Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1921, Page 47

' “Y ou ':Seé Buicjx A_K‘nows. How to Build a Rear Axle” - - " It’s a rugged, powerful axle, - built to stand up under all road conditions and every unit of the Buick car is like the axle—strong and serv- iceable. Buick 1922 models have this traditional sturdi- --ness. Step in and see them today. - 22-6-45 o ee oo oo 1525.00 F. O. B. Flint, Mich. 'STANLEY H. HORNER Retail Dealer 1015 14th Street N.W. Telephone Main 5296 WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM Answers to Last Week’s Questiona. 1—The coiled. wire used as a dim- solidly mhadg. FORMOTOR TRUCKS )| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE AUTOMOBILISTS Wway to overcome this. 5 locked until they notice spots Where the tire tread is worn through to the fabric. e Even where the tread is not scraped through to the fabric, tire ‘men point out that there sre flat places left in s tread. &8 the car proceeds these flat pieces,’they explain, pound away on the road like a flat-wheeled troliey, killing the mileage in the tire. Letting in the clutch too_ quickly spinning the back wheels in mud- holes, taking corners at high speed at that part. use of lubricant that is too thin or the first-mentioned trouble above, too much of it. 10—Professional and business peo- le ?llir cent iIn income and e thr h use of automobiles, clainted that the real estate and in- surance business has gained 113 per cent, the highest, and bankers 33 per cent, ‘the lowest rate of gain. This Week’s Questions. QUICK STOPS BY AUTOS FATAL TO TIRE FABRIC Letting in.Clfiteh"l‘oo Quickly, Spinning Back Wheels in Mud , and Locking Brakes Costly. Soldering is the best IT PAYS— in the long run to buy high-grade used cars, pro- vided, first, that you are sure you are really get- ting a good used car; secondly, that you are deal- ing with a reliable concern, and, thirdly, that it is a bargain. : We have several used cars for sale that are in A-1 mechanical shape, having been thoroughly ° tested in our shaps. .The prices and conditions of- sales are commensurate- with “yoar pecketbook. Kindly permit us to demonstrate to you your choice of one of the following cark: Cadillac Holmes 1916 7-pass. Touring Car. "1921 7-pass. Touring. Jordan D Jordan 1919 5-pass. Touring, 3::5"“‘”' i yette Jordan 7-Passenger Touring 1920 5-passenger. Demonstrator Oldsmobile Roamer 1921 7-pass. Touring. 1919 5-passenger. Walker Motor Company 1517 Conn. Ave. Distributors for Lafayette and Jordan Motor Cars 1085 Are you buyi | ' thevaslrgc o uymg or the reputation - of yesterday ? 410 Eighth SLNW. ° Main 8778 CAPITAL CITY GARAGE T 3 Shan. County e | F.W. Fe|_1n Says Transporta- * tion Will Also Need Many More Busses in FMu(e. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘TORONTO, September 9.—“World eco- nomic conditions have brought about a readjustment of commodity values everywhere,” declared F¥. W. Fenn, secretary of the natlonal motor truck committee of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, in a recent ad- dress . before the directors ..of the Canadian national exhibition. “A buyers’ market is at hand. Costs must be hewn to the line. One of the old, fundamental theories of success- ful merchandising that ‘'is being recognized today, therefore, more than ever before, is.a quick turnover of stock; because this permits smaller| margins of profit quick and economic- al transportation must be provided. Pleads for Motor Transportation. “This is a plea, therefore, for the development and the fostering of mo- tor transportation in the name of lower prices and a better knit Can- “Fullness had when the people of Canada are awakened to the possibilities pre- sented by the development of a mo- tor transport system. Every dollar invested in the improvement of your highways will be a pledge of honor to the future commercial greatness and security of your country. The highways in. the provinces will al- ways be the main arteries for com- merce and defense. “The world is just awakening to the manifold advantages of highway transportation. Evidence is to be had on every hand. Farmers show a gain of 68 per cent in their Individual efficiency as a resuit of the adoption of the automobile as a part of their transportation equipment. The ex- tensive utilization of motor trucks by the eight railroads entering Cincin- nati, Ohio, made possible the release for the main line movement of the rallroads, which is their permanent d_profitable sphere of operation, 862 cars, the elimination of 300,000 tching cuts, the advancement of the freight movement 52 hours, and a saving of 30 per cent in labor through the elimination of the rehandling of tonnage. Truek Factor in Distribution. “Almost overnight the motor truck has, therefore, become a tremendous factor in the distribution of our na- tion’s food supply. Think of 6,800 head of hogs, valued at $200,000, being hauled into Indianapolis “stockyards in one day by 500 motor trucks. St. Joseph, Mo., is receiving 