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MOTOR NOTES.

POISONOUS FUEL FUMES.

NEW DISCOVERY CLAIMED TO RENDER "THESI HARMLESS.

The

used in gunners' gas masks. catalyst devised for that purpose was very effective and is still used hy the Navy. It is also a useful protection to persons whose duties compel them to remain where the gas has an opportunity to form.

Exhaustive Testa.

CARBON MONOXIDE DANGERS capable of operating under the

With painful frequency we hear of deaths from carbon-monoxidel poisoning in garages despite warn ings as to the deadly danger which are repeatedly given the widest publicity in the Press.

But the catalyst which has proved so successful in gas masks was in conditions imposed by direct con tact with bot automobile gases Working or the problem for the past two years, the Hopkins chem ist has produced a catalyst which differs radaily from those pre- viously employed Laboratory as well as short and long road tests have been made, the longest being from Baltimore to Mississippi and return

with an automobile using We now learn from an article is Automobile Topics, that a means of the catalyst under most diverse eliminating carbon-monoxide from driving conditions. Tests have also. motor exhaust gases has been dis-been conducted in confined spaces covered by Dr. J. C. W. Frazer, simulating closed garages.

chairman of the department of Dr. Frazer says the catalyst bas chemistry of John Hopkins Unive-been found effective in all these sity. The discovery is a catalyst, tests. The present state of the dis sistance in the presence of which covery is that the composition and the enchion-monoxide gas of the chemical formula of the catalyst- automobile exhaust is completely are known and proven, and patent burned to form harmless carbon protection has been applied for. *dioxide, all of the gases then pass it is said that the catalyst pro- Air is duced has worked effectively under ing into the atmosphere. mixed-with the exhaust gases from all possible operating conditions The the engine and the mixture is led when properly controlled. over a bed of the catalyst. The adaptation of the discovery to prac catalyst is of such power that itical automobile use requires only not only changes carbon-monoxide the perfection of a simple, efficient to harmless carbon-dioxide,

bat mechanical device to carry the

burns all exhaust residue, includ ing the offensive odours common to vily streets.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930.

PIFFICULT DECISIONS

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catalyst in such manner that the WHAT HORSE-POWER AIR-COOLED CARS.

exhaust gases may be exposed to its action.

A satisfactory attachment will re- quire no attention on the part of

MEANS.

PIONEER TIMES.

In the early days, when British pioneer engineers were experiment-

Research During the War, A suitable catalyst for carbon the operator of the vehicle on STANDARD EVOLVED FROM

been which it is installed. That, Dr. monoxide combustion has sought for some time. The present Frazer says, is a problem which can be discovery is to a certain extent the from present indications

It is now in the hands of outgrowth of work carried out by solved. Dr. Frazer and his laboratory staff experts, who have already pro for the Chemical Warfare Service duced a reliable device. but one during the World War. The neces which must be further simplified. sity for protecting men operating The heat generated in the catalyticing with the then recently invent ed steam locomotive, they naturally Kages the guns in closed turrets from the oxidation of the noxious

better opportunities for

looked round for some basis of deadly curion-monoxide gas pro offers duced during the firing of guns led utilization of the heat value of the

comparison, upon which to describe to the development of a catalyst fuels used.

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FRANKLIN SALES DOUBLED.

Keeping abreast of the times has contributed in large part to the phenomenal success of the Frank- lin Automobile Company of Syra- cuse, which ended the year 1999 with a record of having doubled their sales in one year,

Franklin has long been noted for the manner in which it has

GWTAS WILLINTS

OUTBOARD MOTOR RACING.

BRİTON'S ATTEMPT ON WORLD RECORD.

[UNITED FEES.]

Phil Turner,

is now being built for him, and in which he hopes to lower, his pre- sent recctd, will be just a few With ounces over forty pounds. this hull Turner hopes to raise his

outboard speed record of 47 miles hour, and thus annex the world's an bour, at present held by the United States..

They decided upon the "power of a horse." They might just as easily have selected, elephant po- wer" or "man power;" but they through his perseverance and his Present record. to fifty miles did not, and horse-power remains the standard to-day throughout the world.

Quite roughly, then, one horse- power is simply the power of one horse. But it was soon found that the designation was done too good, as one horse might be hali na strong again, as another, and when "pulling hard" gave several times ng much power as when pulling lightly.

Again our pioneer engineers get together and said. "We must evolve 2 standard borse. We must assess a unit of work for our imaginary horse, or the description horse-po- wer will soon become too inexact to remain practical."

No sooner said than done. They decided to standardise the pull of horse, or the work an average horse could do in a given time.

And now we have to become a trife more technical, but do not, be alarmed, as we can still keep it all quite simple.

