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The Bedford KZ 30 Cwt pick-up is an entirely new special export type. Widely used for overseas work in all fields and on large ranches, the basic feature of the plok-up is that its cab offers passenger car comfort with a small truck body built for light loads at the rear. This body, has, in fact, been specially designed to combine the very highest standard of passenger comfort, with a really convenient load carrying body. The cab has a comfortably upholstered full-width front anat, equal in every way to that of a luxurious car.
LUCAS 1950 EQUIPMENT
During the past year there have been no major changes in Lucas electri- cal equipment. This does not imply that there has been a dearth of ideas or developments, but rather that design has been so developed over a long period that it has proved eminently suitable and has bo- come standardised,
no operating knobs protrude from the facia, a separate on-off switch being provided.
Loewy on British
motor cars.
In London for a few days last month to visit ellents of his British office, Raymond Loewy, the leading American Industrial designer, 'sald the British cor ahow in New York had been a remarkable success.
He added: "I have lived in America for 31 years and have nover known anything like
I. The American public is begin- ning to show a preferenco for a more slender type of automobila with sleek, speedy lines, such as are found on the British product.'
Two years ago, people bought imported cars, Hke M.G.s, be cause they had a certain snob appeal, but they are now buying them because they like them and enjoy using them.
Mr. Loewy said he had heard criticisms of details on Britis cars; some people found that the seat width was not adequate, or the noots were not a sufficient height from the floor and, in some cases, the fittings were not as well mate as they could be, but he board nothing against the basic design and engineering, and the reputation of lending mem- bers of the British Industry was extremely high in the United States.
Citing features which have to be incorporated in any car offer- ed on the American market, he said:
would "Americans just not buy a car which had its head. lamps mounted in separate cas- ings. They have to be built into the body work."
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At the same time detail improvements in design, materials and manufacturing technique have
Mr. Loewy also stressed the t been adopted as they have been seen to offer
Importance of regional tastes in advantages in the way of improving perfor-
Speak- Parking of the blades is achiev- the American market. mance, increasing reliability, reducing weight ed by the use either of cranking of Studebaker, for whom he
arma carrying blades, or
he as design consultant, ofacts or making for ease of maintenance.
swivelling head
cream coloured and said: "We sell Arms blades in which the blade touches cars in Texas and California, but Progress has also been made in, gives regular aparking at es low here or somewhat different ap- nobody would buy them in Pitts standardisation, and the 3.9in a speed as 26 r.p.m. although it is pearance, models WT 28 and WT burg or other Industrial areas." diameter dynamo introduced. Inst; also capable operating satisfac- 29, the former being intended for year is now fitted to the majority torily at speeds far in excess of external mounting and having According to Loewy, French of popular car models. This the fastest racing car engine. Achromium plated cover and horn cars have not yet made a very machine has an output equivalent now design of rolating magnet flare,
For export purposes favourable Impression in Ameri- to the 4.5in diameter unit which magneto, known as the S.R.I. has special loud versions of these ca, although there Was great proceded it, and it is not only been developed for angle-cylinder horns are manufactured.
respect for the road, holding of smaller, but also conaldarably stationary engines.
the Citroen, but Italion cars are lighter. Maximum output is 17
There are no changes in the widely admir
admired for their simple, umps at 2,000 r.p.m.
During the past year, the "semi-flush fitting Trafficators, which elegant line and he is going to linkloas pattern battery, in For larger cars there is the which the bus-bars have almost have the airflow arm introduced a Milan to engage une or two Italian redesigned high output 4.bin di- disappeared from view and which year ago. The design of the arm designers who will go over and cover results in a downward work in his organisation in the amoter dynamo, which gives 20 is held in position by a girdle or thrust assisting to return the arm United States. ampe at 1,600 p.m. Compensated band round it, has become popular to the closed position when the voltage control giving automatic and the trouble of cracked cases car is travelling at speed. variation of output according to owing to excessive tightening of
current demand on it is now uni- has been eliminated. versal on all Lucas-oquipped Bri- tigh-ears..
