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“Yes, but t’ink of all de work you'd have figgerin' yer Income Tax.”
THE PROBLEM OF RUBBER DISCS MAY
DISPLACE SPRINGS.
SPEED.
Views of Studebaker Expert.
London Inventor Successfully Tries Out
Patent.
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WONDERFUL PRE- CISION.
Ford Blocks Used in Measuring.
The time has come to stop aide-
Among the exhibits at the ro- stepping the problem of speed on
An interesting account of a cent Ford Industrial Exposition the highways, is the opinion of Paul G. Hoffman, Vice-President London for a car of small horse- tion was that of the Johansson springless chassis developed in which attracted particular atten- of The Studebaker Corporation of power, was given in a recent Issue gages, recognized as the world's America,
"Nailroads have proved that it is of The Christion Science Monitor, standard for precision measure- possible to attain both, high speed Spring action has been achieved by ments,
and safety. When we look back
discs which resemble gear wheels, a unique arrangement of rubber these dises being clamped between similar steel discs. ccdunt follows:
The complete
over the years We view with amusement the excitement that greeted the iron monsters of 1848 as they thundered over the rails at
"It is no good taking you for the fearful speed of 25 miles an
a run on an ordinary good London hour, Grave doubla. were even raised that human beings could road to demonstrate my springless ears,' said Walton Lawton Adams;
50 miles an hour and live.
pieces of tool steel, approximately 'g" by 1 3/8" by the specified size, and are hardened, ground, stabiliz ed, and finished to an accuracy with- in a few millionths of an inch from specified size.
Johansson biccks are rectangular
It is considered a remarkable travel at speeds of more than 40 or take you over the worst road achievement in mechanics to make to be found in this part of London," a flat-surface steel. With Johans- "In the field of individual trans-And he was as good as his word. son methods, a flat surface with: portation the motor ear has played This was to demonstrate to a Chris- an extremely high finish is pro an important part in breaking Lian Science Monitor represen- duced, which approaches nearer the down the barriers of time and dis-tative the merits of the Adams perfect plane than any other pro- tance. It is as foolish to put patent springless suspension sys-duced by man. These Bat-lapped legislative bars of a fixed charac-tem,
aurfaces, when thoroughly cleaned, ter in the way of development of
Turning into a new and appar-and rubbed, one on the other, with speed in motur car transportation as I would have been to pot speedently partly made road covered with slight inward pressure, will take great furrows and large potholes, hold as though magnetized and will limits on railways in the early many of which must have been a withstand a pull of 200 pounds, years of their development.
foot in depth, Mr. Adama then pro-
pick his way.
4
heric pressure,' capillary power in Scientists have offered ‘almon- minute film of oil on the lapped surfaces, and molecular attrac
"It is time to look at the problem ceeded to drive his ten-horsepower of highway safety from a new car at a speed of just forty miles point of view. One of the first steps is to get over the idea that hour without an endeavour to speed in itself is a dangerous thing. Traffic and safely experis -men who have studied. the
The Ford Motor Company bought "The car held the road perfectly question-know that speed in it- self in not the source of danger it and we drove comfortably without the American rights for making bumping over the uneven surface. the Johansson gage blocks in 1923.
Holds Road.
tion as an explanation of this phenomenon,
is popularly credited with being. The occupants of other cars picking They are now made in the Ford "It is not speed alone, but speed their ways at a walking pace gazed personal supervision of Mr. C. E.. Dearborn Laboratory under the in combination with other factors at us in amazement. It was truly that makes accidents. Fifty miles
Johansson. In acquiring_control a wonderful experience and must
an hour on the open road in the he experienced to be believed. To of these gage blocks Mr. Ford re- country may be safer than 25 one who has done so it is difficult cognized their importance in the miles an hour in crowded city to doubt that this system must
manufacture of interchangeable traffic.
"Any well constructed car, of the eventually replace the ordinary parts for automobiles where a standard of precision must be used metal leaf springs, present year is much safer at 60
in order to insure an accuracy on miles an hour under the proper "This very ingenious system ia parts within a few thousandths or conditiona than cars of a. similar the invention of Mr. Adams, who ten thousandths of an inch. class were 15 years ago at 30 miles is a believer in rabber as a shock
absorber.. One generally thinks of These accurate gage blocks are an hour. One stretch of road may rubber spring as being attained used by the Ford Motor Company be safely covered at 60 miles an by the use of rubber cord of vary in the manufacture of their vari- hour-another may be unsafe at ing length and strength. Mr. Ad-ous transportation units, and are ams saw that this would not sold to American manufacturers
30.
"No one can deny that there is be practicable for a motor car, and who are availing themselves of the rent danger in speed plus un-] SQ conceived the idea of using opportunity of securing the gaging favourable conditions for speed on rubber discs which would take a tools that will insure accuracy, the highway, but speed in itself torsional or twisting strain.
One of the sets on display at the docs not necessarily create
"This has been achieved by the exhibit had blocks, each of which hazards. High speed it intersec-use of three simple parts for each was a millionth part of an Inch tions, in turning corners, passing wheel, There is first a serrated different from the next. pedestrians or passing other traffic rubber disc which resembles a genr
in the face of oncoming traffic wheel with gear teeth on both sides. from the other direction is a real This fits into two corresponding
menace.
metal-toothed discs, one of which type, are easily and cheaply manu- "Legislation and enforcement is secured to the frame and the factured and would apparently be should concern itself not so much other to the end of a radius arm. immuno for damage. They have with speed he with those acts of a The parts are clamped together, been tested for 20,000 miles with- driver which, combined with the rubber being under compres but visible wear, but even should. speed, result in accidents. Let us sion and the whole load of the car wear occur, the rubber discs are stop arresting the sane motoriat is taken by the rubber discs. Any canfly and cheaply replaced with the who is doing a sensible 45 miles movement of the axle thus causes simpleat of tools. an hour on a fast road in the open a torsional strain on the rubber country, and concentraté on discs. Mr. Adams has found that drivers like the short corner-cutter a radius arm of about two feet
an axle movement of about six inches,
In town who may be doing only, 15. length gives sufficient strength for Fixed limits do not in themselves promote safety; they make law breakers out of motorists and often permit constables to bring!
No Itebound.
discredit on highway policemen "Unlike a metal leaf or coll
28 a whole by affording oppor-spring, rubber does not store up Lunities for petty graft,
any appreciable energy so as to
“Mr. Adams showed the remark- able way in which a car fitted with his device held the road, by driving over bad potholes without hold- ing the steering wheel. An ordin- ary car must have been thrown off its track, but his car kept straight on. Asked if skidding! was affected, Mr. Adams, after ac celerating on a stretch of wet, slip- pery wood paying, applied the brakes hard but without prodúc
"It is time to meet the new concause a rebound after its compresing any sign of a skid. It seemed ditions of highway safety with aton, but merely returns to ita nor- fresh point of view and con- mal tension; this does away with a good answer to the question. centrate on safety rather than on any necessity for shock-absorbing "The system is applicable to any the antiquated theory that any devices. The parts going to make form of springing, being just as thing over 30 miles an hour is up this suspension system are light- efficacious in the case of a chair recklessness,"
er than the usual metal-leaf as in that of a three-ton truck." "
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