Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 76

STANDARD SIGNS TOMARKHGHWAYS System Recently Adopted and Recommended by In- terstate Joint Board. A system of stand used on hi United State the Joint aways thre has been : rd of Interstate High- icement by ureau of Public plan adopted includes y slgns of a directional nature, > those that are ca such a person who nd the mean- by the are of two the dan- ing of those indicating shape and color. The sig general classes. One ger and of signs of fc resenting a These will with black shield igns, All signs in this group wilt have a white background with black letters, Mark at Railway Crossings, he standard railroad crossing sign be round in shape, inches in meter, and will bear the well un- derstood railroad cross with the let in the upper quadrant on mal_in_shape . Will bear on the ind the word “Stop” ters curves, harrow britiges, steep and other pajnts whare the de- gree of danger is swficient o call for 1he exercise of a congiderable degree but not a complege stop, ed vellow sign will be erected, w the character of the dan- described in black letters and his sign will be 24 inches h side. points of lesser or occasional e 24-inch squaré yellow sign and the necessity for vellow in large »f caution a diamond: caution w ters in a s “hospital,” “church 16 Inches From Tip to Tip. The standard shield accepted as the route marker will be 16 inches verti cally from tip to tip. At the top it will bear in black letters on the white background the name of the State in which it is erected, and below in the section of the and white stripes ordinari will be the initials “U. S.” route number in large numerals. At the approach to forks or jume- tions of the interstate roads with other roads a smaller 10, 9 inches from tip to tip vertically, similar to the route mar but bearing single letter “R” or “L.” will be erect- ed below the numbered shield to in- dicate whether the Unites tes high- way branches to the right or left. Distances along the main routes to cities and towns will be indicated on rectangular white signs with the names of the points and the distances w pointing the “*school, Plan for s to poin ads will be Intersecting Routes, not on the in to angular will bear the names of the cities, w in miles in No arrows The side d on which they are posted will indicate the direction. In addition to these s, rectangu- lar white-and-black signs will be erected at physical features, such as creeks, rivers, lakes . crossed or passed by the inter s, and the traveler will be notified at points where the speed limit is changed by a dard black-a te sign, pre- scribing the speed 1 In the seri danger or marking of the signs. A ign will only be use: rail gs; an octagonal sign will used at points where a com- plete stop is demanded by extreme the diamond-shaped s indicate to the driver icle, even though he be color blind and unable to read, that there is some road condition ahead which calls for the exercise of caution The square sign will invariably indi- cate the need for a lesser degree of caution. Color Deman Yellow is the ¢ caution. Caution. f danger or now there is some de The white rmation and caution. highways cted guidanc The sys on which these w designated b E e and Federal il mittee of the board is now working on a numbering scheme, and it is ex- pected maps of the routes se- lected with the numbers indicated will be available in a reasonably short Champion outsells all other spark plugs combined two to one because car owners everywhere have proved for themselves that Champion is the better spark plug. Champion X for Fords, 60c. Blue Box for all other cars, 75c. Know the genuine by the doubgnibbed core. Buy from your local dealer. Champion Spark Plug Co. Toledo, Ohlo ‘Windsor, Ont., London, Paris jonary and hield in which the red | + M 70 Hagerstown THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D 7 Gettysburg FF}/?/? F/;B /')y%fwm ew Market PICTURESQUE SHORT CUT TO FREDERICK OPEN SOON gRidgeville 2 O Darnestown ) CHSY Rockvi 15./m@. The Sumday Star’s MOTOR TOURS ndersons Corner 5.3m, Bethesda § & \ A Norbeck g Wheaton Silver ¥ WASHINGTON X Startin Star Bidg N\ e are. T T\ RED AND YELLOW LIGHTS WARN MARYLAND DRIVERS Replace Old Green Signals That Have Been in Use Up to This Time. BALTIMORE, 12.+Red and yellow warning flash signals sig- nifying a crossroad are being placed on Maryland State roads in substitu tion for the green signals that have been in use In addition to the new flash sigmals, red and or signals are being p ssroads where the flash towers are not in use. Other reflector signals were enncted recently on State roads at other dan- ger points. These signals are red for road ends and railroad crossings and vellow for cowrv 2 GutAg Three times as han) England ride on mot¢ the electric railway: September persons in busses as .on The Initial Cash Payments Are— 1835 14th Street DBALER ordinary is You fellows who think it doesn’t make any difference what kind of gas- oline you buv ought to spend a few days with me here In the shop. It isn't so much the risk of gettin' poor gasoline when you ain't particular as to what you buy or where vou buy fit, but mainly the engine troubles that come from usin’ too many different kinds and grades of gas. Figure it out for yourself. tion to have his carburetor adjusted. because he wanted it right. He wanted power, mileage, pick-up, easy startin’ and everythin' that is ideal in the way of an adjustment. Then he went right out and bought another grade of gas. The engine fell down on the first hill. He strained it a little because only the day before it had tackled the hill in good shape. 