THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932.
THE CHINA
A
AN THE MOTORISTS PAGE
Valuable Hints For Owner-Drivers
Pointers On Question Of Cylinder Care
HIGH OIL CONSUMPTION
SUCCESS OF HARDENED -STEEL FOR BRAKE DRUMS,
maintain
hardened
Hners conform, to a certain extent, to the
DAGENHAM FACTORY Opel Economy Test In
PLANS.
British Labour In New
Ford Plant.
London, July 1.
Begun a little more than three years ago, the Ford Motor Com- pany's works at Dagenham are. rapidly approaching completion, equipped and engaged in produc tion; while the power house and smelting plant, which will deal with the raw material, are well advanced.
a
Denmark
Satisfactory Figures Established
ANALYSIS OF SALES
40% BUSINESS MEN REPRESENT OF BUYERS.
B
1. Business men
Wholesale merchants
4-CYLINDER MODELS
6-CYLINDER MODELS
90" WHEELBASE MODELS
14
L100 WHEELBASE MODELS
OPEL MOTOR CARS
OPEL MOTOR CARS
186
2. Merchants (shop
owners)
430
Bakeries
137
S. Dectora
438
Lawyers Priests
39
50
CAR BONNET.
4. Government employees 249
Teachers
Was
5. Travelling salesmen
189
351
Cleanliness For Rider And Machine.
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6. Manufacturers
328
7. Farmers
175
8. Artisans
9. Engineers
Architects
10. Taxi companies
Government Authorities Public utility companies 12. Others
Car operating economy, which | portant customers.
Following is a tabulation which | YOU ARE CORDIALLY IN- At present the factory has a has perhaps always been a greater question which frequently new pistons of the self-adjusting
selling point in Europe than in the shows that the small Opel is not arises is whether it is worth while and compensating type into slightly productive capacity of 150 cars United States, has in the past few a car for a single class of people, VITED TO TELEPHONE having worn cylinders bored out worn cylinder bores. These will day. When the works are com- months of drastic economy, become but that it is being purchased by all 30228 OR TO CALL FOR and fitted with
nine months' a sales argument of even greater classes and professions: instead of having them reground in shape of the cylinders and, in con-pleted in about
1909 A DEMONSTRATION. the usual way and oversize pistons junction with good oibretaining time it is stated that the output value than before.
Denmark, however, contains con rings, keep down ofl and fuel con will be 1,000 cars a day, or "two great many who has to be shown, fitted. The main point for Bideration is cost, which is little sumption.
a minute" A considerable part and with the growing scarcity of Worn Main Bearings. higher for liners than for a rebore.!
The question of which process is! Heavy oil consumpilon is not of the works will be devoted to ready cash, the more dubious pro spective buyers are apt to become. employed, depends really upon the necessarily caused by worn bores; the manufacture of the new 8 h.p. For this reason, and in order to age of the ear. If such attention the oil may be lost past the main
Ford car.
establish facts and figures obtain- is necessary" "after, say, 15,000-bearings, which, if worn at all,
British labour, materials, and ed in their midst under ordinary 20,000 miles, when the rest of the allow the rotating crankshaft to set
marked pumping action, machinery have been used almost sentatives decided to "show them" driving conditions, the opel repre- car is in a more or less sound con-up a dition, the extra cost of fitting liners forcing the lubricant out in copious exclusively in the construction and to capitalize on the increased will be well repaid.
quantities when the engine is Liners are good for 40,000 miles reviving for a high cruising speed. and equipment of the works, importance of operating economy. To this end, an Opel Car econo- or more, so that the engine should Examine the crankshaft, for signs which, when complete, will ulti-
good condition of oil at the front and in the region mately employ 15,000 workmen, my test of big dimensions its throughout the life of the car; the of the rear bearing. From the back! The establishment of the factory started three Opel standard four- bores assume a glass-hard surface, bearing the oil is probably pumped-the largest of its kind in Eu cylinder roadsters made on which friction is cut down to the into the clutch pit, from which it rope-will, it is claimed, proved throughout the country, from sast very minimum. Compression is runs out through a hole in the base, of great benefit to the country's to weat and from north to south, a distance that the maintained and the minimum of oll Whilst or the subject of liners it export trade, as approximately covering such
Dagenham's total ruus of the three cars added and petrol consumption assured. is interesting to mention the success three-quarters of It is sometimes found that the exist gained by the insertion of hardened-output is intended for Continen- together, was more than 3,000 milea
and overseas
consumption.or as far as from Copenhagen to drum/tal ing pistons can be used with the on the steel in the brake new liners, as it is only the bores Not only do they give very smooth Even-in their present unfinished Constantinople and back.
