San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-07
URGES Use Of
MOTOR CAR ALL
YEAR AROUND.
No Longer Necessary to Lay
Car Away When Cold
Weather Arrives.
HINTS FOR MOTORISTS
Authority Tells How to Sc
cure Utmost in Motor
ing Comfort.
HINTS FOR MOTORISTS

Don't lay your automobile up because
its winter. Use it all the year around,
Motoring in winter in all climate en-
counters more difficulty than in other
season. Non-freeze solutions for the
radiator are readily Obtainable.
Change the oil in your car TO keep
) fabrication efficient. Your dealer can
give you best advice on the lubricant
( for your needs. Shutter arrangements
for the radiator have their valuable
: uses.
Many other little items which your
i dealer knows about will make your win
/ ster use Of the motor car more salts
factory.
Z An automobile is an important unit
in the equipment of the American home.
1T provides the American home owner
with a means of getting from place to
,place. The automobile provides unlim-
ited means for its user to get from his
own door to the dOorways of his many
destinations. As such a unit the au-
tomobile has many valuable uses. They
are as much a part of the every day
life of American homes as the piano,
pphonograph, telephone and sewing ma
echine. There are nearly as many au-
stomobils in Amrican hons as there are
all Of these other units combined.
A Valuable Unit.
The hours of use of the automobile
will total more than the hours of use
OF all these other machines. In point
OF value, the automobile will far ex-
coed the total value Of these other
sthings.
In actual practice. however, the use
given TO the automobile is Of careless
and thoughtless sort. That would not
be permitted by the American home
rowner in the use of any other unit Of
his home equipment. A thing of iron,
material in its construction is psyche
logical in causing the owner to become
careless in its treatment and use.
Endurance" proved 10 be the leading
Virtue desired in an automobile in a
recent inquiry among car owners as
10 what they wanted most in motor
vehicle. In buying a house, a man
naturally inspects its construction. be
is interested in whether or not it will
stand up. Just as naturally he wants
2 fthe same thing in his method of trans
portatiOn.
But it is peculiar that a motor car
owner neglects his vehicle. He will i'm
smediately have attention for any Of the
Dther things in his house equipment.
The photograph is kept wound and
oiled The piano is kept tuned and
protected from temperature changes.
The telephone trouble man is called at
che slightest pretext. The sewing ma
chine man is called for many adjust
ments. Plumbers, electricians, roofers.
floor polishers, painters, paperhangers
are kept busy all the year round keep
ing the home in condition. Preventing
il from falling apart The motor We
hicle frequently stands out all night in
any weather in the side yard, waiting
patiently without protest TO be shell
tered for the night
Attention Is Necessary.
Within the automobile are mechan.
isms so delicate in mechanical construc.
ton as any musical instrument. Rust
= and dampness will effect textiles, steels
coppers.
Motor car owners for many years
have had the habit of using the vehi.
Gle through the warm and open months
Then when bad weather starts, shut
1t away.
Sometimes the water drained, come,
times lacked up to save the tires
through several months it has stood
without much attention.
In March, April or May the car has
been taken to some repair shop. Dur
ing these three months nearly every
shop in the country will be found e
be heavily overloaded with work. 1t il
the peak of the year for shops, large
and small.
For the small shops, It Is the har
vest season after a lean year. Through
these months the operators Of the ont
and two men shops work night and day
) They are much buster than in any Other
months of the year.
In the big shops, even in such vel
ordered places as are found in the high
est class businesses, this season of tn,
year is almost a nightmare. Operators
Of big shops make a decided effort t
handle all work efficiently and ecOnom
y ically. But the motor car owner chafe
at delays. He cannot understand VIII!
he cannot get his car into the shop in
stanter. What he does not understand
q is that his careless use Of his motto
car also has caused him 10 sOmewha
careless of the mechanical attention TO
his individual methods of transporta
ton.
Turn TO Repair Shops.
A study of repair shop records ha
brought out some very interesting fig
ures. In one city, the three month
OF March, April or May showed heaV
demands on repair shops. In this cit
demand for overhaul and other wor
10 prepare automobiles for spring an
summer reached 40 per cent Of tn
capacity in April. In June or July tn
demand was per cent below capacity
In October the demand was % per cen
below capacity.
These figures will be largely dupl
Gated throughout the country. The
should give automobile owners yer
definite idea of why they have troubl
getting work done in the spring.
tho excess of business in March, Apr
or May were spread out over the yea
several things would result. The ownC
would get quicker attention and Quicke
delivery: the shop operator could carr
uniform number of workmen through
cut the year at lessened overhead II
could more thoroughly systematic hi
large shop with better results for th
car owner.
Cooperation Is Asked.
The big overhaul jobs are done {
prepare a vehicle for a twelve month