1929-01-17 — Page 13

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929.

THE NEW CARS

OPEN AND CLOSED COACH

WORK

LATEST DEVELOPMENT

WHEN STOPPING

HOW TO EMPLOY THE ENGINE

THE SAFE RULE

THE CHINA MAIL

COST OF ACCIDENTS WINTER MOTORING

THE TOLL OF THE MOTOR CAR

HOSPITAL WORK

SOME COLD WEATHER

HINTS VEERS

Yet a little forethought should enable him to avoid damage to the car even in the most severe wea

[By, The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce.] At a first glance it may appear While the broad question of to the average motorist to be choice of a motor-car revolves superfluous to write on the sub- around the desirability of open|ject of stopping a car, as the an- or closed coachwork, so wide a swer to the problem, on the face range for selection is, now avail- of it, seems merely to declutch able that the matter is rather and jam on the brakes. This more complicated than appears method, while being more or less On the surface. Glistening effective in the ordinary way, is varnish and impressive propor- not the fastest and safest means tions plenty of headroom, and of slowing down the speed of a ample seat width still have their car. uses, just as the cosy, low built The safe rule, and moreover and sometimes rather cramped one that applies at all times; Is sporting body has its particular use the brake pedal, and to leave appeal.

the clutch pedal alone until the But it is so fatally easy to be car has slowed down to a crawl.ly examined and does not appear ther. deceived by appearances.

The On a first impression, most driv last mentioned type of car is un-era will insist that the engine will doubtedly most attractive of ap continue to pull the car, and that pearances; to attempt to use it, the logical way is to declutch. however, for those purposes for which the first mentioned vehicle patch, speed the car up to about Next time you are out on a level Is specially designed would be to 35 miles an hour, then declutch court dissatisfaction. A two, or and note, how long it takes for the almost ideal, providing it is not car to slow down to 20 miles an would come to the rescue necessary to keep the exposed 35-mile mark, and just take your hour. Speed the car again to the dickey sent in constant service; while a roomy saloon is distinctly foot off the accelerator without not the best when the needs of down to 20 miles an hour in just The car will slow over half the distance.

even three, seater coupe, again, is

the owner require that the great- er part of the mileage shall be accomplished solo.

declutchlag.

This proves the point that the "Happy Combination engine does not continue to pull The latest development in the car after the throttle is clos- conchwork most fortunately cat-ed, but starts in immediately to ers admirably for these conflict act as a brake, Naturally this ing requirements, and, as his de- engine brake, when used in con- velopment sometimes called the junction with the service brake, "sportsman's coupe," is not mere-will pull up the car more quickly. ly limited to Britain or America,

Engine Braking

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-Those who park their cars in`an-

✅A LITTLE FORETHOUGHT

Returns received from, nearly "The 'sudđen" changes. In tempera- 100 provincial hospitals show ture, which are, perhaps, charse that during 1927 about 26,000 in- beristic of our Winter gather patients and 39,000 out-patients often bring a good deal of trouble were treated as the result of to the motorist. The unexpected motor accidents, at. A cost onset of a spell of frosty weather | £230,000, towards which £26,000 | frequently catches the car owner was received from or on behalf of unawares. He has taken no pre- the patients.

cautions to ensure that the water in Commenting on this huge addi- the radiator will not freeze and the tion to hospital work, Sir Arthur consequences may be serious, neces- Stanley says:Many people sitating repairs to both radiator think that the solution of the and cylinders. problem is to be found in com- pulsory insurance of motorists, but this method has been careful to be practicable. Moreover, even if all motorists were insured

