Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
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put too much weight in the car and in
sisted in getting It on the bridge, al
though he was warned that only a cer-
tain maximum weight could be car
ried by the welghbrldge.
Trouble is frequently experienced in
starting single cylinder engines owing
to the fact that the engine Is cold
or the mixture Is being imperfectly
formed for ignition. A few seconds
time should be allowed for the car
bureter to do its work of mixing prop
erly, and then the charge should be
given a chance to reach the compress
sion chamber Of the motor.
Depressing the inlet valve and Civ
ing the motor few brisk turns will
work wonders with the most refrac-
tory machine. Then when the switch
Is thrown on and the crank given q
quick turn to bring the piston over the
compression point, it will be found that
starting Is quite an easy matter. or
course the throttle valve must be
opened before the inlet valve is de-
pressed.
Fully 10000 persons witnessed the
automobile races on the beach track
at Atlantic City last week. They were
rewarded by seeing one worlds record
broken, while in all of the races there
was plenty of excitement, and the time
made by the regular stock touring
cars was excellent. All the races were
at one mile.
Walter Christie was the hero of the
day by virtue of his remarkable per-
formance with his remodeled Christie
car that he used last year in the Van
derbilt cup race. The 110 horsepower
machine Is greatly improved, of which
1t gave ample evidence in the one mile
race with standing start, Which
Christie won handily in the new
worlds record time of :53. beating his
own record for the distance by 1-5
seconds, made last year.
Manager Walter C. Martin of the Ca
dillac company of New York returned
last week from a short trip to the fac
tory at Detroit and reported that the
factory is behind over 500 orders on the
two models of small cars. Although
the Cadillac factory Is the largest
plant in the world devoted to the man.
ufacture of automobiles. employing
over 5000 hands, and has lately been
greatly enlarged, yet so great Is the
demand that they cannot catch UP
with the orders.
The sales of the $3.50 runabout have
increased 40 per cent over last year
and the factory is turning them out
together with the light touring cars
at the rate of forty-two per day. After
May the capacity of the factory will
be six four-cylinder cars daily.
Thus far Mr.. Martin has been very
fortunate in obtaining his shipments OF
cars, which have been received reg
ularly and little delay on this score is
anticipated. The small single-cylinder
Cadillacs are keeping up their remark
able performances Of doing stunts equal
to many cars of higher price. One OF
these cars has made the run from New
York to Boston in twelve hours. A
speed-ef a mile in 1 minute 74-5 Sec
onds has been attained.
With good compression and satisfac-
tory ignition motors will pull up to
their form provided the carbureter is
right. At times when running light g
motor will turn splendidly, and engage
it to the load and 1t fails to respond
1t is a pretty sure guess that the car
bureter is at fault when the above
symptoms develop. The reason the
motor may run well without a load is
due to the fact that when there is nc
load it has nothing to overcome except
it's overweight and freedom, so that
a very small supply of explosive mix
ture will keep 1t running. A gasoline
motor is something like a man-bott
must be well fed to get the best re-
suits out of them.
It is bad enough to have water mixed
with the gasoline in the tank, but usu-
ally enough gasoline gets to the car
bureter to do the work. A worse trou-
BILE comes during cold snaps, when the
water freezes and PARTICLES of Ice close
the outlet ports or hold the float fast
1t is unsafe, of course, to use flame fol
the ice. Hot water and warm rags are
the best remedies for this trouble.
Spark plugs occasionally fall for nc
discoverable cause, whether from elec-
trical leakage or very slight deposit
of carbon, or perhaps from some mo-
lecular change in the porcelain insu-
lating medium The only remedy is
to discard the troublesome plug or fit a
new one.
Before taking the car out of ''cold
storage" and filling up the tanks for
the first time be sure that none OF the
pipes are clogged. The lubricating oil
pipes are apt to be clogged with oil and
there is also possibility of the gaso-
line pipes and the circulating system
being partly stopped up.
The use OF tar as dust preventive
has not proved an unmixed blessing In
England, a stretch of road so treated
near Walton Thames having devel-
oped marked qualities toward increas-
ing the tendency to side slip, 1t is re-
ported. The tar-treated surface, while
highly satisfactory in the summer
season, seems to be failure In wet
weather.
1t is not "trade talk by any means
when it is said that the makers OF the
highest grade cars cannot make as
many as they can sell. There Is no
doubt about the demand for the best
American cars exceeding the supply.
Both the Locomobile and the Pierce
plants are being enlarged this year,
and other concerns making cars OF the
highest grade are contemplating SINH
lar moves.
Tt seems as if the proper enterprise