NEW MOTORING DEVICE

Evening Star, Issue 21619, 15 January 1934, Page 11

NEW MOTORING DEVICE

Quite a lot of experimental work is being attempted in connection with wheels independently sprung, asserts Barre Lyndon, in the ‘ Windsor Magazine.’ He writes:— “If one wheel of a car runs over a bump, that end of the machine tilts; with independent springing, only the one wheel rises, and this is one virtue of Such springing. . . . Machines are getting fast—really fast. There is hardly a car on the market that will not do an honest sixty miles per hour; also, over a'period of years, the number 'of motorists has been steadily growing, with the result that more and more drivers are becoming comparatively experts, and can make use of a car’s speed. . “ The effect of this is that designers find it no longer a simple matter to provide road-holding and good steering with existing chassis lay-outs, these two qualities being essential for fast work. The power of modern engines is proving too great for the conventional designs which have existed since .the days when ladies tied veils over their hats, and regarded a railway time-table as the most, important spare part on a car. ■“ Independent springing makes for safe speed; if a-wheel hits a bump when the throttle pedal is down on the floorboards, the car won’t shudder like some stricken thing- and try to run amok, nor will the front wheels wobble disconcertingly at inconvenient moments. It may be interesting to see how long it is before, the new system becomes General; it gives low-priced speed and efinite safety, and the autumn show may reveal two or three cars with independently sprung wheels. Certainly thq y.ear, after will see machines with this innovation in production form.”