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JULY 24, 1937.
T. H. WISDOM'S
MOTORING
-DIARY.
Most Interesting-
-NEWS
NEW "Ten," with a host
A of modern features and at a
for "release" in August.
This car has been on teal for
two years-now
It's absolutely
new Then there is a right.
"expected in July, and a "baby" 21-litre 10
four-cylinder 11.p.
since
(bigger than any "four" 1928), is reported to be giving every of satisfaction in the hands testora.
The Boolt people, who make that water-cooled two-stroke wonderful motor-cycle, ara experimenting with a three-cylinder two-stroke engined car.. and George Brough, builder of the world's most luxurious motor-cycle, the of these Brough Buperior machines has just taken the "bike" world speed record from Germany at 109 mph) has a 12-cylinder car onl the stocka
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the biggest motor-body Que of buliders has just anlähed a combled body and chaasts of pressed steel which it is hoped will interest mana- facturers..
The luca is by means new-the Italian Lancia utilises the body as the chassis frame-but this scheme is for a big production firm. It has, of course, great advantages--tremendous strength and low weight.
This last is the most important, for most Brillalt cars are too heavy und the engine, consequently, has to work too hard. A good power-to-weight ratio la what every designer is after- low weight and high power is the way 10 performance with a capital "P."
Bomo manufacturers are interested in the idea, but Insurance canpaules are, at the present, rather unfavour- ably inclined towards this form of construction owing to the cost of res pairs in the event of a collision.
-TALK
WITH T. W. Graham, of the Vacuum Oll Co., on the subject of extreme pressure lubricants, It tended to become somewhat technical, but it pro- vided important news.
Rear axles are much the game size to- day as in 1007, when engines developed But, today, some 15 horse-power. engines are doing beller than 200 horse-power. So the back-axle, that Borcly neglected mechanism, goes through it
Latest thing is a new o known as "extreme pressure lubricant." Firms like Austin, Morria, Ford, Wolseley. Hallman, Humber. Riley, M.G. Rolls- Royce, Talbot, Triumph. Alvia and Bentley recommend its use.
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Here's the big point-these extreme pressure lubricants should not mixed. That is of vital importance. lubrication engineers have ruled. Mr. Graham tells me,
In the United States service stations will not "tep-up" rear axles, but insist
draining, flushing and refilling, be eatse extreme pressure lubricants con- tain certain chemicals which must not be mixed with others.
It's a tip worth knowing.
-AID
to Safety
THE new Dunlop tyre, Introduced this week. While we have skid-surfaces, a slur on our Ministry of Transport and road bullders (since akids cause accidents. and we know how to lay non-skid roads, we have to rely on the tyre manufacturers to keep us safe when it
rais.
Until now some of them have been very auccessful-tyres last much longer -but their non-skid proclivities have not improved to any great degree.
Until now--the new Dunlop hus eix rows of teeth." three on each side and slots across the studs. and it has been tested for over half a million miles. Those who have tried it say it's just the thing we've been waiting for.
One of the Dunlop engineers told me that the slots in the trend have been designed to retain anti-skid properties when the tyre is well-work and at the same time to avoid rapid or irregular
wear.
-LETTER
P.
CROM National Cyclist Funion member Whaley. Cyclists are supposed to hate me, but evidently not all of them do. Mr. Whaley's letter is full of common-sense: ho knows what he's talking about, for he has oyoled some 75,000 mlies.
Of two toum (750 mites) he has done We never had a recently, he says, moment's trouble from any road user except for two-an army, lorry out-lu and a motorist pulled up too quickly.
"I take off my hat to motorista in general. The standard of driving this I have received year is wonderful. overy consideration and courtesy that anyone could desire."
Now, that's nice. Let's continue to retain Mr. Whaley's goodwill.
He wants me to make two poluta. 1 cyclist at speed When passing
-PICTURE
T. H. Wisdom, still on sticks after his crash in the Mille Miglia, with Mr. H. Seaward, joint managing director of Morris Motors, Ltd., in front of the plane in which Mr. Seaward travels all over the country.
