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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

BRITISH DESIGNER TURNS OUT A SENSATIONAL 16

With Enlarged Version

.1

Of The Riley 9

be-

| his native Com, Eurage in body had a drag of less than two-

system. By this means 'what one still in July, 1947, I was taken might term aircraft engine prac-to, Belgium and timed there at fice, with an inciined valve hemis- 111.5 m.p.h. pherically shaped cylinder head, Remarkable; as, these figures was combined with a simple me- are they rivalled in normal, in- chanism with Ro drive between the crankshaft and fuel consumptions recorded. The complicated terest by the astonishingly good

The camshafts..

car can, for example, keep up a steady 80 m.p.h. at 24.8 miles per gallon, and at 70 m.p.h. it cou sumes petrol at the rate of only 31.2 m.p.h. Thanks to the care- ful scheming and design

of

Low Petrol Consumption

The

The 18h.p. Ucaley car which In, developing the body design defeated over 50 of the world's Healey was fortunate in obtain- fastest sports cars in the Milleing the co-operation of Armstrong Miglia-Italy's classic 1,000 miles Siddeleys who, in addition to race was born in the accidental ing motor-car manufacturers ure meeting of two British engineers world renowned as being part of during their war service in one the Hawker Siddeley Group of of Britain's largest car manufue- aircraft builders. They placed a {UITING concerns.

wind tunnel at Mr. Healey's dix-

The engine used in the Healey weight amounts to only 224 ew.. Dewald Healey, who started hisposal and this proved that the

was actually introduced in 1837 and in consequence, 80 m.p.h. can. business life

be reached from rest in 23.5 secs.,! and is of 2 litres (153 cubic

and 90 m.p.h. in 33 secs, It is thus one became well thirds that of a normal car. There) capacity. known in the early 30's by rea- still remained,

largest however, the very

four-cylinder The recent outstanding per- son of some outstanding perform-difcult question of finding a pow-

engines

built today, but with fermances of this car in the being ances in the Monte Carlo Rally er unit and here Healey with im- a three-bearing crankshaft and a great Italian thousand-mile road in which he drove firstly on In-mensely assis

im tremendously stiff casting Assisted by the

con- race were, therefore, not unex- very taining the cylinder walls succession of generous decision of

und pected by those who had ex- Miles bearing supports, it runs with re-perlence of the car. Triumphs becoming chief engin Thomas, the Vice-Chairman of markable smoothness. The same cars were entered, running in two In fact, three eer to the latter company shortly the Nuffield Group, thut before the outbreak of war. Dur-could purchase

he kind of valve gear which was different complete Riley pioneered on the "Nine" in re-retiredah, minor trouble to the

categories. Ing the war ite WIS employed engines and gearboxes,

tained and, as a consequence, the gearbox and of the remaining two fiestly in the manufacture of air- This engine can be considered engine output is not a matter of the saloon model won the class craft-type carburettere and then an enlarged version of the famous Home 70 h.p. as one would ex-for normal catalogue touring curs returned to his naturn! Belt of

and then

Sir

and

cur

} {m}ḥles by Joking me of the Kiley B which, introduced in 1928, pect for a power unit of this size, 1 by 80 great a margin that all pre-

Jurger CORCETNS

Coventry.

Whilst there he met AC. Sain-

jeet who, disapproving highly of Mussolini, had left his native

many years before.. A highly

Technician he

ha heen co

Alfa Romeo

with the tract as-

sisted in the development of their famour. 2-litre racing var which won many events including the Fiendi Grand Prix of 1924, an in Eugland continue to work un |ligh speed motorrents. He was the beek-room buy for Bed Railton

By LAURENCE POMEROY

whom he assisted in designing the record-breaking tors driven by Sir Malcolm Campbell, John Cobb, and "Goldie Gardner. The slow- esi of these, Gardner's, did 200 miles per hour with a 12 horse- power engine, the Tastest. Cobb's, has done over 400 m.p.h.

Both Healey and Sampietro look upon the normal family car as a somewhat duli offair. As kind- red spirits they many conver- sations duney had

the war,

all on 'one could topic.

