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THE 1929 BUICK

A SILVER ANNIVERSARY

CAR

BEAUTY OF LINES

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THE CHINA MAIL,

40 YEARS AGO

WHEN DUNLOP FIRST MADE TYRES

FOR SON'S TRICYCLE ..

It is exactly forty years since John Boyd Dunlop applied for the patent for the first pneumatic.. tyre. He had just retired from his veterinary practice in Belfast, the largest one in Ireland, where twelve horse-shoers worked for him.'

While a boy at school in the village of Dreghorn, Ayrshire, his native place, Dunlop had observed that a large wooden roller was easier to pull than a smaller one, because, as it had a large area of surface bearing on the ground, the pressure on each unit of area was less. For years he thought of wheels with flexible rims that would flatten out and so increase the area of contact with the road.

CAR TESTS

HARD TO AVERAGE 30 M.P.H.

DAIMLER SERVICE

THE CAR THIEF

OUTWITTING CUNNING FORM OF CRIME.

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·FALSE SECURITY- [By The Hon. Mrs. Victor. Bruce.] Car stealing seems to increase and decrease in waves, and I sup- pose no one can explain the reason. At the same time, there is always a certain amount of it in progress, and thus the wise owner must at-

[By George C. Stead) London have recently carried out trials of cars of widely differing types, and my experience may be of interest as showing the ad- vantage of a high average speed tend regularly as compared with the car which has only a high maximum speed.

To put it in other words, it may be possible to average 30 miles an hour with a car which is capable of not more than 45 miles per hour, while it may be extremely difficult to average the same speeds with a car of another make which has a much higher maximum speed.

to precautions against the unlawful removal of his

car.

It was to be admitted, of course, that no measure can be absolutely effective against the really deter in certain circumstancos; employ mined car thief, who might even, lorry upon which to carry the Such drastic ar bodily away! action. however, argues a certain amount of leisure in which to carry out his nefarious plans, and a. The reason why the one car may certain security from observation; be faster from point to point than and the vast majority of cases of the other is that it possesses a car stealing are more of the sneak

and better thief variety. better acceleration brakes. In other words, it can start or stop.quicker.

Common Negligence

It was a complaint from his son Johnny, then nine years of age, which actually materialised in the first rubber tyres to be filled

A car is left.unattonded while its with air. Johnny had grumbled The particular car I have in mind,'

owner enters shop or office to about the difficulty of riding on which has a maximum speed of transact his business. Generally thin solid tyres over the uneven well under 50, can hold its own no precaution at all is taken, the with most other cars on the road engine being merely switched off stones of Belfast's streets.

aver a journey exceeding 60 miles and the side brake applied in the and the reason is that it has the usual fashion. It is obviously the set of four-wheel brakes simplest matter in the world for any finest which I have ever tried, and has

passer by who happens to be an very positive acceleration on top expert driver and acquainted with gear from 10 to 25 m.p.h.

the manipulation of the particular: can be make of car to hop in and drive So provided, the car

No casual observer of the driven fast up to any corner, in-off. stantly decelerated, and once the manoeuvre would think anything corner is passed it can again be of it. put into its stride in the minimum

His father thereupon made two air tubes from sheet rubber one thirty-second of an inch thick; fixed them to a wooden disc with a thin strip of linen and blew them up with football pump. The tyres were then fitted to a tri cycle made by Dunlop. from American elm with special- ly shaped rims. The whole was completed one night at 10 o'clock and so cager were both father and son to test the new de- vice that the boy went out for a run in the moonlight and return ed triumphant at midnight.

to

Not being in the inner councils

of time. Take as a contrast a car of the United Society of Car It was Thieves, I can only guess; but my which I recently tried. capable of over 70 miles per hour guess is that a haul is never car- on the road, yet it would not run ried out in this haphazard fashion. at all satisfactorily under 30 m.ph. Probably the particular victim When a racing cyclist who was on top, this being due to a high selected for attention has been shown the novelty expressed his compression engine and neat petrol. under close observation for daya

Owing to these weaknesses it or weeks. The thief knows for doubts about it the inventor chal.

necessary on occasions

practical certainty that when the lenged him to a race on his thin was solid tyres against the nine-year attain a very high rate of speed in owner makes the particular halt, В certain old boy on the home-made tri- order to obtain the same overall his atay will be of

the comparatively duration, and when the theft is cycle equipped with pneumaties. average as on

carried out, it can be done with It was the first of the long series slow-coach bus.

I think it will be to the good of the matter-of-fact air and complete of races to be won on Dunlops. Although John Boyd Dunlop re the motoring movement if both assurance which is necessary to users would avoid drawing attention to the volutionised cycling and made manufacturers and motar cars possible he himself concentrate on obtaining a reason-act. could not at that time ride sable average speed without insist- bicycle; indeed there is no recording.too much on the vast number What we have to do, therefore, that he ever rode one in his life.

