PANAMA ROAD.
International Route.
Planned.
Washington, June 5th--With- in a few years we are likely to be able to make motor Lours from any joint in the United States down to the Panama Canal,
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the economic condition of the territory traversed.
Construction would be carried out progressively. That is, rouds would be "roughed through" to permit motor transportation and further improvement would be undertaken as traffic bezan' to move through.
U. S. Part Fulfilled.
No building would be required The Highway experts, automobile in- on the part of the U.S. terests and the various govern- northern end of the highway ments between Washington and would end at Laredo, Tex. There the Canal Zone have been getting are plenty of hard roads in steamed up over the thought and American to connect with it. Cap the general idea of an inter- ada, which also is expected to join American highway has become definitely fixed 09 something
which is bound to come--and the sooner the better,
the project, would also need no extra construction,
Mexico some time ago approved the route of a highway running The Senate has before it the from Laredo to Mexico City and Odille amendment which would ap-from Mexico, a link in the inter propriate $50,000 for co-operation American highway which would with members of the Pan-American cover almost half the distance Union In advance surveys on from Laredo to the Canal, Con- possible routes, probable costs and other factors in construction. Congress two years ago authorized this appropriation and it is asked now in a proposed amendment to the deficiency bill.
struction of this is being given preference in the Mexican roads programme and large stretches of improved road are now maintained north of Mexico City.
SIGHT TEST FOR DRIVERS.
Dr. Edwin Silver of Washington, D. C., is shown here testing an 'applicant for a driver's licence for wideness of her vision.
SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930.
ANOTHER SIX.
Morris Range Increased.
clutch is depressed, the scraper Wire wheels, hydraulic shock plates within the filter clean the absorbers, front spring shackled aludge from the oil acreens and at the forward-end, chromium tumble it into the detachable trap plating of bright metal, Bishop at the bottom.
steering, enclosed transmission "Coil and battery fgnition is used, and a 18-gallon petrol tank are and the distributor, generator and other details which indicate the water pump are driven by the same completeness of the designer's
'conception. ATTRACTIVE 15 H.P. shaft. All are on the off side of
the engine, while the near sidej Australian bodies are attractive MODEL
carries the carburettor, water- and roomy "with a distinctive inlet, manifold, oil filler and dip British line about their contours, stick. The exhaust manifold is and a certain fullness of mud- swept forward to keep away heat; guards, which enhances the solid from the driving compartment.. appearance...
- Into the light six-cylinder 'car field comes Sir William Morris with a 15 h.p. Morris-Oxford. In [its design, equipment and sturdi- The motor is outwardly nest], Leather upholstery is a feature nesa are the tangible proofs that and compact, with every fitting of the body. The seats аге the knightly manufacturer learnt placed for efficiency and ease of generously" wide, and deep- service. Internally it has a high; squabbed, and even the dicky sent a great deal from his trip overseas. compression head designed on in the roadster has had as much If there is any relationship-be- anti-knock principles, a balanced consideration as the driving scat tween this and the previous Morris crankshaft carried in four bear of the saloons. There is ample a silent camshaft and leg room in front and rear com- Oxford it is in the radiator badge. ing. and the family likeness discernible peak-power development is $5
balanced reciprocating parts. Its partments. in the radiator of all the Morris horse power at 3200 revolutions family. Other than that. the new- per minute. comer is quite new. There Are traces of the larger is [and]
particularly is attractive. With The flowing line of the roadster
hood stowed away, and windscreen. dropped, it looks at least five wheelbase of 114 inches, inches longer than its actual The same low shoulder line 'distin- gulshes the tourer and proclaims.
Automatic Heat Control Radiator shutters enhance the Wolseley in its components, which frontal appearance.
