MARINE ENGINES. Mileage the Test of
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The acid test of good workman- ship and materials is in the actual The Olympia, motor transport performance of the engine and its show to be held In London. next ability to stand up to continuous November, says "Motor Trans- hard work without frequent over- port.." premises to eclipse in im- haul. In this connexion we have portance, and Intorest previous the fine record of a British engine exhibitions of a like nature. -an Allsa Craig Kid 10-14 h.p. addition to the Show self, at four-cylinder unit, one of the which German vehicles may be famous series of engines made by exhibited for the first time since! the Ailsa Craig Motor Company, the war, there is the World Motor: Ltd., of Chiswick, London. It is Transport Congress which will
London place in
just atted in a 28-ft. cutter out in the take Solomon Islands. After running previously to the opening of the some twelve thousand miles "the Show. This will be the first occa- owner took the engine out for eversion on which the Congress has haul, when he found everything in been held outside the United Al condition; the only matter Stutes. requiring attention was the pump! eccentric strap. It is in out of the haule are necessarily few and far way corners of the world that a between. This capacity for con- a pre sturdy, reliable engine is most tinuous hard work is essential, for besides being eminently British quality and is called проп to work con- the reason why engines/like the tinuously there are often no Ailsa Craig are so popular in such facilities for repairs and over- far-off places.
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THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.
SATURDAY, MAY 21,
Nothing, By Nobody,
Steam Aero Engines- A New Book-Cooling certainly commands
System-All Metal Planes.
[Special. Report to the Hongkong Telegraph.]
The dominant note of the British Air Estimates,
estimato la cautious progress Two outstanding but quite dis- connected events have been keep rather, too much caution and cer- ing wits busy and aviatorstainly too little progress in the The view of the aviation world; but tongues wagging recently,
than frst was the presentation of the still considerably better
The Air Estimates by Sir Samuel might have been expected, Hoare, and the second was the publication of a very questionable Minister claimed a.3 per cent book. The first shows a modera-reduction in expenditure with a tion that has given almost as much 10 per cent, increase in strength offence as the lack of restraint of of the Air Force, but far more the latter but the first was marked significant was the announcement by a clearness of reasoning and that new types of machines are now being supplied to the Force breadth of vision which the writer
and that reliance on old-fashioned of the book made no attempt to emulate.
machines will soon be a thing of the past. War stocks have now been sufficiently depleted to allow of their being scrapped.
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Bean Car models for 1927 offer you a compre- hensive range of types and styles. There are the Bean "Twelve," the "Fourteen," the Long "Fourteen," and the 18-50 h.p. 6-cylinder. For coachwork you have the choice of 2/3 Scaters, 4/5 Seaters, Saloons, De-Luxe Saloons," and Landaulettes. And every type and every model represents the highest possible value. WE ARE BEAN AGENTS
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LD standards of automobile per- the advent of the Erskine Six. For this little aristocrat is as new in the quali ties of performance as it is in outward appearance.
Ornance have been discarded with
See it as it slips through the traffic. Ride in it and see how smoothly it maintains 60-miles per hour. Four-wheel brakes assure smooth, positive deceleration. A spring base equal to 82% of the wheel base cradles the car.
The quiet, L-head engine of the Erskine Six accelerates from 5 to 25 miles speed in 8 seconds,
Hills do not daunt this sturdy perform- er-it takes an 11 grade in high gear, fully loaded.
In addition to thrilling performance, the Erskine Six makes an appeal to the pocketbook. For it is low in the first cost and unusually economical to op- erate-tests show 30-35 miles per Im- perial gallon of petrol; 1000 miles per gallon of oil
Buryoumustmake your own tests of the Erskine Six to fully appreciate its capa- bilities. The more you know of motor cars, the better you will like the Erskine
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In the future the Imperial aspect of aviation, both military and civil, is going to receive more attention and the foundations of a truly Imperial policy have been well laid. The, recent flights in Africh and to India are some evidence of what is being done, but the hopeful aspect of the evidence was somewhat damped in the Air Minister's speech by a harping on the subject of economy. There is a point at which economy becomes extravagance and to some observers that point appears not very far removed from the Govern iment policy in respect of aviation
Also the insistence displayed on the possibilities of air-ships. is in many quarters regarded as a mis- take. The heavior than air machine is on the whole better esteemed than the lighter than air type, for present work, at any rate, though the Minister's fore cast of an airship capable of carrying two hundred armed men and a complete squadron of aero- planes was certainly intriguing. Two such airships are now under construction.
New Developments.
