Clitheroe 223241 6 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, July 25th, 1985 CITROEN BX DIESEL. •Cimroc 22324 (Ediiorial), 22323 (Advertising/. Burnley 22331 (Claeetlied) New registration time, and it’s C for Comfort, lean fuel Consumption^


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around this ’ time of the year — just for the sheer satisfaction of being the first on the road in their local­ ity with a new regist­ ration car. Such motorists have


only too happy to do without sleep at


often been featured in our


of one-upmanship. C-re- gistered cars will be the finest ever produced — built for an age where effortless speed is re- quu-ed on the motonvays — at a “lean” petrol con­ sumption and supreme comfort and reliability, not to mention style and attractive lines. How, in recent years, the motor industry has


pages, proudly taking pos­ session of their spanidng new registration — this August 1st it wall be the prefix “G” which is the attraction at midnight. But it is not just a case


New cars are finest ever


. user of high-technology in design, engineering and


production.


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costs required both by home and o v e r s e a s markets. How does the modern


registration on our roads


— come into being? How does it benefit from the


steady transition away from pencil and paper, to the computer teiininal, in the design engineering offices. Today’s designers can


new technologies? Tliere has been a


draw each part on a TV screen, call up information


15,000 or so bits and pieces that go into the final product and perform independent, and commit­ ted, research so that their parts are up to the specification, quality and ■ id ■


car — the one you will soon see bearing the C


ufacturers, equipment su p p l ie r s and tho se sp e c ia lis t car-makers building sports cars and customised limousines, is a massive support industry of component and material suppliers. The household names such as Lucas, Girling, Lockheed, etc, go together with a host of little-known specialists turning out everything from plastic mouldings to nuts, bolts, screws and washers. They provide half of the


being made more effi­ cient, more flexible and more pleasant places to work — with the end result of intense value to you and me (the buyers of what they make) in that the vehicles being pro­ duced are better made, better value for money, more reliable — and longer lasting. Behind the actual man­


ingenious. Production lines are


freed from repetitive chores to be more crea­ tive, more free-thinking, more innovative and more


working methods are being integrated with those of aerospace, robo­ tics and computers. Engineers are being


technologies has, it is claimed, turned the car industry into one of the “exciting, high-tech, ‘sun­ rise’ industries”. And the rate of change and intro­ duction of new technology within the industry is ac­ celerating. Traditional skills and


Its dynamic use of new FUEL


industry has pioneered the use of robots; employs more computers and robots (and people) than any other manufacturing industiy. It is the leading


led a dramatic revolution in the use of modern tech­ nology is amply e.xplained in the Society of Motor Manufacturei's and Trad­ ers’ interesting publica­ tion on motor industry technology in Britain. It points out that the


By Bert Bolton Motoring Correspondent


from a central data bank, modify a component or visualise it in graphic form.


veloped and stresses cal­ culated — long before prototype parts are made. As a result, vehicles have become more efficient from their first concept. The latest combustion


Shapes can be de­


technolog>' is helping to make exhaust emissions


search has made all vehi­ cles safer for the occup­ ants, and for pedestrians too.


cleaner and is also impro­ ving average fuel effi­ ciency. Extensive crash re­


true than in the “protec­ tion” given to today’s ears — the hidden techniques which are adding years to the lives of our cars. The process of painting and corrosion protection may involve over a dozen sepa­ rate stages of pre-treat­ ment; electrolytic submer­ sion and automated sprajmig. It is followed by wax


injection of body sections, and underbody coating to give reall,v thorough rust­ proofing — with solid guarantees to back the work up. Low maintenance bat­


revolution has occuiTed in the factories and on the production linos in the wa.v vehicles are put to­ gether, the wa.v workman­ ship is cheeked, and the quality of the product when it reaches the cus­ tomer. Machines, robots, controls and s.vstems are now used extensively to provide stringent quality standards. Nowhere is this more


A significant technical


complemented by positive roadholding, fade-free


braking and crushable energy-absorbing zones at each end of rigid pas­ senger cells.


