MOTOR NOTES.
BRITISH
Specially Written by the R.4.C. Correspondent.
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MOTOR CAR SPRINGS.
How They are Built and How
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Students of engine design can- not fail to have noticed that Springs, which are so vital to among the
progressive the modern automhile, haye had manufacturers the 14 h.p. six-a most "interesting "development. cylinder car is gaining rapid History shows that steel springs popularity. We forecast that for vehicles first came into fise
The scheme under which the tire thing of the kind held kng:fere two years have passed the about 1670 A. D. Prior to that Royal Automobile Club officially where in the world. A
1,500 s.c. six-cylinder augine will frime, the body of the vehicle was pbserves and certifies the per- Next, we have the International the fashionable type, for a power suspended from the axles by formance of motor vehicles and Motor Car Exhibition, open from unit of this size should be a most means of a strap aträched to each j their parts is being patronised to November 2nd to November th fascinating engine to drive when corner of the body, -un ever-increasing extent and anfinclusive. „The Society of Motor fitted in a ligh car chassis.
The introduction of springs)! exceptional number of certificates. Manufacturers and Traders is to The only disadvantage of the proved to be a great boon. Their! have reccutly been issued. The be congratulated on having been present four-cylinder light cause meant reduced vibration and Jongest of these trials has been largely instrumental in bringing engine is that its top gear pick-up strain upon the horses. the 25,000 mile test. of & 196 about the substantial enlargement at low rp.n. is not quite so nice Incidentally, they payed the way Crossley car. fitted with Rapsonfof the Olympia buildings, as as it should be. We are writing for lighter weight vehicles, gord tyres which were indepen-[result of which it will be possible now as idealists. The persistent dently submitted for test. The this year to house the whole of torque of the six"
This year of 1804 witnessed the|| eur successfully completed the dis immense show under the this drawback, and the lighter ro-intention of the semi-elliptic || distance,, using fuel at the rate of one roof.
ciprocating parts mean far ring which today is the pre- about 25 miles per gallon. Thej. Last in time but not in impari-vider power range. A -litreifing type on motor ears Rapon tyres were responsible forjance is the International Casix.cylinder all-weather model, sample. 80 mg of 108 American ati exceptional performance, trial Road Transport and Roads with front-wheel brakes, should automobile, manufacturers have Three of the four tyres completed Development Exhibition. open find a very ready market at about With this type of constrngilun adoptedssemi-elliptic rear springs. the 25,000 miles under an average! From November 22nd tp December $400.--The Light Cur total running weight of over 4000|1st inclusive. Many striking Celecur.",
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The spring is Bolted at the centre to the axle, "Each end of the spring is attached to the frame of the ear, and thereby forms a sup- port for the body.
Ths: (about 36" ewi:) The fourth tyre, developments in this branch have awas badly cut about half wayjtaken plice'siner the" last Exhibię Through the trial. It was then tits was held two years ago. Thự vulemuised in position and hater inclusion of the Rind Section is à a liver was Titied, but after 23,325 new development of great interest
Because of the responsibility miles the liter kave way expos, to all gountries when rad im-
placed upon motor car springs) ing the tube and a little later the provenient is in progress or erans Some Remarkable Figures. get of such unitsas the cuginu. murrying as they do the "heavy | tyre was withwirawn. The monumentumprido, Assochama witlyThis sal size of these, tyres was 8211 by Section there will bë An interest- Detroit, July 14 Comparative clutch and frame, and in addition,
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ing town planring exhibit. During records for some of the comparties the body and passengers strength! A smäller set of Rapson tyres, this last, Show, a series of-don- that comtriboted to the remark-bas¿became increasingly import-i 760 by 90 mm, has been tested | ferences will be held on various alle record set "during the first. And along with strength is į "on a 10-15 hip car with actual problems einnected with the use half of the Current year, when dexbility, which, must be so weight of about 2,500 lbs. over a land construction of commercial more than 2,000,000 automobile Scientifically figured as to pro- distance of 10,000 miles, which motor vehicles.
vehicles were made, show how duce the maximum" of riding
all four tyres completed satisfaë- torily, there being no necessity
The Scottish Trials.
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first six
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to change any tyre from front to The weather collaborated with Production for the back wheel or vice versa.
the promoters of this year's Scot-months of this year, as compared The car used in this lust " mentioned yra test was a 10-15ish trials to make the tests more with that of the first six months
hp."Westar and this is the first evere. The light car trials were of 1922. follows 20
aver about 1000 miles, including)
after which the ear WIN FUN HE
Name.
