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2-25-40
Puncture-Proof!
The tyre for your light delivery CAR or TRUCK that ehminates trouble, is the Goodyear 30 x 34 Demountable Cushion Tyre,
It is puncture-proof and blow-out-proof. Nothing can happen to it, but to wear down in long, long service.
Its almost pa umatic resilience makes it ride easily and its deep but All-Weather Tread provides maximum traction.
Easily demountable, it fits any wheel using 380 × 31 tyres.
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BRITISH PROGRESS.
(Continued from Paye 1.).
100 by 120 m.m.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925.
sleeve valve engine developing 76 mileage of 136,000 miles on an vels, turns, holats and derricks SLOW DOWN AT GRADES.
at under its own power and turna h.p. at 2,000 r.p.m. The drive is omnibus in regular service
about its centro like a turntable. through a single disc clutch, four-Bristol. speed gear box and undertype
forms aro
respectively.
20 cwt.
HAND BRAKES POOR.
This idea is presented by
TO CHART MAPS.
Recreational maps of the states of Washington, Idaho and the Pro- Seventy per cent. of some 200 vince of British Columbia are to Southern California. The emergency brakes tested at ran- be made by the Automobile Club dom recently by the Bureau of of Standards in Washington were maps will show roads, lakes, classed as poor, while only 5.3 per
It can operate under conditions Another way of reducing accl- beyond the capabilitica of other dents at grade crossings, is to worm gear. The ordinary brak Steam and Electric Vehicles.
two
cranes, as, for instance, confined pass a law compelling motorists to About the usual number of of the same make. The newcomer ing equipment consists of
internal brakes in steam-driven forrica were exhibit-placca und tortuous passages and slow down to 10 miles an hour has an engine rated at a little pairs of
OR the reur over 20 h.p., having four cylinders separate drums of front ed. These in their most modern in and out of the doorways of when within 300 feet of the cross-
warehouses and workshops. All ing. Water circula-wheels. The fitting
fully the operations of the crane are George M. Graham, chairman of tion is by pump and lubrication brakes is optional, but, when and improved
retaining and even increasing
controlled by the driver from his the trafe planning and safety by pump to troughs for the engine these are provided, the type their popularity. This fact was sent, the lead being always within committee of the National Auto and by grease-gun for the chassis.plied in the Perrot-Bendix with The drive is through a single dry three shoed Servo-operated shopa. well illustrated by the Sentinel his view. The crane is made in mobile Chamber of Commerce. plate clutch, four-speed gear box The engine, gear box and clutch exhibit, which consisted of five three sizes, having lifting capa- and overhead worm gear to a fully of the Guy are carried on a sub- "Super-Sentinel" waggona, every cities of 7%, 15 and floating back axle. The whole frame suspended by three univer-one of which was a repeat order from some important firm already chassis is a very simple, accessible sal joints from the main frame. and sound job, which should well The sub-frame remains in true in possession of several Sentinel maintain the high reputation of alignment even when the main vehicles. One of the exhibite was frame is very severely distorted the thirty-second Sentinel to be its makers.
Moasra. J. Lyons, & Co. New Types of Passenger Vehicle. either as the result of an accident supplied to the famous caterers, or when one wheel passes over an
There were a few exhibits of The low loading passenger exceptionally large obstacle. The carrying chassis form a very im- chassis is automatically lubricat-'electric vehicles, but these do not portant group, comprising many cd throughout, even the steering call for special notice, with the interesting new models, attractive gear being designed so that there exception of the Ransome electric of is a wiek feed of oll to the ball runabout erane. This is a most not only by reason of enge antry and exit, but perhaps even joints from oil reservoirs contain-useful machine in docks, large cent. really made a ereditable streams and county and state
warehouses and the like. It tra- showing. more on account of their highjed in the tubular steering roda. ' speed capabilities, coupled with
New 'Bus Chassis. comfort and stability. Thus, for
The Leyland Company show two example, a 'bus on the new 30/60 h.p. Albion chassis recently new types of bus, known as the made a non-stop run from Glas-Lion and the Lioness. Both have gow to London and back at an four-cylinder engines, the one
which speed average
should being rated at 29 h.p., and the The actual satisfy any private cur owner. other at 22.6 h.p.. The height of the frame is such brake horse powers at 1,800 r.p.m. that only one step to the rear in the two cases are 58 and 49 Both engines have platform is necessary. The en-respectively. kine is of ample power, giving overhead valves operated from the good acceleration and excellent camshaft through push rods and flexibility. It drives through a a simple form of rocks: single dise clutch and a four- Both chassis have a frame level speed gear box, and thence by of 2ft. 4ins., and in a total tare underslung worm gear. The ex-weight of about 3 tons 15 ewt. ternal contracting foot brake acts on a drum to the rear end of the gear shaft and the hand brakes inside drums on the rear wheela. The tyres are 6 inch pneumatics, twins being fitted on the rear [ axle.
gear.
An interesting point in the trans- mission is the double reduction gear axle, in which the drive con- sists of a pair of spiral bevel wheels driving a specially wide double helical gear set. In both cases four-wheel brakes are fitted, and the standard equipment in- The engine of the new Daimler
eludes not only a direct-driven "CH" type chassis develops 36
(dynamo, but also an electric, star- b.h.p. at 1,000 rpm. and 45 h.pter and a tyre pump mechanically
at 1,600 r.p.m., and is of the driver from the gear box.
sk eve valve type with steel
A very interesting new type of sleeves, the merits of which have
omnibus chassis, is the Karrier been thoroughly proved on private six-wheeler. In this the engine car engines. The frame is drop-rives four wheels on two axles ped to give a low loading line,
and the transmission is through spaced close together at the rear of the chassis. The distance be-
is already employed by a number
La fabric lined cone clutch, a four-ween these axles is spanned by apeed gear box and worm gear the springs. The consequence is Though comparatively recently that, when the wheel passes over troduce, the new type of Daimler
abstruction, the resulting movement of the frame is only f important Corporations, includ-that of the centre of the spring, ing those of Manchester and New-|which is half that of the wheel. enstle.