large number of people involved heated garages should make habit In road accidents are not motor- of wrapping two old army blankets ists and not insured, and compul-round the radiator and the bonnet sory insurance of motorists at night. If the car has just been would, therefore, only partially brought in the water will remain hoped that motorists, themselves is not much chance of it freezing meet the difficulty. Personally, I warm for a long time, and there by before morning, even in the most tary fund from which the hospi establishing some central volun- severe weather. tals could be helped. The leading not in constant use, and where Royal Automobile Club and the either an electric lamp placed under motor organisations, such as the the garage is exposed the use of Auto-Cycle Union, were consider the bonnet or one of the numerous ing this question not unfavour-safety lamps which burn without ably in the early part of this year, attention for 24 hours or longer but, unfortunately, at that time is recommended. They cost about the Chancellor of the Exchequer 51 and are thoroughly reliable. thought fit to impose a heavy tax on petrol and the moment was obviously inopportune for asking motorists, in addition, to make a voluntary tax upon themselves.”

$1,000,000 PLANT IN REGINA

In cases where the car. Is

Some people believe in draining their radiators, and. In fact, the whole water system, for it is no use emptying the radiator and not the cylinder flock. That is all very well if the car is going to be laid up for the whole of the winter sea

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Regina, Saskatchewan Dec. B.

It involves, as a rule, quite a lot Arrangements are now practic-of trouble, and is not an operation ally completed for the opening on

one cares about tackling after every December 10 of the new $1,000,- journey, especially as the water has 000 plant of the General Motors, to be restored to the radiator when

It is far better to adopt one or other of the plans suggested.

Anti-Freezing Mixtures

The new Buick is the new Style

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Nowhere such beauty and luxury no where such pleasing lines and contours nowhere Bodies that equal these new Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher--The entire country is saying, "That's the Style"

Setting an entirely new, a revolutionary, style = introducing what will unquestion ably be the tread of smart body-design dar. ing the next several years—the new Bodies of the Silver Anniversary Buick are enjoying universal acclaim as the most original and distinctive, as well as the finest and most beautiful ever created by the world-famous Fisher organization!

fendar design--s vogue of tasteful luxury, composed of finest mobair velvet uphol. stery, artisticḥärdware and fitments sad new appointments of comfort and convenience not to be found in say other automobile-

and the vogue is proving so popular-the motoring public welcoming it so enthu siastically—thae” this beautiful new Buick continues to outsell all other cars above the very lowest price field by an overwhelming marginl

Here it not only a new car but a new vogne --a vogue of symmetz, bara of gently rounded contours instead of plala straight lines- vogue of distinction, derived from The entire country is hailing the Silve sparkling colors, brilliant chrome-plated Anniversary Buick. The entire country nickel and arresting new roof, radiator and saying, “That's the arylal”

The Silver Anniversary

BUICK

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but is just as commonly encoun- There is a peculiar thing about tered on chassis of European the engine as a brake; it is that origin, the purchaser is not limit- the maximum braking effort comes ed in regard to mechanical choice. on immediately the throttle is The sportsman's coupe, happily closed, and then decreasea very combines exterior raciness with rapidly as the car slows up. On interior luxury; it as happily pro the other hand, the service brakes vides an ideally suitable vehicle have their minimum effect when for two or three passengers, or for the car la speeding, and gradual-which not only will give employ- a full load. In the first place, the ly increase, in force and efficiency ment to some 800 men locally, but is decided to use the car again. roominess and central situation of as the car slows down. This fea marks the inception of an entire the main seat prevents that ture of the engine is invaluable ly new industry in Western "lost" feeling which is sometimes when trying to stop the car on a

Canada. Toronto newspaper experienced by the lonely driver loose or slippery surface, on which advices state that a large party

A new anti-freezing mixture has of a normal saloon; and in the the rear wheels tend to slide when will be in Regins for the opening it is stated that it is excellent and

of General Motors' executives

recently been put on the market and second place wells for the rear locked. A car that is being brak-

ceremonies and that R. S. passengers' feet

obviate the ed by the engine will immediately McLaughlin, president of General cheap, and does no harm to cylin cramping lack of leg room which rather spoiled early examples of the wheels start to slide, and this first car off the assembly line.

experience a retarding force when Motors of Canada, may drive the ders or radiator.

