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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
BY THE MOTORING CORRESTOND- ENT of The Daily Mail.
MOTOR RACING THIS
YEAR.
Some New Ideas..
(By H. Mannac Buist, in The Observer.)
Now ideas of a practical sort in motor racing are always valuable. Yet I have not noticed anybody very forward to During my trial this week of zonder the Rover Company that the 20-h.p. Invicta motor-car, a credit which is its duo. Thus the new British six-cylindor model rules for the Boilleau Cup race at which is winning a reputation for Boulogne this year take the speed acceleration and an ox-wholly original form för such a ceptional top gear performance, I had, as (my! passenger magistrate.
I have met during my motor- ing experiences quite a number of magistrates in circumstances that need not be discussed here.
But I have never before had one sitting noxt to mo in a very fast motor-car, and the occasion was made all the more riquant be- cause this particular magistrate belongs to & Bench that is notorious among motoriste.
competition of handing each com apolitor a sum of money with which he must buy at fixed pricos the fuel and lubricating oil he will uso in the race. If this is not an intelligent and praiseworthy utilisation of tho Rover Com- pany's brain-wave last year when it organised two trials each simply conditioned by the ex- penditure of £5 on all requisites necessary to run a 9/20 h.p. fully loaded touring car under the Royal Automobile Club's supar vision, what is it? As to other It was a splendid opportunity changes in this year's racing re- for propaganda, and I liope I did gulations, the Florio Cup racó not noglect it. My last acquain-will be run on a 14.8 mpg. of tance with magistrato was fuel basis over a distanco. of 310 unfortunato. I pleaded that al- miles, and the 2481 miles race on though my speed might have been the Montlhery track, for the an excess of the legal limit the French unlimited capacity Grand car was fitted with powerful four Prix will be an allowance of whool brakes which, if necessary, petrol and oil of a gross weight. could have pulled it up as quickly of 97 lb., which would work aut as & woman could arrest the at about 20 m.p.g progress of her perambulator. The magistrate replied that he had no knowledge of four-wheel brakes but a good knowledge of the law, and that £3 and costs would settle the matter.
Challenge Accepted.
My passenger had previously "expressed an opinion to mo that fast travelling motor-care were highly dangerous and he was sportsman enough to accept my challongo to judge for himself if this was the case.
I am not defending speed. In certain circumstances speed is very dangerous, and speed at the wrong timo is one of the main canses of motoring accidenta.
But to say that a metor-car which is really capable of high specda--and most curs of to-day, including many of the best known makes apart from sports cars, can travel very fast indeed is, in itself dangerous is absurd.
In fact, in my opinion, the reverse is nearly always the case, the only exceptions being a few badly constructed sports cars which are designed purely and simply for speed.
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But Why Arrive At Wrong
Conclusions ?
Whenever encouraging any.. thing novel I do not see any neccssity to make unintelligent attacks on something else not so novel but universally and longer exploited, especially if it is cap- able of further serving a desirable Thus the continued purpose, sorice of 1,500 c.e. engined car that under conditions races permit of the use of any amount of fuol, and of super-chargers, is condemned as money no object racing" that achieves 'dangor- ously high speeds," watever they may be. For my part, I cannot seo those Blus Riband races havo yet resulted in the attainment of anything in the nature of dan- gerously high speeds, especially series of cars was designed and last year, when an entirely new bullt, and, with which valuable lessons have been learnt already and more knowledge will gained this year.
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As for the clement of danger, I think that for their speed and weight, those vehicles eliminate that oloment to a degree that no other form of racing experiment has ever attained. The lessons learnt concerning the distribution The Invicta car proved ideal as of weight, road adhesions, and so an argument. Its power to weight forth, are absolutely invaluablo ratio is beautifully proportioned, to any designer and builder who and its brakes and suspension will utilise them for standard excellent safety factors. The vehicle practice, including com- engine is the overhond type, with mercial variotics. Yet there forced food lubrication, and twin more to bo learnt by this monds. carburettors very carefully har-
Ordering The Sun to Stand monised to give an equal mixtura
Still to all cylinders. In my opinion two carburettors are ideal for a
six-cylinder engine, provided they are properly synchronised. If not, "ilat spoty" acceleration.
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The maximum speed of the car we tried with a 3 to 1 top gear ratic is stated to be 86 miles an hour, and I have no reason to disputo this. The point that impressed my passenger, how ever, was the very quick way in which the car picked up speed and also the quick action of its four-wheel brakes. From 10 miles an hour on top gear to 30 miles an hour took under 10 seconds, and to 50 miles an hour under 16 soconds. At a speed of 40 miles an hour the car wes brought to a standstill in 37 yards.
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What are these complaints about the slipperinoss, of some of our roads. At least 90 per cent. of them are simply due to bad driving. The balance of them are entirely due to weight dis- tribution that is faulty bayond the skill of the driver to counter.
Moreover, to state this year's fuel allowance races limited should guarantee the abandon- ment of any further use of super- chargers is merely to contend that the hand of motoring, pro- gross must be stopped. Anyone who has driven a super-charged standardised car will at once un- derstand the value of it.
The easy control of the steering THE 1927 MOTOR CYCLE.
also impressed the passenger-he
himself steered the car at high
speed with one finger. In fact,
The various roports of the
the car almost steered itself-that | Olympia Show for Motor Cycles is, if you took your hand off the which arrived by the last mail wheel after comoring it straight-enabled us to realise the general ened up on its own.
trend of motor cyale design.
"We Touched 70."
Although there was a slight decrease in the number of man-
But the point that I was reallyufacturers exhibiting— a total of out to prove and the car proved 48-as compared with 51 at the it as far as I was concerned was last Show there was an increase that despite its high speed in the number of models. capability it was tractable at all spoods, running sweetly on top goar at 5 miles an hour. It was far easier to drive at low spood than a slower and a "woollier" engine.
At the recent Show there was 350 different modals as compared with 304 last year. The general tendency is for the manufacturor of tho machine to make his own It was at the magistrate's wish engine instead of purchasing some that I spooded the car up-not on well known make of engine. In- the public road-to 70 miles an deed there seems to be a like. hour; it was one of the most lihood that the motor cycle of a curious requests that has over few years benco will always bo boon made to mo by a magistrate. built throughout by the firm that
givos its name to the machine.
Ho watched the spoodometer for me and I believe there was a touch of rent pride in his voice when he said afforwards, We Bouched 70."
That, of course, is only in koop- ing with the general tondency of all industries and especially those connected with engineering.
SATURDAY,
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5, 1927.
VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS.
Registration of motor vehicles in the United States reached a total of 22,330,000 in 1926, accord ing to a compilation based on roports from the various states.
CARS TAKE MORE LIVES.
Deaths in Los Angeles county, California, caused by motor ao- oidenta in 1926 showed an in- crease of nearly 10 por cont, over the 1925 period. The death ratio increase, howovor, is slightly leas than the increase in the number, of registered motor vehicles,
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