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THE RADIATOR. Early Life of a Motor Car Component. EXPENSIVE. MACHINERY.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1930.

Musings Awheel

Idle Thoughts upon Motoring Matters of the Moment.

Half-Hearted Signals.

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Have you ever noticed-but of course you have the increasing tendency amongst drivers to give

in turning signals their qbaolutely dilatory manner?

There are, doubtless, all sorts of circumtances to account for this slackness, which can. con- "stitute a very real danger. The

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The machine itself is totally dif- for more than twenty years and in some field of its work each year, and was told at the radiator branch. circumstances, and they are large-driven vehicle off the roads, hast must be fitted to stand the excep

has issued 401.000 certificates.

Increasing Casualties.

The American Red Cross, which bulletin, estimates that 'more than

While, of course, it la not true to The Curtiss-Bleecker helicopter, exposed to public view recently, for more than twenty years has 31,400 deaths occurred through after four years of elaborate campaigned against preventable the automobile during 1929, and say that cars will not run without deaths--whether due to accident this was accompanied by nearly radiators, it is certain trat an over- designer, Maitland B. Bleecker, or disease has entered the fold one million more or less disabling whelming majority of engines are and a staff of Curtiss research against the increasing death total injuries." The ratio of increase cooled by water rather than by air in percentage of deaths and indirect. I know full well there are T. Pdue to the automobiles engineers beaded by

The Bed Cross, through its juries is on the upgrade.

just a few direct air-cooled engines, Free to the Public,

and the cars thus powered run so Wright and Robert Osborn, is "a

The service to be rendered the well and seem so entirely to escape direct example of the growing trend chapters, will establish emergency

where injured motorist, Mr. Fieser point heating troubles that one is tempt- of aeronautical designers to leave arst aid service at suitable points

the highways no stone unturned in the search for long

It comprises better aircraft. The aviation world accidents have been frequent, ed out, is a purely volunteered to ask why the rather costly and relatively fragile component knowa

bobbing up at regular intervals, have learnt by experience that and they are long overdue. this performance must sooner or will eagerly watch the first flights James L. Fieser, vice chairman in humanitarian one.

charge of domestic operations, binding of wounds by those within Europe as the radiator and, more a knowledge of Red Cross first aid, correctly, it seems to me, Ba the

What, I would like to know, has later be paid for in one way or Apart from loss of Each emergency station will calling a doctor and otherwise pro: cooler in America, should be retain

happened to the gentleman who another. The problems which the intricate

flexibility and smoothness, the machine is designed to conquer a keep on hand a complete kit ofviding the injured with prompt

hotted-up touring car has a nasty "Autocar." manifold. The problem of vertical first-aid supplies. An essential of assistance which may save his life. ed, writes Maurice Sampeon in the

habit of letting one down badly. I was passing recently down the ascent is but one, although that has the service to the injured will be No financial remuneration will be

Parts are stressed beyond the directory. telephone

of accepted for the service, but on

great assembly shop at Cowley. been considered difficult enough in

safety limit, lubrication systems the past. In addition, the machine physicians, hospitals and ambu- the other hand the volunteers at thinking of nothing very special,

I came when suddenly

which are thoroughly satisfactory has been built with facility of con-iance services in the immediate the emergency firat-aid stations

for normal running may fall when trol, mobility and practicability up vicinity, approved by the local cannot assume responsibility for to a certain limit, according to its medical society.

doctor's charges, nor for ambu-perfect wall of radiators. There

predilection seems to be most haps hundreds of them. Each new At least one person trained in lance or hospital costs, or similar must have been dozens, scores, per-

noticeable when turning off to the pours a packet of white powder called upon to do work for which inventor.

Into a bucket of water and con- they were not designed, and the The calculations of the builders Red Cross first aid will always be financing of the injured.

right. I think You will see if verts it into perfectly good petrol? whole car is liable to lose its most Many are available "The task is difficult. It cannot and brilliant in its chronium coat and the results of cross-charting on hand.

With the and carrying the wings and bull that

you are sharp enough to spot it. It is quite time he made his re-desirable quality. which is re- distinguish the latest Morris, cars.

liability. limp. bored-looking hand

appearance. I am getting quite curves of the principica incorporat- already in every community, parti- be solved in a day.

