1947-06-21 — Page 9

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

Britain's Invention For Limbless Drivers

and the vacuum.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947.

ROUND

THE WORLD OF MOTORING

America has recently pro- equipped with wings, lighting |

Early last month the first en- duced a startling innovation in | cable, tali lamp and number tirely postwar model of the M. the form of a "drive in your] plate. The trailer 'will carry G. car was on show in Austra car cinema. Screen perform-enough equipment for a party in, South America, India, Cey-

from the comfort

a car,

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Britain's latest, Invention in ments is a combination of inter- ing wheel the motoring world-equipment changeable controls, worked by nervo motor does the rest.

The normal gear and brake ances are provided while seen of six and also provides sleep-lon, Egypt, Switzerland, Portu. A much demanded which roubles Bubless ex-BCI- servo-vacuum motors, which con

in ing accommodation for two gal, Singapore and Eire. This makes welcome re-appearance... vicemen to drive orthodox cars be adapted to the needs of nine levers, can be moved to the P-neveral parts of the U.S.A. people.

is believed to be the first. time un the roads--is becoming more different types of war mutila posite alde of the atearing

Layout of these car cinemaa The manufacturing company that new British car has been and more popular among the tion. For example, a driver who column and the accelerator pe provide for about 800 machines, is also exhibiting a number of delivered overseas to coincide world war wounded.

han lost both legs requires servo dal placed in whichever position and are usually set in pleasant ex-Government two wheoled with the model's first appear- Twelve mutha of research vacuum controls numbered one, suits the driver boat. The drly-

ly pastoral surroundings a trailers known as the airborne ance of the home market. anti exper intent have produced two and five, whereas a mang seat is mounted on an un-short way from the roadsiden. type which were specially de-

enabding ordinary without right leg and left arm usually ang ade to help drivers Car cinema goers simply wheel signed for transport by glider British cara were in

and with arungal lega. Another ar- their machine 15 prx of cars to be driven by men needs controls one, four

in linc with and were therefore made as demand at the 17th Interna who have lost an arm and leg, five, with the hand brake and rangement be the tensioning of other cars and run the front light and as sturdy as possible. tional Automobile Exhibition to the the hand throttle lever so that wheels up a steep tile bank They, have a carrying capacity at Geneva, it is reported, al- pr both legs. The devices are gear levers transferred

Alde Hormather

of the steuring it closes intomatically when the which tips it at such an angle of 10 cwt and weigh 5% ew! though American cars were on Supplementary to the controls so that the ears can column.

that the picture can be seen in empty, Controlled retail price show in numbera, sựl be driven in the ordinary The controls are quite simple frequently for gear changing. comfort through the wind-in/ Britain is £26.

ir operate and an experienced

The sponsoraЯ of this Way.

screen. Windows are lowered Research men who set to work motorlat can learn to use them equipment of its kind are the and indifcunt Joudspeakera Did you know that the effec- on the probšení talked aver in half an hour. The vacuum Rootes Group, well known hooked inside. This ensures tiveness of the safety rim their idrer with

medical servo motors which give "power London automobile distributors. perfect reception of the sound apertaluts, and leanest advice assistance“ depend upon the en

effects despite any noise which from all the orgafmations con- gine being in motion, but a re

other listeners may be making cerned with Bmbless ex-service. | serve vacuum tank comes into

in their own car. mei, They foul, among other play if the engine stops. thing that almot 70 per cent) of war-thor smakakionos werd utlega due largely to the f. fort of taninures.

Tlp ouderge of all expert.

The New

Hudson the steering column below the

driver

hand not move his

first

Accidents And Highway Design

paper

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The special bodied Italian cars, although costly, appeared very advanced in style. with clean wind cheating body lines devoid of ornamentation. The French minicars provided # number of interesting design novelties, but are probably low powered for the Swiss moun- tain conditions.

British Anish and workman- ship were piralsed, and the Mor- ris Ten; in particular. met with great favour with the Swiss motorists, in search of plenty of power and economy.

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wheel fitted on some American cara in due to the substitution of centrifugal force for the air pressure which normally holds the tyre In ahape? As long as One of the most ingenious

French manufacturing com- the tyre remains in place on the controls in the combined Fac

panles are keeping a weather rim, centrifugal force will con- throttle and clutch, enabling two

eye concentrated on the Ameri- tinue to push the outer body of Singers of the right hand to up-

can market. The proposed the tyre away from the wheel. ply the same energy a twu

model for the U.S.A. of the The faster the wheel is turning, feet uperating the clutch and ne-

veteran French constructor the greater will be the force. Mar, E. C. Mathis, is called In fact, nt a car speed of 70 referator pednis. It takes the form of a short jeyer pivoted on

the "G66," as there are to be miles per hour the tyre behaven interesting views on the relu six cylinders, 66 b.h.p. and a as though it had 30 pounds of wheel and shaped to take the Live values of the causes of road weight of GG0 kg. Such high air in it.

