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THE MOTOR VEHICLE AN ESSENTIAL
UTILITY.
The Motor Vehicle an Essential Utility- Not a. Luxury.
(From an address by George E. Quisenberry,
Editor. "The American Automobile.".
For many years the automobile industry has been combating the idea that its product is a luxury should be taxed and regulated first the such. Веслияе atmobiles were high in price the appeared on the road as the naive toys of the rich As production went on mass brought about price reduction and the automobile, came into general , not only as a means of private Personal transportation, but an a traight carrier.
All truck truffle, All bus trame,
All taxicab and hire car traffic, because taxicabs earn a livelihood for owners and drivers,
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NOTES AND NEWS,
New Models on Trial.
HILLMAN EIGHT:
(By John Prlolenu.}
It was with special interest that I took the new Hillman "Vortic 20-h.p. saloon over one of my test the runa. In the frat place, it
too-violent results, which are some- times found on assisted breaking. I was able to bring the car to a tandstiil from 15 miles an hour on a slope of nearly 20 por cont. In a very short distance and with no effort to speak of. The hand-brake I only moderately good, a common fault nowadays. The stearing, of the Marles type, is just about right, light, steady, and confidence-giving at all speeds. The suspension, tun, la excellent, the front having friction-type shock-abror- aprings and the rear hydraulic-a bera
cheapest eight-cylinder car of any combination. They are ;
nationality sold on the British market; and in the second, it is one of three examples only of this denlyn made in this country, the other two, the Lanchester and the, Burney, being of luxury order and considerably more powerful. The Hillman is a really moderate-priced
car
In silent-bloc shackles The Rexibility of the engine was will displayed over a short hill which had a maximum gradient of one in Boven. Starting a few
hour on top gear, the yards from the bottom at 20 miles accelerated very quickly to 35. dropped again to 20 on the worst of the gradient, and then got away A Successful Experimeni,
again
with very antisfying promi. The main details of the engine titude. For a not very powerful and chassis have not been altered engine, carrying a load of 32 cwt. this was A from last year's design except in with two passengers, ono particular. The bore and
Indeed. and praiseworthy performance. CRTA Cars owned by public utility stroke are 63 by 105, the valves it is one of the main attractions tele-overhead, operated by pushrod and of this car that while it does its companies--light,
rocker, the
All antesmens' cars. All business cars. Cara used for private transpor. tation, other that for joy-riding.
Cars owned by farmers.
Cars owned by professional people, doctors, etc.
etc.
power,
car.
Many countries still base their phial and governmental auto-cooling by tion by coil, and the work always rather batter than you
tatically-copeller, with thermos
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Import duties and their local
radiator shut except it to do, it also does unobstrusively. axation of motor vehicles on the mobiles, both cara and trucks.
Cars used in carrying malls and ters. The four-speed gear-box hasj
Cruising At 50 M.P.UI. idea that they are a luxury, com-
to rural and outlying a constant-mesh third and is now; This applies in an equal devres pletely ignoring the fact that no express.
centrally controlled. The main to its showing on the open road. modern nations can compete with regions.
purpose automobiles, alteration is the anchorage of the The maximum speed, checked at Special other nations in economie pro-
steering box to the frame, instead Brooklanda, in over 65 milos qu Kress without motor transporation fire-fighting, ambulances, etc.
Now check through all of these of to the engine. This would not hour. I had no opportunity and good roads.
you will fad that ninet; seem to be of any importance, but achieve this figure on the road, but Today 90% of all automobile and
am told that the change bas travel is commercial and essential. per cent, and probably more, of
in which 60 was reached, and the Not more than 10% is luxury. all automobile millenge in easential. eliminated practically all engines the swift and vibrationless manner ilere in a truth which needs to be Certainly very little of it is luxury noises, such as pistonslap and fact that the cruising apced is
And this applies to all countries valge-tap, which, with the steering very easy 50, at little more than brought home to public officials.
wero eloquent and territories, not alone to the, in the old position, were telephoned half-throttle. hankers, and the general public.