They
are do not minimise its ladividuality. thermostatically controlled to
Solidly constructed, the frame ensure efficient engine tempera-It a car for sunshine. There is yet does not overload the engine's türe.
an atmosphere of youth about it, capacity. It departs from the con- On to the top of the steering a rakish tilt here and there that ventional in bracing. by making column has been placed ignition suggests light-hearted speed.
and throttle, "generator.
light! the crossmembers carry the run controls. Clear lettering informa A tabloid road-trial ins a ning boards and support the body the driver where the thumb levers loft an appetite for more by recently-assembled Morris-Oxford, as well. The usual curved dumb-should lie, and a valuable detall revealing excellent ateering and irons are absent from the front as is the electrically operated dip braking, easy gear change by A. carry the bumpers, and a low light switch. centre of gravity is attained by kicking-up the rear.
All the Central American coun- tries are concentrating on high- ways as a general programme,
mind their keeping in
part future. Inter-American in the
Washington, D. C., June 5th-turn their heads when wishing to What a motorist sees out of the view anything to their right or left, Iroad. Salvador 19 carrying
including corners of his eye is the differenceys Harland He calls this "barrel jout ft programine
The Guatemalan between his safety and an accident, vision." Such persons are more n link from
Honduran according to results of a new eye liable to auto accidents than those frontier to the on the survey border, Honduras expects anon to Director William H. Harland on ap-to either side, he adds. The latter the side" members are extended to ping headlamp, controlled by the long, centrally-placed lever, a.
test being conducted by Traffic who have a wide range of vision cars coming out of the Plicants for motor car drivers li- can see
streets much easier than those with cences here.
"barrel" or direct vision...
.
This test calls into use a little instrument devised by Dr. Edwin Silver, chairman of the Motor Vi-
contented motor, a vast ignition. range and dashing acceleration.
As soon as the money is avail- able the State Department is ready to go ahead with the preliminaries in conjunction with Mexico and the Central American republics..
International Group Busy. Since Congress' originally re- solved to embark the First Inter-American Highway start work an a Pacific coastal Congress has been held in Pan- highway connecting Salvador with
Within the driver's easy reach ama. The congress decided that Nicaragua, Guatemala. Nicaragua there was no physical obstacle in and Costa Rica are all developing
is a mixture control, which pro- vides adjustment from full choke | the way of a programine which highways and Panama has built
At present, only seven states and Original Air Cleaner. to normal running, while the
SAFETY IN CABS. would open such a highway for with the great outlet to the north aion Commission of the American the District of Columbia require public travel within five years. The in mind.
At first glance, the motor ap- hand-brake lever is fitted in beside Optometric Association. Pan-American Union was asked to One of the aima envisioned is a little white, metal disc,
It is a eye tests before applicants for pears to have overhead valves, be the seat on the right hand side Massachusetts has just passed about drivers licence receive them. This cause of the cover plate along and lies almost along the floor at a law which provides that all create an international commis highway system, which eventually three-quarters of an inch in di- test of the District of Columbia is its top. Actually it has aide a point where the right hand! motor vehicles sion to study problems of loca-will connect the capitals of all ameter, mounted on a metal rod said to be the only one of its kind valves, and the deceiving tan- drons on to it. It is out of the carriage of persons for hire must used for the tion, construction. maintenance Intin-American republice. and resembling a and financing.
batpin eight employed, and is in addition to President Hoover is especially inches long. The examiner holds those of visual acuity and colour piece is an ingenious air cleaner way, immediately available and be equipped with non-shatterie countries through which the road has endorsed the proposal to lend of the applicant's head, then to all applicants see objects and filled with a fibrous material, into
It was decided that each of the enthusiastic over the plan and the little device first to one side perception. The test requires that and engine-fume consumer. It is can be adjusted while the car is a metal box, quickly detachable, running, by a simple thumb scraw will run-Mexico, Guatemala, Sal-American engineers from the navy the other, moving it until it is in pedestrians in motion to their which the air inlet is led: Air for
Hydraulic Brakes, vador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Contand the Department of Agric the field of vision.
