The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-18

An automobile factory for the man
ufacture of motor cars for use In
country districts has been establish,
ed at Tullahoma- Tenn, by iocal
firm. High-wheeled buggies and road
sters will be the principal output.
Many methods of keeping tire tubes
soft have been tried, but the simplest
appears to be that of placing them
in hot water about once every month.
The tubes should be left in the water
only about ten minutes.
The Good Roads Association OF
Oregon has adopted a resolution IA
voring a tax of Is cents per horse
power on all automobiles within the
State. According to the plan each
county will collect the tax and devote
the money to the maintenance of the
roads.
The Wisconsin Brotherhood of
Threshermen has adopted resolutions
favoring the use of convict labor on
good road work The proposition is
the result of attempts in Wisconsin to
turn all convict production into the
binder Irvine manufacturing line.
In advising farmers to buy auto
mobiles farm journal pupilsnea at
Chicago makes the point that one
wishes he can now buy an automobile
with a body SO constructed that it
can, in two or three minutes, be
changed from the regular touring car
type to such form that one can easily
haul sacks of grain, q crate contain
ing animals or milk cans, ETC.
There remains just one argument IN
favor of licenseing and examining
owners. This argument applies 70
must learn to drive it; and while he
is learning he should be subjected to
a certain amour tot supervision. But
the difficulty arises as to just how ex-
pert the newcomer must become be-
fore receiving the approval of his ex-
aminers.
Of all automobile spring breakages
it il probable that fully nine out of
ten involves only the top spring leaf
with the fracture occurring very close
to the clip. If there are kept in the
tool box a small emergency clip and a
strip of steel-a piece of an old bro
ken spring will do very well for this
lit becomes necessary only to loosen
and tighten a few nuts to clamp ev-
erything together by putting the piece
of steel over the break in the top
leaf, setting the emergency clamp on
the outside of the break.
The mere fact that the exhaust is
smoky. does not indicate that the ~
IRRIGATION is complete. or rather ex-
cessive in all the cylinders. If the
smoke issues from the discharge pipe
of the muffler in a steady and prac-
tically continuous stream. this is the
case But if it comes in intermit-
tent puffs it may be taken as proof
crank case is flooded, the other or
others being starved. Such a condi-
ton may indicate different rates Of
flow in the various feeds or a total
cessation in one or another.
All that is necessary to stop rat
Ting door is to get thin brass plate,
or. If preferred, one may use thin
piece OF fiber or leather. and fix It
on to the door post. OF course, a
little judgment is required. One
should see that the thickness of the
plate is only infinftesimally greater
than the amount of play in the door,
and If the door Is loose all the way
down another plate should be fitted
about an inch or so from the lower
end of the door jam. 1t is obviously
a makeshift. but there is no other
easily applied remedy, as nothing but
entirely refitting the doors would stop
the looseness, and this would necessi-
tate repainting.
1t is estimated by those who have
made a close study of the motor
truck business during the last six
years that there are approximately
10000 motor trucks and delivery ma
chimes now in service, of which a very
large proportion-probably SO per
cent--are trucks of from one to sew
en-ton capacity. There are by care
full count $50 active builders of mo-
tor trucks, delivery wagons and other
forms of Industrial motor vehicles In
America, and OF this number SO are
manufacturing gasoline trucks OF
electric trucks of one-ton capacity or
more and the rest make trucks of
from one to two-and-a-half tons. As
Stunning that the average value of
motor trucks, ranging from 1000 to
$4,000 pounds capacity, is approx
mately $1,000. which is conserva-
tive estimate, the 10000 such ma
chimes in service represent an invest
ment of about $30,000,000 in power
Claiming the nitrogen is to take
the place of gasoline for driving mo-
tors. a group of London capitalists is
preparing to float a company with a
capital Of s7,5oo,ooo. The promo
comes out of the chimney from an or
binary fire, refine the gases by blow
ing them upon metallic copper in a
fire retort, take away the carbonic
acid in liquid form, remove the black
carbon atoms and then have left pure
nitrogen, a colorless. non-explos1vc
gas which is Infinitely more powerful
than the steam which drives the
steam engine" After he has accom-
plished all this, he intends to COM
press the pure nitrogen in cylinders
up to 5000 pounds per sgt are inch,
and the nitrogen thus compressed
will be the motive power which will
supersede gasoline. Well, mebbe go,
mebbe SO. and then again, perhaps
not
The Secretary of the State of Cal
ifornia got a letter a few days ago
from Napa man to say that his
wife had discovered that the figures
43501 in their automobile license tag
totalled 13, and that she refused to
ride in the car until another numb r
was had.
Magnetos should, never be tamper-
ed with. for it is very easy to put
them out of commission, especially IL
they be of a high tension. It is said