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In general appearance the Lanchester is trim and traditional, though the radiator gellie has the modern touch and the bonnet is of the current one piece type, a fitted, Incidentally, in a slightly different form on Daimler car for many years.

Outstanding Features Of

New Lanchester 10 Saloon

In the class that used to be called 10 h. p. this Lanchester has important features which are outstanding among small cars and one or two, notably the Daimler fluid flywheel with pre-selector gear box, which are unique.

It is high in price for its size, but it sets out to give exceptional refinement and a number of un- seen qualities which make for lasting worth, such as, for instance, a three-bearing crank- shaft, full-flow pressure filter in the engine lubrication system, and, perhaps even more im- portantly, hardened steel liners forming the. cylinder bores,

Length of life of a car without ning costs, comfort, accuracy of expensive replacements can be control and safety of handling verified only under prolonged very high on his list of require

menis. It is a handy size of car for parking in towns and for driving in traffic and

narrow roads, and the steering lock is noticeably good for turning round 00 exceptionally sharp

actual ownership, bitt to the former aim, general refinement, it can certainly be said that the Lanchester Ten succeeds.

It is produced In nesseiation with the Daimler and with the design knowledge behind it that applies to that famous marque, and broadly it may be regardesi as belog a Junior Daimler, al- though preserving ม Separate identity.

and

corners.

Steering And Brakes

The steering is entirely satis- factory for both

und normal fast driving, being firm, accurate, It appeared free from road shocks,

New Motor Makes Cycling Easy

With the help of a new little motor with a tiny half-a-gallon petrol tank any cyclist today can make a continuous effort. less journey of 120 miles от even more if he is satisiled to use his motor only for climbing hills or when tired near the end of his journey.

It is called the Mini-Motor, and In now being produced by the frat of Trojan Limited (Motor Manu- facturers), Trojan Works, Trujun Way, Croydon, Surrey,

The motor can be fitted quickly on to any bicycle which is then propelled at an average speed of alles per hour using one gallon

of petrol for 240 miles,

The motor rests on the rear

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the tyre tread.

Contact is not heavy and there

is little wear on the tyres. No Tuition is necessary. All the cyclist has to do is merely to sit in the saddle, pedal for a few yards and let the clutch fr..

The engine starts immediately, Speed control is by hand-throttle, and in an emergency the mere application of the brakes stops the engine because the flowing wheel resists the drive of the engine.

The tiny motor is strong enough to carry the bicycle even against vigorous head wind without any assistance from the portal,

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means that should

which

the cio regard leg position, but there is cyclist wish at any time to the excellent and still far from the motor and hardly

some pedulling, he can disconnect Tecl the commonly found provision of extra weight of the motor. simple type of adjustment for the height of the sent, which is separate from the passenger seat, In addition to the normal

fore and aft movement.

After a certain amount of ex- periment with the adjustments a comfortable, confident position is obtainable and the support given by the back rest is good, it being shaped to encircle the shoulders: the left foot finds a comfortable place, and the trendle throttle does not involve ал awkward ankle angle. The spring-spoked steering wheel has a comfortably Ishaped rim.

Easy To Get In And Out

Touring Cars Booked For Trip Abroad

London, July 1. Practically the entire pro- duction of the world's fastest touring car-the new two and one half litre Sports Jaguar -has already been booked for export.

Advantages as regards ease of getting in and out by either door, of which much is now mnife in with connection with modern steering nice degree of easter action, and column gear levers, belong to the T.II. Windom Daily Herald.

Lanchester, which has had a steering column gear lever for

This Ten, when soon after the war, displayed a then quite advanced appearance neiller disconcertingly light ner and was unusual among the tiresomely heavy for low speed smaller cars in having indepen- turning and manoeuvring. dent front suspension, the system being by coil springs,

In prin- ciple as on the Dalmlers.,

In the meantime marked changes in stying and the adop- tion of .fs. have ceased to be

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In short it is

pressure

for

vision

This tw-cater standard tour- ing car, which on May 30 set up a world speed record of 132.6 m.p.h. recently, has also been dri ven on a 2,000-mile rond text by Motoring Corres- pondent

Mr. Wisdom reports that many years.

throughout the journey the car hold rond like a leech and that moderately The driver is In fact encour- In second geared steering which gives con oged to use the door remote from m.p.h., in third a hundred and in Rear the car will do 70 fidence. The brakes are Gleling the driving eest, as this, is the top, more than two miles a min- mechanically operated. They re-

one Atted with a key, Driving ute. It will also glide through quire firm pedal

is satisfactory, with traffle at 10 m.p.. and gently maximum resulta, when they good view of the road over a quite and allently accelerate away with- exceptional among the smaller slow the ear safely from speed, short stoping bannet. The left-out changing gear, cars as well as the larger, but the and also they act with real de-

side wing is not seen, however.

