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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS HUMBER SUPER SNIPE
Emphasis On Weight Economy
Detroit.
Auto makers arc putting more pressure on their en- gineers for discovery of new ways to suve vehicle weight and manufacturing costs,
Most of this activity is secret but it is evidenced by the fact that whomever auto engineers invel, talk drifts around to fight cars and idens to cut coste
without endangering pubile appent, !
Engineers in technical meet- Ings here recently dwelt on such weight-suving devices as use of unit frames and bodies, air-cooled engines, rear-engine drives and fight alloys.
But they argued over the value of building the frang and body Inte on unit, some saying the weight faving would be used up
added labour costs.
Some
In
repair and safety
can engines went out of
style with the old Franklin car, but on expert plugged for a re- vival, haying greater fuel economy through weight savings up to 000 pounds would result,
Auto sales people have not been interentest in Highter and chenper ears until the last several months
when the markel turned down- ward more than they had expeel- ed.
Some still believe chances for successful introduction of light cars are small although others are reported on the verge of trying. The doubters Buy labour And manufacturing costs are so fixed
and so high that failure is almost
certain.
Not Abandoned Chevrolet could come out in a short time with a radically design. ed car which it has had roady since early 1946. Plans for the light Chevrolet were shelved three years ngo but not abandoned,
The Austin A.70 Hampshire
Fast Charging Batteries Becoming Popular
JOF 644
There is a purposeful look about the A.70, with its com. paratively short bonnot, which Is not reduced by the modern styling tendencies, Including partial enclosure of, the rear wheels. Bulit-in sido lampa ara aparato from the head tamps.
For Emergency Boosting British Cars
Fast charges have become popular in recent years
mainly because they anable garages to give a prompt recharging service to the motorists. The makers of the fast chargers usually recommend them exclusively for the occasional emergency boosting of healthy rundown car batteries. Battery makers con endorse this The thermostat system has the recommendation, provided that the advantage of being based directly chargers are correctly operated, on the battery temperature, which and provided that they incorporain is the most Important actor in- suitable enfeguardi 10 prevent volved, but it may mi that the damage to the batteries.
Impress At Geneva
According to Geneva reports British cars are making a big impression at the Motor Show being held there and inquiries are coming in from all over the continent.
The motoring correspondent of the Financial Times says that high priced cars such 12 the battery is rassedi Ja longer Benticy are selling well and that From the battery point of view perind than Actually necessary @smart Rolls Royce was sold on the first day. Popular makes such as the Standard Vanguard and the Hillman Minx are stated
it is, perhaps, unfortunate that when the ambient temperature is
for remona connected with the low. charger deskm) the fast chargera
to be holding their own against
Ford and Chrysler have not confrmed persistent reports that they are well-advanced with com petitive designs. Nash also figures in the light car reports.
Kaixor-Frater says openly it will introduce a light car as ROOM so far marketed have been of the The time-switch system, on the ps Anal designs are completed, constant current rather than the other hand unless inteligently Latest reports
supervised, may mean that the similar types made in Italy and say hand-made constant polential type. models are in the works now far road testing.
The latter type would be con- battery reuches on excessive tem-France despite costly freightage. siderably maru
foolproof, since its perature before the switch opor- The proposed Chevrolet in 1,000 characteristic would self-ates, particularly if the ambient pounds ilghter than
to current regulating
large extent,temperature in high. models.
WAR priced The high back-EMF of an an In the absence of a thermostat around US$1,000. Its wheelbase healthy battery would,
in hostit is always desirable to check the
ing.
it once
in some eight inches shorter, length case, automatically reduce
of the Austin Export Corporation,
ure
Mr. G. W. Harriman, Direktor
sinted at a dinner in Geneva re- Heve re- cently that market conditions are pidly changing Austin's have a seller's 3 buyer's market for about one about unchanged and
not only in its fuel Similarly, the tapering down of mileage is about 28 to the gallon.
A further useful check in to see Switzerland but all aver the Most of the detalls of the light would reduce
the rate as the battery came up that the battery voltage does not world. To reduce costs even
the risks of high ring above 8.5 volts on a 6-volt Chevrolet have leaked out to Ford temp rature and undue wear on battery, which would be an indicament of a large sum.
few pounds requires the invest- and Chrysler since 1046.
