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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
1928.
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Claim Superior Features.
A mechanic is shown here, before an opened motor, "displaying an entire cylinder assembly of
a Powell Leverage Engine,. The diagram at right shows the
Chiengo, July 30.-Automotive] speed, I ordinarily would take for engineers have become interested in a new type of engine that is and to produce double the power transmitted to it by the pressure of the exploding gas on the piston, It is called a Powell leverage engine because it adopts the principle of the lever between the piston and the crankshaft.
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the same power transmitted to the
The designers stress especially crankshaft in the existing motors. the long stroke, small bore and The designers of this motor claim smaller combustion chamber, all several advantages to the long of which they say combine to pro- stroke, double speed motors, duce high compression, greater among them being flexibility, greater turbulence due to the needful engine and all at less fuel cost. power, a faster and more power- of a smaller combustion chamber, greater economy in use of fuel, high thermal efficiency, high com- pression and greater durability.
This engine, nccording to its makers here, is so designed,
"While high piston speed in through 1130 of the leverage
ercanes the economy and flexibill principle, that the platon stroke ia ty of any engine," say the Powell double that of the crankshaft motor designers, "this feature in stroke. In ordinary motors the conventional engine shortens its plstun stroke, being directly con-period of usefulness through nected to the crankshaft., is the strain which cannot be avodied same as the stroke on the shaft.
Only the lever equipment la dif- ferent from the conventional motor In design. This has been made accessible by providing a plate at the side of the motor, the removal of which opens up the in- sides for inspection or repair.
The engine designed for pas- senger car service is made in six or straight eight models, with 2-inch hore, 6-inch piston stroke because the rest of the engine and 3-inch crankshaft stroke.
There is a six-cylinder bus The lever in about halfway be- must travel at a speed correspond-
In a engine, with 3-inch bore, 6-inch tween the piston and the cranking to that of the piston."
and 3-inch crankshaft shaft. Its fulcrum at ene end is bolted to the side of the cylinder, the other end is connected to the bottom of the piston rod, while at Its centre is the upper end of the connecting rod.
Doubles Stroke of Piston.
As a result of this arrangement, the piston can take double the stroke, and therefore double the
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PARKING IN SYDNEY.
Motorists in Quandary.
Confronted by "No Parking" notices in half of Sydney's streets, motorists immediately drive to the other half, and joyfully park their Little do they know that hris, too, is illegal, and they might be "booked" at any moment.
cars,
Parking in Sydney is done really on sufference. This much was learned at the Traffle Department recently. New streets are added every week to the "no parking" arca, and in the others drivers are met with gleaming yellow discs explaining that a car can be left only half an hour.
Powell leverage engine, the effect stroke of this piston speed is not more stroke, that is said to develop 85 rapid motion of other parts, but horsepower at 1900 revolutions a more power from the same amount minute. It weighs, with all acces-
sories, only 900 pounds. of fuel."
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The lever, it is added, is similar
In addition to these, a truck
to a reduction gear in that it re-design has four cylinders, of duces a high piston speed into a 2-inch bore, 8-inch plston stroke slaw r.p.m. of the crankshaft, with and 4-inch crankshaft stroke.
All bearings get force feed. resultant difficulties
lubrication. the weight of a reduction gear.
and
can do so, but motorists say that "obstruction to traffic" is a phrase that can be used in many ways.
Makes Allowances.
EDUCATING PEDESTRIANS.
No better proof of the efficacy of education in traffic safely can
be had than the example of San Francisco.
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THE AMMETER.
Some Points of Guidance.
Telephone Central 4821.
mined as correct is easily deter- RIM REPLACEMENT. mined. With the headlights and
tail light on and the automobile
going along at 25 miles an hour, Care Must be Observed. the needle of the ammeter should be pointing at the zero mark on the dial.
The "shimmying" of a tyre is
sometimes due to carelessness in
The point is that strictly, park- ing anywhere in the city streets
This city began shortly after the is against the law, but the Traffe Department, makes certain allow first of the year in applying the ances in particular streets. The regulations and methods suggest- department, however, is strongly ed by the model traffic ordinance against a motorist arriving in the of Miller MeClintock, the notod city in the morning leaving his traffic engineer, and already it car in some street all day, and notes a decided decrease in its then taking it away again towards toll of traffic deaths and injuries,
This ordinance is less one of compulsion than of prevention and education, and as such turns the
Pointing of the needle at zero, lows: First scrape with a le or tables on the old school of thought. main the mystery it seems to be with lights working and car ge- sandpaper all rust from the rim ing at 25 miles an hour, shows and felloe band; then turn the It provides for extensive use of au- with most of us.
