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The Minister of ransnart dag' announced that regulations dualing with the use of British
EVOLUTION OF THE ALMOST A CENTURY materiaa on roids have been run-
MOTOR-CAR.
IN 1905.
dered stricter Formerly, grantë from the Road Funds were made with the condition that B
British
Y-EIGHT YEARS OF 82.8 M.P.H. BY HON. C. S. materials should be used for worka PROGRESS,
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DESIGNS THAT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED AND ABOLISHED,
ROLLS IN 1903.
CLIFFORD EARP'S 97.20 M.P.H.
.1905 אז
From the driving seat of one's)
Wo are rather apt to regard the up-to-date," comfortable. and Art few years of motoring in Eng- deniably reliable car, it is interest land as being too funny to be taken- ing to think back over a period of seriously, yet how many epis twenty-eight years and call to mind realise that the Hon. C. S. o the groot variety of different debuilt a cur and actually covered signs used during this period of the ying kilometre at a speed of evolution, and toflect How many of sg m.p.. in the year 19051 Thia "these have been eliminated after attempt on the record, which was their lessons had begu learnt, to the end that we may travel with eer tainty and in comfort.
axpedited, or the role of com ployment. Now, however, "British materials have to be used on all road works for which Road Fund grants are made AN
$42,000 CAR'S WORLD SPEED BID.
BEAM TIMING.
TUESDAY.
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REPORT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,
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Ho. wus
now 20 years old and becoming a little tired of fighting for the under-dog. So he withdrow to the Pacific coast of Mexico und stalled ter another year.
It was hore" that the reaction as a revolution-
Corporation have been instructed to against his career
The Strools Commiten of the City consider and report on the possi-ary took form bility of providing underground But it was not easy to quit tho garage accommodation in the City.rovolutionary life. When the
The clerk of the Streets Commit- rising under Felix Diaz. occurred up-
toe atated':
in Vera Cruz he joined the in- "The Council instructed the com.surrectionists. He remained duh maittee to investigate the position Vera Cruz for a fortnight and left thoroughly. This they will do, and for pain in disgust their report will be sent back to In Madrid former archist the Court of Common Council as companions took him in bon soon as possible." ent
against his will and matie him u political and literary club cut of member of Citele del Athane, the
of Madrid to thank for helping. Spain. Culbertson him the police which grew the last rafolution in
Lundoubtedly go far towards solving him to rid himself forover of hừng
the big problem of traffic congestion. Frovolutionary dociatas.
"It will be welccaned by all big firms, shopkeepers, and motorista, and there is no doubt that many advantages to pedestrians and all persons who use the streets of the City of London and in the Metro politan area would result.
Auckland, Dec. 8-Mr. Norman then held by Charles Jarrott at day with his £42,000 car, the Ensociation said:
("Wizard") Smith arrived here to 28.1-3 secs. was made in stormy terprise, in which he hopes to beat
An official of the Automobile As weather of March on a private rondgir Malcolm Campbell's, world rusalemme. If it is carried out it will From the radiator to the wheels lent for the purpom by the Duksoord of 245.736 mp.h.
“This is an extrömely interesting a variety of different type units line of Portland.. been tried and eliminated on ne;} yount of either ineficiency or cost of production.
To begin with, we have seen radiators in front, at the side and behind the bonnet, and even behind
The car had an 80 h.p engine in the month on Ninety, Mile The attempt will be made later with four cylinders and a body "re-
Beach, miniscent of a capsized boat, with two 30-pound weights in the tail to keep the rear wheels on the
the back seats and at the back of
ground. These broke adrife and the car had to be run into Mansfield, "the body-flat tube, round tabe, where the services of a joiner were honeycomb and vertical and hori-obtained "to box theme cavorting zontal tubular radiators. Engines panderosities more securely in their "V" shaped, horizontal, horizon
stowage."
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Timing will be controlled by beams of light, prejected across the
track, from
photo-electric manhine: As the car breaks the beam on starting and finishing, the action will be registered and the time estimated.
successful, and in the third effort TELE-TYPEWRITERS the rear offside tyre burst. Un- daunted, the Hon. C. 9. Bella made
tally opposed, retary, radial and The second attempt was vortical engines with one, twe throw, four six, eight and tore uylinders. Two-stroke and four- stroke ongines with one and with two pistons per cylinder; engines with automatic, rotary, sleeve and -poppát valves, and engines with no
valves at all,
CH.
a fourth attempt, and was only.
COMING."
GOOD-BYE TO ANARCHY.
The arat aix months of the war
found Culbertson immersed in re search werk in Berlin and Gesta When the first American roups ar rived in Francs he presented him. "This move is a most important self for an examination inter stop in the right direction. Tals Preter. He passed brilliantly ire problem has always been one of too six languages but failed in English. prise to solve." great a difficulty for private enter.He continued his work: in Fronca Red Cross une until penes came. Meanwhile, the revolution in which he so ardently took part aẹ
Plans for Squaras.
