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TEACH WOMEN DRIVERS.
OLYMPIA MOTOR SHOW.
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1928
CYCLES
HAVE
ARRIVED!
It will pay you to buy now. FRANCIS BARNETT
Model 4
Model 5
Model 9
A.J.S.
Model 111
Model H3
Model II5
Model 16
Model H8
£36.10.0.
39, 0.0. 45, 0.0.
'£116.10.0. 65, 0.0. 61.10.0.
GG. 0.0. 73.-0.0.
TRIUMPH
מע תדריך
N. De Luxe
TT.
.SD.
INDIAN
Indian Prince Indian Scout
60.0.0. 83.0.0. 72.0.0.
G.$245
Indian Chief
300 380
Indian Big Chief
390
DOUGLAS
Douglas EW.
£59.0.0.
Principal Features Reviewed.
LUXURY-COMFORT-COLOUR.
Imore efficient braking systems, Loudon, Oct. 14.
reliable steering Olympin opened its doors to-day thoroughly for the 21st International Motor apparatus,' and generally a greater the tendency than ever to make the Exhibition, organised by Society of Motor Manufacturers car fool-proof. Medium-pressure and Traders, and there are pre- tyres of high efficiency and the sented for the delectation of the more widespread adoption of un- as standard general public the fruits of the splinterable glass past year's activities in the motor equipment are two outward and visible indications of the concern factories of the world.
of the maker to make ears safer than ever.
AH! A ROLLS.
Broadcast Engine Beats.
Can you identify a car by the beat of its engine?
One day last month broadcasting station 5CL. Adelaide, gave motor- ists an opportunity to try out their aural abilities.
A number of different makes of cars-from Fords to Rolls Royces were lined up in a city garage, and the sound of engines in each case was transmitted to listeners.
Prizes of $8, £2, and £1 were offered for listeners who gave the
in their proper order. correct lists of the cars broadcast
appears to have been stayed, and The dominant note at this year's
there is a tendency to return to side-by-sido valves. There is Show is that of consolidation.
little doubt that quieter running The car of 1928, as exhibited at is more readily obtainable by em- Remarkable as has been the pro-
Of the gress of the motoring industry Olympin, is not only easter, safer ploying the side valve. since its inception, it is beyond its and more comfortable to drive, Aleeve valve it can be said that genius to produce each year some, but more economical, both as re-it is holding its ground and even thing revolutionary in the way of gards time and money, to main-creeping forward in favour. design. Those who visit Olympia tain. There are many indications
Little is revealed in the way of this year in the desire to be of the efforts of makers to secure thrilled by epoch-making depar-reduced consumption of fuel. all, change in regard to transmission The dry single plate tures will accordingly be dis and tyres without sacrifice of per-systems.
formance. Thera are now com- clutch has carried the field, but appointed, for there is nothing in the way of a first-class sensation.
Principal Features.'
to be found as optional fittings at an increased cost on the six- cylinder Lea-Francis and Vulcan chassis.
Suspension systems show little change, though there have been huprovements.
Shock absorbers
What the discerning visitor will aratively few modern British some manufacturers still pin their see is evidence on every hand of cars that have not a really good faith to the cone and multiple | an important advance towards the hot-spot device in their induction plate patterns, which are not to Jay-outs, and there is a steady in. be despised. There were indica- ideal of safer, easier, and cheaper crease in the use of the exhausttions some time ago that this. motoring.
gases instead of the cooling water year's show might present cars Ito secure this hot. spot, with semi-automatic gear changes. Economising of oil is receiving or some sort of free-wheel device To take first the point of much attention, and extensive oil to allow of easy coasting and Of the various cheaper mutoring, it cannot be filtration, or, as it is sometimes saving in fuel. said that this year's Show reveals called, rectifleatlon, is steadily types that are being experimented The principal with at present the one that has anything in the way of sensational gaining ground.
