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THE AUSTIN RANGE
What The New Models Will Be Like
Particulars may be given to- day of the range of Austin cars for 1936 and the prices effective henceforth. There are again six basic models. the Seven, Ten, Twelve-Four, Twelve-Six, Sixteen, and Twenty, but, as of late, the twelve-Six and the Sixteen-will be available with optional engine
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In the case of the Twelve-Six, the two engines are of 13.9 h.p. and 15.9 h.p. rating respectively; but whereas the price of the com- plete car with any type of Body- work has of late been the same with either engine, it will now be £10 less when the smaller engine is chosen.
Similaris. the Sixteen with a 15.9 h.p. engine will be £10 less than the same car when the optional 18 h.p. engine is fitted. As the price of the saloon cars with larger engine in each instan- been altered, this 'ce has not
means that there has been a re- duction of £10 applied to those of the lower rating.
Improvements embodied in the various
better models include brakes (Girling type) on the Six-
Twenty). teen. Eighteen, and down-draught carburetter on the four and six-cylinder Twelves, air silencer, and cleaner
on the Twelve-Four, Sixteen, Eighteen, and Twenty. Luvax hydraulic shock absorbers in place of the friction type on the Ten, new type of steering gear on the Twelves and the Sixteen and Twenty, and anti-friction discs for the "spring leaves on the Sixteen and Eigh- teen, as well as the non-squeak Inter-leaving used for the springs of all models.
INTEGRAL HYDRAULIC JACKS
Jackal! integral four-wheel, standard feature jacking is
of the Sixteen, Eighteen, and Twenty.
The control lever, which is de- tachable, projects through the front floor when fitted, and can be operated either from the front passenger's seat or while stand- ing on the road alongside. The equipment is quite self-contain- ed, and has a special oil reservoir to make good any leakage that may occur.
As regards the new steering- gear; this can be sald, roughly. to represent a combination of the worm and segment and the cam types of gear, but with an ad- antage over both in that the area of contact surface between the units is larger than usual, thus conducing to ease of opera- t'on through lower pressure per square inch of surface and to longer life without tendency for iost motion fl.e. steering slack- ness) to develop.
It is known as the hour-glass worm and segment gear, for the worm, instead of being "straight," is shaped hour-glass fashion with the segment of the worm wheel formed to suit; it is therefore re- miniscent of the Lanchester worm drive as used by the Daimler änd associated companies for nat drive transmission.
VARIATIONS IN PRICES Saloons and ather styles of bodywork for, the 1936 Austins have been improved in appear- ance, rding comfort, and con- venience in a variety of details; notably the Ten-Four saloon and cabriolet have a remodelled roof- line and front end and a new screen design. On all models, ex- cept the Seven, the screen now has a central winding handle to adjust and lock it.
Open cars are somewhat higher in price, the increases ranging from £2 10s, in the case of the Beven two-seater to 15 in the, case of the two-seated and four- seated Twelve-Six with the larger engine, But the increase in each instance is accounted for by body- work of improved design; on the four-seaters there is a rear locker for the spare wheel and a folding luggage grid enclosed in the loc- ker when out of use, while in- creased
and roominess
better equipment are other variations in both two-seaters and four-seated tourers.
Increased prices apply also to the Seven saloons, the fixed head type be'ng £8 more than of late at £118, and the sliding roof version at £125 is £5 more. Among the Ten-Four range,, the fixed bead saloon is increased by 22 108, but the sliding roof saloon is the same as hitherta. The Twelve-Four saloons, fixed fund.
sliding roof, are reduced £10 tu £188 and 208 respectively.
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On the sixteen and Eighteen the Austin-Hayes self-selector transmission (the "gearless gear- box" with automatic changing) is again available, though the extra price is now £50. As standard, all models have the four-speed synchromesh gear-box introduced last year, with synchromesh and silent gears for second, third, and · top speeds.
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DAIMLERS WITH NEW
* SPRINGING
With the Fifteen and the re- cently introduced Light Twenty forming the chief models of the Daimler range for 1936; a special feature of both is the "softer" front springing, which, with cer- tain essential accompaniments- including a new design for the front end of the frame-results in the reduction of fore-and aft.. pit- ching to the minimum, with pro- Counced benefit in enhanced rid- ing comfort, particularly for the rear passengers.
