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SATURDAY, 28th NOVEMBER, 1931.
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CURRENT.
COMMENT
A New TAX.
A Regulation has recently come 'nto force under which motorists using non-motor roads are quired to pay $20. per annum for permit, or, alternately, $2. for ch math or part of a month luring which
permit uired. There
re- course,
ane justifiention in charging for the privilege inasmuch as road|2|
"built in withstand motor
the
ENGINE
OPERATES ON COMPRESSED
AIR.
[By Dan Thomas.]
raffle, are subjected to additional wear, and only mited number of motorists cause this. It is not lear however, whether a permit vera all non-motor ronds, or only he road stipulated by the appl *ant. We learn from the Traffic Department
that consideration
Los Angeles, Oct. 27-Air- would doubtless be shown to
planes flying the Atlantie with holder of a permit, who desired only a single task of compressed
air as the fuel fond to use various non-motor roads, but we think that as a Tec is now
How time
days at a without levied, the permite might apply zenerally
These the in
Colony.
fire two esident, for example, living on
which
possibilities Roy J. Moyers promises he Barker Road
with the use of a compressed air not be should
motor he has
work. He had through the streets of Los Angeles the motor running an automobile recently and was well satisfied with its operation.
for
hiles being driven for tomo
refuelling.
t to the trouble of applying years of Int Perfected after six
special
permission to use other un-motor roads occasionally. Pre viding he is in possession of the accessary authority. In the ease of small curs, a special concession might be made. Because they can reach many out-of-the-way houses in the Peak, and it seems hardly Tair to ammess them at the same rate as heavy vehicles,
Horn-Blowing.
Correspondents have been com- plaining of the noise created in he City by motor car horus, and must be agreed that at certain
i
Three factors give this com- pressed air motor advantages over gasoline engluen, Meyers claims. They are:
1. Low cost of manufacturing. 2. Low cost of operation.
3. Wider travelling radius on! one fuelling.
Small and Powerful.
The motor resembles a radial the din is indeed unwarirplane engine in appearance.
bu
At the same time. hould mentioned that the frame Department does deal with
Tenders periodically,
fines when the public
and
daly Inposed desce shows that nuisance has been created. tendent referred
Оле
to The when the cinemas are over, but with the streets crowded with destrians at such times, some
Could
If
warning in
is clearly necessary. here only he some way of teaching pedestrians to keep to the pavements, the noise would doubt less lessened.
be
but it is almost to drive through the mpossible to busier districts without giving ample war
warning to "Jay Walkers, There ต also the question of the least offensive type of warning device, some of the more raucous being most undesirable.
AUBURN FEAT.
An automobile run by compressed air, shown at top, with Roy J. Meyers of Los Angeles, its inventor, in lower photo beside the unique engine.
until it attains a pressure of 2001 One of the principal dangers of Pounda.
flying to-day is fire and with my motor there is nothing to cause a fire.
Cost Extremely Low.
Recovers Most of Usel Air. and is half the size of the ordinary As the warm air goes through 200-horsepower gasoline motor, the engine valves and a cooled it being 32 inches in diameter, 14 is recovered and drawn into a "Nor is there any danger of an inches in width and weighing only compressing chamber where it is explosion, since we carry only 200 114 pounds. Despite its small heated and again forced into the pounds of air pressure and the size, however, it develops 182) main tank. In this way nine-tauk is constructed to withstand horsepower
2,400 r.m
tenths of the air used for operat-u pressure of 500 pounds. The car in which Meyers has ing the motor is used again.
"A factory turuing out these installed his motor has attained a speed of 85 miles an hour. With the simplest ever constructed," build them for not over 375 each. "As far as I know my motor is motors in a fair quantity could the proper genring, says Meycra,
Meyera BAYS.
"It has only 13 much less than it costs to build a
nt
this same motor will drive a car main working parts and I have no gasoline motor of the same power more than 100 miles ar hour. worries na
car-to-dny.
to "
And it will travel more than 500, buretor trouble or miles without refiling the com-motor operates with a pressed air tank, he adds.
The "As for the cost of operation, I lever don't even like to talk about that, which controls the amount of air it is no negligible. One tank of Air is put into the tank from released into the cylinders. an ordinary compressed air cham-
compressed air, which will run the "I believe this motor will revolu-car more than 500 miles, costa me her at a pressure of 100 pounds. tionize dylag as it will claninate 10 cents. By means of an electric heater the necessity for currying heavy, "The only real coat of running operated by batteries
alonda of fuel and de away with a car, equipped with this motor, and generator, the air. then is heated many of the dangers #3 well. would be for tyres."
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TIME
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CAR.
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Two Weeks.
NEW RECORD.
Pueblo, Colo., Oct. 28, Driven a total of 7,124.8 miles. Including a run to the summit of
kes Peak, and Auburn 8-08 four door sedan owned by E. J. John-. tom. Inc., Auburn and Cord dis Autor etablished a new Colo- rado ondurance record for stock
CATA.
run
For more than two weeks, froin. the timo Western Union officials started the car on its record antil it ally was driven in, the antil suging never stopped. During the gruelling climb up the 14.190 foot altitude of the mountain, its per- formance was flawless despite the steep grade and changing tempera-, tures officials said.
From Pueblo to the suinmit of the peak speedometer registered 73 miles. Gasoline consumption was five gallona, an average of 11.6: miles to the galion.
During the whole of the run, the sar averaged 15.1 mlies to the gallon over every type of road in the vicinity of Pueblo,
The run was directed by Lieut. E. H. Wilson, former World War fler, who was assisted by a corpa of relief drivers.
It was loft
to a woman, Mrs. Gwenda Stewart, of England, to set up a high speed record of 109.13 miles an hour in the world's smallest practical aatomabile. The car was stresin- lined especially for the trial and its engine supercharged. Otherwise it was the same stock car sold in England and America. The record was established by Mru. Stewart, who is shown in the car, at the Monthory track near Paris.
AN OIL VISCOSITY INDICATOR.
of the lubricant while a car is in contact with instal and the other operation. The indicating hand the consumption of oll increases moves from normal to low as tho from ono quart por thousand miles An intensiva study of problems oil begins to thin out after a long at 80m. p. h.. to six quarts for the connected with the lubrication of automatic engines in America has period of driving. Two interest same distance at 55 m.ph. The resulted in the production of a new ing facts have emerged from the experiments have shown that it gadget, a dint on the instrument experiment, one being that oil pays to keep the level of the off at board which records the viscosity tones its lubricating properties. on "full."
LONG LIFE FOR CARS:
MICHELEN
After all, the most important part of any motor car is the nut. that holds the steering wheel, The average life of a motor vehicle in Great Britain Is now When Studebaker ran: 80,000 seven and three-quarters. years. miles in 26,826 minules, they The United Kingdom pays the should have taken Floyd Gibbons highest automobile tax in the long to describe the scenery as world.
Wit wont by.