Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-10

Accordin9 to latest reports an American company have received an ment for 600 two-ton trucks, making a total of 1.601 trucks purchased from this company by France
 This company is far in the lead of French business. and 1t must be taken as a striking tribute to the American automobile company's su- periority as the French automobile engineers who made the choice are considered among the foremost in the world in their profession.
 
 Failure to keep a hiah-priee motor truck constantly busy prevents many a merchant from realizing his full expectation of power propelled de livery vehicles. There is no harm in letting horse loaf a bit. In fact. 1t is good thing to do, especially when in hot weather the animal, if over driven, is likely to pay the penalty in impaired condition. or perhaps a. col lapse. Moreover, when a horse is resting, it is wasting the time of a dollars. But truck time is truly money.
 Presuming that the vehicle repre- sented an original first cost of $3,000, add to that insurance interest on the investment, depreciation garage
 
 CT fixed charges that go on just the same, whether the vehicle runs or stands, and it will be seen that it is a wastful policy not to so handle the delivery system that the loafing time of the machine is reduced to a mini num- Big users of motor trucks give the closest attention to keeping the truck moving all the time. Often they work it night and day, a policy not especially harmful. providing the ve- hicle is constantly kept under inspec ton and is never permitted to lack
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 "Eeononicai operation with a six- cylinder car or in fact any car, may be said to be attained when about IA miles on one gallon of gasoline is the average over fairly long period in the use of that car.''
 Gasoline economy is but one of the many economies that can and should be worked for on a car. It is possible but very seldom obtained by the ay- craze man, no matter what car he owns. This merely indicates that he has not the knowledge of the different things that go to make up economical use of gasoline.
 "In general, if one understood the combustion of fuel in the cylinder, he understand economical operation. He should know that certain amount of fuel and this will practically in every case be gasoline. requires air mixed with it in order to have it burn and thus produce power. It is necessary that it should have the correct amount of air, although a little excess of air does very little harm. It is necessary. in order to have economical operation, that each cylinder have correct mix ture, and this problem is one of dis tribution. If a perfect mixture were made in the carburetcr, distribution would be easy, but in general today it is a mechanical mixture of gasoline and air, and the correct distribution of this is not easy.
 / Ignition is another feature of gaso- line economy, and ignition should al- ways be at a point that would give maximum power.
 How man should drive is import ant. If the operator holds out his clutch when going down a hill. and allows the engine to run it's own power, he is needlessly using gasoline. If he hold out the clutch when he is slowing up the car. instead of clos ing the throttle, he is needleSsly using gasoline. In fact every time that the brakes are used on the car and the throttle not closed. and this can hap pen by holding out the clutch and ing gasoline.
 "The average man does not realize the importance of the needle valve. In all cases, this valve should be ad- justed to the minimum possibzle and still have good operation Adjusting this needle valve to the minimum really means getting the right pro- portion of gasoline and air, and today even tn--warm weather, the gasoline