MOTORING

Evening Star, Issue 16351, 17 February 1917, Page 10

MOTORING

[By Carburettor.]

Brief account* of holiday trips, roads, and places of interest are incited for the column.

Quite a number of club members were relieved when they learned !)t the monthly meeting that the 'recent deputation to the '1 aieri Council did not support speed limits, except at the corners of the Brighton road and also on Saddle Hill, just south of the well-known landmark, the Coach and Horses. As this particular corner is certainly a bad one, I have always treated it with respect, and most users of the road will not complain of speed being restricted just here. There is, however, one point that local bodies should not overlook when fixing low speeds at corners. A minimum speed (varying with the motor cycle or car, the load earned, etc.) must he maintained to enable a motor to climb, and six miles

scon's just slow enough for some motors coming north around the corner in qtuistivui. For example, a 31 h.p. two-speed motor cycle with sidecar and passenger would probably have 0 exceed six miles per hour to climb the hill from below the | corner to the Coach and Hone?. In i tiiis connection 1 nny point out that one of England's loading automobile journals. Autocar, strongly opposes .speed limits upon trnUiij hills. (Jin ixvpnt to*i tho intor-niii-roninuMion onizino proved oxetv-dhiciv in many qunrl-ers in keeping power mid Hnntiiyr Lpnng. In Sydney n hm nnnor to: eng'no niaint:tim-d. tho el-pi-t: ir lighting <;}’ on - of the largest theatre.? in the city, devi loping over' 2,30.000 candle p-'-wer. Other liens jacked up their motor lonics ami tir.md the power mi to th-rir p:a::t. wiih r--' 1 -n-lailnry nsidt'. A kiiw city establishment in shy I led Mm poveifnl engin - from a. motor yacht, which is well km-wn on th' harbor, and whicli lent thousands of cm- tr : c bulbs g-un-r, Ti t o>-.> is little doubt that if the (■<;-! miiu-m nr o.'l-,-n going to rive the conunnaity sn--i; a taste of tlvir power, the nnd.jeni -»■ ii 1 be partly solved hy Co’ wybbp’vad r.rl -u inni 01 methods wacrebv auvni-rv puwc; tan be obtained from oil fuel at short no tb m— The ‘ Australasian T: :-v-:’lh’i.’ If a motor car driver c P'-nalised for not smmding, bom while'turning the Rattray street rornev. wbv at- non-in<’C;;-vehioles exempt from carrvir'g and n-iu-a horn? We hear a good deal about ihnone the motor makes, and surely some rubber-tyred gigs at leapt r.imvM 'not be cxmnp* ft "m r-aVryiiig a wrn.in-. Agml. ( ■ -I. Lewis, vim iree:K ! '-' e,-f ■iblirliC''! rww motor .-a:- figures for :be 'fro-n Albany to Armadale AV.A.I. b v ne-oCr-iug the 2>;B nidov 'll o!i 2om n. earoe ■ innfliet with the local ant! ,i ?, ftß ,j <,„> '•.■■ - fined and mulcted in oorts (otahiiig P.? 3 ii. x : !nvinns driving At ilr’;-: vnfp H [.’! oh'i hly bn man v a li'iitr liob-ro le- te; ist will attomr-l to belter the c;-; At. ing rpeord. From an American who was rcoeotlv e;-.. gaged in airship constriv;ioo near I, :nd--co, and was in that city during se>-<» ;t ! Zepr,c l: 'i raids, the ‘ Aiwiican ' has gath -er.,| the partiouif.rs of ihe meiho ! bv whieii one «t the Zeppelins was der.troved : --lb;’ attacking acrojilanc carried 'mis|,cnd.d at a snii.abiedistanc ' liclo.v it a bgb; trr.jp-p.li.ng iron for engaging and tearing tne envelope of the Z;>p,,e!iii. On tj K . trrappling iron was mourned ;.n cl.ctrivai rgnitoin device, connected by cable with T twitch placid near (lie aoro.jianc ji'lot-. In t.ie case when this dov;t:e was ouceeestnilv used, London bad ample notice of in' approach of the enemy, and the. aviators had time to rise to sufficient height for a swooping attack on the dirigible. The e\1 lading novice was drawn successfully aero:;; tb.fi envelope, ripping it open. s6 that the liberated g,.s could be ignited bv the spark.

m uring model Ford? have been pnvehneed by the Public Works Deportment. (Omakau), Messrs Buncombe (Eai n-eknmii! W. Madiewson Jvikongai, Wilkinson d- p de), H. iTessou ilawhiti), mu! Skinner (Dunedin); while The Bristol Pi-mo Ompunv have purchased a Ford Runabout. Mr D. Jones (Waipiata) has purchased a Buu-k commercial truck, while ,Me--m John Begg tßaioiuthaj, T. H. Homed (Lee Stream), E. p. Pann-ctt (Balclniha) J Wisely CMi 1 burn), and J. Aude r:<on, P. A-tkon, and W. Mathewson (all of Jt'.x) have also purchased Buieks. The National Exposition of Chemical Research of New York has given considerable attention to the adoption of alcohol as a fuel for motors. At a ievent annuo 1 gathering Dv A. ]). Little said that '• fion, 1912 to 1910 the production of eompictelv donatlived anti specially denatured alcohol rose from 8.000,*000 gallons to 14,000,000 gallons a year. Alcohol .s being made Irom sawdust, according to A. H. Coney, chemist at the Du Font Powder Company's laboratory. Tn the yellow pine district alone there is enough material wasted to make 600.000 gallons of alcohol a day. am: there, arc 10,000.000 ions of material awl able every year in this country from whi .hj alcohol can ba made. - ’

Dunlop Rnbiier Company of .Australasia. Ltd., recently entered into oven pa I ion of a fine now seven-storied warehouse at the corner of Goulhitrn and Common wealth streets, Wentworth avenue, close to the >vdncv railway station, where in future all depm Intents f t its business will he housed. The now premises have, a llnor ,-pacc of over 51.000 ft. the whole of which wi’l he occnnud by the company.

Owing to the limitation of petrol supplies in England, motorists arc in a quandary as to thy bast means of obtaining motive power. Many motor cvclists have come to use paraffin, in various stages of d illation, with petrol ; others, again, are running on ftii'-strcnsrth paraffin. To get the best results from the use of (his Imavvgrade foul, two carburettors are fitted, connecting with the induction pip". One runs on petrol, carried in tdie usual oil section of tank, whilst the second carbpvottnr is connected with the kerosene sup-ply in the main tank. The m.ach'ne Is ftartod and run for a few hundred yards on petrol, when the lighter fuel is cut out and the kerosene carburettor put ir. operafirm. It is said that this idea works we!!, fb"rc being i.o need, of hot-air intake or any heating of parnfTn or vapor.sing arrangement wh.cn running on the heavv fnei. Extra air has. of course, to be used. For lubricating purposes a small spare tank is affixed to (lie machine. With ibis combination in operation a big mileage per gallon is obtained.