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More Valve Hints.

FIRST U.S.

CABIN AUTOGYRO HOLDS

FOUR.

By Israel Klein

Modern automobiles have been; construeled with much thought toị body and chassia noise elimina-! tion, but we still have to find per-1 fection in eliminating noise from valve mechanism.

Valve trouble in most cars is in- ! dicative of lack of power. The engine will not idle, the car willi. not elimb a hill as it used to, and ! the trouble is made known in many places

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Ninety per cent of valve tron-3 bies are made known through; some sort of noise, and result from misalignment of the valve head with the valve stem, stem guide or valve sout.

The seats and stem guides are | subject to seasoning as in the case with all purts made of cast iron, and the Intense heas generated in the automobile engine brings rapid change in the texture of the metal and distorts these parts.

The guides sometimes require from 1000 to 2000 miles of running before they become permanently | set or seasoned.

Thus every hour's operation of the engine adds to the value of the material in these parts, but makes it neessary to service or recondi- tion the valve seats as soon as possible after the engine shows

Here is the first enbin than the open gyro job, this and is

reconditioning to be needed.

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The guide, a small cast-iron rod extending into the valve porti where the heat from burning gas has greater opportunity to warp it, soon loses its perfect aligument with the seat and changes the di-| rection of travel of the valve.

The spring hus the power to close the valve regardless of this untrue condition, but does so through the valve striking a small portion of the seat first and then

CAN MOTORISTS KILL THE SKID?

By Sir Malcolm Campbell

utogyro completed in the United States. Looking even queerer ship will accommodate four. It was built at Willow Grove, Pa., driven by a 420-horsepower radial engine.

OLYMPIA IN RETROSPECT.

Special Report to the "Hongkong Telegraph" By "R. A. C."

Within the first day or two of visitors to London this concern's the opening of the Olympin Motor activities are closely connected Show a feeling of optimism be-with the name of Shaw & Kilburn came general and this continued Ltd., who are the London dia- throughout the Exhibition. It is tributors. confidently believed that the British motor industry has a good time before it, not only at home, Bent Overseas from the Luton About 1,000 cars and trucks are but also in the Overseas markets, works each month.

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The total attendance at the Show-185,778-must be regarded as eminently satisfactory. It was within a thousand of the figure for 1931.

During the Show Singers re- colved an order by cable for 29 cars for Spain, while Egypt and Morocco also figured on the list. Previously, Demark and Holland had both placed substantial orders.

At the very successful Singer Show week, the fallowing song was enthusiastically sung to the tun of "Sing a Song of Sixpence,"

"Sing a song of Sluger for 1933. Every car a winner on price and

pedigree.

My article on road safety re-the confidence of both pedestrian

armased tremendous in-and motorist. The

Figures for the first nine months pedestrains terest among all sorts of road would have only one vehicle to exceeded imports by about £1,000,-Agents Luncheon held during

of 1932 show that export values users, and during the past few consider and would be relieved of 000. Says I have received a mns of the nightmare possibility of a voi respondence on the subject. cond vehicle cutting him off The managing director of a firm from the refuge when half way in the prior trade writes: "Rae across; and the motorist would be inge of all descriptions has done a freed from the anxiety of pedes great deal to

safety. triana dodging about in the road." Brakes, road-holding, steering and The idea looks good at Brat acceleration, have all been light, but I am afraid it would not proved, but racing has done be found to work. He senda me virtually nothing to simplify a sketch plan of his idea, showing treffe control or to produce better it in working at a large road

crossing.

ensure

several hours at the Show one day, H.R.H. Prince George spent when Mr. W. E. Rootes, of the well known exporting firm, acted as guide and ensured that the Royal visitor missed none of the many interesting features on VISW,

coachbuilders' exhibits in

When your clients ask you what

you recommend, Sing a song of Singer, and you'll

make another friend."

Its success in the Overseas markets is reflected in the Intest Complete redesign of the frame editions of the Hillman Wizard.

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To overcome the variations in

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George had a talk with Mr. Peter On the Lucas stand, Prince road surfaces,

Bennett, who was able to give his "Skidding, which is largely a matter of road surface, is one of deadly obstructive such multipli-led the delegation representing the He cannot have appreciated how Impressions of Ottawa, where he the most serious dangers of the cation of refuges would prove. British motor industry at the Con- has made. It exceedingly stiff by road, and it so happens that They would render it almost im ference, skidding is very prevalent at possible for any but the smallest

imeons of cross-bracing and 7 cross- Brooklands. Therefore Brooklanda cars to turn from the side roads

members. The power unit of the Although the total number of "75" model pulla 65 b.h.p. at 3,600 would form ideal testing into the main traffic

stream exhibitors was smaller this year, r.p.m. ground for rond surfaces.

f without reversing. Obviously, this allowed better arrangement of Text at Brooklands

this would lead to chaos and enor the stands from the visitor's point "There are many different mous delay.

of viow. There was universal the viscosity of the all in Luvax theories held about rond surfaces, If such refuges were placed mid- Many people believe that granite way between croening places, they praise for the grouping of the hydraulic shock

absorbers, chippings of about 4in. diameter would not be so obstructive, per- National Hall, where on entering which reacts to changes of oll the thermostatically controlled valve and approximately four-sided haps, but experience seems pyramids in shape, embedded in show that refuges at such points ductions of such well known body in the rotor spindle, the valv

to the Show, the magnificent pre- temperature has been incorporated British tar, form the safest sur-are comparatively little used; it is builders as Hooper & Co., for opening and closing a duct drilled' face under the various weather at the busy road intersections that instance, immediately caught the in the rotor. This thermostat con- conditions, AR this could be most people want to cross.

