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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930.
ZMOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGE S
ARE is the man who isn't feeling the pinch of hard
Temporarily prosperity has deserted us, and when times -
RA times.
⚫ are hard the natural inclination is to cut expense; and that
is exactly what most of us are doing right now,
Isn't it quite true that if you can find a product ~~no matter what it may be that will go twice as far or last from two to three times as long, you are saving money? And again, isn't it true that repairs are And isn't it also true that if you can make an engine carry full load on lower consumption of fuel and lubricating oil, #ou save money?
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⚫ expensive, and also that adequate protection against repairs
is a saving ?
MOLILOI
Cheap lubricating oil, like any other cheap product, naturally lacks in quality. Otherwise it wouldn't be cheap. Quality costs money, but quality saves anywhere from three to four times the difference in the price of an ordinary product and a high grade product.
BAD TIMES
Gargoyle Mobiloil, while a trifle more expensive than
through the ordinary run of motorcar engine Jubricating oils, is the most economical and efficient lubricant yet
consumption produced. It lasts from two to three times as Jong as the average motorcar engine lubricating
gasoline ail. Although the use of Gargoyle Mobiloll reduces elimination of abnormal friction, the engine nevertheless delivers full power,
4-WHEEL BRAKING.
System Feature of Willys Six.
6,000 IDEAS.
Colossal Task for
General Motors.
Further evidence as to the in-
In fact,
A NEW ROLE.
The latest addition, for instance, to the fleet of the Ipswich Division Commer G2 of the St. John Ambulance Brigade is mounted on
fitted with Dewandre chassis vacuum servo brakes.
The features, of course, which
ing Instruments the slightest sign of wear after 10,000 miles, run- ning.
A new steel for lining the cylin der walls is so hard that the amount of wear after many. thousands of miles is undetectable. "It takes an extremely-high-polish, so that there is great economy in lubricating oil, and a notable re duction in loss of power through friction,
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Light and Strong. A new aluminium alloy is near- ly as strong as steel and even Great secrecy has been maintained about lighter than aluminium. Its composition, but it is known to have many valuable properties of and recovery from strength "fatigue" that will enable manu facturers to use it for parts for which steel has hitherto been the only suitable metal, thus lighten- ing the lead and consequently the wear on vulnerable bearings.
A large number of British cars are already using a bearing that never needs lubricating and will last practically for ever.
With these advances, it should be possible to make roller and ball
bearings that will never need re
Commercial Chassis As Ambulance.
-At-one-time-ambulance_authori The modern automobile may
ties would have looked askance at possess many admirable and de- ternationality of the automobile the use of commercial chassis for Luxurious vehicles. sirable specifications but there recently was made available in a their are few features which are mora sought after by the motoring report of the New Devices Commit-"private" types were alone con. publle than a well-balanced brak- tee of the General Motors Corpora- sidered suitable. Nowadays, how- ing system, according to the tion showing that it examines an ever, there is so little to choose between private and commercial engineering staff of the Willys- average of 6,000 new automobile chassis in the matter of refine Overland Company, which has just issued an especially prepared devices a year, offered to the com-ent, comfort and safety that far General from being unsuitable the latter bulletin on the braking equipment mittee for adoption on used in the new Willys Six.
Motors cars by inventors from possess definite advantages.
They are in the Arst place very "A great deal of careful plan- countries all over the world..
much cheaper than private cars of ning and consideration went into
The flood of inventions, coming auficient size for the purpose the braking equipment of the new
their sturdier construction allow Willys Six this bulletin points not alone from those countries Their ampler proportions, too, and cut. We realised full well how upon the European and American of roomier and more luxurious important good brakes are to an continents where automotive
bodywork. automobile to-day, especially so
manufacturing has seen its prin- when the automobile is capable of such great speed as is this car. cipal development, but from many We determined upon duo serve countries without automobile fac- four-wheel internal expanding tories, hastens the day when the brakes, in spite of the fact that automobile may be truly consider- this feature is seldom found oed a child of the world and not of cars in the price class of the one or any half dozen countries as render this model particularly Willys Six.
It was at its inception. "However,
we were fully the automobile at the present time suitable for ambulance work are speed gear box with silent third. cognisant of the fact that auto- has a truly international charac its six-cylinder engine and four mobiles to-day are driven in all ter, as is witnessed by the fact Another point in its favour-is its kinds of weather and we wanted a that the products of twenty-three low loading line, which greatly braking system which operated countries go into the manufacture cases the stretcher bearer's work as well in wet weather as it did of a Chevrolet.
and saves the patient unnecessary in dry weather. The internal ex- Only Few of Any Use.
