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MOTORING NOTES
STANDARDISED
RIMS.
POSITION OF THE
MOTORIST.
(CONTD.)
There is Ekely, we understand, to be a fight in the near future on the maintenance of the standardisation of rims for tyres, and it may de- velop into a struggle between Britain and America on the one aide and France on the other. On the face of it it does not seem to kold out any evil or good for the car user, but actually it is most important matter for him personal ly, because standardisation more than anything else has led the cheapening of motoring and the quality cheap car for the mass of present-day motor users.
LEAGUE OF MOTOR A NEW TYPE OF MOTOR-CARS AND MORALS.
· CHIVALRY.
| „MOTOR-CYCLES TO
FIT THE RIDERS OPEN TO ALL ROAD USERS.
ADJUSTMENTS THAT GIVE EXTRA COMFORT.
RUBBER GRIPS.
[DY REX BRITTAIS.]
It is surprising what a large number of motor-evelists ride their machines exactly as delivered, and suffer a considerable amount of dis- comfort in an doing. Since every
of rider, irrespective height, weight, and leg at arm reach, has to take the stock size of motor-eyele it is well worth while to get the utmost comfort from what is often at best a compromise.
CYLINDER.
TO CORRECT PISTON
TROUBLES.
Some months ago, writes Jóha Prioleau in the Evening Standard, John Smith, Esq., sut at the I urged in this column the need for wheel of his excellent modern car, some means of our arriving at a his hands and feet responding standard of safe driving, quoting in instinctively to tie needs of the support of my views no fewer than moment, his senses alert Being two Cabinet Ministers.
alone, be listened without an Since then, as before, the average
thusaam to a continuous metallic behaviour of the average driver on tap from his engine-a tap" From the road has convinced mo more which he had no means of escape, firmly than ever that what we and which was rapidly becoming need is standard of man. ners before we can hope to have a standard of driving. One is, I really believe, impossible with out the other. Manners makyth man in all ways, but the chief one to-day is in motoring,
A
How would you define bad driv The saddle nowadays is a fixed ing! It is a pretty big subject, and quantity. But the foot-rests are I should think there must be several mostly adjustable," and it pays to thousand excellent definitions avail. experiment with these. remember.able from every driver of experience ing that if the legs are unduly | My own idea is that the main basis #xed while one is in the saddle is what we might call the three they are apt to tire. The rear I's-Ill manners, Ignorance, and In brake pedal should be within easy considerateness. If none of these is reach of toe or heel, as the case responsible for bad driving, the only answer is that the offender bas either criminal or insane tendencies, and the only cure for that is the permanent cancellation of his licence.
may be.
Problem Of Early Days. The problem of standardisation goes back to the early days of motoning. Then every tyre and rim maker adopted cadepaadent programmes, and there wore as many rims and tyres of varying dimensions almost there were cars." The poor owner did not know where he was: it was chaos. In Europe things became so bad that tyre, or, and rim makers and agents conferred, and adopted de- finite rim measurements which they decided to maintain. Then came the problem of American cars, but American manufacturers, aw the
of the European | standards, and agreed to most of the dicas, suggested others, and the j The bar should be loowned, then result was a world-wide agreement | from the saddle one can try each makers which brought position, sleting just that tilt between about a complete system of tyre which permits of dropping the inter-changeability.
hands naturally on to the bar near
common-sense
| 00.
Modern handle-bre generally have a device which permits of ad- instment over a considerable range. Nothing is more tiring than a long distance run with a handle-bar eet at the wrong tilt) a mumbing ache paralyses the wrists, and what should be a pleasure is turned into purgatory.
The Right T.
It is, of course, anything but easy to be sure whether a given case of bad driving is due to ignorance or ill manners, especially if the culprit is driving a new car, whose age may be the measure of its owner's experience. More than once, lately, when I have seen and, on occasions, been thoroughly frightened by ex- hibitions of appalling risk-taking, I have discovered, through the cour it was ignorance that nearly brought about our simultaneous extinction.
Of course, the standardisation the controls, without undue bend-teous apologies of the offender, that was only one of dimensions Iting of the wrists. imposed (and does impose) Too wide a handle-bar has been wotch on development and im- said to provoke the dangerous provement of either tyres or rims. mishap known as "sperd-wobble," rims have been improved construc- when the machine has to be wheel tionally to an marmous degree ed down a zarrow passageway by since the agreement came into force the side of a house, or for traffic without any departure from the ac driving. cepted standard measurements.
an obsesden tô his dormint brain. He had reported that. tap to his garage and had received no less thun three different explanations thereier, had bad the car in dock for a day and had paid two bills for arpairs and adjustments. The tap had become slightly worse: Jolin Smith being a lay member Baxi not an engineer, was troubled. wrathful and vaguely self-deprecia tory. He felt like a buil with a particularly vicious gad-fy attack
his rear. He was divided in opinion as to whether he ought to continue to run the car in sneb a condition, whether he ought to ship it back to the seller, or "whether he ought to just drive along and damn the consequences, And the tap went on tapping.