STAND PERMITS. right or left. In other words, they combustion is strained through
Operated by cables, separatej Rica and Panama-should fix the ture to aid the smaller republics At the point where the disr ac. must possess a visual test of 120 this material and, as well, two shoes in the rear wheel drums are Persons operating roadside route through its territory with a in their construction problem. tually becomes view to the best social and He has also recommended to the while the applicant is looking
distinguishable, degrees range.
crank case breathers cast in the connected to the hand brake, and marta in the state of Washington block lead into the air cleaner, supplement the four-wheel-must obtain permits from state ecunomic development such as the favour of private interests "all straight ahead, the angle of his
Fumes are dissipated through this; draulic brakes which the foot authorities before they can sell. road is intended to promote. reasonable loans sought by these vision is determined. Still look- These countries and the United countries to open main lines of ing straight ahead,
cover and any oil that may be pedal controls. he is asked States were called upon to assist travel."
with engineers,
carried up is utilised to provide a the commission
small measure of upper-cylinder information
lubrication via the air intake
transportation,
other means.
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PROPER NIGHT SPEED.
The arguments on, behalf of the highway are that it will promote The Mississippi supreme court social intercourse and better in-has decided that the proper night Lernational understanding among speed for automobiles is that the several nations, greatly lessen which enables a driver to "stop the cost of both domestic and na- within the range of the headlights tional transportation and improve jof the car."
Average Range 10 Degrees. According to Dr. Silver, who to report what he can see out of the has been working in co-operation
with Harland, eyesight
has a corner of his eye. As the disc can be twirled without arm movement range of about 180 degrees. It is by the examiner, it can be used to because of this fact that the per- determine whether or not the applison with normal sight can dis cant is capable of detecting motion tinguish motion when it is almost in his field of vision.
at right angles to the eye.
"Barrel" Vision Dangerous, Some persons can see nothing out of the corners of their eye and must
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"It is true, however, that the real sense of visual acuity is re- stricted to a radius of five or ten degrees and that one must turn his head clearly or definitely to see anything out of that range," says Harland. "The indefinite range of vision, or that in which the motorist is able to see out of the corner of his eyes, plays a great part in safe or unsafe driving,
"The person who has only direct for barrel vision, sees only what is directly ahead. With this kind of jeyesight he sees as if he were look- ing through a cylinder or pipe. Any person even walking is so handicapped that unless he sees indefinitely what is to his right and left, he often strikes against ob jects and knocks over things which he might have avoided.
"The motorist who does not possess what is called perpheral vision, or the ability to see even in a vague way cars approaching from either side, or obstacles to the right or left of his path, is hampered in avoiding collisions because he cannot see his danger in time to escape it..
"Though skilful management of a car and good Judgment in driving are essential to the mo-
importonce torist, the
of good eyesight cannot be overrated," Harland concludes. "The OC- counts of many accidents convey the idea that the driver did not see the train, the other car, the pole, the ditch, the tree or the pedestrian in time to avoid dis- aster."
JUDGING SPEED.
Delicate Instrument for Motor Engineers.
Flint, Mich., June 5-A motorist may think he is travelling fast when he goes whizzing at 75 miles an hour. But figuratively he is standing still when such speed is compared with that of a delicate instrament which was used recentiv. In connexion with automotive development work.
This intrument, called an oscillograph, played an important part in the recent discovery of a new and improved spark plug electrode alloy, enabling en- gineers to better. study the characteristics of the electric spark
It traced a line one inch long across an exposed photographie. plate in one-millionth of a second, which is equivalent to 144,100 miles an hour.
At this rate of speed a trip to the moon would require less than two hours.
Self-cleaning Filter.
A second unusual feature is the oil filter, mounted low down on the crank case, and connected with the clutch pedal. Each time the
car,
glass.
their wares to motorists.
WIDE PRICE RANGE.
Gasoline
These are the high-lights of an Interesting and attractive which is radial, if considered as the product of a race said to be 'conservative, but normal, when
prices in foreign seen as a contribution to Austra- countries run all the way from 25 lian needs by a maker who has cents a gallon in Austria to 86 studied the necessities at first and 91 cents in Addis Ababa,' hand.
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With a larger, longer, roomier
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The bodies are roomy: Three will not crowd the rear seat. There is room for your hat. You do not have to squeeze into the driver's seat. The clutch and brakes operate at the slightest foot pressure. Proper balance and mechanism make it easier to steer.
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