A TRYING TRIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 7

A TRYING TRIP

lOTORISTS AT THE FIRST TEST j The hundreds of motorists xvho vis :d Dunedin on Saturday week in mnectiou with the first test found ly amount of excitement on the read i the way back. Scores of car-loads left Dunedin on inday morning, and a long proeesou went over Mount Cargill at neral pace. The snow, coated ick and gladed on the bitumen surce, gave the drivers plenty to think lout. It. was a case of travelling at two j ■ three miles an hour up hill and dug mighty glad of any speed at all. ] ear wheels whizzed and spun, some 'ivers imagining that progression de- j ’tided on pushing the accelerator j wd down. The drivers using low j ?ar and taking it quietly made the I •ade steadily, and it was noteworthy! iat the light cars, particularly the j idget variety, had a big advantage j ter the bigger vehicles. On the descent, it. meant low gear tain, as brakes were not of much se once a slide started. There were three cars wrecked on ount Cargill going to or returning om the test, and the patrolmen of le Otago Motor Club must have had busy and trying time. NEW V-EIGHT ENGINE OAKLAND 1930 MODELS New bodies, long low lines, harlonising colours and sparkling hrome interior and exterior fittings ive the master touch of Fisher craftslanship to the new Oakland custom ight, as it enters the field of V-type ights. This latest Oakland takes its lace side by side with the Olympic j sries Oakland six, which has made J notable name for itself during the ast years. Both models will be on isplay in Oakland dealer showrooms uring 1930. Powered with a sturdy, compact, 90egree, V-type eight-cylinder motor ex’eloping S 5 brake horse-power at ,000 r.p.m. from an engine of 251 übic inches displacement, this latest ustom Oakland establishes new stanards of performance and hill-climbing bility in the moderate priced motorar. With its new V-type, eight-cylin-er power plant, Oakland claims to ave eliminated all vibration points a the drix’ing range, and to obtain an cceleration from 10 miles an hour to 5 miles an hour in 10 seconds. This emarkable output of power is due to everal new factors, including the omplete downdraft type of carbureion, the new type of high-compres-ion, two-plane cylinder heads and the lorizontal valve design. Oakland has developed an entirely lew type of engine mounting for the light. The two forward engine mount- j ngs ai'e designed in the form of flat animated springs. While rear rubber uountings restrain the engine from notion relative to the car frame, these rout spring type mountings serve o absorb the normal reactions of en;ine operation. A choice of five smartly-styled >odies is offered, each presenting disinctive elements of beauty and appeal. Lower by nearly two inches, >ut providing ample head room —the lew bodies appear closer to the road lecause of the raised panel which I iweeps back from the new V-shaped, ihrome-plated, grille-concealed radiitor, extending along the top of the lood until it gradually straddles the jowl and disappears at the slender posts of the windshield. Emphasising '.he low lines of the new pakland ’ight is a narrow moulding extending Entirely around the body from one radiator edge to the other. HUGE SCHEME RECLAIMING THE ZUYDER ZEE | Although Wellington and some of the other seaport towns of New Zea- j land have accomplished wonders in the way of reclaiming land from the sea, the works carried out in the Dominion cannot be compared with the reclamation work now being pushed ahead at the Zuyder Zee, in Holland, where 900 square miles are being reclaimed. This is said to be the biggest work of its kind ever yet attempted. The origin of the Zuyder Zee is unknown, but for years the Dutch people have considered that the sea has inundated land that ought to be reclaimed. The Zuyder Zee is shallow and in some parts the sea bed is exposed at low tide. This great enterprise, which will not be completed until 1933, involves the use of dozens of dredgers, cranes and boats of many kinds. Among the equipment used on this reclamation work are the following:—Twelve steam driven floating cranes, 15 steam driven suction dredgers, seven steam driven dredgers, three big floating steam transporters, 100 tug boats, 12 bunker vessels, three steam driven passenger vessels for transporting workmen, 12 motor-boats for transporting men in charge of the smaller motor-boats for communication purposes, one ferry boat for trans- i porting huge stones, 150 barges, be- i sides a number of smaller vessels, land cranes, steam and motor loco- ! motives, small railway cars for sand and clay transport. The Vacuum Oil Company is supplying every barrel Oi. oil that is being used on this great work. PEDESTRIAN’S PARADISE A wag was put on to report the Sydney Motor Show. Here is one of his efforts: — , ~ . “There are lorries there that aie built for shifting battleships from one place to another. There are twoseater Cuddlers that just palpitate with possibilities. Motor-bikes with ’Here-he-comes-there-he-goes’ look about them. In the big exhibition buildings you can stare death in the face and pat it on the wheel. It's a pedestrian’s paradise. Motorists linger, dazed. There are no ‘No Parking’ signs! What the Traffic Department is doing to allow this state of affairs is something to ponder about. Strange that these should be omitted. Cane chairs are scattered about as traps for the unwary;. Sit down and you’ll be sold a few' cars before you can get up.”