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VALUE OF RACES.
Defects Quickly Detected.
PUBLIC BENEFIT.
[By the Hon. Maynard Greville.] (Morning Post Motoring Correspondent.)
Same time ago I was talking to a world-famous car designer. The occasion was during a long-dis- tance road race and his team had been doing moderately well.
"I hate these faces," he said. As his firm had built up a world- wide reputation on road racing, I thought this rather curious, but he "explained when he continued. "You see they are always showing me up. I bring out à perfectly good design, and it works well in the hands of the ordinary people to whom I sell my cars, but as sopa) as I get the care into one of these races something breaka and shows a weak point."
This statement, was certainly calculated to discount the iden that racing does not improve the breed.
There is a large and posibly! growing party in this country of people in the motor-ear industry who are opposed very strongly to |rncing or to any form of compeli-
tion, and their reasons,, at least) from their own point of view, are very sound. Only one car can win a race, and the success of the succesful one is made up out of the failures of the unsuccessful ones. It must be galling in the extreme to be, continually falling in competition with other makes, and the deficiencies which are re- vealed by the leat of racing might I well be successfully hidden in:
ordinary use.
It can therefore be easily under- stoud that the ordinary manufac- turer is shy of entering its pro- ducts in competition with other well-established firms, who may have made a practice of racing for years. He standa little chance of winning, and every time he looses it merely points out the fact that his product is not good enough.
For this reason there is, and always has been, a large body of manufacturers who consistently do everything in their power to stop motor racing, so that no one shall get any publicily out of it."
The great success of the faces for standard sporta cars has forced them temporarily into the back-. ground. Quite a number of people discovered at Olympia last year that the stands of those which had done well in the races throughout the year were always crowded with people.
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In America.
Car racing in America and developed on entirely different lines to Europe. There all the
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.
MARQUETTE CAR MAKES ITS APPEARANCE.
Buick Introduces New Six with L-Head Engine.
[Special Report to the Hongkong Telegraph.}
[By Israel Klein.]
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The Marquette, brought ant by Buick, as it looks in the Tour-door seaan mouet asoye. Front view is shown at lower right, with inset of the Marquetto emblem, while at loft is a view of the slanting windshield with tapering corner p'ost, peculiar to this car. Flint, Mich., Juno 1-Buick better than aluminum or alloy pta- Proceeding from one part of the dealers open their showrooms | tona. ·
nr to another, nothing but quality throughout the country to-day Another basic
Improvement and sturdiness of material can be with a new product on their floors among the low priced cars that has noted. The brakes arò of the two- the Marquette, a six-cylinder Lbeen introduced in the Marquetto shot, fully enclosed type, and the hond automobile.
is the use of steel-backed bearings system is so constructed that if
The Marquette, titled after that for the crankshaft. This type, in there happens to be a break oven famous, French explorer whose place of brass-backed bronze bush in the servo-cross-member, which adventures are linked with the inga, are said to be much sturdier is most serious, although hardly pioneer history of Michigan, ia a and to last much longer, although probable, at least one side of the surprise in more ways than one. they cost more and are harder to braking system can still be used.
First, we see an L-head motor make.
The wheels have heavy wood
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made the companion of a valve- L-head engines are notorious for lspokes or thick steel spokes, sturdy In head favourite. Second, we find their hard starting, even in com-fenough to carry twice the weight a comparatively large-sized auto-puratively warm weather. So to of the Marquette. On them are mobile for the price it is being facilitate easy alarting in the Mar- especially large tyres which help offered. Third, we are introduced quette, the Buick engineers have keep the car to the road at its to fentures in this smaller car that not only provided a thermostat highest spoede racing cars were absolutely special have heretofore been exclusive to arrangement to prevent the water A steering gear of the worm and vehleles, bearing but little resem: Its higher priced companion. And of the cooling system boing nut type, adjustable for wear, is blance to the ordinary touring finally we discover a low-priced further cooled by passing through of a size that permits of enay car, but lately what are known as machine into, which high quality the radiator too soon, but have steering under slow traffle condi- "stock car races" have been atart-materials and workmanship have added an automatic heat control tions while at the same time it ed in considerable numbers. The been put.
unit of the type used on the Buick-holds the car well in control at reason for this is probably due to So far as the ear's motor is con- By this, the first exhaust puffe high speed. the successful participation of cerned, it is nothing new in are immediately returned over tho | some of the most famous American | principle, But it does feature intake to heat the incoming fuel cars in standard car races in itself in the way it is put together mixture to a gaseous and more in- Europe. The success of Stutz and and in the various accessories | flammable stato. As soon as the Chrysler last year at Le Mans and applied in it to make it what its motor is warm enough, the heat struction the bodies, of six types, of Studebaker in the
recent manufacturers claim as "the best control opens wide to allow the are also well built as well as finely "double twelve" race at Brook performing engine in its price exhaust gases to leave the proper designed. Perhaps the outstand Hands may do much to popularise | clann.”
this form of event among the better-known American ear firms. Amerien is undoubtedly taking
way.
Has Starting Windshield.
