1930-08-07 — Page 11

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1930.

FAIR PLAY!

FIRE IN CARS.

NEW GEARS,

Defence of American "Autos."

What Is Direct Cause?

VALUE FOR MONEY,

Motoring in Malaya la described

sayatend

teresting motor journals.

Dealing with the subject of motor car fires The Motor remarks that

the safest position for the tank

THE CHINA MAIL.

Increased Silence and Efficiency.

Many improvements have been made in the design of the motor

NEXT YEAR,

How Motor Cars Will Look.

"Coachwork fashions in 1931 have for long been exercising the big

it is unlikely," writes "Focus" in

minds in the factories.. I hear that

Very shallow

only one ground for inquiry; an-cur during the past few years, but by: "A Patriotic. Biritisher" writing other is its design and construction, few of those driving to-day realise The Light Car and Cyclecar, "that Dom Fenarig to the Autocar. Ho in at least one car the tank is so the advantages gained by the any sweeping changes are to be

have just received your issueable, while in others it is so lightly

built that it is practically invulner silent gears now fitted, writes H.development at the forthcoming made and that the most important of April 11. It will interest you constructed that it is easily ripped Thornton Rutter, Morning Post Show will be a considerable increase to know that the motoring jour-and the contents spilt. nals find their way into the most

motoring correspondent. remote parts of the Federated ease of exit in cases of fre. in "An important consideration is

in the number of saloons which are Noise signifies friction and atted with sliding or folding heads. Malay States. We fellows, rub some cars we have tried it has only wear, in every type of machine running boards and the body seems The use of valances between the ber planters by profession, sit in been necessary to place the wheels Therefore the increase silence likely in 1931 to be our bungalows, miles from civili- on the kerb on one side of the road now given to back axles of motor distinctly out of date, and double- regarded as sation, and pat ourselves on the for body stresses to be set up which vehicles has been brek that we belong to a court thal-can-proiece-such-stly in the doors. Two-door saloons, not so antidote to breakdowns of that radiator to the rear of the car alao

make it almost impossible lo_apen.

a successful tone finish with a dividing line taken-from-the-shoulder-of the We do think, however, that less disadvantage that the rear passen-ther to economy in annual main windows, I gather, are not taking

popular now as they were, have the component.

This has added fur-seems to be passing. space should be given in the cor-yers cannot jump out until the front tenance, as respondence section to that smal

well as keeping on as well as was expected owing passengers have escaped. Narrow vehicles longer on the road with-to their usually being accompanied community of backbiters who, be cause they are

windows make it difficult to clamber out needing to be overhauled. born in England out of a car that way, even if the

by hat-crushing, roofs. Bad own an English-built enr. glass can be readily broken, and this the hypoid gear, has been adopted Recently a new, design, styled must continually throw dirt at is, naturally, more difficult in the by motor manufacturers for rear the cars built by other countries. ease of the unsplinterable type.

axle "construction. It is used in Mass Production.

possible, to ascertain what is the Phantom Rolls-Royce, which is "It would be important, if it were the present 40-50 h.p.. New direct cause of ears catching fire, famous for its silence in running market, which two or three years but in no single case has it been as well as for its lasting qualities. ago was considered to be the special possible do so. Exhaust pipes do Hypoid is really a "portmanteau" preserve of the fabric body. One We want to take this opportun-ways the possibility of the exhaust highly technical term hyperboloid, tending towards the improvement of not run hat, although there is al-Word, coined to abbreviate the has yet to hear of any developments ity of reminding Mr. Thorogood from a fractured pipe igniting spilt

which ia that we do not want such a death-

applied to the the head-on appearance of our cars. petrol. So far as the electrical Curve of the teeth cut In this connection any change would pinion and crown be for the better, for it is difficult

For instance, a co respondent spoilt a quite good letter by end

that

ing with verily believe this would be the denth-knell ni the large American ear."

patriotism.

of

the

1930, one understands, in the num- ber of front-opening doors, wings are to fit more snugly around the wheels, and metal-panelled bodies

"There is to be an increase in

are to encroach still more upon the

AN ANACHRONISM !

knell to be sounded. We are Briequipment is concerned, the chief tish and full of patriotism, but risk is that of a short circuit of wheels of hypoid back-axic gears. to picture anything more ugly than not hypocritical Amerien supplies us-we question in a general smash-up it might sidered to have the advantages of of 1930 models."

feads connecting with the battery. In practice the hypoid geur is con- the head-on appearance of the bulk not how with a low-priced six-occur at the switchbox connections.

both spiral (or helical) and worm gears from a power transmitting, point of view. But advantage to the designer is more than this as the curve of the teeth. cut in such gears, allows the position of the Pinion to be much below the centre of the crown wheel of the rear axle differential and allows lower and therefore safer centre of gravity for the carriage.

cylinder Car with excellent brakes, fine top-gear acceleration and flexibility, absolute ease control and comfort.

What do we care whether it is tmass-produced or not? If this is, mass production, or its-result.

