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Evening star., 1927-10-16
THREE ESSENTIALS
Of SAFETY NAMED
Maryland Official Warns Car
Owners of Careless Driv.
ing Practices.
Snow and cold weather do not seem

Snow and cold weather do not seem
an immediate prospect, but there are
| three points in connection with motor
car operation under these conditions
which the motorist now might begin
to consider in the interest of safety
says e. Austin Baughman, Maryland
commissioner of motor vehicles.
| The first of these, Mr.. Baughman
declares, is that safety is made a mat
! ter of chance II the motOriSt shuts
| himself up in the car in such way
that he cannot give signals. Secondly
the windshield cleaner, often the
drivers only guarantee of good visible
| ity. must be kept constantly at its
| highest operating standard. The third
point made by the Maryland official is
| that chains are an essential when the
streets are slippery with ice, sleet OF
snow.
While the increase in cfosedcar use
has led to more general improve
ment in the type and efficiency Of the
| mechanically operated stop" signals,
this is no justification closing the car
tightly, according to Mr.. Baughman
He declares it is a very much wiser
and safer plan, particularly when driv'
ing in cities and towns where there
are many short turns to be made and
where traffic is more congeSted to
keep the left-hand front window Of a
closed car lowered and depend upon
the accepted hand signal. The So
called stop" signals inform the traf'
fic to the rear only that one intends
slowing down for traffic ahead or that
one is stopping. These devices also
do not start to operate their fash sig
nal until after the process of using
your brakes has actually begun and
deceleration is under way, he points
out.
with slippery Streets" he says, "it
is not always possible for the cars i'm
mediately behind to be brought to a
stop soon enough to avoid crash, so
that under Winter driving conditions
every possible precaution should be
taken to give clear and unmistakable
indication of ones intention--and to
give this warning a greater time in ad-
vance than when the highways are
dry and when the skid danger natu-
rally Is less
"Stop-signal flashes are very good
when they are working. But it must
be remembered that they will get out
OF order. Many persons drive serenely
along, confident that their red stop
signal is giving proper warning to the
traffic to the rear, when, as a matter
of fact, the blub has burned out. or
water or roadbed sl.lsh has splashed
up and short-circuited the system.
For this reason / urge the regular use
of the hand signal particularly when
slippery street conditions put greater
strain on all drivers.
1.-THE necessity for keeping ones
windshield clear is so plain, it seems
to me, that the mere mention of 1t
should be sufficient. The same applies
! to the use of tire chains.
The conditions surrounding Winter
driving makes disregard of any of the
three points mentioned bad enough
but to attain the mental attitude OF
carelessness toward all three of them
to my way of thinking, simply is in
defensible."
Evening star., 1927-10-16

clutch itself logically should be at
fected by the carburetor adjustment.
To this the mechanic replied that 1t
simply was a matter of the clutch
being joined to the large driving gear
in the transmission. This gear some
times is referred to as the clutch gear,
designation which serves to explain
its function to better advantage and
outline it's connection with the clutch.
He explained to Smith that when the
car is in high gear one Of the sliding
gears on the main drive, shaft Of the
transmission locks side to side with
this clutch gear. Also. the clutch gear
continually drives the gears of the
countershaft. which. in turn. mesh
with the sliding gears on the main
shaft of the transmission. The speed
of this clutch gear is important. be.
cause upon 1t hinges the quiet and ef-
fective meshing of the other gears Of
the transmission.
One Dependent on Other.
Once Smith got this clearly fixed in
his mind, it required no further eff.
fort to picture this Interesting rela-
tionship between units OF the car.
The mechanic helped him catch the
idea by showing him an accelerator
pedal on one of the cars in the repair
shop. For want of q drop of Oil this
pedal was sticking in such way that
it could not return to an idling posi-
lion when the driver removed his foot
from it. Thus a drop of oil raced the
engine.
Recently motorist allowed the Use
of too thin grade of lubricant in the
differential case, with the result that
some of it worked out through the
axle and got on the brake bands of
the rear wheels. Forced to use his
brakes suddenly on a rainy day. the
motorist found his car going into a
bad skid. Only the front brakes held
with the result that the rear of the
car swung half way around before he
could get it under control.
An endless number of stories of this
nature could be told to prove how one
part of a car will affect another and
how small causes will travel and he
magnifled in some serious and surpris.
ing way at some point far removed
from their source. One of the most
homely examples of this is found in
the way tight brake bands will cut
down engine power. Such a case is
perfectly plain to any one. Many
other cases are just as plain, and dis
covery of them would greatly simplify
car ownership for al! motorists.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
URGES CAR Be KEPT
IN GOOD CONDITION
Assistant Manager of A. A. A.
Tells How to Keep Up With
"Traffic Procession"

