THE HONGKONG
BRITISH CAR SUPREMACY.
Domination of the Home Market: Year's
Production Sold Out.
"Only 1932 moduls available, oldrexcluding 2,862 tractors, stock sold out." That was actually tural
otherwise, แค
agricul
which
a fnct when the 1932 moter occasionally are driven on the high- "season" started on October 1.
four-wheeled And six-wheeled traffic, the roads also had to carry Got,728 motor cycles.
the
Britain's Roads Greatly Congested,
well as four
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1932.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
THERMOSTATIC FAN
Great Britain. Therefore 1 will neglect them in the final total of tales of British motor vehicles. Whatever the number of British Cars sold to the Irish Free State,
a bonus to the 1931 production Ogures as practically the whole of The output of care was sold.
562
motord,
ever
CONTROL?
Arrangement of an Apparatus. OBSTRUCTING FLOW OF COOLING AIR.
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that nentisfactory clutch would have to be of reasonable size, fitted with fairly powerful spring. Naturally, a thermostat could not be expected to operate this clutch directly, so that it would have to ba employed In conjunction with some servo aystem or relay.
How Control Could be Arranged Simply.
A simple way of doing this would
be to connect the thermostat with
Mutunging temperatures"
tha
The motor dealers sold 141,392
There is only one recent instanco. new cura in England, Scotland, and Considering the mechanical av Wales, 2,820 to Northern Ireland. cellence and advanced design of so far as we remember, of a car and exported 14,410 to other coup-mast of the 1932 models, it is manufacturer providing a clutch in atrange thing that on almost all of the fan drive, this having bandone the Dominions. tries and
from the "baby" costing in a Ballot chassis produced a few cars total them, Dedueling inported
per Board of Trade £100 to the powerful car costing years ago. In this ease the fan valve whereby a cylinder and way. Besides this huge total of Returns, there was a anls of 154,- £3,000, there is an antiqunted was driven mechanically from an on could be coupled at will to The Klen would be that at 618 cars, leaving only 4,479 cars windmill," or fan, driven by a overhead camshaft through the the lubrication system of the
---the The figures to prove this satic
valve of 1931 among over 6,000 motor piece of belting. Stranger still ti factory state of affairs are contai-
wed operated from the driver's gant. would be held open no that oll showrooms in Great Britain in the fact that this fan le allowed to medium of a clutch which could be
high speed when it was therefore possible to bring pressure would exert a force which ed in a oficial statement, just!
A much lower
LUTH AL fairly Irtock, which is of Mator
running. the fan into fasued by the Society
action as and when Average thum usual at the end of
the engine Manufacturers and Traders, of the
uny year. This total also includes although it is actually needed to required, so avoiding noise, waste would maintain the clutch in a
discugaged ponition. If asist conlins only under certain and wear when this adjunct to perature exceeded a certain limit, number of vehicles registered, ex-
It needs few words to realise foreign cars. ported, Imported, and produced in
the thermostat malu Commercial motor manufacrare conditions: for example, when cooling was not needed.
In these the ther-| however, Great Britain for the year ended how congested must be the September 30. Tint date constitut-roads of Great Britain to-day turers were equally successful in polling hard at low speeds in
with over two million matar diemsing of their output or 64.3 to polling hard phill-this according tontit li dave, however, and are close the valve and oven an outlet ed the end of the automobile yea) vehicles, A
million elals and complete vehicles. The a British magazine contributor. so widely used for controlling tem-ort. Ho releasing the elutels spring. both in technical dating of
Ware this all, one would not par-peratures that there seems to be no and engaging the drive to the fan, the
of goods pedal cyclists, und, I believe, half total number
There is no reason why n devico produced und care which are
million borsed vehicles us aches, and omnibuses sold during haps be very critical, but a vital reason why it should not be atalistics of this official body DTJIL
potential Cruffle upon the year was 68,776 in Great wretched fun, apart from the fow employed for the automatic opera of this kind should give trouble representing all interests of the constant
Britain and Northern Ireland, occasions when it is useful, is tion of a clutch interposed in the considering the reliability which motor trade, writes the mustering them.
actually doing harm by spinning fan drive. It would, indeed, seem has been achieved with other operated me- correspondent of the Murning Part,
Private cars have increased in including those exported abroad.
Deducting the whole of imported around. Thus it is mounted on a quite possible to employ use and thermostatically The production of the British
the year by 3.2 per cent, according motor industry for 1921 amounted to official figures, Goods motera y motors, amounting to 1.689 bearing which requires constant the same thermostat for controlling chanianus anch as radiator alutters. to 226,307 vehicles, E compared
exempt-from-taxes vehicles by commercial goods and passenger high speeds and, last but not least. familiar throttle-valve so often up to the scratch is this
of $7,987. Thus it causes a wasinge of power which ed to restrict the efrenlation of most ownerdrivers will at this time of year adopt the time- year. This is a deerens only of
17.5 per cent. And this increase server rehletes
of British Pratically no id stuck was left on
considerable. ah be gulte
To drive a fan requires quite a honoured practice of removing 4.3 per cent. in one of the worst,
hand.