A sports car, designed to give ed in the helicopter show the possi-cularly employees of telephone intelligent interest of 3,500 localThere were so many of these glitter-flopped, barely up to its wrist, out worried about him.

and other public chapters and their 12,500 branches

of the drivor's window, and from

Again Mr. Edison's storage an ultra high performance, always principally bility of rising vertically 1,000 feet companies

that you are expected to deduce battery, which is going to make a shortcomings, a minute. A speed of travel of utilities, municipal and State in every part of the United States, ing and very attractive units that

that its owner is bearing right. Ithe electric car a commercial pro-fallied with expense, anathema to seventy miles an hour in any direc-police, firemen, Boy Scout execu- with 60,000 representative citizens they just pulled me up short to look "Where are they made?" I asked, tion with regard to the pilot is also tives and leaders, Inasmuch as the as chapter officers and hundreds at them.

As I said, there are all sorts of position and drive the petrol-the ordinary driver. Every part Red Cross has given this training of thousands volunteering service shown by the figures.

miles away on the

ly dictated by the type of vehicle not been invented for several tional straina involved, which are with 650,000 trained in first aid about three

in conjunction with the size and

years. As a business man, the carefully, calculated before the ferent in application of principle.

and life-saving by the Red Cross, Woodstock side of Oxford. "Would

sax of the driver., A hefty man inventor ought to be more con-manufacturer of the car pro- désiga and construction from any-

Of course I would; and so we "The tragedy of this war on with the backing of its 4,000,000 you like to see them made?"

can usually get his arm well over sistent. I feel, somehow, that he Fresses beyond the drawing-board thing thus far produced. With a

the side of a high saloon door, or is not playing the game. four-vate airfoil to provide the lift, our highways is that the numbers adult and 7,000,000 junior mem-

The radiator branch, an offshoot its wing

is comparatively mount each year. At the present hers, with the good-will of our entered an Isis and fared forth larger than that of the average rate there are in prospect 400,000 120,000,000 population and with airplane capable of sustaining the deatha and more than 10,000,000 possible help from industry, then the great and manifold activities same load. Power is applied to the injuries on our highways within automobile trades and allled asso- controlled by Sir William Morris, is ciations, the medical profession, growing fast. It is already big. It moter by four four-blade propellers, the next ten-year cycle.

fraternal could not turn out two thousand companies, "The National Safety Council insurance all turned from a common source, a

Midgets, for Merris-Commercials, Wasp engine mounted horizontally says that final figures for 1928, and patriotic organizations and of radiators a week for Minors and The trans released by the United States national, local, and State govern for M. G. Sports, (or Morris taxis, on the centre shaft.

show that ments, it should be possible to mission of the power is accomplish-Census

material contribution for Cowleys and Oxfords and Isis and is the plural Isis or Isies?--to ed through a set of bevel gears at accidents took 2,008 more lives in make

that year than in 1927. The total toward saving the lives the apex.

every single one before letting it Though fundamentally different of 95,086 represents a 2.1 per cent, increasing the comfort for those say nothing of Wolseleys, and test in its application, the helicopter increase over the previous year. injured.

"The Red Cross has, under forth on its active career, if the presents an outward appearance A surprising number of these were similar to the Helicegyre of Eng- in the home, due to falls, burns,authority of its chairman, accept-space were not very large. It is scratches, asphyxiationed the challenge. It will shortly large, but in every way and every land and the Cierva Autogiro. Acuts,

Radiator Ingredients. mass of trusses and tubular booms, poison and other causes, falls authorize many of its chapters to day it is getting larger and larger. the entire mobile portion of the accounting for 40 per cent of the make an experimental beginning. craft is an example of the intricacy accidental deaths in the home. It on this problem, particularly at of the design. Every part, includ-adds that accidental deaths where points along the more important with eyes to see that the main in- were involved highways. The plan, if experi- gredients required for motor radia- ing the contours of the airfolls, is motor vehicles

2.116 over thementation proves its worth, will tor manufacture, are (a) some novel and has been specially cal- increased by

The grand total contemplate a growing system of rather simple, but powerful and culated to perform not only the previous year. purpose of analogous parts of air- of 27,966 deaths in motor vehicles emergency first aid on the high-accurate, presses, (b) a lot of brass, limited wherever under-1 (c) a lot of solder, (d) a tremen- the added functions was an 8 per cent, increase over ways, planes but

taken to the necessary emergency dous amount of water, and (e) a necessary for successful operation 1927.'

