The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-28
Valuable Hints
 For Auto Owners Things Which Owners and Operators of Motor Cars
 Should Know

A newspaper at Wilmington, Del, has substituted motor delivery for horses and wagons.
 If a fan belt is constantly failing either from the belt flying off or breaking, suspect the alignment of
 As a varnish for terminals it is rec Omm eended to use sealing wax dis solved in gasoline with a little Hn- seed oil added to prevent brittleness.
 Tests made with motor Speedome- ters show that the Soldiers and Sall- ors Monument in Indianapolis, is 52.3 miles from the center of population sof the United States. at Bloomington, Ind.
 The trustees of the New York, Pub- lie Library, covering 40 branches and several hundred travelling library sta tions, insist that the only way in which inspections can be made prop erly is by motor car, and they have asked for an appropriation of $5,30O to buy cars.
 The city council of Kendallville, Ind, has passed vehicle tax ordi- nance and all drivers of trucks. mo- tor cars and other vehicles must now pay fee into the city treasury. The revenue thus derived will be spent in the repair of the city streets. The fees range from $1 to $15.
 The efficiency of a steel studded anti-skid tire depends almost entirely upon the air pressure maintained in it. The leather band in which the steel studs are imbedded is great deal less elastic than rubber, and as a result certain amount of stress IS created between the two materials.
 A length of rope is always handy The driver may want it himself. Oth- CTS in trouble may ask him for a tow. In case of all the spare tires being used up it may be wound around the ~s,, f n. essary adhesion if wound around the cover on ice-covered roads.
 An average of ten automobile om- nibusses are being placed in service on London's streets weekly. Cab horses are being sold off at rate the next year it is believed they will be supplanted by the motor bus en- tirely. Latest available figures show about 1.500 musses in service, and 1,60O horses,
 Coatings of oil which accumulate on the inside of dashboard lubricators may be cleaned off without removing the glass, by heating with a lamp or torch, or by passing a rough string or twine about it and pulling the ends so as to create heat by friction. The heat will cause the oil to run from the inside of the glass in short time.
 The people of Connersville, Ind, are trying to solve the problem or street-car service. Owing to the fact there is some fear an electric rail line might not pay, promo Oters of such lines are reluctant to install such ser vice. Discussion has now turned to- ward an automobile street-car service the plan being to operate automo- piles of thirty to forty-passenger ca- pacity each. It is estimated these cars should be purchased at about s5,O6O without any expense or ne- of tt~aR afn
 Inspection of coil tremblers once a week will prevent any stoppages due to their failure. The chief trou- ble is due to the fact that the cleo tric current, in passing through the circuit in one direction, takes up small particles of platinum from the one contact and places it on the oth- CT. Continued running of the cur rent in the same direction therefore causes one platinum to pit and the other to become pointed. To pre- vent this occurring, the accumulators should be wired up so that the cur rent flows from a direction opposite to that from the other. Then if either side of the switch be used haphazard, the current going in each direction will be about the same, and any plat mum carried in one direction will be returned when the switch is moved over.
 American-made tires to the value of S1 ,322 were exported during the first eight months of this year. In August the exports of tires were s251. 1.262, gain of $100.000 over Au- gust, 1910.
 The balanace of trade in motor cars continues to grow in favor of the United States. besides the gain in ex- ports, in the first eight months of 1911 there were imported sos cars at $1,312,969, against 723 cars valued at $1.443,S71 in the cor period of the previous year.
 Alkali may be removed from jack | cts and radiators by solution of wood alcohol, although alkali incrus- 1 tations have been removed by fore | ing q c9rrenf Of water through the 1 system by ,.t8ching d hose to the | water intake to the jackets of the l cylinders. A common force pump | nas also been used with satisfactory