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Gigantic projects are nowy under consideration regarding new motor roads across the Continent of Eu- rope.
A German-Swiss-Italian consor tium has been formed, and it is planning two great Trans-Conti-
Grinding valves ie not a panacea have thought of obtaining bush-nental roads for automobiles, .. for all motor ills, nd' the recomings and roaming out the holes to On these roads nothing will be mendations of auto mechanics them, but havo been told that permitted save fast motor traffic, ofton BIOTI to imply Valves this would be an expensive job, and a speed of 40 miles an hour will should be ground only when they as it would necessitate drilling be the minimum.
are known to be leaking, which out the eyes,etc. at'a machine with the superior materials how shop. Could the holes be filled in
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It is proposed that roads from Dieppe, Havre and Cherbourg shall meet in Paris, and that that road and the motor-way from Granville, Brest and Saint Nazaire will all converge on Tours,
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in use is only after much longer with metal or coment so that new Hamburg and will go across coun- service than was formerly the bolts would be tight? What can try to Frankfort-Main, Basle, case. Ignition defects and short you suggest?
Zürich, Milan and Genoa, comings in carburation should Answer: We do not believe it "Another, coming from Stettin, be eliminated, as causes of engine would be possible to fill in the will pass Berlin, Leipzig. Munich misperformance, before "tackling" the valves. The motorist should holds to fit new bolts, Nothing and Verona, and will join the first remember that grinding valves that could be used for this pur- at Genoa. involves a corresponding wearing Pose would stay in place, in our From Genoa the road will lead vid opinion. Probably the most prac away of their seats in the cylinder- ticable ways to have all holes Fiss, Florence, Rome and Naples, block and that when the seats are thus enlarged much beyond their ored out to the diameter of a to Reggio, at the extreme southern orignal width, trouble will prob- larger bolt and oven this would point of the "boot" of Italy.
bo expensive, because of the dim- French authorities are now con- ably develop and a reseating job culty of drilling the spring-eyes,sidering the problem of linking up will be required. Extensive grin which are probably very hard. It with these important Trans-Con- ding of valves with emery, auch would not pay to fit bushings, tinental routes, and the French sug is is necessitated when their faces considering the age of the car. gestions are certain audacious" are badly warped, pitted or groov-You better put the problem up to ed, is highly inadvisable, because
some concern that makes a specia- of the widening and deforming of lity of spring work and see if they the sents thus entailed. A badly
can suggest anything. burned valve face should be re conditioned in a spécial grinding machine (or the valve discarded)
From Tours there will be one instead of any attempt being mado
Question:-My car was in a road to Lyons. There it will split to work it to a seat with abrasive compound and seriously defective collision about a week ago and up into three one going to Mar- seats should be lightly reamed the front end was rather badly soilles, a second to. Nice and the rather than being smoothed up damaged. I had everything ro-third direct to Genon, where all with emery. The principle value paired and it now runs firstrate, three will be connected by a coast of grinding compound is to finish except that it constantly pulla road with the German-Swiss-Italian the face and seat, which have both over to the right hand side of the highway. been trued up approximately by road and I have to be correcting tooling. Much time and labour is this tendency all the time. What wasted and much unnecessary do you think is wrong and how wear of valve seats is occasioned can it be corrected? by ill advised attempts to obtain
Answer: Something about the n ring of contact on the valve front end was not restored to its henti s hoped, too, that to finding it difficult to come with.
It is therefore necessary to add face the full width of the scat proper position, when repairs were will link up with the system at to travel facilities by creating This is unnecessary and even in made. We suggest that you have Saumur and Tours. -
these great motor highways. advisable, as a ring of contact the following points chocked up On these projected roads motor- not over one-half the width of the and corrections made if found car speed will be practically un-franes to Franco will, it is believed Tourists who bring milliards of seat, if it be perfectly continuous, necessary: The front axle should limited. is fully as effective in securing be perfectly parallel with the rear
appreciate this mode of travel, as They will be from 80-ft. to 200-ft.it will enable them to see much gas tightness. Efforts to grind axic. Possibly one side of it may wide and will have petrol stations more of the country than they to tightness valves which are have been pushed back on its and restauranta at intervals.
would otherwise. loose in the guides are usually spring. Both front tyres should All minor roads en route" will Plans for the construction of worse than fruitless. New guide touch the floor at point slightly to lead up to them, and at all points bushing ahould be fitted.
the rear of a vertical line dropped where there are cross-roads there through the hub cap centre. will be a perfect system of signal Front wheels should stand pracing. Question:-The slincklebolts of tically parallel when the car is
The great advantage of such my 1922-car are so loose in the pointed straight ahead. They spring-eyes and shackle plates should not too out in the slightest, roads will be that there will be no villages and towns to pass through, that the car is very noisy on rough but toe in by not more than one-though special side ronds will lead Lord Montagu of Beaulieu has roads, and I find that these bolts quarter inch. The front wheels have no bushings and that the ought to stand so they point down-o the various places en route. holes in which they were fitted ward and toward one another at have worn to an oval shape: 1 equal correct angles.