To take the subject in easy stages, "What is the work of a borse" Obviously, it is the over- coming of resistance through some specified distance,

Now we have to get a unit of measurement for overcoming re- sistance through a specified dis-

tance.

Homely Measurementa. After due deliberation, these engineers took two homely measure- ments for their unit of work. For resistance, they chose the weight of 1b. and for the distance they selected one foot

When we put the two together it sounds complicated. The unit of work is the "foot-pound." But

One hundred miles an hour in an outboard motorboat is the aim of well-known British racing driver, and holder of Great Britain's outward speed boat re- cord of 43 miles an hour.

Turner gets his speeds by light- The ness of hull construction. pioutered. H. H. Franklin, pre-weight of the hall of the boat that sident of the company which bears his came, has been identified with air-cooled engines for more than quarter of Acentury, and

air-cooled motor, this type of p- wer plant has been brought to its present dominant position. When the air-cooled motor was. SÙ· SUC- cessfully adopted by the airplane industry and helped that industry to gain widespread and quick re- cognition from the public, Fraklin took the initiative and went about incorporating in its power plant those features of the aviation en- gine which

were practical when applied to a modern motor ear

ngine.

Airplanes and Automobiles.

He believes that with a properl; designed hull and adequate power, outboard racers can be built to beat the fastest inboard-engined boats in the world. Sir Henry Segrave's new racer will be fitted with a 9,000 horse-power aviation engine, and its estimated speed should be close to 100 miles

Turner an hour. thinks, however, thas an outboard racer fitted with a mere 20 horke power engine can be built to beat Sir Henry's ginnt speedster, and this will be his next aim after the As a result of this forward step, completion of the 30-mile an hour Franklin's air-cooled aviated ca-craft which he is now working on ginc is the first of its kind over to be employed to furnish the mo tive power for a motor car and the Franklin power plant is to-day considered by well informed ex- perts to be the last word in auto- inotive engines. Many of the me chanical features Franklin airplane motor were for- merly restricted to airplate en- gines, where they proved their worth and demonstrated their high efficiency.

used in the

WOMEN TO RACE AT BROOKLANDS.

IMPROVEMENTS TO COURSE.

to

Women

allowed will he paiticipate în races each time there is a face meeting at Brooklands., This announcement was made when the Brooklanda motor course was opened last month.

"We are so satisfied," said Mr.

drivers that we have decided to course, "that women are competent

extend an invitation to them at each meeting.

Formerly only airplane motora und aluminum cylinder heads. A. Percy Bradley, clerk of the Now the Franklin power plant employs them. As a result, cylin- der head temperatures have been lowered approximately 300 degrees Fahrenheit. This, in turn, in creases valve seat life and means that the valves and the valve guides operate at a lower temperature, resulting in minimum wear and long freedom from replacement.

As in this feature so bas Frank- in employed other features of air place engine design with success. The engines used to take Lind

it merely means lib. weight raisedbergh across the Atlantic, to span vertically ift. high.'

Having go: the unit of work, the next step was "How many of those units should he allotted to the standard herse and how long should it be allowed for doing that work to represent one horac-po- wer'

They decided that the standard horse should be deemed capable of lifting 33,000lb, one foot high in one minute. So from that day onwards one horse power equalled 33,000ft. lba, per minute.

And, with the coming of the mo. tor-car, history repeated itself, as once again our pioneer engineers got themselves into "terminologi cal trouble."!

The formula adopted for assess- ing the h. p. of a motor-car engine in the early days was such that a 20-h.p. engine actually gave about fo borse-power;

But the improvements effected in design have been so enormous that ar engine which under the old (Continued at fout of next column).

"At our first meeting, the first of these races will be held. Al- ready a number of women have entered.

"We expect that many more will enter the later meetings."

At the opening cermony a large crowd saw the improvements which have been made in the paddock and on the track itself.

Extensive improvements have the Pacific to Hawaii, and to heen made to the clubhouse of the break speed and distance records Brooklands Automobile Racing were all air-cooled engines of types Club, Rest rooms and bathrooms closely akin to Franklin. Thus, have been provided.

On the track itself the surface Franklin's new power plant has not only exceptional speed and has been relevelld. power but remarkable and tested reliability. This may be better appreciated when it is noted that one of the new Franklin engines ran, 20,000 miles at full throttle without requiring any attention or without the slightest sign of over- heating.

formula is still termed 20-h.p., will actually produce some 70-h.p. when under test.

Hence the dual description 20-70 h.p. which can be translated as follows →

"On the old formula, as still used for Treasury rating, the en- gine is rated as of 20 horse power, but in practice it can produce 250 per cent, more than its nominal rating, or some 30 actual brake test horse power."

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