Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1924, Page 48

The Sunday Motorist An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners. ' EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. The dullest drivers wrually have the brightest hendlights, overheatin' is the worst thing that can happen to a new car. It will Hisits cause the pistons to “freeze” up and | throw the whole works just far Enter the Safety Cop. enough out of line to give a perpetual " - | knock. _ By desrees, it 15 becoming evident | “Iiyamine the strainer in the vacuum > a o study traMc and safety |tark after drivin' about a hundred conditions that most cities are badly | Miles or so. Somctimes a piece of rag I2 need of safety cops—officers whose | fr SO0\ Wasie Exte Into the gas tank cuty it would be to safeguard auto-| Don't take anything for granted mobillsts rather than to untangle the | With the new car. Examine. You've e 3 _ rar. | EOt to ilve with it. Don't make trou- noying but harmless knots of trat- | §bU 10 1iVe with ome of the most hazardous points | of most cities are at present without | " police protection, a situation that-is| One of the finance companies an-| aid to be costing motordom a heavy | nounces that during 1933 it financed | toll of lives and property damage salé 79,226 - The tendency seems to be to place 18/of 170,238 automabties, repm sver there are mechani- | of trafic to be soived, 5.05 per car. eglecting those points the average | uy Facts Wortfi Noting. On Decemb, amount owing by | $250. With this s s on the cars and t a s are b ackled constantly successfully But experience shows that motor ear accidents ever oceur at ¢ , regardless of whether e points are guarded or unguard- The average driver raid of congestion, but a street where ence of dang. and bandled t important. It is said that car own-| ers are coming across with their| payment in good order. According to tests made by United States bureau of miges it ! fatal for the car owner to imagine | that so long as his engine will the | is| | off). thu road surfdce is rough, yet the uneven surface of the road may result in bouncing the wheels enough to give them less traction than they would have on a smooth, yet wet, pavement. A road condition that may be an ad- vantage in one’ Instance cannot be considered as definite assurence that the driver can always aflord to rum faster when encounte! g it Doing the Job Right. 1t the carbon is to be burned out of the cylinders by means of an oxygen torch be sure that the mechanic ¥nows his business. Unless he makes sure that the valves of the respective cylinders are fully closed before lighting' the oxygen in the evlinder, |~ he doos uot know his business, and should be cautioned against the fire hazard of this sort of work. The practice s to Insert the nozzle of the oxygen burner through the spark plug opening and allow a little oxygen to blow into the cylinder. Then a match is lighted and care- fully tossed in. This ignites the oxyzen so that when the nozzle is again inserted and the oxygen lib- erated it .will burn steadily. It is evident that unless the mechanic first makes sure that the valves of the respective cylinders ard fully closed the burning oxygen will escape through the exhaust or the | intzke. In the latter event there would be danger of fire in the car- buretor with its attendant hazards. To tell when the valves cylinder are shut, tost for the com- pression stroke of the partic cylinder by holding your thumb the opened petcock of the same cy der (with spark plug Inserted). Ii. some one slowly turn over the en- gino by haad (with ignition always b will tell you when the com- of al The excessive pressure on your | and should therefors become smooth quicker? The right tires get most of the riding over the rough edgos of the road and they travel further than those on the left. Most turns are to the left, and in such instances the right wheels take the outer and longer route. o Perpetual Notions. Isu't it about time that the folks who are forever logking for the fourth dimension got busy on the idea of lighting the country with the electricity wasted by the automobile generators? Here are millions of mo- tor cars actually burning headlights all day in competition with the sun, £e men adjusting the generator ird brush” so as to waste more uice” and motorists using the starter frequently in order to prevent burning up the battery. Electrical energy enough to shock the world into & new awakening. The search for perpstual motion looks like the l.m!Y; album in the parlor by com- parison. On the Sunny Side. Why doesn’t some one tell of some of the humanitarian uses to which the majority of cars are put? Auto- mobiles are a danger to pedestrians, but what of the hundreds of automo- biles that daily save lives by offering speedy transportation to the hospi- tals? People go broke buying and supporting cars, but what of the mil- lions of folks who earn their daily bread with the aid of their cars? Many people get into all manned of trouble with their cars, but what of | the thousands to whom the automo- bile has meant improved health, rec- reation and rejuvenation? (Copyright, 1924.) S22, e TREAT 'EM ROUGH. OWNING TWO AUTOS CALLED WISE POLICY Business Man Thus Able to Let Family Enjoy Driving With- out Using His Car. “The practicability of operating two cars in the medium price class has been thoroughly demonstrated,” says Fred E. Wilson, vice president and director of sales and advertising of the Columbia Motors Company. “To @ greater extent each year wo have found this {dea taking hold with the motoring public.