Cycling Notes

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3876, 21 May 1906, Page 4

Cycling Notes

A company (o be known as the Newman Hydraulic Motor Car Co,, Ltd., is to be formed in Sydney, with a capital of £IO,OOO in £1 shares to purchase the rights of an Australian inventor for propelling bv hydraulic pressure motor vehicles of every description, from the very small car to the traction waggon, including motor busses and trams, with the object of selling or otherwise dealing with such rights in London, or some other large manufacturing centre. Applications for patents have been lodged in Great Britain, the United States of America, France, Germany and elsewhere. The invention is said to entirely do away with the present inefficient transmission mechanism, comprising the clutch, shafts and change speed gears, with their complicated attachments, and substitutes a hydraulic piston gear of extreme simplicity, which Mr Henry Deane, M. Inst, 0.E., Sydney, the well-known engineer, states in his report on the invention has considerable advantages over the present system, starting being particularly easy, and any change of speed from zero to the maximum obtainable, forward or reverse, being effected without jerk. Should the invention be all it is claimed to be, there will be a tremendous future for it, but the best test would be to see a car, fitted with ~,0 mow driving mechanism, travel a thousand miles, say, over the Sydney-Mel bourne road, and then allow the new hydraulic piston gear to be examined. Further particulars of the Newman gear will be awaited with interest by all motorists.