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motorists should give him Travelling in the "Afties" and passing 4 cyclist within a couple of feel plays "merry hell" with the poor chap maintain his balance on two wheels. A ittle more elbow room, please, says Mr. Whaley,
Point Two is that it is quite une necessary to use the Jorn as if the car were a tram going over an R- starded level crossing instead of pass- A mere nip" ing a couple of cyclists. is enough.
"Biggest source of donger to us all in the elderly uerson who will walk arros Be rod without looking left or right," he ends
-CAR
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THE new Vauxhall "25,"
n revelation of what a low-priced. comfortable, good- looking and speedy car can be. It really is an outstanding car -predominant being the magnif-
-and MAN
M.
MAVROGORDATO, the Morris uf
racing one-time
pilot Motors plane, motor-cyclist.
His passion is collecting and tuning. up old cars, He owns the Opel, first car which the inte Sir Henry Seurave drove, and "Tim" Birkin's He's 41-tre supercharged Bentley.
an expert fyer and motorist-very sate. But I hear that he fell off a "the High," biegele riding down Oxford. the other evening!
HEREDITY ON THE
cent top-gear performance, the SCREEN
silence of the engine, the powerful Also brakes and good springing. visibility is excellent, which is un- usual nowadays.
The car is a five-senter saloon of modern appearance, with com- roomy fortable seating and a luggage compartment. The engine Is a 25-h.p. six-cylinder overhead valve unit-annual tax £18 15s. A good synchromesh four-speed Rear-box is fitted, though for the greater part of driving time the gear is never shifted from top.
There are not many cars that will climb Muswell Hill. London, and Fish Itt, Broadway, on top, and be ne. celerating at the summit-the Vaux- hall d nad was.
The suspension dindependent on the Front) is of American type-a sufi, gild ing sort of springing, but, unlike the Americans, doesn't pitch and 11 doesn't roll. Likewise, the steering is excellent, with a nice degree of self- centring action.
The Lockheed by
draulic brakis are excellent.
It has those owner-driving nitrnel- ing features like pedomatle starting- If the engine stops push the clutch out and it starts again-and roof lights that gu on when the rear doors are opened,
Performance-83 m.p.h. maximum, to from standstill
24 Accelerates
Petrol con- 50 m.th. in 13 seconds. sumption, on my test, worked out at I 17 m.pg.
Search as I have done since I am not easily satisfied for something to criticise about this car, for the life of me I have not been able to and it
The price la not the least surprising thing about the new Vauxhall-£208 for the saloon complete. It will be . hard to beat that for all round value in motor transport. Congratulations to Vauxhall engineers and testers.
-BOOK
one
" CONSIDER it infernal
for any check motorist to attempt to lay down the law' to others.
"We are all learners all the time," is how W. J. Seymour starts off his "Cor Driving Made Easy," and he continues in the same veln-a chatty, informa- Live little book which novice and "olá hand alike will and useful.
Published And it's not technical
by Pearson's at 10.
that Our now And I hear Minister of Transport, Dr. Lealle Burgin, is dropping the "Dr." and wants to be plain Mr. Burgin in future. I hope that doesn't mean doctor." our he isn't going to " roads. They need It..
The 1038 head-lamps will be stream lined, screen wipers will be at the bottom of the screen almost univers- ally, direction indicators that don't cancel automatically will be passo at Earl's Court.
Controllcal
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BOOKS PRESIDENT LINGER
OF THE WEEK
Edited by Roger Pippett
-IN SHORT-
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE tells a great tale
of comradeship and love.
VAUGHAN WILKINS brings the Romantic
Novel back at the gallop.
CONRAD RICHTER takes a new turn on the
old covered wagon trail.
ERIC DANCY invites you to a party in "London's
front garden."
LEO HUBERMAN rewrites history-for
ordinary people.
T
MAN'S WORLDLY
By Leo luberman (Gollanes, 105, TAJ
HERE must be plenty of headmasters who would like to кес this history-book banned. Facts are brought to light in it about which the school-books have always remained silent.
For one thing, the author is not particularly interested in kings He prefers to de- and emperors. scribe what happens to ordinary people.
For another thing, he shows how the English peasant had to fight for his freedom. Thle 15 dan- How many old- gerous stuf. fashioned headmasters would like to have to tell the children of the Harworth miners that they are the heirs to that freedom?