! Business depres-
the steering-column. The good engine-balance and scientiae Perhaps the use of the word] United States.
the engine now
aw gnu-distribution. The equalised "joy-ride" has helped to continuesion, or any other thing, will not operation of the idea that the automobile is a rule out this kind of traffic. It appears to be as nearly noiseless and suficient feeding, of eight An cylinders from ane carburettor in luxury. It is pretty hard to de-must be continued and we have as it is possible to make it
started the development. | interesting discovery on the part no matter for haphazard manifold fine just what is a joy-ride. When barely
design. Another point that pleased you drive out with your family, It is only in the past few years of the makers,
In other respects the ear is me was the absence of anything for a picnic on Sunday, that may that the world has started to fill hea
a luxury. I am not so sure its real transportation needs, the greatly improved for this year. The approaching a flat spot in the engine pulls that it is a fuxary, but maybe it total of which none of us can even engine ran without any vibration-power curve. The
you drive for pleasure or estimate, because transportation period that i could discover up to progressively up to the top of itn
rbout 60 miles an hour, the limit power. for Roctal purposes that's a luxury, turkes transportation needs grow.
And please remember that very reached on the trial, and with The coachbuilt saloon is a well- In other words only three uses of automobiles
be classed na splendid statement of one of our surprising absence of working finished piece of work, properly The salura noises at the higher speeds. The upholstered and trimmed with luxuries-os-rides, plenies and automobile leaders;
ti paint will never is reached power in very smoothly and sweetly leather, fitted with doors that open pleasure social driving.
every perso capable of developed and the car is delight and shut lightly and do not rattle. Let's look at the other side of until
easy and light in drive. The There are six windows, the rear the picture. Necessary and com- driviur
that will never wear Automobiles automobile of mercial Include:
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STREAMLINING.
th
Jarny.
an autogobile owns acceleration is deceptively sit on two being hinged, to secure ven-
a German
Designer Connected with Zeppelin Construction. The unusual form of the experi- Recent Experiments, mal car is the work of Paul seientist and Show Great Savings. engineer who was at one time
closely connected with the deve lopment of Zappelin airships STANDARD CHASSIS
After many wind tunnel experi- ments a shape was evolved which could be applied to an orthodox
UTILIZED.
either top or third gear, while the tation without draught, Triplex flexibility and pick-up from low glass is fitted throughout. There speeds prove definitely that a well-is ample elbow and leg room, and designed eight does acore over a the car as a whole is very comfor- six of the same calibre in these table. respects, When it is remembered The Hillman in a stendy if not be' specially brilliant hill-climber. how specially well an eight must
carried us up about half than a is, with Its additional
Pebblecombe Hin. made to give a better performance, The silent third
inving parts to handicap it, and which has a gradient or less than he price, £285 for the chassis and one in six at the top, and speed £376 for the complete car. is taken did not drop below fifteen milles hour on second after the into consideration. It is difficult to an restrain one's enthusiasm for this change-down, and increased per ceptibly over the worst of the most attractive British product.
Brakes and Steering.
slope. The surface was wet and four-wheel brakes are n" the day still. Taking it all round
The
So much has been written during chassis by panelling secured to a the Dewandre servo-type and a found this much-improved the past 12 months about the effi- wooden framework and which rient streamlining made possible provides adequate width, head-good example of the system, light "Vortic" one of the beat examples by moving the engine from the room and window space for five in operation and devoid of the pre-of big value for money I have yet
minary "at spot," followed by encountered. front to the rear end of the chassis Passengers.
that anyone might be forgiven for supposing that little can be done
to reduce the wind resistance of
It is said that this special body deflects the air amoothly shell
The aim is with very few eddies.
smoothly.
to guide the air flow
au orthodox car. Recent expert making due allowance for the fact ments have, however, shown that tint car, unlike a projecțile or simply by radical alterutions to aircraft, has always to move in the shape of the bonnet and coach-close proximity to the plane of The tall prevents the work the power required to drive the rail.
of
A large five-seater saloon at 60 creation of a suction area such ar
behind a saloon is formed m.p.h. can be just about halved.
orthodox shape. In further full-scale tests on thef
Ventilation Improved and road it was also discovered that
Noise Reduced. In comparison with an orthodox saloon body on the same chassis! Some Interesting claim the streamlined
would made as the result of trying thi model accelerate more rapidly, would car on the road quite apart fror coast a considerably greater dis the obvious saving in power an fuel. One of the most importan tance from any net speed, and is that ventilation is greatly im would cover a test course at an proved, first because there is n back draught to carr average speed of 32 m.p.h. on 40 offensive
fumes owing to th per cent, less fuel. The figures exhaust
rear-end auction, and secondly for petrol consumption were
because the flow of air over th actually 13.8 m.p.g. on the normal body is such that fresh supplie saloon and 22.5 m.p.g. on the special job.
