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[By Israel Klein.]

Hardly has the depressible type of beam in headlights made an Impression on the driving popu- lace, when along, comes another advancement in this field that may put the former out of the running

We may now have the single flament, non-depressible beami, non-focusing headlight for our automobiles-and be assured in addition of a well lighted path ahead of us, sufficient light to the sides and no, glare to approaching drivers, 1-

This is the invention of Wiam

D'Arcy Ryan, famous, Illumination expert and director of the illuminating engineering labora lories of the General Electrie Company. Ryan, who has been working on this sort of light for several yeará, now bus in produc tion a lamp which he calls. the "Ryan-Lite."

Ryan's headlights are pecullar in that they are thin, saucer- shaped lamps with lenses that have round glass rima about two Inches deep. It is through these "rims" that the Hght from the bulb within illuminates the sides

Upper photo shows the laboratory and equipment used by William D'Arcy Ryan in developing his new headlamps. How they light up the sides of the road while giving long range is shown in lower photo. Ryan is shown in Inset. level of the ghis to, afford the Ryan-Lites and only have a 30 or driver Muraluation enough to dis-10-foot range, which endangers the cern objects of any height. At the man behind the wheel.

"While this vives the oncoming

of the road, so that the driver may same time this amount of illumina- easily read signs and see obstruction isn't strong enough to bother driver some relief, it imperils the tions well to the side of him. an approaching driver.

Needs No Operation.

man behind the wheel because his Ilyan's objection to the depres-range is too short for safe driving and he is also obliged to cut down his speed. On a wet night the in- due to the concentrated beami creased glare off the road surface, striking the road near the car, blinds the oncoming driver."

loggerheads.

Range and Glare Clash.

The reflector is so shoped, andible beam type of headlamp. is the lens is so scientifically design that it hurls two important fune ed, that once the light has beentions of proper headlighting at properly aimed when it is attached, there is no mire need of tilting the lamp as some types require, or depressing the beam, or dimming or manipulating the headlights in any way in order to get proper range and lighting over the road ahead.

At the same time, Ryan assures us there is no glare from his lamp. The reason for this is that only enough light is thrown above the they are still brighter than the

Suspension Problems.

By John Priolexu,]

cantilever, colled

"If you get range," he says, "the lights glare and if you eliminate

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Ryan'a light eliminates all this other and dunger. It's a steady the glare you don't get the range."light at all times and leaves no "This is not true with the Ryan- work for the driver, except turn- Lite," he adds. "Set up any of Leing it on or off.

Even the matter of focusing la new model hendlights for a good range of 300 feet and you will find no longer a problem. The lights them too bright with the exception have a fixed focus with the sockets of. the light I have developed. reamed into the reflectors so they After these lights are depressed can't be moved, says Ryan.

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three periods," Prof. Brown state

The first period; from about 190 to 1916, covers the rapid develop ment of motor cans during the years of which the fuel, gon ON EASY RIDING. sign that the worst results were not far from London, that the sу5- obtained. For some extraordinary tem possesses considerable merits.

manufacturera

What the Scientist Sees. was considered essentially reason very few

Bad Fateh Tackled.

that A

product or waste of the petróleum The announcement seemed to be able to grapple with

industry. New York, Jund. 27. On the Kingston by-pass, en Wolverhampton firm, the Clyno the problem except in a very half-

Gaoline will be sold on its merits hearted manner, and the years either side of the railway bridge, Engineering Company, have enter

"The second period begins with passed without any noticeable im-the surface of the road has formed the "baby car war and brought as a motor fuel even more than

Some ed a series of ridges. These are the £100 car a stop nearer, has provement being shown.

