V-E-V odds & ends, September 1981
Further to that mysterious 1913 Coupe de L'Auto Peugeot which we have been commenting on recently, we have heard that when it was at Sunbeam's overhauled for Claude Tyron, who…
A NOVEL EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA.
Alexander Duckham & Co.’s exhibit of non-gumming, non-freezing ADCOL ‘ lubricants includes a petrol engine turning at high speed and illustrating one way in which unsuitable oil reduces efficiency. The valve mechanism can be examined by means of a special lamp, which renders visible the action of rapidly moving parts somewhat in the same way as the slow-motion cinema does. Thus the delayed closing of a badly lubricated valve can be watched, although actually it occupies only a few thousandths of a second.