Evening star., 1909-06-13
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route of the state highway run Of the
| Quaker City Motor Club, June IA. Is. Ii,
| II and is. from Philadelphia to Pitts
| burg and return are making great prep
arations to welcome the motorists
| So pleased are the members OF the
Automobile Club of Maryland and the
dealers with the recent sealed bonnet
contest and endurance run that they
are booming a three-day endurance
run and a twenty four hour race
The German government has tested
and approved the process of soldering
aluminium discovered by Otto Nicolai
after many years of experiments.
Sheets of a joint soldered by Nicolai's
method can be hammered out quite
| thin without injuring the Joint, and
the discovery means much to the con-
struction of motor cars.
a simple home test Of acid in lu-
bricating oil may be carried out AS
follows: Procure from the druggist L
equal weight of water. Take a small
quantity OF the oil and an equal
amount of the sodium solution. Place
them in a bottle. shake. then allow to
stand If there is any acid present
1t Will settle to the bottom precipi-
tate. the amount of precipitation indi-
| eating the amount of acid present.
Tests made by the government show
that motor cycle and horseman
require nearly the same distance in
stopping. skilled cavalryman going
twenty-five miles an hour required 1872
feet to stop, while motorcycle ae
forty miles an hour. required 147 feet
This years international automo-
bile conference takes place Tuesday at
VIENNA, when the Austrian Automo-
bile Club will play the part of host
About thirty delegates are expected
and they will be in time to join in the
festivities in honor of the Prince Henry
tour. which is booked for Vienna on
this date. Much interest is being
aroused As the time draws near.
a Partisan caterer is delivering din
ners 'all hot Iauto.' The machine
Is constructed with ovens heated by
exhaust gases. into which are placed
ViandS intended to be sent out from
the cookshop to homes ordering them
What is called the sucking action
OF pneumatic tires on road surfaces
has yet never been proved to exist,
according to Col r. E. Crompton.
British road expert. Col. Crompton,
however. is deeply opposed to the use
of steel-studded tires.
There are now more than 10000 mo-
tor vehicles in use in Germany of
which about onehalf are motor cycles
good deal of fun was created in
Germany during the recent commercial
motor car trials held by the govern
ment. The trials We're heralded as a
race, and In one town a police official
was sent out with a bell to warn the
populace to look out for their children.
When the heavy vehicles came lumber
ing into view the toWnSpeople broke
into hearty laughter.
There are more than 100000 miles
OF roads in the United States. and
there is annually expended on the town
or lateral roads of the country $5o.UOU,-
900 in cash and $20,OOO.OUO labor.
Cincinnati now has motor gospel wa
gons, equipped with pews, d platform
for the speaker and d pipe organ. The
wagon Will be utilized in soul saving
on trip through the south by "Gipsy"
Smith, the Well known evangelist.
In connection with recent experiments
at Jamaica, Long Island, with automo-
biles and other vehicles to secure data
as to their effect on road surfaces at
different speeds was the brake test. To
determine the quickness of stopping, the
call for the brakes was pistol shot for
motorists and shout of stop" for the
horse drivers.
The comparison between the automobile
and the horse was Of interest. The re-
suits of the brake tests were as follows:
Driven at ten miles per hour, a fifty
horsepower machine stopped in 10 feet,
at twenty miles, in A. feet: at twenty
five miles. in SO feet; at thirty miles in
1O3 feet; at forty miles. in 100 feet. A
steam automobile. driven at ten miles per
hour. stopped in 16 feet: at twenty miles,
in 81 feet; at twenty-five miles. in 90
feet; at thirty miles, in a feet, and at
forty miles, III lio feet. A siN-cylinder
car with full limousine body, when
driven at twenty miles per hour, stopped
in TO feet; at twentynine miles. in 36
feet. and at forty miles, in 1ol feet.
The singIehorse vehicle was driven at
ten miles per hour and stopped in 20 feet;
at nineteen miles per hour it stopped in
30 feet The two-horse vehicle. at ten
miles per hour, stopped in - feet: at
twelve miles per hour, in 30 feet. 4 SIN
sle-cylinder motorcycle, at twenty mics
per hour stopped in 81 feet, at forty
miles, in 1JT feet. horse ridden by
police officer at ten miles an hour stopped
in lola feet, at twenty-five miles, III Io2
feet.
T Pliny Moran has ordered a Packard
roadster and Is expecting delivery within
the next few days. The car is four-cyl-
inder. twenty live horsepower. 1t Will be
the first of It's kind to arrive in this city.
E. Francis Riggs will spend the sum-
mer touring in his automobiles In New