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Nothing serious at the nigruent, but with promise of becoming a the rear future. It denoted that the piston did not for the walls of the cynnder in which it moved eo rapidly that a certain amount of power was being lost and a set. tain amount of undue wear baking place in a portion of the engine where wear would do most hari it was the most common fault of the modem, high-speed revolution engine, the weak spot of that some- A West End Experience.
what small engine that nestled I met a car only the other day within the big bonnet and gave the most spacious squares in the
The Naw Cure. West End of London, where the fairway must have been nearer 100 Naturally, this weak spot has than 50 feet wide. The car was up-been receiving the attention of middle of the fairway, and as I in- ing countries. And, just 0.5 stinctively pulled far out to the left naturally, it is England the coun- panic seized the driver, and on an try which produced the engines for exceedingly slippery surfaen we two the fastest car and the fastest plans difficulty. An 18/30-hp. 6-cylinder- ed car is now being built by the Star Engineering Company of Wolverhampton, England, which it is claimed after exhaustive tests, is absolutely immune to modera
FEWER ARRESTS IN- STREETS.
January 18th..
A protest against private sittings of the Street Ollolcea Contauties why made by a man when the com mittee sat in public yesterday.
The committee had previously sat for over an hour in private.
The man said: "May I protest against these aittings in private, which ane opposed to public pokey Sir Ernest Wild has told us justice is impossible without" publicity.
The chairman (tr. H. P. Mac millan, K.C.) said that certain wit- liberations of the committee unless nesses declined to assist the de
their evidence
heard in private.
Will you hear me in public asked the man. "I want, myself,
to be dealt with in public.”
Mr. Macmillan: Send in your application, We will consider it. Will you give me your name?
The Man: I would rather pot.. Mr. Macmillan : What! No publicity! (Laughter.)
The Man: Wait a minute. You ball have more publicity if you promise to hear me in public.
Mr. Macmilla undertake to hear a man who de I can hardly lines to give me his name.
The man then ent down.
Mr. S. E. Short, deputy-chair- man of the Birmingham magis trates, mid of late years there had ben
a considerable decline in charges of solicitation brought be fore the Birmingham courts. He attributed the decline, among other things, to improved police super- vision, earlier closing of licensed houses, better lighted streets, and the occasional service of women patrols who warned young girls when they observed any netion in the streets likely to result in ob- jectionable conduct
Motor Cycles,
"I don't want to make too big a claim," said Mr. Short, The motor-bicycle and the motor-car take people out for purposes which are not ideal, but they get beyond. our jurisdiction,"
The Bishop. of Durham (Dr. Hensley Henson): Do you think
in your community 1-Oh yes, I believe ab, although it is not as great as one would like it to be reuse there is naturally more
Such standardisation of dimen- "steering damper, should haulle proaching me more or less in the motor engineers in all car-produc- there is a real morál improvement
A well-designed machine, with
sions has meant that the car owner well at speed without requiring a i ensured that when he needs a wide handlebar; in fact the second replacement he is certain to be able best steering motorcycle made has to get a tyre that will fit his riman ultra-narrow bar.. almost anywhere in the world. The tyre may be of American, Con- rental or British manufacture. but a replacement of the same size is a certainty, which it would not be but for standardisation,
The Case Against Non-
Standardisation.
In cases where the end of the spent what seemed a century in in the world, that solved the Little premiacuity among young people.
handlar does not fit the hands snugis, or where there is no pro, vision for adjustanot, the required alteration can generally be made without heating the metal or epeil ing the nickel plate by using tube benders, such as are found in most
dodging each other.
When Mr. Robert Bell, clerk to the Manchester justices, was giving evidence Mr. Macmillan, K.C., pointed to a great decline in the number of prosecutions in Maz- chester-from 1,999 in 1911 do 148 in 1827...Mr. Bell said there was certainly less solicitation in the
Supposing a man ran a car with garager Only a little fores should of that gyrating engine of potential l-eykinders are not part and parcel | streets.
be applied at a time, as these ap- pliances have a great leverage,
Rubber grips contribute appreci- ably to comfort, and personally, I prefer the spongy variaty, with deeply channe Bed grooves. grips are practically indispensable,
Knee-
rims which were not of standard dimensions, the consequent trouble when a replacement is needed is manifest; his choice would be limit- ed to a dealer who stocked his par- ticular type of tyre, and such a dealer might be miles away. In
even for the tourish.. countries overseas it is possible that
Front fork and bead bearings re- there might be so dealer at allquire to he just tight enough not Every motorist will visualise what
to exhibit any shake, and any it would be like to be" suunded shortage of lubricant here will ad- under these conditions,
versely affect, the rider. A little So much for the position of the rearrangement of the controls, to We now come to the dealer bring everything within easy reach, and the garage. Already with always well repaid, but one has standardisation there is a multi to watch that this does not involve plicity of tyre sizes, and although kinking the Bowden cables, which efforts are being made by British must follow an easy, curve. manufacturers to remedy the poli- tion-for instance eighty-four per cent. of the new British cars to be fitted with Dunlop Tyres during the preemt season will be accom- modated by only five rim size yet at the present time the dealer
owner.
