THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1932.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE MOTORISTS' PAGE W
70 h.p. From A Baby Seven
Supercharging The Touring Car
It is
Will the car of the future be supercharged? more than likely, although the word now conjures up visions of Brooklands or of very fast but very noisy "sports" cars, which the average man would not dream of owning, even as a gift.
At present it is true that only cars of that type are supercharged, but, according to Mr. George Eyston, the racing driver, who is an expert on the subject, the device is just as valuable for the ordinary touring or all-purposes car.
THE BRITISH ROAD TRAFFIC ACT.
Renault Organisation Tackles Problem.
NEW HEIGHTS REACHED.
EXCESSIVE CYLINDER®
WEAR.
A Trouble Which Is Due to Many Causes.
The owner of a car who finds that his cylinders wear out quicker
tyres may be given for an inclination
Firstly, the Road, revile the manufacturers,
!
CAR REGISTRATIONS
IN SHANGHAI.
Ford Comfortably in The Lead.
BUICK SECOND.
Registration for-published for
to
The past twelve months have than his
âgures recently seen great changes in the world of
Both the Inter- road travel.
|-national ́ Settlement and French Traffic Act with its attendant High-he
If Concession show Ford comfortably is a motorist of ton- way Code.
The motorist is eman siderable experience he may think outstanding in trucks. Latest re- In the lead in passenger cars and cipated, but a higher standard of that the art of making cars has not road behaviour is demanded both kept pace with that of tyre produc- International Settlement for the turns find Ford leading in the
tion, As many Economy too, must receive the their cost, we have gone through a totals for Shanghai for the past to Brat time although it has led in most earnest consideration. What-period of rapid cylinder wear with ever the class of car, strictly rea- popular makes of car, which year. sonable limits must confine both hope will never recur. purchase price and maintenance been inundated with complaints re- hai are now----
from 'him and his car.
costs. Absolute reliability under ferring to. cars
owners know
we
We have
The six leading makes for Shang-
Passenger Cars.
Ford Buick
1261
1028
Morris (all Models)
982
Chevrolet
699
Fiat
545
Austin
Ford Stewart Chevrolet
585
Trucks.
842
336
281
Federal G.M.C. Studebaker
145
142
136
籍 few years old. all conditions becomes of para-Some there are who hold that one mount importance.
These are the reason was
the use of unsuitable problems that have been tackled castinga which were unable to with- with every resource of the vast stand the higher engine speeds now A supercharger is a pump, driven If, as Mr. Eyston claims, a properly Renault organisation, and the re- obtained, a point which, at any
cara Bats
the rate, we by the engine. It pumps the petrol- designed supercharger gives us in saltant range of
arc assured has been a lifetime of intense ap-remedied. air mixture which is the engine's effect a more powerful engine with crown on
Others lay the blame progressive, motor upon the carelessness of the user fuel into the cylinders and ensures out corresponding increase in size plication to
vehicle design.
who does not appreciate that the that they Bre properly filled. and weight, who will deny its de-
Every Renault car makes good modern engine is a piece of machi- Normally they depend on suction, sirability?
driving involuntary and superlative mary worthy of more than ordinary driving possible to all.
New care. the vacuum created by the down
We should attribute rapid stroke of the piston, and even 'ati It is generally supposed that heights have been reached in sheer cylinder wear to a number of causes
performance, acceleration speed rather than to any particular one. Figures have not as yet been low speeds the piston strokes are supercharging means more noise and braking having been made the Here are
a few points for con-issued by the Chinese authorities so rapid that each cylinder gets only and fewer miles to the gallon. As subject of particular study. sideration. Co-incident with this but these are mainly duplications of partly filled before the upward or for noise. I am assured that there) Notwithstanding thrilling per-trouble is the employment of alumi Foreign Registrations.
a super-formance however, the seal has nium pistons, which, in turn, have compressions stroke begins and the is no reason at all why
charged engine cannot be made as been set upon every Renault of enabled a greatly increased power iniet valve closes.
Smoothness patput to be obtained, coupled with silent as
At perfect smoothness. one unsupercharged. high speeds more petrol is consum- of Funing and smoothness of line higher engine speeds. Much of the ed, but
up to forty miles are guaranteed.
Increased Engine Power.
Noise and Fuel Consumption.
with
# car of six
It is beyond question that super- hour
An charging increases engine power. or more cylinders it is claimed In racing supercharging is reckoned that the fuel consumption is ac-1 equivalent to enlarging an engine'sjtually lower because the mixture is more evenly distributed and the A cylinder capacity by one-third,
pistons are always under pressure) "Seven," supercharged to the limit, on the down stroke, so that the same has been made to develop 73.7 horse-speed is got with a smaller throttle power, more than ten times the opening, while the engine runs more
sweetly and evenly. power its owner pays tax on, writes
AERONAUTICS.
Cause For Good Cheer In America.
DURING THE DEPRESSION.
حتي
BUDGET BLOW TO AIRMAIL.
Economy May Impair American System.