MICHE
Can
be admitted through amu! regulated openings at the front.
RIDE CONTENTEDLY ON MICHELINS
Distributors:
A
MOTOR-CAR
ON
RAILS.
A Frenchman's Novel Invention.
necessary It is hardly
to go they adhere much more closely back very far into the years of than the metal langen of a rail. last century to find the earliest way engine. Indeed, assuming a attempts at running railway en-efficient of 9.2 to represent the trains, looked upon, at the time. adherence of steel to steel, the adherence of rubber to steel in as death-dealing devices, the une of which was.anything but advis- three times as great, being as able. Yet it takes a considerable high as 0.6, thus avoiding the effort of imagination to realise the necessity of using vehicles deep changes this method of great weight. locomotion has brought about in the habits of mankind during the last 80 years.
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on
It thus becomes possible to effect a considerable reduction in the dead-weight per passenger. It seems impossible, indeed, to which is brought down to 176 measure the co-eflielent of activity kilogrammies instead of 1.10 kilo-
Furthermore,
every imparted thereby
trade grammes.
to world throughout the
and to precaution has been taken gauge the extent of its contribuavoid any accident resulting from on to the general welfare of the bursting of the tyres; every wheel is provided with a special mankind.
Since the War, however, a very device preventing It, In the case defuite movement has progres- of burat, from sinking more sively set in and the railway, by than one centimetre.
The experiment has been tried disadvantages reason of attaching to it, has found in the at a speed of 10 kilometres per motor-car a serious competitor. hour, without any damage to the
"Micheline," which The setting in motion and the hauling of a train at great speed smoothly to the next station.
Absence of Noise. by a locomotive is based upon the adherence of the wheels to the The "Micheline," already fitted rails, and in consequence of the for a regular service, easily main- of 00 kilometres per risidity of those two organs, the tains a speed
contact that la needed can hour, at a general average of 80
And, whereas be obtained by increasing the kilometres.
Idiometres an hout and one kilometre to pull to n stop when running at that speed, the "Michelino" requires but 600 metres at the start and a bare 100 metres to pull up. Pneumatic Tyres.
This is an additional and very for It Gonacquently, for many verappreciable advantage, past, efforts have been made to means that under normal condi- discover a. means
of locomotion tions motor vehicles on rails are unattended by the aforesaid disable to travel at sight," like advantages. After two years of motor-cars on roads, slowing up experimental work the problem is at level crossings, and dispensing claimed to have been solved by n n with the complicated system of eat French industrialist, M. signals needed for present-day Marcel Michelin, who, by dint of trains. hard work, has now been able to
A GOEKE & CO. eight of the engine relatively to train takes 1.500 metres to attain
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Depot
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the size of the trains to be hauled a speed of 80 hence the constant striving after greater weight in proportion te the progressive heaviness or num ber of the carriages and to the increase in
It is stated that the perfecting submit to railway technicians of this invention constitutes an train on pneumatle tyres, known improvement such as the railways have not witnessed since the dis "Micheline." as the
A "Michaling" fa an auto-car covery of the locomotive, and with tyres fitting into the rails, marks a distinct phase in the his ca"- to which, as a primary advantage, tory of the railway.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1932.
522
THE NEW 6 CYLINDER
FIAT
HAS ARRIVED AND IS SELLING AT A REMARKABLY
LOW PRICE.
Most brilliant on hills and in acceleration thanks to generous engine power and limited weight.
...Hydraulic brakes
..Silent third
...Speed over 62 miles per hour ...Low slung frame
...New body lines
Each car equipped as follows without extra charge-Wire wheels-two spare wheels and tyres-leather upholstery-safety glass-special lights on mudguards-stoplight, driving mirror and windscreen wiper.
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