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Plans for underground garages few years before engulfed Rumia
15 second slower than the existing AND QUICK TYPISTS WILL in different parts of London have and wiped out his family's fortune,
record, but as the fuel supply had
been cut off towards the end of the run owing to the tap shaking "off" Clutches and Gears.
yet another attempt was made, Then we have had at least nine run ewing to different type of clutches and m.ph, was nitained-then the inst-
the top shaking| variable gears of øvery, kind, in- est speed at which man had ever cluding frictional peg tooth, elecs driven a car. Unfortunately there trient, stătie, expanding-pulles, was some doubt as to the gradient chain, epicyclic, constant mesh of the course, and this speed was gears, flat and "V" belt, auto-not officially recognised as a world's matic and the common sliding record. toothed type,
Back axles have
i
At the discussion that followed it was agreed that the engines of cars would have to be brought nearer to the centre in order to distribute the weight more equally over the
varied in design comparatively Ettle, but we have seen them son floating, semi- and full-floating, chain-driven, belt-driven, axles driving the wheels through spur four wheels. geurs, straight and helical-tooth- ei bevels, and worm drive of both the overhead and underslung types.
Variations in springing methods.
Lio,
rom-
The Brighton Meeting.
In two years, however, these include the spira spring, spiral speeds no longer amazed the world. spring-cum-lover, hydraulic, pressed air and different appli- In the year 1905 Brighton organised cations of the laminated springs, a four-day race meeting from July such as quarter-elliptic, semi-ellip 10 to 22. Among the events were
three-quarter-elliptic, full- elliptic and cantilever.
races for specified makes of stand Much ingenuity has been spent on ard cars, & race in which the cara whools but few have reached' the commercial stage, and these are the were divided by price; another for wood-spoked type, steel-spoked both steam cars, and a competition for aingle and double, disa type also Cordon-Bennett type curs over, onu single and double, spring-spoked kilometre with a dying start. The and wire-spoked wheels of various designs. These have been made Daily Mail offered a 100-guinea both fixo and detachable from challenge cup for either the hub or the rim.
Steering goors have been interest- ing in their comparatively small variety, the list comprising direct lever, rack and piston, bevel and sector, worm and sector, worm and. wheel worm and nut. and lever and cam
Brakes have always re-
Cara.
ch
BE WANTED.
G.P.O. SCHEME FOR NEW
YEAR SERVICE.
Already, inquiries are being made
claim of £700,000 against the Bolshevista för: con fiscating his father's oil property.
been put forward for some years. He was loft with an apartment in It is six years ago since an official Paris and a of the Automobile Association aug gested a schome for a garage under Leicester Square; it received some official support
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a teacher ot
When he was down to his laat 100 and no one with a speed of leader several London squares or open New York for a job.
Fast typista are to be even faster,
francs, be won, 20,000 in a lucky thnu about: 70 words a minute will
A complete plan for garages un-
game of cards. And so he went to
be worth her scheme contemplated by the London completed nearly two years ago by in the USA, who won him over
salt when the new
spaces, making a ring of parking- It was Josephine Dillon, whom G.P.O. is in working order.
places round Central London, was he married shortly after he arrived Mr. -Thomas Spencer, a London"ar," by business men about the installa-there would be garage at Marble duction bridge. She convinced him tion of telephone-typewriters, 30 Arch, St, Panerus, the Angel (Is-
to bridge. She already had chitect. Under this "ring" system prominent place a that ketiers and messages will be lington), Whitechapel, Topley-street, him an opportunity to apply his automatically registered
that bridge not only would give other end of the lines as they are Hyde Park Corner.
Elephant, Lambeth Bridge
knowledge of sociology and philo- typed in the office of the caller.
sophy but would also make him a The G.P.O. are making arrange-
comfortable living.
in the New Year. ments to have the schome working
at the
Quick Communication.
can be in almost instant written This means that business houses
communication with a correspond- ent as soon as the correspondent'z number is given to the exchange.
People who have the necessary telephone typewriter installation will not need to send telograms.
As a fee will be charged for use under of the telephone line for sending 1,000 kilos in weight, and The these messages, the fatter the typist dufocus a cup for a similar race, the mors economical the message. without any weight restrictions. An official of the G.P.O. to-day The latter was the chief event of the explained to a reporter, how the meeting.
The course was perfectly straight mained of the frictional variety over the Madeira Road, starling and, though we have progressed
scheme will work.
recording the messages will be en a The instruments for typing and
instrumente.
RISKS LIFE TO SAVE FRIEND.
ала
GALLANT ACT BY FRENCH AVIATOR
LANDS AEROPLANE IN
FLAMES
When he was first introduced to the bridge clubs of New York he had already developed an unerring ability to win. He made himself unpopular by telling those' who guided the destinies of bridge that something was wrong with their systems of play,
He kept a daily account of his Town errors in bidding and in play. Those be classified as underbid," overbid, bad lead, psychological in-f adaptation of partner's mentai How an airmen climbed back into level, etc. At the end of the month the sent of his blazing plane when he he made a statistical chart which anfety, and then made had made preparations to jump to showed the peaks and values of the landing because he realised that his played, his opponents faced
dangerous state of his gatae. Thus when he passenger's parachute had become: preventing his escape, is told in a entangled with the machine and was
machine,
from the wheel rim and rope and from the Black Rock ond an finish rental basis similar to telephone brief official communicntion accom-qualifying them to
*
To-day Culbertson is a nationaliv fhis business is composed of over publicised product. The backbone pulley types to internal-expanding,ing at the town end. The time-
1,000 teachers, all having diplomas servo-operated and Westinghouse keeper was Mr. A. V. Ebblewhite.
panying the award of the Legion of Culbertson method. They distri
touch the methods, brakes have imureved
£60, a Year. more in their mothed of application?