discomfort when lifted in or out. Naturally, only a few of the panding brakes are utterly imper
The ambulance is designed to vious to bad weather. The brakes 6,000 devices which the General carry four stretcher cases, though cannot become wet and neither Motors committee examines a Ave can be carried if necessary. dust, rain, med nor dirt may enter nually, are found to be practicable, Sorbo rubber takes the place of them and have a bad effect on the but the interesting point from the brake lining and, consequently, on standpoint of the motorist is that springs in the mattresses. the operation of the brakes. the inventive brains of the whole interior is heated from the ex- haust; and special "purdah” glass The four-wheel brakes on the world are beginning to be focussed is fitted to the bottom halves of new Willys Six provide the most upon the happy task of providing the windows, allowing those inside perfectly balanced braking him an ever better car at lessen to see out without themselves
They ing cost.
being seen. system availablé "to-day. have a total braking area of 148 square inches, which compares organized as a central clearing UNIMPAIRED CARS. favourably with the total braking house for all inventions submitted area on many higher priced cars. direct to General Motors Corpora- The brakes themselves are elevention. Instead of allowing a meri- inches. The advantages of the torious device to drift by a devious internal expanding brakes over route through various channels, the combination internal expand the New Devices Committee aces person ing front and external rear wheel that it goes direct to the brakes are many and obvious.
most concerned and with a mini- "Good brakes are a requisite on mum amount of delay."
All kinds of devices are submit- the modern high-powered, fast automobile and the brakes on the ted-some of which are very valu- Willys Six will stop the car in 19 able and others that are feet, at twenty miles an hour, technically or economically sound. with pedal pressure of only one In order that nothing of merit will speed trials at Boalogne in estab-gave him but a month to live.
Mr. Royce was born at Alwalton, hundred and twenty pounds, be rejected without proper lishing the world's record for such.
near Peterboro', in 1868. Owing which is considerably less than sideration a very minute Inspec- to the early death of his father the average pedal pressure ap-tion is given every device. he had, while still very young, to plied by the ordinary motorist leave school and earn his living This pedal pressure, it might be
Elimination of abnormal friction minimizes the danger of premature wear and consequent unnecessary repairs or replacements.
Especially during hard times does it pay to use the best- motorcar engine lubricating oil.
Drain off the old oil while the engine is hot and refill to proper level with the correct grade of Gargoyle Mobiloil.
BRITAIN IN FRONT.
Sir Frederick Royce's
Career.
VARUUN OIL COMPANY
140.146 m.p.h. on Sunbeam.
The New Devices Committee was
not
сод
The
New Steels and Alloys
Go on for Ever.
Science is helping manufac turers to make a motor car that will never wear out.
Several notable advances made encouraging prospect for owners recently in metallurgy open up an who have to of modest means
positively not another mile to be make their cars last until there is
A British firm has now perfect- ed a steel that is so hard that it is impossible to scratch it with the finest file..
obtained from them.
Patented Ideas. The Corporation is interested in receiving ideas or suggestions re-
An experimental crankshaft for as a newsboy. Within a year, how pointed out, is but half that aplating in any way to the manufac- ever, his brilliant" promise enabled plied for an emergency stop.
The great and fitted to a British car,
10,000 Miles, No Wear; him to get more schooling. Sub- "Probably the most pleasing ture or improvement of any of its a four-cylinder engine was made The engine was treated in the sequently he was apprenticed to a feature of these brakes is the various products.
fact that a normal application of majority of devices submitted con- sist of articles or devices which locomotive works.
When he eventually established pressure stops the car quickly but have been patented or for which harshest manner possible, and the firm of Royce, Ltd., it was for smoothly. There is no jarring, no applications for patent are pend- denied the proper amount of oil
jeurging forward of the occupants
Ing or are proposed to be filed, until one of the connecting rods the manufacture of electrical ap- The braking movement paratus and it was not until 1908 that Mr. Royce seriously thought balanced, harmonious, and more but frequently a device, article or seized solid to the crankshaft. of making motor cars. He was or less velvet-like. These brakes idea is submitted which is not
events on the road by covering four miles at an average speed of a 12-cylinder
The culminating stage of a wOD. derful racing career was in 1927, when at the wheel of the 1,000 b.p. That British moter cars should Sunbeam he made his mark on the Anish first, second, third and scroll of fame as the first man to fourth in the recent 24-hours race travel at more than 200 m.p.h on at Le Mans is a matter upon which land. When the World's speed re- the British motor industry has cord was subsequently wreated every reason to feel satisfied, for from Capt. Malcolm Campbell ho to cover 1,819 miles in 24 consecu- again stepped into the breach and tive hours, at an average speed of at Daytona on March 11; 1929, he over 76 miles an hour, means not placed the record firmly in the already az owner-driver, but in are easy to use, no trouble to take capable of any patent protection. freed, it was found impossible to only brilliant and successful driv hands of Great Britain by driving ing but a degree of design and his Napler-Lion engined "Golden workmanship in producing cars of Arrow at a speed of 231.36 m.p.b. standard pattern which it is almost impossible to surpass.
is
characteristic fashion spent the care of, and the life of the brake greater part of the time taking the lining is far in excess of that used car to pieces to see how it could in the external expanding brakes. be improved.
