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cess

SECTION

Safety Precautions,

BRAKING SYSTEMS.

THE SERVO BRAKING

EXPLAINED..

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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

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Another item of safety with applying the shoes to the drums. which motorisis are equipping their For some considerable time there cars is the Pyrene fire extinguisher, has been a tendency to reduce That firm of manufacturers of alt;

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There, is however, a definite limit to an increase of leverage, because of the fact that the pedal travel cannot be unduly prolonged. Thus, if it be desired to halve the pedal pressure required

leverage, then the designer must doubling the face the fact, that this alteration through which the podal must be will entail doubling the distance depressed in order to supply the brakes.

This week the motoring public are busily engaged in preparing for a short holiday tour. The result is that all the factories are endeavour- |ing to create new records in output

and delivery of new cars.

The in new extension to the Willesden "What is meant by servo brak

works of the Triplex Safety Glass

ing?" This is a question that is Grent interest was displayed by Company has enabled a greater the Prince of Wales in his recent number of unsplinterable glass frequently asked nowadays, owing informal visit to the Morris motor screens and windows to be deliver to the fact that some form of power- works at Cowley, where a few days ed, although the demand from the

aviation side, for

assisted brake is fitted to a gog- both Triplex previously Mr. W. R. Morris had avia completed the construction of his gles and screens, is very heavy..siderable number of 1927 models, The Prince has al- Since Triplex safety glass has been The origin of the term "servo 200,000th ear. waya

been an enthusiastic motorist, improved, so that it retains its

white clearness and does not de-, brake" is somewhat obscure, but driving himself frequently, and has considerable knowledge of motor-velop a slightly yellow tinge, its he ordinarily used its meaning may car construction and the details of popularity has largely increased. be defined as follows:-A servo many makes of cars. He followed Closed ears are gaining in general every operation, and was particular- favour, and all sensible motorists brake is one in which a force, which ly impressed with the tyre fitting de- insist upon Triplex safety unsplin may be produced by the frictional partment, where he was astonished terable glass being fitted la place of and amused at the skilful and rapid been the cause of serious injury auction.or some similar agency, As-

the ordinary plate glass, which has drag of a rotating part. performance of one of the hands, nicknamed "Tiny" on account of his to passengers when cara have met sists the driver in the task of gigantic stature, who fitted the with accidents on the road. tyres without the aid of levers, which are usually required.

His Royal Highness has consent ed to open the Scottish Motor EX kinds of appliances for protection driving fatigue by providing lighter hibition in the rebuilt Kelvin Hall, from fire has introduced a "Junior", controls; thus, steering gears are Glasgow, on the afternoon of Fri-Pyrene extinguisher for small cars. being provided with bigger lever- day, Nov. 4, and to attend the it is half the size and capacity of annual dinner of the Royal Scottish the ordinary Pyrene, but, like its light springs are in general use and ages, clutches with comparatively Automobile Club in the evening bigger brother, works instantly by This will be the first to be open-means of its double acting rotating much has been done to reduce the ed by a Royal personage. No doubt pump. It will enable the light car pressure required on the brake the fact that the Prince sent one of owner to put out a fire which has pedal. This braking pressure can his carriages to the used-car show started in the carburettor from a be cut down considerably by at the Royal Agricultural Hall, back-fire or other cause just a eliminating friction in the operating Islington, considerably helped to quickly as the owners of large cars gear so far as possible and by in make that exhibition à commercial can do with the larger model. Be- creasing the leverage to the maxi- Buccess. The speeding-up of the ing light and handy, and not taking mum extent. sale of second-hand motors is great up more than about a foot of space ly desired in the interests alike of in length, this new Junior Pyrene the manufacturer, the dealer, and the motor-owning public. The suc- Can easily be carried in a conven ient position the vehicle, and its of the London second-hand price is small compared with the motor vehicle exhibition and mar security it provides. Actorists also ket evoked the approval of the are reminded that they should test Society of Motor Manufacturers the tap for turning off the petrol to and Traders for the holding of a the nutovac or carburettor, similar display at Bingley Hall, should a fire be started, the first Birmingham. from June 23 to July 2.The exhibitors of second-hand protective act is to shut off the flow of spirit to the carburettor. Then cars for sale was confined to traders of Birmingham and the Bir-smother the flames with the Pyrene.

Anti-glare front-screen vizors and The same end can, however, he mingham home counties, although

smoked coloured spectacle; obtained without increasing the there was also a section open to