Car owners who desire to keep up
with the traffic procession today are
learning that it cannot he done safely
with an automobile that is not kept
in the best OF condition in every re-
spect. Motor car makers have de.
signed and built automobiles that are
impressively safer than ever, and the
owner who allows his car to become
unsafe and poorly kept becomes con-
spicuous to his fellow motorists as
well as 10 the officials charged with
supervising traffic.
This is the opinion of Charles p.
Clark, assistant general manager of
the American Automobile Association,
who is in general charge of the Dis.
trict of Columbia division.
''The accuracy of this view OF the
situation can be determined by the
individual motorist very easily" says
Mr.. Clark. who of us that drives
cannot Immediately spot the car which
has noisy. ineffective brakes, which
steers with difficulty and with a. noto-
rious absence of the fine precision that
every one knows is being built into
the automobile of today? The person
who cannot do this is one who has not
paid much attention to the progress
the automotive engineer has made.
Traffic today is moving at higher
legal rates of speed. both in the city
and on the open highway. This boom
to motordom has been conferred by
traffic authorities because they recog-
nized the Inherently greater safety of
motor cars of the last three years. 1t
is a privilege that motorists cannot
afford to abuse.
'The American Automobile Associa.
saS, -k,I
conferred in this respect, but not until
the individual learns to care for his
car in such a way that 1t will con.
stantly provide the larger margin of
safety with which it has been en-
dowed by its maker"
Evening star., 1927-10-16
SPECIAL LUBRICANT AIDS
WORN UNIVERSAL JOINTS
Drivers Advised to Apply Brand of
Cup Grease Designed for
Pump Shafts.

Worn metal universal joints are a
source of annoyance to the driver and
an ever-present hazard to the pinion
and ring gear at the rear end. The
looseness in the joints usually is tele-
graphed up through the transmission
and into the driving compartment
through the gear shift lever, where
the noise becomes very Objectionable.
Most car owners who have had this
trouble know that by keeping the
worn joints filled with heavy lubri-
cant it is possible to minimize this
looseness and the noise occasioned by
1t.
For those who are experiencing this
trouble, however, it is well to try
using the special brand of cup grease
which is ordinarily used for pump
shafts. This grease resists heat and
will not flow or run out of the joints
on warm days or under heavy driving
strain. The grease retains hard
soaplike consistency even when the
temperature is fairly high. 1t packs
tightly and makes an excellent seal to
fill in worn spots.
So long as the joints are already
pretty well worn, there is no need to
worry about any additional wear for
want of a better lubricant.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
AUTO statesmen IN ORIENT
FIND PRETTY CARS GO BEST
Chaufeurs Exert Great Power Over Pur-
chasers, Who Usually Know Next to
Nothing About Machines.