screw,
He remarked, however,
for alx scoter,
that
four-
SWEDEN STOPS FRENCH IMPORTS
two
the stato of the battery and the the previously used fixing bolts A pneumatle time switch will the Italian bodies which attract shortly be available for Traffics most attention are sporting two- tors, consisting of a cylinder seater types, unsuited for mass Terminal corrosion has also which is exhausted when the oper- sale in America, where the over- been overcome by the use of a Starter motors are unchanged lead terminal diecast on the theating lover is moved and which whelming-proportion-of-the-de-
renila
B through
slow-return mand, la and like the inertia typo drive fit battery cable and secured to the valve, taking about ten seconds for door closed, cars. ted to them they are of well- terminal post by a self-tapping automatic cancellation to occur. proven design.
Another now accessory is an Coll Ignition has become the Also introduced a year ago, the anti-dazzle dipping mirror which has two positions and a small standard fitting for British cars, Lucas battery filler, which ensures
The mirror with automatic timing control of that, the cells are topped up to operating trigger
The Swedish Foreign Office has centrifugal pattern in the distri- the correct level automatically, is really a section of a prism
comes stopped granting import licencca butor,
has proved very popular. This is, and the main reflection
of the for French cars because Swedish- particularly useful when the bat- from the rear surface The addition of a vacuum-opera-tery is so mounted that it is im- glass and is seen by the driver French trade has not developed fed control is becoming more popu- possible to inspect the electrolyte the mirror is in the normal as foreseen by the trade agree-
ment talks between the lar because the correct point for level. The filler is inverted into positiever.
the driver i countries last autumn." ignition is dependent not only on the top of the cell and a small
The official Swedish statement engine speed, but also on the load. valve stops the flow of distilled dazzled by the head lamps of the
to says that France has imposed water when the electrolyte roaches car behind he moves the mirror such tariffs on pulp and
paper A micrometer adjustment to the top odgo of the separators. the second position and deflects allow fine variation of the ignition
the main reflection upwards, Imports that Swedish exports of timing to provide for altered on Aluminium for reflectors
receiving a secondary reflection these commodities gine conditions, auch na the degres¦
from the front surface of the glass considerably reduced. The agres- Most head lamps now incorpor. which has only about four per cent ment provided for an increase in of the brilliance of the main ro-Swedish pulp and paper exports ate the Lucas light unit, which flection and is, accordinly, non-
to French. consists of a combined reflector dazzling. and front lens assembly with a The problem of radio interfor MORE RUSSIAN special pre-focused bulb insertedence has been studied and a ranga
CARS from the rear of the reflector, of suppressors and, capacitors is now available. Usually a single Hitherto reflectors have been
Production of cars in silver-plated, polished and jacsuppressor in the coll to distribu- during the Arst three months of tor high tension cable is all that this year was 01 per cent greater quered, but in the course. of time this surface becomes dulled, with is mocessary for preventing inter than during the same period of a resultant less in the efficiency of ference with television The Au- last year, said the official Russian the lamp..
news agency.
of carbonization and changes in fuel, is a further refinement,
For sports and racing cars where magneto Ignition may bo preferred the camshaft speed ver- [tical magneto is still produced and
EW CHEVROLET for 1950
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A now technique is accordingly being developed whereby alumini- um is deposited on the surface of the rafector by means of a special process. This gives a surface of great durability and the influence of the atmosphere is to form a protective oxide.
There are now three models of flattopped beam fog lamps, the well-known F.T.67 of 8in diameter being sultable for larger cats, and model S.FT. 7005 being parti cularly suitable for cars of mo dern design where there is little space, batwoen bumper" and radla- tor, because it has a very shallow bady of 71⁄4 la diameter,
In this lamp a bulb with a cron. cant-shaped filament lauded giv Ing a wida shallow band of light on the road and it is important to seo "that replacement bulbs of cors prost, type, aroused. "In the smal- lest fog lamp, modėl S.P.T402, of Bin diameter,in latens light unit is employed.....
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