The fact that leads

are usually armoured diminishes the risk to an extent, but with a charged battery there is bound to be some danger.

"Another possibility is that a spark from the dynamo brushes then all "praise.. We clamour for might fire the petrol, as the dynamo service, and then more service, at may continue to run a sufficient time a low price; this is more valu-after the accident. Possibly even a able to us than the fact that after spark from the distributor might running our car for a year we

cause ignition. It is extremely ean ses to shave in the relection difficult to see what can be done to the coachwork panels afford.

No Speed Traps.

Chryslers, Buicks and Fiat casily lead over here in popular ity-especially the tust-named The Chinese love Fints; in fact when a picture theatre in George- town, Penang, announced. the

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Those Dangerous Trams.!

"Most of those who have had any Combination of two Types,

considerable road experience are convinced that one By reason of the off-centre posi- fruitful sources of danger and pos

of the most elucidate the causes of fires in the case of overturned cars, the chances tion of the pinion, the same size sible accident is the tram. This being that experiments would not gear and number of teeth of a rallbound machine is reproduce the conditions that occur hypoid design is 20 to 30 per anachronism," says The Commer hair cent, larger in diameter than cial Motor. "Not only does it ob- in accidents, each one probably being different."

spiral bevel pinion. Hence with struct traffic but, in some Instances, the same gear a smaller pinion can it takes on and discharges its pas- be used and a greater reduction sengers in the highway, where they

now

an!

fact that the 514 model Fiat was KING'S ROLLS-ROYCE, can be obtained. That, however, either hold up oncoming traffic or

coming the uproar of applause

lasted for some minutes.

is a technical matter, important are exposed to no little danger.

We have no speed-traps, and we Sent from London to perhaps, by adding to the ease of passing stationary trams, and al- travel at any speed we like, but we reciprocate

by driving very slowly through the villages. On

power.

Abyssinia.

It is

ture of both.

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Possibilities of Rear- Wheel Steering,

to the designer and only useful, Some municipalities have in force as far as the public is concerned, by-laws to prevent vehicles from top gear running, should the auto- though one can see the force of the mobile engineer take advantage of objection to permitting the free the open, smooth asphalt roads al

this reduction capacity. 1outing speed of 50 to 60 m.p.h.

It is, however, interesting to side of a tram, yet this is but one Car and Cyclecar, has an interesting circulation of traffic on the near One of the latest cars deliver-

"Focus," writing in The Light can be maintained.

Our tax is ed overseas by Rolls-Royce, Ltd. is noiseless, it is relatively in-suited to modern traffic conditions. steering of motorcars in the future. note that, while a true worm gear more proof that the vehicle is un-suggestion to make regarding the one dollar (28, 4d.) per horse is a Phantom II. for the King of efficient, as its operating contract

Abyssinia. In conclusion.. I would like to Djibouti on the coast, and thence gear or straight bevel is not so tramway undertakings has to be perhaps servo-operated, which, when It was shipped to is mostly sliding. Also, a spur huge capital which is bound up in "with auxiliary roar wheel steering, "The difficulties in respect of the "I can picture a car," he says. say that in England, before I travelled 480 miles up country to quiet, but has about 98 per cent considered, but it is strongly urged the steering columns were moved enme abroad, I ran a Bugatti. bought it second-hand at a moder- owing to "local conditions," caning, as against the sliding of the possible, trams should be replaced aileron control of an aeroplane-

Adi-Ababa by a train which efficiency: Its contacts are roll-

that, wherever it be in any way bodily to left or right-like the ate price, and I bought it not be only be run in daylight. cause it is a French car, but be- The body is an enclosed-drive/Worm gear. The hypoid is a mixby a more flexible type of vehicle, would dart to one side or the other cause there was absolutely no landaulette by Hooper. thing on the English market at anberly finished in royal blue and per cent, of the sliding action of propelled bus. No extensions to locked over in the same direction.

It has about 25

such as the trolley-bus or the self-with, both front and rear wheels that time to compare in nay way black, relieved by hair-lines of to the rolling contacts of the anced, and tramway-track renewals use of a motorcar 'joystick' of this an equivalent worm drive, added

tramway track should be counten- with its performance at the price, gold. The celour scheme was left

"When one became expert in the to-Rolls-Royce, Ltd. All that the creased efficiency and greater

spur tooth.

The result is ion, a big scale should be discouraged. kind the most remarkable evolu- King did insist upon was that the

It is surprising to find that there tiona could be performed particu- silence in running.. borinet and dash' should be plat-

are advocates for the tram who belarly if lateral movement ed.

