MOTOR NOTES.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 7, 1 May 1906, Page 176

MOTOR NOTES.

By " Accumulator." The Kaiser has iusf acquired a car of 70 h p , built largely, it is claimed, to his own design which attains a maximum speed of seventy-five miles an hour. •F n* *p *T» *P *t* Collan oil and petrol m half quantities are the best mixture for a dry and hard clutch leather. By itself collan oil is unsatisfactory. To apply, place in a long-spouted bicycle oil can. ****** A force pump, by-the-way is a fine thing for oil on a car. The thickest and most sluggish of oil by this pump can be taken up and miected into most parts of a car. r ****** Never forget that the larger the tyres on front wheels are the more difficult is the car to steer Also, a car steers better without flat treads and non-skidding bands. ****** For the axles of the wheels, grease, forced in by means of the axle caps, is better than oil. The use of grease practically prevents any dust or water getting into the bearings. ****** A Wade and Jones paraffin carburetter is being given a practical trial by the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company, Ltd. We understand that the inventors have had very successful results during the past twelve months from this carburetter. ****** Sidney Straker and Squire, Limited, is the new name under which the several interests of Messrs. Straker and Squire, and the Straker Steam Vehicle Company, Limited, are combined. The newaddress is Nelson Square, Blackfriars Road, London, S.E. ****** Mr. Gus Elen, the well-known English artist, is an ardent motorist. He says : " I have accomplished to date something like 14,000 miles on my Panhard Levassor car, and for the last 600 miles I have not once cleaned the valves of my engines, or unscrewed a single nut, which speaks volumes for these wonderful cars. My car is running beautifully. I have had eight chauffeurs, and discharged them all. On referring to my dictionary, I find ' chauffeur ' is a small iron

furnace, which evidently means something hot. If ' chauffeur ' is not spelt exactly as its English equivalent, it doesn't matter much. H-o-t is certainly the way ' chauffeur ' should be spelt in the future, for he is decidedly a very ' hot ' person."

The New Zealand agents advise that the Argylls figured prominently in the Bombay Reliability Trials. In Class B a 10-12-h.p. two-cylinder Argyll, a machine which is at present popular in our colony, scored full points, thus repeating the excellent performance that the Argyll has put up in Australian contests. In Class C a 15-20 h.p. four-cylinder Argyll, entered by Dr. Deane, was the only car to score full number of points, and thus won outright the 100-guinea cup offered in this class. ****** The North Eastern Railway Company has put a motor 'bus in service between Thirsk Station

and the town, a distance of xi miles. There are very many towns in the United Kingdom where, owing to the opposition of the inhabitants during the railway era 70 years ago, similar services would be highly appreciated and most remunerative to their organisers. ****** Mr. F. E. Stanley, who constructed the wonderful steam Stanley car on which F. H. Marriott recently covered a mile m 28 1-5 sec. on the Florida Beach (U.S.A.), has contracted to supply W. Gould Brokaw, a young New York millionaire, with a Stanley racing car, guaranteed to travel a mile in 25 sec, equal to 144 miles an hour The car is to be ready for delivery before Ist June, 1906. What this speed means is beyond the imagination of the majority of people. Eye witnesses of Marriott's great run state that they saw only a blur, and

that the torpedo-shaped car simply appeared as a streak of indescribable colour moving across the white hard sand. *** * * * Apropos of Marriott's wonderful mile, it is of interest to compare the record relative speeds of different modes of travelling. The following figures from the Motor A%e, Chicago, are interesting ; Electric car, 128.55 miles an hour; automobile, 127.66 ; locomotive, 127.06 ; bicycle, 62.29 ; running horse, 37.69 ; motor boat, 31.2s ; pacing horse, 31.2; trotting horse, 30.33; steam yacht, 30; skating, 22.29 '• runner, 14.24 ; sailing yacht, 12.20 ; walker, 9,39 ; swimmer, 2.83.