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COMMER CARS COME OUT
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In Britain two new road trans- [
port trucks of conventional de Technical
sign were announced at the be- ginning of this year by Commer CALL-N Ltd, one
Rootis et the group of
companies and later
attracted considerable attention
NEW DESIGN
BY P.M.A. THOMAS
from small vilations, and the
give
to
Editor of "Motor Transport" (London) (smooth riding quall four-suncel
and Member of Britain's Institute
of Road Transport Engineers
[ springing is designed
or bad roads. The brakes are as powerful as thore of a modern private car, and on rond test which I carried out on one of the new vehicles, at the International Motor Show sential features can be reached fon either side of a grille, which la Brussels in February.
Ιπ above. They from
other words, hides and protects the radiator. proved to be not only delightful made another Continental npwhen the seat cushions are lift- The seats are comfortably up-to drive, but remarkably econo- pearance ni the Geneva Motor ed, you can get at the sparking holstered and the windscreen, as micel on fuel into the bargain: Show in March, and nirendy plugs, the electrical equipment. well as the side windows, enn be an Average of nearly 10
m.p.g.
kets.
n
on
opened.
it
#1 Tha
was obtained while carrying Apart from the engine, which
full load of even tons. in a six-cylinder, overhead valve truck could climb hills at least unit of 100 b.h.p., the remainder as steep as one-in-five with this of the mechanism of the chassis load in the body.
Mechanically, is conventional bi character 'and
therefore, the arrangement, AR is generally new Commer-is-a most interest- the ease, the four-speed gear box Ing design. But in addition it, t is bolted up to the engine with a thoroughly sound road trans- singig-plute clutch between, and port vehicle will characteristics
be The driver's cab is made
two-piece nla
prapelier
will shaft which
appreciated in sicel .for strength and transmilts the drive to spiral speedily by transport men and durability, and is of distthetive bevel back axle. The angine their drivers all over the world. In the export markets it will do modern appearance with the headgear box usit is mounted in rub- lamps built into the front panels bér so as to insulate the vehicle much to uphold British prestige.
the many of the new models are
carburetter int the fuel their way to other overseas nlar-pump, or, replenish the engine oll
ar top-up the batteries almost Made for loads of Ove and easily us you can on a normn! mat seven toni, the new Commer type of engine. And when such trucks differ from others chicfy attention is necessary, a lamp con In so far as the engine. Instead be switched on in the cab roof being in the sunl upright which illuminates the engine. position, is turned over to lie on its side at an angle of 66 degrees from the vertical. By this, the engine cun be arcom- modated low down between the chassis frame incmbers and beneath the level of the floor of The driver's compartment.
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Seated In Comfort One reason for adopting this new position for the engine is to permit, the provision of u obstructed, full-width cab which two persons, in addition to the driver, can be seated in com- fort. Another is that the Ar- rangement, together with shat- low radiator, which is also set low down, allows the steering wheel and other driving controls. as well as the seat, to be further forward so as to leave a greater proportion of the length of the truck clear for carrying the load. "This," in' luru, means a better dis- tribution of the loaded weight between the front and the rear axles.
At the same time, having the engine low down and out of the way. It is a much easier matter move the driver's controls over to the left-hand side, in or- der to meet the requirements of hose export markets where "keep to the right" is the rule of the road. A further point is that
ource of mechanical noise and heat is removed by having the engine "below the floor, but by a clever arrangement, hot air cun be directed at will against the underside of the floor, so as to warm the driving-compartment- cold weather. In practice this is most effective, bui in normal is must circumstances there is a notable absence of heat or noise from the engine. The comfort and con- venience of the driver, Indeed, received for more attention have in the new Commer trucks than is usually the case with commer- clnt vehicles.
It might be supposed that in
its underfloor position the engine
difficult
Stool For Strength
19INN
is
The new 5 and 7 ton Commer Commercial vehicles-are-notable for their day power UnitTM- and the striking frontal design.