In accordance with this con-
ing feature of the body is the slanting windshield to cast down- Many Good Fentures, Shines in Performance, ·
ward the glare of headlights from Other features of the Marquette behind. This is the first closed The cylindera have a bore of power plant are:
car to Incorporate this feature. this form of racing very seriously, 31 inches and a stroke of 4A counterweighted, four-bear- As a result of this, the corner and Le Mans this year looks like inches, larger than those of all ing crankshaft of heat treated posts have been widened at the developing into a struggle between America and England on French other sixes in its price range. As steel, with its bearings stepped base, assuring greater firmness, a result the motor develops 67.5 down in size to insure maximum and thinned out upward so as to horsepower and showe remarkable of rigidity with a minimum of afford greater possible outlook at From the public point of view performance for its size. Tested weight.
the line of sight. this is all to the good. The for more than 250,000 miles at the Accessibility, from the side, to average motorist undoubtedly gets General Motors Proving Grounds, the valves.
soil.
Irity for overhead valves again high. owes its development to racing.
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Gasoline pump fuel feed and air cleaner:
An especially large muffler, with long pipe out to the rear, keeps the nolad of the exhaust down almost to a purr,
Every part of the body le well
a boller car owing to the efforts the motor has been able to Full preapure lubrication, with a fitted and of the same sturdy con- of racing drivers at places like accelerate a standard four-door gear type pump placed deep in the struction 期货 the ongine and Le Mans, Brooklands, or in Ireland. sedan with two passengers, or 450 oil sump of the crankcase to in-chassis. The headlamps rest on Four-wheel brakes in their bounds load, up an 11.6 per cent. nure a constant oll flow to the en-strong chromnium plated supports, present form are a direct result hill 1,400 feet long from five milesrine,
besides being held in place by n of racing, while the present pop an hour to 25 miles un hour in Full crankcase ventilation strong crossbar. Even the tall- through a special breather at the light, instead of coming out of the rear fender'on a curved sitect of |It was not many years ago that The sume car, driven under side of the engine.
metal, fastened to a thick pipe an overhead valve engine was a unblased tent conditions, has
through which is wires áre curiosity, but the necessity for get-shown to accelerate from 5 to 25
carried and which reaches out ting more power from a given size miles an hour in 8.8 seconda, from of power unit and improving the 10 to 25 miles an hour in 6.3
from underneath the body in back, The bumpers are fastened firm- shape of the combustion chamber seconds, and from 10 to 40 miles
ly and directly to the ends of the extended the use of this valve an hour in 13.4 seconds.
In the transmission, the single chassis. frame instead of being arrangement to ordinary cars, It has been shown to attain a disc clutch has a series of small carried on extending bars of though again racing was largely maximum speed of nearly 06 miles shock-absorbing springs built into Spring steel. They seem, to be responsible for its introduction. an hour, measured accurately by it to absorb any slight vibrations there to stay,
One of the best examples of the means of the "Afth wheel
that might occur between engine With all this attention paid to use of racing in detecting weak speedometer," and ita average fuel and transmission. Adjustments the firm construction of the Mar- points in design or manufacture consumption is about 17 miles to to the clutch are made merely byquette, its engineers have not over was furnished some years ago by a the gallon. Its engineers say free-taking up on the foot pedal. well-known car firm. A new typo ly that the car can, ba driven con-
of overhead rocker for the valve stantly at 60 miles without fear operation had been made from a of harming the motor.
Built Well Throughout.
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Sturdy Chassis,
looked the great demand for beauty of Une and colour: ; So they have brought out bodies that are, Even moro striking in quality sure to attract widespread atten- Chun the engine is the chassis. It tion and interest..
new alloy. This rocker had been In use for some time before the
is made of a heavy steel frame] As E. T. Strong, president of. race on privato ears and no flaw Their assurance of such per-tapered from the front to a width Buick, puta.it: had made itself apparent. On the formance, is based on the sturdy in back that gives ample room for "We haven't skimped the least day of the race, however, every construction of the engine ca well three passengers. Its springs are bit in designing and constructing cur entered by that firm and fitted as that of the chassis and its con- attached by sturdy wolf-lubricating the Marquette: We have dons our with this rocker was in trouble, stituent moving parts. They have shackles which are kept from best to put the highest of quality and the only car to finish was one put into it light cast iron plutons rattling by means of a tight into every little detail of the car, with the old type of rocker. Need-on the assumption that these will spring. The stiff frame also per- even to the size and construction, leas to say the firm at once be able to withstand the heat and 'mits heavler construction in of the hub caps and the design of changed the design of the rocker strain of a fast operating motor fonders and running boards. the cabiem.”
on all their cars.
The success of the Weymann conch-bullt bodies that they soon about in sympathy with the flex-ting, of Cholcon. They have just type hody has been phenomenal get noisy, however carefully they ing of the chassis members, Ono bulit a saloon body on a six- during the last few years. The modern high-speed car puta such ar made. The Weymann principle of the most successful firms that cylinder Bentley chassis to the a tremendous strain on the usual ensures that this can never hay- has made a speciality of Weymunn order of Prince George, and many. pen, as every joint is free to move, bodies and makes them under other famous people have had and the whole body can be fléxed licence is that of J. Gurney Nut bodies built theres