1930-01-02 — Page 13

THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1930.

LUBRICATION

FORD CARS

Ammonia Absorption Win Races In Contests

System

Abroad

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Perhaps the simplest of any TC- Moto reports of the marvellous frigerating systems from the viewpoint performance and enduring qualities of lubrication is the ammonia absorp of "the new Ford ear continue to flon system. Here the lubrication of arrive at the Dearborn offices of such-pumps-as-are employed involves the company from all parts of the comparailvely little dificulty.

As a rule, an oil of from 200 to 300 world. seconds Saybolt viscosity at 100 degrees Faht. will serve to labriente external bearings effectively.

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CAR NOISES

Some Pleasant And Otherwise

It is only natural that in so The music-hall comedian used to enterprising a country as Australia raise a hearty laugh with his re- the Ford car should occupy a post-remark about making a 'nofsa like tion of importance in the life of the a fish," The modern equivalent is Commonwealth. Ford activities, of probably the stop on the kinema course, extend around practically organ marked "noise of motor car" the entire globe, and la Australia, (writes W.A.S.M. in the "Metor".) the afins and policies are identical To most people, the noise of a car with those obtaining in so, many la merely a more or less distinct other parts of the globo; namely, to "rumble," while few of the general build up and maintain an organisa-public can tell the difference be [tion for the manufacture and dis tween the noise of a commercial tribution of Ford products that will vehicle and a 7 h.p. car, or between be worthy of Ford traditions and 's four-cylinder car and a Ideals. That these objects have in cylinder motor cycle. a large measure hoen fulfilled is The musician finds untold evidenced by the signal success in pleasure in the clear, sweet note point of sales results and goodwill of the "E" string on a violin, or that 'huve built up around the deep, sombre note of à 82ft. name of Ford through-stop in the organ. A decisive

one-

Ford cars won the first and Afth prizes in a 'Courier Race' staged by the Dolvideki Automobil Club in Carbon Dioxide Compressors Szeged, an important city in Hun- From an operating and construction. gary just across the Jugo-Slavian al point of view there is a decided boundary. Three other prizes were similarity between both ammonia and won by cars of foreign make. The carbon dioxide compressors.

'Courier Race' is unique in that it The marked difference in pressures, | sends automobiles over routes. however, aften requires separate conformerly travelled by horsemen. The sideration in regard to lubrication.

strain on both driver and car is For such machinery the lubricant heavy. The cars are driven over should be a straight mineral oil having broken ground, dikes, bogs, dry essentially the same characteristics a for a dry ammonia compression sys- river beds and over poor dirt roads. the tem: such as low pour test, and a At night the cara are driven without the entire Commonwealth. "click" delights the heart of the viscosity ranging from 100 to 300 out lights: at other times a signal The basic polley is to pro golfer as the ball files dead on the seconds Saybolt at 100 degrees Fahs, to stop is given unexpectedly and duce for Australian consump-plu, far down the fairway, The dependent upon operating conditions the cars must be brought to a halt tion a unit which has as high "pang" of ball on centre of racquet and the pressures involved.

as quickly as possible.

a percentage of Australian contents music in the ear of a tennis en- driven by Paul Kueses and obtained country's resources.

The winner of the first prize was as is possible, having regard to the thusiast. Each sport and pastime has its own particularly pleasing The

A recent article in The a maximum of 1,097 points.

Aus. sound. nearest rival obtained 1,079 points, tralian Fordoner states that it is Motorists are now compelled to the next*1,054 and the fourth had doubtful whether many Australians avoid unnecessary noise, but for- 1,048. The Ford that took fifth realize the magnitude of the in-tunately no restriction has been place had 1,015 points.

dustry. To readers of Ford News placed on pleasing sounds. A the same Information should be un rattling door catch is a noles; a usually Interesting.

well-fitting door with a good lock With the large manufacturing periodically olled closes at the plant of the Ford Manufacturing slightest touch-a very pleasing Company, at Geelong, and the as- sound.

Cylinder temperatures in a carbon dioxide compressor are usually some what higher than in an ammonia com- pressor, due to the higher pressures which will prevail.