IN THE FUTURE

LOOKING AHEAD WITH MOTORDOM

of

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of miles per hour which their cars can do under favourable conditions. Proper Serviço

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No Ideal Method

to foil the thief, is to devise some measure that shall prevent the ready starting of the engine, or in I had an opportunity of visit-some other way the chay driving ing the Daimler Service Station away of the car; and the precau- at The Hyde, Hendon, London, tion must be put into action in such no amount of close and, as 题 resuit, I am para way that ticularly impresses by the excellent observation will disclose its nature, service which they give to Daimler or even the fact that it has bees

adopted at all. If I knew of

users.

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RASKOB'S ACTION AND GENERAL MOTORS

AN EXPLANATION

New York John J. Raskob's ao- ceptance of the chairmanship of

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AUTO TRANSMISSION

A large number of these luxur- 100 per cent. affective precaution, ious cars are, of course, chauffeur-it would obviously be of little Quebec.-What is likely to be the driven, and the Daimler Co., Ltd., service to tell the whole world—of automobile of the future, at least have, therefore, instituted an ex- thieves as well as honest people. interest the about it, so the particular plan to in a number of particulars, was cellent scheme to

at discussed here

Sum-driver in the inner working of his be adopted must be left to the the

саг.. The method adopted is to Ingenuity of the Individual reader. mer meeting of the Society of Au-

We can talk about some of the tomobile Engineers. The varlous have all vital parts of the car ar-

# comfortable room purchasable thief-proof devices; speakers talked about details of ranged in

with photographs.and methods which have already

I can think of nothing against development which promised motor surrounded car improvement along several After a brief time in this room the been publicly suggested, however.

driver will realize exactly how each One, that should be fairly effective, the gear lock, since forgetfulness lines,

One of the addresses that attract part of the car works, where it is is the rendering of certain uns impossible, except that any ed widespread interest was that of situated and how to attend to its avoidable metal parts of the car device depending upon a detach- D. Sensaud de Lavaud, a French needa. This exhibition is also open live with high tension current, able key is liable to land the owner but I do not think I need elaborate in trouble through loss of the key.

The Rug Thief engineer, who described his inven- to owner-drivers,

There is another idea which the the disadvantages, which might

Another idea which I have seen tion of a new transmission that

to a forgetful eliminates gear-shifting and auto- Daimler Company have instituted literally be fatal

The usual thief-folling suggested (though I am not aware matically changes speeds. He said which also encourages the enthus-owner. that the operation of automobiles iasm of the chauffeur. This consists device, adopted as standard on whether there is any actual ac- the Democratic National Committee on the streets of Paris with the now of a proficiency badge and certi- many cars, is a lack of one kind Cessory on the market which can and leadership of the Smith pre- transmission had convinced him of ficate, which is issued to chauffeurs or another, the simplest being an be fitted to a car), is the use of a sidential campaign, which he was

device

automatically chairman of the Finance Board of in private service with Daimler Ignition switch in the form of a

switches on Д raucous electric General Motors Corporation, caus its practicability,

removable key. S

horn if the car is moved by an un-ed a great deal of disturbance in "Because, with ordinary gear-shift owners.

'Another feature, of the Daimler

Forgetful Owners

authorised person. This really the General Motora oficial family, cars, the driver never operates con-

Here a minor disadvantage is does seem quite sound, so long as according to Alfred R. Sloan Jr tinuously at the most efficient rela-service organizacion is that the tion between speed of engine and ordinary operations of routine that the owner either becomes care the action of switching on the president of the corporation, whe

can be carried out less through continued immunity wheels, Mr. de Lavaud claimed that maintenance the automatic transmission will in during the first year at any Daimler and leaves the switch key in the safety device can be performed so says in a letter just made public unobtrusively that observer he “regrets the situation and has crease the average speed possible depot at very moderate fixed lock, or mislays it and, in the abis unaware that any such precau-been disturbed by it and will take sence of a spare cannot start the tion has been taken, and that the steps to "correct the most unfor- For instance, for an expenditure car himself! This method is also Equal in importance is the pies and effect a full saving of more charges. sant surprise of a new and very dif- than 20 per cent in general and

The letter was made public by wsome 40 per cent in the dense traffe of 168. every month or 500 miles almost too simple, because the thief switch is not readily discover tunate Impression." ferent Buick radiator. This new

the chassis will be fubricated, the knows perfectly well that with the

The only remedy against the Miss Emily Marx, Republican con- radiator is charming in the simplici-res or transmission shaft is gear box and back axle replenish majority of cars he has merely te carting or towing of the car away didate for the Assembly in the ty of its graceful Hines, and has an driven directly from the engine and ed, the oil filter cleaned, the lift the bonnet quickly, tear away is not to leave it unattended for a Ninth Distrust and was sent by Mr air of racy modernism. It is high, printers are refret "kaertis hub sediment released from the petrol the magneto earth wire, press the sufficient length of time to allow a Sioan to a critic of General Motors deep and narrow, and impresses the which changes the rotation of the tank and autovae, the brakes ad-starter switch, and drive way thief the necessary opportunity: who assumed that the election of observer with its enduring, strength shaft into reciprocating motion, justed, the plugs tested, and the Call ignition complicates the mat but circumstances.80 seldom arise Mr. Raskob to the Smith lender and its generous capacity.

