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FREE WHEELING.

WITH POSITIVE

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CONTROL

GEAR

Will all cars ultimately have Free Wheeling with positive gear

control ?

POWERFUL ANTI- DAZZLE LAMP..

THE DIVIDED REFLECTOR PRINCIPLE,

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SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

TOLL OF SPEED IN

News from Everywhere RECORD T.T. RACE.

NOVEL "SALOON TO TOURER"

IDEA

EXHIBITION IN SOUTH AFRICA..

By making use of the divided

A clever application of the Zipp

A commencement has bben made reftoctor principle, as a result of which the lower half of the head fasteners which are used nowadays with a co-operative Publicity Cam

tobacco prigin which has already succeeded lamp reflector, is somewhat in ad- for ladies' handbags,

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ONE MAN KILLED AND

MANY HURT.

CRASHES ALL ROUND THE

COURSE.

Dougins, I.O.M., June 18.-F. G.

ROAD MOTOR RACING.

PASSING OF "SCRATCH" CONTESTS."

EXPENSES TOO HEAVY,

This is a question which is in- triguing motorists throughout the "world since Studebaker's new en- vance of the upper half, a flat-pouches, golfing jumpers, and in focussing public attention on Hicks, one of the greatest riders

gineering development was adopt-topped beam is secured.

thousand and one other purposes British Motor Vehicles. In addi-in the history of motor-cycle rac ed by three other well-known makes method has been used in England has been developed by Mr. J. Wat-tion the first all-British Exhibitioning, the holder of many world re- cords, and a past winner of the of cars, including Pierce-Arrow and France, and now another lamp

will be held in Durban in July. following the same general idea is

Tourist Trophy, was killed in the Progress in this market is slowly Senior T.T. race, which took place being introduced from America. This is the Trippo lamp, which is Cyclecar reports, has devised & car but steadily being made. The region the mountain course to-day. acund engineering advancements in handled by North-Western Motors, root which has a Zipp fastener tration of British vehicles is in, and in which the foreign machines tished at these mixed car races, in

and Lincoln.

In searching for an answer to the above query, let us consider

Ltd., Norton Street, Liverpool.

son, a Howden, Yorks, motorist.

Mr. Watson, The Light Car and:

from back to "front on each aide

up and which can be readily rolled and fixed in clips at the back of the car, thus, in a few seconds con- verting a cosy saloon into the equivalent of an open touring model.

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erensing and there is evidenced a desire on the part of distributörs to secure British representation.

TRANSPORT IN AFRICAN

·

NATIVE STATES.

The arrangement is "less cumber The many self-governing states in some than the ordinary type of roof the Northern part of West, Africh and is hailed as being particularly are making steady development and useful for small cars on account are accordingly purchasing trans port for their road construction and of its very light weight.

other schemes. In many cases their choice has fallen on Albione, gener. ally the popular 30/35 cat, model which is designed to give a really good performance under arduous conditions. Messra United Africa

supplied Albion, lorries Co., Ltd,, have, within the past fow

SOME SAFETY-GLASS SECRETS.

the past. In the 8th century, Salo.

The principle is woll known to mon de Caus, chief engineer to King Louis XIII of France, dis anyone who has studied lamp de- covered steam as a possible motive sign, and it can certainly be endors force and was condemned by Cared as one of the best methods, of dinal Richolien as a lunatic and securing a flat-topped bone without cnfined in the asylum of Bicetre. diffusion and without loss of die "Stephenson's first locomotive,tance or "penetration. The idea is The Rocket, aroused a storm of well carried out in the Trippe scorn and skepticism among his lamp, and the use of a bulb with ecuntrymen. When Fulton's steam- A concentrated filament results in ship. The Clermont,' puffed down a remarkable performance. The the Hudson, wisencres of the day current consumption is 3-4 amperos predicted diro disaster. The Wright in either the six-or the twelve-volt Brothers contribution to the cause models. of aeronautics at Kitty Haw ce

A six-volt lamp has been tested casioned one London newspaper to by The Autocar and it proved ro- ! refer to them as 'those fantastic markably good. The flat-topped Americans'.

