Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-24
NEWS OF INTEREST TO
AUTO DRIVERS AND OWNERS

Automobile engineers devise some
unique tests at times when Il new model
is placed on the road and when they wish
to compare the results OF practise with
the deductions of theory. That was the
case when the designers and engineers
of the Thomas Flyer came to the ques-
ton of which brakes they should use,
contracting OF expanding, for the hand
lever. The theory was good as far as
1t went, but what they really wanted to
known was which kind would actually
hold the car best.
II. j. Hass, superintendent of the com
pany, finally hit on the plan. Two 1897
models We're used. Both were fitted with
foot brakes on the rear hubs OF the con-
tracing leather TO metal type. For the
hand lever brakes, one was equipped with
contracting, leather TO metal brakes on
countershatt drums and the other with
interior OF the rear hubs in such a man
ner that tension and area were the same
on each and would, apparently, hnve the
same effect. A scale attached 10 the back
Of the front seats and TO the hand lev
ers Of the two cars served TO aid In equal
izlng the pressure.
Both cars were then loaded with pig
iron equalltng the weight of seven per-
sons the seating capacity OF the flyers,
run up a p per cent grade and turned
around. Then the hand lever brakes on
both We're applied AT the same tension.
The car with the metal to metal ex-
panding brakes reached the bottom OF
the 30-yard grade "a seconds before tho
other Other tests on straightaways PROV
ca conclusYely that the contracting
bands always stop the car more quickly
and as result the band brakes on the
countershafts were adopted
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.
IT has been objected that 2l-hour races
fehly prove nothing ana therefore are
not helpful 10 the sport and Industry, TO
ms a. X Pardington, speaking uRof-
hclaIly, makes the reloinder: but why
should there not be some purely enter
tanning or spectacular feature 10 the
Sport. ~ the public finds such events in
ssSIestlnf' can see no objection to pro-
isssionaI promoters catering TO this por-
ton of the public"
How il Is that vnnadium when lptr,-
duced rs an alloy into steel and iron can
make II harder and stronger wei mako
more duGtlle and less brittle.
~ paradoNical mystery that tho metal.
prgists do not explain. They sIinnly
prove beyond perodYenture thai Il d1es
a aWba ans dool 10 !, tho no layman's query o.
is mo no. y Goes n 90 to tho meta2' there
nghl Is thrown on the subject, however
ny micro photography. A series Of Mo
e arS ' Hco, ~ me possession OF the Ameri-
when show the molecular aty,Ictu,,o y
various high carbon stools ana ~ the
niha4ium steel that is used Throughout In
in the '' esb,b GfS "a The great difference
IN
s,eeis shows a much closer moieciiiar
STRUCTURE ana less irfegtllnfIfv ~ &C.,
stloe. The photos taken under The MI
eioscope indicate that the vanaditrn ncts
~ SOFT or binder between tho irrorrl-
lufly arranged atoms OF steel. or n me-
GUAR cement so To speak
Men and women hayo ruined yaluablc
clothing because they neglected To- csr,n,
an umbrella when tho clouds threate,st3
u ralntAil, ana men have WALKED tnilss
ana phld high, Tor tires after sDenJinf,
much valuable time IN search OF IA si0yas
b-ehuse lney neglected 10 carry an oxtra
supply or tho Two thu man who leaves
nus umbrella at homG Is the less Can
surAble for carrying an umbrella rs a
hulhanoe, while the burden OF tire ,qin.
piles IN on the car.
Motorists projecting tours thia fail ,,iu
probably figure 70 obtain much vabiahIa
Information from the headquarters OF me
american Automobile association al al
p1ith ave. New fork-lf they are mem
bers,
In the historical retrospect. 1897. Will
probably nguro as tho year IN which the
American built motor car ended the AZ.
premaoy OF tho imported automobile In
touring car events, on both road and
track. the domestic made ear has been
triumphant over the imported type, and
the chief prestige Of The foreign car,
which Is the superiority Of is metals,
waA Appropriated when a big corporation
proceeded 10 build cara hero from Inn
ported materials. Undoubtedly there will
always be some demand FOR imported
cars and attempt ~ another "lmport-
ers salon. or separate show, means an
present the American product seomA 10
have the foreigners on the run
No better evidence OF standard hS-