amount of ed and water taken into the engine, wantonly dangerous or reckless-driy- this resulted in bent connecting roda ing was, comparatively speaking. and other serious damage. The rear negligible, the volume of space-wast- wheels saak into the mud and the ing driving was
The invention that makes this
Another plan is to send the bat- possible is called a fluid flywheel,tery to the manufacturer's service It resembles an ordinary enclosed depot for attention over a specified plate clutch, but actually consista period-Ex..
of two parts only--a äriving mem-
ber and a driven member.
The driving member is of cylin drical construction; the driven member is enclosed within it, and the whole compartment Alled with oll.
Both the driving and driven members are of cup-like section, and are divided into a large num- ber of cells or radial webs.
Power is transmitted
lows:-
fol-
ACCELERATION.
Assisting Small Cars.
rule to cover this point.
enormous.
On
timber canted the machine over on roads amply wide enough for thrus her side. She stayed in that posi-cars abreast it was impossible, for tion for a couple of days until it was mile after mile, to overtake a vehicle, possible to get her out and she was ahead, because neither its driver nor then taken into their service atation the drivers of approaching cars In Nelson,
seemed willing to draw well over to
The lollowing trick may not work
At the request of the owners the the left, so making space for a third on all cars and it will certainly be chief mechanic was sent over from line of faster traffic in the centre of those fitted with Wellington to take charge of the the road. When somewhere ahead of no avail on automatic advance and retard igni- repolra. These necessitated a new there is a car being driven at about tion mechanisms, but I have found cylinder block, new connecting roda. 15 m.p.h, occupying half. the read. it helpful on the majority of small pistons, etc., and complete overhaul and the flow of approaching vehicles
of all the electrical system.
is practically continuous, it is hard- This overhaul occupied nine days,ly surprising that some of the which, considering the amount of drivers delayed by the "loiterers” in work, and the fact that the vehicle front are tempted to thrust their
miles away
from the way past, even though it cannot be was many nearest workshop, was very good; done without risk to all concerned. at the end of this time the machine commenced its normal duties, pre- sumably fording the same river.
LEYLAND MOTORS.
the
that I have driven and can The moving of the driving mem- cars ber by the engine causes the oil heartily recommend it to others in its cells to flow outwards. The (writes a correspondent to oil starts on a circulatory motion Autocar.) between the cups of driving and Small, high-efficiency engines are driven members.
Itable to knock if the driver attempte In passing, the oil is retarded to force their speed up from a low in velocity, and therefore releases pace in top gear. The reason for power which sets the driven mem-this becomes obvious when one con- ber in motion.
siders the conditions ruling in the At ordinary speeds the oil needa Inlet manifold and cylinders during little retardation to develop the acceleration. As the engine Is run- required power, hence the slip be- ning at low speed on a nearly closed tween driving and driven members throttle, cylinders are only partially is insignificant.
filled, and as the gas la mixed by the slow-running jat it is richer and normal slower burning than the supply.
A Minimum Speed Limit. In certain parts of the U.S.A. there is definitely a minimum speed. Limit, and one is fnclined to think that something on similar lines might be imposed on our own main roads at week-ends. Certainly ob- |vious risks might be worth taking If, as a set-off to them, one could eliminate the loiterer, who To those who are interested finan-should not be allowed 01 cially as the holders of shares in a main road at all unless Leyland Motors Limited, as well as he
prepared to proceed
Recent Improvements Featured.
But at low engine speed the alip can become 100 per cent., thus the engine is enabled to run without moving the car. This happens at When the driver suddenly steps about 600 revolutions a minute. hard on the accelerator the restric- to those who are users of the at the kind of speed-ssy, 30 m.p.h.
Fascinating.
tion is taken off the incoming gan vehicles produced by this well-known normally patronised by the aver Driving in such circumstances is and the cylinders receive their full Lancashire Company, certain modi-age private car driver. most fascinating. When you stop quota of fuel Unfortunately, the fications which have been made re-
It is indisputable that most of the the car declutches on its own, so mixture is by no means homo-cently will not be without interest, motoring sins of omision or commis- to speak, When you restart the geneous, and as the air commences for it is contemplated that these aion on the roads are due to ignor- clutch goes in on its own.
to pour. Into the cylinders before modifications will not only again add ance, to inexperience, and to fallure Though actually in gear the car the comparatively heavy petrol to the Company's success, but will to think. They are, however, none does not move until the engine la vapour has a chance to get under also benefit the users of Leyland the less dangerous for that, and running at approximately 600 way the mixture is weakened below vehicles. The modifications referred everything possible must be done to normal and knocking is set up. to are in connection with the Ley check them. As we have so often
F.P.M.