beam, resembling a D laid on its "Yet all these developments, side, is so well defined that at a proved sound in principle, endur-distance of twelve yards the pro- ed through the years, each finally,jected image on a blank wall is a capturing a dominating position clean cut half-circle about 10ft in world progress. Similarly, wide, with the outlines scarcely: Free Wheeling with positive gear diffused at all, the top edge being control tolves a problem which parallel with the ground and the automotive engineers have struggl-same height as the bulb contre when ed with for years, namely, a safe the lamp face is mounted truly tons of soda teh, 3,000 toss of limekuta, Ahoada, Gombe, Idah, Ilaro, a total and efficient mearis of barnessing vertical. the tremendous force of mcmentum When projecting the beam on to stone, 800 tons of salt-cake, " 3,000 Ilorin and Sokoto, making and adapting it to the motor car. buildings about 180 yards away it tons of cullet, 36 tons of charcoal of no less than 14 of these small All question as to the accept was possible to see the brickwork and 70 tons of arsenic-these ma-states, using this popular make of ance of Free Wheeling with post as brickwork, and to pick out, other terials would probably be sufficient vehicle. tive gear ecntrol by the engineer-details, und even with a slight haze ing world or the public has been in the distance the horizontal cut-to lay out an artificial beach, build definitely removed. Even befort off was still good Naturally, the a row of houses or poison a re- "its introduction, highway and twelve-volt lamp will give appregiment. Actually they are all needs safety engineers had accorded it einly better results. The absence ofed every year to make safety-glass their approval ne an important diffusion (the front glass is clear, contribution to greater motoring of course) and the definite upper for one make of car alone.

cut-off make the lamp excellent in safety. Its appearance was signalog, and, provided it is set so that lized by instant approval on the the cut-off is slightly below hori- part of motorists once they had zontal, dazzle to oncoining traffic is

eliminated. investigated and tested its many outstanding advantagės. This

A universal bracket, primarily in- tended for mounting on the tie-bar

Motorists who are mathematically minded will re-el in some figures issued by the Triplex Co., showing the amount of materials used in the manufacture of safety-glass.

months.

to

were completely outpaced,

Ho paid the supreme, penalty in n rice which, run at unprecedent. ed speed, tock heavy toll of men- and machines. Riders crashed round the course. In every lap

there word falls and skids

Poroy Hunt, the winner, who won the Junior TT beat last year's record circuit in every one of his Japa

The fastest lap was made by James Simpson, whose time of 28min 1sec for the thirty-seven and

in later in 1926, Racing is al ways expensive, but this form cost Less than that of building special. racing, machines, and the RA.C. received full suppert from makers, They had previously held a con- sultation with the industry which had flatly refused to spend the money to build racing cars.

"In England the grant majority of cars sold aro of small nominal The average tax paid horas-powe this year is under £14. Therefore in any race, if the organisera wish to have a thoroughly representative entry of English motors they are compel.ed to include the small

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Since the year 1997, when the meter Grand Prix type of road race died for want of entries, the public have acon few scratch events in England, and have had to be content with handicaps writes H.

crnton Rutter (Morning Poslu There are not sufficient makere of large cars in England who Mortoring Correspondent.)

would race. Consequently racp cap events in which all size of The public sometimes are dissa- committees discovered that handi- cars ecu'd compute wore the only races to obtain sufficient entries to justify running them,

which motors of from seven to 30 neminal horse-power competo

against each other..

A glance at the past is really necessary to understand why bandi. cap races in place of scratch races are now held. In 1027 the French rm of Delago swept the board,

with their team of three winning all the Grand Prix events

in Europe

| machines. During the two pre- ceding years Talbots had perform ed the same feat.

In both cases the firms concerned

Brooklands provides the racing. car with its chance, and there are similar tracks in France, Italy, Germany and the U.S.A. Racing fore depends entirely on the handi to day over long distances thefe capper for its success. And handicap largely spoils public in-

torest

A Handicapping Expert, Fortunately Great Britain has the acknowledged best motor handi- capper in the world in the person of Mr. A. V, Ebblewhite, an c cial of the R.AC. appointed for this business. His liandicapping

a half miles, with its bende and had spent about £20,000 in build-has produced exciting Bnishes.

hazards, was the most stupendousing a team of three racing cars. thing in motorcycle road racing

Vain Dive for Safety, Hicks was killed in an effort to catch the leaders in such a welter of speed and spills as had never

fourth after three laps, and in his before been seen. He was lying

Buch an enormous expense for making special machines for racing qaused the majority. cf firms in. Europe to abandon that form of the sport.

Le Mans and Ulster, In the meanwhile the Automobile Club d'Ouest had organised a suc

As an instance of his accurate forecast of speeds in framing the handicap last December for the Traco in Ulster in August ho allcwed one second per mile dif ference between the supercharged small car and its rival of the same rating with out a "blower."

In the recent Double Twelve hours race at Brooklands that was the actual difference in the speed of the fastest supercharged Austja Seron and the fastest unsuper

12,000 tons of special sand, 4,000 the Nativo Administration, Ale fourth circuit went off in reckless gessful handicap for all classes of charged "M.G. Midget In this

To polish and grind the glass a further 50,000 toha of sand, 3,000 tons of stucco, 1,100 tons of garnet and 300 tons of rouge are required.

MARY PICKFORD'S NEW CAR The car which Douglas Fairbanks gave, to Mary Pickford as a birth day present when she arrived in England was a 90/25 Rolls-Royce with a sidanca de ville body.