Then there is something else that the author does. He explains tchy people did things as well as saying what they d.
Why did quite irreligious old barons risk their lives on religious Crusades to the Holy Land? Why did the Church say for centuries that lending money for intereal was a sin and then suddenly turn round and say i waE quite proper?
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For years questions of this kind have been carefully avoided. 11 Huberman faces them-and Ands an answer. It all goes to show how little reni history most of us know.
Novel Film
ASAMENT A "ERE
com-
Mr. Julian Huxley, the biologist, supplies an introduction and mentary to a novel educational Alm, entitled "Heredity and Eugenies," Instruc- which Gaumont-British tional Films and the Eugenics Society have jointly produced.
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about The film takes only minutes to show, but manages convey, by means of diagrams, the behaviour of the mysterious chromo- somes, which, according to modern theory, determine heredity, and to illustrate the effects of heredity and environment,
Miss Edith Craig, Sir Dam Godfrey, Val Gielgud, and Haze! Terry are In the film, which is in two parts. The irst deals with the science of heredity withi in animals, and the second eugenies, or heredity, in man.
The first few minutes of technical actual photo- explanation include graphs of fertilisation, and then follow illustrations of the emergence of new types after different rabbit crossed. and fowl types have been The varieties of dog and horse which have been derived from the original wild types by selective breeding are shown,
the importance and heredity
stock- in the process of breeding is brought home by a pic- ture of Mahmoud winning the Derby in 1930. Ils pedigree is seen.
Heredity in Man
of
re-
The precise workings of the laws of heredity in man are more difficult tu show graphically, Man produces slowly by comparison, and his matings cannot be experimental- ly controlled.
For this reason, the fim confines itself to simple illustrations of the workings of good and bad heredity la certain families whose characteristics are capable of being pictorinily shown,
First came the Phelps tamy, who have been watermen on the Thames' for many generations and are cele- brated oarsmen. The "Doggelt Coat and Badge" has been won by many members of this family, and their magnificent physique is seen in ple- Eric Ted, and tures of "Bossie," Phelps. Ted and Eric are profession- al scullers, the first being ex-world champion.
The transmission of musical ability 1 is illustrated by the Godfrey family, bandmasters for who have been shock-absorbing — on
several generations. Sir Dan God- Bentley and Wolseley at present-will
frey and his nephew, Mr. Howard be an important feature of the 1938
Godfrey, who la a jazz band leader, models.
are seen at work.
The Italian champion, Tazio Nuvo- lari. is being sent to compete in the Le Mans 24-hour race next week, be cause Italy feels that British ears have been doing a darn aight too well there in the last few years.
COUNT THE “TELEGRAPHS"
·EVERYWHERE
Stage Generation
The familiar incidence of gifts for the stogo and art is shown in the Terry and Glelgud families, which are closely related. The multiform- .versatile con-
Have you ever heard of the Fuggers? If not, then it will interest you to know that they ruled Europe more powerfully than any king. They were
firm of German bankers
debtors the counted among their Emperor Charles V, the Pope of Rome and King Henry VII himself.
who
It is rulers with bigh-sounding titles who swagger about the pages oi history. But it was litle Jacob Fugger who told them what to do.
In one way this book does not go far enough. It gives a very fair pic- ture of the way In which working peoplo in Europe have been treated But 11 since the twelfth century.
hear mor would be interesting to about the kind of houses they lived in, the food they used to eat and the way they spent their spare time
Perhaps a detailed description of these hum-drum things would be too heart-breaking. What glimpses we
do get are grim enough.
Read, for instance. the description of how, a hundred years ago, little chil-
RAPID REVIEWS
LONDON, by Arthur Mee (Hodder and Stoughton, 125. d.). What to See in
The
towers RIO the Capital. churches, the museums and art gal leries, the monuments and meno- rials, the streets and gardens. Nearly nine hundred pages and two hundred Illustrations. Fascinating.
