The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-11
Valuable Hints
 For Auto Owners
Things Which Owners and Operators of Motor Cars
 Should Know

Akron rubber factories, all of which are now centered upon the manufac- ture of tires, now employ 17,000 work CTS. Plans indicate that this num- Der will be increased at least 1000 dur ing the winter.
 The time of the year has now ar rived when it is dangerous to leave the radiator unprotected. It may be well to remember that if 1 IA quarts of .denatured alcohol are added. to each gallon of water the mixture will freeze at degrees below zero.
 According to our consular agents American automobile manufacturers in Hungary. The American automobo- bile is practically unknown there, they say, in spite of the general prosperity of the 20,0OO, ,OOO inhabitants, and most of the machines in use are Of French make
 The New York city fire department is soon to be augmented by mon ster self-propelling pumping engine which will make up to 40 miles an hour and throw 700 gallons of water a minute. The engine is about IS feet long, with a wheelbase of 146 inches. It weighs, complete, nearly seven tons, and runs on 42-inch wheels with solid tires.
 The most extensive application of acetylene is for lighting purposes. Acetylene has quickly found favor with the automobile public because of it's intensely white light, which is gener- ally considered the whitest artificial light and, in fact, is as white as sun- light The cause of this phenomenon lies in the high energy content of the acetylene.
 Plans and preparations already made for the second annual display of mo- tor trucks and delivery wagons to be held in Madison Square Garden, New York, during the second week of the Twelfth National Automobile Show January 18th to 10th, inclusive, indi- cate plainly that the commercial week
 will be a close second to passenger cal week in magnitude and interest. Ey- cry square foot of space utilized the first week has been sold for the fol turerS of trucks and delivery wagons and two hundred motor car accessories makers Business machines of al types and sizes will be displayed, rang ing from package delivery cars o1 about 600 pounds capacity to 1O-tor trucks. There will be twenty-sever makes of gasoline machines and clever makes of electric wagons. Besides the ordinary styles of trucks and delivery wagons, there will be many machines for special purposes, such as motor fire engines, patrol wagons, ambu- lances, trucks with tipping bodies anc trucks with power winches for hoist ing purposes.
 Recommendation that convict labor be employed on the roads of Virginia as it is in Oregon and Colorado, will be made by Governor Mann. Many makers are now mounting the brake and gear shifting levers where any driver of normal proportions car reach them without difficulty and some are even going further in providing adjustable seats.
 The recent figures of the Census Of, flee show that in 1909 there was ar output of automobiles to the value o1 | s25O, 900, GOO. In the same year, it ls reported, the value of the 3,639 electric vehicles produced was 6,5S4, 800, or 16; per cent. more than in 1904.
 | Always keep oil tunnels and meas ures clean and store them in a clear place. Despite the use of strainers particules of fine metallic dust are ap1 | to settle out of the air and in ths cient quantity to have an injurious eff | feet on the bearings.
 Government figures based upon act
 ual statistics for the first sever months of the year indicate tha 1 American automobiles will be export ed for the year 1911 to the value O. s2O, ,00O, ,OOO, the actual figures for thu | seven months being $12,5OO,0O0. Ter | years ago the automobile exports wer' less than $1, ,000, 900.
 | American roadsterS have quit, | caught the fancy of French men ant are selling more and more in tha
 country Their lightness, ability t,
 climb hills and to spin rapidly owe
 the well-kept roads of the republic
 in addition to their low price, mak 1 them more popular than almost an.
 other type of domestic car shipped | abroad.
 The bugaboo that the motor car ha killed the horse raising industry il