In dimensions the six-cylinder Fifteen is unchanged, but, in ad- dition to the new springs, several important "improvements" have
been embodied, among them be- ing, the independent assembly of the radiator and front wings al- ready announced in connection with the Light Twenty. The equipment now includes centralis- ed and automatic chassis lubrica- tion and facilities for easy jack- ing built into the chassis, "
Entirely redesigned, the stan- dard bodywork includes a saloon with a swept tall concealing the spare wheel, and, as in other cases, a lower waist-line mould- ing downswept to the rear. Tu- bular framing is used for the se- parately adjustable seats, a fea- ture that saves space and reduces weight.
The body is appreciably, wider, and has its instrument panel built into the scuttle capping, in- stead of below the latter, thus giving direct visibility. The large instrument dials can be illuminat- ed after dark to any desired in- tensity. cont. being gained by means of a rheostat. The fixed- head coupé now has four side w'ndows instead of two, and is of entirely new design.
There are six other standardis- ed body styles, besides specialised coachwork. Prices of complete cars are much the same as hither- to, though the improved salpon is
15 more at £465. For the Light Twenty there are seven kinds of bodywork with prices ranging from £675 for the saloon. This model was referred to on this page recently: it may be recalled that it has 2565 c.c. six-cylinder engine, and, like the Fifteen and all other Daimlers of late years, the fluid fly-wheel transmission with self-changing gears.
CAR RUNS 3,000 MILES
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MOTOR JOTTINGS
MY NEXT CAR?
The Lessons Of Experience
Members of the British motor industry are bound by a bond not to release their 1938 models be- fore August 16, writes a corres- pondent. So in the very near fu- ture I shall suffer two extremes of sensation. On the one hand I shall be tickled by pleasing an- ticipations of owing and driving an X-h.p. Y car by the new year; and, on the other hand, I shall be sunk in despair when an over- draft note from my banker. re- minds me that I cannot possibly afford new car next winter. However, there was no overdratt note on the breakfast-table this morning, and I may momentarily abandon myself to delicious ima- ginings.
In the Arst place, I am resolved to own a much larger car next year. No more of the acrobatic Indignities of entering and quit- ting üne of those low-roofed abom nations with foot-well noors and narrow doors and short ben- ches. Taught by America, some of our wiser manufacturers are beginning to build full-sized cars at a low price. Doubtless they involve some sacrifice of per- formance," since a heavy car can accelerate as lightly or climb as gally as a light car of equal pow- er; and if the performance be re- tained by dropping a larger en- gine into the frame the fuel bill will naturally rise. But no more tiny cars for me, so long as my bank will "permit me to buy a large one. All this hot weather I have been squashed on to a 38'n bench beside my companion. Some of these 1935 cars are going to have back benches 53 inches wide.. which will be much more Then I shall cer- comfortable.
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tainly try several of the new front-axle suspensions with se parate springing of each front wheel-"Knee action,"
the Amertcan phraseologists call it, Jones has such a car, and it floats like a rose petal over the as yet unmade road for which the cor- £32 poration orders me to pay per annum for the next seven. years. True, it heels and sways a little on corners when Jones 13 in a hurry; but a twelve-month may have added steadiness to the extreme flexibility of such spring- ing.
INSECTS AND DEST Furthermore, my new car shall b finished in dark enamel. When I bought my last I fell a victim to an unconscionable scoundrel of a salesman. "Dust," he argued coaxingly, "is Hght in colour?" I agreed.
This dove-frey car will never show dust," he con- tinued. I bought it. It does not show dust. But 1 drive it fast, and in the course of two hun- dred miles on the road hundreds, of winged insects, large and small. commit involuntary suicide all over its s'lhouette; and each of them deposits a splodge of red or black wreckage on my dove-grey enamel. No doubt similar splodges would be deposited on the bows of a black car; but the splodges, would be invisible. Again, many of these Insects destroy them-
American motorists who worry about the cost of petrol.on long- distance runs were deeply in- terested to-day by the achieve-selves on my windscreen, and I ment of a young Californian en-* gineer. Edward Fairbanks. Arriv- ingat New York from Oakland, California, more than 3,000 miles away, he announced that he had covered the entire distance for
€1 153.
