The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-09
Autom1bi'e News


 The amount of freight earned by the railroads of the country on shipments of automobiles from all factories IS estimated at not less than $6,0oO,OOo per year. of Ian1ns or lights must use only the lees brilliant on several leading streets Of 7PfiIadeIphia, according to a new police regulation.
 sstili refuses to allow the motor car to use its roads is Odder, in Denmark. Motorists passing through the IoWn have to procure a horse to draw their car through the streets, and those guilty of acontraventions of this regu- lation are heavily fined.
 Carefully compiled statistics show that there Is now one motor truck 10 every twenty-six pleasure motor cars in the United States. Over 6o2.- 900 passenger cars were Teglsrereo;r riae he total estimated value Of the passenger cars was. in round numbers. $oAz'UVV'- 900, and, the total valuation or the trucks was s56. .OO0 GOO. This makes the proportion of passenger car value to truck value last year. approx1matefS'
 Suoerintendent of Police Began, of Buffalo, is heartily in favor of the plan recently outlined by State Secre- tary Lazansky, of recording finger prints of all chauffeurs and automo- bile owners to prevent gangsters and eE1urneuz from sec turin g s4IeenSes. OF sso,irSts many Owners might object to giving their finger prints. said Cniee ,Rerar but after the adventage of the plan is shown believe the major fty would be willing There are no two finger prints alike, while many faces look so similar that identifica-
 \ valuable hiat for motor owners who intend to TePai2t their cars is given by the --t- -ari-iasc Monthly Gen s-aliy speaking, it says. it doesn't pay 70 ciiea Es n rho process of developing the lake 0r transparent color hnish- purple O. crimson lake that costs ss a pound should be brought to the surface by a strictly high-clasS pro cess or not at all To use expen- s.ve lake pigments over cheap; made duate grounds by cheap methods. IS only ar ilI-deVised method of throwing money a way For cheap. inexpensive methods stick to the solid colors
 T,s.i5Iished Isy the Paris sport a ne .vspaper. on recent imports into France of American automobiles In the last ten months. it is shown, the increase fu this business over the pre- crding ten months is no less than S3fe eco This fierce competition of American firms is acting naturally as a powerful stimulent to F1'e''"F ''lall- ]1<sct t71rers- who. howev-. 'tinly sDyeeair1ess- tfie.nselS s.ss 4.- A=z sIu>- ton :s oss'aEEs s;9ssT ardEr Ez 2f are 5he not sert over fro:zl ti1. 41t.od states. So far from the makers on this side euGering t1 this line OF cars, theI ex- ports 10 America Of automobiles de luxe doubled during the present year, -heir trade up to the end of October representing $500, 900. as against half that sum during the ten months prev
 A55omobne trucks have created demand for . ne type of chauffeur, Recording to the officials of the Au- tornoIsiIe school of West side. Young Mems Christian Association, in New York It is the heavy man, with we'll developed muscles. who can drive ard care for his car and also load and unload that Will snd himself much in demand- This fact is emphasized by The present enrolment at the autonlo- bile school. where great many of the students are men who have been cent .o the school by business con ce-1s that are using motor trucks. Almost without execution. the com p-.--os Euve picked big. muscular men. Invest gation has shown the following average If wages; Drivers of 1-ton tructs SIS per week drivers of 3-ton trucks S2I and S22; drivers of to T. ton trucks, s25.
 Ire greate difficulty found in lu bricating 2 motor is to supply the oil In proportion to the speed which she bearing surfaces are moving over each other When two metal plane surfaces are in moving contact the fnoveF7 enU is resisted bv q variable amount of friction. Sliding contact produces a higher friction than does rolling contact because the area over which the force of friction Is cxerted is great in the first instance while in the rolling contac- the area is practically nil. being merely a point or a line. As the speed increases, in other words. the power of the re- sksFz 15ce 3sr augmented. ~ The power that is used in overcoming frictional resistance is transformed to a large degree into heat. Hence, when the .a.afzntent of friction rises the heat