The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-26
Automobile News


 Taxicabs in Norway. Sweden. Den
 mark and Finland are to run on
 American tires. A contract for 750 se.s Of tires for use taxis in these | countries has just been closed between
 a Stockholm and an Anerican ii nrn. 2 7oo miles of highway in Minnesota next Summer will be authorized ny the
 hundred miles will be absolutely new
 road in the northern part of the State Surveying, stumping and sand hauling
 will be done in the winter
 against the smoking automobile, the police of New York City have be-
 automobiles. and have developed un- usual energy in enforcing the anti smoke ordinance As a result, in one
 day B % drivers were were summoned ,,Tae s,, 70 sap ap amounting to $230 were assessed, in amounts varying from s1 to $1O. The
 next day 55 men wers summoned. The movement looking toward the opening of the national parks to au-e tonobiIes is still going meFTily on and if there is anything in persever- ance. success should crown the eff forts of the motorists at last. Out in California the trade and owners are
 especially interested a.,l,,.a in the s opening ing
 eersed eerg gre sfrort. % F The e action m Is shorty to be concentrated upon Walter L. T. s ~~N@ of the Interior, who is to return from a trip to Honolulu shortly.
 Plans for the notorizing of the De- partment of Street Cleaning, of New York City. are progressing favorably- and Conratssioner Edwards is at pres
 G Tns on at Rr95ss sh,ne 1es tbi ahs fall for the collection Of garbage and
 ashes. The purchase of a number Of street-sweeping machines during the
 coming year also is 8 part of the
 program Ultimately it is hoped to
 have POO trucks and to do away en- tirely with the one-horse wagons size would cost in the nefghborhood
 of g, ,000. .000. but 1t is figured that each truck would save $12.55 g day. made Of the, air in tire, after it has been run for some time and hes become partly defIated by reason of that the proportions of oxygen and nj trogen. as found in. che open air. have been disturbed. The proportion cates that the oxygen has found e freef passage through the pores Of 1 the rubber than has the nitrogen This that every m6torist has noticed-that l ssstale" air will stay in a tire better 1 than fresh air. A new tire has to be hold the proper pressure for any length of time. The process of break l ing in'' a new tire in this way simply l COQS1SLS Tn 8l1Ln1n9L1ng AzfEQOQ paTE of the oxygen from the air inside the | tire, replacing the lost oxygen with | more air, and so on until there is 9 l gen to hold the pfoper pressure.
 A new use has been found for the 1 motor truck in street paving The | latest arrival On the municipal field Of | motor traction is a benzo1 truck, fitted with a huge air compressor and 18- | horsepower motor, which has been put | to work in Berlin, Germany. The E
 
 Belgian block stones and delivers 90 [ blows per nadntltes under 8, pressure of six atfnospheres. One Of the peculiar results of the installation of this ma chine Is the fact that wages paid to the srannmers' are smaller than here tofore because a weaker class Of men can now be employed. Formerly the ramming of Belgian blocks for several hours a day required men of unusual and endurance. sWho received E pay for their work Now a man with even slight physique cAp | do the same or better work by means of the pneumatic ramming machine, which is built something like pneu- matic riveter and is connected with the motor trucks compressor by dex- | ibie hose.
 When is an automobile not an au- tom obi1e2 Answer-when it is att | tached in Oklahonna. This fact came E to light recently In the suit Of an OK attaching his automobile Under the | Oklahoma law, carriages are free from | attachment, and the man in this case carriage, and hence could not be at- tached. The judge upheld the conten- tion. ana the antonobiIe was released. ing into effect on January 1st next there will, no doubt be a large in- crease in the postal business. Just cared for Is still shrouded in the red f tape Of the Washington departments. but there is no doubt that there will present methods in handling the new class Of mail. The present system has been built for the best possible handling of matter not over four and at comparatively high rate of postage. After January 1st, however ever-increasing quantities packages of up to Il pounds in weight and 72 in- E ches In size. The problem assumes the the, proportions s , Of q gigantic Is paTeel ttdes of packages will have to be nov ed in the cities, and 1t is probable that be a large movement of parcels as the proportion of parcels carried to the { farms and small towns Is bound to be larger per unit of population than evident from this that Uncle Sam will { have to go into the market for 3. large
 The noises that an automobile makes may be divided into two maip lassifcations--those indicative of harmfuIly abziormaa 7 conditions, and those coming from. conditions not l the car. Thus. the knock of a loose bearing in the motor indicates a con dftion which should be remedied at once, before the cranlkshaft is 1n- jured, while the rattle of a na41dguard { will not affect the running of the car $ in the least Whatever the cause, l however, no noise Is necessary, and here is no noise that the automobile ? s4lzes that cannot be prevented or si- fenced It Is true that the usual pop-