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the industry in the field of improved fuel efficiency are nothing short of re­ markable in recent years — another pointer to help hasten you towards a C registration. Featuring high in this


The achievements of


around a car body, show­ ing precisely where the highest drag occurs — wthout wind tunnel tests. Computers yet again . . . The hardest part of any


design work has always been the translation of three-dimensional models into two-dimensional working drawings from which the actual produc­ tion -parts will eventually be made. The computers can now


suspended in water and being attracted to body- shells by opposing electri­ cal polarities. In recent years these polarities have been reversed in the paint itself — to make the body shell negative in­ stead of positive. This improves the


ing goes underneath to guard a g a in s t stone “pecking” and corrosion.


flooded with hot wax to provide additional corro­ sion protection.


Body c a v i t ie s g e t


sector are the new leaner carburettor calibrations; higher gearing, etc. But real progi'ess has had to wait for the retooling of new 10 w - d r a g body shapes, wider availability of five-speed transmis­ sions; a new generation of “lean buiTi” engines and better control of air/fuel m ix tu r e s and spark timing. New electronic engine


“management” has helped to achieve greater effi­ ciency for no significant loss in performance or economy. Computers are also


“rule-of-thumb” guess­ work, and practically all the tedious calculations previously required, have been eliminated. Carefully developed


teries, more secure elec­ trical connections, adv­ anced new spark plugs and electronic ignition are cutting out the former bugbear of the automative trade— electrical failure— and have virtually elimi­ nated “earl.v morning sick­ ness” brought on in the past by our damp, cold, winters. Throughout the motor


whicli have appeared on our cars as a result of well over 20 years of in­ tense researcli into safety aspects are the telescopic steering column; disc brakes; halogen head­ lamps; laminated windsc­ reens; advanced tyre con- stinction; anti-lock brak­ ing systems; and the uni­ versal adoption of com­ fortable, easy-to-wear, in­ ertia reel seat belt instal­ lations. “Panoramic” all-round


trade computers for stock control and parts supply are merging their benefits with advanced diagnostic and repair equipment. Some of the features


vision and easy-to-reach ergonomic controls are


impressive accuracy — safe stress levels, fatigue life and durability stan­ dards in all kinds of com­ ponents, body panels or any other section of a vehicle’s structure.


computer programmes now determine — with


COMPUTER


and shapely lines of a modern car are really a composite stressed skin, with the floor, roof panel, pillars, bulkheads, trans­ mission tunnel, sills and wheel arches all forming an integi’ated load-bearing stracture. Instead of building it so


For example, the sleek


playing an important role in the new design and de­ velopment techniques and are having a dramatic effect on the whole pro­ cess of creating new vehi­ cles and components and up-dating e.xisting models. Much of the traditional


tronics are also used in the testing of components and sub-assemblies on special computer-control­ led rigs reproducing the worst service conditions on a “squeezed-up” time scale. Engines are run day


cany out a process known as model scanning. Once the master model has been made, its shape is measured and recorded — a process which, in the past, has taken up to three months. Now, with computer-aided devices originally developed for the manufacture of space rockets, the whole process takes a matter of a few hours. Today, m ic ro -e le c ­


thickness of paint which can be deposited in hard- to - reach areas; reduces the effects of impurities and strengthens the paint bond even further. “Robotic” paint sprays


and “centrifugal atomis­ ers” put the primers and top coat paintwork where they should be — and a thick, flexible PVC coat­


lines the high-tech robots come into their own — fetching, canying and as­ sembling with a mechani­ cal delicacy ordina^ mor­ tals would think imposs­


Back on the assembly


ible. Micro-computer-control­


led systems check every electrical wiring loom, in­ struments and lamp as­ sembly before installation, while more robots auto­


matically fit and check tyres to wheels before they reach the car.


■ ence and usefulness of the motor vehicle.