glasses are other safety appliances pedal travel if some additional that motorists are adding to their mechanism is introduced and ar- equipment. The reflected sun glare ranged in such a way that the ap- from the modern water-proofed plication of given force to the road in daytime and the rays headlamps from other cars at night tically brings into play a force of of brake pedal by the driver automa- make some protection of this char- the same or even greater magni- acter necessary. Quite recently a tude to supplement the driver's motorist was summoned at the effort. In order to retain safety in Brampton Police Court for driving brake operation, it is, of course, negligently, and he made the excuse necessary that this auxiliary brak that the sun was in his eyes and ing agency should act in strict pro- caused him to collide with a motor- portion to the pedal pressure em- cycle, This circumstance was taken into consideration as miti ployed, so that the driver always gating the offence, and, as the car knows the exact degree of braking was being driven very slowly at the which the pressure of his foot is time, the case was dismissed on the going to produce. payment. of costa. But this motor- The simplest form of ist was fortunate in the magistrate, brake fa one embodied in the drum and his experience must not be re-itself, and usually consists of garded as a precedent, It is much safer to provide oneself with smok en glasses than run any risks. An unconventional 10,000-mile It cannot be disputed that the four-month honeymoon trip has just increase in the number of vehicles been completed by Mr. and Mrs. using the streets and highways has Jack Dorney, of Brisbane, Austra-caused a very number of minor fin, who have toured round the con-i casualties to private cars, such as tinent in a 15-h.p. Overland Cross- damaged front and rear wings and ley Whippet. The route included buckled luggage-grids. While there hundreds of miles which had never may be no serious damage, such the drum, such an arrangement a before been traversed by car. Road mishaps spofl the appearance of the proximately doubling the retarda- conditions were, of course, appal- car and add to the expense of re- tion produced for a given pedal. ling, while the weather ranged paire, for it is scarcely worth while from burning sunshine to tor- troubling the insurance companies rential rain. In many of the about many such accidents. 'În con- When two shoes are arranged in worst areas the travelling speed of sequence shock-guards or "bum- such a fashion as to produce the the car averaged no more than & pers" are being fitted more gener- desired amplification of braking miles per hour in hottom gear, ally. These bumpers or buffers can effect when the car is running for while pat holes and gullies put the now be purchased and fitted for a wards, it is usually found that the springing to extraordinary tests, few pounds, and, although they do servo shoe acts against the driver The load included a cinematograph not protect a car from being damag when the car rane backwards. projector, 5,000 feet of film, 75 ed when a severe accident or colli-This means that when the car la yards of wire rope, a seven-gallon sion takes place, they save many being driven in reverse an inor- tank of water two rifles and am- times over the expense of their fitdinately large pedal pressure munition, a camping outfit, and on ting by preventing the vehicle's ap needed in order to bring it to a one occasion sufficient petrol for pearance being damaged in minor stop. For this reason servo brakes 1,000 miles running. In spite of it collisions. The point to be observ- have recently been developed in it all the Overland Crossley Whip-ed in fitting these protective buffera which three shoes are employed in pet finished its four months' orden! is to choose a type of bumper that each drum--one applied by the without any mechanical trouble, will spring, bend, or be bent before driver, one servo shoe for forward without bolling once, and without the chassis frame, for top stout a running and another servo ahoe for the starting handle having been butter reslats the shock and, as running in reverse.

any private owner to display his car for sale. A .aystem of certification of condition similar to that at the Royal Agricultural Hall show of second-hand cars was in force at this Birmingham display. The management was in the hands of Mr. William Glass, who organised

the London show,

American advices bring the news of a further reduction of the price of motor spirit in the U.S.A., and of a largely-increased oil produc- tion from the wells in that country, The opinion is expressed that Great Britain will now be able to obtain its supplies still cheaper than at the moment' of writing. Conse quently the situation may lead to a further reduction of a penny or so per gallon.

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shoes through the medium of roda and cables.

Another form of servo motor is represented by the Dewandre vacuum brake and by the more re- cently introduced Westinghouse brake. These devices utilise the suction available in the induction pipe of the engine, air being ex- hausted from one side of a piston, which is thus caused to move by atmospheric pressure, so applying special mounting of the shoes. the brakes. Matters are arranged Broadly speaking, matters are so in such a way that, should arranged that the driver's foot-vacuum system fail, the brakes can pressure applies one shoe to each be applied directly by the pedal; drum, and, so soon as this shoe this safety feature is also incor- makes contact, it tends to be drag-porated in the frictional types of ged round in the direction in whier servo motor. the dram is rotating. This frie- tional drag is then utilised to force

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used a wonderful tribute to the something has to give way, the stamina of the car. The fleet of dumba frons or the frame members Another important system of six-cylinder Crossley cars having get distorted. Touring motorists nerve braking is one in which a proved their efficiency and reliabil- would be well advised to fit buffers, ity as the official conveyances of the as they add only about eight or nine Duke and Duchess of York in their inches to the length of the wheel- Australasian tour. London agents base when fitted both at the front seem to be very busy just now or and rear of the motor-carriage. ganising special exhibitions of the Crossley "Six." Mesers. Archie Simons and Co., of the Philharmonic Hall, have just

a fort-1 completed night's display of this model with all types of coachwork, and was followed by a similar

serve motor is employed, which is brought into action by the applica- tion of the brake pedal and which takes over the duty of applying the actual brake shoes. On many large cars, such as the Hispano-Suiza, HOT WEATHER DISEASES.

Sunbeam, Renault and Rolls-Royce, the servo motor resembles a multi- Disorders of the bowels are extreme-ple-disc clutch driven from the dangerous, particularly during the gearbox with the plates normally hot weather of the this show family against a sudden attack, get

end in order to protect yourself and risengaged; applying the brake pedal brings the plates into con- by Henleys, at Devonshire House, a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and

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