1922.
49,758
. . 1923.
the industry accomplished, this Comfort Sill another essential far.
of springs is that they carry the| weight op an eyen keel, so that the car will not till forwards, backward or to either side: res gardless of the number of passen- gers carried. 111,000) A list of 18 American automas) #24,000 bile manufacturers published in a 104,000 recent issue of The Motor (1:8).
3,303 showed that hut, seven companies! 3.512 made their own springs. One off 395,593 these was The Studebaker Cor- 25,131|poration, This concern enjoys 941245 rather a unique experience in springmaking inasmuch as it has been identified with the manu- facture of vehicles for the past
37,689 85,890 1,856 9.508
Hodge Bros
206,790 13.203 311258
time that a vehicle coming into. gradients and road surfaces of the Buick.. the light car category has been "worst " possible description. Rup submitted for a lengthy air offiei-Nevetheless, only six small cars al trial. The Westcar has a furiout of threy five starters failed to Diskenbacker cylinder enging of just under win awards and three of the Lincoln....... 1,500 cc. capacity. The car tested failures resulted from traffic aco, Moters was fitted with an n for vidents. The failures included the Paige-west sealed body, the unladen vehicle caly foreign entrants. The remark-Furd weighing about 2050 lbs, and a provenint that has been the load being approximately 500 fored in British light cars" may Bs. The weather was lud dure is well indicated by the following ing a considerable proportion of, the trial. "bu the 20,000 its brief quobition "From
I is jyond dispute that contestants for with propri-transition which took place in were satisfarmarily completed even in the short spare of a single ry engings secured only three changing frue the manufacture
foť horsödrawn ' voħieles year smallear engines have made silver medals altogether. The Brooklands track and attainably advance in eligiene Autor Cycle remarks that "It spring works followed the lessons, Commenting on the trial. The automobiles. the Studebakeri edpe of about 44 miles a cooling, and, above all, in power wald, of course, be impossible of springbuilding that it had hor. The consumption throughey maintenance. But only those out the trial was rather better who had seemed the cars combine tropical heat with learned in years ipf, manufacturei than thirty-seven miles in the phronggh their jung mingatory of such, a retie enditions as have for carriages and wagons. gallon of petrol.
mountains and blizzard could prevailed during the trial. la
In the engrse of a trip throatghi Another light ear to be tested, ford full credit to this sarith, all other respects, the compete the great Sindebaker factories it was, the 19 hq B.S.A. with & Hartless elimbing of a freak, hill provided - every obstacle is interesting to observe the high- 2-seated body and san miladen (Harkford Hill. Edinburgh: likely to be monngrod by they scientilie methods of building weight of just over a gradient 1 in 3) in the concluding motor cyclist in the frontiers of and posting springs to assum This car completed a 5.000 mile mile of a trial which may not be civilisation."
[thair" unifomnity of strengtli, pun with a fuel consumption· paralleled for severity in the next rather better than thirty-seven.
Hexibility and balance, miles to the gallo and after twenty years."
The Autgined machines, while other seventy-one years, With thi
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A noteworthy feature was the Following on the vieïry of reaching. Every shipment of steek.