THE USES OF STEEL.
AEROPLANE. MAKERS FOL LOW MOTOR 'EXAMPLE.
Aeroplan engineers have taken
The difference between these
The Bishop of Durham: To what largely, I think, to the introduc do you put that down -Very tion of motor traffic.
But no moral improvement?—I think a little, but I am not pre- pared to say to what extent.
- Motor-car "Lifta.!! Mr. John Maxwell, chief con- stable of Manchester, said that cases of solicitation by men from motor-cara : ware' increasing in
It must have been an absurd sight, but it was not in the least amusing for me. I regret to say that it ap peared to divert the other driver more than a little, for, re we finally drew away and I thankfully made piston troubles my escape from the neighbourhood .In this 18/30 Star model, the
destruction, a beaming face was of the cylinder block itself, but are thrust out of the window apologies were profusely poured out the main block and secured by the and six separate barrels, pressed into amidst care-free laughter. It was cylinder head at, the top and by only I who failed to see the joke. a special leak-proof joint at the That was one form of ignorance, bottom. These barrels consist of n and the fact that neither my com- specially hard chilled iron, far too panion nor myself will ever know hard for a whole cylinder block to whether that grim dance came about be cast frota at, cast centrifugally because the driver's attention had in order that all impurities may wandered from the job in hand, or be deposited, and machined all because she had yet to grasp the over to exact identical limits. inner possibilities of sideslip, or because of the very common begin ner's obsession that it is always the other fellow's job to get out of the way, does not help us much.
Instances of ill manners can, of course, be quoted by the column, but it is quite likely that in more
to cast such a block in a sufficient- than half of them the offenders are-
ly hard material of pure quality. really quite unconscious of the When beat expansion takes place. etimes they are committing, and therefore, the thicker portions of would themselves be the first to the walls expand more than do the thinner portions and an uneven
The final judge af at car, im-. aluminium alloy pi Friction, self, and the road performance of passage is presented to the provements is the actual road it- damage and slap" naturally re- the 18/80 Star in all in keeping sult and obstruction in the cylin with the proanim contained in the ders is obstruction in the heart, of
Speed up to 70 the engine.
specification. mp.b. and 60 mph, on top and Such has been the cause of piston third gears respectively, is attain trouble in the past. "But the nowed with an ease and lack of vibra- barrel cylinder is distortionless, tien and noise that is truly unique, becaure it is machined to exactly whilst the traffic slow running la
as to handle something like ninety a lesson from automobile manuably the most mutually civil varying types and sizes of tyres.facturers and are rapidly adopting
Judge what it would mean for
such a man if there was a break- away from the standard dimen sous. Such a thing would so con- plicate the stocks of dealers that inlf-defence they would stock just a few of the most common kinds, and it would not be long before there came most serious
offered to the users of cars Every
restriction of the tyre service now thing may, of course, blow over. and standardisation as at present reorgatud" internationally remain as it is, undisturbed, but the post tion may become a curious one. BILLION DOLLARS FOR U.S.A. ROADS.
The United States yearly is spending eight bilan dollars for the construction and upkeep of its roads and highways. Of this amount, government expenditure is less than eight per cent., the states supplying the rest out of their own funds.
AUTO VERSES HORSE IN
-U.8-ARMY.
steel
papers, read before the annual aeronautic meeting of the Society af Automotive Engineers in New York.
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offered women a H ir a car." To
cylinder barrels and the ordinary Manchester. Observation had beers walls of a cylinder block lies in the taken in 117 cases when men had fact that it is practically imposso cusce the invitation was refused, sible to cast a fonir er mix-cylinder and is 27 cases it was accepted and thickness, and equally impossible direction of the suburbs and coun block with walls of exactly equal the men drove the women in the
'try districts.
