. Factory and industrial management. finest in every part,every item not absolutely essential has been rigorously excluded; andnotwithstanding this the engine power per pound of total weight hasbeen greatly increased. The constructors of vehicles in the classeslimited to weights of 650 and 450 kilogrammes respectively have cor-respondingly been called upon to increase their engine power to apoint which a year or two ago would have been considered high for aheavy car, in order to maintain a speed approaching that of the heavyvehicles; whilst the motor tricycle with its 11-brake-horse-power en-g
. Factory and industrial management. finest in every part,every item not absolutely essential has been rigorously excluded; andnotwithstanding this the engine power per pound of total weight hasbeen greatly increased. The constructors of vehicles in the classeslimited to weights of 650 and 450 kilogrammes respectively have cor-respondingly been called upon to increase their engine power to apoint which a year or two ago would have been considered high for aheavy car, in order to maintain a speed approaching that of the heavyvehicles; whilst the motor tricycle with its 11-brake-horse-power en-gine has been developed into a machine which can be likened to noth-ing but an enormous grasshopper as it leaps over the road at 100 kilo-metres per hour. The skill and intelligence with which the manufac-turers have met the manifold difficulties of constructing cars suitablefor the Paris-Vienna race is of the very highest order. Examiningthe vehicles of a few of the leading constructors our attention is 850 THE ENGINEERING A 70-HOKSE-POWER PANHARP WAITING THE START AT CHAMPIGNY, JUNE 26. naturally in the first place attracted by the work of the Panhard &Levassor firm. In their latest type of cars, weighing only 960 kilo-grammes, we find an engine which is stated on reliable authority todevelope 70 to 75 brake horse power. The car is modelled generally onthe well-known Panhard lines with four-cylinder vertical enginemounted toward the front of the underframe and transmission byspur, bevel and chain gearing to the rear road wheels; but in detail wefind many modifications. The underframe, which carries all the es-sential items of the mechanism, is constructed 6f wood strengthenedby suitably designed steel-plate girders, and is supported from theaxles by three plate springs, two at the back parallel with the lengthof the frame, and one transverse spring attached centrally to the frontcross member of the frame and pivotted at its ends from the front position of t
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