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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933.

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THE MOTORISTS PAGE

STREAMLINING NOT WIRELESS IN A STANDARD MOTOR STATISTICS

A FAD.

Gives More Room With Better Appearance.

THE "WIND-CHEATER”

There is a feature in motorcar development which, while prominent at Olympia last autumn, has been even more so at the shows abroad. A tendency so strongly marked can- not be overlooked.

Successful Installation

Described.

Having recently purchased a |Standard "Little Niho" -1983 model and having carried about a port able set in my other car, I decided to build the set into the. "Little Nine" as a fixture, for room in small car is valuable. This is how it was done, writes Alec A. Crane.

measured.

moving coil type was selected after Beeing many kinds, the space avail- able being the biggest considera- tion.

Loud Speaker Satisfactorily Installed.

FROM US.

3,600,000 Employed

In Trades.

25,000,000 CARS USED.

New York.

TRIUMPHANT - TEN- FOUR.

Comments By Austin Owner.

The proud possessor of an Austin Ten-Four from Orpington, Kent, recently wrote to the "Austin Magazine" in the following

The tray after being cut down to allow for the width of the set

What does the operation of terms:- was used being mounted on the top of it. AUS.A.

as a baffle, the speaker 25,000,000 motor vehicles mean to There are few buyers of new cars who would place an order without hole having been cut in the centre, These estimates for one year are having a 'trial run, yet once an First of all, the set. It has four the tray is back in its original made by the chief of the United Austin man, always an Austin man, valves (two screened H. F. detector, position and the speaker is com-States Bureau of Public Roads: That is the "streamline" body chassis form. The chassis was re-

pentode output) which was built in pletely out of sight.

holds good with me, and thus, after spotting a It seems as if at long last those who moved from its case and the dimen-seat was then explored and a suit private passenger car operation.

The space under the driver's

green demonstration 150,000,000,000 vehicle miles of model of an Austin -- Ten-Four, I are responsible for this department|sions carefully

placed my order. The able H. T. battery bought, running 24,000,000,000 ton-miles of local The Colt, as I like to call it, has of car construction have been given next job was to find a suitable the wires under the carpet to the haulage, transportation and delivery now done 1,000 miles and has just] the courage of their convictions. It place to put it without mutilating set. The car accumulator was of produce.

been put through Its paces on a cun is pleasing to see that in every part the car, perhaps the most difficult tapped for the L.T. The car of the automobile scale, and irres-part of all,

(metal work) is used as an aerial, bus transportation.

11,000,000,000 passenger miles of to the coast and back. pective of price; designers are bold- The place decided

Except for passing through Maid- upon, was the earth being about two yards

15,000,000,000 gallons of motor stone it was a top-gear run. Going out, my first test was that long rise On the road. When

450,000,000 gallons of lubricating past Farningham, for the last| stretch usually means a change 50,000,000 tyre casinge and tubes, down.

Our speedometer never fell below £80,000,000 worth of parts and 31 mp.h. Past Maidstone a burat accessories purchased.

of speed to see what could be done manufacture of vehicles; 150,000 in]

Employment of 200,000 persons in put the needle over to 57 m.p.h.

The gathering speed was denoted manufacture of tyres, parts and only by the slowly rising note of the accessories; 750,000 in garages, fill-engine and movement of the speed- ing stations, service stations, etc., ometer needle. The car ran like a and 2,500,000 persons as lorry, taxi baby Rolls-Royce. drivers, bua operators and private On the return journey, which was chauffeurs.

Įmade at a time when all and sundry 21,000,000 head of live stock were returning from the sea, I had moved by motor vehicle.

ly breaking away from conventional behind the instrument board on the of single flex hung out of the win-fuel consumed.

near side. After removing the dow to rest

ideas..

Old-fashioned persons who declare/tray, the set was strapped (metal) driving, "listening in" is not worth off consumed...

twelve months later.

up to the top of the scuttle so that while. Also it is that nothing would induce them to the dials just came to the edge of practice, so I have not bothered to a" dangerous ride in a motor-car "like an inflated the instrument board. This fixed screen the plugs or put the serial Easter egg" are often the proud it very rigidly, a most important in the roof. owners of a similar vehicle less titan point to watch.

This set works very well and we The loudspeaker was the next have heard some 20 stations at good Clearly, the streamline body is problem. A

permanent magnet strength and quality. primarily intended to be a wind- cheater. Actually, in most normal cars, this aspect is not of very great importance. The

small saloon absorba about 8 h.p.| in windage at 50 m.p.h., up to which speed this form of resistance is negligible. Beyond that the h.p. absorbed varies as the cube of the speed—that is, it is eight times as much at 120 m.p.h. as at 60 m.ph.

In racing machines such as Sir Malcolm Campbell's, air resistance becomes a factor of overwhelming influence.

