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GILLETT CLUTCH BIRTHDAY CALL
CONTROL
TO MARCONI
Hydraulically Operat-"I Have Achieved My
ed Mechanism
Little by little we move towards that position traditionally loved by the novelist of old in which the mechanical part of a car is controlled by the pressure on one button. We are far, indeer. from that in actual fact, but the gen- eral tendency is undoubtedly to make the car more automatic. Naturally this means what 15. often termed complication, but ...complication is natural evolution, and the amount of mechanism "counts, as nothing provided that mechanism does not give trouble.
Aim
(Special Air, Mall Letter)
when
came
London, May "1. Marchese. Marconi is 60 to-day. It was the voice of a man of 40,
strong, that vibrant and over the telephone from his villa in Rome
an "Evening Standard"
representative rang him up to congratulate him.
"Thank you," he replied, “I will be in England in May, to see some friends. No there is no scientific significance in the visit.
"I am feeling very well, at 60. A slight cold.... It is a long time since I first studied wireless. 1895 scems a long while ago.
"I am engaged now on tests not experiment-with the
it
short waves
Now in the ordinary car the pedal controlling the clutch has been the subject of considerable attention, and by varied means Its functions have been usurped
until devices by other
simply A
of question educating the motorist to be comfortable without a clutch pe- dal at all. One of the most in- gentous of these devices to make. It unnecessary to move the clutch pedal at all is the Gillett clutch control, which has been adopted
with beam
success for certain Sun- models, and which is of particular interest when used in connection with the Wilson gear
box.
Reduced to its simpleat facts, this device consists of a piston in a cylinder, the cylinder" being supplied with oil from an ordin- ary gear pump of the type usually to be found in an engine sump. Pressure of oil drives the piston out and thereby operates the clutch, the moment at which the oll is admitted being controlled by a tap turned of and on by cetrifugal governor driven from some part of the engine. When the engine revolutions fall below
ม
certain point the clutch is withdrawn from the flywheel; as soon as the revolutions increase beyond that point the clutch is engaged once more, so the whole control is vested in the throttle pedal.
Of course, the thing is not as simple as all that. The piston must be made to move a certain distance, then stopped, it must. engage the clutch without jerk, and the effect of the mechanism must not to be to, "hunt," that is, to keep on puiting the clutch in and out.
Turning now to"the sectional drawing, which shows the appar- atus designed as a separate unit from the engine. for attachment after it has been built, the met- hod of drive involves using the fan belt and the pulley shown at the right end of the shaft. That shaft frst drives an ordinary en- gine oil pump. but is extended al- so to drive a cylindrical drum in-
the side which are
governor weights, which fy outwards as the engine speed increases.
verv
were stations "Two wireless
the last erected during
Iww months more than 100 miles apart One is at Genoa.
"I Have Achleved My Alm" "The tests that have been car- them have been red between
satisfactory. The results have been much better of late ............. and consistent." Consistency is of importance.
most
"I think I have achieved my alm. I shall be Anished soon. Yes, I think you may say I hope to publish something or make an announcement In July. It has been up my sleeve for a long time.
It has been a long task.
"In what way will your discovery
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HONG KONG DAILY
REFORM OF THE LEAGUE
Statement At
Commons
London, May 18..
PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1934.
REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS
BRITAIN'S FAR
Example Set By Britain
!
EAST POLICY
Answer To Queries
London, May 18.
In the House of Commons to- day, replying to specific questions ; Put by Sir Stanford Cripps the Foreign Secretary. Sir John Simon "said that to the question, “Does the Government still stand by the League of Nations report on the. Far East?" the answer- was, "Certainly it does." To the ques- tion, "Do we still stand by our obligations under the Nite-Power Treaty to respect the territorial | integrity or China," the noawer was that we remained bound by that Treaty as did other signa- tories, and we should certainly co our best to observe it...
London, May 18. In the House of Commons de-]
During the debate in the House! bate to-day, dealing with the ob- of Commons to-day on the ques- Simon servations made regarding the re- tion of disarmament. Sir form of the League, the Foreign sald Britain was the one great Secretary, Bir John Simon, agreed power that first of all set an ex- that the present Covenant was ample by unilateral reduction of capable of amendment but it could armamente and which had pro- only be altered if there was an- duced a connected scheme com- Amity among the members of plete with figures. The British Council, whereafter a majority in draft convention became surround- Assembly was required.
ed by entanglements which "made He agreed with Blzner Mussolini's less confident their hopes of its view that negotiating on disarma-adoption. They succeeded, however, ment were already so dificult in getting a statement of what that to throw into the arena as modifications in the British pro-
On the question of whether Bri- sort of makeweight a discussion on posals the German Government
tain regarded herself as bornɑ by how the League Covenant should would accept and with that they
Article 2 of the League Covenant, be amended was not the proper had approached other Govern-is answer was that Government way to reach a decision. He took menfs.
was bound by every Article of the the view that if they were Loing "I do not bellexe we ought to go Covenant and did
not repudiate, to revise the League Covenant they to Geneva and start new condi-
any article.--British Wirel8. wanted Germany in the League to clons." said Sir John Simon." help in ita revision. To revise the think we should say we have tried League with Germany outside it
to bring the British draft con- was a very doubtful expedient." vention up to date and that we serious calamity as a breakdwon of He much doubted whether. the feel It necessary to know what the conference. "But let us not 1. He, take the foolish view that suppos- question could be taken up while other people think of the Disarmament Conference was trusted they might yet find some ing it happened it-means the end in progress. There was. in any way out of these terrible dif- of the world. On the contrary, if that happened, we have got to case, some wisdom in the view that Bculties. such a structure as the League The British Government cerstart the very next day on a new elaborately put together should not tainly would play their full part effort with renewed purpose."- be pulled to pieces until a clear in saving the world from such a British Wireless. idea exited as to what it was de- sirable to put in its place.---British Wireless.
benent the world?" the "Evening GOLF CHAMPION
Standard" asked.
