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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTIOŃ,"
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INTRODUCTORY
HISTORY
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THE CHINA MAIL
THE MOTORISTS' PAGE
Automobiles Shown At MOTOR CYCLE "BLUE
World Fair,
Visualising Progress To Visitors
History Of Motor Cars
RIBAND."
Birmingham's Claim To Honour.
NORTON'S RECORD.
The name "Norton" has been associated with the motor-cycle In- dustry since the inception of the motór-cycle.' As far back as 1898. the late Mr. James L. Norton, the
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established in Birmingham a'smali, '(By Mail.)
factory introducing the Norton Chicago.
time the |gin in this country. Inventors in "Energette." At that As the exhibits programme of France, Germany, Austria and Eng-Norton works were producing ma- the World's Fair develops. It beland tackled the problem of "horse chines for sale by other concerns, comes more and more apparent that less" vehicles many years before under other names and transfers, the automobile will be in the ex- the Americans did.
name Norton became YOU ARE CORDIALLY IN The engines but as the position's spotlight more than any used to propel the vehicle in that more famous this was discontinued VITED TO TELEPHONE. other product of this industrial long-ago day passed through the in favour of the production of the
atages of steam, street-fighting gas real Norton.
30228 OR TO CALL FOR A NEI CHUNG ROAD-HAPPY From this original machine haa A DEMONSTRATION. - The ubiquitous gas wagon, in all and electricity long before the
įbeen evolved all those famous kinds and classes, with its essential gasoline motor was invented.
motor- adjuncts, such as gasoline, lubricat. It is recorded that the first me-Nortons that have made
throughout the ing oil, rubber, textiles, accessories chanically driven vehicle was deve cycling history and gadgets, will use more display loped by a French captain of artil-world. Up till 1902, in the hands of space than any other industrial ex-lery, Cugnot by name, who was try. novices, new records were created hibit.
ing to apply speed to moving heavy and races of all kinds were won, till in 1907 the Norton machine won Three of the "five special build- cannon,
In 1769 he built three steam wa- the first Tourist Trophy race, win- ings going up in the fair ground- General Motors, Chrysler and Fire-gons, designed to draw field guns. ning by a margin of 38 minutes. stoge-will house only automobile His laat device was a three-wheel- During the years that have passed displays machines and tires. It ed tractor with a big boiler in since then- Norton machines have is not improbable that one or two front and a two-cylinder steam en-continued to maintain a magnificent
78 Raw Materials more important automobile makers gine over the front wheel. It at-record of performance..
Used In Making, will erect special buildings...
tained a speed of two and a quarter | Great Britain leads the world in Obviously, the automobile group miles an hour, but the steam pres-motor-cycle construction-this is an was insufficient to run the undeniable fact. Foreign countries
Seventy-eight raw materials, ga- of exhibits not only will cover a sure.
follow in the traila blazed by the considerable portion of the fair'a machine more than 15 minutes,
A motor-car engine that runa "so thered from all parts of the world, entire display space but also will really successful machine was British, but the British motor-cycle fast that it does not need any val- are used in the manufacture of au- be housed in various World's Fair a steam-driven wagon built by Wil-Tremains supreme. It does not, how- ves has been designed by Professor tomobile tires, according to che liam Murdock, an Englishman, in ever, necessarily follow that every A. M. Low. He expects it to work mists of the United States Rubber buildings.
Visitors will find displays related 2784. It now is in the British British-built machine is produced to, at a speed of 15,000 revolutions a to the automobile industry in many Museum,
the high standard that has estab- minute, which is twice as fast as Products, Inc. Probably the most in- An American Pioneer. lished Norton supremacy. The Nor the fastest racing motor-cycle enteresting one of these materials is parts of the exposition. The own
Oliver Evans, an American, built ton machine has probably done more gine, and nearly ten times as fast as acetone which does not actually go er of a machine will be afforded every opportunity to see the mak- the first high-pressure.nonconden-than any other individual make of
a light aeroplane engine. to maintain British ing of an automobile from its being engine in this country in 1785. machine
"I got the idea from a coalmine into a tire but makes Itself useful ginning and follow the development His engine was so compact and supremacy in the field of motor explosion ten years ago, when men in the tire development laboratory. of manufacture through to the fin-light that it encouraged several cycling. During the 1931 Meason working near the source of explo Acetone, chemists say, is just a Englishmen to make four-wheeled fifteen of the world's international afon were not hurt, but others some good batch of corn whisky gone The makers of automobiles are stearn coaches and prepared the road races were won by Norton distance away were killed," Pro wrong. If the maah gets along: planning exhibits which willvis-way for the railroad locomotive. machines competing against the fessor Low said recently. ualize the whole process of manu-| Evans applied his engine to an severest competition-against ma-
"Instead of a few large cyclin-without feeling the effect of certain. facture in such manner that a 16-amphibious automobile-a chines that all the energy and brains ders, my engine has a large number bacteria, it turns into good alcohol. year-old boy will understand what which he ran down to the river on of the engineering industry could of small ones," he said. "The com- But if it does develop a bad case of Le sees and thereafter can put this rollers under its own steam power. produce.