It is interesting to know that mineral gi has no affinity for carbon dioxide, hence there is little or no pos ability of its being carried over into the condenser unless it is atomised This latter is not likely to accur, how ever, when the oil is suited to the re quirements, and the machine has been properly designed.

compressor,

Stuffing boxER

Ford cars' won six out of seven leading places in an important race held late in July at Seinajoki, Fin- land, near the east shore of the Gulf of Bothnis. The cars participating On the other hand; to insure against were all standard, and the only sembly plants of the Ford Motor Of all the noises associated with any oil whatsoever passing over into place not annexed by the Ford Company in five states with dealers motoring, the most common la the system, an oil trap is usually in drivers was fifth. In a second race in hundreds of Australian cities, noise from the gearbox, either stalled in the discharge line from the of ten kilometres, among specially towns and villages, it is representa through poor changes or badly trimmed racing cars, second place tive in substance of that spirit of worn pipions, but the gearbox are built similar io was won by one of the standard industrial progress which is charac. ais gives pleasant sounds. those on a double-acting anumonia com Ford cara that took part in the pre-teristic of Australia to-day,' said There is the pressor. with the exception that the vious race, the only change being The Fordoner.

satisfactory "snap" as one double-declutches to pressures involved require more compartments to prevent leakage, the removal of its fenders and

"The establishment of the Ford third at 30 mph. to pass another windshield. Force-feed lubrication is the usual

organisation in Australia opened up car, and the "click" as top gear is mcans provided for serving the piston |

Among Ford owners, one of the fresh avenues of employment for engaged after consting down a long and maintaining an adequate most Interesting reports of a long Australian labour and

A new hill in neutral. stuffing box seal. The same lubricator trip made in the Model A has been market for Australian manufac Best of all, perhaps, is the series usually serves the compressor valves received from Leon Longuemare, a turers, for wherever Ford factories of sounds as one climbs a fairly and piston as well. The feeding of a real estate man of Brooklyn, New are started, no matter in what part stiff gradient. On approaching the

to the York. Auitable amount of lubricant

He started for the Went of the world, they at once become hill there is a decided "plop" on stuffing box prevents loss of gas.

Coast in his town sedan, when it the nucleus around which gathers changing to third at the maximum The lubricator must be vary cars. fully adjusted at all times, however, only had 90 miles on its speedome a prosperity that is never fleeting or speed possible on this gear, then the same as for an ammonia machine, ter, and drove 8,709 miles before re-haphazard.

the delightful exhaust "roar" of

higher

. tod

since the feeding of an excessive sup-turning. The load carried included 'In the first two `year's full throttle which gradually ply of oil will often result in a certain four men, whose combined weight of operation. the Ford com- lessens as the incline grows more amount of it passing to the gas relief was 680 pounds, a trunk on the rear,panies spent £3,163,788 In the severe. Then the "snap" to second no and thence into the system. four heavy suitcases and other Commonwealth, including £580,570 at exactly the most opportune mo

Ethyl And Methyl Chlorides necessitles.

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Where such contact occurs, more 1

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Lubrication of ethyl and methyl In his letter Mr. Lengumare ernment Treasury and local the gearbox, and more roår from chloride compressors is usually carried says: "We made 8709 miles over rates and taxes, and £1,784,000 in the exhaust. Having breasted the out with highly refined mineral oils, some of the worst as well as the building construction, freights, in hill, the gear lever goes from second although chemically pure glycerino or best roads in the country. `No ethylene glycol can also be employed mountains were too high for this

to top with a light "click,” third surance, etc. The former afford effective lubrication car to negotiate, no roads too bad. the Ford plants is 30,000 units per slight downward gradient.

The manufacturing capacity of gear being unnecessary, on the provided they are kept out of contact All weather conditions looked with the refrigerants when, they are in

annum, and directly and indirectly liquid form.

car was con- the organisation

Whine of a Super-Charger maintains over 20,000 Australians, and there is The racing enthusiast and fol- less solution will result. There is but "We went through snow in the hardly an Australian industry that lower of the sport appreciates the little probability of this happening. Blue Mountains and extreme heat does not contributo something to growl of a Bugatti reviving up. The largest deal over made in however, if the compressors are proper-In the Mohave Desert.

We cross the building of Ford cars and The man in the street would call British motor cara was completed at ly designed and 'constructed. In valed rushing torrents in New trucks. porous state these refrigerants have Mexico, where it had been raining

ibe "whine" of a supercharger, a Cowley, Oxford, on October 10, but a slight tendency to dilute a petro- every night for

'Many of the dies used in the pro- most annoying noise. When the when Mr. Gordon Stewart, of Arden' a week and the duction of the new car were made average motorist drives leum product.

a Rolls and Stewart, Ltd, signed and hand- roads had been washed away in Glycerine and glycol are practically

in the machine shop of the com- Royce or a double-alx Faimler, for ed to Sir William Morris, the head Here the muddy insoluble in both ethyl and methyl many places. chlorides when these are in liquid form; water rushed over the radiator and pany, and this in itself was a feat the first time, the "patter" of the of the Morris motor organisation, for Australian tool machine. In tyres at 40 mph. or 50 mph. les contract for a minimum of 15,000 therefore, they can be safely used in left a deposit of mud on the engine all, 538 dies were produced and a most pleasing sound. And al-cars of one make to be taken during equipment where there may be prob--but we just hummed along.