2,500 per day, while Omaha, Neb., received only 187,000 in one year. In these times of the saving of 43 total of $13,760 a big_item. This is what is happening at St. Louis, as 1,000 hogs are moved across the Mississippi river each hog- slaughtering day. “The bureau of crop estimates of the United States Department of Agri- culture discovered after an exhaustive series of experiments with horse and motor drawn vehicles that the motor- drawn vehicle traveled 25 per cent longer distance, made 183 per cent more round trips, carried 48 per cent more corn, 50 per cent more wheat. and 83 per cent more cotton. This work was done atr 45 per cent, 50 per cent and 37 per cent of the ton- mile cost of wagon-hauled corn, wheat and cotton respectively. ““The day of the power farmer Is at hand. It is to him that you must turn in answer. to the dominion’s cry for greater production. For food will be the greatest factor in world economics for many years to come. - It is the main spring of h\lml;ldtuln. The golden age of ample f for & mini- mum of effort has passed. - Car Company Using Busses. “The decision of the Milwaukee Street Railway Company to utilize motor busses in the extension of fts services into new districts is per- haps a forecast of the possible trend in this fleld of operation. Hitherto street car companies have frowned on busses as nuisances to be driven off the streets wherever possible. The possibility of using busses for feeders to the regular car lines has not oc- curred to many operating officials as bus will be use@ more and more ex- tensively by street car companies in the very near future to extend their service into mnew residential and manufacturing districts. “Does Toronto and the other major cities of Canada fully realize what the motor bus means to-the principal cities in the states, many of which have difficulties that are even greater than yours? The advent of the motor bus hias meant greater mobility, ab. sence of car tracks, and the extension of service into residential thorough- fares hitherto closed to the common electric carriers. g FERRY ROUTES MAY OPEN EASTERN SHORE AREAS Motorists Are Interested in New . Public Service Board. BALTIMORE, September 10.—If all the ferry routes contemplated or ac- tually petitioned for before the pub- lic service commission materialize, it will not be long before the eastern shore is as accessible to motorists as other parts of tne state are now by the atate highways. Two ferry companies, already oper- ating between here and Love Point | and Rock Hall, are each considering putting on new boats to other east- ern shore points, one of -them from Bay Shore to Queenstown, which would land automobllists on the state road, with easy access to the upper and middle section of the shore and Delaware. ‘The Claiborne - Annapolis Ferry Company, which operates a boat tween these two points, is preparing to ask permission to operate another boat between Annapolis.and e point not yet announced, and the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, it is sald, is contemplating putting on a fast ferry between Baltimore and a central point on the shore. \ A. A. A. TOURING BUREAU SERVICE IN NEW WILLARD Presents Facilities for Autoists ‘When Main Office Is Not Open for Business. Motor tourists arriving in Wash- ington.after 5 p.m. and desiring road information so that an early start may be made the following morning, will find a completely equipped branch of the A. A. touring bu- reau in the main lobby of the New ‘Willard Hotel, 14th and Pennsylvania avenue. . This branch was established for the convenience of tourists desirin, information before the opening an after the closing’ of the A. A. A. main offices. All the service available at headquarters may be hadat the Wil- lard station. The main touring bureau at 1108 16th street opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. The Willard station- ns at 7 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m. bers and non-members alike are'in- vited to make use of the facilities of both offices—national, - state and Jo- mmotor lsws covering x 'cénse fees, spoed signais. traffic and all touring_information. 2 er essential be- | mer of - automobile headlights _ is merely a small coll, each winding in- sulated from the others whieh is ‘con- nected in the lighting system so that when the dimmng. button or switch 15 used the current must pass through this resistance coil before passing to | lights. - The ignition ‘ecoil has two separate windings, one over the other and separated by insulation. They are called primary and secondary wind- ings, the inner winding being the sec- ondary or high tension winding and the other the primary. ‘The-former is constructed of very much finer wire than the latter and also consists of many more turns around the core ‘or center of the coil. Current.from gen- erator or battery js sent through the primavy winding of-the coil to a timer when contact. points of ‘the timer ‘are toucning and continues to flow