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THE MOTORISTS' PAGE
Famous Motorist
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On Safety
Suggestions For Road Signs
EXHAUST GAS DANGER
SPEED AN EXPENSIVE
MOTOR HOBBY.
25 M.P.H. Most Economic Pace.
A
motorist cannot have both
speed and economic running. At about 25 miles per hour the great- est possible mileage can be obtain- ed from petrol and oil, but at double that speed the running costs increase in surprising fashion.
Sir Henry Birkin Motor-Racing
On
England's Need
Of A
Road. Course
BROOKLANDS CONDEMNED
car
At a steady 25 miles an hour
Sir Henry Birkin writes as be] And then the flag falls, I tear "My suggestion for special cross-rendera when he says: "Accidents little time will be lost in travelling, roads signs which would indicate would be reduced to less than half whereas the speedster has to brake drives, fast and courageously, and across, leap in, and of course, get his books, "Full Throttle" more away without the slightest trouble. whether one was approaching a if motorista were not so selfish.
every time he catches up with a
on the effectively than any other main or a secondary road hae "In London traffic one constant slower vehicle, every time he ap-subject that has come my way, not anxiety drop, like a cloak off my Immediately all my despair and brought me two other plans from ly finds commercial cars and vans
excepting the classic by shoulders; ever to have entertained readers, and both are worthy of nosing into traffic in an effort to proaches a railway crossing or a even consideration," writes Sir Mal-save 纽 fow seconds, effectually bad stretch of road, and every time Charles Jarrott, re-creates the true them seems silly, when the colm Campbell.
blocking others. These people he reaches a town.
atmosphere of motor-car racing and darts forward so eagerly' and the 25 M.P.H. My idea, it will be remember- gain practically nothing, but risk
gives an inspiring picture of the crowd raises its first cheers. ed, was that the sign on a Boccidents for which their employ The steady flow of petrol at 25 work of the driver,
The chapter which Sir Henry miles an hour is much more ocono- It also contains sound and for- calls the kernel of his book is that condary road should consist of alers have to pay. jcross in saltire-le., the shape of "Vehicles which are restricted to mical than the irregular spurts cibly expressed criticism, im-in which he criticises the present an X- with the letter M. 30 miles an hour generally go at demanded of the speeding vehicle. plemented by Lord Dowe in the position of 'car racing in this coun superimposed to indicate that the about 40 on the open road, and Besides, the faster the car goes the Foreword, of the attitude towards try.
Brooklands. road about to be crossed is a main no action is taken to atop the less proportionate amount of fuel is racing taken up by the authorities. road.
practice. There is hardly a motor-actually burned in the cylinders, and the trade in this country. He condemns Brooklands, and It is essentially a high-speed says: "The acid test of a car is a I suggested this style of cross coach on the road which does not for less time is afforded for the primarily because it is already go at 40-50 m.p.h. Why do the burning of the gases as the pistoas volume, and Sir Henry shows a re-road course. Throughout the na a warning of a road crossing, police allow it?"
pump faster. The result of this is markable knack for limning a length and breadth of England but a correspondent points out The answer is that the police do that much petrol is wasted and a scene in few words and convoying there is no road course.” that a clearer warning would be not allow it, and that in some great deal finds its way into the the authentic thrills, tragedies, and It is common knowledge that pre- given by using the Greek cross (+) parts of the country the trapping crankcase, diluting the oil and humours of one of the most exact-parations Are Being "made for es- with a variation in the length of of drivers of lorries and other wearing down the cylinder walls. ing and most various of aporta. tablishing two road courses in this the arms.
heavy vehicles almost amounts to When the car is driven fast oil- The reader takes part with him country, the entire circuits being
is burned persecution.
up faster. The engine in some great road contests, doing on private land where the law would gets so hot that the oil in the battle with the impetuous Nuvolari, not interfere. But whether either crankcase has no time to cool off master driver of the moment,, with or both of these courses will receive sufficiently, and therefore a lot of Chiron, idol of the French crowds, the necessary financial backing re- with Carraciola, the Mercedes mains to be seen. Without them. it "goes up in smoke."
Fast driving also means con- virtuoso, who can drive as fast in England will remain the only Euro- siderable wear on tyres. An actual pouring rain as on a dry road, with pean country whose public can
never see car racing at its best...... test by one of the American tyre Campari of the operatic voice.
Hurtling Along.
Those who have Continental manufacturers has shown that tyres
With his reader as passenger Sir touring experience complain" of the en a car going, at 50 miles an hour wear out twice as fast as those of Henry hurtles along the straight at inferior road sense of the English full throttle, passing and being compared with the Continental a car driven at 25 miles an hour.
There is, too, increased wear of passed by the bright red Alfa- publice, and attribute our high road the engine, and, in fact, all the Romeos and the blue Bugattis; be casualty figures to that reason. But moving parts of the car, while the struggles to maintain mastery of Continental peoples' are regaled application of the brakes of a car the car as it slides and slithers on with frequent road races, which I like this idea immensely.
travelling at a fast speed has the the corners; he accepts tremendous show them what good driving is, The second suggestion is equal-
For "nosing in," a general dis-effect of stretching body bolts and risks and performs tremendous and teach them in ten minutes more ly good. If not better. This position to disregard signals, and loosening nuts holding the body on feats of judgment, daring, and phy-road sense than can be taught in again proposes a Greek cross, but failure to indicate his intentions to the chassis, with the result that sical endurance. in this case the superior road is the London taxi-drivers is hard squeaks occur, and, later, nuts fall indicated by a double bar and the to beat. inferior by a single.
