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A PEEP INTO THE PAST. he points out at some length that the latter will occasionally.refüsë to start, and that for no defect- BY E. W. F. MILLS: able or even assignable rosion." A further drawback to "oll" on- Reference is frequently made gined motor carriages, he states, "motor for vehicular in the motoring Press to the is that a "horseless carriages" of the propulsion" should be capable of "nineties," a number of which, fine graduation of speed from are still in existence and not a practically nothing up to its full; few of which are yet capable of rate of travel, and not be antire- carrying passengers on the road.ly, or almost entirely, dependent It is common knowledge that the upon a set of more or less compli motor movement as we know it tocated change wheels and gear for day may be said to have commen- effecting one or two alterations ced in the latter half of the nino- of speed." There was undoubted». ties, the passage of the Locomo-ly some justification for consider- tives on Highways Act of 1898 ing the oil" engines of the day making it possible to develop as liable to "throw off a fuel, and "horseless carriages" with a free-evil-smelling. pofsonous dom that, had previously been smoky vapour which would render impossible. Students of mator- their presence in the streets in ing history interested in the early any considerable numbers an in- development of the motor car will tolerable nuisance."
find a mine of information con- A certain complacency in des cerning the "horseless carriages" criptions of recent achievements of the time in Wallis-Tayler's in any field of engineering is no "Motor Cars, or Power Carriages doubt the prerogative of textbooks for Common Roads," which ap as a class, and this clement is not peared in 1897 and in which is missing from the following ac- embodied the history of previous count of a 3.7 h.p.. Daimler en- efforts to solve the problem of gino fitted to a Panhard-Levassor road transport and a survey of "road carriage:"- the types of "power carriage" then in process of development.. Apart from the detafle given of a great many types of contemporary and earlier times the volume affords a most interesting insight into the social history of Eng- land at the close of the century. "As soon as a demand for motor cars arises we may expect to find the large and old-established; firms of engineers gradually but surely developing, from the more or less imperfect machines now extant, power propelled vehicles of all descriptions that will meet in a satisfactory manner the re- quirementa for different duties. But it is to these large firms and to the eminent engineers connect-
"The cylinders, as also the trunks fitted with the inlet and outlet or exhaust valves, are cooled by a water circulation, and the correcting rods and crank discs are, as above men- tioned, enclosed in an air- tight casing, by which they are effectively protected from the access of dust and dirt and foreign bodies. The shell or casing, moreover, being partly filled with the superfluous oil; from the cylinders, ensures the perfect lubrication of the crank shaft, etc, and enables the high working speed of 700 revolutions per minute to be kept up without difficulty." When it was deemed desirable
ed with them that we must look to reduce the speed of the engine for such improvements, and not the required reduction, "within to the charlatans who will doubt-certain limits," was effected by less utilise the occasion to the "checking the exhaust." A lever utmost, and succeed in fleeting operated by the driver made it. not a few of the unwary." The posible to "shaft the slide valve author pronounces elsewhere so as to modify the exhaust pas most solemn warnings against the sage and slow down the engine.". quack engineers holding so-called: Thé extraordinary claims being master patents whose ability to put forward for the "oil engine capture the public imagination road carriages" of the American was so disastrous for the progress inventor, E. J. Pennington, were of the movement a few years then commencing to arouse the later.
incredulity of unsympathetic en- Throughout the volume may be gineers. Wallis-Tayler gives a discovered assertions" and com- fuu description of the important ments which may cause a smile features of Pennington's engine to-day. The following remarks but qualifies the description with occur in an account of some tests the remark: "Much that is carried out ол behalf of the eulogistle has been recently said Times Herald of Chicago. The about this motor; and much, it object of the tests was to ascer- must be admitted, that required tain "how far motor cars or more faith to believe than the power-propelled vehicles were writer ban lay claim to possess." capable of performing the work A lorg account from the "Ameri- of those moved by animal trae- can Machinist" of Randol's report tion" and the tests further dealt on the Pennington engine, written with the problem" of the most in 1896, is quoted in the book, and suitable type of wheel for power some of the expressions quoted go carriages. The remarks are to indicate the hazy notions of withdrawn from their context, electric ignition phenomena then but they lose little thereby:- current.There are mentions of "Mr. Macy's car could not be "mingling" and "ripening" sparks, tested thoroughly on account and of "two-current, refrigerat- of the defective, condition of ing powers" which have little the belting employed.
meaning for the present day en- "Whilst these cats were being gineer. The optimism of the de- tested the exhaust gas was so signers of the nineties, who re- charged with unconeumed 'car- fused to fit an engine of a greater bon that it was found neces-anticipated horse-power than four sary to have a special exhaust to any of their carriages, is diff- pipe and fume blast to convey cult to understand to-day. Pen- the fumes from the testing nington's engine, or rather one of them, weighed 17% pounds and
room.
It is a pity that the igniting was expected to develop 2 horse. apparatus on the Duryea car power. The "Victoria" to which should have got out of order, this particular engine was har putting a stop to further ex-nessed weighed something just perimenta.
below 400 pounds. Randol states
The wheel and tyre problem unhesitatingly that "it, will cusily was giving engineers furiously transport a load of 800 pounds, to think. Professor Hele-Shaw making a total "weight" of 1200 had recently lectured the Liver-pounde."
pool ranch of the Self-Propelled I should like to quote much Trame Association on "Pneumatic more extensively from this text- Tyres for Motor Carriages," but book of low but space makes this the preumatic tyre, although re-impossible, and I can only recom- garded by some as likely to effect mend anyone interested in the be- as great an improvement in motor ginnings of the motor movement. cars as in pedal cycles, was by to find and read Wallis-Tayler's no means established: "it is not volume if they can. improbable that leather shod wheels may be found to give good results, at least for some types
NEW SIX.
of motor cars, as this substance forms, especially when subjected to powerful compression, a very
The Oakland Motor Car Division. lasting tyre which was sufficient of the General Motors Corpora- elasticity to absorb the bulk of tion is putting a new car on the the vibration due to the shocks market. The machine will be occasioned by passing over ob-called the Pontice Six and will structions and uneven surfaces." placed in the low price class, Balloon tyres and shock absorbers make a stronger appeal in these degenerate days?
The author makes no secret of his conviction that steam would
CARS SELL ALL YEAR.
The automobile industry is no'; prove the motive power of the longer seasonable and sales aro fature for road transport and being made the year round. while conceeding "that at certain People have found that their cara recent trials, motor carriages fit are just as ukiful and convenient ted with "oll engines as motive in inclement weather as during power attained the best results" the spring and summer months.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
1928
World-Wide Demand
Graham Brothers progress in the export field is no lesu natonishing than their con- tinued advance in the home market.
Graham Brothers Trucks were first shipped ali over the world in volume in 1922. Exporta for. 1925 exceeded those of 1922 by over 1300%.
Merchants, business men and owners of hun in all territories seeking dependable transportation at low cost have found it in Graham Brothers Trucks and Buses.
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