1933-06-27 — Page 2

5-TON AND 6-TON ALBIONS

Recent British Designs

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

SPANISH MOUNTAIN Need for Advertising That

CLIMBED BY CAR

SURPRISE FOR CITIZENS

OF BILBAO

Is Really Useful

WHAT WELL DEVISED PUBLICITY CAN DO

It does not

MOMBASA TO CAPETOWN. BY CAR

The Rey L, N, Green, a Bri- tish exnival chaplain, claims to be the first person to drive a light car from Mombasa, to Capetown shore vic Nairobi and the Western of Lake Victoria.

NEW METAL FOR MOTOR CARS

CYLINDERS OF CHROME ALLOY

The various rules and regulations, result that complete vehicles weigh which have been issued from time less than 5 tons unladen and to time by the Minister of Trans- considerable saving in tax is thus 'port in Great Britain have had a affected.

very definite effect on the design

The reduced axle weights and of motor vehicles.

This is very improved load distribution will be to those oversens elearly demonstrated by the modi- of advantage fications which have recently beer. | countries where the roads are authe Pagasarri mountain nearby, many of their as possible-the ad paragraph of its technical articles, 1 Kenya, the car had to climb to a mads the Albion e-ton wear which has become recognierel

type to be used. Either petrol or The rules with which manufac-heavy oil engines can be fitted to turers have had to comply stipulate these machines.

vehicles.

"gross weight not exceeding 13 tons

and axle weights not exceeding 8

tons. The gross weight regulation

is not difficult to comply with, but NEW FORM OF

the dimculty of designing a 6-ton ner which will not have a rear axle weight of more than 8 tons, is con- siderable. In the case of the Al- bion this has been achieved by sel- ting the front axle back, and the alteration is particularly notice able or the bonnet type machine whore the bonnet and engine pro- ject considerably beyond the front wheels. This has induced the in- cidental advantage of much improv. ed accessibility to the engine is the driver can stand close up to the frame instead of having to lean over the front wings as previous ly,

In designing the Albion 6-tonner, the question of unladen weight has been carefully gone into with the

STORAGE

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One morning recently the in- habitants of Bilbao were surprised to learn that a British Baby Car,

Because I am interested in motor- from cover to cover.

as mention the make of car in every an Austin Seven saloon, driven by Senor Jesus Gonzalez, had climbed; ing I naturally read all-or

accessories, writes "Owner-Driver" that no other car can compete with in The Bulletin. Two firms never fit.

The Standard Review" is also fail to attract my attention, the

a splendid production, and its Jowett and the Talbot.

40 downright technical articles are very good in- The former are honest and human, the latter so con deed. But why not tell us in news- vincing in their explanations of paper advertisements what is told why the firm claims that their car us by the technical experts in these

magazines t is superior to many others..

A number of interested people watched the successful attempt and the subsequent descent of the car was followed by over 200 per CARsons who doubted whether it could

he safely accomplished.

PACKING INTO CLOSE

SPACE

A new type of car storage de- signed by a British Engineer pro- vides accommodation for 18 cars in each unit. There are 18 car com- Partments suspended from what is virtually an endless chain, so that nine are ascending while nine are descending. The floor space

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For the first 1,300 ft. of the climb the track proved so narrow that in some places the car could barely squeeze through.

Then the gradient stiffened to 1 in 4.5 for the next 300 ft. rise, some stretches being 1 in 3.4; but with this accomplished, the sum mit was achieved without further difficulty, adding yet another con- quest over altitude to the many for which the Austin Seven is now famous.

mpied is thus little more than that occupied by two CATS. The the next compartment then brought car is driven in at floor level, and round ready for occupation.

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This double-hoist arrangement is electrically operated, and has been designed by a well-known firm of structural engineers.

I don't know how you, feel about car publicity, but I really want less talk about how much I shall enjoy my summer holiday if I buy a so and so, how distinguished I shall look standing beside a thls-and-this. and how little petrol and oil shall consume if I acquire some thing else..

KLOW.

Things I Want to What I want to know is what is involved in adjusting the brakes, replenishing the battery and the sump, how easily the cylinder head is removed, how quickly the lifting. whether it will lift, high enough.

What is involved in taking up the jack can be get into position, and

lost motion in the steering gear in teresta me far more than the fact that Lady Slimm has just bought Its advanta certain make. I am more con- age is the small space required cerned about how to drain the owing to the double vertical stor sump, the rear axle, and the gear age, and a series of these could box, than I am to learn that it is a provide large-scale accommodation. joy to handle the wheel of a A single unit could be installed hundred-and-twenty Squeak very simply in any office block, and something of the kind may get help to solve the city garaging pro-f blem. The only drawback is that the hoist is necessarily costly. On the other hand, it is entirely in dependent of the building in which it is housed, which may thus be of the lightest construction.

NANKING-HANGCHOW 'BUS

SERVICE

The subject matter could be cut without speiling it in any way, and Indi sure the results would repay the cost. Something on the Talbot Something for Wothing. lines in what is wanted.

All of which serves to filtroduce a new brochure just issued by the Shell-B.P. people, and entitled "The Modern Motor Car."

