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SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 26, 1927.
NEW A. A. OFFICES. shire members and motorists London to Canterbury, Margato
passing through this popular port, and Folkestono... the address being-Fanum House, 11. The Avenue, Southampton.
Opened in Kent and Hampshire.
Those new offices are adequate.
The small office at the Dooks Willy staffed to ensure that all mem be retained.
bers' requirements in rogard to touring, free legal advice, eh-. During last month, two new The other new office is for the gineering advice, road engineer. offices of the Automobile Asspoin-convenience of members realdanting oto. will be available as lion wore opened in England. or passing through. Kont and is promptly an at any of the old-es- Ono is at Southampton, for the situated near the Town Hall at tablished offices distributed special convenience of Hamp Maidstone on the main road from throughout the country.
Deferred Plan of Payment. 30% down
Balance by arrangement.
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Deferred Plan of Payment 30% down Balance by arrangement'.
FOR EVERY CATEGORY OF SERVICE
THEY have the bost linos in Hongkong.
THEY guarantee their cycles.
THEY give you three months frao service, THEY give the Purchaser the best doforrod torms.
1/4 Down, baluned to suit buyor.
Where..can you get more for your money?
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MOTOR OIL
MODERN OILS. FOR MODERN MOTORS
REFINED UP TO A Standard NOT DOWN TO A Price"
Sketch of a Diesel Automobile, with a Worthington double- "acting engine, showing position of the engine and the electric
driving generator in the rear.
An electric automobile in which now in use. But it makes up for a crude oil burning Diosol engine this by its high efficiency, its furnishes the power through an economy and its simplicity. electric motor drive, is what With an electric motor drive in loome before us if the forecast of the rear axle, connosted by means L, H. Morrison, noted Diesel on- of a gonorator to the power plant gineer, comes true.
in front, Morrison believes stall. Morrison isn't alone in this ing and jorking "will be almost prophesy. Practically every impossible. And when the single-. Diesel ouginnor in the world has acting Diesel gives way to the which that confidence in the future use double-acting type, in
of the crude oil burning non-igni- every stroke of the piston is a tion engine as automotive power power stroke, the woight of tho plant. They're upheld by recent engine will be considerably re- progress toward this accomplish- duced.
mont, the actual construction of The Worthington doublo-acting a Diesol that is much ligliter than or two-cycle Diogel has already the cumbersome, type still om- proven practicable in the Tampa, ployed for commercial and ship the government's first converted use, and at the same time is a motor ship. At the same time, it high upoed power plant compar is said, it will run a car 50 miles able with that of the gasoline on a gallon of crude oil, as bon- engine in automobiles.
trasted with 20 or even 30 milos The new Diesel is still much on a gallon of the higher-priced hoavier than the gasoline motor gasolino, in present auto motors.
PETROL CRISIS PREDICTED.
Scientist on Crude and Wasteful Methods.
NEED OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH.
Professor Thorpe, President of the Chemistry Section of the British Association. at Oxford, uttored a warning of a coming world shortage of potrol.
He said the crudest and most wasteful methods wore employed, as the economic use und con- servation of petroleum did not pay.
At present," said Professor Thorpo, the rapid incroase in the use of the motor-car for personal and commercial tran- eport indicates that at no distant period, if progress continues to be made in the same direction, the amount of the 'petrol fraction will be insufficient for the world's needs.
"This point has already been reached in America, where ap proximately 70 per cent. "of the world's consumption of potrol is affected."
ADDED POWER.
Superchargers for Small Cars.
It is said that during 1927 the designers will pay much more. attention to superchargers.
More than one make of small car is to have a supercharger fittod.
They will probably be more popular with the purchasers of Sports" models than with those who want a touring car.
The supercharger is an in- genious piece of mechanism, but it is also a complication.
The one thing that the average owner driver asks for is simpli- city (as far as it is possiblo) with regard to the mechanism of his car..
Superchargers may become popular in Shanghai, but
The transmission mechanism must be mudo stronger so as to stand the ineroased strain that is inevitable.
Designers seem to favour the uso of a bigger cylinder and no supercharger.
As has boon the ouso with regard to the automobile from the earliest days, tho matter will be settled, finally, by the records of tosts. J
USE IN U.S.A. "During 1925 the consumption All sorts of ideas has been put of petrol in the U.S.A. approached into practice that the "experts 800,000,000 gallons a month,said wore of little use. "The best which is about twelve times the oxample is the silent Knight amount consumed in this coun-engine. That has proved itself, try. It is evident that to meet but the inventor had little on- such 韪 colossal consumption couragement from the experts in mouns have to be found to utilise the oarly days when he had only the higher boiling fractions of tho drawings to show. Perhaps the notrolcum. This 'cracking' opera-supercharger will turn out to tion is now carried out on an be much more economical than enormous scale by numerous is now generally believed will be processes. All aro wasteful, the case when it is fitted to small because little or no research has touring cars, been carried out on the true chemical nature of the 'cracking' operation.'
petroleum had been for too little Petrol produced by "cracking" explored. In proportion to the the higher fractions of the crude tochnical side the true chomical oil, the Professor continued, led nature of partroleum had received to detonating, knocking," or comparatively scant attention.
pinking" when ignited in cylind- Since the war whát, is known ers giving more than a small as the "cracking" operation had compression ratio. Cortain sub- boon vastly improved, and work stancos, notably lead totrnethyl, is continually being directed to had been used as "antiknock" make these processes moro por- materials, but the whole subject, feet. Petrol now produced by said Professor Thorpe, needed systematic research,
EXPERTS' OPTIMISM.
cracking" W118, the oxport insisted, not deficient in aromatic hydrocarbons, and while it was Professor Thorpe's warning perfectly true that with the high was discounted by technical ox- compression ratios employed in port connected with the oil the modern internal combustion industry, in an interview with a engine a certain amount representative of the Morning
piaking" took place, this was Post.
duo not to, a deficiency in tho He said that so far the earth petrol, but to an effort to get a had been only scratched for oil, higher power out of a very small and as the demand arose now engine.
of
folds would appear. Although Pinking," it may be pointed it was true that the consumption out, is the tendency for a fuel of motor spirit was rising by mixture to explode instead of leaps and bounds, up to the pro-burning when compressed highly, sent only 40 per cent. of the oil and is familiar to all mortorists. In a field was removed, and Substances such 149 lead methods wore being developed tetraethyl are used as 'anti-"pink" for removing the remaining 60 materials, but they havo mostly. por cont. even if there was no boon found to be unsatisfactory.
Research, however, is going Possible chance of exploiting other folds.
on, and remarkable results may He was inclined to agree with be expected, whan petrol enginee Professor Thorpe whon ho may be produced with truly said that the chemistry of colossal compresione.
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