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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910.
MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
Five Black Marks On The Road
BY COURTENAY
EDWARDS
It seemed as if Britain's en- tire car, motor-cycle, and bicy- de population was out on the Foods Inst Sunday. How did the drivers behave? And how about the pedestrians?
After being at the wheel for hundreds of miles on Easter trips to Devonshire (for the so-called "Land's End" Reliability Trial) and Sussex (for the motor rac ing at Goodwood) I think I know.
The road-hog came back, and' n vast number of road-users-at the wheel, in the saddle, and ou foot-were little bewildered by the heavy traffic streams.
There has been nothing quite ke this traffic since before the war, and motorists, cyclists, and walkers allke were inclined to be carclown.
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Car drivers showed too great
rendinens to "Lake S
chance"
THE HUDSON COMMODORE
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On their introduction about a year ago, the latest Hudson models created something of sensation by the enclosure of the rear wheels not merely within the body panelling in the mannòr now quite common, but within the actual box-section side members of the basic frame on which the the combined body-c im-chassis structure is built up.
Tels. 50819 & 57250 in such things an overtaking at By this device, the makers were able to use a frame
blind corners or near the crest of a hin.
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after ignores the clutch except for actually stopping and restarting. gear-changing being effected rim- ply by moving the gear lever to the appropriate position, the clutch boing withdrawn automatically by
This control does not give a "free wheeling effect as trifugal governor cuts it out above 20 m.ph. in top gear,
a cen-
Third cholce in to turn the con-
Centre Of Road
Cyclists seemed to think they could still monopolise the middle
Exceptionally good styling was of the road-a habit developed combined with this basic change During the pleasure motoring ban to produce an unusually sleek ap- which made the London-Brighton pearance and good aerodynamic road seem as deserted as a country form.
The change did, however, in- Pedestrians appeared to have volve note alight narrowing of trace of pitching or vertical float. trol knob to the right, which gives less road sense than any-and include not only local walkers, the rear track in relation to the with their waielda! self-confidence, Anther distinctive Hudson for but also motorists and cyclists atture of more than ordinary inter- Journey's end after the car has est is the optional Drive Master been parked or the bicycle stored. transmission which is offered as Carelessness -- brod of long an extra in addition to the, well familiarity with near-empty roads known Warner overdrive, which
was by no meat whole also an optional filting. trouble.
Tempors Short
got the impression }
that reactions were slow, judgment al fault, and tempers short.
front
At
that the
bad pave is taken fast, and aura vacuum control. faces of this kind produce no tendency to wandering.
Equally satisfactory on pare is the auspension system which gives a remarkably even ride with no Obviously, the Hudson is very well damped and is, in fact, at its best at high speeds.
At low and medium speeds, it still provides very good, insulation from actual bumps, but the fact that it is not entirely proof against vibrations of moderate frequencies was shown up a facia-board rattle which sometimes occurred under these conditions.
a fully automatic two-speed (lop and second) transmission,
To start, the driver merely places the gear lever into the top- gear position and depresses the when the car accelerator pedal, moves off in second gear.
Any desired speed can by con-
in that gear merely con tinuing
So soon, to accelerate. however, as the accelerator pedal is released after reacting the pre-
There is no
Revising First Impressions
First Impressions are always in- These, incidentally, led to the teresting, although not always discovery that some particularly determined changing speed, the correct. The latter qualification | altractivo grained "woodwork" transmission automatically changes cort
into top. of the about the facia board was, in fact, was operative in the
On slowing down with the ac- The black spots, on always,
Hudson. Our first acquaintance unusually well finished metal.
the course of a As previous remarks rave acelerator released, the second gear were on the fringes of big towns with it was in
becomes
automatically engaged short run after dark and, when ready indicated, the straight-eight, and In large villages.
where both drivers had put in a fow miles 4,140 c.c. side-value engine is ex- when the car spood falls below Out on the open road, the traffic thinned out, there were the wheel, both confessed to a tromely smooth and quiet, and to the changing speed. fewer instances of road hogging light feeling of disappointment these good qualities may be added need to declutch for a stop, con-
It was when the streams of
to the specification ning on and an almost completo pedal.
Finally there is the over-drive had suggested.
absence of pinking. at town-approaches that so many
which provides a 28 per cent re- In truth, that initial impression Flexible, Smooth And Fast duction in engine speed compared delver showed how slack and in-; expert they have become and was one of the biggest tributes to
since the performance} the car,
As one would expect from an to direct top gear and, is semi- how irritable they are inclined was, in fact, quite up to expecta engine of this type and size, flaxi-automatic in action; that is to say: no manual operation is involved. be in the unfamiliar
traille con- tion, and the disappointment was billty is a noticeable feature. ditions.
