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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
FROM AUSTIN'S WORKS COMES SOMETHING OUT OF THE BOX
Modernisation of the Austin range has now been
completed by the introduction of an entirely naw model, the A 70 Hampshire soloon, which supplements the popular 16. With the excop- tion of the angina (itself a post-war introduc- tion to the car range) the A 70 is entirely new from stem to stom.
Its chassis is virtually a larger edition of the A 40, which has already made such a favourable im- pression on world markets and was, in fact, designed at the same time as the latter.
Since then it has been under-, the war and introduced on the Roing strenuous home and immediate post-war Sixteen. The overseas tests and now emerges only difference to be noted on the as a complete phase III car with new models in the adoption of a full-width coachwork, styled double pressed-sicel valve cover with an interposed layer of felt. on post-war Austin lines,
this design being lighter and more efficient in sound deaden- ing than the eart valve COVET previously used.
The second new model can
ture
Designed for overesas tauta rather than the more conserva- tive home preferences, the new Austin A90 “Atlantic" oon. vertible has a long, low fine which promises good" · road- holding.
truthfully be described as the most striking car which haz ever emerged from the Long-
In unit with the engine is a bridge factory. Its coachwork normid Borg and Beck clutch and represents * complete depar-
Ha modlited gearbox arranged from previous Austin
for steering-column control. modela, and the bold, down. ward sweep of the bonnet, flowing wings, flared into the body aldee, and sloping tall terminating in a
massive bum- per, which is curved round to meet the
chromium protective board conveniently adjacent to the steering-column geor-change stripe along the base of the
lever. body, all have a distinct sug. Destion of the #pecialised Italian creations which have!
Luth met with
favourable! reception world.
Girling hydro mechanical brakes, with two lending shoes can be obtained as an extru, and at the front, are fitted, and the provision is also made for radio hand brake is of the pistol grip if required.
under the facia type, mounted
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In all parte of the
new
hydraulic pump situated in a well beneath the rear, sout, the control being" by metus of switch between the pockets.in the driver's door, while two furber switches are provided in the seme spot to raise or lower the ginas windows..
Upholstery is carried out in part leather and part cloth, and very wide, deep pockets are form- ed in the thickness of the front dpora.
which, like those at the the design of the
Provided that the fabric, cover body the manufacturers have rear, are hing at their leading
on obtaining
edges as a
The as a safety measure.
over the head-well is nut concentrated
head can be combined with facin board incorporates lockers place, the
rajsod modern
which are unusun in that their without the driver moving from practicability and comfort, yet with rather more compact seat. ds are hinged at the top, and his seat in a molter of a few Ing arrangements than on the further provision for oddments is seconds, the head being holly provided by a parcel shelf, which locked in position by operation
car below
of a central handle in the canopy runs across the
panel abuve the windscreen. facin board.
Hne
A fixesi luss screen, well rak- d and curved round at the cor-
Ts, provides good
the measurement from when the car is open, and the in- stallation of hydro-electrle poweri pedal to seat squab is now 3 ft.
protection
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Instrumenta' and awliches are Lowering is, of course, merely a
leather-covered
grouped in the centre; they in-reversal of the raising procedure. clude a large-dial speedometer, The Instrument panel is an ammator, and fual and oli
atcel pressing, gauges, with the switches ar. with ash trays inserted in the ranged along the base. Other upper surface, and the instru coachwork features Include ments are centrally' placed and curved
rear window, Blanked by lockers as on the A. thorough sound-insulation for 20; the equipment is, however, the all-steel body, and pivoted more comprehensive, including & door atoeing handias which Ingge-dial revolution counter, and swing down almost flush when matching speedometer (with not in use.
elvek), õil gauge, ammeter, fuel googe and thermometer. - -
A
new
New Car Windscreen
A
A luggage compartment is pro- vided at the rear, and Le ild is hinged at the bose to provide a jet down platform for additional luggage and also incorporates an extremely useful tool tray. noteworthy detail of the
Several new types of United lockable bonnet, which provides Kingdom cars are to have curved belte
engine access than before. glass windscreens and curved is that it is
to lights. spring-loaded
Thie allows make it easier to raise.
the ide pillars to be placed further back, The A. 90 modėl, as already takes away the driver's "blind mentioned, is mechanically very wets" and gives him better vis!- similar to the A 70, the chassir bility altogether. The new Mor belug identical apart from the ris 15 home-power car, fitted
ratio and final-drive
with curved windscreens, has the engine which
differs in its bore (87.3 four-door four-window body, the -zum-in-place-of- 79,4 mm), and ir seating accommodation being
the provision
relative to the of a pair of Swell forward
wheel base, to take greatest pos carburettors with separate at
fble advantage of the torsion cleaners, a higher compressior
bar Independent suspension. The ratio, a high-voltage coil and th front is modern in style, a cơm- of a Burgess straight-through:plete, breakaway from accepted viilencer,
Morris traditions.
