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The new design 3

h.p. twin-cylinder Enfleld for 1913.

ENFIELD.

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Enfield for next year is the 3 h.p. chaindriven twin. This machine has a engine with cylinders at 60, bore and stroke 60 x 75 mm. = 425 c.c. The cylinders are held to the crank case by a "double dog in the centre and a The usual separate dog on each side. bolts and nuts used to fasten the cylinders to the base are done away with, and all that is necessary to remove the cylinders is to undo three nuts, which are easily accessible, one to the central dog and the others to the side dogs. This arrangement greatly facilitates the removal of the cylinders and the cleaning of combustion
principal
heads.

new model

the flywheel to the connecting rod big end bearing. Channels are cut in the sides of the bushes and the connecting rod bearing to allow the oil to overflow into the crank case sump, whence it is pumped back to the oil barrel through a tube which stands up in the centre of the glass tank and is bent over near the top. When the engine is running, a continual flow of oil from this tube acts as a telltale and enables the rider to verify the lubrication and also the quantity of oil that is delivered to the bearings. The supply is governed by a needle valve with

a knurled

top.

The inlet valves are mechanically operated by overhead rockers and long tappet rods, the mechanism on combustion head This dome being covered by a dome. has a bayonet joint, and when the valve cage is screwed down to its seat the
dome
is

one-eighth

inserted, turned through about of its diameter and locked

The air release is fitted at the back of the crank case and communicates with the timing gear case, the cover for which is the whole diameter of the crank case. There is a partition cast between the flywheels and the timing gear. To remove the timing gear cover it is only necessary to undo a few nuts, when the cover can be lifted off with the pump and magneto drive in situ. The silencer is fitted longitudinally below and just to one side of the crank case, the exhaust pipes leading into the top of This exhaust box acts as it at each end. an expansion chamber, and the taper silencer pipe extends from the rear end of the box to a point close to the rear wheel axle. We append a diagram of the mechanically forced lubrication showing the path of' the oil from the tank through engine to the sump and back to tank. The engine is a particularly well-made and well-finished job and looks very workmanlike. Its running on the track at the rear of the works proved it to be well balanced and capable of good speed.

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cover
for the

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The dome forms a complete its the inlet valve and

and on it is cast a union induction pipe which connects to two-lever Amac carburetter, placed between the cylinders. A new feature of the 3 h.p. engine, which, by the way, is made throughout by the Enfield Cycle Co., Ltd., at their Hunt E.id Works, is the mechanically
the
forced

mechanism,

means

the side of the crank case and driven off one of the timing wheels. At the rear of the seat tube is a cylindrical glass oil tank, the gla?s being practically unbreakable owing to its thickness a quarter of an inch. The tank holds sufficient oil for a considerable distance in fact the same oil is used over and over again until its viscosity be destroyed, when, of course, it should be renewed. Oil is pumped from the glass tank and conveyed in a tube to a hole in the main shaft, through this it passes and on through a web in
t->

lubrication. This is of a gear punif fixed

effected

by

A. B.
C.

Glass barrel. Regulating needle valve.

Filter.

E.

H.
J.

Suction pipe tank to engine. Induction pump.

K.
L.

Suction from

Expulsion pump.

D.

Return pipe engine to tank.

M.

sump to return pipe. Oil entrance in crankshaft. Oil entrance in pump front tank

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1913 Models.
Tlie new model 3 h.p. Enfield is provided with a kick starter. The mechanism of this has no ratchets, pawls, or other parts to get out of order, and is made <m the same principle, so far as the freewheel portion is concerned, as the 1912 five wheel pedalling gear.