* “That this idea is to enjoy even greater popularity during coming years is evidenced by the faet that most of the residences now. being erected are provided with two-car garages, even in neighborhoods where ce in the unfilled garage. clearly indicated that home bullders are thinking of the time when they will need the extra garage space for a second car. “It is perfectly natural that the time is here when business men have become thoroughly sold on the idea of operating one car for their own use and another for family use. They have come to feel it is the height of selfishness to drive off each morning with the car and keep it all day. In many cases the car stands in fromt of the man's office and is never used un- he drives home at night. is unable to afford two high-priced Ignition for Ford Cars medium-priced flald cars of the same make. More Power from Your Ford YOU will notice the increased power as soon as “All day his wife and family have |automoblles and so he turns to lh\é been deprived of the use of He and buys two ATtwaTer KeNT Ignition is installed on either a t’ncwl Ford or one which has been run thousands of miles. Acceleration is quickened, car vibration is greatly reduced and a smooth, even motor performs for you with a touch of the throttle. ATwATER KeNT Ignition, Type LA, automatically advances and retards the spark in direct propor- tion to the speed of the engine, thereby greatly adding to the ease and pleasure of driving. Itis quickly installed without removing the radiator. | tinue to when erated in s safa from ing. It w consciousn operation of the engine engine did not cease until one hour later. When r showed 2.1 per ¢ B ide, which is considerad | LU vx? T - aliiost immediate death. | ory tway" 1l be of value to those|, clean and graphite the springs and seem to realise that in|inen protect them with covers. monoxide poisoning one is 4 Y aide: dend betore remiiving iv, Y|, That the tires on the right side of Inunli;e Testing. |, When thers is difficulty in testing | the spark plugs by the “shorting” mathod call a neighbor to assist you and use several screwdrivers at the same time. With two cylinders of a six or an eight cylinder engine “cut out” at one time it I8 very easy to note whether the cutting out of a f third o | aifrere The ! the last plu | one. position of the engine at which the Valves of the particular eylinder are closer It would be motordom if the city drivi safety officers oversee traffic When the brakes do not seem to hold we}l the natural tendency for the driver is to use them sparingly in the belief that if they are used gin- be | gerly they will be more likely to last il | the day out. This coddling, however, simply aggravates the trouble. What the brakes nced is a little roughing up. If they are thrown into action a few times the driver will be surprised to see how much better they will hold as he continues driving throughout the day. f DURANT “Just a Real Good Car’’ uld be guarded by hose duty would be to at these points and re- at danger i ustally to | it is least expected. alley could weil be| advantage, while a | St protection at those rous points would fre- | 8u v save a life. One life saved|The . a thousand fenders safe- through the emooth func- Did You Know— though the springs may ell lubricated by squirting o 1t th For the rear end is known as the “backbone of your car.” The transmission and di ferential gears constitute the backbone of your auto- mobile. This Explains It. Doas the engine ever seem to get isy in a way that perplexes you— at is, does there seem to be some | naccountable rattling under the| Pood, a noiso that you know cannot | ba the result of any ordinary thing | coming loose? And have you ever| noticed that after a day of this so thing the otormeter sudde: sheots skyward, warning You t the radiator needs water? If so, chances are that the svstem was shy | of the proper amount of water for the | cvious. day and that the rattling| ise wi the result of steam ausing the pump (o vibrate. The 0ld Mechanic Says: That warnia’ about not goin' faster than twenty-five miles an hour with the new car i to be obeyed. but don't | forget that it isn't the only precaution to take with & new car. If the steerin’ is a littla difficult, a ist of people just take It for granted at thesannovance goss with the car Distributed By TelA CREEL BROS. 13121314 14th St. N, Masin 7539-Franklin 679 e more se- vere than that which falls upon any other part of the Inder makes any appreciable car, they earrythe wholed thera is no difference “ is the guilty Worth Remembering. | To drain the | ulating system when removing ! - radiator detach | | the lower water liose. Since this has | to bo detached anyway, it is to be referred to opening drain_rock. and allows more radiator o drain off | The problem of holding the hood up | when working on the engine is con- | | veniently soived by tyihg one of the | handles ‘of the lifted side to one of | { the handles of the side that is fasten- ed down. A stout cord will hoid it wise owner would see that the front | securelsy and without bending the Wheels were in proper alignment.|hood out of shape, as is often the Wheels that don't toe in properly|case when the owner tries to keep ! often make hard steerin’, and I know | the hood up by forcing it into some | cases where a car has steered easiest | position it was no- designed for. ? w !‘Jmug any toe-in at all. | Just because the street or road is: In drivin’ a new car the fam belt|very rough don't imagine that the! should be watched closely. It thelcar is immune from sliding in wet pulleys ain't in alignment the belt is | weather. It is & habit with the ma- | zoin’ to slip off and cause overheatin' | jority of drivers to assume that there | just when you least expect it. And | is less possibility of sliding where the | Hupm?ile heat treated. Unusually heavy construction. Weighs 57% Ibs, and carefully counter- balanced. Given both a standing balance the most med: bearing surfaces large sections bored to provide for positive high pressure lubrication. Three large bronze backed, babbitt lined i e at one time to insure pe then hand fitted to crankshaft. it would be much less expensive, but not nearly as satisfactory, to use a ki not counterbalanced, not bored for lubrication; and to use plain die-cast babbitt bearing, Harper Motor Co., Inc. 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It offers, not a few, but scores of advantages. In its chassis it repre- sents the best that modern engineer- ing knows. In its steels and quality of construction it is identical with the costliest cars we build. This is to offer you proofs. Then urge that you see it before paying $1,000 or more for a car. THIS StudebakersLight-Six is What it saves you We build llz,hooo cars ly. All major Z:::n as engineering, dies, overhead, etc., are divided by 150,000. We build in model plants, with modern ma- chinery, which have im- mensely reduced the manufacturing costs. A car like this, built under ordinary condi- tions, would cost you from $200 to $400 more. Learn, for your own sake, what that means to you, Send for the book Mail us the coupon be- low. We will send you free our new book that will inform you on five simple things which re- the value of a car, For instance: It will en- able you to look at any car and tell whether it's been cheap- ened to meet a price or offers true quality. 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