Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1925, Page 53

PLEASURE IN TRIP AGROSS COUNTRY Transcontinental Touring Di- vested of Its Difficulties, Expert Declares. | Washington motorists who enter- | any fears as to the success of | first transcontinental tour ould find encouragement in the fact 1s far back the vear 1903 the 53 days with a one. nder car of that vintage | s information is offered by Oscar | president of the Packard | Ston Motor Car Company, as lence that anscontinental tour- | ing is sufficiently “broken in” to war- | yant taking the trip today with every | pssirance of success Transcontinental touring by auto mobile was 22 vears old on June 18, #ayvs Mr. Coolican “When out for the Pacific Coast in ¥ car there will be ence to simplify it for vou was made First Car to Make Trip. { Fetch, the driver of the ‘Old | the one-cylinder Packard journeved from San Francisco York in 1903. contends that | the first automobile to -0 to coast under its own| then the trip has been | X of sver | 1 New tinental feels that he is a plo-| gly unnecessarily other point about trans- | touring which seems to| er of car owners. They rip of this nature mea: > life of the car. T have yme motorists who actu having to buy a new vast in order to make the Washington without me- It should comfort ental ng recently - | cceeding the speed limit near Miami, | uses a nine-horse- | is which motorists of tod 10 not ever recognize as such, a v hundreds of iles were nothing s than wastes of sand.| < But in less than two | < ‘Old Pacific’ ha hed its © was equipped with a th ri uld not did 1 pioneer trip was a Tr 1« Railway zuide. There was no previous motor and touring ex perience of a transcontinental nature back on motorist who, thinks he is pio with a transcontinental motor trip nowadays is simply borrowing a Iot of unnecessary trouble. The way has already been blazed. It has al- most become a duty for American travelers to avail themselves of the opportunities which early motor tour- ists have struggled to make for them.” Beware of Faulty Valve. There is no need to worry as to how vou'll know when the vacuum tank Suction valve fails to work. Gasoline will then continue to draw right straight_through to the intake mani-| fold. The mixture will be exces- | sively rich and the engine will drag terribly. The effect will be something akin to a flat tire on a rear wheel. THI THE SUNDAY MOTORIST An Abridged Magaszine for Car Owners EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN Why all this continial wail of the high cost of living? 1 most of us is the high cost of flivving. That's a real, burning question! Lessons From Accidents. Svery once in awhile the excuse a driver offers for his participation an accident is a valuable lesson for the motorist who will take a tip. This is clearly illustrated by a recent acci dent in which the driver of one car failed to overtake the driver of the car ahead in time to avoid missing an approaching truck. The driver's actual excuse is self explanatory. “When 1 started to p: there asn’'t a thing in sight,” he said. “1 never saw a safer time nor a better opportunity to pass That was just the trouble. It was an excellent time to pass—at the time. But he did not figure th order to pass a car traveling at 25 miles an hour he had to accelerate his car to a speed of 30, and that at such speed he was moving 44 feet ever nd. Assuming that it takes five seconds complete the passing it is evident, therefore, that when he had completed the job of overtaking the other car both cars were approxi- feet further along h What he found was that 200 feet ahead was not quite such a safe place to pass a car It isn't so much how the situation looks at the start of the passing, but how it looks at the end of the job. Here is where a little imagination is absolutely essential he driver needs to picture himself passing the other car, not immediately but five seconds or so later, and 200 feet or more down the road. What is the situation then? is the question That Views on the News. Does distinction pay? The tance of owning a car that i 3 years old impor- 't like What bothers | b: every one else’s has been emphasized v the car manufacturers and many motorists have acted upon the sug- gestion. But now comes an argument in favor of distinction that hinges on safety. If the two cars had not looked so much alike William Ash- worth of New York would not have leaped upon the running-board of William C. Schwenk's car, thinking Schwenk the man who nearly ran over him a short while before. And the two men would not have gone over a 60-foot bridge to their death. “Olives Kill 52 Each Day.” Change the word “olives” to “autos” and you will see how one news item was made to distort the statements issued by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters. The under- writers said nothing about autos kill- ing people any more than one would speak of canned tomatoes as killing people. They used the term “motor mishaps,” which is an altogether dif- ferent story. Pretty good showing. Of the 82 New York State motorists whoss licenses were either suspended or re- voked recently only one woman driver was named. The suspension was made necessary pending investi- gation of an accident, not to intoxi- cation, homicide, speeding, reckless driving, fraud or the many other causes that applied to the “more ex- perienced drivers.” The only trouble with taking a license away from woman is that her husband may have to take the wheel in order to keep the family car.useful. That might be a case of jumping out of the frying- pan into the fire. Timely