A mixture ** of one par this kind of car.

retarding force reduces the brak- Besides the assembling of cars, glycerine and two parts mater fa ing effort of the engine, and al- the bodies of two of the popular quite effective and proof against 25 before they elected to show the least gen- lows the wheels again to start makes of General Motors auto degrees of frost. The giyerine sign of life. The more turning.

eral

of coil mobiles will be manufactured in costs about 158. a gallon.

Ignition In America, where much more has made starting on a cold intense cold is often experienced morning much easier than it used during the winter, everyone uses to be. Petrol, too, is very much an anti-freezing mixture with very better than in the early days of satisfactory resultat map UE motoring.

Many motorists who acquired their 'care only last summer are now

Sliding Roof

Three red lamps are now fixed to the backs of policemen in Mulhouse (Alsade-Lorraine). The step ban been taken because of the frequent accidents to constables.

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· TALLEST STRUCTURE

These four seater coupes are found on R]] kinds of chassis, both long and short, powerful and modestly-engined, and the definite

A very interesting test was re- Regina. reversion to the two-door idea not only cently carried out on" hard sand, eliminates much of the liability using a stock model Merris Cow- to rattle and the draughtiness, ley. The primary object was to but even on a relatively small car try out the speed of the car-the affords really easy access to either eficiency of its brakes. The car seat.

was speeded up to fifty miles an hour, and the brake and clutch

finding for the first time that after ENGINEERING WORK I was particularly pleased to pedals pressed simultaneously, to force the front of the car down. a cold night the engine does not notice, at the recent Olympia The car came to rest in 90 yards. That this feature is great start with the first touch of the show, that the majority of manu- The second time after the 50-| stabiliser was proved in the re- electric starter. There was an un- facturers have seen the desir-mile mark had been reached the cent 500-mile races at Indiana- fortunate car owner whose average ability of combining the advan- brake pedal was pressed and the polls, in which some front whee! time for getting any response from

Foremost among the building tages of the sunshine, or sliding, clutch left alone. In this latter drive cars were used. In effect the engine on cold mornings is 49 operations of the Chrysler Corpora roof with the new type of coach test the car stopped in 64 yards. the front wheel drive produces a minutes, and, of course be very tion made necessary by virtue of work. This materially extends In addition to the shorter distance similar torque to that previously quickly "ran down" his batteries.

the tremendous growth of Chrysler the appeal and serviceability of required for stopping, the car mentioned, and drivers of these He was told he had better try an- products, a growth unprecedented the sportsman's coupe, since it maintained a perfectly straight cars stated that they held the road other method than simply abusing in automobile history, is the New settles more or less finally the course without any tendency to and took corners as though' they | the starter.

Engineering Building which, as open or closed problem, as well as side away, and the front wheels were on rails. In fact, no atable He now does a little cranking by part of the Chrysler Highland Park the two or four-seater problem, sank into the sand a distance of were they that in cornering driy hand and so helps to free the group, located in northern Døtralt,

In addition, the almost univer- tour and a half inches, as against ers had only to use a small amount pistons. Then be foods the car Michigan, was recently dedicated. sal adoption of the permanent only an inch and a half in the of the steering lock provided, as burettor and closes the air strangler Devoted specifically to the work struction of a motor car, from the rear luggage trunk, containing previous test with the clutch dis- against the over-steering that and a anart pull up" of the start of the Chrysler Engineering Or moment that it achieves form as a

storey two or more suitcases-either the engaged.

The new sixty-eight drivers of ordinary cars had to ing handle generally is all that is ganization, this unit is believed to group of ideas on paper, to the whole trunk, or the interior cases

makes where it employ. In addition, there was an required. A Stabilizer

Its Chrysler building in New York be the largest and finest of its kind point alone being easily removable-on This latter result was brought entire absence of skidding.