The Résult
condemn them in others. As people we are, on the whole, prob- earth, and I am not of those construction, according to who believe that the possession or driving of a motor-car temporarily abolishes that general courtesy,
There are, naturally, exceptions, and every now and then you come Metal construction will supplant across an exhibition of motoring ill wood in acroplanes because of its manners by somebody who is natu- greater flexibility, more standar- rally an ill-mannered person, whe- dized strength and psychological ther in a car or out of it. He or the same thickness at all points. equally fascinating. With the eyes the is probably beyond hope, but When it expands under heat, it shus, it is impossible for a passen-
appeal to passengers, according to
statements made at the meeting. C. H. Chatfield of the Mus It was pointed out by Professor sachusetts Institute of Technology that the monoplane is better adapt
I feel sure that he is in the minority, expands absolutely evenly and pre- ger to state whether the car is run- standard of road manners should be and that, as I said, some form of sents an undistorted surface. Furning at 60 mph. or at 20.
ther, the Star barrels are finished very far towards removing the terrors of the highway under which we now so often suffer.
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“Safety First."
·(Continued on next Column,}
ingly careful hand fitting are all
partly responsible for thie, most
happy result, but the permanence. of the beautiful running is un- doubtedly due mainly to the pre- veation of wear in cylinder walls and pistons..
by honing instead of by grinding, would ordinarily be regarded as a Now, such a perfection as this and honing is a cold: proces, more or less evanescent bloom, dus ed to metal construction than the
whereas grinding is a hot process to careful tuning, even with the biplane and for that reason would
that alters the actual composition most expensive models of the day. of the metal on the surface and probably become the more popular
But in the 18/50 Star the condi type of aircraft.
The National Bafety First Asso thereby doubles the effect of wear. Steel is now widely used in theciation, who are responsible, among Then the Star aluminium alloy
tion is apparently permanent Of Fidely
course, design, beautiful balance, a manufacture of automobile bodies other things, for that excellent little piston is diamond finished to an
7-bearing crankshaft, sand, exceed- It has proved stronger, safer and booklet called "Road Sense" issued extraordinarily glossy surface, and with all driving licences, have re- this means that neither piston nor is less inclined to rattle.
The first quantity builder of cently inaugurated what they call wall has any abrasive felt in the
the Boad Fellowship League," open pores of the metal quality motor cars to use steel was Studebaker. The strong, graceful, to all rond-users, whether pede full-vision steel bodies used by strians, cyclists, or motorists." It is. Studebaker have a marked advant not another motoring organisation, age. In steel construction the body but merely a self-contained section frame is welded into a single unit of the N.S.F.A. itself. It is not an depraved drivera. The scheme And there is just one other litil: by an electric arc. This funion in- attempt to set up amateur police strikes me as really admirable and point where the Star cylinder wali to one piece of steel carinates scouta-but, as the secretary one to be widely supported. The scorea The rumming of the cooling icate and provides a degree of forcefully words it, simply an effort applicant for membership who has water in the water jacket is a full- flow to the bead of the engine, frus While the country is being strengity that cannot otherwise be
to link together those who play really understood the "Road Sense motorized, the United States army obtained. Squeaks and rattles are by force of prequel example and must know that the display of the heart of th
the game
on the roads and who, booklet and the code of the League is a restricted flow to the cylinder Which means thas se retaining many of its horses and eradicated. males. The present number pl The roots of Studebaker cars are public opinion, will shame the badge carries the best sort of res the part of the engine that requd sea ponsibilities with it. Nobody can treat obtaine it, without danger to horses and mules in army service supported by alender, yet strong, minority into falling into line. is nearly 40,000, valued at nearly steel pillars, which
The first object of the League is force him to behave himself as those working parts likely to suffer ensure full | 88,000,000, -
vision and eliminate the dangerous to promote good-will on the road, decent man should, but as a mem-from it. A little point, and sim. "blind spot."
and the second to demonstrate to ber of the League I do not see how ple, but wonderful in its effect A SHOCK ABSORBER. .. Steel construction provides n the general public how the road he can do otherwise, unless he is upon efficiency and speedy full-
lover centre, of gravity and thus sheet, bondent, and, poster, pama hopeles cad, in which case he power production, A new device put out in Ger- enables the car to hold, the wood phlet, broadcast, and other publicity will not propose himself for clec-
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The formation of this League is ENGLAND'S LEADING MOTOR shock to automobile passengers. It Studebaker Proving Ground have
consists of two clastic rubber made sharp turns in Studebaker and members carry a badge on their one of the most hopeful features of planks AGENTS,
The four-cylinder, motor cycle in shoulder pieces of belting fnatened cars at speeds of 50 and 55 miles cars. There is no service of any the development of motoring I can to the rear of the car and hung an hour, yet the cars have main-sort, the whole idea being to appeal remember. With the code firmly being urged by The Motor Cycle over the passenger's shoulder Ittained their normal position. to the latent sense of comradeship fixed-in mind it is inconceivable that as a typs worthy of consideration, in supposed to catch the passenger Ring lighter, steel construction. While exists in all but the most a member should be guilty of any of as a smooth running machine wit
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