1933-04-27 — Page 5

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933.

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NEW METAL FOR CAR Dawdling Along At IRAQ'S LARGEST REDUCING TRAFFIC

CYLINDERS

Elimination Of Wear

Provided.

TRIUMPH CO'S DISCOVERY

London.

The use of a new metal for the cylinders of cars is announced by the Triumph Company, of Coventry. For five years the firm's research department has been experimenting with alloys for cylinders with a view to diminishing excessive wear, recognized as which has become almost inevitable in the modern high-speed engine.

Daytona

Speed King Has Roughest Ride Of Life

SIR MALCALM CAMPBELL'S

OWN

STORY

VEHICLE

A 30-Wheeler For Pipe Line Work

OBSTRUCTION. Quicker Buses In Paris.

Said to be the largest motor put into service over 150 new The Paris bus organisation is to truck and trailer outfit so far con-buses with six-cylinder overhead- structed in the United States, valve engines. By reason of their six-wheel tractor, with a four-more rapid acceleration and better

hill-climbing abilities, the wheel articulated trailer and

a vehicles, according to "Motor six-wheel trailer, have recently Transport," allow of a much high- been supplied to the Iraq Petroleum er average speed than the four Co. It is intended for the trans- cylinder. models.

Timetables have been altered in port of lengths of steel pipes used

came

new

in connection with the new 1,200 consequence, and the company is mile pipe-line across the desert. seeking to raise the average speed The three units weigh approxi- of its buses to that of private care The thrill of driving an im- "The record run is over.

mately 20 tons unladen, "says "Mo. and taxicaba, thus reducing traffic I'm tor Transport," the load-carrying obstruction. mensely powerful car at 272 miles lieved, but actually I am not too capacity being 40 tons, and the per hour was described to news happy. I have sort of let my car overall length 100 feet. The moment the metallurgists paper men by Sir Malcolm Camp-down, or conditions have.

RETAILED ROAD LICENCES. were satisfied that they had solved bell, holder of the world's land

"I should have set the mark at rough ground, the outfit has to be Besides having to travel over con- speed record, after his record-least 15 miles higher. Ah, well, capable of high speeds, and at the Glasgow recently when a youth of

An unusual case the problem engines were

was heard in structed from the new metals and breaking dash at Daytona, recent-think it can be done some other

time.

time have the ill-climbing 10 pleaded guilty to four charges of "The worst ride I have ever subjected to continuous night - and

"The beach was so rough that to be very easy to control in every cars in the city, and also to altering ability of a tractor. It is claimed stealing Road Fund Ecences from had in my life," were his first re- day tests under ordinary road!

marks

being

on several occasions I thought I

way, and that, despite its great the licences and removing figures. completed 30,000 miles each the of the five miles aimed at," he add-responded to control so magnifi-

Licences for $9. equivalent of three or four years' ed. average running-the engines were dismantled. It is stated that practi- cally no wear could be detected by instruments capable of measuring to

oa

approached.

conditions. When three cars had "Only 4% miles a minute Instead i was gone. If the car had not length, it can be turned in a 90ft. He had sold one of the altered

The bad condition of the beach

robbed the daring Briton of his chance of attaining 300 miles per hour.

"I have often been asked-am less than a tenth part of one-thou-asked every year, in fact what

my feelings are during record at tempts," he said.

sandth of an inch.

"Well, first, there are the inter- minable delays while waiting for the word to go. Of course, the delays are not interminable; they Finally, the word

cently. I should have landed either in the sand-dunes or in the ocean. "On my first run, my tachometer, or engine-speed indicator, showed I was doing 330 miles an hour, but the course was so rough my wheels were spinning almost constantly, my actua! forward speed was reduced greatly..

"The visibility was very, very bad. First I was heading for the, sand-dunes, and the next Inatant I was heading for the sea. The cari was shaking all over the course.

In the ordinary way, after this mileage, an engine might need its cylinders reground and oversizo pistons would be necessary. The new material, which is a chrome only seem so.

"From the very start, my arm was hurting me badly. It was all] alloy, has now been adopted for comes: "All clear!"

I could do to shift gears. Then general production. Is employ "My good lads start the Blue-when I got up fairly good speed, ment is said to reduce oil consumpbird engines. By means of com bumped along over the

least and to stop the pressed air I switch on the ign-like a pes in a pot. tion to the development of mechanical noise. tion and the Rolla engines FORT In addition, distortion is neglible, away. We get off slowly, first in:

BO

Beach Bumps.

Courso

that valve grinding is seldom low gear, then, with the engine hard on the accelerator

"I did not put my foot down

necessary,

Gruelling Test.

The Rolls-Royce Company, after much experiment, have what they

revolving about 2,300 to 2,800, in had almost reached the measured to second, then into high.

