THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1949,
B.F. Goodrich
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BRITISH INDUSTRY'S NEW
PROVING GROUND ·
You Should Know This!
The Highway Codo To Cyclists
Traffe Blocks-Do not hold on. to a motor vehicle even when it is stationary where traffic is held up. Make no attempt to gain a forwned position in a traffic block by eyeling along the narrow Ispaces between stationary vehicles. They may start suddenly and you wilt impoda them and endanger yourerit.
At Night-Remember that in the durk you are not easily visibla to following traffic. Act accord- ingly and keep well to the left of
road.
the
you do not use A red rear In remember to keep your ref reflector clean and properly fixed. It is pu offenen in Hong Kong to ride it night without either a red rear lamp or an unobscured and efficient red reflector.
TO PEDESTRIANS Crossing Roads Retorn eross- inen rond look right and left and satisfy yourself that it is safe to CTOSS, Lank out for approaching trame and, take its speed into ac count. Cross the road as directly ww pinssible.
Take special care if you have to
When stepping off the footpath look towarde oncoming traffic.
Do not make a sudden dush into the carriageway. Since 1946 the research and experimental departments maintained by the error from behind ar in front
individual British manufacturers have been supplemented by the labora- of gehicles tories of the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA), a body truffe which has been formed by co-operation between manufacturers to work is controlled by police or on problems of long-range research and immediate mechanical investignals, take advantage of that gations of interest to the industry as a whole.
•
Nuffield Exports
250,000th
or other obstructions which prevent a clear view of
At road junctions where the
control and cross when the appro- priate line of trame is held up. The use of Islands or special
using places (especially those
the eary flow of traffic. you to avold danger and assist in
The British Government recognises the importance
of such co-operative research in producing bet-marked he white lines) will help ter cars for world markets, and makes an im- portant contribution to the income of the Asso- ciation in proportion to the amounts contribut-vehicles and by presons regulating ed by the manufacturers themselves.
cars
Dicluded in the cargo of 101 A valuable addition to the. As- sent and Nuffield cars, on board the ssociation's research facilities has "Manchester Commerce" when reently been
porners
i
the
Signals, Get to know signals used by the drivers.
the of
or
true. The will help you to de- ehle upon your own movements.
Standing at Corners. Do not produce even better stand about in the road, especially for the future.
in groups, at blind corners made with the
Skid Pad
ather dangerous places whete your she sailed recently from Man-penme of a new proving ground
One of the most valuable pro- | presence may cause danger elther 1 Lodky arcodrome, chester for Canada, was the Nuneaton, in the North Midlands, study of steering an aspensing of vision of drivers.
nerving gound facilities for the of itself or by obscuring the lino 250,000th Nutfield vehich to be
There within a few yards of behavin on
Dogs. Keen your dog on the exported since the inception of
ths histone Holyhead road which circular skid pad.
lead when walking along ronda Nuffield Exports Limited in
ence echingel with the clatter of This name is rather misten- where traffle is heavy. A dog run- 1934.
stage charites, technicians are ding, as it conjures up visions of goose in traffle is a danger row at work on new develop the slimy surface used by Lon- to itself and to everyone else.
sts to maintain Britain's redon Transport and the Metropotomobile Ansociation's Handbook (From The Hong Kong An- mutation
engineering pro- Jinn
Police, among others, 19
For Motorists) trich their drivers fo Curruel The site covers approximately skids on slippery roads, of foreign
(300 Degreg
perimeter
Hre usually These skid trucks are marks, 50 feet wide. extend for covered with oil or water: the more this three miles.
drivers venture on them only in specially prepared veliteles,
has
More than £62 mußert been earned In direet payments from 117 countries during this time, which meludes the blank war years.
Invisible Carbines Lurrency over the same period Total a further £1 million. This future comprises parking, inland freight, marine Insurance and wwean freight charges, which are net by the buyer.
Gross.
aki The
The three madu runways, 150 freḥ, witte, are being converted ista
-and- test - trunks,
#
The skid pad tused by automo- We hile engineers is quite a different Commenting on the rise in ex- Torsest, 2,000 yards" long, is in jatale. It consists of ́à circulari port Bgures, a Nubield Export to ar speed testing.
track of hard gonerete with Lamed official stated
To allow The maximum dis-white ling to assist the driver int "Since the war we have sent nất lanes "for arvelerntion
to holding the vehicle into a 140,000 vehicles and during the pit fast care to achieve their stant curve. bure, of course, our earnings have max speel, photo-electric As the spend rises the driver been much higher in proportion to mong apparatus is being in-usually has to Use
Co-
and
To Be Continued
Motor Show Opens In
London Soon
Britain's 1949 Motor Show.
sebich opens in Olympia on September 28, will be the largest yet held. With the acceptances to date from 520 exhibitors, additions to list are under- expected,
th the pre-war period, stailed near each end of the run more steering lock to maintain the past eighteen months we have way, capable of taking accurate his position on the white line; in maintained a steady
average of
of speed over a other words, the car measurements of 1,000 cars and trucks every week."
distance of only 50 feet.
steers Ultimately, banked curves will But in cars which have a ten- According to a statement from be added leading from the ap- deney' to oversleer the drivertor manufacturers, latest pro-
ducts fren motor proach roads, so that the 2,000- will And that he suddenly has
industries of four nations will be on show In-
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sard straight can be entered at
high speed.
