THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Everlasting Gears
THE
non-technical motorist knows that the Morris is remarkable value; that it is a most extraordin- arily reliable and efficient car, and that for the money there is no car to compare with it.
The technically minded may care to know of some of the factors by which this 'reliability is obtained. For example, Morris gears are practically everlasting because they are made from 31% Nickel Chromium case-hardened steel forgings. The tooth shapers for cutting Morris gears cost over £32,000 while the cost of the total gear plant exceeded £80,000. Non-technical motorists, if they would have still further proof of Morris value, should refer these facts to their technical friends.
Morris-Chaford four-easter YourTE,
MORRIS
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Luxury and comfort as understand them, were, outside our forefathers' kan... This wris particularly true in regard to travel.
READY FOR SPRING.
Makers Tackle Problem of Mud-slinging.
[By George C. Stead.),
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Gentle Movement Best."
The judicious use of gears on a car makes driving easy. How of many drivers with years experience know how to manipu- Inte the gears, and thus get tho best out of the car?
In their time a journey of a
Gears to most drivers are a few miles must have been some-
With the passing of the first mystery. They merely use them thing of an ordeal and those who month of the year spring appears because they have been taught that went travelling were looked upon appreciably nearer. The motorist the car will not go unless it is in as real bull men," with some looks forward to making fuller use gear. And so the rudiments of reason. The roads were terrible, of his car than in the dreary the gear are known to the driver. the vehicles that traversed them, months of winter. though sometimes weatherproof, were clementary in design, and, the present-day motor owner would not put up for a moment with the conditions that were overday mat- ters a hundred years ago.
Although it may be somewhat who can get into first, second, and carly to get the car in form for top.
The gearbox, which is one of its next acason's work the fact that the car spends a long time in the most vital parts of the car, the garage allows the owner the suffers more wear and tear than opportunity to attend to many any other part of the machine, small details of adjustment, or becauso every movement of a The evolution of the motor lubrication. Instead of leaving driver levies its toll upon the vehicle followed very similar lines the preparation of the car until mechaniam.
Incessant changing of gears to those of its predecessors on the the last moment, the work can be road. At first it was a crude more simply and conveniently brings about a condition in the vehicle, in which, the designers' done if it is effected by instal car which will have serious re- sults if ordinary care of the gears efforts were directed rather to im- menta.
Those who have disposed of is not observed. proving the mechanical efficiency
Most drivers from their frat than to seeing to the comfort of their cars and are considering the the passengers. As time went on, purchase of a new one would do exparienca have little or no idea, however, the improved mechanical well to make their decision as soon of the exact functions of the gears. eflictency of the vehicle culled for as possible, and place the order. They are taught to get into gear, better conchwork. The mechani-If it la delayed it is possible that to change gear, and go into re- the manufacturers, overwhelmed Ical parts of the car were fulfilling with a rush of orders, will leave verse, and there the instruction]
ends. their functions with surprising the unfortunate who has placed There is no attention paid to stage was over. The general during some of the best motoring/conating; they are not oven told]
reliability and the pioneering
his order late without delivery public were beginning to take an weeks of the year. interest in what had previously been the pastime of a
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how to get from top to second, If delivery is taken early the which is one of the most important owner will have an opportunity of moves which the driver is called minority, and the manufacture of getting used to his ear before, he upon to make, sooner or later. motor-cara, instead of being antaris serious work with it, and The double shuffle, which is the Industry which supplied the wants can get b's engine into first-rate means of making gear-changing of the few had become an industry condition by driving it gently for easy, is never shown to the now which supplied what was almost a the first few hundred miles. The driver. Many a car has been necessity to the many.
New Problems.
extra expense need scarcely be worn out, and the driver has never feared, as this will only consist of known what the double change. a higher price of the licence and could do towards making gear-
changing easy. Molor manufacturers soon for any extra garage charges.
Оде сап realised that when they were After a recent experience, int
see drivers pulling geara right through in a making a product for the general the company of many other motor-their public they were up against some cars, I have como to the conclusion clumsy movement, which is, a entirely new problems. "Comfort that the mud-slinging propensities great strain on the car, and can was one of the first of these, and of the modern car are probably only make for the eventual ruin of comfort did not just mean a com-unique. The actual aquelching of the gears.
