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THE CHINT MAIL:

MOTORING SECTION

THE SIX-WHEELED VEHICLE.

RECORDS BROKEN.

2 MOTOR CYCLISTS AT BROOKLANDS.

ROAD TRANSPORT. the new W.D. design in which there are three axles. 'f these the front one is quite normal, baving Ackermann-type steering. with wheels which do not drive. Un- der the load two driving axles are wheels could be made to drive as placed close together. If the front

London, April 20. well it would be a further advant-

Brooklands. In the motor-cycle. nge, but the extra cost would be races A. Denly, driving a 490 c.c. fatal to its commercial adoption.. Norton, lowered the ten-mile Brook- were lands record, averaging 100.18 Again, if the three axles more nearly equally spaced itmiles per hour. would be impossible to keep all six wheels in contact with the road surface when traversing rough country unless the frame were itself articulated. Only by placing two driving axles under the load could a simple form of transmission be obtained with correct load distribu- tion when rough country was be-

The development of road trans: port, much of it at the expense of the railways, has been very much in evidence recently, and the indica- tions are that it is likely to increase still further with the progress now being made in the construction of good ronda and the present high rail charges. There is much to be eald for the conveyance of goods by road vehicles, which can pick up the lighter kinds of freight at the actual place of production and with little or no delay transporting crossed. them to their destination. The

system has the advantage of speed arising mainly from the avoidance of the delays inherent in the load ing of heavy trains, which seldom touch directly the places of produc- tion or consumption.

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He in the first rider ever to win. race with a machine of less than 600 c.c. at over 100 miles an hour.

Levack, driving a Now Hudson, not exceeding 500 c.c. created a new five-mile record, averaging 105,9 miles per hour.

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Briggs, driving Velocette, crashed and fractured his skull, and collarbone.

Special Features of the Type. tures of the new type of vehicles. These, then are the chief fen- One of the special features is that the axles are free to rise and fall relatively to each other. Further, If the two driving axles can move out of the horizontal with completeIt freedom, which movement does not entail any twisting of the springs. Again, engine size la kept down by the use of a particularly wide range of gears,

HIMS I HATE.

there's one thing more than any other puts me in a panic, is leaving my small coupe in the

care of a mechanic; For the spanner-wielder who's not

greasy has not yet been seen; With joy he plasters finger-prints bonnet, guards and

on

screen;

In oily clothes he squats on plush I guard with jealous zeal; Parks oil cans on the running boards, and rubs grease on .the wheel.

At the close of the war it was estimated that there were.no fewer than 80,000 motor transport vehicles in use by the Expeditionary Force en the Western front. These were mainly of the 3 to 4-ton lorry type with solid tyres, which had been built under a pre-war subsidy scheme of the War Department. These vehicles, however, were not well suited to the rough roads behind the front, and for cross- country work lighter tyres of vane-commercial vehicles angle tyres are I know it means more hours of had to be employed.

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Had the Continental practice been adopted of heavily engining the vehicle, the machine would make little appeal to the civilian user, on whose adoption of the W.D. specification the success transmission is therefore effected of the scheme depended. through relatively short shafts with The mess he makes in one short hour fills me with rage-for universal joints. Tyre equipment

*damme Is another important feature.

The

On

toil with brush and hose and chamois.

commonly offered. For W.D. pur- noses, twin tyres on the four driv

This ing wheels are preferred. secures larger ground-surface con- And let me sing a hymn of hate tact, and wheels of such size At that smug battery man as can be handled by a man in éase Who, finding one corroded plate, of removal or repairs.

Tries out this knavish plan; Non-skidding properties are also "Your batt'ry isn't worth repair," areatly sought after. Amongst the (His smile he tries to smother, later developments in tyres

Then 'dons a brusque and busy | those in which there are several air

spaces, each of which is hermeti-"Let's quote you for another."

air.).

cally sealed. This obviates_the bugbear with the ordinary pneuma-Unto the list of hates I add tic=rapid deftation when it is cut! That juvenile apprentice

are

or punctured. New types of treads Who's sometimes left-in charge by

"dad" have also been produced in order

Since the war the mechanisution of military transport has made con- siderable progress, and on March 11 last Captain. C. H. Kuhne, D.S.O, O.B.E., R.A.S.C., gave an ac- count to the Institution of Mechani- cal Engineers of the developments which had followed the research work done by the War Department with a view to producing a' vehicle which, while meeting all the strin- gent conditions of war service, should still be an attractive pro- position for commercial work in timen of peace. In order to secure greater freedom of movement specification was drawn up for a 30- to secure maximam adhesion on ewt lorry which, by the use of slippery ground. In addition, non-To trouble and torment us. high-grade materials and pneumatic skid properties were first sought by Invited to produce some tape tyres, and by the elimination in the the use of "bracelet" chains. Of

and mend a broken wire, design of all superfluous material, these, the first types caused con- He'll blow the fuse-box out of would be likely to render the. re-siderable wear on the tyre, but later shape quired service in cross-country designs were free from this defect. And hurriedly retire; work..

Finally, an "over-áll non-skid chain". Then blink, and say: "Ain't that was adopted, which, composed of a a cow? ... number of steel plate shoes. and "I'm no 'lectrician, any'ow."' linked with cheap stampings, passes round the two wheels on either side. But most of all I hate those While this design must be regard- quent adenoidal boys ed as in the initial stage, a num-Who stand with mouth agape, ber have been put into service with

and stare, and find untimely joya excellent results.

scenes which turn strong men to tears or fill their hearts with ire:-

Reduction of Axle Weight.