126,000 tool hours were required though the almost uncanny allence the 1930 season (writes the motor- ability of contact occurring between

in their creation. All the tool of the engine is a tribute to the ing correspondent of the London the refrigerant in liquid form and tha| lubricant.

markers employed are experts and efficiency and success of the Auto-"Daily Mail”).

Compressors of both the reciprocat- ing and rotary-types are used in gys- tems employing these chemicals.

A SHELL BOOKLET

la

the former, the essential principles of

splash lubrication are involved.

In rotary compressors the lubricant

their work is greatly facilitated by mobile engineer, the patter of the The contract, with apare parts, the remarkable degree of accuracy tyres is sometimes classified as a involves more than £4,000,000, Mr." to which the machines in the shop noise rather than as a pleasant| Gordon Stewart controls the dis- can be adjusted.

sound.

Petribution of Morris products in the The Shell Company has just pro-

"A rigid system of inspection is Some engine starters perform, London are......”

He stated:"On the eve of the goes through a continuous cycle, pass-duced a booklet which, apart from maintained and each body part is their work in ghostly fashion. In ing first to the bearings at each end any advertising value, is wall worth closely inspected for flaws. In the the garage one may carelessly rest Olympla Show, this marks the be- of the machine and theres via ducts to reading. The title is "Your Car event of an imperfection being dis- a knee or elbow against the instru- ginning of a new era in British ear the bearing compartments. The rotor and Its Maintenance," and, although covered, the part is discarded. This meat board and so close the switch sales and reveals what "progress blades pick the lubricant up at this the preface Indicates frankly that system of inspection also extends accidentally; quite a lot of current British "cars are making against stage and carry it into the cylinders, the object is to emphasise the worth into the assembly plants of the has been used up in this way when foreign competition. I have every from whence it is discharged with the of the products of the company, motor company, for every car upon the movements of other cars in the confidence that we shall require, not compressed gas to the condenser and the booklet is most interesting, since completion is placed in the hands of vicinity have made it impossible to only the 15,000 cars called for in separator.

the contents have been contributed testers. These testers are entirely detect the slight noise made by the this contract, but also that it may In the latter, the lubricant, being by persons who are experts on the responsible for the condition in starter. But the Bendix drive does be necessary for me to increase the the heavier, is separated from the re frigerant. From the separator, it is subjects with which they have dealt. which the cars leave the plant,, and not hesitate to indicate the cloning contract Inter again forced to the compressor, to be. The index is as follows:--Ballbear before delivery is made each car of the awitch; immediately the But I took the first Morris that was gin the cycle anew. The flow of lubrings, by C. H. Smith, A.M.I.Merb.Es subjected to an exacting test and ton Is pressed accidentally or ever made. The range of cars that cant is noted by means of the sight Hofman Manufacturing Co., Ltd., inspection."

otherwise, there is convincing proof is being offered this year appeals feed equipment or bull's-eyes which are brakes, By F. J. Feld, Ferodo, To some extent, the progress of of a fully charged battery. As the to the public particularly becauso generally installed in the circulating Ltd.: carburetters, by T. P. Sea- the Ford organisation in Australia pinion engages, a distinctly efficient safety is incorporated in them to system.

bright, M.I.A.E.. A.F.R.A.3., has been retarded by industrial dis sound proves that the starter a very large extent. In these days Hydro-Carbon Refrigerants M.S.A.EI M. Hobson, Ltd., putes, but the organisation has not system is in good tune.

of crowded roads that la, an impor In order to effectively lubricate com driving. Capt. Malcolm Campbell been ambrolled in any of these. On starting from cold, the econo- tant factor." pressors saing hydro-carbon refriger (alectrical equipment, J. L. White. The relations between their em mical motorist does not like his on- Commenting on the contract Bir: ants, & lubricant must be selected that Joseph Lucas Research Labora-ployees and the Fold organisation, tine to run smoothly and ellently William Morris sald: "I regard holds, the refrigerant in solution. little as possible. Medium viscosity torles: gearbox, by C. T. Beard, being based as they am upon Ford A certain amount of opitting in this big increase in sales in the Board and Fitch, Ltd.: lubrication policies and ideals, have always the carburetter indicates that the London area as being equally at Minerals at a high degree of refiue of motor cars by Oliver Thornys been, and are continuing to be, of mixture is set for efficient and tributable to the excellent service ment are suitable for sich service, sa are also certain glycerine blonde such croft, Ricardo and Co. Engineers the moet harmonious nature.

(1927), Ltd. radiators, by F. Hepatic final S

as glycol.

Sulphur Dioxide Machinery, worth, Berck Radiators, Ltd.; steer HUNTING ON WHEELS Sulphur dioxide la another refrigerant ing mechamim, by. Engr.-It. Com-|--- whose machinery requires careful selecmander F. G. Mabravors, /«R. N.,

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