A Test of a Trojan Over a Hilly Route.
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rpri P. average two-stroke engine may
operate over a smaller range of speed than the four-stroke type, but for traffic conditions and " holding on" on hills it has an advantage, in that its pulling Dower is remarkably high at low speeds.
A Bristol correspondent recently had this merit demonstrated to him by a Trojan light van which was negotiating the readi:; in a very hilly district. The van Was carrying about 6 cwt. of material, and in addition to the driver a photographer with his apparatus was carried from_ point to point. A test on a steep aseelit proving too simple, it was decided to seek one of Bristol's real test hills, namely, Summer fill, with a gradient of 1 in 3.6. The Trojan took the full load and the two persons up the hill with ease, the photographer dismounting and the vehicle returning to the bottom of the hill and again acccinpiishing the climb, as was to lie expected, without a falter.
It so happened that the test was made without any previous notice and the demonstration was, therefore, as convincing as it possibly could be, the test load being ewt..