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THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW 1927.
Some Details of Transport Exhibits.
· The
The Royal Agricultural Show have made such headway in the this year, the 86th of the series, past year or so.
Nine machines on various types was held for the first time at New- port. Monmouthshire, and, as of Morris commercial chassle usual, drew a very representative were shown including a 2-ton rigid number of entries in the various six-wheeler of the type that has already found favour with the War sections.
Several types of fire engine suit-Office for cross-country transport. able for farm or estate work were Among the other exhibits were a also shown by Dennis, as, for milk float and a general utility instance, what is know as the vehicle on 1-ton chassis.
This latter is a drop-sided lorry with Light Estate Fire Engine.
detachable canyas tilt and longi type has a water-cooled single- cylinder engine driving direct a tudinal seats which can be re- patent turbine pump capable of moved in a few moments, and delivering 80 gallons of water per should prove a most useful type minute at 80 lb. pressure. Weigh-for estate work. ing only 2 cwt. it can be con- Among the Dennia vehicles veniently lifted into any desired position, and a two-wheeled axle, Instantly fitted, enables it to be wheeled by one man."
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13,
RUNNING COSTS.
Interesting Figures.
1927.
SPEED-RECORD CAR FOR A WOMAN.
CLEAN WITH LAMP-
BLACK..
Mrs. W. B. Scott, has bought the
Lampblack, a soft black powder, Have you ever figured what that late Mr. Parry Thomas's famous la Ideal for polishing the silvered If the surface is car of yours really costs you? If Leyland-Thomas, to drive it herself lamp reflectors, not, hold tight for the shock. at the Surbiton Motor Club's meet- tarnished, use the lampblack as a paste,then polish over with some It's nine and a half cents a miloting at Brooklands.
dry powder in a soft cloth. You may take this figure" as
This car still holds the record your own, for it is the calculation for the fastest lap and the fastest driving even this tremedously
fast car.
She has won several races at Brooklands in smaller cars.
of an average motorist, doing aver-
race ever won at Brooklands. age driving, in an average automo-
Mrs. Scott is perhaps the finest bile for an average length of time
woman driver of racing cars in the and mileage.
The Leyland Thomas in the hands The motorist in this case is Com-country, and expert judges main of Mr. Parry-Thomas has lapped mander A. C. Stott of the U. S. tain that she is fully capable of Brooklands at just under 180 m.p.h. navy, stationed in Washington, D. Commander Stott reveals his interesting figures in the American Motorist, official publication of the American Automobile Association. Here's how he comes to this con- clusion:
Logged Every Item.
The initial cost of his car, in- cluding freight, tax and extras, was shown was a 80-cwt. pneumatic $1,791.60. He ran it for four years tyred chassis fitted with box van and nine months, over a distance of body: a 20-seater saloon bus; 4 48,372 miles, in and around the 4-ton lorry fitted with flat plat-city of Washington, on three long
The Leyland portable pump can be trailed behind a vehicle at speeds up to 50 m.p.h.
This brakes.
Leyland Motors were represent-form body, representative of a fleet ed in the fire-fighting section by a of twenty ordered by Messrs. Portable Pump mounted on a Schweppes, Ltd.; and a 25-30 special two-wheeled carrier, fitted seater motor coach with low load- with pneumatic tyres, which can line chassis, engine developing 70 be towed behind any vehicle at b.h.p., and Servo-operated 4-wheel speeds up to 50 m.p.h. powerful little pump comprises a Of the Associated Daimler Co.'s Rees-Roturbo two-stage Turbo exhibits, one was a 4-5 tonner pump direct driven by an 8 h.. with flat platform body, another twin-cylinder water cooled engine being a 3-ton model equipped with The unit forms a highly mobile
a general purpose hinged-sided fire-fightin plant, and is. being lorry body. used extensively on country The third exhibit, however, was
It estates and for small works.
of particular interest being driven learn that a is interesting to
by u 40-70 h.p. six-cylinder sleeve- recent order for one of these Leyvalve engine of comparatively new lund pumps was for Bombay.
design.
This chassis was fitted with a single deck omnibus body seating 32 passengers, with the driving position alongside the engine,
A Useful New Tractor.
An important new-comer among the steam tractor exhibits was the "Rhinoceros," a product of the
Prominent among the Leyland Sentinel Waggon Works. Ltd., vehicles was a 50-cwt lorry shod expressly designed for direct trac-with pneumatic tyres. This is the
Fitted with an outcome of the
present day tion ploughing.
demand for faster transport. It 80 b.h.p. engine, equipped with xovernor to ensure constant speed, derives its power from the well- the "Rhino" exerts a drawbar pull known 30 h.p. side-valve engine at starting of 22,400 lb. in low driving through a four-speed gear gear, and about 9,000 lb.
at box.
It will plough 20 acres
The Leyland omnibus exhibit 2 m.p.h. or more in an 8 hour day depend-was" a "Long Lion" vehicle, with ing on the nature of the soil and 0. H. V. engine and low loading the fuel used. As to the latter, line. A longer wheel base is pro- the boiler will evaporate" about vided than with the "Lion" and 2,300 lbs. of water per hour using Servo, operated 4-wheel brakes are best Welsh coal, but will give employed. satisfactory results on inferior coal, or really good dry hard- woods. The weight of the tractor:
101⁄2 tons.