through as long as the points are in contact. When the points are separated the current is broken quickly, and the breaking of this cur- rent sends an impulse through the secondary winding. It increases in strength'.as it passes through and ‘when it reaches the outlet to spark- plugs it is very powerful, which creates a spark for a fraction of & second at. the sparkplug. Although both the dimmer or rheostat and the spark ¢oll are windings of electric wire, they perform exactly opposite functions simply because they are wound differently and are made to perform in a different manner. - The dimmer cannot be made to intensify electric current nor - can -the spark coll reduce current if connected prop- S f rly. 2—The shock absorber for automo- bile springs is designed principally to. check the upward' miovement, or re-. bound of the springs, which rebound occurs after the car wheels strike a defect in the road. The tendency of spring breakage s greatly reduced by their use, as most springs break. on the rebound. Shock absorbers also soften jarring of the car for passen- gers when choppy or rough/ road is encountered. 3—The terms automatic and me- chanical, applied to moving parts of an automobile, imply parts operated automatically, or by some means of power- outside of ~themselves and mechanically, or by power applied di- rectly within or to the'parts. Thus considering valves of an engine, the automatic valve would be one oper- ated by suction within a cylinder when the ‘piston goes. down on suc- tion stroke, while the mechanical valve (which {8 more common in use) is operated by a cam acting upon a pushrod which bears against the end of the valve stem. 4—When you make an electric wire connection always solder it-to insure a permanent joint. Resistance to the flow of current through the wire is increased if the connection is not Reduction Effective Sept. 1, 1921 from yet, but I safely predict that the: Franklin Motor Car Co. ! 1101 Commeeticut Avenue 485 Missouri Ave. NW. Tel. Main 484 Automobile Springs Auto Top Courin:; * Automobile Tools , Curtain Lights = = E Chain Hoists TR MR Authorised Vallard Bradburn Bat'y & EL Service - 818 Pu. Ave. B e e S e Ettis Battery Service "Ear Irving St. The John A. Wineberger Co., 3700 Ga. Ave. S 2y X s Smithdeal El. Service & Pa. nw. B l’. 14th St nw. “The Still Better Willan®” 5—Correct brake-band .adjustment should be to have the band as near the brake drum as possible without dragging at any point. About a sixty- lo‘:l":‘llotd.ln inch ele-rn;’ce is eno‘lllh- an e stance ma; e even less. ;l'hel ;mn-l:‘rlke Deaat. n‘}:oul:d e -|a “nl: lll::hl'l’fld by a short circuit in usted so that when the brake 13 grip- | the system? Ding tightly the pedal will still be a| 2—Why does oil work out of the Apy man who caught himself cut- ting his tire tread with file would voluntarily apply for admission to the nearest retreat for tre feeble minded. Yet the same man will lock his brakes and slide ten feet ard think nothing about it. Too many motorists confuse their 1—1If there is no ammeter in the electric system of your car, or if the ammeter 1s not, registering: correctly, how can you tell if the battery is be dish, though -the quadruped outside of Africa and locking the brakes mean a shor! life for tires, but not a merry one. ————— Baked elephant's foot is a dainty flesh of the great does mot find much favor small distance from the floor! -d. | rear axle at the right rear wheel more Do not allow the pedal to touch even | than it does at the left wheel? under great pressure of the foot. 3—Can a knock be located in 8—An easy way to find direction | necting rod if the rod bearin without a compass is to lay the watch | not loose? flat, point the hour hand to the sun. 4—Is it possible for a cylinder to The point at a distance half way be- | misfire if there is both spark and com- tween the hour hand and the figure | pression within {t? - twelve of the watch dial will be 5—What could cause cons'.l.‘f,ll dis- , and the torresponding point]charging of a storage battery? at the. opposite side of the dial will For what: purpose are racing car be north. To judge the distance ac-|bodies bullet shaped or polnl:d‘ at the curately the watch must indicate cor- | rear? i rect time and the hour hand must be 7—What is “piston slap”? pointed direetly to the sun. - & —Why is such heavy wire used in 7—If your clutch. fafls to release|connecting the starting motor to the storage battery, while light wire is tires with skates. Instead of looking ahead for obstacles and checking the car slowly by closing the throttle with the clutch engaged, they wait until they are right in the middle of an emergency and then jam on the brakes. They never stop to consider these little slides with the brakes when pressure is applied.to the oper- ating foot pedal the trouble may be due to pedal connections being loose, tod tight or rusty, spring adjustment too tight or ‘wear or dryness in the releasing mechanism. -Frequently it caused by a combination of wear or dryness in releasing parts, in the leather surfaces and a tight spring adjustment in the dry cone ‘type. When ' the clutch is engaged, the leather, being warn.and dry, will wedge tightly in the concave fly- wheel under pressure of the powerful spring. 