The Motor World

NZ Truth, Issue 539, 16 October 1915, Page 10

The Motor World

(By "S«lf-Start«r.")

Entries for the Pioneer Motor Club's beach races at New Brighton, close next Monday week.

The Indian Company of America is placing: a two-stroke machine on the market for 1916, This will be the first Yankee two-stroke, and its complete weight will be 1201bs. The engine is rated at 2^ h.p., and the machine will be lilted, with numerous improvements, novel m the world of two-strokes.

Tho Plonker Motor Club proposes holding a monster gymkhana shortly. Application will be made for the use of Riccarton race-course, and the proceeds will be devoted to patriotic purposes.

A new world's record has been established In America by Jim Davla, who cut out 100 miles m SS minutes 6 2-5 seconds on a dirt track — a fraction over 68 miles an hour. Some speed?

A motor cyclist with a kink tor arithmetical research mentioned to writer the other day that few motorists realise tho number of revolutions of a 26-inch motor cycle driving wheel means m a mileage of 5000 miles, which is probably about the 'average distance a rider travels m a year. The figures are 3,87C,!)20. This means that every part of the tread receives this number of violent blows durlnjf a year's running:. To thinking motor cyclists these ligures call attention to tho necessity of a wise discrimination m the choice of tyres.

It Is no exagseration to say that on fully 75 per cent, of the motor cycle car combinations the side car wheel and motor cycle driving wheel are not runIns parallel. In most instances the side car wheel hangs m at the. top at a considerable angle, m others the car and passenger tilt the motor cycle over towards it, while iv many cases both tho wheel of the machine and tho aide car incline inwards at the top. All this points to faulty construction or poor connection supports. Apart from tho twiKtinj? effect on the whole outfit, from lack of alignment, the wear on the tyres Is greatly increased, for nothing win Krtud more quickly than a side tlrog- on the covers. Anolh«r point is that It takes mor* 1 power to propel a side car ouUit when the wheels are out of alignment. Few motor-cyelbna arc ready to believe that their machines fail In

l'Vundoola did not lose any friends by hl» showing: from the scratch wh«^n he won the Kinti Goorjfe Handicap very easily. From the Hmilo on hi« trjdner'H face after the race, that gentleman was quite KJitbiliwd with Uls ehurgu'n perforlaajic*.

Do not hf too frarv that Don Caesar Will wturt m the TrolthiK C.up n-2«t month. He chipped «no '.>( hl» km**** while runnlnK In the Cup trial lmn Saturday, und Mince ha.«j Ik*<*ii on the wtay list. Bobby Allen tblnkK fur tuo much of him to riuk knock inK hb* fuvoritu out-

Adonis did his work well when he won the Cup Trial. 1-Vee HolmoM's ciuididute !s v«ry forward.

Our Thorj><» puced a Krvat ruct» Into Uilrd place behind Adonis and Admiral Wood, and uiuny wjM«ctutor« iwv uf the opinion that Klvm.u»K*s cra<-k will revt^i'si' po«ilioiiH iator.

IHtyaprinu won to have been put Into work again, but thi> ma,r<» knockcil v hip down, bo wuk Mt'iu on n visit to l.ojraJi Pointer.

tlountry lJeli«' .showuc) horsflf to he In forward roruiition wlu*ii wvn out hint week. Hy tho Km" <*up tlay arrives a\\tf nhoul<l Htrtp at litrr li^ttt.

Murlcutrt w.ih s(»mi out iti tho Frtmeh Manfllcup, a nu-u for trot tors run over n mlln and ihn*eo, mirier*. Tho ro:m mare 1m (retting over her huni-ncis. but Is backward.

Smid Drift Ig runninjr out at Cokljntprc. utul will not In- brought m until tho autumn.

Kccenlrk' has pot n»» inuoh »»pw<l 'or the first piece of v race as nny pacer wo have, but his ability to run out n urtlitl two mlloji with ho tu> of our toojsl hor«'>« is another inati r.

The Oumiiru Trotting ' Mijt. iihb received RToat Hoinm;itlo!!.s '-n- On- nj'ftItiK to be hel«l on (Hiolur .".. A Muviul train to and from Ounirti on that «lay has been urnuiK'Hl '<"' Tom I'hiustchurch.

this important direction, for they do not see the fault, but It taken little obobsefvation from a side car to see this trouble Is m evidence on most motor cycles drawing side cars.