1
Special Purpose Vehicles. Among vehicles fitted with
trips over mountain and prairie, and twice across the country.
"Every inch of this I drove my- self," he reports, "and every drop of gas and oil, every item of repair and upkeep, and every tyre change and repair has been entered in the 'engine room log,' a tiny note book."
Starting with his initial cost of $1,791.60, Commander Stott added the insurance on the car for the time he had it and the regular storage charges. Totalling these and subtracting the value he got for the crit when he traded it for A new one, he got $2,514.71 which he set down as his fixed charges on the car.
Fuel Costs Little.
The officer's running charges, in- cluded gasoline and oil, amounted to $731.15 for the entire 67 months. Repair charges included shop work from year to year, battery repair, purchase of a new battery and repainting of the car at the end of the third year, and totalled $734.43.
Lastly, Commander Stott ran up a total of 3614.50 for tyre charges, including new tyres and tubes, and tyre repair work.
These
First Cost High.
totaled itema four $4,594.79, which the car cost him in the four years and nine months he drove it. Dividing the 48,372 miles he drove it into this amount, be derived the figure of nine and a half cents a mile.
This figure he further divided, so that he discovered that his fixed charges took 5.2 cents a mile; run- ning charges 1.6 cents; repairs 1.5 cents and tyre charges 1.3 cents a
mile.
Gasoline and oil, for which we pay most consistently, turned out to take only about one-seventh of the total cost of the car, while it was the initial cost, contrary to general belief, that ate up more of the total than any other liém.
SMASHED UP.
Speed King's Fate.
MOTOR RACE TRAGEDY.
Paris, July 4.
with fuel and water is about bodies specially designed for agri- One of the most térrific crashes cultural purposes Was a Guy in the history of motor speeding. cwt. lorry. This occurred yesterday in the prell- Being fitted with a powerful 22 h.p. 30 winding drum of large diameter on possessed a cattle truck body with minary heats for the Grand Prix.
de The famous driver, M. the rear axle the "Rhino" is also two decks. The top deck can be eminently suitable for lumbering lowered to allow sheep or pigs to Courcelles, piloting a Guyot car, The maximum be loaded, and is then raised to was chasing his rival and daringly and "atumping." rope pull is about 13,000 lb. the top position to allow a further quitted the banking as he passed the grandstand at 125 miles an Further, the engine la fitted with load to be carried underneath.
Another attractive Guy produc-hour, amid great cheering. a belt pulley for driving machinery
A second later there was a such as saws, threshers, sheilerstion was a rigid six-wheeled lorry with open type body. This
report like the bursting of a huge and stone crushers.
chassis has been built to comply shell, as De Courcelles struck a with the War Office specification
He failed to re- bumpy patch. for the new subsidy grant of 240 gain control and crashed head- Motor Transport now plays a a year for three years.
Agricultural Transport.
very important part in agriculture, A very useful general purpose long into a tree.
The radiator of his car landed
· Was
and a great deal of attention is Estate and Prize Stock Wagon was being paid by British manufac-shown on a 24 h.p. 2-ton Albion 40 yards away; the engine, as a turers to the production of suit- chassis, mounted on pneumatic complete unit, descended 50 yards ably designed livestock-carrying tyres. The body consists of an away, while other parts were dis- bodywork.
brdinary plain platform with 2ft.tributed over a wide space.
Most of the chassis It is not surprising then to find hinged and detachable sides to at "The Royal" a representative which 8ft. extensions can be fitted crumpled. up, concertina fashion, When the 8ft. into a depth of two feet against display of motor vehicles suitable when necessary. for agricultural and general trans sides are fitted, a special detach the tree, which was almost up- De Courcelles who was port requirements. These ranged. able folding extension is attached rooted.
near the from comparatively light vans to the tailboard and this can be killed outright, lay suitable for the direct marketing folded down to form a ramp for wreckage shockingly battered. of produce by the producers them-Joading cattle. A pair of skids are selves, as recently referred to in carried to support the ramp. The the pages of Motor Transport machine is thus most suitable for to the rigid six-wheelers which carrying sheep and pigs.
DOZING AT THE WHEEL.
'MORRIS REACHES NUMBER 200,000.
Nearly Another Tragedy.
In response to wild. calia for help, officials rushed to the scene. A saloon-car, with the blinds drawn and carrying the body, was then driven in the opposite direc- tion to the racers, constituting the last obstacle, the competitors expected to meet.
Chiron, driving a Bugatti, dived off the banking into the straight in the path of the approaching car, thrust on his brakes and skidded
The Morris factory at Cowley, It was stated by the police at Wood Green when George Wm. England, which is continually Marshall Grayson,
Lymington breaking production records for Avenue, Wood Green, was summon-the British Isles, last week turned Spectators shrieked, and Chiron ed for driving a motor-car in a out its 200,000th ear. negligent manner that when asked, This represents by a very large clear of the tragically-laden by a constable why he had not stop-margin, the greatest output of any ped after knocking down a cyclist, single make of wholly-British car. Green Bald he could not remember seeing #
cyclist, he said, since eight o'clock the pre- and added: "I must have vious night, He was fined £5 and been dozing." He had been at work,£1 costs.
vehicle.
The spectators, standing with heads bared, out of respect for De Courcelles, frantically waved their hats in cheering Chiron's
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