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BRITISH CARS AND ROAD RACING.
Unequal Battle with Rivals. By Chiltern.]
AUGUST 15, 1931.
THE STEERING WHEEL.
designated by the car's manu- facturer.
Too much pressure will cause susceptibility to hard knocks from
Peculiar "Eeel" Warns Irregularities in the road, and so make riding uncomfortable. Too of Trouble.
ittle pressure makes riding enster, but causes difeult steering and renders the tyres open to greater wear and tenr.
USEFUL HINTS.
Thero always have been and by races on handien In which, always will be arguments as to retail prices are taken into cou- whether car-racing pays dividends aideration, or by grand prix of the In the shape of sales. Two of our old type, in' which regulations fo
y Israel Klein.]
The front wheels have to fulfill Darkest makers, looking at it from engine chassle and body are
three Important requirements in Sometimes-there-is-a-peculiar the point of their firm's interests, agreed to internationally
nation's designers and "feel" at the steering wheel that order to make driving easy and and not as a sport, think it does cach
engineers build the best they can seems to warn the driver of some-riding comfortable. not pay..
thing gone wrong. Against this I might reply that within those limits.
First, they must have a definite the Austin Seven gained its re-;
Grand Prix Value.
The motor may be humming pitch or inward slope, so that the putation by participation in re-
along in tip-top shape. Yet there bottoms are from one to three ilability trials and high-speed The price-engine capacity it is, a sort of drag on the car, a events, and the M. G. Midget hus. handicap race would be too com feeling that the engine is pulling inches closer than the tops. by its successes in long-distance plented, and оп that round harder than usual. handicap races, recently establish would be unsuccessful. I believe ed itself at the top of the baby in the grand prix from the broad The steering. too, seema more stand inwards horizontally as well The Singer ulso, by standpoint of its value in show-diffeult and the wheel must bojas vertically, so that their forward reing the true standard of British gripped tight to keep the car from edges are closer together than the lability in record attack-car bullding excellence before the swerving out of control. another form of racing has world. But with grand prix there forced itself forward in way is the question of expense,
Ukually this is a sign of
Finally, the axle hus to have, a years of normal propaganda could
unter-inflated or flat tyre in front. Thousands are being spent in But sometimes, even with the front defile tilt or caster, which pre- not have done.
prepaganda work in ways that styrea in good shape, this occurs, venta shimmying or wandering of I want, however, to suggest to not help the sales of British care Then the cause may lie in the fact the wheels, our makers and the Society of in world markets und diversion
carnificent high-speed
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Second. they must toe in," or
rear.
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Motor Manufacturers that the of this money towards racing that the pitch, or toe-in, of the time has arrived for a complete would bring better results in the front wheels may be out of adjust
ment, enough to make control review of the car-racing position; desired markets, Two months its effect on British trade ago I exclusively announced
car difficult. prestige.
movement to foster the building of Perhaps even the caster, or slant, a team of four national cars for of the front axle may be off a de- grand prix racing, the ears to hegree or two, and the wheels may be The more I see of these handi-designed. huftt and raced by Shimmying us a result,
British men
selected by the
Birkin's Victory.
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If the pitch or toe-in of the front wheels are off just an inch, the tyres will drag a mile oldervise in every 16 miles the car goes for ward, engineers have calculated.
That's what causes not only un-, due wear on the tyres, but that un- Tyres, for easiest driving, should comfortable "feel" at the steering kept inflated at the pressures wheel, the kind that makes you think a heavy weight is dragging
eap races with ears competing on a system of distance allowance Society of British Manufacturers
and Traders. for engine size, the more i arg
Through causes which it is un- convinced they are wrong and their resalts convey a wrong im- profitable to discuss the idea has pression to the world. I say this not been too well received, but I with Dublin fresh in my mind, the contend that the society will be
short-sighted policy Grand Prix there being won bril-jadopting
if Talbot, Riley, Singer and lumber behind. In fact, steering is much it does not do liantly by Sir Henry Birkin in an
something to cars selling at from £200 to £650 more difficult. Italian ear of 18 horse-power.
develop racing as part of British to design racing cars to beat world propaganda oul of the huge Italian, German, or French, and I Britain han the finest designers, yearly profits of the car show it would back British workmen to Unequal pressure by the front workmen, and drivers, but in these Olympin. Even paying the en-build those cars perfectly, and brakes, or a sudden bird twist in handleap races the world simplytrance fees, running expenses, British drivers like Birkin, B. O turning à corner may upset the sees in one class a British car travel, hotel and replenishment Davies, A. Whiteroft, Sammy benten on speed, ignorant of the pit charges of the racing staff of Davies and others to beat the pick lance of the front wheels. A vital fact that British cars pro-reputable firms anxious to race of Germany, France or Italy.
slight shock, a bump against a curb jdused for £200 retail are running and with men with the knowledge
against Continentai makes costing and experience necessary to givej
British drivers bayc the dash, or over a rut, may be other enuses
for such trouble, that aud verve, reasonable chance of the £700..yet almost equalling them in them
greater speed and superior to them in re-success would be a distinct help balance in temperament which Bability. In another class British
a man further towards This is the age of speed and carries cars costing less than £780 de- the average car buyer demands it victory than mere speed and risks monstrate that for sheer reliabili whether he has a £100 Morris or The finest rond racers of the last ty and speed combined they are a £3,000 Rolls.
Why. "baby" 20 years have been British- practically the equal of Continen-buyers were tickled to death by K. L. Guinness, the late Sir tal cars costing £1,600 to £3,000: the speed of 107 m.p.h. attained by Segrave, and Sir Henry Birkin. but the truth in never realized. ja little car at Montllery, Paris,
How can the true state off British ear-makin efficiency be brought before the world? I con- tend there are only two waya--Tour
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The bushings, pins or bearings. in the wheels and steering system may be worn, so as to cause the wheels to wobble or the steering to be uneven.
The remedy lies mostly in pre- They were and are like machines vention, in keeping the entire steer- in the ear, not even a formidable ing system tightened up and In check on the rival chasing on their tails could getting a monthly disturb either. We only want pitch and-too-in of the front I would back the designers of the machines. How are we going wheels, and the caster of the front
every-day Morris, Austin.to get them?
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