The British Motor Industry Research Association has develop- xl a machine to study the bend- ng fatigue strength of geor teeth without rut ing the gears under load. The machine uses an or
linary fuel injection pump which provides smooth pulsations from zero pressure up to a piessuro 1 5,000 pounds a square inch. The pressure generated by the pump act on a vertient. piston, he bottom of which is fitted with an anvil arranged to bear gainst one tooth of the goar wheel under test. The gear vheel. In turn, fa clumped to the 'able of the machine and the
and imposed on
the
tooth is neasured by a pressure gauge. The pump is driven by a 34 The body is of the two-door. horse-power electric" ́motor and ed type, the front seats tipping, the machine · stops automatte- forward to alve access to the ally when a tooth breaks. comfortable accommodation for
rout
Fingertip control of labour-saving devices is a foxture of the Austin A90 convertable. In the drawing above, switch 8, adjacent to the ashtray on the driver's door, controls the sino. tra-hydraulic power operation of the folding hood; switches A and on either side of this one, calss and lower the windows.
The increased power outpu operation for both head and win-3 ins. with the sent in its rear, gives a.bhp per ton figure of 69.7 dows provides rapid and effort- most position, compared with 3 compared with the already high less conversion from an open var ft. 6 ins, in the Sixteen, whilst figure of 53.3 for the A 70, a vers to an extremely snug closed mo- corresponding differences are to substantial increase of 31.0 pe del. When the head is down it be found in body width, the rear cent. This enables very hig disappears into a recess in the seat, for example, now measuring gear ratios to be used, the 3,00 body, whore it in concealed by a 3 ft. 7 ins. between armrests, tir 1 top gear providing a flush-fitting fabric cover.
compared with the 3 ft. 9 ins of speed of 711⁄2 mph at 2,500 fer The chassis of this new con- the existing model.
per minute piston speed. vertible model, which is known It is thus still possible to seat car is thus suitable for continuou AS the A90 Alantic, is basically in the rear three passengers-of operation at a cruising speed up Identical with that of the A70, reasonable size, but the combined areciably over 70 mph. with the very important excep- effect of this slight concentration On a comparison of litres pe tion of the engine, which has a of the seating has made it
1 pos- tou mile, reckoning on the dr larger bore, two carburetters, a
sible to reduce the dry weight weight, the differences between higher compression ratio and a of the car from 20% cwt. to 24 the two cars are less pronounce high-voltage coil, all of combine to therease the output 10, per
which, combined the. A. 90, but both cars show from the 84 bhp. at 3,800 rpm. with the slightly reduced frontal above-average figures. of the A70 to 08 b.hp. at 4,000 pren and more flowing lines, r.p.m.
should provide more lively per- formance than the Sixteen, which, it is worth noting, proved capabla
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which cwt.. "ent.... approximately) by reason of the high gearing o
In addition, the gear ratios are higher, and although the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., makes no claims of a genuine 75 m.p.h. on test, in the matter bf maximum speed, an examination of the speelfien- tion, coupled with some personal experience of the A30 in Norway, suggests that the car should be capable of very high speeds in the two highest gear raflos.
Similar Chassis
In 1
the
„latter compartment
Aro
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two in the rear. The cushions NUFFIELD EXPORTS Roomy In Front
Vehicles shipped overseas by Amade easily detachable, so that Reverting to seating accom-
thla-portion of the car, in ad-Numeld Export, Ltd. in the first puxation, a useful improvement
dition to the generous luggage eight months of 1948 exceeded is the provision of separate front.
space in the tall, can be used the number exported during the seats of the "close-up" type,
to accommodato an exceptian- whole, of 1947, Averago ship- which (in-conjunction with the
ally large amount of baggage bients exceeded
1,000 a week. steering-column gear change!
- for tworup distance touring. One third went to "desirable make it quile practicable to sont The convertible head is operat destinations, from the currency two adults and a child comfort, by m electric motor and viewpoint, ably in the front.
In view of the many chassis detalls which the two new cars have in common; it will be most The windscreen is now fixed, simple to describe the A70 first but a sliding root is retained, and then to indiente the points] whilst ventliation, apart from the in which the A90 differs.
normal winding windows, la, as-
The engine, as already indicat- gisted by a central scuttle ven ed, in the efficient and well-tried} tilator. Mfa addition, built-in
unit which was developed during interior heating, ́and de-misting
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