Although the American car is be.
coming more and more popular in
China and Japan, dealers in automo-
biles have many difficulties to face
which long ago were overcome in Oc-
cidental countries. Not only is the
lack of good roads great obstacle to
the increased use OF the motor car,
but native costumes. as well as native
psychology, also must be followed and
dealt with properly.
In selling an automobile one of the
first questions that arises is that of
exterior finish. The Oriental as a gen.
eral rule does not understand or ap-
preciate tho mechanical distinctions
and improvements OF the automobile,
and for that reason the dealer relies
primarily upon brilliant. and even BIZ
zarre, effects in finish more than he
does upon greater mileage per gallon
of gasoline or higher engine power.
AS very few of the natives care to
drive their own automobile, they rely
to a great extent upon the advice of
their chauffeurs. Those natives who
can afford cars also can afford to have
chauffeurs, and the former are gen.
orally completely ignorant of the oper-
alton and mechanics of automotive
vehicles. Owing to this Discrimination
to understand mechanical operation
there has sprung up a practice which
distributors have found difficulty to
cOmbat-that of the chauffeur s
squeeze"
Deals With Chauffeurs.
Under this system the distributor
virtually deals with the chauffeur, the
buyer Of the car almost always defer
ring to the drivers recommendation.
The chauffeur, in making his recon-.
mendation, demands of the agent a
bonus for his recommendation, and
generally, before the purchase of a
car, he makes the round of the
agencies seeking terms. That dealer
who grants the largest bonus to the
chauffeur is almost always the one
to make the sale. This practice is even
recognized and acquiesced in by the
owner.
The squeeze" continues at subse.
duent transactions, such as the pur.
chase of gasoline, new tires, extras
and parts, and in number of cases
the chauffeur will recommend new
tires or new speedometer. which he
does not even purchase, for which he
charges his master.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
Coils Easily Tested.

TO test the efficiency of the coil at.
tach one end Of piece of wire to the
car frame or other ground and bring
the other to within three.sixteenths of
an inch of where the high tension
wire leads away from the coil. Then
crank the motor by hand with the
switch on. If there is spark the coil
Ia working properly.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
! TOPS CAUSE OF NOISE.
Use Of Cotterpin and Washer Pre-.
vents Squeak,

Roadster and phaeton tops that are
put up in hurry when the first drons
of Summer rain begin to fan NAV
prove to be source of annoying rat.
Ting. III the attachment in front Is
10 the Windshield frame, 1t frequently
happens that the nuts are not tight.
ened all the way down. The bows
also may not be firmly moored. In
some of the more inexpensive cars,
the bows are held in place by a cotter
pin. Unless this pin is put in prop.
erly, it will mean an annoying squeak
that sometimes is hard to locate. A
washer usually will take up all play
at this point.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
So Says Alicia:

IF women didn't always smile at
the good.looking traffic cop. there
might he some truth in that bromide
about them trying to smile their way
out Of trouble"
"A gentleman is the motorist who
isn't disappointed when the woman to
whom he gave his right of way turns
ont TO he sallow and CO."
Changing a balloon tire would be
even harder for the woman driver II
she still wore hoop skirts.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
OIL PRESSURE GAUGED.
Dash Reading Does Not Determine
Quantity on Hand.

1t does not pay at any time to ac-
cept the pressure reading on the dash
oil gauge as final on the amount of
lubricant in the crankcase. This is
particularly true in the Summer.
The gauge is an efficient mechan-
ism but it is not devised to record the
amount of oil. TO determine accurate
ly, the gauge under the oil filler pipe
should be read. This should not be
construed as rejecting on the dash
gauge. 1t is designed to record oil
pressure not oil quantity. There is a
great difference.
California has one automobile for
nuarv throo narSoUS
Evening star., 1927-10-16
SET HOLDING BRAKE,
This Is Safety Move With Gears
In Low.

If the clutch has a tendency to
drag, making it difficult to shift into
low gear quickly for a prompt start
when the traffic signal says go" it
is a good plan to set the gears in low,
hold the clutch out and pull on the
holding brake. The objection to stand.
ing with the clutch out and the car
in gear is that should ones foot slip
off the clutch the car would jerk
ahead with possible injury to pedes-
trians. BY setting the holding brake,
however. this objection is overcome.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
BY FREDERICK c. RUSSELL.

