MOTORING
THE IDEAL CAR. Snipe Makes Firm Friends.
When H.R.H. The Prince of Wales visited Pernambuco, Brazil, last year, he was driven round the
SUPPLEMENT
ACROSS AUSTRALIA.
A Land of Plenty.
MINERAL WEALTH
UNEXPLORED
A journey of 8,500 miles by City in the Humber Suipe belongmotor-cne has been accomplished ing to Mr. P. G. Archbold, a pri- by Mr. William Hatfield, a young minent British resident. Mr.author, who has arrived in Sydney Archbold has just written the after spending five months touring makers of the car to any that his Northern and Central Australia. Snipe has now been running for Mr. Hatfield is an Englishman who exactly twelve months in Brazil came to Australia twenty years and has given such utter satisfac-ago and spent some years in Cen- tion that, as Mr. Archbold put it, trai Australia in the cattle coun- When I have to buy another car try, where he gathered the mater- I shall buy a Bumber Snipe, but lal for two novels. The object I shall be sorry to part with this of this journey was to renew ac- quaintance with the country and recapture Ita atmosphere for
one.
To
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Another interesting opinion on the same model comes from the Rt.further books. Mr. Hatfield Hon. The Earl Howe, who, hay joined in northern Queensland by lng made a special thousand miles his wife, who was with him during test of the Snipe, wrote: "I really
the last three months of the trip. was delighted with the ear.
Starting from Sydney, Mr. Hal- my mind it is an absolutely ideal field set out through western New motor-car at the price. Coming South Wales into western Queen- from such a well-known connois- seur of cars as is Lord Howe, hisand, out through northern quar- opinion of the Salpe la particular-er of South Australia, and back ly interesting.
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OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY 18th JUNE, 1932,
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
AIR RESISTANCE TESTS OF THE NEW LINCOLN V-8.
Illustrating the Advantage of the Air Flow Body Design in Eliminating Air Turbulence.
in development of the Lincoln | University's wind tunnel by means (1) Resistance test-The resis- V-8 Air Flow Design, the following of an necurately built one-quarter tance of the senle model is recorded Aerodynamic tests were made at size scale model of the Lincoln V-8nt air speeds ranging from 50 to high speeds in one of the lending Body:
00 miles per hour, and from this
Wind tunnel test of Lincoln V-8 air-flow design showing low wind resistance.
into Queensland. Thence he struck across the Barclay Table- lands to the overland telegraph data the resistance of the full size line. which he followed to
car is estimated by mathematical the cosmopolitan town of Dar-computation, win, made famous as the place of (2) Smoke Flow lest-A jet of Danding for England to Australin flyers. From Darwin he travelled
down through Central Australia, past Alice Springs to Odnadatta, to Adelaide, and thence back Sydney.
to
Central Australia. Mr. Hatfield regards as totally unsuitable for closer settlement or even perman- jent settlement. The rainfall is too uncertain a quantity and much of the enuntry is poor.
Suitable For White Settlers. Farther north there is n land of plenty that may some day support a huge population. North of a line from about Newcastle Waters is an area of about a third of a million square miles.
within the rain belt and is assured
smoke is introduced into the air over and around the model may be stream from a small movable tube studied. The action is recorded on in front of the model, thus, the motion picture film. action of the air currents passing (3) Flow Pattern test-A white |
Noto in this design air turuulence in identical test indicating air drag.
given speed.
"
2. Less fuel consumption. 3. Reduction of air noses due to smooth flow of air over and around
It comes lacquered metal plate intersects the tamp black, revealing 1 Less horsepower required for a
white nurface. under- of the monsoonal rains in the sum the model at the desired plane. the mer months. It is fertile land, This assembly is placed in a hori. reath, and also vaporizes the kero- sene, thereby providing a perman- capable of producing a tremendous zontal position in the wind tunnelent record. variety of tropical products, and and the surface coated with a mix- The advantage gained by the Air the body. is practically unexplored for min-ture of lamp bluck and kerosene Flow Design, because of the
eli- 4. The reduction of air tur
stability at high speeds.
eral wealth. This great area is at The air currents cause the mination of wind resistance, are bulence and, therefore, improved present populated by 5,000 people, kerosene to score through briefly as follows:
Government servants, such as rail Including a large proportion of
waymen. clerks, and telegraph perators. There 18 a sizable Asiatic element. Most of these people live in Darwin.
Mr. Hatfield scouts the sugges. tion that this country is unsuitable
for white settlement. He is saths- fed that the Nordic races can thrive there. Far from the climate being enervating, he says, it is ne- |tually rejuvenating.
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trials, has had many successes in national and international rallies. Last year, with Mr. A. L. Pearce, he won first prize (£400) in the Monte Carlo motor rally, In June, British Firm to the 1930, he won the Austrian-Alpine cup trial, from Vienna to Feld- Fore.
kirch, a distance of approximately The challenge of Mi Citroen, 1,000 miles, without the loss of a the French car maker, Overseas buyers of marine en-which he will pay £10,000 to the Bournemouth and Brighton motor under single mark. In 1929 he won the gines cannot be too careful in dia- Grat manufacturer to beat the rally, and in the London-Lund's criminating amongst the very wide Citroen car record of 83,753 miles End trials he, has won five gold range of makes on the market, and in 54 days at a 64 m.p.h. average, medula ent of a possible eight, fle choosing those which are primarily has been accepted by the British was the only English competitor designed and built for marine ser. Invicta firm, of Cobham, Surrey.to be placed in the Monte Carlo vice in preference to motor car type be used, the driver will be Mr.
The Monthery (Paris) track will rally 1920.
In the Alpine motor trial in engines adapted for this purpose. Don Healey, the well-known August last year, Mr. Healey was For marine service it is custom-Cornish motorist, and the car, its the only British driver to lone ngo ary to run an engine at full throttle fuel, all, and tyres will be British. Imarks, and he became joint win
Mr. Henley, who has attained iner, with two Germans, of the for long periods, and only, one of international fame in motor car Coupe des Glaciers. sturdy construction can be expected to stand up to such drastic treat-i ment.
The brunt of the strain falls on the crankshaft, and It is well known that Lloyd's rules call for crank- shafts, among other items, to bej heavier than is usually considered necesanry,
It may not be generally known that it has always been the stand- ard practice of John I. Thornycroft & Co., Limited, to fit exceptionally sturdy crankshafts to all their types of marino engines, all of them being largor in diameter and in- creasingly stronger than oven Lloyd's formula. Tho increases range from 1.08 per cent. in the case of the well-known "Handy- billy" 71⁄2/9 b.h.p. onging to -3.79 per cat in the case of their! 100 b.h.p. type RD/6 engine.
Hence it will be understood why Thornycroft marine engines give. auch long-lived and dependable sor-
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