Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16

erly designed and constructed for your
particular use, your monthly expenses
will depend greatly upon the care 1t
receives, and upon the driver.
This matter of care is of great impor-
tance. The average daily time required
is not as great as htat necessary for a
team, but don't expect that any car is
going to run continually and stand up
without any attention.
The designer of car may put in two
bolts to hold a certain part He prob
ably found that these two bolts were
necessary. There is very small chance
that he put in one bolt to do the hold
ing and the other Just for looks Yet
many people seem to think so. To have
a machine work satisfactorily every
thing must be kept tight and snug.
Things will loosen up, particularly
when the car is new and before every
thing has found itself, and constant
tightening is necessary. Accessibility
plays a very important part in this,
because if it takes half an hour on
mans back under a car to get at
nut and give 1t sixth of a turn, that
nut is a good deal more apt to stay
loose" than it would be if it could. be
got at and tightened in thirty seconds:
besides, the expense in time is much
greater in the former than the latter
instance, and you pay this.
Also sooner or later this car will have
to go to the repair shop, and then the
cost of repairs will depend greatly on
the accessibility of the parts. 1t isn't
economy to have a machine designed so
that YOU will have to pay repair man
for days work getting at and replac-
ing a one-cent bolt. Yet this has often
been done.
Grease and oil are essentials. One
a
where they can hardly be reached,
condition tending to promote negH-
gence.
When YOU buy that commercial pow
er wagon choose a car that is suitable
for YOUR particular use. Don't get a
machine with too much power, and be
sure that the maximum speed is low.
Give this car as good care as you
would an expensive team, and by care
7 don't mean that an expert must go
over it daily but just any man with
good horse sense, who won't let the
heads pull off the riVets or half the
nuts loose of the bolts before they are
attended to. The car of today is very
reliable. The carbureter and ignition
system need but little attention. Leave
them alone. But don't let the engine
i,Iunn off the frame or a wheel go
over the fence just for the want of a
cotler pin.
DON'T be afraid of grease and oil.
They cost money, but q good many
pounds may be bought for the price
of a ruined bearing.
Don't expect the car to carry twice
the load it was designed for. 1t will
do it for a while, but ultimately you
will pay the cost.
Get a driver who has some judg
ment, and who is willing to use some
of this said Judgment for your advan-
tage. If anyone should see a team Of
horses drawing a wagon on the run
over a piece of rough road, and the
wagon broke, he would blame the
driver. Yet within a week I have seen
delivery car being driven at a speed
of fully thirty miles an hour over one
of the worst streets in the city. The
car did not break, not then-but. In
struct the driver of your commercial
car in the proper method of handling
it under all conditions of roads and
traffic and see that he does as in
structed.
Make it your business to see that the
necessary care and attention are given
your commercial car, that it gets plen-
ty of fabrication and is driven as it
should he, then note the low cost of
doing your work.