THE
PROGRESS IN CAR DESIGNS.
Problems That are Being Tackled.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1932.
Among the leading factors in automobile manufacture which have held the attention of experts during the last few years are gcaratéft elimination,, vapour look control, streamline, an engine mountings.
Of this group vapour lock has been classed as an insidious foo
of the motorist, and it is believed!
Alr Realstance
Lessoning of air resistance in non-stop that progress made in the design-thcao days when main
almost conquered this malign in-motorist has an increasing in-
RAIL AND ROAD CONFERENCE.
Transportation Report Made Public.
COLLABORATION OF SERVICES.
GROWING TRADE.
U.S. Aeroplane Production.
ing of fuel feed systems haaf highways are being-opened to the representatives of the railways fed in a like period In 1930 and of fluence which exercised a mystor- fluence on the endurance of life nervices, which, at the request of period last year. Sales exceeded
lous power to halt cars until
hort time ago.
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The Conference. consisting of and of the commercial road and vehicles.
Although the extreme tear-drop undertook the tasks of considering Mr. Pybus, Minister of Transport, design has boon offered as
the what would be a fair basis of com- ideal construction to fulfill repetition between rail and rond quirements, there are other practi-transport of goods, aubmitted its cal factors to be weighed by the report at the end of July, and it manufacturer. One of these falls now published. utilisation of space in the vehicle
Gearshift elimination has been the subject of International study, and the 1932 models stress the gaing made along this line of endeavour. In a recent discits alon of automatic development The Technology Review stated: for the benefit of the car owner.. The recommendatione, which "The next major Improvement In analysing the effect of there all made unanimously, include doubtless will take the form of atmospheric barriers, Felix W. Proposals for higher taxation of an automatically variable trans- Pawloski, of the Univeralty of, commercial motor-vehicles and niission which will not require Michigan, U.S.A. stated at regulation of this form of tran- any manual shifting:
meeting of the Society of Auto-port by a system of licensing to "It is no secret that automotive mative Engineers that in pursuing enforce payment of reasonable engineers in.America are interest- this line of research notable help and good conditions for em- ed in such a development, and that to the motoring public might he loves and the maintenance of some of them forecast its carly derived. "As the road or rolling vehicles in a state of fitness. advent even in the low-price class. resistance diminishes with the Minister of Transport should Another recommendation is that Already there are several systems provement of the highways, the designed to give automatically a atr resistance becomes
[ic more empowered to prevent the ratio suitable to any driving con- apparent, and at speeds of around transference of certain clames of 40 mm.p.h. begins to, dominate the goods from the railways to the road resistance," he pointed out. roads.
dition.
Value of Speed
"There in the epicyclic gear box, which automatically gives a small number of gear ratios. There are also the so-called fluid, flywheels designed, to replace the con ventional clutch and to give much
more flexibility."
Crosswind Force
resistance to the motion of a car,
During the frat slx months of the current year 641 commercial and military areoplanes and 1.024 engines, valued at $11,041,853, were produced in Amorica, according to Agures compiled by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America This valuation represents a declina of 39 per cent. from that establish 37 per cent. from the comparable
741 planes and 1,080 engines, hav production during the period, ns ing a total value of $11,814,467. wers sold. Evidently the process of clearing the shelves is still in progress, although at a diminish- ing rate, which gives ground for encouragement.
cial air transports in use on the air- Although many of the commer- lines have shown a realstance obsolescence which has surprised to most cases the manufacturer quite as much as it has heartened the operator, the point is approaching when replacements of many larger units must be made.
substantial difference between the change in road expenditure on the
of
one hand and the number that no new review of the situa- vehicles on the other, and suggestu tign need he undertaken for five years. If and when auch a review is thought necessary it should be the report. based on the principles implicit in
In the introductory part of the report there is a warning against "Since generation of crosswind extravagant expectations being force results in an increase of founded upon the effect of in- resistance to motions, therefore creased taxation of commercial the (car) body should be shaped road vehicles and their regulation so as not to produce that force in in forcing back traffic to the rail- While the high speeds attained certain proximity to the ground. ways. The present situation of Two relatively slight measures in motor car races are interesting This can be done in the case of the railways, it is pointed out, is in favour of the railways ard to the public, speeds as sugh the so-called perfectly stream- due partly to the fact that for recommended. The present legal means but little to the aptomotive lined body, body of least resist many classes of traffic the motor-obligation of the railway com- industry.. The manufacturers ance, by cambering the centre line vehicle is both more convenient panles to maintain at their ex- realise that cars seldom are push of the body..
