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PRESENTS ITS GREATEST ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT IN 45 YEARS

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A flange of valeting and other preparations both for the car and for the motorist personally has bren Introduced by an offshoot of the well-known lubrication special- Ist firm of Duckham's, under the trade name of DA.

A number of these have been sampled to recent weeks including the wax polish No. 3, with which In good finish on collutore has been bated which proves to last well and not be spotted by rain even Ion the honnot.

For preparation of cellulose t a tr which has born In servicu for some time, before use of the

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cleaumer- polish is offered.

Also fiere is a reilulose reviver for removal of the film, or blog, which forms on paintwork. This Jenn be used to give n chemically jelen surface before application of the wax polish already mentioned for another quid polish which iven a hard waxed wurfaca 83 reachwork.

Another of the DA products (which fins been found very effec tive in the glass and chromium eleaner. This be most successful in removing the dead insects which |cling Tenaciously to screens and their frames and to lump glasses during the summer months,

De-misting Fluid

Salf Another preparation is a | de-misting fluid for preventing condensation on the inside of the windows, which windsereen aud

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Familiar Bonnet Flutes

As regards

appear. ance the current Vaux hallo retain in modified form the bonnet Outes

which have been a "badge" for many years.

Distinctive Features Of Performance In New Vauxhall Wyvern

Distinctive features of performance which are esson- tially Vauxhall, and which have come to be ex- pected of this make, are quickly recognised in experience of the Wyvern on the road.

This is the new 1/2-itre model with a four-cylinder overhead-valve engine as distinct from the 24-litre, six-cylinder engine of the Velox, the companion car in the current range of this moke.

This Year's Racing Prospects

Beforo the competition year commences It is always amusing to consider what will probably happen, and what cars are, and are not, likely to be available; in short, what the year

will be like from the racing point of view.

It was manifest during 1948 that doing their British drivers were best in Grind Prix races with anchines that were completely put of date or allll undergoing teething troubles

Equally clear Was it that Britain had the right ears the men were good enough to tackle any- thing that can be produced on the Continent. That, in itself is some- thing

What is difficult to bebeve is that any other nation is up against so many difficulties. For one thing the loss of Brooklunds track had a very much greater effect than anybody would have believed in the days when Brooklands Was the subject of so many complaints | and arguments.

There

are, it is true. Sẞverstone and Goodwood, both airfields, and both avattable too late last season to have a material effect.

In 1949. therefore, there are at leant

two circus

on which a driver can practise and pa which new drivers can be trained, and that will make a great deal of difference, especially as the Junior Car Club's polley in regard to Goodwood appears to be to run a

lent for training purposes and giving new men a real chance,

Will Be Folt

The two modôbs, four and six, jinke through unerwe openings in ner in the main identlen), apart spite of the fact that, in the now from their engines, though there almost universally modern style,programme of short races, excel- are some Important differences of the near-side wing is not seen from mechanical and equipment specifi-the driving seat. cation

A design feature is that the Anyone who has had previous engine

ine develops maximum torque, experience of that exceedingly or pulling power, at comparatively lively car the Velux finds it difficult low engine revolutions. Translated tands will be felt still because, All the same the inck of Brook- not to draw comparisons with the inte rond practice this means with good as the circuit on the airfield Wyvern, which must inevitably be the Wyvern that the acceleration may be, it is not the same as the unfair in view of the difference in is lively from about 15 to 45 m.ph.banked outer track on which A engine size.

Particularly useful has been The point of the Wyvern is that gear, and that very little driver could feel his way with a advantage is obtained by using car until he had gained complete fand the DA emergency Bandit offers a greater renomy of second gear of the three-speed box confidence and thereafier drive wash after soiling the hands at running costs,

direction inbeyand about 30 m.p.h, even when faster and faster until he the rondside. when, for instance, which particularly as regards fuel nuximum acceleration is wanted. ready for the totally changing a wheel. It removes of

different Vauxhall show up

business of tackling a road clreuit. and grime very effectively indeed very favourably, whist, of course, and leaves the hands smooth. the initial price la flower. the

consumption

British

Car

Acceleration

However, the banked track in Wyvern, indeed, bring the fourth

In other words the acceleration something for the future and Ang- Additionally, there is a

lowest-priced model on the home quick over the range of speed and will simply have to do its inflammable "dry" cleaning liquid market and for use on clothes or

The other real difficulty is the cloth up-and biggest gedly the roomlest which most drivers employ on the best with what it has got.

open road. holstery, which also bas been

current at its prive.

A natural cruising speed is 50 to cars. It is quite obvious that the found eficient.

older-type ERA's and their well- Characteristic features are light. 155 m.p.h., at which rate the en-known companions of many races ness of control and the readiness mechanically, but at higher speeds, elently reliable, for modern racing.

Kine is smooth and quiet and happy are not fast The range is rounded off by a

enough. nor sum- general purpose light oil useful of control at the readiness for door handles and locks, of the acceleration derived from a up to more than 60 m.ph. getine. Unfortunately this means also that

power-to-weight throttle controls and so forth, and good in

ratio

no suggestion of frequent oil leaks occur, and oil which is there by sill by a penetrating oil for use on

Wyvern because of

on the circuit is extremely dan- rusted nuts and bells or corroded using weight appreciably be to suit the vast majority of owners

The Wyvern is thus fast enough [gerous. low one ton, though not compar-

The question of 1949 is, will the Jolats,

able with the outstanding showing "equirements,

now Altan and the BRM give car cleaning kit for the of the Velox. which has only garago comprising the cellulose frnctionally more than one cc. a cleaner-polish, enutston polish, pound of running weight. cellulose reviver, glass and chr- omlum cleaner, and the light oil and penetrating fluid from the range is available.

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pgain way through traffic with minimum ed torsion bar type, as used in effort and with 14 performance principle for many years past on nvailable which can more often Vauxhalls. There is no pitching, than not put the Wyvern ahead in though a certain amount of side a getaway from traffic lights, or away occurs on enable overtaking to be carried out with room to spare.

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