Universal Adoption. lieve that it cannot be efficiently wheel

of the affected only the Motor manufacturers in Eng replaced by any other means for wheel

rear- which would attract some atten-land, America, France, Germany, transport, but the results obtained ment only the front-wheel lock. lock and rotary move- in western surroundings. Italy, Sweden and Czecho-Slovakia by those advanced authorities that skidding," Built into the back of this other have all recently adopted this new have taken energetic steps to im- ceade entirely

t imagine, would wise orthodox English body is a design. Its principles have been prove their passenger-transport sys- some, the car could be parked and to be trouble- special double dickey to accom-discussed by engineers for many tems, go to show that such opinions garaged in infinitely less time than modate two stalwart members of years but it has only recently the King's personal bodyguard-been produced owing to the vast at a considerable height from the improvements made in gear-cut- ground. But even this martial ting machines. touch is relieved by utilising the mentioned, the use of the hypoid As previously красе underneath it to carry makes possible lower classis tie- special trunks.

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A Rolls-Royce mechanic accom-siderably simplifies front-wheel panied the car on its rali journey drive. It is the trend towards the up country and will stay till the latter style in some of the latest

are incorrect."

A WARNING.

Over-Confidence a Danger.

at present, traffic driving would be greatly simplied, and collisions could be dodged in a manner that at present is quite out of the ques- tion.

"Really, the possibilitles of rear- wheel steering that could either follow or oppose the front-wheel lock at the driver's wish are most engaging."

MOTORS IN CEYLON.

royal chauffeurs are au fait with motor productions in Europe and Many new motorists display their new charge. This Is rather remarkable instance of the to this detail in motor-car design over a car after their first trip," says America that has led me to refer surprising confidence and mastery service available to Rolls-Royce owners. The mechanic was um every direction for their vehicles may lead the entirely uninitiated to Safety is also being sought in The Light Car and Cyclecar. "This moned from Bombay, and arrived by automobile engineers. at Djibouti the day before the advantage of a gear that allows to become an accomplished driver Turner,

A copy of the molor-vehicle state- The suppose that it is an easy matter ment for May, issued by Mr. L. J. B. the placing of the pinion below in a few minutes, and may engender shows the number of motor vehicles. Director. of "Statistics, the centre of the wheel it drives is the pride that is said to go before in use in Ceylon has increased by that it gives greater floor clear-a fall; therefore, we must issue a 92, bringing the total up to 24,250, ance, and is, therefore, of great warning. Some novices take to the chassis design to produce lower in the majority and they are usually U.S.A. 11,226 France 1,00 use in public service vehicle wheel instinctively, but they are not export is principally as follows

The distribution by countries of and safer motor-buses.

car.

REFLECTIONS.

Scene: a mid-November night pitch dark and raining in torrents, and, last but not least, thirty miles to go. Still, Isobel, my little seven, Horse, had never let me down yet, and I did not anticipate any trouble. did so he extinguished his lights!

Climbing in, I switched on theThis was worse than ever.

head lights, and we glided off, It couldn't tell where he was.

I

drawn from the ranks of those who UK. 8,296 Italy 1,004 have already acquired, useful road Canada 2,346 Germany 185 experience by riding cycles or America has supplied 7,000 of the motorcycles. The real novice, 14,929 motor cars and the United whose name is legion, has no such Kingdom 4,432 The motor cyde advantage. To him driving a car market however, has been captured

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was a wild night if ever there was turned back to the loft side of the presents two problems; first, to alomat, exclusively by the United one. I pictured a cosy room and road, and in a moment, the other learn the exact function of each Kingdom, who are shown as supply. supper at the other end, and trod fellow's lights, went on, and he was control; and, secondly, to make ing 8,128 of the total 8,508. on the gase

about twenty yards ahead, and still use of those controls In a During May, 188 new vehicles I was just thinking that I bad the coming nearer on his wrong side proper roads to myself when someone In a frenzy I trod on everything is in motion. In addition, registrations, the principal coun

mander when the car were registered, excluding two re- rounded the corner, about a quarter and pulled up dead. This other he has to acquire what is called tries of supply being as follows: of a mile ahead.

madman afd the same, and we road sense, Ifabould be obvious USA 91 France Te seemed to be on the wrong stopped with about ten yards be that theoretical and practical know- U.K side of the road, although there was tween the radiators ledge of this kind cannot be picked Canada 18, Germany,

69 Italy nothing much wrong in that, Then with a great, rumbling he up in a few minutes by any but the Of the 118 new cars, 52 were sup- especially with tall-light-loss started to back. I wa't having most gifted. It is only right to plfed by the USA and 41 by the cyclists abroad, but as he came that meant to have a word with point out that expert tulilon is the United Kingdom; whereas 21 of nearer he stayed there, das him.

here could.

safest way of learning how to con- the 22 new motor-cycles were pro been a hun jumped out and found trol a car and further that no vided by the UK. The United furniture van with no tall light and amount of tution will enable a States, however, supplied 19 of aida a large mirror on the back 7.9. In beginner to acquire road sense in a the 21 new ominibuses, and 19 of the and as Autocar

Bingle, lesson

dred yards when I edged ove

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MOTOR CARS.

ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's

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Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228: ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

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STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

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OUTBOARD MOTORS. Rudolf, Wolf & Kew, 54 Queen's Road

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MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, Tel.

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