Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1923, Page 74

E THE SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 9, 1923—PART 3 OTORS and New Developments Force Motor Customs Into Discard Fetishes of Full Tires, Locked Brakes, Fear of Mud Splashes, Carburetor Adjusting, Face Oblivion. BY WILLIAM ULLWAN. | E changes b been made n car design since the first showing e 1924 models to prove the auto- | moblle eng ers’ prediction that a number ¢ cherished customs must 50 by the hoards. But few car owners have realized what all this means to the process of aring for the car been Invited to take a with have gone and are number of oid rules for success( 1T ownership. The new things in motor cars re- quire a new of care, with the result that old are very likely 1o prove to be bad rules Sinie the infa car owr \les 1is motoring | to keep pump them | | he discover | thing less t Thus he is qu nds pressure to follow the balloon, or low o fnto vogue. An he will then be following a Washiog Mud off Car. t been warned » wash the lie discovers any ud upon the | until the hood 1 thus @ custom h the result that ly goes to the of having his -rhaps he would poning the job if were not positive- r's finish. «due for an al expens shed when ] Do: iud. This process was after day, the finish ) evidence of damage. It/ rred or damaged ithout doing and no one 0ld Custom to Go. in mind that this demonstra- r selling for | discussion . and not finish cars ed as novel- irers plan to sell 00 of this “treat |"II QAeMwC»}ourgbom- one of the progressive factors in the automotive industry more vividly shown than in this new Four- Door Sedan-Coach. has never It is an achievement in design such as can come only from a great and resourceful organ- ‘em rough” model this season. and this means that there will be many car _owners to revise their customs in regard to washing the car, Without in any way questioning the value of conventional two-wheel brakes or casting a vote in favor of four-wheel brakes it must be ad- mitted that the new brakes, and the they have created have done more to teach the motorist how to apply his brakes than all the ad- vice, rules and customs put together. He had always been told that when he wanted to stop quickly the idea was to lock the wheels. They even penalized him in some cities where brake tests were held because he couldn't make his tires slide on the payement when stopping. Now he knows that the maximum effictency of the brakes is attained just prior to the locking of the wheels. And so another custom is shelved, while forn s considered a8 neglect or carelessness are now recognized as desirable. The englneers now say that rolling tire represents kinetic fric- tion, which is always greater than static friction_as represented by the sliding tire. Thus as friction keynote of declaration the new d | brakes are designed 50 as not to lock, Biving the driver of the car with con- ventional brakes the gentlo tip as to how to apply his brakes if he wants to get maximum use out of them New View of Tires. One of the time-honored warned the torists age fabby, underflated tire. , will pick up all the nalls in sight and give you no end of trouble,” kaid the wiseacres. And 5o the car owner drove around on well-Inflated tires in the belief that the firm shoes would “kick” aside anything calculated to puncture a tire, Now he is told that an advantage of the balloon tire is that, being soft, it yields to nalls, glass and sharp objects, thus preventing punctures' Keep the spark retarded when cranking and retard when the engine labors on a hill"” said the customary instruction book. But many a motor- ist looks for the spark control today and finds that the whole business automatic. In one instance he is si posed to advance the spark in cra ng. It lsn’t very long ago that the car owner was advised to flush the crank- case with kerosene eve time the oil was drained off. He as told that this was necessary as a precaution against the collection of dirt and gum in the engine. Kerosene Frowned Upon. But the oil companies are now strong in their condemnation of this custom, claiming that kerosens used for cleansing the engine dilutes the fzation. Itis mounted on a chassis that has proved its ruggedness; and withtheimproved ers Six engine, known for its flexibility and power. itis Chal the | the | THE LUNCHEON BY THE ROADSIDE -~ new ofl that is added, since the sy: tem retalls a relatively large amou ot whatever is added to it. The pra tice now !s to use a quart of good oil for flushing out the last drop of the old. This change has been hastened by the advent of the super-olled motor. in which there is oil circulatian to so many points that the addition of any- thing but new oil to the engine would be an {nvitation to trouble. “Don’t attempt to adjus buretor,” the motorist w. year after year. “If we use the car- warned a dast edan-Coach th Hiydraatic § Wheel Brakes final. friends every day. the season. | Witn Hy- draulic Four-Wheel Brakes— the type now recognized as Decidedly this Chalmers Sedan-Coach presents a new ideal of values in enclosed cars—and it is winning new control for the carburetor most of the | wise. It is one of the biggest de- cars would be out of order,” said the | velopments of the year. Get back of salesman for a popular make of car. | it! But today the wise owner is be- ginning to ses that most of his trouble has baen directly dus to over- THIS AND THAT. looking the carburetor. And the very 45 ntioned ‘above his come. out] Don’'t feel embarrassed because car mention o s c § a very satisfactory and complete | Others laugh at you when you cross crossings cautiously, even where means of " adjusting the carburetor | right from the driver's seat. tracks are supposed to be guarded. The cars are changing, but the car | Just have it that they're laughing be- owner must not forget that methods cause you're outwitting tho under- t caring for them are changing lik aker (Copyright. 1928.) Is the ideal portation unit. PUMP UP, CLEAN UP. | The under side of the spare tire | s0on becomes coated with mud and |road ofl. Unless this s cleaned off occasionally permanent injury | be done to the tread, and to the ing, too, if there are any brea the tread. In cleaning the ¢ section of the spare which is exposcd to the road is usually overlooked. A good way to remember this is fo | askea the co-operation of its rs Aim Of National Motorist Body Officials Claim Autoist Already Is Too Much Regulated, While Pedes- Make trians Pursuing it way to mnew policy of pointing the | developments in the| process of automobile betterment, the Natifonal Motorists’ Association, | through its headquarters here, has | 0 or more affilfated automoblle clubs in the work of helping the pedestrian keep out of the of motor cars. | Pointing out that “the pedestri- an’s problem is the motorist's prob- lem,” Fred H. Caley, executive sec retary of the N, M. 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Check it point by point, and the Chalmers Sedan-Coach at its low price of #1585, will im-~ prees you as the style leader of Own Rule thelr present cording to the understood. “Secre affiliated witi the N ) t in_many 1o calfties . s frequantl: given cration than he For example, he 1 dirscte a' group of pe habit T r own ideas s readi’-/ B ciroun: motor car operator finds orstocked with hazards cases out of ten he han t a chan, regardlass of be to blame Instance fn New York. offers a good Instanc se of traMd In New tu other large cities o traffic 18 co 1 hope of rog 3 to have beer he result tha es are virtuallv 1me most unfa ' speeds of fron per hour. And 1 to him fo pedestrians sings Jay-wi motori driver has been ed other motor avold the pedes ntage of what ex pedestrians golng to be t onal Motorists dexperation. It is siness of the Na for encouraging to inadvertently be come a menace to motorists. It may the people who are over-regulat ffic without recalling tha. an is a unit of it. 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