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months' time.
Impression that he admitted the reasonableness of perruitting such
The sport has been taken up. events to continue.
keenly locally and large crowds of Future of Motor Sport a connection with road racing, Asiatica attended the Saturday
in Britain.
however, Mr. Morrison, was' a great | meetings held on the Serangoon deal less sympathetic. He said that track.
It takes up the power on ac- If, however, the driver retards the land passenger vehicles, and make contended in The Autocar, the real celeration with turbine smooth-spark just before he pushes the for further standardisation.rials on the highways to-day are ness. I actually drove down to accelerator pedal down, by providing For some years past Leyland caused by those who cannot-or, at what could not have been a greater a late spark he counteracts the Motors Limited has been endeavour any rate, do not use their reason- speed than 1⁄2 m.p.h. and accelerat-rapid burning tendencies of the ing, with no little success, to pro- ing powers, and not by those actual- ed up to nearly 80 m.p.b.⠀ weakened fuel, and thus knocking is duce a range of vehicles which bears ly deficient in driving skill. That is One test I made was to start in avoided. Immediately after the a large measure of relationship to why there are such obvious limita- top gear on a fairly stiff incline accelerator has been pressed down each other, not only in respect of tions to the utility of a practical test
he felt that public sentiment as a The riding of the Australian pro- The engine, never demurred. the driver should commence advanc-amailer items,, but even in regard to
driving-licence
"Considerable light was shed," whole would be against road racing fessionals is thrilling, their mastery for
applicants Take the case of a hill of ex-ing the spark, moving the lever the main units. In consequence it on the lines usually envis saya The Light Car ard Cylinder, and that in his opinion such events and art of cornering being superb. captional severity, too steep for gradually to the advance position to is possible to produce economically aged by the Buthorities, Such upon the feelings towards motor should be organised on private roads A crowd of fifteen thousand people top gear. With an ordinary clutch, suit the rising speed of the engine. a larger number of vehicles to meet a test would be passed, if sport which are held by our legisla- or tracks constructed for the pur attended Singapore's opening night unless a change down was made. The secret of success in this con- all requirements, and further the not with flying colours, without tors when the clause in the Rond, pose. The fact that Sir Kenyon and it is expected that Kala the engine would protect and final-mection is to make the movement of user of a mixed fleet has fewer spare very much difficulty, by the real Traffic Bill dealing with the pro- Vaughan-Morgan's amendment to Lumpur will turn out a similar ly "conk" out
the spark lever synchronise perfect parts to stock.
culprite,
huition of motor racing and speed permit authorised races was reject crowd when the speedway at the With the fluid fly-wheel the car ly with the demands of the engine, The Leyland passenger vehicles— would come gently to rest, but the and if this control is expertly Titan," "Tiger" and “Lion”—have The Really Useful Test; trials on the roads was discussed by ed by 18 votes to 8 makes it clear Federal Capital is opened. engine would continue to run at handled the acceleration will be in the past been very similar to each What is nonded is an examinition the Standing Committee on the Bill. that before wa see a road race in just under 600 r.p.m. A lower sweet and astonishingly rapid. other, but thanks to recent modifica in road rules and courtesies pre Dr. Salter proposed that what are Britain an entirely new outlook will "gear could then be engaged, and; and
tions, further interchangeability ferably
rgued known as reliability trials should be have to be established in West- an ora will be brought about. Each of the that a good biany people who drive included specifically in the clause minstor. new models will have the same, type motor vehicles, ar "too stupito on account of the fact that com of deep section frame, in which it pass any exami tion This we plaints had been received from ngola prevent-vary much doubt, the head to pass people living in towns and villages. fal wits through which night runs are held. other Mr. Morrison, the Minister ower Transport, agreed that there was a mid do grievance in that particular conne Thinga tion but asked for, a withdr employed the amendment Wheel using that he
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