The engine, a al cylinder overhead valve unit developing 109 b.h.p. le mounted under the floor of the cab on its side and can consequently be serviced in shelter.
The cab offers the comfort of a passenger car' and two oan..alt alongside the driver in . comfort. Temperature la controllable.
t
This new Commer is the result of exhaustive research and has been designed for export: as well as the home market.
would be more diet to reach Briton Wins A Piece Of Motor
for mechanical attention and ad- justment. Actually this is not 'the case, for the engine, which Is of entirely new design, hos been planned so that all its es-
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Car Wizardry
Fred Gerard, the Leicester- shire racing molòrist, driving a
Imagine a car with no gear- pusly in top gear. The battery British ERA, today won the
box, no clutch, no starter motor lighter and smaller than on International road race over and no mechanical connection normal cars, 176 miles in which 22 leading at all between, the engine and Yet British motor manufac British and Continental drivers the gearbox; a car that requires turers are not interested for the arc tob busy Look part at St. Heller.
only a gentle pressure on the moment. They
it start
for models Gerard covered the 55 laps of throttle
gilding producing postwar
export, they "say." the 3.2 miles circuit at an average smoothly up the street.
But American car firme are speed of 87.33 miles an hour.
George Abecassis, in a Masu- Pure magle? The kind of year most enthusiastle, and one blg British rati, was second at 87.21 miles per that appears in fantastic fiction? US. flen l buying the
Invention. Which means that. hour and Reg Parnell, in another
installed in the latest American Maserati, third at 86.87 miles per
car, it will probably return home to-be-copied in this country.
hour.
to
It's magic all right. But it hap- pens to be fact as well--I have,
Prince Blrabongse of Siam, whest driven such a car races under the pseudonym of "B,
Apart from the steering wheel, Bira," finished fourth at 84.88 there is very little else-scat, miles an hour in a-Maserati,
twe foot pedals (a- brake and a The only accident in the thrill-throttle), a few knoba on the ing race was when S, J. Gilbey's dashboard. The car looked "un Maserati overturned and shot into dressed," but that was all part a garage yard after hitting the of the magic. curb. The driver threw himself clear and was practically unhurt. -Router.
Safeguarding
To come down to earth for a moment, the technical name for thie plece of wizardry is the electricdynamic torque converter: but don't let that worry you, be- cause the principle pt it, as acro- and engineer Dan Robertson electrical engineer A. C. Sample- tro explained it to me,, is fairly
Your Car simple.
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the
Dovices for frustrating the car.
On the car's flywheel is thief have become very populze powerful magnet. On the pro- during the last year or soat peller shaft is a plece of steel. much One works the other in unspoken commentary
the, samo way that the little times in which we live. The magnet pulled the metal toy latest is the Autogard. Contained when we were children. in a little metal box about six Through a gap In the inches long is a stee
trembler boards I could see the wire that
floor.
blade with a lead weight attech runs direct from the battery to. ed to its free-end.Any_move- the flywheel which starts the ment of the box causes the engine, and cats-out-the-normal. trembler blade to bob and type of electric starter.
up down, thus closing a pair of sil- vor contacts.
Starting up Was noiseless and a gentle pressure on tho throttle started the car gliding The Aulogard is fitted in some smoothly away; and since thoro was no gear to change I had inconspicuous position pointing
steering across the car with the trembler both hands on the
wheel. biade parallel to the door and "The magician's den "from which the two contacts wired in series the car emerged is Thomson and In the horn circuit. After the Taylor's at Brooklands, which Autogard has been switched on was where I drove it yesterday by a small tumbler switch in-around the aerodrome farmác
designers series with it any movement of Apart from the two
the car will cause the trembler and Ken Taylor,builder of Jolist blade to bob up and down and Cobb's record-breaking cars, I sound a series of Intermittent am the only person in the world blasts on the horn as it closes Whto bas driven this new magic 3 kg car which is safer and easier |-the-two-conisets.
"Sole
distributors for the Auto-to handle than anythingive
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