What drivers must remember fortable driving position. It re-the mud from the road by the presented rather the general hap-tyres can scarcely be prevented at when changing gears is that a piness of the owner of the vehicle. present, although low pressure
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No car owner can be called com-tyres are bigger offenders than system of cogs operates within the fortable If he knows that the those of the narrowed section, Bearbox connecting with n re vehicle he is driving is likely, to Yet it would not present a difficult valving shaft, which goes through- break down. It is, certainly not problem to prevent mud being out the longth of the car. comfortable to have a noisy back thrown on to the bodywork and axle drive, or brakes that may or on to the windows of the car.
may
Problem Tackled.
Correct speeds of acceleration must be observed to get those cogs to combine with the revolv ing shaft, and when the fault occurs a clash of gears is the re-
not function. General mechanical excellence was as neces-
The makers of a few of the sary as the comfort of the body- work, but the latter did not receive world's better bodies have tackled sult. The damage which is done the attention it merited until the problem seriously, but in some by one clash of the gears cannot recently. Combined with all this, cases the result, though efficient in be immediately known, but an the vehicle, if it was to have a its action, Is ungainly and un-examination of the gears in a fow wide appeal, must be sold at a beautiful in appearance. On the months' time will show how they
ather hand, makers of sporting have been worn. moderate price.
Pieces will be chipped off tho cars are experimenting with the This year motor manufacturers bicycle type of mudguard, which gears and they will be worn down have made a special effort to fallows closely the contour of the as though a file had been used to study the wants of the car owner tyre, with excellent results. It fa complete the job. The stripping| of moderate means. No longer is therefore obvious that there is a af gears is all the result of care- it necessary to spend a large fairly efficient solution of this lessness in operation, that is sending the revolving gears in the Rum to experience the joys of road mud-guarding problem.
This travel only known to owners of
mud-slinging differs opposite direction to the revolving cara costing well above £1,000 according to the formation of the shaft,,
One thing the driver should re- tread of the tyre. A smooth, well- few years ago.
worn cover, for instance, does not member, and that is to handle the spray mud about so much as a gears carefully. There is new cover with cleaneut ridges or necessity to force them, and whan grooves. The alm of tyre-makers such a move is mado the result fan' is to produce a cover which is as disastrous.
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endurable and long-lived as pos- It should be remembered that sible, but little attention appears the gears are delicate, although to have been paid to the problem they stand a good deal of knocking of mud-throwing.
Mud-splashing on the aides of about. The most gentle movement bodies is often caused by mud will be just as effective as a deliberately strong movement, which has already been trapped by the front mudguards, and which which only tends towards bringing has trickled down to the edges. that inevitable crash.
The most Important change The wind of the car's passage. catches these drops and blows which is seldom shown to the be The ginner is from top to second,' Da them back on to the body. more expensive types of mudguard most cars this move is not always have a gutter on their outer edges required, but at some time or other in a driver's experienco ho may which prevents this happening,
Improvements in mud-guarding find it necessary
A steep pinch on a hill may often could be effected if a form of guard could be invented which necessitate a quick change, and would more closely enshroud the only the knowledge of this change cover and which would not permit mud to escape either at the front can save one from an unenviable
experience. the back or the sides. The ques- tion of combining utility with beauty is, of course, quite another problem.
MATCHES & MOTOR
Like all changes, it must be On most cars the practised. change is a complete movement. In the attempt one is able to miss the change, and the result is that if the brakes do not hold one finda
the car slipping down the hill.
Practice on gear-changing will
never go amiss, and in driving the man who knows every move in his car is the safe driver.
A Ban in Ecuador.
may Matches and motor cars
Study gears, treat them gently, have nothing in common to the layman but to H. S. Welch, keep them well olled, and the car Manager of Export Sales of will outwear the car which is not The Studebaker Corporation of given the consideration it deserves. America, they mean something in which is not given the considera- so far as automobile shipments to tion It deserves,
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