merits as motor cars, says George necessary for the refiners to motoring world The flat spot in motor-car de took to variations, such as three-falmost, inconspicuous, and the un-created a great stir both locally motor cars will be sold on their the World War, in which it becam

quarter elliptics, transverse rear wary will drive at them ut a brisk and in the

fighting forces for aviation and sign, if the description is pernils-springs, and the like, but, as a pace without suspecting their exis-generally, not only because of the Granger Brown, professor of che-deeper into the crude oil in orde sible of the point of slowest pro-general rule, these variations all tence. With most suspensions he advance which it marks, but hemical engineering in the Univer-to supply the largo demand of the Prof. Brown forecasts "the motor fuel, making gasoline a gress, has for years been suspen-fhad faults of their own and could will realise his mistake immediate- cause of the secrecy observed in sity of Michigan, Bioa. Engines steering, and, in not be regarded as anything batterly afterwards. Even in unusually the development of the plans. It

well-sprung cars I have, sitting in will be ready within a fortnight, gasoline of to-morrow" in a state-least tomporarily the major petro

Dr. Brown is lesser degree, gear-boxes, have

the back, been bounced to the roof when the output will be 100 a week, ment made public by the American leum product. shown a steady rate of improve-

hour. The but this figure will be trebled in Chemical Society.

director of research of the Na- "This sudden and marked.ebarg A New Design.

ut forty miles an ment throughout the past twenty

tional Gasoline Association of in the quality of gasoline, at lei

in its one outstanding property years, but suspension has until;

It is a healthy, sign, however, special point about these bumps, three weekd

The new car has a 9 h.p, engine America. recently most unaccountably stood

His conclusions are the result volatility, forced the motor a still. Here and there have been that some makers are still not con-as a suspension test, in that you ity. We all know individual exam-From time to time we come across the car has recovered from the per hour; has a potrol consumption of a careful study of tendencies a manufacturers to make certain im catatanding examples of superior-tent with improving old systems. Jure on to the second series before and is capable of 50 to 6b zalles pies of cars with such systems as new ideasome of them pro first. I drove over theat at forty-of 45 to 50 miles per gallon, and the petroleum and automotive in-portant changes in the construc

independent mising, others too far ahead of ye miles an hour and could do will cost not more than £115. dustries, in which he points out tion of their motors in order

volatile fuel. the car is stated to hold the road on the qualities of motor fuel. fact of their existenco is chassis.

Rofinera no longer are shifting remarkably well, and has been de- One is tempted, often to wonder springing, and so forth, but their their time to be practical-but the tect no shock transmitted to the Built with a low centre of gravity, the influence of motor car design utilize satisfactorily this lo

Gas Fits Motor, Now. encouraging. Marked Improve- The Cottin-Desgouttes 14 hp. is signed to secure an effective result the problem of better motoring on Bs to what is the ultimate fate of very fame has served largely to mere

Brown. The last period begins with ments in engine and braking effl- racing cars after their initial auc-show the inferiority of the mass.

The engine, is The introduction of ethyl gasoline, introduction of ethyl gasoline f CCBBPA are over. Many of them During the past two or three clency must be accompanied by a six-cyclinder, known in France without including unnecessary to manufacturora, Baye neem quickly to pass from memory, years a really astonishing change proportionate improvement ins a 10 h.p, the bore and stroke accessories.

$14.7 There is nothing about the valve unit of 9506.c., similar to that)

ning of a period in which the “ and it interesting therefore to note for the better has been shown in spring or the best cannot be made being 63 x 30 and the rating hp. water-cooled, four-cylinder, sido- for instance, marks the turning 1922, which indicates the begi that several of the racing cars of a nearly every factory of repute. of either of them.

general design of the car to cail used in the present Clyno 9 h.p.

finers and the producers of motë Three Fuel Eras.

fuel are making a consciention popular firm of manufacturers are We still have suspension systems

An interesting design new to the for special comment. The valves car, which was put on the market still in use by private owners, and

"The relation between these two effort to improve the qualities which is to be known as the Clyno are even proving formidable adver- of the kind which rely upon big

Century, will not compete with the industries may be divided into their fuel and to adapt the 10.

to fit the needs of the motor, saries in racing circles, adding to low pressure tyres to do most of British market is that used on the are of the side-by-side type and this year at £145. The new model,

them-and inci-Cottin-Desgouttes, a ear bullt by a Ignition is by coll and battery.

