The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-25
Valuable Hints
 For Auto Owners
Things Which Owners and Operators of Motor Cars
 Should Know

In connection. with the aviation
 meet feature of the Vanderbilt Grand
 Prize race at Savannah this month.
 an omobile-aeroplane race is be- | ing arranged. rs
 Because cattle do not mind lit- | tie noise like the footing of an auto
 mobile horn, a German manufactur- l CT has added folding whips to the equipment of his cars.
 Thirty thousand people in Akron, Ohio, are supported, directly or ln- directly by the rubber industry, and in that industry all possible pressure and concentration is directed to the automobile tire branch. ol When the wheels are not jacked up and the car is allowed to stand for any length of time, the tires should be kept well inflated and the ear 1 moved occasionally, so that the tires do not fiatten from standing too long on ore spot. = Writing on the difference between
 French and American automobile eti- quette, an author in the New York
 Tribune defines the automobile grafter' 'thus:- ''The grafter,s eti- the vacuum caused by. the empty seat. He never had a motor car and never expects to, though he IS l always telling you of one on which he has got his eye, superior to yours and a bargain, but nothing compar- ed to using his friends machines. He knows your hours for driving, and was never known to be late. He pats the bonnet, fondles the lamps. clings on to the running board, where you can't rub him off. You have to walk over him to get in, and in the end he goes along. If there are repairs to be done along the road he reclines on a grassy knoll and tells you how it ought to be done, and ad- vises you to trade your car for one ble and get summons he is more than likely to testify that it was all your fault. Like all people who get something without personal effort, he is a constituencies creature and abso- lutely without gratitude. The same
 quette of automobiling at night is to stay out late enough not to get into the morning papers
 The value of the automobile and automobile accessories exported from Turin. Italy, to the United States
 sns in was asos Probabls as the
 year 1910 will hereafter appear as having marked a turn of the tide, and that European automobiles will in the future, on account of the for midable and increasing competition
  ue to meet from American automo- bile manufacturers, be exported to the United States in decreasing numbers. An estimate covering automobiles built in Turin during 1910 sets the number at 3907 as against the esti- | mate of 3,700 for. 1909, and it is es- | timated that during 1910 only 500 au- | tomobiles were built in Italy outside | of Piedmont.
 One of the most annoying things | in car is the rattling of the doors.
 See that the thickness of the plate IS only infinitesimally greater than the amount of play in the door, and if i the door is loose all the way down, I another plate should be fitted about an inch or so from the lower end of
 the door jamb.
 The thing that the driver of a car should not do when his car begins to skid is, peculiarly enough, the very | thing he does if he is in the novice stage, i. G., to jam on the Drake; and even old hands at the business doing this. Care and slow speed
 whenever the roadway is slippery are
 the things that render the sudden use 1 of the brake unnecessary.
 In 4purchasing calcium carbidea for generators use. only the trade which mends. If pulverized carbide is em- ployed in a device intended only for l the. coarser grades, for example, there is considerabl Likelihood that clogging will result. If too. coarse
 a grade to suit the generator is used, on the other hand, there is some chance that the water feed, adjust ment will not prove adequate, ,irregu- lar generation and ffuctuating pres sure being the result -.,,
 Nearly $9o.0o0 worth more of au. l tomobiies and parts were exported from the United States during Sep tember than during the 7, preceding months of August. As compared with the corresponding month of fast year, the gain amounted to $592,- 126, or almost 45 per cent. The to- l tai value. of cars and parts exported l during the month amounted to S1,- 336,822. Of this amount more than one-half was shipped to the various
 British possessions. The South Amer
 ican market showed a gain of $135,- | 687. ;sf'''j@-
 Automobiles are used in Cuba en- l tireely for pleasure, as the streets | of Havana and other cities are SC
 narrow and rough that a man can
 walk through the business sections quicker than he can drive. Few five o'clock in the evening, due to the excessive heat during the day. Joy riding commences in earnest about 10 o'clock, when the wealthy people in their large foreign cars circle the Prado. American cars are not very we'll represented in Cuba, most all of the cars being expensive French and Italian products. The same con- ditions exist in the accessories lines. | Movements are now xon foot to use l the Ranie fibre for automobile tires and castings have already been mad c which are practically non-punctur- l able, and which are said to have l proven capable of outwearing by | several hundred per cent the best sea-island cotton. The -casin gs made l of the fibre are as soft and as f1eX- 1 ible as silk and almost as resilient as rubber and nothing that an auto mobile ordinarily encounters in a days travel, with the exception of
 sharp glass, seems able to cut or puncture it. If this continues to l hold good there seems to be a good possibility of reducing the cost of ,au- l tomobile upkeep.
 1 Handling motor car tires after l they are discarded is business of no l! up in the last two or three years. For
 tire which cost originally forty or | fifty dollars, the junk dealers give from five to eight cents a pound, de pending upon his and the owner :
 bargaining powers and the state of | the market-just now six or seven | cents is the general price. In other words, the junk dealer gives the | owner a couple of dollars for his old | forty-dollar tire. The junk collect l or sells to the dealer, who sorts out
 the different kinds of junk sells the | rubber tire to the recIa inner who ga Is