"We expect to be able to utilise the new waves for telephone, for broadcast, and for television pur- poses. It is a wide feld, and an im- portant one," was the teply.
"For some time now. the world has been led to believe that these waves are limited in us
the
feld of optical vision-that they could be sent no further than one could see. I found these waves go considerably can be made to farther."
"Could they be made to go a far as Australia, or even around the world?". Marconi was asked,
I can only say that we hope to extend the range still farther," he answered. "I cannot say that
short-wave
transmission
around
the globe is impossible. Neither can. I give you any definite assur- ance that it is possible. I hope it Is!"
7:
those
Absolute Clarity
"And the advantage of waves?"
**The advantage is absolute. clarity of reception without the
In
BANNED
Miss Enid Wilson's Entry Refused
(Special Air Mail Service)
London,, May 1. Miss Enid Wilson's entry for the British Women's Golf Champion- ship at Royal Porthcawl next month has been declined and the fee of £1 returned.
As Miss Wilson is the champion, having won the tle for the past three years, an unparalleled situa- tion in golf has been created: Never before has the entry of the reigning champion, either in wo- men's or men's golf, been refused.
the herself.
The allegation is that Misa Wi- son has been exploiting her skill as a golfer, and has, therefore, forfeited her amateur status. She has shown me the correspondence slightest interference from any which has passed between the source. No electrical disturbance Royal and Ancient Club,
the
affect atmosphere can
Union and Ladies' Golf them. And they are also far re-the effect of which is that Miss moved from any of the present Wilson, because of a contract she commercial wavelengths.
entered into with a certain news- "They will render. bearing per- paper, is no longer eligible to play
In television, perfect in amateur fect, and,
competitions. In a letter from the L. G. U. which "The time will come soon when | Miss Wilson received yesterday, we shall be able to see and speak returning her cheque. It is stated: with a person depicted, say, on a The Executive Councit very much life-size screen standing three feet regret this, and consider it is pos- that able you did not realise your amateur status might be in- "I hope so," was the answer. fringed. Should you wish to apply "Now," he added, "I must stop. for reinstatement the Council wil Perhaps you would like to know do their utmost to further your that they are giving me the tree- | application.” dom of the city of San Francisco"
vision."
Thus moving, the arm attached to the weights pushes endwise upan a rod which in its turn moves a small cylindrical plunger to the left, in what amounts to a cylinder, against the action of an adjustable coil spring. forced from the oll pump passes along passages to the main cylin-away-although he or she may be
Ofi
der, entering behind the piston, which is thus caused to moved to
the right, and, as it carries with it the end if a lever, to move the clutch-operating mechanism
turn.
Sp
It will be noticed that the plun- controlled by the governor ger slides in a sleeve, shown in black, which sleeve has about its centre. a ring of ports. If oil ands its way through these ports, it re-" turns to the casing enclosing the entire mechanism, and is once more picked up by the oil pump, the main piston áccordingly re- turning to its original position un- der pressure from the clutch spring.
V
The moment of opening and closing the sleeves port is there- fore of importance, and is con- trolled by the governor moving the plunger, the relative position of the port in the sleeve and the port in the cylinder wall being controlled directly by the lever which operates the clutch,
When used in connection with the Wilson gear box the move- ment of the main piston first withdraws. the clutch and then brings the Wilson gear train into play; the particular train engaged being the one "selected" by the driver with the gear-control lever, and the mechanism can be ́ar-" ranged so that pre-selecting is. possible or unnecessary in accor- dance with circumstances. Com- trol of the piston can also be ar- ranged through the gear lever.
thousands of miles distant?"!
doing me a great
Miss Wilson's comment is: "I to-day, and representatives of the am amazed at the decision, be- University of Bologna are also con- | cause I hat ng idea I was doing ferring upon me the honorary de- anything to affect my amateur status. It is thought, evidently. gree of a doctor of science.
"They are
that in my instructional articles criticising the swings and · styles honour."
of golfers I am giving sicilled. advice. Personally. I do not think I will apply for reinstatement. though it will now be too late to do anything for this champion-
“་་་ ship."
Miss Wilson tells me that she never had any intention of delen- ding her title at Porthcawl She merely sent in her entry to teat the feeling of the R. and A. as to the entry of Miss Enid Wilson.
In practice the clutch pedal can, in fact, be ignored when starting away on a gradient or on the level, or when the ear is standing still in trafic. The car moves for- ward when the "throttle is de- pressed exactly as it does when normal the driver operates the
clutch pedal, and when the car is brought to reat the clutch is automatically withdrawn.
It is interesting that a car can
be made to start on a gradient
4
L.G.U. Silent
The Ladies Golf Union decline without previously racing the ento give any reason
för refusing gine, though, in exceptional cir-
the entry of Mias End Wilson. cumstances, this is possible, by
When approached by a Press preventing the clutch from eng representative the only replies aging for the moment with the ald of the clutch pedal,
that an official would give to in- quiries were: "You must ask Miss Wilson."
The Gilleté clutch' ppération is not, in effect, a means for facilit ating gear changing. The device is designed by Mr. E. HJ O Gillett, of Reduction treats, Ltd, Kingsbury House King Street, 6.W.1. Mr. Gillett is well enough known as a designer, and was res sponsible for that very interesting
car the Ensign, which was Atted with an aluminium alloy-eylin- der liners in days when thie met- had of construction was regarded as extremely daring.
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