Here and desideratum in an oil rectifler claimed the greatest' attention reductions in price.. there substantial enough cuts are is that the oil shall be filtered embodies the action of a free-..
the outside the engine proper which wheel clutch in the drive from the to be noted, but they are
ensures that to gearbex mainshaft to the propeller natural.result of improved many-automatically
Devices of this kind are Tacturing methods rather than the some extent it shall be cooled at shaft. outcome of cut-thront competition. the same time.
Economy in the time required to These reductions are mainly to he found in the lowest priced cars look after a car is another aspect produced in large quantities. As of motoring which is not being some overlooked. The outstanding ir to level matters up,
actually in-example in that respect is the makers have creased the price of their models, adoption of central lubrication on not because they cannot afford to sonic models, notably that intro- sell them at the former price, but duced on this year's Armstrong- cars. Every owner- because they have incorporated Siddeley valuable improvements which they driver knows the time, trouble, know the discerning purchaser is and temper expended in greasing willing to pay a bit more for. It up a chassis by the still too preva is gratifying to find, however, that lent system of grease nipples, in each case where price reduc- often inaccessibly placed. Lions have been made there has central lubrication system pro- been no sacrifice of existing tvides a pedal-operated oil-pump tings or any lowering of the which supplies the principal parts On the con of the chassis and is actually efficiency standard. trary, the general trend of policy operated at the beginning of a while the car is in is, to give to the purchaser of mass day's run produced cars something more in motion. Oll is used instead of
of operation are the way of extra comfort and grease, and, as it is forced to the
pipes, each of which supplies improved. On several cars it is efficiency for less cost.
several bearings, at a pressure of possible to adjust all four brakes Comfort and Colour.
50 b. per square inch. It helps to
from the inside of the car by hand, Under the heading of greater keep out dust and dirt from the and all round a desirable increase confort must also be placed larger important parts. Manufacturers in the size of brake drums is to and roontier undies, better all have now realised that the private recorded. As to the relative! weather equipment in the case of owner's ultimate satisfaction from merits of servo, or dircet pedal touring cars, and more adequately his ear depends to a large measure operating methods, it is unwise to saloon on the case with which that car be dogmatic, but generally speak- ventilated and quieter
In this connexion the can be kept in good working ordering the impression seems to be bodies. grent development of the fabric and the extent to which its owner that, while big cars require some Almost remains independent of the pro- sort of assistance for the driver to body must be noted.
fessional repairer.
every maker is marketing at least one example of a fabric body. either with a flexible frame of the. Weymann type or a rigid frame insulated
The
"Sixes" v. "Fours." Bearing this consideration in chassis mind, it is interesting to find that How Fabric bodies are available this there are many new six-cylinder
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are now practically universal, and so also are balloon tyres on cars Many built for normal use. varieties of shock absorbers are employed, some checking only the rebound of the spring and some. checking the spring movement in either direction.
Four-wheel brakes are practi eally universal, and from British cars at least the external contract- ing band type has disappeared. The practice of ribbing the whee drums so that cooling is assisted is growing, and on the whole the methods
lessen the effort of rapid decelera- tion, no such aid. is neccssary in the case of small cara.
Supercharging.
The position in regard to super-
con- year in a great variety of pleasing cars at Olympia. The six-cylin-charging is not materially altered
designs and colours.
Metal-panelied bodies have been der engine is admittedly a more
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considerably improved both for complicated job than the four of cars to be seen at Olympin with open and closed cars, and celle-cylinder engine, and this fact, to this form of forced induction can lose finish is now almost univer-wether with the lower purchase I be counted on the fingers of one sally adopted. During the past and running costs of the "Four hand. They include the four- cylinder hypersports Lea-Francis twelve months the peculiarities of as against the "Six" of the same this type of hard-wear finish have effective power, must explain the and the 36/220 Mercedes.
increases in popularity, the In closing this review of the been carefully investigated, and circumstance that while the "Six" the troubles that were associated "Four" still remains, numerically, general tendencies, of the cars ex- with it in the early days have been the most popular type at the Show, hibited at Olympia, mention must overcome by eliminating sharp) curves in the body panels, where A good "Four is better than a be made of the fact that further poor "Six," and some manufac-evidence of the growing populari. the quick drying cellulose was liable to form a bridge which turers base their policy on the ty of multi-cylinder engines is fact that the public realises that furnished by the lecrease in the and eventually cracked.
