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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

THE HEAVY MOTOR-can-makers for suspension, an MR. FORD'S NOVEL

VEHICLE SHOW.

GREAT STRIDES MADE IN

DESIGN.

MANY NEW TYPES OF ENGINE.

If

The commercini show, at

motor-vebriole

Olympia would have been interesting enough in the or dinary way, for in this post-war period these shows have been held avery weand year only, and there has been so years' progress to die play, which has givna heavy vehicle makers the reputation of being abead of the ear manilacturora i But in the past two years, and more; especially in the lass twelve months, motor haalag and passenger ser- vices have moved quickly. "There is: evidence of this at, the show: two years ago there were, but three heavy oil engine vehicles on ex, hibition, and they were regarded as nouriosity; this year were to be found no fewer than fourteen tyßey of engine, numbers many more, for. they are to be seen in more than

stand.

ing, ventilation, comfort gearral- ly, these machines give a lead to mossnakes of private cars

In

technical matters, too, can be seen

EXPERIMENT.

the efforts put forward by makers MODERN MACHINERY TO BE of petrol-engine machines to meet the growing competition of the heavy-oil engine.. The ultimate test

of the industrial motor is economy.

of opération, and in engine design, i

the vßhicle-there is

DISCARDED.

MODERN STEEL COACHWORK.

ITS MANY ADVANTAGES.

RIGIDITY, STRENGTH AND

SILENCE.

a pressed steal body to all Mia! Every motor manufacturer would standard models if he were able to do so, Manchester Guardium, Costly dies

A Successful Test.

amusingly. There was no ash tray steel skins of the lid. In due aus. in the front cockpit, so I bought cession I found that ovary compon- a chromium plated ash tray, seized jent of the body was a steel pressing, a gimist, and endeavoured to screw practically avery joint being weld-Į it to the dash. The first twist ofed, except whore-as in the case the gimlet proved that the dash of the dash-access might be board was steel. Evidently it must quired to attend to wiring or to be taken off and the ash tray affix. instruments. Mr. Henry Ford, the pioneer of in chassis work' and points of us

ed with small bolts. The dash was sembly-as in the mounting of en- maas production. proposes to mako gises partly over the front axle in an exhaustive test of his theory

apparently secured by four plated.

The car has now accomplished in woodscrews. When the first wood fair mileage over rough roads at osder to give more padation that that the men on bis enormous pay

crew came out it proved to be a high average speed, and, thanks to they have got down to the business roll should work on his farms for

bolt. There was no timber any its integral rigidity, there is no in a spirit. They can afford four months of each year and spend

where in the dash arch and scuttle, sign of faking about the paint ako to indulge in novelties, Perhaps the remainder of the time in his

the facin board was fixed by four probably no pains will ever flake, the most unorthodox exhibit is a manufacturing plants.

are required to stamp on the vari double-deck saloon 'bus which has! an oil engine with a front-wheel 12,000-aero farm, says the New!

He plans to test his idea on his ous parts from which a steel body nuts welded to an invisible steel as the panels cannot "work." drive and the huge boty and chassis Fork Herald (Paris Edition). Mr. is built up by welding. The pro member, all four nuts, bring welded There is no noise except in the built all in one unit. The engias Ford is preparing to discard the cost is, therefore, only applicable dead in line at precise locations, a doors and windows, cox can I st is a two-stroke six-cyelinder type modern agricultural machinery now when with two bankshafts and twelve in use on his farm and substitute number of duplicate bodies. If a factory produces a largo

triumph of jigwork. (Here in how noise, could over be generato pistaus, which is as strikingly un-man-power. He contemplates the

cidentally, in a petty okamat other points. The design of the usant as it is a compact block, and employment of about-600 men there, plant, with an output of ten luxuri- ple of

in the way

which doors is, not too good in this par ench wheel of this vehicle bay in dependent pneumatic' springing.

In recent months Mr. Fords has ous cars per week adopted the pressers to vary their body from stand the popular double latch, intended pressing firm can permit custom-ticular ense; they are equipped with frequently expressed the opinioning system the coachwork might ard design.) I had soon drilled that some such arrangement on a national senle would solve the uneasily cost more than the chassis. employment problem. The surplus The advantages of this type of

Mr. Ford declares, bald

labour.

writes G. B. in the

holes for the tiny bolts of my ash to look them relentlessly when they tray, and all the parts slipped back fave slammed home." But the latch into place beautifully. I was this demands rather a peculiar type of

The Suitcase Locket.

A "CAR" MOTOR- CYCLE.

NOVEL USE OF BABY ENGINE.

BROUGH SUPERIOR

"POUR."

for the baby Austin engine. Blight- ly. enlarged in cylinder diameter, it is the power unit of a now and remarkable motorcycle, which will make its first appearance at the Motor Cycle Show at Olympia on November 30.

Yet another use has been; found

Known as the Brough Superior Four," the machine has narrow twin radiators for the water-cooled

thres-speed gear box, and a pro. engine, a dry-plate olutch and

peller shaft transmitting the drive to twin rear wheels, side by side on

a common axle.

other "car" feature of this ex- tremely unconventional motorcycle."