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This wasn't much of a job for the mechanies, ause they | busy they forgot all about hi | visit. One of them did happ. however, th some - gas. nate When the owr 1 perfect mixture for the in the tank he im ther station, where b brand of gas. That day the car ran | fairly well on the mixture of the two | brands, but the next day, when the ensine was operatin’ on the new brand entirely, the results were dif terent. gas mileage was awful. A month of this and the cylinders would have been full of carbon. cash payment and the Potomac 1000 AUTO COMPANY iicxandria. va. | pres The engine had lots of pep, but the | ¢, SEPTEMBER SPECIAL BODY URGED FOR CAMPING IN AUTO Touring Across Continent Has Be- come So Extensive That Facilities for Sleeping Are Urged. Touring across the ccriinent has become 50 extensive that special bodies should be designed with the purpose of facflitating camping, says the journal of the Soclety of Automotive Engineers for September in discuss- ing long-distance touring. A need now exists for an automobile that is suft- able not on - transportation but for sleeping qua rs as well. Nearly every one cherisi _s the hope of some day escaping the confining environ- ments of modern city life to spend a few weeks in camping and exploring and in many ways living in the ro- mantic manner of his ancestors. In 1924, according to authorities, some 12,000,000 persons used motor camplng equipment and slept in their own tents or cars at night. In 1925 the number will be greater. The daily expense per person is figured at $2. In view of this demand and of the great sum of money expended for camping equipment, it is urged that serfous thought be given to the prob. lem of designing cars so that various parts shall serve a double purpose, namely, as motor vehicle elements and as units of shelter or sleeping accomn ions. should bear in mind that while the public desires cars design ed for camping purposes t-ese cars should not be harder to operate nor less roomy than conventional cars, but should be suitable in every respect for long-distance touring. The amount of baggage necessary for long trips is usually great, that the space hin the ¢ s well as that on projecfing parts, is at a ium Telltale Knocks. An engine that does not knock on hills when filled with carbon is timed too late. Such an engine often will climb without overheating, but it will be slow on the level, and will over- heat when forced much above 30 miles per hour. 13, 1925—PART 3. SPEED IN REPAIR WORK IS GARAGEMEN’S SLOGAN (Continued from Fifth Page.) shop that isn’t busy. The big shops eonsequently complain of a loss in volume of trade. It is this volume which they deem necessary to a re- duction in overhead and to modern- ization of equipment. The motorist who takes his work to the poorly equipped shop usually finds he does not get the quick service he 2xpected because, while they go at the job at once, they are not equipped with the latest devices to turn out the work promptly. The bigger the volume of business handled by the large shops, experience seems to show, the better are they able to turn out good work promptly. Even many of the larger shops are handicapped for want of better equip- ment. This often is due to peculiar business complications. Many of the units on modern cars are built by specialists, and occasionally the serv ice stations are not supplied with proper tools and information cover- ing service on such parts because the manufacturers of these units are re- luctant to advertise the fact that their devices ever give trouble. This is fllustrated in many shops where, in order to service a device on a large number of cars, it is necessary to use a special clamp. Un- able to obtain suita clamps already designed for the job, the shops must make their own equipment. Others adopt various methods which often add to the ceost of service work and invariably take up time. Progressive car owners, fully of the fact that no part of any has a permanent release from care and attention, are taking advantage of the big shops, stimulating the de mand for time-saving tools and equip- ment, and ping the benefits of prompt serv The motorist is begin ning to realize that it costs more in time and money to go to the shop that Isn’t busy Service, nevertheless, on the accelerator. “Keep them rur ning,” is the watchword of the auto. motive industry, and the trade come to recognize that th longer anything to be gaine up cars overnight. The over ties up the profits of the well as those of th (Copy new | CUT BY AUTO BUYING Money Formerly Spent for Beer | Now Purchasing Cars, England’s Road Director Says. Voluntary prohibition is comi pass in England as a resuit of automobile, according to Her Maybury, director ral of roads of | Great Britain, who recently Washington “The motor indu prospering” he business is quiet is developing at liquor. 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