The Roomy MORRIS "Eight
__THE_CAR_WITH_THE_LOWEST UPKEEP_COSTS
The Morris" Eight" with
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interior exceptional souminess, it draught prout body and luggage boot. Remarkably
Jarge
economical co rún, with a safe, high cruising speed and an outstanding record for reliablity, the "Eight" In better value than ever
MORRIS Eight
SERIES 'E'
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 10,, 1948,'
MOTORING NEWS AND
AND VIEWS ADVANTAGES OF GAS DRIVE
TURBINES ON ROAD
The
Britain has produced two ex-, pulses of a four stroke, res perimental gas turbine car en elprocating engine. Weight is kines. One is known o the greatly reduced, and the engine Centrax and is produced by a compact and easily installed. Power Jets Limited, pioneers of
Centrax weighs 250 {"research in gas turbines. It de pounds, Is 17 inches in diameter
velops
100 horse-power which and 00 inches long. With a two corresponds, (or taxation pur-stage six-inch diameter turbine Fuses in the United Kingdom, to, wheel the designed speed is 40,-
By Charles A.F. Austen
FORMER NEWS EDITOR OF THE LONDON
"DAILY HERALD"
DODWELL MOTORS LTD. tuated by the high velocity ex-
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On this New Kind of Tire you'll get a New Kind of Ride!
The new Super-Cushlon by Goodyear is a-bigger tire.... A offer tire! It holds more air... yet runs on lexx air pressure! 1. The Super-Cushion yields in- stead of resisting impacts... "abwarty "**atditwayear welt-a7--- jup-and-down shocks, gives you in incredibly munoother ride...
The new
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gear to the road wheels. Nalse, lubrication and reverse geur are also problema to be tackled.
Particulars have also been re lensed of a still · smaller turbine with which the Rover Company, of Solihull, Birmingham, Eng- land, huve been experimenting for long time. Its furbine wheel is only five inches in din- meter and at its normul
ormati design- ed speed of 55,000 revolutions a minute develops 100 horse-powa fuel mixture of other paraffin cr. This engine is 30 inches and custor olt...
long. 10 inches wide and 20 inches high. It was planned na suitable for lest in Rover cars.
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be understood, at course, that a great deal of ex- perimental work has yet to he done before the suitability of gus turbines for driving curs can be
a horse-power rating of from 35000 to 42,000 revolutions a win tu 40. This uni embodies Jule. Such a speed of rotation, 12 second or "power" turbine ac-fitnes faster than that of u nor. mal car engine, introduces the haust-instring from a compara-problem--of-suitablé - reduction""fitotty "judge." tively normal turbo-compressår unit. This power turbbie rotates jte a separate shaft and is gear-
et to the drive shaft. yenders the pas fubine a peres teal possibility p road trans-
The advantages of gas turbined 1 quad vehicles are perfect bale once of the rotary romponents and ventinious power butput us opposed - to the dermittent din-
PRICE OF NATURAL RUBBER
"Financial Tim Cominent
A speech bg. Sir John Blay on the price of natural rubber attracted wkle attention in
LIGHTER WEIGHT
AUTOMOBILES
weight Lighter
automobiles, many ways. First, of course, is
A new speed record for model cars may
be wet up soon-on
Exnet proportions of the mix- ture'n Ingredienta are the secret at the car's owner, thirty-four- year old Willan Wesson of Mel- ton, Mowbray,
The record stande mler-per-luride at eight-two
Wesson's model a blue stream- lined scale reption of Colonel Gardner's record holding M. G. has already stalned seventy miles per hour.
Only two feet long, its speed and power are enough to make it Jump four feet in the air when It strikes a pebble or a rough patch of ground. It has a ten with smaller power plants and the never ending effort to im C. C. engine capable of one J greatly increased gasoline prove refining processes to pro- thousant Ave hundred revolu mileage are nong the major duce better molur car fuel with-lons per minute. obiectives of American car de-out ton greally increasing its signers,
This was intented emphati- eally in the formal and informat di ussions of the car bullders at the sunner
inveting of the Society of Autorive Engineers at French Eick, Indiano,
Murb progress Was
cast or smerificing the volume of average gasoline that can be- presleyt.
