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THE CHINA” MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

AL DES FEB.

1919.

JOHNSON'S MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

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Haymond Mays, British racing driver, takes the wheel of the Q.R.M.

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(British Racing Mo-

tors) during a tuat run at Folkingram Aerodroma, Dear Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, The racer ham been Built with parts supplied by the bream of the British motor industry with tho aim of scooping the world in Grand Prix motor racing. it has a "V" 16-cylinder 1%-ltre en- gine with triple supercharging and is expected to he faster than any car of ita cimes-- AR30 - clated Prere Photo.

Methods of tyre making

to improve output

Although tyres have been developed to a high standard of reliability,

the tyre manufacturers are constantly striving to improve their products.

In the new series of Eagle tyres introduced. by the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., Wolver- hampton, the main feature lies in the trend, which is unusually thick and has pronounced shoulders strongly buttressed into the side walls.

The tread pattern incorporatos vides resistance every direction the diamond design which pro- of akki and which has long bean

feature of the Goodyear All. } Weather tread, but a greater efflci- ency has been attained by the nd- dition of "stop notches" to the riba of the pattern, thus providing the highest possible meamire of road grip for both traction and for Immunity from skidding,

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Some comparative tests.

Some idea of the general dimon- xions of the tread is given by the fact that a 0.00 x 16in Eagle cover weighs 20.4 lb, whereas the weight of a standard enver, which is of similar contruction as regard, the casing, is 22,7

should exist is not in practies suffi- cient to counteract factors much an frictional losses in two cars which are identical except it Jength of service, one car having covered over 8,000 miles and the other only 1,000 miles.

Six plies of fabric

Used car vetting

of

The A:A. Is about to pul into service a number Austiņ A.40 vans which are fully fitted out as technical headquarters for carrying out tests on used vehicles,

They will be stationed In Luth don, and some of the provincial centres, and this service will pro- vide an extensive mukra:ntation of the A.A, used vehiclo testing foci- tities already available.

The mrvice assists prospective beyers of used cars, who can ob tain a maßdential report on the condition of a vehiclo from A. A. engineers,

The accent in the now service will be on improved instrumentn- Bon, giving a tuore elaborate pic- ị ture of the car's performance tha

was possible before

The vans wore recently demon- strated by the heads of the service department at their headquarters. in Camden Town, London.

While previous Lesting капк ralied chiefly upon the Individual skill and knowledge of the engin-" eor carrying it out, the new 873- tem will add to this checks of ex- haust gia by means of the Cryp ton synton, which gives informg- tion upon mixture strength and | tuning generally, fuel consump- tion, by means of a Zenith Bow. meter, lents of induction vacuum, compression and various electrical testa.

Whool track check Amongst the equipment carried by each van in an instrument for wheat travels checking, which con sists of floating sorince

* which tho wheel is moved

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It is evident that the average A.A. member, who may not be an export mechanic, will welerome this service to safeguard his pur- Information chase or to provide

on the condition of his car, wit the servico aino helps to safeguard the reputation of the dealer,

Amongst the large number of Instrumenta corried were, a bum- ber of micrometers, and a sin} surface Indicator, until those pro- voked refection

to whether

ears in a atripped condition. Such dealers will perthit examination of precision instruments would of

course be valuable

cluberato

checks upon members' own; cars, It is worth stremming that, an with the previous service, ali will depend upon the skill of the en- The casing of this new range of

gineer carrying out the work, for ne the makers of the instruments coyuca la of normai construction affirm, such things us exhaust gas with six plies of fabric, the two outer plier having more rubber be dangerously equivocal unless analysers and vacuum gauges can around them than have the inner

used with wide experience and un- four plies.

derstanding

The materials used are of the

An ordinary road test will give highest quality and the tyres are a good deal of information on the built up by hand by skilled oper- condition of hores and valves, atives. Tnd cutton fabric which

On fuel consumption, about forms the basis of the casing first which the imagination of the ow passes through a special" adhesivo, der is sometimes lable to run riot, solution in order that the fibrem] the Zonith instrument, which may become thoroughly anchored passos a

measured' quantity

of

to the rubber in the next process one-tanth of' gallon into the car- It then undergoes a entendering burettor, should be able to gira process where a cost of rubber to the information that every driver a given thickness is applied, to desires.

A car fitted with Eagle covers each side of the rubber-impregn⭑- A groas advantage of the exten- is, therefore, riding on a greater ted cloth. The rubberised fabele | dod service will be its flexibility volume of rubber ON compared the passon through á. "machilo and mobility; the three centros with standard covers and one) which cats it on the bias-that is.) solected, at present are London. would, therefore, not only aspect diagonally-into strips of varying Bristol and Manchester, from a longer life, but also a great de- with according to the size of which the test vans will have a gree of comfort.

tyre into which the strips will be radius of operation of about 80 assembled. places.The rubberised fabric, on a In assembly, the tyre builder.

