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sion, sinez7koedal control, smoother and, more powtgul braking and etaler
acceleration. The user wou ppreci ate greater seating corn r condi tioning, better springi
The British G to all form so early d ment fai
s approach port from the tie encourageor users. The dern roads must reased accident rate, higrirs i costs and the need for industry to roduce vehicles that could be considered useful only for running in these islands.
"The day is not far ahead," the speaker warned, "when on account of this state of affairs, British motor products made for the home market will be of types entirely unique, and it will ecessary to run side by side in pron two totally different classes, or the home market and the other fo.. export."
Mr. Spurrier admitted that road systems generally throughout the world were not as yet highly developed. Where bad roads were encountered, the manufacturer's chief consideration must be to design robust vehicles. He had
therefore to cater for three distinct•classes of operation, a vehicle for the
home market, an export vehicle for high speeds on good roads, and a vehicle for operation over bad surfaces.
Eliminate Vibration He forecast that the engine of the future would have rotating masses. This would eliminate vibration and provide a unit having characteristics akin to those of the steam engine. It might well open a field in the possibility of employing the kinetic energy of a heavy rotating mass through which a vehicle would be accelerated and braked without the present high .degree of power wasted through frictional losses