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Transi -Device.

SOME ROBOTGEAR

CHANGERS

from

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

depand two little bob which Hy mor out as the ella or rises! But as thia poats.simply, and solely engine speed i cantot by itself!. Furnish a lovable robot; for when't

LABORATORY TESTS

FOR DRIVERS

DUMMY CAR AND PICTURED ROAD

the car was doing 70 on the Great North Road and you were ardently trying to attain 75 for the first time in your life the robot might fancy that the engine was running

London, Nov. 10. The Nations! too fast, and endeavour to change up ta fith "gay" which was not Institute of Industrial Psychology. there. So the governor operates in which has just receivedes, further, coriandron with a actionate grant, of £5,000 fremme - Rocke

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MOTOR CARS OF IN QUEST OF PERFECTION

1934

NO 1934 MODELS. BEFORE NEXT AUGUST

MAKERS' DECISION

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ROLLS ROYCE MANAGER

BROADCASTS.

HEAVY OIL DEVELOPMENTS

FAVOURABLE REPORTS

A British broadcast talk by Mr. Sidgravest Managing Director of Holls-Royce Ltd., afforded many Motor-minded "listeners an op- portunity of appreciating the un- ceasing efforts of the automobilesion ignition engines, developing 08 engineer to produce the perfect motor car and the various steps of avolution during the past 25 years

After exhausts

had been quieten ed, we worked for years to re- duce the valves to quietness," said Mr. Sidgraves. Then the gearing wag exposed in all its loudness; the

axle received attention and so the hunt went on and still continues, for oven to-day the car owning public calls for still higher and higher per.

formance.

FIGHTING THE FIRE MENACE

THE LATEST IN RE FUSE COLLECTION

POINTS FOR LOCAL CONSIDERATION

Three foot-operatad evoked favourable comments, Fured dumps ther developments will be watched duatless covers are fitted to cach 4 with great interest, not least inside of the all-steel Eagle pasent is only to be had at high test,

being arranged so that they act ass those Overseas districts where petrol body, the height of the treadles

lifeguards.

"Pactum, Dennis, production.

It is interesting to learn that the Basingstake works of Thornycrofts

The recent Public Works and have now gone into production with 4 and 6-cylinder types of compres Health Exhibition in London pro The inotorist who had spent a term of years abroad end hastened

viled an opportunity for displayku eagerly to Olympia this autumn fe't

An important resolution to pre

and 150 hp, respectively. Recent a number of the latest developmental a little stunned at the host new

issues of such authoritative journals in motor vehicles specially designed na The Commercial Motor and for cleansing. Aransmission devices which pop the latter being able (apparently) feller Foundation for resofco vent premature displays of new

Modern Transport have published A special fonture of the Albion plaxed him on nearly every stand to distinguish between peak ongine work, preparing pchological son's motor-car models has been He had always prided himself on revolutions on fourth gear and tests for motor drivers in order to passed, at a meeting of the Car

vary favourable reports of indepenub; yard refuss waggon shown in hearted with him in much the gear. Anyhow when the roborary individual would makorda Society Motor Manufacturers

dent trials by their own experts; its small turning circle of under 40 his gear-changing. To clash a gear poak engine revolutions on bottom determine exactly the kind of drive Manufacturers Committee of the

test runs were made with a G-tout diameter, which enables the same category as an intention it feels that a gear-change is due, the A Press, representative yesterday and aders.

"balance" and The Committee decided unani.

vehicle having the 4-cylinder engine and profitable revoke at bridge; governor climbs and tips ap elec submitted himself to various tests,

and on the largest 12-ton Thorny machine to hug the kerb on corneri but the technical world seems to tric switch, which in turn sets an including eye

mously that no new 1933-31 season's gearbox became a screeching sister Foroft G-wheeler having the 6-cylin and to be handled easily in con have decided unanimously that it elepric motor to work, and the judging distances.

The most enjoyable, he states, should be

before August 14. is not possible for ordinary mor electric motor operates a ting cone tals to handle an ordinary gearbox clutch, which instantly calls upon was the dummy car test.

