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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930.

BIG AND ROOMY.

Willys-Knight Six's New Model.

with

an

THE CHINA

that-the piston-moving with- in two cylinder-walls, so to speak (or three, in all, to be precise)

the dissipation of internal heat is much better than it is in the case of a piston moving within a single chamber, which has to do all the heat-distribution. How far, how much, this can explain the demonstrable freedom from any symptoms or suggestions of pre-ignition which may be notic- ed in connection with all sleeve- valved motora, this is neither the time nor the place to discuss; but this Willys-Knight 66-B emerged crank-shaft-

brakes on so many Canadian and American cars. On this matter of levers, I think the cranking of the change-speed lever might be improved. Mr. Coxhead, a very old Willys-Knight and Overland [By Edgar N. Duffleld.] enthusiast, who brought the car to my home, disagreed with me; When Sir Wm. ML.

Letts. ; but

that's a way of his. The K.B.E., resigned the managing knob of this gear-lover (spending directorship of Crossley Motors, most of its time in the top gear, his or third. position) resta more or Ltd., people (among even most intimate frienda) who knew less over the cushion between the how much the name of Crossley driver and his immediate com- had meant to him for 20 years, panion, and so occupies space wondered why he had retired. that might be used more advan- Now after a day on a Willys-tageously; but it would be a very successfully from Knight 66-B, I begin to under-simple matter to cold-bend or re-speed varlation-tests to which I stand. I knew, previously, what set the lever itself to such an should hesitate to submit any Sir William thought of Mr. John extent that this would not be. mushroom-valved motor without North Willys, and of sleeve- Except for the as it struck me a chink or a tap. On a 1-in-14, valved engines, and of Willys--shortness of the brake lever or perhaps 1-in-12 upgrade, this Knight cars; but I had not ap- and this excessive cranking of engine would pull pleasantly yet preciated the thoroughness with the change-speed lever, I am will-purposefully at anything from which he meaning Sir William ing to go on record as opining about 800 to 9,000 r.p.m., with- Letts-had grasped the import that there is not a single tiny out anywhore in the range mak ance of the sleeve-valve principle, little thing to criticise on the ing me wish that I were driving, as applied to the world's largest, Willys-Knight Model 66-B. so that I could help it a little by

It has Ross cam-and-lever drugging back the firing point- most numerous producers of sleeve-valve motors, because al- steering,

adjustable and taking second, if not first, though he was 30 very early a pillar-rake, an 18-inch wheel, and speed to get really going again. motorist, I had always thought of a gear of steering admirably Engine, clutch, gear-box, final him rather as a business man suiting the 31 by Gins. cord tyres. transmission, ateering, braking,

an Auto-Lite two-unit | behaviour as than as one really keen upon it has

a whole, driving electrical installation, wired comfort, visibility acceleration, eingle-pole, with automatic varia- retardation (through the four- tion of the battery-and-coil wheel breaking)-I could not find ignition, although the firing point a single fault. And when I told is also manually variable, on the Coxhead this, he said: Instrument board. The starting, should you? If Sir William does lighting, horn, lamp-dipping and not know, if Mr. Willys does not So much for what was a riddle. ignition controls are all centred know, what a motor-car is, now,

it's high We can now get to the car, which above the steering wheel, the to-day.

time they is a big, roomy, amply powered standard wheels are wire-spoked, should!" That was true, and I never argue against the eternal saloon, of unimpeachable appear-six in number, and tyred, the

well as

fuel-tank holds 18 gallons and verities. performance,

So I changed places selling at a very conservative feeds the Tillotson carburetter with my mentor, discovered that price. yet very nicely appointed through an Autovac, the heat- I could do all the immoral things in every way, a car whose motor supply, to the induction-manifold-immoral in the cases of most needs decarbonisation at intervals is manually controlled and all other cars which he had done. only of 40,000 to 45,000 miles, a controls are lockable, as are all and decided that anybody who mile-a-minute car at will, good doors, and regular equipment in- seeks a better six than a Willys- for 75 m.p.h. on the full stretch, cludes an automatic screen-wiper, Knight 66-B saloon, at anything yet with top-gear flexibility, sus two driving mirrors, tail, "Stop" fike the price of a Willys-Knight pension, steering and road- and backing lamps, a speedo 66-B saloon, must set out on his, worthiness which are each and meter, a North-East electrical journey with a much better lan- all exemplary.

horn, a single control for the tern than had the lamented when he ventured This car has not a whole heap opening or otherwise of the wind- Diogenes, of specifications. Its six-cylin-screen, a luggage-grid, and so on,

technical niceties.

Perhaps it is because he is an astute business man, rather than a keen technologist, that he has decided to concentrate upon the Willys-Knight and Willys-Over. land products.

ance, as

-and-so forth.

I

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forth to find an honest man.

