The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-11
AUTOMOBILE NEWS
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failure"
carefully prepared statement as
to the causes of wear, and what GER
tain roads win stand is presented as
one of the results of the careful traf-
f1c study entered on some years ago
ay the commission. Among the eS-
-ablished results are the following;
A good gravel road will wear rea-
soma bly, we'll under a daily traffic COM
posed of fifty TO seventy-hve light
teams. twenty-five to thirty loaded
one-horse vehicles, ten to twelve load
ed two or more horse drawn wagons,
and 100 to $50 automobiles With
larger number of automobiles, the
gravel should be oiled. The oiling
presents what is spoken of as a "blan-
lSet surface consisting of heavy as
phaltic oil and sand. If the oil be
applied hot, the blanket surface will
last three to five years, if cold, it must
be renewed every year.
OILED gravel will stand fairly we'll
under seventy-five to 100 light teams,
thirty to fifty heavy one-horse vehicles
twenty heavy wagons with two or
more horses, and 500 to 700 automo-
biles daily
Vvaterbound macadam will stand
under a daily traffic of 175 to 200
light teams. IT'S to 200 heavy one
horse vehicles and so to so, perhaps
more neaNy wagons with or more
horses If even SO to 100 automo-
biIes per day go over the road at high
speed dust layers will be servicea-ble-
With a really god dust layer the
road will stand 800 to 500 automo-
biles a day. although the stones will
wear.
Waterbound macadam with an oil
and sand blanket, applied hot, will
be economical with $50 to 200 light
teams, rs to 100 heavy one-horse We
hicles, % to 80 heavy wagons with
two or more horses, and autom obi1es
up to 1,400, or more with fewer teams
and with so or more motor trucks. The
large number of autom obi1es seems to
keep the oil rolled down when it
would cut up and crumble without
this traffic This same road, how
ever, will cut up and -crumble under
a traffic of 100 heavy one-horse We
hic1es and so two or more horse wag-
ons on narrow tires, such as loaded
farm wagons, ice wagons, loads of
wood, etc.
The report further states: MANY
million dollars a year are being spent
in this commonwealth to secure i'm
proved roads, and provision should be
made by law to prevent them from
destruction The law should fix some
maximum weight per inch width of
tire in contact with the ground"
Demand For Speed Waning.
The speed mania has had it's day.
Safety and sanity in the operation of
motor cars is the one big essential
necessary to g continuation of the
phenomena success which the. auto
mobile industry has seen. according
to leaders of the business. Staunch.
staple construction and the utilization
of every possible mechan meal improve
ment and refinement, rather than an
effort to provide tremendous speed,
are in the ends of the big manufac
dc If
motor car building. An expert, who
decries the craze for speed, says:
The motorists who demand speed
and ever more speed are the exceed
ingly small minority of the autom obi1e
public of to-day. They and their re-
by the manufacturer who hopes to
produce a motor car that will appeal
To, the solid, substantial public. The
motor car need of the present time is
staunchness and dependabiIity rather
than terrific speed, most heartily
disagree with the men in the industry
who, of late. have been quoted as
predicting a standard, everyday auto
mobile which will be capable of 100 to
$50 miles an hour.
This statement is ridiculous on the
face of it At the present time there
is not a highway in the United States,
nor in the world for that matter, on
which a speed of 100, miles an hour is
elIneE possible OF QeS1raDl6. Hail
that speed is all that our best roads
can possibly stand, and our laws and
common sense forbid even a quarter
of it. We are manufacturing auto
mobiles for business and pleasure and
surely there is no business which de-
uIands such speed 100 miles an
hour AS for pleasure, anyone who
has ever ridden in an automobile is
aware that at more than thirty or
snossibIy forty miles an hour, there Is
nesS enjoyment
Climbing Hills.
a letter from Boston, dated August
9Th reads as follows: The Chand-
Ter car takes Corey hill as well as all
other hills better than any automobile
at any price to be found in the City
of Boston to-day. We can start at the
foot of Commonwealth Avenue hill
with a load of five people, and the
speedometer will register five miles a n
top, or we can climb Commonwealth
Avenue hill on high showing a speed
at the top of nearly 40 miles per
hour. The best time we have ever
made over this hill with a ~ H. P
car is 80 miles per hour.
There is another hill just beyond
Commonwealth and which has four
sharp curves, and is about the same
grade as the Depot hill in Cleveland,
and we have run over this hill at least
twenty times on high, and we could
finish at 1S miles an hour. Not only
is this car able to do this work on the
hills. but on straightaways we have
easily made "a miles an hour. An
other test which we have made on a
/ per cent. grade is, to start from a
Head stop. go through all gears and
-eac ha speed of 90 miles an hour in
ten seconds"
Foreign Body Design.