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It was at once recognised that a 30-cwt lorry represented a retro- grade step. In that the useful load was limited in order to secure greater freedom of motion. The reduced carrying capacity involves a larger number of men and vehi-

These chains are not normally inIn cles and a greater amount of road tension to the extent of the tractive space for the same tonnage, and an

'force, nor is any initial tension effort was therefore made to em- body the main desiderata of the necessary. They are easily fitted, a pair being put on in two to four military lorry in a new type of

minutes, the chains being laid on vehicle, which would provide a the ground and the wheels run on, greater area of contact so as to pre-

a simple link completing the fitting. vent sinking in the ground, and to which a greater tractive power links, except that on cach side it is There is no definite pitch to the could be applied. The attempt to provide more driving wheels result-convenient to arrange the chain ao ed in the production of what has new come to be known as the W.D. rigid frame six-wheeled vehicle. Towards the reduction of weight per axle the six-wheel vehicle of a well-known type went a long way, but attention was directed towards the provision of a six-wheel vehicle which would have two undriven front wheels and four driving wheels placed close together under the load.

that while one. wheel is riding on a

shoe the other, wheel is missing the

This makes for more even travelling over rough roads.

SATURDAY, MAY

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-woord puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional ` phonetic`spellings, such as karbor, plow, and altho.)

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HORIZONTAL (Cont)

146-Posses

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time -One of Britian islesi47-Hindmost

(abbr.) 10-Abraded

12-Advanced in years 13-The mantla of

Minerva

16-Fertile spot in a

waste

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36-Australian bird 48-To transda. 29-Opposed to flood 42-Point of compass

(abbr.)

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52-Angle of fort 54-Three (Italian)

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mosaure 39-Point of compass

(abbr)

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period $1-Begullad

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VERTICAL

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Suffix Footed

Lateral

Jam (Conu),

15-Not requirad 17-Arrive (abbr)

18-Part of verb "to be 19-To surpass [21-Over (post.)

23-A weak-day (abbe.) 24-Nothing

27-Discaso carriers 29-Bracing |31-Observa

93-2,240 pounds 97-Noormaity 88-Equivalence

40-Insect [41-Ordered

43-To faed

44-Confederate general

(U. a.) 48-Titled the garden-

6-Post at end of stair |46–Suffix. Relating to

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|50-Væst

of nouns 7-Parfidious triand of 51-Rock

Othella

B-Card

152-Home of Insects

BB-Bhartiy

57-Bern (French)

66-Brazilian sein

11-French revolution.

ary leader SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filing in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in tom to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or bath,

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

ROAD TESTS:

Some American motor manufac fre-turers have dispensed with the road test. Not so British manufac- turers. "Morris" cars and trucks,

driver searching for a short;

or wrestling with a tyre. They love to see a motorist be come a sweating sight; And if he has to turn the crank their eyes pop with delight, But by the time they've grown to -men (this thought makes me

dejected), There'll be no chance to gape at

them.

Cars will have been perfected. Upon them my rich curses fall; I hate them all. I hate them all. -G. REES-GUNN în "Sydney

Sun."

billeation.

It is felt that a solid

Development and Production. The progress which has been made in the development of this type of machine may be gauged hv. the fact that in the early párt of 1925 no example was in extatence. and. Intensive research was neces sary in order to bring it into being. In order to achieve this the sus. By the end of 1926, however, the pension of the driving axles must W.D. and other Government départ- be such that the exertion of trac-ments had received delivery of basis has been created for a new tive force will not disturb the dis- about 120 machines. with 150 still phase of development in the Bril- tribution of weight of the four on order. A few firms now have tish motor industry. The par- driving wheels. Again, the suspen- this type standardised and available formances of this type of vehicle: sion must also admit of free arti- for sale at home or abroad. These at the triala in September last culation of the driving axles with vehicles are already in operation in demonstrated that it is a fine cross- out distortion, of the springs or Britain, while a number have gone country machine, and also unequal distribution of the load out to Colonial agents,

⚫economical one, a most unusual over the four driving wheels.. The vehicles are being produced combination. Then a

high tractive force under a Government subsidy, with There are a number of points has to be secured, pre-the proviso that is an emergency still under investigation on which ferably by gearing down, a moder- they will at once be available for further light will doubtless be ate-size engine, and non-skid pro-use by the Government. The W.D. forthcoming as the vehicles come perties must also be in evidence in Is anxious to see as many as pos- more into use, and it is of interest- order that there may be sufficient atble of this tyne in use under com- | to note that a six-wheel drive trac- adhesion to utilise the greater trac-mercial conditions. The greater tor lorry is in process of completion tive force. As far as existing the civilian use of this type. which by the W.D. at Aldershot. This is vehicles went these desiderata wore has been proved to be of the highest similar to the machine described, seldom met anywhere,, and almost service under war conditions, the but in addition, the front wheels never in a single machine. Henco greater our preparedness for mo- will be driving wheels.

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for instance, are subjected to the most rigid road tests, and a subse- quent Inspection makes doubly sure of the thorough-efficiency and flawlessness of the finished pro- duct.

Mr. Morris, at a 'recant compli- mentary dinner, emphasised the importance of the road test and Anal inspection, instancing it as an of traditional British example method, and he, for one, would not see it sacrificed for the sake of time

or money.

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