THREE YEARS REQUIRED FOR RECOVERY.
increased wear of cylinders may be (due to the use of a softer piston metal (compared with cast iron), in which hard particles of abrasive material may become embedded, with a consequent lapping action Our en- upon the cylinder walls, gines have become smaller in size, for a given task, and cruising speeda have gone up: the amount of full. As long as the depression and throttle running has thereby in-the wave of governmental economy creased, so adding to the load on the continue, the air-mail system of the platons and raising the working United States will be frozen in its temperatures. Again, stranglers present condition and will be lucky
The Appropriation Bill.
The drawbacks of the super- A. G. Throssell in the Daily Tele-charger are that it adds at present graph. Provided it will always roughly £100 to the cost of a car,
and that, because of its weight and. There should be cause for good have come into common use to give if it escapes sharp curtailment and develop that additional power, and added stresses it imposes on the cheer not merely for the operators a rich starting mixture, the effect the shake-up of a Congressional in- not only when driven at top speed, chassis, certain parts of the frame themselves, who have faced difficult of which is to wash the cylinder vestigation. the supercharged engine is obvious-and transmission may need to be conditions with courage and vision, walls before the oil circulates.
strengthened.
but for the manufacturers, whose For the present a supercharger year (1981) was by no means so
The Need for Research.
As soon as normal conditions return air-mail opera- tors will need only three years to ly worth having.
become self-supporting and inde- What the average person wants
or "blower." as they call it, is not good a one, with a total of only Notwithstanding the disadvant-pendent of government subsidies. These are some of the probabili- is not greater maximum speed, an accessory you can have added to 2,800 aeroplanes built in 1931, of ages under which modern engines which can seldom be made use of, your car like a special pair of head-which 1,807 were for civil use. operate, there is abundant evidence ties appearing through the haze of but acceleration, better pulling lamps. But as the knowledge If the transport operators are that, with careful use, such as, it committee bearings and bill draft-
spreads that this is one way, if not continuing to increase their totals is admitted, was not so essential in ing in Washington. power on top, more power in reserve the only way, of getting more power of passengers, goods and mails the days of cast-iron pistons and mittee of the House Appropriations for an emergency. In these days from the same sized engine, enter- flown and of miles of operation, it low power outputs, very long cylin Committee and the House Com- It is immittee on Post-offices and Post of thick traffic the ability to get by prising manufacturers will design follows unquestionably that more der life can be obtained.
their cars in safety, thanks to quick and un-will be an optional extra, and pos-extension of lines justified by in-metal
so that supercharging planes will be needed both for the portant to remember that when two Roads has studied the air-mail surfaces are in rub- situation. Two measures relating hesitating acceleration, is the most sibly standard practice for many creasing patronage and the re-bing contact at high speed to the system are pending before
desirable virtue a car can possesa. types.
THE LUXURY CAR in the low-price class - beautiful interior appoint ments and opholstery --- roomy, full-size Safety-Stoel Bodies-g clusive Floating Power and 4- Wheel Weatherproof @ złydraulic Brakes and many other festorum not offered in care of ita
CHRIS
CARS NOW ON DISPLAY AT
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THE NATIONAL MOTOR CAR CO.
A subcom-
occur, and Congress, the Post-office Depart placement of planes whose useful wear is bound to
only lives have been shortened by the the
way to
minimizement appropriation bill and à bill same healthy condition.
that wear is to separate the surfaces requiring that all air-mail con- Thus, the oil must tracts be let after competitive With any improvement in general by a film of ell.
be given time to circulate before bidding. business, such as may be expected,
these surfaces are moving over] The appropriation bill, allatting and consequent enlargement of the
One of $19,000,000 to the flying of air-malli market for airplanes for business each other at any speed. and private use, the manufacturers the virtues of upper cylinder lubri-will, according to the Post office cation should be apparent in this Department, prevent any expansion should be able to look forward to a respect, while air cleaners and oil of the air-mail network and may far more productive year this year strainers also seem to be desirable cause cuts in routes and rates. The
than last.
AERIAL STATISTICS.
Passengers Show Big Increase.
MILES FLOWN ON RISE.
requirements in modern high-speed other bill would take from the Post- light-weight engines. It should master General the right to extend also be mentioned that liners would existing air-mail lanes without provide harder bores of a uniform offering the new extension to com- thickness less subject to distortion petitive bidders.” when heated.
Cutting the appropriation for Unfortunately, this is a sub-air-mail : service may injure the foot in which there has been entire system, causing irregularity | far too little research. Car in the malls and additional deaths design has progressed great of pilots, Postmaster General ly' in the past ten years, but waiter F. Brown Warned the com-
are |
Predictions that the transport not always in the direction of promittee on appropriations. Rather air-lines would and cause for con with the greater power output
viding durability commensurate han prevent such deterioration of gratulation in statistics which they higher speeds available
the service, he would cut down the mileage being flown, he declared.
We have Just made a 10 per reduction br rates effective
he reminded the com
budget havo
themselvess, established in 1881 have been fully justified by the placed in the band
will not trouble figures issued by the Department "of Commerce.
as a thoroughbred rath
* Passengers carried on the common hack. domestic lines during the year provement has now
Given reasonable reached a total of 457,340 ss com.
pared with 874,985 in 1980, and passenger miles increased 104,018,022, from 84,015,57
cylinder wear should no
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