1926.
TRIUMPH
£69.5.0
TRIUMPH 4:04. TYPE P
A Com Dav
Farticulare, upon Application.
Electrical.
Singapore Relability Trial. IMPROVED Model "P" Triumphs gained 2nd & 3rd Places Team Prize thus securing 6 out of 7. Cups offered.
Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.
Bank of Chine Building and la, "Chator Road.
BY CAR TO LONDON.
worst
ACROSS SANDS OF FERSIA,
Ten Miles & Day!
ished the
MOTOR CYCLE SPEED.
markings, The rollers usually ROADSTERS RETUR show the first signs of wear, and should be carefully measured and
crossed sales of this type of throughout the country. open," two-seators, and the
All not be long before
INTERESTING LECTURE. our destination This portipp, from Quetta to Durz
Before the Institution of Auto-replaced if worn. There is at SPORTS MODELS POPULA dap, is what Major Forbes Leith mobile Engineers at Wolverhamp between makers as to the amount
present a difference of opinion/
Our modern jazz age, our you calls the impassable silver sandston, Mr. P. Brewster road a of clearance that should be allow has demanded and obtained of East Persia. He accomplish paper entitled "The Preparation ed; the majority employ a close-turn of the roadster... Further news of the progress thated this Journey by running his of Motor-Cycles for Speed fitting bearing with not more thun This is ahown by the rene is being made by the three motor but we could not do this as the the subject as it applied to four found that a clearance of 0.002ia.
car on the railway line sleepers, Events," The author discussed 0.001in. clearance, but a few have Detroit for production of snaps
activity amour manufacturera ists who are attempting to reach solid tyres bumped so much on the types of event, but in doing so he to 0.004in. has increased the re- London on a Trojan car is con- sleepers that the front axle and brought out many points, of in- liability. If, therefore, the roller tained in a letter which has been engine banged on the iron rail torest to users and manufacturers paths are in good condition and received from Mr. Marcus Canaga-overy two yards, and we would alike, from which the following the rollers up to alze, the clear-
From the time that the roadst aaby, one of the intropid trie, by have smashed the car up. There are selected: Mr. C. W. Abrams, Straits Motor fore, we had to keep to the desert
ance is probably that actually in tion, about the middlo of 1924, stj wyns the least factor in produs Garage, Singapore. When last and do the trip moving practically vary with the class of event, but should be made to lap the race steady increase in the manufa Tyres, rims, and spokes will tended. In any event no attempt to the present, there has been heard of the party were about to all the time on low gear, with two be bearings are of vital impor-with an leayo Quetta to travel through of us walking to lighten the load,hace in all events. A few pro-guarantee ruin.
Abrasive: this will
ture of this model. It has reach Perala, one of the most difeul
and also pushing from behindgressive firms have studied this sections of the trip. The latest whenever the sand was exception matter and fit a really good
ed the proportion of almost, The Engine Balance. information shews that in spite of ally soft. We had to cross an aw-journal bearing, but in the majorithen be checked, and again notion of more than 80 per cent.
The balance of the engine must and promisce to attain a propor per cont. of makes on the market
fed feat which only Major Forba fully big river. The water was y of cases, we find an overgrown hard-and-inst rules can be laid fall of this year...
many trials they have accomplish- Leith, the famous British motorist, right up to the engine, and wo up-and-cone bicycle bearing down. The engine mounting has
had to jump from boulder to Usually, the cups and cones are a very large Influence on the the return to the open roadster has achieved before them.
Perhaps the greatest factor in boulder. This was too much for only polished after hardening, actual balance required, but if no according to leading manufac Mr. Canagasaby writes: "We the car and when we left the river with the consequence that the ball previous duta are available as a turers here, is the two-car have had a terrible time in coming we found the front axle actually track is by no means concentric guide, a balance of all the rotat- family." This, besides being the from Quetta to Duzda. It is only in two pieces.
with the outside of the cup and ing parts plus 0.6 to 0.625 of the answer to saturation in the Ins 460 miles but it has taken us exact-
Boller Tube,u8' zaxie.
the thread of the cone. Selective reciprocating mass will not be far dustry, opens up a new fold for ly 45 days, Our chain is in places
"We could get no replacement assembly is the only possible out. It is usual to consider the the further distribution of auto and every tooth on the rear dog and were stuck some seven or thing here, and must be persisted big end and two-thirds of the rod mobiles. wheel is gone.
We wired Mr. eight miles from the nearest in until a set of parts is found as rotating and the remaining Rastron (Leyland agent at Cal-station. We were compelled to which gives a perfectly free bear- third as reciprocating.
The "second" car in a family cutta) for replacemesis, and he has walk to the station, and take training without shake and without Avery make a special balance for roadster, and signs point to Messrs. appears to be either a coupe or kindly sent them, so that we shall to Quetta, but we could not find a tight spot. In the steering head determining these weights, but if greater trend toward the roadster. be moving again in a couple of another axle to fit the car. At and forks will probably be found such an instrument is not avail-Reasons for this, given by some fast we went to the railway au- an enlarged version of a pedal able the greatest securacy can be manufacturers, are its sportive, thorities and Major Carson, the bicycle steering head, and appar- ensured by measuring the amount qualities, especially with the top Engineer in charge, fixed us up ently only a few of the best makers of water displaced by the required down in good weather, as well as with a boiler tube, and we were have realised how inadequate the portion of the rod und multiply- its adoption as the handler of the able to proceed. We have sent the bearing is to deal with the loud. ing by the specific gravity of the broken axle to Leyland's.