This he did by equipp'ng his 8- year-old car to run on oll fuel. as well as petrol. His expenditure for the vehicle during the entire Journey was as follows:
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He was accompanied by his foster-mother, and by driving ten hours a day and spending the nights at the tourist camps, which are a feature, of American high- ways, they travelled from the Pacific to the Atlantic for less than £10, including lodging and food.
Mr. Fairbanks explained that he knew something about Diesel engineering, and about a year ago de decided to apply the principle to his car in order to economise on petrol and enable himself to drive greater distances for less. money
He starts his car on petrol, and after running about 100 yards to warm up switches over to oil fuel
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have to peer through their flat- tened remains at all the Belisha beacons, traffic ghts, and other signals which a law-abiding mo torist must observe. I shall es- cape this penance in 1936. for below my dash will be fitted one of those neat little reservoirs of water which, in response to a pedal, flush the screen with clean fuld, enabling my wipers to polish it like a Bond Street Jewel- ler's window without my 'having to stop and dismount.
This same flushing device will also free the recording angel from heavy duty after a drizzle has attacked my screen when it is lightly filmed with dust. Through out 1935 this combination as proved most annoying. The drizzle sets in I operate my wiper; the wiper mixes the dust and the drizzle into, a'thin fawn-coloured paste, which is fatal alike to clear sion and to my hairtrigger tem- per. In 1936 I shall discharge the Aush. operate the wiper, and I shall instantly observe a nice rainwashed world through a nice clean screen...
I will further make a point " of having self-returning trac signals in 1936. My present turn signal resembles an illuminated railway semaphore in miniature.
MOTOR NOTES FROM
GREAT BRITAIN
Public Health And Mechanisation
Public health and hygiene are becoming more and more depen- dent bon the employment of mechanical vehicles in order to secure the most efficient results, and enterprising public bodies. both at home and Overseas, are p.acing orders with the mani- facturers of specialised vehicles in order to bring their equipment in this essential sphere up-to-date.
Enormous figures are involved in the work of street clearising "and refusé collection in a "great
city.
for Liverpool, instance, ol possesses nearly 700 miles streets be dealt with, while the trade amount of domestic and refuse collected there last year totalled 380,000 tons.
EASY HANDLING.
At the Royal Sanitary Institute Conference held at Bournemouth recently an interesting 12-15 cuyd. refuse collector, Atted with a rubber moving floor, on a for- ward control municipal chassis was shown. The entire vehicle was a Dennis production, and a teature of the flooring is that it is of stresses completely relieved and is therefore not subjected to stretching: a closely ranged series of steel rollers supports the floor- ing, which is actuated by driving chains placed beneath the floor and travelling with it. A crank handle operates the movement, two speeds being provided. CARRYING 3.000 TONS OF STEEL
Motor transport has been play- in the ing an important part consuuction of the Birchenough Bridge in Rhodesia, the third larg- est bridge of its type in the world. Some of the individual pieces of steelwork, as much as 50ft. and $ tons, respectively, presented a difficult transport problem, as the 80-mile journey from the bass in- cluded narrow tracks, acute cor ners, gradients up to 1 in 8 and very difficult surfaces.
The Transportation Department of the, Rhodesian Rallways, how- ever, brought into service special- ly modified 3-and 5-ton Thorny- croft rigid 6-wheelers, and so suc- cessfully have these vehicles cop- ed with the difficulties that up to recently they had dealt with near- ly 3,000 tons of steelwork --with- out ย
and single accident. the good work is still going on.