Question of Weight.

the eye, but they are the mare There are points that do not catch important because they embody used far more effectively if the coachwork demand very little exprepared for my next discovery. practice which sooner or later will men could be trained to work on planation. The resulting saloon's

alam to engage both catches. A An electric starting motor is an find its way into car manufacture, the farms during the warm weather tolerably light, and One of them is the question of and in manufacturing centres dirigid. Noise can only develop in largo luggage locker, which was

extremely The tail of the saloon embolied cond latch, and a really heavy slum .. mild slam fails to engage the go.¦ weight. For a few years now thers ing the cold months of the year. has been remarkabla advance in the

thevery awkwardly shaped for starts makes the second latch jump at The fact that its rear wheels are such moving components 115

suitenses. I had to choose between again; my family has production and the use of alloys,

doors and windows, whereas the allowing alock suitenses to jump of which aluminium allors have

at Inst less than 18in apart saves it from been most popular,

which are 40 per cent. lighter, told-fashioned body, consisting of about and chafe themselves or mastered the moderate siam which being a car for taxation purposes. Now there is all progress which means further one vehicle and on more than one others, including elektron magne-eronomy without any loss of mimetal panels bradded on to a skrle, go to the expense of having special suits the doors, but it has been a suitcases made to fit the locker. tiresome process, and I am surpris simon alleys. So far has progress:

At present the machine' will be It is not, ability or efficiency.

ton of wooden ribs and pillars and Eventually I determined to let thed that the jarring of the doors has sold only as a passenger outfit, gone that whereas only a year or

lid of the locker hang down her not flaked the paint on them, Thi but it is matter that appears on the "work" and "grind" in any or aluminium Alloys of a tensile

all windows do sooner or later, There is little to catch the eye square inch, heat-treated alloys are

but the rattle can be dealt with with the popular" sense, unless it bu, now obtainable

in the accustomed way. tensil wheir compared with the gtawngth of over 20 tona.

With

In fine. I have nothing lip praise show, sheer penderousness of the these alinys, steel, with its 200 per

for this coachwork, except that is ent. additional weight, can now be machine Yet in the bus and past

is certainly stupid to press out a senger coach exhibits there is that dispensed with. Yet even with this

luggage decker which will not fit any standard suitcases. which would attract the public indvaner aluminium alloys are being aly it kuba. Here the manufac, superseded over a wide range of turers of the heavies have given us by the new elektron alios

Technical Progress.

two dzo it was possible to prodne has been said, visible to the eve, formars, is capable of developing zontally and to use it, as a grid. windows have developed rattles, as with a laapch-shaped body, and the It is a show of technical progress.: strength of over ning tens meri right side of the haulier's balance all of its fitted joints, whilst mo- lid to "which straps could he secur

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visible proof that they are ahead of

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(Continural un neme Column.).

sheet.

Safer Than Wood,

But there were no cleats on this

There is a wide range of exhibits,tion of the wooden memborg shakes. I prodded it carefully in a from the small set, runabout to paint off the metal panelling.

place which did not show, and was massive double-deckers, multi-wheel trailers for conveying loads un

not surprised to find that this lid was a hollow steel pressing, so that 10 bulk wid weight. steamers.

elents could only be fixed by dri) A steel salon may be somewhasing bettholes clean through both road rollers, power-driven mowing machines, motors for agricultural difficult to repair after a serious tially a show of British producit is not likely to crumple inwards rees, and, not least. it in mbulon-collision or a minor dinge; but

tions.

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sufficiently to injure its occupants except when accidents involve really frightful impacts. Paint does not scale oruclip off a pressed body, be- cause it is a rigid whole. Factories with really large outputs an adopt the steel body, and change their patterns every year, as they can afford to scrap their dies every autumn without charging too muent on this accounts against each ear which they sell. In America there already exists a huge coachbuilding business in component pressings. There are no small makers in the American industry; but if such Arma existed they would be able to use pressed steel bodice. The big steel preasers would sell them most of the parts required for their salcons from stock at no higher cost than if they were ordering them by the ten thousand or the fifty thousand. Should such a Amal maker further desire to equip his ears with a distinctive body, be could do so at small "expense. For example, he could weld almost the whole of his saloon from

| standard parts; and he could strike an individual note by combining such standard parts with one or two special pressings-g, specit tail panel etabodying a luggage carrier, or a spécial scuttle of peculiar outline,

The Component System. During the last year or two cus or two firms in the British indus. try have laid the foundations of a similar system.. During 1930-1931 one or two new cars have appeared with pressed steel bedien. "Theog néw cára may sell in such great numbers that their sponsors could view the cost of special dies with equanimity; but only a Junatte would dare to assume such sales before the public liad so much as inspected single sample car. So these now steel bodies have bren produced on the component system. The firms which build them have standardised a door, a dashboard, and so forth. Before many years. are past, we shall see all cheap cars carrying bodies of this typ whether open or closed, saloons or tourers. The system may gradually invade. the costlier strata of the industry, because of the technical merita of this type of body'; I have indicated above that if the prossing Arms can rely on plenty of orders they can assist a small maker to construct distinctive bodies at low post.

A Personal Experience..

I am at the moment driving a now car mounting coachwork of this kind, and I have already made some interesting discoveries "about it. I coufam with shame, that when its gloss was virgin 1. failed to notice that certain parts which arg normally made of 'wond, are" netuni ly steel pressings. Days elapsed hefors I realised that the facia board and the side cosminga wore steel. The discovery happened

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