SINGER CARS

AT GENEVA

Increased Sales Of Standard.

ROAD RACES AT BRIGHTON.

"

Hope To Stage Them Next Year.

1934,

used,

-Reuter.

Isle of Man "Traffic Act'

Lines.

Manxland's "free and easy" laws

AUTHOR'S THRILL IN DESERT

every opportunity of displaying 55,000 school buses In operation. what is perhaps the finest feature: 1,903,000 pupils transported to of this car-its. rapid acceleration rural schools by bus in the school from all speeds, and Wrotham Hill The possibility that the great R.A.C. road races

year. at present held

we took in its stride on top with in Ireland and the Isle of Man may killed and nearly a million injured

More than 34,000 people were three up. take place in Brighton in future in motor accidents in the year 1931. in the window has been more than My impetuosity in buying a 'car] For some years there has been a continues to be much discussed The modern streamline body is certain prejudice against British locally, and in motoring circles)

rewarded. Thank you, Sir Herbert! to be welcomed for the numerous cars because it was stated by Ameri-generally. practical advantages it confere. For can competitors that they were Mr. G. L. Clayton, of the Brighton example, it enables wide seats to be poor climbers.

and Hove Motor Club, which ran used without involving a "tabby" The significance of this statenientļa successful motor rally on Madeira-| appearance. This in itself is in so mountainous:p country as rond recently said that the club are strong, recommendation: Again, if Switzerland can be imagined. Just actively interested in the scheme, New Laws On English it is a little more costly to produce before the Geneva Show the report and are pressing for the necessary than the usual slab-sided body it has was challenged, and a Singer car action to be taken with a view to the merit of light weight with very was matched against a model of a fenabling racing to take place in rigid construction and should con- famous American firm, sequently be highly durable. Fur- The test aroused considerable It is known that there are in-for road-users are to come to an 8,000 Mile Trip Round thermore, because of its shape and interest. The British car won and fluential members of the Townend, for the island's legislature freedom from eddy currents when immediately an important order was Council who sympathise with the has passed a Road Traffic Bill on the road it tends to keep itself placed by a firm which had hitherto proposal, although, as the

which will make Manx motoring town dealt exclusively with cars from the clerk, Mr. J. H. Rothwell, said that laws very similar to those in force Marooned in the Australian de- A Lusty Six-Cylinder.

United States.

It has not yet been formally laid he in England. The Manx Act, how-sert with a fever-stricken driver ever, contains some rather in-and disabled car, two women pas- Any model introduced by Chrysler; Orders ́ure also being given, for fore the Council.

Įteresting is of interest. The new Kew Six British machines because of the in- Mr. Rothwell stated that it would

departures from the sengers faced a terrifying situa recently announced is singularly so, stability of the dollar, and many be necessary for the Corporation to asures of our own Parliament. tion, for in this part, of the Bush For instance, power is given to the country, 60 miles North of New- because, although it is modest in persons, in view of the financial promote a bill in Parliament to en- price, it embodies so many advanced crisis of the States, are for the first able the roads in question to be Manx Highway Board (the island's castle Waters on the road to Dar-

equivalent to closed.

the Ministry of win, one might be stranded inde-] principles of design. It is a lusty time baying British.

An increase of sales has, it is In the event of the Council de-Transport) to have the roads clos-finitely before assistance arrived. six-cylinder, equipped with the float- ing power scheme of indiarubber stated, necessitated the taking on of ciding

As it was, the position was be- to take such a step the ed without any limitations for the suspension, and is rated at 20 hp more men in the Standard factory earliest moment at which this could purpose of motor cycle or car coming desperate, when Mr. Wil- The gearbox is of the truly silent at Canley, Coventry. The 1933 be done would be next winter. type, with an easy change mechan-Standard cars are now being pro- ism that makes its control simplicity duced at the rate of 100 cars a day

clean.

itself.

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- figure which, it is anticipated. will shortly have to be increased. An important feature of the transmission, is the automatic

ARRIVAL.

clutch, which eliminates the need MOTORCAR WAITING for doing anything with the left foot. The clutch is automatically engaged and disengaged according to the action of the accelerator ⚫ pedal.

How To Spend Home

Leave Cheaply.

The man home on leave from

The car can be driven in three different ways according to the set- ting of a control on the dash. This, overseas can easily find himself at when fully pulled out, locks the

a "loose end" unless there is a car transmission, and the method of at his disposal, and, If it were driving and changing gear is the generally realised how simply and conventional. With the control cheaply the necessary

arrange- pressed half way in, the free wheel

mente can be made, very few comes into operation, and when it is would omit to do so before sailing. fully in, both the automatic clutch and free wheeling come into action.

and

Ideal Track. · ́

racing..