Incidentally he is careful to keep in the industry. It is literallya appearance in the show room, City destined to be the tallest In this type of car eliminates the about through the engine. When It will thus be seen that, as wall the points of his sparking plugs free factory within itself where all of which is equipped with facl-habited structure in the world and luggage problem most satisfac- the throttle is closed the car ac- as being an excellent brake, the from carbon and set at the correct the phases of engineering research Hitles which duplicate daylight which will rise on the northeast torily.

tually has to push the engine, and engine produces a great stabilie-distance apart.

and development work which go to conditions so that the car ap corner of Forty-second Street and From every point of view, the power developed in this man ing effect, which is invaluable

Some engines have requir- the creation of Chrysler products pears as it is actually to be seen Lexington Avenue, In New York.. therefore, the new type of cosch- work solves the purchaser's dif-ner, is imparted in a twisting when trying to stop on any loose ed the application of hot rags are carried out. Not only are plans on the street. Every part of every City, In the latest private enter to the carburettor and air intake developed here for changes and car so constructed is tested in the brise of Walter P. Chrysler, The enterprise is not connected in any ficulties; but it has the one limita- effort of the engine which tends

modifications in the many different laboratories. Chrysler models, commercial vehí The Cold Test Laboratory la one way with the Chrysler Motor Cor- cles and marine engines but every of the most recent developments in Poration. The building will tower part used in every Chrysler pro- the industry. Here the most to a height of 808 feet, 18 feet. duct is subjected to life testa. In modern types of temperature-greater than the famous Woolworth addition, research problems initi indicating devices and recording In building in New York. The com ated in the organization are worked struments determine performance pleted building and leasehold setate. out constantly of the automobile in all its units have been apprised at $18,780,000. Five years ago the roster of the under extreme weather operating will be accupied by hope and The ground floor of the structure Chrysler Engineering - Department conditions. The installation of a would have included only Walter P. loud speaker and a microphone al- stores and the remaining floors to Chrysler, Fred M. Zeder, Carl low communication in this sound and including the sixty-fifth will Breer, Owen R. Skelton and their proof room. In the super cold be devoted to offices. Two of the co-workers, Harry T. Woolson and room a two unit refrigeration ma- upper floors of the tower will con- Oliver H. Clark. To-day the Chrys china is capable of effecting a tem-tain a duplex apartment. Above ler Engineering Division, headed perature of 60 degrees below aro, this will come the three storey ob- by the same men and their assock Final release for production only servation dome constructed of ates, includes a huge staff of tech comes after every effort has been bronze and glass and culminating vical men representing every made to reduce to a minimum the in the spire. There will be 83 known branch of automotive design effects of wear under actual driving elevators. and research.

ing conditions, with a complate test of every unit in the car

tion of forcing upon him the

necessity for choosing a fabric Anish. Very few exhibitors at Olympia had ventured to con- struct coachbuilt examples-I only noticed one,

Essentially Fabric

And as my information is that the particular car which I did notice will not be in production and available to the public until well the other side of the New Year, we may take it that the sportsman's coupe is essentially a fabric body.

Although I understand that there is a distinct tendency, par- ticularly in the North of England, to return to coachwork. in prefer ence to either flexible fabric covered bodies or the normal type of body in which the panels are merely covered with fabric in stead of with paint, this is not necessarily a disadvantage."

Fabric finish has proved its ser- viceability, and the question of appearance is entirely one of per sonal taste. Actually, however, those who still prefer the highly polished surface to which long years of use have made us accus- tomed are catered for by a type of fabric which excellently repro- duces the general appearance of Ga varnish finishing

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Company's Research, 1

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MOTOR-CARS IN TURKEY.

As were Constantinople, Nov 28. An agreement has been signed by the Turkish Governments with the Ford Automobile Comp by

the latter is granted Ission to erect, an

under

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C. S. Staniland, who is well known as a racing driver at Brook lands, has been accorded the honour of being selected one of the three pilots for Dext Schneider, Cup Competition.

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