The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26
SPEEDOMETERS
AND SPARK PLUGS

Rain water is excellent for use in the
tank and radiator.
There are more Limousine cars in Chi
cagU than in any other city in the United
There are approximately. $4,000 motor
cyclists in Great Bri tasltsahd their ranks
are constantly increasing
four-day, sealed bonnet Endurance run
will be held by the Automobile club of
America near New York. june 10 to D
The Automobile club Of Philadelphia
now has over 400 members, having gained
nearly 100 since the annual meeting in
March M
One of the largest department stores at
Brooklyn. n. Y has decided to sell all its
horses and install automobile delivery
wagons.
with a membership OF over 700 the Buff
falo. N Y. Automobile club is the second
largest individual automobile club in the
world.
The supervisors Of Alameda county.
Cal. have purchased a 4O-hOrse-power
touring car for the use Of the sheriff in
MS oIIlclai duties.
In recent anti-skid trials in England
SlX-wheeled bus was the only vehicle Of
its class which did not skid on the sud-
den application of brakes.
Twenty-seVen American machines have
been entered for the 400O-mile gold cup
tour of Europe. The contestants will sail
from New York June 20.
The recent lowering Of the Boston New
York record by a 0-hOrse-pOWer touring
car is regarded as an argument in favor
OF the practicability of lighter cars
So converted to motoring are Philade-
phia society folk that there were but four
coaches in line in the annual coaching
parade Of the FOuT-in-hand club
The Quaker City Motor club has absn-
doned its plan for a hill climb on Memo
rial day and instead will have a three-day
run 10 Wikesbarre, Pa. and return.
Recent experiments on shallow-draft
stern-wheel motor boats have indicated
that the stern wheel is much more eff
clent in shallow water than the screw pro-
peller
The New Jersey State Department Of
Motor Vehicles has purchased a car ca
pablo of a speed of sixty-five miles an
hour for the use of its officers in run
ming down law-breakers.
Cortland Field Bishop. president Of the
Aero club of America who recently sailed
for Europe, will devote large amount
OF time TO automobile touring, particu-
larry in the Alps.
In race between q touring car and an
express train from Hazeton to Wilkes
barre, Pa, fourteen miles the former.
driven by its owner, A. J. Depew, won by
good lead.
An expert has figured that the impact
OF touring car running at sixty miles
an hour striking an immOvable object is
equaI 10 that which It would receive In a
IAN from Skyscraper.
Plans are being formulated by the Au-
tomobile club of Pittsburg for run.
which will include a trip to the James
town exposition 1t is expected that fully
fifty machines will be entered
F1atly refusing to pay the high prices
demanded by the local branch Of the
Standard Oil company four PHILADELPHIA
Sarage owners forced the officials Of the
trust 10 meet their figures
queen Amelie, of Portugal in addition
10 being physician an0 a writer of note
is an ardent motorist having driven nor
big touring cars over 200 miles without
the aid of a chauffeur
AprOpOs of the fair motorists acces-
SORES, certain clever milliners are pro-
v1dlng skillfully shaped hats with adjust
able br1HlS. that can be turned over the
PACK OF the head, completely covering the
Ar incandescent lamp. designed cspe-
cially for automobiles and motor boats,
which comes from Germany, may be 0Der-
ated by storage batteries of low voltage
carbon.
In an endeavor to attract motorists. the
authorities of Cape May, y j.. one of tine
oldest seaside resorts in New Jersey will
endeaYor TO have all highways leading
from Philadelphia put in first-class shspo
Peace now reigns between the two fac
lions of importers in the easU-the indie
pendent and licensed men. The former
have Joined the Importers Automobile
salon and have abandoned their idea Of a
separate organization
The fact that gasoline Is foreign prod
uct and some day may be cut off from
their markets is the main reason why the
French and German governments are so
persistently trying to have alcohol adopt
ed as a substitute.
The desire Of VOulg men familiar with
the handling of a motor car to tour Eu-
rope has led many to volunteer to act as
chauffeurs for wealthy men who cOntem-
plate such trips, asking as compensation
only their expenses.
A motorcycle record recently vas estab-
lished between Chicago and Milwaukee by
Ira H. Whipple and !. F. AlOfsin. who
covered the 135 miles in 4 hours and s.
minutes The automobile record is ,
hours and Is minutes.
A novel feature of the next hill-climbinc
contest Of the Royal Automobile club Of
Great Britain. which will be limited to its
members. is that the contestants will not
know what hill is to be used until few
hours before the event.
The conditions governing the Hover
trophy have been changed 80 that il may
be won during this years GIidden tour by
a single owner and entrant. Heretofore
it has been awarded to 4 club Re presented
by not less than three runabouts.
Four touring cars and one runabOut fin
ished with perfect scores in the tWO-day
endurance run of the Harrisburg, Pa,
club. The worst roads in the state We're
encountered and there was heavy down
pour of rain almost the entire time
The formula recently adopted by the
mechanical branch of the Association of
Licensed Automobile Manufacturers for
horsepower rating was this. Multiply the
square of the diameter By the number Of
cylinders and divide by two and one-half.
In nine years there have been manu-
featured $4,000 automobiles. for which
owners paid the makers more than a bill
lion dollars. Last year the output was
the world in number and value of cars.
To prevent accidents among the candi-
dates for the Kaiser's cup. who already
are practicing over the route selected in
Germany. huge stones are rolled into the
middle of the road after a certain hour
each morning, making speeding impossi-
BILE.
For nearly a month a London garage
company has been running a regular daily
service of passenger cars from the Eng
lsh capital to the French the cars being
transported across the English channel
on steamers. The entire trip is made by
daylight
Because the residential districts OF Lon
con are so far from the center Of the city
a theatrical manager has inaugurated the
experiment of running a motor bus be
tween the suburbs and his playhouse. for
the accommodation of holders of reserved
seat tickets.
Two BROOKLYN " Y motorcycles.
Otto Kirk and Joseph Collins. started yes
terday to ride to San Francisco. Their
route viii take them through New Jersey,
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana, Illinois.
Iowa. Nebraska. Colorado. Wyoming.
Utah Nevada and California
With a capital of half a million a num-
hpr If aTuf nj To