"The Metropolitan Life Insur-first aid on the highways, limited terrific nickle-plating and chrom- in the helicopter.

ance Company, in a statistical wherever undertaken to the neces-ium-depositing machine or vat or plant or installation--call it what you will. The item (a), (b), (c) and (d) are all pretty simple, and almost anyone, fancying himself as a radiator maker, might be tempted to begin making his own instead of going to a specialist.

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It is soon, very evident to anyone

But exhibit (e), as they say in the courts, is the snag. That item is the most extraordinary, uncanny, almost human piece of mechanical ingenuity I have ever seen. Need- less to say, it costs a great deal of money to buy and fit up, and it is not like some machinery which is costly at first but cheap to operate; it requires constant and very costly refilling with various chemicals day by day, and it uses an amount of electric current that makes a reduc- tion or an increase of a farthing real a unit a matter of very concern.

Radiators consist of two main parts-the shell and the block Each is made entirely on its own, and the two are not united until the

conclusion of the making of each. Curiously enough, each component passes through a dozen major operations, and the life-story or, perhaps better, the birth-story of them runs as follows:

The shell we will take first. It begins life as a brass sheet. It is cut to shape, the shaped sheet is raised in a press, the flange on the raised sheet removed, the centre portion pierced out of the shell, a bonnet rest is formed, the shell is plekled, then polished, next nickel- plated, again pollshed, then chrom- ium-plated, and finally polished once more. The shell is then ready to embrace the radiator block.

It

More Spectacular Processes. While this sequence of operations on the shell has been in process, the block, which is less attractive to the eye, is undergoing rather more spectacular processes. starts life in the guise of big rolls of brass strip, about 3in. wide by 0.005in, thick. The brass comes to Oxford in these rolls from the metal mills in Birmingham. The rollä are passed through crinklers, then the cinkled brass is planished, it is cut into correct length, seamed and packed into groups or sets.

So precisely are all these opera- tions carried out that there are but two points at which some little trouble may be expérienced. First the block may be a trifle overweight, owing to too deep immersion in the solder baht. If so, it is like a boxer in a championship fight, it must be returned to its training quarters, so to speak, and get rid of that extra-

cary emergency first aid attention which may prevent death o further injury to the sufferer before the services of a physician

can be secured.

"It is not a substitute for medical care. but is intended to meet the need until a physician arrives and takes charge."

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Les Enfants Terribles..

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a big tourer, but a small feminine perfectly well aware of the fact If by making a few minor. arm may quite conceivably en-that the sea serpent and the giant alterations the speed and power counter some little difficulty upon gooseberry have served their turn of a car could be improved with-

. ສ impairing

general and gone into honourable retire-out I have seen; several times,

ment, but surely these modern efficiency, you may depend upon daintily-gloved fist small

scientific marvels have a long and it that the makers would do it, obviously conscious of the risk of useful life before them, and it is but it is a significant fact that any its being overlooked that it has unfair of their originators to dis-such modifications made after purchase are held to invalidate indulged in a perfect paroxysm of appoint us in this way...

the guarantee. This is not more envy or spite on the part of the There are many varieties of manufacturers, but is due to the pest on the road to-day, but few fact that they can no longer have more dangerous than the small complete, confidence, in, the re- boy. Apart from his apparent liability of the vehicle. An desire for a sticky death, he fre-extra ten miles an hour on the feverish waggling to command quently places one in situations attention. Conversely, when

of peril. some son of Britain jaba out a hand the size of a ham, it oft times appears to droop by reason of its own sheer weight.

A Practical Illustration.

Some years ago, a bright lad with a perverted sense of humour discharged a syringe full of dirty water into my face when I was passing on d motorcycle. may have been extremely funny to

This

road may be well worth having but it is, after all, a very poor ·

sive and Inconvenient. break- downs.

A Neglected Sense,

I found myself the other even-the onlookers, but gave me a very consolation for a series of expen ing following a popular make nasty moment.

At certain seasons whip-tops nine-horse-power saloon. We had just cleared a sleepy little country are all the rage in our strects, town and visibility was bad owing and these dangerous missiles have to extremely heavy rain. I had narrowly missed my windscreen noticed that the car ahead seemed on more than one occasion. But unduly long about speeding up. perhaps the most annoying prank our homeward way after having and was about to overtake when I have yet struck was perpetrated enjoyed tea by the suddenly it steered across my by an infant of about six, a few Quite suddenly the strong and path down an easy right-handed weeks ago..

unmistakable smell of alcohol turning. Not till the vehicle was across my bows at an angle was

window.

