Official Consumption Results of French Trials.
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The vehicles enumerated in the following table. rut a result of their performance in the recent French military trials, are those which were added to the list of makes approved for the initial subvention of £120 per vehicle, and a further subsidy of £40 per annum for three years. The announcement of the result was first made in our issue of the 6th inst., but we are now enabled to supplement the information then given by the complete figures for the rates of fuel consumption for the three different classes of fuel used, and the consumption of lubricating oil for the entire -test. Thw total mileage was approximately 1,570, of which distance 500 miles were run with petrol as the fuel, benzole was consumed for a further 560 miles, and for the remaining 450 miles earburetted alcohol wns burned in the cylinders.
The table has been computed from the official figures of the French Automobile Club ; at the foot of the table, we give the averages for the successful vehicles, and also for the remaining competitors. A comparison of those two averages will show that both the gross and usefid loads of the successful vehicles were appreciably greater than those of the remaining machines, whilst the rate of consumption of lubricating oil was considerably lower in the former than in the latter class. in each of the three fuel consemption tests, the rate was very slightly higher for the approved than for the unsnucessful vehicles, hut the running speeds of the former were from 8 to 12 per cent. higher. The higher speeds of, and the greater loads carried by, the approved vehicles more than offsets the slightly-lower furl consumptious of the other machines.