Connecting the inertia hubs with points set both on the plugs and ter a little, but the ignition switch in which such a measure is possible, ship in some way involved the cor The Englue

the drive of the rear axle are reds the contact breakers, inspection of lock does not place sufficient diffi-that we scarcely need discuss it. poration.

reconditioning culty in the way.

Car thefts, as I said before, nra In his letter Mr. Sloan said: '. The famous Buick engine, known translate the

which, by acting on roller ratchets, ignition system,

Gear locks, petrol supply locks, more usually of the snatching "I feel that it is most detrimental brought a wave of approval from the for twenty-five years for its out thrusts into rotary motion applied with the spare to equalise tyre and even steering locks all have variety; and indeed a point which to the interest of General Motors, many thousands of motorists who standing performance, power and by the axles: to the wheels. The wear, and the inspection of the their uses in rendering a quick every owner ought to watch is the as well as to any corporation, to reliability, is reborn in Buick for trick of the transmission, consists spare wheel for cuts, stones, etc. departure Impossible, though they possibility of the removal of rugs, have any situation develop which The motor trade anticipated that 1929. The quarter century of Buick in the variation of the inclination It will be seen that the maintenance are not infallible preventives. parcels, suitcases, cameras and so causes the Impression in the public. engineering which was contributed of the inertia lab with the engine of the Daimler in first-rate running regard to such devices in general, on, from the interior. It is unwise mind, rightly or wrongly, that that however, I have a strong objection ever to leave a car which has any corporation is concerned with any this new Buick would outdo all pre- to Buick's leadership has given to torque and road resistance, which order is very inexpensive! vious models. Ingamuch as 1929 the new Buick a completely re-automatically varies the throw of their works at Hendon, the to any with which momentary for such contents without locking political situation:

"Mr." Raskab made the decision With an and took the place without con- marks the twenty-fifth anniversary designed engine which out-performs the connecting rods, consequently Daimler Company have cellulóne getfulness on the part of the owner the doors and closing the windows, of Buick manufacture, An analval all-pregious skwer plants of its type the rotation of the wheels and the painting department, said to be the may, have an ill effect. On a car if it is.a closed vehicle.

speed of the car. This automatic largest in Great Britain. Any with quick acceleration locked open touring car no such protec-sultation with his associates; there of the outstanding improvements Conspicuous among its mechanical transmission is combined with make of car can be cellulosed, the steering might quite wall bring tion is possible, and the alternative fore, we had a situation to deal with prices ranging from £12 10s, to about an accident if the owner is either not to leave it unattended, which was a very unpleasant one. autorentfal And A

failed to release It before starting or to remove all loose articles. mediately perceptible in the new improvements are the improved gearicss

The Automobile Association offi miel reveals that the public's-anti-camshaft and valve mechanism, planetary reverse gear located on

operating with rippling smoothness, the rear axle

maintains an all-night service at Cutting off the patrol supply, also, pation has been exceeded.

Improved carburetion, raidenigned

the London Headquarters, to assist is of little service, because the members "in" connection with road float chamber of the carburetter and other motoring troubles during will usually contain sufficient spirit the night. Among some Interest to enable the thief to drive some ng maniples of such emergency little distance away, and when the services, arestat de engine peters out he is sure, to be lady member had a bad skid, sufficiently skilful to diagnose and where the car had broken, down, Apart from this, however, the during, repairs. Her brother had owner himself is liable to drive off ing features been traveling in front, and was withhut unlocking the device, and stable front seata, unaware of her trouble. Could the quite pleasant conseque

In closed models, Arstop himte Telephone mess may result im the fallure of the in the thick of the traffic or now and hand- ages were sent along the road, along

e-designed' hours afterwarde and

Each day following the Introduc

tion of the Bulck for 1929 has

have viewed the now model.

and size

back-and-forth battery, changing one of the wheels

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The first improvement that meets intake manifold, together, with a the eye is the greatly enhanced new positive pump-feed fuel-supply beauty of the new Bulck bodies, system combine for perfect engine timing gears are wider and careful operation and Instant response, ethylcerfing has mede the starting While retalatus the fundamental Steel braced bearings, inter-geary much quieter. Thus have sturdiness and utility characteristic changeable in the crankcase, and Balck engineers built into the 25th of Buick, the body types, are totally main bearing caps are contributors Anniversary Buick an engine giving; and would have to spend the night remedy the trouble different in aspect and Ina from to the smooth functioning of the m- now and greater expression to Brick previous Bulcks. At a glance it is gine. The crankshaft itself, la supremacy in its field,

(kmong other 'evident that a new body Vogue has larger, and as in former, Bulcki appeared that bida täir do initiate counter balanced for elimination of of Balcklare d

Increased Bynew and fashionable tosodin vibration.

Piston rings are larger and Cron- wider

coachwork. These sognew

Buick bodies are the latest creations necting roda-; made stronger. The

In sonchwork, by master craftsmen co-operating with Buick, engineers.

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