Mrs. M, and I were speeding on

I was driving into London along (alas of the fuel

wayside.

variety) I

I able to discern a weary-looking the Uxbridge road when this assailed us. With one voice we hand hanging out of the driver'sweet child hurled half a brick cried out "The Stove." Followed I heard it strike the car and con- a mad minute; almost before the оред the That particular saloon is of the gratulated myself upon the fact car was stationary I was out and

that it had missed the glass, desperately tearing popular high-waisted type, and it when I arrived at the garage picnic basket at the back, mean- may be that the combination of where I usually put up, I found time Mrs, M., carefully trained to high window line and a small. driver made the giving of clear!.. signals a matter of difficulty. But for all that, the circumstances may have explained the effect, the negligence arising from them is unwarrantable.

rise to all emergencies, was get- ting the fire extinguisher out.

We found nothing untoward and, having laboriously repacked everything and cleared up the general disorder in the back of the car, went on our way, frankly

miles on ajagged hole in my radiator, puzzled. Five which was almost dry. As I was nostrils were again assailed and I suppose I must have an order-selling the car next day, the con- the odour was once more quite ly mind, because I like things to sequent depreciation was a serious unmistakable: But I happened to notice that we were again in the follow out their appointed pro-matter.

Overdue Marvels.

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gramme, and nothing disturbs me There are times when my sym-wake of a lorry that had been more than unpunctuality. If the pathies go out to the late King immediately ahend sun failed to rise one fine morn-Herod, who, was probably ing, assuming that a morning, fine jenthusiastic charioteer, and had or otherwise, was possible under suffered on occasions as I have such circumstances, think of i done.

the shock we should experience.

Well, the failure of quite un- important events to materialise

when the trouble first arose there was a notice on the back of it, some- thing about blewing one's horn and so forth. So at the earliest ossible moment I overtook the lorry, having told my passenger As one who consistently to have a good look at it as we...

The Price of Speed.

As I expected, she reported that

the the lorry was the property of a

as expected affects me in just that preaches one thing and practises passed, way. To cut the cackle, and come another, I admit that I have been down to brass tacks, I am worried guilty of amnering with about the irregularity in the re-design of more than one car, in large petrol concern and

notices to the appearance of certain topics in the hope of obtaining an improved plastered with the Press. For about twenty performance, and have met with effect that it was running on their years these topics have been a fair measure of success but I latest fuel alcohol!

Was

weight. Too much solder may clog As a source of income, wool lenda Streets, are being widened and the cores of the radiator and make in importance with whalo fishing paved, and a complete through highway is being built from Valpa it get hot, just as too much "beef" second.

on the boxer may similarly slow "Automobiles are very popular in raiso, the chief port of call to Satti- him up. This fault rarely happens, this furthest south community," ago. This will be completed some though now. and again the block says Walter Gleanie, a well-known time this year. Chilean building goes into

the testing tank and automobile manufacturer, who reconstruction is very active. To-day spouts air when pressure is applied.cently returned to this country from Chile is in better condition from & The leak is immediately discernible an extended Bouth American trip. business standpoint than any other and generally comes from an in- "In Punts Arrenas, motor cars South American country. I believe finitesimally small hole near the are only used about four months cut it offers the greatest possibilities for edge of the block. It is soldered up, of the year because of heavy snows export business in the very near then and there, and re-immersed. during the Winter season." Glennie future.

modern plant

This, then, is a brief history of Bays, yet they play an important "As time goes on, we will see an a radiator, as made by a very part in the life of this little com- increase in the number of good munity and have contributed much roads in all South American coun tries, and with adequate highway to its growth and development,

"The Chilean Government em systems, attendant increases in ploys odd looking cylindrical automobile business will follow, bulletin posts as a place for display-Glennie says, Only Possible for Fouring decrees and public notices.

MOTORING POPULAR IN SOUTH CHILE.

Months in Year.

PUNTA ARRENAS.

They are scattered throughout the eity and are usually well covered with various official messages and notices of interest to the people.

"General Ibanies, present dictator.

PRODUCTION FALLS,

The production of automobiles South of Patagonia in South America lies the furthest south of of Chile, haa brought an era of during the first five months of all South American cities, Purta Prosperity to his country that is un-1980 fall 81 per cent. from the Arrenan, an isolated community be matched elsewhere in South Amer-peek production year of 1929, to the American longing to Chile, Punta Arenas inica More automobile ronds are un-according

a free market and places no duty der construction in Chile than in National Automobile Chamber of on imports or exports of any kind, all the rest of the country combined. Commerce.