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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1947.
Motoring News And Views: Continued from Page Eight
Your new car is born
Behind Closed Doors......
Private
*
Private
Admittance To Authorised
Persons Only
How A New Model
Comes Into
•
Being
can begins as an idea in the mind of a designer. He gives length and breadth to it in drawings: form and substance in hand-made models of wax, wood and metal.
thxt basic "detalls,
Eat,
Admil.
Itm
he can
All
· taken montha, haps
per.
realise
from
help up for a few hours it le enough to stop the whole as sembly line.
Raw materiais, componenta and sub-assemblies arrivo by road and rail from factories rerhaps hundreds of milen away. Every consignment in inspected, closely before being stored, ready for use, in ita ap- painted place beside the main ur sub-assembly lines.
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Roud springs and axles have i tu be fitted together before go- ing by automatic conveyer to the main line; wings, rudiator [culates the cuble capacity of
this the cylindera needed to produce
many cowlings, wheela and a score that horse-power. From that.
of other parts go through de- water in turn, he determines the
a reusing Biths,, hot even piston speed.
year, from the day when the spray, drying and enamelling Each piston will make about design of the new engine in precenses before they, too, go on their appropriate conveyor 60 thrusts up inside its cylin- first conceived. der and down every second Here ono begins to
which delivers them to the an when the engine is making its the advantage the safer.sembly line with a final glossy, maximum number of revolu-smoother, more trouble-free rock-hard finish.
· Most new cars are built tions. The engine will develop motoring-to be gained
maximum brake horre buying the products of a big what is called the Mono-con- | truction principle of design. power when the gas velocity manufacturer. through the inlet valves is t A vast organisation, backed There is no separate chassis the rate of 240 feet per second. by huge resources, can afford in the old days; the borly in The modern motoreus engine to allow its research specialists are complete shell with rein- has to be a very finely balanced tr spend years redesigning, forced base (taking the place piece of mechanism to stand up developing and testing perhaps of the citassis) arrives at the to such whirlwind movements one small component, until it erecting line for the addition A conference is called, and a policy decided. The
inside itself and do its job is an near to perfection as man of the engine and its other car will carry so many people. It will travel
mechanical components. It han smoothly, quietly and power- can ever hope to make it. so many miles to the gallon at such and such a
fully.
Ouly when the prototype car already been given its speed. Its engine, springing, body lines, scat-
With maximum engine speed has passed its tests can the coats of paint and its "trim" decided, the ing, are all to be of completely, new design.
designer knows orders be given for the sheet of windscreen, roof lamp, rear what the stresses will be on steel body shells; to the radia-blind, deor stops. The dealgner and the chief] ing department, behind closed the bearings and cranksaft, tor makers for the cooling As the gleaming shell-like engineer, with fundamental doors marked Private. decided, begin to work out the toner to authorised persons walne can then fix their design, system. Safety glans, electric body moves slowly along for a weight and strength. The big-fittings, brake installations, distance of about 160 yards, itself The pass key to the ear end bearings, for example, have door handles, batteries, dy-it gradually aids to eventual performance on the
carburetters,
engine, withstand loads equal to] namos, ta
ansmission piston axles,
from the Drawings are prepareal and prail is its power-weight ratione ton per square inch. rings, crankshafts-all have to Rear and steering a full-sized prototype holy is The medium-sized family ear When he has finished these be ordered in their tens of tributary fines which feed the but in woord in the modelį weighs something around. enteulations
begin to thousands to completely new main assembly line. have his sectional drawings| designs. They mukt all men- Soon. It approaches the open To move That weight at #prepared longitudinal Ree-sure up to the specification of door and the daylight at the given squeed for a given furi tions, cross sections, and ex- the key part in the prototype end of the three-quarter-mile- Léonsumption, to whisk the car ternal views Of Installation model. They their turn long factory. It rolls off the
away uphill from the traffic drawings.
must all pass the most exact-assembly line for final Inspec- lights with smooth ense de-l
Then follows a drowing of ing tests.
delivery Lion, rond test, and mands an engine of high pow-every part, every sub-assembly Samples of all paint, rubber to a dealer and finally to the er outpart.
in the new engine-hundreds and other external materials Patient motorist who has been But the more power that is of them--giving detalls of the for use on Morris cars, for ex waiting to drive it. expected fr: man engine the
It would seem to be sound subjected within raw material (cast iron, steel, ample, are more rigid its gitara and aluminium, etc.), the machin fourteen days to the equivalent common sense, when one knows connecting rods, its crankshafting, finish and heat treatment of two years of the worst pos- what effort and engineering and other component parts each one will need. Metals for sible weather by the "Weather-skill, what intricate plaaning must be
various components are ex-o-Meter,” which
go into reproduces and patient research The problem, therefore, toamined under a microscope so conditions similar to the hot- the making of a motorcyr, t provide an' engine, and a chas-powerful that it makes a single, test
new car from the and buy one's summer weather
the ds or framework to house human hair appear two inches; sprays on water by high-power biggest organisation, with in both sturdy enough to allow of thick,
most extensive experience increased power output, yet
For the Brst prototype e- Car carpets are tested in a the industry. nt heavy that they drag
gine every one of the
1,500 machine which reproduces the
Nuffield down the car's speed and ne- parts will be machined, finish-effect of costional footwear for The firms
Numeld of the elevation.
ed and tested by a speciallat a distance of 150 miles.
