Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-27
DOINGS IN THE AUTO WORLD
Motor Car Show Opens at New Haven-Fy Injuries Every Day Due to Reckless Driving Movement Towards Lighter Cars-A A. A. Working For Good Roads Everywhere.'

Recent years have witnessed the en
 Try or number of carriage makers I into the automobile industry. Yet not
 one man in fifty perhaps realizes how
 much the motor car owes to the vehi- 1 cle that is new regarded as it's humble l predecessor. The trend from the car 1 r1age business to that of the auteme- 1 pile IS interpreted as a turning from i the old and obsolete to the new and popular. This probably Is true But 1t Is also true that the comfort which l is a prominent feature of the good mo- 1 ter car of today had it's origin in the comfort that characterizes the we'll l built carriage Nearly everybody re- 1 members the tonneau bodies of the l earlier automobiles, especially those 1 who were forced by circumstances to l occupy the rear seats. These were, in fact, mere shelves set across the rear 1 door between. Comfort in these seats I was hardly possible. Sitting on them was more like torture, with the short l wheelbaseS, which were the rule, and i the stiff, hard riding springs. It was not until 1904 that a carriage builder entered the automobile game and built touring car with side doors and a real rear seat
 Notwithstanding ti1e might hawk taxi, it may almost be said that the sun
 never sets on the taxieab, SC ubiquitous
 has that convenient auxiliary to civil
 
 places to have taHcab services estab- ushed are Batavia and Sourabaya in Java. The roads in Java are very good, and it Is not surprising that motoring there is on the increase, as the planters and heads of business houses realize the advantages they ob- tain from the use of moter cars. Sew eral public services are in operation, notably between Cheribon and Indram- aloe, as well as between Asahazn and Dell
 Carbon trouble is one of the recur- ring annoyances of automobile motors which never has been entirely re- moved. The heat of 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 en- tire seasons use, but, on the other hand, 1t might be go great that the motor refuses to function as it should. When going over the car during the winter 1t would be best to thoroughly clean the cylinders of all traces of carbon.
 The increase in the number of six cylinder cars and the increased use of electricity for starting and light ing are the most notable features of automobile development in 1913. The six car has gradually risen in regular steps from 11-4 per cent. in 1911 to 18-4 last year, and then with one broad leap to 35.4 this season While this progress upward has been on hand. the percentage of four-cyltnder models has gradually dropped in these three seasons, as the following figures show: SS.3 per cent. 80 per cent, 62 per cent. The horse power or the six cylinder model in America averages higher than that for Europe. as might be ex- pected. but there is a gradual reduc- ton taking place from year to year, so that soon the American six-cylinder yyin he tys f11<a foreign type, or nearly so. The poorer l Araertoan roads and the heavier bodies | call for additional horse power, but !! with road improvements, increased l motor efficiency and eliminating need :! less body weight. there Is uo reason | why the next few years will not wit | ness gradual steps downward in power, 1 Last year the average horse power of | the listed six-eylinder chassis was 45.77: this year it was 1.24. a reduc- | tion of Il per cent. There are 76 com cerns listing six cylinder models, these | companies having in all 126 different chassis models. Of this number there | are 30 building nothing but sfxes, some of them building one model, some two, and others three. four and five
 Fifty to seventy-f1ve persons are being killed in the United States every week, and forty to fifty are being in jured every twenty-four hours by au mishaps largely due to reck- less driving, according to reports being | compiled by Chief of Police Dunn of Omaha for the use of the national as- sociation of police chiefs in the fight 3f that organization to prevent mAtor car accidents
 Chief Dunn has just made public the -eport of automobile accidents for the i've weeks ending Jan. B, and the sta .istics show that in that period POS persons met death in these mishaps, while ]. .230 were injured The number ,f accidents was 1.275.
 In this report are included only au- omobile accidents which occurred in hose cities and towns which maintain police organizations. According to Chief Dunn there are almost as many | tccidents in the country and in vii ages as there are in the cities and ( arger towns.
 The national association of police .hiefs is preparing a nationwide cru ] ade against reckless automobiling and ] o Chief Dunn has been delegated the 1 ,afherins of statistics. At the coming .uuuaI convention of the chiefs a set ; f laws will be prepared from the con- ] lined experience of all members of the ] and every city and town 1 a the United States and Canada will ( e asked to place these in effect. In the i've weeks covered by the re- ! ort deaths from automobile accidents l i oourred in S6 states of the union and n tdHoA proR3nnAa of Canada. NaE [