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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY, 0, 1980,

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Secret racing car being built for famed U.S. classic

Los Angeles, May 5.

Its speed is a doop secret, and so-is its horsepower, but a revolutionary racing car, diosol-powered, will soon be ready to roll in the famed In- dianapolis memorial day classic this month.

It is the Cummins diesel special, a car that looks like the conventional, streamlined alcohol petrol driven speed monsters but under whose hood is installed a purring powerhouse that may revolutionise speed racing.

The racer is being built here was in 1931. It finished 13th by the Kurtis-Kraft factory did not make a pit stop-a according to specifications of markable feat.

DJ. Cummins, Vice-President _Equally_durable. in charge of Engineering at the Cumming Engine Company, Inc., which has entered the car in the Indianapolis classic.

Final touches are being made on the body and the car will be flown to the Cummins plant at Columbus, Indiana where final engine installations will be made.

The first diesel ever entered in the Indianapolis speedway race

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Traffic control

in London

The handling of nearly thirteen million passengers. a day, or roughly: 4,600,000,000 a year-for such was the task of the London Transport, Executive last year-calls for the maximum efficiency.

To maintain, and where possible improve, the ef- ficient handling of the rail and road vehicles used to transport so many people in an area covering approximately 2,000 square miles, the London Transport Executive is introducing radio communication,

Before dealing with the new The mobile equipment to be equipment and the method in used varies according to the which it is to be used, let us vehicle in which it is to be in- briefly survey the task of the stalled.

London Transport Executive, In some casess, where space This read and rall passenger limitation is not the governing carrying organisation, whose net- factor, the two-unit set (Type work extends throughout the PTC 114) is to be used. The capitat and also beyond to cleven-valve receiver, comprising roughly 25 miles from its contre, rf, amplifer, two mixers, crystal serves an area populated by ap-oscillator/multiplier, second mul- proximately ten million,

tiplier, two if. amplifers, defec-

The network of electric rail-tor and a.g.c. noise limiter, af. ways, operating over 248 route amplifier and output stage, has a miles of which almost two-fifths noise factor, better than Odb et are below ground-links 281 sta-100 Mc/s. tions and carries nearly two mil- The accompanying six-valve lion people a day.

transmitter has an output of 15 The most widely used means watts.

of transport in London, however, in the ubiquitous omnibus of which there are well over Ave thousand. These vehicles to-

Another set

gether with the two thousand Another set which is being long-distance "express" mator supplied both for mounting under coaches, carried over 2,730,000, the dashboard of a supervisor's 000 passengers last lear,

car and in transportable form, is

passengers

transmitter

In addition to the buses and the PTC 108, coaches there are, 2,000 electric Single unit construction is em« trams and trolley buses which, ployed, with the transmitter, re- operating mainly in the indus- celver and power pock on one trial districts of laner London, chassis. The B-watt Ave-valve carried 1,200,000,000

comprises crystal in 1948..

oscillator-multipller, second mul-

power The principal uses to which tiplier,

amplifier and the radio equipment to be sup- push-pull modulator. The asso- plied by Pye, Ltd., of Cambridge,ciated eleven-valve receiver has will be put are: (a) to give a a signal-noise ratio better than continuous means of communi- 8db at I u V. cation between engineering staffs The majority of the equipment working at rail breakdowns and described will be employed for headquarters, (b) to keep mobile the transmission of details engineering and other staffs in garding breakdowns from touch with headquarters when on scene of the incident and for the tours of inspection' at night; (c) reception of instructions from as an old to the renewal and depots and headquarters. change-over of signalling equip Pack sets have already been ment; and (d) as means of con-used with advantage, when test- trolling bus services in outlying ing signals and point switching. districts, at sports meetings, etc. Instead of passing messages by flag, as heretofore, by using one set at the signal box and another on the track, the action of points can be or signals during tests conveyed immediately.

The equipment

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The nerve centre of the systom will be the Chief Engineer's re

by The frequencies allocated port centre at Earls Court, in the Postmaster - General for South West London, which will London Transport's radio be linked by land line. to the work are 77.225 and 87.223 Me/s, main radio transmitting station which come within the band re- to be erected in the tower of the served for the use of Police, Fire, L. T. E. headquarters building in

and other Westminster.

public This 100-watt Ambulance

services. re-transmitter (Type PTC 300),

When the new system, which which will be remotely controlled has been tried experimentally from Earls Court, will have a comes into operation shortly, it. range of some 30 miles,

Transmitter-receivers will be to breakdowns will be reduced la-anticipated-that-the delays due Installed in 10 breakdown lorries, to an absolute minimum, Inspectors' vehicles and transport pollee cars.

Car builder Frank Kurtis, who has produced many a winner at Indianapolis and makes nearly all the mighty racing cars in the country, believes the Cummins special will prove equally dur- able.

In addition there will be pack transmitter-receivers for use by the Signal Dept. maintenance staff and also two sets for instal- The car will not be road tested ation in vans used for the mar until it reaches Indians, but shalling of crowds and vehicles Jimmy Jackson, a voteran dri-nt sports meetings, etc.

As the range of the var who has finished in the

Is limited, four money in the past Indianapolis transmitters classics, predicted he will que Hify without any trouble at about 127.miles per hour. No one would reveal what*

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fixed receiving stations are to be: ·As a car owner, you are

set up at strategic points outside naturally concerned about

central London.

These will receive and relay the welfare of your car.

It

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actual race on May 30.

signals from the mobile trans- ment as well as a convenience

Petrol engines competing in the mitlers, thereby ensuring a com-

race rarely develop more than plete coverage of the area served you would soon miss if sepower also is private informa-14-valve crystal-controlled expensive repairs." 325 horsepower. The diesel-hor- by London Transport. The Pre breakdowns, tied it up for

Lion.

The special, if it matches ex- pectations; should not prove tem- peramental. Jackson anys he plans

her loose, to get in "and turn

double-superheterodyne, recolver (Type 800D) will be used at the slave stations.

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ries, the chassis is built of, alumi» The engine is approximately 10 plum and relies on its contours inches longer and 400 pounds for structural strength. It is only heavier than the customary: 39 inches at its highest point, the asked questions, petrol engines, but the chassis has tail.. The mosa is gracefully We hope the information will been constructed to handle the rounded with a gradual taper help increase your pleasure as a added weight, Kurtis continued. from the cowl and has an air in-car owner.

It has a wheelbase of 104 take similar” to the Intake of jet Inches. Like its gas contempora-planes-Associated Press.

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