Parallel Tracks
it will be divided into three parallel tracks
to "unwind" the steering wheel eluding some new models although in order to maintain his course the year since the 184B show has on the white line.
been devoted by exhibitors main- Part of the track at Lindleyly to consolidation of post-war de- already been set apart as signs. The success of new models
that several has alre 50 tests can proceed at once, but skid pad, and plans are in hand introduced by British firms lost
for the construction of a new autumn continues.. the whole width of the runway circular track 200ft in diameter. can be employed for inves: This will facilitate detailed stud-tion of British car production is Since by a far greater propor- tions into high-speedt bruking or
les of steering beh
behaviour with being sold overseas, the exhibition handling tests.
proper instruments,
|will again place emphasis on ex-
The thick concrete of the othor runways will be used as a solid fomation on which to build re- productions of the most difficult rond surfaces encountered by British cars
overseas.
Belgian pave remains one the most shattering road Fur
One of the features of a prov-port trade. Eight thousand in- ing ground placed on an ae10 vitations have been issued to drome is, of course, ils complete overseas and special arrangements flatness, and British manufdetur. } made for the reception of overseas ers are vitally Interested in the agents and buyers. performance of
cars their
Adequate roots!
mountainous
the world, and a stretch of will be reproduced at Lindley too permit endurance testing of Bri- Lish cars.
On
There still remains, of course, faces to be found mywhere in mountains do not exist anywhere a number of problems auch no
British Isles, It in the
and they the boiling of coolant at high al- cannot readily be constructed, utudes and the effect of allitudes but fortunately the engineer hus
in producing vapour locks, in a convenient substitute in
the fuel systems. These will be 're- A1 Arst sight I might appear
dynamometer trailer.
solved in the long distance tests This can be arranged to Im-In the Alps or in Scandinavia very easy to build a rough road,
pose a load on the towing vehtele which the surfaen must remain consla-
are, in the
experimental which gives a close approximation tent
year in the pounding caused by the pas-bing a mountain, and it ferms a
und year out despite to the load experienced in clima-gramme of almost every Bri-
tish maker. sage of lest cars.
The proving ground will bring valuable Instrument in research together for the first time many plete of atone must
into transmission therefore be grouted
and cooling facilities into place
and much
research CE problems. on the concrete' bed, and inves-
... MIRA Trailer
equipment already in being else- tigation have shown that besides
where, and its usefulness will ba Some British manufacturers al- the surface irregularities of this
by
new equipment un-ready use siseh trailers, but one which is constantly being deve- particular pave their is an derlying regular wave formation of the difficulties is that a trail-loped in the Association's labora at intervals of two to four feet er may not legally be towed at tories on the Great West Road at
will be faithfully repro- more than 30 m.ph. on the pub
не highway, in Britain,
other wave formation which |
MIRA have designed, their own
Brentford, Middlesex
Much work has recently been done in the development of strain
-equipment, any aug
-selective- enough to record the stresses in and # moving vehicle, and
complete holding Investigation has recently
been
1 particularly hard on suspen- traiter with an electcient genera klon systems is the undulating tor which will impose a variable
the towing car, surface, resulting in deep trans-load on verne corrugations, produced by which will be capable of the pesange of traffic on the dirt any passenger car down to a carried out on a double-decker roads of countries like South At- predetermined speed between. 10 bur. rica and Australia,
and 40 m.p.h., even when full Several hundred strain gauges These, too, will be reproduced throttle is used, thus simulating were employed to indicate the on arduous mountain-climbing con- stresses developed throughout the mathematical "accuracy
structure on the road, and the There will be a watersplash The control system is being de- readings shown on four, cathode- where body scaling, Ignition veloped so that, by means of a ray oscilloscopes were recorded operation
and other problems single cable between the towing simultaneously by: cine-cameras. which arise on flooded roads can car and the trailer, the max Similar work is now going on be studied:ANGKAL
mum speed can be selected by the to develop Instruments suficient There will be stretches of driver and the trailer will auto-ly sensitive and selective to, per thick mug, and deep and devis metically adjust its load to hold mit Investigations into the com-
down to that speed---|-
|plex-problems-of-nolen la carn...
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