Ford
the plater, even hired Earle MacPherson, who wasя
If the charge tion that the cella are incapable to head the Chevrolet light car sary.
were kept an longer than neces- of absorbing the fast charge with- division.
out damage.
is cut about 18 inches. Speed is charge rate to a nuto figure the temperature rise while fast charg.ech aware of the change from
And in the end, the small cars which rosult from
renewed re- search probably will not be the best engineers can do, but what the auto maten people think will Alrike the public faney and pocket- book.-United Pres."
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PROBLEMS OF GAS TURBINE
A
market, however, give practicallyly be damaged by fant charging. The chargers actually on the An unhealthy battery can readt constant current. output, Irroit the battery as a whole is slug- Typical figures obtainen un a re-it is known to have been standing the Engineering Association of the pective of the battery voltage.rish or sulphated, particularly if In a recent lecture delivered to charge are, for example, 100 am-in an over-discharged condition Ministry of Supply, in London, perce taparing to 80 amperes, or for a lengthy period, it can only Mr James Hodge, of Power Jets 80 amperes Laerhg to 60 amperes. be recovered by a long slow re Limited, discussert some of the Under these elremstances, the charge. following important limitations will apply from the battery point of vlow.
problems to be solved before the can be adapted as Such a battery on fast charge turbine
an economical Dowor unit for would show a very rapid vine
ordinary mad vehicles. temperature. Similar remarks
The problem of designing tur- apply to the case of a battery in bine engines, small enough to Even under the most favourable which the upper portions of the install in road vehicles, has Bl. conditions, rapid recharging tonds plates are sulphated, due to stanslready been solved. No gear- to cause increased wear and tearing for a long period with a low
Increased Wear
of the plates, mainly because of level of electrolyte.
the very heavy gassing which unavoidable towardsbeen demott-
the charge. This has been strated by
of Must Be Checked
laboratory eveling
eyel
The condition of the cells must, teste; with repeated fast charg therefore, be checked beforehand
that
changing equipment is needed, since the output can be controll- ed by varying the fuel supply. Other advantages include the absence of vibration, due to the Inch of reciprocating components and the low oil consumption due to the absence of rubbing sur
ing the number of cycles obtain with a hydrometer and a high-faces and low maintenance. ablo is only about, 25 per cent of rate discharge tester. If all the oblabied normal cycling cells show practically zero read- It will be clear,
on the otherings, the battery is unsuitable for hand, that so long as, a glyon fast charging. Those precautions tory is not "fast charged" more are particularly necessary if the than half ☐ dozen to a dozen charger is atted with the time- timas during its He, its eventual switch system of control. He will not bo noticeably affect-
ed.
The provision of a thermostat
Even a healthy battery can be doo, of course, afford a partisi seriously damaged on a single fast safeguard against the overheating of a sluggish or sulphated battery. charge if this is kept on too long, it does not, however, entirely partly because of the extra wear obviate the risk of damage, and on the plates caused by gassing,
a preliminary check on the condi- but mainly because of the risk tion of the colls is therefore still of under temperature rise. It #, therefore, highly desirable to pro-
CORBATY.
vide some automalle means of ary tosis is to make sure that the
A further object of the prelimin timiting tho length of the charg
This may take the form of battory does not contain weak or thermostat Inserted in one of the short-circuited cells.
than 125 pot
of
If such a
no
cells, which la arranged to batting in fast charged the weak cut down the charger gede celis may be permanently damag. tem
predator-d
Nolther method mined
control not high-
definite afforde It 15, of
protection course, cosential that the ther-against this, because even with the mostat should fit properly in the thermostat system there is call even, and that it should saamrance that the weak cell is tually be immersed in the sice- the one in which the thermostat is
fitted. trolyle.
An alternative method
Fast chargers is to Unakuta bio provide the charger with ■ time switch, which will abut it down changes to new when prodetermined time hattempt to do so would result in elapsed. This time switch is pre-permanent damage, agloat which sot mocording to the original state no system of contepi affords any of discharge of the battery as initiri changes should be riven at nedegtwird. It la sential that determined by readings taken with
are defnitely for giving, initial batteries. Any
a fyndrometer and a high-rate dita Blow rate over a sh
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strict accordance with tions issued by the battery maker. It clearly follows that fail There is not much to choose charging must be regarded as an batwani those two methods, both wus Any to, and not a substitate of which achieve much the warm for; the normal method of charge result in practice.
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