CATERING FOR THE ROAD TRAVELLEN
Many visitors to London must have made the acquaintance of the great Victoria Coach Station) in Buckingham Palace Road, the largest of its kind in the country. On busy
with days it deals
and 60,000 over
passengers, at
25 such times as many 2,200 coaches enter
de- part from the building in the course of 24 hours. Altogether 38 associated companies 12,076 vehi- ch.s and representing £22,750,000 invested capital now make use of the station,
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On the occasion of the third anniversary celebrations of the opening of the station, repre-
and I adored it on delivery. No longer did I have to stick a some- what rheumaticky arm through a reluctantly, opened window into streams of rain when I wished to turn right. I kept my window cosily shut and Meked a trigger. But the semaphore did not drop automatically when my turn was complète. On occasions I forgot its existence, and on d'amounting there it stuck out, uselessly and even deceitfully. I patted it down crossly, and some wire snapped inside it, so. that I had to pay an electrician to restore the llu- mination. On another occasion it tricked a following car into ram- ming my right tall because it an- nounced to him that I intended to turn right when no such in- tention was present to my mind. Next year my turn signal wifi drop automatically when I have completed my turn
A REVERSING LAMPAN And I will certainly have a re- versing lamp. We went to bridge at the Jones-Smiths the other night. Their town mansion was designed in the days of the car
sentative vehicles were drawn up for inspection, and it was instruc- Live to compara such an advanced type of vehicle as the AEC. "Q" luxury coach with the 28-seater "charabanc" which might virtual- y be said to have laid the founda- tion of London Coastal Coaches in 1919 with a London-Brighton service.
It is expected that October will see an outstanding addition to the Service Stations on the out- skirts of London. in the fine new building now in course of erection on Western Avenue for Shaw & Kilburn, the Vauxhall distributors for the London area. Western Avenue is probably the most im portant of the arterial roads and actually penetrates furthest into the metropolitan area
The main repair shop will be - remarkable in that it is 500ft. in length and over 110ft. wide with- out a single pillar in the building. the floor-space being entirely un- restricted. It is being equipped with the most up-to-date ma- chinery for servicing cars and should prove a great asset to Overseas visitors who take ad- vantage of the firm's re-purchase scheme and choose a Vauxhall for the duration of their stay.
THE FRUITS OF ENTERPRISE
For the. 1936 season Standard's production." programme provides tor 30,000 cars. This has been made possible by the entire me- chanisation of the Coventry factory, a process of reorganisa- tion which has been going on for over 5 years,
. During that period it is inter- esung to leam that the average reduction in the price of a car has been £40, and the company's turnover has risen from one mil- lion to three-and-a-half million The number of pounds a year. employees, too. has been more than doubled, and over 15,000 yards of new roads in the works have been constructed.
AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY When the enormous amount of petrol required for motor tran- port to-day is considered, it seems amazing that until comparative- ly recently a highly important link in the work of distribution- the petrol pump-should have bren almost entirely of foreign manufacture. Yet this was de- finitely the case, the bulk of the business being in French- or Aime- rican hands.
Last year 1,230,000,000 gallons of fuel were, consumed by the British motoring public. and it is satisfac- tory that British engineers are now securing an increasing share of the market for pumps of their, own design and manufacture. In this connection the Beckmeter pump is noteworthy, for it is the product of a concern which has specialised in the production of fcw meters for 40 years, and it is obvious that the meter is the very heart of the pump. To-day these pumps are being exported to Europe, the Middle East, and New Zealand.
riage and pair, and whatever might be said against the car- riage and pair it could manœuvre like a polo pony on four square yards of drive. Endeavouring to reverse out of their gates in inky darkness, I destroyed part of a turt verge and two Pink Pearl rhododendrons. I dot not suppose we shall ever be asked to the house again. Certainly I must have a reversing lamp-a. large one with a fat bulb in it.' I will ask the Jones-Smiths to dinner and show him the lamp as soon as I get delivery of the car,
At the back of the car there must be a large container for: luggage. My 1935 car had such a locker, but it was a pecuilar shape what the geometricians describe as an irregular dode- cahedron, I believe. When Amy and Julla had got their suitcases int the remaining space con- sisted only of odd, shapeless corners. So my suitcase was", 21- ways put in the car, against my knees and It excoriated them grievously when it leant, over a bump.
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