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B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES gained the following awards in the recent English INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS TRIAL SPECIAL EXHIBITION MEDAL The B.S. A team on 3.49 h. p. models completed the course without losing a single mark and were the only team to complete the Trial with absolutely clono shoots. ALSO MANUFACTURERS TEAM PRIZE
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Riders of B.S.A. Motor Bicycles also gained the following awards:
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10 GOLD MEDALS'
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THE
ALBERT L. CLOUGH GEAR NOISE.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 24, 1926.
"SPEED COPS."
A Paris Experiment.
humming and grinding noises its magnets, point separation and The care. used by the Paris
to
by plain-clothes policemen on bonds, they would note the spood. perfectly safe roads.
of drivers when passing oross Trafilo moves vory fast now-a-roads, they would tako notion in days, and ft doos soon common the casos of cutting-in-the most sansa that the police also should frequent cause of accidents-and be equally mobile, Under the they would generally keep order prosent systom whore polloo re- on the roads,
o on the roads main stationary at, dártain points 9
usually safe points the rock- If they worked conscientiously lees motorist escapes their atton on these lines, prosecuting only tion,
in casos of reckless driving, and A car manned by two policemen if magistrates dealt carefully with armed with authority would have fore them, then I think many of every individual case brought bet;: a good and legitimato haul. There the objections to "speed cop" in would have to be no doubt about this country would be removed.
tho soduroy of the speedometor speedo-
As an experiment, Paris is. shortly to have a corps of "speed cops"-poliesmon mounted in The following is written in an fire a cliargo and speed the cars to deal with traffio abuses. It attempt to answer numerous in- gine up so that it keeps, on run-in understood that our authorities quiries from correspondents, who ning. You better havo tho bere are to watch closely the havo complained of unusual magneto tested as to strangth of working of the new system.
made by their cars. Nearly all other respects, but before doing police will be oquipped with ac- gears, except those on very ex-so, be sure that the spark-plug ourately-synchronised porsiyo cars, which are "lapped" points are not too widely sop-meters. The police do not intend together until they run quietly,arated. The gaps should not be only to concentrate on the speed make a slight regular and not much over 0.020 ingh-somewhat merchant, but to tackle as wall annoying Rum, but when gear less than that required with "bat- angono guilty of dangerous driv noise is loud and of a grinding tory current or no spark willing or of breaches of road eti- character, the first thing to do is pass at the low cranking speed quotto.
examine thoir lubrication, attained by the startor. If your How would this plan work over) making sure that thero is as much magneto is put into perfect con-bere? Such an idea, borrowed in lubricant in the goar housing as dition and your spark plugs "pro- the first place from, the United instructions call for and that it is party adjusted you should ex.States, would not be altogether of the correct quality.
porience further trouble,
popular. The idea of being hunted LUBRICANT QUALITY REQUIRED. EFFECT OF LARGER TYRES" on the road by plain-clothes Lubricant, to insura quiet gear Question My car is equipped, policemen does not sound alto- operation, must bo stiff enough with 31x4 inch tyres and my gother English. But, on the ethion so as not to be squeezed out from dosler informs mo that he can band, neither does police trapping between the teeth when the genre replace them with 32x4)', inch are operating under heavy lodds tyres and givo ne much im and high tooth pressuros, but it proved riding qualitios, but a must be sufficiently thin to flow friend tells mo that this change freely, oven when cold, or it will would greatly reduce the engine's not be splashed about and dispulling power, so that hills that tibuted over gear facos. By can at present be taken on' high using a good gear oil or trans-would have to be climbed on mission compound, just liquid second speed: What is your enough to flow, the utmost opinion about this? How much silencing effect is obtained. The climbing power would really bo above obviously does not apply lost? to timing gears.
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Answer: This proposed change OTHER CAUSES OF NOISE. will reduce the hill climbing In the case of properly lubricat ability of your car, but only to od goars, which still are noisy, the extent of leas than four por the trouble is either that their cont It is very doubtful teeth are moshed too deeply or whether you would notice this not deeply enough or that their reduction very much, but there tooth facce are not of correct might be some hills which your from.
car would barely climb on high, before the change that it would Meal may be incorrect simply just fail to climb with the larger because of wrong positioning of tyres on but this would not hap-) the two geurs involved and if pen very often with the engine suitable adjustments are provid-lin good condition. There is po cd, it can be made right. Final doubt that the larger tyres would drive gears exempify this. Loose give you some increase in com- ness of goar shaft bearings. permit fort..
BADLY ADJUSTED MESH,
gears to push out of proper mesh)
and to fluctuate as to their depth DON'T FORGET TO
of ongugomont: This is the case
in transmissions with worn bearings and if the bearings -aro adjustable tightness can bo ro- stored.
WHEN TEETH ARE OUT OF SHAPE. "Gears with badly worn or battered faces run noisily and must be replaced. In the casë of timing gears, non-metallic gears can usually be substituted for steel ones, with quieter results.
NO MAGNETO SPARK AT STARTER SPEED.. Question:The engine of my
car, which has magneto) ignitiony will not start on the starter; which turns it ovor at a fair speed but I can start it by flooding the carburetor, advanc- ing the spark and handcranking it. I have cleaned the magneto) points. Can you explain this! trouble?
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Answer: Evidently at the speed at which the starter turns the magneto-there is not onough voltage, developed to produce sparks, but when you handcrank, you momentarily turn the engine. enough faster than the starter; does, to cause the magnéto to
Adjust the carburetor for a heavier fuel mixture.
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not that this instrument would There is always the possibility be the main source of their ovid- that the police might be used by ence, but it. would sorve a useful aomo local authorities to continue purpose in oertifying the spood of the patty porsecutions which we drivers when the offence was motorists have to put up with to committed.
duy. But if they really concent- The job of those policemen rated on bringing the reckless would be to catch the reckless motorist to book I am certain drivers who at present escape that in a very short time they under the trapping on straight would win the approval of all, roads system. They would watch road-users.Evening News Mo- for drivers passing other cars on toring Corr,
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