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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMEN

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SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929.

EUROPE TESTING NEW IDEAS.

Rotary Valve-Crankless Engine.

AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION.

Europe, laboratory for progres- lis going to create further improve sive ideas, continues to play with ments in automobiles.

A new type of radiator that is!

all sorts of automotive Innova- tions that come its way. Out of the thousand and one projects believed to be much more efficient as a water cooler and less costly with which its engineere have

been experimenting, a few have than the honeycomb varieties in como

to America to be adopted use to-day, is another European de velopment Instead of minute here on a massive scale.

honeycomb cells, this radiator has- A single pertinent example of a single row of tubes, each of this movement from European ex- which is encircled by a thin cop- periment to American production per wire grid arrangement that In that of four wheel brakes. Now quickly dissipates the heat of the further improvements just as rad-water flowing through the tubes. ical as this are boing, worked out

by European engineers and" may soon find their way to this coun-

try.

Better Cooling Eliciency,

The entire radiator weighe much less than the conventional Development of the single type. It takes up less room, it sleeve valve engine, a purely Et costs less and, most significant, it ropean product, is now taking will keep a motor cool under hill- hold in the United States. In climbing and other conditions that fact, Continental Motors has long ordinarily are too severo for the held American patent rights on system now in use. It has already this type of motor. The simplic- been adopted on a few European ity of this motor, its fewer mov-commercial vehicles and by the ing parts and its sturdy construc- British war office... tion are well known to enginecra. Various types of transmission jare being tried out in Európe for Single Rotary Sleeve.

the relief of drivers. One is a In line with this type of motor free-wheel device back.

of the

la another now, being tried out in transmission, which enables one Europe, in which a rotary sleeve to shift gears under any condi- valve along the top of the motor tlons without fear of clashing is used. It is a simplified adapta- them or ripping off a few teeth. tion of the alcove valve principle. The device docs all the shifting Here a cylinder with intake and automatically and quietly. exhaust ports for each operating Another automatic cylinder is placed under the head, transmission is the Constantinesco driven by gears from the main torque convertor, which does away shaft. As It revolves it opens with clutch and gears and has the and closes the ports of the row

form

of

of six or eight cylindera in the engine itself shift to various speeds as the throttle control is engine, permitting gasoline to en- ter or the burned gases to leave varied. This is only one form of many that have been patented by each chamber in order.

European inventors for the same purpose.

Gear Shifting a Hubli Here.

is

The advantage of this type of engine is that the single cylinder replaces six or eight sleeves in the ordinary Knight engine and Europe, however, is still expert- therefore is simpler, cheaper and menting on them and while Eu- more reliable. It is the invention rope is doing this America of M. Bournonville, a Belgian en standing by to await results.. gineer living in New York, and Whether adoption of a simpler has been experimented upon by form of transmission is needed in the Minerva Company of Antwerp. this country is still a matter of Even more radical than this de- discusalon among American engi- Some contend America ins velopment is the rotary engine peers. that was recently displayed in Eng- become so fully motorized that land. Here is a high speed motor, the shifting of gears has become much lighter in proportion to its a habit to us. horsepower than the kind we are

However, some day we may see

using to-day, that does away with the introduction of some sort of pistons, cylinders, connecting rods automatic transmission, if only to and crankshaft and still creates do away with the cumbersome ar- even more power, than the ortho- rangement now in use. dox poppet or sleeve valve motor. Jus Eccentric Drive.

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In addition to these funa- mental developments, there are jall sorts of chassis, and body im- that Europo has A double eccentric arrange-provements ment, turning on the main drive caught up for experimentation. shaft, is the main working part Such are various new systems of of the motor. This eccentric, ro independent wheel springing. a tating in a single cylinder, has ventilation system for closed cars, three abutments or partitions bearings that require no lubrien- which create as many firing cham- tion, cheaper fuel systems, mov- or "Buushine" tops and a bers between the eccentric and able cylinder wall. The double eccen- form of servo-motor drive for tric produces six chambers, equal easier steering."

to the average six-cylinder motor.

The roter engine is something

like Z rotary pump, although

Oil-less Bearings. · )

Henry Ford and Thomas Edi

many new features advance it far yon, it is said, are working on a beyond that class of power plant, form of bushing or bearing that It requires considerable experi- would need no lubrication, similar mentation and development be- to a type already in use in Eng. fore it could be considered avail- land. American engineers - also able for automotive use, but it at are working on methods for im least shows to what extent Europe (provement of wheel springing.

THE MORE, THE MERRIER.

CH-IT'S HOT SERIOR IS IT

TOUN?

- THERE'S NAV/

•FIGHT OR TEN CYLINDERS MISSING YET BUT I GUESS I CAN MAKE IT TO TONNY

HIGH ALTITUDES,

When driving in high altitudes the car will lose power and over

AIRPLANES INCREASE.

The increasing popularity of

heat. This is due to lack of air aviation in Canada is shown in a pressure and can be remedied by statement by the Chamber of Com- adjusting the air intake. If car-merce crediting the Dominion · buretor has no air intake adjust-

ment uso smaller jets. Atmos-with 303 airplanes in operation pheric pressure at sea level is np there on the first of this year. proximately 25 pounds per square

fach, at 14,000 feet, 8.5 pounds This is three times the total of per square luch.

one year ago,

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