Suppose that one build

real a

motor-car

what would it be like; how fast should It go; what size of engine would be required, and, finally, and the most exciting of nil, might it not be possible really to build and set a car built to a new ideal?

Wind-Tunnel Experiments

As soon as the war was over Healey and Sampietro started work in camest. The frame was designed so that it could be made In the simplest possible way; the front wheels were individually located by an exceptionally thick and etiff forging

One of Britain's Bost: The Healey Balsan.'

This is the opon modal 'of the now Healey in which the designer sensationally won the

sports car class in the Mille Miglie.

of has won countless victories in road | but appreciably over 100 brakevious records were shattered by and and track races, The original horse-power, Additionally, this an hour.

a strong light alloy, the rear axle was suspended by design was of only 1.1-litre (66 power is combined with a re- coil-springs-with-n-great-saving cubic inches) capacity with-a-two markable economy due to the the sports car class by Donald

The open model was driven int

in waight. The main plan was bearing crankshaft but it had an truly high efficiency of the

The Healey himself aasiated by his

Da camshaft

4

on each side of the alded

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NEW BIGGER, SOFTER TIRE

gives amazingly different ride!

This great new Super-Cushion is a bigger, softer tiral It runs on only 24 lbs. of air-instead of the usual 28 to 32 lbs.t

'Flows over bumps & ruts

• Less wear and fear an

Your car

· • Fewer ratties—

~ fewer repair bilts –

• More mlaage

and economy

• Greater blow-

„Qui reslitescO

to keep the car as small as pos- unusual feature in that there was engine, which is considerably on. Running against the picks of The new sible and yet be able to carry crankcase, and each of these work- large cyclinders which four people comfort, as light

as possible so as to have the manifold of highest possible acceleration, and, manifold of the engine being on over and above this, to have a the opposite side to the exhaust specially shaped body which would give remarkably low wind resistance and high maximum speed.

Panoramic Windows 1948 Car Feature

O

2)Tije pensiamio windows which Studebaker first introdusend to American highways on its postine Aro-pasaïnger coupe are agalla a fenture of the coropany's 1945. inpoola.. In addition the new coupes poulain general body and chamis, improvements that will add grodily to the pleasures of motorings,

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Another

by the use of four Co

ley kept in the Arst six for most

makes Continental racing drivers Hea- as to the ratouretters to the of the race but had great ma gas from the carburetters as be fortune to hit a tween one combustion chamber the lights out of and the other.

dog

operation during his period of night running. By Although embodying advanced

[a great burst of speed (he aver- engineering practice the engine aged 90 m.p.h. for over 50 miles had been under constant deven lopment for over ten years and on the last section) he made up some of this disability and finally found himself' in nished Healey thus

8th out of the field' of liable engine developing 100 bhp. fuel consumption-of-20-m.p.g.. which would give him the re-

Record Broken possession of a 100 per cent, re- 197, starters with the astonishing

Despite shortages of essential quired top speed with the crona raw materials and shipping promy of running which must never blems, the British Motor Industry be overlooked in England and creates new records for export many other parts of the world. shipments almost every week. where fuel supplies are short,

The

latest proof in support of When the car was first describ this claim comes from Numolded in the United Kingdom Press

It yields instead of resisting im- pacts. This means an incredibly softer, smoother ride on any car -on any road!

Super & cushion

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have Arat four months of 1048 exceed predict that it would

maximum of 104 m.p.h.. a speed the total exported during the whols of 1936 when 18,082 vehl- Brooklands in the two years prior to the fastest car tested at eles were despatched.

to the

the war, and between 10 and addition to maintaining is lons in return for which we reduction cars of either vehicle shipments to the Domin.p.h. faster than the normal This

'or U.S.A. make,

ceive valuable cargoes of food, prophecy was made in January, Nuffield Exports are making an 1946, and in November the same intensive' drive in the hard cur-year the car was tested over an rency areas of the American Italian motor road and returned Continent where representatives

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