Each year the secrets of new sea with skill, and dexterity on all oeone or other of your five constant sit in what appears to be a re casions, and that it is worth our mesh gears! The manufacturer of plics of the driving seat of any son's models have been revealed while to pay 230 extra for tear the car effects delicate adjustments ear, save that there is no gear oarlier and earlier, some firms an- which more or less changes, itself of the robot, so that it can cope with lover. On-screen in front of you nouncing their next year's pro- So he eventually bought somethin, the varying this of an Austin is a coloured picture of charm grammes as early as April or May, The new resolution, if honoured by ing country road. You press the with a trigger near the hub of the Seven or a Phantom Rolls-Royce.

The robot is not yet perfect. I aclarator of your ear, and in the trade, will prevent a repetition steering wheel; he touches his trig ger and invisible mechanism does you sell one to old Mrs. Cholmon-yourself moving along the road. of the absurd position which arose deley-Beauchamp, who is eighty. You turn the wheel and find that this year, when second-hand 1933 Already our returned exile "and four and timorous, the robot migh. you can sfeereke er;"you press cars were on sale two months before. his new motor-car are threatener misinterpret her paychology, and the accelerator further and your the Motor Show,

when the car started it might roat

car positively leaps forward. The with obsolescence. Twelve months the engine up to thirty on battom, illusion is perfect. But it is, of ago the "Motor "

course the screen image and not robot device favented in France, effeat a lightning change to second.

under way when I turned a corner, which is now reported to hamar up forty, snap-change to the car that moves. I was reached the practical stage and to third yey up to fifty anies in to?: rather fast perhaps, and found be ready for launching on an ex.and so forth. This would fit Kay" tree trunk lying across the rošt ; niso iticrease sales.

like old glove, but out any ers will unquestionably welcome inspire Mrs. Cholmondeley-Beau-lamed on this robot with shrieks of joy. Whe champ to scream for her selling ther they will love it as passionate salts and suck her chauffes. Bo ly in the car's second year remains the robot, sad to confess, has to be to be proved, for to cynical care it humanised by the addition of a "My progress, the speed at which Small lover which the French it I took the corners, have I dealt sounds as if it contained the posvenor has called le correcteur, with the emergencias, and other sibilities of appalling roadšids

The salesman takes one intelligent details were recorded on a chart trouble,

glance at Mrs. Cholmondel-Beau- and when I had completed the test chump and warns her chauffeur to I was enabled, as a special privi. keep the correcteur in the notch Tego, to poep round, the back of the marked in plain figures. douce screen to see how the illusion i ment. The robot then controls worked. The apparatus is unique the car in sucking-drove fashion. A and the mechanism is kept, sodret." robot gear control undoubtedly

the rest.

Illustrated #

A French Invention The robat itself is an ingenious automatio control which embodies centrifugal governor remem the little vertical spindler vist on many stat archgines,

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Packard Cars

THE COUPE ROADSTER.

Reo Roya car of charact individuality

and South China

LAM WING VAN & CO.

well

It was a relief to discover that my car simply Heated through the tree.

promises to be the next phase in transmission design.

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Representatives of leading arms described the benefits expected from the new arrangement:

LONDON'S EQUIPMENT.

The latest type of Scammell trail- ing-axle type rigid: 6-wheeler, st

Among the new appliances mak shown at the Scottish Motor Showing their first appearance was the in Glasgow can now be supplied with the firm's standard petrol engine or with the Gardner heavy The secret of this lies in the series oil engine. A 5-speed gearbox of steel bars running longitudinally now incorporated and it is claimed that the combination of this with about halfway between the floor and the heavy oil engine enables the the roof of the body, for about two- By the order recently placed for latter to be used to its maximum thirds of its lougth. • When refuse

efficiency without the added compli further twenty-three 30 h.p. machine the total number of cations usually met with using two is tipped in from the top, dust and Dennis fire engines employed by only two sets of gears and shafts bottom, but boxes, tins and articles gearboxes Incidentally there are other small articles 'fall to the the London Fire Brigade will be in this boss instead of four as it

"class are caught brought up to the figure of 102.⠀ .

the case of most gearboxes with of the "container more than forward ratios.

by the bars

Du

Austin Motor Co.-It will tend to stabilise the industry, and should In the past, time from April, the public was in glined to wait until all programmes

Designed to cope with fires in out- had been announced, with tho re

lying districts and to travel, when required, across country, a Leyland sult that trade was stagnant.

Morris Motors, Ltd.-The regula-wheeled fire engine has been putt tign will benefit both the trade and into servico. at Dundee. Within n the public, stabilise the second-hand few days of its arrival, it was call, car market, and prevent price. ell upon to subdue four large firos fluctuations..

within 24 hours, all outside the civic boundary.