It is, however, interesting to but the action of the device is at I made those notes of five of brought about by the very notablo
amoothness and silence of the Hud-study the direct top-gear accelera- all times under the control of the glaring examples of the more
clearly showpostal. bad driving and walking. I saw measure by that rare fitting, a
son, sided and abetted in some tion figures which
that no efforts have bees, made to 1. Big Humber Balcon car slightly slow performance.
to concentrate on the lower part parked empty in the main street
Both this initial run, and later of the power curve, the best ac- at Newbury, Berkshire, near the corner by the Old Market Cross. experience over varied road con- celeration belag noticeable in the dillahs, revealed that the Hudson middle speed range. the 30-50 It slowed down the traffis flow handled particularly well and that m.p.h. time of 5.8 second compar and was causing serious conges the fundamental change of roaring with a 19-30 m.p.h. figure of Lion.
2. Small, open Austin dlled to
axle layout in relation averflowing selfishly hugging tho ill effects. middle of the road between Gulid-
cars and bikes had to slow down quite so werformance did not seem an absence of any tendency to run-trol being entirely by accelerator
frame has certainly produced no
to the 9.1 seconds.
On corners, the car may be so excellent by touring car standards.
ford and Petworth and permit- graded
ting no one to overtake.
Throughout the entire range the Engine is efforless and, while it te, perhaps, invidious to name any particular cruising speed in a car of this kind, it la time to say that 3. Sola motor-cyclist on Coun Thero is practically no roll at a guino 70 mp.h.
is a speed tlebury Hill, Lynmouth, after the any time (anti-roll bars are fitted which any driver, moderately an- trinh of the MCC reliability at both ends) and the car takes xious to get from A to B, would trial, who, on one of the steepest| 50-60 m.p.h.`comers in its stride be likely to hold for long periods parts, cat in between two cars with no trace of unsteadiness and over main roads. In this connec going in opposite directions, cais no call for heroics on the part of tion, the excellent built-in radio Ing both to brake violently and the driver.
set (with loud speaker dropped creating a dangorous
situation.
The actual manual effort reflush into the considerable hori- 4. Man on
podal cycle at quired on the steering wheel is zontal portion of the scuttle bo Bristol suddenly burning across perhaps, higher than one would tween the top of the facia and the the road without warning and expect in view of the compara- stooply raked and
curved Vee causing the driver of a following tive low rearing, which entalla screen) provided a useful
Bound swerva 5% turns of the wheel from lock mouth many cars, a volume which
car to brako hard and
alarmingly close to a child cyclist. to look.
G. Young couple at 'Roading sauntering cross the main Bath- (Continued at foot of nert Col.)
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Oversize Tyres
suits high-speed cruising proves very unpleasantly loud when the
In fairness, however, it must spood I reducod for passing be added that the model in ques-through a village; no such pheno- tion was fitted with oversize tyres mena was noticeable with the Hud- and also that these 6% turns go on.
CAT.
to the production of a large wheel This quiet running is, of course, deflection and
correspondingly more marked with the over drive small turning circle for so large in operation- remark which automatically brings us to a con- sideration of the transmission choices open to owners of these cara,equipped with both optional
Indeed, the Hudson cause our prises in the spaces in which it can be parked and the tight turns which can be negotiated without extras. reversing
Basic Systems The steering, moreover, is on-
There are, in effect, three basic tirely develd of kick-back through systems at the disposal of the the wheel, even when extremely driver, and each may be used with
Boon
Or without the over-drive, making, In effect, aix combinations in all road at Toast 20 yards from a ped- Admittedly, this sounds complic-
trian crossing and indignantly ated but, in practice, one pointing to the distant | Bellshs | learng what is which and comes to Beacons when volukeď by = choose suitably according to tanto furiona motorist, who had been and conditions. forood to pull-punk
Top Manners
The first basla'state is with the Drive Master knob in the central But again, I came acrons ex-position, and the device out of ac- amples of metidel motoring and tion, walking. Many roadaisers showed In this condition, the three- courty which went far beyond speed gearbox operates, in an on- the standard of manners envisaged tirely normal.manner and one uses by the authors of the Highway the clutch and steering columa
Laver 'in the ordinary way. Probably many of the offesting Turning the Delva Master knob
partially_ma defvery hara Touched, khele lawson, to the left gives an the big holkavik anda lebe tomatic transmission in the shape this year. Larro vary. Liknly will be of clutching gear-changing, will
Improvement in road That le to, say, ons sheets from
Frint in the nurani Way and there"
-The Motor
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