The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Aluminium in a new form, known as
 navaltum, has been introduced in Eng
 land.
 American automobile makers built
 252, ,569 cars of all sorts from July l, 1911, to July 1, 1912, while the regis trations have jumped to the amazing
 total of S59, ,9sS. After a hard struggle, manufactur-
 CTS of portable steel garages have won
 their fight against efforts made by
 the Milwaukee Common Council to prohibit the erection and use of such structures in Milwaukee.
 Varnish spotting may be prevented by washing the car often with clean cold water, which treatment not only hardens the varnish, and increases it's briliancy, but prevents it from being acted upon by the manifold accumu- i lations.
 The bursting of water pipes recently resulted in the entire water supply 1 of the village of New Hartford, N. Y.. being cut off, The Utica Water Com pany thereupon secured a number of automobile trucks, loaded them with ] milk cans of water and rushed to the relief of the villagers.
 Parts that require only infreQuent 1 fabrication are the ones that are most | apt to be overlooked altogether. The l top of the steering column, the mag | change gear, and brake connections and sundry other minor articulations about the chassis should be watched. Another wind wagon has appeared | this time in France. Count de Les l seps is the designer, and, according 1 to reports, recently travelled from Paris to Iyonssin the machine. The
 propeller is located in front, and is driven by chain from a shaft fitted with reverse gear. A speed of 62
 miles an hour has been attained. l A Lincoln Memorial has been pro- posed in the House, at Washington, l by Representative Taylor, of Colorado, who has introduced a bill to have the Federal Government construct na-
 tional highway from Boston to San l Francisco by way of New York, Washington, Springfield, H., and Den ver The bill would appropriate
 $250.0o0 for beginning the work, the
 subsequent cost. and the counties and States traversed by the highway the l remainder.
 | A prevalent cause of carburetter
 trouble is the weakening of the spring,
 or springs, that retain the extra air valve in it's closed position. The ef- 1 feet is to cause the valve to open more readily than it should, producing weak mixture at all engine speeds, save the very lowest. The condition I may be remedied temporarily by re
 adjustment of the tension, but it's ear- l ly recurrence is apt to lead to the nasty conclusion that the seat of the difficulty is elsewhere.
 1 Should persistent tire trouble devel- op on one wheel, as not infrequently
 happens, first make sure whether it is 1 merely coincidence, or due to some invariable cause. In the latter case. l the immediate cause of delay will be either punctures or blowouts-seldom I both. A rather obscure cause of i b1owouts, which it is we'll to recall in this connection, is disalignnent of the affected wheel, causing the tire to slip l unduly. A wheel that is out of true also may cause undue wear, while a bent rim, by failing to grasp the bead ] of the casing uniformly, may strain | the sides of the casing sufficiently to cause it to blow out repeatedly.
 | To change, by one bold stroke, the name under which is annually mark eted a product valued at fifty million dollars is a feat of daring new to in- 1 dustrial history. Yet it has just been performed by The Studebaker Corpo- ration of Detroit which has sent no- tice to it's dealers all over the country that, in the future, all the motor cars
 built at it's mammoth Detroit plants will be known as '.Studebaker'' cars. l The change went into effect with the | opening of the current month. A big 1 battery of machine tools is now turn | ing out the initial lot of 100000 Stud
 ebaker'' script radiator name plates which will replace those at present in use, not only on the cars now being 1 marketed but also on all cars sold by l the Studebakers and their predeces- sors. the EMF Company, which was l merged into The Stakeholder Corpora tion some time ago. AS soon as 1t 1 is possible to supply the monograms to Studebaker dealers, all cars now in use will be equipped with them.
 l Motoring unquestionably makes man Iazier than he is by nature. An Eng | fish writer finds that the universal