1929-04-04 — Page 11

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929.

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INADEQUATE LIGHTS AT

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engine design

capability of the applicant; that incorporates doublo filtering and purification of

in 110 circumstances should a licence be issued to any person the oil, as well as some means of cooling it.

under 18 years of age either in It is to the credit of the oil blenders that they have

respect of a motor-car or motor-,

They frankly recognised progressed step by step with the many cases, were insufficiently the difficulty of putting ap

The suggestion that lorries, in cycle.. engine, so that the right oil each type of motor is available.

for lighted at night, and were driven plicants-through practical tests. danger of the pub There were far too many people Another simple method of oil lic,

dered them dangerous.

to the

cooling is to be found on certain Herbert Stancer, secretary of

was made by Mr. G. driving cars whose eyesight ren- Besides the the Cyclists' Touring Club, be- The Chairman: But that also

applies to cyclists?-Yos, but a cyclist can do so little damage. In collisions he is always the one to suffer.

You say that licences should

changing. Now they are getting Consequently the best type of quite as skilful as the "oldtimers" who had to change tyres in the days before detachable wheels.

Engine Design A paper "Conservative" Hong Kong may

on air-cooled engines be behind time in more ways than

read before the Institution one, but at least it can beast of its Automobile Engineers by Mr. A. R. public motor car service.

Fedden was certainly seasonable. These is in the island more than Mr. Fedden was the designer of 500 vehicles plying for hire, not the famous Straker-Squire "Fif- counting the buses and taxicabs, teen" before the war, and is now commercial vehicles. **FAREOUS SINCE 1)

and although the two latter classes responsible for the various Bristol ordinary crankcase "breather,"

up-to-date zero engines of which the Cirrus, there is a bell-mouth funnel open-House of Lords.

fore a Select Committee at the they cannot always equal the hire used in so many "Moths," is per- ing into the crankcase behind the

haps the type best known in non-fan, so that a current of air enfelt by the club at the large num Considerable apprehension was These vehicles are by no means technical circles. A most interest- tera the funnel and passes through, bèr of fatalities due to this cause, not be granted to persons under · "consumptive" or "erinky" as areing point was revealed in the dis- the crankcase and cut by the added Mr., Stancer-In many 18. Would you, prevent persons those to be found in other ports, cussion, when Mr. Fedden stated"breather" opening." As oil cool cases the lights were insufficient under 18 riding cycles?—No, be- For that he believed there were great ing gets more important each sea- to reveal the road more than a cause, again, the cyclist can do Even Shanghai, with its traffe equalling that of Chicago, possibilities for a sleeve-valve air-son, no doubt other means will is nowhere near as in the matter cooled engine, and that he thought suggest themselves to designers, driver urged into the darkness a yard or two ahead. Yet the

so little damage. the time was ripe for some go- but so far the methods referred to vehicle capable

But accidents have occurred An observant person would no head manufacturer to start build-are gradually being incorporated | crushing the life out of any Yes, but those cases are very of instantly through the faults of cyclists?- human being who might be in its path. Under-lighting was are small is shown by the fact That the cyclist's risks almost entirely confined. to that the rate of insurance works lorries,

out at about 2d. per head. The chairman (the Earl of the case of motor vehicles it is Wemyss): I am chairman of a over £5. bench for magistrates, and the police are on the look-out for that sort of thing, but I have never heard of a case of a lorry being insufficiently lighted. Nearly all our cases, I am sorry to say, are of cyclists riding without lights.

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doubt notice that the hire cars of ing an air-cooled car in England. on more makes of chassis. this Colony are all of the latest Mr. Fedden tried that experiment mode), and are well-known makers himself in 1919, but alas! the

Flats, public would not have it.