pression is low, for instead of an bacteria, It becomes one of the understanding to practical uses. That was the first American auto-
inlet valve there is a wire gauze, black sheep of the alcohol family. mobile. By 1833, just 100 years The 1932 racing season opened through which the fame cannot before the World'é Fair will open, with the first 20 steam coaches
international race, penetrate. The exhaust port is elther wood alcohol or its more vi- were travelling the Grand Prix of Europe, being opened and closed by the piston ascious brother acetone, depending on in and around London.
won by an Italian riding a British- in a twostroke engine.”
circumstances. · These are but a few examples of built Norton machine at a speed of The advantages which the inven- early self-propelled vehicles. All 92 m.p.h., and Norton machine has tor claims for his engine are:- of them used steam power.
alse won both the Senior The smooth running of a luxury The automobile of to-day resulted and from the invention of the process Races in the Isle of Man, a repeti-
Junior Tourist Trophy car, at the cost of a baby car. There are many of them rangin which segregated and refined gaso-tion of their performance in these
from the simple accelerator 808 to line from crude oil. The story of events last year. These races are
the more pretentious hexamethy- this stage in the development of regarded as the Blue Ribend of the
lenetetramine. Most of the accele the modern motor car will be told motor-cycle competition world. Not
rators are complex compounds with. in the Travel and Transport build-only were these races won, but they ning qualities of a steam engine, ring.
a coal tar base. were won at record speed and, in combined with the convenience of each instance, with record lap. No the petrol engine, he declared. | other motor-cycle has ever won both |
races two years in succession.
Long-Standing Record.
ished product.
Motor Car In History, The history of the automobile will be told in an interesting way. Dioramas, movies," pageants and models of the original "self-pro- pellers will illustrate the narra
tive;"
Contrary to popular conception, the automobile did not have its or
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Motor-Cycle Antidote To Depression.
Splendid Record.
Extreme silence. Flexibility which makes gears
“unnecessary.
No carbon deposits. "My engine has the flexible run
Of interent, too, is the class-of elements known as accelerators,
Other materials are aluminum: “Petrol suglues have for years porder, carbon-black, clay, sotten, been reaching higher speeds, but gasoline, graphite, palm oil, resin, the faster they get the more com-
In the Sentor event Norton ma-plicated is the valve mechanism ne latex, tale, and tin. chines were first, second and third cessary to keep up with the speed
Many and various" are the ways also a repetition of last year's of the gases,
these materials are mixed. Pre- performance. Twenty years ago an "My engine is a logical develop-quently the mixtures are secret, as Studying motor cycle club life to- American-made machine achieved a ment of the idea of higher speeds, day, nobody would realise that such similar success, and this record had but carried to such an extreme that is evidenced by tempered rubber," a thing as "world depression ex-remained unchallenged until 1981. the valve problem becomes simpler newest development of United ists; never before have so many ac- Having been for, two successive instead of more difcuit.” tive clubs been staging so large a years dret. second and third in the number of well-supported events as most classic motor-cycle race in the they are to-day. Even in the in world, Norton Motors, Ltd., have dustrial areas that have been the certainly established a record of hardest hit this enthusiasm is ob- performance of which they can feel servabležala ja vajatest pl
proud
States Rubber. Tempered Rubber is
a new tread compound which is sald
STREET ACCIDENTS
to add 18 per cent to the life of a
ANALYSED.
tire. Its fórmula is a closely | guarded secret.
The truth is (say "The Motor- The Norton is not, nor has it Home Office Returns (Continued from previous colump). Cycle") that motor cycling, and ever been, a freak machine. it is a
motor cycle sport, is one of the mount for the ordinary motor- A white paper fast published to factors beyond the control of the finest antidotes to depression im cydlat, bullt not to a price but to a gives a return of street accidents users of the vehicles, such as faulty aginable. Moreover, unlike many standard of quality, and the auc-resulting in death or personal in roads a pedestrians, "gloom-dispersers," it can be in cesses achieved in the world's Jury known by the police to have figures are so set out dulged in with the utmost economy, motor-cycle competitions by Norton been caused by vehicles and horses some doubt as to what they are l- Ownership of a motor cycle en machines are a direct result of this in streets, roads, or pub places tended to convey. However, we ables a man to leave his cares and policy of building up to 1 high in Great Britain during 1981.have taken the table literally, from dent] which it will appear tast the follow-
ing facts are to be
In the
reat Britain dur
worried at home, and literally to floe hundreds of miles from nor is this escape limited
ends
Kically, the “high
ely causing
is stated that
ing 1981