70 1"

m.p.h. the engine l Lanchester still stands

for on out incisiveness if called on

turning over at 2,800 revolution offering the fluid

the lower Features flywheel and energency stop at

which many owners minute. That is less than preselector gear box, bodywork speeds.

still call for, and with every half the engine speed. The brakes and equipment of high quality.

juslification as regards the As an entirely different style majority of them, are included mum speeds are instantaneous at

which operate and an o.h.v. four-cylinder en-

effectively at maxi- gine which is decidedly efficient of motoring from that suggested in the shape of a sliding roof, an

cruising by averages

speed. The suspension of more without losing

than 40 opening wind-screen and a rear 13 of the American type in ita. mechanical refinement even when miles in the hour the Lanchester window blind, the last mention-sofiness yet the car is without

can admirably meet the require-ed having a convenient control. ments of the more leisurely and

jexcessive away and roll, Wide sun vizors almost meet at

"Because of its tremendous re- ade- serve of performance at four- Buning opeeds, the car is very sufo."

for

its

pressed hard.

sizc

In general style the car is nt-perhaps less experienced driver, the centre and give very tractive, with an interior and Once the advantages afforried quate protection against seating of above average appeal by the gear box and transmission glare. even at first sight.

have been fully exploited-and

to do so is not difficult-it is Among modern amenities, pro-

It rung with a soothing quiet-realised that control in traffic is vision is made for the Atting ness and smoothness and an al- almost wholly a matter of the as an extra of a Clayton Interior most indefinable feeling of being throttle and brake pedals alone, heater, In conjunction with which

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CROSSING RULES

One of the foreshadowed extra

"well within itself" at ordinary not even the hand brake being there are ducts to the windscreen regulations for pedestrian cross- speeds up to about 50 m.p.h., and † required in holding the ear tem- for de-misting and de-icing. This ings will provide that, at light- It has a complete fexibility and porarily on an up gradient in equipment was fitted to the car a top gear ability equalled by no traffle. current small car, by reason of

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the special properties conferred The car can be brought down by the fuld flywheel transmis- to zero speed on any gear with Bion,

out stalling the engine, which

and

crossings, vehicles

tested and

very effective, controlled with quiet-running fan for cir- travelling in accordance with the culation of the warmed air.

trome Hghts will have right of crossings except where the pedestrian has actually start-

There is good leg room at both way on

and rear and an air of cd to cross the road. The right

front

has an exceptionally regular, slow luxury about the upholstery which of way at such crossings has re-

It also proves on a journey to tickover, and without the driver suggests the bigger and more ex- have another ride to its charae- having to think of a clutch pedal, pensive style of car, Detall fit-outly been discussed in the High ter in that it can be driven as and it will

Decelerate away tings have been well thought out. fast as it will go without protest, simply on opening the throttle.

reserve A standard fitting is a feeling under complete control This is possibly even on top petrol control, now all too rare and being able to make dis- geur, though, of course, more whatever the size of

of car and vir- tinelly good everage on a normal normally, und more briskly on tually unknown among current rive-and-take main road.

third or second gears.

1.

It readily puts in 40-41 miles The principle

small cars. It comprises a pull- out control instantly reached from of the pre- In the hour, and driven with the selector gear box is well known, Inst 14 gallons in the tank.

the driving seat and releases the briefty, definite purpose of hurrying over but may be reiterated

There are

a leckable compart-

a route well known to the driver namely, that to change between ment on the left-hand side of the concerned, and with favourable any two gears is a matter only facia board and an open cubby traßic and weather conditions, it of moving the pre-selector lever hole at the other side. covered 45 miles in one hour and and depressing the gear-changing The Instrument lighting is sub- 88 iniles in two hours, including pedal, which occupies the

Dosi. tion of the normal clutch pedal dued a good paint but a little overdone as regards reading the speedometer and mileage re-

a quick stop for petrol.

but is not used as such,

Reasons for such useful point- to-point abilities are found not! The car having been smoothly corders at night.

In Daimler-Lanchester fashion

in particularly quick acceleratenntarted from rest on second staan oll pressure gauge is replaced or an exceptional maximum there is rather surprisingly little speed for the size of car, but in need for subsequent gear chang- by a green tell-tale light and an the engine's willingness to keep at in average country, except

ammeter by a reet light. going at practically its Unit, and that, the gears being so engily An engine thermometer is fit- certainly to remain mechanically changed, third can be used fair-fed and remained pleasant at around: 00 m.p.h ly frequently for additional oc- at 170 degrees (approximately

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very steady

cuferation or for holding the

degrees C). Twin_wind-tone Additionally the Lanchester speed up à gradient,

horns give a quite powerful bit .rides very comfortably, the sun-

ole, and the head lamp pleasing note. pension allowing the speed to bo· Second gear sumeed to main-beam is excellent.

The maintained virtually without retain a speect of 200ih.p.h., up a

car could he driven ference to minor surface de lent and for rounding a sharp position termed "fast Idlet bill of 1 in 8% maximum gra straight off from cold with the teriorations. ·

choke control in an Intermediato

corner at: the důmmit,

In performance and general bo- At first the driving position which it can be sot no distinct haviour this is a car 19 picoso Lise seems to place the driver, rather from the full-rich position for n awiler who acte economy of rung high and a trilla awkwardly, and cold start.

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