Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 117

THE SUNDAY_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 31, 1926—PART 7. OFFERS SOLUTION FORTRAFFG 1S Auto Company Head Would| Make Pedestrian Follow Regulations. Some the pu must be 5t regulations lation « the gui f velic dance { ound to get into | that traffic for the regu . but also for of the pedes trian. T move: flic regulations must govern the ents of pedestrians as well s ust Le taken to make possible for an to get hurt it as the Walter 1 the Chrysle eral years has | in this coun are opinions president of ion. who for studied trafic probl try and Burope “It is the failure to ohs regulations that is such use of accidents.’” said My “When a rist falls to obey a traf. fic signal, whether given by a police officer or by un device. he runs afoul of the law trian is permitted to He wwill insist upon out among novi ms rve trafic common Chrysler, is have been passed muking it an offens to run to signals whether motor] When the signal instructs the g0 he 1 and the should remain on the sidew { particular citles require the pedestrian | so he may he kept out hat motor cars for These | problems becom more numerous and more perplexing but two things are needed e many of them. two t are Imagination s For example: “There is a certain street in York which is used @ great de taxicabs and private motor ing to certain railway terminal. | That particular street must be used | because truffic rezulations on par Streets do not permit of lefth turns. And that street is one of the most congested streets in New York. And it Is not congested with ud with trucks loading New 1 by and | D he time will come when de- | partment store ¢ and unloading | will be done and the streets kept ¢ ugh-mov ing vehicles. control ¢ distribution of bound Would Revise “Parking on through not be permitted. The should e used 1zh streets kept eps must he taken, tc elimination of left turns as much as 4 rizht here I should lik plead for greater considerstion of the | rights of the pedestrian should be allowed to before permitted turr he line of pedestriuns ke of | to walk right rectly “The 1 €0 rapidiy building and reh eble to keep abreast of made developing means of | vidual motor transportation That | may be one of the reasons why Httle imagination used i city building t | New York erected before and yet the sa | fnere Packard “8," assenger inside drive Limousine. SEEKING PUBLIC FAVOR AT THE MOTOR Jewett Sedan embodying new trend. THE SUNDAY MOTORIST An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners. EDITED BY WIL e an automobile salesman an h and he will take you for a mile. Explaining License Gains. Preliminary reports on detailed reg. istrations for 1925 reveal some Inter- ing chang 4 0 start w ¢ State and the District of € showed gains. ! This was to be expected after the re- markable sales of the vear and the marked prc s in service methods which tend to keep cars from going to | the scrap heap The distribution of thi ever, shows some signiticar ompared with 1 < the list for numer registrations. There were over 200,000 more cars in the State last year Oklahomi, Florida, Michigan, Ilinois, Pennsylvanta, Texas and Cali fornia show inc of 100,000 or over. The second biggest in o | was shown by Ohio witl 150,00 dditional cars, ind Texas about tied f in the 140,000 group. The increase of approximately 100,000 | registrations in Florida _was the | equivalent of trs Al the cars in Nevada, Wy Delaware to the Southern r he reason for Florida’s increase f cours en explained for other | incrénses, however e compli he large proximately n, how changes New York | Eains in| slightly Empire | >hio, reases Tlinois | third place e 1 Michigan increase of ap rs may be a re flection of prosperity in the automo: bile industry and allied nches Those who 1 Am rs are | among th enth 1sers. This sa may explain Ohio’s | siastic and the fp Pennsylvar its exten he Dakot the N general showed hLealthy progr match improving economic con > District of k, it is worth = 3.1 per cent, as 118 per cent in_the comps tween 1924 and 1923 figures ad-build in to} No Rule ;m: Radiator. ne idea of the confiict of opinfons | nee to the er pacity of radiators and coolin tems may be had from a survey the capacities of the cooling systems | of the popular makes of American i It sh 1d be stated, | that radiator ¢ relation t | four-cylinder cars only eight quar type or si have capacities of h, while two| | the starting proc | exlinder head b | climbing. LLIAM ULLMAN buretor that provides u rich mixture above the throttle for quick starting Wwhen the engine is cold. The idea is to obviate choking off the air to the car- buretor, thereby preventing crankcase dflution. This device, of course, 18 only in the claim state. Just how much dilution it wil ecliminate remains to be demonstrated. It does, however, point the way to an elimination of the choke evil, and there {s every reason to believe that the choke soon will be doomed. One of the suggestions ad vanced is the earrying of a special supply of high-test gasoline to be used by one part of the carburetor during b use of devices to - content from oil after dilution has vecurred, {t is 1 nized that engine life could be | longed if no dilution was involved in | the starting process. It is in starting that an ine needs lubricant and w gusoline in the eylinders tends to clean every trace of ofl off the cylinder walls and the valve stems Rexar remove th Keep These in Mind. tappet slightly Valve taken up clearances can bLe by tightening the g on the top of the water or is evidence of a cylin ket leak. level indfeator on the side engine does not register less il when the engine is running ut a moderate speed the oil is not efr culnting. f