The reason is that, of all parts that the generator is supplying wheel so that the valve stem is. tomatic algnals, marking of cross- walks, designation of parking and of the automobile, the ignition just enough energy to light the loading tones and other means of
to be the least lights while the battery in resting, on the top; then lift the top of " understood. The ammeter records The energy the generator aupthe rim onto the wheel, Insert the modern traffic control.
While the new law prohibits lay only a small part of that system, piles during the day goes futo the valve stem in its hole, and when walking, city oficials prevent this and even this part le sorely aeg- battery to keep it prepared for the satisfied that the lug near the habít by educating pedestrians fected.
job of starting the car. into crossing streets at intersec- tions and with traffic.
If the needle, under this con- the way the rim is placed on the [By Israel Klein.]
„Care must be exercised dition, is pointing toward the wheel. charge aide, the generator in over- to have the rim and tyre true on Perhaps the most important and charging the buttery. If it points the wheel, for if the rim is placed least noticed instrument on the toward the discharge side, the on the wheel so as to be out of dash board is the ammeter. The generator isn't charging enough true the tyre will wear quickly. dial might shift from charge to and the lighting system is drain- The way to put on a rim is as fol discharge, might vary in its re- ing the battery. cording day and night, and yet re-
evening. This, it says, is done frequently and if the culprit is caught he will be prosecuted.
One motorist when asked about parking grinned, and said that if his luck was In he wouldn't be booked," but if it was out then he would certainly receive a blue Although the Traffic Depart paper. "The joke of it is that mont takes a very, lenient view of you don't know when you are parking in such areas as Mac- breaking the law," he added. quarie-street and Gresham-street, Regarding the half-hour park tie against the law, and a con-acctions a motorist is in danger
car there as anywhere else, Of obstimet the traffic in any way the course, the car has to be an number is taken and the court is obstruction to traffic before he the next step.
system seema
Yet a few homely tips about the If the generator has been ad- yalvo stem and on the inside of stable can just as easily "book" a there also. If a car happens to In addition the city is conduct-ammater and what it controla justed to this point properly and the rim will fall into its hole on would save the driver the cost of the needle begins to move over the falloo "slam op" the bottom lag a safe summer driving eam his headlighting and other lightsward the discharge rate despite of the rim. Next put on the paign to cut down the toll during on the car, the generator and the this
adjustment-be assured wedge ring if that type of ring, the most hazardous period of the battery-important
Instruments your battery la drained dry. An- and screw on all of the lugs by year. Police
are co-operating, if the automobile is to run pro- other sign of this state of the hand. Then with a tool turn pne while other departments are help-perly.
battery is dimming of the head of the bolts until 47 gentle pres sure is required, then. go to the lights. ing along with such things as free
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brake inspection and headlight ad- For instance, a driver who Then, all that's needed is to re- one opposito it; then again across, after which go around the rim a Justment. Radlo, newspapers, knows his ammeter needn't get all the battery and go on.
number of times, giving each but women's clubs, the street railway out of his scat to see if his stop and the pulpits are being used to light is working, or if there's
The ammeter also will toll ja half turn until all are tight epréad trafic education, and as a enough water in the battery, or if when the battery terminals are result a further decline in street his battery is being overcharged. corroded. The needle will shift accidents is expected.
The ammeter will tell.
over to the discharge aide. Clean- Thus, while San Francisco must Take the matter of the stop Ing of the corroded termináld will have a law of some kind to con-light. With all other lights out, bring the needle back to the zero trol the recalcitrants, it lays most the act of depressing the brake mark. streas on methods of common pedal which should light the atop
The charging rate of the gen sense, of education and prevention signal causes the needle of the which appeal more to the people ammeter to jump slightly, to the orator needn't be any higher than than any number of compulsory discharge aide if that signal is about 10 amperes, at 25 mlles an rullugs.
hour, except when the automobile It is a method which other cities
So then, if the needle doesn't] is being used more often at night would do well to emulate..
make this jump at depression of than by day, or there is much the brake pedal, it's a certain starting and stopping.
If the generator keeps charg Some of the shops in certain sign that the stop signal is out.
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ing at a higher rate, there is the parts of the city find that their
During winter, the generator liability of burning out the head women customers are being incou usually is adjusted to charge the lamps or tail light. ventenced, especially when they battery at a higher rate than dur- drive their own cars,
Ways and means of avoiding thising summer in order to make up for extra use of the headlights. are being discussed by a number of But the generator shouldn't over- firms, and David Jonee, Ltd., have charge. acquired a special parking area in
The point at which the genera Cathedral street where an atten- tor charging rate may be deter- dant takes chargé of the cars."
working,
This; in fact, is one of the cauace to look for when the head lamps .burn out too often. The generator charging rate need only be reduced slightly to correct, this fault.
That should best be done by a service station ignition man.
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