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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

CAR SPEEDS & THE DANGER POINT.

Driving All Out.

WHAT DESIGNERS ARE AIMING AT.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929,

really fast without risk of injury. or annoyance to other people or of an endorsement on one's driving* licenco, (This, need it be anid? is not the Grent West Road),

Well, it was great fun on that Alvis-the sense of mighty power, the torrific acceleration. When I got into the "straight” and put my foot down I instantly recalled an inadvertent application of the spur to the flanks of a big Australing "waler" one day in my youth, But`

There is a widespread belief that thirty for the whole distance; it the road, being one of the early the whole trend of motor-car would have been cruelty to a 'will arterial efforts, was not exactly manufacture is towards higher ing servant to inve tried for more smooth, and at 66 mph. I had to and ever higher speeds.

Some But for once I did wish for a milelet up." I was alone in the car, people put down the serious in-a-minute car. crease in road accidents entirely

There are few roads in this boot, and the rear wheels were and there was no ballast in the

It would be insulting such a car

to the "craze" for speed and the country on which, in normal con-only touching the ground in spots very much faster cars that the ditions, one can cover 200 miles Also, I am not young enough to "crazy" ones have at

command.

in five hours with both comfort enjoy thoroughly the car-spiliting Like other ideas this is only a and safety, and that, I suppose, is shriek of the super-charger. half-truth (writes the motoring one reason most of us are content correspondent of tho Sunday with light cars having a best speed Front-Wheel Drive Virtues. Timo). Maximum speeds, except of 40 m.p.b. In America, in the. in racing care, have not increased Middle West and Western States, to drive it sedately along at thirty much. There were plenty of cars people think nothing of travelling or forty miles an hour, but, a before the War capable of 60 four or five hundred miles to pay couple of hundred miles at its best mp.. and more on the open road, a week-end visit, and there are speed would scarcely be a joy-ride. What designers have aimed at is plenty of fast, straight open roads At the inme time, in justice to to produce cars with higher aver-to make such Jaunts feasible. ago spauda, and the two qualities

That is why all American cara little trial of fifty miles or so

the Alvis, I must say that in my casential for that are improved are of what we call the big heavy learnt to appreciate several of ind acceleration and deceleration or class, and the light car good qualities. The front-wheel stopping power, both of which known. The manufacturer is drive makes cornering a delight, make the car not more but less quite capable of turning out and with a heavier body or more dangerous.

light car fast enough even for weight on the back axle the in- The philosopher defined dirt as absolutely perfect surface, driving have yielded their true ease and American needs, but, except on an dependently sprung wheels would merely matter out of place. Speed it fast for hundreds of miles on steadiness of progression. becomes a danger only when out end would be anything but asonally, I have no use for the Per- pf place, and in the modern car, which can overtake in half the! pleasure. time and pull up dead in half the distance that its predecessors needed for either operation, speed is plainly much less out of place.

Wasted Power.

Trying a Racer.

This side of the speed question was vividly brought home to me the other day, when through the kind offices of Henlys, Ltd., I had a short-term loan of one of the two

super-charger until it has been muzzled, but the Alvis firm are undoubtedly doing fine pioneering work.

HAS 225 INVENTIONS.

Makers, British makers at any rate, are not aiming at higher front-wheel-drive, aupor-charged maxima for the good and sufficien: Alvis cars that took part in the high frequency oscillating mode- The perfection of the Marmon reason that they are useless. Ulster Tourist Trophy race. Too later marked the completion of the There are few parts of our fair occupied to take it far afield, my 225th invention of Thomas J. Little, land where a quick slow-down only opportunity of trying ita Jr., chief engineer of Marmon. and a quick get-away are not far paces was on, about the only pleco The invention is said to eliminate greater assets, and this, with other of road within the ten-milo. from torsional vibration from automobile factors, has moreover resulted in Charing Cross, where at most the evolution of a type of car that hours of the day one can drive is seldom, and never for long.) driven at top speed. "Capable of a genuine sixty" reads well in the advertisements, but most pur-1 chasers are satisfied to take the claim on trust.

British cars have a "best" speed, which is quite a different thing! from their maximum. By that If mean the highest speed the car will maintain without becoming harsh running and definitely nolaler. Every driver, who has a feeling for his engine, let alone a preference for his own comfurli and a care for his own belongings, very soon discovers this "best" speed, and even on perfect roads only exceeds it when occasion demanda,

Driving with the accelerator] pedal Ant on the floor is not a common practice, and for the anke of the safety of our roads we may be thankful that it is not, for the nearer a car's speed approaches its maximum the progressively less perfect becomes its driver's power of control. It is not a matter of actual m.p.h.a heavy, powerful car capable of 80 or 90 is far safer travelling along at 60 than a amaller-engined, lighter car which can only reach that 'figure when "all out."

Forty Miles an Hour Enough.

Best speeds are rising, of course, as the standard of engine efficiency improves, but they are not rising dangerously. The vast majority of our cars have a beat speed round about the 40 mp.h. mark and in view of the road conditions and of the fact that most of our motoring is short-distance work, it is high enough for safety and as high as most of us can reasonably! require. If we had the long dis-f Lances and straight, half-empty country roads of France and America it would be different.

One of the few long runs in this country on which, high speed is not only tempting, but safe and legitimate, is that between London and Chester. There is a route avoiding all the big towns, which for England is extraordinarily "fast" as I discovered just before the Show, having occasion to visit Hoylake. For the greater part of the distance the road surface is perfect-on either side of New- port it is a shiny strip of blacki velvet-and there are: few sharp bends or crossings or side turnings, calling for caution. I went north on a Sunday and returned on a week-day, and each day the road. was, by London, staudorda, us empty as the Sahara. We judged we met about two cars per mile.

During the summer months a good many Manchester men com- monly come up to London by car. They do the 200 miles in five hours, which means that for much of the journey they are driving at sixty miles an hour, for even on that exceptionally clear run a forty- mile average cannot be achieved. without greatly exceeding that speed whenever posaible.

500 Miles a Day.

In my case I had to be content to push along at forty and average:

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CAVALRY OF THE FUTURE.

The picturesque cavalryman of tradition may soon be only a memory, as a result of tests with a motorized cavalry unit made by the U.S. army. A detachment of saven armoured cars, designed to replace the old-fashioned mounted troopers, completed a 2,000-mile overland trip from Maryland to Ft. Bliss, Texas, and drew enthusiastic comment from officers in charge, Above is one of the light scout cars, fitted with two one-pounders that can be used as anti-aircraft guns if necessary; below is a heavier model, equipped with

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