the Off float falls back to - rearawheel brakes are car is still moving rear wheels are sliding. culurly an old car, will L little more power on hills with h iter turned on H When « car 18 out of gas, or the gas | line is clogged, the stopping of the engine will not be sudden. There will be several lesitations before the final stop. St fory Did You Know That— Using two gaskets in an engine head ¥ or may not affect power unfa- vorably? Two gaskets raise the head and increase the piston displacement. while at the sume time lowering com pression. If compression tends to be too high In the engine the two-gasket plan may result in more power in hill If compression was normal > fncrease in displacement may not hel « rine attacks shellac, and that water hose connections should be ispected occasionally when using glycerine as an anti-freeze? Oil should be used for chassis lubri in Winter? This does not apply being been poss: 10 feet so that stree ened? jam only s: It is p it have fings back 1d be wid impossible others have c each. The Ford arts, a fact s of those who ¥ number. whic people radiator of 12 holds h may s figure 13 quarts v the as an| joints, wheel bearings, transmission and differential, except in 131 extremely cold climates. | What's ihe Answer? Increase the nt her there is but « the street cts Can Be Saturated. wpy to fear saturation tion. “But the Americun going to be stopped any problem, because traflic difficulties are Dot insurmountable. What is needed, 1 repeat, is an abundance of imagina- tion. “A city like New York, wh the grex s the world elevated trains, motor bus lines, ta cabs, tunnels under rivers, even a vehicular tunnel beneath the iludson 1s being constructed—won't be stop- ped by any traflic problem. But some of the obvious things should be given attention at once. good start would be a campa of public education to the ped trian to observe traflic regulations for his own safety.’ people ich has Bucking Snow Drifts. There is but one to buck a snowdrift without to the en- zine and clutch. That rush the drift and press out the cl just as the strain of displ snow comes. To allow the > to keep driving the wheels is 1o jet the clutch burn out. Back zet up speed and coast into the dr n. A few way injury i Veteran Oldsmobile flic | Some fours now in use ru ca to the genel be found to = recent changes sities for 12 q for 24 4 quarts, while an us high ts to 30, | other It is interesting to mote that the Chrysler six engine uses the same amount of water—20 quarts—as the larger Marmon, and that the Chandler sIX uses 24 quarts, us against 22 for the Packard eight. Rolls-Royce tops the record for radiator ecapacity in America. Tt uses 36 quarts of water. Advancing the Spark. Advancing a popular type of igni- {tion is merely a matter of turning the | distributor head counter-clockwise and then tightening the clamp which holds it in the new position. Motorists often find themselves in . quandary, how- |ever, when the distributor head not | be turned farther. When this happens &ll the owner has to do is to reconnect each spark plug wire to the distributor terminal just uhead of the one he found it in. This advances the spark excessively. The distributor 1s then s | carbon I. Why are all rear axles not equipped with @ truss rod? >, How can the shape of a cylinder ) to prevent accumulation of 3. How much heat energy is avail- able for actual car power when the {ordinary touring car is running at 40 miles an hour? 4. How does the conventional muf- fler quiet the engine? What 1s meant by direct drive? (Think these over during the week NOT TOO PERSISTENT. Crank Intermittently When Refuses to Start. In trying to start a cold engine it Is advisable always to give the starter brief trials rather than to allow it to grind away. The thing that results in a quick start when cranking by hand is the first whip of the crank, which stimulates both suction and compression in the cylinders. It is the same with the self-starter. The full strength of the battery goes to the starter on the first contact. 1f this is continued the battery rapidly weakens to a polnt where the enxzine isn't turning over fast enough to suck up an adequate supply of gas vapor and compress it properly. Also, continued cranking tends to flood the engine with gasoline. it is difficu Car gas. Change 0il After Run. In Winter ofl should be changed after u run, not short_spin in the cold. ul owners always insvect the old ofl to see how much gasoline dilution there is, but they re to bhe reminded t Iways more dilution di and look for the answers in this de- partment next Sunday. You may be wrong') (Copyrieht. 1926.) ves the Anti-Freeze. Whether using glycerin or alcohol as an anti-freeze it Is Important never to have the level of the cooling solu- tion up to the brim of the radlator. It too much water has been poured in the excess should be sucked out with a syringe or drained off by open- ing the drain cock a moment. The point is to keep the level of the cool- ing solution about 2 inches below the top of the overflow pipe so that, in xpanding, it will not syphon out the pipe. turned way back—clockwise—and a sultable position found in the usual way. | Choke’s End in Sight. One of the newest models in car- buretors employs a small separate car- Stretch New Fan Belt. Giving the new fan belt an extra stretch with the hand before ad- justing it will take out much of its early wearing stretch and thus post- pone the time when a second adjust- ment of the fan is necessary. Special Tire SALE 30x34, $15.25 29x4.40, $17.90 32x4, $26.90 The Above Are Dayton Cords Your Rims put in con- dition. Tires mounted— no charge. k3l Herriman “Your Tire Man” 1524 L Street N.W. 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