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again. and those who missed the previous
occasion will be on hand this time.
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An average close to seventy miles an
hour is predicted for the Santa Monica
road race, which will be run Thanks
giving day, over the >S.4-mile circuit. The
course will be like billiard table and
ut only one place on each circuit will 1t
be necessary for car to slow. down be-
low fifty miles. 1t. is one, of the safest
courses In the world and this, added to
perfect grading, such as it had last year,
will. give the drivers every opportunity
of getting the best possible speed out OF
the cars.
Along the ocean front where the grand
stand will be built, facing the Pacific not
a hundred yards away, there is a stretcn
of slightly over q mile. Then comes
right angle turn into Nevada avenue In
ordeEs that this turn, will have no dan.
gerxsN will be banked at an expense OF
81, 5p6~ Once around, the cars will have
broad sAysnue stretching for over four
miles without a kif1k or wayer. Here IL
is simply a. case of how fast car can
go. The next turn at. the Soldiers Home
was cut down last year so that 1t Is very
gradual and many cars have gone around
this at fifty-five miles in perfect safety
Beyond the home the road swings grad
ually toward the sea again and the cars
dash down a slight grade over the Pail
sades boulevard to another easy turn
into the ocean front. The palisades side Is
not perfectly straight, but the kinks are
SO slight cars need not get below Sixty
at any spot. With sixteen starters there
will never be more than twelve cars on
the track after the first few laps and the
fast machines which have the luck will
have a chance to establish new Ameri-
can road record, such as was done on the
same course last year.
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In driving car do not rush up to
stopping place at speed, as If you were
to demolish everything in sight. When
within at least half block of your stop
ping place, throttle down your motor and
let your momentum slowly carry the car
to the stopping place, and gradually APP
ply your foot brake. Many careless
motorists have been seen to rush up to
where they wished to stop and then sud
denly apply the emergency brake. Such
a performance is not only using your
emergency brake at the wrong time and
unnecessarily. but it also needlessly jars
the car in number of places and is very
injurious to the rear tires.
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Each manufacturing season in the
motor car world brings out some new
trend on the part Of the user and usually
this is strong enough to guide the maker
who takes pains to keep in close touch
with the army Of users and prepare for
its wants. One Of the strongert develop
mentS of the present season has been in
the demand for bright and black nickel
finish for the exposed metal parts Of the
not vrno~ hov aik hnv>
been given a brass finish or painted.
This demand has been felt particularly
by one automobile firm and a goodly per-
centage of its orders for new models
have either the bright or black nickel
known as gun metal specified for the
radiator front, lamps, door handles, hub
caps, etc.
1t is not thought that this is in any
sense fad of the moment, since the
demand has been increasing steadily for
several years past. Many chauffeurs re-
quest the nickel when their employers
are ordering new cars, as they hold that
this finish is much easier to keep clean
and bright than brass, which has ten
to the elements. The demand for this
departure from the customary is not con-
fined to any one class of cars, but Is
about equally divided between the open
and inclosed vehicles.
1t is a good plan to practice driving
q car backward, for it is impossible to
foreteH when experiences in doing this
will save driver from serious cecil
dent. He who knows how to manipulate
his car properly backward does SO with
an easy grace. which is well worth ac-
qufring, and he is never at loss how to
get out of a dangerous predicament. One
h nd of Uy ShOl1l6
be, sufficient for reversing, and this al
lows the body to be placed at a more
convenient angle than is possible when
both hands grasp the steering wheel.
According to reports, rubber tires, the
most puzzling element of motoring, are
to be sharply cut in price December 1.
A horizontal slash of Is per cent has
been decreed and it even may be 20 per
cent or more. The course Of the raw
rubber market has followed the inexora-
Bile laws Of supply and demand, and at
present is in the neighborhood of 40
a pound. Last spring the price of para
rubber in the open market was over $3
a pound. 1t was pointed out then that
the tire men hesitated to buy under these
conditions as the prices paid for raw
rubber would have made the price OF
erted a deadening effect upon the trade
For the seventh time Charles Clifton
was unanimously elected president Of the
Association of Licensed Automobile Man.
ufacturers at the largest yearly gathering
ever held by that organization. Repre-
were present from almost every
factory in the A. L. A. M. when the
meeting. was called to order at the asso-
citation headquarters in New York yester-
day.
In recognition of their services during
the past year the board Of managers ef
the association returned to office by
unanimous vote every official who served
during the past year, and passed vote
of appreciation and Endorsement of their
guidance and work. These included the
following: President, Charles Clifton;
vice president. s. T. Davis. jr.; secretary,
L. H. Kittredge; treasurer, George Pope;
general manager, Alfred Reeves.
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