Flags A Picket Fence. "At the end of the first mile 1

consider to be a test which will am going approximately 140 miles

find any weakness. This form of an hour. The line of flags at my,

until I

mile, because. the car would have stayed under control high speed with the beach bumpy as it was.

not

at

д

おき

"The shells scattered along the

testing is called a "bumping rig." left, set 100 yards apart, begin beach cut his tires so badly that The front wheels of the chassis to draw together. are placed on two rollers on which

Now they practically a

are are steel bars at different intervals. picket fence, even closer, if that;

are

rotated

at 105

not

The had to replace these after the

first trial run. He continues:

These rollers

"Ou both of my runs there were be possible, for I am covering more times when I could see no distance .p.m., and as each bar hits the than 375 feet a second.

whatever ahead. "The huge numbers to my left,

I just had to wheel-and the two wheels are hit at the same time-the spring sel at each mile-post, jump before guese and trust to luck.

my vision.

"Also, I was bothered by sand. I read No. 4, which being kicked into my face, and by This test is equivalent to driving means four miles to the record

mile. Before my

strong fumes from the motor. the chassis over the worst of ronds.

vision focuses Euch new

type of chassis has to properly on it, it is gone. stand thle for about 100 houra,

receives a severe jolt.

FINE PERFORMANCE OF NEW MORRIS

"The car behaved magnificently under the terrible conditions, but

"No. 3 breaks the line of flag. I certainly had a tough time keep- I look at my tachometer, which is the same as my speedometer. The ing it from running all over the

3,208. I know I am far above last

revs mount-2,000, 2,800, 3,000,

year's record speed.

"My foot

is hard on, the ас

beach.

Rotighest Ride Of Life. "Frankly, it was the roughest ride I ever had, and I'll multiply that 50 times. It is not an easy

'Isis Sportsman's Coupe tached, the yellow-and-black rec

celerator. I sec, as a thing de-matter to frighten me, but honest-

Praised.

tangular marker above the start off if the car had not controlled so the mile. I press my foot down confidence in it, I don't know what {magnificently, 'and 'I did not have

from a letter from Mr. F. V. Jordan, "I wait ages, it seems, I look at I would have done. of Mosul, Iraq, which recently ap-the rev counter. Time does not

The following extracts are taken harder.

peared in the "Autoçar.”

"When on leave this year, after

fly; it creeps.

a good look round, my cholee fell on

Seconds Seem Ages. "Another age, almost,

At last

a Morris lais sportsman's coupe.there is anther rectangular yel-

"It answered to the controls mar- velously, otherwise I should have fost complete control of it, and that would have boun bad.

:

drove this car for over 1,000 miles low-and-black marker overhead. T SALTER TRANSPORT

REPORT.

A Knock At Lord Buckmaster.

in England, and have recently drive find myself breathing again as it out here without the slightest (though I had not before. trouble of any kind. It never "I have finished my record run. dropped below 20 m.p.h. over the it has taken me ecconds fust over Simplon Pass, and did most of the twelve, but it seems ages, actually. climb on third speed-no photo-

"A change of tires, now, for it graphs, except at the summit. would be suicidal to use the same did from 50 to 60 mph wherever ones again, "and back I go north Lord Buckmaster is that one can What I like about the ingenious possible all the way from Calais to ward." Thus the tale of speed: almost hear him think, writes the Brindlai, and never used a drop of "Again the blur of flags, pane: “Highwaymsa" in "Motor Trans- water in spite of a very much over-tuated by the huge markers. In

port."

loaded ear, and dedicating the miles. The yellow He has been a great upholder "The only time it needed water rectangle striped with black again in the House of Lords of the Im- was on the appalling portion of the overhead. desert between Aleppo and Dier-ez- "I favour my left hand a bit, plementing of the Salter Beport, zor, where, owing to a strong follow-the hand wrapped to the albow

and has also made impractical fng wind and only being able to do with elastic bandage, where I had suggestions about the reduction of

road accidents. Now he has per

about 8 m.p.h, it used about a sprained the tendons, last week.unded the Lords to pass his mo gallon of water in some 40... milos, "My car takes a swerve on this In 2,620 miles neither the gearbox returs trip. It almost geta out of ton for the abolition of the Minte nor the back axle needed all; petrol lisand as I finish, with her radiatory of Transport (a motion, inci; consumption war over 22 m.p.8., and pointing toward the sand-dunes dentally, which le likely to pro lubricating oils about 1,000 mp. and going for the Bolt Hand. But of no avail), Proposing the mo

not less. The car attracted the answers the heim, and I am tion, be complained that the great attention wherever back on a straight line again, ter Report stopped, particularly in Italy and "Let Car Down

shelved and the Ministry Byria, and I had to answer many "Comes the long, long milo, ned every proposal questions as to its performance doubtedly the longest, mile in the the {dad}

I consider that any Britisker world. Finally it passes, I ease up

who does not buy British is a traitor and coast, putting on my brakes, Buckmaster) to his country, as Britiah care to slowing to a crawl of 100 miles an try and,

are aa good as the best.

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