Leye. tested at Brooklands by the Minis- I am inclined to regard all

trola the valvo between the high try of Transport more cheaply and refuges as a makeshift dovice, a

An exhibit which attracted the absorber in such a way as to allow and Icw-pressure sections of the effectively than anywhere else." good deal better than nothing, but

From the point of view of the falling far short of the ideal. The marine enthusiast was the 30 ft. a freer flow of oil when it is cold Brooklands Automobile Racing | real solution seems to lie in the Thornycroft cruiser, described as and gummy and a retarded flow Club, I think the scheme would be provision of enough subways for Family Cabin Cruiser de Luxe", when warm and thin. excellent. The track badly wants all pedestrian traffic at crossings, a new surface, and it might be leaving the carriage-way free for that some arrangement could be wheeled traffic, come to between the Ministry and the track executive for this to be laid down and paid for out of the Road Fund, in the interests of general road safety.

Idea for Ministry

Some very valuable data could,

The "Dangerous Loiterer".

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waters. This was fitted with a and Intended for use in coastal{ twin installation of the firm's The Standard Company's export 4-cylinder engines giving a speed trade during last year showed an increase of 050 per cent over the Another letter complains about of about 814 m.p.h.

provious year, and a dealer organi- the type of driver who ambles along at twenty miles an hour, large works of Vauxhall Motors at and

It is learned that the already |sation, coupled with spare parts service arrangementa, is sticking to the crown of the road Luton are to be extended and now established in each of the 88 and refusing to budge an inch for plant added at a cost of £500,000, countries with which the company overtaking traffic.

I am sure, be gathered from such The writer polate out-and I

a test na road surfacing could be agree that this kind of conduct

În the minds of many Overseas 'is doing business.

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CAR WITH

AIR-COOLED

ENGINE.

Here is the convertible coupe of the now Franklin air- cooled Olymple, built for the madlum price fold, and the engino that goes in it.

Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 29. Jstruction of the double drop type The first air-cooled automobile 60-inch tread, hydraulle shock ab degrees over to enter the medium-price sorbers, froe-wheeling, syncro Fahrenheit, is forced with great field has been produced hore: by mesh transmission automatic velocity through the small opening the Franklin Automobile Com-starting, and increased streamlin loft and burns the, valve face or pany. The new car; the Olymple ing. wraps the stem.

model, sells for $1885 for the

The new six-cylinder engine sedan type, na compared with tho prica of more than $2300 hero produces one horsepower for

every 85 pounds of wolfE THE EN tofore,

The new car has been designed ear, and has a taxable hölzaPOW to bring this air-cooling feature to of 29.40, 2

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a these engines, the compressed burn- given under the stress of high constitutes dangerous driving in gaining the full sent through speed racing. It might be worth certain circumstances. Apparent pendulum-itke awing of the stem. ing gas, which reaches a tempora the while of the Ministry to con-ly, he says, the police and road This produces a metallic clickture of 1500 to 2000 degrees Fahren aider laying some experimental scouts take no notice of this type that defles removal through cut-ture of 1500 to 2000 stretches at the fork and along the of offence, and he suggests that ting the teppet clearance. railway straight.

they should be instructed to direct

Stocking valves are produced Another reader offers an idea the offenders to drive nearer to the

through the same misalignment, for making snfor the streets in edge of the road. busy towna and villages. He

The practice is one with which Under best conditions, this side-

It is impossible, when a valve writes:

it is very difficult to deal, except slap of the stem will produce "At all wide crossings where the by auggestion and appeal to the carboon to such an extent that it guide warps and loses its original public is to be encouraged to crona, good sense of drivers. The police will seal the valve stem in ita allgament with the block and valve seats, to bring it back, yet it let the roadway be divided by can doal with individual casos guide. unrrow refugea into channels only only where spoolfie danger can be Warped and burned valves be- is ridiculous to replace it. wide enough for one vehicle to proved, and that is extremely gan to appear with the advent of The remedy is to recondition the pass through at a time.

dificult. The dangor is much the high-speed engines. When a cylinders after about 16,000 miles "This would add opormously to moro general than specific.

valve does not close completely in of running.

a great yr fleld of buyers, Hydraulic brakes sseure bit hity Ita fontures include 4 100 in proportion to the acceleratio horsepower airplane type, super and epted the new, model, faza charged engine, X-frame con- to be capable of..