The quieter engines and gear-
their fat hells and hanging them if not the worst, year of trading represents better sales
The Royal Automobile Club tare-boxes beronie, the more noticeable considerable amount of power, so which has recurred since the motor whicles, as practically, the number
pose to hold a great motor rally. is the note of the fan, and on industry was established in En Imported motors is trilling.
Bedneting the vehicles reexported a day, March 1 is suggested several new American curs blades with land in 1851.
imported cars and chassis were
All compeitors for of a special shape, coated
tried to minimize Kands vehicles and the date. whthe
distance of 1,000 miles.
this drawinck, Another plan is to Regulations are in course of pre-arrange the blades unsymmetricui- be overcome aration and negotiations are proly. Even if noise
oding with various South Coast there is stil the wear and tear on and tons on to the finishing point of the belts and bearings to consider. be rally. Full details are expected which is naturally most serious at: to be ready within a few days and time when the fan is not of the will be avaliable on application alightest use, Le. when travelling London, S.W. 1. The Secretary, R.A.C.,
with 26,528 during the previous have increased by 4.4 per cent,, und it leaves a total of British sales of intrication, it is ually noisy at this clutch and for operating the However, until our designers como
the
It in wonder had t-timong his were 1,689, or a tota TZ will have to cover a minimum | rubler, have been tr
British Industry, fa to other feast
tries production of motor vehicles has fallen four to six times that percentage
of these quarter mator vehicles 158,9997
nt
in
t
This tutal in over 6,000 vehicles! amilise than those imported during the Sere Paravious year. Thus British motors cereler and the home market secure for
uf 1 Actually British workmen. and conches.
Da the credit side also
industry British motor
sport of 14.430 cars and chassis
4.418 romercial moters, The exported motor goods for the year (1931 modela), including of the value of £8,159,798.
brot of its there were more
notora made this year than in the revious twelve months, as, if that pre year's total, 169,669 were car and 66,8
3,858 heavy vehicles.
Thus while the cur production
Pall-mal,
fast.
dromed 63 per cent., henvy poorly, tyres, parla, and crensoriea, werd various starting places at a fairly
carriers and coaches increased by
wear the
1881-
in
were
Bailing Effects Experienced at Higher Speeds,
This will not be a speed event,
the competitora although
wil have in cover their journeys from
Abre a certain critical speed-- probably about 30 m.p.h, in many high average speed. The Ministry of Transport recor- 7 per cent, a matter of only 4ded that 141,492 new cars
Efficient labriențion becomes an cars the air flow through the tar cennes to he vehicles. In ordinary
martant factor in such contest honeycomb which is induced by thr registered for the first time during Fortunately, British blended sils, makion of the
the presence of the the year
in Great Britain, and such as distributed by the Shell-
Kanisted by
At still higher speeds the fan that 2,820 new cars were registered sex organisation; are certain in fan.
slight in Northern Ireland and 4,606 in the Irish Free State for the first beir results, giving the cats that may actually produce a
reliability which brought victory in baling effort, tending to obstruct Internationa! "Double the dow of air instead of providing every Twelve" hours race, every Dublin assistance! In a bad case which Grand Prix, and every Le Mans was recently brought to our notice In the removal of the fan belt, by 24-hour race, held in the i am not sure that some of these three years,
to cars using Shell obviating power loss and baffling. Every gallon of caused the maximum speed of a car and 25.646 fre-engines and official rew cara registered in the Irish lubricating oil.
not imported this oil is blended in Great Britain to increase from 75 m.p.h. to 78 vehicles exempt from paying road Free State were Hcence fees, a total of 1,636,961,'direct from other countries besidal from specially selected materiala, m.p.b.
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J increase wild noticed, but in such a bad year trafers it
out boldly stars relict.
During this year the great Lun ber of vehicles licensed to use Great Britain was the roads of 1,076,128 cars, 348,969 commercial hackney 86,208 mators, goods coaches, omnibuses, and taxicabs,
time.
Statistics on Sales of Motorcars.
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These "remarks do not, of course, apply
in which the bolt to cars driven an additional component auch AM wator Impellor or dynamo. In some such cases it la
however, possible (as an
an expedient)
to remove the fan itself by undoing three or four set screws, leaving The pulley and spindle' undisturbed. A little, trouble in these respects
is
amply repaid, as the engine will
I run at a higher and more efficient Lemperature, while the disadvant ngep associated with use of. a....fan. ure naturally avoided.
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