Brand

new

Chryslers,

Whippets, Overlands, Singera, The reasor Mr. Fedden suggests Buigks, and other equally

ex-ja sleeve-valve air-cooled engine for pensive fùrs are daily to be seen cars is that air-cooled motors in "touting" for business. They the past have usually had "clatter- are fully equipped. and are ing" or noisy valve gear... More- always kept in good running order. over, the silencing of the exhaust In fact, there is hardly anything has not received sufficient atten- to distinguish them from private tion, and sleeve-valve enginea are cary except the number plate and commended as having no noisy "Public Vehicle" at the back. appets or rockers to adjust and

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One is, therefore, inclined to ask no valves to grind in their seats. whether it pays the owners to ply As a matter of fact, the greater such expensive cars for hire. To part of the cooling of every engine this question We are unable is done by the oil, whether it is naturally to give a definite answer, styled a water-cooled or an air- but judging from the large num-cooled motor. The result is that ber on the street, the business the latest gadget in motor-car de- seems a paying one.

tails is an oil radiator for cooling These cars are mostly owned by the oil itself. Its design is more private individuals and not by or less in a state of flux, as the companies. The owners are either automobile engineer has not yet Chinese or Indians. The latter, quite made up his mind whether however, ran their vehicles-solely the oil radiator should forin part as a business enterprisebut the of the crankcase and oil sump or Chinese do so with a twofold pur-whether it should be incorporated poss. Most of the cars belonging in the design of the water radia- to Chinese owners were bought tor. A. V-type radiator is sug- primarily for their own use, but, gested, with one section for water instead. of taking out a private cooling and the other for oil, each licence, they #! 2 public circulated by its one. Thus they can use the pump. car to and fro their places of business and also for occasional pleasure jaunts. The rest of the

Since the modern engine has J. M. White, above, again drove his timo the vehicle is "immed" out to developed such a wonderful turn-famous "Triplex" at Daytona Beach, the chaulleur for a sipulated suming power -4,000 revs. per minute against Major Segrave in an unsuccess

ful defence of the world's speed record It is only in this way is quite normal to-day-a much of 207.5 railes an hour, which was sat that a car is made to pay for its larger demand is made on the oil by Ray Keech in the same ear. cost and upkeep.

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TYRE WEAR

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Mr. H. Thornton tutter, writes "Landon Daily Tele-

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Although each succeeding sea- son shows improvement in the equipment of cutar carriages, it eannot be denied that the very im- provement often bringa certain drawbacks in directions not dreamt of previously.

Let us take-a-case in point. Front-wheel brakes have vastly improved the driver's control of his car. On the other hand, these, brakes have added considerably to the wear of the front tyres, and -strangely enough--in a large fnumber of cars this additional wear takes place on the outer side of the front-wheel tread. This can easily be verified by inspec-1 tion, and if such in the case the remedy is to take off the cover jand reverse it when remounting, so that the worn aide takes the position formerly occupied by the less worn portion. It is no use simply changing the wheels acroas, i as that methoil does not alter the position of the tread. Thus, many. modern motorists who, since com- plete wheels are standard equip ment, have never changed a cover in their lives, are now finding this necessary about once a month if they are to get economical and even tyse wear.

But it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and easy-change tyre levers and similar implements are couling on to the market. Until this one-sided tyre wear was noticed, most motorists got their motor agent to fit new tyres on the spare wheels for them, so they missed this practice

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Witness: We have had cases of cyclists being killed by motor- lorries in auch circumstances,

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Unlicensed Drivers Mr. Stancer asserted many drivers whose licences had been suspended still continued to drive on the road. If they were caught they were simply treated as cases of driving without licence.

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The Chairman; What is your remedy?--I suggest some very drastic penalty. At present suck treated as merely without

A licence."

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The Chairman: Do you want cases a higher standard of lighting ?-driving Yes. It must be sufficient to re There is a world of difference veal the road some distance between "driving without ahead.

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licence" and driving after the licence has been suspended. In such cases there should be no alternative to imprisonment.

Accidents Among Cyclists. Pedal cyclists, said Mr. Stancer, were numerically the largest class of road travellers on wheel-

The Chairman: I understand ed- vehicles. His club had a that is in the Government bill. membership of 27,000. The re- Replying to Viscount Cecil, latively fragile character of the witness said: I do not think cyclist's mount rendered him there is very much in the bill almost invariably the chief which touches our interests very sufferer in a collision with any closely, but we are in general other type of vehicle. For the agreement with its spirit. Most past two years accidents to mem-accidents are due mainly to ex- bers averaged 500 a year, and cassive speed, but a definite rigid the damages recovered, about speed, limit is almost impracti- £5,000.

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