Hero again Of
patient selective material used in the rod.
open types bf cars. course, it is no fault of the axle, assembly is the only possible solu-rankshaft assembly should be brought out this open car. And The "The call to the country has also but Leyland's will just have an tion. If it is found impossible to swing on knife-edges, as no other the demand of young couples 18 iden of the sort of places we have secure a free head without tight form of bouring is sufficiently one of the greatest factors in its had to go through. The axle the places, it may be that the racee sensitive, railway people gave us has now in the head are not seating pra-
increased production.. beat in two and we are having an-perly, or even that the two seat-daya, but for high-speed work the three-fourths of the automobile Ignition is fairly simple. nowa- As a result, it is reported that other tube, a little smaller in ings are not parellel or do not lie old type of contact breaker,manufacturers are diameter, inserted inside; so that on the same axis. To rectify this originated by Bosch and copied by roadsters, and that this model producing is really a works matter. No everybody else, is not all that makes up one-fourth of the total attempt should be made to get might be desired. It can un- tight steering by tightening up on doubtedly be made to work satie-
production of these makers the balls, as this only throws an factorily, but the latest Bosch car output also is of the roadster Almost half of the entire open normous load on to them and is spring-suspended contact-breaker, type. sort. If stiff steering is desired, the Marelli, in which centrifugal bound to result in trouble of some in which there are no pivots, and
days."
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I hope we shall have no more axle trouble.
A Previous Failure.
"You will be interested to know that a Colonel Nesbit tried the trip by car from London to Quetta in
n 6-cylinder: Fiat, but his car
broke down and he took train to be fitted, but the head races are well worthy of investigation will give us our maximum powers a special friction damper should force augments the spring action,tative and quantitative, which Quetta, and also took his car away, should be left to act as bearings. Both of these give practically and it is useless to increase, the only two days ago. Thus, the only people who have done this most dificult proposition we have Carburation is an exceedingly thereby.
The crankshaft assembly is the parallel action to the break. successfully are Major Forbes to "face. A maximum error of difficult subject to deal with in burettore and present-day fuels it quantity if the quality suffers Leith and ourselves. I think we 0.001in. on a dial indicator is the the abstract, and in practice is safe to say that most power will With present-day car have done one better than he, be-noat that can be tolerated. There usually resolves itself into trial be derived from an instrument cause we did it all the way by may be riders who have attained, and error. One point, however, te which is in itself a definite re road, whereas he went on the rail-great speed with assemblies run-quite clear-that is, that the striction to the actual amount of way line.
This is the easiest way ning out more than this, but it is maximum restriction to the gas gas which could be passed into the to cross this desert, but unfor- obviously in spite of, not because flow must be at the carburretor engine. As soon as an instru tunately we have solid tyres and of, the fact. We will assume aor no control of the carburation ment is available which will pro the rail line is quite out of the roller bearing big end, as this is is possible. In all instruments at vide the quantity of mixture we question. The Trojan is, no practically universal. The crank-present in use the quantity of fuel desire without being dependent on doubt, one of the finest cars. pin should be perfectly polished drawn from the jet and the sub- the velocity through it a large Where the 6-cylinder. Fiat failed and free from any signs of pit-gequent pulverisation is regulated increase in power may be expect and the Wolseley had to go on the ting, which will usually be found by the velocity of the air through ed. The author would add that railway line, we have "suceeded, in one place only at first, but the choke tube, of whatsoever type such an instrument is not entirely although we were handicapped spread rapidly.' The outer race this may be. Now there is only an idle faucy; work is being done
with the narrow solid tyres. They should be similarly free from any one particular mixture, both quali on these lines at the present time. are, moat unsuited for sandy places. What you really want are oversize balloon tyres. This feat. is something the Trojan can" be! proud of.
"The people we meet are simply, astounded and cannot believe their oyes, that we are going through all those Impossible places in this small 10 h.p. cur. The European as well as the Indian officers of all ranks have helped us greatly whenever, we had such troubles 23 the axle breaking. They all ap- preciate our efforts and have done the best they can to help us. The Persians, too, seem quite de- cent and they have so far treated us very well. Not knowing the language is a drawback, but I am managing with the little French I know."
DANGERS OF THE WHITE LINE.
A warning that too free a use of the "white lines" on roads may have the effect of bringing about the opposite condition to the safe- ty aimed at, is contained in a circular issued by the Ministry of Transport for the guidance of highway authorities. The circus; lar urges that the use of the "white line" should be confined to points where it is clear that It would minimise danger or be of | material assistance to traffic. Over-lavish use of "white lines" in one locality may tend to give drivers an unwarranted sense of security in adjoining districts where highway authorities may not have used, "white lines" to any extent.
ROUGH ROAD DAMAGE.
Rough roads, cause considerable damage to the working parts of an automobile. Uneven ronds are often unnoticed while driving as
the body of the car does not shake with the axles and: differential,
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