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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31. 1929.
ENDURANCE FLIGHTS.
What is Really Accomplished."
FOR
BIGGER CARS.
New Racing Rules. ALL
WILL SCRAP SPEEDSTERS.
|· Drastic changes in the 1980 rules of the American Automobilo Ast
First one airplane, then another, lubrication ended the Qucation Marksociation will mean the scrapping of has captured the coveted honour of test while in the case of the Fort the racing cars now being used. holding the world's endurance flight, Worth It was necessary for one of
The regulations provide for mo- record, and all the while public in the pilots to climb forth on an imtors with a maximum piston dis- terest is held firm by the glamour provised cat walk to perform a lu- placement of 860 cubic inches, in of the events and the courage of the brication task that, in an automo-tead of 911⁄2 cubic inches in the pilots rather than by the construc- bile engine for example, is autom present single seater racing ma- tive progress and scientific value of tic and seldom requires attention. chinca, the flights themselves.
"It may be true that the deve The new rules also demand two The human element in these non-lopment of aviation has paralled the braking systems, and standard stop tests of the air-the physical development of the motor car, but transmission, and forbid super- alamina of men- who stay aloft it is likewise a fact that there are charges, which are a valuable ne- week or more-nimost has over many problems still to be solved in set in racing cars. shadowed their importance and aviation engineering that already
Racing drivere, including Ralph significance to the advancement of have been successfully eliminated in de Palma, Leon Duray, Harry airplane engineering, in the opinion the automobile motor. We find Hartz and Tommy Milton, are up of G. M. Williams, president of the practically all sustained airpinne in arms against the new rules which Marmon Motor Car Company. flights coming to a conclusion a con, will mean the end of their present "Many persons have asked me to paratively short time after the start, speed ears, which have a collectivo describe the real good accomplished but, on the other hand, we find that, value of 500,000 dollars, as a result of an airplane reminining it a modern automobile embarks on In the air seven days or more," Mr.h non-stop run,the duration of the Williams said. "These people are test in for greater than that of the loud in their praise of the tenacity plane. of the pilots; they sympathize with the men in the hardships they are forced to undergo. Yet, they ask
"I might cite our own Roosevelt ear in this regard. Beginning Jung 12, the car-strictly a stock model
What is really accomplished?" -ran 440 hours and 30 minutes or
To my mind, andurance. Alights
greatly in excess of eighteen days
RUBBER ROADS.
Too Dear for Manchester.
While admitting that rubber waS |
are doing more to perfect air planes without a stop. It was refuelled in the ideal paving for certain roads, and airplane motors than any other mation from a "mother" car, Just Manchester (Eng.) engineers, re- aviation tests in years. More-
Rubber paving is soundproof, dur- over, these flighta are doing theirs is the case in all aviation endur- gretfully decided againat it. share to increase public confidence ance nights, speed was not a facable, free from dust and vibration, but its high cost made it prohibi- in aviation-to prove that an air- "Even considering the great time live. plane is capable of remaining in the air, with safety, for an extended this car rau, the end was not brought about by a fault of the car perlad
for.
"Airplane motor "designers and itself or its motor. Instead, term- manufacturers have learned much ination of the test was caused by a from the men and motors in the storm that made further progress endurance planes; learned things, in impractical and even dangerous. fact, that were not considered in How long this car would have run if the past. Problems were encounnot stopped by Nature is problema tered Umt never before had been re-tical. Certainly, the motor had
shown no signs of falling. garded as serious.
"Proper lubrication of the valve mechanism of an airplane motor has been the centre of attention among engineers as a result of the difficulty experienced in this respect in the light of the army plane Question Mark and the single-motored plane Fort Worth. Insufficent rocker arm
MOTOR FATALITIES UP. ·
"There is talk of a sustained round-the-world airplane flight. The present endurance test of planes will make that very thing possible for they will bring stamina to aviation! motors, just as have the years brought efficiency and dependability to automobile motors,
ponding perlod of last year. This year's total is 2,451; last year's was 2.053. Two large. cities, In a survey of 68 cities with over Chicago and San Francisco, show-
a considerable decrease In! 100,000 population, the National ed Safety Council Bnds that accidents futalitics, and Cambridge, Mass., for the first, four months of 1929 Jand. Scranton, Pa.. had have increased aver the cories accidents.
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People go out to shop for a new car with this point Army Axed ly mind: "Where can I get the most for my money?"
They see the Roosevelt. They compare its locke, oven with cars -coating as much as G$1,500. The Roosevelt wind on the Appearance Test.
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Next they try ita performance, They get the feel of lis wonderful straight-eight engine, That wins, them quickly-and that's Approval No. 2.
All the while they are getting a Benе of Roosevelt riding case. Nothing like it before in a low- cost car. That clinches Point No.
3.
Then they learn that the Roose- yelt is wonderfully simple to main- tuin-easy on gas and oil. That' means it fits squarely into tho budget...
On all points in any compari- son-you can't match this new, Roosevelt for what it fa and what it will do,
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