Australia.

iam Hatfeld, the noted author It was hoped to include in the who is engaged in an 8,000 mile Act provision for compulsory trip round Australia in search of The town has what is considered third-party insurance, to be ad- local colour for his forthcoming an ideal track. It comprises the ministered by the State; but, two fine roadways. Madeira-road more mature consideration, the on his Hillman Minx.

on navel, chanced to pass that way Marine-parade, which run island's legislators found that this

Lost No Time. and top respectively of Kingscliff, difficulties, and so the question was Hatfield placed the sick man in the parallel to one another, at the foot was a subject fairly bristling withị Without losing any time, Mr. together with the old and new Rot referred to a committee, who are car and drove him many miles ¡tingdean · roads and the short still considering it. If they even through the parched country, to Arundel road, which is the connect-tually decide to recommend in the nearest Homestead," returning ing link between these two favour of the proposal it will be afterwards to the aid of the thoroughfares.

*dealt with separately by the legis-women, with whom he raced across lature on its merits. "The Motor Central Australia to connect up Cycle."

|with the train at Alice Springs, the railhead for South Australia, some 500 miles south.

...

MOTOR CAR SOLD FOR 1/11%d.

Fun At Johannesburg

MULTI-PURPOSE TANKER.

Indian Service For Commer Truck.

"Making wonderful time running |mouth, nothing can stop the Minx, {barren ranges, rock-strewn gullies, now 50 mile stretches of sand," he telegraphed from Tennant Creek, It is, for instance, possible to A break-up dealer in Johannes- turn in an existing car in part burg. bought a car recently for $4.

and, later, from Alice Springs.":," "Bettered mail time from Daly payment for a new Hillman, which and finding it in good condition will be ready to drive away on ar decided to offer it for sale aga The municipal vehicle that Com-track amazed at Minx getting Waters by one day. Old hands on rival in Britain or at any Continen-publicity stunt for 1/11%. An ad mer Cars, Ltd., of Luton, has just through at all. Can now catch up SWEDEN USES ITS OWN FUEL tal port. Then, at the expiration vertisement brought a queue one completed for service in Kathiawar,

jon itinerary of leave, it will be packed it morning at 6 o'clock, which by mid- India, has several novel features of Increased petrol cost in Sweden is necessary) and shipped.ng streets. At 1-23 pm, the bine to make the vehicle suitable for several purposes now to be de day entirely blocked the neighbour-particular interest in that they com- the tank, and other parts for the causing operators of large fleets of

An alternative scheme is one motor vehicles to experiment with whereby a car can be bought with dealer climbed on to the car, and at a variety of purposes without In-scribed. cheaper forms of fuel.

ja guarantee that it will be repur- once there was a wild surge towards yolving any change of body, or other For the pressure sprinkling of Good results are being obtained chased by the suppliers at the end bim, every one trying to make him time-wasting alteration

asphalted, or, cemented roads; there with Diesel engines, but, according of a certain period, at a pre-accept their 1/11%.

The vehicle may be used as are two gunmetal sprinkler heads to "Motor Transport, increasing at determined price, which may be up Eager hands pulled him bodily, street sprinider and washer, a gully immediately behind the driver's cab tention is being paid to the develop to 70 per cent of the original and be found himself bruised and flusher and re-engine. It has also and one on each side. They are ment of vehicles which carry" their figure..

po battered under the car (states "The the advantage that it can take its capable of watering a street 50-60-

own plant to produce gas fuel. This This scheme is definitely cheaper Motor"). Recovering, he climbed water supply in a variety of ways, ft. wide and each sprinkler head in is a result of the decision of the when longish perfods are in ques-back. A woman, who had taken up including even the sea as a source. Independently operated by levers, in Swedish Government to allow a retion than hiring a car and a position in the driving seat, push- Use is made of the Commer GLB the cab, in such a way that any head duction of 50 per cent, in the annual possesses Beveral obvious ad-ed her money into his hand. A 3-ton chassis, which embodies may be put out of action, or have tax of heavy vehicles Atted with ap-vantages.

es count revealed a penny short. At four-cylindered engine, * four-speed the length of jet modifed mon pliances utilizing wood obtained Extended terms are avaliable, 1-30 p.m. the advertised time for gear box and is mounted upon 82-in. the rear are gravity sprinklers from Bwedish forests, so that a large cash outlay is not the sale, a man who had been one of by 6-in. pneumatic tyres, carrying of the box type designed for use on The wood is not used as it stands necessary, while there need be no the bam quone ceeded In 750-gallon tank and a centrifugal water-bount road. These also Are for this type of vehicle, but is con- fears as to the punctilious manner thrusting

on the dealer, pump. The last named compone controlled levers in the driver's verted into charcoal, which is used in which obligations be carried and being declared the

{[s-coupled' fhrough the medium of a

that the device on either aidéi fo generate the gas as required, out,

drove the car homa

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