Smith
sehsh motoring willing
O. other members Of the motor clan.
Evening star., 1927-10-16
JOLTS SHOW TROUBLE.
Rough Spots on Road May Dislo-
cate Instrument indicators.

cate INSTRUMENT INDICATORS.
Isn't it strange how the person who
is bounced off the seat when the car
goes over an urcharted hole In the
road will be so surprised when the
ammeter, the oil gauge or the clock
temporarily goes out of commission?
Whenever the car has been over a
particularly rough spot in the road
and the instruments do not register
properly, 1t is well to consider that
their indicators, in the case of meters.
may be slightly dislocated or thrown
off their course. or that the hands of
the clock may he stuck together
Evening star., 1927-10-16
Highway Route Across Silver Mine
Changed as State Refuses to Buy Ore

obtain this gold and highway officials
are not worrying over the thought Of
waking UP some morning and finding
the road surface torn up and carried
away by prospectors.
Evening star., 1927-10-16

In spite Of all the warnings issued
by engineers. the practice of racing
the motor when it is not driving the
car is INDUCED in by many motorists
and mechanics. According to factory
experts. there Is no worse abuse for
n motor
Evening star., 1927-10-16

Trouble between the authorities and
motor bus operators of Sydney, Aus
tralia, has caused 40 per cent of the
companies to go into liquidation dur.
ing the past II months.
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The Washington times., 1927-10-19
NEW CHEVROLET
PLANT BEGUN

DETROIT, Oct. 1S.-An indica.
ton that the automobile industry
is looking forward toward increas-
ing prosperity was noted here today
with the announcement by the
Chevrolet Motor Company that con-
struction will start Immediately on
new Chevrolet assembly plant
in Atlanta.
The Atlanta plant has been made
necessary to adequately meet the
requirements OF the rapidly growing
demand for Chevrolet cars in the
South and at the same time to re-
lieve the Cincinnati plant, which
has been operating on an overtime
basis to care for southeastern bust.
ness as well as that from more inn
mediate territory.
The Atlanta plant will serve par
ticularly Georgia, Florida and parts
Of Alabama and South Carolina.
When completed early next
spring the plant will represent an
covering acreage. buildings and
equipment. Thirty.one acres Of
ground have been taken over for
LH0 ALBANIA layout buuulHB p1Aln
call for 100000 square feet Of
floor space, including plants, office
and driveway shed.
The plant will be one Of the
largest and finest of its kind in the
South, with capacity Of $50 cars
day. Work will be provided for
200 people and the payroll viii
exceed $4,000 daily.
The assembly plant proper viii be
a one-story unit, 500 by 800 feet,
Of face brick construction, with q
monitor steel roof. There will be a
Fisher Body division of similar con-
struction, $50 by $50 feet, and a
parts supply depot. 100 by 204 feet.
Plans also call for a two-story office
building, 40 by 2O4 feet.
Completion Of the Atlanta project
will provide the Chevrolet Motor
Company with eight assembly
plants throughout the country and
an export plant at Bloomfield. n. J.
Domestic assembly plants are 10.
Gated in Flint, Mich: Tarrytown,
N. Y; Norwood. Ohio; Oakland,
Calf; Buffalo. N. Y: GAINESVILLE,
wis, and st. Louis, Mo. In add.
ton, Chevrolet maintains manufac.
turing plants in Detroit, Bay City
Saginaw, Flint and Toledo.
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

Lindbergh travelled $3.50 miles.
Baker, $3.50 miles.
The Spirit of st. Louis consumed
go gallons of gas; the General Mo-
tors truck 43S gallons.
Lindbergh's New York-to-Paris
flight was accomplished in 3S hours
and % minutes; Bakers New York
to-San Francisco run took approx
mateIy 103 hours and SO minutes
actual running time.
The Spirit of st. Louis, when it
hoped off at Roosevelt Field, New
York, weighed $500 pounds; the
General Motors truck weighed 1850
pounds when it left New York city.
The average revolutions a minute
OF the motor in the Ryan plane was
900, and of Bakers truck, 1890
Lindbergh's average speed was 1913
miles an hour. and Bakers approx
r1ately S5.5 miles an hour actual run.
ming time.
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

