The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-13
Automobile News

Vices,
creased
After 81 months service without
single breakdown, the automobile am
bulance. in the service of the charity
hospital at New Orleans, La, has so
proven it's worth that another motor
ambulance is to be added in the near
future.
Road makers in Menominee, Mich,
are looking for a rat-proof road. FOR
some reason or other, muSkrats nave
been delighting lately in DurroWlng
underneath newly msoadamized roads.
Washouts are the result %hen II
rains.
A physician arrested for driving his
automobile at more than 40 miles an
hour, recently offered in Minneapolis
to pay an automobile city detective
800 if he could make the car go that
fast The detective won, refused the
money and the physician turned 1t
over to a charity. The fine was $50.
stung into act1slry oy .n gasoiine -9
the British Society of Motor Manufac-
turers and Traders is to offer q, prize
of $4,000 to any one who viii invent,
discover or produce a liquid disable
motor fuel from materials available
in the United Kingdom at a, CONNER
quantities. The exact wording of the
prize offer is still being discussed by
the society, but the above statement
eLnb odiee it's salient features.
A novel high gear contest IS pro
posed by the Long Island Automobile
Club, Of Brooklyn, N. Y, Louis T.
that it be given to the winner of a
run on the high gear from Prospect
Park Plaza, Brooklyn, to Coney ISL
and and back, and that the winner
takes tie longest time to make the
trip. The clutch is not to be slipped
or disengaged, save to stop when nee
essary to avoid accidents. An ooser-
yer is to accompany each driver.
In order to take advantage OF the
Delaware law permitting physicians
IN nv
speed limit, thirty physicians have or
ganized the Physicians Motor club of
Delaware. A special tag has been
rounded by a blue circle and the
name of the club. This will be rec
ognized by the police as, a speeding
ming to get their supplies at whole
sale rates by buying as club, in
quantity.
When using the engine as a brake
in descending hills with the ignition
cut off, open throttle. This will ma
terially cool and clean the cylinders
while If the throttle be closed, a GER
| tain amount OF oil will be sucked into
the cylinders from the crankcase.
A touring car may be warmed in
winter with very little trouble. If it
/ its be fitted with storm curtains that
| can be drawn sufficiently tight to ex-
clude most of the outside air. If this
| the dash, to allow the warm air from
| the motor and radiator to enter. A
pipe may be tapped into the exhaust
manifold and led through radiator
in the tonneau, exhausting into the
open air.
Carbon trouble is one of the recur-
ring annoyances of automobile motors
which has never been entirely remov-
ed. The heat combustion is so high
that even the best OF oils leave some
deposit. This may be so small that
it is not noticeable after an entire
seasons use, but, on the other hand,
it might be so great that the motor
refuses toe function as it should. When
| going over the car during the winter
1t should be best to thoroughly clean
the cylinders of all traces Of carbon.
In fitting new asbestos washers on
the intake manifold, it is well to cut
the inner hole slightly larger than the
bore of the outlet. This is to pre-
to the passage. Asbestos is of such a
nature that these strands, when pulled
away by the exhaust, leave others
projecting, and SO in a short time the
blown out The washer may be
strengthened against blowing out by
diameter on each side of it, They
should be of different diameter, so
| that they will not cut through the
asbestos.
A deep cut in a tire, which partly
sewers a piece of rubber and allows
it to flap, should have immediate at
tention for the particular reason that
the loose piece is apt to tear off more
rubber and SO make the damage worse
than at first. This is particularly
true Of solid tires, OF course. bad
1 mediately in any case; the foregoing
is merely an extra reason for avoid
| ing delay.
When it is necessary to drive a car
| during rainstorm, a lot of subse-
quent work can be avoided if all
/ ing of vasa1ine. With such a coating
/ applied before venturing out in the
rain, there will be no necessity for
wiping off and polishing all the bright
| parts as soon as the car has finished
it's journey. The grease will prevent
the rain from spotting and tarnish-
| easily and quickly removed at any
time. Should any plated. parts be-
come furnished they can be restored
| to their previous brightness BY the
| use of a good polishing paste and a
little liquid ammonia
Any careful driver will always keep
valves and plugs clean. the oil in the
| base chamber pure, the water joints
| sound, the clutch pedal properly ad-
| justed "a. great point with the leather
| faced cone typel, the oil level in the
| gear-box and back axle correct, the
| tires free from small stones and all
Traffic conditions in the streets of
| London have become so congested that
| numerous conferences have been held
i by the various city authorities to try
to devise means of controlling and
regulating the vehicles. It is stated
| that the principal cause of the con-
| gestion is the motor omnibus, there
| being no fewer than. 1926 running in
| the metropolitan district, as against
| LOO in 1870 This great increase in
| the large and unwieldy vehicles-waile
| other conveyances have not decreased
save the horse buses, which never
! were as numerous as the motor buses
| are now-has resulted in much con-
| fusion on the streets. So great has
been the difficulty that it was seri-
ously proposed some time ago to limit
| the number of buses to 5000 and also
| to limit the number which could run
on one route 1t appears, however,
| that considerable difficulty would be
| experienced in the legal side of this
| project. There seems to be no Lon
j don hody that can lasalIX make such