The four-speed gear-box le cen- firm's other products, and there is the successes which they attained in their work for care built for the Isle of Man Tour- they are comparatively few. It is which has made its reappearance trally controlled and, with a good a possibility of a "Baby" saloon former days. One of the Sunbeam dentally pay for it in upkeep-but French firm of very old standing.

For a long time have not yet fully awakened, ist Trophy Race of 1914 is now in rather the exception than the rule in this country. Five transverse

gives easy and scrapeless chang are similar to those of the existing particular job, New Zealand. Driven by its pre-to drive a 1928 car with really springs are emploved, one for the of dry single disc clutch, later. The general chassis detalla plant had been installed for this Perhaps all of the refine fore part of the chassis and four ings. The brakes are equipped Clyne "Nine," but a spoedometer the plant had almost been idle the number which still considers

Dewandre and clock are not included in the until the Arm's plans had matured, simply a problem of the motor arranged in n square about the

the manufacture immediately. Only motor that will handle any fu back axic, where they take the with Brobsen of torque and braking, cavuum pump which, however, was specification. The Clyno Century and now they were in a position to manufacturer to produce a car

not in action at the time of my will be a little larger than In the case of the front spring, trial. The etcoring decidedly good, Austin "Seven" and the new about half a dozen men were in the that the refiners may chooser per hour in the southern hemis-existing ones have been improved Which is secured centrally to the but it could be improved, I think, Morris, and will be the cheapest secret, and Mr. Cocker said that he market is rapidly diminishingby; phere. Since then the car has been and their worst faults corrected chassis, patent vertical pillars are by the Atting of a larger wheel,-four-cylinder petrol-driven passen-himself supervized the tests which

designer's Impressive claims are made for driven at Oreti Beach Invercargill, by a judicious choice of shock abecured to the wheel hubs, at a speed of 109.09 miles per hour, sorbers the spring That a racing car built as long ago heat friend, as it must still be the efficiency of this admirably had as 1914 should still be accomplish-regarded. This holds good, so far simple system. Actually I was in- ing such remarkable performances as my own experience, goes, with formed that experiment Is astonishing. The strain imposed every form of springing, but it is shown that no system had given on engine and chassis is so great most marked in the half-elliptic better results over roads describ that only a car of the highest quall type with which the great majority ed as of the colonial type, I was ty as regards design, material, and of the new cars to-day are fitted. not able to check the latter state be built between Brescia and Ber-covering over 20 acres, were put since then the time had been spent superior motor or engine perfor

ment, but I was able to antisfy gamo, Italy. It will form an ex-down two years ago, they were in perfecting detalla, checking ance will be those demanded workmanship, could retain its

In past days it was general with meself, by driving the car at high tension of the road already open originally intended for the new car, costs, and organizing production motor fual

and practically 75 per cent, of the plans. efficiency as this 14-year-old Sun-

springs of this really excellent de-speeds over certain road stretches between Milan and Bergamo. beam has done.

sent owner, this car won the Now bad springing.

Zealand Motor Cup in 1926 and established the New Zealand. Beach Record of 101.6 miles per hour. Incidentally, this was the first car

Improvements Effected.

It is not so much that new sys-

to attain a speed of over 100 miles tems have been evolved as that

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ANOTHER AUTOSTRADA IN ITALY.

ger vehicle on the road.

point.

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were carried out in a wild part of As the present tendency in mot North Wales over a period of six fuel is to emphasize those pro The man behind the Clyno Com months. A garage and workshop ties which determine apperiori pany is Mr. Frank Smith, the were tucked away in the hills, and gine performance, says Pr managing director, who has been a camouflaged ear underwent Brown, it seems likely that away in North Wales during the seven tests on hills like Bwlch-ch-y-motor fuel for the immediate? week-ond, but Mr. James Cocker, Groes and the Devil's Bridge. The ture will be marketed upon- one of the directors, stated that necessary modifications were made basis of performability, and A new 30-mile autostrada is to when the new works at Bushbury, and the final lincs decided, and the characteristics which fudici