IRAQ'S LARGEST VEHICLE

A 30-WHEELER FOR PIPE LINE WORK.

-And an American. Victor Bendix, the American in- ventor whose name is already Said to be the largest motor truck famous in the world of brake and and trailer outfit so far, construct- clutch controls, is also in the folded in the United States, a six- with a robot gear control which wheel tractor, with a four-wheel is past the experimental stage. His articulated trailer and a six-wheel gadget is based upon a combination trailer, have recently been supplied. of road speed and torque. The to the Iraq Potroleum Co. It is in- iden of torque is not easily con- tended for the transport of lengths veyed to the lay mind, but it might of stoel pipes used in connection fairly be paphrased as the vin- with the now 1,200-mile pipeline- ence of a turning movement. When across the desert. The three units. a car is sliding pleasantly over flat weigh-approximately 20 tons un- roade at 30 m.p.h. the turning laden, says Motor Transport, the movement of the shafts is less load-carrying capacity being 40 violent than "when the same car is lons, and the overall length 100 Ascending a steepik grade at 3) feet. m.p.h. Obviously, therefore, a robot -gear control must take account not only of road speed but also of the violence of the turning movement: Otherwise it will cause its owner to use blasphemous words by sud ability of a tractor. It is claimed denly changing to a lower gear to be very easy to control in every gins to pink at thirty miles an

Besides having to travel over rough ground, the outôt has to be capable of high speeds, and at the same time have the ill-climbing

hour on the floor by refusing to Way, and that, despite its great. change down when his engine be length, it can be turned in n soft. gina to pink at thirty miles an circle.

hour on a hill. This Bendix robot

possesses the necessary intelligence,

and to the best of my information

it does not beg for the guidance of NEW TYPE OF CAR RACE·

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a corrector, like the French. davice. However, there is nothing quite perfect in this vale of tears, for the Bendix gadget completely fails ti distinguish between a level road and a precipitous descent. The if a car fitted with a Bendix robos is faced with the descens of Por lock, it will automatically engage tog gear, assuming that top gear announced at the annual dinner of

LONDON, December 14.

The general secretary of the Junior Car Club, Mr. L. F. Dyer,

13 not already in action; and even the Club on December that on if the brakes prove nugatory, and

the car gathers formidable spoed May 6 next new type of motor down the 1 in 4 gradient, the robot race will be promoted by the will not lose a particle of its salf

Junior Car Clubs at Brooklands, Bossession, 8o Mr. Bendix has wisely added a hand control, with The race willrdinate the dif which the palpitating driver ma ficulties of fallos ng the handicaps not only engage second gear but

At one of these, the pump had to (Continued on next Column).

lift 18 ft. and deliver through a single line of hose 3,100 ft. long to a hill a blazing stack-yard on The pump developed a pressure of 336 16. and worked 9 hours without cessation, while the machine was taken over rough and soft ground with, the greatest of ease.

At this juncture, a transverse

of the body, is caused to gravel to plate, normally located at the front

the rear under hydraulic pressure, But this arrangement, all the col lapsible articles are reduced their smallest volume, and

valuable body apson

MORRIS in 1933

The

MORRISTEN

is now available for demonstration.

It is the ROOMIEST TEN in the COLONY-study the dimensions.

It is the most ECONOMICAL

local independent, test showed

36 MILES PER GALLON.

It is the SAFEST watch for the

Flashing Signals.

Capacity:

1292 c.c.

Track: 48

MORRIS

Wheelbase :

SALES

To

96

Hydraulic Brakes.

may lock second gear into mash in in a long-distance motor, race. utter "defiance of the robot, who provide a xnce better large and must resign control until auch small care, promoters of long-dis time as level roads are regaited tans Tacer have previously bad to and the reassured ownew elects to

ing number of laps, aving the starting time of

release. his master hand control. handicap either by crediting small. „Which in, of course, as it should be. pars with for-the-moment. British design, or by era, like Major W. G. Wilson, have the little or nothing to fear from the of rac robot Inventiqus, which" and less thorofighly ́apj

oved and

In the now typė" beaminased start

on sach

Overall width: 62

Overall length: 147

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Sunshine Roof

Four speed Gear box.

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