In this way extremely smooth However,
The low-level Safety Maudslay running is obtained. chassis has an engine rated at the use of four wheels very much 36/75 hp, driving through an in-reduces the probability of skid- verled cone clutch, four-speedding. Spare does not permit of gear box and undersing worm a detailed description on this oc- gear. The speed capabilities are casion but unquestionably the great, but the vehicle has a low design should appeal very strong centre of gravity with a wheel ly to companies operating omni- truck of 6 iget and is fitted with buses over country roads.
Messrs. Thornycroft showed admirable braking system. an All four wheels are braked, the two new passenger chassis, one drums on the front wheels being being a 50 h.p. forward control 18 inches in diameter and those omnibus chassis capable of taking on the rear wheels 24 inches infup to about fifty passengers, on a Despite the diameter. In addition, there is a double deck body. foot-eperated transmission brake. forward position of the driver, the ! The front wheel brakes are Servo-engine is extremely accessible. operated, working through the The second is a chassis specially medium of the funt brake, the designed for single deck omnibus rear wheel brakes being hand con- bodies and having a drop frame. This is fitted with a 35 h.p. engine and is suited for a hody designed Many of the new low loading to carry about twenty-five passen- passenger models are equipped gera. with six-cylinder engines. godd example is the new W & G. A Powerful Petrol Tractor.
ALEX. ROSS & CO., (CHINA) LTD. red.
Bank of China Huilding Hongkong.
SOCONY
MOTOR OILS
GASOLINE
APPLY BRAKES EASILY.
FOREIGN OUTPUT UP.
A
four
rhassis, the frame height of which Messrs. Thornycroft also show is only 2 feet. The engine ised an extremely interesting cross- raced at 23.5 h.p. but develops up country vehicle in the form of the Lo 70 h.p. at 2,200 revolutions, athi" tractor. This has a 100- The drive is through a special
b.p. engine driving all type of plate clutch, a four-speed wheels, It is capable of crossing rear box and an underslung wormulleys with vertical banks feet gear. The band and foot brakes in height and can haul a 10 ton are of
the internal expanding Trailer lond up a gradient of 1 in types, operating on large separate at seven miles an hour. The drums on the rear wheels. Front
engine exerta a steady drawbar wheel brakes are only fitted full of 9,000 pounds and, alterna- desired, in which case they operate in conjunction with the tively, its power can be applied to exert a pull of 5 tons on a wire foot-controlled rear brakes,
rope which can be used to great
1
In addition to a new ewt. advantage when the going is so gooda-carrying chassis approved bad that the tractor cannot ex- under the War Department's Sub-tricate itself from its difficulties sirly Scheme, Messrs. Halley's Ja while handicapped by the trailer dustrial Motors have two new pas- and its lead.
As will have been gathered aenger models with six-cylinder engines of 30/40 and 40/55 h.p.] from the preceding descriptions [respectively. These are of their of vehicles, by far the cammonest. own design and construction and form of transmission is the worm Save your brakes for emergency Production of automobiles in are built specifically for regular rear, next in popularity being the work, The drive is bevel gear. The main drive, of by avoiding sudden stops and cou-other entries has been rising.heavy tinual, braking down gratles. AOutside the United Statos, figures through a single plate clutch and course, continues to be employed ear should be stopped by apply-¦ show. 450,000 cars were produced four-speed gear box, and thence extensively on ing the brake and then releasing, last year, as against 300,000 in by worm gear. The engine and and is also used on some of the instead of holding them down.
LONDON TRAFFIC.
1922.
MORE PANAMA BUSSES.
steam waggons,
gear box are carried by threo Jexible six-wheelers, but inspec- points of suspension from the tion of Messrs. Hans Renold's ex- frame. The hand brakes operate hibit shows that the principle use inside drums on the rear wheels, of the chain in the commercial while the foot pedal operates motor industry is for auxiliary Busses have increased consider another pair of brakes on the rear drives, in connection with which Total passengers carried in 1923 in London by all means of trans-ably in Panama, following the wheels and also a large contract-its employment is very much on the number of government's action lowering the ing brake on the transmission the increase. For such purposes portrenched
the chain is silent and has a long This was reduced shaft. 2,600,000,000. This is exclusive license fee.
The new Guy "Premier Six" has life. For example, a Renold cam- of suburbanites who took trains in from $10 monthly for each bus to
$4.
a 45 h.p. six-cylinder Knight steel shaft chain has just completed a to the city.
lines.
Mammoth Factories Give
Studebaker "One-Profit" Values
JE-267
The Studebaker Special Six Coach
TUDEBAKER has built
and equipped great plants in which it maltes every vital part of its cars -engines, bodies, clutches, steering gears, differentials, gear boxes, springs, axles, gray iron castings, and drop forg ings. Thus it eliminates the profits of, outside parts and body makers.
One-profit manufacture not only effects savings which allow Studebaker to use better materials and workmanship, but
it ensures perfect co-ordination of units. For every Studebaker part is designed and produced under the supervision of Studebaker engineers.
L
Only Ford
in the low
priced field
and Studebaker in the fine car field pro- duce cars on a one-profit basis. Studebaker "One-Profit" cars offer more in value, performance and endurance be cause of the conditions under which they are manufactured.
STUDEBAKER, South Bend, Ind., U. S. A.
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