. Automotive industries . mercury at 1,350 rack and pinion mechanism is provided for easy adjust-ment of the spring force. TTlrlE competition between road and rail transport mayJ. lead to a wasteful use of both these agencies unlesssteps are taken to effect the necessary degree of co-ordination. Arthur Watson, general manager of theLondon and North-Western and Lancashire and York-shire railways, dealt with this aspect of the question ina recent address to the Manchester Statistical the committee which inquired into the subjectwas in the main hostile to the granting to
. Automotive industries . mercury at 1,350 rack and pinion mechanism is provided for easy adjust-ment of the spring force. TTlrlE competition between road and rail transport mayJ. lead to a wasteful use of both these agencies unlesssteps are taken to effect the necessary degree of co-ordination. Arthur Watson, general manager of theLondon and North-Western and Lancashire and York-shire railways, dealt with this aspect of the question ina recent address to the Manchester Statistical the committee which inquired into the subjectwas in the main hostile to the granting to railways ofextended powers to engage in road transport, Mr. Wat-son believes that the telegraph and telephone communi-cation systems established by railway companies couldbe utilized with advantage to organize transport by roadas well as rail. Any fear of a universal transport trustbeing brought into existence by the intrusion of railwaysinto the arena of road transport could, it was intimated,Vie dismissed as ■:■/■■::,■.: •::::.:. $777777$7777?, Sectional views of the Winters flexible choke valve and its operating mechanism. June 30, 19 21 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES THE AUTOMOBILE 1419 Examples of European Practice in Threeand Four-Point Suspension Tendency is toward three-point type though majority of cars still employthe four-point arrangement. One maker employs a self-aligning hallhearing as support for extended front end of crankcase. By M. W. Bourdon THERE is a gradually increasing movement amongEuropean, and particularly British, designers todrop the four-arm crankcase in favor of a three-point support for engine or power unit, though admit-tedly the majority of European cars still have the formeror some equivalent—for example, a four-point supportedsub-frame or side extension webs of the crankcase. But when the three-point arrangement is aimed atthere is a great divergence in the manner in which theobject in view is approached. Some designers appar
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