The best part of the brochure for the moment is the photograph on the rear cover. Even if you do not read every word in the 16 pages I strongly recommend you to do a steering thing of how to hold wheel. 50), you will at least learn

some

I think I recognise the man at. Rwell-known racing driver, but the wheel. If I mistake not, he is that apart, his position and the flexible-spoked wheel should serve manner in which he is gripping the to make you adopt a correct driv

ing position. ten- . Incidentally, it may also serve to

the country of

Brakes are mose important than put a stop to the pictures now ap mice photographs th car standing Pearing all over outside a bare in and all that young and not-so-young folks grip- ping a steering-wheel in the most spa stupid manner. sart of thing understand the aft of publicity, I may be too technicall

A correct driving seat is of the utmost importance to all -road But I do want to know, and it users. Unless one is correctly sent- is because most of the advertising ed the car is not under proper con- teils me little or nothing that I betrol, and it is because of the thou. come greatly interested in publicity sands of instances of bad driving positions that are to be soen every day that I first mention the rear cover of this brochure.

that iloce.

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Car Magazines. Every month I receive copies of publications issued by motor car manufacturing firms. These are nearly all good in their way, but most of thera are much too blatant in their advocacy of their own particular car. I know that they are issued for that purpose, but publicity can be made pleasant and

Nanking, May 29.-Beginning from June 1, through motor-bus service will be operated on the Nanking-Hang how National High way by the Provincial Highway not to obtrusive.

"Popular Motoring," issued un- Bureaux for Kiangsu and Chekiang. The passenger fare in fixed at 35.50der the auspices of the Singer Com pany, is decidedly entertaining for a single trip.--Kuo Mia.

Public Works Authorities Prefer

MORRIS COMMERCIAL Lorries

Messrs. DODWELL & CO., LTD., have filled an order for the supply of a fleet of „MORRIS-COMMERCIAL tipping lorries to the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT of the Shanghai Municipal Council.........HERE they are shown lined up-20 of them all of 11 ft. 2 in. wheelbase" and all equipped with the world-known MORRIS improvements... .RECENTLY, also, the SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER CORPS took delivery of a consignment of MORRIS-COMMERCIAL 2-ton six-wheeler lorries-- capable -or- carrying and pulling anything—including guns and limbers-over the roughest kind of country, sh

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for every purpose

There's a MORRIS-COMMERCIAL

Consult us

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

Illustrated Encyclopedia.

I want every reader who is in- terested in knowing what the inside of every part of a motor car looks like to send to the Shell-B. P. people in London for a copy. It will pro- duce more intelligent motorists than is praise indeed. anything else I have seen, and that

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Evey part of a motor car tians are arranged so that by lift- shown in section, and the illustra ing the top plate the innards of what is covered are revealed.

The drawins are in colour and right bang up to date. I have ex- amined them very closely, and I have noted with pleasure that the modern fluid flywheel and the pre- selective gear-box are included.

Radiators, rear axles, gear-boxes, electric fuel pumps, oil filters, vacuum serva cylinders, and even tyres are shown in 'bections; and once you have studied all the platea you need not fear a technical ex- amination in the names of parts of a motor car.

Inside the Power Unit.

The plates are worth a great. deal to the man who does not know the inside of a modern engine. Once he sees the Hundreds of parts which serve to drive his car over the highway he will cor tainly drive more intelligently, and perhaps look to the labrication question with renewed interest.

Every part from a valve cotter pin to the crankshaft and the pis- tons can be seen as clearly as if an actual engine had been sawn in two.. And when one, turns, to what the publishers describe as the Chamber of Horrors,""& sectioned engine showing the results of bad lubrica tion and inadequate maintenance, a resolve to be kinder to the engine, is immediately registered. Alto- gether, a publicity item to be kept for many years.

New Alvis Springing.

A new Alvis car, the main features of which are independently sprung front wheela and a pre-selec tive gear-box, is announced. It is of 16.85 hp.. six-cylinder engine and will be known as the Crested Eagle.

I am particularly interested in the front springing, for ever since, I handled one of the early front wheel driven Alvis-models I have watched the ups and downs of the idea

The essentials of the new spring-

ing, as exemplified in the new car,

altitude, although the loss of en- gine efficiency was something like 25 per cent., a speed of 50 m.p.h. was easily achieved.

con-

The use of a new metal for the The Standard Big Nine made light of this trip of 7,000 odd miles, cylinders of cars is announced by normally averaging 34 miles per the Triumph Co., of Coventry.

For five years the firm's research gallon of petrol, with 20 m.p.g. recorded at high altitudes. While department has been experiment- making the circular tour of Mounting with alloys for cylinders with a view to prohibiting the excessive. as almost inevitable in the modern high-speed engine.

The moment the metallurgists were satisfied that they had solved the problem, engines were structed from the new metals and

conditions. When three cars had immediately behind the radiator is were subjected to continuous night anchored at either end to forgings and day tests under ordinary road carrying the stub axles.

This is what has been wanted for completed 30,000 miles each the Few people realiso equivalent, of three or four years' a long time. that when a beam axle rises at one averago running-the engines were end the road wheels alter their diamantled. angle relative to the road. On an independently sprung wheel the a vertical travel is constrained to plane and such things as wheel wobble and wheel patter should

not occur.

car,, unique among The new British cars, will be watched with more than ordinary interest.

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The result was that practically wear could be detected by in- strumente capable of measuring to less than a tenth part of one- thousandth of an inch. In the.or dinary way, after this mileage, an engine would need its cylinders re-

"oversize" would be necessary. ground and

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