In the race for the Daily Whi
"No figure has yet been fixed for The Adjutant, who is 26 years of for which each pays a fee of sixly. Honour to Adjutant Defrayainet. bute his products and come to hie than in any other direction.
Cup, which was held on the third the hire of the typewriters, but it age, is one of the best known French dollars.
conventions once a year, a privilegs About Carburetters.
day of the menting, mach car WAX £60
is expected that it will be about allowed three attempts, and in the for
a year. The actual charges military pilots, and has already each message will
He owns and edits "Bridgu The longest tale of all could be
be on Girst round Clifford Earp on a 80 not necessarily at the same rate.
abeen through five campaigns, in own publishing company, told about carburetters; theories,
similar basis to the telephone, but fcluding the "Riff war,
World," magazine, and runs his the description of experiments, and h.p. Napier attained a speed of actual appliances and accessories 90.87 mph, while Algernon Guin will be that a written record of a on December 21, with Captain Colle
"The advantage of the scheme
During a fight he was making that have been offered for sale wouldness, on a 100 h.p. Darracq, was message will be immediately availas & passenger, the petrol feed bo-speaks' perfect. English but stil re-
HIS ONE VANITY, fill a book. In spite of this, one enn only call, to mind four distinct only 2 m.p.h. slower. In the second able, and there will be no necessity gan to leak, after which the tains a strong Russian accent. His Culbertson is 39 years old. He byses: surface, wick, direct injec-round the Napier and the Darracq
te abbreviate, as with telegram. tion, and float feed.
tiod at 90.87 m.p.h., but in the
Adjutant Defrayssinet signalled lavishly and the guests with whom machine burst into fames.
tall, thin frame is always im- Ignition, again, has improved
maculately clothed. He entertaine more by development than design, third run the Napier went ahead and only four different systems to 97.20 m.ph., which bruke, the
to Colle, to jump, and was about the play bridge in the evening are have been used; hot tube, low-ten-existing world's record, and as the
to jump himself when he noticed the very preau of celebrities. He sion magneto, cail and distributor. and high-tension magneto. Various Darracq could not improve on its cylinders, and the race went to entangled in the fusilage. Ho im-sophy. He never plays gelt, ne spends his spare time reading la that Colle's parachute had become international politics, and philo managed 72-52 m.ph on thred methods of timing the opark have spoed the Napier was declared the Algernon Guinness at 61,82 mph;mediately returned to his cockpits, because it is dangerous to the bees used, from the centrifugally operated automatic advance to the Winner.
In this race a woman, cédés second at 87.32 mph, and
with J Hutton's 10 h.p Mer and managed to level the plane so He hates to dress, One can piston-head contact used on a two- Miss Dorothy Levitt, on an' 60 h.p. Moore-Brabazon's 00h. More third that Colle's parachute could be re- usually find him in his apartment stroke engine of early days, Napier, accomplished 78,74 m.p.h.-nt 79.81 mph. Mine Levitt was leased. He then crashed the plane in a dark green dressing gown, and
fourth at 78.16 m.p.h.
at the Hotel Chatham in New York | pyjamas which he wears far inte the afternoon. Ho novel writes at this work in bed. He conducte hie: a table or desk. Ho profers to do baginess through three pogratories Smoking is hire vice. He whom he directe by telephone. starts every day with a fresh tin of cigarettes and rarely consumes less
All the experiments in practical easily the fastest speed to that date form have materially contributed, by the process of elimination, towards for a woman driver,
the efficiency of the present-day car, and we must ruire our hats and.
bow in gratitude to those stalwarts. who, however misguided they may
Amazing Handicapping.
The race for The Autorue Cup have been, had the confidence to was, disappointing, for in the first
back their idens ky production, and round Clifford, Earp twisted the who thereby provided valuable step-
have standard keyboards, so that The typewriters themselves will any typist can work them,"
The meeting was a success except
against a tree as an ordinary land- from the point of view of the handling would have enveloped them capping. There was not a handi-both in dames from the rush of air. eap which did not cause comment, was giving a 7 h.p. Panhard oven and among the worst mistakes madb
Colle landed safely and, rushing two minutes start in a milo rnce assisted to get him
to the aid of the courageous pilot, "of the
mind.
ping stones to the state of perfoecamshaft of, his engine, and only donds to a 7 hp. Star, and yet other's arma in mutual gratitude for than 70 His one Tanity in a pale,
tion in cars teached to-day.
(Continued, on next: Column).
Eyon the Panhard had to give 40 plans. Both then fell into each 100 particularly strong gyptian roesived 40 seconds from an 8 h.p. Baby Peugeot,
'a miraculous escapol
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