Mr. Fairbanks himself went to

pursuit.

zace, by the way, the handicap caminities allowed the latter Olsec. start of the former per mile, with the result that the M.G. Midget won with comparative easo

I should not be surprised to Beu the sume result next Friday at

cars in their 24-hours' race at Le At Union Mills there is a hump-Mans This event was for sports backed bridge, and Hicks took it types of touring cars and not for As such a speed contest offered much too fast. The crowd realised racing machines proper, he could not get round the slight publicity, to au makers and provid-Phoenix Park, as that committee in a horror-stricken moment that bend. Bomething had happened.ed them with a chance to win Either Hicks could not, or would class prize, if not the actus!

nir, a yard from the road, jumped ported it. not, reduce speed. "Un into the trophy. motor manufacturers sup-

rider and machine as they struck It was on these lines that the the bridge. Down came the wheels, RAC, resuscitated the T.T. race And then adreadful skid. Straight for the stone coping of a'

Realising, as he must have done, shop-front went the machine.

that be

favorable public reaction raised between the two existing lampa, is It is one of the minor miracles of Barkers while the car was being front, crash into the shops

Studebaker frem tenth to fifth place in automobile registrations in the United States.

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supplied, together with a switch that can be fitted to any instrument board without drilling. The lamp is switched on in place of the ordinary head lamps, for fog or antidazzle purposes. Two such lamps used permanently would un- doubtedly provide a remarkably sound lighting equipment.

dived off and first, but it was a vain effort. He crash-

motoring that this queer mixture completed, and watched the finished with such force that his safety should result in clear sheets of ing touches being made. triplex, gloss,

A "PETER PAN" CHASSIS,

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helmet was crushed to a pulp, and he was killed inekaritly,

The dreadful news was taken to his wife in the grandstand, and a woman to whom a great sOTTOW

The car is painted in black with a thin white line, and is upholster- od in plain fawn cloth with chromium and ivory Sttings, and suddenly, had como was taken to has veneered walnut panels. There the scons. of the disaster. Hicks. are deep doors and a very low floor, was 39 years of age, and was pro-

“Seven years ago, when balloon tyres were first introduced, their universal adoption was merely a

In the Spring of 1920 a Licester matter of time Tc-day a

firm purchased a 28-seater chara without balloon tyres would stand

They ran this vehicle for small chance of success. In like ed for long. Basad alone on its bana Imanner, Free Wheoling, as a fun self-evident advantage in increas four years, but, with the advent of although the cer goes back to pristor of. a garage at Tring. He damental engineering principleed driving safety, reduced mus- coaches of more advanced design, 'cular and mental effort and ma- which advances the modern motor terial saving of 15 to 20 per cent it was found to be a little out-of car one stop nearer its ultimate in petro and oil, it seems inevit date from the point of view of

appearance. gcal, cannot be overlooked or ignorable that some day all cars will have. Free Wheeling, with positive Continued on nézi Golumn.)

gear control."

America it has right-hand steering.

leaves a wife and two small child-

ren.

The latest safety features are fit :

I have never seen a race pro- ted, such as triplex glass through dúctive of so many records and The char-a-binca Commer-was out, dipping head-lamps and spills Speed exacted. a gruesome therefore sent to its makers worke

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body fitted to the chassis At that time it was not possible to fit pneumatic tyres on the rear wheels but now the recent Road Act has. mado the fitting of a giant pneumatic tyres in place of the solid roar tyres, an economie pro- Position:

In the words of the owners them solves "We are proud of the job now.completed-it is most up to date vehicle although the chinesis and engine are eleven years old."

A

TOO CLEVER!

toll.

Six-famous riders won their way to the top of the fifty-six starters and set such a pace that many riders, sacrificing discretion in Bome curious Bills come before their mad endeavours to keep pace, the United States Logialature from. skidded and crashed.

The

time to time. The latest in one. James Bimpson, known qe which proposes a curious means of Meteor," at first hold the lead at identifying drivers of motor cars record speed. But his back whee, who are implicated in accidente, but looked so he spoed down the moun- drive off without stopping. It has tain at dinety miles an hour, Ho been suggested that each ear should was Aung off and was lucky to scatter a number of small dises

escape with a sprained wrist.

“WIZARD" FOR ATHENS showing the registration number.

There disceyould be contain-

Then Parkinson, overshooting the.

As a result of only a brief tristed in a tube operated by road at Keppel Gau

spring

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trigger similar to a Wizard." Lop one of the Hillman

ion of the device would |=== De Luxe Saloon models, the already.

whenever a person or impressive list of owners of this berautomst

Worldcar now includes the bject isi Tek, --It-han

workab name of Capt. Lz E-Holland, B.N. pered with Naval attache at Athens

when the car is in motion.

Beattering

in frightened, patio one or two: of them were cut, by the runaway onlt machine, and a boy of 12 bad a

fractur

have framed their bandicap en similar linos. But I am quite sure there is no chance of an easy vic tory for any ear on its given handi-

eap in the R.A.C event at Bal fait. Even if judgment erra occa signally, one must not condemn the present form of racing..

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