Brighter, colour schemes are the potential service enpacity of a number of straight-eight much in evidence this year, and newly-designed "Six" is much twelve-cylinder cars. manufacturers have adopted to an more problematical than that of a manufacturers increasing extent attractive two well-tried "Four." With only few tone colours, The bugbear of exceptions, the
who are introducing new six cleaning bright nickel parts is lessened on some makes of cars cylinder cars are not doing so at by the adoption of new rustless the expense of their four-cylinder and tarnish-resisting metals and alloys which have been in course
models.
Tis
However, there would be na pro-
Press of Sightseers, Soon after the opening of the gates the brilliantly lit corridors were crowded with thousands of men and women, many of whom had come from distant parts of the Empire. There had been lang
of testing and improving sinceress if every manufacturer only queues at all the entrances for turned out cars which past ex-fully an hour before ten o'clock, 話 was primarily Among other details which have perience had approved, and the Although
last Show.
the
to do with casier, more comfort-c "Sixes," must, therefore, be. "Agents Day" and the price of able, and more esthetic motoring welcomed as an indication of an admission was 108., the man in the may be mentioned "the tendency enlightened spirit. Some of the street, with his wife, was strongly towards higher bonnets and radia-six-cylinder models produced for in evidence.
At midday it was not possible tors and towards carrying the the first time last year did not
fulfil all anticipations, but it is to walk round Olympia with any. body downwards outelde chassis frame to within a short safe to assume that in the con- comfort, so great was the press of distance of the running-boards, struction of this year's batch of sightseers. Not only the ground Single-pane wind-screens, more new "Sixes" the lessons learned floor; but, the galleries, wherein. efficient screen-wipers, the provi- on the road during the past twelve were great displays of accessories, sion of sun-visors or roof exten-months, have been fully taken were thick with people sions above the screen, are a few advantage of. There are about of the additional Items which store of new British and foreign make motoring easter, safer, and Sixes" at this year's Show, and in the majority of cases they have more comfortable.
behind them the reputation of famous manufacturing Armis..
Technical Tendencies.'.
Safer Motoring.
Then there is the most import- ant point of all, that of safer motoring. While increased safety Reviewing mechanical
ten-
The exhibition will remain open until October 22. Popular days, when the price of admission will be only 2s. 6d., will be on Fridays and Saturdays.*;
Last year it was estimated that £50,000,000 worth of business was done as a result of the Show. on the road must in the last resort dencies in greater detall, the first "This year," said a leading depend on the driver, himself, the point of note is that as regards manufacturer, "we shall at least manufacturer is certainly doing engine power the most popular touch the £70,000,000 mark his share to promote that Ideal. ratinge dre 12, 14, and 16 hp, think, in orders and cash sales.” His efforts in that direction are Next in popularity comes then, not always apparent in a super-group of cars of slightly over 20 ficial examination of the car, but The hitherto increasing close-technical scrutiny reveals supremacy of the overhead value
The entire putput for 1928; of one, famous British car is stated. hour of the opening of the Show. to have been sold within half an
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927.
Visit the
Fiat Showrooms
1
Steven's Building, Des Voeux Road, and let us tell you about the
1928 Models
RE DE
FIAT
WARNING. With every Fiat Dar a full guarantee is louued by this Company.
Every purchaser should obtain this guarantee, and see, that it bears the engine numbers of the machine purchased. The public is warned not to purchase a car without "this guarantee.
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