The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-16
Automobile News
me Twin six'' Cars.
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 Tn several of the larger cities bonuses are reported to have been offered for early deliveries of Packard Twin Six cars.
 The office of Henry B. Joy. presi- dent of the company, is being flooded with letters from personal friends who seek preferred dates of shipment The situation is reminiscent of the earlier days of the industry, a. naenento of which is a framed let ter hanging in Mir. Joys office, writ ten by John D. Rockefeller to a United States senator asking if the 1atter's influence could not secure an early Packard delivery
 Last week an owner wrote from New Orleans explaining that his wife was taking one of his cars away and that his son was planning a, trip with the other. The writer has an order placed for two new cars and asks that his street care sentence be com nauted.
 Another appeal is made by a Bos- ton woman who writes that the doc tors shave ordered her invalid daugh- ter to take up a western resi- dence. The mother declares that the young woman cannot endure the train trip and that she has urgent need for the car.
 One of the most ingenius attempts to swing a sf1i pTnent is that of a New Yorker who holds a claim in a small mining community in Chco, Texas. He has applied for a leadership and hopes, thereby, to obtain one of the demonstrators.
 Russell Huff. consulting engineer of the Packard Motor Car Company, is nominated for the presidency of the Society of AutomobiIe Engineers, which includes the most able creative men of the motor industry The nomination is equivalent to an elec- NN. L1-- engineering authorities, having been Identified with Packard development since the enterprise was started in Warren. Ohio. sixteen years ago.
 Inspection Of Cars.
 It is the driver who runs his car just as long as it will hold together before making adjustments that is usually the one most dissatisfied with it. The automobile is not different from any other piece of machinery except that 1t must work under greater disad- vantage. Adjustments must be made from tiKas to time if the machine is to last any appreciabIe period. A loose bearing may be frightened as soon as observed and no harm done, but if the car is continually driven | with that bearing pounding itself out new bearing is the only remedy. Noise is a positive indication o1 wear and tear, Noise is the outward I sign that parts are being worn away and that expenses are ptltng up. Ii l is matter of economy. to make all adjustments promptly. At the same time,s tfnkerfng, with any of the ad- JHstTnents should not be tolerated Noises are difficult to locate at times i but no attempt to change single ad- justment should be made until the trouble is positively located. Tinker ing wears out as many ears as does 1 the normal driving
 The proper fabrication of the entire motor car is perhaps the best insur- aT1ee of freedom from trouble. Lubri- cation charts are furnished with the ear. but it is far better to learn the amount and frequency of lubrication required by actual observation than il is to rely entirely upon such a chart 1 Weather and road conditions and the method of driving the car have as great an influence as the actual mile age travelled. Heavy roads mean more power with greater bearing pressures and consequ uently moYe oil.
 It is a good policy to go over the enhire ear at least once or twice dur ing the year and clean cut all oil cups and supply reservoirs. After an oi has been used for a considerable length of time in the motor. it be- eon,CN black and thin and sediment collects in the base. The greater per centage of the Iubrieat1ng qualities