Touring Hints. No need to worry over the possi- bility of the hard-surfaced road sud- denly lapsing into the dusty variety it there are cars approaching in the opposite direction. If their hoods are still looks new/ “‘One afternoon, some years ago, was. miring - m neighbor’s car. . I th%ugh{ it was new until he told me it was more than two years old; and that he kept it looking new by eleanin, it occasionally witg Common Sense. So when 1 bought my car, a little later, I also got a bottle of Common Sense, and used it on the car about once every five or six weeks. My car is now three years old, and the finish is perfect; witha lustre that is richer, and if anything, more beautiful than the day I first saw it in the salesroom.”” [0 If your car looks dull, and perhaps a bit commonplace, go over it with Common Sense. It is 80 easy to use. You will be amased with the quick, brilliant, lasting results. * And remember, it is not a ‘‘finish’* nor the false lustre of a layer of wax, but your car's own cnxmni. permanent finigh, sparkling again. inting saved and a b‘twago done, at a cost of only $1.00. Your favorite Accessery dealer or Drugeist can getit for you readily it you insfat. Or direet frem the Labers. tory, po: . $1.00. CORNON SXNIE NFS. CO. Saiut Lonte [ISENSE AvuTo PoLisH THE GREASELESS CLEANSER Keeps DUCO and other lacquer finishes in high luster. e el Donse BROTHERS coACH Its popularity is thoroughly understood when you consider these facts: Five adult passengers are accommodated in genuine comfort. Dodge Brothers standard power plant, chassis and underslung spring equipment are Coach features. Observation of the finish, fittings and design will reveal no departure from Dodge Brothers most ex- acting practice in these departments. 51095 f.0.b. Detroit—$1210 delivered SEMMES MOTOR COMPANY 8 DUPONT CIRCLE g ik i AND 1707 14th ST. N.W. MAIN 6660 SUNDAY STAR, shiny the road is probably good for its entire length. It pays to be the fellow who wants to pass them all when you are nearing a ferry, for it's the only way to get up to the head of the line that will be ‘waliting at the docks. Remember that the stretches of the road where it looks safe to you to speed up a bit are Hkely to be the speed traps. In traveling through strange locali- ties you're never safe in assuming that you are within the law if you drive as fast as the rest of the road traffic. Most of the people on the road may be strangers, too. Always blow your horn, even if the man ahead seems to be attending to the job for you. A motorist coming down a side street and hearing but one horn blowing is very likely to assume the approach of but one car. Did You Know— That a tire ‘should always be run in the same direction? When you change shoes see that the treads are not loosened by reversing the direc- tion of the rotation. That the upper end of a connecting rod will' often float in its piston pin, causing a piston slap occasionally? ‘That the actual wheel base of a Hotchkiss drive car varies a little? The drive being through the springs, sudden application of the rear wheel brakes or sudden acceleration will cause a slight shifting of the posi- tion of the rear wheels, thus affecting the wheel base proportionally. More Truth Than Gas. No_ motorist is qualified to pass judgment on the merits of his car until he has driven 1t at least 30,000 miles. . Just another way of stating WASHINGTON, Otomo, Name of Car Built in Japan, to Undersell U.S. Rival Otomo 1s the name of & new ear being manufactured in Japan. It is a three-passenger, four-cylinder, air-cooled type, made to sell at $300, and designed to undersell the cheapest American imported car, which retails in Japan at about $1,000. At present there are about 30 of these cars in use in Tokio, and the manufacturers are figuring on quantity production of at least 1,000 a year. The yearly tax on the Otomo "will be about $32, while owners of the cheapest” American cars are required to pay $150. It is said_the Otor reach a 1 of 50 miles the fact that about one out of every one thousand motorists is qualified to give advice in car buying. The average motorist doesn’'t need to be told that most women no longer desire to take a back seat. The one thing that has retarded the progress of a convertible type of car in America is the fad of believing that a closed car is the last word in motorin The limitations of the closed car are now dawning upon many thousands of owners who are beginning to find that the open car holds no patent on disadvantages. It's lack of elbow grease that keeps There's the rub, as Shakespeare would say. Ten Tips on Washing. ‘Wash the car only when neces- Use plenty of water, good soap, a sponge and two chamois. 3. Wait until the hood and radi- ator are cool 4. Remove the dirt by washing, not by spraying with the hose. 5. Don't fuss with the electric lights while your hands are wet 6. Use the best chamols on windows and hood Have the chamois soaking water before going to work. 8. Rub the nickel trimmings with a dry rag after chamoising. 9." See that the ignition wires and distributor have not been wet in the the in 10. “try to polish the enaineled fenders iu the damp atmos phere of the washstand. Now You Have It! (Answers to last week's questions) 1. The present annual value of the construction work of the highway in- dustry is $2,000.000,000 2. Air cleaners, as now revealed on te on four different FOR ALL WHELLS Rundlett Rim Co. 1336 14th St. N.W. most cars from looking well polished principles—simple filtration, beating, momentum and centrifugal force. 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