NEW BRAKES STOP CAR IN 25 YARDS

Shannon News, 20 November 1928, Page 1

NEW BRAKES STOP CAR IN 25 YARDS

NEW YORK. A new automobile braking system which its designers assert is capable of bringing a motorcar to a stop in 25 yards from a speed of <3O miles an hour, is to be exhibited to manufacturers in the United . States by Marcel Guillelmpn, engineer of the Renaut Automobile Company of France. Mr. Guillelmon, who is also vicepresident of Renaut, Inc., of New York, has just returned here on the He de Franco of the French Line. Two passenger cars and one truck, lie sai'd, are being brought to the United States fbr exhibition here.

This exchange of designing practices and mechanical improvements, he added, is in line with the co-operation sh(own French manufacturers by American motorcar builders. Officials of the Renaut company, Mr. Guillelmon said, have previously, been granted extensive courtesies in the American plants for the purpose of studying production methods.

The brakes, Mr. Guillelmon said, are operated by a very slight pressure on a pedal and the braking force on the wheels is supplied by the car through a clutch mounted on the drive shaft!

Paul Vavon, chief engineer of the Citroen Automobile Company, was another passenger on board the lie do France. This is his third visit here this year and his twelfth in the last three years, he said. The Citroen factories in France are rapidly being equipped with machinery manufactured in the United States and after the first of the year it is reported they 'will be able to turn out 600 Citroen cars.a day, Mr. Vavon said.