New registrations


Now it’s up to you to for yourselfl


• are the industry’s boffins, reaching into the ^future for new materials, new shapes, new power units, new fuels, new suspension systems, new brakes and anti-skid devices . . . new ways to increase the effi­ ciency, comfort, conveni-


the high-tech story. Beav­ ering away behind locked doors around the world


‘C” This is not the end of


IT’S back agi pulse-quicken| for avid motoi| the car trade. August 1st


upon us, and


another change [ gistration pi| number plates. I For the Chirl


period in time ml Year of the Ox -I motorists throuji length and breaej country this is “( | In a sense, thi


finitions are liil didn’t transport f with the ox car invention of the ’


LATES'I


in the era of t l aerodynamic cl shape, radial Icl tyres and allorS and turbo-pl engines.


Today’s travel [ aan


and night on computer- controlled test beds; sus­ pension units are flexed over the equivalent of 6,000 miles a day; and complete vehicles are road tested on special tracks and are subjected to desert and arctic tempera­ tures and detailed en­ gineering tests.


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which gets the C registra­ tion is one of the best- ever produced in mass production. A prime e.x- ample of the new stan­ dards is that robot wel­ ders not only work quick­ ly and tirelessly, but they also check every weld they make, as they make it, by a special process. The best hand-crafted


and highly-developed elec­ tronic controls has lifted quality standards to a new peak ■


Increasing use of robots SIERRA 4.9% finance (APR 9.5%) — so, a car Available to private and business users, subject to status.


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it looks “about right” a computer is used in the design stage to draw the whole thing on a TV screen. Each panel is studied and developed on screen until it reaches peak efficiency for the job


of “creating” new power units on TV screens which predict every aspect of the proposed engine’s per­ formance, including how much petrol it will use and what its exhaust emission will be — years before prototypes can be made. In fact, believe it or


it has to do. There ai-e even methods


work is being reproduced mechanically and electron­ ically on today’s assembly lines with computers en­ suring that everything comes together in the right place at the right time. Motorists today are


vei-y corrosion conscious. They want their cars to be virtually rust proof — after all it IS possible. The manufacturers


DEMONSTRATIONS


accept that this area needed improvement and in recent years more and more emphasis has been placed on this aspect. Anti-rust guarantees


proliferate today, and to make sure these guaran­ tees stand up, bare shells are cleaned and thorough­ ly degreased, rinsed, neutralised and given a zinc phosphate treatment to chemically etch the sur­


not, the computer can put one of these “imaginaiy”


engines into an “imagi­ nary” car and drive it round the roads of the


world! ^ Yet another application


of high-tech methods is to predict air pressure


face and provide better paint adhesion. After stabilising and


rinsing again, they are plunged into primer


tanks. This process for electro-coating bodyshells has been in use since the mid-1960s, with the paint


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year of the secoif adding a letter ■ .rations, so that of release on to i, is designated ft| see. Come ne.xt


He is also into L


for and agai.'l system but, like I it is well and ti | us.


January, 1962, v| use of the alpiS denote the regj year came into with the additiol suffix “A.” At thJ seemed that thii stretched out ini us into the end o l Now, 23 year|


It all began wa|


morning, all othti es — and suffixei matter — will L hat,” and the “Cl ration will iderl very latest produl There are ar|


are ready to sta third year of prefix system, hJ the whole gamutf ible end-of-regj letters.


MOVEII Since 1962, thaj


ers keeping an for their first sid the new regi;| letter. Round about |


ration time of ll has been marked!


August in an J “smooth out salef the trade. Today we are


the registration moved from Jail


accustomed to thS of changing the f tion letter in the the year, and ttj advance throughj phabet. And still t t |


seeks a solutioil annual rush to t | rooms with the each new letter. Although tradij


come at any tirf showroom staflO prefer a su s f


steady, demand I rather than vicio| which have then stretch fulfilling! ers’ requiremel preserving garagJ


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