1931-10-24 — Page 8

THE

SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1931.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING

SILENT REFORM IN CARS.

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Economy with Greater Beauty. [By Chiltern in News Chronicis.]

In dealing inat week with the tically streamlining is excellent, features of 1932 cars I stated that the publle han still to be educated British body and chanals designers to the fashion. had at last accepted the theories of streamlining for the average man's car.

The air

which has resulted in our 409 m.p.h. Schneider seaplanes available for car makera who want to experiment.

It is true that in air research for speed there are not the outside things to consider as in a car body,! but the fundamentals are there.

Silent Revolution.

!

HEAT ON WINGS.

Said to Prevent

Formation.

Tho heat generated at these edges Rowed backward over the wing surfaces. It was pressed down by the rush of air past the Icewings. forming a heat cushion ba

tween the wing surfaco and the freezing water particles.

EXPERIMENTS AT

CORNELL

The Peculiar Antics of

Air and Water. Back pressure produced upon the engine by using the exhaust

Dr. Merit Scott, Cornell phy-guses in this manner, Dr. Scott sicist, han discovered that enough said, may be relieved by dlachara- hent ls dissipated by aeroplaneing the gases into the air at a The stage has now been reach- research knowledge ed when the public are getting in-engines to warm the wings and pro-point on the wing where the pres terested in the idea, and this year pellor and prevent ice formation, sure is below that of the atmos- there in hardly a car maker in the according to The Associated Press. phere, world whose body designer hun not

"There has been a general opin- "The propeller may also be pro- incorporated an "air" change here. and there, which has reduced air ion," Dr. Scott said recently, that tected from ice formation," he said. the heat dissipated by the aero- Laymon think of air as rushing calatance,

piane engine is insuficient to over a completely fare wing sur The silent revolution in car body maintain the necessary exposed face: Actually the wing lies in design will gradually grow inmurfaces of the aeroplane nt or coat of still air, but it is a micros intensity until aerodynamics will above the freezing point of water copically thin coat.

The next layer control car body inventiveness. at leeforming temperatures,"

of alr outward la in motion, and That this opinion is mistaken creasing velocity. For this reason,

succeeding

with in- fuyers move he found in a year's experiments Dr. Scott said, if a layer of water and calculations in a laboratory at Cornell University equipped under the wing is thin the air forces tending to blow it off are excoed- a grant from the Daniel Guggen-ingly small, even though at an al- most infinitesimal distanco above there may be a hurricane. In a refrigerating wind tunnel

This results in he drove glazo sleet and sub-antics of water drops, he said. Ou coolol

particles against

The average motorist to-day wants speed and economy in place He wants of speed and waste.

Look carefully at the 1932 models the comfort not only of an arm and you will see how the engineer chair seat and of good springing, has niso utilised the air know taking the knocks out of the road, tedge. Watch the evolution in the but comfort also by the elimina shape of radiators, wines, and the tion of noises. He wants beauty,

ront part of the chassis, and a car of graceful lines, but not watch also the almost unnotice heim fund for the promotion

marred beauty

by restricted nhle alterations in windscreens.aeronautica, vision. And he wants all this all windows, lamp shells and lenses,

and body tails, In low price,

Porerunners.

More Graceful,

water

unexpected

For some time nerodynamics You will get the inoression that have proved that air resistance somehow the car has become more can be overcome with a saving raceful, while being unable to engine power. The late Sir Henry point to any one fenture causing Inviation engine. The pipen kept water poured upon a sizzling

The striking change.

Segrave was, I believe, the frat i harness aerodynamics research to You will miss external visors. ear efficiency. 11is car's performy-shape radiators, straight line ve car bonnets, ance still left the average

straight windscreen.. builder cold, but Dr.

Dr. Rumpler, 1. German, who built a "raindrop" "uare-fronted roofs, and so on

Then look at the various moleis with its rear car, details of which, drive engine, were given in the of the better-clane cars and you Ggn, will note that contours graceful News Chronicle Ave years found out that his bulbous-nosed,curves, giving an attractive shape to the body, have forced external pointed-tail earringe not only gave parts of the car to be placed else-

but WAS the economy of power. most silent in respect of bodywhere. noises he had ever driven.

Vibrations and whistling noises were fewer, and window and door stresses lean by reason of the decreased impact of the wind.

More recently we have had thei strikingly streamlined car of Sir Dennis Burney, a model of which the Prince of Wales owns, and number of "tear-drop" cars America.

Again, notice how all the sheet metal and steel excrescences for the protection of the car from dirt and damage have been redesigned with more graceful lines.

And then observe the radiator On many cars they have cape. almost disappeared and on some cars they will have entirely dis- appeared to a place under the bonnet.

All Wear Lessened. These undoubtedly are the fore- runners of the future car in body shape. While, however, almost What eventually will be the

Before the arrival o all designers have awakened to the results?

act that power, fuel, oil and the complete revolution with ears everything else is being wasted by designed from head to tail to over- retaining old ideas, commercially come air resistance, we shall have here can be no wholesale scrap big increase of speed wit ping of designs, for while theore-raaller engines and lighter care.

consumption for more.

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petroless oil will be used,

Lyre wour and every other sort of wear will be lessened and wind stresses, causing whistles and other weird body noises will have

gone.

This will bring another essen tial improvement at a

greater pave-the silencing of mechanical Parts.

nen, with the use of u falready known new alloy, which will become cheap enough to usa in the cheapest engine, we shall have something like the car most economical, possessing a speed of 80 m.ph, splendid acceleration. excellent deceleration, low built with fine rond-holding, and good driving vision.

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LUBRICATION.

(Continued from Page 3.)

Most difficulty in chassis lubrl- cation is met with the spring bolta because of the water and dirt that They neumulates around them, have a tendency to stick. no that the springs fall to move freely.

In forcing grease into these therefore, the motorist should see that the lubricant comes all the way through and out the other side. It should force out all the old grease. If the grease, however, squeezes out of the frat opening it meets, and can't get through to the other side, the spring bolt is stuck and must be freed.

This be done by means of a short crowbar, by lifting up on the uprings and working it up and down a few times until the grease finally comes through. If this i unsuccessful, the bolt may have to be cut out and a new one inserted.

can

Another important part requir.

18 attention

the ing careful universal joint. This also is a mechanic's Jeb, but it is worth the owner's efforts to know how to do lit.

When proparing to lubricate, the joint should be turned until one of the oli plugs is directly over the other. The mechanie should then unscrow the upper plug, re- move the lower plug and lasert an ofl gun filled with a good grado of heavy oil, about like that used for the transmission

The oil should then be forced into the lower opening until it comes out of the upper one. Then the upper plug should be replaced and the joint turned about until the hole in which the oil gun-

The gun Inserted fs at the top. may then be removed and the plug replaced.

water flat, but as it flows back small model plane wings. In there the leading edge air pressure holds wings, plong the leading edges. were pipes Carrying hot air coul. over the wing it bunches up Into These rush valent to the exhaust gases from arounded droplets.

along with the hoppling motion the surface of the eigen freezing.

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