THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1928.
To be
As Good as Buick
a car would need to have.
A 81x-Cylinder Valve-in-
Head Eugines
A Vibrationles Exgine...
with all mountings of reali.
ent silending rubber
A Triple-Sealed Engines,
A Vacuum Cleaned Crank.
casti
Automatic Heat Controlt Thermostatic Control of water circulation;
4
Sealed Charley
MAKING BETTER HEADLIGHTS.
General Motor Research,
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It is the GREATEST
Torque-Tube Drivet
Automatic Lubrication of
engine, universal joint and
for hul
One place, I-beam Front Axles
Cantilever Rear Springy
Fisher Body with V. V.
Windshield
Duco Finish
Ten-Plate Multipia-Dine Clutch
Controllable, Beam Head lights
Mechanical 4-Wheel Brakes:
Balanced Wheels,
WHEN BETTER
AUTOMOBILES ARI BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD TIEM
EVER BUILT
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Full-sized bodies of excep tional fineness, roomier by far than any other car of comparable price. Long, flexible car springs and extra- large balloon tyres, giving you all the comfort of a large, high-priced car.
It has power, speed and accel eration characteristic of all
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AZOHRYSLER
In the upper view is the headlight laboratory of Gen- eral Motors Research Laboratories in Detroit, where lights are tested and improved. Lower photo is a close-up of the apparatus by which better lenses and reflectors are built up.
Lighting engineers are trying to When the beam is lowered, the! make night driving safe and en-road is illuminated as intensely as joyable by designing a set of head-before, in fact even more so, but lamps that will be fool-proof, that closer in the car and over a small- will always throw the right kinder area. The result is that, no of beum, that won't glare into matter how powerful the lights of other drivers' eyes and that will the approaching car, the depressed illuminate the road sufficiently and beum affords sufficient. counter- far enough ahead to afford as fast effect to almost nullify, the glare of the other car and at the same driving us daylight does.
time light up the roads to the right.
Work done in one of the best laboratories in the country points to, the fulfillment of this order al- most to the last requirement.-
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Dimming of the light, as has been the practice, is like driving| In a large dark room on the in total darkness, compared with ground floor of the General Mo-the latest achievement.
Despite this progress, however, tors research building in Detroit,
R. N. Falge and his assistants engineers have had to face the have been experimenting with all more irritating problem of lights sorts of lighting arrangements for ketting out of focus and adjust- the improvement of this part ofment. They have therefore tried the automobile. Fulge is head of to develop a foolproof headlamp the lighting division of General that would need no focusing. Motors research laboratories,
Non-Focusing Lamp.
Duzens of types of headlamps At the General Motors research ure racked along the side wall of laboratories, Falge and his assis- this long, wide room for compara-tants have been moving the fil- tive study. Posts and signs are ment of a headlamp about in a cir- act up and an automobile is park-cle up to 60 thousandths of an
ed in the distance to stimulate ac-linel from the exact focal point to tual street conditions.
Study Lenses and Reflectors.
discover the effect of each position
Jon the beam ahead.
As a result of this study he has In front is an apparatus on devised what he calls a non-focus- which four headlamps rest. Herefing headlamp which would elimi- various types of reflectors arenate the necessity of such adjust- placed, lenses of all kinds are at-ment, At present the bulb in the ached and changes are made to headlamp has to be moved back- guide the engineers in their study. ward or forward by means of a Four reflectors of one type, for screw in the back, in order to get instance, are partly blacked so the proper type of beam.
The non-facusing hendlamp is that, if the four unblacked por- tions were to be united they would so designed that the filament or make a complete reflector of the bulb may be jarred out of place Thus, as much as 60 thousandthe of an type under examination. each of these sections-not neces-inch without affecting the efli- sarily equal in design or size, but clency of the beam. all combining to make one com-) plete unit can be studied for its effect on the illumination of the
road and the shape of the reflector possibly improved.
Similarly, horizonial sections of varinus types of lenses are pliced, one above the other, in front of a lamp and the effect of each type
Road Test of Lights. Before final approval is given alge goes but to put it to actual for 'such development, however,
test, on the roads about Detroit or Int the General Motors proving grounds. For this purpose he has a standard automabile, but with four headlamps in front and three or of all combined in observed on tail lights in the rear. On the the flour and screen ahead.
dash lie has a complicated ar As a result of these studies, the rangement of buttons or switches, illuminating engineers have suc by means of which he can produce ceeded in broadening a beam of all sorts of combinations in light- light considerably, equalizing the ing his head or tail lights. Illumination over the entire rond Thus, driving along any road, surface and maintaining a bright up hill or down, around corners light while eliminating glare. and on straight stretches, Falge We now can see even around has been able to observe the re- ments. He has been able to test the lights against those of ap- proaching, carn.
corners,
Double Beam in Use.
Not satisfied even with actual Eliminution of glare without, dimming of hendinmps has-al-practice, Falge has taken pletures ready been accomplished and is in of all his experiments. By com- practice on the better automobiles.baring pictures, he has been ablo This is done by means of the to ascertain definite effects and double or depressible beam head-improve on the basis of positive lamp. A switch throws the light fuct. He has not trusted his own from one filament in the bulb to eyes.
another, thereby either lowering It was in this way that Falgo or raising the beam of light as designed the non-focusing head- desired...
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