Organisation en provide a Tie first few muntha en craftsman. Valve springs, for Springs are tested by a ma- motorist with the finest en- ployed in studying the new example,
are subjected to achie which aubjecta them to gineering job he is likely to car's development are largely teat of 10 million reversals of 200 lumps per minute.
find anywhere. devoted to the adjustment of load. Each part will be check- To check break lining el- With their tremendous re-) that the balance between the ed to its particular drawing ciency, samples are held in sources they are able to spend available power and the neces- before the engine is fitted to contact with brake-druma for more time
and money than sary weight to provide a given gether.
the equivalent of a distance of mest firms on their experi- performance. Steering artel This prototype then goes on 100 miles.
Imental. research and texting Suspension geometry, the loca-test-the first simple test-nnt In finish, hardness, and ten-departments. tion of controls, the position under its own power, but being sile strength in every detail. If a motorist buys a Nuffield of seats-all these things, too, turned over lightly for a few every component must be iden-car he is buying the product be considered,
hours by an electric motor. tical with its original pattern. of the accumulated wisdom and If the designer smooth out After this it is taken to pieces Flow-line assembly, or "mass experience of a dozen free ep- the car's body lines it will give
again, Engineers examine it production" calls for the Anest terprises not squandered in' better performance for a
rivalry, but pooled in, efficient given power output, but that for any signs of undue tight-engineering.
When ness and abnormal wear.
the orders for raw co-operation. It stands to rea- Assembled again, it is once materials, components and sub- son that twelve firma potting more driven by the
electric assemblies have been given out, all their ideas and skill at each motor for a check on oil and the works manager, the pro- other's disposal are going to water temperatures, oil pres- duction managar, planning be able to próduce a better car sure readings and the measure staffs, buyers, works engineera than if each one had only, it of power needed to drive it. and foremen supervise the de-rulf and its own resources to
tails of the new car's assembly. draw upon. Power Test
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streamlining brings. other pro- blems; i may mean the com- plete redesigning of the en gine and other integral parts of the car; it may upset the distribution of weight and stress, which in turn reper- cusses on the general principle of design and the strength of the materials used.
A modern car has nearly When 19,000 separate parts.
an entirely new model ia plan-
ned, most of those parts have
to be newly designed, and for cr,
not one
jets,
The Morris Works at Cow- But there is another point ley can make 2,000 cars in a to bear in mind about the Nuf- The day ar- week. With 19,000 ceparate feld Organisation, Although rives when it parts in each car, that means, it is an organisation of several is ready for that 2,000 of each of those 10,- firms building four different test under000 Items have to be produced makes of car-Morris, Wolac- its own pow-by, a given time to allow for ley, Riley and M.Gas well as full throttle only one weck's production. Morris - Commercial vehicles, each of the thousands of com- test. but many hundreds of But no big motorcar manufac- marine and other engines, every ponents there has to be a draw-running-in testa at increas- turer launches ** completely one of these firms in the Nuf- ing, a specification, a new ad- ing speeds and loads to check new model on the market un field Organisation, is encour justment of maching tools-fuel consumption and power less he can 800 a reasonable aged to retain its complete in- even a great many entirely new output. Once again it is strip, guarantee of supplies for at dividuality. tools, dies and jigs-and Anal-ped, examined for wear, and least one whole season's pro- If a motorist buys a Wolse- ly, the most meticulous testing. reassembled.
duction run at fuil speed of as- Thus materials, man-hurs And then begin tests with | sembly." and money are devoured at variations of camshaft timing.
Assembly great speed.
different shaped cylinder heads
a
ley car he can be sure, it will be a thoroughbred Wolseley, with all the Wolseley charac- teriatica which have made it The work of famous. But it will have the assembling' a additional attraction that be- new car, thore-sides being a Wolseley it will fore, la set to be a Nuffield product. This most intric applies equally, of course, to ate time ache Morris, Riley, M.G. and Morria- dulo. Many Commercial... thousands of Any motorist stands to gain: people in hun--to be personally in pocket: dreds of dlf-| by getting his new car from ferent trades eno of the firms in the Nuffield are all con- Organisation simply because supply of of the extra research and teat- raw materials and ing, and the vast accumulated
When the first hand-made and so on, to discover by which wooden prototype of a new set of materials and adjust- model la finally approved, murals the maximum power drawings are made from it and output, the best acceleration, complete new hand-made the smoothest, macet silent and prototype, In steel; is built up: most economical performance picce by piece. This is tested
can be obtained, and rotested revined, adapted, Even now the preliminary and finally sent out for thou- work on the engine la not sands of miles of the most shed, for the prototype pow- gruelling road, testa. A longer unit hna to pass its endur- distance programme of tool ance test- full-throttle run and die production has to be for 200 hours-the same as ifcerned in the put in hand long before this, it were put into a car and you various
and
the risk taken that drove it half-way round the components, Specially rolled fund of skill and experience all will be well, A manu-world non-stop with your, foot atcel sheet flows from the roll-which have been put into the facturer has to: be pre hard down on the accelerator ing mills and starts its journey job of motorcar building by pared for heavy charges f.it le all the way.
across country to the press these firms over many years of found at some later stage that
Again the engine is disman-works where the car bodies are highly competitive designing. extensive changes in design tled, again tested with, micro-made; steel billets, aluminium, And behind this stands" the should be necessary.
meters for even 1/10,000th cast iroir, brass, other raw Service, which the firms of the Net a single order can be of an inch of wear. Main materials and components are Nuffield Organisatiisi: provide
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NOTICE TO MEMBERS
EIGHTH EXTRA RACE MEETING. SATURDAY, 27th SEPTEMBER, 1947.
The First Bell will be.rung at 2.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 3,00 p.m.
Through numbers (7 races-$14.-) may be obtained at the Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Exchange Building.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE, Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST their badges prominently displayed throughout the Mecting.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
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The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11 a.m. and the Secretary's Office at 12.00 noon. Both Offices at Ist Floor, Exchange Bullding,
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Bookmakers. Tic Tao men, etc, will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure.
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