Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1925, Page 85

The Sunday Motorist An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN These are the days when all class ®f clrizenship strike up acquaintances at street intersections and pay thelr respects in court. not apply to livery automoblles owned by undertakers and country clubs. Undertakers maks a point of keeping their cars in fine order for business reasons, while pride of ownership is said to keep the rate of deprectation on country club cars ow | 3. Roller bearings are not used in : being ralsed by |automobile engines, because (1) the safety experts with the idea of golng | would not stand the pounding =lidigtad meeds most at- | of the pistons: (2) because they L et horities. |be no material advantage. More pedestrians | plston that travels upward on fts| B ik s 2 compression stroke retards the speed | dents, but that alor of the engine to such an extent as dend r carclessness upon the|to render engine bearing friction | : on that they | negligible 1 nteresting | i 2 The Way of the World. asoned motorists | ‘esged that they are far less| & and n awheel edestrian the id Afoot w;l Awheel. Who is more careless, the motorist does not prove ent, however, co Stories about balloon-tire fatalitie are beginulag to drift into the in surance companies’ offices, just as| storles about four-wheel brakes were ing attention before the took steps to make it the records of two-wheen | brake accidents were revealed there would be strong agitation against the The things one has alwavs been accustomed to never seem dungerous. If an effort were made | to introduce oil lamps for house- hold use today the fire hazard would {be featured. No one worrled over that when lamps were the last hasn't w Fives when 4 in ing a car have In driving his thinking of th or oil bser Motor Od&s fid Ends. A little safety Is a dangerous thing, according to the Green County Auto. | mobile Club of Ohio. The club at | covered that a flash warning device | 1ately ed at Trebeins by one | ratiroad company does not warn mo- - | torists when a train is approaching | along the tracks of another rallway | > another T ade it a point ads frequently e considered the danger over heels on his shoes her motorist, who worried a about the lenses on his car, mak- | adjacent. In Iilinois the taxable horsepower of a Ford is still the same as a four- nder Mercer. And there are still | some people who speak of this as they were legal, found that | (1, age of intelligence! After awhile one of many thousands of|{ ney'l] be taxing automobiles on a s Who are wear basis of the number of leaves in the oL s or the number of tucks in | the upholstery sure Whenver vou are complaining of the waste of public funds by the mo tor vehicle departments of the vari- states, and some one tries to vou with the v)nvv-vv rhr\l honey to dole o hrough the rig fon, just hand them this one on a silver platter: | car 1t | bon content. The Carolina Motor Club, through Closed model of Jordan make for 1925 THE its headquarters and 37 branches, fssued 261,932 license tags and titl from March 1 to July 31, 1934; $3,57 243.86 was collected from car owners and deposited to the credit of the sec- retary of state. The actual expense of the work represented a per trans- action cost of approximately 7% cents! Making Yt;ur Automobile. You hear a lot from automoblile salesmen about case-hardening and you note the term used frequently in car catalogues, but do you know what it means? Tt seems that hardness and tough- ness in steel do not reach their maxi- mums at the same time. 1f you de- veloped 100 per cent carbon steel and used it for the crankshaft of your would be too brittle. Open- hearth steel containing 15 to 20 per cent carbon would glve you the de- sired toughness to stand shock, but he crankshaft throws and journals (which ride in the bearings) would not stand the wear. The answer to this problem is to carburize the surface of low carbon steel by greatly increasing the car- This 1s known 8s ¢ hardening. After the shaft is care- fully ground the hardened surface may run to 3-32 of an inch in thick- nese To case-harden a crankshaft the general practice is to pack it in a steel box containing a charcoal or other carbonaceous compound and heat {n a furnace for 18 hours &t a temperature running as high as 1,750 degrees Fahrenheit. This serves to carburize the stecl, but before reheat- ing the shaft itself and quenching in water it |s necessary to allow the box and its contents to cool off. A heat treatment and a second quench- tng in water follows this in order to refine the casc-hardened surface Hill-Climbing Tricks. There are several points one should keep in mind when trying out new cars, and they apply equally well to all makes and models. Perhaps the most Important s that hill-climbing ability and performance can be faked. The driver has little control over t! riding qualities of the