NOVEMBER

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The
Over 700

6 h p. Sidecar.

of these machines have been sold this year, and it is not surprising to hear that, owing to the great success of the combination, only minor detail improvements have been found necessary. new 6 h.p. J. A. P. engine fitted with a decompressor and timing gear, which is said to be quite silent, will bo used, also an enlarged petrol tank holding just over two gallons. This latter is readily detachable. Three stands are now employed on the 1913 sidecar model, viz., rear and front stands for the bicycle and a sidecar Headers will remember that the Enfield sidecar specially attached to the is bicycle in such a manner that when attaching or detaching it is impossible to This get the sidecar out of alignment. sidecar has only been, sold so far as a complete combination next year the bicycle will be supplied as a solo mount. At Redditch we inspected parts of an experimental vehicle which Mr. R. W. Smith has designed with a view to

Valve side of next year's model 6 h.p. Clyno.

meeting the demand for c.yclecars. The Enfield Go. are no new firm to cyclecar construction. As far back as 1899 the first Enfield quadricycle was exhibited at the Stanley Show, and some are still running. The firm still have one of these Quadricycles, fitted with a 2J h.p. De Dion engine and two-speed gear, in good running order. Although the company is not thinking of marketing the sociable seated Enfield Auto-Quad just at present, experiments are being made with a cyclecar, which will be running about in a few days, and we had the pleasure of examining the first of these machines. Mr. Smith is ever-willing to be read}' for a public demand, and is making preparations to cope with it. The Auto-Quad will be made on motor cvclo. lines, and manv

parts used on the sidecar model will be employed in its construction. The general lines on which experiments are being made Enfield 4 h.p. water-cooled twin are V-engine in front under a bonnet; the Enfield two-sped gear with chains to a counter-shaft and balance gear carried in ball bearings on the frame, the final drive being by chain from each end of the balance geared axle to the road wheels. The total weight of the vehicle will not exceed 4 cwts. There is no intention of exhibiting the machine or taking orders
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the 76x82 mm. twin engine are the valve ports, which are somewhat more free, and the release Valve to the crank case, which has been made larger and exhausts through a pipe on to the front engine chain. The clutch two-speed gear
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been superseded by a substantial counter-shaft three-speed in combination with a multiple plate clutch. A fourteen tooth sprocket is mounted on the enginehas
shaft, and driven by means of coil springs which absorb the shock it is connected to a clutch member on the counter-shaft by a special fin. Hans Renold chain.
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thoroughly not write concerning it until further announcements appear in The Motor Cycle.

for it until it is proved to be reliable, and readers should

CLYNO.

CALL

new works at Wolverhampton proved to us that

at the Clyno's

the firm have no intention of being left in the lurch during the

The new model has, coming season. with the exception of the engine, been entirely redesigned by Mr. W. Comery, the company's consulting engineer. The only points which have been altered on

clutch itself is a very neat piece fif work, and has forty plates of alternate phosphor bronze and pen steel these are enclosed and run in oil, and may be dismounted without disturbing the clutch spring. The operation is by foot on the near side, the pedal being connected to the. actuating bar by a stout wire cable running over a pulley a light spring keeps the bar from wearing the push rod when the clutch is engaged. The gear box is of the sliding type, and is carried by four bolts under a slotted platform which is built into the frame.
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The

adjust the front chain, it is only necessary to slack the nuts, which are very accessible, and rotate a specially made screw which forces the gear box in the required direction without the possibility of it getting out of line. The gears are of the sliding type and provide ratios of 4^ to 1, 8^ to 1, and 14^ to 1, and are designed in an unusual manner, as the sliding portion consists of one gear wheel and one dog only. To obtain tlu high gear, the gear wheel is meshed with an internally cut wheel in the mainshaft constant wheel, and when this gear' is in action the layshatt is disengaged, thereby saving a certain amount of friction. For the middle vatic first the constant wheel is engaged, ami then the sliding gear wheel meshes with a corresponding wheel on the layshaft -(this by one motion of the striking gear). For the low speed the dog engages with a similar device. The gearshafts are mounted on ball bearings throughout. - the From box,- power is transmitted through a single fin. chain to the rear wheel.
It is here to be mentioned that both chains and clutch gear are totally enclosed
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three-speed geir dissected.

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