:
Othersteps include tests with |
systerns that auto- tarburetor gasoline to the engine as need maileally feed low or highgrade
the
vu, and with a device that will the step up the volatthty reported husin the development of smal-soline by injecting a solution
Into Biler but more powerful engines of alcohol and water
and intensive studies are under-fuel, stream. way in the design of lighter vehicles and in fuel econoiny.
1 newspapers. The two main point Kivon prominence were that the principle of private en- terprise has not prevented the synthetle rubber
Some of the engineers said the cur of the future will be o much smaller one than the evr rently popular models.
Industry from of being put under the shelter protective legislation and the ex- limate that every at its present price, natural rubber is fetching, said it must be lighter even if it only about one-third of its value is not smaller.
in terms of wheat and cotion in 1540.
Others
All en engineers average American engine needs high during only a very
A
new London taxi-cab hos a top speed of sixty miles per hour and itn anti-roll torsion bar equipment ensures no swaying. Except for the "For Hire" sign,
private car. The cab the model has the appearance of has a sixteen horse-pover engine and has the acceleration of its pri- vate ear brother in Austin range.
Like the private car, it has a luggage locker in the fall, twin interior lights, twin windscreen
agree the automobile
wipers, disc wheels and the dri- quality fuel
ver in totally enclosed in a way small port
which does not encroach upon That
extra luggage spare.on his plai- form. In addition to the com fort of all-weather protection, the driver can raise his seat by turning a knob. A few cabs wil be ready this month and in July and the coachbuilders should
its operating timme. would be primarily in cold en- gine starting. uphill driving or when sudden spurts of power are: hel,
needed
Demonstrations
A creat saving of fuel could be made, they add, if high oc- tane fuel were used only as
with the in- this lection method of stepping up
in the volatfifty of gasoline
were made with а solution contain- Ing 85 percent alcohol and 15 percent water.
Engineers and scientists of Vie nutomobile The "Financial Times" com-
and of indus- ments: "Much more is at stake tries are cooperating in the ef- tkan s trade in which a sub-fort to increlise gasoline mileage. stantial amount of British capital
Experimental work in Is investert, for there is involved
Ye direction is being pressed the vitul problem of the reduc- tion of the dollar deficit. At the present time, rubber is worth
one-third of the 1940 value calculated in terms of wheat and cotton, two of our clief imports from America. Natural rubber-19 prevented from reaching an econ- onle price by restrictions on its usu in the U.S. murket, design- ed to give that country strategic security.
Engine Research In Britain
London, June 17.
Ench...gallon of thu Blso contained a small
of tetraethyl lead.
solution
amount
Completely successful results
I were reported with the chn- sumption of four gallons of the solution to 100 gallons of or- dinary gasoline. -St-another
effort-at--fuel y
economy is being made with devices. Some
Largely for this reason, the average price of plantation rub-
| supercharging Mr. George Strauss, Minister car makers also are making road ber since the period of liberation, of Supply, spoke of the "phen-tests
Sir John points
with various types shown little improvement
as
of
nomenal increase" in British ex-power units, including rear, en- over ports of diesel engines when he gines and the so-called pancake that prevailing in
in 1940 when the addressed the British Internni type-Associated Press. costs of production
not Combustion Engine.Research As swollen by, inflation. It cannot be beyond the ingenuity of America sociation yesterday. In
were
October
to devise means both to meet her alone, he said, 4,222 engines of this type were sent oversens national security needs and to rectify the position to which Sir compared with 200 in 1937. Join Hay has directed alten- tion."
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Many of the experiments which the Association was curry- ing out on bearings, fuel in-
Maintaining The Breed
Jections—supercharging,—unoise. An important step in maintain- emitted by the diesel-engine-and-ng and improving lyre quality Op ale cooling were of vital im- has been taken by the Dunlop portance to the country.
