Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-01
MILADY'S MOTORING
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

He calls it the second car, but she,
more than any one else, appreciates that
it is the car of the hour.
Experienced drivers know that a cool,
calm and collected passenger is an asset
People who are pressing imaginary
brakes and uttering constant cautions
unnerve the best Of pilots.
Often, however, the driver can put
passengers at such ease that they are
unable to become a stumbling block in
This may be accomplished by asking If
the speed of the car Is acceptable to
them, or by avoiding sudden accelera-
ton. It Is poor policy, as a rule, to
direct too much attention to the process
by appearing to be overcautiouS. Pas
sengerS are most helpful to the driver
when they have full confidence in her.
From now on the garage man should
be instructed not to add water to the
radiator each night. This Is an excel
lent service during warm weather, but
when the radiator carries anti-freeze it
simply brings the level of the cooling
fluid too near the overflow pipe and
eventually has the effect of lessening
the protection against freezing.
One Of the first things a woman
learns when trying to master the car Is
the importance Of pressing the clutch
pedal to the floor at the right moment
when stopping. So long as the clutch is
engaged the engine helps to slow down
the car, but If the pedal Is not pressed
to the floor soon enough the engine
viii stall. Because she is not so well
versed in the art Of doing this job ex-
pertly 1t isn't any wonder that the aver
-
pressing the clutch pedal to the floor
when cranking, as q means Of sparing
the battery.
The clutch plays an interesting role
both in starting and stopping.
The women who like to drive fast
and who doesn't these days?-should
remember to remove the foot from the
accelerator every few minutes. This
| allows the piStons to suck oil into the
cylinders so that the engine will run
| cooler and smoother. It's trick. Dor
rowed from the speedway.
Thermo-syphon sounds BIT too tech
nical for everyday motoring, but even
though this system Of engine is no
longer popular an idea Of its oEeration
goes long way toward making the cars
| cooling system more understandable.
Where o car Is equipped with q
thermo-syphon system the designers
merely take advantage Of heated waters
natural tendency to rise. AS the water
heats In such system it rises to the
top Of the radiator through hose con-
nection from the top Of the engine
This starts circulation. AS the water
coolS In the radiator 1t falls and ther
feeds to the bottom OF the engine
through the lower hose connection.
In any water cooling system this
process takes place, but In most cars Il
Is accelerated by water pump. Mos
engineers prefer to take no chances or
the water not circulating fast enough.
With or without q pump the water
circulateS In the same direction, W
through the cylinder jackets, to the tor
Of the radiator, down through thu
radiator core and back into the bottom
Of the jackets again. With q pump
system, however, It has been possible tx
direct the water at high speed to some
point Of the engine most In need o.
cooling, such as the rear cylinder Of &
long engine.
Do you ever look for parking spaces
when you're walking2
OF course not. Nobody does. Yet iti
handy scheme.
When you're In the car and fran.
tically driving about for q place to ligh'
there is introduced the element Of con