In Egypt it пррелга The new 1917 Hudson car ly two fingers of the right hand. uechients were put forward by claims they include also 98

Egyptian Government ary exproppend waff! four

Model car enthusiasts tell us bringing a new measures wheel Lifting the lever towards the the president of the Institution m.p.h. from a GG b.h.p. engine

of Highway Engineers, Lieut Bru plas & hyabame

me steering wheel operates the Colond T. Bennett, O.BE of 2.257 c.c.-ahould be can- that their small machines have put an end to a black murkef Phamend perse braking system clutch, and rointing it opens or B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., in

sidered in the light of the es- as many problerha connected in new CRFA. For which fade aodel "otilemntiendly!, choses the throttle.

read before the Institution the timated weight of 13 cwt un with them as the full sized rac-months since the removal of all from 152 any od pedal when This be only one of a number other day. It was entitled "High-laden. Also rantemplated 'là aing car. Usually the small en- restrictions on the sale of mo- neudet The* da di-locking safety of combinations. Für men who way

in-Relation to Road 444 model, with four cylinders, wines have angle cylinders, torcars in that country there

44 h.h.p. and an assumed petrol quipped with a little miniature has

been n considerable In- The frant de previst the wind in combined foot brake

flage when left uninteħed jelutch worked by the right sibility of reducing accidents by 100 km.

ind a torch battery. The car cars have been purchased at the what the ran a mustion. This hot. The brake pedal is hinged to justify this an a

Improvement. He attempted

burettor in simple, because the approveri selling prices from the so that the top portion works accident prevention, to

Super-trailers, specially de- Engines are very high-speed importers and dealers and ear, so that when the var Is the brake by tor action while certain contepilous issues in this signed for camping enthusiasts two-strokes, incidentally some-most immediately re-sold by International Trakeal the broad is locker.

ure being sold in Britain to times they are diesels, which auction at considerably higher and compion neethin, Some facts about the Hudson vacuum-servo motor and clutch, apparently irreconcilable views. overcome the holiday luggage eliminates the trouble always prices. Motor Car Company show la operated by the driver's hecl. He tried to show how even limit. | problem of many car owners.present with electrical Ignition. that over a period of five can- Conversely, the loss of the right ed

experiments,

statistical One firm has a range of over One of the most ingenious com 271312 all.leg is provided for with

rudimentary 70 standard analyses and quite

models and

the has ponents is

centrifugal tomobiles were prodæed annual-ļ similar Arrangement of

research may lead to new views | been

some of clutch, which allows the engine manufacturing nud give the urge for further the range throughout the war to be started and run while the variety of special pur- vehicle remaina stationary, but licel Regarding the 6,500 killed and

200,000 injured

ensures a good smooth getaway every year on posen. British roads, he said politeness They are constructed on all and a firm hold when the en- and normal good manners, which steel chassis and are completely gine la at full revolutions,

bent of the Marchants to dünged at have lost the left leg there had

faith in the pos-consumption of four Hitres per plug supplied by a small collerinse in black marketing. Newe

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years,

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the lower half, connected to tha

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ly at their plant, and in one clutch pedal, hinged at the cen- investigation.

year a fotal of 100,962 ears.

tre so that the driver's operates the brake through the vacuum-serva mútor.

means for

clarity

some

The Palson Company, mw in its 37th year, has built its own bednex in 199 DWN plants Braking control by hand must, since 1925. Baidentally, a large of course, he arranged in the would spare feelings, are out of consignment of Hudson spare must simple Junct foolproof place in commenting upon them. parts is on the way here and | manner possible.. The brake con.We should demand the truth. He is expected to arrive in Hong trol for jegiena drivers to like a could congratulate no one on the Kong next month according to small segment of the steering, been dealt with so far.

manner in which the problem hard The Hardwo agents in the Co-wheel immediately, below the! There was a recurd of sporadle. inny-the Paritic Union Trad-wheei itself and rotating with unmethodeni, half efforis, experi ing Company. Ltd. 12-14, i. To slow or stop the car, the ments without data or attempts Qaven's Beat #Tel. 336341. control is paffed up to the steer.

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A New Type Of Engine Starter

the normal

electric starting handle.

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In a recent census of trans-i portalion in 184 countries, pos- sessions and territories select- ed by the American Automobile Manufacturers Assen, it is re- vealed that of the world's ap- proximately 42 million passen- ger cars, trucks and buses, more than 31 million-or about 75 per cent--are registered in the United States. The ratio in that country la 4.5 persons per vehicle. The next most mo- bile people are the New Zea- landers, who have a vehiclo for every six persons. Canada and Australia have the third place. each having one for every eight of their population.

