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TIME OUT

just a few moments for

Firestone

STANDARDIZED

BATTERY SERVICE

1. Test battery with hydromes

ter.

2. Add approved water if need-

ed.

8. Clean top and terminal

posta.

Tighten and grease termi nale.

5. Inspect and check cables.

6. Tighten hold down clamps.

7. Check generator charging

rate.

Begin today to use this service

Firestone

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THE

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

Planes Carrying 250 Passengers: Splendid

Grant to Engineer.

Highway Mishaps.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1932.

The Ever-Existent Human Factor,

shock absorbers. The advances in brakes only on the rear wheels HUMAN ELEMENT.

this particular field in the past and just try a few stops. But it few years have been marked, and should be done cautiously, for he

"But still the human factor re- have made the vehicle far safer will be surprised at the distance mains. The manufacturers hayo Mechanical Defects and and more controllable.

required to bring a car to a halt spent and aro spending millions with the old-fashioned braking of dollars to improve their vehicles Embarrassments of Former

equipment.

to make them more safe, but în Accidents.

"Undoubtedly balloon tyres many cases the man at the wheel SAFETY CONGRESS. "Again, not many years ago the have also brought their contribu- takes those very factors of safely driver of a car sat upon his gaso-tion to safety. The broader space and makes them excuses for the That carelessness is now res-line tank. In case of accident in contact with the road has made careless acts that cause accidents. careless Giant planes, which will dwarf) "The Kennedy No. 3, was only ponsible for practically all acci- this position was embarrassing, to control of the vehicle more de- The temperamentally ships now regularly used in trans- ten feet smaller than the DO-X, dents involving motor vehicles, say the least. If one looks backfinite. The greater adhesion be driver, for instance, knowing that port lines will establish aviation but she was a four-motor plane and that physical and mechanical on the number of fires after ac- tween tyre and road does its part his four-wheel brakes will stop a steadily cidents in former years, he will in bringing a car to a stable halt. the car in a shorter distance timn on a new and more commercially The engines were set two and causes account for

"Better illumination for night the old two-wheel affairs, profitiable basis, it was predicted two, tandem, on the wings and decreasing percentage of. acci- certainly list the present location

We used dents, as car manufacturers keep of fuel tanks as an added factor driving has been gained as a re- that as an excuse for travelling recently in New York by C. J. H. they were synchronised.

sult of endless experiment and always at a greater speed. Mackenzie-Kennedy, pioneer de- the largest engines then obtain-working for. greater safety in their of safety. Make of huge aircraft. Produc-able. They were 200 horse-power product, was the finding on trian have contributed to safety one this angle of the safety problem eation of the careless 10 per cent.

"How greatly four-wheel brakes work in the laboratory, although "The chief problem is the edu the American' Lion o fsuch ships, he said, will Salmsons and the four of them, safety experts at

of car drivers to use the safely their fifty-six be able to compete in r CH. with with

cylinders, Safety Congress, recently held in need scarcely remind even the has been entirely solved.

generation that ja driving now. A "The engineers have, in recent factors that the manufacturers the great trans-oceanic steamship weighed nearly three tons. The Chicago.

ship's total weight was 23,000 The American Society of Auto- rather interesting lesson might years, given us a real contribution are putting into their vehicles as [companies.

Designer of the Kennedy No. 3, pounds, but the 800-horsepower motive Engineers, in an interest-be suggested, to show just what to safety in the lower hung designs the means for avoiding accidents, a four-motor ship built in. 1915, plant lifted it and made a speeding statement, pointed out speci- four-wheel brakes mean to any that they have turned out. This the purpose for which they have which was only about ten feet of ninety miles an hour, but it fically how manufacturers have driver who has not known the two-factor increases the coadability of been evolved. In the meantime, smaller in wingspread than the was so underpowered that we progressed in increasing the en-wheel types of yesterday. He the vehicle and gives a more cer- the manufacturers keep plugging

away for greater safety." current DO-X. Mr. Mackenzie-only undertook straight flights in gineering and mechanical safety should get, if he can; a car with tain control.

factors in their cars. The follow Kennedy forecasts that the future it." use of small ships is limited.

ing are excerpts:

Hei

bases his right to prophesy on his relation with living since, 1908, when he designed, built and flow

British Government, Award to Aeroplang Engineer. The British Government, how

the first power driven aeroplane ever, SO appreciated Mr.

"Substantial improvement has been made in steering in the past few years. Any driver who re- members how he once had to fight?

in Russin, and an almost con-Mackenzie-Kennedy's contribution his wheel to give reasonably stant contact with aircraft engi-to plane contruction that he was accurate guidance to the vehicle, neering projects ever since. Tawarded some £31,000.

will realize how greatly this fac-

arger aeroplanes,' Mackenzie-Kennedy. "I

"The future will see a sharp There were six ships in the unit tor of safety has been increased. trend toward the building off and for nine months. it operated "Then there is the question of

said Mr.

without subsidy and without ac-springing and of properly designed cannot ident. Service was continued hellove that small planes will until Great Britain created the survive except for military and Imperial Airways to handle the spirt uses. Youngstera who business as a government enter plane speed the fess the load

vw gymnastics will continue to prise.

For

which can be carried a horsepower. No one any more wants a ship ant the diminutive models, but The successful venture in trans-

trade uses the tendency, port led Lloyd's to reduce in-with a 100-mile-an-hour maximum believe, will be toward larger masurance rates for its passengers speed and yet, under present con- things.

and freight to the same level as struction, he said, when the wing that charged those going by train loading can be made thirty pounds and ship. These experiences, Mr. a square foot, the power loading Mackenzic-Kennedy said, are the drops to perhaps five pounds Addueing evidence to support basis for his belief that commerhorse-power. his belief, Mr. Mackenzie Kennedy tial practicability and engineering Passenger Rates, Lower Than

Development of the American Clipper,

a

pointed to incidents in his own must work hand in hand to make

Steamer Fares. the newest aviation achieve its new destiny experience. and to

In forecasting this new era Mr. achievement of American builders, of service. the forty-five-passenger amphi His own experiments have cor-Mackenzie-Kennedy asserted that bian 8-40, which has comploted vinced him that future big planes super ships of the air carrying]|

principally of

a 250 passengers would fly between Tires - Batteries - Broke Lininger test flights and been christened must consist

the American Clipper.

wing of parallelogram formation New York and Paris at passage "While aviation has marle tre without sweepback, or tail mem- fees of $75 each. Such ships, he es- mendous strides in many wags ber. He believes that sweepback timated, would need four semi-

with Mr. Mackenzie-Kennedy note interferes

aerodynamic Diesel motors producing an ag-

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any of the early tests remain efficiency and increases drag. He gregate of 12,000 horsepower. that it has generally Cost of such planes, he said, need valuable indices of what reconcesdes mains to be done. When in 1914 been considered impossible to not exceed $375,000 each. Such designed and constructed, the make an efficient ship without air liners could make the New first giant aeroplane of the Allies boily and tail planes or sweepback York-Paris flight in twelve hours. Several American manufac- in the World War, we were com- wings, but he views the fact as a pelled to build it under à scaffold challenge to the ingenuity of de- turers have evidenced an interest because there was not ashed signers.

in Mr. Mackenzie-Kennedy's ideas Hlarge enough in the United King- Recent races have shown, he and are holding conferences with

dom to house it.

points out, that the higher the him.

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