The cars started each morning, which have worn unduly. This and efficient braking, but ensure state the Dagenham works con- helps to keep down the cost. also the best service from the vey an impression of very effi. with intervals of several hours be
test of some cient activity. The cars are seen tween and were run at speeds of 18, 11. If the car is very old and the linings. After
endless tracks 24 and 31 per hour in order to bring cylinders are in need of attention a thousands of miles it was found passing the normal rebore will serve for about that there was no appreciable sign through every stage of assembly, out the effect of driving speed... on 15,000 miles, which will probably of wear on the fabric, nor was there from the rough castings of their fuel economy. In 37 towns the cars be all that the owner expects from the slightest impression of a score components to the finished car had to report for checking the car before it is put on the on the steel liner in the brake drum with its engine running leaving speedometers and fuel consumption. "retired list." Whichever job is itself. Motor coach brake drums the track under its own power. decided upon, put it in the hands thus equipped have been examined An, interesting feature of the of a reliable concern to engura after being in use for three or four company's organisation is a and during the entire run the cars times longer than a plain drum Trade School, where boys of from arrived punctually to the minute at would stand up, the usual life of 14% to 21 years of age receive the various qastrol stations. It Slight wear in the bores creating an untreated drum belag about practical training for skilled work was an interesting fact that the an increase in oil consumption can! 20,000 miles under hard coach or in the factory. The boys earn crowds which greeted them every- be corrected by fitting a special bus service.
satisfaction.
Scraper Rings and Pistons.
scraper and oil-retaining ring in the lowest groove on the piston. If
there is a groove around the skirt,
DIESEL-ENGINED CAR AT ́ BROOKLANDS.
fit the scraper ring here. In very bad circumstances more than one At Brooklands, Mr. C. L. Cum- scraper may be necessary, This mins, who has recently arrived in measure can be employed as a tem- England from America, demon- potary correction for worn cylinder strated the Diesel-engined car troubles of an acute mature, but it with which he attained a speed is a matter of only deferring the of 100.75 m.p.h. at Daytona Beach day when relining or grinding must early last year, and which alsoj, be affected.
completed 500 miles at Indian- }
It is quite a sound plan to iti apolis. at 86 m.p.h.
of
measuring of
Kept to Time Table, A timetable had been made out.
while they learn, starting at a where were, to a great extent, made wage of 81 a week and 2s. 6d. for up of the young people. Thus the pocket money.
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run accomplished its secondary purpose, namely that of attracting jespecially this' class of motorist to the little. Opel Roadster, which has been priced so low in the Danish, market as to make it competitive with bigger motorcycle with side- cars, as well as-motor cars.
The results of the run were ai
Consumption. Speed-18 miles : per hour-
30.4 miles per gallon. Speed 24 miles per hour.-- : 30.4 miles per gallon. Speed-81 miles per hour
27.6 miles per gallon, Business Man's Choice An Interesting analysis of some, 5,000 four-cylinder Opel sales in Germany was recently made by the Opel factory, which Indicated that business man, including wholesale merchants, were buying four out of every ten Opels sold.→→ Shops owners and bakers were the next most.
· ANDRE BOILLOT KILLED.
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Andre Boillot, the well-known Peugeot racing driver, met with a terrible accident recently, while practising for the Ars Hil climb at Là Châtre, in the Cha- teauroux district. Boillot's Car akidded off the road, struck a tree and caught fire, the driver being pinned between the car and the tree, Spect manag
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