One of the most popular motoring fallacies is that the lower a car Is geared the more petrol is consumed owing to the increase of the engine speed. Such a supposition holds good m extreme cases only, for within certain practical limits the fuel consumed should be a little less, of anything. For example, a 15-h.p. car, geared to 56 miles an hour, would most assuredly consume more petrol than If \i were geared to 40 miles an hour, for the reason that the power m relation to the tractive load, as determined by the gearing, would not be proportionate. It would not perhaps be strictly proportionate m the case of the lower gear, but the tfactive effort being- so much less, the load is more easily pulled. It Is a pity that no data are available to show what the difference is m the consumption of fuel of a car between the limits of, say, 30 and 60 miles an hour. At present it Is so much guess work, although little fourcylinder cars demonstrate very conclusively what excellent results can be obtained from low gearing and high engine speed. It 1s not o.n easy experiment to carry out privately with a car.

R. F, Lee. direct agent for Goodyear tyres, lately has had an army of decorators and workmen making extensive alterations to premises situated at 6 'Mercer-street, Wellington. This linn evidently means blj? business m New Zealand, and that it has come to stay is a dead certainty. That it can supply the jroods is another certainty, for m th»» latest advice "SelfStarter" received the works at Akron, U.S.A., have undergone great extensions for th<» growth' of the business. This will ifivo the plant a total Hoor area of nearly tifly sicrvs. This new building will be ready by November of this year, and will require for their use 2000 additional men, bringing the Goodyear working force to a total of 10,000 men. The present production is over 12.000 tyres a day, the enlarged factory will brine the capacity up to 15,000 tyres a day. The Goodyear plant has been rated as the largest single tyre factory m the world.

Jjist Saturday mornlnpr Mr. Juntlce Chapman dellvored tho reserved judpmont m tho case of Spackman versus Woods and Fitzgerald. The case, which wu« v highly l&ohul«ial one-, occupied two ■whoU; days In the Supreme Court, and for the first limn In New Zealand, "Self-Htarter" listened to the relative methods of R.A.C. horsepower and break,-hor»epo\ver, and .there can be no doubt, judginj? by tho (Vpert evidence that the R.A.C. nitlxiff has Burvlvcd its utility, and can no longer be regnrdiMl In determining the power of an imginu. The learned Jnd^e delivered the only possible verdict, and In (,'ivln« the'decision lv favor of tho defendants, he referred tv culoklsHc terms tv Mr. FitzKerald. Hesldes losinß the ca»«, tho plaintiff will be asked to pay all expenses

Another or Wellington's motorist*, m Tattle, who selfs Miucwell car«, hua tjiken a summer rwidonce at Lyui) Uay. On a previous trip to th« Uay this pul-ai-iJ bore tbft title t»f M Tlio Tvrnple uf Innocence," but on the writer's last trip the title bod bitn i>bliterat«Hl. Why? Now, therv'H unt» thins. '"Tut.," old H|>ort. you've «ot v miKbiy big patch uf soil lu-mind that dwelling, and if wrll doped wJtb phospluit«jj, you miirht jjruw Hume mlKhty line "tutwrß." and they're alwayn marketublo.

Harold Hrown Oid a .wcful touring trip throuKli the North iHlarul diijtrictji, mainly t»n '" bUMlivK*?. m hl« lat»*Ht new Mix-i-ylinU^J' Cadillac. Well. I kui-.h.s h«>'d 11 nd Iht cnmTortabli- t<> drive?.

U'm j««t about up to th<> civic author\{\oh to Kivc v can«ful **yV to th«* db» jfUHilnj? method of taxl-ilriv«>r.H m ih* way th««y tr<rat thi- kt>rbinff ni-ound thf Public Trust I'Wicp. Dirty mrbjtltv «.»li and tilth Riil«>r»- pr^iiominato.s. ami t);>» fflW'l Is wnrs* 1 than n toUut<n<iu-lik« slltlt* on a bununu -skin.

A few of iho public ore stU! very jjcoptitjul and ennnot cruxp ih« tnvi thai ho many prominent s!ni;cr« tincl actors many hu>iirte*B, eW-rteal ;nul other profitsytioflftl irjfjn ami women write spontaneously m praint; of Flueh/ol uh v KiU'fiU? entirely In v spirit <»f snuitmie. UnrylO for UircMu.t aiui Swallow for InHuenxa. For CjitsuTh. sniff up liquid Fluenxol, L'C <»nd 2/ii, •

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