car, and the body Is appealing or it isn't, but the hill-climbing stunt needs analysis By loosening the branke bands, put- ting more &ir In the tires, making the carburetor mixture richer, asr@fully adjusting the tappets and using castor oil for engine lubricant a car oan be made to do wonders. Add to this a skillful driver who knows that It doesn’t pay to choke the engine with Eas and the deception {s complete Worth Rememberin, On some cars there is a tube from each brake drum housing which is supposed to offer an outlet for any xcess of grease that happens to be thrown off by the wheel bearings. Unless these pipes are kept open grease is likely to get on the brake bands. Run a plece of wire through the plpes now and again to keep them from getting clogged with dirt. If you are half way past tho road you ntend turning off on, better puil over to the right, slow down and Bick up rather than suddenly swing around. If you have almost passed the road without notlcing It. the chances are 10 to 1 that any driver who may be following vou would have no clue as to the possibility of your making & sudden left turn. Using the emergency brake (if it applies to the drums on the rear wheels) helps to make the service brakes more effective. When external contracting brake bands heat they expand a little so as to partly com- nsate for the expansion of the bands of the service brake. What's the Answer? 1. What is meant by semi-auto- matic advance? 2. What would occasion brakes to stay partly locked when pressure is removed from the foot pedal? 3. Is It necessary to add alr fre- quently to balloon tires in order to keep them up to the recommended and economical pressure? (Think these over during the week and check your conclusions against the answera to be printed in this col- umn next Sunday.) no sooner does a young man propose than the young lady reciprocates by proposing—what sort of car he should buy. Many & repair man will tell you that sudden acceleration ought to be spelled ax-celeration, SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Marmon Four-Door Brougham-Coupe. battery needs charging they into the car for a day's trip. And a number of owners find that the radio battery offers its services as an ex- cellent “spare” when the car's bat- tery gives out on a cold morning. The radio tery isn't always dis- charged. put it Two Rags Better Than One. two rag SPARE BATTERY LATEST. Radio Brings Something New to Motordom. has added something to motoring. A lot of car owners are using regular automoblle storage batteries for their radio sets instead of the neater type usually used for home purposes. When the radlo ver try using cleaning the car, particularly parts as the bumpers, gas exposed parts of the f who dust or clean wit are prone to go back delicately finished with the same ed to clean o grease. The two-rag | this possi Radio to some of the they have grit, tar or plan prevents more par car that per hour, but of relationship to con ditions 112-inch Wheelbase Five Passengers The Special Six 9 [ 1,703 Stolen in Baltimore in 1924. 1,647 Are Recovered. January 24—Auto- 51,368,083 In value last year, according police department. achines recovered veriod amounted to of 1,703 machines and 1647 recov- 1,315 cars wers 4 to be responsible antomobile Lighty- ars were hours after EASY TO REPLACE GEAR TOP. While it 1 | plicatea jc appear to be a com- is really a simple mat- | ter to replace the top of a transmis- sion that the shifter forks hold the gears In the proper way. First see that the two sliding gears are not mesh with any other gear. Then slip on the top with the shift rod in “neutral” At the Auto Show CADILLAC Standard of the World All This Week THE EIGHT FOR THE - - AMERICAN FAMILY. BUILT AS ONLY HUPMOBILE WOULD BUILD AN EIGHT SEDAN at $1225 F. O. B. Factory Contrast this Special Six Sedan with any other car of similar price and you’ll see that Nash offers a value that is far and away in the lead. M last the fine balance be- rrice and efficiency 20 years has been llngo-l of thoqfin industry In beauty of body design; in solid, careful construction; in fine and flex- ible performance; in all the major fea- tures and minor details it is a motor car investment of compelling appeal. R o A ATOUR WHICH ONCE MORE CLINCHES HUPMOBILE'S 16-YEAR SUPREMACY New prices and new features put the latest improved Series “R” far out in the lead among four-cylinder cars There are four-wheel brakes of special Nash design; five Budd disc wheels, full balloon tires; special Nash easy- steering mechanism, and a dozen other notable developments. Nash builds also the Advanced Six Five-Pass. Sedan, $1485, £.0.b. Factory Be sure you see the magnificent Hupmobile Eight models at the show exhibited at space 33 Sterrett & Fleming, Inc. Champlain St. at Kalorama Road 1931 14th St. at U Phone Col. 5050 HUPMOBILE Space 11, at the Show Hurley Motor Company 1522 14th St. North 6462 Open evenings and Sunday