The book nowly published about aviation 19 signed by "Neon" and its author's nom de plume may have been rather well chosen.. He' a lot of rather useless gas though unfor- tunately he is not exactly inset. The book is an attempt to prove the futility of aircraft and aviation development and unfortunately it. is dangerous because it containa. many half truths, which to the un- instructed may convey the force of whole truths and be read as much. Like a none too scrupulous but skilful debater the author presents one side, the dark side, of aviation with every appearance of honest conviction and readers who have no counter information at their many of his conclusions. disposal will naturally agree with As an example of the kind of arguments that "Neon" uses may be cited an instance mentioned in a critical latter written by Mr. H. T. Vane, the Managing director of Messrs. D. Napier and Sons, Ltd. to the oditor of "Flight." "Neon," quoting from an Ameri- can source, states that the. Napier Co. required 1,700 men to produce 15 aero ongines a month but he does not say that in addition to producing 15 acro engines those 1,700 men were also producing many motor cars, nor that, after the Napier Co, discontinued the manufacture of motor ears, 1.600 men could there produce sixty-five This aero engines in one month. is Mr. Vanc's answer to one of "Neon's" points and answers equally conclusive could be given "Facts" in the book. to many of the arguments and
Whoover "Neon" may be and whatever the authority he may command there is no question of the authoritativeness of many of the answers that have already been published to his wild accusa- tions. Mr. Vane for instance, has little to learn from "Neon" or any- one else about aero engines, as. witness the success of his firm- Messrs. D. Napier and Sons, Ltd.
1927.
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both technically and commer- cially in the aero engine world.. Napier engines are among the most popular in the world to-day. A
Air or Water Cooling? Whether the ultimate engine will be air or water cooled is a problem almost as old as the
aero
while its air cooled rival will hold the field for brilliance of performance. It is not difficult, in fact it is very easy, to find numerous examples that contra- dict this belief, as well as many that lend it support.
As regards progress, the Minis-aero engine itself. But to-day the ter could report several develop- preponderance of opinion seeme ments of real technical interest rather to incline to the view that and hinted at the employment of the engine for long trouble-free heavy oll engines, though no mer life will be water cooled-ie. the tion was made of the steam aero engine for general commercial use engines which some engineers seem to regard as the aero engine of the future. Steam aero engines have been the subjects of experi- ments for some time, those in England being largely of a secret nature, but a steam propelled French aeroplane is indicated as likely to take the air in the very near future.
It will indeed be ironical if the very thing that de- layed the coming of aircraft, the fact that only steam engines were available as power units until the coming of the internal combustion engine, should after all become a potent factor in aircraft develop
ment.
No one needs to be reminded of the wonderful durability and re- liability record of the Siddeley Jaguar engine fitted to Sir Alan Cobham's machine. The record of that engine is one that would do credit to any internal-combustion power unit, whatever the sphere of its use. As an aero durability record it is probably unsurpassed.
Recently a Rolls-Royce flying With regard to less startling boat carried a load of fifty-five developments, there were very impassengers at a speed of 125 m.p.h.. pressive improvements to be re- the engines being two Condors corded in both aeroplanes and which develop 650 h.p. cach. And engines built on conventional, but although improvements in details revolutionary lines, Thus where- of design will increase the power- as at the end of the war the carry-output of any engine, it is at ing capacity of a passenger aero- least doubtful if any ordinary air- cooled engine would stand the plane was six passengers at
that the Rolls-Royce speed of 90 m.p.h., to-day twenty boosting passengers can be carried at 110 Eagle underwent during the war. m.p.h. and whereas the typical Originally endowed with a power engine of 1924 required overhaul output of 200 b.h.p., this engine ing after 76 hours running, to-day had by the end of the war or just 250 hours is regularly possible and after-representing a period of four years development-attained to an output of no less than 376 In a later speech, on aviation|b.hip.! All Rolls-Royce engines Sir Samuel Hoare expressed the are of course water-cooled. view that it was for long journeys Finally, of the fifty-one existing rather than short that the aero-air records "no less than forty- plane stood to score over ordinary eight are held by water-cooled means of travel. This may turn engines.
often exceeded.
out to be true and to be practically A direct comparison between. and widely appreciated in the air and water-cooled engines from future, but to-day the fact seems the aspect of speed performance. to be that it is for comparatively will be made possible by this short distance journeys that the year's Schneider cup race.
Of the. neroplane is most used in prefer- British entries two have Napier ence to land and water transport. water-cooled engines and the third One reason for this is of course, has the air-cooled Bristol Jupiter. that long distance aerial services are not yet fully developed while
Upside-Down Mounting. all the European capitals and big
There is much to be said for towns are in regular air communi- ention with each other. The thres the Upside-down" arrangement hours saving on the London-Paris and mounting of the new Beard- In this six route by air as compared with rail more aero engine. and boat is, for instance, widely cylinder unit the crank-case is at appreciated and it is a fact that the top and the cylinders below many of the long distance flights with the valves, of course, at -those- Whether bottom. recently accomplished have taken the almost as much time as old-estab valves should be called over- lished transport for the same head or not, as they certainly are routes. On the other hand it must according to ordinary standards in be remembered that many of these reference to the engine itself, may long-distance flights have not been be dismissed as a matter for the direct time-saving efforts. In
Provided the obvious lubrica most cases the aeroplanes have been engaged on important work, tion problems" have been solved such as surveying, which naturally satisfactorily and that undue has made all the difference. If starting difficulties are not en- the liner which left Cape Town countered, this upside-down about the same time as the Cape mounting, with its naturally better to England flight and arrived at much the same time had had to aeroplane and the better vision stop for frequent ocean soundings and harbour surveys its competi- tive effort would not have looked quite so favourable.
controversialists:
fitting into the fuselage of the
assured for the pilot, is a method
of mounting that will surely come in for much imitation in the near futur:
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-really efficient suspension
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-Dunlop low-pressure tyres.
The "SOCIAL" Value
-roomy English body
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