Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
AUTOMOBILE NEWS FROM
IHE WORLDWIDE FIELD
Under Recently Enacted New York
Laws, All Vehicles Must Carry
Eront and Rear Lights at Night.

Under Recently Enacted New York
Lave, All Vehicles Must Carry
Econt and Rear Lights at Night.
100000 MEN ARE ON HIGHWAYS
ssstt3ood Roads Day" to BE Observed
IN Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Little Attention TO Tires Saves
Trouble-Jitneys in Limelight.
All vehicles in New York State must
nov carry at night lights visible from
both the front and tho rear.
s According to city officials, there are
572 Ttneys operating on the Winnepeg
ii streets. 42s of which have jitney
Eilicenses.
An ordinance regulating the opera
ton Of jitney buses and putting tax
gupoh them has been passed by the
s. Savannah City Council Every owner
will hbe required TO pay an annual tax
81 ofA-$10 seat for every machine in
& operation. In addition, they will be re-
$4,000
More than half a million men Will
become highway builders in the state
KS Of ~Pennsylvania on May % according
to the estimates OF those who are boost
Day:a '"a' occasion as N'''" ''''"'
Fhe requirements for becoming
member of the Society of Automobile
= Engineers are exactly parallel TO those
!, for. entering any other ensineering
{ bodies-that is. an applicant must
q satisfy a committee that he is familiar
"a enough with the art to be able to rep
A resent the standing of the body of
y members.
AS Preliminary figures issued at Wash
4 ington show that 1889 commercial We
p inches; valued at S4,723563, and 2,42S
s passenger cars. valued at sl.a5S.ao2.
weFe exported to Europe during March
II Eorf,the nine months ending with
i March commercial vehicle exports were
I, 3l3,, valued at slS,737.4S7. Passenger
4 cars numbered 1l,562. valued al So.
DEtroit accessory makers are liter
ally deluged with orders. and. like the
motor. car manufacturers OF the same
IskEitS, find themselves lily prepared to
supply the demand This condition is
slargeiy due to the fac, that last fail
!tsthere were grave doubts as 10 the ef-
feet the European war would have on
this country. and extensions and i'm
Jprovements to plants were held off.
jss There is now every indication that
sithere, will be twenty-five or more
starters in the 5o0-mile race on the
Indianapolis speedway on May 20.
= Roads are dotted on every fine day
with cars held up with tire troubles
the old story Of tires neglected during
! winter and then spelling the spring
trips Take the tires off, take the tubes
out. clean tubes off clean out the
castings. add new chalk, graphite the
rims, and you will find that many of
the early spring troubles will disappear
I has
+ the winter, you will have more trouble
; trouble that cannot be remedied by
Y these directions.
Jtney owners in Houston, Tex have
started suit against the city. asking for
an injunction TO prevent enforcement
:5 OF the new ordinance, requiring a bond
OF $4,000 for each j!tney.
3 Faced with an alarming profusion of
81 speed traps on the Maryland roads the
Automobile Club of Maryland at Bal
+ timore. is planning the downfall Of
3 those justices of the peace and con-
stables who overzealous in en-
\ forcing" the Jaw. The members of the
n club have been supplied with blanks for
3 recording the particulars of each ar
tsfest. with the data thus obtained the
clubfwiii endeavor TO have removed
from office those officers who make un-
{ Just. arrests. assess cXtortionate fines
and who do not make proper returns
OF fines and costs collected
In another important New York case
Where policy had been issued insur-
Ing an automobile against loss by theft
the court has held that the car was
stolen. and taken with {. felonious in
tent. and that he could not recover
under his policy ii he ha.! been wrong.
fully deprived OF it-by one acting under
anEhonest- belief that he was entitled
! toits possession.
'FiProbably the largest factor in b.u-
d bRar:ng efficiency for motor cars is &C.
cufacy OF dimension. and this is AL
rgady such that a ten thousand,h y,
s. an inch is the lim, OF error Makers
OF bearings aim AT an ever-increasinc
q accuracy, and IL is Anticipated ,b,,
: bearings will be made to much frn,
limits than this. knowledge is
gained concerning processes and ma
tsrials.
capable of more than sixty miles an
hour ahead and twenty miles an bo,I,
on reverse. having double s,ccrirc
carrying four mitrailleuses with arno,
plating imperrions 10 rifle bullets 6rac
at almost point blank range, tn, lates
Eyench type of arnorcd automobile i,
asformidable weapon OF attack Tn,
e. Design of this vehicle is largely ~.
work of Count de Lambert. the hrs
u.s. PUBL OF the late Wilbur Wright. an,
of; Paul Tissandler, a pioneer FrenC,
I aviator and engineer. who also TOOL
HIS hrst lessons in flying from the Dav
y ton air pilot.
Il -
;Ra More than 200 men are busilv .rc.ro
I'M converting the OLD Sheepshead "a,
trfck. near New York. into a two-mil,
h motor speedway.
l$s MANY experiments have hcen mad
e. With the four principal fuels nou av.l
able In Gerrn.n ,,n..,L. 49,