7 : 8—It can be easily imagined why reverse- speed gears should not be meshed ; while the car is going:for- ward. Inasmuch as the géars which drive the car forward are revolving in one direction, and the gears:which are to reverse the car turn in the op- posite direction, any effort to engage these differently turning gears would simply result in clashing -and pos- sible breakage or stripping of gear teeth; in fact, this is an_excellent way to strip the gears. Wait until your transmission is at a standstill before movl‘n‘ the shift lever to the reverse position. 9—Because of the fact that oil in the transmission becomes thin while in_use, and that the lower gears splash oil to all parta of the tran mission, too much carried in tl housing will cause dripping, a com- mon troubie often encountered. A loose housing cover gasket or loose bolts in the cover also cause dripping from the housing. If oil drips out at the bearing it is a sure sign of we: and a “dead” axle, and what is meant is meant by the term “floating” as w‘plled to, semi, -three-quarter and full floating types of axles? IO—I‘; !hetmllo ofd {o\lrt':-‘l'x;::: gears the four-speed tran higher than that of third-speed in the three-speed transmission? (Copyright, 1921," Thompson Festure Service.) ——————— 920 D St. N.W. Driveshafts Axles Pinions Ring Gears Bushings The Chevrolet factory announced a price drop on the 490 models of $100. effective immediately. Mr. Barry of Barry-Pate Motor Company, local i tributor, announced that he had re- celved a carload of these models for immediate delivery. Myer Blank, formerly connected with the 8. & M. Tire Company, is now interested in the new firm of National Tire Stores, and is general manager of the 9th street and New York ave-! nue branch. Pistons Valv"es We Teach AUTO DRIVING Traffic Regulations 1921 Ford and Gear-Shift Cars. Equipped With Double Comtrol. AMERICAN MOTOR SCHOOL 9th & O Sts. N.W. Phone N. 10-400 The Transmission and Differential bone of your automobile. These gears must IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES Roadster and Four and Six Bearcat Models | Passenger Models $3,250 $3,350 friction and noise. —Be Safe Motor Company of Washington 24th & M Sts. N.W. Phone West 710 Show Room: Conn. Ave, R. 1. Ave. and M St. Motor Oils - NOW ONLY - $(185 ‘No Other Car Like the Chandler At Anything Like the Price The Chandler Six has always been distinguished by its high quality and its low price. Today it is back to the 1913 price and it is a larger, finer car than ever before. Now. asin 1913 both the car and the price defy comparison. Eight years of constant refinement on the original chassis, backed by the investment of millions of dollars, have put the Chandler in the unassailable position it holds today. It is a most highly perfected automobile with a marvelous and world-famous motor and its price is far below anything that could even be compared with it. J Over 100,000 owners know the excellence of Chandler service. They know its never-failing, economical performance, its sturdy strength, its roominess and eXceptional riding comfort even on the roughest roads. Among the seven beautiful types of bodies mounted on the standard Chandler chassis you will find one that completely meets your requirements. Frée from the freakish or extreme, they offer all the elements of style and quality found in the highest priced cars. They are beautiful in design and finish and luxurious in upholstery and appointment. \ _ Before You Buy Any Other Car, See the Chandler Seven- Passenger Touring Car, 81765 Two-Passenger Roodsser, $178S Fowr-Passenger Roodsser. 31788 Powr-Passenger Dispasch Car, $1868 Saven-Passenger Sedon, 83885 Coupe, 32788 Lésmousing. 5 > 3 _ (Prices ... Clevalessd. Obio) ‘WARRINGTON MOTOR CAR COMPANY" 1800 14th Street TGt Télephone North 9860 Meipber Washingtdn Automotive Trade Association % Bélle Haven Garage . : . ¥ £ Alexandris, Va. Rockville, Md. . THE CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY, CLEVELAND, OHIO The Hines Auto Supply Co. Carry in Stock at Big Discount Piston Pins For All Popular Cars ;2 Qodee, Max- Chandler, Studebaker, Overland, Saxon and many others. LOOK OUT BEHIND For the rear end is known as the “BACKBONE OF YOUR CAR." Gears constitute the back- instances a service more severe than that which falls upon any other part of the car. These gears carry the whole driving load. To withstand the strain the gears must be correctly lubricated. _ EBONITE FOR TRANSMISSIONS AND DIFFERENTIALS Puts a smooth, slippery film of lubrication -over and around yeur gears, and keeps out Go to Your Favorite Dealer —Ask for EBONITE -B'aymon 0Oil Works Manufacturers, Erie, Pa. Pennsylvania Petroleum Products Cup Greases SIX Montgomery Garage LR