THE CAMP MEETING MURDERS, by
Nunc and Vance Randolph Clemens (Cassell, is. Od.). "Send mit a sign,* cried the revivalist as the women sobbed and the hill men helped things along with swigs of corn whilaky. The sign he got was a silver bullet, a murder neater than the subsequent detection. HAMLET, KING LEAR, TWELFTI. NIGIFT, HENRY THE FIFTI, A DREAM MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S and AS YOU LIKE IT (Penguity The first aix vol. Books, G. each): umes of the Penguin Shakespeare. Edited from the original text by O 11. Harrison. Good print-and amaz. ing value.
THE BURNING COURT,' by Johr Dickson Carr (Hamish Hamilton 78. Gd.). Death by poison. Was sorcery or honest-to-goodness 'mur- der Whatever 'your preference for measurable clues and sans explana. tion, the final chapter should give you the ahudders,
THE INIQUITOus contract, vy J. L. Benvenisti (Burna, Oates and Washbourne, 58.). A thoughtful ana- yala of usury and maldistribution, the full And an attempt to stato Christian theory of ownership and show the inherent antagonism b tween that theory and the principles of Capitalism." CYRANO DE BERGERAC, by Oswald Dallas and Draycot M. Dell (The Queensway Press, 7n. Gd.). The navel The of Rostand's famous play. authors were given exclusive permis sion by his executors to incorporate the dialogue and action in their atory.
GOODS
to
Work <lren of zeven were made fifteen hours a day for Abilling a werk-how they were whipped if they fell asleep-how they often grew so tired that they fell into the machinery. Perhaps these pages will make you ashamed of being an Engilshman.
There is no need to be ashamed. Mr. Huberman goes on to tell us how our country produced men and women who fought against these evil the trade union pioneers, the Chartists and Shel- ley, the workers' poet.
One further characteristic maken this book unusual. It is written by au American in his best wise-cracking style, and it is therefore the kind of book that can be read by the fireside. No one is likely to read a dull history 17 he can lay his hands on a work like this.
Truly a book which ought to be banned!
W. O. C. B.
T
HYDE PARK
By Eric Dancy
Methuen, 103, Cd.
is book about every Lon- doner's front garden in a de- light-in writ' ag, illustration and design.
ä cheerful Mr. Dancy planned record of the green, inviting open space which is uniquo in Europe ("Nature rulca in Hyde Park, de- corum in the Luxembourg. Herr Hitler in the Tiergarten ").
And he has filled it with good stories and revealing scraps of history from the time of Charles 1 who gave this once Baxon forest to the British people precisely three hundred years ago-to Charlie Gray, who has the most Orators' devoted nudience Corner.
on
For these three centuries Hyde Park has been the theatre of a pageant of history: tragic, comic, jurid.
Charles I let the people danco Cromwell round Maypoles here. came along and stopped that non- sense, buliding forts instead of fountains in the Ring.
Pepys strolled by the Berpenting on pleasant days, looking "mighty noble" in "painted gloves, very pretty and in the mode." Avarici- ous Caroline coolly appropriated three hundred acres for the Royal Household to make Kensington Gardens.
George It's reign witnessed over a hundred and seventy duels here, with sixty-nine duelists killed. And the
King himself played Peeping Tom on the Ladies Mile with such effect that his own romance was shattered.
The Liver Brigado on Rotten Row, Lansbury's, Lido, the Reformer's Trec. the Magazine, the Great Exhibition silc there are good stories about all these places where proudly posses sivo Londoners now take the air on Bundays and small boys play surrepti tious cricket in winter and football in suminer.
And there is one refreshing recount on notable stand for subject liberty: a Reform League meeting in 1808. Victims then were ten police superin- tendents, eighteen inspectors, twenty- three sergeants, a hundred and seventy constables-while the Trenchard of the time went home with a beautiful black eye.
But the rights of free speech were upheld.
W. E. R. W.
are also two impressive "Ahots" of Hnzel Terry and John Gielgud, the latter in an excerpt of a recent aim.
The film ends with an academic exposition of the workings of, dit- different ferential fertility and the
effects of two strains, producing two and three children respectively, when the less fertile strain is more favour- ed by heredity.
The
the general secretary of Eugenics Society, a medical specialist, explained to a reporter that no nt- the Alm to tempt was made In distinguish between- the effects
environmental heredity and fluence..
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