Company. In the last two years the Company has been develop "The Government consider that ing an X-Ray testing apparatus, organisations such as yours are which is now installed as an ad- Immensely important and should, junct to the normal method of in- be given every possible help," spection. Mr. Strauss Bnid. "It through organisations such as yours that Britain has oblained her mastery in engineering."
have their production line in full swing in August. The price of the new taxi is £30 including purchase tax.
Record Leyland Exports
London, June 14. One of Britain's largest com- mercial vehicle makers (Ley- lond Motors Lid.. of Leyland, Lancashire) has just announced a new export record, the May total exceeding that of March (the previous best month) by more than £60,000.
of
This firm is the bullder of the new Comet diesel engine vehicles specially designed for overseas. Last 'month 78 per cent. Comet output went, to
export. This month the figure is expect ed-to-be even higher
The value of exports shipped by these manufacturers in the last six months is almost four times greater than that of cor- responding months last year, with hard currency areas such as Canada and the Argentine rez- possible for a substantial pro- portion of the business..
The X-ray tube is capable of penetrating a tyre sufficiently well to enable the expert eye to see clearly the interior construction This Company now has a range | Britain claims to have made without pulling the tyre to pieces. of more than 50 models design- the best improvements in the The
diesel engine. It is ahead of the justa, Vre is mounted on an ad- ed solely for export and ranglag |
stand in front of the from 5/7-ton Comets to giunt world in small air cooled engines X-ray tube with n. radiographic six wheelers for oil flaki use. and also has an undisputed lead film behind it, so that the sha- in technical improvements indows cast by the X-ray will be horizontal engines,
thrown.
the on
light-sensitive emulsion and so produce the pic- fure Where a quick e
ick-examination- lof the bead wire structure is re-
quired the tyre is mounted at eye] Hlevel and the X-ray tube arranged so that the shadow Image is pro- Jected on to a fluorescent screen behind the tyre.
Export Only Motor Show
For Your Garage
The operations described in o now huidbook Look. After Your Britain's first postwar motor The X-ray testing unit at Fort Car are those that can easily be show this autumn will be in ea- Dunlop is completed by the pro carried out by any motorist with sence "for export enly."
cessing section, which develops little mechanical sense. No at- Side by side with 20 foreign the aims for inspection, and by tempt has been made to include: makers American, French, the viewing section, where the re-ing adjustment and similar work, overhaul operations, such as bear-
Italian British manufacturers suits are analysed and recorded. Ingg will be showing a collection of Important detalls, such as indiv-requiring special skill or likely to models
completely redesigned, Idual strands.of.cord, can be obe_beyond the scope of ordinary. with more powerful engines served.
equipment. But owing to export, require
It is also assured that the read- ment-home visitors will noi be
er already possesses a good aver- able effectively to place an or-
age tool kit. At the same time, der for delivery for several years
given that will be unD- hhis arthusiast who wants). ahend..
ful to to lay the foundation of un emeient
my smali. workshop.
RADIO EQUIPMENT
·FOR POLICE
Following a successful twelve-
The
international display will enable buyers from all over month trial of equipment install- The book will be of particular the world to sea in one hall pited in several vehicles, the police value to those who are still forced that Britain can offer in com- forces in the principal towns of to make the beat they can of old petition with Amerien,
France
ance Holland are soon to be provided cars: If they carry out the ad- and Italy. It le hinted that the wilh a v.hất.
mobile radio tele-vice contained In these pages they makers, will provide the phone system. A £20,000 con- will be able to keep their cars many surprise de- has recently been received in satisfactory condition and, thus velopments. This, combined with by the General Electric Co. of obtain the maximum pleasure on the fact that overroas buyers England, for equipment compria- the road, de can get qulike delivery of Britali, Ing: ton 100-W..fin. fixed station › Look After Your Car in written cars, die aspected to result in a transmitter/rogelsmate fyn: 10-W. By the technical staff of The Auta- new food of orders, on the Unit- | fixed stations, and, fifty-two, mo- gar, and published at 3s. 6d. by ed.Kingdom motor ear industry. I bue' units.
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