This point it

possible to varily by comparative tests with two 22 ltre Bileys, one shod with the standard covers and the other with Eagle covers,

miles.

building-drum er core and the inspection room.

and pared ́on 'a Conveyor to the

next layer of fabric:ls šo plnega.

On a deserted road it was pon-that the cords in it row at opposite Goodyear development which is of

There is however, another aible to run the car side by side angles to those of the first strip; considerable interest in view of i for a series of secoloration testa. Meanwhile copper-coated:stool Several buch runs were made, the wire has beat would into a ring Present-day conditions. This in driver changing about so, that which is then wrapped with strip the intruduction of a machine with despite the heavier weight of the the, wire bad which is assembled machine to speed up the produc they handled both cars, and of rubberised fabric, thus forming automate devices attached to a supply, pralt and building Eagle covers the conclusion was

at 'ench side of the entrys 1720 tion of the popular sizes of tyrds, renohed that for,

rall practical pur and held in posetion by the edges poses there was little or no effect of the plies being turned round it provides the builder with piles The supply unit is sot un so that un performance?!

thom; chafing strips are placed measured off to the correct length Thera was, however, the distinct around the beads in order to pa and at the place and very moment feeling of being, more thoroughly tect the cover against rim rear he needs them. insulated from the road surface on Then comes the breaker strip, a

The operativo

the thickly treaded Eagle covora, two-ply hand of special woven has movely to place them on the and there was a suspicion that the fabric, the function of which is building drum, and then the touch steering

was slightly heavier to distribute the lead around the of a switch brings mechanical although it is doubtful whether | entiret

hands into operation which saum entire: tyre. The side wall and nither of the two drivers would trend are finally placed into bol down the-ply and turn over the have noticed this in ordinary-cir- tion and the tyre building bodi edges in exactly the manner that

pleted, the drum or former accord is followed in hand building.

Bends, placed on the machine by

cumstances when such points were not being looked for.

At the time the roads wrongly bing, collapsed so that, the the operator, are pressed, into ;

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and road-holding

newly built cover can be removed could only Ensted

the trend le mode of rubber sition at the touch of a switch. fant

cornering. The combined with carbon black; sul- The fread, pre-cut to exact length. Riley is, of purge, well known phur and other chamieniston placed on the bullte, care Jewellery" wide in cover. for its excellent road holding, and give it long-wearing properties and pressed on mechanically. An advantage of this development is

one can only say that with the and the requisite degree of hard Hagle tyres it gave the driver ness and trazhagas, or that it linbles raw recruit to DvVon more confidence than namun I," The compounding process takes the pronounced tread pattetu place in the mixing mill in which quantities of first-class tyros very Household

tyre building to turn out large woon. #fter the start of his train-

facolton roads Burtho-rubber; pasɛce": bętyrean 1 55* { "fig; whereas It takes a consider-

It should be mentioned that in watercooled rollers of slidhyable tints to train a man to build

different sizes so that the rubber

tyfe by usual · hand-built

protection | been tharoughly mix ng hang the fezuard tube, which is now

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the Eagle covers wore fitted the is subjected to a constant grinding methods. Goodyear Lifegard tubes which actions de d Have Beer developed in order to When the mass of

A-word is necessary concerning sive the maximum

feu in production in, two of the sites against blow-pus

The weligt of these tubes in the through machine which batrudes of tyre used by cars of high per

it in a special section according to 6.00, x 16in size is 7.05 lb as the site of cover being made. Pr Beainst 8 lb for the standard When the tyre has been built, Lube Each cover and tube, there- passes on a conveyor to the Valstyre within a tobe, the two air fore, were together 11.35 lbcanising grdom whore an, nfrabig, Refer than a blandard cover and rather a stag tidas Cafes, la chambers thus formed baing in Get The "GENERAL” Idea- CAD this extra weight, has to be placed in it; the cover and bas

be are then placed in a bol old page Incorporated in the m

tube.

·forniance, and which will, shortly be produced in other sixes. This tubo may briefly be described as a

communication i through-in amill

that of the valves programadas

Chus, should a blowout

given angular as well as transia for the tyre to be vulcanised una total velocity when the car is dor: The action of heat and pres occur by the sudden severe pune.

ceratie en mould expect the sare

to be noticeable, and also in Vulcomising the tread nking and wylsyather surpris

tering of the 'buter.air chamber, The Toted. In takeji by the inner

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ing that the practical tantsid When the tyre ly cooked chather emlig into play, High elibly dhiyadserélico between the requisits period's the mould though wir, from the inner cham the two cats, although, admitted, vongus automatically and the aber will slowly leble act, the tear the Yests warn of rather tough- bbcchi carus, which there bank the can be brought to rast zitaly, with and-raidy characteres en aanrueteratie trend, mattern im out danger or without further It can however, be said that parted to it from tite machined damage to the tyre from running any theoretical durerence?" "which" Zign on the müht, lasted out flat and fracture of the side walls,