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A new type of engine starter, volutions, the Berger delivers which should be of interest to its full power during a very

The Grat buses Junt carriageways, erected commercial-vehicle users, is now short period. Its action might Belisha beacons, watched trate in production in France. The be compared with that of a operate in Bermuda since the Increase, decrease and increase chief advantages claimed for it sharp and tremendously power- authorities there lifted the ban senin, and learnt nothing,

are big saving in weight over ful pull-up on the starting on vehicles being used on Ber. muda's roads, are to have Mor- As an example of what the rle-Commercia) forward control the Berger can do, it may be men- chassis. These buses will, ment floned that this appliance has nineteen to twenty four passen- in Arsenal aero-engine-an H-type cially which fead up to it. He suggested design, and has only three mov-24-cylindered unit

only

Now there is hope. A National Rond Research Board lu to bi-cquipment, and the high rota- vestigate facts and institute scientional speed imparted to

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In the widest sense, the cause Known as the Berger, this been mounted on French Rers and are constructed expe-

with the 4,000 climate, a cuuse can be usefully defined ing parts. Two piston-driven b.hip. From cold, and with Bulated against the heat with

precedent. racks, with helical teeth, are the ignition switched off, the glass fibre. which it would have been prae- mounted in horizontally oppos- appliance gets this great engine ticable to eliminate and but for fed hydraulic cylinders, above turning over at 179 r.p.m. in which the accident would have been avoided.

for

BA D

candition

and beneath

3252

pinion. A one accord, and in three-quar- His main theory was that

ratchet-type clutch, giving in-tera of a revolution. particular cause can be described atant release, is interposed be- Pressure in the oil reservoir j sinore important than another, tween this pinion and the nose can be built up elther by a

the elimination of one of the engine crankshaft.

hand-operated oli pump or by would have prevented the occur. Oil at high pressure in ad- means of a small electrically rence,

hand then it could not be re-mitted to the hydraulic cylind- operated one. Using a garded as anything less than era from a reservoir, which is pump, full of pressure can be equally important.

past in the form of an alr bottle. A regained in 30-80 secondя. statistics are often fallacious. It seperator is, naturally, provid- Whether or not a small power- is therefore essential to act up ed between oil and air, and the operated pump be fitted, standards of ennduct, road and vehicle, and to judge deficiencies air acts as a spring, driving the hand pump forms a most use- oil into the cylinders. Coil ful piece of emergency equip. springs return the racks to ment their normal positions at the end of their power stroke.

Thus

in all categories as equally im-

nortant.

Smooth Engagement

Light Weight

the

In tests carried out by Oxford-

The Berger starter is not ox. shire County Counc!! the most

hausted after its first ellort, as important fiet learnt was that in

three or four starting Impulsex about 87 per cent, af instances,

can be given before oil pressure the yehlde was turning to the

An important feature of this in the reservoir needs building right from a major road to

design is that, in order to avoid | up, minor, or vice versa, and that only some 13 per cent, were turn-any violent shock to the engine- ing to the left.

starting mechaniam (the racks, He gave two suggested exam-pinion and ratchet clutch), oil

Tho designer, M., Maurice ples of safer designs for the simis admitted, first, at a relative Berger, has sent us comparative test form of T function and forly low pressure, and then at walght tables for the electric acqmplicated form of cross the pressure needed for the and hydro-pheumatic starting ronds, embodying the idea that power struke, which is in the equipment of a T-ton vehicle minor road traffle must be alowed neighbourhood of 4,000 lb. per fitted with a 120 b.h.p. six-cylin on entering the major road

and should eventually emerge at an 84. in. This change takes place dered oil engine, These show

acute angle. Traffe leaving the major road, whether by right or left turn, should also filter away at an acute angle.

Flying Standard

Eight

automatically.

a total weight of 50 lb. for the When low-pressure all is ad complete hydraulic installation, mitled, the pinion turns slowly as against 466 ib. in the case under thrust from the helical of electric starting.

teeth of the racks, and when Much of this 456 lb: repre- the ratchet clutch in fully eng-sents additional accumulator aged, the pinion can turn no weight, over and above that re farther, because of engine, required for lighting, direction sistance.

indicators, etc., to give the ex- Pressure then builds up intra power needed by an electric the hydraulle cylinder heads starter motor: In the example The now Flying Standard until a certain point is reached, given, useful load on the vohl- Elght anloon model available in at which the oll valve opens cle la increased by 406 lb. by Hong Kong is now fitted with wide, admitting oil at full pres employing the Borger system. a four speed gear box, plus suro and maximum flow.

The

Because of Its small dimen- several Improvements on its racks thereupon shoot forward alons, the Berger can usually prewar style. Engine and with tremendous energy, turn-be mounted to oporato directly chassis details show the engine Ing the pinion, and with If the on the nose of the crankshaft, unit flexibly mounted. Capa- engine crankshaft, at a much but should this not be possible, city is 1009 cc. developing 28| higher speed than that obtain- it can operate on any driven brake forse power.

able from any normal form of shaft, turning at a speed lower Body fixtures include spacious electric starter motor,

than that of the engine crank- luggage locker, with separate The actual crankshaft speed shaft. locker for spare wheel and imparted to an engine by thi„. The starter is at present be- tools, sunt visor and hide up hydraulic device, in the first Ing produced, by an important holstery.

three-quarters of a revolution, French concern making nearly Agents for this car in the represents 180- r.p.m. Unlike all the fuel injector pumps used Colony are Meiðra. Far East, an electric starter, which turns in France." If may, however, i Motors, 26, Nathan Road, Kow- an engine at a compáratively bo i produced under licenco in Ipon, (Tel. 67250),

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