Towards the end of 1903 he de- NON-SKID SURFACE cided to build three experimental
Sir Henry had turned his atten tion to Motor Boat racing and it was his ambition to secure for his It is perhaps fitting at such a time to remember two of the out-country the world's speed record
on water, and it was in the fulfil two-cylinder cars of aging New Discovery of Great
From the very beginning, standing personalities in connec-
Importance. tion with the British motor indus- ment of this that he met with the try who have helped to a consider tragic accident, that robbed Great with those first three cars, he set able extent in placing British Britain of one of its most gallant the standard by which all Rolls- "motor prestige in the position in 80Da
which it standa to-day: Of these
two, one has demonstrated what
in the
the other has succeeded in adding
formance.
to
hp.
After the bearing had bean-
For this reason the Committee is detect by the most delicate measur
vention upon which its owner, has
not at least obtained the minimum of legal protection. *
Inventors are promptly notified of the action of the committee and
loath to consider any idea or in-
if the invention is af zo interest they are so advised, but no reasons
are ever given for such determina tion as experience has shown that discussions are not satisfactory to Royce work la judged. "Good A correspondent of the Autocar either side.
Should the invention be one of Few men have done so much to enough": had no meaning for him writes: Bir Basil Peto has" em:| establish and maintain British Anything which was not perfect phasised that it is to hard stone which the Corporation might be was at once rejected. He was that highway authorities must look interested--the proportion of such British design construction and pre-eminence in motor engineering never satisfied, but was always for the desired non-skid surface inventions is very small indeed Korkmanship can accomplish when as Sir Frederick Royce, one of the aiming at something better.
for our roads. It is generally re- the inventor is communicated with
& hands of fear three. new Baronets In the recent
The first Royce car appeared cognised that the larger the quan and before anything further is For fas less and intrepid driver, while Birthday Honours.
founder, director and Chief Ex- early in 1904, but it was not until tity and the gauge of the stone done an agreement is entered into the name of the product with gineer of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., he has the end of that year that produc used in the surfacing material the with the inventor, clearly setting beat responsible for the evolution tion began on a commercial scale less tendency there will be for forth the terms upon which the which he has been associate the world's vocabulary as a phrase of cars and aero engines that are The then, separate firm of Rolls, the surface to become polished; Corporation will undertake its in Indicating the highest degree of world-famous
Ltd., undertook to handle the put the use of a larger size or vestigation and the compensation efficiency value and all-round per- |- Indeed, honours are now crowd whole of the output, which con proportion of stone meane using it will pay the inventor In the
Ing thick and fast on Sir sisted of four models a two-cylin more efficient binding material event of Its being used Frederick, as only recently the der of 10 hp, a three-cylinder of to maintain a strong but resilient A Big Risk Royal Aeronautical Society pre 1 hp a four-cylinder of 20 h.p. mosale surface than is necessary sented him with its medal for the and a six-cylinder of 30 h.p. After a for a mere mixture of gift or
My most meritórious work of the year year or so, in 1907, production was gravel. "in recognition of his signal ser concentrated on one model only, Considerable adhesive and elas vices to British-aviation in con the 40/50 h.p. "Silver Ghost tic qualities are deeded, and 1 to correct what he considers a with the now, famous which continued in production suggest that our road authorities faulty design. Harely does: he 8.6. which won the with modifications-right up till should investigate the use on the subtract something or simplify à Trophy on the Solent 1925, an "Innlnga" of eighteen Continent and in many places in part. If his invention "works" be this country of a bluding material is generally sure that he has dis last September
The first of the pre t-day 20 lately discovered in the laland of covered something greatly to be ded three times and mention. The story of Sir Frederick's
Boston, in the East Indies, which desired, but the fact that it dest arches. It was not until caroor is really that of Bolls-Royce hp models, aByDeal
material account of its unusual "works" la not the only criterion and the of its value. It must meat the de- 1920 that he made his first rácself. For no man has so lived type which
ing car in dor his work and few in any walk ever sinc
either by mands of production and bales and intance with
ays difference between Britsin at Brooklands, but of life bave displayed even a frace New
tonsor his enthusias endt
*The former has unfortunately pald the supreme tribute in suc- ceeding in adding another notable triumph to British engineering, and the British motor, industry is poorer by his loss.
Major Sir Henry Begraves born in 1898 and after being educated at Eton and Sandhurst, served in the Great War, being
sue Vane
Typically the inventor focuses his attention, on some part of a mechanism with which te te die satisfied and usually adds a part
and being able to capi
pront. This fallbre
the dama
newing, the engine will never need and decarbonising, and with the attention except for adjustments general use of stainless steel and chromium plating, the only Items- that may need renewing in the car of the future will be the tyres and upholstery,
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