·wards did over forty-four milesi
Tsarevss of the ning empting the Supermarine Napier-engined is chimically analyzed to make an hour on Breaklands track. valticton fined with air-cooled lying ont in the Schneider Sure that the raw-riaterial checks In a recent nate referred to engines. A very remárable per-Trophy Raer last year, the rare with the specifications of the one traffic vest of the A,C,. mar. This formance was that of the team of will this gear be flown from gineering, department. „ has been followed by two sumeix hp Rovers. Everyone of Coves over a course in be selvet. [heat treating, spring leaf is qüeb-] what unusual. hill-climbing these climbed all the observedjed by the Royal Aero Club of jached in a byth of oil in ensuref tests. In ne case the car was hills without difficulty and every Great Britain," At the time of gradual vooling and proper tem-l ried on the test bilt at Brooke received a high award. When writing three entries have been pering. Stiffness is measured by lanes, being stopped and success jane realises that one of the hills peerived in each pases from the means of hydraulidie air presses, fully re-started on the steepest that was negotiated under exper-French. Italian and American Anuther machine part of the hill, where the gradi-)
"yable weather randitons is five Governments. I understand that flexibility, under pressure far proper requirements. ent is in 4, In the ther case miles long, terminating in three British firms, namely, gretig thun" is ever applied No detail is overlooked in the sis A. C. cars, one of which car-series of hairpin bends on a gondi-The Fairey the Blackburne in arthal service, amimming to ndeavour to build springs That ried no fewer than, five pas- Tent af about 1 in 3, it will be and
the Suppomarine. are 4000 ponnds (1800 kika) will deliver the maximum of sengers, steeessfully ongoiated
that's there is lule designing' machines com-for the front springs, and. 4,800 service and comfort, Grease is the High Street Lille The
ground for fear of avarhating drage for the trophy, that (160 KHfor the plicnd between ench of the spring! oxart gradient is not stated, but the air-cooled engine of a prerly engine fitted in each case being The gear springs of the Stud leaves to eliminate squeaking. the road, in are in the nature of designed light rar, dueldental the 450 hp Napier. The same baker Light-Six musi somit to Uniformity of height and length a stairway than an "ordinary ty, the water booked engines of firm are building a 600 hp, engine 160 painds per inch of deflection, of the springs under had is rares ed of small cobbles, stours. The heavily on this bill. street, being stepped and cops certain other competitors buited to fit to a machine which the while on the Sandshake Specially checked, and for this purp
Cloucestershire Aircraft Crus Six and Big-Six models the the spring leaves are divided into only hitch was when the under- The competitors in the Sent-pany, are constructing in manere pressure is 180 pounds to the inch, glasses, That the springs stand side of thirstep and battery box fish Motor Cycle Trial, which in the Aerial Dophy and the inter-What is known as the Briand up without breaking under the of aue of the ears caught the top ivered about 800 miles of road nutid Race in France. This tests used to make sure thas tho!?
Istrain of the severe uage and the step in the roadway. One of the passengers then alighted in order were more seriously affected by machine is expected to develop a slis of proper hardness, this jolts of rough roads is due to the the weather, which was so bad | speed of 250 miles au bours [point being determined by the fact that there is built into then to make a little weight off the that a number of accidents re Monaco Motor Boat Races.
size and depth of an impression degree of strängligny times springs, after which the few resulted. Nevertheless, Thirty-
made in the steel. If the metal greater than, is evergrequired in maining gards were easily nego four competitors' gained silver tiated. These A. C. tests are eps the highest possible awards Races at Monaco this year were
The International Motor Holiis ton hard or too soft, it is heat the service of owners. peculiarly interesting on account and thirty more obtained medals or interesting than any that of their marked contrastant of a total entry of UM. The have been held for many years against the test previously rean prizo for sideta o past. The chief feature was the corded. In the one case, the nations went to the AS, that very high speeds obtained by the absolute suitability of the ear for, for solo motoregelus of any power baby racing bouts in the 11 ftre use in town trafic was proved the Ariel, and that for solo class, but the outstanding per- In the other case, its practica-chine under 350 ce to the formance of the week was that of
monstrated.
the
bility under thoroughly abnorma!! B.S.A. An outstanding per the British "Onwapil (V." This conditions was equally well deformance was that of the team a specially built racing of seven A..S. machines, every by a converted coastal The Exhibition Season, -- jone of which finished, three
securing the highest possible tor boat, one of the hundreds built by Messrs. Thornycroft för This year will spo, a very full awards, two gaining gold medalsnaval use during the war. After range of Exhibitions in London, and the other two receiving several years service it has ben covering the various sections of minor awards, Other team adapted for pleasure cruising. motor industry. First in which did well included the Nevertheless, in the open class at time comes the Show of Marine Triumph, which will only two Monaco it finished a good third to Motors, Motor Boats and Station-untries ned gilver cap and two competitors built purely for ary Enginas held in conjunction gold medal, the Rudge, the racing purposes and having en- with the Engineering Exhibition Raleigh the Prancis Barnett,gines of double and four times the at Olympia from Auges 31stjand the Velocette.
This wil Carfield motor cycle with an The common opinion was, that power of the Thornycroft vessel.| Io followed by the Cyelojengino. Df only 147
this rasnit proved the "Onward "| and Motor Cycle Exhibition did extraordinarily well to get to be by far the finest exemple of at Olympia from October through the trial and obtain a hull design combined with engine 15th, to October 20th inclusive, bronze medal. As regards the efficiency, and not dependent on This Exhibition is now underperformance of proprietary enormous power to push a badly
to September 22nd-
The little
the patronage of His Majesty the engines six silver cups and three designed hull through the water King and is the most representa-medals were awarded to J.A‚P.~- at abnormal speed, "
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