Coxhead tells me that the dered motor, with a Treasury"

Coachwork and Performance. single-shot lubrication really rating of 27.34 h.p., develops 82

This is the sort, of motor car works, that the oil does get b.h.p. at 3,200 r.p.m. The valves which makes me glad that I have around to its appointed trysting are of the double-sleeved type, the aluminium pistons are Invar consistently disclaimed knowledge places, and that he can stand on of bodywork. Its saloon his four-wheel brakes in a steel-strutted, the crankshaft has

body ig very, very seven main bearings, the dis-

nicely fashion which he hesitated to de- built so designed,

far tribution gear is silent-chain

as monstrate in the presence, before silence of running suggests the eyes. of an old-timer like my. operated, and lubrication is under

-and finished. Nothing jazzy, self, without shifting an inch off pump-pressure to crankshaft,

nothing "Amurrican." All in his course, I must say that I PARIS MOTOR SHOW valve-sleeve shaft, connect- ing-rod bearings and

in dull thought these brakes particularly. tim-ternal metal-work is

bronze.

their There is nothing to nice in ing chains, only the sleeve and

"straightness." Price-Cuts in European the pistons depending upon spray polish. The upholstery expresses Over and over again, week after or oil-mist. The oil-feed is auto- the very lust letter in restraint, week, dashing young fellows like matically regulated in accord- the cabinet-work is similarly him tell me these same things

Paris, October 2. dance with engine-speed, there is chaste, the forward seats are in- about their

A large crowd, including mem a pressure-gauge on the instru-dependently adjustable to a nice- brakes, and I say "Quite!", and ment board, there is an oil ty, all six windows can be raised then shut my eyes, and murmur bers of the Diplomatic Corps and rectifier (which purifies and or lowered, there is liberal door- "Nunc dimittis, Domine....!" prominent politicians and finan cools, as well as filtering) the width, and leg room, and elbow and in other ways prepare for ciers, attended to-day's opening of engine-oil, the Tillotson carburet room, and the body as a whole is the worst, coming to earth again the International Motor Show at ter enjoys the co-operation of an much roomier fore-and-aft than surprised to find myself still in the Grand Palais in the Champs air-filter 28 well as a fucl- are those upon most chassis with the same county. Four-wheel Elysees. strainer, and the sunken cylinder-but ten feet of wheelbase. brakes which are anything but The outstanding feature of the heads are of course detachable. A pleasanter six to drive, no- perfect are amongst the worst show is the price-cuts and the

Cooling is entrusted to a V-body wants; and not many people and most deadly of man-traps. vastly improved designs of sectioned-belt-driven pump and are likely to get one. I asked But these operated just like the European cars.

French and German manufac- fan and a set of radiator shutters Coxhead to stunt. He stunted. language in a catalogue just like which are thermostatically ad- I'll say he stunted, all right! His Sunbeam brakes, the first and torers have, on the strength of the justed. There is an engine long suit was extreme flexibility. best-since the War-of all four-success of the buy-at-home move- thermometer reading on the in- coupled with wonderful top-gear wheel brakes that were anything ment, followed the British

ple and materially reduced their strument board which, by the acceleration. He would loaf up but a snare and a delusion." way, like all the internal hard-a longish, steady hill, loaf until

I am all for safety. Not first. prices in an effort to freeze out the ware, is finished in dull bronze. I wondered why he had a three- First, last, all the Time. I have American Invasion.

A dry, single-plate clutch, with speed gearbox.. He would then never paid more than £800 for al It is understood that this de- its disengagement mechanism thrust his foot down, disdaining motor car of my own, because Ivelopment is causing great anxiety the American lubricated from the single-shot to touch the manual ignition con- have always been as poor, as to the leaders of installation which oils the whole trol, and that engine would build Lazarus, without a friend named; motor-car industry assembled here of the chassis and running gear, and build and build until I won- Dives in the same district. I like and, it is further understood, they communicates the drive to a dered once more why anybody to travel rapidly, on occasion. Propose to concentrate all their three-speed gear-box, and thence and everybody who could afford a Four-wheel brakes were intend-efforts on forcing, up the output of to a semi-floating spiral-bevel Knight licence had not obtained ed, by their entrepreneurs, to their factories erected in recent rear axle. All springs are of a Knight licence, as soon as make it safer to travel rapidly years in Europe, semi-elliptical pattern, 39 ins. Daimlers sbowed us how good a thin one dared without their as- forwardly and 5714 ins. rear-Knight motor could be!

sistance. But there are four- NORTHAMPTON'S BUS FLEET. wardly, in length. All springs With all considerations for all wheel brakes and four-wheel have shock-absorbers.

Bendix my mushroom-valved friends, brakes, and although I would The new Guy vehicles put into brakes, controlled by pedal, ex- the sleeve-valved motor seems to felicitate Sir William Letts first service by the Northampton Cor- pand in the drums on all four have performance-refinement all upon the quality of his engine,poration have evoked a chorus of wheels. The hand-operated brake its own, to be particularly and ex- upon the refinement, docility, admiration from all who have used is on the transmission only, and pressly "above" little details of -flexibility, nicety, call it them; they are indeed luxuriously its lever is none too long, but it ignition-timing. I can see no | what you will, of its comfortable.

many

exam-

is a real brake, unlike the hand-reason why this should be except performance, I think that easily! Knee space han boed rather

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scarce up to the present in the single deckers, but Mr Cameron, the Northampton Tramwaya Mana- ger, allowed an extra 2 iné. "knee space in each seat of the new saloons, which carry 28 passengers aplece. The seats are double sprung, and like those of the Gay six-wheel double deckers, are up- holstered in reai hide. This," In itself, is a tremendous Improve- ment to vehicles which ara só. law i riding that a small person can stand outside and look into the body of the bus with comfort.

The busda are of the one-man- operated, type, originated by Guy Motors Limited, the driver having an offside door to himself which permits. the ticket-counter being made permanent

- The Guy six-wheeled double deckers in Northampton are the only vehicles in Great Britain_fit- liked mil round with balloon tyres of

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second in the factors making for] the allurement of the Willys. Knight Model 66-3 must be rated. the really beautiful four-wheel braking of that car-assuming, of course, that the car I tried WAS A USE EN average representa-

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