His plan has the merit that only two types of sign would be necessary to cover all cross- ronds.
of
Playing The Game
be-
I must say that on the whole the drivers of these vehicles do try Long And Short
to play the game by other classes The longer arm the cross of traffic. I know that some would represent a main road and have like road-hogs, but, obstruc the shorter arm a secondary road. tion or general manners on the If the vertical arm were the part of a man in charge of a five- longer the driver would know he ton lorry is so much more notice was on a main road and approachable than simffar conduct by the ing a secondary road, and if the driver of a "baby" car that a whole Horizontal arm exceeded the length class gets an undeserved bad name. of the upright it would indicate. The author of this complaint is that a main road was about to be on better ground when he critic crossed.
izes the conduct of many drivers
in London traffic.
Even so, I believe he errs more from the character of his employ- Most correspondents advocate ment than with deliberate intent. the placing of all road signs from He has a pretty hard life in these 50 to 100 yards before the crossing bad times. When he le "eruis- they indicate. This I have urged ing" in search of a fare he is many times in these columns; 13 more intent on catching the eye
consider it an essential reform.
off their bolta.
ten years by orders, notices,
book
The book breathes the very life signals, lights, regulations, and the and spirit of the race. Here, for waving arms of armies of police- instance, le the start of a great men, ka road 'contest:
English Road Course, I am seized with utter misery and Sir Henry's plea therefore, de- MOTOR CARS WRAPPED
and blank despair; all around the serves consideration. His crowds are laughing, peering at the will intensify Interest in the sport IN PAPER.
cara, and making it quite obvious of which he is so accomplished an (Reuter's Special Mall Service). The mechanics are quite calm; the step to a road course in England.
that they at least are not excited. exponent, and that may be the first. of a fare than on, anything else, There is everything to be said jand if he suddenly dives across
New York. team manager is quite calm, mak- Humour, enthusiasm, and In its favour-and only one thing
the road without giving warning. I Motorcars are now being de-ing sure that bla instructions are make this volume at once -en en- against it: If all signposts are to find it in my heart to for-livered wrapped in paper packages finally understood. Only I am in thralling entertainment be so placed they will have to be give him, because it is his bread under a plan started by thea turmoil... Time after time I go potent tonic. It dedicated to quadrupled. On some of the new and butter he is diving for.
Packard Motor Car Company. across to the car. put it out of gear, school-boys "as a piece of publish by-pass roads there are many la- A crumpled wing is nothing to The cars are tested with a 250-put it in again, make sure that the ers diplomacy"; but it is bad land signs each carrying fout him, and he seems to think it ought mile drive on the factory speed- starting switch is in order, The diplomacy, for the book has a much not to be to you. We should all way, inspected under the glare of crowds surge round and ask intel-wider and more serious appeal, and like him a lot better if he would powerful lights, then wrapped up ligent questions; but my answers should be read by everyone who has mend his road manners and not take in paper and delivered to the home. are generally ao rude and abrupt ever ridden in a motor vehicle. so many risks.
arms.
Selfish Drivers
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would rise.
But teats made dur
that they ask no more, and go away; with the impression that I am a thoroughly disagreeable old man." I have been taken to task for.
My friends come up and offer an error in writing recently about dangerous exhaust gases, but Ing the past few days show that their good wishes, which I accept the exhaust gases discharged from with a wan smile. All the time I submit that the mistake was inore. a car. whose motor is idling have tell myself that I shall get a bad an average temperature, taken start and be left at the corner, that I must plead guilty to having close up to the outlet of the pipe, the car will not start at all and be made the statement that carbon
With the left completely, and then I go across monoxide is a heavy gas, which of about 87 degrees.
apparent than real,
has a tendency to sink and to engine speeded up to about 1,800 and addle with the genre and switch low in a confined space. It has reve, the temperature rises to again. Strangers bring their auto-
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statement, but let me mako the matter clear: the
Assuming the average density. of air to be represented by the case of the speeded-up engine the turn off the track, and the cars are
temperature inno case went left forlorn, gaping at us, figures 14.4, that of carbon mono-
This is the worst moment of all, xide is 14, and CO2-carbon dio above 92 degrees.
when I wait for the starter to drop How it Happens. xide-22 CO is slightly lighter. than air. But, assuming that the With all submission to those his flag. I can do nothing more for exhaust gases from a motor-car in correspondents who have put me the engine before the race begins, which carburettion te comparative right on the specific gravities of Have I left it in gear, or have I put ly good are composed of roughly the various gases, I bollere I am it out? I am so convinced of both 88 per cent. nitrogen, 10 per cent correct in saying that exhaust that I can be certain of neither, CO2, and 7 per cent, CO; the refumes, including the admixture of gultant would be a gas with a carbon monoxide, are heavier than
A NOVEL FILLING STATION. specific gravity 61 1.12, air being air and thus tend to sink, that re given the figure of 12
cent cases of death through the in- Obviously, such a mixture, inhalation of exhaust fumes have Under the heading cluding the light monoxide, being shown all the characteristics. of Two" an amusing picture appears heavier than air, would tend to poisoning by the monoxide, avon in "Motor Transport." It shows a sink, and, in still afr, lle near the when the victims have inhaled the patrol station at Pasadena, Call- ground, fumes while almost prone, ahow-fornia, which has been built to re-
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