The Development Of the automo-
tive engine made it possible for
Lindbergh to cross the Atlantic in
the first nonstop flight from New
York to Paris.
1t also made possible the transcon-
tinental RECORDS established by Can
non Ball. Baker in the Buick
notored fast duty truck, on the run
from New York to San Francisco.
Both Baker and Lindbergh began
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

overseas by the Chevrolet, Pontiac,
Oldsmobile, Oakland, Buick. La
Sale and Cadillac manufacturing
divisions of General Motors.
Sales by dealers to consumers for
the various months OF 1897 were as
follows: January, S1.0l0; February,
102 ,025; March. 1925; April, $780,
los; May, 171,364; June. 159, 701i
July, 1S4, 749; August, Isl, 619; Sep.
TENDER, 1886.
Sales by Divisions
Sales by divisions to dealers for
the various months of 1927 were
January, 99.367; February, 124,42si
March, 1890; April, 169.Os7; May.
173,1S2; June, 155,s25; July, 1885,
900; August, 1S5,SO4; September,
40 ,6O7.'
The following table shows sales
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

their careers with motorcycle driv.
ing, and while Baker has hung up
scores of records for motorcycle and
automobile racing and driving, Lind.
bergh took the air.
The Atlantic flight of Lindbergh
and the first transcontinental trip
of Baker with a truck have interest
ing comparisons,
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

months Of 1927 totaled 1.26s,445
cars and trucks, compared with
1,215,s26 in the entire year Of 1926,
and 9s2,295 units in the first nine
months Of 1926,
Data on Retail Sales
Mr.. Sloan states:
1.-THE retail sales by our dealers
to consumers in September were
132, 596 cars compared with 1924
in September, 1926, and further with
with S3,519 cars in September, 1925.
"In September the sales by our
car divisions to their dealers totaled
140,607 cars compared with 13S, 1850
in September, 1926, and further
S9,O1S in September, 1926"
These figures include passenger
cars and trucks sold in the United
States, Dominion of Canada and
The Washington times., 1927-10-19
STATES CONTRIBUTE

Materials required for the manu-
feature of General Motors products
are purchased in nearly every State
in the Union and every country in
the world. The Canadian plants
alone buy from $50 Canadian and
British sources.
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

Of General Motors cars by dealers
to ultimate consumers and sales
by manufacturing divisions of Cen
eral Motors to their dealers in
September and for the third quar-
ter, as compared with the same
periods last year, and for the first
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

nine months Of 1927, as compared
with the same period of 1926, and
for the total for 1926:
3 mos mos Year
1921 1926 1925
Dealers sales. 126B.445 s62. 1876 l,2I5,82s
Divisions sales 1.316,597 s9e.321 l,234S5O
Sept. Sept. Sd Or. I'D Or
1927 1925 1927 1875
Dealers
sales. 1885 11s.224 AS. 9s4 342,1o5
Divisions
sales... 140,607 las, $50 43s.120 $50, 234
The Washington times., 1927-10-19
Indy and Baker Set
Tlvo World Records

Two pioneers in the automotve field Lndbergh plane
The Spirit Of ST. Louis and the Cannon Ball" Baker,
General Motors twoon truck which the first to the
American continent record pointed out by Jack
Sterre president of Sterett Operating Service local g.
trucx
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

units for the first nine months Of
1925.
Retail sales by General Motors
dealers to consumers in the nine
The Washington times., 1927-10-19
Present Year Already
Sets NeU Mark

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 19-Ared P. SlOan president of
General Motors Corporation in his official report the
corporations Sales confirmed the statement that General
Motors far this have exceeded by comfortable
gin the total sales for the entire year of 1926.
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

Always courteous, efficient and de-
pendable, learn to leave your prob
lens In the hands Of the 'FIFho's
Who" firms, whose ads appear on
next to the last page Of today's CIae-
The Washington times., 1927-10-19

Sales by General MOTORS DIVISIONS
to dealers in the first nine months
of this year were 1,S16,597 against
q total of 1,234,S5O units for the
entire year of 1925, and 996.321