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SATURDAY, MARGH SL, 1928.
FOUR CYLINDERS TO ATTEMPT 150!
1928 A. J.S. CYCLES
Here are Wilbur Slaw and the Whippet Four in which ho will attempt to set a record for four-cylinder cars. To do it he'll have to skim over the sands of the Daytona Beach, Fla., course at a pace better than 142 miles an hour, this being the mark set in 1912 by Bob Burman, driving a Blitzen Benz. The Whippet Special was assembled in the Willys- Overland factory.in Toledo, O., where Shaw completed his experiments. lip says he may be able to "do 150" in the Whippet.
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INNER TUBES.
Intricacies of Manu-
facture.
The following Interesting article
on inner tubes is contributed by "Ford Dunlop," an English
"authority:~~~
continual demands for tyros and yet more tyres it is the Fort's job to antisfy.
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EASIER MOTOR DRIVING.
Standard Controls
Wanted.
For some time past, says a llome
THE SUPER- CHARGER.
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Increases Engine
Efficiency.
Racine, Wis., Feb. 20-A simplo motoring correspondent, motorists and practical supercharger is now have been wondering when ear on the automobile market. manufacturera in this country The apparatus is not a super- would docide on a standard posi-charger in the sense that pres- tion for the controls, particularly eure is used to convert fuel into with regard to the acceleratora nely atomized and highly com pedal, and now a lead has been bustible mixtures, but the results given by the Society of Motor oblained are similar. Manufacturers and Traders who represent the interests of the trade in this country,
P. J. F. Batenburg, inventor of the super-charger, which he is This body has just issued a re-manufacturing here, says the device commendation that the accelerator applicable to automobile, avin- pedal should be placed on the tion, marine and stationary on- right-hand side of the clutch and gines.
brake pedals, that is to say, on "The real function 'of'any super- the off-alde of the car. They also charger," says Datenburg, "lics in recommend standard positions for breaking up the fuel more finely the gears when a right-hand and in charging all cylinders oven- change la employed,
ly with a combustible and homogo-
It has long been a source of neous mixture. complaint, and it is also asserted that it is a cause of danger, that "The super-charger refines the the various foot pedals which con-output of the carburetor, checks the trol a car are not always placed flow of raw fuel to the walls of the in exactly the same order. As intake manifold, makes starting far as the brake and clutch are easier, affords better acceleration," concerned, the position of these produces better fuel economy, makes has been standardised by many engines more flexible and increases years' custom, but the accelerator all-round performance as a result pedal, as it is really an interloper of the better mixture characteris
Lies." on the floor boards, has wandered from one place to another with-
There are no moving parts to the out ever finding à permanent res device. The super-charger or mixer ing home.
acts as a safety check in prevent-
"
The accelerator pedal is a-coming passage of raw fuel unmixed paratively modern Invention, for with air.
not so many years and ear engines were controlled by hand throttle-
The liquid is taken off the walls
alone, which was usually mounted of the manifold, mixed with air, on the steering wheel. When the the resultant mixture reversed and, little pedal'appeared it was mount-thrown back as into the centre of
ed in any convenient position on the air stream.
the floor boards, and to the pre- A "catch basin" saves much of sent day makers are divided into the fuel that is ordinarily wasted. two main schools, one of which supertious fuel not immediately places the pedal between the brake needed by the engine is trapped in and clutch control, and the other the basin where it is available at in a line with them on the right once for rapid acceleration, pr hand side.
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The results from the use of this | The Wrong Pedal.
device most quickly noticed aro This practice often causes con-eusier starting in cold weather, fusion. A motorist who has to belter acceleration, better fuel mile drive more than one car or who age, elimination to a great extent has changed his model, may find of crankcase oil dilution and bet- the transposition of the pedal from ter general engine performance. ene position to the other a source
of danger. For instance, the!
ing machine which vulcanises driver who has been used to his should be inside forward, the elmultaneously both inside and accelerator in the middle, between second inside back, the third for- the brake and the clutch, when he ward through the gate, and top out; the valve hole is punched and changes cars might, in an emer-back on the outside. It must be solutioned, and the tube, lying like gency, stamp on the accelerator remembered that these are only ro- Fascinating to watch the evolu- pink whiting with its tall in its pedal in mistake for the brake commendations for the guidance tion of a motor tube! There is mouth, re-entera the vulcanising with disastrous results.
of the trade and cannot in any way no gradualness about it; great-chamber for the completion of the lumps of resilient red rubber, "cure" as the process is called.
Another opportunity, for stan be enforced. looking not in the least like a tubo,
dardisation for the convenience of
There will be, of course, many are fed into one end of what After that the value is fixed in the motorist is that of the gear appears to be a sausage machine; position and the tube is Inflated lever position in the gate for dissentients, as motordom is about of the accelerator. out of the other, cnd come yards ready to be tested. Girl operators engaging the various Rears. For equally divided as regards the und yards of motor tubes-and slip over the spokes of a large example, in a right-hand change position Although it does its work that is really all there is to it, rimless wheel, which, first stretch some carn have the first gear post- Speaking personally, I may say humbly and unseen, the motor although the tubes are not readying it to its correct size, carries tion on the inside. forwards with that I prefer an outside pedal for it under water, while the girls the second straight back, the third an ordinary touring car, but for tyre tube is the important and in- for the road just yet,
watch with eagle eye for any of through the gate forwards, and the racing purposes the central post- back on the outside. tlon has many advantages. With As soon as they appear from the tell-tale bubbles that mark fourth It is not decorated with any pat-
Others reverse the sequence, and regard to the gear position, out- tern: It is an inartistic shade of the "anusage machine" they are imperfect work.
any number of combinations are side is best in my opinion for the pink; it never gets any pralec; it taken away to bo vulcanfood.
South a tube is rejected; while adopted, which only result in con- top gear as this is the notch in which the lever is placed, most of the frat te récolve abuse; yet After that each tube la placed on
are deflated, fusing the driver. without it the outer cover. would a mandrel, and it goes through the the perfect ones
The Society of Motor Manufac- the time and the lover, is then as. process in its circular form, so marked with their size, packed, completely collapse.
that it will lie neatly inside its and sent into the stores,
turers and Traders, in addition to far away as possible from the Big, tabes, little tubes, thin cover without chafing or being.
From there, of course, they go recommending a fixed position of driver's leg..
The S.M.M.T. have made no tubes, fat tubes, all tumble out of unduly stretched...
to the world over travelling in the accelerator pedul, have there fore recommended in the case of Fort Dunlop, England, to the call
outer
right-hand changes for a three recommendations with regard to speed gear box, that the first central gear changes,
disponsable ally of the outer cover.
of the motorists of the world In When it is taken out of the partnership with their bent upon killing space la the vulcaniser, the ends are joined up overs, many a mile in many a shortest possible time, and whose by an ingenious automatic Join-, lqueer quarter of the globa,
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