and essentially more ecosomicalponse the road surfaces of bridges ed to the utmost effort of quick milenge to trend motor vehicle eddy-making item. in the total The Conference merely offers an equitable, and it is recommended "To effect a reduction of the than the railways, and parily to carrying highways ever railways the general trade depression, is described as anomalus and in- Selection on this basis.
What they do wish to emphasise to streamline all parts of the car alleviation of one of the principal that the road authorities should is the degree of power which can exposed in motion to the current Causes of loss by dealing with assume this responsibility for the he developed to meet any require-would be necessary. The major existing unfairness in the in- future. The railway companies ment or emergency. There also in a desire to prove that mechanism, portion of the ely-making recidence of highway costs and in- should be relieved of their obliga clingnis, and body will withstandsistance, however, is due to the adequacy of regulations against tion to publish rates in regard to car and therefore deserves the undersirable forms of trame by their regular road transport ser- many times the strain to which prime attention in this problem.goods vehicles on the roads. Its vices so long as so similar obliga- they would be subjected under
members are in full agreement as tion rests upon hauliers generally. ordinary conditions. Thus in the Possibilities exist of reducing to the main principles which extraordinary contingency over-the air resistance of not perfectly should govern the determination public has a right to be assured The Conference agreed that the streamlined automobiles by arti- of the charges upon commercial that the vehicles using the public In fuel economy, conservation of cially forcing the air to hug the motor transport. power, etc., the development of body, more closely, with the re- streamline principles has a
very aultant decrease in the edgyuaked no more than that this form railway representatives Jireet bearing
making rosfstance,"
of transport should pay its fair share of the cost of the road which they use as their permanent wny,
comic.
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The road representatives, on the other hand, did not ask that copi- mercial transport should pay less
ON MICHELINS... than its fair share of the cost of
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the, roads, or should by so doing úttain any other development than that which is economic and in the public interest. The Conference had to recommend, therefore, the total annual aum which should be
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vehicles as a whole and then what was the just incidence as between the different-classes.
The Scheme of Allocation Examined
roads are maintained in a state of recognized in the engo of public fitness. That necessity has been service For these reasons, the Conference.
(passenger) vehicles. reached the conclusion that some regulation of goods motor vehicles is necessary.
Collaboration Between Parties Suggested Collaboration of railways and road services is suggested in the following passage:--
delivery, and for conveyance up to "For local collection and local
a distance which varies with the
to
nature of the trafle, road trans- port has its undeniable, advant- ages. Beyond a certain distance. for certain classes of transport service, railway transport le no less unquestionably preferable. Roud and rall common carrier After a consideration of the ac-services will doubtless, to ад counts of the last five years, the Increasing extent, examine fairest figure to represent annual gether and in collaboration how expenditure us the basis of a they can effect economics, and scheme of allocation seemed to the give more convenient facilities at Conference to be £60,000,000. the minimum cost, by means of spread over different classes of complementary service, though if mechanically propelled vehicles. such collaboration is to bé suc- The Conference examined various cessful the special position of the systems of allocation of the total railways in regard to their rate costs, but not in any sense the system needs to be recognized. methods of collecting the money. With such collaboration, for ex The Conference records the opi- ample, the 'container system' can nion that a change in the rates of probably be developed and ar- contribution would be necessary
rangements made for through only if there should be in future à
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In conclusion, it is stated that the comprehensive measure of agreement disclosed by the report has necessarily been reached by concosatons on both sides. This has been expressed in ʼn scheme of which each section is an integral and interdendent part, and It must not be assumed that if one part were rejected the Conference would remain agreed upon the re- mainder. Conscious that re. jection of one part might endan- ger the whole, the Conference has taken special paine to avoid pre- Judice to absent interests.
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