The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-15
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD

One of the commonest reasons for oil lamps going out is the choking of
 the draught holes in the cap of the
 lamp by the heavy deposits of carbon. These should be looked for and re- moved before any lengthy drive by night. The other essentials are a good
 lamp. good oil and a clean. dry wick
 A mixture of olive oil and white lead, reduced to workable consistency by | white lead, makes an excellent coating
 for metallic parts of the engine or ma
 chine tools as a preventive of corro-
 sion, particularly upon the coast line. l Oliveoil does not dry or oxidize as lin-
 seed oil does. and therefore is easily
 removable by means of turpentine
 when it's presence is no Icnger re-
 quired. The white lead adds metallic body to the oil and assists it in pre- venting the attacks of moisture, acidu- ous vapors. etc.
 | AS two ladies were travelling in a mo- tor car near Roumale on the outskirts of Paris, stag hard pressed by the i hounds jumped into the car for refuge,
 the dogs clamoring and leaping around 1t. The car was stopped, the ladies
 made hurried escape and the hounds soon disposed of the stag. Similarly, stag charged car containing the Gaekwar and Maharonee of Kapur- thala, on a road through a German forest-and paid the price of it's mis-
 guided valor by dropping dead with a broken neck.
 Motorists differ in their opinions as ! to the proper method of setting the headlights for travelling over rough roads at sight. Some drivers hold that the desirable sthing is to place the
 lamps in such a position that the rays
 of light shall be thrown out in per- i fectly parallel and horizontal planes. Others hold that the light should be fOCnSSa6 of int for
 far distant from the front of the car The centralizing arrangement, in which full advantage is taken of both beams, is considerably more advantageous
 than that in which both beams are held perfectly parallel.
 Experiments show that a two-year- old steer is capable of about miles at
 an 18-mfle pace. and hates to be con-
 quered. The horse invariably seeks a
 side road when chased by an auto but
 the steer continues straight along the
 road until exhausted. Invariably the
 goose steps from the road on approach of an automobile. while the chicken
 loses it's mental equilibrium and can- not decide whether to race the car or select one side of the road or the other. The turkey will stand on it's dignity | as long as possible-sometimes trifle 1 too long-but it is not as cautious as the goose.
 A remarkable new motor engine is reported to have been invented by Newell O. Ollyn, of Hiram, O. It is of the rotating cylinder type, four air cooled cylinders being used. These are operated on the two-cycle principle and have no valves the inlet and out let ports being opened and closed by the rotating part of the machine. No fywheel is provided and contrary to somehow attached to the cylinders Most remarkable, it is claimed, that there is no battery. A company has been formed at Warren, O.. to manu- facture the engine.
 The proposed uniform motor vehicle law which has been drawn for sub. mission to the State Legislatures of Massachusetts and other New England States is favored by majority of New automobilists. The proposal to fix the speed limit at 25 miles an hour in the open country is thought to be high enough to suit the drivers and low enough to please other users of the roads. The provision that a judge may place on file any complaint of ex- cessive speed if in his opinion it was or if mo person or property could have been injured there by is thought to be reasonable one. There are many instances where an automobile driven by competent man could exceed twenty-five miles an hour and not be a menace to any one . A IOaO or loOO pounds per wheel gives about 1 ton hundred weight per axle : as the heaviest load which should be carried on pneumatic tires, it is true that many powerful closed touring cars. fitted with all the luxuries that human ingenuity can devise, have a rear axle load of about 4,0OO pounds. But such a load is only carried at enormous cost in tire up-keeD for the generally accepted rule is that the life of a tire is in inverse proportion to the cube of the weight which it carries Thus if the weight is doubled, the wear will, on an average, be eight times greater. An increase in weight of but 5 per cent. causes an increase in the wear of the tires of about IA per cent.