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The interesting point about the French motor roads is that they will be overhead roads constructed above the railways and solely de yoted to motor traffic.
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motor roads in England have been put forward at various times in re cent years..
A London-to-Birmingham motor- way, to be carried through by private enterprise at a cost of £6,500,000 has been proposed.
Also given details of a private pro-| It is felt that if motor traille in-ject for 'constructing a motor road creases in the next few years as it from London to Manchester, to cost has done in the past half-dozen £16,000,000:
years traffic on the existing kind A projected motorway from Lon- of high roads will become impos- don.to Liverpool met with opposi sible, unless the scheme of special tion from the railway. automobile roads rapidly material The Northern and Western izes.
molorway from Coventry to Man- Tourlet traffic has during the chester, linking up Birmingham and past two or three years increased to the industrial Midlands, has also such an extent that the railways are been put forward.
In February 1926 the Minister of Transport foreshadowed the 'con- struction of a long stretch of main
The death took place recently of! What does it mean to the motor song 'Get Out and Get Under and road, parallel to one of the coun- Monsieur Pierre Peugeot, one of car owner when an automobile is that it is possible to own an au- try's great trunk roads, for experi The founders of the great French produced which will travel 26,000 tomobile that will give day-in and mental purposes. motorcar manufacturers of that miles in less than 25,000 minutes? day-out service with minimum re A £2,500,000 scheme to construct name. Whilst identified with the The above question has been pairs for thousands, and thousands a special road from London to interests of the firm from the begin-going the rounds in motor circles of miles. That's what motorists Brighton for motor vehicles only, ning he was not the Peugeot chief-since carly, in November, when want and that's the sort of service with 40 miles of special track ob ly responsible for the leading place three Studebaker Commanders each The Commander gives. The test tained the support, in April 1925, the firm took in the early days of travelled 25,000 miles in less than proves this beyond all doubt." of a new company to carry it out. the automobile industry. That was 25,000 minutes at the Athletic City Mons. Armand Peugeot, who died Speedway, By this remarkable in 1915.
run, The Commander shattered The original business, before the every known endurance and speed. motor era, was connected with the record for fully equipped stock manufacture of toys and small cars, regardless of power or price, goods and wholesale fronmongers, The answer to the question has which had been originally founded been given as follows:
by their fathers. When the bicycle "The 26,000 mile run is the most: first became popular In France they significant engineering feat known took up the manufacture of these to automotive history. It was i machines and thus got interested in test that may be compared to a rond locomotion.
magnifying glass that intensifies Later, when the possibilities of the rays of the sun to the burning mechanical propulsion began to be point.
talked about and experimented with, "Never haa automobile perform- they collaborated with Serpollet in ance been so severely explored be the construction of a steam curfore. Never have automobiles been riage.
driven so far so fast as The Com- Petrol Replaces Steam.
manders travelled. Never have pis- They were persuaded, however, tons, cyclinders, crankshafts, valves, by the early success of the Pan-axles, transmissions and all of the hard vehicles fitted with the Daim-other vital parts of an automobile. ler engines, for which Panhard-been asked to carry such terrific Lovassor were agents, to try petrol, loads for such long periods of time. They built a car with cycle-built "In fact several years of ordin- wire wheels and driven with a two-ary driving were crowded into 16 cylinder V. engine, which they daya in this 25,000 mile run, bought from Panhard and mounted Scores of thousands of ordinary in the rear of the car in the post-motor car miles were driven into tion favoured by Benz, Daimlors each of the three cars in a little rival at that period.
more than a fortnight. Yet the This engine of 2 hp-thioy cars came through with flying fitted horizontally, and their first colours. Two of The Commanders car was timed through with the averaged 05.31 miles per hour; and bicycles in the race from Paris to a third set an average of 61.08 miles Brest and back in 1891, and by per hour. No cars in fact noth- dint of several repairs, executeding made by man-has over gone during the night they managed to so far, so fast. *** got it through at an average speed "The true significance of the of about 10 m.pk/
tour test is the proof, it furniches that post is a clock. The clock is net From this beginning the business The Commander will give years of for a length of time and at the end grow and they undertook to build care-free, reliable and economical A new method of traffic control of that perod, the arms turn round when England was just commen-ditions.
their own engines, and by 1896; service under average driving con- Ja being tried out at Locds. Tho device consists of a signpost with opening traffic in the opposite cing, were already Panhard's prin- "It means that the motor car four arms, bearing the signs, direction,
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